The flow of history is a slog through constant resistance, almost like wading through clingy mud, as it were, with progress measured in excruciatingly slow jumps: dry patches where it is possible to walk briskly a short distance until humankind’s instinctive ability to confuse and confound its direction toward some elevation of living quality or standards. Seventy years ago we dreamed of sleeker automobiles, wrap-around windshields and ever more powerful engines. Tens of thousands of patents have been issued for automotive improvements in the interim, but we still crash into and maim or kill one another by ignoring signals or courtesy or conditions. Fewer and fewer of these “accidents” interfere with trips to church. There is still trash littering our gutters, highway shoulders and median strips. Excruciatingly small jumps of progress.
We celebrate great thinkers like Einstein, Rosen, Bohr and Susskind who seem to leap ahead of contemporary understandings, but their genius takes a long, long time to improve people’s lives, although the atom bomb provides the exception to that rule… so to speak. Many of the “rapid” changes to humanity’s convenience and living standards have derived from weapons development as far back as history has been recorded: even the wheel and domestication of oxen and horses and so forth. But great theoretical, mathematical thinkers don’t concentrate on creating better appliances or roofing materials; they contemplate time and gravity and quantum mechanics and black holes and such, which are all important, too, despite most people caring very little about their progress.
Now and then there is a Nicola Tesla, a Thomas Edison, an Isaac Newton, a Copernicus, a DaVinci or an Elon Musk, and thank God for them. The greatest thinker of all, however, is God, it seems Prudent to accept, even though people are certain they can explain why He is not so. It strikes Prudence, however, that the great theoreticians are edging, bit by bit, toward understanding how God’s creation works – physically, mathematically, honestly. It is a matter of truth, information, reality and pure intersectionality… oh, and black holes.
The latest thinking tends to accept that the “event horizon” of a so-called black hole is nearly a spiritual place. It has to do with quantum mechanics and the preservation of information and the “entanglement” principle that predicts that two related particles or wave-packets or even energy strings, will maintain a status of “truth” between them no matter how far apart they may be. That is, if a quality of one particle varies for whatever reason, its “mate” will exhibit the same variation instantaneously. This can be proven by observation if the two particles are within range of observation, and is so well established that the principle is accepted at essentially all distances. What has this to do with the event horizon?
The “event horizon” marks the last place where light or other radiation can escape the effects of a black hole before “falling” into the black hole. Two particles that interact in this most unusual place might separate, one radiating outward as the other falls in past the event horizon. Current thinking says that the “entanglement” of these two particles, which is to say, the shared truth of these two particles, does not end at the event horizon. The entanglement principle holds true in both realms. Variance in the nature / condition of one particle will be true for the other at the same time regardless of distance. To poor, dense Prudence, this sounds a lot like “As above, so below.”
What is true in Heaven is true on Earth, in so many words. The Newtonian / Einsteinian descriptions of reality: space, time, gravity, electro-magnetism, atoms and sub-atomic particles, can describe many relationships in the observable Universe, but it is quantum mechanics, quantum physics, that explain how the engine runs, including the spontaneous conversion of energy into matter and vice-versa… and entanglement. The truth of quantum entanglement pretty much establishes truth as the heart of the engine. It is also the heart of life, which seems to be everywhere in some form, humans being part of it: love, life, law, truth.
There is something true about how the Universe works and exists as it does. As scientists struggle to think the way God does, for utter lack of a better name, they keep getting closer to fundamental truths. As they attempt to observe with ever-greater clarity, how two particles – or FACTS – are entangled in truth, they realize that with better and better observation the particle or packet being observed – or the fact being observed – expands and expands to fill the known Universe, theoretically. Pretty soon the theoretical master-minds are describing the Universe as holographic: an expression of truth perceived through a filter of observation and, well, meaning.
Is the hologram mere happenstance? Can we ask, whose hologram is it? Not a fair question? Scientists keep sharpening their sense of truth / reality without contemplating the spirituality of truth, but it is lurking everywhere truth is observed, thank God… for utter lack of a better name.
A man shall leave his mother and a woman leave her home
And they shall travel on to where the two will be as one.
As it was in the beginning is now and till the end
Woman draws her life from man and gives it back again.
And there is Love. There is Love.
From Peter, Paul & Mary: Wedding Song
To hear it screamed about, the apparent likelihood that the Supreme Court will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that upended common law regarding abortion, marks the end of life as we know it. (Pun intended.) Or, maybe, the end of civilization, itself. How grievous that women may again be celebrated for motherhood.
Well, maybe that’s not fair: women are so much more than mere “birthing persons.” They are able to work, after all, which the artificially high costs of living and taxation require these days, and even earn more than many, Ugh!, men can earn, for Heaven’s sakes. Careful of the “Heaven” reference, there, Prudence. No sense bringing spirituality into this “life” argument; it’s taken nearly 50 years to denigrate it as well as we have.
Besides, religion is for the handful of weirdos who are not as enlightened as abortionists and who, still, think abortion is somehow “wrong:” science-deniers, all. KEEP YOUR RELIGION OFF OF MY BODY, or can’t you read the signs of deep wisdom all around you as you leave church this Mothers’ Day? We will not be held in subjugation by men for a million more years as we have been: mere mothers and homemakers and nannys to the children of, Ugh!, men.
Well, that’s one way to look at it.
One sign that popped into being since the big, illegal reveal says, “(euphemism for fornicate) to come, not for pregnancy!” Females, then, (since ‘women’ can’t be defined) have been elevated to the higher status of pleasure-seeking pleasure objects… which is another way of looking at it. That men have benefitted the most from freely available abortion – at least in terms of unfettered pleasure-seeking – and WHITE MEN most of all, seems to have escaped the notice of enlightened females. Black men tend to be discarded in abortion clinics at much higher rates than whites, but, then, who’s listening to them?
Somehow, though, the relative power of the feminist mystique has resulted in wholesale destruction of women’s true status which was supposed to be elevated by loosening the shackles of pregnancy. Exactly why current ideological, pedagogical theory requires pediatric exploration of sexual pleasure rather than language and arithmetic skills, critical thinking and problem-solving, has not been explained, but it certainly is a component of socialist beliefs. Children, both sexes, we are told… they are told, need to be separated from traditional “roles” that science-denying religionists assign to them at birth, especially traditional roles of boys and girls growing into men and women, from whose love shall come forth new generations. Those same kids must be separated, psychologically from their parents, who can’t be trusted as much as their true friends, the “education” establishment.
Go ahead and give birth, if you want to, but that’s where your rights end.
Men are pigs, so to speak. Despite their strengths and values, men tend to set aside almost any higher calling when they perceive the possibility of having sex. To borrow a phrase, it takes a village to keep men in their own pasture, and the head of that village is a man’s wife. Women are the civilizing force in society. Decades ago the strengthening feminist juggernaut decried President Reagan’s statement that “women are the civilizing force on men.” (Or, words to that effect.) The feminist “leader” who put Reagan in his place for that comment, was signally offended by his statement, apparently because it linked men and women in the processes of socialization and civilization. God forbid. No way did a modern, liberated woman have any obligation to do anything – even a good thing – for a man: everything required negotiated parity between equals. Love had nothing to do with it, nor, apparently, did child-rearing or family dynamics or nurturing stability or dependence on some, Ugh!, man to provide for the family. It is remarkable, indeed, that any families are still being formed, today.
A measure of the destructiveness of feminized socialism is the breakdown of traditional father-mother families, and it is at its worst for black families. Today nearly three-fourths of black children grow up in single-parent households, mostly fatherless; nearly 30% of white and Hispanic children do, also. This shift began in earnest with the “Great Society” and the federalization of welfare, perhaps the worst public policy experiment ever conceived. People blame Lyndon Johnson for the foul execution of military policy in the Viet-Nam War, as they should, but 100 times as much damage has been done through federal welfare programs that facilitate single-mother households.
Since the eugenics of Margaret Sanger, but really since the inception of the Great Society, the “liberation” of women, constantly touted by the Democrat Party to their key voting block, as they help them throw off the shackles of oppression by men, women have striven towards economic equality with men, but it has cost them the rewards of their majestic roles as mothers in loving 2-parent households. In part as a result, American citizens no longer have enough children to replace ourselves. Is this a measure of feminist success?
It is almost better referred-to as a success in the battle against motherhood, now that the battle against fatherhood is so well underway. The rabid attempts to sexualize and gender-neutralize elementary school children could play a vital role in this battle. Indeed, the greatest impact of convincing children that they are not who they originally thought they were, but are some sort of gender-fluid non-boy or non-girl, is STERILITY! In the minds of feminized socialists, separating children from their parents and from reality, is the most effective way to destroy Christianity, as it destroys procreation.
Are there any demonstrations over Roe v. Wade outside of Mosques?
Indeed, the entire, sick fad of trans-genderism, non-binary identities and gender fluidity is an assault on both masculinity and femininity. To what end, a normal person is inspired to ask? To express hatred towards life? Towards God? Towards love? It expresses nothing better than hatred for all of these things.
Perhaps the destruction of traditional sexual mores is the natural outgrowth of feminism. Can a half-century of celebrating anti-masculinity result in a new appreciation for the value of men? Our culture teaches boys that they are flawed almost to irredeemability, able to restore approval only by renouncing maleness in grade school. The same culture teaches girls that the least-attractive aspect of their lives is as a mother, then it teaches that some giant boy pretending to be a girl is worth more than girls, themselves.
Then we select and celebrate a female judge who is incapable of defining what a woman is, and entrust her with discerning the essence of our Constitution when she cannot discern her own. No wonder women are angry these days, and, as on most days, when angred there must be a man at the root cause of it.
Prudence is not certain that having more women in government really is an answer we’ve been waiting for: more real men might help, though. Maybe the liberal wing of the Supreme Court can find a right to love one another in the penumbra of the Constitution, and override all State laws to the contrary.
Although it seems imprudent, Prudence is going all conspiracy theory in this post. Needless to say, there are numerous such theories on a myriad of matters. Did Oswald act alone? Or did Hinckley? Was Barack Obama born in Hawaii? Did he ever regain citizenship after living in Indonesia? Why did he claim to be a foreign student? Maybe Roosevelt knew the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor, but he wanted to be forced into war. Were Armstrong and Aldrin acting on a soundstage? Did Eisenhower meet with UFO aliens? Do Freemasons know secrets from the Knights Templar?
So, there is no end of possibilities, but we’re going to examine one of the very latest: Are the mRNA “vaccines” part of a globalist population control scheme? If so, was the creation of the SARS-Cov-2 virus part of this plan? Was the coverup of the Wuhan Laboratory gain-of-function research, engineered by Dr. Anthony Fauci and others in the U. S. NIH, also part of the plan?
Those aren’t all the questions. What role do Bill Gates – and others – play in the worldwide promotion of these rather dangerous injections and the drumbeat for “booster” injections? What about the U. N. and the W.H.O. and the World Economic Forum? Why has the W.H.O. lied about the virus and its pandemic and the role of the Chinese? And, how did Moderna know about the novel coronavirus research taking place in Wuhan but the United States remained ignorant of its nature and potential infectiousness? How were the mRNA injections developed and distributed in such a short timeframe but that timeframe allowed for approval only after the 2020 elections? Why have so many standard medical practices been subverted in response to Covid-19? And, why have safe drugs that have shown effectiveness in slowing down Covid infection been suppressed and made illegal in the U. S.?
Those aren’t all the questions, either, but they’re enough to make us go “Hmmnnhh.”
The human fertility / maternity questions are vehemently answered, “Absolutely no effect,” by the CDC, NIH, WHO and major hospitals and universities around the western world. There are, literally, hundreds of articles stating no measurable effect of the mRNA injections on either male or female fertility: lots of studies, charts and statistics. Interestingly, all refer to the shots as “vaccines,” and all claim that there is no effect on DNA from the shots. To refer to the Moderna and Pfizer chemicals as “vaccines” is to comply with a widespread fraud since they do not meet any definitions of “vaccine,” legally, nor do their patents make any claims of being vaccines or list any effects of defined vaccines as their effects.
The potential effect on DNA has been shown in a laboratory setting by Swedish researchers.
Technically, then, both companies’ concoctions are correctly described as experimental chemical gene therapies, not “vaccines.” Most people would refuse such shots since they don’t treat or prevent any known disease. Most people, however, trust vaccines. What is going on?
In the simplest sense, a conspiracy to create the Covid-19 novel coronavirus and the expensive “vaccines” to fight it under pandemic conditions, can be reduced to a hunger for money. Not only did the U. S. federal government spot Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson/Janssen many billions of dollars to develop vaccines as quickly as possible, but that same government set aside many regulations to speed the process. Then it guaranteed more and more billions to those companies to purchase millions and millions of doses. People were so fearful of dying from Covid-19 by the end of 2020 that there was no question that all the doses that could be produced and distributed would be used, and paid-for. Financially, it was a gold mine, so to speak. But Covid and the pandemic and resulting states of emergency, in the U. S. and many other nations, was far more complex than just an obscene transfer of fortunes in public funds.
The earliest stage of complexity hearkens back to 2003 and the outbreak of SARS in Asia. SARS is caused by the SARS-CoV virus (or SARS-CoV-1, now that were counting), a novel coronavirus. Those in the coronavirus fascination business: people like Tony Fauci, key people in the CDC and a couple of researchers at UNC–Chapel Hill, recognized as early as 2002, before the outbreak, interestingly, that coronaviruses that cause things like colds and some forms of pneumonia, are wonderfully manipulable. They busied themselves in engineering changes to the original SARS-CoV virus so that it could be PATENTED. There are legal issues around patenting life-forms. Naturally occurring life-forms cannot be patented. Only a modified, or “engineered” iteration of a life-form can be patented, and the SARS-CoV virus is defined by patent number 7776521, held by our own, very trustworthy CDC agency of the National Institutes of Health. Later, the CDC petitioned to have this patent made “confidential.”
UNC at Chapel Hill also holds a patent, number 7279327, which protects their methods of making “recombinant” coronaviruses, which is to say, coronaviruses that contain protein elements from more than one source. This is, however IM-Prudent, a valuable skill to have, for some reason. You never know when the market for recombinant coronaviruses might open up.
In any case, the work being done at UNC, financed by Fauci’s NIAID agency, was skirting the law as it was close to bio-weapons research. Subsequently, the newly modified SARS-CoV coronavirus, the patented property of the CDC, and the patented skills of engineering same, were transferred to the Wuhan Institute of Virology under a contract placed through an U. S. “NGO” headed by Dr. Peter Daszak. It has taken many months but Americans and the rest of the world have finally learned that the NIAID financed gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute. The functions gained were designed to take a bat-origin coronavirus, supposedly the source of the SARS outbreak in 2003, although that may have had help, too, and make it able to readily infect humans. There wouldn’t seem to be any economic value to creating a more infectious coronavirus, although there may have been some scientific value. Certainly no one would want to sell a new disease and, in fact, the CDC / NIAID / EcoHealth cabal didn’t sell it, they gave it away – to China.
Still, there’s no market for the disease, but, if by the rarest of circumstances, we are told repeatedly by eminent scientists, at the direction of Anthony Fauci (the Great), this engineered-to-be-infectious virus were to escape the lab, there would be a Hell of a market for a vaccine to fight it! “Oh, c’mon, Prudence,” you’re crying, “that sounds like some huge conspiracy theory!”
Prudence doesn’t want to spread a conspiracy theory… just sayin’.
Still, if the impetus were simple enrichment, Covid has worked out very, very well. However, if the larger purpose is something else… something more in the line of shifting free peoples away from freedom, as leftists are always – unfailingly – attempting to do, then the political, dictatorial “emergency orders” have had a far greater impact than Covid-19, the disease, has had. What if the purpose was to prepare millions… no, billions of people to accept heavy-handed, un-Constitutional restrictions on movement, freedoms, employment, private properties, personal hegemony and education? What if weakening the fabric of free societies were the main act?
The heavy-handed, largely UN-scientific reactions by various government entities, to the “threat” (read: fear) of Covid-19, has had, as its GREATEST effect, the division of populations against one another. Masks and mask-mandates are a perfect example of this. Despite the utter lack of scientific/medical value of popular masking products against the spread or infection-rates of Covid, Americans become angry toward anyone who questions them. Schools have been allowed to open, for example (by teachers’ unions), only if children as young as pre-schoolers are forced to wear masks. There’s plenty of data and evidence for the negative effects of masks on children, yet teachers have gone so far as to tape masks onto special-needs children – as if somebody were made the tiniest bit safer because of its forced placement. Anger results, and great defensiveness that cites “CDC Guidance” as justification, yet the CDC’s mission is research, not public policy. Who gave the CDC, of all people, this enormous power?
The Congress, supposedly the most potent locus of power under our Constitution, is left begging for information. This is upside down, is it not? The W.H.O., a corrupt agency within the corrupt United Nations, is just as often cited by our administrative state as justification for recommendations that have effectively militarized medicine in the United States. W.H.O., we should not forget, began its advice about Covid by lying, for weeks, about the role of China in developing and spreading Covid-19 around the world. It is completely IM-Prudent to take their advice on much of anything. Now there is building the idea that any NATION that opposes W.H.O.’s directives on health and future (and current) pandemics, should be punished! This can only be effected by reducing the sovereignty of member nations.
Almost 90 nations have adopted or are considering some form of “vaccine passport,” including our formerly quite free neighbor to the north, Canada. Here we have a set of injections – called vaccines – that the latest evidence and releases of information from Pfizer and the FDA show are greater risks than the supposed disease they are supposed to prevent. Governments and major employers – even the Department of Defense – are using threats against continued employment should individuals refuse to receive those questionable shots. We seem to be trading our freedom for… well, for risky medication about which mostly lies have been told. Yet W.H.O. and the U. N. are pushing global requirements to accept the injections.
Clearly the overriding purpose of this pandemic and the vaccines, lockdowns and damage to independent businesses, increased drug overdose deaths, increases in multiple cancers and other diseases and deaths caused by the mRNA vaccines, is not public health. Nor is it improvement to the standards of living for a majority of the residents of this planet. No, it’s something else. You can see this, Prudence hopes.
So, how can inordinate fear of a disease be maintained? Well, as any government afficianado can tell you, by widespread, even mandatory testing… and more testing, weekly testing, daily testing, testing if you have a friend who knows somebody who was in the same suite of offices as a person who tested positive, him- or her-self, for the dreaded Covid-19. With enough testing – especially with “PCR” testing – the numbers of “cases” can be kept artificially high.
There’s nothing wrong with Polymerase Chain Reaction testing; such tests can be very accurate in proper laboratory settings. The only value to a PCR test for Covid-19 is to expose infectiousness. Finding out that there may have been exposure to Covid-19 outside of the period of perhaps a week or less of actual infectiousness, is fairly useless… at least in terms of preventing disease. It is useful, however, for inflating the number of “cases.” Higher case rates justify the imposition of restrictions, mask mandates and, ultimately, injection mandates. Higher case rates can keep schools closed, businesses shut down, and can empower civil authorities to criminalize normal commercial and religious activities. God forbid one would be part of a “super-spreader” event. Constant testing provides justification for all sorts of government reactions, legal or extra-legal, constitutional or UN-Constitutional.
So, if PCR testing is so accurate, how can it be abused? It doesn’t require malicious intent, necessarily, for testing “data” to be abused by politicians, for they must be portrayed as “doing something.” The process involves, first, detection of an RNA string unique to Covid-19. This might involve only a few copies of the RNA “snippet.” The chain reaction step then replicates the small number of strings in repeated steps until there are enough strings to confirm and display by concentration assay. Bingo: a positive! Keep ‘em coming, boys and girls, and we can lockdown those pesky right-wingers for months.
The only real counter to fear of covid is early, safe treatment of symptoms and inhibition of viral replication in the body. Given a little help, natural immunity will figure out how to stop the virus and create an immune response that can last for years. Unfortunately, mRNA injections start out lasting only a few months and, by the 2nd “booster” shot, only about 4 WEEKS. In the process, since they defend against only one protein in the virus, they augment the ability of the virus to mutate, creating “variants” that may or, often may not be deterred by the “vaccines.” Aha! More fear, more restrictions, more dependence on government, more formerly self-sufficient individuals on welfare, more billions to develop still other mRNA shots: a lifetime of “boosters.” If this is a plan, it’s a damned good one.
Treatments for Covid-19, however, have been suppressed. Typically, facing a new disease, the best medical reaction is to try everything that might help from the pharmacopeia of known drugs. Obviously, EVERYTHING, in the beginning, will be “off-label!” Duh! Every potential anti-viral should be tested, AND THEY HAVE BEEN, and in various combinations with nutrients and complementary drugs. Protocols have been assembled that are VERY effective at certain stages of infection and progression. Medical science is a remarkable engine of innovation.
Why do you suppose these treatments have been made, essentially, illegal? Such a reaction is unique to covid-19! Patients who exhibit symptoms were told to go home and come back to the hospital if they became really ill. No treatment offered. Once in the hospital, again, no treatments, just maintenance. Some recovered on their own, many were intubated as lung function declined, many of those died, apart from loved-ones. Eventually, Remdesivir was approved and pushed onto patients, but it is a treatment that’s worse than the disease, with severe, organ-damaging side effects. None of the inexpensive treatments are ever offered, and even if prescribed by a physician, hospitals will not ALLOW them to be administered. In many cases – most – pharmacies will not fill those prescriptions because of “CDC guidance.”
The only answer offered to the question of SARS-CoV-2 fears are the weird mRNA shots, shots that don’t promise to immunize, or stop infections or even prevent future infections – only to mitigate infections, but then, only if you happen to contract Covid-19 during the small window of “vaccine” effectiveness. Unfortunately, it has become clear, these injections tend to disrupt your natural immune system, leaving it able to respond only to the one protein the mRNA shots react to. “Vaccinated” people become increasingly defenseless against many other diseases, including childhood diseases and cancers that natural immunity typically fights off unnoticed. Yet, these are the shots governments are FORCING people to take, all around the world. Why in Hell, one wonders? And our freedoms will be stripped from us unless we accept them? Populations could decline if this is allowed to continue.
Are we sovereign human beings with unalienable rights? Or laboratory rats? How about WE conspire to remove the people who have reduced us to this status? America, Awake!
A year from now, or 5 or 10 or 50 years from now, the sacrificial role that Ukraine has played in the direction history flows, will be understood far better than it is today. The forces of freedom and integrity are fortunate that Ukraine is where the globalists struck first. Ukrainians… not so much.
This chapter is not written, yet, but it is taking shape. The average American is poorly informed, generally, but right now, dangerously so. We don’t understand the Ukraine invasion no matter the details portrayed on our screens: the awful deaths and explosions. We don’t recognize the interplay with China; we don’t recognize the interplay with Iran; we don’t recognize the “cat’s paw” role of North Korea. We don’t recognize the far, far leftist swing of the Biden administration. We don’t recognize the damage already done to America’s standing in the world and the inroads into our sovereignty that Covid-19 fostered.
Yet even with all of that, our greatest failure is not comprehending the expanded, vital and increasingly crucial role of the United States as the last and only impediment to global communism. You may be shaking your head at the wild conspiracy theories that seem completely im-Prudent, but we’re working only from the statements of very powerful people who are in a position to guide and facilitate the imposition of the “Great Reset” you ought to have heard of by now. What does that reset consist of?
The number-one component of the globalists’ plan is the end of nationalism. Yet nationalism accounts for the greatest progress mankind has ever made in virtually every arena from health care to nutrition to family and personal safety. Donald Trump became president on a platform and promise of “America First,” and it is an ideal that resonates with Americans. We believe in our nation; we believe in the exceptionalism of our nation’s history, founding and divine purpose.
Barack Obama became president on the premise of a flawed and somewhat illegitimate nation, forever soiled by slavery and racism – soiled in a way that cannot be eradicated – and, specifically, as Obama made clear in foreign speeches, no more exceptional than any other nation. We elected him out of guilt as much as anything else, as if to say that it was high time we had a “black” President, and that perhaps race relations would become even better if we did so. Where Trump fought the leftists to secure our borders, Obama had loosened enforcement of immigration laws, the essential definition of nationhood: borders. The Obama administration saw the rise of “sanctuary” jurisdictions, both cities and states. The very nature of self-declared “sanctuary” status is the rejection of United States’ national authority over matters of national concern: borders, immigration, citizenship and the myriad matters ancillary to those concerns, not least of which is law enforcement and public safety.
Inherent in the concept of nationhood and of patriotism, itself, is that of abiding by true and just laws. For citizens of the United States this starts with fealty to the Constitution and to the principles of rights enunciated in the Declaration of Independence, neither of which documents implies hatred for another country, particularly England, but which declare independence from England’s misapplication of rights normally enjoyed by English citizens, even under a monarchy, however tempered. The U. S. was founded on the basis of ideas and ideals to which belief in God, or Providence, impel humankind. Based on the Bible, and particularly the New Testament’s instructions on how individuals should relate to God and to one another, the U. S. Constitution established a framework of civil decency and authority, individual sovereignty and responsibility, and individual private property, within which U. S. citizens could and do perfect themselves. Neither the founding documents nor the government they spawned take the place of the Bible, or of God or of the individual’s relationship with God. A system of government like ours requires that individual citizens carry both the burden of freedom and of responsibility, and it works best, if at all, only when individuals have the moral guidance of a well-informed “conscience” such that most governance is from the self. This means that only when both citizens and legal residents of our nation share essential beliefs in what is legally “right” and “wrong” can justice prevail for everyone. Only then can civil society – and civilization, itself – succeed and produce progress in living standards and both individual and public safety.
Americans have both the benefits of Freedom and the obligations of defending Freedom and all that is implied under our Constitution and Declaration. Our civic responsibilities are NOT LIKE those of any other nation. We are exceptional. We are not perfect. Back to nationalism.
President Trump was often accused of being a “nationalist” as though that linked him to NAZISM in some way. He obviously was not – is not – a leftist, which generates the abject hatreds aimed at him, and he certainly is not a NAZI, as in National Socialist, another stripe of leftism. The fact that there are white supremacists who have adopted NAZI symbols and gestures does NOT mean that they have anything to do with conservatism, nationalism or “the right.” To be pro-American nation is not on the left-right spectrum. To claim that is merely a means by which leftists make it seem as though the right were evil and that, therefore, being “good” is to be some sort of socialist giving out “free” stuff from the government. Otherwise, one is a “hater.”
Not having recognized nations simplifies the plans of super-rich oligarchs who meet in Davos every year: the WEF, or World Economic Forum. There are two major elements of their “perfected” future for mankind: Far, far fewer human beings on the earth, and global governance and economics, such that no one will “own” anything and that will enable us to be happy. It also requires the dissolution of organized religion, since an individual with faith in a higher purpose than survival will not accept simple worldliness.
The Executive Secretary of the W.E.F. is Klaus Schwab. He is smart, capable and very rich, much like every other member of the Forum. There are strange people among them, including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, every major bank in the world, major industries, major securities trading exchanges, huge international companies of all sorts, particularly in energy and food distribution/production. Also, unsurprisingly, major pharmaceutical companies partner with the forum, too. There are heads of state or relatives, but none of the executive or managing Board members are popularly elected. No one has granted them power: they have created this shadowy “world management system” through self-selection and financial influence. It is more than Prudent that we grasp what the existence of this “Forum” and its growing bureaucracy means to the residents of Earth.
We have seen in the United States, for all of its magnificent founding, how government types congregate in the “deep state” where their full-time jobs are developing and enforcing tens of thousands of regulations, most of which are unknown even to our elected representatives. Almost to a person, this invisible “state” believes in its ability to “run” things better than individuals… right down to whether babies should be born or weird gene therapies should be mandated for all humans. To this group, elections are side-shows. The “voice of the body politic” is not loud enough to affect their far-more-important-work-than-that-of-any-elected-official’s – representative, senator or president.
We have about 150 years of experience with how inefficient and often criminally so, the process of “federalizing” problems is. One need consider only health care – a most personal problem – as it becomes increasingly “federal” and politicized… one of the base principles of communism. The nearly immeasurable waste of resources and the dishonesty connected to the NIH, the CDC and the NIAID agencies, and even the “independent” FDA, should be a lesson to Americans that dumping problems onto federal bureaucrats is the same as foregoing our fundamental rights. We think we are a “free people,” but our freedoms have been diminished faster through federalized health care than by any other mechanism. There are hundreds of federal mechanisms.
Our Constitution is under assault almost daily; the morality that enables it to guide our national identity is under assault almost hourly. The process is made worse as rapidly as our shared beliefs crumble, our shared morality dissipates, our institutions shift leftward and our shared freedoms are politicized. We have become a nation of rules rather than of law. Yet our Constitution is still defended in the courts to a great degree, and it still protects individuals to a great degree. However, as the globalist W.E.F. inserts itself into governance in almost every nation, the erosion of our very nation accelerates. The Constitution will simply be collateral damage. We need only observe the elimination of the southern border and the laws that ought to be protecting it, to realize that there are people in our “elected” government who are accelerating the dissolution of our nation. Nationalists have their irreplaceable place.
The United States of America, then, in its exceptional position and DUTY, is the only significant stumbling block to a global, uber-socialist government. That anti-nationalist, W.E.F. oligarchy will not be bound by the quaint rights and responsibilities of our famed Constitution. It will govern more closely to the habits of Communist China. “You won’t own anything and you’ll be happy,” said Klaus Schwab. Think about that.
The concept of private property, owning the fruits of one’s labor, having rights of possession even under rental or lease agreements, has been the greatest spur to progress in all of history. Globalism and anti-nationalism cannot succeed where capitalism – if properly regulated to prevent the effects of the worst of human nature – is allowed to flourish and fuel the dreams of billions of free people. It is no coincidence that the nature of capitalism has been allowed to create the oligarchy we have, today. For the success of globalism, the image and understanding of capitalism must be destroyed along with nationalism and individual sovereignty with rights granted by God. Today’s youth, almost to a majority, view socialism as a superior economic system to our increasingly putrid capitalism. Thank you, public education and essentially communist universities.
Thank you, also, to our socialist-infiltrated governments of the “United” States.
Can we regroup and re-educate quickly enough to stave off the globalist revolution? Are there enough Americans left who will refuse to trade freedom for some hollow “safety?” Has America enough courage left to throw out the snakes, eels, alligators and constrictors who have settled in to “Deep State Swamp,” from whence they are sucking from us our livelihoods and our independence?
The concept of “science” as the basis for public policy has been tried during the past two-plus years, and it has been found not only a failure, but fatally dangerous. “Public policy,” by definition, means politics, and, suddenly, “science,” which is to say, Medical Science, became grossly politicized (more grossly than it already was). Logic dictates that politically “guided” science or medicine should be questioned in the most severe and intricate way. For more than two years, however, such questioning has been made virtually illegal and something to be censored.
We can see, no matter what one’s political viewpoint, that all of our public policies of locking down certain forms of commerce and assembly (even while allowing favored others) had only the true effect of destroying, mainly, free-enterprise businesses, denying elementary education, exposing millions of very vulnerable populations to Covid-19, upsetting and destroying marriages, increasing suicide rates across many age groups, increasing opioid deaths, creating huge disparities in rights, and expanding the reach and power of all levels of government. Fear, itself, was spread across nations, which simplified the tasks of causing people to act in contravention of their legal rights. It did not, however, actually limit the spread or medical impacts of the Covid-19 virus. Otherwise, fewer people would have died in the second year of the “pandemic” when supposedly “safe and effective” vaccines were widely administered… except that more people died in the second year. If face masks were effective in preventing infection from Covid-19, some statistical proof would exist… somewhere, but it doesn’t. There are quite a few untruths being spread by government types and those they have co-opted into alliance in the promulgating of ideas that are not so. For those who cared to learn the untruth of these ideas, these utterances become lies. And there are many.
For example, the mRNA injections do not constitute “vaccination.” Quite cleverly, when the “government” called for emergency development of a “vaccine” against the SARS-Cov-2 virus, giant pharmaceutical companies happily took upon themselves the heroic task of creating vaccines that had never succeeded (against corona viruses) and at “warp speed.” Fortunately, mRNA biotechnology had been developing for a decade and, in fact, was being developed to stop Covid-19 in the fall of 2019, before the “Coronavirus Pandemic” was even heard of, by a company called Moderna, in a city named Wuhan, China, amazingly enough.
So, the “heroic” aspect was not true, nor, it turns out, was the “warp speed.” It’s possible that the approval and release of the supposed “vaccines” could have been done by June of 2020, rather than immediately after the presidential elections in November. Ostensibly that was impossible because of the rigorous testing being done to gain even emergency use approval by the independent FDA. Ooops, there are a couple more… lies, that is. The testing performed wasn’t all that rigorous, ignored several potentially vulnerable groups (children, pregnant women, etc.) and the FDA is far from independent from either politics or “Big Pharma.” There seemed to be some political timing on the release of the “vaccines.” Surely not, you must be shouting – our benign representatives and public servants would never delay life-saving treatment for political reasons… never. We won’t bring up the refusal of hospitals to perform life-saving procedures on patients who won’t take the injection. (!) Back to the non-vaccines.
These shots stimulate cells in your body to create spike proteins that are similar to the Covid-19 spike proteins. What they don’t do, which real vaccines do, is stimulate B-cells and T-cells to create immune response to the pathogen, itself, response that becomes part of your immune profile, ready in the future to “wake up” and fight off the covid virus. By flooding your system with billions of spike proteins that the body recognizes as foreign, it causes the liver and kidneys and digestive system to get rid of them. If you happen to be exposed to Covid, itself, during the next couple of months or so thereafter, your body will get rid of those, too. Are there antibodies to “Covid” created? Yes, but they won’t be created if there’s a second exposure to Covid, so you need a second injection, then a third. In effect, the injection hi-jacks the immune system to reject spike proteins. The story is / was that the mRNA chemicals that induce that action were not going to make “permanent” changes to cells, that it would be out of the body in a couple of weeks, perhaps, and it definitely would-not-affect-your-DNA-itself… no, no, no, no.
So, the big lie continues: these shots aren’t really vaccines, but they are called “vaccines” because people are comfortable with that term, just as they are with “booster” shots. However, there is also the sad fact that the rather poisonous chemicals of these injections do NOT leave the body in a couple of weeks, and can actually be found over 12 months later, still capable of producing spike proteins.
Unfortunately, also, spike proteins accumulate in the ovaries, lungs, brain, kidneys, heart and pericardium, and elsewhere, causing “long Covid” and a host of other chronic bad reactions. So much dis-information, so little time. Now it is being revealed, drip by drip, that the shots, themselves, weaken your body’s natural immunity – not just towards Covid, but towards, well… everything. Pathologists have detected, following the injections, significant increases in childhood cancers, for one example, but not just in children! Adults are being diagnosed with supposed childhood cancers and other diseases, and the increase follows Covid vaccination – apparently. For some reason, the typical immune responses of millions of Americans are not stopping these diseases that are usually handled without notice by immune systems. Normal public health regimens would have this uptick carefully studied, but the CDC is not interested.
There are accumulating statistics from several countries that susceptibility to Covid-19 is much greater among fully “vaccinated” and boosted people, than for un-vaccinated people. At least one country has ceased publishing that data lest the average person misunderstand it.
There has also been noted from insurance companies’ death-benefit statistics, an astronomical uptick in all deaths for 18 to 64-year-olds – just in 2021, year of the “vaccines” – amounting to about 40%. What? FORTY PERCENT%? What in Hell is causing that? The NIH and the rest of the public-health alphabet-soup of agencies and departments are uninterested. The rest of us should be very interested.
Very sadly, research in Sweden has shown the mRNA chemicals can actually CHANGE the host DNA in living liver cells. Oh, no… this was the biggest safety promise of all when these weird injections gained political power: They could not change or damage one’s DNA. Uh-oh. Is this going to be another Thalidomide? Or a new type of cancer, in effect? Please, someone, tell us the truth… or, if not THEtruth, how about Atruth about these God-forsaken shots.
Maybe the FDA could release all it knows about mRNA injections and the premises under which they were approved, even for emergency use. Maybe the CDC could reveal all it knows about adverse effects of the shots. They have a “vaers” system for “voluntary” reporting of bad reactions to all vaccines. It is Prudent to expect that CDC has a great deal of information about such events, but they’ve released a report that covers only about the first month after emergency-use approval; why not the rest? More than a year has passed since then.
Would it be asking too much to reveal what the costs have been to the federal government for the development and purchase/distribution of the “approved” vaccines? How about what the NIH, CDC or NIAID know about TREATMENTS for Covid that can prevent serious disease, hospitalization or ventilation and death. There are several, some have the status of over-the-counter medications in many parts of the world, and they are not just safe, but extremely safe after decades of use. There is overwhelming experience and data about their effectiveness as anti-viral products, yet they are virtually illegal to prescribe or administer in the United States. Is repression of information about these inexpensive, proven-safe drugs, in the realm of lies of omission?
How much are hospitals and extended-care facilities paid by HCCFA, MEDICAID or MEDICARE for care and treatment of ostensible Covid patients? One good description listed the main ways hospitals made the most: 1) Admit and test the patient – test him or her more than once if necessary to obtain a positive result; 2) Place the patient in a “Covid” ward; Start him or her on Remdesivir (a very dangerous anti-viral linked to liver and kidney damage); 3) As patient declines, place him or her on a ventilator; 4) Discharge patient or release him or her to a mortuary. What might all of this be worth? About $100,000! The key to great billing, however, is the positive test result.
Even less complex regimens are good billing so long as “Covid” is tied to the patient. When $Millions start to pile up, ethical fences start buckling. Overstating the number of “Covid” patients – and getting rewarded for doing so – has been a great boost to institutional incomes and a great boost to public hysteria about the danger presented by Covid-19. Despite all sorts of statistics to the contrary, most Americans believe that Covid is practically a death sentence, following a long, painful decline and probable intubation/ventilation. Worse, since it is “so contagious” family members can’t visit those in extended care or in hospital, even as they pass away. Across the country, thanks to most of media burying inconvenient statistics, governors and mayors empowered themselves to strip millions of their citizens and residents of their constitutional rights, and those millions of Americans willingly went along with the restrictions out of FEAR! Fear generated by a steady stream of real dis-information happily spewed by the so-called “main-stream media.”
People who lost a friend or relative to covid are angry at anyone who questions the mish-mash of illogical, often erroneous “public-health” dictates, as though opponents of the government overreach might be part of the reason their loved-one got sick. They should be angry! They should be angry with China, for spreading the disease across the globe after it had escaped from their lab in Wuhan City; they should be angry with the NIH, the CDC and the NIAID, who surreptitiously passed the research, including Gain-of-Function research, off to the Wuhan Laboratory because it was illegal to do it in the United States; they should be angry with those same bozos and the FDA for not only approving these increasingly useless injections, but also for denying and suppressing safe potential treatments that have been shown to almost stop the spread of the Covid virus in the body, allowing natural immunity to fight the infection off far more quickly than it could have, potentially preventing the deaths of half a million or more of the reported “Covid” fatalities. They should be angry… but not at people who refuse to wear ineffective face masks.
They should be angry, as well, at political “leaders,” or controllers, who locked down our economy as they did, and locked down our personal activities as they did. The collateral deaths from suicide, drug overdose and, in a sense, broken hearts, as lives, businesses and marriages crumbled, amounted to more than a quarter of a million. If “an enemy” had invaded and killed over 200,000 Americans, we’d all be angry at him, her or them… certainly. And we would fight back until he, she, it were vanquished: totally defeated and rendered unable to repeat that evil action. Unfortunately, we were convinced to TAKE DIRECTION FROM the enemy! And here we are, still arguing over face masks for toddlers. Shame on us.
Congratulations are truly in order. This is a milestone. You have a diploma, but what does it mean?
That is, what does it mean to those who do not know you? The LACK of a High School diploma would mean a lot to people who knew only that much about you, but the fact that you have a diploma simply places you in a group of hundreds of thousands of young people who got one. Now what?
Some kids are lucky. They have a strong direction and interest by the time they finish highschool and they go right off to college to learn more about what interests them and some of them even wind up working at what interested them when they began college.
Many don’t. They go to college, spend tons of money to get a degree and eventually wind up doing something entirely different. However, the fact that they have that COLLEGE diploma, means a great deal to potential employers and colleagues. That’s because there is no law that says a person has to attend college.
Gaining a college diploma means that an individual had enough drive and self-management to complete a course of study, and almost regardless of what the course of study was, that diploma marks the person as a good do-er – someone who could get his or her homework done even when parents weren’t there to nag and remind. So, maybe that person can be trusted to do valuable work in exchange for money.
Some kids are even luckier. They have a drive to learn and excel in a particular field and then go on to master that field and strive to “make a difference” in the “world.”
For many, the easiest way, or, at least, most certain way to make that difference is by becoming a teacher, and there is some truth to that. As a teacher one is able to affect the minds and beliefs of dozens and hundreds of children – affects that will be part of them for the rest of their lives. So teaching is pretty significant… but it’s not the path for everyone.
Sometimes the best difference that a person may make in the world derives from what he or she teaches just one or two other people – maybe children or grandchildren. You never know.
The world, however, is still there, ready for all those “differences” to be made in it. All those differences are not made only by high-minded diploma-holders: the greatest ideas will evaporate if some do-er doesn’t make them real. Often, the thinker and the do-er is the same person, and we celebrate those people. Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Eli Whitney, Edwin Land, Thomas Edison, Clara Barton, Marie Curie, and a host of other industrial, military and political leaders are among that group.
Then there are those who are famous for having done what others dreamed up: people like Neil Armstrong. He didn’t conceive of the machinery that took him to the moon,
but he had an ability of courage and good thinking, combined, to execute the great ideas and engineering of others.
Most of us are not like that. Most of us are pretty-well occupied dealing with “life” as it comes along, earning a living and meeting our responsibilities. Eventually, in the course of doing what’s best for ourselves and our families, many of us also give to others in time or money or otherwise, and make our own little, un-heralded “differences” in the “world.” This applies to most, and is the greatest, cumulative force for good in the “world.” Some turn criminal for whatever reasons, but most are good and civilization and society move haltingly, unevenly, even stumblingly toward an average better life for all people. You can see there is a long way to go.
Which means there is plenty of room for you to make your own difference as you make your own way, your own life, your own living. Eventually you will do your own good. But, how? Ay! There’s the rub.
I know you didn’t have the most happy, care-free experience through school. Neither did I. But that’s done, now. Now – right this instant – you are alive, healthy and strong, smart and good-looking and existing at the time of greatest opportunity ever! Right now is when you can’t shuck your responsibility to yourself because you “deserve” a vacation or a little “rest” after your twelve grueling years slaving over textbooks.
Right now is when you have to make a map, of sorts. It’s not a map that shows roads, trails, paths and correct turns at every intersection. It’s a map of decision, though – definitely of decision. You are very fortunate – lucky, even – that you are where you are with the people in your life who are here. You have a smart brain. And, it’s time to make a decision about making decisions. Life on this planet is based on assumptions, beliefs and decisions. And love. It’s also based on love.
First, let’s examine what love has to do with it. You are a product of love, for example. Your mom and dad loved enough to go to the trouble of creating you, but not simply as a gift to YOU, but as a gift to each other, and with some expectation – an assumption, if you will, that whoever you were would give love back in return. That is the real circle of life.
Love is not infinite. It’s huge, but it has limits. People who never return love that you send their way, can literally suck all the love out of you, leaving emptiness. By returning love, you can multiply it, and the person to whom you returned that love not only has as much love as he or she originally had for you, but more than that. Multiplication. It’s a really cool phenomenon. We don’t always call it love.
Oftentimes the energy or effect that we might call love, is called and expressed as trust. When you are trustworthy, when you keep your word, when you keep a secret, when you deliver on a promise, when you meet right expectations… you are expressing the force we call love. People who learn to trust you develop an assumption about you that is called trust, but is a form of love. Like love, trust given in return tends to
multiply trust between people. There are very few “good” accomplishments that do not include a lot of trust between people. It is the unwritten contract of honesty that enables most of the commerce of life, both monetary and personal. Honesty, trust, love. Obviously it’s important and you know you have already learned to trust quite a few people in your first eighteen years on Earth. Have they all learned to trust you back? That’s the first decision on your decision map: am I willing to do what it takes to be a person of trust? Am I willing to sacrifice, sometimes, to maintain that trust? Am I willing to do what it takes to deliver on promises I have made? Will people who know me always know that I may be trusted to keep my word? That’s the first decision, Jon.
People who live in accordance with that decision generally GIVE as much as they RECEIVE. Like emotional love, people who accept the trust of others and don’t return it by action and discipline, will soon suck all the trust out of a relationship, leaving emptiness. I hope you decide to be a trust generator.
You are bound to encounter people who are not worthy of your trust and you must be wise and careful of where you place YOUR trust. You know someone like Frank Allen, for example, can always be trusted, but there are those who will lie to you, take advantage of your trust, even steal from you, and you must recognize when trust is the wrong thing to do with that person. Trust is big but not infinite, and it’s extremely fragile. A solid trust relationship is worth more than gold, and you are obligated to protect and nurture it. It’s everything from doing what you said to saving the life of the soldier next you in battle – or him saving you.
We all live on a path built out of assumptions… assumptions that are part of our personal belief structure. For example, we assume that the sun is coming up on time each morning; we assume that when we put our foot down on the floor that it will be firm and able to support us – same thing with the ground. We expect – or assume – that tap water is safe to drink. There are thousands and hundreds of thousands of assumptions that we have learned to depend upon. Most accidents, surprises, shocks, injuries… the list is long, that happen, are when something we assumed to be true or real, is not. Or it’s when something that we are in the habit of assuming, but which can actually vary, has varied and we fail to observe it – we fail to adjust our assumptions.
For example, a driver may assume that the person in the intersection who appears to be signaling for a turn is actually going to make that turn. We have experienced enough instances when a turn is signaled and then actually made, that we “let down our defenses” and assume that the turn will be made this fine morning, too. Unfortunately, sometimes the signaler is not aware he or she is signaling and instead drives right into you, or, worse, you drive right into him or her.
Assumptions can let you down. Assumptions are created out of one-way trust. Since the ground has always been solid, you can assume it will be today, also, but you can’t “trust” that the ground will be solid, can you? The ground has no heart. It can’t love you, it can’t “return” your trust. You must recognize that making assumptions is strictly
a one-sided activity. Make a decision, please, to never assume too much. Maintain conscious awareness… and a sense of skepticism. It is an old saying, but totally true: “Things are not always what they appear to be.”
The greatest pain and emotional injuries occur where someone has assumed a certain relationship exists – perhaps one of trust, or even love – when it does not, or that it is of a particular nature when it is something quite different. The assuming party then acts or trusts in a certain way and is thunderstruck when what he or she expected would happen is completely different from what actually does happen – like assuming the other driver were going to turn – and great pain is the result.
From that might spring great anger or hatred, two things you want to avoid with as much power as you can muster, for they are corrosive, like a strong acid, eating away at your abilities to love and trust. Don’t assume too much.
You know something about the “scientific method,” I’m sure. An observer takes note of a phenomenon – maybe as simple as a pin dropping to the floor. He or she measures how long it takes for the pin to reach the floor and creates an experiment where the same pin can be measured falling to the floor, again. After two or three repetitions, the observer, armed with the recorded observations, may make a statement that gravity has a “rate” of attraction. In other words, a weight equal to the weight of the pin will fall the observed distance in so many thousandths of a second, every time. Others won’t even try the same experiment – they begin to assume the truth of the observer’s statement about falling pins. Can you already see how many mistakes the others are making? Let’s list a few:
Does a square chip of metal the weight of that pin fall at the same rate?
Does the pin dropped head down fall differently than point down?
What if the pin is dropped sideways instead of head or point down?
Is it different in a vacuum than in the air?
What about if it were dropped in humid air, or bone-dry air?
What if it were dropped in a freezer at 32 degrees below zero?
If you climbed a mountain and dropped the pin the same height at an altitude of 10,000 feet above sea level, would it fall at exactly the same rate?
What about if you went to the shores of the Dead Sea and dropped it there?
What if you went to another place on Earth at exactly the same conditions, would it fall at exactly the same rate?
Wow. Such a simple experiment with so many variables! Who knew? The point is, just like relationships in life, work, families and friendships, a single observation can’t be the basis of trust or love. You must decide that you will test for some variables before you start assuming that something is true, real or honest – ie. trustworthy – between yourself and new acquaintances. This also means that you can’t assume that you have the trust of other people, or that you have the right to be combative or quick to anger with others. You have to find a pattern of truth from multiple observations. When you have a basis for trust, your relationship with others will be the best it can be. If you assume a level of trust and it proves to not be real, you will be hurt and so will the other person, and so will some around you. Please, make a decision that you will be a wise observer: ready to trust, but only when it’s proper and good.
Of course, a lot of these decisions and observations and even skepticism, apply to you, yourself, as well. Do you keep promises to yourself? Do you trust yourself? What if you said to yourself that you were going to become an expert at… gaming software, for example. Are you willing to do what it takes to become that expert, to gain that expertise? Will you keep your word to yourself?
Or, if you find that it is hard work to keep that promise, will you talk yourself out of caring about that promise?
Or, are you willing to find out what the steps will be to gain that expertise, so that you can then plan to achieve it? In other words, are you going to become a great do-er or simply dream about becoming one?
Maybe simpler terms are easier. If you lived in an apartment and there was no food in the cupboards or the refrigerator, would you be willing to do what it takes to buy some food? Or would you go to a soup-kitchen and beg for a meal?
Those are promises you make to yourself. Everyone has relationships with others where he or she keeps a high trust level, protecting confidences, keeping promises, stuff like that, yet fails to keep a promise to him- or herself. You are the only person who can make that trust decision; you are the only person who has the ability to observe whether you have proven to be trustworthy to yourself.
It is that tiny, tiny sliver of distance between trusting yourself or not, that determines how we live our lives. “This above all, to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not be false to any man.”
So, you must decide, and now is when you must. How will I live? And you can’t leap, in one step, one experiment, one observation, from where you are to some ultimate dream or goal. You need a number of observations. You can try college or junior college and find it a perfect fit for your “map.” You might observe that it is not.
You could “apprentice” yourself in a field you are interested in, and work for a while before going to college. You’ll have a lot of observations on which to base your self-trust.
You could take a minimum-wage job and master it. You will be amazed to see how many doors open up as a result. It doesn’t matter what it is. It is YOUR decision to be a drudge or a dynamo. You took that job with Frank at the Elks and became a dynamo, gaining an excellent reputation, there, while helping a lot of people you don’t even know. You TOOK the $25.00 but you GAVE much more. It’s a formula for a good life. You also gained many observations about cause and effect, work and rest, starting and finishing, cooperation and independence, expertise and apprenticeship.
You can do hard jobs. You may not always like what has to be done, but you can do hard work. That’s pretty important. The greatest successes in America are based on starting at the “bottom” and working your way up. Every famous general started at the “bottom.”
Finally, you must never stop learning, reading or teaching. Learn things so that you can teach others about them. I hope you make this decision / promise to yourself. None of us knows enough. The mind is always at a new level, having accumulated the education of yesterday. Now, it’s today. You can’t stay here, for tomorrow is coming. You can try, but you’ll fail in everything if you think today is your forever.
Today is the only day in which you can prepare for tomorrow. Whether you intend to (which I hope) or not, you ARE preparing for tomorrow. It’s almost like magic. No matter WHAT you do today, it is preparation for tomorrow.
President Joe Biden speaks about his domestic agenda from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, as Vice President Kamala Harris looks on. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Thousands of independent truck drivers in Canada have coalesced to protest their government’s Covid-19 “vaccine” mandate. Many are “vaccinated” (have accepted the weird injections) but are demanding freedom to choose what goes into their bloodstreams. Their Premier, Justin Trudeau, has scurried off to hide from them, claiming exposure to Covid – what else? He’s a heroic figure by his own account. He looks more like an asshole, but that’s subjective.
In all likelihood truckers in the U. S. are going to form their own convoy in protest of our government’s denial of freedom, too. Canada’s convoy was up to 45 miles long as it descended upon Ottowa. The Americans will try to exceed that, one suspects. Either way, the Canadians have inspired working people around the world to organize against the soft, yet hardening, tyrannies of supposed pandemic suppression; this applies mainly to the Biden Administration.
President Joe Biden has imposed an odd case study of how strange, long debunked theories of leftist governance, can screw up a large nation in a matter of months. Still, we have to go back further than January 20, 2021 to appreciate the impact of leftism on a supposedly Constitutionally limited democratic republic, particularly in reaction to a national “health emergency.” Covid-19 was such a perfect foil for destroying freedom and personal responsibility, that leftists have almost rejoiced in the opportunities to show how much better life can be under the firm hands of government control. It has fit their dreams so well that the creation of Covid-19 might appear to be a gift from the great leftist in the sky… or in China – same thing to some.
All of this brings us to contemplating how many left-ward changes POTUS (Poop-head Of The United States) has made in slightly more than one year. Among them are a host of UN-Constitutional, EXTRA-Constitutional and ANTI-Constitutional actions and policies. A number of them will, patriots hope, lead to impeachment and conviction of Mr. Biden. One glaring example is illegal immigration, one of the first “orders” POTUS issued on January 21st, his first full day in office. Biden reversed every Trump administration border policy, stopping virtually all deportations and virtually all arrests of illegal entrants. By so doing he ushered in one of the great travesties in U. S. history.
Since the end of January, 2021, nearly 2 MILLION illegal entrants have crossed the southern border – by the hundreds and thousands – and Joe Biden has forced the Border Patrol and I.C.E. to allow them in and then to provide various articles of clothing, cell-phones, prepaid for a year, hotel rooms and rides, even flights, to wherever the illegals want to go, or wherever Biden wants them to go. This policy requires the specific subversion of U. S. law. It forces expenses upon the sovereign states that created the FEDERAL governing system, completely subverting the Tenth Amendment. There is no pro-American value to it. Indeed, beyond unfettered access to public welfare programs and illegal residence in our country, illegal entrants are afforded more rights and far fewer legal constraints than are U. S. citizens! In fact, the federal government bends over backwards to provide Constitutional rights and protections to illegal aliens, including providing attorneys to every illegal entrant to defend their spurious claims to asylum. Many bleeding-heart liberals consider that it is the duty of the United States to feel sorry for, and provide welfare to, every unhappy person in the world. While that’s a sweet opinion, it has almost nothing to do with the purpose of nationhood: survival.
Every nation on Earth has a reason for being. For some, for most, actually, it is ethnicity. That is, nationhood typically has sprung from tribal identity, although most countries have also been fought for against neighboring tribes, and often expanded thereby. In too many examples nations have been cobbled together through domination and war. Commonality of language and / or religious belief has proven just as nationalizing as ethnic tribalism. Many factors combine to establish – and maintain – successful nations. Only one nation has survived because of a set of principles, almost despite ethnicity. It is exceptional.
To cement its unique reasons for being, the founding Fathers – and Mothers – of the United States of America, established an ageless covenant with the people of their recently fought-for states: The Constitution, the most respected and “copied” foundational document in the world. Every President, commencing with George Washington, and virtually every other elected state and federal official since, has sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. One might think that failing to do so would be justification for removal from office.
Every nation, however it justifies its continued existence, recognizes and passionately defends its borders… and its culture. For a nation to be led by a person or group of people who take actions to NOT defend its borders or even its culture, would seem to honest citizens sufficient reason to remove him or them from power. Back to Covid-19.
There is a large cohort of ostensible Americans who are charged with the vital task of conveying the culture and heritage of the United States to its children – to our future, in fact. Unfortunately, teachers and the overarching public education industry, have, over the past fifty years, been co-opted by ultra-leftists and virtual communists. Teachers’ unions have established themselves as the operators of schools, rather than the parents of children or the local, elected, school committees or boards who, presumably, answer to their constituents. It all results from political – and financial – corruption, with most of the finances being tax dollars… tax dollars extracted from real property owners, primarily, under the threat of police powers.
As a consequence, anti-American ideologies are taught to students in schools of “education” and then taught to elementary school students with the knowledge of their parents. This is changing, but decades of damage have been accomplished, reflected in a general malaise infecting 5 to 21-year-olds, noted in rates of drug use, lack of religious education, hyper-sexualization and suicide rates. Many of our youth believe they prefer socialism to capitalism, and if it’s the form of monopolistic, oligharchic wealth concentration we have allowed to date, they are right. Our Constitutional Republican form of governance and freedom is designed to allow for hope, imagination, joy and attainment. Our schools and attendant politics have produced less and less capable or independent young adults, and a lack of hope so profound as to destroy institutions like marriage, motherhood and fatherhood. If a primary purpose of nationhood is survival, America is failing. Illegal immigration won’t fix what ails us.
Covid provided thousands of incipient fascists with a perfect opportunity to push people around. The three most destructive effects of government “emergency” powers are the destruction of thousands of small businesses and millions of jobs, destruction of what was left of American economic freedom and budgetary strength, and destruction of the education and development of millions of K through 12 students. “Educators,” so-called, in teachers’ unions and administrative positions in virtually every school system, learned to exercise powers they’d only dreamed of prior. Parents, their schedules and economies and their precious offspring could be controlled in ways never imagined under our Constitution. As the truth has been spilling out about actual Covid threats and effects, schools are the largest remaining poisoned well of fascism – including pushing these dangerous injections onto kids as young as five years. It all constitutes a crime against humanity. Australia, New Zealand and, now, Canada, have enjoyed practicing new-found fascistic powers, to the point of mobilizing against freedom. Many of those same teachers are envious.
Naturally, parents have rebelled against the cloying, sticky blob of indoctrinators, and have succeeded many areas. Covid helped to expose the rot. But the lerftist, Democrat power structure will not relinquish its attempts to replace the American system with global socialism, readily or cleanly. Its members are clever and cunning, albeit not wise. The Biden deministration is happy to sic Merrick Garland and his DOJ thugs, so to speak, on parents who resist the wasting of education time on critical race or gender theories. What the Hell are we doing with the American dream bequeathed to us over the centuries?
Americans like to believe that we can work hard to elect this or that person or set of persons, and thereby change the direction of freedom, opportunity and of government, itself. It barely works anymore. Elections come and go, but the direction of government is inexorably toward higher pay and benefits for government officials and employees – higher than for average citizens – toward increasing benefits and rights for non-working welfare recipients, toward increasing benefits and rights for illegal entrants, toward increasing controls over individuals’ rights and freedoms, and toward perpetual, unredeemable debt.
Two things must happen: 1) voters must become smarter, hopefully wiser; and, 2) candidates for office must become smarter and better principled in terms of commitment to our Constitution, Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.
Are we wise enough, collectively or individually, to stop electing anti-freedom, anti-American officials and “representatives? Do we actually believe that we can ignore the Constitution and just vote ourselves benefits from government much longer? Please.
This is the year. 2022 has been forced by the left to be the fulcrum of history. The perception of the left in 2020, faced with the likelihood of Trump’s re-election, was that the field was finally fertile enough to sow Communism (under a variety of euphemisms) in the sharply divided and guilt-ridden, formerly United States. Cities were collapsing in 2020, “Black Lives Matter” had coordinated with thousands of weirdos, “antifa” thugs and students and other youth who had been taught to hate our nation and history. The time seemed right to pull the trigger on revolution… besides, the media and a strange congress had many municipal leaders so consumed with hatred for Donald Trump and the Americanism he represented, that they too, agreed with “BLM” and allowed rioting in the name of myriad hatreds to destroy their communities.
The demise of George Floyd provided the spark as if written into a script. If Derek Chauvin had not been so incredibly stupid, some other event would have happened, some other black man would have conflicted with police and drawn fire while unarmed. Then his family would have become millionaires and Nancy Pelosi and a bunch of other dopes would have kneeled in the rotunda in that man’s memory, while the same cities – and hopes – burned.
The left engineered the answer to a big wish of theirs: dumping Donald Trump. We can begin to grasp what leftists really have for an end-game, when we dissect their hatreds, and their hatred for Trump – and trump supporters – is instructive. Trump, they decry, is a “populist,” which is to say, he only goes with what is “popular.” “Populist,” however, actually means being a member of the “Populist Party,” which gained traction in the late 19th century over issues like initiating an income tax, public ownership of utilities, support for unionization to counter the power of large corporations and banks, and support for fair returns for farmers. As a “people’s” party, the Populists were seeking to balance economic freedom for small business and workers, against the explosion of industrial growth and price-fixing power of industrial and financial trusts. Many of these issues were assumed by Progressives and the “Trust-Busters” in the first decade of the 20th century.
The more meaningful approbation of Trump is that of “Nationalist.” This is supposedly terrible, and likened to Nazism, ostensibly because Hitler was a nationalist. “America First” became pejorative in the view of leftists. So, what is the alternative goal? Globalism: the dissolution of national identities and, therefore, national heritage and culture. Destruction of American culture was the primary effect of 2020 lawlessness. It seemed to have many allies, one of whom is now president. What were/are they thinking?
Anti-nationalism has only one goal, globalist, one-world government. Is there any reason to expect that one-world government will be based on the American, Constitutionally limited model? We can learn a lot from the last 50 years of United Nations “enlightenment.” The vaunted U. N. was a creation of liberals and leftists who sold war-weary Americans on the image of diverse peoples all getting along to spread peace, democracy and the end of hunger around the world. Communists never accepted those premises, nor did other kinds of tyrants… nor Nazi-enflamed fundamentalist Muslims. To poorer nations it was a way to get money from the United States; to Communists a way to weaken the United States, to Muslims, a way to get the U. S. to pay for oil for poorer nations while weakening Christianity.
Within a very short time the U. N. became an excusatory congress for the U. S. policy of containing Communism, and we were thrust into the Korean Conflict for that stated purpose, but at its heart that war was an excuse to pit the U. S. against the Soviet Union and, ultimately, against communist China, while weakening the only super-power. It was the first war we won by losing: a new experience for the greatest generation.
Right on its heels the globalist C.I.A. and State Department leftists concocted what became the Viet-Nam War, the scars of which have never healed. Still ostensibly “containing” Communism, the U. S. consumed about a $Trillion dollars (back when a Billion dollars was a lot of money) and destroyed Americans’ faith in their military. So many lies were told about the conduct and success of that stupid conflict, that the Army had to hire hundreds of paid dissemblers to keep up with the flow. Again, we lost by winning, and were shamed.
Since Viet-Nam we have embarked on numerous military adventures, most of which are unknown to Americans and better grasped by other nations, including our enemies, of which there is a considerable list. At the same time we have exhausted our credit line with policies of welfare, corporate, family and personal, international and more. Nine administrations and 18 Congresses have seen fit to overspend – not at declining but at INCREASING rates. We now have commitments that cannot be met, and devaluing the currency is the final effect. Americans are seeking a political solution to a philosophical deficit: we have accepted the blandishments of socialists and communists for 60 years and mismanaged our industrial base so badly that we can barely afford to defend ourselves, much less project power to constrain tyrants. Freedom is shrinking, everywhere.
Americans have swayed from responsibility to licentiousness, forswearing God and religion, turning instead to the perpetual debt-creation of government. We are not able to sacrifice for a better future as our parents and grandparents did, automatically. We have a plethora of foolish rights… and fewer freedoms. The freedoms remaining are under assault, now that we have elected a tyrant of our own.
So, 2022 poses a host of problems that took a long time to gestate, but which need to be corrected in very short order. It will take sacrifice on everyone’s part. America has never been invaded, discounting the War of 1812, and we have not felt the devastation and losses of war. But a war is brewing, here amongst us, and a welfare check won’t stave it off. What do Americans have to do, now? Learn Mandarin?
More than once over the past eight years we have considered our ballooning debt. For the past two years elements of our deep state, agencies of the National Institutes of Health, elected leftists, George Soros’ minions and Communist China, have conspired to hobble capitalism about as rapidly as has ever been done – our hobbling of ourselves not having proceeded as quickly as they’d liked. Brutal lockdowns and debt-defying welfare payments to locked out workers and free-loaders, fearful school closings and now mandated injections of ersatz vaccines or firings – even in the military and emergency domestic personnel – have stripped our workforce and businesses of the people needed to produce our goods and productive surplus. We are broke and rushing to become poorer…, well, except for a few multi-billionaire-global merchants and money manipulators. We have given up the capitalist opportunity society for an oligarchy of wealth and severe stratification into the rakers, the makers, the takers and the fakers.
Even more effectively, we have turned the “vaxxed” into haters of the “unvaxxed,” while formerly trustworthy doctors and hospitals, in thrall to the pharmaceutical manufacturers, have started denying medical care to those who choose to not be injected with mRNA poisons, whose safety and efficacy have been unknown, only now being revealed as neither safe nor effective. Our barely recognizable “government’s” only offering is dissolution of the constitution and further expansion of the debt by another couple of $Trillion. God save us.
It appears that a massive shift in political alignment is in the offing for the mid-term elections, but so what? We are teetering, contemplating a preposterous war1 and swearing at one another. Society is rending itself as it awaits the next free-delivery of goodies and gadgets from Amazon Prime and GrubHub, no longer even bothering to cook for ourselves. We’ve demonized smokers, and glorified tokers. Will changing control of Congress mean a tinker’s dam? What do we expect a powerful new Congress to do?
Will a Republican congress cut the federal budget? Will it use its “power of the purse” to force enforcement of the Constitution and of laws? Will it impeach scurrilous Joe Biden? Will it pursue exposure of the deep state and various collusions and corruptions that seem to have happened? Will it force a complete house-cleaning at the Department of Justice? Will it impeach Merrick Garland on Constitutional grounds? Will it stop raising the debt “ceiling?” Will it undue a host of bad laws and regulations? Will Republicans eliminate clearly racist distinctions in the application of laws? Will it pass a budget? Will it resist any legislation of more than say, 30 or 40 pages in length? Will it prevent the back-door passage of unrelated “wants” that certain Reps or Senators want to attach to true “needs” legislation? Do we think either House will reform itself for the benefit of citizens or in defense of Constitutional rights and freedoms? Given the last 40 or 50 years of congressional history, all these hopes… indeed, ANY of these, seems like a long shot.
We saw, upon the surprise election of both leftist and somewhat questionable Democrat Senators from Georgia, that the Democrat party was poised to push through utterly radical policies. Indeed, their virulent attempts to “reset” American Constitutionality would lead patriots to accept the plausibility of concerted efforts to steal the presidential – and other – elections in 2020, in order to get the “reset” underway. It, the rabid intensity for replacing the American system, seems to not be politics, anymore; it is no longer based on how to best represent the needs of the American people, but rather a mission to undo the last bastion of freedom in favor of a Chinese-led global tyranny.
The question, then, aside from “will we descend into war over Ukraine,” is how radically, how rabidly will the Pelosi-Schumer Democrats breach the bounds of law, custom and ethics to achieve victory in the mid-terms? They have shown, repeatedly, that free and fair elections cannot be depended upon to maintain their majority in either house.
Consequently, given the building expectation of a Republican sweep of the mid-term elections, the threat to a Democrat majority anywhere is also building. Watching the criminality guiding the Biden administration along our southern border, and the willingness of Merrick Garland to abridge the Bill of Rights, the threat to the survival of the United States will likely be experienced in 2022. There is no one to our West who will save democracy for US. We must save and defend it ourselves… right now.
1 There is really only one solution to the Ukraine standoff. With consequences for invasion on the table, the U. S. must reach out to Putin and President Zelensky, not at the same time or place, but close, to commence negotiations. Ukraine deserves respect, but not American blood. Biden or Blinken or one of their apologists must make clear to Zelensky that neither NATO, or an assemblage of European states is going to risk everything to defend Ukraine from the Russian juggernaut. Russia holds the military cards and killing thousands of them and more thousands of Ukrainians is not going to shift that balance materially.
Russia also must be respected, and assuaged. The U. S. must assure Putin in no uncertain terms that war will not ensue over Ukraine IF an acceptable condition of neutrality for Ukraine: neutrality with sovereignty, can be established that is acceptable to Ukraine and Russia. That may involve special trading status between those two nations, and sufficient flexibility for Ukraine to trade elsewhere as well. It will have to recognize the special status of Crimea as a military enclave for the Russian Navy with some rights of veto by Ukraine for other than agreed uses and operations there, perhaps with a 99-year “lease” of the peninsula. It could include a pact within which neither nation would take sides with any 3rd party against the other. It must also recognize the cultural distinctions of ethnic Russians resident in Ukraine, and possible changes in the acceptance of the Russian language within Ukraine.
There is a diplomatic path that the U. S. could broker and cause to be recognized by the European Union and NATO itself, including NATO’s firm rejection of membership by Ukraine and agreement by Ukraine to cease negotiations with or appeals to NATO. The U. S. should agree to recognize the neutrality of Ukraine and to lead the effort to have the rest of the U. N. similarly recognize the new status. Russia must agree to exercise no military provocation or threat to Ukraine and to recognize, unequivocally, its independence, neutrality and sovereignty. It’s possible. All alternatives to this framework are disastrous.
Fewer and fewer people understand capitalism, despite every, single, one of us being a capitalist. This is an odd distortion of knowledge and understanding, and it has taken a lot of work. There are two kinds of capital: earned and unearned. Figuring out which is which will make clear where each of us is on the spectrum.
Consider a newborn baby. He or she will cry and fuss until he or she receives food and/or comfort – often the very same things. There is no sense of sacrificing for greater rewards an hour or two later, or of “saving up” cries in order to obtain a larger portion at a later time. Babies exhibit raw capitalism: pure barter. I won’t make your motherly instincts feel the discomfort of a crying baby if you will provide what it takes to comfort me and put enough food into me so that I will sleep… like a baby. We all start out as capitalists.
We might also note that a baby doesn’t save any food or comfort for later, nor does he or she offer more quiet alleviation of motherly guilt in exchange for food than it takes. Everything is on the expense accounts as “current” – no accrual.
It takes a while for infants and toddlers to figure out that kindness and caring can be “banked,” as it were, for increased pleasure and happiness any time later. It’s a big concept. If lovingly raised, however, children do learn to avoid punishment for “bad” or costly actions, and to express love and kindness toward parents and others when they are not hungry or uncomfortable… and even to share possessions. At some point they learn to trade possessions for perceived “profits.” Something Tommy has seems more desirable than what Jeffy has – and vice-versa – and both parties “profit” from an exchange of goods. Also a big concept.
Like all human “isms,” even incipient capitalism requires regulation and “institutionalized” bounds. Almost every child learns that simply taking something of Tommy’s is extremely profitable: nothing is given up in exchange. Parents or other adults are, at that point, obligated to punish – or dis-incentivize – that practice. Jeffy’s taking, or stealing the possession of Tommy’s, must be made costly enough that Jeffy learns as immediately as possible, that there is no advantage or profit in that act or acquisition. And, it must be a cost that exceeds the simple return of the stolen property. Whether it’s a period of disfavor from a parent, or deprivation of a desired activity, a slap on the hand or something else proportional to the “crime,” there must be a cost that the perpetrator, Jeffy, will do his best to avoid going forward. Otherwise, stealing becomes a habit and will be perceived as profitable and worthwhile. Several big concepts.
It’s easy to imagine the fairly short-term consequences of the lack of institutionalized sanctioning of “bad” actions. In this case, the “institution” is the “law,” or, at least, the automatic and swift punishment (let’s hope, by parents) of theft in addition to retribution. This is the fundament of civilization; capitalism is woven amongst all the threads of civilized society.
Now let’s assume that our properly guided and sanctioned child grows up, essentially according to the Ten Commandments. People of faith attempt to obey all ten, there being nothing negative about any of them, which is to say: nothing that hurts social cooperation and quality of life, or the raising of new adults with civilizing self-control. Strictures against creating and worshipping graven images instead of God; taking the name of God in vain (cursing involving God’s name or power); keeping the sabbath day holy is also a good idea, albeit one that we in America have cleverly set aside; honoring our fathers and mothers is both logical and essential to the health of society; not killing one another; not committing adultery; not stealing; not lying about our neighbors; and, not coveting the property of our neighbors. These are essentially society-protecting strictures that we attempt to talk ourselves away from only at our peril. The hate-based riots of 2020 are the clear and clarion proof of the fragility of civilization in the absence of “the Commandments,” whatever their source.
Our new adult decides to start a business. Having been raised “with a conscience,” Jeffy plans to sell his skills as a carpenter, and he recognizes that he’ll need a partner with similar skills in order to keep his contracting promises and to help avoid mistakes. He makes arrangements with a local lumberyard to establish an account with sufficient credit to do significant renovation or add-on projects. The account is based on Jeffy’s reputation as an honest person and, in part, on his father’s equivalent reputation. The lumberyard considers the potential of a growing business customer as a worthy risk of a certain level of credit, or debt.
By virtue of hiring Aaron, a friend he knows from High school, who also loves building things, Jeffy takes on a remarkable burden of employer obligations, including various benefits that must be paid, including health care and liability insurances, and, of course, meeting “payroll.” As owner of the business, Jeffy also is responsible for legal contracting with customers, and for other tax consequences of success. He and Aaron still believe in their abilities and respective roles. and business commences.
“Jeff’s Construction” finds itself busy and able to pay both the owner and his employee reasonable wages while gaining assets in the form of two trucks and several power tools, and while accumulating some money in a local bank. In other words, “Jeff’s” is profitable. Knowing that his little company was facing taxes on his profits at both the state and federal levels, Jeff decides to make a donation to his church’s Christmas Food Drive. With profits on the books of about $12,000, Jeff donates $2,000 to the food drive. He and Aaron get their picture in the paper handing over a big cardboard check to the chairman of the Drive committee. The minister and several other key people are also in the picture. Jeff makes a handful of new connections, as a result, a couple of whom later contract with “Jeff’s Construction” for renovations of their homes.
As the years go by, “Jeff’s Construction” becomes “J & A Builders, Inc.” incorporated and no longer a proprietorship. They grow to 6 full-time employees. Each summer J & A work with the regional technical high school to provide summer jobs to budding carpenters. Aside from income taxes to state and federal government, J & A’s building and garages plus the property taxes on the two partners’ and their 6 employees’ homes total over $100,000 per year, while excise taxes on their vehicles kick in another $26,000. Donations to the Food Drive, the Boys and Girls Club and to the local “Y” for Summer Camp sponsorships plus support of a local Little League team, amount to nearly $25,000. J & A also matches 401-K contributions up to 5% of income for all 8 personnel.
Those who misunderstand the immense values of honest profit are always looking for “businesses” and “business owners” to right non-business wrongs in society, perhaps because they are “fortunate.” But that is not a business obligation. The business is obliged to operate legally and honestly, delivering what it promises and not cheating customers, and to do so at a profit so that all legal obligations to employees and suppliers are met. By providing multiple streams of tax revenue, businesses provide for all that civil society is relied upon to provide for residents. Charity is in addition, and a blessing, not an obligation.
Of course, everything is different for those small businesses that have a room in the back that’s full of cash… cash they’re just too greedy to share with their oppressed workers and every poor person in town. But, there are damned few of those.
There are many ways to add new wealth to an economy and to a nation. The first of these was personal manufacture, in a sense, where the best tools or weapons compared to other groups or tribes created an advantage in terms of safety, hunting and survival. Next came agriculture, permanent villages and cities and the need to defend them, which latter need spurred invention, metallurgy, and more. Along with agriculture, fishing also introduces wealth and spurred marine technology. In the presence of defensive pressures came a third major source of new wealth: mining. Everything, of course, required managed labor and the necessary efficiencies that make ever-larger projects, whether construction or war-fighting, possible. Indeed, it all made the Roman Empire possible – a success of management and leadership that taught some lessons to all of today’s successful – and failed – governments. Religion, particularly in terms of Judaism and Christianity and the economic and familial ethics they spread across Europe, led, eventually and often unpleasantly, to the enlightenment and the explosion of technology, which made intellectual invention a new source of wealth and source of medical advantage, which is another form of civic wealth.
Today, virtually pure intellect is like a global form of mining. New products are “manufactured” from a raw material of electrons, bringing new wealth into existence. Construction, of homes or factories or office towers or highways and bridges, adds new wealth, too: fixed assets, from which use is derived for years and decades, enabling other wealth and our gigantic “service economy.” Still, no matter the type of business in which one engages, the obligations of businesses and business owners – including stockholders – are the same.
What are they?
Operate legally (but don’t hesitate to challenge regulations and laws that are irrational and which amount to unequal application of the law)
Earn a profit legally, without cheating customers
At best, manufacture a product (best way to create new wealth benefitting the most people)
Next best, grow a product and/or improve the growing process
Treat employees equally and provide appropriate training and safe conditions for work
Provide real services that add value to products and their use or availability
Deliver what is promised, never less than promised, and more if you can
Do not employ false advertising or sales tactics
Maintain honest accounting, pay applicable taxes
Do not dirty your property, the air or the waters
Individuals, business owners or not, are always free to be charitable and to take part in politics or social issues they believe in. But these should be personal decisions and personal resources. A business owner fails his or her basic obligations to a community , to customers and to employees, by diverting business resources that should be enhancing working conditions, or providing insurance against future threats to the business. Otherwise, if this sense of purpose and obligation to the health of the business is being weakened for any number of reasons, the business should be sold to those who will work to meet the listed obligations, or folded, having fulfilled, or no longer fulfilling, its mission.
In days of yore (a term used here for the very first time in all of Prudence’ writings) DOCTORS were much revered and obeyed for their advice, in part for their licensed acceptance by their profession and peers, and just as much in part for their ethical standards to which they had sworn as had been their ethic for days and centuries of even greater yore. They also possessed various elements of arcane knowledge to which the average supplicant of their curative powers was not privy.
Those days are gone thanks, most specifically, to the Great COVID Reset during which the politicization of medicine… of MEDICINE… has been completed.
Inadvertently, President Trump fed this beast upon the advice of both good and somewhat black-hearted advisors, many of whom are now billionaires. Hapless Joe Biden has not only ridden the beast of politicization, but has whipped it into frenzy. “Politicization” can nearly be defined as the “monetization” of medicine, which has been going on for a long time, primarily, in the U. S., since the Johnson administration.
Many countries have provided “universal health care” while the United States has done so only stepwise, retaining as much innovation and private initiative as possible, resulting in the greatest industrialized health care system in the world even since Medicare, while the beast nibbled away, digesting philosophies and dollars with equal rapacity. There are vestiges of independence and competition remaining, which enables our remarkable responsiveness to medical needs in comparison to most state-run “health-care” programs. Unfortunately, competition and independent excellence are increasingly perceived as problems by the “nattering nabobs of negativism”1 whom we continue to re-elect.
The hitherto ethical boundaries that defined and protected our phenomenal medical care systems, have nearly disappeared. Where “doctors” in general were once automatically trusted because of their ethical standing, more commonly, now, doctors are forced – and their patients just as much – to provide certain treatments at certain rates of contact for costs dictated by federal agencies. The most egregious of these trends is crystallized by the Pfizer and Moderna and other injections purported to “protect” us from Covid-19 and variants thereof.
“Medicine” has attempted to protect itself through a principle known as “informed consent.” The old “Hippocratic Oath” was too close to a religious oath, for one thing, and, as the ability of medical technology has improved to a point of sidestepping many life-threatening conditions (ie. Heart bypass and valve-replacement surgeries) ever-larger medical consortiums have seized upon “informed consent” to reduce their liability for bad outcomes. Extraordinary promises require extraordinary defenses.
Consequently, patient-customers are presented with various forms of Informed Consent or “waiver” forms on even fairly simple procedures. Contained within each is the promise by the patient to pay for any part of the cost that is not covered by either government or semi-private insurance. Despite the fact that they have just agreed to the indemnification of the provider from bad results of whatever set of procedures are being ordered, what patients mainly recall about the forms ritual, is that he or she has agreed to pay. The “waiver” part, though, helps contain the costs of “malpractice” insurance for the provider(s). More on malpractice, later. Let’s look, first, at how governments, and politicians and political appointees, are mandating medical procedures.
It’s fairly clear, now, two years after the fact, that sloppy, or, God forbid, intentional procedures in the Wuhan, China Virology Institute caused the recently engineered SARS-Cov-2, novel coronavirus to spread rapidly in the city and across the Hubei Province of which it is the capitol, and from there across the globe. Sadly, the Dr. Anthony Fauci-led National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases – NIAID – funded gain-of-function research through research company, Eco-Health Alliance, a “non-profit” headed by British scientist Peter Daszak. Eco-Health remains non-profitable as it funds research in various places around the world, including Wuhan, from grants it obtains from entities like the National Institutes of Health, within which lie the NIAID and Dr. Fauci. That sentence means what it says.
“Gain of Function” means that a natural bat coronavirus was modified, or engineered in the Wuhan laboratory to enable it to readily infect humans and “humanized” mice for research purposes, but it is a matter of intent. If some Communist dictatorship intended to create a bio-weapon – just saying – it would cause the exact same engineering to go forward. Any outside source of the funding needed for such engineering or research would, if it had half a wit, deny any connection to such a sharp, 2-edged sword. This may account for argumentativeness on the part of the world-renowned Dr. Fauci during testimony in Senate hearings on the coronavirus. He certainly has half a wit.
For those Americans who carefully limit themselves to certain news sources, the participation of the NIAID in development of Covid-19 is just a rumor, nothing more.
Another rumor that is very widely known… and repeated by numerous official sources, is that President Trump’s “warp speed” regulatory changes and funding produced three very effective “vaccines” against Covid-19 in record time. Millions are convinced that the rumor is true. But how could modified RNA technology have been applied to this novel coronavirus so rapidly? Well, “Moderna,” a little-known Cambridge, Mass. Pharmaceutical company just happened to be working on such a rumored “vaccine” against the SARS-Cov-2 novel coronavirus IN THE WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY in late 2019 before the rest of the world had even heard of the disease. What a fortunate coincidence. Almost as if they had been preparing for the “lab leak” that put Covid-19 on the world stage, when the President called upon “science” and business to work together on an emergency search for a vaccine against the deadly worldwide pandemic, why they were more than halfway there!
Miracle of miracles, not just Moderna but Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson / Janssen were also able to develop “vaccines” in record time that were able to be “approved” by the FDA for emergency use, right AFTER the 2020 federal elections, since approval before November 3rd would have yielded bad optics.
Unfortunately, Trump was as much in the dark about the legal and illegal machinations of the NIH, CDC and NIAID as the rest of us. He simply recognized the need for a vaccine to stem the disease and believed that what the pharmaceutical industry and Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx and the FDA were calling vaccines actually were vaccines. Trump is a do-er, not a doctor, taking the best advice he could get. He had no idea how thoroughly corrupted federal health agencies were by “big Pharma.” Even the FDA whom we trust to protect Americans from bad foods and unproven drugs, is populated almost completely by former pharmaceutical-industry hacks. So, we can put that rumor to rest.
The other rumor we can finally bury is the “vaccine” status of the modified RNA injections that are, even now, being mandated by businesses and governments, willy-nilly. They’re not vaccines… they are stimulants. They stimulate one’s cells to create non-infectious “spike” proteins that are similar to Covid-19 spike proteins. There very quickly develops a flood of “foreign” spike proteins that the body does its best to get rid of. If, while the flood of foreign proteins are sloshing around, one is also exposed to the Covid-19 spike proteins, well the body will get rid of them, too, during its stimulated get-rid-of-foreign-spike-proteins-phase. It’s ingenious, really, and it can reduce the number of Covid-19 proteins (viruses) that are able to infect a person’s cells. This provides some time for the body’s immune system to finally begin creating defenses against Covid. For most who are exposed following an MRNA injection, the resulting Covid infection will be somewhat milder than it would have been if never injected. However, the MRNA injections do not cause the body’s immune system to create T-cells and B-cells that will confer virtually life-long responsiveness to Covid proteins, and rapid immune defenses to them. They do, however, practically guarantee the emergence of mutations – the dreaded “variants” – by mass-injection programs during a pandemic.
Since the body is good at filtering out foreign proteins, the MRNA injections wear off in a few months, leaving injectees vulnerable to future exposures to Covid-19, and with no built-up immunity or rapid immune defenses, possibly more vulnerable than if never injected. There is some evidence that natural immunity function, itself, and natural immunity to Covid-19 following infection and recovery, may be impaired by MRNA injections. Natural immunity to Covid is 5 to 25 times stronger than the temporary “immunity” conferred by MRNA injection, so it seems a shame to weaken it with future MRNA shots. Apparently our politicians know better than scientists and doctors what is “good” for us.
As part of “warp speed” development of the MRNA injections, pharmaceutical companies were granted immunity from suits due to bad injection reactions up to and including death. This is interesting. The same people who shy away from you if you are not “vaccinated” and who rush to get their children “vaccinated” with MRNA injections, want gun manufacturers to be made fully liable for the use of their products, yet many, many more people die from pharmaceuticals and bad reactions to them, and from bad drug interactions, than from gunshots – many more. The MRNA injections, themselves, account for upwards of 45,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of bad reactions that have yielded debilitating effects, including paralysis. “Give it to our children!” some people cry.
One of the greatest, life-changing effects of MRNA injections, is the creation of dozens of new billionaires from governments’ purchasing of these “free” shots.
Malpractice insurance is no problem for big Pharma, but it is for most treatment providers. Throughout medical school and residency, future physicians are schooled in the employment of “best practice” when diagnosing or treating patients both medically and surgically. Best practice is a doctor’s only defense against charges of “malpractice.” Hence, defensive medicine is the best practice: every test that might illuminate and inform a doctor’s next step or recommendation or prescription, must be employed lest a key piece of “best practice” be overlooked, creating malpractice vulnerability.
Throughout medical education, “best practices” are taught, tested, drilled and tested again and again. The advancement of medical knowledge is not as rapid as it may appear. It takes time and extensive trial and error: studies, “teaching hospital” trials, even for surgical improvement, before a new procedure among dozens that comprise complex surgery or cancer treatments and every other interaction with doctors and laboratories, may be accepted as a “best” practice. To a great degree, the defensibility of the procedure contributes to its “best” designation. Also crucial, however, is the predictability of result in the majority of patients.
When new procedures are finally tried and used, the old “informed consent” firewall is duly presented and signed. Progress is made, somewhat better methods and, presumably, results manifest, the patients recover, possibly faster. Because of testing and trials with careful analyses of results written up for peer review and duplication of results in similar patients, “informed consent” is genuinely “informed.” Insurance companies and their attorneys have been satisfied that coverage should, properly, be extended to cover the new procedure or device or development. What ever the patient now consents to has been deemed “safe” enough and effective enough that the overall risk to the insurors can be quantified as low enough – and, thus, to the patient – that they’ll “cover it.” The provider institution and every clinician who will be part of the new whatever, is also able to be insured, and PROTECTED so long as the insurable “best practice” is employed. Are MRNA injections a “best practice?” Who the Hell even knows? Evidence is accumulating that they are NOT.
The cost of progress is not small. Research and trials are financed, oftentimes by the pharmaceutical industries. Many changes require new drugs or new formulations of drugs, and their new aspects and applications must also be tested, whether under real treatment conditions or in research programs at medical schools, among other venues. Doctors are “educated” in large part by and thanks to pharmaceutical manufacturers. All of their professors have been, too. Best practice is as much best prescription as best action. And doctors and institutions like pharmaceuticals that have been “approved” by the “independent” Food and Drug Administration (FDA); they form a large part of “best practices.” If a malpractice suit is brought against any provider, his, her or its only defense, all things being normal, is that “best practices” were employed, documented, and witnessed by other professionals. Every medical student knows this: it helps cement their trust of “Pharma.” Their products are predictable in effect and “approved.”
Now and then, however, a drug is approved only for “emergency” use or for “last resort” use. This is because there has not been sufficient testing on enough populations to gain full FDA approval. Typically the emergency demand for such a drug is from a fairly small population, each of whom signs a quite different “Informed Consent” form that makes clear the experimental nature of the drug in question and its “emergency use only” designation.
Where does this leave all the brilliant people in the medical industry when the subject is the “emergency use only”-designated Covid-19 MRNA injections? Are they impressed or confused by the description of the injections as “vaccines?” Surely that can’t be so.
Are they blinded by the CDC’s daily recommendation to be “vaccinated” by these experimental chemicals, regardless of the mounting evidence of the rapid decline of such “protection” from Covid that they offer? Impossible. They’re all very smart, very careful professionals. Are all the providers of the injections offering informed consent forms to every guinea pig…. ahhm, recipient of the experimental shots? Well, no, how could they when the data from testing has not been released by the FDA? Clearly when people roll up their sleeves they are consenting to the injection, but not because they are well-informed of the risks. In fact, by calling the shots “vaccines,” they have been MIS-informed by every official health-care agency or department in municipal, state and federal governments, including the CDC, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the NIAID he heads, the FDA and thousands of Doctors nationwide and even worldwide. Even the President and his predecessor and a host of other politicians are on the same misinformation train: they all refer to these weird biologics as “vaccines.”
People fundamentally trust vaccines. Vaccines protect the recipient from diseases like polio, Rubella, chicken-pox, diptheria and tetanus. Vaccines can protect against pneumonia, tuberculosis and shingles. They confer “natural immunity.” Someday, we hope, there will be an actual vaccine that protects against Covid-19; people will want to get that shot. Unfortunately we don’t have one… not yet. We have Modified RNA injections that don’t confer immunity and provide only temporary protection from the worst effects of infection. They’re NOT vaccines. OMG. Is money a factor?
“Medicine” has crossed an ethical line, as if to catch up to the dozens of ethical and legal lines politicians and governments cross every day. Across the country hospitals are literally firing highly trained and experienced doctors, nurses and others who are declining to receive the experimental MRNA injections. This seems stupid, on the face of it. Why would smart professionals fire other smart professionals over an experimental shot the safety and efficacy of which the former group cannot describe to the latter?
Do you know who else is being fired? Police officers, firefighters, Army, Navy, Marine and Special Operations troops – all expensively trained and needed. What kind of idiots would do that?
Speaking of crossed lines, did you know that life-saving surgeries are being denied to people who are not the recipient of these weird injections? God save us. 1. With thanks to the late Spiro Agnew.
