Be Careful What You Wish For

I immediately became suspicious of the fast-track vaccines when the pharma companies were given immunity from liability for anyone who had adverse reactions. Then, when they started talking about using retrovirus techniques in the vaccine (mRNA), I got real suspicious, because what retroviruses do is modify the host's DNA. In fact, mRNA is how scientists do gene editing in laboratories. So, by injecting such a vaccine into a young person, it could have grave implications which are passed on to offspring, that is, if it doesn't make them sterile first.  For old farts like me who are past child bearing age, it is not such a big deal, but the real life roll out in the UK has shown that high percentages (single digit, but high by comparison) of recipients can get either Bell's Palsy or go into anaphalactic shock, or both. And, by the way, this is not being publicized by the major media in Europe or the United States.

However, the information is getting out in other venues.  The former head of Pfizer respiratory research points out:

• The formation of so-called “non-neutralizing antibodies” can lead to an exaggerated immune reaction, especially when the test person is confronted with the real, “wild” virus after vaccination. This so-called antibody-dependent amplification, ADE, has long been known from experiments with corona vaccines in cats, for example. In the course of these studies all cats that initially tolerated the vaccination well died after catching the wild virus.
• The vaccinations are expected to produce antibodies against spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2. However, spike proteins also contain syncytin-homologous proteins, which are essential for the formation of the placenta in mammals such as humans. It must be absolutely ruled out that a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 could trigger an immune reaction against syncytin-1, as otherwise infertility of indefinite duration could result in vaccinated women.
• The mRNA vaccines from BioNTech/Pfizer contain polyethylene glycol (PEG). 70% of people develop antibodies against this substance – this means that many people can develop allergic, potentially fatal reactions to the vaccination.
• The much too short duration of the study does not allow a realistic estimation of the late effects. As in the narcolepsy cases after the swine flu vaccination, millions of healthy people would be exposed to an unacceptable risk if an emergency approval were to be granted and the possibility of observing the late effects of the vaccination were to follow. Nevertheless, BioNTech/Pfizer apparently submitted an application for emergency approval on December 1, 2020.

Not exactly a glowing endorsement, eh? The second bullet is especially troublesome. With widespread distribution of the vaccine, there is potential for mass sterilization of women.

People should not stand for this. Such a situation has the potential to be the poster child for "the cure being worse than the disease". The pharma companies have very little incentive to provide a really safe vaccine. After all, they have been granted immunity from any legal repercussions. One has to wonder at how a government that purports to be "for the people" could allow a situation like this to exist.

The consequences of injecting RNA into the human body are unknown. Should this vaccine become mandatory to participate in society, it is not inconceivable that we end up with an I Am Legend scenario.

As you consider this, think to yourself,

If masks work, why do we need social distancing?

If social distancing works, why do we need masks?

If either one works, why do we need lockdowns?

If ANY of them work, why do we need new vaccines?

Think about it.

Rigging Elections

Jan Jekielek literally eyewitnessed vote rigging in Venezuela by the use of Smartmatic voting software. Smartmatic, as you may recall, provided code and services to Dominion Voting Systems, as pointed out in my last post. This testimony alone should make anyone short of a totalitarian eschew the use of either Smartmatic or Dominion in any electoral process.

But the fix is in. Rational people, and people who understand fraud really well, are suspicious of the US presidential election results. Meanwhile, the mainstream media and cultural pundits are decrying any questioning of the results.

Kt Knightly has written an essay about election rigging and what the evidence is to support the suspicion that the US election was rigged. 

The US Election is still a burning issue almost two weeks after the people went to the polls, and though the race has been called for Biden by every mainstream media outlet in the world, the recounts are ongoing and irregularities manifest.

Trump’s legal team, and many in the alternate media, are claiming the election was rigged. With one voice the mainstream media – and the entire political establishment – denounce these claims as “baseless”, and scream there is “no evidence”.

This is incorrect. There is plenty of evidence, both circumstantial and direct, which breaks down into six basic categories:

1. Precedent – It has happened before. 
2. Motive – Deep State/Military dislike of Trump’s policies is widely known.
3. Foreknowledge – Establishment voices predicted this exact situation.
4. Opportunity – The voting system is highly susceptible to fraud.
5. Voting Irregularities – Known software “glitches” & irregularities in the reporting of the results.
6. Cover-up – Dishonesty in the reporting of the situation.

It is a good summary of why we should be suspicious. It is well worth reading the whole thing.

The Crime Of The Century

It's the crime of the century, and it appears that the miscreants are going to get away with it.

I am, of course, talking about the United States 2020 presidential election. Over 85% of people who voted for President Trump believe that the election, as it stands today, 16 November 2020, was stolen by the Democrats. 

There are so many more indicators of fraud now than there were just last week.

• Dominion Voting Systems provided the voting machines for 30 states, including several of the swing states. Dominion is owned by Blum Capital Partners, LP. Blum Capital Partners is run by Richard C, Blum, Senator Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) husband.
• Nancy Pelosi's husband is an investor in Dominion.
• More than one state has identified a glitch in the software used in the Dominion machines. Even though the Dominion website categorically denies any problems with their systems, Dominion admits to a glitch in Georgia.
• Smartmatic provides software and service in conjunction with Dominion. They have been connected to voting fraud in the Philippines. Smartmatic is run by Mark Brown, who also works for George Soros.
• Dominion donated money and possible machinery to the Clinton Foundation.
• The states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Texas have filed a Writ of Certiorari in the Supreme Court against Pennsylvania for election fraud and will not certify elections until this is fixed. It will be interesting to see what SCOTUS does with this.
• Texas and Florida rejected the Dominion voting systems and were not flipped like Georgia and Michigan.
• Voters in 21 states can register and vote on election day. This is a recipe for massive fraud, as there is no time to determine if the registrant is currently registered in other precincts.
• Federal prosecutors are rebelling against the US Attorney General and refusing to investigate voter fraud claims.

Voting Fraud Updates

 More evidence of voter fraud is surfacing. In Georgia, a reliably Red state, there is a very fishy smell.

In Georgia, among ballots that only voted for President and no other races, the votes are:

• Trump: 818
• Biden: 95,801

In Georgia, among ballots that voted for President and at least one other race:

• Trump: 2,456,915
• Biden: 2,376,081

And, the Trump campaign has filed an emergency injunction in Michigan, a state that flipped after most of the votes were in. The campaign is alleging several types of fraud, misconduct, and invalidated ballots based on a number of reasons - including 'malfunctioning' vote counting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems. The Tuesday night filing in the US District Court for the Western District of Michigan alleges, among other things, that officials prevented GOP challengers from observing the count, scanned "batches of the same ballots multiple times," illegally accepted and pre-dated late ballots, including from unmonitored drop boxes, and that election workers illegally duplicated ballots," according to a statement from the campaign. The lawsuit requeusts that the court toss all ballots not observed by a GOP election challenger who has been "allowed to meaningfully observe the process and the handling and counting of the ballot." 

UPDATE

Here is an account of an eyewitness who was scheduled for an interview on Hannity's Fox show and was pulled at the last moment:

-She is naming names. This took place in Detroit. Here is the synopsis.

-This lady is an IT tech for Dominion Voting Systems, sent to the polls to make sure the machines operate correctly and assist the workers.

-While there observes anomalies in the counter on one of the tabulating machines, resulting in hundreds of votes being counted numerous times

-When reported to her boss Nick Ikonomakis (VP and co-owner) he took her aside and said "the last thing we need is a problem, we are only here to assist with IT, not help them run elections"

MORE UPDATES 

Georgia's Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, has announced a hand recount/audit on a county by county basis.

A Fraud of Epic Proportions

 In the United States, the 2020 presidential election has been held. It appears to have been marred with voter fraud on a scale which has never been seen before.

President Trump was leading in most states and close to claiming victory in most of the swing states, and all of a sudden, "lost" votes were found with statistically improbable percentages of those votes cast for the opponent, Joe Biden.

It doesn't stop there. As Larry Corriea points out, there are so many red flags that only a fool could believe that the election was on the up-and-up:

The massive turn out alone is a red flag.

But as for doing better…

The late night spikes that were enough to close all the Trump leads are a red flag.

The statistically impossible breakdown of the ratios of these vote dumps is a red flag.

The ratios of these dumps being far better than the percentages in the bluest of blue cities, even though the historical data does not match, red flag.

The ratios of these vote dumps favoring Biden more in these few battlegrounds than the ratio for the rest of the country (even the bluest of the blue) red flag.

Biden outperforming Obama among these few urban vote dumps, even though Trump picked up points in every demographic group in the rest of the country, red flag.

The poll observers being removed. Red flag.

The counters cheering as GOP observers are removed, red flag.

The fact that the dem observers outnumber the GOP observers 3 to 1, red flag (and basis of the first lawsuit filed)

The electioneering at the polls (on video), red flag.

The willful violation of the court order requiring the separation of ballots by type, red flag.

USPS whistleblower reporting to the Inspector General that today they were ordered to backdate ballots to yesterday, red flag.

The video of 2 AM deliveries of what appear to be boxes of ballots with no chain of custody or other observers right before the late night miracle spikes, red flag.

Any of those things would be enough to trigger an audit in the normal world. This many flags and I’d be giggling in anticipation of catching some thieves.

And it isn’t that I have to do better. I’m just an gen pop observer who happens to be a retired auditor with a finely tuned bullshit detector. This is going to the courts.

More evidence has been turning up. Now, in Michigan, we have documented evidence that votes have been cast by unknown persons in the maiden names of married women in multiple districts. A mathematician has analyzed voting data and discovered a fraud pattern in the data, as he shows for Minnesota:

There are way too many statistical improbabilities in what is being reported as vote counts. The media, of course, who have been anti-Trump since before he was elected the first time, are aiding and abetting the fraud.

Anyone capable of processing information logically will not fall for these shenanigans.  As physicist and author Travis Shane Taylor explains, “In a sample space of 1 million marbles, 800,000 blue and 200,000 red the probability of drawing a blue marble is 80% the first time. To draw about 30 blue in a row is 0.124%. To draw 100 in a row is 0.0000000235%. To draw 250 in a row is more zeros to right of decimal point than stars in the universe!!!! To draw 138,000 blue marbles in a row is mathematically impossible within the age of the universe without human intent and interaction. In other words, cheating.”

The fix is in, though. Attorney General Barr opens an election fraud investigation, and the chief election fraud investigator, Richard Pilger, promptly resigns.

Short of a revolution, the most fraudulent election in the history of the country will probably stand.

Most Contentious US Presidential Election Since 1860

 No doubt about it, but the US presidential election of 2020 is the most contentious election since the presidential election of 1860 immediately before the War of Secession, often mistakenly call the American Civil War.

At stake is the soul of a country, nay, an empire, that is on the downhill slide. A Trump win will slow the process, but not prevent its ultimate conclusion, and a Biden win will accelerate the demise. The America that once was is gone, and the America that is now will not be around for much longer.

Many pundits are predicting a civil war regardless of which candidate wins. There is plenty of evidence to support such a view. Political polarization is at an all time high. Conservatives and other rightists are being censored by most mass communication mediums and social media. The right wing is very angry about the situation, and rightfully so. In their view, the actions of those organizations is tantamount to abolishing free speech. The left wing, on the other hand, recognizes the power of preventing competing messaging which would interfere with its own. Other sources of friction are the complicity of elected officials in aiding and abetting riotous behavior in Democrat-controlled cities, especially some of the larger population centers on the West Coast. People in the rest of the country watch such shenanigans and are afraid that it could happen in their city. People who don't live in large cities wonder if it could spill over and affect them. Political animus augmented with belligerent speech from leading politicians where lines in the sand are drawn, and vague consequences threatened, are making the average citizen, who is not immersed in politics on a daily basis, afraid. Very afraid.

In response to these shenanigans, people are responding. They are stocking up on essential items, in case the supply chain is disrupted. As an aside, I would think that the people in large cities need to be more concerned about this happening that those who live in less dense areas. Gun stores are selling out. Many of the people buying guns now have never owned a firearm before. A causal perusal of online ammunition inventory reveals that most of what is left for sale are oddball collector cartridges, such as 7.62x38mm Nagant and 22 Hornet, or niche cartridges, such as 45 GAP and 30 Carbine. Don't misunderstand me - there is nothing wrong with any of those chamberings, it's just that there are not that many firearms around that can use them. Interestingly, there seems to be plenty of 7.62x39mm ammunition (for the scary AK-47), but said ammo costs three to four times more than it did two months ago. If you are looking for 9x19mm pistol ammunition or 223 Remington (5.56x45 NATO) for your AR15, forget it. If you do find it, you will probably pay through the nose.

How did we get to this point? Well, the America of today is not the same country as the America of yesteryear, when people could agree to disagree. For one thing, our educational system has preached the equality myth for several generations. When I use the term "equality myth", I am referring to the idea that equal outcomes are possible with the right social structure. This is a distinctly Marxist concept, and regardless of how many times it has been tried in the past and will be tried in the future, it will always prove to be elusive. However, there are quite large percentages of people in the US that have embraced the equality myth, and they think that if we just do it one more time, but do it correctly, it will work. I suppose these people believe in fairy tales, too.

Another reason that has contributed to the situation involves the concept of nation. At one time, in the 18th century, and maybe the early 19th century, the United States could be considered a nation. Many people think that nations and countries are the same thing, and jingoistic propaganda has not disabused them of that notion. A nation and a country are not the same thing. A nation is a collection of people with common beliefs, common heritage, common language, and common religion. A country is a chunk of land with political borders. Thus the United States is no longer a nation, but a country which is a collection of nations. In the Southwest, you have the nation of Aztlan. In South Boston, there is the nation of New Ireland. In Southeast Florida, there is a nation Florida-Caribe. In Minneapolis, there is the infamous Northern Somali nation. And in most major metropolitan downtown areas, there are various African nations. With no well-thought-out immigration policy, the constituents of these nations have immigrated to America, and when they did, they brought their own common beliefs, common heritages, common languages, and common religions. They did not abandon those things and become Americans. Citizens, yes, but not Americans. And surprisingly, or unsurprisingly, if you have been paying attention, they did not assimilate. They never had any intention of assimilating. To believe any different would mean would mean that the dirt is magic, and that as soon as they landed on America's shores, the immigrants would jettison their cultural baggage and become instant Americans. It doesn't happen that way, as the proliferation of mosques across the country will attest.

So, we have political enmity, a country fractured along ethno-national lines, and lots and lots of weapons. Will we have a civil war? I don't know, but I know that I hope and pray we don't. I do think, at the very least, we will have some sort of localized rioting. I think that some West Coast states will threaten to secede, and I think if they do, we should let them. Those states may become a magnet for malcontents that we can afford to lose. What I think is very likely is that the political party landscape will change. As the boomers in the Democrat party die off, I think that it will attract non-white immigrants and their descendants, avowed Marxists and other left wing ideologues, the lazy, and criminals. What is now the Republican party will be largely made up of whites, mostly conservative, and those non-whites that respond less to feel-good propaganda and more to classical liberalism. Unfortunately, unless both parties can get rid of their entrenched political classes, the constituents of each party will be sorely disappointed. The current system, under which a person can spend an entire adult lifetime in elected office, is untenable. It is a system in which the voters become a commodity to be traded in favor of power and influence. This is why I say that regardless of which presidential candidate is elected, America, as we know it, will cease to exist in the not-so-distant future.

Coverups

 It seems like the 'independent press' in America is spending most of its efforts covering for Democrats and their friends than it is reporting and investigating. Take, for instance, the Hunter Biden story. Now, only a luddite would deny that the Biden family engaged in systematic corruption in Ukraine. And no one disputes Hunter's influence peddling, starting with MBNA, when he was fresh out of college, and MBNA gave him the title of "senior vice president" along with a six-figure salary. 

But, do you see any of this in the vast wasteland called Mainstream Media? 

No.

What you do see, with a few exceptions, is the suppression of anyone who tries to expose such behavior on the part of Democrats and their friends.

Now, we have Hunter Biden's laptop containing a virtual treasure trove of incriminating evidence, not only about him, but of sleepy ole pops, too. Oh, and the porn, possibly kiddie porn. But do we hear any of these details? No. And, we have the intelligence community chanting "Russia, Russia, Russia!", which doesn't make a whole lot of sense, because Hunter is lazy and sloppy and outside interests are not required to make him look bad.

What we are left with is the functional equivalent of a press cartel network with the goal of keeping the Biden family from looking any worse than they already do.

Persecution of Christians Comes To America

I came across this article about Kurt Beathard losing his job over his Christian world view this morning. We all know that the advent of national politics injected into sports has turned the entertainment sector into a dumpster fire. Right now, football has borne the brunt because of the publicity around Colin Kaepernick. However, I expect the rest of the sports entertainment industry to follow suit in the near future. Professional basketball seems to be willing to carry the momentum forward, and it is a matter of time before baseball picks it up.

Black Lives Matter, whose leaders have admitted to being trained Marxists, In a previous iteration of their website, they promoted the dissolution of traditional nuclear families, a foundational tenet of orthodox Christianity. While the page included references to parents and mothers, it purposely left out the concept of fathers. Why? Because in Western culture, the father is the traditional authority figure in the family. They have since deleted the page containing that dyscivic idea.

For Marxists, government is god, and the god they believe in is a collectivist, one-size-fits-all god. And one size fits all unless you are one of the leaders, in which case you are a god yourself. Marxists do not want any other authority figure other than themselves. And if you don't recognize them as the highest authority figure in your life, then they will make your life miserable. If they let you live.

So, how are these things related? Good question. The answer is simple. BLM and most other organizations with leftist notions are anti-Christian, that is to say, if not complete atheists, they are not devoted followers of the almighty God. Consequently, they are enemies of God. And as enemies of God, they will persecute those who are followers of God. Kurt Beathard's story is a harbinger of things to come, unless divine intervention turns things around. 

Let us pray that God will raise up good men to stand up to evil in the coming battle. The time may come when we must beat our plowshares into swords and our pruning hooks into spears. And while physical battle is always a possibility, our greatest weapon is prayer.

This is no time for fence sitters.

But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.  Joshua 24:15

The Drug War Is Lost. Get Over It.

 So, I was visiting a friend in a real swanky part of town last week. When I say swanky, I mean a part of town where the houses start for sale at US$ 3,000,000. The way my friend's house is situated on his street is so that when we are sitting around his patio table, we have a view of the entire front yard of one of his neighbors, who happens to be a very elderly man who requires a walker to get around.

While we were on the patio, sipping our mimosas, a late model Camaro with a slightly too loud exhaust system pulled up in front of the elderly man's home and tooted its horn. The driver was a young black fellow that I would estimate to be in his early 20s.

The elderly man came out the front door and doddered down to the street on his walker. He had a short conversation with the driver of the Camaro, handed a few bills to him, and received, from the driver, what appeared to be a half-quart clear plastic bag of something resembling marijuana. The elderly man turned around and headed back to his front door while the Camaro pulled away from the curb and left the vicinity.

This scenario typifies the retail drug trade today in America. Illicit drugs are no longer only sold in the seedy parts of downtown by seedy looking characters to seedy looking customers. Access to recreational drugs had become ubiquitous. The only way to get caught is to be wasted or to be really, really stupid.

While I am against the killing of unborn children, if recreational drug users could get organized, they should adopt the abortion slogan, "My body, my choice." By doing so, they would conflate recreational drug use with an already court-sanctified legal activity and bring some positive momentum to fighting the government suppression of recreational drug use. 

I am not advocating recreational drug use. I don't use recreational drugs myself, and I find incredible the number of people who do. However, it is my considered opinion that the illegality of drugs causes way more problems than the drugs themselves. Governments in America at all levels have invested way too many taxpayer dollars in militarizing police forces in the so-called "war on drugs". Civil liberties have been thrown under the bus in this unnecessary "war", with non-knock warrants, invasive searches, and civil asset forfeiture. Innocent people, including babies, have been maimed or killed in the name of keeping us safe from those bad drugs. The SJW practice of swatting would not be possible were it not for the government infrastructure related to the war on drugs. And the number of raids gone bad due to the lack of corroboration by police where innocents have been killed is heartbreaking. And because the drugs are illegal, in many cases, it drives the consumers of the drug to crime because they have no other avenue to feed the addiction.

It's time to end the war, or at least call a truce. It would be much cheaper to give the people who want help the help they need, and for those that don't want help, well, at the risk of sounding callous, that is  a self-correcting problem.

The Prez & SCOTUS

Ruth Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice, has passed away. She was a victim of terminal cancer for close to 21 years. That she hung on as long as she did was admirable. Her philosophy on justice in America, not so much.

With her death, the president has indicated that he will appoint a replacement. The screeching from the usual suspects was deafening. Leftist twitterati threaten rebellion and civil war. Nancy Pelosi, current Speaker of the House, has threatened impeachment. Seriously?? They are going to go after the president for doing his job?

Here is what the US Constitution has to say about the issue:

The president shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States.

I have no doubt that the opposition party will attempt to block the process. But, let's be clear about who is protecting the Constitution here. It is not Pelosi. It is not the Democratic leadership in the Senate. It is not the leftist pundits on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

To show you how unhinged these people are, take some time to watch this.

Millennial Leftist Suffers Trump Derangement Syndrome

UPDATE:

Utah Senator Mitt Romney (R) announced on Tuesday that he would support a floor vote on President Trump's Supreme Court pick - giving Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) a 53-seat majority and the votes needed to move forward in replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to Politico.

Boomers

Boomers haven't been kind to America. Historically, they are the largest demographic group of native-born Americans. They had the opportunity and the wealth to ensure that America would continue to be the greatest, most productive, most libertarian country for centuries to come. They squandered that opportunity and a whole lot of that wealth.

To be fair, the groundwork for the failures that the Boomers would preside over was laid long they were born. A flurry of not very well thought out constitutional amendments were passed a half century before the Boomers could ride a bicycle. A four-term president ushered collectivism into the federal government about the time their parents' hormones went into overdrive. Heck, the immigration floodgates were opened wide while most of them were still in high school. Even so, they did nothing to reverse the trends, and, in many cases, they accelerated the trends. 

Why didn't they confront the deconstruction of America?

Boomers have been accused of being extremely self-centered. It's true, and they are. They are often referred to as "the Me generation." They were the beneficiaries of post-war industrialization and the attendant wealth and leisure that came with it. Birth control and abortion happened on their watch. They grow up with cheap energy and a rapidly expanding economy. By all accounts, they had it easier than any other generation in modern history. Maybe this is the reason they let the country go to hell in a hand basket.

I like to think it was something more fundamental. I think that, as a generation, they took Western Civilization for granted. And by that, I mean that they turned their backs on the foundation of Western Civilization, Christianity. They bought into scientism. Scientism replaced religion, or more accurately, became the new religion. As a wise man recently said, "Science is now the opiate of the masses."

There is a lot of whining and complaining about Boomers by subsequent generations these days. To them, I would say, repent and turn to God. If you can't see yourself doing that, then don't be antagonistic towards God. If you want to return to what the nation was like pre-Boomer, then you must support its civic foundation. Hate on Boomers all you want. I'm a Boomer and I hate them. But use your energy to turn things around, Boomers are dying off in large numbers now. They won't be around much longer. Use your time and energy to right the wrongs and rebuild a once great civilization.

The Trickle in the Dike

 I have not written in quite a while. I have been distracted with life things and have not kept up with writing about the trials and tribulations of Western Civilization. 

A lot has happened in the year, 2020 Anno Domini. We saw the fall of the Russia hoax that was used to foment the unsuccessful soft coup of the legally elected government of the United States of America. We saw the either intended or unintended release of an obviously engineered virus by communist China, which made millions ill, and exacerbated the conditions of millions more, accelerating their deaths. We saw insane reactions by governments to the virus outbreak which turned civilization on its head with lockdowns and restrictions. And, most recently, we are seeing social upheaval, particularly in the United States, which was triggered by the death of a drug addict who had overdosed and was subsequently taken into the custody of a local police department, under the theory that certain ethnic groups do not get fair treatment from society in a systemic fashion.

Where is all this going?

I don't know, and I would hesitate to speculate on the future. But there are things that we know to be true. There are forces at work fomenting upheaval of the status quo. The main political parties in the USA no longer have the best interests of the people at heart. Oligarchs are buying influence within all levels of government in the East and the West. Economies are being manipulated and wealth is being concentrated. Flagrant propaganda is being held up as truth.

None of these things is positive for the common man. There is no sign of any of these things letting up. This could be the new normal for the foreseeable future.

So, how are you coping?