The Backpack Programmable Phased Array Radar Weapon

 A solid piece of milled aluminum is the skeleton of a Macbook Pro.  There is a reason why Apple is Apple, but Apple is not Apple anymore.  Apple now is run by the former leader of Hewlett Packard.  The visionary products that Apple is known for are gone, but they are not forgotten.  It takes a few steps back to get this into focus.  My life has been on another tangent for ten years, so the things that were important to me, and which I studied have taken a backseat.  Only now after the death of both parents, getting closure on the estate, and pulling my head above water are they returning, these things of interest.  It shows 90 degrees on my backyard thermometer, and it is March 11.  How is this possible, record breaking heat in Winter?  One of my past girlfriends used to call me "Dark Cloud."  It was because I drank too much bourbon at night, and had a hangover the next morning.  In Columbus bourbon was necessary.  I tried existing on the wagon for a short time, and it was miserable.  I would get up sober and try to approach the day like any other working citizen.  My eyes hurt, it was cold, and there was no life.  I would drive around in my Toyota Tercel wagon, and it felt like Halifax, Nova Scotia.  It was after a devoted study that I discovered why.  Once you understand you can't go back.  It will never evade you.  Always this insurmountable, invisible, antagonistic force will be with you, Luke.  It is not good.  Anything that usurps the needs of humans is bad.  There will be no Borg.  There will be no Tet.  There will be no cyber system that controls the world and tries to kill humans.  Instead the Earth will perish in hellfire flames as predicted in the Bible.  The rest is science fiction.  It is speculation.  It is a bubble.  It is hyperbole.  It by pure will is meant to manipulate the financial markets to earn money for the all ready wealthy.  Money only can be spent by humans.  Maybe they do think they can live on Mars.  Why would one want to?  This thing, this stealth destructive force that no one can overcome, has become the tool of evil.  I think perhaps it did not begin this way.  It began as an industry trying to reinvent itself after the verge of bankruptcy. "Breaker breaker, one nine!"  It  was forty years ago the trucking industry was the backbone of American commerce.  A culture arose, and the ambulant freedom of the open road proved lucrative.  It was one chapter of America, a rebellious, headstrong, cavalier Scot-Irish spirit that took no prisoners.  I am exaggerating, but trucking was for the individual.  It relied upon drivers with strong wills and a dedicated work ethic.  It was so effective, it nearly bankrupted railroads.  John Snow  resurrected freight rail by creating his CSX-T, the merger of the Chessie system with Seaboard Coastline.  The advent of AC traction around 1990 has been the Pandora's Box of railroading.  Most will say the invention of AC traction was the cornerstone of future freight wealth.  Specifically the ES44AC locomotive has been selected as one locomotive that changed railroading for the better.  The jury is  out on this one, but it proved financially rewarding for the railroads.  Over the last three decades Norfolk Southern tried to paint the use of these locomotives green. The paint job on a freight locomotive will not not minimize its inevitable effect on human physiology.  The GP-38 may be the best example of trying to paint a horse.  It may seem audibly quiet, but its 16 cylinder two stroke prime mover does not adhere to EPA tier standards and emits 90% more harmful micro particles than modern locomotives.  RJ Corman, like many smaller railroads not capable of spending millions on motive power, has embraced the SD-40 which has the same 645 engine.  All of these older and possibly rebuilt dinosaurs pollute at the levels they did when they were built in the 1960's; they are operating under the radar of a grossly downgraded environmental policy kneecapped by the Trump Administration.  It belies logic how this President is not helping the American people.  With his international business relationships comes an allegiance to foreign influences, who are his benefactors.  It may be surprising, but America no longer is not in the loop.  The implementation of AC traction has harmed many people in a way not dissimilar to phased array radar.  "Sixty Minutes" reported recently undercover Department of Homeland Security agents were able to purchase, for 15 million dollars, a Russian-made, portable, microwave weapon in 2024.  The details were scant, but this scenario lent itself to a more plausible conclusion.  How would it be possible to manufacture a miniature microwave weapon that would fit in a backpack?  The Double Jeopardy answer says, it all ready has been made.  Spotter.  The operative terminology that fuels most technology today, the touted holy grail, is phased array radar.  Like AC traction words won't mean much.  Phased Array Radar, like the HAARP facility in Alaska, is radar unlike any previous radar.  It relies upon arrays of transmitters rather than one and software to steer the beam of microwaves.  Software phase shifting the array steers transmitted microwave pencil beams, which can be aimed specifically at very small areas including people.  This all ready  exists in the United States as a commercial product.  Spotter's website specifically advertises broad range use of its mobile radar for other applications.  If undercover agents paid 15 million for a Russian product, they overpaid.  Because the Central Intelligence Agency has chosen to mock victims suffering from the effects of this technology, it must be discerned America all ready has a weapon.  It is no different than Covid.  The smoke and mirrors enveloping Washington, DC and our elected leaders is a nightmare.  Like  HAARP in Alaska (which covertly was developed for long range radio communications with Navy submarines) phased array radar may have been developed on the up and up.  With use and testing have the negative effects of this technology come to light.  The rail industry may not have known how invasive the remnants of AC traction were, but they should now.  Suddenly you have not only a money-making tool but a weapon that can control the masses.  This combination is evil, and America has proven we are not responsible enough to regulate and limit these capabilities.  If you give little George Washington an axe, he will cut down the cherry tree.  If you give industry and Washington control over the American economy and people, they will abuse it.  With God eliminated from the equation, Satan is free to devastate Earth.  

The Epstein Debacle

 If any one thing suggested psychiatric weakness it is irrationality or a lack of perspective.  When I was a child, there was one sure way I would learn.  If I made a mistake and was punished, then that punitive scenario where I was in the doghouse evoked an awareness in my consciousness that willed me never to let that happen again.  We could call it the paddle or the spanking.  This is a much contested action in our current climate of Political Correctness, an era where we have been willing to let our children stray to a point of self destruction.  Tough love is more a part of nostalgic or historic American life, when a child had to walk five miles to school and back each day.  Basically it was a moral lesson or kind of Aesop's Fable, a miniature Star Trek or Andy Griffith episode, that taught you something.  Then what it taught was a moral or ethical lesson about treating one's fellow man as yourself.  In a nutshell we were aware of a code of living, a Christian ethic or ethos shaped by the Ten Commandments, that attempted to make our lives better by tempering our animal instincts.  If we were going to live on this planet together in societies, then we needed to behave a particular way.  Abstractly politics once represented this same idea.  Diplomacy uses intellect and wisdom mined from experience to dispel human conflict.  The underlying premise is man needs or requires peace and serenity to survive.  Peace ensures that our planet and the human race may survive aside from a God-created cataclysmic disaster.  The crucial postulate is man desires peace rather than conflict or war.  Economics have changed that perspective, and the intense lure of wealth or the power of the dollar to disguise suffering and create a bubble of bliss has necessitated conflict and war.  It would seem we as a nation have lost the ability to create an economy based on human need.  Human need would in most circumstance not include murder, if we had souls.  The souls with which we are born and are nurtured in childhood have been undermined.  Without our own personal awareness we have succumbed to temptation, a universal vice described in the Bible and Jesus' teachings.  Temptation and addiction have consumed American life.  God forgives, and those who seek redemption can enter the kingdom of heaven.  We are weak, and a force as strong as God and perhaps more persuasive has consumed our lives.  It is call Evil.  Satan or the devil only manifests himself through human form, and the elected regime we have today in America clearly is an example of this Evil.  It is rife with the trappings of mental illness, irrational thought and behavior, and the most devastating, a serpent-like ability to speak and mold to any situation promoting one's own agenda whether ethical or not.  Examples of this have emerged in our current and recently elected leaders.  After having received punishment as a child, certain things have solidified in my own code of conduct.  For me it was trusting others' advice.  Anytime I chose to do this and made a decision based upon what someone else suggested, I was bitten in the arse.  The conscious decision to follow someone else's suggestion resulted in a failure.  I learned to follow my own instincts and reflective decisions.  You know yourself best.  As an adult I have learned a variant route.  I will listen to others' opinions and experiences, because often I will learn something I did not know; I must separate my personal choice and process from their opinion.  The most disturbing and disruptive example of Evil today, other than the recent unconstitutional attacks on Venezuela and Iran circumventing Congresses' approval, is the murder of Jeffrey Epstein.  It should become clear to us, the American people, that those in power and possibly our elected leaders, have committed murder.  Not murder under the cloak of war, casualties that can be ascribed to some greater cause (whether fraudulent or not), but murder to conceal one's own crimes akin to the slaying of Jamal Kashoggi.  The death of Jeffrey Epstein is an example of such an egregious act.  As evidence continues to surface exposing a much greater atrocity, a blackmail ring connecting Russia with the United States, the plausibility of a murder to disguise such a scheme arises.  Epstein's death in a prison cell is similar to Vladimir Putin's blatant assassinations of undesirable state participants or rebels.  In Communist nations, such as Russian, China, and Iran, dissent or protest is met with slaughter.  These totalitarian regimes do not allow personal freedom nor freedom of speech.  Disagreement and recalcitrance to the state results in death.  Jeffry Epstein was murdered to cover up these high crimes, and he was murdered by those in power.  In all probability he was murdered by Donald Trump himself.  One of Donald Trump's most impressive skills, not unlike Bill Clinton, is to slip and slide his way out of adversity.  Underneath it may consist of a ruthless, antagonistic, and zealot set of sychophantic lawyers, not unlike those who plotted the murder of John F. Kennedy, but on the surface Donald Trump's smooth melismatic drawl has convinced America to elect him the leader of the free world not once, but twice.  Try to imagine a human being in a jail cell deserving of due process, but instead he is murdered in cold blood by his cell mate to conceal crimes of a high magnitude.  Those in power sanctioned his murder, hired a hit man, and covered up his assassination.  Jeffrey Epstein was an evil man of prominence supported and engaged with other evil men of prominence.  When threatened with exposure he was killed.  It should be chilling to every American that your death could be next. 

The Missing Arts in American Society

 I wear gas permeable hard contact lenses.  They are a vast improvement over the PMMA lenses I received at Duke University Eye Clinic in the early 1980's for Keratoconus.  I am thankful for hard contact lenses, because they are the only solution for the eye disease Keratoconus.  Even after keratoplasty in both eyes (cornea transplants) I have corrected vision of 20/20.  My saga of flying contact lenses continues, and today was no different.  First as I attempted to extract my left lens from its case, it hid from me falling over backwards stuck between the edge of the case and the bathroom countertop.  For a minute I couldn't find it, but when I did feel it with my fingers and attempted to free it from its sticky nest, it decided to commit suicide and broke in half destroying itself.  Innately I new these lenses had made it past their half life.  It was not a huge surprise, but it was yet another inconvenience.  I had one spare left, but it was sitting dried out in its open case.  It took over an hour to finally coax it to settle on my left cornea and attempt to improve my legally blind vision without contact lens correction.  Secondly it felt like a huge dirty diaper in my eye.  My vision was blurred and it felt terrible like it was about to tiddly wink out at any moment.  It stayed in for a few minutes, but as soon as I started to do something productive in the house (rearrange some furniture) it popped out.  I heard it "dink" on my hardwood floor.  I tried not to panic or delve into a chronic depressive state.  Somehow the Creator had mercy on my now weeping eyes, and I placed my finger right on the bit of shiny plastic nestled next to the rocker on my Great Uncle Edwin's chair.  I reflected that these are gas permeable lenses and thus are meant to stay moist.  It had been sitting in a dry container, so I mused that I was to blame for not taking more time to clean and soak the lens before inserting it.  I did so, and it has stayed put so far.  I finished my furniture arranging long enough to realize that age 63 and after Covid repeatedly has racked my body, I no longer was capable of holding a full time job.  I have arthritis on the right side of my body, and recently it has worsened running from my right shoulder down my arm and into my piano playing fingers.  I take a lot of over-the-counter NSAIDs.  If I do not, I am in constant pain.  I have become a "Man of Constant Sorrow," but mentally and spiritually I am not depressed.  My environment does everything in its power to exert depression on me, but I resist.  Music is my salvation, and often I am denied it.  How and why am I denied music, and why would music seem so important?  As a true musician, a real musician, not a poser, or a talker, or a grandstander, but one who has committed to the vocation and art of musical expression, composition, and performance, music becomes part of your soul.  I feel most of us have some music in as at birth, and this has inspired both the Kodaly and Suzuki methods of early music education.  In these methods it is crucial to establish a connection with and understanding of the God's given gift of rhythm, melody, and eventually harmony.  Often it begins with just rhythm, because singing or actualizing pitch or melody is not necessary.  If it comes right down to it, the basic fundamental requirement for music is time.  While the concept of time as an organization of subdivisions of an established pulse or beat has evolved over time, and that development and abstraction can be heard in Jazz's Avant-garde and Classical's Abstract Expressionism or Second Viennese School, the feeling of a pulse, a steady hearbeat-like continuance also becomes synonymous with an emotional feeling.  The tempo of that pulse directly can influence these emotions in an almost crude and primitive way.  Major tonality often is deemed happy and minor sad.  A slow pulse or ballad usually equates to a feeling that is reflective, relaxing, or romantic.  These characterizations are subjective, but throughout history they have remained constant.  Fast paced music or a quick tempo takes more of a certain kind of energy.  The best example could be America's "Rock and Roll," which like every other tenant of music is a study of and unto itself.  I feel this sexualized, physically aggressive, and sometimes euphoric blues-based American popular music represents the impact of time on the human psyche, soul, and libido.  It is called "Groove."  Many will disagree, including Igor Stravinsky, that emotion and music are the same or entangled.  I have found increasingly over time that great musical artists often talk shit or reinforce false or erroneous concepts and ideas.  It is an interesting paradox that a composer as great as Stravinsky, who penned The Firebird, rife with emotional content, would say such a thing.  The same is true of Miles Davis, who touted his genetic lineage as the son of a prominent oral surgeon.  Specifically he said that he never suffered nor had the blues.  There could be no greater contradiction knowing full well that the bulk of Miles' musical output was the direct expression of his own ideas and feelings.  Much of it was pensive and melancholic.  Don't listen to your artists talk.  Listen to them play.  Music, if good, necessarily is intertwined with your soul.  I have discovered upon studying classical music (or more succinctly European orchestral and chamber music), which made its way across the pond, fused with other disparate nationalities, and became its own offering, that this music equally is representative of the human condition as newer American musics including Appalachian Roots Music, the Blues, Bluegrass, Gospel, and Jazz.  We are more familiar with these because they are closer to us.  I have enjoyed listening to the almost local classical radio station, WCPE, and learning from it.  My classical CD collection was stoked by program material on this completely privately funded FM radio station in Wake Forest, North Carolina.  It is unfortunate that even with a dedicated translator on Bragg Boulevard in Fayetteville, Fort Bragg and CSX both assault this signal making it pleasing only about 80% of the time.  Upon scrutiny the roof of a diesel/electric heavy haul AC traction locomotive has every conceivable form of wireless communication including cell and WiFi frequencies.  When studied the antenna arrays built by GE were so complex with cross modulation, no results could be discerned.  They were a mish mash of EMF pollution.  Both FM and AM radio and over-the-air television have been sacrificed in lieu of the omnipotent Wireless Internet promulgated by Elon Musk and his Star Link satellite network.  In retrospect the original offerings of radio and television in America were and still are better.  Radio in particular before television evolved connected the nation, and disseminated American Popular Music to the masses, included extremely rural disconnected areas.   Early radio was a rich stew of musics which were meant to provide fulfillment to tattered American souls.  This included Southern preaching, the Blues, Country, and Swing.  The validity of music in the formation of America is strong and important.  It was out voice, and now we have none.  We are being told to what to listen, and this advice is coming from foreign streaming companies who have no place in the music industry.  Big Tech has hijacked American Popular Music for its own gain.  Film, television, and music, all huge components of America's economy, have been neutered.  The outbreak of Covid was nails in their coffins.  It is difficult not to realize the core constructs of American society have been attacked and are a shadow of their former selves.  While inclusive Real TV and social media have had their say, professional industries which provided opportunity, monetary reward, and viable united cultural expression are missing.  The reason it is so difficult for me to pursue the vocation and art of music, is because now it largely is missing in American society.  A few symphony concerts a year is not enough. 

When the Odds Are Against Us

They say those loosing both parents have a fifty percent chance of survival.  The mortality rate for children loosing both parents is fifty percent.  We can discern burying both parents, even if over a long period of time, is taxing to children.  Is it logical to assume children who have grown up, married, and established their on families have an easier time?  I think not.  I would think that children who have had little or negative interaction with their parents, or who have been separated from them, may have an easier time.  It means the emotional anguish all ready has developed, been internalized, and cast its spell over the offspring.  They may hate their parents for various reasons.  It is those children who were reared in a supportive and loving environment who have the most trouble.  It is called loss, and loss comes in several flavors.  When love is involved, no matter how tangible or abstract, it heightens the anguish.  Is it better to have loved and lost than never loved before?  I experienced my first grievous loss when I was in my twenties.  I was spared in adolescence, but I also realized early that you had to work for what you had.  If you wanted a better life and possibly love, it didn't come to you.  You had to pursue it, and it took work.  The equation for love is both complex and simple.  As a society America has lost track of many things, and love is one of them.  We can't even decide our gender, and we have learned to use love as a tool of manipulation.  This is one of the great torches of the American free market.  We learned to exploit humanity for profit, thus we sell love at the highest most achievable price.  Selling love is troublesome and problematic, but selling sex doesn't have to be.  Other nations have figured this out before America, and thus prostitution is legal, regulated, and safe.  It is for adults.  When is the last time we heard the words "adult content."  We, as an American society, no longer know who we are or what are our values.  Solidarity has slipped through our fingers at the polls.  We have been irresponsible in our choices of our elected leaders, and those leaders have forsaken us.  If we don't do the work, behave responsibly, and pay attention to human life, we will perish.  Perhaps we are too busy trying to make ends meet to have much chance to read, think, and observe.  It is no coincidence.  Our government, a malicious and self-centered regime, has aided our naivete.  They have passed and not passed legislation that has harmed us in many ways.  Our economic needs are not being met, nor are our health concerns.  We have been neglected.  Whether we want to admit it or not, America always has been reliant upon our governments.  It has leaned so far that way, that we have become clandestine socialist.  The government provides much for us in many ways.  If the economy was working efficiently and there was economic and social mobility (like there has been at other times in history) we would be more self sufficient.  Society being led by our federal, state, and local governments, must provide this canvas for American life.  It means all people must be involved (solidarity), and classism must be kept to a minimum.  The economic inequality we have allowed because of poor choices at the polls and poor leadership will be the death of American democracy.  We all ready have lost it, because the rich have hijacked America through a weak, subservient, incompetent Congress.  Lobby money has been the fuel for this hijacking.  It is just bribery.  You can have opportunity to provide for yourself, when you reap the benefits of your labors, or someone (a Communist or Socialist regime) can just pay you off.  Most Americans cherish their freedom to earn and mind for themselves.  This anachronistic, autocratic, and totalitarian vision of Donald Trump is so antiquated, harmful, and evil the entire world is cringing in disbelief.  I thought loosing both parents was going to be a challenge, but it pales to what is facing America today.  For me all of it is mixed up together in a house, and because I am a musician.  Musicians must make noise.  In most situations it is considered music and is pleasing, but in the wrong situation when America has been hijacked by fascists, music is the enemy.  It is the metaphor for American freedom.  How did music become arch enemy number one?  In the milieu of Donald Trump's political strategies, disguising real American history is paramount.  It is being called "Cancel Culture," but what it is is disguising or completely eliminating the greatest accomplishments of America.  It is like utterly destroying the West Bank, saying Palestine never existed, and building a resort where lay the smoldering remains of a viable (but possible unpopular) culture.  History is what creates that relevance.  History is and should be the framework for the future.  Wiping out large swaths of culture, people, and countries for personal gain.  What is this sin?  If society is to become compliant in this new reorganization or gentrification, they can't remember.  Understanding, preserving, and promulgating America's achievements is key.  With the total lack of care and nurturing of the American people, and with this newly forged blatant animosity of middle and lower class earners, it will not be long before America returns to slavery.  Jazz was a direct reaction to the freeing of slaves.  Its expression, its honesty, and its exuberance are the enemy of evil, fascist, and self-serving regimes.  That is because all of it is driven by spirituality and the acknowledgment of a Higher Being.  If life on earth all ready is Hell, then there must be a Heaven.  Music, in a nutshell, has become an enemy of the state clandestinely and at the behest of Donald Trump's aspirations.  For that reason, and because he is weak, if music decides to resurrect in a real way for the real reasons, Satan could be defeated.  My fight to mourn the loss of my parents, to continue to function as a musician, and to duck ensuing enslavement has become seemingly insurmountable.  At least it seems like the most difficult fight of my life, because it all comes to fruition at the same time. 

George Orwell Predicted Correctly

Thus far the direct result of Donald Trump's attack on Iran at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabia is inevitably higher gas prices for Americans and three dead soldiers in Kuwait.  "Thank you, Mr. President."  Before this Hegseth sanctioned war game, these soldiers were alive and well.  They were not in combat.  They were just pulling their time at an army base in Kuwait.  Like chess pieces in perverted tournament of power, distraction, and ego, these United States soldiers did nothing to deserve death.  It is called murder.  Upon listening to the Iranian Foreign Minister, he was stupefied that in the midst of what he called successful negotiations, the United States attacked Iran and killed their leader.  He also reiterated that Iran fully had cooperated with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action sought by President Barack Obama.  Trump withdrew the United States from this agreement in 2018 and viciously attacked Iran in February of 2026.  We have yet to know if the governing regime in Venezuela has changed, since Special Forces removed Nicolas Maduro from power.  It is easy to discern why President Trump has proceeded with both military actions.  It is because of their oil.  Both Venezuela and Iran have the largest oil reserves in the world.  It would seem the Bush Cartel influence still highly is active.  President Trump is using nonexistent money to the tune of 40 trillion dollars to fund a military that is engaging in war mongering to aid the wealthy.  Each and every day average Americans wake and rise, another blow is struck by our own President on the shrinking middle class and the growing lower class.  Inflation was not improved nor has any campaign promise been fulfilled since Donald Trump won his second term.  It is the opposite.  He seems to be working for another foreign interest whose goal is to destroy American democracy and her people.  It is not unusual globally to have a murderous tyrant as a president.  We have not seen it in America until now.  The proper procedure to remove corrupt and felonious leaders is what?  If we learn from example a foreign interest either kidnaps the President or bombs the White House killing the current administration.  This is Trump's example.  Trump has suggested that the Iranian populace should rise up and take control of their nation, but they are cowering in fear of bombs.  Sheltered in place and said to continue for a month, the arrangement all ready have been made.  Like in Venezuela, Iran may wallow in chaos publicly, but those who have taken control of these nations' assets have been planned for months if not years.  We never will see who, because Trump's major tool of conquering is controlling America's media.  It is Big Brother, and it is Donald Trump.  George Orwell's novel, "1984," should become a supportive citation of our Constitution.  

Squeezing Water Out of a Rock

I feel the hot air wafting across my face.  Washington Post (neutered) headline.  (How many employees did Bezos lay off?)  "Trump Aids have trouble figuring out how to spend 500 billion dollars on defense."  Evidently our President has no need to be fiscally responsible.  We are not at war, but the defense industry needs and wants a war.  What is the national debt?  If we are in debt  38 TRILLION dollars, then there is no 500 billion dollars.  When Donald Trump became President, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was active.  It is better known as the Iran Nuclear Deal.  This far reaching and in depth treaty limited Iran's enriched uranium in return for the lifting of financial sanctions.  In 2018 Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement leading to Iran exceeding the said limit on uranium enrichment.  Today's headlines in the Washington Post?  The President is considering a military attack on Iran.  They want a war, not peace.  The defense industry makes money from war, but they do not fight the wars.  Wars like Korea, Viet Nam, and the Persian Gulf are fought by our military.  The trade off of dead American soldiers for profit for the defense industry is evil.  The entire electrical grid could be rebuilt with 500 billion dollars.  There would be leftover changed.  In Fayettenam our Country Commissioners give away millions of dollars.  To be exact 30 million dollars for a cancelled performing arts center which now is a dirt mud hole.  A firehouse that sits uncompleted on Bragg Boulevard.  Another 15 million dollars down the drain, because they want to tear it down.  It will not cost 100 million dollars to renovate the Crown Theater and arena, but someone is going to get that money.  I predict it will be Walter Davis' architectural firm.  Those who hold elected positions get to choose where the money is spent.  Let's spend another 500 billion dollars on defense, when they have trouble picking up the trash at Fort Bragg.  I am paying $9.00 for 1.5 liters of California goat milk, because America's milk, beef, poultry, pork, and eggs are below quality standards.  Grocery and energy prices continue to rise, and average people cannot live without them.  Food and energy for heating and cooling, these things we cannot go without, and they know it.  Let's squeeze some spare changed out of rocks, and the rocks are us.  Immobile.  Under duress.  Lack of opportunity or financial advancement, but lets squeeze the people anyway.  

The Ensuing Poverty of America's Middle and Lower Classes

The overt thought in my mind is how Donald Trump is knee capping everyone except the wealthy.  The American plutocracy has emerged, and where is Robin Hood when you need him?  It has become obvious over time those seeking to make a living, not necessarily accrue riches, are being hobbled.  Every time I see another policy change or a new law enacted with nothing but an executive order from the President, the more livid I become.  Here are some examples.  Climate Change, Global Warming, or the "Big Hoax" means the Earth is getting hotter.  Any fool over forty knows this.  I can remember winters in North Carolina, snow skiing, and sledding down the Big Hill on McGougan Road in  Greenwood Homes.  We had seasons back then, and slowly these disparate seasons have melded into a fickle, manic depressive, irrational episodes of diverse weather.  How could any meteorological organization attempt to predict the weather today?  They don't.  They are told the weather by those in charge, and that includes the military.  How else can it be 70 degrees and 100 humidity in the Cape Fear River Basin?  The answer is because of the military.  It is not that Fayetteville is in a depression, the Cape Fear River Valley.  It is because Wilmington hosts Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point at the mouth of the Cape Fear River.  When those huge cargo ships sit running along with the multitude of diesel/electric locomotives, military aircraft, and carbon emissions, it creates a vacuum that consumes the air and replaces it with noxious gases harmful to human health.  That vacuum is what I hate the most, because it is inhuman, living in a vacuum.  Your entire sensory system is rendered moot.  No stimulation for visual, aural, or tactile sensations.  It is not human.  Each time a policy change occurs or a new law is penned by merely an executive order, I fume.  Those who own and operate ski resorts in Western North Carolina, the little guys who toil and create a bit of human magic in the winter, are being screwed.  The entire hemp industry, which as grown exponentially and is a metaphor for the little guys, is on the brink of extinction.  All of the things that made America great by allowing small businesses to survive and enjoy a comfortable but frugal living, are being destroyed.  Only now is it about huge corporate monopolies that once were recognized, regulated, and forced into democratic compliance.  They paid taxes.  We are watching in real time the meat and potatoes of America starve.  It won't be long before everyone but the elite rich will be impoverished.  Many of the movies I watch on DVD from the last four decades acknowledge such a plight.  It is frightening, but worse now it is coming to fruition.