Burning Planet Earth

 On cue the meteorologists report record breaking high temperatures for Christmas.  Always it has been unusually hot on Christmas, but this had not been happening forever.  Interestingly when they report this unusually hot and humid weather, there is no insight into its cause.  They mumble something about the Caribbean keeping the normal jet stream upended.  The map shows this recurring and menacing red trough of hot air, kind of like Trump.  (a menacing red coif of hot air)  If the shoe fits.  If anyone seriously would think about what causes unseasonable hot weather on Christmas, answers could be found.  We in America have become bought and paid for including the meteorologists.  As such they really should not be branded meteorologists at all.  They are amateur jocks and beauty queens trying to report news.  Most have had no journalistic training, and most never have taken a speech class.  Speech and language in America also has been manipulated like pop music.  What once was good now is bad.  Under the ruse of American pop culture, which once was fueled by honesty and a desired to state the truth, platforms have been commandeered and are used for deceit.  Trump started this trend.  Eagerly and for monetary gain or just plain survival, the country signed up for the "lie for money" plan.  Lester Holt now lies to the American people, and I guess we cannot blame him personally.  He is the same "Stepford Wife" as the rest of them.  He says what they tell him to.  He is no Dan Rather, Charles Kuralt, Ted Koppel, or any other serious journalist.  He is the man in blackface doing the man's bidding.  I'm sorry Lester.  We are breaking up with you and the rest of the repeating loop masquerading as national news.  Never have we been in a worse place in America.  It just took a while for the "fake news" to make it mainstream.  I drove around today, because Fayettenam often is the source of national disturbance.  If it is not Fort Bragg causing the environmental disturbances, it is something else.  We live in a Uwharrie, Horry, whorie state, whose mission is to sell.  Roy Cooper sells the state like a traveling merchant while sprinkling money on the incumbent population.  There are bitcoin mines in our  Appalachian Mountains.  CSX has set up shop in Rocky Mount and Hamlet.  All the while the bait and switch of finding affordable housing becomes more insulting when the environment doesn't keep up with or support these new residents.  It is the same old tired game.  Sprinkle sugar on shit, sell it big, make the profit, and toss them into the swamp.  North Carolina is nothing she once was.  She is a big, fat, smelly whore, and all you have to do is breath in.  Today I found Cargill's expanded industrial complex, a soy bean processing plant which is suffering from a massive cash infusion.  Hence and to my surprise, the lot next door was purchased and developed, and now there are scores of tractor trailer rigs lined up waiting for the goods.  There are lines of eighteen-wheelers, many with refrigeration units, sitting idling waiting to fill up with high octane vegetable oil.  There have been lines of trucks before now, but they were the ones bringing in the raw materials.  These new lines of trucks now are hauling out the increased product from the Cargill plant across the Cape Fear River.  I stuck my head out of the window, and it didn't seem obnoxious, the noise or heat.  Please know drying husks is what they do at this plant.  They have massive heaters and blowers that dry the soy bean husks once they are treated with a strong chemical to remove their oil.  It is a twofold operation.  This is new.  Only recently in the Fayetteville Observer did they write about the plant's recent expansion.  Cargill decided to invest in this particular plant for several reasons.  One is it sits on the CSX mainline which brings in the chemicals in tank cars.  The other is it is close the the Cape Fear River, the toxic waste dump of most local industries including Chemours.  They have been doing this for decades under the DuPont name.  When the heat got turned up, DuPont sold out to the Chinese the same way DAK got sold to a Mexican conglomerate.  Revenge must seem sweet to them.  We destroyed the South American economy with NAFTA, and many families lost everything.  I guess it is fair to blow PFAS into our local air and water.  Both plants like heat.  If I remember correctly heat aids their production either in transportation of materials or the processing itself.  It is no coincidence it is hot for Christmas.  They celebrate the birth of the Savior of the world by burning up His planet. 

Tight Ass Music

My soundtrack for blogging tonight is Marvin Gaye's "What's Going on?"  Always I have understood how influential this recording is, but like some other major genres of American music, I missed the bus.  I didn't get the Beatles, until I was in my mid 30's.  I was not interested in them in my youth, because I was taking formal classical piano lessons.  My father was a jazz pianist and a band director.  His aesthetic of music was pretty specific.  He used the "Block Hands" George Shearing style of piano approach, and it was not until a year ago I realized what this was.  Shirley Scott also plays this way, and she is a righteous organist.  Of all of the jazz organists she knocked me out the most with her authoritative right hand harmonizing the melody with five fingers and the melody in an octave.  She mostly had a bass player on the session, so bass did not demand her consciousness.  She was no "pick up" organist, and she knew the songs cold and clinical.  Perfection of melody like reading from sheet music.  Perhaps she had a photographic memory.  Miles Davis did.  That would help.  This is boring musical fodder, but my brain is tired.  About what did I want to verbalize?  After profusely complaining about the hot humid weather in December, it got cold again.  While this kind of dreary cold is reminiscent of Cowtown (Columbus, Ohio), it is normal for winter.  We must accept it.  I am finding the Marvin Gaye a little cheesy, but okay.  With the flick of a button it is cold again.  How long will it last?  They are predicting warm for Christmas, and this is fucked up.  Well, actually it is not here.  Usually it is 70 degrees on Christmas day, and I hate it.  When you lose your winter culture, snow and its accompanying activities, you lose some of life.  It is important the winter months for many reasons.  As for politics I hope the jury begins to deliberate for Ghislaine Maxwell.  I find it humorous that her first name begins with "jizz," and that is no coincidence.  They were sex traffickers of the highest order, and it is disgusting and criminal this exploitation of young women.  It is a huge temptation, but the notion you can demand sex for money from children is evil.  The only way they got away with it was that the women rationalized their crimes by getting paid.  It was a manipulative scheme, almost as seamy as Trump stealing a presidential election from Hillary Clinton.  As for Chris Noth there is such a thing as a statute of limitations.  Just because he gets a resurrected TV career doesn't mean you can slander him.  You should have reported him to the authorities twenty years ago, when it was a crime.  Now it is just hearsay.  You're a day late and a dollar short.  I am not digging the Marvin Gaye.  I know it is great, but the sterility of the Motown concept bother me.  Barry Gordy and his crew borrowed from authentic R&B music and glamorized it.  It was watered down for white radio.  That is genius, but it does not sit well with me this concept.  It is empty of the raw emotion found in original American soul music.  It is an illusion, but the catalog has stood the test of time.  They are memorable songs, which have become the landscape of America for many souls.  I prefer James Brown, and his grooves.  The "Pop" influence in the Motown concept is real and strong, and it is different than original jazz and blues influenced R&B.  It doesn't really swing.  All the years I had to play Motown music on keyboards, I played it the way I felt it.  Then I went on ships and found out quickly their concept of "Pop" has zero swingability.  Carnival and its major arranger Nick Thorp embrace soulful music, and its substance is great.  The European cruise lines miss the point or rather the American music thing.  It is a shame, but then again not everyone swings.  They would rather hold their tight asshole closed.  

The Proof is in the Pudding for Phased Array Microwaves

Perhaps a Dave Liebman recording from the early 1980's isn't the best sound track for my late evening blogging.  I am interested in hearing more of this accomplished and influential post-Coltrane saxophonist, so I will let it roll.  I know it isn't the vibe I need to write what is on my mind, but that is okay.  It's the effort that counts.  "Democracy dies when good men do nothing."  (or is it, "Evil flourishes when good men do nothing, or "Democracy dies in darkness.)  Whatever.  The fight is on, and each day now we are required to hit the ground running or enter the ring punching.  The question of who and what were are fighting is contentious.  Why would Senator Joe Manchin use a Sunday morning Fox News program to drop his "Go Branden" bomb?  That is a low blow, and while he may be a leader with proven integrity, using Fox News as his soap box was wrong.  This is the fallacy of social media.  The internet has provided immediacy for the human condition, and because of its instant communication no longer do we have to wait for the casserole to bake.  The time frame of life drastically has changed, but has it?  Take a look around outside.  Ignore the television and what it is saying.  Take a break from streaming, gaming, or masturbating to internet pornography.  How families can stay holed up inside a house is beyond me.  What allows this particular behavior is the immediacy of the internet.  Human life has shifted from real life live interaction to constructed scenarios on the web.  We don't take as much time to enjoy life live anymore, because the majority of our emotional fulfillment now comes from the computer.  It is an addictive pill.  The warm hues of color on the screen, the kinetic satisfaction of using our digits, and instant gratification all are addictive in such an immediate and accessible interface.  I would suggest we all are addicted to something.  The reality is fentanyl should be our enemy number one as an addiction, and its affect on our society is from foreign deliberation.  Foreign interests are making this drug available to young Americans, and in essence these foreign interests are murderers.  As a nation America is being attacked on multiple fronts.  I guess it is inevitable the great global free power of the world falls from grace.  We do not deserve this assault, or do we?  I don't want to reflect on bad politics.  President Joe Biden did what Osama Bin Laden asked.  "Get the infidels out of our countries."  So be it.  We on the large scale our out of the Middle East.  Of course we are not.  There is some large covert presence of American "boots on the ground" stationed around the world at military bases abroad.  That is par for the course.  (How is the Liebman recording?)  The irony is this particular Youtube album is a virtual pinnacle of jazz fusion talent.  Kenny Kirkland, Steve Gadd, and Marcus Miller.  Wow!  Those are names we haven't heard in a while.  I was into jazz fusion for a long period in my musical studies.  Interestingly Disco was a very large influence in this music as was Latin rhythm.  Some opt to call it pop jazz or instrumental pop, but it is not.  Pop has its own significant bubble of guitar-oriented rhythm, and it does try to swing in its own way.  Most of it is not successful, because "It don't mean a thing...."  Not everyone swings.  Elvis swung.  The Beatles swung.  Prince swung.  Swing is a particular kind of emotion-generated feeling.  In a nutshell swing mostly is happy and joyous music.  It is honest, authentic, and spiritual.  There is not much room for bitterness in swing, although like Miles Davis and Charles Mingus proved, jazz can have serious undertones.  In some circles it is called Third Stream.  I can think of worse music.  It just does not represent the dynamic of current American life.  We are not at liberty to snort coke, drink alcohol, and dance "under the disco round" till the wee hours of the morning.  That was a late 1970's kind of thing.  It also was an underground Manhattan gay thing.  Disco was a strong rhythmic music which required technical proficiency on both bass and drums.  The music "hits hard," which means there is no room for pussy performance.  Pop in many circumstances consists of weak technical performances where the mike, the amplification, or the "tracks" do most of the work.  There is some virtue in the "pop" approach, but it is not the roots.  The roots of musical performance are and always have been in classical technique.  Like magic it is not possible that musical technique suddenly became something else because of technology.  That is what today's pop culture would have you believe.  This is why I cannot watch or listen to most music on television.  It makes my physically sick.  Talk about posing.  I prefer to listen to something with value, not some product posing as something else.  Welcome to today's world.  Welcome to the world of Donald Trump.  We should be concerned about Fentanyl, because as the evening news said it has made it to the top of the list of American killers.  Covid and Fentanyl have become America's number one killers, and they both have been made available to us by whom?  We don't know, and that is upsetting.  To not know one's enemy's identity is a major strategical weakness.  We must know who the enemy is, so the source of Fentanyl and Covid need to be disclosed.  This covert assault on us is the metaphor for evil.  Those who understand religion would understand Satan walks the earth in human form, and these types of egregious acts are perpetrated by him.  Satan.  The Devil.  I think this title is a proper noun, because surely we need to know who he is and of what he is capable.  Two of those things are the Covid assault and the distribution of Fentanyl.  With the push of a button the 80 degree Fahrenheit temperature of yesterday, a record setting and disturbingly common occurrence, becomes freezing cold winter today.  In the push of a button the miserably hot and humid hell hole of yesterday, when I could not cool down my study, today again has become winter.  The HAARP facility in Alaska now which has been turned over to the university and is being rented out for monetary gain, was built to heat the ionosphere.  (I think that is the appropriate scientic term)  They want to experiment with heating the upper atmosphere to observe its effects.  In reality they wanted to learn how to send low frequency radio waves around the world in a super heated electrically charged space high up in the sky.  To accomplish this they devised the phased array antenna.  That is what HAARP is, and necessarily it spawned many conspiracy theories.  They are grounded in truth.  Like many things seemingly sanctioned by the United States government, they necessarily are not good or appropriate for the sanctity of human life.  Most often they are rooted in commerce or more specifically revenue.  It's all about money, the green stuff.  Fuck the human race and the planet Earth, so they seem to be doing.  It is tiresome having to think about it each day.  Then again I have lived most of my life within the comfort zone of not having to worry about my own survival.  So many other generations have had to worry about their own survival, so I guess it is our time.  (I have moved on to saxophonist Tom Scott)  If one takes a minute to reflect on a "phased array antenna," what reveals itself is that in place of one emitter usually of microwaves, there are multiple or many emitters whose signals become a summation of themselves.  The signal is addative, hence it is much stronger, because there are so many signals.  These signals are controllable, and by phasing them or shifting their characteristics they summed signal becomes steerable without having to move the hardware.  They won't show us these antenneas in the aviation industry.  "If I show you what is in the nose cone of this aircraft, I will have to kill you," quipped one military official.  Elon Musk's Starlink network consists of thousands of low earth orbit satellites with four phased array antennas per unit.  They can interface with one another creating an enveloping microwave transmission for broadcasting high speed internet.  The problem with this is, as anyone can imagine, is that this electrical energy or RF waves are much more powerful than anything that has proceeded them.  The same is true for G5, and if I am not mistaken, this relatively new wireless communication standard makes use of phased array antennas.  Global warming you say?  The proof is in the pudding.  

The Ruse of Global Warming

Let me gather my thoughts for just a moment, and it is difficult because it it HOT in my study.  At a glance at the weather statistics in Fayettenam, the expected high temperature for December 18th, 2021 is 77 degrees Fahrenheit with humidity of 77%.  It is that right now in December in winter.  Folks around these here parts sentimentalize this warm temperature as a good thing.  They don't like cold weather, so it is a benefit they don't have to wear a coat or turn on their vehicle's heater.  It is not much different from refusing to get a Covid vaccination, supporting Donald Trump, or declaring the human race androgynous.  We are not androgynous beings, and Adam and Eve are not the same.  Why would they be?  What kind of tepid, saccharin, lackluster existence would be the comfort of complete conformity?  The tussle between the sexes, male and female, has been the driver of humanity from its inception.  Early on the Greeks developed a fondness for pedophiliac homosexuality preferring the plump bums of little boys.  This does not make it right.  With no God there is no sin.  Isn't that convenient?  Trying to sidestep God's plans and wishes for your own is a sin.  No matter how you attempt to indoctrinate androgyny or homosexuality, it will not become a part of God's plan.  He invented the universe and the human race.  It is fruitless and futile to ignore this truth.  We can say Climate Change is a hoax and sentimentalize summer temperatures in December, but it is tragic.  This tragic denial only will reap a premature extinction of man.  It seems we are destined for our own self destruction.  Who knew our lives would take on such Biblical significance?  I am tiring of the never ending plight of the ignorant.  It is HOT!  A few days after I remove my air conditioner from a noisy window to attenuate the sounds of a Daytona race, the temperature grows to 80 degrees.  I take the time to peruse the Google offering for Fayetteville weather, and like the wave of some magician's wand, tomorrow is supposed to be back to freezing.  This is not normal, and there is nothing normal in Mother Nature that causes such a weather phenomenon.  I would suggest alternatively it is phased array microwave transmissions, where multiple emitters are phased to created a steerable beam of heat at the planet earth.  The signal is a summation of ALL of the emitters, many emitters instead of just one.  This summation is more easy to control, but I would suggest it is more harmful to the human condition.  How did Elon Musk receive permission to launch a private Starlink network in the world's airspace?  How do invasive, polluting, radiating AC locomotives operate tirelessly with no governmental regulation?  How did this technology escape scrutiny or study?  How did the drinking water in America become a toxic stew of forever chemicals?  How has Chemours been deemed a most responsible corporation in light of their massive purging of toxic PFASs into our air and waterways?  It is simple.  Newsweek like its brother Time has become a propaganda rag.  No longer is it a scholarly credible source of news.  Like Fox News it has become controversial fodder for amusement.  I have friends who believe there is no difference between the sexes, and perhaps there may be wisdom in that analysis.  I think it is possible to have joy in kinship with no sexual intimidation.  If we use the animal kingdom as an example, there are hermaphrodite species such as the earthworm.  What fun is the extreme comfort of the absence of counter-culture?  If nothing peaks our interest or challenges our sensibilities, how will we grow?  It is not supposed to be HOT in December, and it is not good.  It is a problem, and because easily and with precision our establishment reports these anomalies with indifference and amusement, we must ask for better representation.  We should ask for better representation from our national news, Lester Holt and the rest, because their broadcasts have become insulting.  It is not journalism.  It is not news, and we have turned it off.  My air conditioner is in the closet, and it is 80 degrees in December.  Global Warming is a hoax. 

A Big Uwharry State (of affairs...), I Mean a Big Whore State

 Once you live in a state, and I diligently had to convince the North Carolina Department of Revenue I did not live in North Carolina while working abroad, if you are not a total self-absorbed imbacile, the political climate will present itself to you.   The governmental prejudices will become obvious.  There is one reality for Fayetteville, and that is it never will change.  Other cities not anchored in the  military have more freedom to diversify.  The only diversity in our town now is homosexuality in the Army.  There are women soldiers, and a problem this has become.  Sexual impropriety is such a large problem, the military lobby wants to keep it in rank and secret.  They don't want to be transparent with their military judicial system.  It's a good old boy general network, but now there are women.  Because of Barack Obama homosexuality freely is accepted.  No wonder it took less than a month for the Taliban to undo twenty years of nation building in Afghanistan.  There is a distracting element in the troops.  You might think there is virtue, humility, and respect, and honor in this arena, but that may not be true anymore.  Most things in America today are a spin of themselves.  Lying has become second nature, and disinformation is common.  There is little morality or respect for God.  I am not homophobic, and I do not hate gays, but I am beginning to bristle.  I am beginning to dislike others around me that are proving not to be Christian but criminal.  Maybe it is a tepid example, but the motto of the cruise industry is, "The guests come first."  Whatever you do, no matter what, you make the guests feel special and cared for.  It is easy.  All it takes is a few moments to listen and empathize over their concerns.  Even if you don't solve their immediate problem, if you take the time to listen and be friendly to them, they will have a better time.  All of this is is Christianity.  It is ironic, because the governing model of European cruise companies is slightly communist.  There are few human civil rights or a Constitution in other nations.  The American thing isn't readily recognized in post-communist regimes, and Americans are in the minority.  I will not name names, but there was a learning curve for this obedience.  The politics of the cruise industry are more important than skill.  You must say and do the right things to remain volatile.  It took me a while.  What I observed in this arena was unscrupulous and immoral behavior among the homosexual community.  In more specific terms, it was called the "Gay Mafia."  What?  I don't agree with this liberty in the United States military, and I cannot think of anything else that better could undermine its integrity.  Word on the street is you accept it and keep your mouth shut.  Oh, that is not much different than the cruise industry, but that does not make to right.  Gays telling me how it is with a vengeance, and not recognizing my natural sovereignty?  Why should I have to alter my disposition to accommodate this behavior?  Why should it be in the mix?  Can't I just do my job and not be concerned that those who want to perform anal sex on me?  Dream on.  I am not against homosexuality, but I do not feel it is appropriate in the military.  If the close confines of a cruise ship present a lopsided advantage for predatory sexual behavior, I can't imagine what it is like in the troops.  I don't want to know.  I don't want to talk about it, but now it is policy.  America has many policies that are irregular, problematic, and prejudiced.  I look at North Carolina, and I am beginning to see the extreme bias.  North Carolina is no progressive mecca.  We are rooted in social favor and corruption.  Corruption means the every man doesn't really get a fair shake.  Ask Phil Berger.  Why is it that the Republican leadership in the General Assembly can't stomach the process of drawing fair district boundaries?  We have gerrymandered these maps to death, and still our elections are being postponed because of the inability to act ethically.  Trump set the standard, and it is heinous and evil.  Those in power have lost sight of reality, because Trump won the presidency.  They think the jig never will be up.  Merrick Garland and the New York State Attorney General are proving otherwise.  Although the process has begun expunging corruption from our government after Trump, it will take a while for the military to reset.  After a twenty year run of profitable war assets from Uncle Sam for the defense industry, that ride is over.  "Let's go, Brandon."  That is a crude and offensive slogan, and it emerges from the loins of Donald Trump.  Only his foul tainted semen could invent such vitriol.  Joe Biden can handle himself, and he will succeed.  The witch hunting, the lies, and the evil will be quelled.  Sometimes I wonder what the City of Fayetteville wants.  The overt goal is to "attract," not invest.  We are unable to invest, because the infrastructure of Cumberland County is set in cement.  There is no available variance.  There is no deviation.  The War Machine is the driving economic force, and always it will be.  The easiest possible road it to jump on the train.  Why fight it?  The reason is a "War Economy" is neither good nor Christian.  War is hell.  Remember?  That is not how we think of it down here.  After realizing there is no Christmas for those in the military, I am sickened.  Fully I understand we must be prepared to defend our nation in times of weakness.  Holidays are vulnerable for attack.  Okay, but lessening the importance of the celebration of the birth of Christ is not okay.  We are becoming an agnostic nation, and that is a seed of Communism.  I feel it all around me.  "The Mission."  Yes, but this mission is not the only thing in human life.  Once Fayetteville had a balanced equation, and before Ground Forces Command the city had a substantial influential social strata of enlightened wealthy citizens.  Still we seem to have wealthy citizens, but they are enlightened anymore.  No one in America is enlightened, because thegoal was to dumb down the population for the sake of submission.  There was a siege on the United States Capital performed by those who had no idea what they were doing.  Only they knew their leader had called them for duty.  "My  President."  "Mein Fuhrer!"  No thought.  No question.  No remorse.  Complete and total devotion to the wrong sentiments, and it is epidemic like Covid 19.  To understand, someone, a quorum sanctioned an engineered a biological weapon which is Covid 19.  We have experienced how deadly this pathogen is.  Not only was it conceived, researched, and manufactured, it was released upon the us.  We do not know who did this.  Who?  Was it America?  Was it Russia?  Was it China?  To understand, something devised a killing machine that pinpoints human weakness and attacks it ruthlessly.  This is evil personified.  It is not naturally occurring, because the scientists have said it would take hundreds of thousands of years.  It was devised, and then it was released.  Try now to suggest DuPont is responsible for expelling PFAS into our natural water supply.  It has been going on for decades, and this is why Chemours still merrily is pumping this shit into the Cape Fear River unabated.  Even after we do understand their wrong doing, it takes legal balls of bronze to crack their legal and political barriers.  They like it one lawsuit at a time, and they are content to continue this way, state to state, litigant to litigant.  It is easier than simply responsibly disposing of one's own waste.  Dumping their waste into public waterway and openly into the air?  How demented can these people be?  We begin to understand the mental illness, Trump's mental illness.  This is difficult because along with our expunging of God from the consciousness of America, we tucked away mental illness just as conveniently.  We closed most of the facilities, and let them all onto the streets.  In North Carolina we send our kids to other states' facilities.  We outsource our mental health problems.  That is an elitist perspective for a low brow state.  Roy is a good pimp.  CSX coerced  us to pay them, but the violence will not abate.  The violence is the metaphor for social injustice.  Until social justice is recognized as crucial to human coexistence, the violence will continue.  It is Robinhood's merry gang saying "We the people still are here."  We are not rich, we are not influential, but we are proud, strong, and intelligent.  It just means you have to wake up fighting.  So be it.  (for the time being)

The Flashy Money of the North Carolina State Government

It would seem Fayetteville, North Carolina has emerged as a classic case of "Inner City Blues."  The "Urban Flight" or the mass exodus of soon to be suburbanites fleeing their polluted cities has taken place, and the city doesn't even know it.  Well the know it a little.  The dynamics of Fayetteville are specific, and most kids flee when they have a chance.  Fayetteville does not offer the amenities of other Southern cities, because it is a military hub.  Military families transfer in and out, and their needs seem to be different.  Jazz music is a good example in that it is not appreciated or supported.  The military criteria has become very specific, and since Fayettenam is based upon military income how does one legislate city policy?  In recent years the tide has shifted only to the military with the influx of Ground Forces Command.  Now there are one hundred thousand military personnel both active duty and civilian, and it is to those souls Fayetteville must cater.  Always it was a good idea to build diplomacy with the base, and it was.  A handful of local businessmen championed this liaison, and it was effective.  Further in Fayetteville's past before Ground Forces Command, the base had open doors.  The dividing line between Fayetteville and Fort Bragg were nonexistent.  I used to drive directly across the base and past the Special Operations Training Facility.  No one cared, but now there are nukes.  In all probability always there have been, but now.  One only has to peruse an internet map of local railroads including Cape Fear Railways to guess which section of track is underground.  I wonder what they do there?  Load munitions they would rather be out of aerial view I would think.  Fayetteville natives know the difference, and when in the 1970's people flowed freely to clubs at Fort Bragg seven days a week.  That was a different time.  Now it is buttoned up, and we are more segregated, but the city still kowtows to the military because of their dollars.  There aren't many others, and everyone knows that too.  With this shift and as the military has become the sole provider of Fayetteville, the local civilian residents have been pushed aside.  Much of this is through a real estate boom, because there is a housing shortage for everyone.  Consequently almost every piece of property available for building has been razed.  All ready Skibo Road has become "Urban Sprawl."  Now we watch as lot after lot of woods are cleared and quickly built upon for profit.  Every nook and cranny is being filled with housing.  In addition existing homes, no matter how old, are being flipped for profit.  Often these profits are not reasonable, because this housing bubble is creating unrealistic value for these homes.  It is up to the buyer whether they want to pay the prices, but it would be better to understand with research the properties themselves.  Some folks are being taken to the cleaners.  What is propane?  What is natural gas?  What is a heat pump?  What is electric heat.  How old is the house.  Does it have insulation?  Is it moisture free?  I didn't want to talk about housing.  I wanted to talk about the shift towards military needs as the sole driving economic force.  It has left natives out in the cold.  Whether anyone will admit it, Fayetteville has become an inner city.  There are three things that are creating this, because there is little industry in the city of Fayetteville.  What could have such an effect on a city, causing its inner core to become violent, polluted, and unnsupportive of human life?  The answer is car traffic, air traffic, and rail traffic.  How can such a small area be affected so drastically?  It is because of Fort Bragg, and its needs as Ground Forces Command.  It requires logistical support, and so we have I-295.  Certainly I am not complaining about this wonderful highway, but as I have said before it is not for the citizens of Fayetteville.  It is to ferry personnel and equipment on and off Fort Bragg.  Many cities have traffic congestion, but most do not have the 82nd Airborne.  Again I am not complaining about this.  What I am complaining about is the private, logistical, contracted support network developing in Fayetteville that is separate from civilian interests.  A good example of this would be Harris/L3.  They are one of the largest defense contractors, but a whole host of smaller private defense companies have emerged to take advantage of Uncle Sam.  I cannot keep up with all of the small private planes that fly into the Fayetteville Regional Airport on a daily basis.  Add jets to the stew, both commercial and military, and our sky now is replete with aerial activity.  In the past, with the exception of bugging out, air traffic was scant.  Now it is constant, and it flies right over the city of Fayetteville without a care in the world.  Knowing that low flying aircraft is as dangerous to the human organism as cancer is not comforting.  Shall we calculate the velocity of jet thrust exhaust, and it will explain the constantly moving air in Fayetteville when there is little wind.  Hold your cigarette out and watch its smoke.  Often it flows perfectly parallel to the ground and with great velocity.  When I blow leaves in my front yard, the wind shifts constantly and constantly I have to change my angle of attack.  It is from jet wash.  The black soot on our house also is from jet exhaust.  The funky biofilm on the dome of the Jefferson Memorial also is because of jet wash or soot.  Add algae, fungus, and bacteria to the stew and you have a nightmare of potential disease.  And we have Covid.  Other cities do not have the Aberdeen and Rockfish, who have expanded their short line railroad activities.  It used to be a few trains, and now promptly at six a.m. I feel the engineer start this antiquated locomotive, a two stroke turbo charged nightmare of mostly vibration broadcasted long distance by an infrasound wave from its prime mover.  A combination of rail traffic, air traffic, and increased car traffic have proliferated in the city limits of Fayetteville.  All of this hub bub prevents any real reflective, creative, intellectual potential for residents.  We are forced to respond to the push as best we can.  One cannot overcome the force of the United States military and its self-proclaimed important to American life.  Not everyone wants to wake up each day and think about defeating an enemy, but the dividing line between this training and average American life is gone.  We have been sucked into this vacuum.  Refusing to acknowledge this acute shift Fayetteville likes to sprinkle money around.  Let's build a Civil War Museum.  Let's build a new performing arts complex.  Shiny new things will not solve this problem.  They may attract new faces, but trying to support existing faces in the firing line would be more prudent.  If we concentrated on our existing infrastructure including schools and services and made them a priority again, then it would be possible not to outsource out income.  We could create and glean our own support system instead of having to purchase it, and this has become too common with the City of Fayetteville.  Throwing money around and ignoring the civilian population has turned Fayetteville into Fayettenam.  Others live here too.  

PSA Airlines and the Bluestreak

I don't feel like sitting in my bedroom and blogging on the laptop, but I am going to do it anyway.  I have to collect my thoughts, and sometimes you can do that by writing.  Although there was some actual news on the six o'clock evening news, and some of it was positive, the overt underlying dynamic in America is siege.  Sometimes the violence gets to be too much, and you must look the other way.  Ironically when I turn to music often I am stymied by the local environment.  Imagine trying to study jazz music or playing jazz music in a "Red" state.  There is no room for civil rights anymore.  Donald Trump made sure of that.  Through his four year presidency he created more chaos, confusion, and anarchy in America than we have seen in our lifetimes.  Under the surface of his Cheshire Cat grin, Trump's intentions were brutal for American democracy.  They are rooted in hate, division, violence, and eventual dictatorship.  It will take years to unravel the extent of his damage, but it is happening.  Slowly Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice are honing in on Trump's overt white collar corruption.  I will reiterate that the idea of "Stealing an Election" only became possible, because his people stole the election from Hillary Clinton first.  We didn't realize it then.  We were too stouthearted to believe an American presidential election could have been corrupted by illegal maneuvering within state governments.  Rejecting electors?  Throwing out results in favor of the opinion of a state legislature?  Bribery.  The depths of his actions to steal this election from the bona fide winner, amazingly were documented in his attempt to do it again in 2020.  We watched as Donald Trump methodically filed lawsuit after lawsuit clogging the legal system and trying to stymie the real results.  Who would go to such an extreme to try and dismantle the American electoral system?  The answer is someone who does not think they can win honestly.  I really didn't want to talk about Trump, but his covert and illegal actions are a torch for wrong doing to come.  Luckily some of his accomplices are being found out, tried, prosecuted, and punished as they should be.  The cavalier, maverick, and reckless words spewed by his people to appeal to a certain cross section of less educated Americans is low brow.  America cannot exist as a pinnacle of democracy and leadership as a low brow nation.  America relies upon smart people for the right reasons.  Smart people with the wrong reasons or a non American philosophy should take up residence elsewhere, say the Ukraine.  This is where Trump's mafia is anyway.  I don't have an opinion yet on Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.  I don't know the history of this conflict, but I know there is corruption in Ukraine.  Smart people with the wrong reasons is with what we have to worry.  "Havana Syndrome" is something I can't get out of my mind.  This has been an ongoing illness, and the unsettling issue is we do not yet know its instigator.  Like we do not know the source of the Coronavirus, we do not know what is inflicting serious brain injuries on people with no tangible, visible, present weapon.  Brain damage from a ray gun?  This is something with which to be concerned.  Since 2016 diplomats and government officials often in foreign environments are being besieged with illness with no tangible cause.  No tangible cause.  Like out of thin air people are developing symptoms of a brain concussion.  That is a dangerous weapon, and we need to find it, now.  After reading through the literature the agreed upon source of these symptoms is pulsed microwave energy.  If you read the wikipedia entry, it is all laid right out there.  Three discreet reasons to believe the cause of these illnesses in microwaves.  Microwaves.  Shall I remind everyone again that microwaves could not have been an issue until Bill Clinton's presidency.  These frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum were deemed dangerous by the FCC, and as such they were off limits for commercial use.  Because Mr. Clinton decided to balance the federal budget with the auctioning of these frequencies, we now have a seeming uncontrolled proliferation of this energy.  It is everywhere.  How many wireless communication companies are there?  How many networks?  How many fucking towers are in your town?  Take a look around.  What little regulation there was in the past has been tossed into the wind.  Towers everywhere with no regard for any potential danger to the human organism.  If you have diplomats, spies, and other government employees being effected by potential pulsed microwave energy, then understand microwaves now are everywhere.  By Bill Clinton they now have been deemed appropriate for commercial use.  What about the previous studies of the dangers of this energy?  Embassy's are places of high scrutiny, just as was the building in Afghanistan which housed all of the communications equipment.  These places are rife with electrical energy, and now there is so much unregulated microwave energy being thrown around by wireless companies, satellite television, and now satellite internet, one would not have to look far to find offensive sources of radiation.  I would humbly suggest that Elon Musk's planned 44,000 low orbiting satellite network would be a good place to start.  Ask what kind of energy it is transmitting?  More importantly ask what other things are possible with this newly emerging "Skynet."  Is he planning on protecting the country with it, or is it possible that mixed with the plethora of other all ready existent microwave energy a stew of modulation is being created no one can control.  Welcome to Fayettenam, unregulated for the sake of national defense.  Because Ground Forces Command is here, anything goes.  When you hit that fucking G spot during the day when all of it is slamming your house, shelling, machine gun fire, the multitude of diesel freight trains, helicopters, and the worse. low flying strafing small and large aircraft.  Until the FCC so wisely decided to change the flight paths, this was not such an issue.  PSA Bluestreak jets did not have the liberty to fly over your home at a paltry three thouand feet above the tree line.  What!?  Spewing toxins and black microdust all over your property.  That is a pretty clear picture of what PSA Airlines thinks of you.  

Red Dawn

There are some self-evident truths America refuses to acknowledge.  Perhaps it is because we are unable to confront our own personal demons.  They may not be demons but merely habits, short-comings, or addictions.  An addiction qualifies as a demon, whether it is to oxycontin or an Apple iPhone.  I say an addiction to either of these two products is more destructive, because like cigarettes they are cloaked in hyperbole.  Excuse me.  Hyperbole applies to the Republican party.  Misinformation, spin, or hearsay is the content of America today.  Nothing has changed.  Truly we seemed concerned about Climate Change or Global Warming, but we refuse to acknowledge some of the active participants.  The burning of fossil fuels creating excessive greenhouse gas certainly is a factor, but there are many responsible for the recent warming of our planet.  No one will say who or why.  Let's point a few things out, and I will repeat my claim about Norfolk and Southern's recent "Green" campaign.  There is nothing "green" about a heavy haul 4,400 horsepower prime mover.  Even with all of the bells and whistles its concept remains steadfast just like a jet plane.  These heavy duty transportation vehicles burn oxygen and replace it with pollution.  Period.  End of sentence.  Cars do the same but not in the same quantity.  I have said it before.  Perhaps a carbon tax is a good thing, but an air tax or a fee for the usage of air produced by the planet earth is more fair.  Somehow in the evolution of America, certain truths have been disguised.  What gives the railroads or the airlines the right freely to burn oxygen meant for human consumption?  It's just there, right, floating around in the atmosphere.  Just take it.  That is the philosophy of corporate America or the Communist Party.  It's ours!  "Slaves should work for free!"  "The White race is supreme."  Create a pathogen that targets immigrants, the elderly, and the immune compromised.  Entitlements.  Relieve Washington from this burden.  Donald Trump said these words himself in clear concise English.  Why should air be free for the taking by transportation companies with no fee?  That is fucked up.  The more air a locomotive or jet burns the more pollution it creates.  They are like converters that convert our air meant for the planet Earth into energy for their own monetary gain.  Too boot they burn this air depleting its supply and replace it with toxic gases for us to breathe and make us ill.  "Oh Dejoy!"  (and not Ode to Joy)  It's a big fat Dejoy.  Appoint the enemy of an agency as its leader to be dismantled from the inside out.  Scott Pruitt.  EPA.  Trump.  Communism.  America, because of the strong corporate lobby, is unwilling to say railroads and airlines are a major source of Climate Change.  Until we recognize this, it will continue to get hotter.  Norfolk Southern wants you to believe their heavy haul 4,400 horsepower prime movers are some miraculous gift to humanity.  The reality is its emissions are far greater than we can imagine.  We don't see this because of spin, diversion, misinformation, and outright deception which borders on criminal.  Anytime you see an advertisement on television, like Joe Namath telling you to call the number you see on your screen, you know it is a scam.  Do you really think somehow calling on number on television is going to get a senior more money from Uncle Sam?  How about the first thing they do is ask you your social security number.  Damage done, immediately.  Mr. Namath needs to stop doing these commercials, but lying has become common in America.  I mean boldface lies.  Like Trump lies.  As I was driving over the new Rowan Street bridge yesterday, I had to look at Tom Grubb's downtown sculpture turned into a whore.  Here was an aerial tribute to flying men, and it has been repurposed into a tower to hold G5 transmitters.  It is so ugly, but there it is, close to your car as you cross a bridge.  They are everywhere, and they too contribute to Global Warming.  As long as America continues to be controlled by private interests interested in their own interests, interestingly we will suffer.  Jet planes and diesel-electric locomotives produce massive amounts of heat that are in no way "green."  If anything they are red.  

Checking Out

In today's news, which to me was vague by its transmission, there were two discrete and continually heinous police shootings.  One somehow made it public on the web with body camera footage being posted for all to see.  This headline was on the Huffington Post website, so I scrolled down and voila!  There was this body cam footage of a uniformed officer of some kind shooting a black man in a wheelchair in the back multiple times in the doorway of a Lowes Home Improvement Center.  Barely could I believe my eyes.  There was hearsay of some kind that he had stolen a toolbox and pulled a knife.  Did this merit being shot in cold blood in the back six times?  Somehow it is not surprising, as although President Biden is trying diligently to improve the Conditions of America, still we are spiraling to our own demise.  To further complete my ensuing depressed mood after listening to bomb blasts all day while I cleaned the yard, vaguely I heard that SpaceX had launched yet another rocket into our sky with a payload of forty low altitude "internet" satellites.  All ready Elon Music has launched I believe the number is fifteen hundred satellites into our sky.  My mind is blown.  The primary question is, "How does an American businessman acquire world permission single-handed to control the world's sky?"  I ask again.  "How does one man, an American businessman, receive  permission to launch in chapters hundreds of personally owned satellites which will envelope the earth in a sky that is shared by all of the world's nations?"  Did the world give their consent to the FCC at the United Nations that Elon Musk would become the great Wizard of Oz?  I, in my complete lifetime, never have heard such an egregious infringement of human civil rights.  As well this realization confirms the corruption of the FCC.  What is the FCC?  How is it an American commission somehow has taken control of the world's airspace?  The news is scant, and slowly it has become nothing.  What we hear on the evening news is childish fodder trying to convince recalcitrant red state Republicans to get a vaccination.  How long must we hear this story?  It almost is as excruciating as hearing Monica Lewinsky's name as a headline for countless months during Bill Clinton's presidency.  Is this the best the Associate Press can do?  News reporting is dead.  With all of the cable news networks, countless programs, and twenty-four hour coverage, there is nothing to which to listen.  It is all contrived, incendiary, propaganda.  I am learning there is nothing to trust.  Print media may be the best choice purely because it costs money to produce.  Hearing that Skynet has become a reality is so depressing.  It is not like we don't have enough environment pollution all ready.  Add rockets to the mix and low orbiting satellites.  What the fuck?  Who did he pay off to receive this privilege?  Elon Musk's pockets are deep, and evidently he has paid off a lot of world leaders?  It was a con job, like the Norfolk/Southern "Green" campaign.  There is nothing green about an AC locomotive.  The only way it even comes close is if it has a GEVO prime mover, which were not stock in N/S engines.  This railroad resisted the AC conversion in 1990, and wisely chose to stick with their fleet of Dash 9 engines.  These mammoth heavy haulers have the invasive 7FDL engine which by itself with DC traction motors you will feel coming miles away.  That is bad enough.  Now Wabtech and MotivePower have convinced Norfolk Southern to convert these older locomotives to AC adding a high voltage cabinet, power inverters, and a new cloud of low frequency EMF's.  It is a shite state of affairs, and the Patriot Act under the manufactured terrorist threat allows Washington a blank check to do as they please under the auspices of war.  Luckily Joe Biden has stopped this abuse of authority, but the far reaching consequences of the Donald Trump presidency will go on for decades.  It is no wonder people are wanting to check out.