Saturday, July 06, 2024

Bill Clinton's Pandora's Box

Since the Pandemic the previous normalcy of everyday life is gone.  Covid was more than a physical killer.  It dealt a stark blow to every aspect of American life, and we don't realize it.  It was a huge smoke screen for corporate America to continue to breach our civil and Constitutional rights.  It was misdirection like used in magic.  It is impossible for me to shake the severity of what is happening in America; it all seems to be true.  What was predicted in the Bible is happening now, and it is related to the end of the World.  That is a large pill to swallow everyday when you get up.  Perhaps it is God's way of saying, "Come to Me."  There isn't much else, so your spiritual life is going to grow to fill the void.  I don't have an active say in what happens in my spiritual life.  It tells me what to do.  The sheer amount of evil that surrounds me everyday has become overwhelming, so I guess I need some Jesus to ward it off.  What has changed because of Covid?  Big Brother has marched in and captured much of our freedom, and control of the media is his methodology.  While America has gotten wise to the exploitation of the internet, media in general has not recovered.  The majority of what is in the news is propaganda.  In comparison to the historical traditions of news as truth, what we have does not qualify.  It is opinion, and it is manipulated for a purpose.  The devolution of reporting the news could be the metaphor for the devolution of America as a nation.  The decline of the public schools is similar.  The devastation of the environment is similar.  There is no way a country can excel, when its infrastructure is weak.  All institutions must have a strong foundation, and Covid kicked out the bricks.  In 2016 I decided to give  Donald Trump a chance.  I had no choice.  I said to myself, "Let's see how our quality of changes with him as president."  What did we get?  We got the Pandemic, something never seen in our lifetimes.  On the surface things appeared moderate.  Gas was reasonable.  The economy was functioning.  It was behind the scenes in  Washington the damage was being done attempting to dismantle American democracy.  Like the businessman Trump was, it  was about profit.  The Trump Administration, instead of embracing American ideals and the Constitution, tried to change the principals of our founding fathers.  In many ways the Trump philosophy was the opposite, and now the ill effects of deregulation have hobbled the lower and middle classes.  Only the rich are benefiting.  Ethnic cleansing has begun.  It is both startling and upsetting to watch your community regress into a ghetto.  I am preaching to the choir.  Anytime I voice my opinion, those who respond seem to have it worse.  I am going to use a nearby shopping area in Fayetteville, North Carolina as an example.  It is close to our house, so it is a part of our family history and current daily routine.  Perhaps it is not uncommon what is happening, and it isn't just gentrification.  Urban decay it a part of it.  For a while it was the opposite, and businesses came and went.  Since Covid and the decline of the economy, the dollars are not there to support these brick and mortar entities.  First the native buildings in this area, the historical businesses with unique footprints that gave the area character and identity, have been razed.  The florist on the corner, the steak house, and the garage all have been sacrificed.  Urban sprawl has ensued, and haphazard growth has made it ugly.  There are tightly spaced microwave towers that suggest industry rather than commerce.  Not long ago the placement of these towers would have been illegal.  There are two rows of telephone poles with miscellaneous wiring that make it uglier.  The former fabric store, KFC, and bank now have a portable chain link fence around them, and it looks like a war zone.  The overt defining characteristic of this once viable retail district is air pollution.  When BRAC brought Ground Forces Command to Fort Bragg, Fayetteville was the sacrificial lamb.  There are many reasons why this change has not been positive for the surrounding community, but air pollution is the most destructive.  While they chose not to keep certain aircraft at Pope Field, it doesn't matter.  Smog now is common, and that the commercial airlines have chosen to change their traditional flight paths and spray most of Fayetteville with soot is uncanny.  How can any community thrive when they are used as a sewer?  I am going to be specific.  Let me begin by saying once again I am listening to the "Hum."  The "Hum" was a sound heard and felt near Taos, New Mexico.  It drove people crazy, because they could not figure out whence it came.  It took me six months in front of a computer at OSU to track the  source of this noise.  Who was the culprit?  General Electric.  GE.  It was a conveyor belt they built underground to carry ore from a molybdenum mine to the refinery.    It used low frequency AC drives that turn slowly and are controlled by a microprocessor and power inverter.  It is the same technology that controls alternating current diesel electric locomotives.  The same great minds who decided to tunnel beneath the ground and install the fifteen mile long conveyor belt must be the same as those at Fort Liberty who decided to put a section of the Cape Fear Railways underneath Rock Merritt Avenue.  Once Reilly Road the mainline from the Honeycutt Marshalling Yard follows the same route and was obstructive to on post vehicular traffic.  Idling trains under the ground in any situation is bad, especially if they hum.  Norfolk/Southern sold their trackage to RJ Corman not long ago, and a new railroad was born from Raleigh to Fayetteville.  They prize the war horse SD-40-2, and it hums like a mother.  While N/S used heavy haul road locomotives for small potato switching in downtown Fayetteville, now we get to listen to the hum again.  To be concise GE is now Wabtec, and they are doing the same things.  There was smoke and mirrors and buying and selling (Progress Rail, Caterpillar, etc.), but eventually the GE incumbents landed back at home.  It doesn't make sense the amount of wireless communication on a GE designed locomotive.  Ask a Webtec executive about Distributed Power.  They have turned fire breathing dragons into toy trains.  When the EPA tried to test the communications on a GE locomotive, there was so much electromagnetic energy from so many different sources, they could not proceed.  It was a stew of high voltage radiation.  Why does a freight train need this?  Why does a passenger jet need this?  The military champions this technology, and their whole battlefield operation is based on wireless communications.  Perhaps if Elon Musk had not launched thousands of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, Russia would not have needed Kosmos 2553.  Until Washington definitively acknowledges the source of the Havana Syndrome, a pulsed microwave non-lethal weapon used for surveillance purposes, human health and cancer specifically will not improve.  The ready availability of microwaves to the highest bidder was Bill Clinton's most grievous mistake as President.  He opened this box, and it should be on his conscious.  P.S.  The microdust that is being blown into my eyes sitting inside comes from a Piedmont Embraer ERJ-145.  It just took off.