They Are At It Again!

 In an America post the Donald Trump presidency, things are askew.  He likes it this way, because deception or sleight-of-hand is an effective way to win.  You distract your opponent.  By the time he notices you all ready have won.  Four years of a presidency and he almost dismantled our Republic, our self governance, and our freedom.  Honestly I can't remember if these things were in jeopardy before he became the leader of the free world.  It was Barack Obama, and he was cleaning up the 2008 Financial Crisis created by Bill Clinton.  The slate of destructive presidents is long.  Who might have been an honest and effective president in our lifetimes?  Jimmy Carter?  He was humiliated on the public stage, and they didn't release the hostages until he stepped down.  Trump must be the worst, and its because America is hemorrhaging money.  Washington has lost touch with productivity as defined by earning revenue.  They are so spoiled, and the taxpayer money is so fluent, being frugal or actually earning money with an American-made product is irrelevant.  Washington lawmakers don't give a shit about Americans.  They become popular and spoiled by the money they dole out, and it is our money,  taxpayer money.  They keep spending it, not making it and now we are in a crisis for the umpteenth time.  Their solution?  Raise the debt ceiling yet again.  We are borrowing money from other nations, so how can we be independent or great?  Take the military budget for example.  I have tried to accommodate the vast reach of the military, and my conclusion is they also are a sorry lot of seekers taking advantage of the system.  Soldiers living in $300,000.00 houses, declaring no taxes on their housing stipends, working a few days a week, and screwing their wives.  The children are for show.  Many married couples don't love each other and are homosexual.  The marriage is a business arrangement.  What does Fort Bragg want this year?  A new gun range.  New barracks.  New toys with which to practice like medical practitioners.  They practice medicine.  Since the Trump presidency freedom in America has become more volatile.  Donald Trump incited an insurrection against the newly elected President of the United States.  He should be in jail, and they are trying.  Whether it is intimidation, speculation, or pure threat, America is living on the cusp of violence.  It is because we do not know who the enemy is.  I watch this military perform their practice maneuvers, fly planes and helicopters, pollute our sky, incite violence, and spend taxpayer money preparing for wars they don't seem to be able to win.  They like to fight, but ten years of nation-building in Afghanistan and a few weeks after we pull out they revert back to their old ways.  Most nations don't want to be America, and we should leave them alone.  Global dominance became a goal for America, and now we have World War lll.  Can Covid live in plants or in the ground?  Fort Bragg sits in close proximity to Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point, but it is not the only supplier of munitions meant to travel across the Atlantic Ocean.  Before Base Realignment and Closure moved Ground Forces Command to Fort Bragg, Charleston shipped a lot of heavy munitions.  I believe they got tired of the noise, and they fingered Fayettenam for the job.  Now Fort Junction assembles most of these trains, and when they are doing this live is hell.  There is just too much freight train activity, and when it triangulates on Fayetteville, people die.  Not only are we bombarded with tornado-like two mile long trains, commercial jets now are flying directly over the city at low altitudes smothering us with carbon emissions.  Trains and planes suck and burn oxygen and replace it with poisonous carbon.  They heat the environment, and now electromagnetic emissions are part of their refuse.  I have been experiencing the Havana Syndrome for the last few days, and I think it is Covid again.  It is hard to tell the difference, but what I do know is that when a particular Lockheed Martin C130J Hercules, most likely with the Air Mobility Command, serial number 08-3179, when it flies I get sick.  I observe its activity doing touch and goes at the Fayetteville Regional Airport.  I watch it fly over the Appalachian Mountains from DC to Alabama.  What I wonder is what is in its tanks.  What was responsible for the downing of our World Trade Towers in Manhattan?  Terrorists infiltrated the airline industry and flew a suicide mission into skyscrapers killing thousands of Americans.  We can smile and worship Jesus and commit to rebuilding like good Christians, or we can decide to fight back.  Keeping your enemies closer gets tiring, especially when good seems so far away. 

The Clock is Ticking on Humans

 It, like now, can be difficult to make yourself recognize undesirable things.  It is far easier to bury your head in the sand, wear the rose-colored glasses, or hide in the cyber refuge of gaming, pornography, and entertainment.  If you do decide to wake up and smell the coffee, what you may see is a daunting existence promulgated by a heinous attack on the American people.   A large part of this was the outbreak of Covid 19, but the emergence of this deadly strain of Coronovirus from unknown origins wasn't the only culprit.  The war is far from over.  America is under continuous siege from all fronts, but it is wise understand see the war from foreign perspectives.  There are myriad forces undermining the economic potential, social freedom, and happiness of Americans.  It is logical to assume this assault originates with malcontents deprived of our unique and important God-given and Constitution-granted rights.  Let's call it sour grapes.  If you don't have, then ignorant and immature shadows of people inadvertently will try to bring you down.  Shall we make a list?  Saudi Arabia was responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers of our World Trade Center.  It was not Saddam Hussein, nor was it Osama Bin Laden.  The latter offered to fight for his former family, the United Arab Emirates, and they refused him.  He was livid, and thus Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban all became extensions of Osama Bin Laden's wrath against the United States.  Simply he wanted us out of their Middle East.  The focus has shifted away from these violent terrorist groups consequently, but Vladimir Putin's bloody attempted genocide of Ukraine qualifies as the beginning of World War lll.  The media has short memories in America since Covid, and the former president's campaign of misinformation and fake news simply is "Newspeak" predicted by George Orwell in his novel "1984."  He missed by forty years, just as the other intelligent cultures missed 2012 by a decade.  Newspeak is here, it is on the internet, and it is AI.  Also and more importantly it is the smartphone to which we as a nation seem to be addicted.  We cannot take a piss without consulting our comforting phone.  It is best to take off the rose-colored glasses, pull out heads out of the sand, break our addictions and understand that the forces controlling our lives is not for us.  They seem to be for us on the front line, on our phones, but underneath the shallow anodynes of weight-losing and money-earning apps, the forces of evil are trying to manipulate us.  Look even deeper and you will find that these forces, and possibly foreign in original, are trying to kill us.  Undermining a nation means disabling its people, and the most effective place to begin is killing our youth.  Many scum are responsible for this campaign, and it is encouraging that America's Department of Justice has recognized fentanyl as a major antagonist.  This drug single-handedly has murdered two of America's most influential popular culture music icons.  Michael Jackson and Prince, metaphors of volatility, rebellion, American freedom, and economic reward were wiped out with the ingestion of a drug meant to induce euphoria, pleasure, and relief from pain.  Surprise!  Your dead.  The assault on America is multi-faceted and attacks us from many fronts.  The most dire and consequential is our food system, which has been undermined largely by a criminal and now foreign-owned corporate entity named Monsanto.  Genetically modified foods (or GMO) is not a good thing.  America's liquor is a pale shadow of its former self.  Jim Beam is owned by the Japanese, and the Japanese started World War ll with their ruthless attack on Pearl Harbor.  After America was not able to win fighting with boots on the ground, it was our intellectual prowess that ended this war with the development and administering of a nuclear bomb.  Japan was shell-shocked into submission, and their amends were the invention and selling of quality electronic consumer component to Americans.  If the U.S.S.R can renege on Glasnost and Perestroika and the abolition of the Cold War by Mikhai Gorbachev  and Ronald Reagan, then it is best to take a new look at American allies.  Most of them are against us, unless we give them money.  Do we have allies?  The attacks on American youth came incognito.  They crept in in Japanese manufactured video games, violent role-playing scenarios which shaped the mass shooters of today.  Even if the AR-15 was not available for purchase, without these vivid and soul shaping digital fantasies, it is unlikely American youth would have the balls to dress up in camouflage, storm an elementary school, and indiscriminately slaughter innocent and helpless school children.  This behavior is a direct product of inappropriate parental guidance manipulated by foreign malcontents.  The severe and violent tendencies of these perpetrators subtly has infiltrated many aspects of everyday American life.  Two years of Covid isolation and cyber-learning did not help.  We need to sever our dependence on the computer, and begin to remember how we use it as our aid, not our tutor.  It should be a tool for us, not for terrorists.  Medicine is a diverse, deep, complicated aesthetic, and it has been undermined by evil.  The medical establishment no longer wants to cure us; they want to treat our symptoms for money.  When a Sackler family forsakes the entirely of humanity for monetary gain and compromises decades of philanthropy and higher learning, then we must take note.  The tables have turned in America.  At the most basic level it is easy to attack human beings.  Pollute the air we need to survive, the water we drink and use to bathe, grow, and clean, and the environment upon which we are reliant to think, feel, and love.  These in America have been reduced to a fraction of what Mother Nature provides naturally, and she is next on the list.  Who could be responsible for all of this chaos?  One name comes to mind, but he (or it) only manifests itself in human form.  With the weakening of all of earth's life forces, the human mind and spirit have grown weak and dependent, and evil masquerading as good has smitten us all.  It is best to take a look around.

The Honda Trail 70

 I have been poor all of my life.  Our family was not poor, and we had the things we needed.  I learned to appreciate the things I had, and often for which they were worked.  Used things.  Old things.  Hand-me-down things.  Perhaps lessons were learned trying to fix these old things.  My father and I spent more time fixing the Honda Trail 70 than riding it.  That is an exaggeration.  I rode it a lot, but it took considerable maintenance.  Although I didn't understand it, it was a "beater."  It had been beaten nearly to death and resurrected by the previous owner.  Its front forks and handlebars were replaced by "Frankenbars."  My pubescent friends made fun of it regularly including its "titty grips."  It was not until recently with the emergence of "Mini Bike Mike's" website I was able to restore it.  It runs now better than it ever did, and the pleasure I receive from riding it comes more from the appreciation of and dedication to owning it.  I didn't own it; it was titled to my father.  When I became an adult, he consented with reluctance to signing over its title.  I have yet to do this with my nephew.  I ceased riding it in the woods, because the crevices, roots, rocks, and poison are too much.  I ride it on the street, and with its 1971, best-selling, Honda 72cc engine it shines.  The CT-70HKO has four gears and a manual hand-operated clutch differentiating it from other Trail 70's.  Although its wheels were squat and fat for the trails, still it would reach a whopping 46 m.p.h. on flat with the throttle wide open.  I may be sentimental, but the sound and vibration of that motorcycle restored and still running after fifty years makes my heart swell with appreciation and pride.  I am not proud that I was able to rebuild it; I am proud that I accomplished something in tandem with my father's love.  It is of him I think when I ride this machine.  I have passed on this legacy to my nephew, and I hope he will be bitten with the same bug of motorcycling pleasure. 

The $20.00 Dump

 There is something awry when you must pay $20.00 to empty your garbage.  We pay for sewer, water, and power, and the costs continue to rise.  Wages have been stagnant for decades.  The rich have gotten richer, and the poor still are poor.  I paid out-of-pocket today twenty dollars to bury a couch.  I didn't chop it into pieces and drop it by the railroad tracks as per Mark Werling's suggestion.  Once I did that, and it landed me in environmental court.  I plead "guilty" after cleaning up my mess and finding contrition, and the judge fined me $500.00.  He slammed the gavel down and declared me a sinner.  The courtroom erupted in laughter, and the well-dressed white boy became infuriated and shouted, "Corruption!" at the top of his lungs.  I shouted this out of his court room, down the elevator, through the lobby, and all the way to my car.  I was livid.  He took advantage of me.  Plead guilty, and  crooked judge will take your money whether you are guilty are not.  Lesson learned.  Today instead I paid $20.00 to deposit our couch at the Anne Street landfill.  Twenty dollars most people don't have to spare to pay for garbage disposal, especially when they take the time to haul it to the dump and unload it themselves.  I paid it anyway, because I needed to get rid of it.  Not dump it on the street.  Not chop it into pieces and drop it by the railroad tracks.  Load it yourself into the back of your pick up and carry it yourself to the landfill.  Next subject please.  Joe Biden is in Ireland hiding from Donald Trump.  The long arm of the mafia is flexing, and the news is a stunted mess of negative propaganda.  It is time for Joe to return home and face the music.  Inflation is out of control, and prices continue to rise.  Violence is commonplace and expected.  The last time I remember this is 1970, and we don't have a Viet Nam war.  Perhaps we should. Domestic violence is less when the troops are gone.  Since they like to fight, they might be well-served in Ukraine.  All ready we are in World War lll.  There are no poppies to harvest, only blood to let.  Ukraine produces many of our products, and Mr. Putin is destroying all of them.  It is senseless, diabolical, and evil.  He must have dementia.  "The Donald" must have dementia.  It is difficult discerning dementia, but we must try.  Senselessly destroying Ukraine is insane.  Insane.  Insanity.  Train.  3:00 freight train.  "Chasing the Trane."  It was a long say, and nothing is getting better. 

Blue-Eyed Sole

 I am listening to the Young Rascals, and this is my first foray into their music.  (Also there is a standing wave in my home, so even the slightest movement or music causes unpleasant sensations on the body)  RADAR is a "standing" electromagnetic wave.  Instead of dissipating normally or fading into the distance, it "stands" in one place.  Standing waves are a common but perplexing phenomenon.  If you are privy to host one in your home, basement, barn, or workshop most people describe it as having a ghost.  You can feel something tangible in the air, and it isn't you.  It is compressed air forced into you living space basically invading your personal privacy.  Anything and everything along the path of this standing wave can modulate it causing it to do strange things.  It is like a stretched rubber band, and slight modulations to the tension of the band cause it to sympathetically vibrate of its own accord.  It is extremely annoying, and it is common in Fayettenam on the weekend.  It either is a CSX, Norfolk/Southern, or Aberdeen and Rockfish freight locomotive, or the Cape Fear Railways shunting cars in the Honeycutt Marshalling Yard or at Fort Junction.  They also have a tunnel underneath Reilly Rd where they load munition trains, so any choice of an idling locomotive could be the culprit.  Of course there is the AN/TPQ-53 army radar which is a logical cause of Havana Syndrome.  They call it "Pulsed Microwave Energy."  It sits on a truck bed in the field or anywhere else they decide to use it, and it spins 360 degrees scanning the battlefield for 35 miles and at a 90 degree width.  If the Marines are playing with this toy targeting their large howitzers, then anyone in Fayettenam is going to know it.  They are not discreet. This is not upon what I wanted to focus or write about today, but it is undeniable.  It is here, now, and in my personal space.  At a certain point one could believe it is "weaponized" or used secondarily as a tool for intimidation for certain targeted individuals.  If they know it has these unpleasant side effects, such as idling locomotives creating a standing wave, then they could use it to antagonize you.  Considering the education level of the United States army enlistees, it could be difficult for them to discern the difference between the real enemy and you.  It happens often newly indoctrinated enlistees full of themselves and their new training pick a fight in a bar and get killed.  Soldiers are involved in all kinds of crime including human and drug trafficking.  Other than the billions of dollars flowing from the Department of Defense, the presence of the military simply is tolerated.  At one time there was a healthy diplomatic relationship with Fort  Bragg.  Since BRAC and the emergence of Ground Forces Command, Fort Bragg has become just another jar head breeding ground of military cockiness.  Self confidence may be a desirable trait in an aggressive soldier, but empathy is more important.  As my left ear screams at me from tinnitus from this phenomenon, my heels also begin to hurt.  I am at a disadvantage, but it is the weekend and I want to rest.  I don't feel like getting up and shaking it off, which I am going to do shortly with my 125 decibel leaf blower.  My topic of blogging today is something equally as annoying, and it is the rhetoric of Miss Lindsey.  Lindsey Graham has become a mockery of a senator, and he has disgraced himself time and time again lying in true Trump fashion.  Considering a violent coup attempt on the United States Capital on January 6th by thousands of Trump supporters, the Jan. 6th committee has been extremely careful investigating the former president.  As his arraignment draws near on Tuesday, the New York Metro Police are preparing to tamp down any possible protest.  Many of the attackers who participated in the siege of the Capital building have been prosecuted and sent to jail.  What lingers is the rhetoric campaign of which the catch phrase has become even as Lester Holt decreed on national television, "This investigation of Donald Trump will tear the nation apart."  This is false, because two years of thoughtful reflection on Mr. Trump's actions have proven his mental instability.  He has pushed the envelope either purposely or subconsciously to achieve his own personal goals of gaining power and money.  Any sane individual would wean themselves off his addiction in their own best interests.  Even the most charismatic and friendly cult leader can ask you to drink the Cool Aid.  It is up to you to choose not to.  I am choosing to cross Lindsey Graham off my list along with Donald Trump.  It would be in the best interest of South Carolina to pick another representative. 

Phased Array Microwaves and Deregulation

 Deregulation in America is bad.  Throwing caution into the wind, gambling heavily, vetting nothing, and propping up shady Wall Street investments is reflective of the stock market crash creating "The Great Depression."  "The Jazz Age" or "Roaring Twenties" induced a collapse of America's financial markets which took decades to recover.  Airports didn't want G5 near their operations, and America did it anyway.  Chaos has ensued in the aviation industry.  Near collisions, shuts downs, and frustration for flyers have been the result of an unhealthy protocol for the wireless telecommunications industry.  Phased array radar is bad.  HAARP pioneered this steerable microwave radiation, and with it they have warmed the universe.  Long range low frequency radio communication was the goal without a 150 mile long wire.  Now phased array microwaves are in aircraft "radomes," in Elon Musk's low earth orbiting satellites, on G5 towers, and in dozens of military fighting vehicles.  This industry never has considered the massive damage they are causing with this ultra-powerful and hot microwave radiation.  Steerable beams takes many transmitters working in tandem having their phase modulated to direct the radiation.  This means more energy, more heat, and more global warming.  Back in the day it was just a few cellular transmitters, and we were cautious with their placement.  Now they are sheets of transmitters giving us tans we don't want.  You can bet they are listening. 

The Free Market Jungle

 A pattern has begun to emerge in American commerce.  Traditional products which always have been viewed as positive, since Covid have become compromised.  Covid put the kibosh on American business, and transformed our nation into more of a socialist entity.  Because the government provides in excess of half of most revenue in America, technically we are socialist.  The difference being our "means of production" isn't owned by the people.  We manipulate our government into paying for most things, and there is a small group of elites who run the show.  Because of Covid, a lack of a mainstream, and the proliferation of wireless technology, America's economy has shriveled.  Subscriptions to wireless products became our economy, and these tethers are balls and chains around our ankles.  When you "subscribe" to a service, no longer do they worry about your purchasing products.  Their income is ensured with you yearly contract.  It is a bad idea these contracts, and subscriptions have quelled free commerce, its need, and its pursuit.  We don't really know what to do anymore except seek immediate gratification.  What was the American economy?  When times were real our economy was real.  Products related to real life were of importance, were needed, and were purchased providing a profit for businesses and laborers.  Whether it was furniture, kitchen appliances, gardening tools, or recreational products, what was being made and sold was relevant to American life.  We had a mainstream.  People interacted with and responded to America's products.  Then came subscriptions.  Contracts.  Legal agreements.  These are red tape that encumber the freedoms of America and other nations.  The "market" or place where communities gathered and traded dwindled.  We became stranded in our homes battling in invisible pathogen that dealt a serious blow to freedom and democracy.  We have yet to recover.  It is too convenience to order food rather than prepare it ourselves.  It is entertaining and gratifying and immediate.  The effort needed to create a feeling of accomplishment and fulfillment is absent.  We have become lazy, apathetic, and callous.  The visceral drive of survival has been medicated with bandaids, anodynes, and treats.  It is better to be hungry.  When the free market system becomes compromised, then products become compromised.  For example the motorcycle dealership where I go to have my bike inspected always has been reputable.  Why would I doubt their service or products?  Then unknowingly it was sold to a different party, and things change.  When I had my Honda CB-250 inspected, they replaced my quality custom spark plugs with plugs that were worn out.  When I got home my bike began to smoke for no reason causing me distress and worry.  Never would I have guessed any business would do such an unscrupulous thing, but they did.  It took me a year to figure it out.  Today with products having shifted to Chinese manufacturing, traditional quality has been compromised.  Things are not what they used to be, so buying online via Amazon or eBay is more risky.  Looking at a product and how it is made has become important again.  This is a blow back to the days of brick and mortar shopping, and it is good.  Considering the authenticity of the information on the internet today, it should be assumed that products also have become compromised.  Take a minute and research your purchase.  Look at it.  Read about it.  Follow up, because we are living in a jungle again. 

The Need of Public Enlightenment

 I have learned to be careful about what I say, because the shadow of "PC" looms.  "Politically Correct" was coined a long time ago; ask Bill Maher.  He has made a career of this cryptic reason for social caution.  After the Trump presidency easily you could get killed saying the wrong thing to the wrong person.  This evil man with a sheepish grin, suave demeanor, and unassuming energy could be the poster child for passive aggressive.  In reality he is just a Southern televangelist, a smooth talking, money raising, snake oil salesman who turned America on her ear.  "PC" has been around for a long time, but now unhinged extreme survivalists are willing to go to bat for their own words, even if they don't understand them.  These offenders are a cult rallied by a great malcontent leader, Donald Trump.  After four years of his national "leadership" dissent to their cause results in violence.  We have graduated beyond "PC" to "Woke," and now people are getting killed.  I have learned to be careful about what I say, and part of that is understanding and respecting the freedoms America offers.  When I think back to more substantial times in American history, times which set examples, created civil standards, and defended the United States Constitution, the nature of American freedom was on display.  It was not easy.  For America to be free, it meant you may not agree with your neighbor, but you had the choice not to listen or pay attention.  Since Donald radicalized factions have become more vocal and even violent in their calls for recognition.  LGBT, "Pay attention to me!"  Once homosexuality was a personal choice, and most found it wise to keep it to themselves.  The internet changed this.  The immediacy of the internet has changed America for the worse along with the lock down of Covid 19.  Call it closet communism.  Staying at home and living in a computer is a communist dream.  It castrates the volatility of the human spirit and mechanism to react and become active.  Shouting through a computer terminal or iPhone is pointless, although we think it matters.  It satisfies our need for immediate gratification, but ultimately it will do nothing for our own preservation.  Doing something in person can effect change, because revolution is in the muscles.  Mother Earth's problems will not be solved in or by a database of information.  It would be wise to become reengaged in the physical world, but our physical world has been neglected.  When we became accustomed to living in cyberville, we began to ignore nature.  Now nature has been sacrificed to the god's of corporate America.  It has been happening for a long time this shift back to ugly strip malls and convenience stores.  When I travel in North Carolina, this is all I see.  Then I remember people are living in cyberville.  I pine for earlier decades, when I could go outside and feel good.  I have learned to be careful about what I say, because I have a new found respect for the freedoms of America.  For me it was a simple as understanding the way people choose to dress.  As a professional I developed a sense of personal code neutralizing the effect of wanting personal recognition.  While adolescents in their quest for maturity should seek personal understanding and identity, in the professional workplace anonymity is effective.  It removes scrutiny.  There are appropriate venues for both personal expression and professional behavior.  Dress in "Fayettenam" is far from standard.  Diversity is the operative concept in the dress of Fayetteville, and this diversity hinges on aggression.  It often does not embrace passivity.  Instead it wreaks with attitude.  It plays offense as its major strategy, and perhaps that is the most appropriate for a military town.  When we speak about a military town, rarely is it qualified as training for war.  It would be prudent to exemplify this, and it occurs on a subliminal level.  People know it, and they feel it, but it is unspoken in the mainstream.  Dress consequently is a subliminal reaction to the aggression of preparation for war.  We are all fighting for a living.  Ouch!  That is not pleasant.  Freely I will admit throughout my life I have been intimidated by peoples' dress, because it requires your accommodation.  It seeks you acknowledgement, and that takes energy.  The recognition of one's uniform perhaps is a core element of our identity.  Subsequently I make a concerted effort to acknowledge these uniforms and what they may represent perhaps making me a more open, friendly, and inquisitive person.  Often in Fayettenam the perceived message is offensive, and that requires even more energy to understand.  I remind myself we prepare for war, and it is disheartening.  It is disheartening living in a place where war is the focus.  War mongering is a shallow ideal, and businesses, companies, and corporations who capitalize on war are not virtuous.  They are opportunistic.  The overt conclusion of this reality is we are under attack, and it has become the accepted lifestyle.  The preparation for war at Fort Bragg effects every aspect of life in Fayettenam, and since Covid the boundaries and demarcation between war and peace have blurred.  Violence has become a way of life.  Without bolstered public education, there is little hope for enlightenment. 

Truth Will Endure

It is gratifying to read pertinent news in the Washington Post.  With Donald Trump's shadow still being cast upon America, it has been difficult to discern truth.  Spin has been the operative motive in American politics, and these politics ruthlessly have undermined America.  We don't know what is up or down, and most "news" in the last six years has been propaganda.  The wool has been pulled over America's eyes, and a sense of reality or something truly that effects our lives is welcome.  Oh what do I speak?  The most important topic is the American economy or lack thereof.  We are up Schitt Creek.  There is no real economy, and Covid set the example of government bail out of most irresponsible business acumen.  We are too good to fail, but we aren't.  The rich won't suffer, but America's uncanny ability to be the worlds social and economic conscience has all but disappeared.  This was the intent.  Bring America down.  Bring down the free market.  All small business is struggling, and large corporate America rules the roost.  When the Post begins reporting on real issues, it is both surprising and satisfying.  These issues don't have the entertainment value of Donald Trump's demented mind, but they more relevant to the survival of the human race and planet Earth.  It is not an exaggeration to say we are on the brink of survival, and this is not spin.  Spin or diversion from ensuing truth no longer can survive.  We must understand the truth now to mitigate its extreme and tenacious avoidance during the Trump presidency.  There comes a point when the jig is up, and the piper must be paid.  We cannot just ignore the work done and refuse to pay in Trumpian fashion.  An economy cannot survive unless debts are paid.  Enter the United States economy and our staggering and insurmountable 30 trillion dollar debt.  What example does this set?  It says America is incapable of behaving responsibly.  Instead we roll the dice, drink the champagne, eat the caviar, and expect Washington to bail us out.  If they don't then there will be another Great Depression.  People will loose faith in Wall Street.  As it turns out America's car companies and most banks did follow through, but what would have happened if we had not bailed them out in the economic setback of 2008?  When Washington did pay, the CEO's of these derelict companies took vacations, paid themselves bonuses, and otherwise thumbed their noses as mainstream America.  A small group of investors got filthy rich betting against the American economy.  These are who we paid.  Where are they now the participants of "The Big Short?"  Perhaps we should not have paid and exposed the extreme shortcomings of Wall Street.  Would we really have had another Great Depression?  I think not.  It was more manipulation of Washington from the private sector.  Most people would agree that it is healthier to deal in truth even if you do lose.  At least you understand.  We are too afraid anymore to lay it out on the table and be accountable for what we are.  We are weak and afraid.  We continue to tell lies, spin the truth, and avoid responsibility for aberrant behavior.  We want to snake the other guys asshole, because there is some perverted satisfaction doing so.  Who can live this way?  It is exhausting, depressing, and depraved.  Therefore our society cannot heal, because we have forgotten the consequences of honesty.  Honesty means although it is wise to look over your shoulder, what you see doesn't intimidate you.  You have a leg up.  You understand the enemy.  Your enemy is weaker than you and eventually will stumble and fall.  When he does you will walk over him and ignore his carcass.  Tangible human results are far stronger than cowardly insecurity, and the truth is what will endure.  

The Drug/Slave Trade

 "American Made" is a lively romp of Hollywood cinema which stars one of America's best male lead actors, Tom Cruise.  Cruise has a penchant for picking exciting material from which to spin his particular craft of "cool."  His career largely began with "Risky Business," an 80's era L.A. adolescent teen fantasy which resonated with mainstream America.  Today "mainstream" is absent from American society, and its absence is what has created a large problem in the overall social health of our nation.  With Donald Trump's destructive presidency, which for the first time of any American president attempted to undermine democracy, society has become fractured.  Successfully he broke America into warring factions not unlike tribal tensions Eastern nations.  Native America once was tribal, but invading conquerors extinguished that vanquishing the original and indigenous culture of North America.  There was too much rich geology to sacrifice that to primitive "Indians."  The English, Scot-Irish, Italian, German, and others replaced the original ethnicity of America bringing with them captured slaves from the west coast of Africa.  These slaves built the fortunes of these new Americans on their backs for free.  Today we do not know who we are, and it is refreshing to see anything from Hollywood from any era that reinforces solidarity, a common consensus of thought.  The illicit drug smuggling trade was and still is a large part of the American economy.  "American Made" is an inquisitive and grass roots look at this South American drug trade, but one major fact is missing.  With all of the glory of the millions being made from flying drugs from South America north, who was purchasing and distributing the drugs?  No answer ever has been provided.  Drug trafficking often upon is reported, but the organizations managing this trafficking are a blaring omission.  Commonly our own government agencies are cited with distributing drugs to the lower class as a way of controlling them.  The CIA or FBI buy these drugs and spread them into the ghettos to quell potential crime for the higher classes.  Does it work?  This void of facts also applies to other American business, and the Washington lobby is the cause.  They bribe most of Washington with their deep pockets of cash, so much that the traditional free economy of America pales in comparison.  The rich all ready have all the money, so an economy for the rest of us is inconsequential.  That is why prices continue to rise, inflation now is out of control, and wages have been stagnant for decades.  The people running America don't care, so whatever the lower classes do for their on sustenance is acceptable including criminal business.  Therefore criminal business has taken over as the main method of earning a living for many people.  This criminal business is in our local governments and seeps outward to influence mainstream America.  Always I have wondered why, "Good deeds are always punished in some way."  Likewise the reason why people are angrily aggressive, combative, and defensive is because they are not "on the level."  They are doing unscrupulous unChristian things.  Their intimidation is meant to keep scrutiny off their borderline criminal behavior.  When I went to the music store recently and tried to buy bass guitar strings, there was a weird dynamic there.  It was because two Latinos were trying to sell stolen merchandise to the clerk, and they were nervous about getting caught.  As such my shopping experience was compromised and unpleasant.  It took a great deal of patience to buy my strings, and when I did purchase them they ended up being the wrong product.  The shopping experience was brutal like buying in a ghetto.  Welcome to modern America.  The question remains, whence are the millions coming to buy these drugs?  Who in America is importing the Fentanyl?  If anyone cares to remember two of America's most influential recording artists died from drug overdoses which borderlined on prescription.  Michael Jackson and Prince were sacrificed at the hands of illicit drugs.  Considering the cultural and economic influence of these two artists, their murders were a stark and brutal attack on the freedoms of America.  Their deaths should be viewed this way along with all of the deaths from drug overdoses today in America.  America is under siege from every conceivable angle, and no one much is helping.  Drugs and guns always have been a large part of this assault on the mainstream, but now we have a larger problem.  The licensing of unhealthy frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum threatens to kill the planet.  In my daily life the most dissuasive force I face is aberrant airborne electricity.  There are over twenty WPN's in my home, and many of them are equally as strong as my own wireless network.  How do I get rid of them, this unwanted wireless electricity?  My FM radio reception is cryptic.  My wireless reliability is marginal, and my computers show disc errors from the aberrant electromagnetic energy.  What is to blame for this preponderance of unwanted energy?  Blame "Locotrol" for part of it.  Truly it is loco to make 4,400 horse power diesel electric locomotives remote controlled.  With no extra crew to man these engines, the railroads have begun spreading these consists out into the length of miles long freight trains.  They are being controlled with radio waves from local transmitters or satellites.  Consider them a cell of ambulant heat, magnetism, vibration, and electricity three miles long traveling through your countryside 24/7.  There is a reason why 2023 will be the hottest year on record, and mother Earth won' stand much more. 

Ambulent Lethal Weaponry

 If the dissemination of dangerous assault weapons isn't a large enough problem in the United States!  Why is violence so rampant and widespread in America?  Some would say, "Guns don't kill people, people do," and "If the AR-15 isn't available, they would find something else."  Staunchly I disagree.  If assault weapons (or semi-automatic rifles) were not available, then mass shootings resulting from many rounds fired in succession by a cowardly, mentally- challenged extremist would be less deadly.  If a malcontent had to orchestrate his assault with a single shot hunting rifle or a double barrel shotgun, his result would be less grievous.  Face it.  Multiple spewing rounds of spinning AR-15 bullets will cause more casualties in any setting, and that includes domestic terror attacks in shopping malls, schools, and outdoor entertainment venues.  Innocent citizens have become the unnecessary victims of the facile availability of assault rifles.  Period.  Our state and federal lawmakers turn a cold shoulder to the seeming meaningless deaths of our children and continue to saturate the American economy with guns.  They want the violence like January 6th.  Since 1/6 our representatives have not tightened gun legislation; they are loosening it.  "Weaponization of the Government?"  This weaponization is not from Washington.  It is from Corporate America.  Corporate America's polluting of our environment is an attack on the people.  With this widespread liberal view on ownership of assault weapons (which only will be used to kill other human beings), why would this same consortium fail to regulate their own businesses?  They don't want to.  They don't want PFAS out of the watershed.  They don't want clean air.  They don't want to prohibit microwave radiation which causes human cells to mutate into cancer.  These weapons are a tangible by product of their industrial processes and are useful to fascists.  When an industry is aware of the dangers of its manufacturing processes, then they become "weaponized."  They know they can cause harm to human beings.  Given the chance if their own livelihoods or sensibilities were challenged, in anachronistic Jim Crow Jr. fashion, they could torture or kill outside the the law.  Complain?  Pain!  Voice opposition?  Pain!  Yearn for democracy and freedom?  Death!  To undermine a nation and abolish its democracy?  Attack its children and pollute their minds.  It is Shakespearean.  Create a product that is useful and people love; kill them from the byproducts of its production.  Love and loss, and it is Shakespearean.  For profitability there must be sacrifice?  The needs of the greater good?  When Corporate America is woven into our infrastructure, how can we extricate ourselves from their influence?  When their factories are perched on the banks of our rivers, how can we expect clean water?  Why are they there?  Knowingly they use our rivers as toilets too cheap to deposit a dime.  Shitting on the many, these elite few live in ivory towers and gilded castles immune to their own effects.  In the end, and it will come,  communion with the earth will be our salvation.  The potential was there, but these few chose not to act.  Instead they chose to rape the people and Mother Earth.  This is the evil about which Jesus taught and warned.  

The Tidal Wave of Airborne Muck

 Life in "Nam" is hellish.  The most often cited statistic about soon to be Fort Liberty is the mass revenue it brings to Fayetteville and Cumberland Country.  "History, Heroes, and a Hometown Feeling" suffered casualties during the pandemic.  Gentrification has begun, and trees are being slaughtered like sacrificial lambs.  This new housing is reasonable, needed, and for the military.  Ghetto neighborhoods can be prime real estate, so only it takes time to convert once drug havens into livable middle-class housing.  I agree, and Ralph Huff and Menno Pinnick have been formative in planning and building new housing in Fayetteville.  What makes "Fayettenam" so challenging?   The issues at play in  Fayettenam vs. The Military Industrial Complex are metaphors for constitutional rights and the United States Code.  Many legal predicaments can be found in Cumberland County.  Since the Trump presidency regulation and oversight have stalled, and GOP-lead corporate America does as they please.  Examples?  When the FAA transitioned to a GPS navigation system in 2011 (this was their explanation) traditional flight paths were modified for the convenience and profit of commercial airlines.  Aircraft which once had to abide by a set of rules around a particular airport could fly wherever they wanted.  They abandoned most gratuitous flight diversion for downstairs neighbors and began to fly directly over downtown Fayetteville.  Downtown Fayetteville a logistical rail interchange for three railroads, and now commercial jets are spewing black soot and carbon over the indigent tent camps which have popped up.  Their life ain't easy.  It is hellish, and when you see them come into a grocery store to pee or buy food, you can see the desperation in their eyes.  They truly are living in the street, and these streets have become the refuse of forgotten society.  Living on the street may have been liberating and visceral, but when corporate America becomes empowered, the indigent population is the first to suffer.  When you walk out of your middle class home and leave your neighborhood enclave of hopeful peace and serenity, eventually and shortly you will be entering a war zone of the homeless.  This is the dynamic of Fayetteville, no longer "History, Heroes, and a Hometown Feeling."  New police chief Kem Braden has cruisers monitoring traffic on thoroughfares for the first time in months, and violent crime has subsided to a degree, still driving and shopping in Fayetteville is brutal.  There is no benefit to anyone on the ground to see a Piedmont American Eagle Embraer ERJ-145 fly over your head.  The American flag on its tail is a tawdry attempt at patriotism, but signage is not conservation.  Norfolk/Southern painted their hulking AC consists with a "green" logos suggesting the earthquake of a moving coal train somehow was favorable.  Propaganda during the Trump presidency  became misinformation, fake news, and lies and was rampant to the point of absurdity.  His campaign to discredit science, academia, and the entire collective body of scholarly knowledge only was a ruse to implement his own evil corporate agenda and force Americans into barbarism.  This barbarism  of course serves corporate America.  If you live in an Ivory Tower or a Gilded Castle with millions of dollars to clean the air, the water, and the food, then it may not concern you.  For the rest of us Americans living in the field, Maslow's Hierarchy of needs still applies.  Consequently America now is under siege by massive corporate pollution; much of it is invisible and inaudible.  As sufferers of "The Havana Syndrome" profess, the human body and spirit operate in many planes.  One is electricity which drives our heart and controls our moods and thinking, and the other is the affective response of our entire sensory system.  Sight and sound only are two of these, but the GOP thinks otherwise.  What you feel and what your instincts tell you are far more useful to human survival.  At the moment we are under attack. 

Benedict Arnold Runs for President

The Dark Ages have come to America.  When a seditious lot of extremist malcontents have taken the House and with candor and honesty truly believe Donald Trump will be the GOP nominee for president in 2024, we are living in a modern Dark Ages.  In most countries a violent coup waged against the incumbent governing majority would result in death.  Donald Trump has embraced the fascist methodologies of communist dictatorships for his own ascent in politics and power, but why should he be immune from their system of justice?  The Saudis strangled dissident reporter Jamal Khashoggi at their Turkish embassy and dismembered his body carrying him out in pieces.  Moammar Gadhafi was dragged from a drain pipe, beaten, and shot in the head.  Saddam Hussein was hanged at Camp Justice and interred at his birthplace.  Donald Trump, the author and mastermind of a violent attempted coup against the United States government, lives in a gilded castle in Florida and is predicted to be the presidential nominee for the Republican Party in 2024?  It belies sanity; it preaches Hannity.  To assert such an absurdity is to confess to treason, and part of this treasonous consort is running our House.  We keep calm.  We remain cool.  We feign the appearance of civility, but there are two wars actively engaged.  A small civil war of attrition against democracy and World War III have begun.  It would be easier if we said it out loud.  How can America recover from a pandemic, when it was a smoke screen for Donald Trump's nefarious fascist agenda?  We are keeping him on a leash like a pet for entertainment, but he should be prosecuted.  It is not healthy to even mutter the words, "Trump as the GOP nominee," because it is absurd, berserk, and psychotic.  He is a political criminal, and he has remained free with his charm.  He is the slyest of the sly, the wiliest coyote, and the Zip Coon of legends.  Donald Trump watched his coup on television like a smug television producer, but the accurate ramifications of his pilot couldn't stand prime time democracy.  It wasn't fiction.  

Havana, Cuba - Fidel Has Gone and Obama Visited

 I am not down on the cruise industry.  I am not down on Cargill.  I am not down on the United States Army.  When you see things go awry in your lifetime, it is your responsibility to speak up.  Democracy fails when good men do nothing.  Of what do I speak?  If Fidel Castro's communist takeover of Cuba closed their borders to America, then Cuba's reopening to the world is a significant event.  An industry who capitalizes on travel by sea would be in an opportune position to exploit this political treaty.  We have Barak Obama to thank for that, the re-opening of Cuba doors to travelers circa 2016, when "The Havana Syndrome" first upon which was reported.  The civil employees in the American Embassy just down the boulevard from the cruise terminal were first to complain about the effects of infrasound.  A few studies were done and an Asian scientist reverse engineered the noise that was recorded.  It was fighter jet emissions or more likely ultrasound.  Add one plus two, multiple diesel electric prime movers hiding in the hulls of newly positioned cruise ships, and military aircraft noise and what may you get?  Something most people won't understand.  This refusal to acknowledge that because something is invisible to our sight means it isn't possible is naive.  Because you can't see something it does not exist.  Trumptistas have been exploiting this angle for two decades.  Deny science.  It was an easy tunnel for corporate America to do whatever they wanted no matter the circumstances for the American people.  More political events have transpired, and with the recognized "Technology Boom" of Google and everyone else, there are more wireless, microwave-based, pulsed energy devices than ever.  This description is what must pundits have said was the most likely source of "The Havana Syndrome."  Pulsed microwave energy.  Pulsed microwave energy has been the source of the technological boom, since Bill Clinton auctioned these frequencies to balance the federal budget.  There are a myriad of sources for this energy not to mention the Washington-based intelligence community and the U.S military.  When the FBI and CIA hedge on the probable source of the malady, you might deduce it may be their activity that is the cause.  I know a little about the cruise industry, because I worked in it for a decade.  I will tell you that ships without "Azipods" are more comfortable than ships with them.  The reason is is an azipod is a huge AC drive under the water.  It hums and it is hot.  The ocean acts as a cooling tower, but it doesn't appreciate the extra duty.  Neither does the rest of the marine life nor our coral reefs which are dying.  The oceans are getting hotter and guess why?  Again I am not down on the cruise industry, but I don't like azipods.  The very first azipod-equipped ship for Carnival was the Paradise, and it propulsion units were under the bow.  When I played production shows in the theater, the stage shook violently most of the time.  It took a while to get used to it.  Fully I understand and appreciate the novelty of a 360 degree rotating propeller pulling the ship through the water, but....   The compromise is the smoothness of the boat ride and its emissions.  How could an azipod be anything other than wonderful for the cruise industry?  Add the financial set back of 2008 to the list, and suddenly ships were traveling much slower.  These AC drives now were operating in the LF range, which means these units were producing low frequency alternating current.  This electricity was underwater, much to the "shock" of the marine life.  There also is a rotating magnetic field, heat, and vibration.  These things are not helpful to creatures beneath the sea.  Jump ahead and imagine that most railroads have converted to AC traction.  There are AC drives in the ocean and all over the continental United States and the rest of the world.  Take infrasonic emissions from the firing rate of a diesel prime mover and add these to low frequency alternating current, and you may have the end of the planet.  Let's hope not. 

The Broken Record of Climate Change - Yet Another "Hottest" Winter in History

 To hear the broken record sing again each year, "This will be the hottest winter on record."  It is logical that someone in the elite few, during their humble and meager lifetime on this earth, wants it to be hot.  There is no other logical inference.  What industry needs and desires heat for their manufacturing processes?  Several jump to mind.  Even with that knowledge how could it be possible that a handful of industries could or would have sway over American regulatory policy?  How did tobacco become engineered and laced with nicotine to addict its users?  It was a watershed event this discovery about "Big Tobacco," and it ruined the attorney who broke the case.  He did it anyway like a martyr.  America abolished tobacco commercials from television.  I remember this and when it happened.  It was midnight, and when the clock struck twelve, there was no more coercive dangerous rhetoric to temp you into addiction.  Today our quality of life is so compromised, you always will seek some anodyne.  That is the plan.  That is the way the select few want it.  Make life miserable for American consumers, and they will consume more.  Surprisingly economics predicate this reaction.  If you have no money, you must go cold turkey.  I can go take a shower in water laced with PFAS and other forever chemicals.  Traditionally an invigorating cleansing shower would sooth your tattered soul and mend your ills.  Clean the body of its bacteria, fungi, and algae.  Now the water is filled with these organisms, and it would appear like "The War of the Worlds" may be our demise.  Bacteria killed the aliens.  We can't get proper protection from the police.  They tend to murder isolated black men.  In Fayettenam there is no traffic regulation.  Drivers largely do whatever they want.  The food supply is mediocre as is the selection of liquor.  Once reputable and quality liquors have sold out and are hawking wood alcohol, dangerous genetically modified foods that can kill us.  (Here comes the allergy attack.)  The evil yellow snow is upon us in one day, the hottest day in February ever recorded in time.  Bueller?  Anyone?  Do you think we will survive, when those who want this heat are in control? 

The Eternal Meal Ticket of War

When you dismantle your own economy from within by forsaking domestic workers, their livelihoods, and their quality of life, when push comes to shove revenue must come from somewhere.  Now this revenue is selective into whose hands it arrives.  On a television news program a reporter was interviewing a pilot at one of many small airports which have been revitalized in the name of American defense, national security, or commerce.  North Carolina springs to mindwith her newly burgeoning aviation industry.  (If you can't remember we have tried supersonic flight before.)  This highly energetic pilot proclaimed how many billions of dollars these small airports are bringing to local communities.  Let me clarify, and this is in the shadow of "fake news."  If one looked at the facts of this blanket statement, we would find these billions of dollars only are flowing to a specific few.  The people living around the airfield, those contending with the emissions of these aircraft, will not benefit from these billions of dollars.  Instead their health, serenity, and probable happiness are being unknowingly sacrificed for the desires of a few.  This is the American economy today.  America has become an oligarchy, and the "American Dream," the potential and opportunity for social and economic advancement, has become lessened.  The idea of or philosophy of America's "Free Market" exists no more.  This has been true for decades, and as always politics determines who makes it and who doesn't.  Someone says whether or not you become successful in America's system.  You may develop a great product, build a brick and mortar store, and train a productive team, but if the higher ups on the totem pole say, "No," you won't succeed.  That is because they control the system of commerce through finance, regulation, legislation, supply, and advertising.  The internet has countered this constricted opportunity to a certain degree, but as anyone can see tech conglomerates have assumed control as corporate monopolies.  In the 80's America saw fit to break up unwieldy corporate conglomerates like the Bell telephone system and Microsoft, but that regulation systematically has been dismantled in "The Swamp" at late night hoe downs paid for by corporate lobbyists.  Today we are suffering the consequences.  It's business as usual for America, and those in the country club largely control who prospers.  We are in the midst of a backlash, and they are using technology as their vehicle.  That technology simply is the freedom (or was once) of the internet.  With Net Neutrality, a small group of internet elites control the flow of data.  The novelty of such an immediate network of information still is addictively appealing, but with the emergence of "Fake News" largely utilized by Donald Trump, the virginity of the World Wide Web has been exploited like so many other American resources.  Conservation it would seem is not of high value to the elite few.  Instead they just continue to exploit until the well runs dry.  America cannot survive, and this approach must be changed.  The problem has become we are too ignorant to solve our own problems.  Once the job of Washington was to manage the country.  That meant administering vast swaths of agencies, civil employees, regulators, and the like.  Donald Trump created the "Boob Board," a group of sycophants unqualified and unable to manage an agency or bureau.  Instead they just pander to the President with no thought, ability, or skill to implement an honest business or leadership acumen.  Literally we are up "Schitt Creek" without a paddle searching for answers amid a gaping chasm of darkness.  The usual switch hitters have become extinct, and we have neglected to train a new generation of competent civil employees.  In full tribal warfare we are fighting each other rather than focusing on what and how we can fix our system.  Largely that means eliminating Trump's boobs and restocking the pond with quality fish.  In the pinch we just play the war card, and Washington becomes an endless meal ticket of gourmet treats for the defense industry, a part of the elite few. 

It's the Simplest Things

 Chapel Hill, North Carolina once was a haven.  Past Chancellor and the nation's then youngest, Holden Thorp, held a speech in his political arsenal that eulogized his late father, Herb.  Often he spoke of the little light up on "The Hill," a place of refuge, humanity, and education.  I was lucky to be able to matriculate at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  My father and his two brothers attended, and my mother went to Women's College, what later became UNC Greensboro.  I had the grades from Terry Sanford High School and was in its Honor Society, but they tell you outright that family alumni are important.  I was appreciative of this opportunity, and to this day still it was the most difficult thing I ever accomplished.  I received a Bachelor of Music Education degree, and with not much trouble became certified to teach in the state of North Carolina.  I had this license transferred to Ohio when I attended The Ohio State University. There is some turmoil at UNC-Chapel Hill, and it ain't new.  When Dr. Thorp, a research chemist, was appointed Chancellor at the behest of Erskine Bowles, there was an academic scandal.  This was the time of Michael Jordon, and college athletics were of prime importance to everyone.  In short they created non-existent courses in African-American studies, so that academically underachieving athletes could qualify to play.  I am surprised there are no books or a Hollywood film on this subject.  It would make a great movie, but great movies are becoming more rare.  Real life or human interest stories are becoming extinct, because the Covid generation is addicted to the internet and its often fictitious, radicalized, and violent content.  The net is not what it used to be when Netscape Navigator let you troll for romance in the quiet solitude of your own carrel.  I broke my ties with UNC at the onset of this athletic scandal.  Today politics still is active at UNC, and the latest news is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees has proposed a new school for the University with openly political intentions.  It would seem its intent is to counteract a too liberal bias at the university.  In my previous post I stated there have been two major events that have changed America since the Trump presidency.  One was the election of Donald Trump as President.  Specifically I did not mention the other event, and it was the outbreak of Covid 19.  It would be difficult to determine which event was more destructive to America.  It would be wise to assess that they were collaborative, and the two of them together, "The Donald" and "The 'Vid,'" became our modern domestic war.  Under the cover of Covid Donald Trump achieved a substantial and specific agenda which will continue to shape America for his purposes.  Those purposes, while a continuation of both Bush administrations, sought to deregulate big business in America.  The regulatory processes of both state and federal government always have been necessary to ensure the well being of the citizens of the United States.  Without them we have now.  Systematically in the name of economic opportunity most polluting industries have been given waivers to treat the American landscape like a garbage dump.  Deregulation of the airlines, of telecommunications, and of the railroads have industrialized a once beautiful and healthy nation not unlike the fate of the Mediterranean Sea.  When I was ported in Venice it was surprising how ugly it was.  The surviving architecture was beautiful, but the ocean was a huge superhighway of maritime commerce.  The simplest things are the most important to the sustenance of a nation, and in America "The Swamp" truly has become that.  Instead of intelligent, thoughtful, Christian leaders, Washington, DC has become a place of political crime.  Largely it is being controlled by Corporate America, and their lobby probably is more expansive and efficient than all of Congress.  Supporting agencies are being dismantled from within often by foes appointed to hurt them.  Louis Dejoy comes to mind.  The lives of everyday Americans never will improve until these problems are solved.  The problems are simple, but they are made complex by the same reasons Americans are fighting each other.  It is a  premeditated smoke screen meant to disguise corporate malfeasance.  When Americans of any ethic background are fighting one another, then we are not addressing the real issues of America.  These issues are the raping and pillaging of our nation for the wealthy.  The four years of the Trump presidency subversively undermined the legal rights of most American citizens.  How can a blanket shield be applied to the entirety of the internet protecting providers from legal action?  The internet has become more influential and relied upon as a source of information, but we have not updated this agreement.  Billions of dollars are being made from the internet, and yet there is a global "Get Out of Jail Free" card distributed to these providers.  Similarly Washington law makers are proponents of making guns of all kinds freely available to anyone, including convicted criminals.  It has reached a point of absurdity, where mostly Republican zealots openly laugh in the face of the common American citizen.  We have reached a point where bereaved parents crying over the senseless murder of their children in their own schools should and will begin to find justice of their own.  If the elected politicians in this "Swamp" are unwilling to provide the peace and security traditionally provided in America, and they continue to do harm to our families, then consequences are merited.  Again it is important that mainstream Americans pull their heads out of the sand and realize this nation is a nation governed by the people.  If Washington fails like they have, then we the people have the power to remove them.  This process isn't always civil.  A drunken bacchanal rummaging through the Capital with no clear plan does not suffice.  Instead a look back to the 1960's and the rise of the Black Panther Political Party is more appropriate.  How long are Americans willing to be murdered?  Somehow our sense of civility is inhibiting our true understanding of our problems.  It is much more grievous than we think.  The way we know is when the highest court in America, The Supreme Court of the United States, and their judgements stray from the Constitution and our laws and become politically motivated.  Cancel Culture is rendering a massive blow to the substance of America by eliminating pop culture and the arts.  Film, television, theater, and music all have lost their relevance as the social conscience of America.  What we are left with is the inane and inciting rhetoric of Fox News leftovers some now in power in Washington.  It has become a, "He said, she said," kind of America, and all of this hot air just disguises the real social strata.  Instead of the poor fighting the poor, the poor should be eye balling "The Swamp." 

Getting PFAS Out of the Watershed is the Seminal Symbolic Effort in Saving America

 Most people I talk to reiterate the same sentiment.  Without my having to prompt them (with a BLOG entry), they agree we are in egregious times.  Reconstruction is a more accurate adjective, because startlingly Reconstruction (in reference to the Civil War) encompasses many of the disparate social sensibilities at play in America now.  Thus far no one has been successful describing America's current plight, because it is new, complicated, and challenging.  Two distinct phenomena characterize this change in America.  The first was Donald Trump's stealing of the election from Hillary Clinton for the United States Presidency.  I may be the first to suggest this, because particularly egregious is this realization.  While many of the people I talk to reiterate the egregious sentiment, I feel most of them are unable to grasp the reality of its source.  Simply when given a choice they choose to have faith in America's governance, our system of elected public officials, and their duty as leaders to be honest and do the right thing for the people of America.  They choose to have faith, because the alternative is too startling, dire, and destructive to fathom.  When faced with their own moral choices, and their free right to have voted for and supported Donald Trump as our President, they cannot stomach a piece of humble pie recognizing they may have made a mistake.  Trump supporters inexplicably are a staunchly devoted and overzealous lot, and as such they were ripe and able targets for Trump's deception.  As Americans we cannot fault supporters of Donald Trump, because in our chosen system of governance he was victorious, at least in his Presidential bid.  He became President, but it was surprising.  How can a candidate win, when their opponent received almost two million more popular votes?  There was quiet mumbling about "Swing States," but our media did not sense then that something may have been amiss.  One only has to remember Al Gore's concession to George W. Bush in the state of Florida, when a Presidential election ultimately was decided in the courts.  We all should watch the Hollywood film "Recount," because it set the stage for Donald Trump's entire agenda as President.  It was not until four years later, that we saw in real time Mr. Trump's political strategy for winning.  Systematically he clogged the courts with superfluous lawsuits to disguise and misdirect from his own nefarious bribing of public state officials.  The moniker that emerged as his fight song, when his defeat became inevitable by Joe Biden, in actuality was self incriminating about his own methodology defeating Hillary Clinton.  Collectively the nation gasped in disbelief, when Mr. Trump was announced the winner.  It was a stark and brutal blow to American democracy, but we choose, like most people I talk to, to believe in and have faith in our system of governance.  The other choice then, in 2016, was to admit and understand that political corruption had upended the world's most lauded and respected democracy.  The freedom of America had been toppled, but we didn't notice.  Only when Mr. Trump's rants actualized in real time as "Newspeak," could be begin to understand his methodical, savvy, and conniving overthrow of American freedom.  As far-fetched as it seemed, a "Stolen Election,"  it was what he accomplished himself in winning against Hillary Clinton.  The weaknesses in the states' Electoral College procedures had not been scrutinized, and like an able competitor he and his campaign, legal team, and the Trump Organization solicited the favors of state politicians egging them to discard their states' popular votes and instead override their them with votes for him.  It was a miraculous feat, one which Trump had trained for his whole life in the field of Real Estate.  For him it was business as usual, and he emerged victorious.  America never questioned the outcome, because we didn't have the stomachs to concede to the truth.  Donald Trump is the adumbrative gladiator of American corruption having realized his success under the ruse and guise of honesty and  normalcy.  We are in year three of denial, but the steadfast determination of an honest America implemented by our Department of Justice and led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, has kept Civil War at bay.  America has retained the image of civility and freedom, but we are festering from the inside out.  This American implosion is characterized by quiet madness accomplished discreetly by lone renegades driven to their violence by isolation, desertion, and misunderstanding.  It is a covert operation, a guerilla war, and technological masterpiece of mental manipulation via the internet.  Only Donald Rumsfeld's decimation of the life-giving infrastructure of Iraq is equatable.  Perhaps Mr. Trump seeks to play bridge with him in hell.  Until we as a nation begin to understand the true source and direness of our plight, we will not progress.  The fact is America has been forsaken by the wealthy, Wall Street, Corporate America, Big Pharma, Insurance, Transportation, Food, and the Military.  The scope of the siege is so great it is difficult to fathom, but only does it encompass socioeconomic mobility.  America is great enough that the vestiges of our free market, our lives' infrastructure, is holding steadfast.  We are becoming poor and ignored, not unlike other falling democracies which end in communist oppression.  This is how it begins, with a fallen and discredited lunatic wrought with senility and continuing delusions of grandeur.  It is wise to step around this pile of poo. 

Today's Top Ten List

 1.  Miscellaneous (U)nidentified (F)lying (O)bjects over North America characterized and satirized by Trump enthusiasts as nebulous, harmless, and mis-informulous Chinese weather balloons, could not be the most proven vehicle of dispersion for a premeditated, man-made, communist-instigated, murderous pathogen of evil genocide. (i.e. Covid 19) 

2.  Elon Musk's low-altitude, high-radiation, widely-dispersed network of phased array, microwave, electro-magnetic transmitters could not be warming the earth.

3.  Maritime, submerged, rotating, low frequency, alternating current  "pods" could not be heating our oceans and killing out coral reefs.  

4.  The "Havana Syndrome" is not created by ISR aircraft masquerading as IRS agents scrutinizing the spending habits of free citizens in an attempt to collect more federal income tax for the "The Swamp's" personal indulgences.  

5.  Pete Buttigieg is straight.  His ability to stand up to "Big" Railroad and Aeronautics is a careless whisper on the lips of George Michael.

6.  DuPont does the right thing.

7.  Roy Cooper is not a pimp.

8.  The North Carolina state "Senate" did not propose eliminating the requirement of a firearm permit for purchasing a hand gun.  (especially for underage, distraught, and mentally unstable teens)

9.  President's Day is when Bill Clinton receive a house call from  the "Chicken Ranch."

 

10.  Jim Beam bourbon still is quality whiskey, but for the Samurai. 

To Do the Right Thing

The usual February summer in "Fayettenam" is perplexing to some.  In fitting American fashion with our free market system of trade, we perpetuate lore, spin yarns and tales, and sentimentalize ills turning them into fruitful commodities.  No industry is more adept at this than Real Estate.  Given the appropriate scenario seemingly they turn straw into gold like a seasoned alchemist or magician.  Perhaps we should learn a lesson from Merlin in Arthurian legend, the soothsayer, politician, and diplomat who used deception to manipulate the masses for the good of royal monarchy.  If you are ignorant and poor, blocked from economic and social mobility by sheer poverty and lack of opportunity, our chances of survival are limited.  The inappropriate coming of spring in Februrary is sentimentalized with the Cape Fear River Basin, a depression in geography now filled with PFAS compliments of the Chinese-purchased shell company Chemours, simply a rebranding of DuPont to escape culpability for decades of irresponsible dumping into the American watershed.  Shortly the gleam of G5, instead of fading back into its manual of restricted frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, will be spun into a more convenient but expensive tanning treatment than frequenting the local spa or salon.  "Get your summer tan year round," by subscribing to yet another wireless choice for data transfer accomplished more efficiently with a traditional T3 land line.  The truth is three decades of a wireless economy have been destructive to America in myriad ways.   It sufficed as a convenient, shallow, and conceited band aid applied by the demands for "Globalism" and implemented by the North American Free Trade Agreement which failed to adhere and clogged the sewers of the entire South American economy.   Many Argentinians lost their entire savings, and the Mexican peso collapsed as millions of wet back, soon-to-be, factory Pedros made it clear they would rather nap in the sun than build American appliances.  The Coolies became a more logical choice, when federal deregulation unleashed domestic American commerce onto the world stage.  Corporate America was quick to outsource their jobs and benefits to a more willing and communist-controlled labor force slaving for pennies on the dollar on their indigenous home soil.  Hank Paulson, standing next to a newly-elected President Bill Clinton beamed with happiness, because the seeds of "Globalism" had been planted.  Thirty years later America is fighting for her life.  You only can rape and pillage planet Earth so much, before she begins to stumble.  To do the right thing and help her is so difficult after doing the wrong thing for three continuous decades.  We don't remember how to do the right thing, or even what it is.  That is because God decides, and He sent his only Son to teach us.  We forsake Jesus then as a heretic proclaiming ourselves more important and hung him on a cross to die.  Surprisingly a few days later he rose from the dead and proved us wrong.  It is the most dire sacrifice to offer your only Son to teach the human race their own sin.  It will not be long before we will learn this all over again when God's followers will be taken by him to a new planet, and the rest will be left in hellfire to fight to their deaths until the Earth perishes.  It will be a long battle.  Or we could choose to do the right thing.  

The Wuhan Clan Is an Angry Lot of Job

 If anyone in America were a thinker, then they would have thunk this. Unidentified flying objects (courtesy of China) being shot down in various places over the continental United States.  What could they be?  One friend suggested that the "weather" balloon was filled with Donald Trump's semen, and upon shooting it down (which was the goal) miscellaneous American women would become impregnated with Donald Trump's bastard children.  The contents of a Chinese "weather" balloon, either hot air or helium, could be laced with anything.  Fentanyl comes to mind.  On second thought a more likely culprit is plausible.  My medical friends would say a human host is necessary for the gestation of a coronavirus.  Me thinks viruses can live in soil, on plants, or in trees.  Shoot down a Chinese manufactured device over the continental United States?  Sounds like a trap.  Five unidentified flying objects courtesy of WuHan?  You do the math. 

Dismal Dismas for "Nam"

Jim Crow Jr. is an elusive dude.  He is more like Zip Coon, but we can't mention him.  He is one of those stereotypical "Blackface" characters who is so insulting if viewed out of context.  I don't agree with "Blackface," although I had to understand it to make the decision.  It is out of taste.  It stems from black actors not being allowed to participate in Minstrel Shows.  During reconstruction many freed slaves found it difficult to integrate into mainstream society.  In the American South and especially Louisiana, they were not allowed to become a part of white society.  The name "Jim Crow" was coined to describe the segregation laws that attempted to keep white and blacks separate.  Jim Crow was a caricature of a poor and destitute freed slave who resorted to levity in order to survive.  He had tattered clothing and a stylized appearance like a clown.  He talked "jive" and made fun of the white man with his double talk.  He was so enigmatic and challenging minstrel actors stole his soul immediately.  They had to darken their faces with shoe polish of grease paint to appear black.  Over time the caricatures became increasingly more offensive until most black personalities were stereotyped into white accessible cartoons.  It is a distasteful element of American history.  To understand it is necessary to understand the difference between good and evil.  Blues men turned preachers tried to shed their evil ways of drinking liquor and indulging in the "Sporting Life."  Instead of getting drunk and ending up passed out in the gutter, they would desire to go to bed early and visit church on Sunday in their best suits.  In life in general it is wise to stay abreast of the difference between good and evil and who participates in both.  Zip Coon by nature, all ready at a disadvantage because of his skin color, had to be that much more clever and conniving to stay alive in an American South that embraced lynchings as fodder and entertainment.  It would be understandable that the white man's law might be bent a little by Zip Coon.  Unfortunately Jim Crow Jr. is back, and instead of using "Chain Gangs" to labor for free in full view of the public, Fayetteville, North Carolina is going to build a bona fide facility to offer free labor to some lucky Cumberland County business owner.  Most citizens in Fayetteville do not support the proposed Dismas facility all ready being built on Cain Rd.  It is the largest facility of its kind in Dismas history.  Why here?  Why now?  Why are federal prisoners going to be bussed here to live in close proximity to law abiding citizens?  It doesn't make sense, or does it?  These transplanted federal criminals will be expected to work for free in exchange for their daily release from lock up.  Work for free.  A labor force of one hundred federal prisoners is being moved here, and their labor will be used by an unnamed entity responsible for lobbying our local government to provide this service.  Who would do such a thing?  It will not be paid labor.  It will not be cheap Chinese or Indian labor.  It will be free labor.  Slave labor.  Work farm labor.  Chain gang labor.  This is the kind of labor Donald Trump favored.  It would seem the sentiment of the plantation, the building of fortune on slave labor, and social inequality by law are the desired mechanism in Fayetteville commerce.  Ask yourself what business owner in Cumberland Country would sink to such depths and risk the safety and well being of their own citizens?  This is not a virtuous gesture by Mayor Mitch Colvin.  It wreaks, and it wreaks in a big way.  There will come a time when law-abiding citizens will tire of corruption and its ensuing violence.  I think Mr. Colvin may have cemented his last term.  

Untapped Youth

Fayetteville politics brings me down.  National politics are bringing me down.  "Liar!"  It is not surprising that Washington has changed.  Covid changed America.  If you look back at the Trump presidency compared to now, things were familiar.  Gas prices dropped during the Trump presidency.  They averaged $2.00 a gallon, but there was racism, discrimination, extremism, and mass shootings were common, Economically America was functioning in a way similar to our past.  Perhaps this was because Donald Trump cares strongly about revenue.  We didn't watch television and feel fear or antagonism.  Murder among ourselves was not the norm.  Since Joe Biden won and defied a calculated attempted coup and determination to stop the verification by Congress of the Electoral College, things have not been the same.  That rowdy, almost criminal, far right extreme faction responsible for this coup attempt still is alive and well, and many now are working in Washington.  It is unprecedented, but it is not surprising.  American history is sprinkled with watershed events which discard the past and forge a new ideology.  Rock 'n' Roll, a rowdy, sexually evocative, rebellious popular music usurped the ballroom-oriented swing dance music of the World War ll era.  Interestingly the Jitterbug and Lindy Hop originating in the Jazz Age are more physically demanding than the Watusi, the Go Go, and the Shag, but ballroom dancing, although romantic and physically expressive, had manners.  Congress before Joe Biden had manners.  That's the difference.  During America's Sexual Revolution, when "The Electric Cool Aid Acid Test" condoned dropping acid and riding a school bus across the country, certain outdated norms were dismantled.  This was an important time, when the sensibilities of America grew up.  There was the War in Viet Nam.  It is an era about which we remember little, or is it?  Women's Liberation.  Bra burning.  Penis envy.  Group sex.  We all ready have been through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's.  But now.  What is this?  I have been contemplating teaching school again, although North Carolina and Cumberland Country in particular have lost 35% of their teachers.  Why, and could I overcome these obstacles and attempt to provide a solid and artistic musical education for students here?  My gut reaction always has been  a resounding, "No," but I was not sure why.  This afternoon when I ate dinner at the Hibachi Grill, it became clear.  The people around me were the types of people for whom I would teach their children.  It is a mystery to me.  Many of the people in Cumberland County are military, and I don't associate them with the ghetto.  When I listen to these people converse, I am at a loss to understand whence their dialect comes.  The children do not talk like their parents.  Instead they talk like ghetto rats using the slang that is popular where?  "Oh, on the internet"  On television.  In video games.  In pop culture.  From where else could it come?  It is language that pretends to be more "in the know" than reality, and certainly post Covid the internet or television no longer are realistic.  They are living in a fantasy world they believe to be real.  This presents very real difficulties in trying to teach children, and it is this cultural divide which has become the problem.  Immediately upon entering a classroom in a public school, they will expect you, the teacher, to accommodate them.  If you speak in the King's English with proper usage, they will alienate you as out-of-date.  The politics of the school system brings me down.  I am comfortable facing a classroom full of young people, because it is obvious they need and want to learn.  They have weathered the worst American scenario in recent history, a two year black out promulgated by a human engineered pathogen which found its way inexplicably into the world's mainstream.  We are doing well to be alive, but for America to recover public education must rebound.  It will have nothing to do with a smart phone.  It will have nothing to do with the internet.  It shouldn't have anything to do with a laptop computer, because this technology is a self-absorbed, revenue earning, market tool to serve corporate America.  It has done nothing but degrade American society.  I will repeat myself.  The inclusion of the smart phone or the laptop computer in education has made us dumber.  Perhaps this is where gainful employment would be sought, in the technology field, but learning to run "apps" on a phone will not cure you illnesses, help you lose weight, or earn you an able and loyal mate.  They are illusions, and we have been fleecing our youth for two decades.  Now as the Baby Boomer generation fades, there is little to take their place.  We failed to hand the reins to our children.  We failed to invest in them and humbly step aside.  Instead in a calculated, seemingly inexorable, rowdy, extreme, and far right ideology exploited our children for our own personal gain.  God had nothing to do with, but Washington Republicans do.  In a nutshell this anti-Biden vocal faction seems to think that no one will return fire from their incessant inciting lobs.  Democrats are too peaceful, passive, and God-fearing to fight, and probably this is the best political discourse.  They seem to want a fight, but you can't argue with an ass.  You are just wasting your time.  It may be sooner than later that the American people will tire of the gun lobby, our lack of gun control, and the murder of their children from the weapons of these manufacturers who think a minor can own an assault weapon.  We could call it civil war, because supplying munitions to Ukraine all ready constitutes World War III.  We are just not saying it.  American politics, in spite of a violent coup on the Capital on January 6th, still is feigning civility and peace, and it is working.  I don't know about you, but when I think about our youth and the example we are setting for them, it makes me angry.  The tone of the news, the antagonism of tabloid television, and the low brow mud slinging is doing nothing for America.  It is wasting our time, when we could feed the world, save the Earth, and love our neighbors and ourselves.  

Killing a Horse

 The concept of a non-lethal weapon is alive and well and living North Carolina.  While the Marines are unrivaled in their unwavering commitment to defend America, "In the air, on land, or sea," the defense industry via the Department of Defense and the Pentagon have stumbled upon the most effective deterrent to hostile aggression.  Although discovered dinosaur fossils dispute that Southern "Jim Crow Jr." advocates believe they are Earth's modern gods, the cave man of the dinosaur age did cower in fear upon feeling the tremor of the earth when a large predator  was near.  It is this feeling of dread, panic, and anxiety that infrasound elicits.  Adolph Hitler utilized this tool and used it to his advantage during the Nazi reign.  Low frequency sounds have the potential to evoke substantial physical and emotional responses from human beings.  Infrasound is not alone in its potential to affect harm to humans.  For decades electromagnetic energy has been known to cause cancer.  The dichotomy of an electrical charge juxtaposed onto a magnetic field has revolutionized science and human existence but when exploited without care for its harmful side effects has the potential to kill.  Millimeter waves, the vehicle of choice for Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband, penetrates the skin deeply and is a harmful departure from previous 4G networks operating in the megahertz range.  Microwaves previously were classified as harmful to the human organism, until past President Bill Clinton decided they weren't.  By auctioning off these previously off limits frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum to commercial vendors, our modern American economy was born.  Human health took a step backwards and cancer has rebounded.  The Earth has warmed, and still no one claims responsibility.  The EPA is underfunded, and staunch opponents of similar government agencies were appointed to dismantle them covertly from within.  America never has been more prone to aberrant airborne radiation.  Several decades ago cell phone towers were scrutinized and regulated keeping them away from our children.  This regulation was lobbied away, and now our water towers empty of this life-giving liquid, are glorified towers supporting microwave radio transmission.  No industry has capitalized more upon this availability of microwaves than defense.  They use infrared to surveil the enemy and target their complex airborne weapons.  These aircraft have become so complicated, like the Abrahms tank with its turbine engine, ordinary soldiers would have difficulty operating them.  Truly we have have left the age of the battlefield and are fighting the enemy with technology.  When the end comes, and God makes His second appearance on Earth, this technology will not matter.  It will be those humans who can grow a vegetable, build a shelter, or cook a meal that will live.  The majority of agnostic "gamers" killing one another in cyberspace will spend the rest of their miserable existences burning in hellfire with Satan.  I would suggest a peaceful, forgiving, loving garden of happiness would appeal more.  For the time being the DOD isn't required to fire rounds at all.  The radiation from their military defense systems is enough to kill a horse. 

Obi Wan Kenobi - Are You Our Only Hope?

White collar crime has consumed America.  Like Donald Trump white collar crime is intelligent, educated, and crafty.  A faction of America continues to love and support Donald Trump unable to understand his gifts are evil.  Have we underestimated "The Donald?"  If one reflects on his achievements, they are substantial.  Unfortunately much of his skill and talent lies in the "Dark Side."  America has faced a full frontal assault from the Dark Side, and only now are we understanding.  (My reference to this Dark Side only is a faint memory from the film "Star Wars," so I had to GOOGLE it to clarify about which I am writing.)  Quoting from the internet the disparity is defined as:  The Jedi (like Christianity) teach compassion, patience, peace, love, and self-control.  The Sith rely upon anger, jealousy, hate, fear, and greed.  (I am omitting passion, because I feel passion isn't  negative.)  This dichotomy makes sense in America today.  The Force is positive, and The Dark is evil.  (in a nutshell)  War may not be the appropriate metaphor for these negative emotions, but it is the end  result.  It is the ultimate consummation of the goal of these emotions, which is the acquisition of power and its accompanying accoutrement.  We could get lost in the swamp of darkness plagued by these negative Feelings, or we could resolve ourselves to war.  America is at war, and that accurately characterizes our current quality of life.  The media has not said it, but they are preaching it.  There are no headlines confirming domestic war, but their rhetoric and resulting news fully and accurately depict a time of war.  Like the failure of Congress and the swamp to make America economically solvent, perhaps we are not able to say aloud America is at war.  If our leaders aren't accountable for balancing our budget and managing the nation, how can they mitigate ensuing tribal wars?  Perhaps war is and has been the intent all along.  When did this siege begin?  It began with the electing of Donald Trump as the President of the United States.  Full well he understands United States history, and full well he has used the forces of the Dark Side to attempt to topple American democracy.  Because we have become too ignorant to discern cyber-fiction from reality, this brutal attack on the Capital has been a accommodated like it only was an episode of "The Walking Dead."  Slowly and surely our Department of Justice has proven their allegiance to democracy.  Systematically over time they are found, charged, and prosecuted many who participated in the January 6th attempted coup.  The event was cloaked in camp, and because Trump was the sitting President of the United States his naive and compliant cult members felt it was their duty to do his bidding.  This is the danger of free speech and of the internet.  Trump is a traitor, and it is amazing he still has not been held accountable for his treasonous leadership.  We are only two years out of his digression, and I have learned with age history is amassed in years, not days.  Civil War was Trump's agenda, and largely he succeeded.  To solve America's problems it takes great effort, intelligence, and resolve.  We sold out the systems of America, academia, commerce, and social mobility so  ignorance would spawn war.  In better times this work could yield a better quality of life in America.  There was freedom, and Washington would allow a middle class.  Over time they stacked the deck and have made it impossible for anyone to break through.  There is no need for a market, because the affluent all ready have all of the money.  They are content to ignore the other citizens of America who need this market to survive.  You can see it in the faces of politicians.  Few of them are from the lower classes, and they are out of touch with what was mainstream America.  This skewing of economic potential has ruined the free market.  For those controlling the world there is no need for economic markets, because they all ready have bilked every penny from everyone.  The rest of us, the fringe, are duking it out in the trenches.  Any effort in Washington to suggest lawmakers really care about us is a charade.  Joe Biden has accomplished some notable advancements, and we should be appreciative.  The only solution to save America is to abolish this Dark Side.  Truly it and Donald Trump are like a serpent contorting their spines, avoiding public accountability and responsibility, and raiding the bird's nests of our lives.  White collar America, white collar crime is the current culprit.  They want the common classes to be at war with one another.  With very little spiritual leadership it is almost an impossibility to succeed.  If at any time America were in need of "The Force" and Obi Wan Kenobi, it is now.