Author: shadowwarrior

“The SHADOW GOVERNMENT (cryptocracy, secret government, or invisible government) is a family of conspiracy theories based on the notion that real and actual political power resides not with publicly elected representatives but with private individuals who are exercising power behind the scenes, beyond the scrutiny of democratic institutions.” “According to this belief, the official elected government is in reality subservient to the SHADOW GOVERNMENT who are the true executive power.” (Wikipedia)

“A ‘SHADOW GOVERNMENT’ consisting of 75 or more senior officials has been living and working secretly outside Washington since Sept. 11 in case the nation’s capital is crippled by terrorist attack. ‘This is serious business,’ President Bush said of plans to ensure the continuity of government. Such an operation was conceived as a Cold War precaution against nuclear attack during the Eisenhower administration but never used until now. It went into effect in the first hours after the terror attacks and has evolved over time, said senior government officials who provided details of the plan. Without confirming details of the government-in-waiting, Mr. Bush told reporters in Iowa: ‘We take the continuity of government issue seriously because our nation was under attack. and I still take the threats we receive from al Qaeda killer and terrorists very seriously’.” (CBS News, Francie Grace, March 2, 2002.)

There have been movies, documentaries, books, and TV shows about the existence of a SHADOW GOVERNMENT. Once again, it is impossible in a short blog to detail all theories and realities around this subject, but what we will attempt to do is pull back the curtain a little more upon this issue to expose maybe more clearly the What, Who and Why.

What? In addition to the first two paragraphs above, one a simple definition, and the latter an actual application, there is little doubt that an on-going SHADOW GOVERNMENT is not a reality. Even every simpleton always has a “Plan B”, in case “Plan A” fails, regardless of the simplicity or complexity of the task to be accomplished. Consider how our government operates. When we elect a President, that individual comes with their chosen Vice President. Beyond those two individuals, and maybe the hints they dropped along the way as to who they might eventually include as cabinet officials, “The President can appoint almost 1300 federal positions in the executive branch that the Senate then reviews and approves. The most prestigious positions appointed by the president are known as the president’s ‘cabinet.’ The cabinet is composed of 15 chief roles of executive administrative departments.” (iagreetosee.com.) This group is what we would call “Plan A”.

WHO: That sounds like a lot of people, but for a moment consider the size of the government these individuals are supposed to be in charge of who then supposedly carry out the agenda of the elected government. Let’s look at “Plan B”. How does 23.7 million strike you? (usafacts.org.) In January of 2015, the 22 million employed by the U.S. government equated to “. . . around 14% of the labor force and 7% of the total population.” (quora.com.) Let’s add to that number those NGO’s (Non-Governmental Organizations) we discussed in our blog on November 7, 2021 titled BELTWAY BANDITS. We disclosed that there were approximately 1.5 million NGOs operating in the U.S. on January 1, 2021. These accounted for more than 12 million people, more than 10% of the total workforce in the U.S. These organizations are often funded in part or total by grants given to them by the current government in power, and their funding can continue for many years beyond their initial grant period. Once granted, some of these NGOs are very difficult to un-fund. Once funded by the current government in power, they are often the ones chosen to support, uphold, or expand upon the desired objectives of the government. It is therefore easy to see that at any one time, approximately one-quarter of everyone employed in this county can be employed to carry out the wishes of the government, without any of them ever being elected through our democratic processes. Lest we think that the influence of policy and procedure within our Nation ends with one-quarter of our working force actually being paid to carry out the current governmental policies, let’s also throw in the mix other entities within our Nation that have a supportive or adversarial role in both policy and procedure within our Nation. Let us just list a few: Woke Minority, Media, Sports Figures, Scientific Journals, Big Pharma, Elite Corporations, Rich Elites, Social Monopolies, Artificial Intelligence, and of course do not forget the “real” governmental bureaucracy who operate unseen and undetected under the elected government officials. Elected officials then are not always those who originate policy and procedure, but often are those who are herded into being simple messengers. Often the policy of the elected government is either ignored, manipulated and morphed into actions approved by the SHADOW GOVERNMENT. We recognize these players in our Nation as “Plan B”, but there are other interested parties who desire to put their stamp of approval upon the direction of our Nation, indeed upon the world. These forces are the puppeteers, the pullers of the strings, those who care not for governments, policies, procedures, or the welfare of people in general. They care only for their power and wealth, the tools to achieve their goals. This leads us to the last of the three questions posed in our blog title above.

WHY: Few things in life ever happen by chance. Such it is with the nature of our Nation, and in fact the world at large. The United States is the leader of the free world. It was the design set in motion by our Founding Fathers to inspire productivity, advancement, and success. In such a short period of time, in terms of human history, our Nation has become the leader of nearly every advancement for the human condition, from travel to medicine, from agriculture to engineering, from science to culture, from technology to theater. We have fought two World Wars to defeat authoritarianism, and have freed millions from its clutches, and in doing so shed our own precious blood and treasure. No other Nation has ever given so much. It is without argument that the world has looked to our Nation as the defender of FREEDOM and LIBERTY, and as the templet for those who seek the same. Therefore, as goes our Nation, so will go the world. What we are fighting for is not simply the survival of the roots of our Nation, but the survival of the world at large. Why then is our Nation under attack? That which is being thrust upon us is a de-growth agenda, where the quiet part is never said out loud, “we must learn to get along with less.” No longer is it the American Dream to own your own home, but it is rapidly becoming a life dependent upon big government. There will be less and less access to your wants and dreams, but only more and more reliance upon what big government can provide. Regression has already begun, just open your eyes to see it. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is de-constructing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream where all are judged not on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character, and now we are being separated into warring factions, tribal communities. What the Industrial Revolution has brought us, is coming to a screeching halt, and anyone not in the upper crust of society around the world will find regression into base instincts, where these notions will not only become common place, but will be mandated as the only form of proper human life experience and expression. No longer will underlings be able to seek to improve their lives through economic and capitalistic gains, but society will be compelled to devolve into the lowest common denominator where everyone gets a “participation” trophy, regardless of effort, desire, or general competence. This does not sound like the FREEDOM and LIBERTY granted to us by the generations who now lie in their graves having given their all for our benefit. All of this is NOT by accident, but by intended design. Only a few have anointed themselves the rulers of this world.

There is a “Plan C” floating about within our world that cares not for national borders, national pride or progress, the poor and down-trodden, or even peace in our time. There is a song by the group Eagles, written shortly after the 9-11 attack on our Nation. It is titled “Hole in the World”. The lyrics begin this way: “There’s a hole in the world tonight. There’s a cloud of fear and sorrow. There’s a hole in the world tonight. Don’t let there be a hole in the world tomorrow.” Call it up on your phone or laptop and listen to it. It has a great message we all could learn a thing or two from. We, our Nation, in fact the world at large, are in jeopardy, and if we all don’t join together, to care for each other, to honor each other, to shun the attacks, extend forgiveness, and seek a higher plain of existence, we will all suffer in one way or another. This message is especially for those who are “. . . rich beyond the dreams of avarice [greedy].” (Samuel Johnson, 1712-1757), those who live above the fray, in gated communities, who stand behind the curtain of Oz, pulling the levers, the puppeteers who manipulate the strings of society to their benefit and purposes. They will never be negatively impacted by their abuse of power, and their quest for digital immortality, their belief in Homo Deus, where man is god. They strive for a post homo sapiens environment, through advancing technologies in gene editing (rewriting genetic codes), bionics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), inserting a reverse engineered human brain into a metaverse through neuron enhancement (brain implants), to ultimately achieve their goal of continued existence, not in human flesh, but in digitally created beings, a life of Virtual Reality (VR), decoupled from physical reality. The imbodied internet now becomes your new reality. The digitalized brain becoming part of the hive mind, being all knowing, all superior, their godly immortality. Their ego allows them to believe their soul lies within the brain, because they lack any form of religious faith. If this sounds like a science novel, so did Star Treks medical scanners (TV show from 1966 to 1969), which you can now buy as a simple gun to point at you to determine your temperature, or Jules Verne’s novel “From the Earth to the Moon” (published in English in 1867), now a dream made real over 50 years ago. Add in those categories of self-landing planes, self-driving cars, and the World Wide Web, connecting all of us to this blog and beyond. The foundation for this new existence has already been laid. Now, you are aware that there is a SHADOW GOVERNMENT, WHAT it really is, WHO is a part of this plan, and WHY this is happening to our Nation, and to our world at large. We encourage all to be aware and on the lookout. Do not allow yourself to be caught unawares. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.

There is absolutely no way to adequately address the topic of THE LOOPHOLES IN GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE in one small blog. What we will attempt to do is address a few issues that have been misrepresented or overlooked. We will explain why we chose the short video of the erupting volcano later. As one season follows the previous one, it is hard to avoid the reality that our world has gone through several similar, but much longer, cycles throughout the ages. “Scientists have recorded five significant ice ages throughout the Earth’s history . . .” (history.com). There have also been a corresponding number of “interglacial” periods, which can be described as periods of global warming. Wikipedia lists six such periods. “Over at least the past million years, glacial and interglacial cycles have been triggered by variations in how much sunlight reaches the Northern Hemisphere in the summer, which are driven by small variations in the geometry of Earth’s orbit around the Sun. But these fluctuations in sunlight aren’t enough on their own to bring about full-blown ice ages and interglacials. They trigger several feedback loops that amplify the original warming or cooling. During and interglacial, sea ice and snow retreat, reducing the amount of sunlight the Earth reflects; warming increases atmospheric water vapor, which is a powerful greenhouse gas; permafrost thaws and decomposes, releasing more methane and carbon dioxide; and the ocean warms and releases dissolved carbon dioxide, which traps even more heat.” (climate.gov/news-features/climate Q&A; published October 29, 2020, updated September 27, 2021.) One thing can be established without argument, and that is that human kind, with all its advances, or as some would proclaim as destructive processes, had absolutely no impact on any of the preceding glacial or interglacial periods.

While we are on the subject of glacial facts, let’s add one more. “Sea ice at the South Pole has rebounded in 2020 and 2021, to the levels of some 3-decades ago. Moreover, the trend of the past 40+ years (the satellite era) remains one of significant growth (of approx 1% per decade). In 2021, Antarctic sea ice is actually tracking well-above the multidecadal average.” (Electroverse, November 18, 2021.) “Antarctica’s last 6 months were the coldest on record.” (Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist, October 9, 2021.) One would have to be blind to not seen how there are attempts to manipulate THE LOOPHOLES IN GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE. It is also very clear that scientific information is often muted or cancelled because it is contrary to the agenda being promoted by our current government and their elite accomplices in the corporate and media worlds.

When we are thinking of icecaps, our attention is normally drawn to the plight of the average polar bear. It is hard to avoid any visual image or media conversation about the potential demise of the polar bear as it is constantly being thrust upon our senses. “Polar bears could vanish by the end of the century, scientists predict.” (Ben Turner, October 14, 2021, LiveScience.) First, let’s understand that polar bears are only found in the Northern Hemisphere. The “Polar bear is the the largest species of bears.” (hunterhunts.com.) “Data from conservation groups and the government show that the polar bear population is roughly five times what it was in the 1950s and three or four times what it was in the 1970s when polar bears became protected under international treaty.” “In 1984, the polar bear population was estimated at 25,000. In 2008, when polar bears were designated a protected species, The New York Times noted that number remained unchanged.” “There are more than 25,000 bears in the Artic, 15,500 of which roam within Canada’s territory.” “In The State of the Polar Report 2018, zoologist Susan J. Crockford says updates to IUCN [International Union for Conservation of Nature] data put the new global mid-point estimate at more than 30,000.” (FEE.org, Jon Miltimore.) So, do not be fooled. Most polar bears live on land, not on floating pieces of ice, and their numbers are not dwindling. To try and connect polar bears to global warming is an emotional appeal, since those little white fluffy cubs are so cute. Do not be sucked into THE LOOPHOLE OF GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE

There is a renewed emphasis being forced upon our citizens by the current government administration to move our Nation from being dependent upon fossil fuels to one relying on “green energy” sources. There are so many discrepancies as to the methods being used to make this transition, that one would have to be only superficially literate, not really understanding what has been happening of late, and wherein lie the current government’s intentions. Let us point out a few oddities that simply do not make sense when it comes to trying to achieve control over and taking advantage of THE LOOPHOLES IN GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE. Let’s first define what is a “carbon footprint.” “A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide and methane) that are generated by our actions.” “The average carbon footprint for a person in the United States is 16 tons . . .” “To have the best chance of avoiding a 2[degree] C rise in global temperatures, the average global carbon footprint per year needs to drop under 2 tons by 2050.” (Nature. org; The Nature Conservancy,) “But the ‘floor’ below which nobody in the U.S. can reach, no matter a person’s energy choices, turned out to be 8.5 tons, the class found. That was the emissions calculated for a homeless person who ate in soup kitchens and slept in homeless shelters.” (MIT News, David Chandler, April 16, 2008.) Can you begin to understand what your future may look like? There are other ways to reduce the carbon footprint of human kind. We pointed out in our blog posted on August 29, 2021 titled “HIDDEN AGENDAS?”, where Bill Gates has his own hidden agenda to use his money to attempt to save the planet by his god-like manipulations. He didn’t reveal all potential remedies, but they could include other solutions most avoid sharing openly. “Genocide: killing of people by a government because of their indelible group membership (race, ethnicity, religion, language). Politicide: murder of any person or people by a government because of their politics or for political purposes. Democide: the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder.” (Death By Government, Chapter 2, R. J. Rummel) One more could be added, Senicide: “the killing of one’s elderly family members when they can no longer work or become a burden.” “. . . the killing of the elderly, or their abandonment to death.” (Wikipedia). There was a recent gathering of elites at the 2021 Global Conference on Health and Climate Change in Glasgow, UK. Those in attendance arrived in some 400 private jets. The current occupant of the White House “. . . and his team will reportedly generate an estimated 2.2 million pounds of carbon to reach the summit, thanks to four planes, the Marine One helicopter and his massive motorcade on the ground.”(Canoe.com, Denette Wilford, November 3, 2021.) Shall we calculate the effects on the environment of our world? Before attending the conference, the current occupant of the White House had an 85-car motorcade through the streets of Rome, “. . . a textbook example of hypocrisy from ‘limousine liberals’.” (Graham Colton, Fox News, October 30, 2021.) This is just a thought, but since so many of our children were forced into remote learning in the last 18 months, don’t you think that similar technologies could have been used instead of over-seas in-person gatherings that had such a dramatic negative impact on our environment? Of course not. During a world-wide pandemic, such gatherings make total sense . . . if you were among the wealthy and elite, and could proudly claim: “Rules For Thee, But Not For Me!” This was such an obvious use of THE LOOPHOLES IN GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE.

We do not doubt there is change in our global climate. What we question is the emphasis to blame it upon human kind, and the rush to make life-altering changes in an attempt to control it. Quite frankly, it is an egotistical premise to blindly believe that mankind is god, and able to alter the course of this earth. We would allow few exceptions, those being that we wipe out our population with nuclear bombs or by an all consuming bioweapon, both of which are humankinds continual thirst for the ultimate Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) experience. Following our extinction, the Earth would continue exist, orbiting the sun. To think otherwise, is to falsely assume that you can stretch out your hand, gather in a group of stars and put them in your pocket. We have so much yet to learn as to how insignificant we really are in this never-ending universe. There are a few things we would like to point out that have not been widely viewed when considering THE LOOPHOLES IN GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE. We, who publish these blogs, shun all attempts to alter the course of our Nation’s FREEDOM and LIBERTY by futile attempts to reduce carbon emissions, until a plan is put forth to not only bring about the demise of all cattle, but also all buffalo, elk, deer, bear, and every other animal that goes poop in the woods. When humankind is able to defuse tornados and hurricanes, and alter the course of ocean currents, and change the axis of the Earth and the time for each revolution . . . then maybe we will listen. Let’s also be clear. The billions, actually trillions, of dollars being printed and pumped into our economy will not be for you to see or enjoy. Those funds will be frittered away, with some going to NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations), (refer to our blog on November 7, 2021, titled “BELTWAY BANDITS”). A large percentage of those tax payer dollars, now increasing the debt on our Nation to well over $30,000,000,000,000.00, will go to woke supporters with nefarious purposes that will make millionaires or billionaires out of amoral sociopaths (read our blogs on June 13, 2021, titled “DANGERS OF SOCIOPATHS“, and on June 23, 2021 titled “FOLLOW THE MONEY”). Now, let’s make reference again to the short video at the beginning of this blog. We live on a living planet, with forces beyond the control of human kind. Consider all of the carbon footprints, including volcanoes, and their impact upon this Earth. Until those global climate activists put forth a plan to cork all volcanoes and lava flows, we will not comply with your petty dreams. (“Overall, 48 volcanoes were in continuing eruption status as of 15 October 2021.” “. . . generally there are around 20 volcanoes actively erupting on any particular day.” volcano.si.edu). Until you can prevent lightning from starting forest fires, or squash developing thunderstorms, we will not be mandated or forced into compliance with any of the schemes of the woke elitists. Your folly is your embarrassment. Your narcissism will be your undoing.

Do not allow THE LOOPHOLES IN GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE to destroy the FREEDOM and LIBERTY we share together in this great Nation of ours. Our blogs are a clarion call to all Patriots to join together to preserve and protect and fight for that which has been given to us at such great a cost. What are you doing to heed the call? What will you do?

THE CAMEL’S NOSE UNDER THE TENT allegedly comes from an Arab proverb first alluded to in writing in 1858. The point of the story is that if the camel is able to get its nose into the tent, it will soon be followed by its head, then neck, then front legs, and eventually it’s entire body. Being bigger than the tent itself, the camel will destroy the protection originally provided to the owner of the tent, as the tent material will be suspended from the camel’s hump, and the tent rope and stakes will be swinging freely from both sides of the camel.

We all recognize the significance of the dangers posed by this proverb. Driving around a “Danger, High Water Ahead” sign, led to the “Stupid Motorist Law” in Arizona. You are likely to find yourself floating down a raging river on top of your car waiting for rescue. If you get a new credit card, and you begin charging to it wildly before you get your first bill, you are likely to find yourself paying exorbitant interest rate fees for months to come because of your inability to pay off your ever-increasing debt each and every month. Diving head first into shallow water can possibly lead to death or paralysis due to a fractured neck and severed spinal cord after contacting an obstruction beneath the surface with your head. Going 95 miles per hour in a 35 mile per hour speed zone can lead to a deadly crash, or if you are fortunate, only a massive speeding ticket. If you allow a robber to get his foot in the door, you could become a victim of a sexual assault or death, or if your fortunate, only a victim of theft. These are all different forms of going beyond what one would consider to be a normal limit, while taking reasonable precautions, and going beyond can often have unintended or catastrophic consequences.

So, what does a camel’s nose under any tent have to do with THE POLITICAL PANDEMIC? EVERYTHING! There is a disease sweeping through our Nation, not of biological origin, but of political chicanery. In blog after blog after blog, we have identified ways in which our FREEDOM and LIBERTY within our Nation are being systematically obstructed, dismantled, and obliterated. Few, if any, of these attacks have been full-frontal in nature, but rather insidious flank attacks, couched in promises of unity, progress for all, and a reclamation of the soul of our Nation. Let’s review a few ways this Nation is under siege to bring more clarity to THE POLITICAL PANDEMIC.

Our national system of laws is under attack from THE POLITICAL PANDEMIC. The Georgia Star News (Chris Butler, investigative journalist at The Tennessee Star) reported November 10, 2021 the following facts. “More Than 70 Georgia Counties Can’t Produce Original 2020 Election Ballot Images, Says Election Integrity Group.” To be more exact, “74 Georgia counties are unable to produce all the original ballot images from the November 2020 election.” Ballot machines “. . . cannot tabulate results without the images.” We are learning this trend is occurring in multiple states, including Colorado (Patty McMurray September 22, 2021), and Arizona (The Arizona Sun Times, October 12, 2021). Federal law requires that election officials retain election records for 22 months, and under Georgia law, they must be retained for 24 months. What we have here is a violation of established law. Where is the Department of Justice (DOJ)? Why is the violation of this law not being prosecuted? If the retention of election records is required, then they are required to be retained for some purpose, and that purpose is to be available for audit should discrepancies or fraud become apparent. Whether discrepancy or fraud occurred is not germane to the questions posed before, what is germane is the destruction of election records. There has been of late a growing list of broken laws going unpunished. While thugs roamed many of our major cities in 2020 attacking stores and police with fire bombs, fireworks, and other weapons, usually going unpunished and even avoiding arrest, many, who simply sought to display their right to protest peacefully at our Nation’s Capital, have been placed in prison, some yet to be charged (so much for adhering to Amendment VI to our Constitution, “. . . the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury . . .”). Several have been given multiple-year prison sentences, not for having destroyed anything, or injured anyone, or even for carrying a weapon, but they have been politically prosecuted simply for their very presence. It is the “. . . right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” (Amendment I to the Constitution of the United States of America.) When powerful elites in Washington D.C., and the Department of Justice (DOJ), choose to inflict biased enforcement upon a few patriots, be assured that it is just the camel’s nose under the tent indicating what lies ahead for most who treasure the concept of equality under the law, as well as our FREEDOM and LIBERTY.

When did it become acceptable to allow the restriction of free speech? Again, refer to Amendment I of the Constitution of the United States of America. “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech . . .” Yet our Congress sits idly by while corporate elites, in concert with our current government, make no attempt to preserve this right for our citizens when their free speech is “SHADOW BANNED” (restricted), cancelled, or labeled as “misinformation” or “disinformation.” The current government, in concert with most media outlets and major social media platforms, allows the promulgation of their chosen narrative, while censoring and prohibiting a free exchange of ideas, thoughts, and even scientific facts. Our current executive branch of government has acted overtly and covertly to favor, and be in concert with, large corporations or businesses to make mandates favoring chosen agendas. Congress has a duty to preserve and protect all citizen’s free speech, even if they do not agree with everything that is said. If you believe you have not been touched by any of these nefarious actions, just wait, as the camel’s nose is under the tent, and you can be assured that if the course our Nation is currently on is not altered, THE POLITICAL PANDEMIC will certainly infect you.

If you say you are not impacted by election fraud, the killing of our men and women in the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, the invasion of illegal aliens at our southern border, the diminishing of our prestige abroad, the rising gas prices and loss of our energy independence, the rising costs of food and other living supplies, the diminishing of the value of the cash in your pocket or purse, the increasing National debt being further added to by the “woke” minority, the illegal mandates forcing mask and immunization compliance, or purposeful inflammation of divisive racial rhetoric by the explosion of Critical Race Theory (CRT) . . . . . then put a mirror under your nose because you are not breathing and undoubtedly dead! The camel’s nose is under your tent, you need to wake up and take back control of your tent. If you care about your Nation and your FREEDOM and LIBERTY, you can no longer be silent! Christine Anderson said: “Compliance and Silence Enables Tyrants.” The current government’s plagiarized global mantra, “Build Back Better”, is better defined as “FUTURES FAILING FASTER”. Do not allow yourself to be infected by THE POLITICAL PANDEMIC! As a thermostat controls the temperature, we need to be in control of our destiny. Listen and hear the cry from every Patriot grave that calls to demand our attention . . . and our action.

The title of our blog, “BELTWAY BANDITS“, needs some explanation. First, let’s discuss what we mean by the BELTWAY. You may have heard political conversations referring to actions taking place within the BELTWAY. Some TV programs even are titled with reference to this area, one being called “Inside The Beltway.” This is a word describing the series of roadways surrounding the Capitol complex of the United States, Washington D.C., the District Of Columbia. Wikipedia defines it this way: “a 64-mile Interstate Highway that surrounds Washington, D.C., the Capitol of the United States, and its inner suburbs in adjacent Maryland and Virginia.” Look at the picture below for better clarification. We will be discussing the activities occurring within the large circle of freeways shown in red.

Within this area identified above, our elected political government leaders (and a few appointed by them), Senators and Representatives, and the vast underbelly of this massive beast composed of unelected bureaucrats, all carry on the national business of the United States of America. Also, in line with the major thrust of this blog, many of our richest cities and counties within our Nation lie within, or very close to, the interior of the BELTWAY.

BANDITS. We typically think of them as being those who would rob trains, covering their nose and mouth with a scarf, and not because of some mask mandate. The word probably originated as the Italian word “bandito”, translated then into English in 1590. BANDITS is defined as “lawless robber, brigand (especially as part of an organized band)” (Etymology.com). “An outlaw who lives by plunder, especially a member of a band of marauders” (Merriam-Webster). Today, we live in an era where those who rob others often dress in suits and ties, are considered among the elite, and have the wealth and power to pad their coffers with dishonest gain, often contrived. They have little regard for others, and seek only the advancement of their personal agendas and wealth. (Read our blog on June 13, 2021 titled “DANGERS OF SOCIOPATHS”), and our blog on June 23, 2021 titled “FOLLOW THE MONEY.” Modern day BANDITS have resources, including lawyers and friends in high places, that allow the theft from others, and are often protected by a biased judicial system that promulgates a two-tiered justice system, where the poor and powerless are punished for offences far less encompassing, while those living in the upper crust of society escape any scrutiny. Laws are often ignored, rights are often trampled on, and favors are often traded or exercised by modern day BANDITS. So, just who are these people? How do we identify them, and hold them to account?

Do you have any idea of how your tax dollars are spent? We wager that most, if not nearly all, cannot even list anything beyond paying pensions, healthcare, education, defense, and welfare. So where does the money go? Who accounts for the spending, and monitors its use? According to the CBO (Congressional Budget Office), the Federal Budget in fiscal year 2020 brought in $3.4 Trillion in Revenues, with $6.6 Trillion in Outlays. Of the Outlays, $4.6 Trillion were Mandatory Expenses, and $1.6 Trillion were Discretionary Expenses. Trying to break down each of these two expenses further can be an exercise in futility, as it all depends upon what one chooses to include into each chosen category, and like having a CPA figure out how to accurately do your taxes, no two are ever in agreement. We dare the reader to search any government spending pie chart, and come away with anything other than a splitting headache! “The Government is not sure exactly how much it is spending on third-party social services, advice from Treasury has revealed. Treasury were also not sure how to measure the impact of the billions of dollars spent which one ‘working estimate’ put at $7.8 Billion, or around 7 percent of all Government spending.” (Stuff, Henry Cooke, January 28, 2021). One thing is for certain, there is an abundance of “discretionary” expenses in any model viewed. This is the area in which we have chosen to center upon in this blog. These include items we have all become familiar with, things like money paid for “The Bridge To Nowhere”, $320 Million (The Heritage Foundation), or $10,000 for a C-5 Galaxy’s toilet seat cover (The Washington Post). Even more specific, we are choosing to focus on those “Discretionary” items entrusted to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), often monies (our taxpayer dollars) distributed through Government Grants.

On January 1, 2021, the U.S. Department of State said there were approximately 1.5 Million NGOs operating within the United States. It was estimated that 1,083 were in existence in 1914 (Wikipedia). “While there is no fixed or formal definition for what NGOs are, they are generally defined as non profit entities that are independent of governmental influence – although they may receive governmental funding” (Wikipedia). The following is also the lead paragraph on the U.S. Department of State’s website: “The United States firmly believes that a robust civil society – independent of state control or government involvement – is necessary for democracy to thrive. From the earliest days of U.S. history, civil society organizations have played a key role in protecting human rights and advancing human progress. Civil society is a source of all-encompassing ideas, promoting everything from transparency and free expression, reversing inequality and rescuing our environment.” Their website also states the following facts about NGOs. These are just a few snippets.

^ Individuals do not need to be U.S. Citizens to create a new NGO.

^ Many NGOs in the United States are qualified as exempt from state and federal taxes.

^ Some foreign NGOs are affiliated with foreign political parties.

^ Foreign NGOs also provide funding to and conduct joint projects with American NGOs.

^ Foreign NGOs do not have special restrictions on their activities . . . . and are not required to provide reports to other U.S. Federal Government agencies.

^ U.S. law imposes no limits or restrictions on the receipt of foreign funding by NGOs operating in the United States.

^ The U.S. Government does not interfere with how the NGO accomplishes its purposes . . . and need not provide notification to any Government agency about its membership, activities, or outreach . . . and they are free to collaborate with foreign NGOs or foreign governments to achieve their purposes.

Does any of this disturb you? Let’s further develop our concerns about unbridled NGOs. “Many NGOs receive funding from local, state, and federal government entities through grants.” “Grants are essentially gifts that do not need to be repaid.” (Investopedia, Jean Folger, October 20, 2021.) “More than 12 million people are employed by nonprofits – more than 10 percent of the total private workforce in the U.S. – with payrolls exceeding construction, transportation and finance. Nonprofits spend nearly $2 trillion annually, including $826 billion on salaries, benefits, and payroll taxes.” “Overall, 80 cents of every dollar of nonprofit revenue in the United States comes from government grants or contracts and fees for services. Universities and hospitals skew the numbers a bit, accounting for much of the 49 percent of nonprofit revenue specifically from private fees for services. Only about 10 percent of overall nonprofit comes from individual donations and another 4 percent from foundations.” (thenonprofittimes.com) “In many cases NGO employees receive more fringe benefits.” (Wikipedia) Examples of NGOs that currently receive government funding, or have received government funding in the past include Doctors Without Borders, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The National Institute of Health (NIH), according to their own website, “is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world investing more than $32 billion a year . . .” Planned Parenthood receives more than $600 million a year from the federal government.” (SGT Report, November 3, 2021.) According to an analysis of federal spending data, “Taxpayers funded eight nonprofits that serve, protect or advocate for illegal immigrants with more than $291 million between 2012 and 2016.” (Daily Caller, Ethan Barton, March 9, 2017.) Of course those amounts have skyrocketed under the current government administration. The threat of paying each illegal alien $450,000 if “families” were separated after entering the U.S. illegally, is just the tip of this massive ice burg of payouts. The Cartels, often using “rent-a-kid” methods, aim to siphon money off of illegal aliens desperate to get into the U.S. The illegal aliens would never get all that money, as those NGOs providing lawyers bringing these suits would take more than their fair share, and much, if not all, of what is left would be funneled back to the Cartels by conscription. Do not be fooled by the current government settling for lower payouts. Those who are illegal aliens have no standing to bring suit in the U.S., and payouts to criminals who violate our laws is criminal in and of itself.

We are not sure how many grants funded by the U.S. are outstanding. Some grants pay millions of dollars. We were able to view grants currently available on GRANTS.GOV. “The specific reporting requirements, schedules, and systems can vary for each grant.” Currently there are 2,292 posted and forecasted grants being offered by our government. Let’s just look at one example: “AF-DRC-01, Curbing Misinformation and Disinformation through Information Literacy and Fact Checking. Award Floor $25,000. Award Ceiling $50,000. Offered by the U.S. Department of State.” It is offered under the “Agency Name: U.S. Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo.” “Posted Date: Nov 02, 2021.” We do not want to disparage all NGOs who receive federal funding. Some do great work for humanity. However, others claiming to serve humanity, heavily weight this belief over the best interests our our Nation. As one example, Catholic Charities receives government funding, yet they use some of that funding to support the plight of illegal aliens, not just within the U.S. (Breitbart, John Binder, 8 May, 2021), but also by assisting those who are making their way here. (Intellectual Takeout, Jeff Minick, January 30, 2020.)

There is a problem in the BELTWAY. There are BANDITS who are using our taxpayer money for purposes often foul. “For nothing can seem foul to those that win.” (William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Act 5, Scene 1.) Nothing is truer than this, that if you leave candy outside at your front door, you will have more trick-or-treaters! Congress, and many in the bulging bureaucracy, seems to be filled with many radical rubes, those who gleefully spend your taxpayer dollars without a thought as to where it really goes, and for purposes sometimes foul. When we vote for Senators, Representatives, and other government officials, we do so in good faith, expecting them to preserve our FREEDOM and LIBERTY, and to be fiscally responsible. Sometimes, expecting your elected officials to support you, is like expecting a professional escort to love you. We expect our elected leaders to spend our tax dollars wisely, by reading the fine print, doing due diligence, and continuing to listen to their constituents. We do not expect them to act rashly or foolishly, throwing money around as if they were wealthy, because it is not their money they are entrusted with . . . . it is ours. We need to expect better from our elected officials, and hold them accountable. After all, our Constitution of the United States says “WE THE PEOPLE”, not “They The Elected”.

Most of us are aware of what a BLACK HOLE may look like. Above is an artists rendering of one concept. Most agree that a BLACK HOLE is an area of extreme gravity that is so powerful, even the speed of light cannot escape from its sucking pull. These forces in our universe have been highlighted in multiple movies like Star Trek, but one of the first was the Disney movie, “The Black Hole”, staring Maximilian Schell. Without giving away the conclusion of the movie, let’s just say falling into the grasp of a BLACK HOLE does not end well. What we want to discuss in this blog is our belief, based on multiple factors, that our Nation is walking of the edge of a BLACK HOLE, and with each step we seem to be getting closer and closer to a point of no return. We believe most citizens living within our Nation are not comfortable with the direction of our current government in Washington, D.C. To call it “not comfortable” is probably a bit too mild. Most we believe are near the point of panic, having a feeling of losing control as we are watching much of our FREEDOM and LIBERTY within our Nation being pulled away from us at an alarming rate. We do not know if any BLACK HOLE can ever be shut down. Some TV shows have made attempts to reorient the effects of them, like in the series Star Gate, but shutting one down seems even beyond the creative imagination of Hollywood. As with all things that try to pull us into destruction, the only successful strategy is one of simple avoidance. If you don’t want a sunburn, stay out of the sun. If you don’t want your child to continue to drive recklessly, take away the car keys. If you don’t want to get swallowed up in quick sand, walk around it. If you have a problem with alcoholism, avoid alcohol. Avoidance is always one of the first things to be done when trying to deal with any BLACK HOLE in your life. So what are some of those BLACK HOLE dangers confronting our Nation today?

Wow! So many issues to explore, and so little space to do so in a blog. Over the last eight months, we have explored multiple issues that are threatening our FREEDOM and LIBERTY in our Nation. We will not review them in this blog, because issues continue to pop up each and every week that deserve illumination and enlightenment. However, if you are new to our site, please go back and read the dozens of blogs we have posted during that time. We know they will give reason to our fight for our FREEDOM and LIBERTY, and hope they will give you courage to boldly GO FORTH to join the majority who believe our Nation is under attack from without and from within, and who will link arms with those who have gone on before us to create this great Nation and to maintain it.

MANDATES: We have a natural antipathy for this word. It goes contrary to the very fiber of who we should be as Americans, citizens of the greatest Nation on the face of the earth. This word conjures up images of oppression, tyranny, and subjugation. Unless you MANDATE FREEDOM and LIBERTY, it has no place in our Constitution or Bill of Rights. Yet, this word has been thrown about by the elite government officials, and the woke corporate oligarchs, and their media accomplices, pretending to be acts of Congress or the will of the people. This is far from the truth. There has been no Executive Order by the current occupant of the White House, and no directive from OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) ordering compliance from this spoken MANDATE. Why then is there so many in the compliant business community and industrial complexes so willing to go along with this one spoken word? The answer is simple. It is the fear of being attacked by the powerful entities within our bloated national government. They know that the current government has the power to not only shut down your business, but also levy heavy fines and even incarcerate those who would defy the MANDATE. The simple threat, whether or not spoken, is a powerful tool to be wielded by those who choose to inflict their will upon others. Somewhere along the way, our Nation has forgot that the States really control their own narratives, not a national government. Instead of being called The United States of America, we should be called The States, United in America. The union of States was created primarily for the common defense of America, and for issues obviously beyond the scope and power of any one individual state. Washington D.C. was never intended to become the seat of dictates, morals, or the source of any MANDATE to be forced upon any State. The recent use of the tool of MANDATE has placed our Nation in the position of “Playing On The Edge Of A BLACK HOLE”.

Let’s look at just a couple of the ways our Nation is “Playing On The Edge Of A BLACK HOLE”. Through the use of the current government MANDATE, we have watched many of our HEROS go to ZEROS. During the last 18 months or so, many of our most important citizens within our Nation continued to work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They risked their own lives to save others, whether they were doctors, nurses, hospital staff workers, pharmacists, police officers, firemen and women, store clerks, transportation provides, and even truckers continuing to bring the needed supplies and products to our stores and facilities. We cannot forget those who served in our armed forces who continued to serve daily. Most working in elite corporations and businesses, including those in our government and most of our schools, continued to rake in ever increasing amounts of profits, working from the safe confines of their own homes, while mom and pop businesses were restricted, owners were fined, jailed, and businesses were even shuttered as profits plunged and debts overwhelmed. Our HEROS did all of this without a vaccine, many suffered illnesses, and some even death, yet they continued to provide their much needed services. However, when the word MANDATE became the unwritten law of the land, our HEROS became ZEROS as it was now determined they could not work without becoming part of the compliant population, the illiterate mass void of the comprehension of all facts due to the current government’s narrative becoming their truth, while all opposing facts were labeled as “miss-information” or “diss-information.” So, if you were not in compliance with the vaccine MANDATE, you were laid off, forced to resign, or fired, and most of the time with little recourse, and with no unemployment benefits. The full effect of this one MANDATE has yet to been seen, but it will be massive. Just like those who lost their lives in the multitude of riots in 2020, and those who watched their life dreams evaporate when their businesses had to be closed, many of our HEROS have now been relegated to the vast pile of unimportant people, and stacked along side the multitude of others who have succumbed to the overwhelming force of one simple word spoken by the current occupant of our White House, and that word is MANDATE. Never in the history of our Nation has one word created so much despair, caused so much anguish, and has left us Playing On The Edge Of A BLACK HOLE.

Let’s consider just one more thing that leaves us Playing On The Edge Of A BLACK HOLE. One week ago, the Labor Department of our government listed the inflation rate for many items from September 2020 to September 2021. We want to list a few of them here for your review. We are sure most of you have already felt this inflation in your daily lives, but seeing the facts helps to put it into proper perspective, knowing it is not just a feeling, but a reality.

Gas – Up 42.1%

Energy – Up 24.8%

Fuel Oil – Up 42.6%

Used Cars & Trucks – Up 24.4%

Food – Up 4.6%

Clothing – Up 3.4%

Transportation Services – Up 4.4%

Meat/Poultry/Fish/Eggs – Up 10.5%

New Cars – Up 8.7%

Appliances – Up 7.1%

Electricity – Up 5.2%

Hotels – Up 18%

Restaurant Prices – Up 4.7%

We are sure these percentages have and will only continue to increase. When you consider also the “Supply Chain” issues, now as badly kinked as an old plastic garden watering hose, vehicles and appliances are in short supply as a majority of the microchips used to make them function come from Taiwan and China, the former under pressure from the latter to “re-unify”, and the latter seeks world domination, which includes the dismantling of America. So how many of the items you normally buy have gone down in price? We venture a guess as . . . . . NONE! Has your pay gone up more than these increases. We again venture a guess and say the vast majority of you would say . . . . . NOPE! That’s called inflation, and if something doesn’t happen soon, we will find ourselves deep into a recession. Our current government predicted a few months ago a 7% increase in GDP (Gross Domestic Product) during this current period of time. It was lowered recently to 2.7%. A few days ago the actual report was 2%. Recession is “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the market, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale retail sales.” (Wikipedia) Just so we have something to compare this downward trend with, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U. S. Department of Commerce, “Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 33.1 percent in the third quarter of 2020.” This occurred under the direction of the previous government administration. Our current government is “Playing On The Edge Of A BLACK HOLE”. Because the current government continues to print money, the cash in your pocket or purse is worth less and less with each passing day. Your pay raises are not keeping up with the increasing rate of inflation. All of this means you are getting poorer and poorer. But don’t despair, on Wednesday of last week the Wall Street Journal announced the current government in Washington D.C. wants to pay each illegal alien who had to remain in Mexico because of the 2018 “zero tolerance” policy of the previous administration, $450,000 (up to $1,000,000 for each family). As a citizen of this Nation, you may be getting poorer, but those who illegally enter our country will be getting much richer off of your taxpayer dollars. Now, aren’t you happy? That is of course assuming you are still employed and not fired for believing that FREEDOM and LIBERTY still mean something in this Nation of ours. If this upsets you in any way, don’t just be mad and fret about it. Do something about it! Do it “Peacefully and Patriotically.” We heard that somewhere before.

EXIT STRATEGY. When our Nation enters into any conflict, everyone wants to know what is the end game, the plan to withdraw from the conflict. We have become hyper sensitive to this question over the last few years as it seems our Nation has blundered into conflicts without nailing down the EXIT STRATEGY. Some believe it is partly due to the industrial war complex within our Nation that thrives off of conflict. Remember, it is more about the drive for more profit, than the pursuit of a righteous effort leading to a definitive conclusion. Once our Nation is deep into a conflict, there is often confusion as to why we are really there, what was really our purpose in getting involved, and then the question must be dealt with, “Now what?”. So, we point to the picture above, as the lady character is obviously upset, she knows there is a place of exit, but she really doesn’t have the courage or strength to seek out the exit door and leave the situation in which she has found herself. We bring this idea of having an EXIT STRATEGY into our blog as our Nation is barreling toward a similar situation. There are those within our current government hell-bent on pursuing courses of action from which our Nation may never be able to find, let alone apply, an EXIT STRATEGY.

There are many issues confronting our Nation today that seem to be void of having an EXIT STRATEGY. Certainly, how our current administration chose to retreat from Afghanistan was a huge failure of not having and properly executing an EXIT STRATEGY. What is the plan to bring our southern border under control from the invasion of illegal aliens pouring across our border bringing deadly drugs like fentanyl, and proliferating human trafficking? What is the plan to bring down our energy prices? What is the plan to stabilize our inflation, touted as “transient”, but we all know better than that if we have done any shopping of late? What is the plan to wean many citizens off of the government dole and get them back into the work force? What is the plan of our Department Of Justice, which is more intent upon prosecuting men and women who are exercising their Constitutional rights to confront school boards who have become tools of the woke minority, than prosecuting those who violated federal law by destroying voting records, or being blind to the infiltration of Chinese Communist Party money pouring into the coffers of our Senators, Representatives, and current government officials and family members? We are certain you can think of other challenges facing our Nation today which seem void of having a proper EXIT STRATEGY. We only want to focus on one, and that is the trillion dollar “Human Infrastructure” plan being pushed by those within our Senate and House of Representatives, without having an over-whelming majority to do so. We have addressed in a previous blog the cost of this plan, but now we want to share just a few of the items included within in it. Most importantly, we want everyone to know that if this plan is made law, the likelihood of having an EXIT STRATEGY out of it will not only be difficult, it may be impossible, knowing the history of projects once funded by our government often remain funded beyond any reasonable limits, often even morphing into other ways of sucking out additional taxpayers dollars. We will call this plan the “Inhuman infrastructure”, as it has diabolic, harsh, malignant, oppressive, fiendish, and ruthless qualities (the freedictionary.com). As of this writing, the final cost is still being debated, or put another way, those in control of our current government are in the arm twisting, promising favors stage of negotiations. The actual cost of this plan cannot be accurately calculated, because the sources of income to feed this pig are undetermined and ethereal in nature. Do not be gaslighted into thinking this plan will cost us nothing, as is being said by the current occupant of the White House. The old adage remains prescient, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is”. Let us look at just a few items contained within this trillion dollar plan to open up new, never-ending programs. Ask yourself this question: “How will any of these funded programs directly benefit you?”

To begin with, understand that this is the most expensive bill in U. S. history. The cost of this bill is estimated to be 8 times the cost of what it cost to build our Nation’s interstate highway system. This bill forces Americans to use wind and solar power. Do you recall the rolling blackouts in California during high wind events? Do you remember the blackouts in Texas when the windmills froze up? Do you realize the windmills are bird killing machines? None of these windmill machines are located within view of any places where our woke elite tyrants live. This plan blocks energy exploration, and increases taxes on existing energy producers. This bill places more taxes on American goods, employers, and cigarette smokers. This bill doubles the number of Internal Revenue Service agents, and they will be spying on your bank accounts, knowing how much you have, and what you get from where, and what you spend your money on. Now for the current figures.

2 Trillion Dollars – Tax Increase

400 Billion Dollars – Provides for Government Day Care

100 Billion Dollars – Amnesty for 10 million illegal aliens (free college, tax credits, and welfare)

80 Billion Dollars – Tax Hike on Small Businesses

50 Billion Dollars – Death Taxes

27 Billion Dollars – For a Green Bank (read that as a place where donors can go for cheap loans)

25 Billion Dollars – For Butterflies

25 Billion Dollars – For Desert Fish

25 Billion Dollars – For Mussels (shells that live in water)

10 Billion Dollars – Green New Deal Slush Fund for Colleges (read that as money for indoctrinations)

7 Billion Dollars – Green New Deal Climate Police

7 Billion Dollars – For Ivy League Schools (already the wealthiest schools in America)

4 Billion Dollars – For a Slush Fund to remove “Racist Infrastructure”

2 Billion Dollars – Green New Deal Job Training

500 Million Dollars – for “Culturally Appropriate” Lunches

250 Million Dollars – For Health Insurance Company Bailouts

There will be Money For: Free Housing for Convicted Felons; Subsidies for Single Moms; Taxpayer Funded Abortions; and Grants to Treat People for Loneliness.

If you buy an electric vehicle, you will get a $7,500 Tax Credit. But, if you buy from a union establishment, you will get an extra $4,500!

There are big rebates, up to $14,000 to buy energy efficient appliances. But, only if you buy from a union plant!

There will be family leave (they want 12 weeks), even if your spouse’s grandmother is sick, and the check will not come from the business, but from the U. S. Treasury.

There will be up to $20,000 for first time home buyers. But, only for minorities moving into a non-minority community. They do not even have to give the money back if they never move into the house.

There will be free community college, and universal pre-k. The states will have to pay these benefits.

There is a requirement for Equity Training (read that as Reverse Racism) for Healthcare Workers.

There are Tax Credits for the Rich to Give to Their Favorite Universities.

One can argue over the price tag of this eventual bill, but do not be fooled by the seemingly reducing cost of the plan. The original plan was to be funded with the cost spread out over 10 years, but now they are reducing the funding for only 2 or 3 years, meaning the overall funding will be less initially. The trick is that all of the programs will still be initiated. Once they are funded, and when that funding runs out in 2 or 3 years, there will be a push to continue funding them, they will just be renewed for an on-going basis, paid for year-by-year, or extended for another few years to make the over all life-long cost seem to be less. Once a clock is wound up, it will run it’s course. You cannot unwind a clock, unless you sever the spring. Once again, THERE WILL BE NO EXIT STRATEGY. What is as equally worrisome, is that this is just one more attack on our FREEDOM and LIBERTY. They are being systematically removed from us one by one, and it will be hard, if not impossible, to get them back. Like the novice carpenter once said, ” I’ve already trimmed the board three times, and it’s still too short?” Once you trim off a piece of your FREEDOM and LIBERTY, it cannot be glued back on. If you treasure our Constitution and Bill of Rights, you must be compelled to action. The above mentioned plan being rammed through our Congress will potentially be voted on next week. You need to call, text, and email your Representatives and Senators and tell them to “JUST SAY NO” (our blog posted on September 27, 2021). Our Nation is counting on you, as are our children and grandchildren, and all who will follow them in life. Be counted among the worthy, in lock step with those who have sacrificed so much to create, and to maintain, this great Nation in which we are so blessed to reside.

Sure! We certainly have a problem with COVID-19 in our Nation, but that is not THE AMERICAN VIRUS we want to address in this blog. The COVID-19 virus certainly has been a part of the attempt to disintegrate our Nation. It certainly has been a catalyst, and it has complicated confronting the challenges to preserving our FREEDOM and LIBERTY upon which this Nation was built beginning in 1776. We want to do a deep dive into what really is driving the pursuit to remake our Nation.

This last week most of us were aware of, and made mention of, Columbus Day, celebrated on October 11 (although the 12th of October, 1492 was the actual calendar date of the event). Those in the woke media, cancel culture, and those in the current government and large elite corporations, spent most of the time disparaging Christopher Columbus as a white supremacist, interloper, thief, and down right despicable character, one to be ridiculed, condemned, and erased from history. All of you who have lived a life without one mistake or sin, go ahead and cast your stone in righteous judgement. We believe there are few, if any, of those who are truly honest with themselves, who would be willing to be the first to throw your rock of condemnation. In doing so, you would only in effect be judging and condemning yourself. In contrast, we believe the inspiration, curiosity, and courage displayed by Columbus is one to be admired. He was simply trying to find a new trade route to China. He never did set foot on the continental borders of our Nation on any of his four voyages to the “new world”. What he did do was map and chart out areas never before seen by those who invested in his explorations. He was not English, he was Italian, and had support from Spain as well.

Why are many of Christopher Columbus statues being torn down? This gets to the heart of THE AMERICAN VIRUS. There are groups within our Nation who believe in a “one-world-view”. We call it being a “Globalist”. They are those who seek a utopian civilization where there are no national borders, where all live in peace and harmony. Consider for a moment the English rock singer/song writer of The Beatles, John Lennon and his song, “Imagine”, released in 1971. In his own words, Lennon stated: “‘Imagine’, which says: ‘Imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics,’ is virtually the Communist Manifesto, even though I’m not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement.” Lennon’s wife Ono, who had a hand in the song’s creation, described the lyrical statement of “Imagine” as “just what John believed: that we are all one country, one world, one people.” (Wikipedia) When considering the evolution of youth during the 60’s and 70’s (The era of Woodstock and sexual liberation), it is not a far stretch to conclude that there was a growing undercurrent within our Nation of young, impressionable people, who now happen to be in charge of many aspects of our Nation’s government and elite corporations, that have made it their mission in life, whether consciously or not, to see an evolution to a “Globalist” view.

We do not want to be contrarians to a desire for a more perfect world, one in which peace would reign supreme, but we are realists. No two people on this earth see eye-to-eye on every subject. We all have our individual desires, interests, plans, goals, and methods. Often we come in conflict with others who do not agree with us. It can be over the color you prefer, or the way one speaks, or it could be the way you wear your hair, or the how you apply your makeup. It could be over more deeply rooted beliefs like where-in lies one faith, or one’s ethnicity, heritage, or tradition. To be able to de-escalate and completely eliminate any of these potential conflicts is to require one to be neutered to the point of being a mindless clone, an identical copy. Where would this lead? There would be nothing interesting, for everything would always be the same. You would all want to marry the same person. There would be nothing to motivate you to improve upon anything. You would all look alike and act alike. How would you really like it if every restaurant you went to looked identical and served all the same meals, on the same plates? Pretty boring, huh? The point we are trying to make is that part of what makes life interesting and exciting, is variety. It can encourage to improve, do better, expand one’s horizon, leading to a greater degree of happiness and fulfilment. To not recognize the beautiful power in diversity, is to not appreciate differences that have the potential to make the sum of us together, greater than each individual part. This is what made our Nation such a great experiment. Not that we were all of the same ethnicity or belief, from the same traditions with the same histories, but that together we melded our strengths together to be greater than the individual parts. That is why our Nation rose to prominence in less than 300 years. That is something to celebrate, not to tear down.

Those who seek a new world order, are for the most part those who desire to wipe Christopher Columbus off the map of history. They are the ones who claim that those who settled this Nation, beginning with the Pilgrims in 1620. who were seeking religious FREEDOM, were imperialists, white expansionist colonists. This is the basis for what is called “The 1619 Project“, an ideology which aims to reframe this Nation’s history by placing the consequences of slavery at the feet of these Pilgrims who sought simple LIBERTY to worship and live apart from the tyrannical dictates of the Church and Crown of England. Those who claim this Nation was founded upon the backs of blacks who were in servitude, see all whites within our Nation today are imperialists who have stolen the land and lives of indigenous peoples. They seek to draw distinctions between races, contrary to that which has made this country so great, where the blending together of all those who seek FREEDOM and LIBERTY, regardless of race, origin, faith, or any other form of distinction, have been melded together so that we can all prosper, being judged upon the content of our character, not upon the color of our skin (paraphrased from the “I Have A Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963).

Has our Nation made poor decisions in how certain groups of people have been treated through the years? Yes. Many Indian Nations were oppressed and dislodged from lands they had once enjoyed. Many blacks were held in slavery for years. Lands in the south and southwest were fought and won from the Mexicans and Spanish. Our Japanese citizens were placed into internment camps during WWII by the Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt. That is history. What is done cannot be undone. But this Nation has matured and improved, correcting many of the mistakes of the past, and has become the most giving Nation in the world. No nation has done more to help struggling people around the world, whether supplying support and funding for nations ravaged by nature or disease, or by giving the blood of our Nation to overcome the threat of tyranny in World Wars I and II. The FREEDOM and LIBERTY experienced today by those who are indigenous, black, and from all ethnicities, is unparalleled in any other nation on earth. Most other nations on this earth are what would be considered fairly ethnically pure, meaning a society unblended with various races, histories, ancestries, and traditions. Our Nation is unique in that most who have come to our shores in times past have decided to become Americans, enjoying the diversity, the opportunities, and the privilege to be a part of such a prosperous Nation, not divided by race or ethnicities, but united in the pursuit of FREEDOM and LIBERTY, where innovation, invention are motivators for success. These ideals were the foundation blocks of this Nation, built upon the belief that all are created equal, and that these ideals were given to us by God, not by man, or through man’s governance.

With the above thoughts in mind, it is not surprising that there are those within our Nation trying to re-make our history, and alter the course ahead to a different type of society. In their vision, all would be welcome into our Nation without exception, since we have been such a flawed nation, riddled with greed, with a superiority complex, and an apparent hatred for others who are “not like us”. One has to wonder why so many people are currently invading our southern border illegally to come to such a terrible nation? Because we have apparently been so bad as a people, the intellectual elites believe we would welcome their leadership, for after all, only they know what is best for us, and would take care of our needs . . . . . as they see fit, and would allow us to live within their gracious reign. In this utopia, you would have no desire to improve yourself, for there would be no purpose in doing so. They would supply only what we would “need” to live, and any of your “wants” would not be important enough to be granted. They would be our benefactors, until we are found unworthy and unwanted, and we would then be ushered quietly out of existence. We really hate to mention it, but this is Communism, a form of Marxism. Those words may be too strong for some, so we will use the word Socialism instead, since many seem to find that concept more palatable. But, as Margaret Thatcher once said, “The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

THE AMERICAN VIRUS then is this wide-spread effort, attacking from many fronts, in many different ways, in an attempt to overcome and remake this great Nation. It is destroying our ancestors, weakening our fathers, breaking down our families, destroying our belief systems, and polluting the minds of our children. What should be clear to all is that the vast majority of those who are light skinned, whether English, Irish, or Spanish, share no responsibility for past National indiscretions, and those who currently have darker skin colors were, for the vast majority, never the direct recipients of those indiscretions committed generations ago. As great wisdom from the ages has taught us: “The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the quilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.” (Ezekiel 18:20).The attempts to dredge up selected history, which is often misunderstood and applied, serves only to create division and distrust, with the only purpose of fomenting anger and rage. This is the crux of the Marxist philosophy, to tear down, in order to reform. There is no magic formula or knight in shinning armor coming to the rescue to return our Nation to it’s core principals where equality is heralded. Equal outcomes were never promised, because that is up to the individual’s ingenuity, passion, intellect, and inspiration to achieve. There is only one hope, one method, which can eliminate THE AMERICAN VIRUS, and that is YOU! It will only be through your efforts, standing in the breach (see our blog on June 27, 2021 titled “WHO WILL STAND IN THE BREACH”). You must be active and speak out unashamedly, speaking to your family, friends, and neighbors, being active in attending local school boards, and calling your Representatives and Senators telling them to heed your calls to stop wasteful governmental spending, to stop the tyrannical mask and vaccine mandates, and to once again educate our children, not with the divisive CRT, but with the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. And let’s throw in teaching them all of our American history while we are at it! Remember, our FREEDOM and LIBERTY are at stake.

You are looking at SHURIKEN. Ninja stars, or throwing stars. These are Japanese hidden weapons, used more as a distraction rather than as a primary weapon. If you have watched any action movie with fighting Ninjas, you have undoubtedly seen them used in the combat scenes. They can certainly distract an opponent, even injure, but they are not usually the weapon of choice to overcome the enemy. These stars come in multiple sizes and shapes, with each sharp point able to maim, and certainly something to avoid if cast in your direction. They will distract your attention from the primary threat, the opponent. Each point on the star is equally dangerous. Each point is worthy of note, and when the star is thrown, it matters not which point will hit the target, so the sum of the weapon’s points are to be equally avoided.

Our Nation is currently under attack from the SHURIKEN, not one made of steel or alloy, but a composite of ideologies, threats, mandates, illegalities, greed, and immorality. In order to avoid these points of attacks, we need to give heed to the wisdom of the ages. “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandon; struck down, but not destroyed.” (2 Corinthians 8:8-9 NIV) Let us count many of the points of attack being hurled our way. If you are not yet aware of them, it is long past time that you be aroused from your slumber, be informed of those points of attack, take defensive posture, and move purposefully forward to overcome our oppositions. We will list some of the points of attack, in no particular order. We are sure these few can remind you of others.

Point One: Our reckless and irresponsible retreat from Afghanistan, and how many undocumented Afghans were welcomed into our Nation without proper verification, is dangerous. Even though the current occupant of the White House said we would leave no American behind, he did, along with Green Card holders and SIVs (Special Immigrant Visa) holders. Consider the 85 Billion dollars of equipment and weapons he left behind. Consider forfeiting the only airbase foothold we had in the most turbulent portion of our world. Consider the soldiers lives lost in the retreat, the targeting and death of innocent adults and children, the abandoning of our allies, and the emboldening of our enemies. This one point alone can wound to the point of the demise of our Nation over time.

Point Two: Our Nation has been placed into a financial period of STAGFLATION. Our economy is STAGnant, because many business have been mandated closed or highly restricted. We see dozens of container ships parked off the coast of California, because we do not have the personnel and trucks to be able to distribute all of the goods throughout our Nation, because our current government thought it better to pay people not to work, rather than incentivize them to work. The most recent estimate for increase in jobs was predicted to be 500,000. Instead, it was only 194,000. No wonder. Why go to work when you can make more staying home. Why go work where you are mandated to get an EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) injection, with questionable effectiveness and longevity (read our blog on April 21, 2021 titled “VACCINE EFFICACY”), and have to wear a useless mask (read our blog on March 21, 2021 titled “MASKS vs COVID-19 – THE FACTS”). Why do we have all those cargo ships coming to the Nation? Because many of our Nation’s corporations have been chasers of the all mighty dollar, since they know they can have things made more cheaply overseas. InFLATION is increasing because the current government increased the cost of fuel by shuttering many of our energy producers. The cost of all goods and services are increasing because of limited supply, and because the Congress continues to allow the current government to print more money, reducing the value of each dollar held by each citizen. It will get worse as our Congress continues to feed the beast of our National government by now increasing the National debt to nearly $30,000,000,000,000.00. That’s TRILLIONS, not billions!

Point Three: No one can truly deny that the current occupant of the White House has some sort of cognitive disability. He cannot remember important names of individuals in his administration, or of those who visit from nations around the world. He stumbles in his sentences, even though reading from a teleprompter. He rarely allows others to ask questions of him, often remarking that if he did, he would be in trouble with those who apparently are handling him. He often makes statements that are obviously untrue, or statements that make little sense at all. This is a dangerous world in which we live, and the person who stands at the top of our Nation needs to be fully in control of all aspects of reasoning, speech, and actions, at all times, day and night. Whoever is advising or dictating words and actions is also failing our Nation. The most recent Quinnipiac Pole indicates that the current occupant of the White House is now polling at only 38% approval. Coronavirus response – 50% Disapproval. Economy – 55% Disapproval. Action as Commander in Chief – 58% Disapproval. Taxes – 54% Disapproval. Foreign Policy – 58% Disapproval. Immigration issues and the condition at the Mexican border – 67% Disapproval. Is he honest – 50% say No. Good leadership skills – 56% say No. Is his administration competent in running the administration – 55% say No. This administration is spiraling out of control.

Point Four: Let us concentrate a little more on the current government’s handling of COVID-19. The constant moving of the goal posts (read our blog on April 28, 2021 titled “MOVING THE GOAL POSTS”.) First, we do not need masks, then we do, then we need two, then if we are vaccinated we are good to go, then we are not (read our post on May 23, 2021 titled “WHIPLASH”.) There has been an emphasis on denying any countering narrative to the current government’s narrative, by calling everything else “miss-information”. There has been an ignoring of the evidence provided through multiple doctor and immunologist’s reports of the effectiveness of multiple therapeutics that have the potential to not only prevent deaths, but also unnecessary hospitalizations and the use of ventilators. There is a new therapeutic, an antiviral pill, called Molnupiravir. It is currently on the shelf, pre-purchased by the current government, with 1.7 million treatment courses, but not being released. No one has died after having been given it (Dr. Marty Makary, Fox News Medical Advisor, 10/8/2021). Let us also consider the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System). This system is designed to report COVID-19 adverse effects from temps to neuropathy. “As of Sept 27, 2021, 569,294 adverse event reports associated with COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S. according to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).” (Just the News, Oct 3, 2021.) It should be noted that many large hospital systems have been squashing many reports. Actual reports could be multiples of what has been reported. If one considers all symptoms from receiving the COVID-19 injection, the number could be closer to 2.5 million. We are not against vaccines. We are in favor of each citizen’s right to choose (read our blog on May 26, 2021 titled “MY BODY, MY CHOICE”).

Point Five: Where has true justice gone in our Nation? Our current government is allowing illegal aliens into our Nation, flowing in seemingly unimpeded across our southern border. They are bringing with them diseases, and narcotics like fentanyl, that when laced with simply one oxycodone pill can kill. The drug cartels are also profiting off of sex trafficking, Most attempting to cross illegally into our Nation are having to pay thousands of dollars to the cartels in order to do so. Many children are being used over and over again. Unlike drugs which can only be sold once, each child can be sold and used multiple times. Instead of prosecuting by our current laws, our current government, via the Department Of Justice (DOJ), wants to prosecute our border agents simply for doing their job. The DOJ also is now wanting to go after parents who are using their freedom of speech rights to defend and protect their own children from unnecessary mask and vaccine mandates, and from the divisive and Marxist policy of Critical Race Theory. We have seen violations of laws by government or contracted officials erasing or destroying materials they have been ordered or required to keep by law. Yet no one is ever held accountable for their actions. Over the last many months, cities were on fire, police and citizens were attacked and killed, but few were ever held accountable, and often they were simply released to re-offend. Justice delayed is justice denied. We have witnessed simple non-violent trespass violations turned into justification for solitary confinement for months in prison, without even being charged. The inequity in prosecution only adds to the fact that there are now two justice systems within our Nation. Rules and laws for thee, but not for me.

More points could be examined, but it is sufficient enough to recognize the few we have listed above. Any one of these points is enough to cause harm to our Nation. When combined, this is an extremely dangerous course into which our Nation has been led. Together, these, along with other points you can add, are a direct threat to our FREEDOM and LIBERTY within our Nation. It is time to go on offense and stop ducking, dodging, and accept being wounded by the SHURIKENs being thrown at those of us who treasure our Constitution and Bill Of Rights. Be proud of our history and how far we have come as a Nation. Protect your children from those who seek to make them surfs of an ever-expanding government, and from the tyrannical elites in the woke media, corporate culture, and educational systems. This is our Nation. “THERE ARE MORE OF US, THAN OF THEM”, (read this blog posted June 20, 2021). Let us all be found in worthy company with those who have given their lives to build and protect the greatest Nation that has ever existed on this earth.

WE ARE PUBLISHING THIS BLOG EARLY AS THE INFORMATION IS TIME SENSITIVE. WE URGE EVERYONE TO READ THIS AS SOON AS IT IS PUBLISHED, AND ACT UPON IT ACCORDINGLY. Unless catastrophe rears it’s ugly head, we will resume our regular blog posts on Sunday, October 10, 2021.

We wonder how many of you have a $100 bill in you wallet or purse? Maybe a few of you have never even seen one? Those bills are not exactly what you would take with you to buy a few groceries. Besides, most people today use credit or debit cards. Few think of how much cash actually is transferred with each purchase. When it comes time to pay those monthly credit card bills, there really is no concept of the cash exchanging hands at that time, since either it is done automatically through a bank transfer you set up, or maybe you still write a check. Maybe a few of you actually pay cash for everything you can. Still, it is unavoidable to realize that the cost of everything is going up, and that the value of each dollar you have is worth less and less each passing week.

How many of you know a millionaire personally? Maybe a few do, but we are sure the vast majority of you do not. Some of you may have assets and bank or stock holdings that if cashed out might put you in that category of being a millionaire, but even at that, most of what you say is yours is not easily liquidated, turned into readily available cash. You might be considered a millionaire on paper only, certainly not exemplified in lifestyle. Do any of you know a billionaire personally? Highly unlikely if you are spending your time to read these blogs, because they don’t wallow in minutia like do the majority of the citizens within our Nation. They are above the fray and isolated from any effects of rising costs, inflation, or the daily grind of simply trying to get by. Do you realize you would have to know 1,000 millionaires to equal the market value of only one billionaire? That is a stretch of our mind to even comprehend that much wealth. Now, here is where it gets really difficult. Do you realize it would take 1,000 billionaires to equal the value of only one trillion dollars? That blows our mind! It is simply incomprehensible to try and relate that to our everyday existence.

Considering what one trillion dollars is, our current government has been pushing for a 3.5 trillion dollar “Human Infrastructure Bill”. This “Voting Rights” bill will strip away many of the voting safeguards placed in law by individual states, making voter fraud not simply possible, but likely. Just to make sure that the “woke” minority can steal and seal away their most coveted dreams, they have lumped the one-plus trillion dollar “infrastructure” bill into this process bloating the over all bill to nearly 5 trillion dollars! Around one-half of the “infrastructure” bill has nothing to do with roads and bridges, and at least one-quarter of it has no way of being funded. Much of what is provided for true infrastructure is riddled with threshold quotas for diversity and equity. The current government claims this is part of their “Build Back Better” plan, which we have renamed in a previous blog “BILLIONS BUNGLED BADLY” (September 5, 2021), which we now need to call “TRILLIONS TERRIFYINGLY THREATENED.” The only way that the current government can pass and fund any of these dream giveaways, is to raise the debt ceiling on our government spending. It will be an orgy of spending, and most of it will be frittered away on administrative fees, pet projects, and will be provided to NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) who are not elected and for which there is limited, if any, accountability. If they need more time to twist the arms of congress men and women, by offering pet project funding, a Continuing Resolution (CR) will be passed to “kick the can” down the road one more time. We want to point out, if it is not yet evident to you, that the money they want to spend is not their money, but your money! They intend to get it anyway they can. They will print more money, which will destabilize the dollar on the world market and lead to the potential of its demise as the standard vehicle for world-wide transactions (meaning we could no longer print our own way out of financial ruin), not to mention how it will devalue each dollar you hold in your hand. They will also increase taxes on everyone. Do not fall into the trap of believing what they say, for their words are lies. If you buy groceries or gas for your vehicle, you will be paying more in taxes, not to mention the increase in what you will have to fork over to the IRS each year. Many have stated that this bill being pushed is much more than 5 trillion dollars. Our Nation is already in debt 27 trillion dollars, and they want to add more. To put that in prospective for you, if our whole Nation got together and decided to pay off that debt, each family’s share would be well over $200,000! If this bill is pushed through, you will be leaving a debt upon the families of your children and grandchildren of over $300,000! We want each one of you to look at what 5 trillion dollars looks like.

$5,000,000,000,000.00

Look at this number from a different perspective. Bill Gates, was the richest person on earth in 2017 according to the Forbes rich list. He was worth only 86 billion dollars (that’s billions, not the bigger trillions). If at that time he was to take all of his money out in $100 bills, and stack them all up, it would reach to a height of 55 miles above the earth. nearly 6 times higher than where jets normally fly. One trillion dollars would reach around 631 miles, two and one-half times higher than the International Space Station. (the Calculator site, Becky Kleanthous, 15 February 2021.) That would be just for 1 trillion dollars. Are your eyes watering yet? Has your head exploded yet? But here we are in our Nation considering adding yet more debt to our already struggling economy. Why? What are they thinking in Washington D.C.? So we come to the title of our blog, “JUST SAY NO”. This was a saying made famous by the Nation’s First Lady, Nancy Reagan, in the 1980’s and early 1990’s as part of the U.S. “War on Drugs”. We are adapting this saying to fit a different kind of drug, the drug of money. We are encouraging all to “JUST SAY NO” when it comes to increasing our National debt ceiling, pushing the decision to a later date with a CR (Continuing Resolution), and the two “infrastructure” bills being rammed through by our Representatives and Senators in Washington D.C.

Each one of us must live within a budget. If we do not, we will go bankrupt, or be put in jail. Why do we allow our government to so recklessly plod forward throwing our money away on many useless grants and dreams, most becoming sources of revenue for those who really do become millionaires or even billionaires. We have allowed this to continue on for way too long. It is time to put a stop to this dangerous and damaging policy of always increasing our Nation’s debt limit. We simply need to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! “JUST SAY NO”. Are we alone in the belief that our Nation’s funding is out of control? No. A Rasmussen pole came out on September 27, 2021 with the following numbers in their poling. Should the debt ceiling be raised? 40% in favor, 52% oppose. Do you want the 3.5 trillion dollar spending package to be passed? 36% in favor, 53% oppose. Is the spending package a “Trojan Horse” (hiding devastation disguised in a package of free gifts)? 33% say no, 59% believe it is. We are not alone. As we wrote in a previous blog on June 20, 2021, “THERE ARE MORE OF US, THAN OF THEM”. We simply need to tell all who will hear us, “JUST SAY NO”.

Our Nation is at a crisis point where bureaucracy has bloated to the point of explosion. When it explodes, the infectious puss will be everywhere, and there will be no ability to save the failing patient . . . . . our Nation. We need to reign in the out of control spending and streamline our government back to the intentions our Founding Fathers had for it. The states, being closer to the people, were to be the innovators and inventers of policies and procedures best suited to each region, to each state. It was never intended that the government in Washington D.C. was to be the overlord and dictator of one-size-fits-all mandates. We need to have a cleaning of the house in our Nation’s Capitol. Too many are living lavishly off the dole of our uncontrollable government spending. We can emphasize how out of control our bureaucracy has become by pointing out only a couple ways this has happened.

Consider for a moment the bureaucracy being created within our national education system. From 1975 to 2008, the number of faculty increased 10%, while the administration increased 221% . For schools between 1950 to 2009, students increased 96%, while teachers increased 252% and administration increased 702%. (Tucker Carlson Tonight, September 24, 2021, Sumantra Maitra, Senior Contributor to The Federalist and a National Fellow at the Center For National Interest.) Consider also what the current government bills include. The “infrastructure” bill is 2700 pages thick. The “Human Infrastructure” bill is still being written (but they still want to vote on it), and it could exceed 8,000 pages in length. It is planned for an increase to the IRS budget of 79 billion dollars. This will allow them to increase from 75,000 to 125,000 employees. The additional 50,000 will not all be going after the few billionaires in our Nation, because they will instead be going after you. Not yet in the bill, but expected to be included by all in the know, is a provision for the IRS to be informed of, by all banking institutions, any personal transaction over $600. The government will be looking at all of your finances, and they will be wanting more than what you currently give. You can expect more audits, more rulings against you, and you will be paying more to pay to the IRS in taxes due, penalties, and interest. We are sure there will be substantial increases in Capital Gains and Death Taxes. Aren’t we having fun giving more and more of our hard earned money to the wasteful bureaucrats in Washington D.C.? If you don’t think that is fun or a good idea . . . . . . “JUST SAY NO”.

If you feel as we do that our current government needs to work within a budget, that there should be no raising of the debt ceiling, no Continuing Resolutions (CRs), and no to the 5 trillion in “infrastructure” spending, you need to call and email your Representatives in the House, and your Senators. Be kind but forceful. Tell them to “JUST SAY NO”. It is time to take back our FREEDOM and LIBERTY.

Most of us are familiar with the term “The Fog of War”. For those who may not be familiar with this term, following is a pretty good definition. “Nebel des Krieges (German) is the uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations. The term seeks to capture the uncertainty regarding one’s own capability, adversary capability, and adversary intent during an engagement, operation, or campaign. ” (Wikipedia). We want to adapt this term making reference not to a kinetic war, but to a political, philosophical conflict, attempting to remake America in an image not envisioned by the founders of our Nation. We call this “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”.

There are a lot of suggestions that have been put forward as to how one should more safely drive at night, or in fog as depicted in the short video above. In a more succinct rule, one should never out-drive your ability to see and to stop or avoid an obstruction safely. At night, never out-drive your headlights and your ability to stop within the range of your headlight beams. In fog, you should never drive faster than your ability to stop, or avoid obstacles, within the distance you can see ahead. In the video above, the driver was fortunate to have an emergency escape path on the right of the road. Had the conflict of traffic occurred five seconds later, there would have been no escape from a catastrophic and undoubtedly deadly crash. Our attempt in this blog is to relate the driving experience above to the current life experiences of most citizens living within our Nation today. Many in our Nation today are living in “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”.

In “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”, many of our Nation’s citizens are unsure of what lies all around them. Certainly there is an unawareness of what potentially lies ahead. It cannot be accurately seen or predicted. There are hazards just waiting to cause conflict, and potential ruin. Even though their gaze may be focused ahead, wondering what lies beyond the ability to see, there is without a doubt an inability to see or recognize what is to the left or to the right. It is though one is proceeding through life with blinders on, those flaps placed on the side of horses heads preventing their eyesight from seeing things that could startle them from either side, keeping them focused on the road ahead. For humans, peripheral vision is very important. Being able to see what is approaching from the side could allow one to be better able to make alterations in proceeding forward. To ignore what lies to the left or right in our life can deny one the ability to avoid a catastrophe in our path ahead. Just as in the video above, that driver had an escape path which allowed the continuation safely forward. There is also an unfortunate tendency to ignore what lies behind. True, one cannot drive safely forward by only watching the rearview mirror, but it has been provided in a vehicle as a reminder that hazards can also come from behind. We believe many in “THE FOG OF AMERICANA” forget what has happened before in our Nation. Many seem to live with a form of long-term memory loss. Many seem only concerned with what is happening today. When driving, do you recall the last major intersection you drove through? If your car breaks down on the road, do you recall how far you need to walk back to attain service? If you have driven in an unusual location, without navigational guidance, could you retrace your route to get back to where you started? What in the world does any of this have to do with living life in our Nation today?

Let us start with the view ahead. There is a need for us to spend time in rational thought to be as predictive as possible as to what may or may not lie ahead for us individually, or for us collectively as a Nation. This requires an analysis of the plethora of information and data that is available. Unfortunately, most of what is widely available is biased to form a particular narrative supporting the “woke” agenda, current government and corporate elites, and in conjunction with a mostly compliant media. To a great degree, these forces have been successful in helping to create and maintain “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”. In order to proceed safely forward to a successful destination, all sources of information and data needs to be incorporated to become best informed, to obtain the best possible outcome. This requires the evaluation of even that which is labeled as “miss-information”, as it often times contradicts the agenda of those wishing to control the narrative leading to their own desired outcomes. As we move forward, we need to do so cautiously making sure we do not out-drive our ability to see what lies ahead. Blindly rushing forward will only eventually lead to catastrophe.

Few things are more devastating in life as having been blind-sided by something we didn’t see coming. We are caught off guard, unprepared, and often permanently impacted by the effects. When driving, you should continue to scan left and right, not rigidly focused ahead. When approaching an intersection, do you look to the left and right to insure someone else isn’t trying to occupy the same space in the middle with you at the same time? When driving on a highway, are you aware of emergency lanes, or ditches and other obstructions that could hinder potential avoidance of on-coming conflicts? When it comes to the direction of our Nation, are we aware of movements, forces, agendas that are not in our clear view. In “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”, much is being purposefully hidden and obscured hoping that by the time they become apparent, it will be too late to make adjustments or even prevent altering changes to the core of our Constitution and Bill Of Rights?

To know the past is to better know the future. When we as a Nation fail to recognize who we are as a consequence of our past, we will be no better than a ship without a rudder, driven at will by the current of time, winds of change, and waves of force. When residing in “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”, many have succumbed to the idea that the past is irrelevant, destructive to know, something to be avoided, and something to be changed. Do you ever wonder who your ancestors were? How did they live? What did they do? What were their hopes and dreams? Have their dreams become our nightmares? If they have, why and how has this happened? There are a few in the “woke” minority that aim to re-write our history, in hopes of justifying their perceptions of today. In their attempts to do so, they are only recreating disasters that our Nation has fought to overcome in the last two hundred plus years. Without a clear view of what lies behind in our Nation’s history, we may be doomed to repeat it. As we look behind in our rearview mirror, we need to be reminded of what has come before, so that we will not repeat the errors of the past, but more importantly, be able to improve upon that which has already been conquered. Tearing down historical statues, breaking and re-writing well established laws, and altering processes and procedures that have been placed purposefully for our Nation’s protection and sustainability, all contribute to forgetting from whence we come, and if that happens, we will lose contact with the reason we left, and where we wanted to go. Our moving forward will have no purpose. Our Nation will end up in the dustbin of historical relics, failed experiments, and dashed dreams.

Why is it that so many of our citizens seem so satisfied to drive blindly forward? It is because so many are living in “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”. We believe many have been lulled into a state of lethargic satisfaction. While perceiving all is well within their narrow view or bubble of influence, being able to make due with the seemingly status quo, accepting the false premise that it is always better to “go along, to get along”, many will soon find the quicksand of a new reconstruction era is ever-consuming, and will lead to the demise not only of individual FREEDOM and LIBERTY, but also to the destruction of the same for our Nation, and for all who will follow us in life. We also believe many in our Nation feel so overwhelmed with the constant barrage of so many miss-managed national issues by our current government, that there is a tendency to simply shrink within one’s personal security space, and hunker down in hopes that it somehow will miraculously get better. It is long past time to drive out of “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”, and move forward with clarity of thought and vision. Only then will our Nation be safe and prosperous, and all it’s citizens enjoy that which has been given to us through the decades at such great cost . . . . our FREEDOM and LIBERTY.