The State of the Nation

 The United States government has been colonized by grifters.  In today's raid on Mar a Lago, we are witnessing the poorly veiled power struggle over the control of billions of dollars in taxpayer wealth.  They are not "saving our democracy" but devouring the remains of it.

Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell

  Discrimination and Disparities by Tomas Sowell. 

I just finished reading Thomas Sowell's book Discrimination and Disparities.  It is the second book I have read by this author; the first was Basic Economics.  I would recommend them both.          

The main theme of this book is that disparities among people groups arise from many reasons.  He argues that malevolent discrimination exists but is by no means the only or even the dominant factor creating disparities in wealth, and position in society.  The book is filled with scholarly references which include examples from history and statistical analyses going back a century.  

Thomas Sowell, is one of the leading intellectuals in America today, and one of the few not parroting Neo-Marxist  ideology. He writes in a measured, deliberate, non-ideological style, once the standard in the best American academic writing.   Much of what he writes flies in the face of mainstream thinking about discrimination.  He points out that some of the most successful people groups have been those most discriminated against such as the Chinese in Malaysia, the Jews in Europe and the Indians in Uganda.   He refutes both those who say that the level of performance in a society is due to innate genetics and those who say it is due to prejudicial treatment.  Instead he goes through the multiple factors that lead to success or failure, including geography, culture, and incentives and disincentives to work and achieve built into a society.  He points out that Black American families went from 80% one parent families in the 1940s to 40% in the 1990s, and he lays the blame squarely on the the revamped welfare system design supposedly to help them that was put in place in the 1960s.  He writes that people have always sorted themselves into groups based on commonalities, and no society  has ever produced a system where all groups are represented equally in all places in the economy.  

This book will make you take a second look at things you never questioned before.

Technocracy Rising

 

Review of  Technocracy Rising; The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation by Patrick Wood, Coherent Publishing, Mesa AZ, 2015. 

You might call this book the ultimate in conspiracy theories.  It lays out the ideology and the people behind a movement to take over the world.  And, as far -fetched as it seems, it does make a case that sheds light on a multitude of seemingly unrelated changes we see happening in our society.  The name of the ideology is Technocracy and the people behind it are powerful people in business and government from many countries. 

The essence of technocracy is that technicians and engineers will make all the decisions based on their specialized knowledge.  It is anti-religious, and materialistic.  It believes that science can engineer people to be healthier and to live longer.  It believes in directed evolution.  It is globalistic and anti-democratic, anti nation state, and it believes that regulations over our daily lives should supersede outdated laws like the Constitution.

It was troubling to learn how many prominent leaders in the world are and have been in the World Economic Forum, which the author strongly links to the ideology of Technocracy and troubling also that the author can track the rise of this ideology from beginnings as long ago as the 17^th century. 

There is a subtle element of Christian eschatology in the book.  In the 1970s many Christians believed that Armageddon and ‘one world government’ was about to begin.  That fear faded as nothing panned out.  The Russians did not bring Armageddon as predicted and no AntiChrist rose up cheered on by the masses. But in this book we can see the real possibility of one world government coming to pass, enabled by quantum leaps in technology. And we can see that it is totalitarian and anti-human.

 

I was against the border wall, the trade war, the killing of Soleimani, the war on the Houthis, the pouting and the posing, but I still voted for Trump this past election.  I voted against a government of carpet-baggers knocking over small countries and then sending in their friends and relatives to ransack the place. I voted against draining the national wealth for endless war.  I voted against outright lies of Russian collusion repeated endlessly by politicians and the news media.  I voted against the FBI colluding with the DNC to undermine a political opponent.  I voted against the false, destructive ideology of critical race theory.  I voted against the economy-choking regulatory expansion.  I voted against the casual attitude towards life in the womb.

Donald Trump stood up to 4 years of opposition, and propaganda.  He appointed good people to the head the bureaucracies and for the judiciary, he cut regulation, reinvigorated the moribund economy, brought business back into the country, stopped the out-flow of technology, resisted the loss of industry. His legacy is a mixed one, like all presidents and all leaders making myriad, controversial decisions.   Donald Trump was the last gasp of populism and the nationalistic ideology that built this country.  We are heading full speed into an ideological shift that will change this country and the world.  It is globalist, elitist, technocratic and totalitarian.  There were flaws in the old system, but the new system will be hell on earth.

Covid, HIV, Anthrax, Smallpox, Zika, ......What Next?

 

“Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” – Richard Feynman

Similarities between AIDS/HIV and Covid 19:

ü  They have both modified the definition of a ‘case’.

ü  They both use PCR testing as the prime identifier of the disease

ü  There are many asymptomatic positive cases.

ü  Anthony Fauci is knee-deep in saving us.

ü  They both use the term, “the virus that causes…”

ü  They both call for massive marshalling of resources and new technology.

ü  They both have sparked panic and fear in the population.

 

The Prospect of National Suicide and Covid-19

Over the past twenty years, at least, our top leadership has imposed on the American people and the American economy a succession of harmful measures now culminating in the extreme reaction to the Covid 19 virus.  Following the second world war, we had secured ourselves a place at the top of the heap of nations.  Who should we credit for that?  It was the outworking of two centuries of manifest destiny ridden home by Franklin Roosevelt, the filling of an empty continent, the Indian nations notwithstanding.  Once secured and no longer having a vision of further conquest, we began to spin down our power unnecessarily.  For me, it started with the shots that took out John Kennedy.  He was a man with a vision for the world, but he was not able to stand up to the vision of the deep state which had to get him out of the way.  Vietnam followed, a war that did nothing for our security and cost billions of dollars and millions of lives.  Shots took out more leaders through the decade of the sixties.  The Reagan years seemed to get us somewhat back on track but industry began moving overseas,  the very industry that had given us our strength.  It was said that we would keep the brain work here and outsource only the repetitive mindles tasks of manufacturing.  The Chinese now have what we gave away and they are taking the brainwork with it.  The AIDS crisis was a looting of the treasury excused by panic over a wasting virus that today virtually does not exist. The savings and loan crisis was a giant giveaway to banks that had run themselves into the ground.  Then came September 11, 2001.  We followed this exactly how Bin Laden would have planned it.  We expanded the inept bureaucracies that had failed to protect us and proceeded to have a series of recreational wars in the Middle East sucking trillions of dollars out of our economy and shattering nation after nation, increasing instability and chaos.  Then we have another bank bailout in 2008 to the tune of billions of dollars going to save financial institutions which should have gone out of business for ineptitude and greed.  In now what appears to be the coup de gras to the entire nation we have voluntarily shut down all the finely tuned engines of commerce and industry, outlawed free assembly, closed off the natural world and gushed unfathomable amounts of dollars, half of which again are going to the banks. The end  of this can only be a setback to our standard of living, sure we will have government dollars, but a bag of groceries is going to cost 500.

A Reasonable Faith

My  friend America, Rick, Tulipano has published his second book called A Reasonable Faith, Copyright 2019, Page Publishing New York, NY

To those searching for a middle ground between the rigid dogmatism of institutional religion and anything-goes liberalism this book is one you must read.  Americo Tulipano has meticulously worked out his unique and insightful personal perspective intended to answer the strongest challenges to faith in God.  His book addresses the most difficult questions of Christianity and the bible referencing the bible itself. It is well documented and thoroughly researched.  He brings his deep knowledge of history, theology and philosophy to bear against the ascendant atheism of the day.  There is perhaps no other Christian author today who has a greater knowledge of atheism, nor one with a better rebuttal to what is ultimately itself a faith-based world view.  And, in spite of covering a vast territory of time and ideas, it is eminently readable.  I would highly recommend this book to anyone, believer, agnostic or unbeliever.