~Concerned Citizens~

[Bingo]

~ THE SAD TRUTH~
NEVER SAID BETTER
Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again.
Franklin Graham was speaking at the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, when he said America will
not come back. He wrote:
"The American dream ended on November 6th, 2012. The second term of Barack Obama has been the final nail
in the coffin for the legacy of the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled and
developed the greatest republic in the history of mankind.
A coalition of blacks, Latinos, feminists, gays, government workers, union members, environmental extremists,
the media, Hollywood, uninformed young people, the "forever needy," the chronically unemployed, illegal aliens
and other "fellow travelers" have ended Norman Rockwell's America.
You will never again out-vote these people. It will take individual acts of defiance and massive displays of civil
disobedience to get back the rights we have allowed them to take away. It will take zealots, not moderates and
shy, not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs to right this ship and restore our beloved country to its former status.
People like me are completely politically irrelevant, and I will probably never again be able to legally comment
on or concern myself with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered our culture, our heritage and
our traditions without a shot being fired.
The Cocker spaniel is off the front porch, the pit bull is in the back yard The American Constitution has been
replaced with Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" and the likes of Chicago shyster David Axelrod along with
international socialist George Soros have been pulling the strings on their beige puppet and have brought us
Act 2 of the New World Order.
The curtain will come down but the damage has been done, the story has been told.
Those who come after us will once again have to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to bring
back the Republic that this generation has timidly frittered away due to white guilt and political correctness.."

~~'Articles in this thread are compiled from various governmental
and other public domain sources.' Intended solely as informative
and subjects to reflect on as...'the time of all things' and 'concerned citizens'.~~

 

[Embankment]

~ THE SAD TRUTH~
NEVER SAID BETTER
Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again.
Franklin Graham was speaking at the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, when he said America will
not come back. He wrote:
"The American dream ended on November 6th, 2012. The second term of Barack Obama has been the final nail
in the coffin for the legacy of the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled and
developed the greatest republic in the history of mankind.
A coalition of blacks, Latinos, feminists, gays, government workers, union members, environmental extremists,
the media, Hollywood, uninformed young people, the "forever needy," the chronically unemployed, illegal aliens
and other "fellow travelers" have ended Norman Rockwell's America.
You will never again out-vote these people. It will take individual acts of defiance and massive displays of civil
disobedience to get back the rights we have allowed them to take away. It will take zealots, not moderates and
shy, not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs to right this ship and restore our beloved country to its former status.
People like me are completely politically irrelevant, and I will probably never again be able to legally comment
on or concern myself with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered our culture, our heritage and
our traditions without a shot being fired.
The Cocker spaniel is off the front porch, the pit bull is in the back yard The American Constitution has been
replaced with Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" and the likes of Chicago shyster David Axelrod along with
international socialist George Soros have been pulling the strings on their beige puppet and have brought us
Act 2 of the New World Order.
The curtain will come down but the damage has been done, the story has been told.
Those who come after us will once again have to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to bring
back the Republic that this generation has timidly frittered away due to white guilt and political correctness.."

~~'Articles in this thread are compiled from various governmental
and other public domain sources.' Intended solely as informative
and subjects to reflect on as...'the time of all things' and 'concerned citizens'.~~





I find this form of thinking to be revisionist history. The
Norman Rockwell picture of America may have been true for much of white America. For people of color things were very different, at least up until the 1960s.
I am not saying the things going on today are correct. However, America has always had a troubled past. Now is no different. We lived through the events of the first 200 years. Obama did not cause the downfall of the United States.

 

[Lisamn]

Wouldn’t the US have to end at some point so that the one world government can come into being? We are only getting closer to the return of Jesus..the Bible after all isn’t about the US.

Revelation‬ ‭13:3-4‬ ‭
I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast; they worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?​

‭

 

[Bingo]

A different perspective as how Walmart can become a capitalist behemoth in such a
short time & the US bureaucrats can’t get anything done!

Wal-Mart vs. The Morons
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the world's largest private employer.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind
they did this in only fifteen years.
8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this
is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores.
(Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.
You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the groundwork for
suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.
This should be read and understood by all Americans Democrats, Republicans,

EVERYONE!!
To all 535 voting members of the Legislature:
It is now official that the majority of you are corrupt morons:
a.. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 246 years to get it right and it is broke.
b.. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 86 years to get it right and it is broke.
c.. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
d.. The War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 57 years to get it right; $1 trillion
of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and poverty has not been defeated.
e.. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 56 years to get it
right and they are broke.
f.. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 51 years to get it right and it is broke.
g.. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign
oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we
import more oil than ever before. You had 44 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while
overspending our tax dollars.
AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A
GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM??
Folks, keep this circulating. It is very well stated. Maybe it will end up in the e-mails of
some of our "duly elected" (they never read anything) and their staff will clue them in on
how Americans feel.
AND I know what's wrong. We have lost our minds to "Political Correctness"!
Someone, please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the people that run this country!
We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, the Homeless, etc.???
In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile , and Turkey ... And now Pakistan
... previous home of Bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!
Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks…
AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed
hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment - etc, etc.
Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries. Sad isn't it?
99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.
I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did!!

( a good read to send to all your e-mail contacts! )

 

[Smoke]

A different perspective as how Walmart can become a capitalist behemoth in such a
short time & the US bureaucrats can’t get anything done!

Wal-Mart vs. The Morons
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the world's largest private employer.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind
they did this in only fifteen years.
8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this
is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores.
(Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.
You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the groundwork for
suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.
This should be read and understood by all Americans Democrats, Republicans,

EVERYONE!!
To all 535 voting members of the Legislature:
It is now official that the majority of you are corrupt morons:
a.. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 246 years to get it right and it is broke.
b.. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 86 years to get it right and it is broke.
c.. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
d.. The War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 57 years to get it right; $1 trillion
of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and poverty has not been defeated.
e.. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 56 years to get it
right and they are broke.
f.. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 51 years to get it right and it is broke.
g.. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign
oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we
import more oil than ever before. You had 44 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while
overspending our tax dollars.
AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A
GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM??
Folks, keep this circulating. It is very well stated. Maybe it will end up in the e-mails of
some of our "duly elected" (they never read anything) and their staff will clue them in on
how Americans feel.
AND I know what's wrong. We have lost our minds to "Political Correctness"!
Someone, please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the people that run this country!
We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, the Homeless, etc.???
In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile , and Turkey ... And now Pakistan
... previous home of Bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!
Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks…
AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed
hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment - etc, etc.
Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries. Sad isn't it?
99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.
I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did!!

( a good read to send to all your e-mail contacts! )

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You want to have people who are the biggest recipients of corporate welfare run the US? No thanks.

 

[Deade]

Hello Bingo, welcome to Christian Chat.
I hope you'll enjoy your stay here.

 

[Bingo]

CHINA
In the near future, China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States. Chinese acquisition of US businesses set a new all-time record last year, and it is on pace to shatter that record this year.
The Smithfield Foods acquisition is an example. Smithfield Foods is the largest pork producer and processor in the world. It has facilities in 26 US states, and it employs tens of thousands of Americans. It directly owns 460 farms and has contracts with approximately 2,100 others. But now a Chinese companyhas bought it for $ 47 billion, and that means that the Chinese will now be the most important employer in dozens of rural communities all over America.
Thanks in part to our massively bloated trade deficit with China, the Chinese have trillions of dollars to spend. They are only just starting to exercise their economic muscle.
It is important to keep in mind that there is often not much of a difference between "the Chinese government" and "Chinese corporations". In 2011, 43 percent of all profits in China were produced by companies where the Chinese government had a controlling interest.
Last year a Chinese company spent $ 2.6 billion to purchase AMC entertainment - one of the largest movie theater chains in the United States. Chinese companies control more movie ticket sales than anyone else in the world.
But China is not just relying on acquisitions to expand its economic power.

Economic beachheads" are being established all over America. For example, Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group, Inc. recently broke ground on a $100 million plant in Thomasville, Alabama. Many of the residents of Thomasville, Alabama will be glad to have jobs, but it will also become yet another community that will now be heavily dependent on communist China.
And guess where else Chinese companies are putting down roots? Detroit. Chinese-owned companies are investing in American businesses and new vehicle technology, selling everything from seat belts to shock absorbers in retail stores, and hiring experienced engineers and designers in an effort to soak up the talent and expertise of domestic automakers and their suppliers.
If you recently purchased an "American-made" vehicle, there is a really good chance that it has a number of Chinese parts in it. Industry analysts are hard-pressed to put a number on the Chinese suppliers operating in the United States.
China seems particularly interested in acquiring energy resources in the United States
For example, China is actually mining for coal in the mountains of Tennessee. Guizhou Gouchuang Energy Holdings Group spent 616 million dollars to acquire Triple H Coal Co. in Jacksboro, Tennessee.
At the time, that acquisition really didn't make much news, but now a group of conservatives in Tennessee is trying to stop the Chinese from blowing up their mountains and taking their coal.
And pretty soon China may want to build entire cities in the United States just like they have been doing in other countries. Right now China is actually building a city larger than Manhattan just outside Minsk, the capital of Belarus.
Starting to get the picture? China is on the rise and has been while America plays political games.
If you doubt this, just read the following:
When you total up all imports and exports, China is now the number one trading nation on the entire planet.
# Overall, the US has run a trade deficit with China over the past decade that comes to more than 23 trillion dollars.
# China has more foreign currency reserves than anyone else on the planet.
# China now has the largest new car market in the entire world.
# China now produces more than twice as many automobiles as the United States does.
# After being bailed out by US taxpayers, GM is involved in 11 joint ventures with Chinese companies.
# China is the number one gold producer in the world.
# The uniforms for the US Olympic team were made in China.
# 85% of all artificial Christmas trees the world over are made in China.
# The new World Trade Center tower in New York includes glass imported from China.
# China now consumes more energy than the United States does.
# China is now in aggregate the leading manufacturer of goods in the entire world.
# China uses more cement than the rest of the world combined.
# China is now the number one producer of wind and solar power on the entire globe.
# China produces 3 times as much coal and 11 times as much steel as the United States does.
# China produces more than 90 percent of the global supply of rare earth elements.
# China is now the number one supplier of components that are critical to the operation of any national defense system.
# In published scientific research articles, China will become number one in the world very shortly.
And what we have seen so far may just be the tip of the iceberg.
For now, I will just leave you with one piece of advice - Learn to speak Chinese.
I wonder if it is past time for us to wake up!

 

[Bingo]

'Let this sink in"!

 

[Bingo]

Tucker’s Blackstone Volume 1 — Appendix Note B [Section 3 — Of the several forms of government]

If the constitution be founded upon the previous act of the people (the creation of the U.S. Constitution), the government is limited. If it have any other foundation, it is merely constructive, and the government arrogates to itself the sole right of making such a construction of it, as may suit with its own views, designs, and interests: and when this right can be successfully exercised, the government becomes absolute and despotic. In like manner, if in a limited government the public functionaries exceed the limits which the constitution prescribes to their powers, every such act is an act of usurpation in the government, and, as such, TREASON against the sovereignty of the people, which is thus endeavored to be subverted, and transferred to the usurpers.
Inseparably connected with this distinction between limited and unlimited governments, is the responsibility of the public functionaries, and the want of such responsibility. Every delegated authority implies a trust; responsibility follows as the shadow does its substance. But where there is no responsibility, authority is no longer a trust, but an act of usurpation. And every act of usurpation is either an act of TREASON, or an act of WARFARE.

In case of treason … the power of pardon is taken away from the governor by the act of 1794, c. 168, [66] nor can the executive now remit any fine or amercement assessed by a jury, or imposed by any court of record, court martial, or other power or authority authorized to assess or impose the same. [67]

If he (the executive) concurs in an unconstitutional act, he is guilty of usurpation, and contempt of the sovereign authority, which has forbidden him to pass the bounds prescribed by the constitution. He has violated his oath, and the most sacred of all duties. To omit him at the next election is not an adequate punishment for such a crime. Abuse of power is despotism, and the democracy that does not guard against it, is defective. If in any department of government, a man may abuse, or exceed his powers, without fear of punishment, the right of one man is at the mercy of another, and freedom in such a government, has no existence.

( 'Articles in this thread are compiled from various governmental
and other public domain sources.' Intended solely as informative
and subjects to reflect on as...'the time of all things' and 'concerned citizens'. )

 

[Bingo]

Florida Diner: No Biden Supporters"

WOW AND AMEN!

Florida diner, that forbids Biden supporters, becomes so popular it runs out of food within hours and must triple their staff and set up extra tables on the sidewalk and in the parking lot.
A diner in DeBary, Florida, became popular overnight among residents and the international community after announcing they would no longer serve Biden supporters.
They sold out of food the same day and temporarily closed.
Angie Ugarte, the owner of the DeBary Diner, located just outside of Orlando, posted a provocative sign in the business's window.

It read, "If you voted for and continue to support and stand behind the worthless, inept and corrupt administration currently inhabiting our White House, that is complicit in the death of our servicemen and women in Afghanistan, please take your business elsewhere. God bless America, and God bless our soldiers."

According to the New York Post, Ugarte received donations from across the globe and sold out of food in hours that same Wednesday, having to close early pending a 3000% uptick in food deliveries and orders.
Ugarte told the press: "I’ve gotten so many people calling me from all over the world, from Europe, from Asia, trying to purchase meals for veterans, which I still haven’t been able to organize. Cooks, chefs, wait-staff have shown up in droves and asked to work for no pay. Two doctors and a former judge showed up and asked if they could wash dishes."
She adds: "I think that the veterans will be fed for the rest of the year at the rate I’m getting donations.”
People have traveled from all over the US, from thousands of miles away, to pose in front of the sign and show their support for Ugarte. One car with two couples in it arrived on Thursday from upper Michigan, a 3000-mile round trip, with an offer to bus tables and sweep floors. There was nowhere to sit so they ordered four cups of water, to go, which was free, of course, but left a $1,000.00 cash "tip."
This includes Rod Phillips, a member of the State Council of the Vietnam Veterans of America association.
"We wanted to come over here and thank you personally," Phillips told Ugarte as the pair posed for a photo.
Phillips qualified, "I fully respect the office of presidency of the United States, but this should have been handled much better, much better."
He added, "Being a Vietnam veteran and combat-wounded, I don’t wish war on anybody. But there is a proper way, and time, and place to leave an enemy country."

--
Let's each look for someone we can help today.








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[Bingo]

(Good read)

An interesting tutorial on batteries, which will likely surprise you.

I said it before and will say it again, without government subsidy, wind and solar will never pay for itself. Pay special attention to the last several paragraphs. AND many of these materials come from China and Russia. We will be captive to their pricing and supply.

Our government is leading us down a dangerous path with the phony science of batteries, solar and windmills being the answer to less pollution in your world. In fact, quite the opposite is true, if you can hang on to read this extensive explanation, by a fictional battery doing the writing itself!! In story form, somewhat entertaining?

Subject: An interesting tutorial on batteries, which will likely surprise you.

When I saw the title of this lecture, especially with the picture of the scantily clad model, I couldn’t resist attending. The packed auditorium was abuzz with questions about the address; nobody seemed to know what to expect. The only hint was a large aluminum block sitting on a sturdy table on the stage.

When the crowd settled down, a scholarly-looking man walked out and put his hand on the shiny block, “Good evening,” he said, “I am here to introduce NMC532-X,” and he patted the block, “we call him NM for short,” and the man smiled proudly. “NM is a typical electric vehicle (EV) car battery in every way except one; we programmed him to send signals of the internal movements of his electrons when charging, discharging, and in several other conditions. We wanted to know what it feels like to be a battery. We don’t know how it happened, but NM began to talk after we downloaded the program.

Despite this ability, we put him in a car for a year and then asked him if he’d like to do presentations about batteries. He readily agreed on the condition he could say whatever he wanted. We thought that was fine, and so, without further ado, I’ll turn the floor over to NM,” the man turned and walked off the stage.

“Good evening,” NM said. He had a slightly affected accent, and when he spoke, he lit up in different colors. “That cheeky woman on the marquee was my idea,” he said. “Were she not there, along with ‘naked’ in the title, I’d likely be speaking to an empty auditorium! I also had them add ‘shocking’ because it’s a favorite word amongst us batteries.” He flashed a light blue color as he laughed.

“Sorry,” NM giggled then continued, “three days ago, at the start of my last lecture, three people walked out. I suppose they were disappointed there would be no dancing girls. But here is what I noticed about them. One was wearing a battery-powered hearing aid, one tapped on his battery-powered cell phone as he left, and a third got into his car, which would not start without a battery. So, I’d like you to think about your day for a moment; how many batteries do you rely on?”

He paused for a full minute which gave us time to count our batteries. Then he went on, “Now, it is not elementary to ask, ‘what is a battery?’ I think Tesla said it best when they called us Energy Storage Systems. That’s important. We do not make electricity – we store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas-powered plants, or diesel-fueled generators. So, to say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid. Also, since forty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. is from coal-fired plants, it follows that forty percent of the EVs on the road are coal-powered, nested pas?”

He flashed blue again. “Einstein’s formula, E=MC2, tells us it takes the same amount of energy to move a five-thousand-pound gasoline-driven automobile a mile as it does an electric one. The only question again is what produces the power? To reiterate, it does not come from the battery; the battery is only the storage device, like a gas tank in a car.”

He lit up red when he said that, and I sensed he was smiling. Then he continued in blue and orange. “Mr. Elkay introduced me as NMC532. If I were the battery from your computer mouse, Elkay would introduce me as double-A, if from your cell phone as CR2032, and so on. We batteries all have the same name depending on our design. By the way, the ‘X’ in my name stands for ‘experimental.’

There are two orders of batteries, rechargeable, and single use. The most common single-use batteries are A, AA, AAA, C, D. 9V, and lantern types. Those dry-cell species use zinc, manganese, lithium, silver oxide, or zinc and carbon to store electricity chemically. Please note they all contain toxic, heavy metals.

Rechargeable batteries only differ in their internal materials, usually lithium-ion, nickel-metal oxide, and nickel-cadmium.

The United States uses three billion of these two battery types a year, and most are not recycled; they end up in landfills. California is the only state which requires all batteries be recycled. If you throw your small, used batteries in the trash, here is what happens to them.

All batteries are self-discharging. That means even when not in use, they leak tiny amounts of energy. You have likely ruined a flashlight or two from an old ruptured battery. When a battery runs down and can no longer power a toy or light, you think of it as dead; well, it is not. It continues to leak small amounts of electricity. As the chemicals inside it run out, pressure builds inside the battery’s metal casing, and eventually, it cracks. The metals left inside then ooze out. The ooze in your ruined flashlight is toxic, and so is the ooze that will inevitably leak from every battery in a landfill. All batteries eventually rupture; it just takes rechargeable batteries longer to end up in the landfill.

In addition to dry cell batteries, there are also wet cell ones used in automobiles, boats, and motorcycles. The good thing about those is ninety percent of them are recycled. Unfortunately, we do not yet know how to recycle batteries like me or care to dispose of single-use ones properly.

But that is not half of it. For those of you excited about electric cars and a green revolution, I want you to take a closer look at batteries and also windmills and solar panels. These three technologies share what we call environmentally destructive embedded costs.”

NM got redder as he spoke. “Everything manufactured has two costs associated with it, embedded costs and operating costs. I will explain embedded costs using a can of baked beans as my subject.

In this scenario, baked beans are on sale, so you jump in your car and head for the grocery store. Sure enough, there they are on the shelf for $1.75 a can. As you head to the checkout, you begin to think about the embedded costs in the can of beans.

The first cost is the diesel fuel the farmer used to plow the field, till the ground, harvest the beans, and transport them to the food processor. Not only is his diesel fuel an embedded cost, so are the costs to build the tractors, combines, and trucks. In addition, the farmer might use a nitrogen fertilizer made from natural gas.

Next is the energy costs of cooking the beans, heating the building, transporting the workers, and paying for the vast amounts of electricity used to run the plant. The steel can holding the beans is also an embedded cost. Making the steel can requires mining taconite, shipping it by boat, extracting the iron, placing it in a coal-fired blast furnace, and adding carbon. Then it’s back on another truck to take the beans to the grocery store. Finally, add in the cost of the gasoline for your car.

(cont.)

 

[Bingo]

(Good read)

An interesting tutorial on batteries, which will likely surprise you.

I said it before and will say it again, without government subsidy, wind and solar will never pay for itself. Pay special attention to the last several paragraphs. AND many of these materials come from China and Russia. We will be captive to their pricing and supply.

Our government is leading us down a dangerous path with the phony science of batteries, solar and windmills being the answer to less pollution in your world. In fact, quite the opposite is true, if you can hang on to read this extensive explanation, by a fictional battery doing the writing itself!! In story form, somewhat entertaining?

Subject: An interesting tutorial on batteries, which will likely surprise you.

When I saw the title of this lecture, especially with the picture of the scantily clad model, I couldn’t resist attending. The packed auditorium was abuzz with questions about the address; nobody seemed to know what to expect. The only hint was a large aluminum block sitting on a sturdy table on the stage.

When the crowd settled down, a scholarly-looking man walked out and put his hand on the shiny block, “Good evening,” he said, “I am here to introduce NMC532-X,” and he patted the block, “we call him NM for short,” and the man smiled proudly. “NM is a typical electric vehicle (EV) car battery in every way except one; we programmed him to send signals of the internal movements of his electrons when charging, discharging, and in several other conditions. We wanted to know what it feels like to be a battery. We don’t know how it happened, but NM began to talk after we downloaded the program.

Despite this ability, we put him in a car for a year and then asked him if he’d like to do presentations about batteries. He readily agreed on the condition he could say whatever he wanted. We thought that was fine, and so, without further ado, I’ll turn the floor over to NM,” the man turned and walked off the stage.

“Good evening,” NM said. He had a slightly affected accent, and when he spoke, he lit up in different colors. “That cheeky woman on the marquee was my idea,” he said. “Were she not there, along with ‘naked’ in the title, I’d likely be speaking to an empty auditorium! I also had them add ‘shocking’ because it’s a favorite word amongst us batteries.” He flashed a light blue color as he laughed.

“Sorry,” NM giggled then continued, “three days ago, at the start of my last lecture, three people walked out. I suppose they were disappointed there would be no dancing girls. But here is what I noticed about them. One was wearing a battery-powered hearing aid, one tapped on his battery-powered cell phone as he left, and a third got into his car, which would not start without a battery. So, I’d like you to think about your day for a moment; how many batteries do you rely on?”

He paused for a full minute which gave us time to count our batteries. Then he went on, “Now, it is not elementary to ask, ‘what is a battery?’ I think Tesla said it best when they called us Energy Storage Systems. That’s important. We do not make electricity – we store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas-powered plants, or diesel-fueled generators. So, to say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid. Also, since forty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. is from coal-fired plants, it follows that forty percent of the EVs on the road are coal-powered, nested pas?”

He flashed blue again. “Einstein’s formula, E=MC2, tells us it takes the same amount of energy to move a five-thousand-pound gasoline-driven automobile a mile as it does an electric one. The only question again is what produces the power? To reiterate, it does not come from the battery; the battery is only the storage device, like a gas tank in a car.”

He lit up red when he said that, and I sensed he was smiling. Then he continued in blue and orange. “Mr. Elkay introduced me as NMC532. If I were the battery from your computer mouse, Elkay would introduce me as double-A, if from your cell phone as CR2032, and so on. We batteries all have the same name depending on our design. By the way, the ‘X’ in my name stands for ‘experimental.’

There are two orders of batteries, rechargeable, and single use. The most common single-use batteries are A, AA, AAA, C, D. 9V, and lantern types. Those dry-cell species use zinc, manganese, lithium, silver oxide, or zinc and carbon to store electricity chemically. Please note they all contain toxic, heavy metals.

Rechargeable batteries only differ in their internal materials, usually lithium-ion, nickel-metal oxide, and nickel-cadmium.

The United States uses three billion of these two battery types a year, and most are not recycled; they end up in landfills. California is the only state which requires all batteries be recycled. If you throw your small, used batteries in the trash, here is what happens to them.

All batteries are self-discharging. That means even when not in use, they leak tiny amounts of energy. You have likely ruined a flashlight or two from an old ruptured battery. When a battery runs down and can no longer power a toy or light, you think of it as dead; well, it is not. It continues to leak small amounts of electricity. As the chemicals inside it run out, pressure builds inside the battery’s metal casing, and eventually, it cracks. The metals left inside then ooze out. The ooze in your ruined flashlight is toxic, and so is the ooze that will inevitably leak from every battery in a landfill. All batteries eventually rupture; it just takes rechargeable batteries longer to end up in the landfill.

In addition to dry cell batteries, there are also wet cell ones used in automobiles, boats, and motorcycles. The good thing about those is ninety percent of them are recycled. Unfortunately, we do not yet know how to recycle batteries like me or care to dispose of single-use ones properly.

But that is not half of it. For those of you excited about electric cars and a green revolution, I want you to take a closer look at batteries and also windmills and solar panels. These three technologies share what we call environmentally destructive embedded costs.”

NM got redder as he spoke. “Everything manufactured has two costs associated with it, embedded costs and operating costs. I will explain embedded costs using a can of baked beans as my subject.

In this scenario, baked beans are on sale, so you jump in your car and head for the grocery store. Sure enough, there they are on the shelf for $1.75 a can. As you head to the checkout, you begin to think about the embedded costs in the can of beans.

The first cost is the diesel fuel the farmer used to plow the field, till the ground, harvest the beans, and transport them to the food processor. Not only is his diesel fuel an embedded cost, so are the costs to build the tractors, combines, and trucks. In addition, the farmer might use a nitrogen fertilizer made from natural gas.

Next is the energy costs of cooking the beans, heating the building, transporting the workers, and paying for the vast amounts of electricity used to run the plant. The steel can holding the beans is also an embedded cost. Making the steel can requires mining taconite, shipping it by boat, extracting the iron, placing it in a coal-fired blast furnace, and adding carbon. Then it’s back on another truck to take the beans to the grocery store. Finally, add in the cost of the gasoline for your car.

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But wait - can you guess one of the highest but rarely acknowledged embedded costs?” NM said, then gave us about thirty seconds to make our guesses. Then he flashed his lights and said, “It’s the depreciation on the 5000-pound car you used to transport one pound of canned beans!”

NM took on a golden glow, and I thought he might have winked. He said, “But that can of beans is nothing compared to me! I am hundreds of times more complicated. My embedded costs not only come in the form of energy use; they come as environmental destruction, pollution, disease, child labor, and the inability to be recycled.”

He paused, “I weigh one thousand pounds, and as you see, I am about the size of a travel trunk.” NM’s lights showed he was serious. “I contain twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic. Inside me are 6,831 individual lithium-ion cells.

It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture each auto battery like me, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just - one - battery.”

He let that one sink in, then added, “I mentioned disease and child labor a moment ago. Here’s why. Sixty-eight percent of the world’s cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?”

NM’s red and orange light made it look like he was on fire. “Finally,” he said, “I’d like to leave you with these thoughts. California is building the largest battery in the world near San Francisco, and they intend to power it from solar panels and windmills. They claim this is the ultimate in being ‘green,’ but it is not! This construction project is creating an environmental disaster. Let me tell you why.

The main problem with solar arrays is the chemicals needed to process silicate into the silicon used in the panels. To make pure enough silicon requires processing it with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and acetone. In addition, they also need gallium, arsenide, copper-indium-gallium- Di selenide, and cadmium-telluride, which also are highly toxic. Silicon dust is a hazard to the workers, and the panels cannot be recycled.

Windmills are the ultimate in embedded costs and environmental destruction. Each weigh 1688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and contains 1300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron, 24 tons of fiberglass, and the hard to extract rare earths neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium. Each blade weighs 81,000 pounds and will last 15 to 20 years, at which time it must be replaced. We cannot recycle used blades. Sadly, both solar arrays and windmills kill birds, bats, sea life, and migratory insects.

NM lights dimmed, and he quietly said, “There may be a place for these technologies, but you must look beyond the myth of zero emissions. I predict EVs and windmills will be abandoned once the embedded environmental costs of making and replacing them become apparent. I’m trying to do my part with these lectures.

Thank you for your attention, good night, and good luck.” NM’s lights went out, and he was quiet, like a regular battery.

 

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The Light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it [and is unreceptive to it].

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...instream-media-saw-36-decrease-truth-matters/

There is a collective wisdom of the masses. This is different from "group think" or "mob mentality". The mainstream media has seen a 36% decrease in views and ratings. That tells you that there is a price for their lies and misinformation.

Meanwhile Gateway pundit saw an increase in traffic of 34%. Again, the basic principle is that the light overcomes the darkness. If you speak the truth and the light your credibility as a news service will rise. Meanwhile if you lie and use your platform to manipulate rather than inform you will lose credibility.

John 3:19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

 

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No Treason - The Constitution of No Authority
[This essay was written in 1869 during "Reconstruction" after the Civil War.]



The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man
and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing. It purports, at most, to be only a
contract between persons living eighty years ago. And it can be supposed to have been a contract then only between persons who
had already come to years of discretion, so as to be competent to make reasonable and obligatory contracts.

Furthermore, we know, historically, that only a small portion even of the people then existing were consulted on the subject, or asked, or permitted to express either their consent or dissent in any formal manner. Those persons, if any, who did give their consent formally, are all dead now. Most of them have been dead forty, fifty, sixty, or seventy years. and the constitution, so far as it was their contract, died with them. They had no natural power or right to make it obligatory upon their children. It is not only plainly impossible, in the nature of things, that they could bind their posterity, but they did not even attempt to bind them. That is to say, the instrument does not purport to be an agreement between anybody but "the people" THEN existing; nor does it, either expressly or impliedly, assert any right, power, or disposition, on their part, to bind anybody but themselves. Let us see. Its language is:

We, the people of the United States (that is, the people THEN EXISTING in the United States), in order to form a more perfect
union, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of
liberty to ourselves AND OUR POSTERITY, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

It is plain, in the first place, that this language, AS AN AGREEMENT, purports to be only what it at most really was, viz., a
contract between the people then existing; and, of necessity, binding, as a contract, only upon those then existing. In the second
place, the language neither expresses nor implies that they had any right or power, to bind their "posterity" to live under it. It does
not say that their "posterity" will, shall, or must live under it. It only says, in effect, that their hopes and motives in adopting it were
that it might prove useful to their posterity, as well as to themselves, by promoting their union, safety, tranquility, liberty, etc.


('Articles in this thread are compiled from various governmental
and other public domain sources.' Intended solely as informative
and subjects to reflect on as...'the time of all things' and 'concerned citizens'.)

 

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Communist China survivor issues warning to Americans: Socialism is only the first stage

Xi Van Fleet, a survivor of Mao Zedong's communist revolution in China, joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" Saturday to share her
experience living under and fleeing from communism. Van Fleet cautioned socialist supporters in the U.S. from embracing a
dangerous ideology and "abandoning freedom."

XI VAN FLEET: I just want to say it's so ironic. 36 years ago, I run away from socialism when I left China to come to this great
country for freedom. Today, so many Americans [are] abandoning freedom and arriving into socialism. They have no idea what
socialism is about. I lived under Mao's socialism. When the government controls everything and makes all the decisions big and
small and decide how much grain, meat [and] cooking oil I could have. What I should learn in school, where I should live, and
what job I should have and how I should think. In the socialist society I lived under, there was no choices. There is no freedom.

And that's what people do not know. Socialism becomes such a diluted word and it's intentional. I can tell you, China is a socialist
country. Cuba is a socialist country and so is North Korea. They are a socialist country run by communist parties. And what's the
difference? What's the difference between socialism and communism? Not much. Socialism is the initial stage of communism,
according to Karl Marx.


('Articles in this thread are compiled from various governmental
and other public domain sources.' Intended solely as informative
and subjects to reflect on as...'the time of all things' and 'concerned citizens'.)

 

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Commitment One: To Freedom

The commitment of greatest importance is a DEDICATION To FREEDOM at all levels of society, and in all dimensions of our
existence.
By this I mean a true reverence for allowing life and reality to be as it is, rather than demanding it to be what our mind, or our
experience, tells us how it should or should not be. The one Commandment that is foundational reads: "Harm no one, then do
what thou wilt."

In this one Law the whole of the Mosaic Law is contained (or any other law, for that matter). It allows for free expression in all
aspects of life ......... and also begs for clear and unbridled reflection on our own individual immediate universe, once our
commitment has been made. There can be no such thing as exercising MY freedom if another person's freedom is impinged or
negated. That is a violation of the prime directive, yes?

We are beginning to wrap ourselves around the idea that there are many inner elements which have to be cleared, functional,
and in motion, before any powerful, demanding outer elements can be installed. Otherwise, we are like a young lad who buys
himself a car (and signs on for huge monthly payments) without really knowing how to drive. In fact, some of us barely know
how to "walk" some of these personal areas. We may talk the talk, but walking our talk is an entirely different matter. Learning to
do so is a momentous responsibility.

There are many inner commitments that must enacted before any external joining can breathe and be successful. We all arrange
them in different order. And, indeed, the hierarchy of these elements quite often changes according to the life plan it supports,
and their very diversity is absolutely essential to the FREEDOM and EVOLUION OF THE WHOLE.

This dance of Life is called "See Me/Show Me"........... and the administration of the dance steps begins and ends with the edict:
Harm No One.
What would be the nature of harm in the context of this one universal law? Surely, it would be to "prevent someone from doing
what he or she wants to do, mandating that they do or be what we want instead."

A commitment to freedom, at all levels, is automatically a commitment to Rigorous Honesty, the Truth of Reality. After all, once
freedom is insured, why would one need to lie?
The need to distort our truth, our "reality," and thereby limit our freedom, in order to survive goes all the way back to our
childhood and the family system. In fact, it goes back all the way to the myth of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Remember
what the core of the technique is? We withhold food (or other bodily necessities) in order to curtail or limit the freedom of
others in society.

There is much we will discuss about this during the continuing course of time. How we handle children and families in this
world today is a serious threat to the healthy continuation of both. At the core of this issue is a basic lack of commitment to
freedom.
Any "security" that is gained through loss of freedom is a Commitment to Fear. Any nation that puts "national security" above
personal freedom has lost its power base. In saying this, I am not suggesting that any individual, or this or any other country,
should suddenly lower its guard against all enemies (both real and imagined) that we have amassed through the years. That
would produce mental whiplash of grand proportion in the collective consciousness. And, again, that would be an inner element
that must be changed before the outer condition can be corrected.

This is why politics is NOT the answer to what plagues the human condition. Politics is like a horse trainer who seeks to bridle
up and train our collective energy so that it will function for the good of all. Inner freedom is like the horse whisperer who
spends many long hours sitting quietly with our "animal" to discover what the burr is that is stuck under its tail.

Remember the famous line that Robert Redford spoke in the movie "Horse Whisperer?" The female character says to him: "I hear
you help people with horse problems." He looks up and responds: "No, ma'am. I actually help horses with people problems."
I must state, once again, there are no political, economic, 'religious' or military solutions to what is primarily a spiritual
problem in the world today, the "We-Them" syndrome, and the lack of commitment to Freedom and Rigorous Honesty. We, all of
mankind, must learn and know that "We are all ONE."

Before we can see clearly to take the mote out of our neighbor's eye, we must remove the log that exists in our own. That takes
lots of inner work, and lots of personal freedom to be and do and watch and feel.
We must ask ourselves honestly .... if someone doesn't want to give us something, why would we still be manipulating for a way
to get it anyway? And if we really don't want to have, be, or do something in our lives, who do we think we're really kidding when
we force ourselves to create an outward appearance that doesn't match our inward being.

Harm no one, then do what thou wilt. That's a tall order, and it takes guts to carry it out. It means simultaneously giving up
control and opening to the good (the God) that longs to take us forward into our adventure.
What have you learned about freedom? What have you experienced when you gave it to yourself or to someone else?
Please do share your Experience, Strengths, Hopes and Understandings. Your own, honest experience is very helpful in ways
that you may not realize. (Of course, feel free to abstain too, if you so choose!)

('Articles in this thread are compiled from various governmental
and other public domain sources.' Intended solely as informative
and subjects to reflect on as...'the time of all things' and 'concerned citizens'.)

 

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Commitment Two: Stay in the Now

The next major "Commitment" that is required, in order to effectively achieve Freedom, is a solid focus into the NOW MOMENT.

Someone once said: "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, but today is a GIFT (that's why they call it the PRESENT).

Also: "The Now Moment is a Multidimensional Vehicle that can take you anywhere and any when you wish to go. The only thing you must remember is to keep your hands and feet inside the car!"

Ranked solidly behind a commitment to inner (and outer) freedom --- thereby helping us gain clear access to what it is that we truly desire --- a focus into the NOW is the grand accelerator of the Multiverse. This is because it is, literally, the only time there is.

Many people talk about time travel. Many more swear that the government already has its own Time Machine (I am not among them, btw, and if they do, it is screwed up) --- but as experience has taught us --- the present is NOT the product of the past. Both past and future are designed and manufactured in the Now Moment.

Each Now Moment is a discreet universe that is its own designer and director of cinematography. The past and future are variations of "clip-art" that are pasted on, so to speak, in order to give color and texture to the Now.

How do you think it is that a person can imagine the future with such clarity and accuracy? How, indeed, can a human being imagine what it's like to go somewhere he has never been? The answer is simple. In the Multiverse, everything is NOW. And we've all been there ......... already! Everything is happening simultaneously in one, fragmented, undulating Moment ........ divided and compartmentalized by a veil that allows for everything to maintain its sense of definition, regardless of how the sequencing is arranged.

Stephen Hawking blew everyone away when he asked: "Do you think it's possible for us to remember the future?" For the un-initiated mind, this sounded fantastic. For a seasoned metaphysician, it's first-level stuff.

If we haven't dealt with it before, we'd best deal with it now. We are where we are, doing what we're doing, because we each created it that way. And, even though it often appears as such, nothing happens by happenstance. It's all custom made to order!

Time Travel --- or Space Travel, for that matter --- is simply a case of skip-hopping from Now Moment to Now Moment, within an ultra-changeable continuum of possible/probable alternatives. Knowing that these exist and piloting our "vehicle" with a reasonable amount of focus and intention, we have an excellent chance of being able to navigate ourselves anywhere.

The pitfall, of course, is a little thing called continuity. Once we invest ourselves, within a particular "version" or sequence of Now Moments --- and become attached to an outcome --- our consciousness decelerates itself until it becomes hardened into physical matter. In other words, what is happening in that universe "matters" to us, and we become stuck there.

To commit ourselves into the Now Moment is to, in essence, put our head down and WHIRRRRRRRRR through the Multiverse until our vibration locks on to our strongest desire. The word "desire" means "of the Father" --- "de" + "sire" (father). Once that connection is made, the journey is instantaneous. After all, there's really nowhere to go, eh? It's all here, it's all Now, it's all YOU.

I ask: "Do you know what you did yesterday?" "Everything."

"Do you know what you'll do tomorrow?" "Everything."

It's only TODAY --- it's really only NOW --- that you can do Something.

So here we have it --- Commitment #2. Being PRESENT in the NOW. Everything else is scenery. If it can't be done Now, let it be. Everything will stack itself up, exactly as you created it. Therefore, sit back --- relax. Climb aboard your nice, shiny, new NOW MOMENT --- arrive where you want ON TIME, and in beautiful style!

('Articles in this thread are compiled from various governmental
and other public domain sources.' Intended solely as informative
and subjects to reflect on as...'the time of all things' and 'concerned citizens'.)

 

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If I Had A Hammer . . . Makes Sense To Me

By Francis Shrum
Tidbits of Northern Idaho, January 20, 2006

You got the notice in the mail, and because you are a good, law-abiding citizen, you mark your calendar.

On the specified date you put on decent, law-abiding clothes and go downtown, braving traffic, parking tickets, confusion and bureaucracy. Maybe you think you're just a citizen doing your duty. You think you are a bone fide member of a constitutionally ordained jury pool, the very backbone and essence of our judicial system.

But that's not really what you are.

In fact, you're just a hammer.

You might as well be made of steel, with a big flat nose used for striking things, to be wielded with strength and purpose, though certainly not your own.

Like so many other institutions of our culture, the principle of trial by jury that underpins our judicial system has become just another source of power to be manipulated by both sides in an adversarial system of justice that has little to do with guilt or innocence.

Like professional sports, education, and commerce, our legal system has become so thoroughly diluted with politics, greed and competition that it matters little whether the person charged with a crime is actually guilty.

What is more likely to happen as a result of your responding so diligently to your jury summons is that you will likely never spend a moment sitting on an actual jury, because the prosecution and the defense will reach an agreement before a jury is actually impaneled.

The weight, or threat, of the jury hammer will have been wielded. You will have been used as a pawn in an increasingly manipulative system that is as near to justice as our modern society is capable of producing.

There is a good bit of controversy in the news these days about jurors in celebrity trials profiting from their exposure to the insider aspects of the cases. Some of them are giving interviews, writing books, etc. I figure they are entitled to any profit they can make off of anyone who cares to waste his time watching their interviews or wasting their money on a book they wrote. As for the windbags on TV talk shows who are concerned about the integrity of our jury system, they need to wake up and smell the coffee. Integrity fled the scene long ago, right on the heels of justice and common sense.

As a law-abiding citizen, there is little you can do if the call to jury duty arrives, other than sacrifice your time, your effort, and your body to become part of a hammer that does little to pound out real truth and justice.

The system needs fixing, but it will take a hammer far greater than a jury of our peers to bring about that resolution.



('Articles in this thread are compiled from various governmental
and other public domain sources.' Intended solely as informative
and subjects to reflect on as...'the time of all things' and 'concerned citizens'.)
(Intended solely as informative and subjects to reflect on.)

 

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10 Most Destructive Americans of the Last 70 years

by Frank Hawkins - US Army Retired Intelligence Officer

America has undergone enormous change during the nearly eight decades of my life. Today, America is a bitterly divided, poorly educated, and morally fragile society with so-called mainstream politicians pushing cynical identity politics, socialism, and open borders. The past president of the United States was impeached twice and acquitted twice because the other side doesn’t like him. The once reasonably unbiased American media has evolved into a hysterical left-wing mob.

How could the stable and reasonably cohesive America of the 1950s have reached this point in just one lifetime? Who are the main culprits? Here’s my list of the 10 most destructive Americans of the last 70 years.

10) Mark Felt – Deputy director of the FBI, aka “Deep Throat” during the Watergate scandal. This was the first public instance of a senior FBI official directly interfering in America’s political affairs. He was the forerunner of James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Andrew McCabe.

9) Bill Ayers– Represents the deep and ongoing leftist ideological damage to our education system. An unrepentant American terrorist who evaded punishment, he devoted his career to radicalizing American education and pushing leftist causes. Ghost wrote Obama’s book, “Dreams From My Father.”

8) Teddy Kennedy– Most folks remember Teddy as the guy who left Mary Joe Kopechne to die in his car at Chappaquiddick. The real damage came after he avoided punishment for her death and became a major Democrat force in the US Senate, pushing through transformative liberal policies in health care and education. The real damage was the 1965 Hart-Cellar immigration bill he pushed hard for that changed the quota system to increase the flow of third world people without skills into the US and essentially ended large-scale immigration from Europe. (This was done because Democrats badly needed votes just like today.)

7) Walter Cronkite– Cronkite was a much-beloved network anchor who began the politicization of America’s news media with his infamous broadcast from Vietnam that described the Tet Offensive as a major victory for the Communists and significantly turned the gullible American public against the Vietnam War. In fact, the Tet offensive was a military disaster for the NVA and Viet Cong, later admitted by North Vietnamese military leaders. Decades later Cronkite admitted he got the story wrong. But it was too late. The damage was done.

6) Bill and Hillary Clinton- It’s difficult to separate Team Clinton. Bill’s presidency was largely benign as he was a relative fiscal conservative who rode the remaining benefits of the Reagan era. But his sexual exploits badly stained the Oval Office and negatively affected America’s perception of the presidency. In exchange for financial support, he facilitated the transfer of sensitive military technology to the Chinese. Hillary, a Saul Alinsky acolyte, is one of the most vicious politicians of my lifetime, covering up Bill’s sexual assaults by harassing and insulting the exploited women and peddling influence around the globe in exchange for funds for the corrupt Clinton Foundation. She signed off on the sale of 20% of the US uranium reserve to the Russians after Bill received a $500,000 speaking fee in Moscow and the foundation (which supported the Clinton’s regal lifestyle) received hundreds of millions of dollars from those who benefited from the deal. Between them, they killed any honor that might have existed in the dark halls of DC.

5) Valerie Jarrett- The Rasputin of the Obama administration. A Red Diaper baby, her father, maternal grandfather, and father-in-law (Vernon Jarrett who was a close friend and ally of Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis) were hardcore Communists under investigation by the U.S. government. She has been in Obama’s ear for his entire political career pushing a strong anti-American, Islamist, anti-Israeli, socialist/communist, cling-to-power agenda.

4) Jimmy Carter- Carter ignited modern-day radical Islam by abandoning the Shah and paving the way for Ayatollah Khomeini to take power in Tehran. Iran subsequently became the main state sponsor and promoter of international Islamic terrorism. When Islamists took over our embassy in Tehran, Carter was too weak to effectively respond thus strengthening the rule of the radical Islamic mullahs.

3) Lyndon Johnson– Johnson turned the Vietnam conflict into a major war for America. It could have ended early if he had listened to the generals instead of automaker Robert McNamara The ultimate result was:

A) 58,000 American military deaths and collaterally tens of thousands of American lives damaged; and

B) a war that badly divided America and created left-wing groups that evaded the draft and eventually gained control of our education system.

Even worse, his so-called War on Poverty led to the destruction of American black families with a significant escalation of welfare and policies designed to keep poor families dependent on the government (and voting Democrat) for their well-being. He deliberately created a racial holocaust that is still burning today. A strong case could be made for putting him at the top of this list.

(Cont.)