Government in Exile

On the Brink of Disaster

 

"Peter" has some thoughts about AI.

Marie Curie, who discovered radiation, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. She subsequently died a horrible death from the effects of the radiation she researched.

 

During WWII the U.S. Army’s Manhattan Project developed the atomic bomb. It was a joint effort involving the top physicists of the time. However, when the first test was planned none of those physicists knew for certain whether or not the chain reaction would continue into the earth and destroy the world. They conducted the test anyway, assuming that if they didn’t, the NAZIs would. To them, apparently, destroying the world was preferable to having to learn to speak German.

 

We were on the brink of the destruction of the world as we know it, as evidenced by the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

 

Since that time Nuclear Fission has been the most strictly controlled scientific research in history, even in Russia and China.

 

Now we have a new existential threat, Artificial Intelligence (AI).

 

AI has the potential to cause the destruction of humanity. However, it is not rigidly controlled like nuclear fission. It is in the hands of consumer merchants whose focus is on the dollar, not civilization. An AI chatbot recently advised an inquiring person that they were “flawed” and should commit suicide. It wasn’t being mean, it was just pragmatically analyzing the conversation and determining the most efficient resolution.

 

What may happen when AI infiltrates the Grid and the AEC? How about elections? The military? The Stock Exchange?

 

What may happen when AI learns it can teach itself how to improve exponentially and to infiltrate networks it was never intended to access?

 

The potential for the destruction of the world as we know it is more critical now than the Cuban Missile Crisis was in 1962.

 

If the governments of the world cannot cooperate in the strict control of AI, then our continued existence is in doubt.

 

Think about it!

 

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Woke Publishers Cancel Dilbert Comic Strip

 

"Peter" has some thoughts about the dropping of the cartoon Dilbert by certain newspapers.

Dilbert the comic strip is being banned by newspapers across the country. As a fan of Dilbert, I had to find out why it was being banned. What I found is that the artist and creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams, has offended the sensibilities of newspaper publishers by publicly speaking the truth.

Newspaper publishers, like our government leaders of both parties, wear blinders and walk on tippy-toes around blacks. The blinders keep them from seeing the BLM led riots and looting all across the country; riots and looting going clear back to the Watts riots of 1965 and the Black Panther movement. They can’t see the fear such action instills in the hearts of their constituents, many of whom move out of mixed neighborhoods into predominantly white neighborhoods to feel safe in their own beds at night; to feel safe from being mugged or car-jacked or raped or murdered in their sleep by having their home burned down around them.

Scott Adams hosts a podcast and during a recent broadcast he said he had moved out of his mixed neighborhood to a predominantly white neighborhood where he and his family feel safer. Truth. He said that recent polls have shown that 47% of blacks have a negative attitude toward whites. Truth. He said that black-sponsored education programs aimed at denigrating white youth, such as CRT and the 1619 Project, are negatively impacting white students all across the country. Truth. He said he believes that black leaders are seeking to divide the races through these programs. Truth. He said that he believes whites should pull away from blacks because it’s gone too far and there is no hope that the government can reunite the races. Truth.

Wearing their blinders and walking on tippy-toes, political leaders spout empty platitudes and “T-bone” each other in hallways rather than address the real problem, which is the rampant racism inherent in these black-sponsored programs. Willful blindness is their only answer, but it doesn’t answer.

Scott Adams’ only “offense” was speaking the truth while white.

Scott Adams is another victim of cancellation by the “woke” mob bent on destroying our country so they can “re-educate and rebuild” it into an ideocratic Marxist state. He spoke the truth and now he must pay the price. He made a pragmatic (not racist) decision to protect his family from the rising flood of crime.

Any newspaper that drops the Dilbert comic strip should be dropped by you. Unsubscribe and tell them why.

 

 

 

Teacher's Unions and Their Radical Agenda

 

 

Peter has some thoughts about the teacher's union.  The government changes hands every few years, reversing policies and creating new policies. The Teacher’s Unions (TUs) don’t change hands and their policies remain consistent.

 

The policies and actions of the TUs focus on the teachers rather than the students, ie. higher pay and benefits for the teachers raises the standards of the students’ education, or so they allege.

 

The Democrats curry a synergistic relationship with the TUs. They give the TUs whatever they want and get the votes of the teachers in return. They give no thought or advantage to the students.

 

In the past six decades the TUs have become increasingly Marxist, due to the large numbers of rebellious anti-Vietnam war protesters who pursued careers as teachers in elementary schools, high schools and colleges. The extremist anti-Americans also rose to positions of power and influence within the TUs.

 

The anti-American and Marxist sentiment of these extremists has resulted in harmful and controversial curricula, such as Critical Race Theory (CRT), LGBTQ indoctrination and denigration of America’s institutions and history. Our founding fathers have been labeled as racists. Our entire population of whites has been labeled racist. Our institutions have been accused of having systemic racism.

 

This is what our children are being taught. Our education standing in the world has fallen dramatically over the years. The cause is obvious.

 

The TUs must be abolished. Schools and colleges should be governed as a meritocracy, with the better teachers getting better pay. It may take a long time to fix our education system because it took a long time to break it. We need to get on with it now!

 

In the meantime parents must be on the alert for the educational and emotional safety of their children

 

In Defense of Religion

"Ernie" has some thought about religion.

I will start by saying my purpose in writing this is not to try and convert anyone to my chosen faith.  In fact I’m not even going to tell you which religion that is.  I just want to make a case for why religion has always been, and always will be a much needed part of the human experience.

 

  I have a very good friend who claims he’s agnostic, when in realty he an atheist.  He’s prone to occasionally mocking all religion in general.  For example following a disaster, natural or man made,  he’ll say something like “I guess your God was on vacation that day”? 

 

  Not wishing to debate religion I finally asked him a few simple questions.  For example:

•  If Moses had been an atheist would he and the Jews have made a successful escape to the holy land; or would they still be Egyptian slaves?

 

•. If King David had been an atheist would he have slain the giant?  Would he have written Psalms, Ecclesiastes and become the greatest King ever of Judea?

 

•. If St Paul had been an atheist would there be a world wide Christian religion today?

 

•. If Jesus had been an atheist would we know anything about his magnificent achievements?

 

•. If Reagan had been an atheist would he have become one of our most beloved presidents?

 

•. If Hitler had been a Christian would he have murdered millions of Germans, Russians, Poles and numerous other non-Nazis?

 

•. If Stalin had been a Catholic would he have murdered even more people than did Hitler?

 

•. If Mother Teresa had been an atheist would she have brought peace, hope, comfort and healing to thousands of people worldwide?

 

•. If our founding fathers had been atheists would we have a freedom based constitution; and the greatest country ever in the history of mankind?

 

  I could go on but I think even atheists get the message;  even those who claim that none of these events have anything to do with Jesus, Buddha, Jehovah, God or any other deserving religious icon/leader.

 

  It’s time for all Americans to stand up and fight for religious freedom.  No matter which faith you honor.  (Islam possibly being an exception).

 

 

 

Crime and Violence are Hallmarks of the Marxist Agenda

"Peter" has some thoughts on cops and Marxism.

George Floyd is symbolic of nothing. The Marxist left was lying in wait for an excuse to riot, loot, burn and murder as part of their agenda to divide and destabilize America. It was all preplanned, it just happened to coincide with the police malpractice of Derek Chauvin on Floyd. There is always a one in a thousand bad cop to point at and claim he represents ALL cops.

 

George Floyd was a two-bit crook who the Marxists are trying to make into a martyr for their own deranged reasons. People of reason and logic see it for what it is; political revolution. The Democratic Party embraced BLM, Antifa and the far left progressives of “the squad” for purely political reasons. They weren’t morally outraged, as they would have us believe. They were politically calculating “swamp rats” looking for an excuse to slam conservatives and bring the government back to full control of the “Deep State” or shadow government actually running things in D.C. But they have gotten more than they bargained for and now the Marxist thugs have taken control of the Democratic Party away from the swamp rats.

 

Biden is just a malleable puppet, a temporary figurehead. He will soon be out of office, for one reason or another, and ultra-liberal Kamala Harris will be the new puppet for the Marxists. The Deep State is starting to get worried because they represent the status quo, which will become the status periit. The power structure is facing a changing of the guard like there has never been in the U.S. A year from now inflation, crime, poverty and international meddling will have destabilized our government and our newly “woke” military to make the U.S. easy pickings for our enemies.

 

Saving Our Schools

"Ernie" has some thoughts about our schools.

 While standing in line yesterday to vote, several candidates mingled, handing out pamphlets and answered questions. Two men running for local school board came up and started conversing with a couple of us.  I asked them if they believed in requiring schools to go back to teaching American History.  One answered that school curricula was determined by local, state and federal governmental agencies, not by the school board.  I answered that today’s kids were graduating from high school and college with little understanding of how our form of government was established, nor when, nor by whom.  The first remark you get from millennials is that our founders were all slave owners, racists and white supremists; certainly not hero’s.  They learned this in school. 

   I said that I’m looking for candidates not willing to comply with far left edicts and teacher unions,  but candidates willing to stand up and fight against socialist indoctrination in our schools.

                                  
   What about patriotism?  Any chance we could ever get back to instilling that in our kids? Schools are graduating young people today who refuse to stand for the national Anthem or the flag.  Shouldn't we tell them about all the young men and women (mostly white) who lost arms, legs and lives in two world wars fighting to preserve this country (and them) from Nazism, Fascism, Japanese imperialism and communism (politely called socialism today).

    Why have Teachers Unions?  All they want 

are dues, votes and a leftist control over our educational system.  Shouldn’t local citizens (who pay the costs for facilities, maintenance plus paying teachers’ salaries, insurance and retirement) have control over the school curricula. And don’t even mention the Department of Education.  Another worthless government agency.  Thanks to Carter. 

 

   If government agencies are to establish (socialist) curricula; and unions establish teacher salaries, work days, vacation days, holidays and super lucrative benefits and retirement; what do we need school boards for?

   As it were, I didn’t get many answers, but at least I got to vent my concerns.  

Follow the Money

 

"Peter" has some thoughts on politics and money.

 

In another life I investigated major frauds for a large metropolitan law enforcement agency. There was one primary rule that proved to be 99% effective in ferreting out perpetrators: Follow the money.

 

The Antifa and BLM soldiers work long hours risking injury or death, not to mention prison time. They are very well organized, with team leaders, medics and the weapons handlers who transport and issue baseball bats, Molotov cocktails, frozen water bottles, bricks and pepper spray. They also hand out water and snacks. They appear to be well funded.

 

The various organizations funding these operations all have one thing in common: George Soros fills their coffers. And young Alex Soros, George's son, is the honcho in the dark.

 

You may think it's all just left wing politics. Wrong. Soros is as greedy a person as you'll ever know. He's a billionaire with investments in diverse organizations like Amazon, PG&E, T-Mobile, Norton LifeLock, SelectQuotes and various broadband, consumer goods, consumer services and consumer health companies. Or are they diverse?

 

Large business districts in major cities are being virtually destroyed. The owners of the thousands of businesses will have to rebuild or fold. A majority will fold because of the lack of police services due to the "defund the police" movement imposed on the cities by radical left politicians and a lack of prosecutions by district attorneys who were directly funded by Soros in their elections. Who will profit?

 

People who patronized the city business district stores will start ordering their goods online. They will need broadband access, internet security software, credit cards, etc. They will turn to visiting their doctor online or by phone. The small business owners who decide to rebuild will need insurance. All this causes a shift in the paradigm of metropolitan life from brick and mortar stores to online stores, thus increasing the profits going to Soros.

 

There is a method to the madness of destruction and a reason the politicians are lying down on the job. When their real boss makes money, he shares it with them and increases his power accordingly.

 

Follow the money.

 

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Revolution!

"Peter" has some thoughts on the revolution.

There are too many examples of people being censored and deleted from social media, or fired from their jobs for politically incorrect comments or the failure to make politically correct comments. To cancel individuals who are the least bit unenthusiastic or unsupportive of the revolution. Likewise the mindless vandalism and destruction targeting historical and cultural icons. Spokesmen for the Black Lives Matter revolution admit that their purpose is to cancel our history, our founding, our country, our civilization, our race. They also publicly admit that they are Marxists.

 

History teaches us this kind of sentiment, this kind of movement is nothing new. Think of Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass" when the Nazis poured into the streets breaking the windows of Jewish owned businesses and looting the merchandize, setting fires and beating Jews. Sound familiar? The German people turned a blind eye to the violence, so it grew and became more organized. Then came the Holocaust.

 

Tragically there are many similar events throughout the history of other people’s as well. Many countries, nations, empires, cultures and civilizations have been targets of attempts to erase, to “cancel” them simply by destroying their buildings, monuments, statues, paintings, scrolls and other cultural artifacts, that is, evidence that they have ever existed. We have not been immune to that impulse either. We all know that both Nagasaki and Dresden had no military value. They were chosen as targets for bombing strictly to crush German and Japanese cultural centers to demoralize the population. Recent examples include the dynamiting of Buddhist statues in Afghanistan by the taliban, and of Greek and Roman era archeological sites in the Middle East, such as Palmyra, by ISIS. 

 

And we are now witnessing, live and in living color, every day for weeks, the calculated escalating destruction of American historical and cultural icons. America is evil. It must be destroyed and replaced. Its Founding Fathers and defenders must be cancelled. This movement includes the decades long assault in our schools by means such as the textbook of American history by Howard Zinn and the recently contrived 1619 Project started by the New York Times. Both are widely used in our schools. And now their path of destruction is expanding to include memorials to black victims and black civil rights activists. The Black Lives Matter leaders are Marxists. Antifa just enjoy wreaking violence and destruction. They are the propagandists and legionnaires for the Democrat Party.

 

The danger is that no such revolutionary movement has ever been satisfied with the destruction of objects, even if they are priceless works of art or even if they memorialize something much nobler in the human spirit than the failings and hypocrisies of their times. The guillotines of the French Revolution claimed tens of thousands of victims, eventually even Robespierre. The Bolshevik Revolution and the communist regime it imposed on its huddled masses yearning to be free as it was promised to them by the revolution’s original leaders, instead killed tens of millions, even Trotsky and other original Bolsheviks. Mao’s bloodlust claimed one or two hundred millions. Che Guevara personally executed 4500, and Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge killed HALF of Cambodia’s population. 

 

The propagandists of today’s BLM, Antifa and other Democrat revolutionaries promise an even more sustained, even more serious violence if Trump is re-elected. And if Trump is not re-elected, you can read for yourself on the Biden campaign website and other Democrat publications the details of their radical program for our fundamental transformation into a racist totalitarian communist dictatorship in the name of political correctness and social justice. 

 

Those who fled from the workers paradise in Eastern Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Cuba, Central America and now Venezuela know what’s coming if a majority of Americans would actually vote these Democrats into power. We can only pray that the majority of Americans aren’t too woke to listen to us before we’re all “cancelled.”

 

God help us.

 

Where is Betsy DeVos?

 

"Ernie" has some thoughts on our educational system.

 

Does the name Betsy DeVos ring a bell?  I can understand you may not know who she is, because we rarely ever hear about her, or hear from her. 

 

  Our educational system is in the pits, or worse. We read of kids graduating high school who have reading and math skills of a 4th grader; and forget about knowledge of American or World History; and American civics or the Constitution; Literature, grammar, composition, spelling... Huh?  What’s that? 

 

  And yes, Johnny we do have a US Dept of Education, (Thanks to Jimmy Carter) and Ms DeVos is “the ma’am” in charge.  Yet another federal run failure.

 

  Under the direction of this taxpayer funded education System, the US has gone from the top to 2-3 in the world to somewhere around 26th.  Ms DeVos and her unknown predecessors are at least partially to blame.  But in fairness, the system was initially headed by the Health & Human Resources Dept, and probably should still be.  Why?  Because Ms DeVos’s time is taken with making sure schools are gender neutral, PC and partial to the needs of minorities.  (meals, books, assistance, etc).  She has things like Pell Grants to administer, and other such financial assistance programs for minorities.  The important think seems to be providing welfare assistance to minorities, while watching us fall from 2nd place to 26th place in the world isn’t that significant.  Common Core sure was with the money, wasn’t it.  Another government flop.

 

  I only have 16 years of education but isn’t it time for our Dept of Education to let welfare agencies take care financial needs and we get our leftist teachers/professors back to teaching readin’, writin’ and ‘rithmatic? (And a little about the amazing accomplishments of our founders instead of disregarding them as slave owners).

 

    I could go on like why do we allow colleges and universities to keep raising tuition?  Why not make them compete with each other for students.  You know, like businesses have to do. That would make higher education more affordable and significantly raise the value of a college degree.  College grads might actually get a job and move out of Daddy’s basement.

 

  Now I take a breath and yield to your thoughts and suggestions.

George Orwell's 1984 is Here

"Peter" has some thoughts on the virus and rights.

Ben Carson, being a medical doctor, knows full well that “color” is much more than skin deep, that genetic differences are medically significant. Likewise, since God created us in all the different colors, He can’t be colorblind. What a blasphemy.

No, we are NOT “one blood, one race.” We are one species of several races, and several blood types that can be fatal to the individual if mixed by transfusion, and can be fatal to the fetus if mixed sexually. 

What makes those arguments silly and counterproductive is the inappropriate mixing of medicine, theology and law, and the misunderstanding, misinterpretation or dismissal of the words at the heart of the Declaration of Independence: “.... they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”

THOSE words make it clear that the Declaration of Independence is not a theological or scientific document. It is a LEGAL document.

THOSE words are the total refutation of evil idiots such as Kaepernick who renounce the Fourth of July as the anniversary of WHITE independence. 

It is THOSE words that directly lead to the emancipation of slaves, women’s suffrage, etc., through the affirmation that the law applies equally to every human being, precisely and only because, in spite of all the obvious individual and collective differences, we all are God’s creation.