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The REAL Reason for Climate Change

The REAL reason for climate change is explained scientifically, for skeptics…

Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate

By Alan Buis,
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Our lives literally revolve around cycles: series of events that are repeated regularly in the same order. There are hundreds of different types of cycles in our world and in the universe. Some are natural, such as the change of the seasons, annual animal migrations or the circadian rhythms that govern our sleep patterns. Others are human-produced, like growing and harvesting crops, musical rhythms or economic cycles.

Cycles also play key roles in Earth’s short-term weather and long-term climate. A century ago, Serbian scientist Milutin Milankovitch hypothesized the long-term, collective effects of changes in Earth’s position relative to the Sun are a strong driver of Earth’s long-term climate, and are responsible for triggering the beginning and end of glaciation periods (Ice Ages).

Specifically, he examined how variations in three types of Earth orbital movements affect how much solar radiation (known as insolation) reaches the top of Earth’s atmosphere as well as where the insolation reaches. These cyclical orbital movements, which became known as the Milankovitch cycles, cause variations of up to 25 percent in the amount of incoming insolation at Earth’s mid-latitudes (the areas of our planet located between about 30 and 60 degrees north and south of the equator).

The Milankovitch cycles include:

1. The shape of Earth’s orbit, known as eccentricity;
2. The angle Earth’s axis is tilted with respect to Earth’s orbital plane, known as obliquity; and
3. The direction Earth’s axis of rotation is pointed, known as precession.
4. Eccentricity – Earth’s annual pilgrimage around the Sun isn’t perfectly circular, but it’s pretty close. Over time, the pull of gravity from our solar system’s two largest gas giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, causes the shape of Earth’s orbit to vary from nearly circular to slightly elliptical. Eccentricity measures how much the shape of Earth’s orbit departs from a perfect circle. These variations affect the distance between Earth and the Sun.

Eccentricity is the reason why our seasons are slightly different lengths, with summers in the Northern Hemisphere currently about 4.5 days longer than winters, and springs about three days longer than autumns. As eccentricity decreases, the length of our seasons gradually evens out.

The difference in the distance between Earth’s closest approach to the Sun (known as perihelion), which occurs on or about January 3 each year, and its farthest departure from the Sun (known as aphelion) on or about July 4, is currently about 5.1 million kilometers (about 3.2 million miles), a variation of 3.4 percent. That means each January, about 6.8 percent more incoming solar radiation reaches Earth than it does each July.

When Earth’s orbit is at its most elliptic, about 23 percent more incoming solar radiation reaches Earth at our planet’s closest approach to the Sun each year than does at its farthest departure from the Sun. Currently, Earth’s eccentricity is very slowly decreasing and is approaching its least elliptic (most circular), in a cycle that spans about 100,000 years.

Obliquity – The angle of Earth’s axis of rotation is tilted as it travels around the Sun is known as obliquity. Obliquity is why Earth has seasons. Over the last million years, it has varied between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees with respect to Earth’s orbital plane. The greater Earth’s axial tilt angle, the more extreme our seasons are, as each hemisphere receives more solar radiation during its summer, when the hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, and less during winter, when it is tilted away. Larger tilt angles favor periods of deglaciation (the melting and retreat of glaciers and ice sheets). These effects aren’t uniform globally -- higher latitudes receive a larger change in total solar radiation than areas closer to the equator.

Earth’s axis is currently tilted 23.4 degrees, or about half way between its extremes, and this angle is very slowly decreasing in a cycle that spans about 41,000 years. It was last at its maximum tilt about 10,000 years ago and will reach its minimum tilt about 10,000 years from now. As obliquity decreases, it gradually helps make our seasons milder, resulting in increasingly warmer winters, and cooler summers that gradually, over time, allow snow and ice at high latitudes to build up into large ice sheets. As ice cover increases, it reflects more of the Sun’s energy back into space, promoting even further cooling.

 

 

 

 

The Left is Screaming Again About “Climate Change”

California family on hike found dead from heat exhaustion.

 

The temperatures in the US this summer are high and some careless people in places like Death Valley have expired. Those who have died chose to hike on hot trails without taking along water. They died not from the excessive heat, but from stupidity.

 

But the Marxist ideologues of the Left are claiming that “climate change” is to blame. Lets look at the facts:

 

During the “dust bowl” period of the 1930’s the heat index was FOUR TIMES what it has been this year. People died then, during the Great Depression, from famine and hunger, but not usually from the heat. They had enough common sense to stay hydrated and out of the sun’s glare.

 

Today we have spoiled, catered to, weak people who have been indoctrinated rather than taught to be critical thinkers. Their politics speak to their weak thought processes and their lack of common sense, as well as their propensity to place blame inappropriately when tragedies befall them; or when they are reporting a tragedy in the media.

 

Don’t listen to these thoughtless people who want to blame “climate change” for every tragedy involving the weather. Man cannot change the climate or the weather and is, likewise, not to blame for either.

 

The tragedies are due to natural causes brought about by Nature.

 

 

 

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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Chinese Balloons are not Party Balloons

"Peter" has some thoughts about China's balloon.

The Chinese balloon leisurely floating across the entire U.S., stopping briefly above our most sensitive and secret military bases and maneuvering with obvious control, is a recent example of the weakness and incompetence of Joe Biden. The Chinese have been gathering intelligence around the world with never a word against them from the Biden administration.

 

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have rattled their sabers at the U.S. on numerous occasions without a single response from the Biden administration. They are upgrading their nuclear arsenal to surpass us in numbers of ICBMs and their quality; most recently testing a hypersonic version.

 

When asked about the CCP by reporters, Biden responds that our worst threat is climate change, not the Chinese. Climate change?!

 

Could Biden’s lackadaisical attitude toward the CCP be indicative of a compromised POTUS? The CCP has invested millions in Hunter Biden’s hair-brained schemes and millions more in his “art” with a tip of the hat to “the Big Guy” who gets a percentage of the money. Could that be the reason for giving the CCP a strategic advantage over the U.S. by appearing weak and faint-hearted in the eyes of the world? Is Joe Biden so compromised by money that he puts the interest of the CCP above the interest of the U.S.?

 

Or is Joe Biden so mentally compromised that he doesn’t understand the consequences of accepting huge sums of money from a potential enemy of the U.S.? Or both?

 

Are the FBI and the DOJ holding back on the evidence from the Hunter Biden laptop because Joe Biden ordered it? Or is it because they fear a catastrophe if Kamala Harris succeeds to the presidency?

 

Too much is at stake to remain silent. Our survival as a nation may be at risk. This is too important to be covered up by partisan politicians and the deep state swamp.

 

The FBI must be made to remember when they acted with integrity and honor, even though it was long ago, before they were compromised at the very top by Marxists and their “woke” ideology.

 

The American people are being held hostage by a small minority of Marxists who have usurped the power of the presidency by dictating “woke” policies in Biden’s name, degrading our military and law enforcement to weaken our resolve. Is it because they have threatened to expose him if he doesn’t go along? That’s what happens to a POTUS who is so compromised by money that he must obey or forfeit his position; maybe even his freedom.

 

The Marxist’s “woke” agenda has infiltrated the top officers of our military; public schools and colleges; the main stream media; motion picture and entertainment celebrities; and a fair number of corporate executives in business and manufacturing.

 

It is past time for pushing back against the “woke” agenda. If we allow it to go on, China will bury us.

 

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Tail Wagging the Dog

"Peter has some thoughts about pressure groups.

Gallup estimates that 5.6% of the total U.S. adult population is lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).

Gallup estimates that 13.6% of the U.S. adult population is black. Of this group, 12% are also LGBT.

These statistics give us some perspective in addressing the political impact of these groups on society at large. LGBT is a very small percentage of our population. Blacks are a larger, but still small percentage. Yet both groups wield more political clout than any other group of our population. Why?

In the recent past, the LGBT group organized to demand equal rights and recognition as a legitimate member of society. That happened rather quickly and there was a push for LGBT to come out of the “closet”. Now we have LGBT in the highest roles of government and industry. They have been accepted generally by society, even in our churches. But that was not enough.

LGBT have been exerting their political clout to force society at large to embrace and endorse their sexual lifestyle. Now we have “drag” shows in public schools and as half-time entertainment at an NBA game, handing out “pride” T-shirts. We have the “pride” flag flying alongside the U.S. flag on our embassies abroad and many federal, state and local buildings at home. Why?

There are blacks in virtually every role of government, industry and entertainment, accepted by society at large. Yet many blacks, encouraged by the political clout of the BLM, have repeatedly rioted in the streets and burned businesses (but not black owned businesses) to protest alleged “institutional racism” and unfair treatment in general. They have demanded “reparations” for the treatment of their ancient ancestors. They inject divisiveness into our schools with “CRT” and “the 1619 project”. Why?

The “in your face” attitude of LGBT and blacks is not justified. Their demands are not justified. Their political clout is not justified. They create divisions in society, which is not healthy for our economy or our governance, yet politicians and leaders in industry cater to them as if they were a majority of the population. Why?

Is it the fear of being called a bigot, or a racist, or a “white supremacist”? That is the political “nuclear weapon” that has struck fear into the hearts our leaders. Some of our churches have been split apart by the LGBT. Some of our businesses have closed because of the BLM.

It is time to restore society to an appropriate balance of racial equality, not “equity”; know the difference. As for LGBT, we should leave our sexual preferences in the bedroom, not our schools or other public areas. It should be private, not “in your face”.

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The “Climate Change” fanatics (formerly Global Warming fanatics) are a Religious Cult

"Peter" has some thoughts about Climate Change.

“Will” over at The Medium is calling attention to how the climate change fanatics resemble nothing so much as a full-blown religious cult. Here are the ten signs and his introductory description to each, based on the indicators developed by the Cult Education Institute:

1. Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability.

The leading advocates of the Climate Change movement are politicians, entertainers, and even children. Climate preachers such as Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio lack any formal scientific training whatsoever, and live personal lives of unparalleled luxury while prescribing carbon austerity for the masses. Yet no one is permitted to point out their scientific ignorance or call attention to their hypocritical lifestyles. Add Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 16-year old Greta Thunberg to the list of climate preachers without any formal scientific training.

Child advocates such as Greta Thuneberg and the crudely indoctrinated children of the “Sunrise movement” are essentially sock puppets for their shameless activist handlers. Refuse to bend the knee to these tiny fascists, as Diane Feinstein most recently did, and the mainstream left will relentlessly attack you as an accessory to mass murder.

2. No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry.

The conclusions of the Climate Change movement may not be challenged or questioned under any circumstances. Those who dare scrutinize the conclusions, methodology, or prescriptions of “climate scientists” are categorically dismissed as a “Climate Denier” an excommunicated untouchable whose opinion is no longer valid on any subject.

3. No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget, expenses such as an independently audited financial statement.

Hardly anyone knows just how much money is spent on “Climate research” every year. The cost is spread out among laughably useless study grants, wind and solar farm subsidies, carbon offset credits, “green” building code evaluation and enforcement, salaries for bureaucrats solely dedicated to “climate concerns”……you get the idea, it’s a lot of hazy money.

4. Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions.

This one is pretty obvious. The Climate Change movement always shouts out revised and updated apocalypse predictions, eerily reminiscent of the stereotypical bum on the sidewalk with that “The End Is Near” sign. “The world will end in X years if we don’t do X” is the constant refrain. The years always pass, and the apocalypse never happens. Interestingly, this is a characteristic of multiple religious cults (such as the Seekers of Chicago, and the Order of the Solar Temple). At the moment, we apparently have 12 years to nationalize the entire economy and phase out fossil fuels before we all die a fiery death.

5. There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil.

Climate alarmists who leave, step back from, or even lightly criticize the movement are immediately subjected to vicious smear campaigns. Dutch professor Richard Tol experienced this phenomenon firsthand when he removed his name from an IPCC climate report and criticized the reports excessively apocalyptic predictions.

6. Former members often relate the same stories of abuse and reflect a similar pattern of grievances.

Professor Tol is not an anomaly. Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT, Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, and countless other former IPCC in-crowd climate experts were subjected to smear campaigns from their colleagues and the news media for the crime of throwing cold water on the outlandish predictions of the Climate Change movement.

7. There are records, books, news articles, or television programs that document the abuses of the group/leader.

The abuses of the Climate Change movement are loud and proud. They vociferously attack their perceived enemies for public consumption, and are cheered on by fellow travelers in the journalism class. Most recently they brainwashed a bunch of kids and marched them into an octogenarian Democrat Senator’s office to beg not to be murdered by a ‘No’ vote on impossible legislation.

8. Followers feel they can never be “good enough.”

The atonement process for Climate warriors always demands more. It started with using a recycling bin and grocery bags. Now, in 2019, being a good follower means imposing veganism on the masses and issuing fatwahs against innocuous objects such as plastic straws and grocery bags. Despite all the efforts of the faithful, Climate minions maintain a constant state of dread and despair, knowing they can never truly do enough to stop the coming doom.

9. The group/leader is always right.

When have the climate leaders been called wrong for their failed predictions? Regardless of the weather, they are always intrinsically correct.

Flood? Climate Change. Drought? Climate Change. No Snow? Climate Change. Too much snow? Climate Change. Hurricane? Climate Change. Lack of hurricanes? Climate Change.

See how this works?

10. The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing “truth” or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible.

The path to discovery for the Climate Change movement is an intentionally vague discipline referred to as “climate science.” Did you carry out a study on gender and glaciers? Climate Science. Did you think up the worst possible scenarios that have no actual chance of happening (actual portion of latest National Climate Assessment)? Climate Science. When asked to provide proof of their assertions, they are at a loss. They will respond by attacking you as a “climate change denier” or an ignorant fool.

Any “science” that confirms the tenets of the Climate Change movement is deemed “climate science,” while actual scientific research that disputes their conclusions is derided as “denialism.”

The Verdict: It’s a cult

According to the established, scientific guidelines developed by cult experts, the Climate Change movement fits the bill for a potentially unsafe group. Rather than debating Climate Change activists, it may be time to start staging interventions and provide deprogramming help when appropriate.

 

 

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Climate CZAR John Kerry

"Peter" has some thoughts on John Kerry, Climate Czar.

Flying around the world in his private 747, emitting thousands of tons of carbon into the atmosphere, Climate CZAR John Kerry lectures others on the alleged necessity of limiting carbon emissions as a means of controlling climate change. He uses these lectures to raise funds for carbon limiting projects, then uses much of the money raised to buy more fuel for his private jumbo jet. He is the ultimate flim-flam man.

 

While Kerry claims that limiting carbon emissions will hold back climate change, the truth is that nothing mankind is capable of doing will in any way affect the climate. The climate is just a term used to describe long term weather. Mankind has never been able to control the weather, nor will we ever be able to control the weather. Its all smoke and mirrors, distraction from focus, sleight of hand.

 

Over the past three or four decades Kerry has built a fund-raising organization that has made him a very wealthy man. That’s why he has a private jet and five mansions. He lives an insular life sheltered from street crime or pandemics. He never has to travel in airliners with the public, God forbid! On the ground he travels in a limousine caravanned with black Suburban’s filled with bodyguards. None are electric, but that’s another story.

 

The bottom line is that John Kerry is perpetrating a fraud of monumental proportions. He is getting away with it for the same reason that the Deep State is getting away with persecuting Trump: simply because he can and the mainstream media go along with it. By the time all the solar panels and wind farms have stopped working, Kerry and his cronies will be too rich and insulated to suffer any significant consequences.

 

Want to buy a wind farm?

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Green Emergency

"Peter" has some thought on Joe Biden's Green Emergency.

Biden is once again trying to pretend that there is an emergency so that he can spend hundreds of billions of dollars to “save the planet.” But, what he really wants is to fill the coffers of fellow democrats, socialists and Communists and finance the perpetual control of the government by these fanatical elements in our society.

 

Anyone who believes that man can in any way control the climate is a fool who didn’t pay attention in science or history classes. The climate has changed regularly before mankind was here and just as regularly after the appearance of mankind. Carbon emissions by mankind or cattle herds have no effect on the climate. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either a liar or a fool. There is no scientific PROOF whatever of carbon emissions controlling or affecting the climate in any way. There are a lot of OPINIONS based upon the granting or withdrawal of government money and depending upon the content of the OPINION. If you support spending billions on climate change, then you will reap rewards for your betrayal of scientific protocols. But, you will not change the climate. You condemn yourself to a career of hypocrisy and a lack of achievement.

 

Hopefully, honorable men, like Joe Manchin, will put a plug in Biden’s firehose of “green” spending and “executive” mandates.

 

 

 

The Climate Change Scam

When Alexandria Ocrazio-Cortez says there is a scientific consensus that the climate is changing, she is correct.

 

But then she conflates that premise with her assertion that mankind can somehow slow down or stop the climate change by reducing carbon "footprints" making it seem that there is a scientific consensus for that as well. There is no such consensus. Mankind cannot control or stem climate change or weather. That power lies exclusively with Mother Nature.

 

Ocrazio-Cortez's conflation creates a false premise to seduce uninformed and naive people into her "Green New Deal" program of waging war against our energy production. That adversely affects our economy and creates an unfair economic burden on the middle class and even more so on the underclass.

 

Biden and the radical left's war on fossil fuels has resulted in skyrocketing gas prices. Because most consumable goods are trucked, the increased fuel costs have caused almost everything we buy to increase in price. That is a root cause of inflation, which is currently stagnating our economy and driving thousands of small businesses into bankruptcy. The cost of fuel is also causing the price of electricity to skyrocket. So having an electric car won't save you from higher costs per mile.

 

The "Green New Deal" is a fraud that is costing the people of America trillions of dollars. But even worse, it is costing America it's place as the world's leader in energy production. Russia's war on Ukraine isn't about land, it's about energy. Russia wants Ukraine's ports, oil and gas pipelines. When America was leading the world in energy production under Trump, Putin kept pretty quiet. Putin celebrated the "Green New Deal" by immediately massing troops and weapons on Ukraine's border. When Putin saw how weak Biden was and how he was being manipulated by radical left wing operatives, he ordered his troops to invade Ukraine.

 

America, by the actions and inactions of our current POTUS, is complicit in the carnage occurring in Ukraine. We are ashamed to have made such a weak, doddering fool our President, backed up by a weak, doddering fool of a VP.

 

God help us to get through the next couple of years without the total collapse of our economy, or the start of WWIII.

 

 

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Is the Sun Setting on America?

 "Peter" found this interesting article.  Unfortunately, we don't know the name of the author.

Men, like nations, think they’re eternal.  What man in his 20s or 30s doesn’t believe, at least subconsciously, that he’ll live forever?  In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons.   As you pass 70, it’s harder to hide from reality.
 
Nations also have seasons: Imagine a Roman of the 2nd century contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking: This will endure forever….  Forever was about 500 years, give or take.
 
France was pivotal in the 17th and 18th centuries; now the land of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim ummah.
 
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British empire; now Albion exists in perpetual twilight.   Its 95-year-old sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.
 
In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world.  Business schools taught Japanese management techniques.  Today, its birth rate is so low and its population aging so rapidly that an industry has sprung up to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who die alone.
 
I was born in 1942, almost at the midpoint of the 20th century – the American century.   America’s prestige and influence were never greater.  Thanks to the ‘Greatest Generation,’ we won a World War fought throughout most of Europe, Asia and the Pacific.  We reduced Germany to rubble and put the rising sun to bed.   It set the stage for almost half a century of unprecedented prosperity.  
 
We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia, and fought international terrorism.  We rebuilt our enemies and lavished foreign aid on much of the world.   We built skyscrapers and rockets to the moon.  We conquered Polio and perhaps COVID.   We explored the mysteries of the Universe and the wonders of DNA…the blueprint of life.
 
But where is the glory that once was Rome?  America has moved from a relatively free economy to socialism – which has worked so well NOWHERE in the world.
 
We’ve gone from a constitutional republic government guided by a constitution to a regime of revolving elites.  We have less freedom with each passing year.  Like a signpost to the coming reign of terror, the cancel culture is everywhere.  We’ve traded the American Revolution for the Cultural Revolution.
 
The pathetic creature in the White House is an empty vessel filled by his handlers.  At the G-7 Summit, ‘Dr.  Jill’ had to lead him like a child.  In 1961, when we were young and vigorous, our leader was too.  Now a feeble nation is technically led by the oldest man to ever serve in the presidency.
 
We can’t defend our borders, our history (including monuments to past greatness) or our streets.  Our cities have become  anarchist playgrounds.  We are a nation of dependents, mendicants, and misplaced charity.  Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.
 
The president of the United States can’t even quote the beginning of the Declaration of Independence (‘You know — The Thing’) correctly.  Ivy League graduates routinely fail history tests that 5th graders could pass a generation ago.   Crime rates soar and we blame the 2nd.  Amendment and slash police budgets.
 
Our culture is certifiably insane.  Men who think they’re women.  People who fight racism by seeking to convince members of one race that they’re inherently evil, and others that they are perpetual victims.  A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale said she fantasizes about ‘unloading a revolver into the head of any white person.’
 
We slaughter the unborn in the name of freedom, while our birth rate dips lower year by year.   Our national debt is so high that we can no longer even pretend that we will repay it one day.  It’s a $28-trillion monument to our improvidence and refusal to confront reality.  Our ‘entertainment’ is sadistic, nihilistic and as enduring as a candy bar wrapper thrown in the trash.  Our music is noise that spans the spectrum from annoying to repulsive.
 
Patriotism is called insurrection, treason celebrated, and perversion sanctified.   A man in blue gets less respect than a man in a dress.   We’re asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in.
 
How meekly most of us submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face masks, lockdowns  and hand sanitizers) shows the impending death of the American spirit.
 
How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity?
 
Fighting endless wars they can’t or won’t win • Accumulating massive debt far beyond their ability to repay • Refusing to guard their borders, allowing the nation to be inundated by an alien horde • Surrendering control of their cities to mob rule • Allowing indoctrination of the young • Moving from a constitutional republic form of government to an oligarchy • Losing national identity • Indulging indolence • Abandoning faith and family – the bulwarks of social order.
 
In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced, indicating an advanced stage of the disease.
 
Even if the cause seems hopeless, do we not have an obligation to those who sacrificed so much to give us what we had?  I’m surrounded by ghosts urging me on: the Union soldiers who held Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, the battered bastards of Bastogne, those who served in the cold hell of Korea, the guys who went to the jungles of Southeast Asia and came home to be reviled or neglected.
 
This is the nation that took in my immigrant grandparents, whose uniform my father and most of my uncles wore in the Second World War.  I don’t want to imagine a world without America, even though it becomes increasingly likely.
 
During Britain’s darkest hour, when its professional army was trapped at Dunkirk and a German invasion seemed imminent, Churchill reminded his countrymen, ‘Nations that go down fighting rise again and those that surrender tamely are finished.’
 
The same might be said of causes.  If we let America slip through our fingers, if we lose without a fight, what will posterity say of us?
 
While the prognosis is far from good, only God knows if America’s day in the sun is over.”

Author unknown

 

China, Beware the Dragon

 

"Peter" has some thoughts about China.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has stated to the world that they will replace the United States as world economic leader. They have also pledged to surpass us in military strength and projection of power on the sea, in the air and on land. Its no secret that they want to take over the world. Was phase one the Covid infection? We don’t know.

 

If the CCP were able to get their own agent elected POTUS, what would they have him do to further their goals?

Would they have this agent open our southern border to an uncontrolled influx of illegal immigrants, many infected with Covid19 to go forth and infect as many American citizens as possible?

 

Would they have this agent close down our most profitable industry, fossil fuels, with which we are dominant in the world, and throw hundreds of thousands of our citizens out of work, to the advantage of CHINA?

 

Would they have this agent close down the Keystone XL pipeline, throwing thousands more out of work and damaging our relationship with Canada, to the advantage of CHINA?

 

Would they have this agent initiate spending TRILLIONS of dollars on pet socialist programs that offer no return on investment and will cause hyperinflation, to the advantage of CHINA?

 

Would they have this agent initiate huge tax increases on corporations that will be passed along to our citizens in the form of higher prices on EVERYTHING, to the advantage of CHINA?

 

Would they have this agent initiate new laws to control elections to make sure the CCP agents stay in charge until we are defeated?

 

Sound familiar? Is our own government is waging war against us, to the advantage of CHINA?