I remember Mrs Ide, my 6th grade teacher. We were coming up to the point where we were supposed to do a report on a country. We had to do all kinds of research and put it in a report to share with the class. Each student would choose a different country, otherwise everyone would want Italy, Greece or France. On the specific day that the countries were chosen, I was sick so I had to choose from what was left. I had a choice between Russia the USSR or… Russia the USSR. This was 1973, so no computers, google or Siri. So I went to travel agencies, various libraries and the information in my personal encyclopedia. I learned more than Mrs Ide hoped for because here it is 2024, nearly 50 years later and I still remember much of what I researched and learned.
It was the time of a Cold War with Russia. Remember the James Bond movies like ‘From Russia with love’ or many others where Russia is the other enemy of freedom next to Spectre. One of the aspects of a Marxist society was the control of information. Pravda is still the governments sponsored media outlet. They report to the populace what the government approves. They would report that all Americans are evil, fat capitalists and that the Russial government is protecting them from the imperialism of America and Great Britain.
Now I see the same type of propaganda being created and spread by certain forces in America.
Propaganda: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
So it is not just Provda that is spreading exaggerations, mistrust and flat out lies. I am old enough to remember when journalist actually reported news, even news they did not like. Now, most but not all so called journalists are not just biased, but downright willing to lie about the opposition just to get the attention of their fellow biased journalists. It is like they sold their soul to the democrats to get the attention, recognition and awards from other biased people. I heard them called presstitutes, selling themselves for gain. I have more respect for an actually prostitute because at least you know who/what they are.
In America, during WWII, there were cartoons like Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Popeye the sailorman and Walt Disney (who was pro America back then). Those were also examples of propaganda. Which begs the question, is it art imitating life or life imitating art? At the time, Germany, Japan and Italy were enemies of America. We were embroiled in a hot war with Japan to our west, Germany to our east as well as Italy in Europe. It was art imitating the sentiment of the country.
During the Vietnam War (police action) we had protests, sit ins, hippies burning their draft cards. There were anti war movies and many people that disagreed with the military action spitting on soldiers coming back from the war. Many in our country did not understand why we were involved including our politicians who handcuffed our military leaders so they could not win. Say what you will, art and media influenced American sentiment towards the war and many anti wa people are now in key position in government.
Back then, the media was TV, movies, newspapers and radio. But today, look at what influences people. News travels the globe in seconds. Everyone has a microphone, still camera and video camera built into their phones. Website and social media outlets can post people’s rather pedestrian thoughts and transmit them to the world in seconds. And look where people obtain their news anymore. A Chinese owned company called Tiktok, an extreme leftist organization called YouTube and Facebook. Even the right leaning Fox News (whose owner died and his left leaning kids run it now). New York Times, Huffpost, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, Politico, Time, NPR, Wall Street Journal and Newsweek just to name a few left biased outlets and Fox News, National Review, The Washington Times, The American Conservative, The Federalist, One America News Network on the right and almost no one that actually ‘just reports the news’ and doesn’t give opinion.
So what does it indicate to you when the FBI goes to Google just before the election and says there will be reports of the democratic candidates son who laptop was found and will be full of lies and not to report it AND censor anyone that even talks about it? Don’t you find that odd?
Can you prove a negative? What if you report that if a specific person does ‘this’ then that person will do ‘that’ and when that person did ‘that’ but did not do ‘the other’ it was because you warned everyone? Is it really provable? Or is it that the left is projecting themselves in their enemy?
While I was really mad at the situation at the time and I procrastinated when writing the report on Russia, I am grateful that I was forced to do the research of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic / Russia as it taught me the dangers of socialism, Stalinism, Marxism and communism. The leadership worked to dumb down the people and keep them uneducated and reliant on the government for their meager existence. They were useful idiots. So look at what is happening in America today. We have useful idiots everywhere. Men dressing up as women and demanding to be treated as such. Gay college students protesting Israel and supporting the people that would rather throw them off a roof or stone them instead of thanking them. We have people of black ancestry who has never been a slave, whose parents nor grandparent’s were ever slaves demanding that white people who were never slave owners, and whose parents nor grandparents were slave owners demanding reparations for slavery when half the country at the time was fighting a war for the freedom of people of black heritage. We have students who willingly signed a binding contract for a student loan who now demands that the government forgive their very expensive student loans just because… we have institutions of higher learning accepting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal monies and not teaching people ‘how’ to think but instead ‘what’ to think. People graduate from college and cannot get jobs or provide services to society other than needing ‘Cry rooms’ when their political candidate does not win.
People get upset with a red hat that reads “MAGA” or “Make America Great Again”. Well, as I see it, America isn’t that great anymore. The embarrassment of the way America left Afghanistan leaving anywhere between 100 and 300 military dogs trapped in kennels, billions of $100 dollar bills on pallets, billions of military equipment like modern helicopters, aircraft, trucks, armored personnel carriers and enough rifles and small arms with ammo to arm a country. Not to mention the many Afghan people that were assisting us when there left behind. An inconvenient truth is conveniently being ignored. We have law enforcement officers being defunded and attacked then being jailed or personally sued if they do their jobs. We have school campus’ becoming dangerous for people of Jewish ancestry to the point of physical attacks then being told to finish school virtually. We have oil protesters attacking commuters on their way to work or throwing soup on priceless artwork. New York is no longer safe for its residents as the district attorney refuses to prosecute murderers yet prosecute white people for misdemeanor or in Washington D.C. the January 6 people are being jailed and kept in solitary without legal counsel until they, after years in jail, agree to plead guilty to a felony when all they did was trespass (and it is arguable that they did that). All the while knowing no one was ever arrested for the BLM riots or Antifa riots where hundreds of millions of dollars of damage was committed yet no repercussions for that damage. When property taxes has gone up 40%, groceries are more, gas is more, visits to the restaurants are enormously increased, bank interests are increased and young people between 18 and 30 refuse to have children because they don’t see that it is worth the trouble. Tell me how America is still great? Tell me how America can survive with over 8 million additional illegal aliens on the taxpayers dole? Read Cloward and Piven on how to collapse a society by overwhelming it. I say George Orwells novel 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual. How can America be great when schools stopped teaching cursive, arithmetic, American history, Civics, and how to think, not what to think. How can America be great when looser males can claim to be a girl then compete against girls and win then get trophies and awards? How can America be great when boys can demand to use the girls restroom under the law? How can America be great when girls are not safe in girls bathrooms and when a man claims to be a woman when being arrested so he can go to a girl’s prison then rape fellow inmates? How can America be great when a judge can violate the statute of limitations and try a former president based on the testimoney of a convicted liar who has admitted to fraud, theft and of purgery just simply because he is running against a weak president. This is the stuff of a Marxist society. This is the stuff of a banana republic. This is the stuff of a dystopian society. This is the stuff of a dying society.
What are we doing?

My inner Shakespeare

So I want to try my hand at channeling my inner Shakespeare in 1 quick scene

My High School english literature teacher was ineffective in encouraging or inspiring my class and me to appreciate the works of William Shakespeare. She insisted we read and learn Macbeth, a dark and twisted play that was a poor choice to encourage teenaged students to learn Shakespeare. It wasn’t until after I was married that I saw on cable, I believe HBO, Hamlet with Glenn Close and Mel Gibson. I saw it because of the actors, but had difficulty in following the dialog as it is written in old english. William Shakespeare was an old englishman. But I was intrigued in that I kind of followed along because of the acting even though the dialog was confusing. So, I bought the play from the local bookstore and read it. Gosh dern it, I felt as though I was reading the King James version of the bible. So I watched the movie again, HBO had a habit of runnung certain movies over and over in a month. I still got caught up in the confusing dialog. So I went to the bookstore again and bought the cliff notes for Hamlet. I started to get a better understanding. Then I watched the movie again. But there were still nuances that I didn’t get, so I bought the college expanded cliff notes that had the play on the left side and the modern translation on the right. Now, when I saw the movie again, I saw the plot, several sub plots, some smaller stories within the story and of course the play within the play. I have not read the play or seen the enactment of it in a while but I have a good recollection of it still today.

Fast forward a few years and I read The Merchant of Venice. I watched the movie with Al Pachino as Shilock, then read the play, then watched a different version of the play then read the play and OH my gosh! Not just a story, but several. Gold, Silver and Lead boxes reviele your fate and Shilock never gets his pound of flesh.

Next was the Taming of the Shrew (Kiss me Kate the movie is based on this play) and I cry when I read the St Crispian speach in Henry V scene IV iii which was in the movie The Renaissance Man with Danny DeVito.

Stage: a front room of a small yet comfortable house. Center stage is a fireplace with a fire going. A nice small fire.

In the scene, stage right is an older man in a rocking chair. It is evening. The sound of a clock on the mantle ticking away the seconds. A light rain outside with a gentle pitter patter of the rain hitting the leaves of the tree . A man comes to the door, the older man in the rocker motions him in as they know one another. The visitor, takes off his wet coat and hangs it near the front door and takes a seat to the left of the old man. Not a word is spoken but both men are gently rocking in the chairs staring at the fire. The visitor takes the fireplace tongs and removes a coal from the fire and places it on the hearth were the light slowly disappears and is now getting cold. The visitor then grabs the coal and places it back in the fire were it reignites and glows as it once did adding to the warmth of the fire. The old man looks at his visitor and says “OK pastor, I will be back in church next Sunday”. With that, the visitor stood up, winked at the old man, put on his coat and left with nare a word.

End scene…Curtain

Well, not Shakespeare worthy, but Those with eyes will see. Those with ears will hear.

Revelations 3:16

Do you notice it?

It has been referenced many times from many sources. It is now becoming apparent that it is causing a problem. I notice it while going about my day. I drive down the streets and can see the problem it is causing. I can’t blame some people for causing it because their reasoning is perfectly sound for them. Then there are those that aren’t contributing to it and I wish that they would. And our government is a big contributer to it. So why are so many people chosing to do it? Are you wondering what it is? Are you trying to guess what it is? Many people, many couples, many men and women are chosing not to have children. America is creating, nay the world is creating a society where people don’t want to have kids.

Some of the reasons are cost of living, the volatility of society, selfish desires, people not being deemed worthy of having offspring. This isn’t 1950’s or 1960’s America. This isn’t even 1980’s America. No, many people see what is going on in the world and think to themselves that they don’t want to subject their children to what the world offers. The world is not safe for children anymore. Japan is experiencing it now. Japanese men and women are chosing to live as single people and not procreate. Their population is plummetting. They no longer have the population to support the retired. In 2023, the population fell by over 800,000. Lower fertility rates also contribute. The number of men with lower testosterone levels are increasing as well. Could our diet of highly processed food be contributing to that? People don’t grow gardens anymore.

The Japanese are great at working on technology. They have been working on robotics, especially humanoid robots. The popular robots are based on/ designed to look like teenaged girls and will have AI built in to be a sex robot. So for a guy that does not want to have the responsability of parenthood but still has physical urges, just buy a sex bot that looks like a teenaged girl. Does nobody watch scifi movies of the 60’s thru 90’s? Cherry 2000 with Melanie Griffith, Westworld with Yul Brinner, Bladerunner with Daryl Hannah, the Stepford wives, Ex Machina with Alicia Vicander. Those are just a small example of scifi movies, which don’t include novels which border on science fiction pornography.

Now, let’s combine these two concepts, decrease in population and robotics. In the bible, yes I mean the Holy Bible old and new testiments. there is talk of the Beast who was brought back to life and is the Anti-Christ, a being that is said to have the power of Christ. A being that can’t be killed, say a robot made to look human but has the mental power of an AI super computer controlled by or programmed for totalitarian control over the world. Look at the advances of robotics and AI. There is already a robot with an AI brain that has been given citizenship in Saudia Arabia, Sophia. Look it up, she was given citizenship in 2017. Just how much more technalogical advancement is needed to made an indestructable robot filled with advanced AI contolled by someone as evil as George Soros? Are you scared yet? You should be if you are not a Christian.

How much time do you spend with your eyes glued to the cell phone? Our childhoods were filled with being outside. Playing hide n seek, kick the can, red light green light. We played street hockey, stick ball and soccer. We were out in the sun in the fresh air. Now, the kids are inside watching Tic Tok and Youtube videos. I have seen people walking mindlessly with their attention to the screen on their cell phones. TV doesn’t exist as it once did. Now you can watch TV on your cell phone screen. There have been reports that people walk into their death while watching their emails. Society is now worshiping the palm sized computer with a phone app in it. Scientists have studied that people get a large dopamine dump by watching the cell phone. You can get addicted to the phone, so imagine the new phones installed with AI in it (the new 2024 iPhones and Samsung cell phone now have AI installed in them) and what if someone were to control what you could or could not view on your phone. People now can’t read maps but are reliant on the Google maps. AI might redirect you to someplace you ought not go. How how far fetched is it to believe that AI can take over society? What if the anti-christ was in control of a powerful AI. Who controls our hospitals, medical records, power stations, legal records, water treatment plants, media? Just how free do you think you are? Just how much of your life is being dictated to you? In the former USSR, Russia had and still has Provda, the propaganda wing of the communist party. Provda is responsible for keeping the Russian citizen asleep. To ‘tow the party line’ and not ‘ask questions’. To tell the people what those in power want them to think. Do you not think America has their own version of Provda? ABC, CBS, NBC, CNBC, the New York Times, Politico which are all left leaning if not outright socialist in nature. But the proof is out now that during the 2020 presidential campaign, the FBI colluded with Twitter, Youtube and other social media outlets to quash information that was negative in nature towards the Bidens and excoriate Trump with lies. Journalist recieved awards for reporting on what we now know where lies.

There was a really good scify movie called They Live 1988 directed by John Carpenter. In it there is a scene where the protagonist has a special pair of sunglasses which allows him to see the subliminal propaganda messages from ‘They’. My favorite line is where Roddy Piper as Nada walks into a bank filled with ‘They’ and said “I have come to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I am all out of bubblegum”. The movie basically revolved around people being mentally asleep so ‘They’ could take over and exploit people. So, how asleep are you? In this world, there are wolves, sheep, shephards and guard dogs. Most people are ‘sheeple’ and are asleep. There are a few shephards, many wolves and those that swore an oath the the Constitution of the United States of America and to the spirit of Freedom, our U.S. veterans who are our guard dogs. Some wolves are easy to spot like George Soros, Bill Gates, Nancy Palosi, Joe Biden, Hillary (what difference does it make now?) Clinton. Isn’t it time to trap and cage the many wolves out there hunting the sheep?

If you are scarred, then I have good news to share. God gave us an out. There is an emegency exit. You just need to turn the door knob and exit.

All you need to do is pray this prayer to God and believe in the words

“ God, I know I am a sinner. I know you sent your only son, Jesus Christ to save the world and me. I believe that Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead and can and will save me. I want to trust in him and I accept him as my personal savior and Lord and will live my life to serve him. I accept His forgiveness, Thank you. Amen”

Now, if you prayed that prayer and meant it and belive it, then God can see into your heart and save you. I urge you to prayerfully seek a church that can help you in your spiritual growth. And there is no need to be afraid of the future because God is in control.