THE VIEW FROM ST. CHARLES

OCTOBER 28, 2023

VOLUME 46

Myopic definition: lacking imagination, foresight or intellectual insight. Synonym: Narrow minded. (As in not being able to see beyond political party lines).

Defund the Police.

This is a totally insane idea supported by the Democrat party. Any rational person with an I.Q. above the common piss ant automatically rejects this nonsense, knowing it puts their lives and possessions in jeopardy. When the local gangsta car jacker guy sees you driving your high-end BMW through the city, he doesn’t give a rat’s ass what your political affiliation is, he wants your car….period. So, the Democrat morons voluntarily put themselves in danger to secure the votes of the people most likely to hurt them.

No Cash Bail.

The lefties see cash bail as discrimination against poor folks. While this could actually have some merit in a rare case, as in a person of lesser means is accused of a crime they didn’t commit, and is unable to post bail in order to prove their innocence. However, this is more likely to free repeat offenders, and allow them to go free to commit even more crimes. Cash bail was created to keep the perp in the “slammer’ until his trial to prevent more nefarious deeds, like perhaps intimidating victims and witnesses. Cash bail is a wise and good idea. It’s being proven to be true daily.

“Easy on Crime” prosecutors.

Most, if not all of these “shit for brains” political zealots have been put in office through the efforts of George Soros, one of the most dangerous men in America. When you couple no cash bail with prosecutors like George Gascon of Los Angeles, you are giving a big green light to criminals that it’s OK to “keep on truckin”. It is ripping America apart at the seams, and it’s exactly what they intend to do. The end goal is to destroy America as we know it and replace it with a Communist state. These people are pure evil. But allow me to repeat my previous statement, criminals don’t give a rat’s ass about your political leanings, they want to steal your stuff and hurt you. So, Democrats are not going to be spared in the ensuing chaos.

The Killing of Free Speech.

This will eventually touch everyone regardless of your political beliefs. The left will probably scream the loudest when prosecuted for their speech. If you want to see the profound effects of this, pay close attention to the UK and Canada. I don’t think anyone really wants to live under these conditions. How serious is this? Watch below.

The feds really want you to shut the hell up and let them go about their business no matter how egregious their actions may be. If this goes unchecked, this will quickly fall into a police state where people will be jailed for their speech and opinions. Oh yeah, this will bleed over into the so-called free elections which will no longer be free and fair, but candidates will be chosen by the government by fraudulent means. China disappears their dissenters, Russian dissenters have serious accidents, how will the U.S. government handle it? Oh hell, I forgot about the January 6th protestors. Yep, throw their asses in the slammer and throw away the key. That speedy fair trial thing, no that won’t apply to dissenters.

Strategic Goods and Medical Supplies Manufactured in China

If you really want to know how serious this is, go to your local pharmacy and take a look at the rack with the medications waiting to be picked up. There is an enormous amount of prescription medicine being dispensed. That medication can mean life and death to a lot of folks. The primary function of government to ensure the safety of its citizenry. That said, why would our government allow critical medicines to be manufactured by a country openly hostile to our own? Not only medicines but medical equipment. This sounds sorta similar to Russian Roulette.

A huge amount of machine parts and automobile parts are also manufactured in China, and we have grown quite dependent on them. If the supply chain was suddenly severed it would be catastrophic. I do a lot of repair work on my personal vehicles, and I can’t remember the last time I saw a “Made in USA” on a replacement part. Its not like you have a large choice, this is what parts houses sell. People, this is not a healthy place to be for a nation. The federal government sanctions this behavior.

Energy Production of all types.

Windmill parts: According to Global Wind Energy Council, as of 2022, China manufactures 60 – 65% of wind turbines nacelles and critical components including gearboxes, generators, and blades. China pretty much dominates the wind power industry. It is predicted that China will dominate the EV battery market at least through 2027. China has cornered the market on the minerals, cathodes, and anodes that go into the batteries. Meanwhile, the US is far, far ahead in Transgender restroom construction.

So, how are we doing in solar panel development? Well China makes about 75% of these. Viet Nam, Malaysia, and South Korea make the rest. But don’t be dismayed, we are still years ahead in gender affirming care for three year olds.

We aren’t doing real well in the fossil fuel industry either. Biden has all but depleted the Strategic Oil Reserve to temporarily bring down the cost of gasoline. There are anti fossil fuel forces within the government that make it hard to navigate this energy sector. A lot of oil refineries have been shuttered over the past couple of decades, and heavy government regulations make it too expensive and time consuming to bring them back online or build new ones. There is also a faction that keeps pushing to destroy the trusty hydroelectric dams that have produced reliable power for decades, to save the salmon. If they controlled the seal population in the Columbia River that would go a long way to help the salmon. It seems the environmentalists are far more interested in saving just about every living thing you can think of except humans. Humans seem to be the bottom of the list, go figure.

So, if you put all of these pieces together, it adds up to the US depending on China for just about everything, and phasing out ICE automobiles exacerbates that issue even further. Depending more and more on solar and wind pretty makes us the stepsister in this dog and pony show. Now, to add another layer of horse poop to this picture, the US is funding military operations it can’t afford, and is borrowing money from China to do so. What could possibly go wrong here? Electing John Fetterman to the Senate isn’t really a big deal when you really think about this whole thing in a broader scope.

Well good people, I am out of time, it’s Saturday night and I have a date with my dearly beloved to go hang with our friends, listen to some live music and drink a couple of adult beverages. Stay strong, stay vigilant, put up a good fight. To quote an old Scot, “No worthy man loses his freedom except with his life”.

VERITAS VINCIT ~ LIVE FREE OR DIE


THE VIEW FROM ST. CHARLES

OCTOBER 15, 2023

VOLUME 45

The Democrats and the leftist commie pinko Marxists have just about destroyed the cohesive fabric that once bound all Americans together as one Nation. It’s being held together with a few thin threads, and they are reaching the limits of their tensile strength. A lot of theories as to why they are doing this, but there is one simple reason, and one reason only. The Democrat leftists don’t believe people should have any power or say in how the government functions. They don’t think you’re smart enough to do that. They believe in “top down” rule, that the government is omnipotent. They do not want you interfering. Nothing would make them happier than scrapping the underpinnings of this Constitutional Republic and replacing it with one party rule like Russia and China. The Democrat party wants you to worship them and visualize the Capitol Mall as the Democrat “Mecca”.

The Manifesto concludes that capitalism does not offer humanity the possibility of self-realization, instead ensuring that humans are perpetually stunted and alienated. However, it theorizes that capitalism will bring about its own destruction by polarizing and unifying the proletariat, and predicts that a revolution will lead to the emergence of communism, a classless society in which “the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all”. Marx and Engels propose the following transitional policies: the abolition of private property in land and inheritance; introduction of a progressive income tax; confiscation of rebels’ property; nationalisation of credit, communication and transport; expansion and integration of industry and agriculture; enforcement of universal obligation of labour; and provision of universal education and abolition of child labour. The text ends with a decisive and famous call for solidarity among proletarians, popularized as the slogan “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains”.

There is one gigantic inherent flaw in the theory of the communist utopian government. The depravity of human beings. Only when leaders are overseen by the citizens, can this be mitigated. If the citizens have no power over the leaders, the corruption of unbridled power almost always leads to disastrous consequences for the citizens.

Considering this fact, why is communism and Marxism always loitering around the front door? Because there are two distinct groups of people. The super aggressive power hungry type, and the “I want a free ride” type. The super aggressive power-hungry folks tell the “free ride” folks they can make their dreams come true. They can have that nice home on a tree lined street like the more successful people because everyone will be equal. They will level the playing field for everyone. This is of course a giant lie, told by the power-hungry folks to gain power. Once they gain power, they are the ones with the big cars, airplanes, and mansions, while the “free ride” folks are housed in a four-room apartment in a drab non-descript 20 story building and forced to take the bus to the government factories. The power people made good on the promise to make everyone equal; equally poor, and oppressed.

My wife’s family was upper middle class in London. She traveled around the world in the 1960’s, at the height of communist rule in Russia. While staying in Yalta, she witnessed Russian factory workers on a “state” vacation on the beach. They were watched over by guards in towers. They were marched on and off the beach, and the guards sounded a horn for their lunch break. She says that traveling across Russia was an eye-opening experience. The people were very poor, the stores were empty, there were no restaurants, people were standing in line for food. She said the people in Yugoslavia were literally dressed in rags. That my friends is the true legacy of communism. Do you think the communist leaders stood in line for food? Do you think they went without? Not on your life.

Americans are traditionally nationalists. We were taught to be that way from birth. We were taught that America was exceptional and the best of the best. I truly believe that. I will always be a nationalist. Old Glory is my pride flag. There are plenty of stories about how America has abused its power over the years, and I’m sure they are true. The people we put in power don’t always share the core ideals of the American way and go astray. America still stands tall among the rest of the world. But a force from within has been at war with that idea for years and has made steady progress in its destruction.

I read something today that emphasizes what I am saying. Google asks; “What is the difference between nationalism and patriotism.” Google’s answer:

There is a considerable difference between nationalism and patriotism. While nationalism emphasizes a unity of cultural past with inclusion of the language and heritage, patriotism is based on love towards people with a greater emphasis on values and beliefs.

When I analyze Google’s statement, this is my takeaway; Nationalism is a rock, Patriotism is Jello. I would rather live on a rock.

We are now about eighty years away from the time when America’s very existence was being threatened by some very powerful nations attempting to dominate the world. Every American knew how critical their overall contribution was in that effort to prevent that from happening. The younger generations today have no connection to those perilous times. To them, it’s an unimportant event. They have never experienced anything, but prosperity and safety afforded by a strong defense system that was born out of that conflict. They have zero appreciation for the thousands of men and women that died to preserve this nation.

The depreciation of Nationalism lies at the feet of the educational system, all the way from kindergarten through college. They no longer teach American exceptionalism; in fact, they emphasize how terrible America is. America’s educational system has been turned into indoctrination camps. The government and the state run media parrots those ideas and further divides Americans by race, gender, socioeconomic status, and anything else they can conjure up to breed discontent. Their goal is to destroy the unity of the people, making it easier to reach the goal of total government domination. The government is showcasing people with serious mental disorders that think they can magically become the opposite sex by simply claiming it’s true, and shaming the rest of us when we know its B.S. and disrupting normal behavior of 99% of the population, forcing us to share toilets and changing rooms with the opposite sex. That my friends is the very definition of insanity.

Thank you for taking the time to read my rants. I love my country, and I hate the people trying to rip it out of my hands and destroy it for the future generations to love and enjoy. There has to be a special place in hell for those people.

STEEL PENCIL NEWS REVIEW

OCTOBER 5, 2023

VOLUME 9

POLITICALLY INCORRECT CENTER RIGHT PERSPECTIVE

This is becoming more and more evident as looting and shoplifting continues to spiral out of control. I have been thinking about this a lot, because it bothers me a lot. Because it means civilization is beginning to crack. I like civilized folks, they aren’t likely to take your stuff and hurt you. This phenomenon however seems to me to be fairly complex in one sense, and very simple in another. The simple part is, law enforcement has become impotent due to crazy defund police stuff, and Soros backed DA’s. The complex part is how people have reverted to roving bands of thieves almost overnight.

It didn’t really happen overnight, is has been building over a number of years, and is now in full blossom. So, let’s look back in recent history and try to identify some landmark causes.

At the risk of being labeled as raciest, a huge percentage of these out of control folks are black and brown. If you don’t believe me, watch the footage taken during lootings, and you will quickly realize your observation aligns with mine. The first time I saw this happen was in Los Angeles in 1965 during the Watts Riots. I have the photos to backup what I am saying. I kept news articles from that horrible event. I saw the aftermath in person, it wasn’t a pretty sight.

The sheer brutality and disregard for other human beings was on full display during the Rodney King riot when multiple black men took turns bludgeoning Reginald Denny while he sat helplessly in an intersection, causing brain injuries and life long debilitating injuries. It was at the moment in time, that realized how strong the hatred was among blacks for whites. I was totally naive up to that point. I actually thought racism was winding down, and would soon be a thing of the past. Boy was I wrong.

I don’t think I am in the minority when I say the landmark legislation in 1964 called the Civil Rights Act was the worst thing that ever happened to black Americans. There has been numerous articles written about it, so I am not going to dwell on details. I’m going to give you my opinion of the results, purely based on my personal observations.

In Philadelphia between 1948 and 1952 black men died from homicide at twelve times the rate of white men. It’s gotten a little better today, its dropped to seven to eight times. That is still an unacceptable number of murders. This may not be super current based on what we are seeing in real time. Back in the day, these folks were imprisoned for their bad deeds, often executed. This vicious activity was mostly contained to the inner-city neighborhoods. It is spilling out to larger areas and affecting more people.

My analogy of this may sound stupid and simplistic to some, but I have seen this throughout my life and know it is absolutely true. This is why white families flourished up until the last few decades. It’s the simple rule of discipline, and self discipline, combined with a spiritual grounding, that teaches you to respect other human beings. I’m not implying that white folk didn’t have problems with lawlessness and violence, they most certainly did, but to a much lesser extent. Statistics will prove I’m correct.

How do you train an animal to obey? Simple, you start teaching it from a young age what you want it to do and provide a reward for compliance, and a measure of discipline when it disobeys. It will grow into an adult animal that is trusting, and willing to follow your commands. An untrained or poorly trained animal of large size is unpredictable and dangerous. Animals and people are amazingly alike in this manner.

Human beings must be trained, the same as domestic animals. They need to be taught discipline, respect for others, love and reverence for their Creator, as well as academics. They cannot be left to roam in the streets without these teachings, they will be taught by the worst of people, to do the worst of things. They will steal from you and hurt you. They are spiritually bankrupt and have no empathy for others. That is why they can murder without remorse. That is why they could beat Reginald Denny unmercifully; they had no compassion for another human being.

The Civil Rights act destroyed the black families, and the structure needed by young people to thrive in the family unit and learn the important lessons to succeed in life. It’s only natural that a child that grew up with no discipline, finds it impossible to accept discipline as an adult. That is when things start to get dangerous for everyone this person crosses paths with. Ask the teacher that just got clocked with a chair thrown in the classroom by a young black student.

Another point I can make to solidify my case is what I have seen lately when a gang of black or brown teens gang up on a single person. They knock the person to the ground, and kick and stomp them to death or near death in a violent frenzy not unlike feeding piranhas. This is a total absence of human compassion and respect. It’s an act of temporary insanity.

These are people that look at the property of others and will take it without thinking twice. If they have to hurt you to acquire it, so be it. They are convinced by all of the lenient laws, and leniency shown them by the courts it’s OK, they can have whatever they want, whenever they want it. Don’t try to stand in their way, killing you isn’t a problem. A pre-teen black male recently stole a car and ran over an older female, killing her. When they arrested him, he boasted about getting his “first kill”. This my friends, is as sick as it gets.

Unfortunately, as laws remain in favor of the criminals, especially the bail laws, this isn’t going to improve. Liberal DA’s like George Gascon, and Larry Krasner, will continue to be like pouring gasoline on a raging fire. Crime rates will continue to rise, and start spreading into the suburbs. (Already seeing this happening in Portland, OR.) San Francisco is beginning to crumble, if the current trend of ignoring crime continues the city will literally die.

What is probably the most puzzling phenomenon, is my Democrat friends (don’t have many of these) think that this leniency on crime is OK. and see nothing wrong with it. The reason they don’t is because they haven’t been robbed or carjacked. The minute that happens they will have an immediate change of attitude. They think the open border is OK, because they can’t see any significant change in their neighborhood. That will surely change in the near future also. Personal contact with violent criminals seems to always alter one’s perspective on the world.

As I look at the US today, and compare it with the US of 50 years ago, I think of ripping open a feather pillow in a windstorm, you will never be able to retrieve all of those feathers. The pillow will forever be lesser than before. Someone left the cake out in the rain…. and nobody can bake another one exactly like the original. You get the picture, we are going to have to adapt to something very different. When the old timers are all gone, nobody will remember or reminisce about how things used to be. That’s exactly what the left is counting on. Why do you think they want all of the statues and history erased. It worked for Mao Tse-tung and Stalin. Have you figured that out yet?

There is an experiment going on in New York City right now. They are attempting to strip a man of his businesses, his properties, and ruin his family because of his personal ideologies which they don’t like. If it was an average person and not a wealthy person, they would surely succeed. If they are able to do this, literally everyone will be fair game if they don’t like you for some reason, any reason. Nothing will be more damaging to our Republic. These practices must be reined in now, before it’s too late.

Stay vigilant, stay strong, even small victories count. God bless America and her people.

THE VIEW FROM ST. CHARLES

OCTOBER 1, 2023

VOLUME 44

Just moments ago, while perusing the morning news, I read a story about an execution that took place in an Oklahoma prison, not too far from where I grew up. The person writing the story is against the practice and has witnessed numerous executions looking for evidence to support his claim that it’s cruel and unusual punishment.

Although I am a proponent of the death penalty, I do agree that deliberately killing a human being is pretty cruel. Unusual? Not so much these days. Have you checked on the homicide stats recently? I would say it’s a pretty common occurrence in Chicago and Oakland to just name a couple. In my opinion, that pretty much decimates half of the cruel and unusual argument.

OK, so they have the cruel half of the argument still in place. I just read another story this morning about a grizzly attack in Yellowstone killing a hiker. Immediately following the attack, the Rangers located the bear and executed it. The bear didn’t even have a lawyer or a trial. He was presumed guilty without due process. So, was the person the bear killed a super important person? Nope, just a hiker traversing through the bear’s home.

Do you remember last year when a feral person walked into a furniture store in Los Angeles and killed a young female working alone? She was in her habitat, not threatening the feral person in any way. So, why wasn’t this feral person found, identified, and executed? There aren’t really any significant differences in these two scenarios. The feral person that committed this murder, will likely walk free in a few years and will likely strike again. This did happen in California after all, in the jurisdiction of scum bag D.A. George Gascon, and the perp Shawn Laval Smith is black. So, it’s unlikely that justice will be served in Brianna Kupfer’s death. Everyone will move on and forget it.

Again, I am totally mystified as to why you get justice when you’re mauled to death by a grizzly bear, but not when you’re stabbed 150 times by a crazy ass feral person. I really want an answer to this question. If you know the answer, please explain it to me.

In the meantime, I would highly recommend that people that are not incapacitated by a traumatic brain injury, blind, or born with a serious mental deficit to stop leaving yourselves vulnerable to this type of insanity and arm themselves with a firearm and firearm training. It’s pretty obvious that if you are paying attention, nobody gives a rat’s ass if another person takes your life. If you’re hiking, arm yourself with bear spray. Save the bear’s life and yours, ’cause there’s swift justice in the wilderness.

VERITAS VINCIT ~ LIVE FREE OR DIE

STEEL PENCIL NEWS REVIEW

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

VOLUME 8

A big factor in why we are seeing so much violence in the streets, looting and carjackings, in my opinion lie in the federal governments tampering with local police departments. If you have never heard of a “consent decree” (new to me) I have given you a link to educate yourself.

https://www.vera.org/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-consent-decrees

Barrack Hussien and his “wingman” Eric Holder are two very raciest individuals, I’m making that statement because their actions, in my opinion were pretty largely based on race. Obama and Holder, started passing out consent decrees like candy. As a matter of fact, Obama had a very race-based administration. I’m hardly alone in that assessment. I have heard a great many political observers make the same statement. Do you remember Obama’s famous statement; ” If I had a son, he would look a lot like Trayvon Martin”. Race relations during Obama’s last term, were literally destroyed, and not by accident.

Obama and Holder, and their ardent supporters such as Al Sharpton and others that profit from race, painted the police as the problem in their problematic relationship to black Americans. Making the claim that police targeted black people at a disproportionate rate. None of these geniuses want to admit that blacks commit crime at a dipropionate rate to all other races. If the police are doing their jobs to enforce the law, it’s pretty obvious that most of those encounters are going to be with the ones most actively breaking the law. That’s an outcome based on numbers not on race. Obama was anti police, he was very clear about that. The Obama years in the White House set the stage for the rampant crime by blacks. Couple that with super lenient District Attorneys bought and paid for by George Soros and you have a perfect storm of guaranteed crime and violence.

The Democrats have now added a new explosive factor into this nightmare with an unmitigated flow of illegal immigrants. The past two years have seen an accelerated attack on police departments all across the US, and police departments in some of our major cities have been gutted to the point they are virtually ineffective in keeping law abiding citizens safe. Now many of these cities are suffering from an unbearable number of illegal immigrants that are a largely lawless group. The Feds are paying the illegals $2,200.00 per month and putting them up in large hotels that they are using for all sorts of nefarious activities. The police are simply outnumbered. Cities like New York that once boasted about being a sanctuary city, no longer thinks that’s a good idea.

Now factor in a total collapse of the economy, which appears to be on the horizon, American citizens will not have jobs, the illegals will not have jobs, the government will run out of money and can no longer afford to hand out $2,200.00 per month or house the illegals, people will not fear law enforcement, and large scale unrest will occur. This will lead to martial law, and anarchy. If you don’t believe what I am saying, take a look at Venezuela.

Suddenly, climate change will become unimportant, because people will be freezing to death in their homes and in the streets. If they aren’t freezing, they will be starving. In Venezuela, they were eating the zoo animals.

The morons in Washington D.C. brought us to this point. Americans are hard working, smart people. Good hearted people that have willingly shelled out money and goods to help countries all over the world when disaster struck. There won’t be anyone to help us, because when we fall, the entire free world falls. This didn’t have to happen. We have had inept idiots running this country for decades, people that knew their actions would eventually lead to this but didn’t care. For too many years, our citizens were riding the wave of wealth and prosperity, thinking it would go on forever, and not paying attention to where our leaders were taking us. So, everyone is at fault. We elected the greedy bastards that robbed us.

Have a nice day!

STEEL PENCIL NEWS REVIEW

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

VOLUME 7

I became familiar with the term “brainwashing” when I was a very young boy in the 1950’s. The U.S. was involved in a “cold war” with Russia, and consequently a lot of information was available about Russia, and Communism, which interested me. I read numerous articles and became familiar with what was happening to the Russian population. Of course, being born and raised in America, I was horrified and developed a hatred for communism because of the horrible way it treated people living under its rule. Looking back on those days, I’m pretty sure that the U.S. government made that information readily available to dissuade our people from being swayed by the communists which were quite active here at home. I was surprised recently by a story one of my friends told me about his youth in Hollywood. His father was meeting with communists from his job at the movie studio where he was a carpenter. He stated his father was an avowed communist. I was shocked to say the least.

Brainwashing by the way was developed by the Russians. In particular Pavlov who perfected this nightmare that was used by the communists in Russia to great extent. Another term is “Persuasive Coercion”. This is what we see being used everyday by the mainstream media, the government, and social media platforms. Watch the video below and you will understand this insidious practice much better. You will be surprised by how willing our own government was to get involved in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWl8FXhdEio

We are constantly being bombarded with propaganda in all forms today. It becomes very difficult to sort out the truth amid all of the noise. Probably the most disturbing example I can think of is how the government along with the media have torpedoed race relations since 2011. That was the year Barrack Hussien Obama launched his racial division campaign. It has worked extremely well. The media has been constantly broadcasting that 100’s of black men are killed by the police every year. In fact, it’s about 15 give or take one or two. But they have repeated it so many times it has been etched in stone. If people would simply bring up the FBI stats on Google they would instantly know they were being lied to.

The examples are everywhere that you are being “gaslighted” or lied to constantly. Donald Trump and the three year investigation on Russia collusion. Totally made-up B.S. January 6th; There is growing evidence, actually indisputable evidence, that the Democrats, and the FBI were involved in that up to their necks. the goal was to give Donald Trump and every single one of his followers the title of “domestic terrorists” or “white supremacists”. They immediately called it an “insurrection” which is a very powerful term, painting all participants as “anti American”. The reporters stand in front of multiple burning buildings in Wisconsin and call it “a mostly peaceful demonstration”. They actually think we believe that bullshit. Gerald Nadler and Adam Schiff tell you with a straight face that there is no such organization as ANTIFA? Black Lives Matter has probably broken enough laws to easily prosecute with the RICO laws. It will never happen; they are the Democrat street soldiers, same as ANTIFA. The Democrat party has been taken over by the Marxists and communists.

This is not just happening in the US. Canada is completely lost, the Canadian parliament praised and applauded a Nazi officer yesterday. Australia is lost, it’s going “commie”.

The point I am trying to make is that ‘brainwashing” or “persuasive coercion” works, it works very well. Don’t become a victim, seek the truth, speak the truth. The latin phrase I put at the bottom of my blog means “Truth Conquers”. Embrace the truth always.

STEEL PENCIL NEWS REVIEW

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

VOLUME 6

I chose to write this article under the news banner, because it explains what you are hearing and seeing in real time. This video is a bit long, but worth every minute of your time so you understand what is about to happen.

I hope your eyes are opened by this as mine were. I was well aware of the financial cycles that have happened in my lifetime but was unaware of how they were tied to a host of other events.

VERITAS VINCIT ~ LIVE FREE OR DIE

STEEL PENCIL NEWS REVIEW

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

VOLUME 5

A news article caught my attention this morning, it’s about a topic that I have personally took note of over the years in my travels around this nation. I lived in Washington state for several years, and in my travels on I-5 going south I passed by Lewis-McChord joint base many times. I couldn’t help but notice the shoddy run down appearance of the buildings, which appeared to be barracks. It always irritated me to think we paid a huge amount of money to erect these buildings, and the military allowed them to deteriorate. This isn’t a rare occurrence. I have seen the same thing on several military installations. I was a mechanical service contractor and visited several Air Force bases in California and I was always taken back by the lack of building maintenance. I’m not sure what the logic is behind ignoring property maintenance by the U.S. Government. As a taxpayer, I expect my money to be well spent in preserving our buildings, not allowing them to just fall apart.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/troops-plagued-filthy-conditions-squatter-military-barracks

Wasteful spending is nothing new in the military world. Over the years I have seen several congressional investigations into this problem. The waste they discover is always staggering. But it never seems to fix it. I worked with a fellow years ago that was stationed on a military base in California. He told me that excess military equipment was purchased, never used, and simply stored in open air lots, left to deteriorate.

I worked for L.A. City for a brief time and when I turned in my budget for the coming year it was turned down for being too low. I was told every new budget has to be more, if it’s less than last years, it will make it nearly impossible to raise in the future. If that attitude prevails at the city level, I can only imagine how prevalent it is at the National level, where way more money is at stake. So, in case you missed the point, being frugal, and efficient is strongly discouraged. What could possibly go wrong?

I constantly hear politicians say; “we have the best military in the world”. Words are way cheaper than action. If they valued our military as they claim they do, they would ensure that our soldiers had the very best accommodations, and equipment available. I distinctly remember during the Iraq war that private citizens were buying bullet proof vests and sending them to our soldiers, because the government issued vests were inferior to what was available on the open market here at home.

The U.S. Government is fat, dumb and lazy. It’s filled with greedy self-serving morons that only care about riding the gravy train to retirement. I’m pretty sure no one seeks a government position to build a better America. They seek government positions for purely selfish reasons, and that goes all the way to the top. Barrack Obama went from a community organizer in Chicago to being super rich, with numerous beach front properties in a span of eight years. Long term members of congress make less than 200K per year but somehow amass fortunes in the millions of dollars and own huge homes in the best neighborhoods. President Harry Truman said; “Show me a man that gets rich being a politician, and I’ll show you a crook”.

My friends, in my 82 years on this earth, I have never seen a more inept and greedier group of people running our government. I could not present a more valid example than our current president. The Democrat party is a cancer, growing and threatening the life of this great Nation. Although I am full of hope, realistically I’m not sure it can be salvaged. Some very powerful forces are working against it.

THE VIEW FROM ST. CHARLES

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

VOLUME 43

So many great leaders have spoken about peace, so many words have been written about peace, so many prayers have been offered for peace, so many wars have been fought to establish peace, yet it continues to elude achievement. Is peace even possible? In some small places probably, but even in small places a person or persons can totally disrupt years of tranquility.

Right at this moment, as I am mentally charting my next statement, I realized that I am totally ignorant about how WWll began. I know we were hellbent on protecting England and France and all of northern Europe from falling to Hitler and the Nazis. Of course everyone that’s not in a coma knows how the war with Japan started. But beyond that, how did Germany and Japan become allies? Two extremely different cultures and Ideologies. I’m aware of the German/Italian connection. I really need to do some serious research on this subject, and write about it at some point in the future.

So, as far as warfare goes, WWll was a totally valid and necessary endeavor. Saving Korea from total domination by Red China was, in my opinion, also a necessary endeavor, although as usual in the end Washington D.C. screwed it up. But, in my opinion, every single war after Korea, was totally an unnecessary waste of young American lives and money. It’s pretty obvious that military conflicts are a political tool to gain voter support and buoy up the economy.

The Iraq war started in the second half of George W. Bush’s first term. Do you think it could have been a strategy to guarantee a second term? After all they did lie about the weapons of mass destruction in order to gain support for the invasion. George W. Bush was surrounded by some rather nefarious characters such as Carl Rove and Dick Cheney. Wow, I remember being on the cheering squad for Bush, I was 100% behind the move. I’m a lot smarter now. Taking Sadam Hussien out of power was a huge blunder. As horrible as he was, he kept Iran in check. I have been able to see this whole thing with much improved vision thanks to my political optometrists, Donald J. Trump, and Tucker Carlson.

When I see all of the physically and mentally injured veterans of Viet Nam, Iraq one, Iraq 2, Afghanistan, and the conflicts that followed I am infuriated that we did this to our young men and women. After all of the blood and treasure spent in Afghanistan, the government simply walked away and left our equipment behind as if it was a volleyball game. They pulled out of Iraq and allowed ISIS to begin operations. This is just a sick game, and our young men and women are the game pieces.

2023, after the enormous cost of the conflicts mentioned above, the US is now courting war with Russia. This is stupidity on steroids. This is going to make WWll look like a dodgeball game. If we go up against Russia; China, Iran, North Korea, and a few others will join the fray, and the US cannot possibly win. It will spell the end for the USA. Why would the USA even consider such a move? It makes no sense to me, but I love my country, I want to see it preserved. However, in my opinion I think many of our leaders have a totally opposite viewpoint. I really believe that a growing number of our leaders, think that it’s time for this country to embrace communism and dispense with that pesky Constitution and Bill of Rights.

I believe that is why the Democrats have opened the flood gates at the southern border to saturate the population with people that won’t resist when they decide to pull the switch. Why do you think all of the blue states are legalizing drugs? People on drugs are passive, if they make a fuss, give ’em more drugs. A lot of ’em will die, and that’s OK, dead folks are no longer a problem. They are slowly killing off the feral people with drugs, you don’t have to be a Phi Beta Kappa to see that one.

In case you haven’t noticed, our government no longer cares about the citizens of this country. They only care about themselves. They only care about power over the masses. If you miss the old USA, be sure to save your old photos,’ cause that’s the only way your gonna see it again. The politicians have found out they can win elections with mail in ballots, and they have also found out that most people don’t care.

VERITAS VINCET ~ LIVE FREE OR DIE

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