04 December 2021

Warsaw In My Thoughts

 

Warsaw 1930's   *www.vintag.es

It would be impossible for me to ever truly understand or feel what my relatives experienced in Nazi-run Warsaw. It was not a good end for most of them. The few that did make it out of Poland left around 1920. And although they well knew what happened to the rest of the family, it was something that was never discussed while I was growing up. Were my grandfather or great-aunt and great-uncle alive today, I would ask many questions about those years and the ones we lost. But those who knew Warsaw are long gone and I am truly grateful that they, and my mother, do not have to see what is happening to the world today. Segregating society using a false narrative, separating clean from unclean, should not happen more than once in a person’s lifetime.

For nearly two years there has been a well-orchestrated effort to control, separate, and conquer the peoples of the world. A campaign of fear for a non-deadly virus, foisted upon those who have forgotten history and ignore the facts, has worked. Moreover, the utmost has been done to silence and disparage the minds of reason who speak the truth. Scientism has won out over science.

We have now reached the point of total lockdowns for the unvaccinated in Germany and Austria, with mandatory vaccines to begin in the coming months. Australia currently has prison camps, and Canada is not far behind. Make no mistake, home detention and forced vaccinations are just around the corner for Americans.

Because I refuse to take the experimental gene-therapy jab, I am now excluded from nearly every activity in my community other than going to the grocery store. I am not allowed into restaurants, movie theaters, coffee shops, gyms, dental offices, pharmacies, any large event, indoors or out, religious gatherings, and more. I am excluded from finding gainful employment as all of the above require a CDC vaccine pass for employment.

I have no doubt that I will soon not be allowed to fly on an airplane or get on a train or bus. It may be more difficult to erect prison camps for the unvaxxed in the United States, but it is not beyond the realm of possibility.

However, unlike my family in Warsaw, no one knows that I am unclean. In a town where nearly 100% of the population aged twelve and above is vaxxed, (and 70% of those aged five to eleven), someone like me – a woman of a certain age, goes unnoticed. My invisible yellow star marking my status may not be apparent to those around me, but it is to me.

To live in a community where seemingly not one other person is concerned with the destruction of our civil liberties, and then happily goes along with the medical tyranny taking place, is soul crushing. To exist within a city that thinks you are evil, accuses you of wanting to kill others, of being selfish, and of being ignorant, is a tough road. To fight the good fight all on my own becomes more burdensome with each passing day.

However, I will never give in and fall prey to the madness. I will continue to fight with what I can, and those are my words. Even if that is all I have to offer, I have to believe it counts for something.

I do not feel the fear that my Warsaw relatives must have endured. But possibly I can understand how they must have felt watching their rights being stripped away while the world stood by and let it happen.

In the name of all those I lost, and the millions more, I will never surrender.    זצ"ל

 

 

          


17 November 2021

Digging the Coffee House Scene No More

Cafe Trieste - photo from MessyNessyChic.com

I’m calling on all the cool cats and hip chicks of the Beat Generation to give us a hand. Those of you that hung out at the coffee houses in San Francisco and Berkeley, reciting poetry, sipping java, smoking cigs, playing guitars, and giving the finger to the man.

Caffe Trieste in the city, along with Caffe Med across the bay in Berkeley were among your favored hangouts. Caffe Med is now gone, but you still have Peet’s.

You flocked to the original Peet’s Coffee in Berkeley when it opened in 1965, just as beatniks had begun to morph into hippies. Different names, but with many shared values. Drop by any day and you’d find Mr. Peet talking coffee and brewing cups for a variety of question-the-government hipsters and university professors alike. Personal freedom figured high on your list of priorities in life.

So where are all of you now? Possibly gone from this world, but I would have thought that some of your ideology had been retained. Regrettably, I fear it has all been lost to sheer panic over a false medical emergency.

The other day I dropped by the original Peet’s on Walnut and Vine to pick up my beans. And this is what I found on the door:   




The citizens of Berkeley, the original Stand up to Government Overreach city, are now required to show papers to purchase coffee. And they obediently follow orders. It is only a matter of time before one will not be allowed into supermarkets. (To their credit, no one at Peet’s demanded my papers.)                                                   

This is what happened in apartheid South Africa and the Bay Area locals protested against it. Much later, they protested against the marginalization of those with HIV/AIDS. Yet now it is completely normal to ostracize people who refuse to fall in line with masks and vaxxes.

According to the Rules of Berkeley, the un-vaxxed are now second class citizens. As far as I can tell, the only venues that do not require a vax card are supermarkets and possibly libraries.

In a city with, according to public records, only 55 dead from the virus since the beginning, Vax or be damned is the mandate. Even the Vaxxed-Clean, aged two and above, are  still required to wear masks indoors, and most wear them when outside. 

The poets of the coffe houses are long gone, along with all common sense. They have all lost their way. 

08 November 2021

Dystopian Nightmare

Big Bird getting Vaxxed...as sick as it gets   *filmMagic photo


That dystopian novel I was never going to write is playing out right before my eyes here in the Golden State. They have been harming the children for over twenty months and no one seems to care.

Close schools. Close playgrounds. Mask all children over two. Lock them indoors. Take away their education. Take away their friends. Take away their grandparents. Instill fear to the point that they believe a virus, which has nearly zero percent chance of causing any harm, is more frightening than any monster under the bed.

Require masks in all educational settings, pre-school through high school, both indoors and out. Force them to eat lunch outside in the cold weather. Require that they do not see each other’s faces. Insure that they believe close contact is dangerous. Scare these young minds so relentlessly that the most terrifying thing in the world is an un-masked face.

Children now walk down the street willingly masked, sealing themselves off from humanity. They do not see smiles. They do not see danger. They do not see life. The young ones have never learned to read facial cues. The older ones have forgotten.

Brainwash the populace into believing that children can kill their grandparents with a single breath. This is as far from the truth as one can get. But even if it were true, since when does a society sacrifice children for the sake of the elderly and infirm? When did this become acceptable?

Every hour of every day, all forms of media continually blast vaccine propaganda. Little children are used in advertisements claiming they are heroes for taking the emergency-use shot so that they can “protect their community”. It is the community’s responsibility to protect the children, not the other way around.

The State of California has now mandated the experimental vaccine for all students, K-12, for in-person learning effective January 2022. Regrettably, the parents of California seem to be all in on this.

There are reports stating that between 60% – 90% of all children over the age of twelve have already been vaccinated. When they recently opened up the 5-11 year old vax sites, all available appointments were quickly snapped up. The parents here cannot wait to get their little ones injected so that they can “get back to normal.”

Except that there will never be a “normal”. Masks are now officially required in schools until June 2022, vaxxed or not. They are still required indoors in most places, vaxxed or not. No matter how many masks and how many injections the public submits to, there will never be a “normal”.

And so the onslaught of the false narrative continues, targeting the country’s most precious resource, its children. Government agencies and school districts keep touting the “Safe and Effective Vaccine.” They know it is neither. They know it is totally unnecessary for not only kids, but most healthy young people to submit to their experiment.    

The testimonials of parents whose children have either been severely harmed or killed by the “vaccine” are heartbreaking. I want to scream, “Why didn’t you know? The information is, and has been, out there since before they issued the first shot.”  But they didn’t know because they have been lied to, trusted the government, and had no reason to believe they were being played. When these distraught parents make pleas to warn others, the powers that be do their best to suppress the message.

I try to not think about the devastation to come from this brutal, global experiment. Possibly I am completely wrong and all the vaxxed people will live  long and healthy lives. There is nothing more in the world that I would like than to be proven wrong. 

 

04 November 2021

Yes, the USA has Political Prisoners


Never in my life could I have imagined that the United States would hold political prisoners in solitary confinement, in deplorable conditions, and stripped of their civil liberties. I grew up with tales of such unwarranted detentions in the USSR, and in South America. I met former government prisoners while living in Brazil. These types of extrajudicial tactics happen every day throughout the world. But in America? How is that possible?

It began on January 6, 2021. As live events unfolded at the capitol, many immediately spotted the agitators among the peaceful protesters. Anyone involved in protests of the 1960’s could easily recognize the culprits. ( Agent Provocateur ) Anyone who had read the reporting on non-mainstream media knew there was great risk of violence that day. Antifa, and others with an agenda to sow discourse, had vowed to show up for the rally. And anyone with half a brain should have been alarmed that there appeared to be little, if any, extra security that day. Something was most certainly amiss.  

The video available from January 6 clearly shows that the majority who went into the capitol were not there to do any damage. They carried nothing other than flags and banners. It is also evident that the ones breaking windows and egging people on were instigators. And above all, the only one who was killed that day inside the capitol was Ashley Babbitt, an unarmed veteran.

Arrests were made on January 6, but the majority came days and months later. While the DOJ ramped up their efforts to track down anyone who had been within a few miles of the capitol, they encouraged neighbors to turn in their friends. Those are Soviet tactics, not American, yet people happily complied.

In April of this year the government established the CEWG – Countering Extremism Working Group. That should have sent chills up the spines of every decent American. Suddenly, the most powerful arm of our government began to hunt down “White Supremacists and Domestic Terrorists.”   

Not Antifa, not Black Lives Matter, whose organizations were responsible for over two billion dollars’ worth of destruction in 2020 alone. The CEWG happily ignored those that beat up countless people, killed police officers, looted entire city blocks, and burned down small businesses with impunity.

Instead, they have gone after people who walked into the capitol, through open doors, and often escorted by police officers. These same citizens are now being held in pre-trial detention, in horrid conditions, in a deplorable jail in Washington DC, denied even the most basic of rights. None has been charged with terrorism. Most charges are misdemeanors such as “parading” in the capitol. Yet they are treated worse than gulag inmates.

That the majority of the American people do not seem to realize, or care about, what is going on is distressing. There are people reporting the truth and uncovering the lies about January 6. Darren Beattie at Revolver News, Julie Kelly at American Greatness, and  Tucker Carlson  are among them. Although I am not surprised by anything they uncover, I appreciate all the work they are doing to document the wrongs being perpetrated against American citizens, and their efforts to get the word out. All that I have seen since the beginning, they have proved. 

In contrast, the mainstream media and, apparently, the majority in the Senate and House, do not seem to be bothered by the unconstitutionality of charges being pursued against the Jan 6 defendants now rotting in jail. They have fallen for the belief that if it is the Justice Department instituting such measures, they must be right.   

It is disturbing to hear the glowing terms now associated with the FBI and the DOJ in their pursuit of all the supposed White Supremacists and Domestic Terrorists. Nary a negative comment can be found. Suddenly, these agencies are the most respected, trustworthy government organizations in the United States, along with the CIA and NSA. If they say Domestic Terrorism and White Supremacy constitute the greatest threat to national security, we are to believe it at face value.  

Could it be that the country is suffering from mass amnesia and forgotten about the ill deeds perpetrated by said government organizations? It is not as if any of this is ancient history. Not that long ago the subversive activities of the FBI and CIA were common knowledge.  

Even the name J. Edgar Hoover, still gives me the shivers. The original track-the-public and keep-secret-files guy. Hoover, the first director of the FBI, kept enough dirt on political opponents that they let him get away with some really nasty stuff. Secret files on Martin Luther King Jr, Mohammed Ali, and anyone else he did not agree with. Wiretaps on anyone he chose to go after. Infiltration into left leaning groups, with or without any real evidence, just to try and prove they were a threat. These were, and are, methods and tactics one would associate with the KGB.

I won't go into what the CIA has engaged in overseas.

My writings are not loud enough to give the country a good shake. All I can really do is thank those who are spreading the word and hope that their exposure of the wrongs is enough to get our fellow Americans out of their current hell.

And, by the way, I have assumed since the 60’s that my phone is tapped, and so should everyone. 

 

31 October 2021

Worshipping at the Altar of Climate Change



All the big boys and gals are currently in Glasgow to Protect the Future of the Planet.  They say that the world is going to end in ten years. I should be shaking in my rain boots…. or is it in my flip-flops?  Deluge or desert? The scenario changes every few years so it’s hard to keep up.

No, droughts are not increasing, neither are floods nor hurricanes. Video clips of forests burning and tornados whipping, and rivers breeching their banks, are not scientific proof of anything, let alone a Climate Crisis.

But if you yell loud enough that The Sky is Falling, and then get rich, entitled idiots to mouth off, accompanied by business moguls who stand to make a fortune in green snake oil, and follow that by doomsday-prophet-mentally-questionable teenagers, you set yourself up for a weeklong holiday in Glasgow. Oh goodie!

Green Energy is anything but green. It is nothing but a profiteering ploy to build wind turbines and batteries that will never be the answer to efficient energy. Rather than list the reasons behind this statement, I’ll leave it to the smart people at Prager U, with two, short, succinct videos.

Do We Have to Destory the World to Save it?

What's Wrong ith Wind and Solar

Even though this information is readily available for all those PhD smart folks in my famous university town, you’d never know it walking down the street and watching the solar panels go up, or the new Teslas in driveways. The Intelligentsia have bought into Green World Order hook line and sinker. Sinker being the operative word.

It strikes me as insanely bizarre that the hardcore, self-proclaimed environmentalists, that thrive in every nook and cranny of my town, live and breathe the false narrative of electric cars and solar panels. As outlined in the Prager U videos, both are devastating to the environment and its critters. Those batteries need rare earth minerals, which equals mining, which turns into a myriad of environmental disasters. And when the batteries die, and the wind turbines expire, they cannot be recycled. So what have the Greenies accomplished? Worse than nothing. Major damage.

But getting back to the Glasgow party scene, I wondered just how much money the US government is shelling out for our officials to hobnob with the elites who have never taken a cold shower in their life, nor gone without a meal. I suppose I could come up with an estimate, but that would be too depressing.

Meanwhile, our country is being flushed down the toilet of Socialism, inflation is raging, store shelves are empty. All the while a third of our Cabinet members are kicking up their heels and tossing backs shots of single malt.

Off the coast of Southern California, we have a parking lot full of cargo containers. One would think our Secretary of Transportation would be working 24/7 to resolve the issue. But Mayor Pete decided it was far better to extend his months-long paternity leave by jetting off across the globe.

While Americans are battling inflation, the Secretary of the Treasury felt it  necessary to take a fancy flight, book into a five-star hotel, and visit Scotland.

Along with them are the Secretary of state, the National Economic Council Director, the Energy Secretary, and the Interior Secretary. The USAID and EPA administrators, and all their hundreds of support staff.  Last but not least, the biggest hypocrite of them all, or at least second to Al Gore, John Kerry. I won’t bother to discuss Biden and his motorcade of 85 gas-guzzling cars.

Will the world ever wake up to the false prophecies of the Green Soothsayers? Certianly not in my neighborhood.

                       *********************************

I strongly recommend the site Environmental Progress, and especially this page:

The Case Against Climate Alarmism



21 October 2021

Thank You Mr. Shatner

 

I love the moon and the stars and the heavens above. For years I dreamed of being an interstellar traveler. I knew that true space exploration would occur well past my expiration date, but it did not matter. I devoured science fiction books to experience extraterrestrial flight and life on other worlds. When Star Trek rolled onto the evening television screens, I was their number one fan. Suddenly, my imagination had been realized on a weekly series that transported me to all those places I would never be able to visit.

Thus, it was extremely fitting when Captain Kirk, yet again, spoke to me over the communication device and opened my mind to a concept that I had never once considered.

William Shatner stepped off the Blue Origin, and wisdom flowed from this lips. We all assume that flying beyond the stratosphere will be quite a mind altering experience. However, I never once considered that the words of an astronaut would so deeply touch my being.

Mr. Shatner spoke of the profound effect of travelling between the blue of earth and the darkness of space. As he continued to speak, I felt dumbfounded. I have always known that we have blue skies. I have always known that space is black. But I had never once considered that one goes from blue to black in an instant, and the sheer magnitude of that effect on one’s soul. Once again, I was at one with Captain Kirk.

Thank you Mr. Shatner for taking me where man has gone before, but where no man has ever expressed it more eloquently.

My little bit of Science Fiction: Travels to the 14th Galaxy


13 October 2021

Eve of Destruction




The eastern world, it is exploding

Violence flaring, bullets loading

You’re old enough to kill, but not for voting

You don’t believe in war but what’s that gun you’re toting

And even the Jordon River has bodies floating

But you tell me over and over again, my friend

Ah, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction*

*P.F. Sloane

 

Eve of Destruction, released in the summer of 1965, became the unofficial anthem of many a Flower Child, myself included. The beautiful lyrics and enchanting melody captured the spirit of those of us who had grown up with the Free Speech Movement and anti-war protests in our own backyard.

I remember the feeling of despair we all had during those days – that the world was headed off a cliff.  However, there is no comparison to what is presently taking place. This time it truly feels that we are on that Eve of Destruction.

The Great Reset is underway. The plan, created by the World Economic Forum, (WEF), aims to fundamentally change the social and economic world landscape through global governance. How we got to this point, within such a short amount of time, is rather frightening. However, it is far from a mystery.

The Great Reset has been the topic of discussion by a wide-ranging group of concerned global citizens who regularly warn of the dangers the WEF poses to the world. That they have been ignored by the mainstream media and big tech only serves to show just how deeply the tentacles of the WEF reach. Look to the origins of the lockdowns and government overreach, and the WEF is there.

The world, after over a year and a half, is still consumed with a questionable pandemic. Yes, Covid-19 is a real virus, but has a low rate of mortality especially when treated early with therapeutics. That such early intervention has been maligned, along with the censorship of scientists and doctors, for the sake of an experimental vaccine should alarm every person on the planet. It did not happen by accident.

With a steady diet of fear-mongering, aided and abetted by the media, big tech, the CDC, NIH, FDA, WHO, the entire world’s population was convinced that they would never be able to leave their house until a vaccine was on the market. People happily went along with the lack of all safety protocols for vaccine development if it meant “freedom” from a self-imposed lockdown. The WEF has its hands in all these government organizations either directly, or through its members. Their contribution to the current state of affairs cannot be overstated.

As vaccine data began to come out, US governmental bodies, the media, and big tech continued to sow the seeds of fear by ignoring the data of vaccine death and harm. Whereas in the past such data would have resulted in the vaccine immediately being pulled off the market, it was ignored. To date, the media still refuses to accurately report the death count and harm to fully vaccinated individuals. Neither do they report the rise of variants caused by virus mutation in the vaccinated.  Again, this omission of data and truth is not by accident.

Most alarming is that anyone with an opposing view, even when backed by medical papers and statistics, is silenced. And now we are destroying young, healthy people and children by insisting they need a deadly vaccine against a disease for which they are basically not at risk.

I had hoped the world would come to its senses yet here we are, in the fall of 2021, with vaccine mandates increasing with every newscast.

Daily, I question why it appears that those with whom I interact are not even remotely aware of what is transpiring in today’s world. So consumed are they with the latest Covid variant and case count, that they do not see the bigger picture. They do not see that the authoritarianism, medical tyranny, abandonment of our constitutional rights, and the bowing down to global subjugation, is threatening our very way of life.

If I should mention any of the characters at the fore of this crusade, e.g. George Soros, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, or The World Economic Forum (WEF), I get a look of total bewilderment. These are the people and organizations that are in league to restructure world order with the express purpose of enslaving the rest of us peons. It is not a fantastical science fiction theory. It is real and it is here.

The WEF and The Gates Foundation have never hidden their intentions, although they couch their ideologies in eloquent terms that promote world peace and salvation. One does not need secret agents nor a top secret security clearance to find out their exact objectives. They are proud of their tactics to reshape and control the world, and publish it in plain sight.

Take, for example, The World Economic Forum. Established in 1971 by Klaus Schwab, it seeks to engage “the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry standards.”* In other words, the WEF has appointed themselves as the arbiter of What is Right for Mankind.

The question is how these globalist elites are connected with Covid-19, the deadly experimental vaccine, and the surrender of all our rights that we used to hold dear. How easily the world has unknowingly given over their human rights to these organizations is astonishing.

As stated above, Klaus Schwab, in collaboration with other megalomaniacs, has been building for the Great Reset for decades. What he and his cohorts needed was a way to achieve such a takeover, such as create a global crisis. What better way than a worldwide health crisis?  They certainly had planned for it.

These were some of their preparations:

1. In 2018, WEF partnered with Johns Hopkins to run a simulation of a global pandemic. Their results found that there would be catastrophic repercussions.

2. In 2019, the WEF, Johns Hopkins, teamed with the Gates Foundation to run Event 201, another global pandemic simulation.

3. In March 2020, the WHO officially declares a world pandemic.

It was now time for the WEF, The Gates Foundation, and others, to go forward with their plans. They needed a terrified world to initiate their control, and with the release of the Covid-19 bioweapon, they were set.

It is hard to say what part, if any, WEF or Gates had in the release. I prefer Dr. Reiner Fuellmich’s* supposition which is that as soon the WHO proclaimed a global pandemic, the Globalists saw their chance and pounced.

Their influence and control guided world governments into instituting unnecessary lockdowns. With loyalists like Gates and others in big pharma, combined with additional help from big tech and big media, it was then a simple task to push for the manufacture of covid vaccines.

Many foresaw the day when a digital covid passport would become mandatory. It is now a reality for a good part of the world. How entire populaces could so easily give up their rights to freedom of movement and medical autonomy is shocking. We have willingly entered into the realm of biometric tracking.

What I have yet to figure out, or find reference to, is how the WEF is tied in with China. I cannot see them ceding even a microscopic piece of power to the CCP. Or perhaps they their influence with the CDC and NIH was only to create a bioweapon. We may never know.  

My only hope is that the world wakes up and wakes up soon. The mass protests in other countries are cause for optimism. We do not have those in the United States partly becuase we do not have the same type of centralized goverment. But it heartens me that some people are beginning to fight the vaccine mandates. 

Regrettably, the harm done by the vaccines is here to stay. Whether or not it will this will lead to some rather horrific outcomes, remains to be seen. Still, we can prevent any more damage if we simply stand up to those who mean us harm.

WEF Mission Statement

Great Reset WEF paper

Dr. Fuellmich

Great video by Dr. McCullough, Oct 2021 Dr. McCullough

EVE OF DESTRUCTION     (background music)



 

 


21 September 2021

VAX EXEMPT


Covid vaccinations are a total sham. Worse, they are far more dangerous than the disease for most people. Yet everyone, Left, Right, & Center is pushing them.

Folks on the right might believe individuals have the Freedom to Choose, but still advocate for taking the poisen dart. They acknowledge that some don't need it becuase of natural amunity. Or site religious and pre-existing conditions as other reasons for avoiding the jab. But no one seems to give the most valid reason of all: SCIENCE.

I decided to make my own vax passport, just for the heck of it. As soon as I hit the save button on Canva, the following message popped up:

                                    Coronavirus Awareness:   In light of the Covid-19 outbreak, we recommend checking the World Health Organization's website for the most accurate and up-to-date information.   blah...blah....blah.....  Stay safe and healthy.

Just when I think it cannot get anymore Big Brother, it does.

Feel free to copy my vaccination exempt card. I, for one, will never use it. I will not give my medical information to get into a resaturant, or a gym, or a museum. I will not give in to the tyranny. 

18 September 2021

Newsome won.........California Lost

photo: Lucky Thompson, Oakland CA, Laney Tower News

Many of us truly believed that Governor Newsome could be recalled. But The Evil Disney Cartoon Villain* prevailed.
(credit:*Dave Rubin) It had been a fair fight until mainstream media and Silicon Valley stepped in to silence those fighting to save our state.

What had been a movement to recall a truly inept, corrupt governor, became a Republican Takeover mantra. Local television stations, which not that long ago were fairly unbiased, began to report on the Newsome vs Elder contest. They echoed the cable news talking points. Stories ran on how Newsome would save us all from Covid, and Elder would kill us. Newsome actually stated that it “…was a matter of life and death.” That one, unsubstantiated lie, kept him in office.

Anyone who lives in California can drive around their city and see that one third of the small businesses are closed for good. Newsome did that. Parents can vouch that their children missed nearly a year and a half of in-person teaching and that schools are is still not back to normal. Newsome did that. Homeless encampments have blighted the entire state. Newsome did that. Forests continue to burn at an alarming rate, the power gird fails, water shortages are at an all-time high. Newsome did nothing to fix those problems.

How, I asked several people, can you possibly not vote to recall Newsome? The answers: “It’s not Newsome’s fault things are so dire. We might get someone worse. I looked at the other candidates and didn’t like them.”

At the time, I could only stare back in incomprehension. Now, possibly I have an answer.

For years, I have not been able to understand why the residents of the San Francisco Bay Area are so completely stuck in their view of Left is Good, Right is Evil. My conclusion: They are so wrapped up in their 1960’s liberalism that they do not realize that that world longer exists.

Back in the 60’s, middle- and working-class families, mine included, made up a good portion of the Democrat party, especially in Northern California. They represented the generation who had lived through the depression and WWII, gone on to build homes and raise families, all while keeping an eye on the world and the powers in charge. They were the party that would represent the downtrodden, prevent another world war, and protect against government overreach. That there happened to be more than a few Democrats in positions of power who were as corrupt as any Republican in the state, went without challenge.

In sharp contrast, they saw Republicans as country club elites. The fat-cats who drove Rolls Royce’s, wore diamonds and gold lamé, and, of course, ran Hollywood. These privileged rich folks had ever picked up a screwdriver or swung a sledgehammer. They looked down on the working class, and anyone who had to scrub out their own toilet. And naturally, they assumed that only they knew how to run the world.  

Over the past few decades, that equation has been turned upside down. The working class is now represented by the right; the elites control the left. However, the old and young hipsters in California have not figured that out. They are just happy that they turned California blue.

The rich and powerful no longer run country clubs but invent technology. The new crowd eschews the old symbols of power and wealth. Tesla’s replaced Rolls Royce’s. Solar panels and wind turbines, despite their severe damage to the environment, replaced a third of the power grid. Tree huggers prevented forest maintenance.

None of this occurred in the dead of the night with secret societies. It happened right out in the open. Those millionaire titans of industry began to dress like the common man, jeans, t-shirts, and sneakers. They were defiantly the new cool kids in town. They spoke of saving the environment and helping the poor. Motivations of power and greed could be ignored if they looked like the average guy or gal, and preached a good line. Hollywood, a true old boys club, slipped right in with the caring Democrat persona. No matter how much of an elitist life they led, they offset any challenge to their privilege by pretending to care about the peons.

It is not that I am against elitists, or millionaires, or working hard to make vast fortunes, as many have. It is the blatant hypocrisy that makes my blood boil. Suddenly, the Tech Oligarchs can decide who has the right to speak and who does not.  Hollywood stars truly believe that their opinions and views outrank anyone else’s. Elected democrats ignore half the country because “they are wrong.”

As to the Bay Area crowd, they appear to be unaware of what is taking place right in front of their eyes. They still believe that if a politician has an R in front of their name, they are the devil incarnate. It is why no one I spoke to would even consider voting out Newsome and replacing him with Larry Elder or any other Republican. Not one of them, I am sure, bothered to look into the qualifications or statements before the election. How could they have done so? Newsome ran on a failed record, and If you vote me out, the Republicans will kill you. Nothing else. No track record, no plans for the future, no solutions to problems. Meanwhile, Elder and others addressed the issues and had actual plans to improve California’s miserable existence.

I have long believed that there is no hope for the State. The recall had given me something to grab on to. Maybe even reverse my views on the death of California. But it failed, and I now know that this state will never, ever be The Golden State of years gone by.

01 September 2021

New Story on Kindle Vella

 

My new serialized story,    Travels to the 14th Galaxy,    is now available on the kindle vella platform. 

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Story descrition: "I'm sick of my life on the Blue Marble. Time to go off planet. Not much money, limited skills, and running low on cigs. Could be interesting."

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25 August 2021

Where is the Outrage?

Afghanistan is descending into hell. People are dying. Where are the protests? Where is the outrage in this, the San Francisco Bay Area, known for its protests against everything?

Over the past few years alone, there have been numerous BLM and Antifa protests, complete with rioting and looting. Transgender rights protests paired with Drag Queen reading hour for the little ones at libraries and schools. Protests to let the junkies and mentally ill live in squalor on city streets, and supply them with money and amenities. However, now that there are Americans and allies being left behind in Afghanistan, to be tortured and killed, there is only silence.

The front pages of the local newspapers are filled with Covid mandates, restaurant reviews, and a few local bits and pieces. There is nothing about Afghanistan. It is close to the same on the local news stations. If there is any coverage, it seems to support the Biden line of we’re doing a great job getting people out. Last night a local professor stated that there really wasn’t much more that the US could do since the Taliban control Afghanistan. What? When does the United States bow down to the dictates of a medieval, barbaric, terrorist group?

Where is the ethos that we, as Americans, have always stood by – Leave no man behind? Where is the coverage of the horrendous conditions that now exist in Afghanistan and the slaughter that is sure to follow? Why do they not care?

San Francisco’s own Nancy Pelosi spent the weekend at a Napa estate wining and dining Rich White Folks while ignoring the disaster taking place on the other side of the world that has put our fellow Americans and allies in harm’s way. The local councilmembers, who send out flash emails for every possible social justice cause and covid concern, remain equally silent.

This is the worst catastrophic military failure we have ever seen in America. It did not have to be this way. Every day I wake up and hope that the government has sent in the military and warned that Taliban to get out of the way or there will be severe consequences. And every day it does not happen.

I think back to all the people I know who supported Biden. When I would suggest that perhaps electing a man with dementia might be a little dangerous, I was met with “We know he’s feeble, but they’ll take care of him.”  Others, who do not really know that much abut US politics told me "not to be so upset. Afterall, it's only for four years." I predicted all the disastrous consequences of his presidency and quietly told a few friends that I seriously worried about another large terrorist attack. However, I could never have imagined the debacle now playing out because of Biden's ill-planned departure from Afghanistan.

The heartbreaking scenes and updates from Kabul are gut wrenching. I cannot stop watching and reading the news, hoping that there will be a last-minute change to Biden’s disastrous withdrawal plan. I do not understand how any American can ignore this dire situation, yet that seems to be the case where I live.

 

12 August 2021

Free Ebooks

 It's Summer Break time with Kate's books.  Fun, entertaining, globe-trotting, quick reads. 

Aug 13 -15, most of my books are available for free download on Amazon: Kate's Books   (This might not work for those outside the USA. If so, please use contact form on this page and I will sort it out.)


Take a suspensful trip to Naples Italy, (and brief flashabcks to Berkeley CA 1969), with:  A Neapolitan Intrigue


Or a cozy mystery stop in Tel Aviv:  Murder, Jaz, & Tel Aviv

Jaz, Tall Men, & Mayhem

Perhaps the exotic isle of BaliBroadsided in Bali

Surfers, drug lords, and one determinded accountant in Montery, California:  Bad Accounts

There is, of course, Brazil and a bit of magical realism: The Many Wonders of Costa Contente        


Enjoy!


30 July 2021

The Tyranny of the Covid Wars

Get the Covid Vaccine and Quit Killing People”, cry out the voices of insanity every few minutes on the radio and TV. City officials bombard me with emails stating the same. Posters on the front doors of supermarkets and pharmacies warn citizens to protect their country and get that experimental drug for free, right there in the store. It’s enough to make one’s head explode. I really do think I might be developing Tourette’s. It seems every time I am told to vax up, I automatically flip off the tv, the radio, and (more discreetly) the notifications in store windows.  

Just when one thinks the craziness might be abating – like several weeks ago when they dropped the indoor mask mandates, it gets worse.  To be clear, I have never worn a mask except when required to inside a store. Wear one outside? No one needs medical professionals to explain that viruses do not float around in the open sunshine waiting to attack. So I found it reassuring when, in my city of Total Mask Compliance, folks had their faces uncovered inside Trader Joe’s and Safeway. Finally, when I smiled at people, which I tend to do, they could smile back.

However, mask freedom lasted less than two weeks and then the county and city returned to fear mongering and suggested masks go back on. Since it is not a requirement, I continue to grocery shop face bared. Sadly, the rest of the town has reverted back to masks. Yesterday, I was the only one buying food items unmasked.

If adults choose to act like fools and fall for the complete lie that masks are actually protective, that is their problem. Unfortunately, parents continue to impose this adverse health measure against their children. In my city, you will not see one child over the age of two outdoors without a mask. City summer programs require that all kids wear masks, be they playing soccer, tennis, or sitting in a park. This saddens me beyond belief. Every time I drive by a group of little ones being escorted from a children’s center to a park, brightly colored masks restricting their airways, I want to pull over and ask the adults if they are aware of the damage that is being done both physically and emotionally. Likewise when I see a parent parading their toddler with a mask. But I cannot. These people fell for the fear ages ago and are not going back.

It has been a year and a half of governmental, pharmaceutical, and big tech manipulation of data, misinformation, and outright lies. It has been a year and a half of suppressing the truth and silencing doctors, epidemiologists, scientists and anyone who disagrees with the party line. If others do not care to question government mandates, research the real data, or seek opposing viewpoints, there is not much I can do. However, I do resent being called a science denier, stupid, uneducated, and a conspiracy theorist.

For my own reference, I put together a modified timeline of what I observed, read, listened to, and discussed with the few people I know who have questioned these Covid Crazy times.

As early as February 2020, it was quite clear that Covid-19 came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Evidence: - 1. The Chinese Communist Party has long engaged in biowarfare development. (One does not need to be a sinologist to know this.)  2. Wuhan had an outbreak of a mysterious disease just around the corner from their Level 4 lab. 3. The CCP shutdown Wuhan. No Chinese nationals could travel to the province and locals were not allowed to travel to other parts of China. However, they were encouraged to fly to Europe, The United States, and any other country to freely spread the virus.

I had yet to hear the term gain-of-function back then, although I clearly understood the practice of bioweapons research. In the first few months of 2020, I became aware that the United States NIH had been funding the Wuhan lab for years.

Mid-March 2020: the entire country shuts down to Flatten the Curve. We know how that’s going in blue states that have never fully opened.

Around this time, several medical professionals began to report that Covid seemed to be extremely dangerous to older, infirm people, but that children were not at risk. As time went on, it was clear that comorbidities played a vital role in the lethality of the virus, and there was now enough data to prove that children and young, healthy adults were not at risk.

Also in March 2020, Dr Didier Raoult of France found that hydroxychloroquine worked as a therapeutic drug against Covid 19. Google his name today, and the entire first two pages of links proclaim him as a witchdoctor and fraud, bent on killing people. (Nothing has been updated or retracted even though the CDC now sates that hydroxy can greatly reduce the risk of serious disease and death if given in the early stages of Covid.) I remember that this came about when someone realized that Lupus patients, who take hydroxy on a regular basis, were not dying from Covid. 

The same outright denial for Ivermectin further stopped the use of therapeutics. As one esteemed doctor pointed out, there is no need to develop a vaccine when there are therapeutics. Especially a vaccine for a corona virus, (never successfully done before), and especially for a virus that is only deadly to a small percentage of the population.

Even now, if one tries to Google Covid Therapeutics today, the first full page is all Get Vaccinated propaganda, and states there are no approved therapeutics.

By April 2020, I had found both Dr Shiva’s and Dr Zelenko’s Covid Protocols to boost the immune system. D3, Zinc, Vitamin C, and a few other supplements.

Masks are not even worth mentioning. They do not, and never have, reduced transmission or protected anyone.

May 2020:  Schools still closed, along with restaurants, small businesses, and just about everything else. Common sense had been tossed out the window. Respiratory diseases do not circulate while walking in the park or on a beach. Sunlight kills all germs. Locking people inside in a hermetically sealed house only circulates airborne germs. Yet that is exactly what the government mandated, and everyone went along with the program.

And it went on, and on, and on. Lockdowns, closures, with absolutely no acknowledgement of the extreme damage it did to everyone and the economy. Far worse than any disease could ever hope to accomplish.

I had serious doubts when the whole rush to make a vaccine began. Firstly, I never believed it was necessary for a virus that, for people under 70, has a 99.5% survival rate. Then I found out it would be an experimental mRNA vaccine, something that had never before been attempted. A quick look into how an mRNA vaccine works should frighten anyone. Apparently, all the government had to do was call it a vaccine, and everyone was onboard.

Even before the vaccines received their emergency use approval, many scientists had raised the alarm of possible serious side effects. Lots of super smart folks warned of the short and long-term damage, including death, that could result from a rushed, experimental shot. To date, there is plenty of evidence that this is exactly what is happening.

And it now seems quite possible that the vaccines are failing or possibly responsible for variants that evade vaccine protection. It just might turn out that those who refused the vaccine will have a much better response to the virus in the future than those who submitted.

I thought of including all the links to the doctors and scientists who warned, and now are documenting, vaccine damage and failure, but there is no point. Those who malign my beliefs are not interested in discussing the matter. I would be happy to engage in debate with any of them. My first question would be to ask them for their source of statistics and medical references that show Covid to be so deadly that we needed to shut down the entire world. Or proof that my thoughts are part of a giant conspiracy theory based on nonsense.

Over a year ago, the smart folks warned of the future in the world of Covid Panic. Once the powers that be instill fear, they will not stop. We were warned of the possibility of mandatory vaccines, of Covid passports, of ostracization of those who do not comply. Regrettably, that is exactly where we find ourselves today.

My only hope is that there is now palpable pushback against the tyrannical rules being instituted by both the government and private industry. That, and knowing that a hefty proportion of the American population has refused to submit themselves to an experimental drug. Though our voices are suppressed, de-platformed, and slandered, there might just be enough of us to carry on the fight for liberty and freedom. Afterall, this is the United States of America, and we cannot give in to those who wish to destroy and control us.

12 June 2021

I Found My People


Since the beginning of The Pandemic I have questioned the validity of the government edicts espousing how citizens of the world must now conduct their lives. None of it has ever been logical and, frankly, has defied all common sense. Shut down the entire world and lock everyone indoors so that a “deadly” virus does not spread? Since when has outrunning a pathogen been an acceptable countermeasure against any disease? It has been clear, from almost the outset, that Covid-19 only kills the elderly, infirm, or those with comorbidities. Most importantly, it rarely harms children.

Yet all media outlets, for the most part, ignored any logical discussion of the situation and immediately began the Covid Count Panic ticker, proudly displaying on their screens 24/7, the hourly updates of “cases and deaths”. No one ever questioned these numbers. No one ever questioned PCR testing.

I had previously heard of the PCR test but needed to refresh my knowledge. A quick search brought me to Kary Mullins, the inventor and Nobel Prize winner of said test. The PCR test is not a diagnostic tool for detecting a virus and was never designed as such. Nevertheless, it somehow became the gold standard for counting Covid cases, even though those results are flawed and basically invalid.

The PCR testing clearly was, and still is, a made-up fiasco. My first thoughts centered around why were they pumping out tests to use on asymptomatic individuals. That certainly is not common medical practice. I questioned the logic of sitting in a car for several hours to get a swab jammed up your nose, to go home, Katie bar the door, and wait for results. By the time one received the results of a test taken a week before, it is no longer valid. Even if the PCR test were capable of showing infection, which it is not, what good is a negative test? You aren’t contaminated today, but you might be tomorrow. Completely pointless, yet the Conga lines of drive-through testing continued, with cases ticking up all day long.  

Again I questioned why the world’s governments insisted on widespread testing as the do all and end all to virus control.  More alarmingly, I questioned why the entire population on the planet was falling for all the false information and complying with the insanity of shutting down the global economy and everyday life. It took a nano-second to form a conclusion. The globalists took this route for one reason: control and power. Big Pharma, et al, played along for profit.

Yet here in my city, filled with Nobel Prize winners and Big Tech Titans, they all blindly followed the new social engineering rules. I have to assume some did it for the above-mentioned control and money, but that does not explain the rest of the so-called intelligentsia. They bought into it without a second thought.

If, in the past year or so, I were to bring up my concerns regarding the loss of our liberties, the destruction of our economy, and, most importantly, the life-long damage to the children, I was quickly reprimanded. My renegade thoughts meant that I was out to kill people and there would be no further discussion of the matter. This is when I began to write about the situation if, for no other reason, than to say I had tried to speak up.

By the time the vaccines came out, I had learned to keep my mouth shut. Any thoughts about an experimental gene-therapy shot that had been developed in record time, was not FDA approved, that could very well prove to be harmful, that had been created by the vaccine industry with only profits in mind, I kept to myself.

My conclusions that Covid is no worse than any other seasonal respiratory infection is not based on whimsical ideas cooked up in my overactive imaginative brain. I have spent the past year and a half seeking out information on Covid, from its origins to its true danger. I have read scientific papers and analyses by doctors, epidemiologists, scientists, public health officials, as well as others. I have read the data from the CDC and analysis by smart people who question the numbers. However, I do not have a title in front of my name or fancy letters after it. Hence, I have basically been laughed at and told I was misinformed.

There is only one, maybe two, friends who see what I see, and with whom I can discuss my world-gone-mad thoughts. Although I have never doubted my conclusions, it is extremely isolating and rather depressing to live in such a world. And then I found the Investgative Corona Committee Germany 

They are a group of renowned German lawyers who became concerned with the overreach of governmental powers in response to Covid, and the harm that is being done. Although they are obviously dealing within the German Government, the same is true for most countries around the world.

From their “About the Committee” page:

“Respiratory diseases, such as…Covid-19…have not been recorded to an extraordinary extent in Germany. A large number of studies have now shown that lethality and mortality are similar to influenza. An overload of the health care system has not even remotely occurred.

“However, as is becoming increasingly clear, the government’s Corona measures have caused massive social, psychological, health, cultural and economic collateral damage.” (It goes on.)

The lawyers hold long sessions with medical professionals and others, exploring the topic of Covid, the response, and where this is all heading. And these are folks who do have titles in front of their names and letters behind. Finally, I found people who speak my language, see what I see, and put it all in a place that I can access. Their videos are the most uplifting voices I have heard in ages. For once, I do not feel alone and have The Professionals to back me up.

The videos might not be for everyone. I happen to love all things science, as well as political. To be clear, there is nothing in the science discussed that takes more than a high school education to understand. So far, I have only watched a few of the sessions. The first one was in English so I could listen to it in the background while cleaning the house. Most are in German and at least some are subtitled.  The intro video on the main English language page is an hour and a half of subtitles. I don’t mind subtitles, but I will warn that it is not quite like watching your favorite Nordic Noir TV crime series. There is no downtime for the eyeballs. However, it was well worth it.

It may be a few days before I dedicate another hour or two to the subtitle sessions, but I know they are there, just waiting to be heard. It gives me so much hope in a time where I feel the world has gone mad.  At least I know that I haven’t gone bonkers. 

26 May 2021

Vaccine Madness


I am not the only person in the world who has known, since February 2020, that Covid-19 is an engineered virus/bioweapon produced in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Scientists, doctors and others have written and spoken on the matter since at least December of 2019.  Much of their information and documentation has been censored, banned, blocked, or taken down by Big Tech in record time. It was much worse for those who spoke up from within China; many of those souls have disappeared off the face of the earth.

However, as much as Big Tech – helped by the mainstream media and egotistical government bureaucrats, have tried to suppress this evidence, it is still available. A slight bit of snooping through internet and it can be found. 

Therefore, I was extremely surprised when only a few days ago Fauci publicly acknowledged, for the first time, the possibility that SARS Co V-2 was an engineered virus. I honestly had thought that the gain-of-function/bioweapon theory had been accepted by the CDC and NIH. I really had no idea he was still blaming the bats. (Obviously they knew it was not bats, but lied.)

True, I had not been paying much attention to the man for most of the past year. I stopped listening to the Fauci about a month after he began appearing on TV spouting nonsense, then fearmongering, then lying, along with changing his recommendations whenever he thought it best suited his narrative. This is nothing new for Fauci. He has spent a lifetime in bed with Big Pharma, raking in the cash and trying to boost his self-importance no matter the dire medical consequences pushed on the public. For example, why else would he trash the use of therapeutics for COVID such as hydroxychloroquine? Easy. There is no payday in an over the counter, cheap drug.

It is hard to know, especially where I live, what the majority of the American public thinks about the China Virus, its origins, and most importantly its lethality. I do find it rather shocking that people I once thought were intelligent have bought into the entire pandemic panic-porn and the need for a vaccine. It is difficult to understand why seemingly smart folks will believe anything the government and mainstream media puts out without a second thought.

For over a year now, I have tried to discuss this with people I know. After they have more or less called me a stupid right-wing-conspiracy-theorist, I would send them scientific papers and analysis by noted epidemiologists, virologists, public health doctors, as well as others. As I never received any feedback, I assume the links were never opened.

After all this time and all this panic and all these government crackdowns on our liberties, one would think it that the crazy stuff would all be over. But it only gets worse. We have moved on from unfounded panic for a virus that is not that lethal for most people, to Vaccine Mandates. The amount of propaganda on the TV and radio is astounding. The misinformation, or rather lack of clear information on the possible hazards of an experimental gene-therapy shot, is more than troubling.

Just the other day I saw a public health clip by a Well-Respected Mainstream Media Doctor saying that “even those who have had Covid need the vaccine.”  What? That belies common sense. If that were true, all those of my generation who had Chicken Pox and Measles and Mumps, would need to run to their doctors and get vaccinated against those diseases. I challenge anyone to find one doctor who would recommend such a reckless course of action.

With the exception of a very few, it seems no one is questioning the efficacy and safety of an experimental vaccine that has been rushed into emergency use for a disease that, for most, is not deadly.

The survival rate of the SARS Co V-2 virus, without any treatment, is between 95% and 99.99 %, depending on age and comorbidities. I am in the 99.5% range. Why in the world would I, or anyone, ever take an experimental gene-therapy “vaccine”?

When I first heard of the mRNA vaccine, it sounded more than a little questionable. When I watched Dr. Shiva’s video explaining just how it works, and the inherent danger, it scared the daylights out of me.

Dr.Shiva ThemRNA "Vaccine"

America’s Frontline Doctors recently published Ten Medical Facts Regarding COVID-19 Experimental Vaccines. They clearly lay out why one should think at least twice before even considering letting this experimental cocktail into their body. They point out what I consider to be the most frightening aspects of the Get the Vaccine Push; that of its use in children and healthy young people. Why would anyone run the risk of serious harm to their child who has a 99.997% chance of survival from COVID? Why would any pregnant woman, or one who plans to get pregnant, get within two football fields of the vaccine when there is data suggesting that it might cause miscarriages or possibly infertility?

   American Frontline Drs - 10 Medical Facts

To this day, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Mainstream Media continue to censor any view that is in opposition to the goals of Big Pharma, Big Government, and the Global Elites who mean to control the narrative on all things COVID-19.

It will be a year or two before we see the real results of this global experiment to which so many have blindly subjected there bodies. Possibly there will be no negative consequences. We can only hope for that outcome, but I am not holding my breath. 

Whatever the lonterm outcome of the vaccines, I have no doubt that sometime in the future, the actions taken in the effort to confront COVID-19 will be judged as the worst public health response the world has ever undertaken.