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.

 

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 Bali: Broadsided 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!

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.

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. 

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.

 

 

 

Florida is Looking Mighty Appealing

Two weeks in Naples, Florida was just the ticket for my cold body and questionable state of mind.  Out of Crazy Town and into Freedom. People are happy there! They smile and laugh and get on with life. What a differance!  Thoughts about it all may come later. Or not. For now, it will be only photos.

La Doña de los Carteles -- Nancy Pelosi

How in the world do Nancy Pelosi and all her minions live with themselves knowing that they are backing the Mexican Cartels?

For years, these gangsters have controlled the borders in cahoots with those that support them. (which includes Congress and American NGO's).  The Cartels charge large sums of money from the impoverished, who are then sold into indentured servantly in the US... if they survive the journey.  In addition, Coyotes sexually assault their cargo all the way up the trail of horror, then traffic many a young girl into the trade. They work in conjunction with the CCP, running fentanyl and heroin into the country. 

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The above is the beginning of an article I had been trying to write for the past year, based on what I have been aware of for at least a decade.

Then, this morning, I saw Bannon's War Room piece with Ben Bergquam.  I could not have said it better. 

My question to Pelosi and all the other power-hungry enablers is: Where is your humanity? 

Please watch the report I have linked below: 

Cartels and the Boarder

Teachers' Unions...The New Mafia

For the life of me, I cannot understand why the evil, tyrannical, power-obsessed Teachers’ Unions are so anti-education. They care nothing about enlightening our children and have not for decades.

I say this as a State of California credentialed teacher. As a child of the 60’s, I went into Education because I wanted to Save the World. It sounds rather foolish now, especially with the current state of public education. I have watched its slow deterioration year after year. The same can be said for the universities.  

Back when I began my career, I assumed everyone in my field had the same goal; educate the young people and we will all live in a better world. After a lifetime of watching the grift, hypocrisy, and outright thug tactics of the unions, I am not sure if that was ever true.

Anyone with even a few brain cells realizes the horrific damage being done to our students who, in California public schools, have been out of the classroom for nearly a year. Common sense would tell you what the statistics prove: increased depression and suicides, loss of socialization skills, one year of learning down the drain. These are ony a few of the consequences that may very well have a life-time negative effect on our children. And for what? 

When did educators become Mafia enforcers? That is the only logical way in which they can be viewed. Their resolute stance to keep schools closed is in exact opposition to what I had once believed was the motto of the profession: educate the masses. 

A quick look at the curriculum now offered in this State would make one cringe. Nevertheless, I would gladly overlook that disaster if only the kids were allowed back in the classrooms. In many districts, the quality of learning will be as woeful as it has been for ages, but it far outweighs the damage done by locking kids in thier homes. 

My only hope is that parents will finally wake up to the gangster-like tactics of the unions that care nothing about the well-being of their charges. Parents and guardians have a collective power that can take down the unions. 

Barstool Sports & The Tadich Grill

I don’t read Barstool Sports and, if I’m honest, I don’t really get it. Dave Portnoy, on the other hand, is the man. Possibly, the first time I heard of him was during the dust up with Roger Goodell. That was all I needed to become an instant fan. He has my lifetime vote for El Presedente.

Portnoy started his Barstool Fund in mid-December to help save small businesses that are being wiped out by stupid governors and their lockdown insanity. A short trip through my area in the San Francisco East Bay is all one needs for proof of the Overlords’ Dastardly Deeds. Shop, after restaurant, after shop, closed for good.

A few weeks ago, I happened upon Portnoy’s Twitter feed and began to watch all the wonderful videos of dying businesses Getting the Call from Dave. This meant that they would not lose their livelihoods. Heartwarming, tear-rendering, tiny glimpses into the true goodness that exists in this world.

One doesn’t need to be wealthy to donate $20 to such a fabulous cause, and I was just about to do so when I scrolled down to the Love Your Melon/Barstool Fund offer. I have wanted a Love Your Melon cap for years, (another very worthy organization), and now I could contribute to both campaigns.

Periodically, when I need a dose of positivity and smiles, I look at the Getting the Call videos. I almost fell off my barstool when I saw Tadich Grill in the feed. This is a restaurant to which I have a personal connection.

My parents loved Tadich Grill. The name itself brought a bit of reverence to my father’s voice when spoken. It is very possible that my dad’s first meal there was during WWII when, as a young Naval officer, he had shore leave in San Francisco.

After the war, my parents moved to the East Bay. My dad’s love and connection to San Francisco remained throughout his life. He knew the city up and down, left to right, as well as any non-native could. When out-of-town friends would visit, he’d give them the SF tour, often ending at the Tadich Grill.

On special occasions, he and my mother would go there for a meal.  And then, on possibly my thirteenth birthday in the mid-60’s, my parents took me there for dinner.

It is not something I have ever forgotten, but it had been buried in the back corners of the brain for quite a while. As soon as I saw Dave’s call with Jen, those memories flooded my frontal cortex. I can tell you the exact dress I was wearing, the table we sat at, the place settings, and the smiles of my parents. I don’t remember what I ate, but know it was good.

Thank you El Presedente for all that you do. Thank you Tadich Grill for the wonderful memories. Perhaps I will one day get over to SF and have another fantastic meal. Meanwhile, I’ll walk around with my Love Your Melon/Barstool Fund cap knowing that I might now be the coolest kid in town.

 The Barstool Fund      Tadich Grill    Love Your Melon

Agent Provocateur

photo: Alan Copeland

Any kid who grew up in the late 60’s in Berkeley, CA, knows about Agent Provocateurs.

We certainly did not use that phrase to describe the rabble rousers that seeded themselves amongst the peaceful anti-war protestors waiting to strike. Punks, thugs, jerks… no matter what the term, we could spot them a mile away. And we have all maintained that ability even fifty years later.

On January 6, as videos appeared showing the actions at the Capitol, the first word out of my mouth was instigators. I’ve never worked for the CIA, or the FBI, or any law enforcement agency. I’m ex-Peace Corps, not ex-military. Still, it was an easy call.

The following day I spoke to several friends with shared experiences of those crazy Berkeley days of yore. Their take on it was exactly the same: punk instigators.  

I rarely turn on mainstream media, and do so only to check what disinformation they are spouting on any given day. As I assumed, they followed the party line, blamed Trump and the MAGA crowd for the trouble at the Capitol on Jan 6. They ran video of men in the telltale black helmets, dark clothing, backpacks and bullet-proof vests bashing in doors and windows with a very familiar set of tactics. After a summer of non-stop footage of Antifa and BLM gangsters laying waste to city after city, it should not be necessary to have served in a war zone to recognize what had taken place. One didn’t need experts to analyze their modus operandi.

It must have been around 1967 that I saw my first agent provocateur.  Some low-life in a motorcycle helmet would run up just behind the frontline of the peace-sign holding crowd, heave a rock, and skedaddle out of there leaving the pacifist protestors to get their heads smashed in. We learned very early on that if you spotted a helmet, or a guy trying to rouse the crowd to rush the cops, head quickly in the opposite direction.

They were not as organized back then, and how could they be? Pre-tech insurgency was a lot more time-consuming. They might have been part of SDS, or Weather Underground sympathizers. I only ever assumed that they were jerks and never thought about any centralized group of thugs.

At the time, I may have not grasped the idea that they were anarchists intent only on tearing down society. But I did know that we were peacefully protesting an unjust war and they were trying to start a riot. They were the ones bashing store windows, throwing bricks, and antagonizing the police, then hightailing it before the billy clubs came out. So if a fourteen-year-old could analyze the situation back in the day, without the help of instant news coverage and think tanks, why is it that CNN and all the rest cannot?

The truth is that they can. They know exactly what is taking place now and what has taken place for years.

Legacy media’s latest fearmongering rhetoric centers around the lockdown and militarization of Washington DC ahead of Biden’s inauguration. Odd how they showed no concern for all the violence over this past summer and remained silent while our cities burned, police officers were killed, and family businesses destroyed.

These police-state tactics, repression of the truth, and outright lies by mainstream media and big tech are not going away anytime soon. That is the real threat and that should frighten all of us.

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For further info on the photo: Blog post    Note: The AP in the photo was not able to start any trouble only because the kids around him turned the tide of anger. 

Further reading about those days: A Neapolitan Intrigue

 

 

To My Friends & Acquaintances Near & Far

I have been called a cult member, temporarily misguided, and just plain stupid for supporting President Trump. In all honesty, I generally do not share my political beliefs with people I know, and definitely not with the man on the street. Those types of discussions are not possible in my neighborhood, city, or state. At the slightest mention of Trump, the other side of the conversation huffs, harumphs, and says that they can’t possibly talk about that horrible man. There is no chance for making my case.  

Therefore, for those who know me personally, disagree with me, and refuse to intelligently discuss the matter, this is for you.

Let me start with some of Trump’s accomplishments since his inauguration on Jan 20, 2017.

Note: Economic gains/employment numbers are pre-COVID.

*Unemployment down to 3.6%, lowest in 50 years.

*5.3 million jobs created, 600k in manufacturing. Economic growth as much as 4.2%.  Median household income highest ever recorded. Pay for bottom 25% of wage earners grew 4.2%; top 25% grew 2.9%. Black American, Hispanic American, Asian American, and women’s unemployment lowest ever recorded.

*Biggest tax cuts and reforms in history. (more money for middle and low-income households.)

*More affordable health care options. Drug companies froze or lowered pharmaceuticals. $6 Billion to fight opioid addiction. Reduced opioid prescriptions by 16%.

*First Step Act and Second Chance Act. Criminal Justice Reform. (Obama, in 8 years, could not accomplish this.)

*VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, which greatly improved medical care for veterans. (which had been dismal).

*US now energy independent and exporter of natural gas.

*CO₂ omissions fell 2.8% 

*NATO allies agreed to increase spending to $69 billion since 2016. (US had been paying 70%).

*Middle East Peace Agreements: Israel, UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan. (first in 25 years.)

*No new wars started. Troops coming home.

*US-Mexico-Canada Trade Deal. Replaced disastrous NAFTA.

*Tariffs on China in response to intellectual property theft and abusive trade practices.

Trump’s accomplishments, which I did not list in full, far surpass any past president even those with two terms under their belt.

Even more impressive is that Trump accomplished all of this while being vilified, demonized, and attacked by his opponents. These condemnations began the day he announced his candidacy.  Then, on Nov 4, 2016, the morning after the election, and more than two months before he was to be sworn in, the real hell started with calls for his impeachment. It was then that the Obama administration stepped up their attempts to infiltrate and destroy his presidency before it ever began. (That would be categorized as treason in my book.)  

In May 2017, a Special Council began their sham Russian investigation at a cost of over $30 million. After nearly two years it concluded that there had never been any collusion between Trump and Russia. Once that failed, his foes moved on to the Impeachment Fiasco. Again, millions of dollars and wasted time spent trying to prove something that had never occurred. For those of who doubt the veracity of my claims that Trump has never been a Russian asset, it is all available in the Mueller Report.

Trump has been called a Nazi, Hitler, a White Supremacist, and a myriad of other defamatory names. Similarly his supporters, the deplorables, (so named by Hilary Clinton in 2016), are accused daily of being the dregs of humanity.

We then come to Trump’s Personality, about which many people complain. What, I ask, does that have to do with anything?  “He’s not presidential,” friends site as a reason for their disdain. What is presidential? Could it be the lying, pompous, supercilious, dictates of past presidents, especially the last? “He is a misogynist”. Square that with the businessman who has, throughout his career, promoted women to the top of his various enterprises. “He’s a homophobe and a racist.” On what basis can anyone state that? Trump couldn’t care less if you are a man, a women, straight or gay. He does not believe in labels and has always hired people for their abilities, not their gender or race or any other immutable characteristic. “He’s crude.” What does that mean? Personally, I find Trump refreshing. Both hilarious and empathetic, depending on the situation. One always knows what the man is thinking. He is the most transparent, most accessible president in our history. He is real; one hundred percent authentic. He never panders to his constituents.  I challenge anyone to point to a previous President who even came close to Trump’s level of accessibility to the press and the American people.

President Trump did not waver in his efforts to work for the American people even with the daily barrage of false charges, fake news, and endless malicious attacks on his character and the presidency. Few people could have withstood such viciousness and still shown up to work every day. No matter what the left tried, they could not take him down. And then, on top of all that, the Chinese Communist Party chose to release COVID-19 on the world.   

Whether or not the manufactured COVID-19 virus escaped from the lab in Wuhan, or was intentionally released into the world, does not change the fact that it was an act of biological warfare. The CCP shut off Wuhan Provence from the rest of China while simultaneously releasing the pathogen to the rest of humanity by way of passengers on planes.

The insanity and falsehoods regarding a virus that has a 99% survival rate is, frankly, criminal. It has been part of a nefarious mission run by Global Elites, Big Tech, and Big Pharma to scare people into submission. They have played the fear card like a card shark in Dodge City with an ace up his sleeve, and they are winning.

Nevertheless, Trump’s response to COVID-19 was exceptional. To combat the disease he launched the largest mobilization of governmental agencies and private industry since WWII. There is no world leader, past or present, who could have pulled off what he did. Even so, mainstream media, the Democrats, Hollywood and its elitists, have never stopped disparaging President Trump’s historic actions, repeating over and over that he has blood on his hands. No, China and the CCP are the ones with bloodied hands. (As well as several governors who knowingly placed COVID patients in nursing homes.)

Virus Response Timeline    (scroll down the linekd page to read.)

In the midst of the lockdowns and endless pandemic fearmongering, the tensions that had been on the rise since Obama set back race relations forty years, broke. Suddenly, people were rioting in the streets, burning down businesses, attacking others with bats and chains, and engaging in widespread looting.

Although videos and photographs were readily available online, the mainstream media, by and large, ignored it. Or called it Peaceful Protests. Suddenly, virtue signaling Americans painted BLM signs on their homes and the streets, joined in protests to defund the police, tore down historic statues, and donated billions of dollars to a Marxist organization.

The violent unrest ran mostly uncontested throughout the summer resulting in billions of dollars in damage and the loss of thousands of small businesses nationwide. The Marxists had achieved their goal of instilling fear in the nation. Should one say anything against the protests or, in fact, not be outspoken in support of BLM and “racial justice”, they were immediately called racist and attacked verbally, if not physically.

With all this as the background – four years of non-stop investigations and attacks on the President and his supporters, the China Virus, and then the Summer of uncontrolled violence, we arrived at November 3, 2020, and the election for the president.

The choice between candidates should have been easy. On one hand, there was the elderly man with dementia who has spent fifty years in government enriching his family through graft and greed, simultaneously selling out our nation to China. On the other hand was Trump with his unprecedented four years of accomplishments.

By 11pm, EST, on election night, it was clear that Trump would win in a landslide. He was ahead in Pennsylvania by 55.7% to Biden’s 43%. Michigan: Trump 51% to Biden 47%, as well as in the other swing states. And then, for some reason, they stopped counting votes in those states. Except that it was not because of a dripping urinal or tired poll workers. It was because the Biden folks realized that they had underestimated the outpouring of Trump voters, and had underestimated the number of fake ballots needed for a Biden win. In the case of the Dominion voting machines flipping votes, they also had misgauged the outcome. Shut down time. Send the Republican poll watchers home. Bring in the truckloads of fake ballots and run them through the machines numerous times. Recalibrate the voting machines.

Surrounding all the fraud and hijinks, Big Tech upped their game by suppressing the Right and boosting the Left. They had already been in the business of censorship on all platforms: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google searches. If they didn’t like what someone said – i.e. Trump won – they were de-platformed, shadow banned, splashed with a warning tag, or taken down completely. They have thrown out the First Amendment and replaced it with totalitarian censorship, all the while aided by the mainstream media and the billionaire class.   

When it comes to election interference, Mark Zuckerberg took it to a whole new level of meddling in the election. He personally contributed $500 million to improperly influence the election by contributing to unethical Democrat voting groups. That is against the law.

Zukerberg's Dark Money

This has been the greatest election fraud perpetrated against the people of the United States in our history. There is no lack of proof: thousands of sworn affidavits, videos of illegal ballots being counted, mathematical/statistical evidence that proves beyond a doubt that Biden could not have won. 

If the situation is not righted, and Trump is not installed for his second term, we will never again have a free and fair election in America. Worse, we will have lost our country.

This is possibly the most dangerous time in our nation’s history. We are close to losing our Constitution and everything it stands for.

This well-orchestrated plan to take over the country by a very few has been in the works for years. If we let them get away with it, Big Tech, the banking industry, Big Pharma, and a few billionaires will truly become the new oligarchs of the United States. And when the United States falls, so does the rest of the freedom-loving world.

These new Oligarchs, with the careful financing and planting of anarchists and Marxists, think they have scared Americans into submission. They are using fear of a virus to control us as well as the fear of cities burning when Trump is sworn into office on January 20.

We are not scared. Unlike the left, Trump supporters do not riot and loot. They march and pray or, if you are like me, send out waves of positive energy. We will not be cowed into submission. We will stand for the Constitution and the greatest country that has ever existed in the history of man.

The Immaculate Deception  Peter Navarro Report

When Science Meets Rainbow Thinkers

The University of California at Berkeley, boasts ten current Nobel Laureates. These folks are no slouches. They did not get their prizes for Gender Studies or Social Justice.

Graduate programs at UC Berkeley run the gamut of smarty-pants faculties: Applied Mathematics, Bioengineering, Biophysics, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, Endocrinology, Epidemiology, Physics, and a host other fields that make the brain cells spin.

Whatever the field, there is no shortage of brain power in Berkeley.

So I ask myself, why are none of the clever people in town speaking out against the insanity of lockdowns? Surely, some of them have read the research if, in fact, not actually written it.

Now to the data that supposedly supports the draconian measures imposed on the populace.

Berkeley is in Alameda County, which has a population of 1.7 million.

Current statistics for Alameda County, March 1 2020 – Dec 18, 2020: Total COVID related deaths: 565.  (I do not have access to the number that died with COVID as opposed to from COVID, which is a whole other discussion.)

Of those 565 deaths, nearly 50% were over the age of 81, and 159 were in Skilled Nursing Facilities.

In the City of Berkeley, since March 1, 2020, there have been a total of 9 deaths.

I won’t bother with all the statistics about the survival rate if one should contract the disease. Smart citizens already know the odds are in their favor. 

What we have here is a nine-month effort to scare the bejesus out of the populace and sadly, in the home of The Nobel Prize Winners, it has worked like a charm.

At the beginning of March, City Councilmembers began to send out frantic newsletters warning of the impending doom. Granted, no one really knew much about the China Virus at the time, so I’ll give them a break.

The March 14 newsletter outlined the beginning of Governor Newsome’s Reign of Terror. We citizens were now either essential or non-essential. You know the rest.

A few days after that came Shelter-in-Place orders, as if a gas field had blown up and toxic fumes filled the air.

The following week schools closed, sports fields closed, parks closed, pools closed. But don’t worry, residents were still allowed to get home delivery of marijuana.

The Stay-at-Home orders continued and continued and continued, with each newsletter implying we would die or kill granny if we went out or visited anyone.

At the end of April, a few things like construction and real estate sales became permissible. Since summer was just around the corner, there was obviously no need to open schools.

July’s newsletter, with a photo of a virtue-signaling councilwoman in a red bandana, looking to all the world like a train robber, brought great headlines. Dog parks would re-open, outdoor gym activities allowed, student athletes could practice sports if socially distanced. And the best news, Newsome announced a Statewide mask mandate!

Every time I think someone will come to their senses and get rid of all the ridiculous lockdowns and panic-mongering, it just gets worse.

In fact, as I was writing this my phone began to make a horrible sound. I thought maybe it was about to blow up. No, it was an Emergency Alert from the State of California: Stay home except for essential activity.  Who in the heck gave Newsome my phone number?

We already have a 10pm -5am curfew. When is enough enough?

In Southern California, and areas outside of the Bay, people are beginning to speak out and in an attempt to save their livelihoods. But not around here where every other car has a RESIT bumper sticker. They should replace it with a COMPLY sticker, as that is what they are all doing.

What can I do other than write about the injustices practiced in my city and State? At times like these I do go back my Berkeley roots and try sending out possitive psychic vibes and reading tarot cards. I can’t say it has done much good, but you never know.

Prisoner of Thought in My Own City

For the past few weeks, I have felt like I have been waking up in the USSR. Or Venezuela. Or Cuba. Or Syria. Or any other communist country or Banana Republic. What is certain, is that I do not feel like I am in the United States of America.

I live in a city where it appears every single person drank the Kool-Aid and is on board with the total destruction of our country, our constitution, and all that it stands for. Who would have believed that a Jim Jones mentality of following in blind faith could have affected so many?

How we got to this point is concerning. I do understand the younger generations have not been taught the truths of what happens when communists and socialists take over. Authoritarian governments and death. 

But that leaves the entire Baby Boomer generation and old folks that do know. A large portion of the voting demographic lived during the Soviet era and remember the horrors of it all. Yet many of those must still be living in some sort of peyote enhanced nirvana. Why else would they be so unaware of what is taking place around them?

Before the internet era, news from behind the Iron Curtain came from literature. My knowledge of the Soviet Union dates back to high school years reading spy thrillers and Solzhenitsyn; terrifying scenarios all.  I wondered how on earth this type of system managed to take hold. Yet now I am witness to it transpiring right before my very eyes.

In the late sixties, there was plenty of Revolutionary talk running around the City of Berkeley. As a true Flower Child, I protested against the Viet Nam war and the draft. I still feel our cause was for the right reasons. However, I never once entertained the thought that Communism, Socialism, or Marxism were good systems. I was not protesting with nut cases like Jane Fonda in favor of a commie regime. I was protesting against US intervention in a foreign war, and the forced conscription of young men sent to die in jungles halfway around the world.

Apparently, it seems a good many of those I stood next to in peaceful protests actually did believe in Socialism. Definitely, all those who migrated out to Berkeley in the Summer of Love and beyond are still carrying their Little Red Books.

Perhaps if some of the progressives had left the area and lived elsewhere, they would have a different worldview. I have lived in countries where the government and ruling class controlled the news; censored and arrested anyone with opposing views and swiftly shutdown opposition. And suddenly, these tactics are being deployed in America.

The Berkeley Times is a bi-monthly, sixteen-page, free paper that bills itself as A paper for the people of Berkeley. It is not something I usually read, and not anything I would ever bother to comment on. However, the November 5 edition has my blood boiling.

The brief, front-page editorial is, as one would imagine, anti-Trump.  The editor had been “hoping for a blue tsunami – a knock blow to a man who has made a mockery of the American Democracy for the past four years.” *  I read on in the hopes I would find examples for this claim. Something to argue against. But there is nothing. That is how they do it in Berkeley; Trump is bad, now shut up.

He went on to write, “Even with a Biden victory, my hopes for this election have been dashed. Despite Biden’s decency, his message of unity, and unflagging determination to bring people of our nation together, it remains obvious that the rural voters in America remain strongly in Trump’s camp.”

This, I can respond to. Biden is not decent. He has spent nearly fifty years in the DC swamp, lining his pockets and that of his family. He has not accomplished one single thing except to enrich himself, and sell our country out to China.

Message of unity? In just the last few weeks before the election he called Trump voters chumps and losers. That comes at the end of four years of calling us racists and Nazis and xenophobes and homophobes and any other vile name imaginable. Yet Trump supporters are supposed to forget the name calling and physical violence that continues to this day?

Rural Voters? Code for them danged hicks who don’t know nothing. Count me in, Mr. Editor.

The half page graphic for the editorial might be even more egregious. A black and white drawing straight out of the Communist propaganda machine. A statue of Trump being toppled in front of the White House. The artists comments:

“…I am horrified by the repression and violence of the police state, while energized and inspired by BLM and immigration rights movement taking to the streets to demand justice.” **

No, we do not live in a police state. All of the violence has been caused by Antifa, BLM Marxists, and far left radicals.

But there is no point in even attempting to counter these accusations. There is no possibility for rational discourse in this city.

Just last week I stopped to talk to a local cop who was supervising the cleanup of a car wreck. I thanked him for his service and said that if I could, I would hang a Blue Lives Matter flag in front of my house. He smiled and said, “but then your house would be vandalized.”   

What is clear is that I am hated in my own city for no rational reason. This is no way to live in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

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On a side note, I want to point out that although I have been a political/news junkie since those early days witnessing the Free Speech Movement, I did not start publishing these types of thoughts until recently. It is my modest way of fighting the good cause. I much prefer to write fiction. Fun, light stuff that takes the reader to a world outside of the current chaos. For anyone interested in a bit of true 1969 Berkeley riots, please take a look at my latest novel A Neapolitan Intrigue (the 1969 parts are brief flashbacks. The rest is set-in present-day Naples, Italy.) Also, it's a fun read.

If I sell enough books, I can escape this prison!

* R.Todd Kerr

** Juana Alicia

 

 

TRUMP WON ONE THIRD OF CA VOTES

As of Nov 6, with only 66% of ballots counted, Trump has 33% of the vote in California; Biden 65%. Given that this is California, and that is statistically impossible for their not to be voter fraud, the count could be much higher than one third. (see older post)  Question CA Ballots 

Regardless of the final count, it should be of great concern that Biden was declared the winner in winner at 8:01pm on election day. Considering that polls closed at 8:00pm, that is an impossibility. Not one vote had been tabulated at that time.

To clarify how this could have happened, I looked at AP’s Decision Desk that first called the win.

Q: How can AP call a race as soon as the polls close?  AP Q&Q

A: Not all races are closely contested. In some states, a party or candidate’s past history of consistent and convincing wins – by a wide margin – make a race eligible to be declared as soon as the polls close. In these states, we use results from the AP VoteCast to confirm a candidate has won.

How in the name of democracy is this acceptable? How can AP assume they know how I, or my fellow Californian’s, voted?  Even if the entire country assumes that votes in CA are a done deal, that is not legitimate reporting.

Of more concern is that once it is claimed, any votes from Trump are in jeopardy. I would be willing to bet the farm that my vote was thrown out; something one assumes in the San Francisco Bay Area. The only times I have ever voted absentee was when I was out of the country. Even then, I assumed my ballot would never be counted; just thrown in a pile somewhere.

On November 3, I walked into my polling station at 7:00am. Everything was very professional and well run. I had no reason to even consider that my vote would be at risk. Once my ballot was fed into the counting machine, which would be transferred to the county offices at after the polls closed, and electronically transferred, I assumed it would be safe. However, because of the change in the way voting was run this year, I no longer have this assurance.

When I had completed my ballot, there was no machine in which to feed my ballot sheets. Instead, it went into a suitcase style drop box, which in turn would be taken to the county office. That part was completely above-the-board. The concern arrives with what happens after the ballots are delivered. Possibly, a poll worker in the Alameda County Office took my ballot sheets, did not look at them, and fed them into a machine. But I have no confidence that this took place, especially after CA was given to Biden, hours before my ballot had arrived at the county office.  I truly believe that someone may have glanced at my vote and dumped the ballot into the garbage bin. I will never know. There is no way to check.

Confidence in the security and validity of the voting process has been a concern in California for years. It has now spread to the entire country.

2nd Ballot I could Have Used