"The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same"

By Rich Kozlovich

On January January 16 Steve Karp, M.D. published this piece Et Tu, Medicus describing the corrupt infighting and backstabbing that goes on in medicine....regularly....  from med school and into practice!  

He went on to explain how students would blacken out material in library books needed for courses so others couldn't access that information. Students would remove organs from cadavers so other students couldn't complete their work, giving them "a leg up".  Nurses would deliberately slow walk medical orders because they didn't like the doctor, and doctors would give other doctors negative peer reviews in order to eliminate competition.  

I will say this mentality is standard in every profession there is. I was a 40 year veteran of the pest control industry and for 30 of those years I owned my own company and was heavily involved in my industry's affairs, and I had the privilege of serving with some extraordinary people.

However, I can honestly say I found it mind boggling the level of invertebracy and intellectual corruption so many "leaders" displayed siding with environmentalists and their catspaws at the EPA against their own best interests, the interests of our industry, and the nation, and I include the manufacturers as well. Those actions created the bed bug plague that infested America for years.

I would like to say this is unique to our time, but I'm also a history buff, so I know better.  I recently read the March of Folly by Barbara W. Tuchman (1984) describing the decisions made by leaders, both secular and religious, that were obviously detrimental to their organizations and/or cultures.  What you find is a pattern of self serving corruption is what's behind those decisions, and nothing's changed. 

When we become old we have the tendency to review the history or our lives and the history of our culture, and as a result you can't help to see so much has changed, and so much has been lost and forgotten.   Through the centuries there's been so much suffering, pain, blood, and death, and you have to wonder why, and for what?  

• We look at the past with longing.  
• We see what's unfolding before us and find the present is confusing.  
• Because we can't see a clear path the future frightens us.  

We're caught in between what was, is, and will be, hoping for one last courageous moment where someone with stand up and say you're all wrong, you're going in the wrong direction, and I'm going to tell you why.  Hoping all will choose something better, something that will make a positive difference for humanity.   

But even if there is a moment in time where courageous people take a stand and institute great changes for the better it never lasts.  The selfish, the corrupt, the envious, the greedy are always with us, and they soon befoul every pure thing that exists, as a result humanity has been washed back and forth like waves crashing against the rocky shores by the tides of change, ideology, hate, greed, and envy. 

As I watch these nitwit talking heads playing "gotcha" interviews on television, or Senators, and Congressmen being obnoxious questioning nominees for some position or other, I've often thought about an exchange between Lady Astor of England who told Winston Churchill he was disgustingly drunk, and he probably was, but Churchill being Churchill replied:

“My dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly.  But tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still be disgustingly ugly.”

I would like to see responses of a similar nature to the stupid people in the media and politics, playing "gotcha" instead of challenging positions based on facts and logic in an honest effort to find truth. 

Culture is king, and the battle to control national cultures has been eternal, and now with globalism being a driving force, the efforts to control world culture is unending. It will never stop because the corrupt, selfish, greedy, cruel, and evil people in society will always be there, and they will always be everywhere so many times hiding who and what they are until they can achieve their evil goals.  

We're heading into a period of turbulence with a new President who really wants to fix things, reduce government and the massive impositions big government has imposed on America.  But entrenched forces of big government tyranny will not go quietly into the night.  A leader needs to be able to recognize who his allies, and who his enemies really are.  

Allies will be issue oriented, if you drift too far from their paradigm they will abandon you.   Enemy allies will go back and forth depending on how the issue affects them. They cannot be trusted at all since their motives are totally self-serving.   Enemies will stand against you no matter what. It doesn’t matter what you do to them or for them as they will do everything in their power to crush you. Their hate may be silent, but it is very real and insidious. 

We're seeing this play out right now with Trump's nominees, some of whom I have serious misgivings about, especially RFK Jr.  The next two years leading up to the midterm elections will be more than interesting as this will be a major battle to control the national culture, especially interesting since the corrupt Pravda media is on it's death bed, and an alternative media is now ascendant, perhaps truth will also become ascendant.  

Blast From the Past, April 6, 2017: Why we entered World War I 100 years ago today

By Christopher Kelly 4/6/17 

Editor's  Notes:  For some reason this has been hit recently, which appeared here in P&D, and with interesting comments, so be sure to go to the original post.    Considering current events, I thought it worthwhile to re-post it.  RK

One hundred years ago this month, Woodrow Wilson ended America's longstanding policy of isolation and led us into World War I on the Allied side. Over two and a half million Americans were shipped "over there" to Europe and served in the American Expeditionary Force (AEF). By war's end, more than 100,000 Americans would join the ranks of what British Prime Minister Lloyd George termed, without a trace of irony, "the glorious dead."

Why did Wilson make his fateful decision to enter the "War to end all wars?" Two of the principle reasons behind Wilson's decision were the German policy of unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram.  Unrestricted submarine warfare........ the RMS Lusitania, which was destined to be sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland in 1915, killing around 1,200 passengers, including at least 125 Americans.......To Read More.....

Quote of the Day

The Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people. Winston Churchill

Trump is Churchill, Biden is Munich

What the Antifa/BLM riots tell us about our choice in November.

Thu Sep 3, 2020 Don Feder 15

Now we know what Vice President Joe Biden was doing sequestered in his basement for the past three months. Instead of hair, he was sniffing glue.

​Biden has prepared an indictment of President Trump which would be laughable if it weren’t so offensive. He claims POTUS seeks to benefit politically from the urban anarchy which has plagued America since the death of George Floyd. That’s like saying FDR sought to benefit from the Great Depression in the 1932 election.

By refusing to acknowledge ”racial disparity” (code for “institutional racism”) in America, Trump is ”throwing gas on” the fire, Biden blusters. Riots are a reflection of “Donald Trump’s America,” says the socialist Trojan Horse.

​Biden’s party has a prescription for ending the insurrection that’s rocking America: Do nothing – other than kowtowing furiously to Black Lives Matter, confessing the sins of white America, and attempting to reach an accommodation with forces which cannot be appeased..........To Read More...

"There Will Always Be An England!" Maybe Not!

By Rich Kozlovich

Recently England suffered a massive terrorist attack killing these people:

The victims included 22 people, seven of whom were children, murdered by what the Mayor of Manchester called an "extremist".

He fails to tell the world exactly what kind of extremist he was.  Was he was an extremist vegan, or an extremist conservative, or an extremist Christian?   No, no, that can't be true because he would have let the world know how outraged he is if it was a Christian or conservative.  So let's just take a big shot in the dark and say he was......well, let's see.......how about an extremist Muslim? ]

Wow! 

What a lucky guess!!!!!!!

His name is Salman Abedi, he's a Muslim, and England isn't going to be England much longer if these lunatics continue to live in England and the weak willed leadership continues to allow more of "them" to migrate to England.    And who are these "them" I refer to?  Muslims!  Get over it - Islam promotes this murderous behavior and that's never going to change, and the Brits had better start getting this right if they wish to continue to exist.  The world is changing and the United States isn't going to be an American hand reaching out to prop them up much longer.  Especially since Europe had been biting it for almost 75 years.   

Definition leads to clarity - and the people of England had better start getting some clarity and start to believe in themselves again - and in the truth of history. Below are some speeches made by Winston Churchill during WWII. Churchill had some serious flaws by modern standards, but Churchill was a man of England, a man of Empire and a man of his times - and he knew how to identify England's enemies and what needed to be done about those enemies of the English people and their way of life.

In his Blood, Toil, Sweat and Tears speech he says:

We are Masters of Our Fate

 

 

Winston Churchill "finest hour" (best version)

 

 

Winston S Churchill: We Shall Fight on the Beaches

 

 

If the British people don't start to get the same level of clarity as had Winston Churchill - there will be no England. 

One more thing.  Does everyone realize under European Union, and British hate speech laws he would be arrested for saying these things today?

Quote of the Day!

 

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

 

Winston Churchill

What if oil lasts forever?

New technology and little-known energy source suggest fossil fuels may not be finite 

By Charles C. Mann, The Atlantic April 25, 2013. (National Journal) 

As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s world. Their lack of knowledge is unsurprising; beyond the ranks of petroleum-industry historians, Churchill’s outsize role in the history of energy is insufficiently appreciated.

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911. With characteristic vigor and verve, he set about modernizing the Royal Navy, jewel of the empire. The revamped fleet, he proclaimed, should be fueled with oil, rather than coal—a decision that continues to reverberate in the present. Burning a pound of fuel oil produces about twice as much energy as burning a pound of coal. Because of this greater energy density, oil could push ships faster and farther than coal could.

Churchill’s proposal led to emphatic dispute. The United Kingdom had lots of coal but next to no oil. At the time, the United States produced almost two-thirds of the world’s petroleum; Russia produced another fifth. Both were allies of Great Britain. Nonetheless, Whitehall was uneasy about the prospect of the Navy’s falling under the thumb of foreign entities, even if friendly. The solution, Churchill told Parliament in 1913, was for Britons to become “the owners, or at any rate, the controllers at the source of at least a proportion of the supply of natural oil which we require.” ….To Read More……  

My Take - This article has interesting historical and economic points that are interesting and thought provoking. 

He clearly outlines what impact energy production, and all the wealth it generates, can have on the world's societies.  He is wrong on climate change and CO2, and he is worrisome regarding the potential collapse of small energy producing countries, like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, if abundant energy sources are discovered all over the world. 

However, these countries are eventually doomed no matter what because they are so corrupt. They are all central planning systems that are either Islamic or socialist in nature. As a result their people are kept ignorant, and in the case of Islamic countries, their population is incapable of developing properly simply because they are Islamic. 

Socialism can be overcome - not as easily as most Americans believe - but it can happen.  Islam is so deeply embedded in the psyche of its adherents that even when exposed to western values they still want to blow up innocent people, even if it means killing themselves. It is the perfect religion for the disaffected failures of the world because it demands they hate everyone that isn’t part of their group, even other Islamic groups with a different theological view, therefore nothing is their fault. 

I have often said that Islam is not a religion but a criminal organization masquerading as a religion.  But it has the emotional appeal and impact that religion generates. At any rate, I thought this article was worth the time, although there are a number of points I find to be inaccurate. The history and economics are what I did value.