I was listening to some alternative news this morning. One of the articles was the real reason for the high fuel prices was the United States is shutting down refineries.

In other words, there is plenty of oil but there is a limit on the amount of oil that can be refined due to the lack of refineries that were open.

Should you research how much renewables are providing in terms of energy, you’ll find 84% of the world relies on fossil fuels for their electricity and transportation needs. Additionally, here in Ohio, only 0.78% of the energy needed for the state is generated by renewables. In other words, fossil fuels provide 99%, or 99/100ths of the energy needed to live a modern life.

Think of it this way. Only 16% of the world’s population would have sufficient energy supplies should we go green. The remaining 84% of the world’s citizens, or 6.72 billion people, would not have sufficient energy to meet their needs.

Over time, even the “elite 16” would not have sufficient energy as they would not have the infrastructure we had as recently as 2020 to mine rare earths and metals, refine these rare earths and metals, provide the fuel to manufacturing and manpower to turn these raw materials into its final form, manufacture items out of these refined metals, and ship these products the world over for consumption.

In short, the “Elite 16” are massively reducing their own lifestyle, possibly to the point these elites are living no better than people were 150-200 years ago.

So the elites are so driven to be the kings and queens of the world they are willing to kill off most of the tools that make modern society possible.

And we, by and large, are letting them.

24 May 2022

Republican National Committee
P.O. Box 758612
Topeka, KS  66675-8612

SUBJECT: You JUST don’t get it

To whom it may concern:

I am in receipt of your latest survey and you still don’t get it.

The Supreme Law of the Land – the U.S. Constitution – the thing everyone on Capitol Hill SWORE to stand for against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, assigns only 17 jobs to the Federal government.

Per the 9^th and 10^th Amendment, everything (that means all, 100%, no wiggle room) not specifically addressed in the US Constitution is reserved for the States and to the people.

• Which means the Department of Education should be gone.
• Which means no funding for Ukraine or any other foreign entity
• Which means no abortion granted or restrained from a Federal level of government.

You have only 17 assigned tasks and you can’t get even one right, in accordance with the Constitution.  That means you FLUNKED out of Congress even if you were graded on a curve by the most lenient of teacher.

It isn’t that hard.

It’s very simple.

17 items. You probably buy more things than that when you visit the grocery store.

You get it – and prove it by your voting record – and my money will begin to be donated to the individuals who prove they possess a sterling character.

The rest are no better than Putin or Zelenskyy, put together.

DUH

I was running late this afternoon as I had to work some overtime to help out the business.

As I was hustling to get home, a co-worker asked me why I was in such a rush. I replied, “I need to get home and write.”

“Write?”

“Yes, write. I write every day, attempting to write for an hour or two every day.”

“What are you writing?” Bri asked.

“I’m writing a book” was my reply.

“Oh, really, what about?”

“It’s entitled Prospering in a Socialist Society.”

Bri looked at me with glazed eyes and in a daze that said, “I have no idea why you’d ever right about that…”

Bri continued, “There are several other people in here writing books as well. Chris is writing about growing flowers. John is writing about being Gay….” Bri trailed on and on about the various books others were writing.

I asked, “Do you understand socialism at all?”

Bri replied, “Of course. It’s a governmental system where everyone is treating much more equitably than in our current society. And the government monitors these things to ensure it happens.”

It was my turn to give Bri a look of glazed eyes while being in a daze while I thought to myself, “Wow, you feign having an education pretty well.”

“May I give you something to think about?”

“Sure.”

“OK. There are two ways any person can live. You can live free and make the choices, good or bad, for yourself. Or you can have someone else determine your choices for you.

“Living free is a society where you live following a moral standard and so does everyone else. As a result, only the standard makes the rules to follow. A good example is the Ten Commandments. Should you follow those as the basis for your life, these are the only rules you need to follow.

“On the other hand, you have someone else make the choices for you results in thousands and thousands of pages of rules. This is called an oligarchy and is the basis for Naziism, Socialism and Communism.

“All you have to do is to look at the number of pages written for just one law. I’ll pick ObamaCare, not to pick on it, but to demonstrate this one law, or rule if you will, governs one small piece of society. We have hundreds of similar pieces of legislation as well.

“So which society, based on what I just said, are we living in?”

“We’re living free…”

“So you are living free even though we have thousands and thousands upon thousands of laws and regulations?”

“I see your point. We’re living in a society where someone else is making all the decisions for me.”

“And is it working well?”

“No.”

“So you just agreed that socialism doesn’t work well.”

“But that isn’t socialism.”

“May I suggest you need to stop feigning being education. I do not desire to be rude or an ass, but please take some time to understand before you comment on things you know little about.

“You wouldn’t want this from your doctor, would you? You want a doctor who’s spent years practicing and studying their craft. I am simply suggesting you spend some time understanding what you are embracing.”

“I suggest an older booklet entitled An Overview of Our World. I’ll bring you a copy should you agree you will at least glance through it.”

I came across this headline this afternoon:

Colleges scramble to recruit students as nationwide enrollment plunges

Hundreds of thousands have left the college pipeline amid pandemic turmoil and the lure of jobs

I find this amazin’ as my son’s school realized a 25% increase in attendees within the past two years. Now this happens to be a high school, but this reflects something different about his school, that the school would attract this much of an increase in attendance.

One of the colleges my son applied to (he is starting college this fall) has a 15% acceptance rate. Why? Because the increase in the number of applicants they have had over the past couple of years massively outpaces the college’s assets to provide an education.

The college my son determined to attend has had a similar increase in applications as well. In fact, I understand the number of accepted students has grown so drastically over the past couple of years the his freshman class size is 15% of the entire student body (they have grown that much).

What’s the difference?

The article’s subtitle blames the situation on the pandemic. To be sure, when it becomes a hindrance to customers to procure what they desire, be it houses, cars or an education, the marketplace will determine an alternative.

But there’s another reason. Students at all levels are not being educated. In fact, students have not received an education at the university level for years.

Case in point. When I attended a large university whose mascot was a worthless nut to our opponents, I enrolled in a Current Events class. One of the assignments for the class was to present a current event topic to the class.

At the end of the class that morning, I asked the professor if it would be alright should I present an alternative Point-Of-View. I was told that was acceptable.

My topic was South Africa. Without divulging the details of the talk, I spoke of the history of South Africa. I spoke of that land being unoccupied by any nation when the ‘Afrikans’ settled there and the only blacks (an acceptable term in the 1970s) were observed when other black tribes chased a tribe into South African lands.

In short, the fighting in South Africa was a black-on-black problem (it still was when Winnie and Nelson suggested necklacing would change the country).

After the presentation, the professor made it very clear to me that my ‘POV was unacceptable at this university.’ My response was, “Then why do you call this place ‘a university’ since it was clear observing the commonality found throughout the universe through the observing the diverse things we see was not an allowable topic of conversation?”

It is obvious, to me, many have found the same narrow-minded pigheadedness that is the socialist mind throughout the ‘higher education industry’ and, as such, many have determined to gain wisdom where gaining wisdom would be welcomed.

Such is the situation in all socialist countries. The difference it how well the country is able to hide this fact.

If that’s the case, then, how do you thrive? How do you provide for yourself, your family, your loved ones?

That’s simple to explain. It’s all mapped out for you in my upcoming book, found exclusively at https://TedLeithart.com

Sign up for my email list and I’ll provide you with the secret last chapter – on how to avoid having 2-3-5 generations live through the tyranny of despots and dictators before wise minds realize the USA (and other free countries) really had something good going on.

How soon we forget…

In the past couple of days, during the Senate confirmation hearings for #ketanjibrownjackson , the judge was asked to define ‘woman’.

Jackson said she could not define woman as she was not a biologist.

And she’s being ridiculed for this. May I provide a different perspective…

For the past two years, up until a few weeks ago when  the news media dumped the pandemic marketing in favor of the Ukraine war marketing, the world was experiencing a pandemic which some described as worse than Pearl Harbor or 9-11.

The pandemic was supposed to be that detrimental to the world.

There were dissenters to this marketing, which were silenced through job loss, threats of job loss, and shouted down for not “following the science”. In short, the tactics used by domineering parents or bosses who can’t seem to keep employees.

I know several personal friends who were shouted down (and told to shut up) because they were not an epidemiologist. Only epidemiologists had the knowledge to find a way to overcome the pandemic.

Yet the dissenters of the pandemic have demonstrated, over the past several months, their simple-to-follow methods cure Covid-19.

Vaccines were not necessary. Nor were lockdowns or masking or social distancing. Much of this hype, should you read various perspectives and make your own opinion, was marketing. Pure and simple marketing by Big medicine and Big Pharma.

My point is – for two years, only epidemiologists and Fauci had the answer. Now its been shown they had very few, if any answers.

Ms. Jackson is simply using the same argument that unless you are an expert in a field, you have no right to voice your thoughts or opinions (or fact). You must be an expert, recognized by Big Education in order to express any meaningful thought.

In short, Ms. Jackson will have to abstain from many of the cases which come before her bench as she has no expertise in science, math or virtually anything (other than language) pertinent in modern society.  Therefore, by her own words, she is unworthy of begin a Supreme Court judge.

Ms. Jackson must also keep in mind through all her work, her rulings, her political beliefs and any agenda she has, to the major players in our global society she is a “useful idiot”. Because once the socialist revolution begins, the doctors, lawyers and people of influence disappear into the gulags first.

All progressives should be aware of this should they care for themselves and their loved ones.

Beware of the Idea of March, so said the soothsayer to Caesar. And on March 15, several Roman Senators drew knives and murdered Caesar.

We have a different type of warning for the Ides of March in 2022. Not one of murder, but one of murdering a nation. One of the chief conspirators in this modern day tale is Nancy Pelosi.

One this day, Nancy stated, “The government spending is doing the exact reverse, reducing the national debt. It is not inflationary.”

The Speaker of the House went on to say global inflation “with starts with” Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We’re paying very close attention to it, but this starts with Putin because the global inflation for reasons beyond the gas price… Global inflation is something that we have to deal with globally, but we have our responsibility to deal with it at home, and we have legislation that does just that, by increasing supply and, way that is not adding to inflation.”

After reading through this quote, I realized Nancy is confusing terms and different economic lessons. I am not sure the Nobel laureates she mentioned are confused as well, but Nancy is confusing ‘Supply and Demand’ with Inflation.

Inflation is a specific term used for millennia to describe situations where government desires to spend more than it has in its store houses. Rather than controlling its desires until it has sufficient funds, government skims the edges of coins and mint more coins from the scrapings. But each coin weighs less than the standard, making each coin worth less.

Serrated edges on coins is a common way for coin minters to insure you can’t skim too much gold off the edges of the coin, as the coin would lose the serration, immediately demonstrating to the receiver of the coin the coin is not worth what’s stated on its face.

Another way is to mix the gold or silver with cheap, inferior metals. The coin may weigh the appropriate weight, but the amount of gold or silver within the coin is substantially less than the set standard.

Since government no longer mints gold and silver coins, let’s make this simple.

Let’s say I have 100 coins and 100 pieces of paper. I secretly print 200 more pieces of paper without any more coins finding their way into my vault. So what’s each piece of paper worth? One third of what it was, because now it takes 300 pieces of paper to exchange for my 100 coins.

The US government has been doing this since the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913. That’s why Alan Greenspan said, “The Federal Reserve created AND SUSTAINED the Great Depression.”

In our recent pandemic, government printed $4-5 trillion dollars and put those dollars into circulation through your Covid checks, the PPP and other methods. Since nothing is done in secret, we realized as consumers that each dollar is worth less as there’s more paper but no new gold coins in Fort Knox. So you, the stores, and I ask for more money to balance the nation’s paper money with the amount of gold and silver available.

Why gold and silver? Because they are rare. Oil, corn, cotton, and other things can be produced more or less creating inflationary cycles at will. With gold and silver, you have small ripples in the economy, not 20 foot waves between the good times and bad.

It’s been said that 40% of all Federal Reserve notes didn’t exist 2 years ago. So you have the marketplace raising their prices to match this 40% more paper in the marketplace.

That’s inflation.

Now Nancy comes along and says, in effect, if you are maxed out on your credit card (reached the limit on the national debt), the way out of that debt is to raise your credit limit and spend more.

Well, if it’s good enough for the government, why isn’t it good enough for me?

And if government is to be praised for doing such actions, why do I go to jail or lose my credit card (along with my ability to spend money) when I do the same thing?

At some point, the paper loses all value, such as the Weimar Republic (Germany) or Venezuela. Wheelbarrows carrying the money to the grocery store become infinitely more value than the paper within them. And the economy crashes.

Would you give away something you’ve sweat, bled and toiled for to others without compensation – consistently and forever? Of course not. Neither will farmers, so food production stops. The same thing happens to all our commodities, from gasoline to heating oil to electricity to wood to nails to shoes to clothing.

Chaos reigns supreme.

And when the society has had enough of the chaos, they ask,

“Where’s someone who will make our streets safe again?”

“Who will ensure we can walk to visit our family safely?”

“Who will get the schools open again?”

And the answer will come from a person who was set up to be a dictator when the extreme inflation began – “I can and I will.”

And like all good sheeple, the masses will elect this person dictator. At that point, the real tyranny begins.

So how do you prosper in such a world? How can you ensure good for yourself, your family, and your loved ones?

That I can tell you – in my new book – exclusively found at https://TedLeithart.com

And should you sign up for my email list, I’ll send you the secret chapter, which tells how to avoid two, three, or more generations from falling into tyranny. I’ll provide case studies for you to consider, to implement into your life and to thrive.