Oct 20, 2019 3 min read

I have a few questions to ask and analogies to make about our last and present centuries, so bear with me.

The cold war

How is it possible to have gone through two World Wars with Germany; one with Japan; one with Italy; and wind up distrusting the Russians simply because we didn’t like their form of government? I mean China has this same form of government, but we were never paranoid about them. Since 1950, we’ve been bed buddies with the same three nations that killed and maimed over 300,000 Americans and an enemy of a country that killed none.

Global warming

Look at the North Pole, the South Pole and the equator. Where will you find the vast majority of life of all kinds thriving, where it’s very hot or very cold? The poles are baron of life with the exception of polar bears and penguins. The present carbon count is about 380 parts per millionth; which is supposedly the main cause for “global warming.” The main cause of this, so I we’re told, are vehicle emissions and smoke stacks. The source we never hear mentioned are humans exhaling from their lungs. Everyone inhales oxygen and nitrogen mixed and exhales carbon dioxide approx. 20 times per minute or 28,800 times a day. Multiply that times the world’s  population, 7.2 billion equals  201.6 trillion exhales per day or 73.64 quadrillion exhales of carbon dioxide a year. The average car may be used half an hour a day. I wonder how many four-cylinder cars would have to run a half an hour to equal the 7.2 billion people or 201.6 trillion exhales per day?

Saudis

Two months ago, we were told on the news that Iran knocked out half the Saudi oil production of 5.5 million barrels a day. I’m not naive enough to believe anything I’m told about an oil producing country. Believing this implies that the Saudis had no radar, no missile defense system, no 24/7 satellite surveillance, no 24/7 patrol planes circling the oil field that made up half their production and income? Fifteen of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudis, yet we invade Afghanistan and Iraq under the pretext of WMDs. Osama Bin Laden , a Saudi, was the leader of al Qaida. Could it be we were afraid of attacking Saudi Arabia for fear they would cut off our oil supply?

Corporations vs. Whistleblowers

Any U.S. corporation that wishes to relocate to another country for cheaper labor never had any obstacles standing in their way. We don’t seem to give a damn about the economic hardships nor the unemployment that the corporations commit via their practices of economic treason by routing up factories, plants, and mills and planting them in third-world nations, working for slave wages and in slave conditions making a pair of Nike tenners for 23¢ an hour, then selling the product here for $150. But notice the government never refers to this as “economic treason.” But, our whistleblowers are always the first accused of treason, such as Jullian Assange,  Edward Snowden, and, most recently, the one testifying for President Trump’s impeachment. Trump accused this whistleblower of treason, but never said “boo” to corporations that fled our shores to seek cheaper wages.

Randy Warnick

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