THE WAR AGAINST PUTIN, WHAT THE GOVERNMENT-MEDIA COMPLEX ISN’T TELLING YOU.

A book by Mike King

A review by Jim “Gymbeaux” Brown, August, 15 2024

DISCLAIMER:  It’s been YEARS since I have trusted the main stream news media. Not sure I have ever trusted the U. S. Government.  As I read King’s book about Russia/Putin, he confirmed what I had always been taught to believe – they are both very untrustworthy!!!!  My disbelief in all things government and media obviously will have tainted my critique of this book.  Suffice it to say that if just 10% of the book is true, that alone should be enough for you to thoroughly mistrust both the government and the media.  With that said, I personally know that at least 60% of the book contains facts that I know to be true.  My advice, read the book and then decide for yourself who is to be trusted and who is not to be trusted.  Your “trusted list” will be extremely short as compared to your “mistrust list!”

In some of King’s other books, he sticks strictly to the facts and they are usually much shorter in length than this book.  In this writing, King ads some of his own opinions relating to the facts he puts forth and uses some very colorful language in describing some of the nefarious players that reside on BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE!   (Read that again, on BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE!)

I am very confident that anyone reading this book will come away with the understanding that America is NOT the moral country we have all been taught to believe that it is.  We have been either the instigators or the supporters of almost every major world-wide conflict going back to our founding in 1776.  Not so much in the beginning but as time passed, we became more and more involved in what resulted in the killings of millions of people world-wide through wars and clandestine activities.  As I read the book, I remember many of the events discussed and at the time had a completely different understanding of what had happened and who was responsible.  The history I learned had ZERO resemblance to the explanations described in this book!  My advice, read the book and then decide for yourself!

Most of the first half or more of the book delves deep into U. S. and World History and what you will read is NOT what we were all taught in history classes.  On the contrary!  It is almost a complete opposite.  Until social media, we had only the main stream media to rely upon for our news sources; few people ever questioned their reporting.  But with the advent of Social Media, more and more independent journalists have been disclosing the truth about past and present events that have taken place or are taking place on the world stage.  A great many still trust the media what failed to show just how much America had been involved ON THE WRONG SIDE OF DOING THE RIGHT THINGS!

It would be impossible for me to critique the book in detail because it contains so much information.  My advice would be to read it, then do your own research to verify if what was written is true or not.  For most topics, there is ample information available to you if you just take the time to look it up YOURSELF!

As for Vladimir Putin, I think it is safe to say that IF you read the book, you will develop a very different opinion of Putin and Russia in general.  I first became more interested in Putin AFTER the Tucker Carlson/Vladimir Putin interview, when Putin said the “west” has been trained to mistrust everything Russian.  He went to say that most people in the “west” believe what they have been taught without even knowing much of anything about the Soviet Union which is now Russia in 2024.  This book verifies what Putin has said if you choose to believe what is written in the book.  Again, doing your own research will prove the book either right or wrong.  You decided which it is!

Who should read this book?  Given the number of Americans who believe everything the main stream media promotes about Russia and Putin (print, TV, radio and books), I would suggest that EVERYONE could learn more about Russia which we have all been trained to believe is our number one enemy, in spite of it being our ally during WWII.

Would I read it again?  Reading it again would serve little purpose but keeping it as a reference source would be priceless!

Would I give it as a gift?  I would, but would the recipient ever take the time to read it?  I seriously doubt it because for most people, their minds have already been made up and nothing that contradicts what they already believe to be true will make much of an difference or impact on their already distorted beliefs.

A Crash Course on 9/11

 

NUGGETS FOR THE NOGGIN

A Crash Course on 9/11; An Inside Job

A book by Mike S. King

A book review by Jim “Gymbeaux” Brown August 1, 2024

We have all heard the various “stories” about 9/11, if you have only heard the government’s storyline, you having been living beneath a rock ever since 9/11.  Many people have claimed that the facts that have been disseminated by the government and then backed up by the Main Stream News Media have been only one side, the government’s side and few if any REAL journalists have endeavored to ascertain the truth about 9/11. 

IF you read this Mike King’s book, you will read one fact after another, all located within the pages of a book that can be easily read in an hour or less.  I personally have heard many of the stories, many of the facts before but have never been able to read them one after another, all located in just one book like this one. 

The book contains very little opinion; almost entirely facts that are provable if you truly desire to want to know the truth about 9/11.  The very old phrase, “you can bring a horse to water but you can’t make it drink” is just a true about exposing people to true facts and then asking them to make up their own mind as compared to the BS that has been verified, or not, by the Main Stream Media. 

Consider this book to be the water!  Consider yourself to be the horse!  I can recommend that the two of you should get together but just like the horse, I can’t make you read the book.  Failure to do so will reinforce your belief in the storyline heretofore put forth by the U. S. Government and sworn to by the Media sources. 

Who should read this book?  EVERY AMERICAN!

Would I read it again?  Absolutely especially if I want to isolate specific facts

Would I give it as a gift?  Absolutely

You Become What You Think About

“You Become What You Think About

All Day Long!”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An Article by Jim “Gymbeaux” Brown, July 26, 2024 

The year was 1975, I was a Yeoman First Class Petty Officer (E6) with the U. S. Coast Guard.  I had been selected to become a Class A Yeoman School Instructor which at the time seemed peculiar since I had never attended Yeoman School.  I was known as someone who “struck” for a particular rating. In simple terms, I was placed into a position where I was able to take advantage of experienced Yeomen. If I took the appropriate mail-in courses and passed a service-wide examination, I could and was promoted to Yeoman Third Class Petty Officer. (E4)  I did that in 1966 and the rest is history.  I entered the Coast Guard as a Seaman Recruit and eventually retired as a Lieutenant with a lot of promotions in between. 

I tell you this to set the stage for the rest of this Nugget and how it relates to the Emerson quote as its title; not to brag about my career.  I just found it strange that a “striker” would become the “instructor.”  I doubt this would have happened had I not been mentored by several of the best people I have ever served with while assigned to the Eighth Coast Guard District Office in New Orleans! 

We moved Yeoman School from Governors Island, New York to Petaluma, California; a bigger change in environment would be impossible to imagine.  Governors Island was in the heart of New York City’s harbor at the foot of Manhattan and across from the Statue of Liberty.  Petaluma was huge, several hundred acres and a former U. S. Army Communication Base located completely in the country surrounded by farmlands, cows and wild deer and barbed wire fencing. 

The move was confusing to say the lease.  New facilities, lack of proper equipment (manual typewriters versus electric typewriters), new members on the base, old friends left behind.  As a result of the change of duty stations, there was a second roster of students that reported aboard and we were only set up for one such class.  The Training Officer decided that the best decision was to separate the students into two groups. One group would consist of the supposedly smarter students and the remainder would be assigned to, for lack of a better term, the less intelligent of the two groups of students. 

That was the beginning of a remarkable chain of events for me.  I was assigned to teach the “less intelligent” students.  To be honest, I had no clue what I was doing as I was doing it, I did what I thought was right – at the time.  During my 4 weeks of instructor training, we were all taught how to create lesson plans, create graphic posters whenever they were needed but more importantly, we were taught how to stand, where to stand, what NOT to do and what we were supposed to do.  That became rule #1 for all instructors.  On paper and in the instructor’s training course, that all seemed to make sense to the people who created the program but made little sense to me after trying it,  still I followed along with the training. 

Once I arrived at the Training Center in Petaluma, CA, I made a personal decision that I was not all that effective of an instructor using the techniques I had been taught.  One day at the beginning of class I made a decision “on the fly.”  I began the class as I always had, very structured, very formal, I stood behind the podium and taught the class.  Then after lunch, I took an entirely different approach.  I removed the podium; I stood in front of the class but instead of just standing there I began to walk up and down the isles with students on both sides of me.  Occasionally, I would pause and touch one of the students on their shoulder and move on.  At the end of the day, I stopped the class and asked them if they noticed anything different between the morning session and the afternoon session.  Most of the class said that the afternoon section seemed more relaxed and to my surprise, they thought of me as a real person, I was just like they were and was someone who had become what they wanted to become; not me but a Yeoman.  I then asked them which technique did they prefer?  They all said the afternoon Jim Brown, not the morning Jim Brown.  It was on that day I learned how to really teach a class.  It is not always what others think you should be doing, oftentimes it is more of how YOU respond to what the people want from you.  Obviously, I could not violate any respect due to someone who is senior in rank to me, specifically the unit’s Training Officer.  Still, I began teaching the way the students felt they had a better chance to learn.  THIS WAS A HUGE REVELATION TO ME!  HUGE! 

Back to the smart class versus the less intelligent class.  I knew what the training office had done.  They expected that if they put all the smart students in one class room, they may graduate sooner and that would enable them to get back into a proper scheduling of the next new classes to come.  I did not tell the training office what I did next, just did it on a whim.  I gathered the students together and told them what had happened and that some people felt that this class (them) didn’t have the level of intelligence to compete with the smarter students and it would take longer for them to complete the training. THAT WAS ALL THAT IT TOOK!  The students took off running and never looked back!  They finished not only ahead of schedule, they finished ahead of the smart class of students.  

This brings me back to the quote.  You become what you think about all day long!  You actually do.  I believed I had a classroom of intelligent, well-liked students and taught them to think in the same way.  Much later in life I read most if not all of the Wallace Wattles books which are all amazing reads.  He had one recurring sentence in all of his writings.  If you wanted to be rich, healthy or whatever, you knew that you could as long as “you think in a certain way.”  He did not elaborate on what that certain way was but it was obvious, just like the quote, YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT ALL DAY LONG!  If you consider yourself a loser, you will be a loser if you are not one already.  If you consider yourself a winner, you become a winner even if you have always thought of yourself as a loser in the past.  So, I thought about Emerson and Wattles and came up with the following thought: 

You become what you think about most, so think about only GOOD and WHOLESOME thoughts about you and what you want and that relates to “thinking in a certain way” just as Wattles had recommended.  My smart students formerly considered to be less intelligent students proved not only the leadership wrong, they exceeded what they had believed about themselves prior to entering school.  

I don’t want to leave the impression that I was some sort of genius.  I had never been taught any of this, I did it as a reflective action and we all know, every action has a certain and almost predictable reaction.  Maybe I was just lucky but I don’t think so.  I feel as if someone or some thing guided me to do what I did and I don’t regret a moment of it.  My students thought they were all winners and they were! 

Then I began to realize I had been living what I had just done without knowing it.   I had created a plan that would eventually see me retiring from the Coast Guard as a Lieutenant after entering the service at the very bottom of the ranking structure as a Seaman Recruit (SR).  I, like everyone else, was promoted to Seaman Apprentice (SA) upon graduation from Boot Camp.  Unconsciously I began to ask questions as to what I needed to do to make the grade of Seaman (SN) the next promotion in a line that would go from E-1 (SR) to eventually Master Chief Pettey Officer (E-9) in a certain rating like Yeoman or Storekeeper etc.  In other words, not only had I established a GOAL or OBJECTIVE, I had began creating a mental plan to achieve what I had wanted.  Again, like both Emerson and Wallace suggests, I was thinking about what I wanted, I was “thinking in a certain way” and I never lost my focus on both.  I saw myself as a Chief Petty Officer which at that time was a lofty goal for sure.  For almost everyone, making Chief Petty Officer was a very special achievement!

 I am NOT naive, I fully understand that if you are not educated and believe in the Catholic faith, you will never be able to become Pope.  In the 1950s, I had envisioned myself playing basketball in college.  When you are only 5 foot 10 inches tall, the odds of either or both of these things were very unlikely to occur.  Were they impossible?  No, just very unrealistic.  You CAN become whatever it is you want to become but there are restrictions as just mentioned.  For most choices, you can consider the guidance given me by Joe Tye when he suggests that we are all given a bag of cement, a shovel and water.  We can then either build a wall to stop us from going any further or we can build a walkway around whatever walls are standing in our way.  It’s a great metaphor for life. 

Want more proof?  It is almost impossible to like everyone you meet in life.  Different strokes for different folks.  As a real estate broker, responsible for a lot of real estate agents (105 was the highest number I had ever achieved), is it impossible to like every agent that signs onto your company?  I did my best, but like in so many businesses, there was “this one person” that just made life miserable with every interaction they were involved in.  The animosity between the two of us went on for several months and I avoided talking with her and that was just wrong but it made my life a little easier.  Then I made the mental decision to “think in a certain way!”  I decided  to “love this person!”  Don’t misinterpret “love” for sexual love but rather just a true feeling of caring for another individual and support them in their believes as long as those beliefs are morally correct and also legal.  Shouldn’t have to put that disclaimer in but someone will obviously take exception to it. 

What happened next is nothing short of a miracle.  Every time I saw the agent I said to myself, “I love this person!”  I also thought what I had been teaching all of my agents to do. That was to think that they could see a tattoo on the forehead of everyone they meet that read. WCILFTP.  What does that mean?  WHAT CAN I LEARN FROM THIS PERSON.  When you marry those two thoughts, you will be amazed, as I did, the results that those two thoughts can bring about.  In short order over just a matter of a couple of weeks, our relationship completely changed and we have been friends ever since.  I changed, the agent changed and all was well in my business space and life because of it.  I had used the cement to build a wall but then I began to use the cement to build a walkway around a perceived problem.  What changed was the way each one of us thought of the other.  We began to care about the other person because we both ended up “thinking in a certain way!” 

Another example of how this all works happened when I received a call “out of the blue” from an owner of a large real estate office in Mandeville, about 20 minutes from where I lived in Slidell.  He wanted me to become the new manager/trainer for his Mandeville Real Estate Office; they had about 25 agents at that time.  First. I was honored and then I wondered how he picked me being 20 minutes away, for his new manager?  I asked. He said I had created a good resume of getting results, being an involved member of the Local Board of REALTORS® and through the “word of mouth.”  The “word of mouth” was especially meaningful to me because that is how I conducted my business, how I grew my business and how I wanted those to react that I worked with because “word of mouth” is the BEST form of advertising, EVER!  People are giving other people THEIR personal RECOMMENDATION.  The answer to his initial question was definitely yes and I took the job going form a real estate sales agent to a real estate office manager; something I had never done before, knew nothing about but knew I could handle it.  

In the very popular book The Secret, it describes how the universe works.  You put in place the Emerson quote, you become what you think about all day, and the Wallace principle of doing things in a “certain way” and miracles tend to happen.  It is actually goal setting with a purpose but most people shy away from anything closely related to having to set goals for themselves.  Setting a goal without action and without a third party to keep you accountable to what you want to achieve, is nothing more than HOPE   Dr. John Maxwell often states, “hope is not an effective strategy!”  Hope without action is nothing more than a wish and we all know how wishes work out for us.  First you must understand that like most adults having graduated from high school, I stopped reading books when I left school; just wasn’t interested.  But then…I was in a waiting room and picked up a magazine and I saw an advertisement for a two-set cassette recording of a program called “Creating Teamwork” by Lee Shelton.  I knew I was taking on a new position as manager so I thought, what the heck, and I ordered it.  I found the tapes so fascinating that I listened to them over and over again before I began my new job as manager which in effect is exactly what the tapes were all about – creating teamwork! Teamwork may not have existed or if did, how was I going to improve what was already in place.  

I later met Lee Shelton and attended one of his seminars.  He introduced me to the audience and then said “Jim could teach this seminar as good as he could” because he knew how I put into practice those things he taught.  In keeping with the theme of this Nugget, Shelton taught that the mood you are in as you enter your work space will eventually become the mood for the entire office.  He pointed out that people can immediately detect when someone is in a sour mood or a happy mood.  Therefore. if you want a happy work place, begin by making the personal decision every morning that it is a great day to be alive.  Believe that you could not be any happier.  Happiness like gloom and doom are contagious and spread through casual contact.  Don’t believe me?  Just say “hello” or “good morning” to a total stranger you see on the street or in a store and then watch the expression change on THEIR face as you do.  I have experienced this on many occasions; it just works!  Why, because I thought and acted in a “certain way!” 

The greatest compliment I could have received came from a competitor when he called and told me that he called because he was having a bad day and he new that our conversation would pick him up because it always did in the past.  Was I always happy the way things were going?  Certainly not but very few people ever knew it.  Being upbeat was the best beat to be! 

Going back to my Coast Guard career.  Most people that enlist are able to reach the pay grade of E6 over the course of a 20-year career.  The next REALLY BIG promotion is when the First-Class Petty Officer (E6) is promoted to Chief Petty Officer (E7).  Such a promotion carries with it more income, more responsibility and frankly more respect from both the enlisted side of the service as well as the Officer Corps of the service.  There is a perceived and certain degree of trust and specific knowledge about their specialty, or in my case, a Chief Yeoman (administrative work for the most part).  It was such an honor to become a Chief!  I began focusing on becoming a chief (E7) when I was still an E5 Petty Officer Second Class.  I knew that I had to first satisfy a goal that was directly between E5 and E7 and that first making E6, First Class Petty Officer.  I focused on what I wanted most.  I thought about sewing on the E6 rating badges on my uniform and then instead of relying on a hope of becoming an E6, I began to study more about my rating and took the first service-wide exam available to me and yes, I passed, and yes, I was promoted to E6.  There was a requirement that you had to be an E6 for at least 24 months BEFORE you qualified to take the exam for E7.  It was during those two months that I worked on my specialty but I also worked on my relationships with others that I served with and served for.  Trust is everything, so if you want people to trust you, you must work on creating that trust by demonstrating that you know what you are doing and they can all count on you doing the right things; especially when no one is watching. 

I only tell you this because it puts a confirmation stamp on what I believe and that is the Emerson quote as modified by Wattles.  I never lost focus on what I wanted but more importantly I TOOK ACTION to make it happen and it happened.  Not only did I make Chief Petty Officer, I was later promoted to Chief Warrant Officer which signifies to others that you have successfully been recognized as trustworthy, you can handle more and more responsibilities, you can make decisions and you have become a very trusted and respected link between the enlisted members of the service and the general Officer Corps of the service.  

I REMAINED FOCUSED ON WHAT I WANTED, I THOUGHT IN A CERTAIN WAY AND THEN I TOOK ACTION TO MAKE IT ALL HAPPEN. 

But it got a lot better and maybe that is the icing on the cake in regards to a technique for success that I had accidently discovered.  I was a Chief Warrant Officer W3. That meant I went from Chief, to Chief Warrant Officer and attained three promotions as a Warrant officer W1 through CWO3, there was only one more to attain, CWO4, the crème dela crème for an enlisted member of the Coast Guard.  How did it get better?  The Coast Guard created a Limited Duty Officer (LDO) program where they selected people within their specialty to be promoted to Lieutenant which in the pay grade list would be an O3 skipping over O1 and 02.  The highest anyone could get through this program was O4 or Lieutenant Commander.  Length of service would make it very difficult if not impossible to go beyond that pay grade as an LDO (Limited Duty Officer).  When the Guard announced the new program, my Commanding Officer encouraged me to apply.  Just his encouragement put an exclamation mark on my career because I doubted, he would have recommended such a leap unless you have proven to him that you deserved it.  Once again, I put the theory to the test and became laser focused on making the best application I could to be considered as one of only TWO members each YEAR, to receive this type of promotion for my specialty.  As it turned out, I was selected and eventually retired from the service as a Lieutenant (03).      

 Always keep in mind what Zig Ziglar taught, “If you think you can or if you think you can’t, either way you will be right!”  I believe that may have first been said by Henry Ford.  The choice is yours!  

YOU GOT THIS! 

Recommended Reading List of Wallace Wattles:

The Science of Getting Rich

The Science of Being Well

The Science of Being Great

How to Get What You Want

 

Get them all in one book at:  Amazon.com, search for Wallace Wattles

lAKE cHARGOGGAGOGGMANSHANGGAGOGGCHAUBUNAGUNGAMANGG

 

Lake Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg
By Jim “Gymbeaux” Brown. July 24, 2024

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/10/lake-chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubun.html

Maybe the longest name in history or close to it.  It’s a Native Indian name for a lake now known as Lake Webster but the Nipmuc Indians had named it long before it became Lake Webster.

Stories and legend suggest there were different tribes on each side of the lake who constantly battled over the fishing rights on the lake.  The solution was apparently decided upon when the leaders of the tribes agreed that each tribe would fish THEIR side of the lake and NO ONE would fish the MIDDLE.  Is that really true?  Who knows; it makes for a good storyline.  Thus, they named the lake: Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg; you fish your side, I fish my side, no one fishes the middle!

It also makes for a significant metaphor for America in 2024.  How so?  Glad you asked!

Step 1: Divide people into three very distinct categories as if they don’t already exist in America.

·         Rich/Elites:  Politicians, royalty, heads of corporations, grossly overpaid actors, athletes and entertainers

·         Poor:  Anyone making less than minimum wage, anyone relying 100% on government subsidies or those receiving life support from charities, the jobless, the homeless, the people living solely on Social Security and or who have no visible income whatsoever.  And of course, the person who believes that if you make $1.00 more than they make, they are in the rich category. You get the picture and I have no desire to lump you or anyone into any specific category; that’s not the point.

·         Middle Class: Everyone in between the Elites and the Poor in America. They are not wealthy nor are they poor and they typically live a comfortable life.  But oftentimes they live payday to payday with very little discretionary funds.  They are like the middle of the lake; undisturbed and in their own world.

Using Lake Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg as an example, the “elites” would live on one side of the lake, the “poor” on the other side.  The vast center of the lake would be the Middle Class.  The “elites of the country have no desire to ever become one of the Middle Class or the Poor.  The poor on the other hand have every desire to become either a member of the middle class or the elite class.  As for the Middle-Class majority, who reside in the middle of the lake, they are “comfortable” where they are!  It’s better known as complacency.  That would explain why so many Americans, certainly not you, seem to be satisfied where they are and keep their heads buried in the sand regarding world events, national, state and local politics.  POLITICS, the ONE THING  that determines everyone’s futures but many can’t seem to see the forest for all of the trees.  How else can you explain away the malaise that has become middle class America in 2024?  You stay on your side; I’ll stay on my side and the rest can best fend for themselves in the middle.

What’s wrong with this graphic?  Squire wheels?  Round wheels in the cart? Three men pushing, one man pulling?  If one or more of those suggestions is your answer, you missed the “Big Picture!”

THEY ARE SATISFIED WITH THEIR PROGRESS!

THEY DO NO THINK OUT-SIDE-THEIR BOX!

THEY ARE FOLLOWING THE DIRECTIONS OF ANOTHER PERSON OR GROUP!

THEY LACK CURIOSITY!

THEY LACK INGENUITY!

 

Nothing will ever change until “We The People” get up off of our collective asses and get involved even if it is just researching the BS that streams out of Washington!  Get to really know your candidates before you just vote for the “small d” or the “small r” after their names.  Read and understanding any amendments on the ballot BEFORE you get into the voting booth.  Become an informed voter before you lose the ability to do so! 

This has never been more evident than in the 2024 Presidential Election.  One side appears to cater to the elites of the country while the other side is trying to unite the poor and middle class together to fight off the unwanted policies created by the elites at the top, OF BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES.  It was not that many years ago, the Democrat Party was for the “little man” the “blue collar workers?  During that same period the Republican Party was considered to favor big business and the Country Club Set.  Those rolls have been completely flipped upside down in 2024.  If you think there is a difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties, you are badly mistaken.  In the end, they both want to spend YOUR money on needless projects and foreign wars.  This has never been more obvious than to realize how much money YOU and I have GIVEN to Israel and Ukraine to ensure that the wars will continue.  At the very same moment in time, we are shamelessly mis-treating our veterans (see the following link to a documentary that provides video evidence of just how badly that treatment has been).  This all occurring while we are NOT securing hundreds of miles of our Southern Border where millions of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS have crossed over and an untold quantity of deadly drugs having been smuggled into our country.  The result?  Over 250,000 Americans have died using these drugs.

I sincerely hope you watch this video regarding veterans and how they have been treated by THEIR employer, OUR GOVERNMENT!  SHOCKING!  https://rumble.com/v4w5pqe-documentary-american-veterans-discarded-and-forgotten.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0AmJ4U2oCU9pbaJoMiLvdi1l7AwNPbF8ut5-cA9DYW57BAoz4Wo93vqlU_aem_K6bUnAcZt3TD0Nzb6HjC7Q

None of this makes for any common sense.  People have taken sides as if THEIR side is the ONLY side that is correct.  Therefore, “you fish your side, I’ll fish my side and no one will touch the center or middle ground.  While this principle may have worked in the 1700s, it is very much flawed in 2024!  The middle ground has been eliminated.

Here is the way politics actually works.  One side (A) wants something so they push forward with their idea. The other side (B) naturally will fight against it because it came from their opponents (A).  It doesn’t matter if the bill is good, bad, ugly or more importantly salvageable (compromise).  Then side B begins pushing back to Side A all the while A is sliding more towards side B.  It is a case of push and shove until one side reaches their red line that they refuse to cross.  More red lines have halted progress for decades upon decades.  Case in point, the Southern Border.  Name just one person who believes that trafficking children and Fentanyl across the border into the states is a good thing, just one!  No one knows for certain what happens to the thousands upon thousands of children that go missing; that alone should be a criminal act!  As for The Fentanyl, it’s been estimated that over 250,000 Americans have died from Fentanyl poisoning and that is a low number.  Tell me:  WHO WOULD BE AGAINST STOPPING THIS LUNACY?   

This should not be a political issue; it’s black and white no matter what so many political parasites want to convince you to otherwise believe.  There have been many elected officials, local, state, and Federal, but especially Federal beginning at the White House, have been committing acts of treason against the Constitution of the United States.  There is an ongoing invasion happening along the border states and no one in power seems to give a shit.  If that offends you, GREAT, it SHOULD!

America has problems, name a country that doesn’t.  The question of the day is why do “We The People” continue to send so much money, so many weapons, tons of armor and thousands of our own blood and guts to foreign lands to fight or support some conflict(s) that have nothing to do with the safety of the United States?  What are the some of the problems that money could have been better spent on here at home?  So glad you asked, let me count the ways and they are not necessarily in order of priority but pretty close nor are they the ONLY ones that exist:

·         SECURE SOUTHERN BORDER

·         FIND AND HELP HOMELESS VETERANS ON THE GOVERNMENT’S DIME, NOT CHARITY!

·         REMOVE THE USA FROM THE UN

·         REMOVE THE USA FROM THE WHO

·         FORM BETTER RELATIONSHIPS WITH CANADA AND MEXICO

·         WORK TOWARDS ELIMINATING THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS

·        ELIMINATE INCOME TAXES, LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL. CREATE A SALES TAX ON PRODUCTS AND SERVICES EXCLUDING ESSENTIALS LIKE FOOD AND MEDICINE

·        AUTOMATICALLY REDUCE THE SIZE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BY NO LESS THAN 10% OR MORE!

·       PASS LEGISLATION OR CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION TO IMPOSE TERM LIMITS FOR EVERYONE IN GOVERNMENT, CONGRESS, WHITE HOUSE AND THE SUPREME COURT. 

·        PASS LEGISLATION OR CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION THAT WOULD REQUIRE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO ARRANGE AND FUND THEIR OWN RETIREMENT PLANS.

·         PASS LEGISLATION OR CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION THAT REQUIRES MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO PARTAKE OF THE SAME HEALTH CARE THEY IMPOSE ON WE THE PEOPLE. 

·        PASS LEGISLATION OR CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRING ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS TO PLACE THEIR FINANCIAL PORTFOLIOS INTO A TRUST WHILE SERVING IN OFFICE TO AVOID THE APPEARANCE OF INSIDER TRADING.

·        CREATE A SPECIAL OVERSIGHT AND APPROVAL OFFICE THAT REVIEWS REQUESTS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL AND WHO CAN ATTEND AND HOW THEY WILL TRAVEL ALONG WITH AN APPROVED BUDGET FOR EACH TRIP.

·        ONCE AND FOR ALL, CREATE A COMMITTEE TO DRAFT IMMIGRATION LAWS AND THEN ENFORCE THEM. THESE LAWS SHOULD ALSO INCLUDE PROVISIONS TO TRACK “OVER STAYS.”  IMMIGRATION IS A GOOD THING BUT IT SHOULD BE TRANSPARENT AND FAIR AND LEGAL!

·        PAY BACK INTO THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT ALL OF THE MONEY THAT WAS TAKEN FROM IT;  PLUS, INTEREST!!!!!

FINALLY; PICK A VICE PRESIDENT WHO HAS THE QUALITIES AND INTELLECT TO ACTUALLY BECOME PRESIDENT SHOULD THE OCCASION EVER ARISE.

DON’T PICK A VICE PRESIDENT JUST TO CHECK OFF A BOX!

DON’T PICK ONE THAT MAY GET YOU SOME FIRGGIN VOTES!

Apathy - Or In My Words!

 

APATHY – OR IN MY WORDS!

YOU’RE SAYING:

I DON’T GIVE A S#$T!

By Jim “Gymbeaux” Brown, March 17, 2024

 

The year was 1963, keep in mind, I was born in 1945. In 1963, I had just graduated from High School and began my Freshman semester at Bowling Green State University.  As I was walking between classes, there were two students walking behind me and I could not help but overhear their conversation.  One said to the other, “Isn’t it terrible that someone killed the President?”  Thinking they were talking about the President of the University, I turned and asked, “who on Earth would want to kill him?”  They got very angry with me and said, “No you idiot, the President of the United States!” 

It is true that during certain events in your life, besides the obvious ones like a marriage or birth of your children, you DO remember where you were when you heard some surprising or devastating news, such as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  I don’t have the exact date etched in my mind but I do recall that it was in November of 1963 and I was 18 years old.  Something else that was growing worse in 1963 was the War in Vietnam.  To this 18-year-old male, that was something very serious to think about; I was in college, so as long as I was a student in college, I would or should not be drafted into the military. 

I don’t know why I signed up for the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) in college, but I did.  That apparent accident turned out to be one of the best unconscious decisions of my life.  I loved it!  By “it” I meant the military and the discipline I learned even in college.  I felt very proud to put on the uniform of my country at age 18 but I also knew that as long as I was a student, I would not be wearing that uniform in any battles ragging thousands of miles from Ohio. 

Fast forward to late 1964 early 1965, I knew that I was a square peg trying to fit into the now famous square hole while I was in college.  I was forced to take course after course relating to subjects that I had ZERO interest in and had nothing to do with my two majors, Marketing and Advertising.  I sat out a semester to get my head straight and that was a huge mistake because my draft number put me in the crosshairs of being drafted, which I was.  

I spoke to the Commanding Officer of my ROTC unit who was an active duty Air Force Officer.  He gave me some sound advice in that he said that since I completed two years of Air Force ROTC, if I enlisted in the Air Force as an E1, I would graduate as an E3 not the E2 that other members of my boot camp would be.  The E1, etc, referred to rank and pay grade.  I would be a fool not to take advantage of that opportunity, after all it meant more money! 

Working back in my hometown, my mother managed to get me deferred long enough to finish the semester I was currently attending.  How she did it, I’m still uncertain of but I think her contacting the Mayor of Youngstown, Ohio might have had something to do with it.  During the time before my deferment ran out and when I would be officially drafted into the Army, I began my quest to join the military, more specifically the Air Force.  It is a long story that I won’t get into and it is actually kind of funny but I managed to enlist in the U. S. Coast Guard.  I was sworn in on September 20, 1965.  I was now 20 years old and had no clue what I was getting myself into. 

Why am I telling you all of this?  What does it have to do with the title to this Nugget?  EVERYTHING!  During my High School days, I was interested in playing on the school’s basketball team, playing on the school’s track team, playing in the school’s two bands, marching and dance bands.  I had no interest in politics or even current events, it’s called apathy and apathy has an official definition, but my definition at that time – I just don’t give a shit, so don’t bother me with any of it.  Between 1965 and 2024, the United States has been directly involved in several wars, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya (to some degree), Afghanistan and others.  “Directly involved” means that in some wars, we actually supplied troops at various levels from major to minor.  Then there have been other countries where we provided funding and weapons but did not fight with combat troops.  Today there are 3 and soon to be 4 such battles being waged:  Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and now Haiti.  But if you are like most people, you “just don’t give a shit!”  

I see a lot of similarities between MY mindset in 1963-1965 and the mindsets of so many people of ALL ages in 2024, NOT JUST THE TEENAGERS AND THOSE IN THEIR EARLY  TWENTIES; ALL PEOPLE – INCLUDING ADULTS! 

Want proof? 

I did not consider anything in this Nugget for the 2020 vote because of the adverse effect COVID may have had on voting. I therefore used the 2016 National Election to prove a point.  Here are the numbers as per:

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2022/demo/p20-585.pdf 

Total number of Americans 18 or older:   245,500,000

Total number Registered:                           224,100,000

TOTAL NOT REGISTERED:                     21,400,000

Total number who Voted:                            137,500,000

TOTAL WHO DID NOT VOTE:                114,000,000 

If the above numbers are correct; OF THOSE WHO ARE AND/OR NOT REGISTERED AND WHO VOTED, THERE WERE 114,000,000 (THAT’S MILLION) THAT CHOSE NOT TO VOTE FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS WELL AS OTHERS RUNNING FOR OFFICE. 

APATHY:  ONLY 56% OF THE COUNTRY MADE THE DECISION FOR 100% OF ALL CITIZENS AS TO WHO THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WOULD BE AS WELL AS OTHERS RUNNING FOR NATIONAL, STATE AND CITY OFFICE AND ANY REFERENDUMS THAT WERE ON THE BALLOTS!  A lot of referendums directly affect local and state citizens, including you, and NOT voting could be crucial!  It’s difficult for me to imagine a country where 6 people out of 10, make crucial decisions for all 10 people, including the 4 who “didn’t care” or “didn’t want to be bothered with such nonsense”, and whose decisions might or might not be in all of the people’s interests.  But then, “I don’t give a shit!” 

THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL STATEMENT.  I don’t care which political party you prefer over another.  It is a statement to prove that APATHY runs rampant within the United States and I can only assume the rest of the world as well.  I know because in my teens and twenties, I was part of an apathetic America.  I saw people who actually risked their lives to vote in countries like Iraq where they inked their fingers to prove that they have voted in a country which at the time, was still very unstable and the ink could have made them targets! 

Simply put, IF YOU DON’T VOTE, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN but complain most people will as if they had a part in the decision process of the United States – YOU GAVE UP YOUR CHANCE TO VOTE!  PERIOD!  States and cities make it possible for persons with disabling injuries or diseases to either get to the polls or to vote “absentee.”  Absentee simply means you request a ballot and they send you one in the mail and you return it in the mail and you have voted without even leaving your home.  I personally know this to be true in my area because of disease and injury, I could not go to the polls to vote and I voted by mail.  The important thing is, I VOTED, DID YOU? 

Back to my High School, College and 20-year Coast Guard career.  I was at first apathetic by choice (High School, College).  During my 20-year Coast Guard career I was apathetic more by the demands of the service and laws that prevented government employees from being vocal about their political beliefs.  Still. I have no excuse for NOT paying attention to city, state, national and world news!  My only real-life excuse is that, back “in those days” we did not have the internet and social media to keep us posted.  It was either the local newspapers, television news, and/or radio station news.  In all those years from 1961 through 1985, being home or even on duty where I could watch the news were extremely rare so I did not make a point of going out of my way to watch the news on TV. I rarely subscribed to the local papers because we moved around, A LOT!  Radio was used more for music than it was for news. 

YES, those are excuses.  People have no such excuse today except for their own apathy towards current events, local, state, national and international.  You can get any news you want at the end of your finger tips by using your smart phones, your tablets, your notebooks and/or your desktops or the TV!  YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR NOT PAYING ATTENTION.  The ONLY excuse you have for not getting involved in matters that affect your life, is APATHY!  AND APATHY IN 2024 IS A CHOICE THAT YOU HAVE MADE IF YOU DO NOT PAY ATTENTION AND DO NOT VOTE!  PERIOD! 

In the early 1990s, I read a book written by Cleon W. Skousen, titled, The Naked Communist.  It was then I realized just how important it was for everyone to pay attention, even get involved if you are physically able and the law, just as was my case, allows you to get involved.  In short, the book identified the 45 specific goals The Communist Party USA established that if achieved, would take over America without firing a shot.  I was shocked beyond belief when I realized that in the mid-1990s they HAD achieved their objectives.  There is evidence of that every where you look in America.  If you would like to read the goals, you can watch them on this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fQ4J9tcQ2I 

The following may be the best proof of my own apathy that I could possibly include in this Nugget and it just happened on March 17, 2024.  The facts presented in these six links, I can honestly say I knew nothing about until March 17, 2024; how pitiful is that?  You will never know why unless you watch them.  My challenge to the reader is to watch at least the first one but beware, you will want to binge watch the remaining five.  Special shout out to Michelle Moore of  The Michelle Moore Show, https://rumble.com/TheMichelleMooreShow for providing me with these links.  If the links do not work by clicking on them, simply copy them and post the link to your browser, it will work. 

PART 1 Revision of Evidence:  The Assassinations of President Kennedy and Oswald. 

https://rumble.com/v4ji7sr-documentary-evidence-of-revision-the-assassination-of-america-part-1.html

 

PART 2 Revision of Evidence: Motives for Murder, Vietnam and LBJ:   

https://rumble.com/v4jiku6-docuseries-6-parts-evidence-of-revision-part-2-movites-for-murder-vietnam-a.html

 

PART 3 Revision of Evidence:   LBJ, Hover and others What So Few Know Even Today:

https://rumble.com/v4jltxi-docuseries-6-parts-evidence-of-revision-part-3-lbj-hoover-and-others....html

 

PART 4 Revision of Evidence:  The RFK Assassination As Never Seen Before:

https://rumble.com/v4jlv13-docuseries-evidence-of-revision-part-4-the-rfk-assassination-as-never-seen-.html 

But the series continues with Parts 5 and 6, but before you get to that point, let me add more of my thoughts. 

Maybe you all knew this stuff in the videos, if so, good for you.  I certainly thought I knew about it, but could not swear to what I had been told and/or taught.  This six-part documentary series WILL either enlighten you to the corruption that exists in our government or it WILL confirm what you already KNEW to be true.  It did for me!  In fact, I can't believe how much I DIDN'T KNOW BUT THOUGHT I DID!  

There is no reason for you watch this six-part series but I hope you do because I would love for someone to confirm that they too, DIDN'T KNOW THE DEPTH OF DECEPTION THAT EXISTS IN OUR GOVERNMENT, AND WHY IT EXISTS! 

PART 5 Revision of Evidence:.  The RFK Assassination Continued, MK Ultra, The Jonestown Massacre   I have read the book written by Congresswoman Jackie Spier (briefly appearing in this episode), Undaunted:  Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage and Fighting Back. This book definitely enlightened me to Jonestown but what the video does is that it confirms how much our government was involved prior to all the deaths.  As for RFK, again, evidence I had never heard before.  It all reinforces the depth that "our government" will go to prove a point, true or not; mostly untrue.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i7T7OiuEio

PART 6 Revision of Evidence:  Martin Luther Kind + Conclusion.  Before you open it. I MUST warn you that the beginning of the video is very graphic and not for the faint of heart.  I knew of the lynchings in our history but even those depicted during the beginning of this video far exceed any number I would have known about or even guessed; makes me wonder how many there actually were.  So, I looked it up on the Internet.  If you believe what this link provides, you will be blown away!  Look for yourself!  https://www.statista.com/statistics/1175147/lynching-by-race-state-and-race/  Part 6 also provides evidence that must surely make you question the conviction of James Earl Ray in King's death.  It certainly did me!  I was definitely against the Vietnam War but I had not heard Martin Luther King's positions; turns out they were the same as mine.  I had always been told that King was a trouble maker and as a result, I paid him little attention.  Shame on me for not listening to what he actually said.  More importantly, there is an uncanny sameness in the plot to kill King and the plot to kill Kennedy.  Someone is set up to take the fall while others who actually performed the murders get away and no one seems to care.  The government has told us what happened and we all believed our government; surely it would not like to us.  Right? 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=097u5blYeaE 

The end of Part 6 makes me wonder why these same evil forces haven't taken out Trump.  You may or may not like Trump or even some of his policy statements but you must agree that America was better off under the Trump Presidency.  In fact, if you watch all 6 episodes, you hear a lot of JFK, RFK and MLK in Trump's statements.   

NO ONE IN AMERICA OR THE WORL 

DDESERVES TO DIE AS THESE MEN HAVE

BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY BELIEVED IN! 

NO ONE!

But then, I just don’t give a shit!  Right?