Category: Culture

The Incessant Need For Crisis

Jim Watkins | July 1, 2024

If you watch the network news regularly, you probably notice almost everything is a crisis. Even the weather people have jumped into the fray of click bait news by constantly talking about how many records are being broken from every weather event “since records began,” which historically only goes back to 1960 when we launched our first weather satellite. “On Record” doesn’t mean 4.5 billion years ago, it means literally in terms of time, a few seconds on the scale of human existence.

Nice try.

Most recently forecasters have been creating the false illusion of crisis when they declare so many people in a region or along a certain highway, will be affected by a passing storm in April, or a drenching rain in Florida during the summer.

Or how about when the usually dry California gets hit by torrential rains (which happens every few years), is every event a catastrophe? 

They’ll state 150 million people will be affected by a storm, but the truth is every day 330 million Americans are affected by the weather. Humans have always been affected by the weather. If you live on this planet the weather will affect you. And sometimes storms, lightening, winds and an occasional fire or earthquake will strike, but we survive. We don’t need “experts” to tell us what might happen, we know because it is a shared lived experience.

Another calling for crisis is in the travel sector.

While surely we all know the headache of traveling during certain holidays, a crowd doesn’t necessarily mean there is anything wrong, it’s just slows things down more than we would like. The fact is 330 million Americans move about every day, is that a crisis?

And when you have a growing population, or because people are living farther from home, and because air travel is more affordable (thanks to credit cards handed out by airline companies), you are going to have full airports and full flights.

But crisis equals ratings, and we know that if there is anything that can be trumped up as a crisis, news media will be sure to exploit it.

But like the boy who cried wolf, and the chicken that keeps telling us the sky is falling, over time people get desensitized, or worse, they become so fearful they don’t want to leave their homes anymore because they have been told it may not be safe.

Perhaps a word of advice to the news directors and producers who fill the ever-dwindling number of newsrooms being replaced by AI, not every thing is a crisis, sometimes its just the way it is, and people are smart enough to know the difference.

Steve Lapa, Rest in Peace

Jim Watkins. |. June 28, 2024

Steve Lapa, RIP

I didn’t know him well, but during a stretch of a few years, Steve and I would occasionally get together and talk programming in his Boca office, the home of WFTL AM 850. 

At the time, when Michael Savage and Laura Ingraham were at the height of their respective Talk Radio careers, Lapa carried both shows and I was the rep who handled whatever affiliate needs he had. Both of these show were very successful for him, and it gave me a chance to spend time with Steve, and I learned plenty.

He understood programming and sales. He knew radio was about relationships as much as it was about the money. The two worked hand in hand and he was never arbitrary. 

In one particular meeting with Steve and former owner Jim Hilliard, we discussed the need for more local or regional programming. Steve believed network programs raised the bar on quality, but that there was nothing better than a good local host who can talk local issues and make that listener connection. He was right, and I hope the trend to there being more local programs continues to make grow It’s where radio shines and shows its community value.

I felt Steve was ahead of everyone else on this issue of local, local, local.

When he exited WFTL our relationship quieted, but I followed his column and read his commentaries. We had a few phone calls here and there about the syndication business, but mostly, as the years passed, we spoke less and less, which was sad because I enjoyed his company. I know a lot of people felt the same way.

As it happens more often I would like to admit, I was stunned to learn he, like so many other talented radio giants, is no longer with us. He left us, like so many, far too soon. He was a good, fair and truly independent radio guy who shared the same passion we all have for this medium. It was about the relationship, and he personified it. 

Rest in peace Steve. The radio will be less without you in it.

The Great Collapse

Jim Watkins | June 3, 2024

Los Angeles looking East from MacArthur Park District towards downtown, home to 8 million people. (Photo AP)

For over a decade a large number of economists have been telling us the markets will collapse. After the very slow comeback of the real estate crash in 2008, the U.S. deficit increased like a snowball.


Today, it costs a billion dollars a month in interest just to pay on the debt without paying down the principle because government keeps increasing spending on things like endless war and paying off the loans of millions of people.

It is predicted that, by 2030, the U.S. deficit will be surpass $50 trillion dollars. Today, in order to pay off the debt every single U.S. citizen would need to cough up $230,000. 


A British economist declared recently before Parliament and before an audience of fellow financial advisors, planners and bank owners in London, “the system is broke, the public just doesn’t know it, yet.”


The only reason people are not panicking now and making a run for their money is because they are under the illusion their money is safe. It is not.

In a single night and from even perhaps a small triggering event, from a misplaced algorithm to a massive Chinese bond buyback, the entire banking system could collapse leaving banks and banking customers with nothing. It would be like a gigantic whirlpool sucking everything down at once. There is simply not enough cash in the system to cover the debt that exists. Eventually the debt will collapse the nation’s economy.


With the advent of fast information, the real-life effects of a sudden crash would send panic to everyone more quickly; banks (with government backing) would be forced to stop all credit transactions. 


If, by chance, you heard the news early that the stock market crashed by 30%, by the time you got into your car and drove to the nearest ATM, chances are you would only be able to get $300 dollars out, or the ATM would be out of cash altogether because a  thousand other people heard the news before you.


The employer that pays you would have to hold payment until they receive payment from their debtors, and everyone would be in the same boat. Actual dollars would be worthless and credit would be strictly limited. The federal government would have to step in, and the next phase would entail switching to a digital currency system controlled by you know who.

THE SET IS IN

One can argue we are already in a digital currency system because we use our ATM cards, or mostly credit cards instead of cash. In the new system there is no credit or cash anymore. The credit institutions are over-extended, actual wealth is consolidated to a few holding companies, but the U.S. dollar is almost worthless, and the feds cannot simply keep printing more money.

For every new dollar printed another dollars loses its valuation until the dollar itself becomes worth less than a penny. Look to Venezuela to see what this looks like today with the bolivar; just a week ago the Cuban dollar dropped to almost nothing and banks had to close to avoid a run.


The chain reaction from the government default affects pensions, medicare, social security, along with 401k’s and IRA’s tied to stocks. It is not inconceivable the stock exchange could lose 60% its valuation overnight.

But the federal government, whose policies are the primary driver of the financial crash, will appear as “the only solution.”


The New Deal is officially dead. It will have died because the takers outnumbered the producers, and because the growth of government destroyed production through waste and inefficiency. The government produces nothing, but it sucks everything else in as it gets larger and more overreaching.

They say one theory of dinosaur extinction is they grew too large and could no longer feed themselves; their relatively small brains could not solve the complex problem of food preservation. They ate everything until there was nothing else left to eat.

It is a metaphor for today’s government.


What I lose sleep over is the knowledge that civilization as we know it will cease to exist and everything will come apart.

The only possible outcome is a totalitarian State allocating resources so that people don’t starve. But I fear, even that scenario won’t be prevented if history is any indicator. After all, over one-hundred and fifty million people died in the 20th Century from massive starvation caused by totalitarian regimes who told the masses “they alone could save them.”

It would be hard to fathom, but people will have no choice but to comply to whatever the government says to do in order to solve the very problems they created. 


But take note! Our leaders will also find ways to place the blame elsewhere, away from their policies; they will say it was because of climate change, or they will say the economy fell apart because of corporate greed, or that it was because of Trump’s crazy policies, or right-wing nationalism, or because of social injustice, and misinformation from people with dangerous ideas spreading hate.


Not until the 2020 pandemic would I have ever believed such a nightmare scenario could suddenly thrust itself into full view.

But with the ongoing and almost delirious denial of the U.S. debt balloon, the total disregard for border integrity, the full-blown embrace of the surveillance state, and the willingness of our leaders (with citizen compliance) to use force in order to get people comply as we saw during most of 2021, I am now more convinced than ever before that such a societal collapse is not only inevitable, but probably likely to occur within the next few years.


If you want to see the future in America, look at Portland, or Oakland, or The Kensington District in Philadelphia, or the slums of downtown Los Angeles, or New York City at night. There you will see the beginnings of what is to become the norm if Americans don’t realize that we are being set up to fail by a power structure that needs the system to fail before the people rise up and regain control of it.

Sadly, half the world is being distracted by their hatred one a man who, like Julian Assange is now fighting for his life against the Deep State that wants him removed. We are purposely being pitted against each other.


Like him or hate, Trump represents the opposition the Left fears most, and if you support the system, you are supporting your own downfall.

Jim Watkins is a writer, father and husband and the host of the national radio program America Today and the Podcast Speaking Out America on Spotify.

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Who Does Robert DeNiro Think He is?

Jim Watkins | May 28, 2024

I defend Robert De Niro’s right to hate Donald Trump.

I defend one of the greatest American actors of all time, and his right to speak out against Trump if that is what he wants to spend his stardom on.

Isn’t America great?

What troubles me is that De Niro has unfortunately been duped into becoming a useful idiot for the Left.

I’m not sure where the New York actor sits about Biden, or Democrats in general, but while he is busy fuming about Trump being the source of all evil, his wonderful and once beautiful city is falling apart right before his eyes, and he has prioritized his mission in life going after a straw man, instead of using his gravitas to hold people accountable who have made New York a shithole.

Trump isn’t the problem. He never was. 

The deep administrative State that is the federal government has metastasized into a growing cancer. Technology has provided an accelerant to an already massive power-grab that won’t stop until every U.S. citizens is made to confirm to a new social order. 

Does De Niro blame Trump for the high crime in all major U.S. cities?

Does De Niro care at all about the porous U.S. border and the amount of human trafficking going on, or the massive shipment of drugs coming in headed toward cities big and small, causing tens of thousands of deaths every month? 

Is De Niro really okay with entire countries being forced by law to take an experimental drug to “cure” a flu that was most likely created by the very people who are now selling you the vaccine? 

Why is Robert De Niro more occupied with his hatred about a man, instead of being angry at the political leaders going after Trump and making him the bogeyman everyone is supposed to fear, when the very people making the charge are actually the ones who pose a real threat?

Robert De Niro got a lotta good breaks in life, due partly because of talent but also because he looks like the kind of tough-guy-hero we can all relate to, whether it’s with characters like Michael from The Deer Hunter, the cab driver crazy guy in Taxi, or the rising mob king Michael Corleone in The Godfather. No doubt his performed his roles well and made a lot of money in the process.

All the more reason I don’t understand why, on the issue of Trump, he has made this his Moby Dick.

Was he slighted? Did someone close to him get ripped off by Trump? Was Trump hurtful to De Niro, or has there always been animosity that almost makes it seem personal?

Some have said De Niro may be projecting an adult figure in his own life he hated who Trump reminds him of.

Who cares. It is personal for him, but this doesn’t give De Niro the privilege of telling other people how to vote or what to think. That’s where I call foul.

Express all you wish, but to tell people Trump is “a danger,” and is going to “destroy the world” is going to extremes. The people in charge now are the ones you should be barking about, not a billionaire mogul who hates how our current leadership is slowly destroying the United States from within, the greatest country on earth.

It would be better if one of my favorite actors of all time would join me and try to do something about child trafficking, malevolent corporations who keep people sick, or the endless wars that our country seems to sponsor at every turn in history, just to pad the pockets of big-donor stockholders within the military-industrial complex.

These issues could use the attention of Robert De Niro, and for that matter, every other ungodly-rich actor in Hollywood and New York, who sit in their sanctimonious chairs telling the rest of us who we should vote for, so they can enjoy the finer things of life at our expense; those who never have to worry about a meal, or a gig, or a child who goes to work at night and may never come home because of gangs and thugs who prey on the rest of us. But not you, Robert, with your fancy Manhattan apartment, looking down on us, the deplorables, who happen to disagree with you.

I think I liked De Niro best as Jack in Midnight Run. Now there was a guy you could depend on to do the right thing, even when the system punished him down for doing it, like Trump.

Family Is Dying In The West

Jim Watkins | May 17, 2024

Famed NFL kicker Harrison Butker told his class of graduates family is rightfully the center of everything else.

The and the Left went mad.

How many charts do I need to show you to expose the truth that family is dying in Western society and the consequences of this is shown in the growing instability of the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. The reaction against Butker proves the point. Some even asked for his resignation from the Kansas City Chiefs, the team who won the most recent Super Bowl championship game.

In another age someone like Butker would be a hero.

Violent crime is up.

Student and young adult suicide rates are up

Births are declining

Marriage is declining

Kids are staying at home longer

Abortions are at an all time high

Addiction is up

At what point do we make the connection between broken (or non existent) homes and the social-ills we face today?

Public schools have taken on the repsonsibility of raising our young, and of late, are pushiing ideologies that actually harm families. Single mothers now out-number two-parent families by 3 to 1 in African American communities, which accounts for the highest incarceration rate among young black men who statistically are more likely to grow up without fathers, making them more susceptible to gang inclusion (where there is at least a sense of family).

Let’s look at family and why this institution is vital to civilization.

Two adults making a lifelong commitment to raising children produces fidelity, commitment, loyalty, self-sacrifice and a genuine dedication to sharing the enormous and invaluable experience of child-rearing. 

There is no human activity that goes farther in building upon the better natures of human beings; where the home is has always been the center to family, and through family association, cousins, uncles, grandparents, generational experience moves forward; it is the family that allows culture to be passed from one generation to the next, preserving hard-learned and valuable cultural wisdom with an invisible string that links us to the past.

For offspring, the home is where the most important character traits are taught to children, who will one day provide for their own offspring, and in addition, become themselves cordial and keenly productive members of society. People who have children are undeniably happier, more fulfilled in life, and are less prone to emotional and mental illness often associated with loneliness.

The family also maintains stability through homebuilding. In a healthy family, kids learn to share, to show loyalty and tolerance, and learn respect for their parents and grandparents, and then later, respect among siblings. Love nurtures the soil of human personality and produces better emotional outcomes. Studies also show children with siblings tend to be slightly better adjusted emotionally than those who come from single-child households.

Parents also have a supreme responsibility to teach their children morals, ethics, and depending on the family, spiritual and religious principles that guide conduct throughout their entire lives. These essentials provide the quality of inheritance. Without them every society must learn anew what lost. Family provides the thread that weaves together the social fabric of society.

From 1945 to 1959 and fresh after a World War II victory, America’s middle class were anxious to begin anew and usher in a new era of prosperity. New engineering made it possible for suburbs to be born, a perfect incubator for a real baby-boom, which is exactly what happened. But by the mid-60’s, young people began liberating themselves from traditional mores as the homelife began to change. The drug culture exploded a decade or so later, and it became cool to “tune in and drop out.”

What changed?

Empahsis on individual career-bulding for both men and women is what promulgated the shift. Suddenely TV (and TV-dinners) and baysitters became the norm to accomodate two-income households. The dynamic changed because the home was empty of parents for 1/3rd of the day at least, leaving kids to be influenced by the world around them.

Culture supported this new-found freedom of women’s liberty from home and to the work pace. Uncle Sam liked it because it double the tax rolls, forgetting it came at the expense of the unrealized value of homelife and its contribution to a stable society.

In the 1990’s there was a phrase bantered about when women who did not work would call themselves “stay-at-home-moms,’ as if that was abormal for women to be managing moe affairs on a full-time basis. 

For thousands of years mother was the guardian, protector and chief operating officer of the home. Homelife, with mother in chanrge, was the rule, not the exception. 

This illustrates how the West shifted its stance on women’s value being more prized if she worked outside of the home diminishing the value of raising and rearing children into productive and happy adults.

Somewhere along the way the West decided raising the next generation was less important than pursuing careers goals as a show of power and independence.

And now we are paying for it.

Raising and rearing children is a supreme privilege, and children pay the price when no one is there when they come home from school alone, or when they spend two hours a day riding a bus to a school twenty miles away just because both parents are off to work at seven a.m. 

Is it any wonder our children are lost?

WE CAN FIX THIS

The good news is not is all lost. 

To steer this great ship back towards the more stable social environment requires only that we collectively agree family is paramount to all of our other efforts. Child-rearing must be held to the highest esteem. We owe this allegiance to our gardnchildren and to theirs.

A big first step is for education to support parents by working on curriculum that promotes two-parent families as ideal. Certain jurdisdictional provisions must be given to ensure parental authority prevails. Primary education should include relationship-training so that youung people, when older, are better prepared for family life.  

Parents should have more engagement in the education their children, and today’s technology allows for both parents and educators to work in tandem much more effectively for the benefit of the child. It is irresponsible for a parent to be ignorant of what their child is learning – or isn’t learning.

Courses in child-rearing for secondary students should be mandatory and include replete study of child hygiene, disease prevention, and especially nutritional and behavioral education, so that young parents are better prepared.

If we took these first simple steps, in less than two generations we would see the benefits of this all-hands-on-deck approach to a First Family initiative.  Least of all we would have produced a much happier and better prepared generation of children who can maintain the kind of stability that improves quality of life for all.  When we commit to making sure the family is preserved as the bedrock unit of society, the fruits of our labor will be forthcoming sooner, rather than later. It is not too late.

Gaianism – The New World Religion

Jim Watkins | May 13, 2024

Patrick Wood recently authored a substack paper that attempts to explain a new world religion emerging as part of the overall One Health Initiative, which posits “saving the planet,” by bringing about global “equity” through wealth redistribution under the guise of health and energy conservation.

Young people, having been indoctrinated into the green revolution are attracted to this new ideology and replacing traditional religion with “going green,” a more pagan-like universalism, where we simply hand power over to overlords who make sure everyone complies with saving Gaia, our planet.

This new ideology involves a lot of intersectionality, as it unites socialism with left-wing globalism, bringing calls for surveillance, censorship, transhumanism, the demise of the family unit (as a priority influence), environmentalism and population control. 

What this new world order does not include is Judeo-Christian values or philosophy, nor established Western-styled democracy as envisioned by thinkers like Socrates and Marcus Aurelius, or even the Founding Fathers, who strongly believed individual rights and an intelligent citizenry is the best approach achieving happiness for the greatest number of people, and especially to prevent the over-consolidation of power, the sole aim of globalism.

Young people today, having been stripped of any spiritual identity because secularism has been taught in public schools since the late 1940’s, have little difficulty in transferring their beliefs in Jesus, God or Allah, to the more placid and material Gaianism, a belief-system where its adherents derive comfort knowing they are “taking action,” because they have been “empowered” to“save the planet.” Not since the first army of Christians emerged from Jerusalem has there been this much enthusiasm for a global cause, instigated, of course, by anti-Western forces who hope to turn the entire planet into a socialist hellhole where worship is transferred from deity to the State.

Like any religion, believers must follow its tenets in order to receive grace. Chief among them is you must believe Western industrialism and ideas of liberty, free speech, private property and Christian orthodoxy is inherently evil. To the Gaiast, these are oppressive constructs created by White Europeans, and later, promoted by American Imperialism, itself cloaked in Christian theocracy.

Gaianism is rooted falsehood, that man-made carbon is making the planet hotter and allowing civilized nations to oppress and exploit third world countries through the causing of extreme weather events that destroy lands and force migration of the indigenous. 

An army of highly educated people today believe Western societies owe the people of Bangladesh billions in reperations because of annual floods they endure (from climate change) , that the West also owes many African countries for the devastation of drought – also caused by man-made climate change (i.e., the West).

For this the world must atone.

The answer? 

Form a coalition of chosen experts who will, through their vast wisdom and understanding of the sciences, govern the means of production and distribution of energy, food and land, and make it more equitable to all. This is what Bill Gates calls “following the science.”

Forgotten is the scientific fact that man only contributes 3-5% of the total carbon on the planet. Even if we were to completely stop producing energy today the environmental impact would be negligible. We would, however, accomplish another goal: disrupt progress and force everyone to live in impoverished conditions until enough of the population dies off from starvation so that there will simply be less mouths to feed (Gates said as much at a Ted Talks lecture in 2015).

While there is an argument that can be made to address consumption excess and diverting our wealth to solve the world’s pollution and food problem, there is no substantive argument for making people who are producing pay for those who are not, and in doing so, alter the planetary heat index, not to mention completely dismantling the last two-hundred years of progress that has actually raised the global standard of living.

If Bill Gates really wanted help the planet, why not use his fortunes build school and hire teacher in every village on the continent in Africa and Asia, instead of pouring billions into seed-clouding with the hopes of lowering the global temperature?

If George Soros or Mark Zuckerberg really cared about humanity, why not throw their resources into supporting literacy programs with emphasis on the sciences, arts, literature and world history, instead of supporting divisive initiatives that promote violence, civil unrest and general unsettledness between peoples?

Supporting DA’s around the world who want to reform social justice by decriminalizing bad behavior isn’t helping the planet “heal.” Why not support faith-based initiatives (or private schools) that allow, for example, students to conduct prayer in school, instead of a secular “moment of silence.”

The Open Door Society should stop buying bricks and start buying books to make sure every kid can be literate by the time they are 14, not watering down public schools by turning academia into one giant activism factory. 

The Real Purpose of Religion in the Modern Age

At the root of Christianity is the family unit, which must be safeguarded and preserved, otherwise all hope is lost and the governments of the world will become like the Church of the 15th Century.

They, the unelected planners and wealthy land barons (Hedge fund managers and corporate board influencers) wish to govern us as our overlords. And they wish to force us into absolving our materialistic “sins” through confession, repentance, compliance and service to Gaia, and be forced to make sacrifices for new modern sins of carbon use, hate-thought-crimes and daring to challenge whatever narrative happens to keep people from the knowing the truth.

We will own nothing and be happy.

WE CAN FIX THIS – A MOTHER’S DAY MESSAGE

Jim Watkins, May 10, 2024

I wanted to end the week on a high note by writing something positive. After all, it is Mother’s Day on Sunday and next week is Pentecost, the day we celebrate the Spirit of Truth being given to mankind after the Son ascended to the Father, for those who understand the significance of such things.

But the truth is the picture is not looking good. We have a war grinding away in Ukraine, thousands are dying in the Middle East, thousands more in conflicts all around the world, along with economic uncertainty, and it doesn’t help that the leader of the free world can barely connect two sentences together.

I don’t want to pile on, but let’s just say I am extremely disappointed in our current leadership. I can look to no one with any degree of hope or even respect at this point. Except for maybe my own governor, and even that causes an argument because we have all become so polarized.

I propose that we look at Motherhood this weekend.

Mothers are the glue that hold society together. But the role of motherhood is now competing with many other influences, and as a way of showing my gratitude, let me just say I believe society was better off when woman wanted to raise children and provide the stability of the home we longer have in our current age.

Now, such an idea as motherhood gets perceived as patriarchal. Except that if you really believe the home and the family are the bedrock of society, then you have to explain to me why everything has gone nuts since 1955? That’s when the women’s second liberation movement took place and it was decided women were entitled to everything men were doing, including career and upward mobility.

But it came at the sacrifice of a tried and tested mechanism that preserved and made society stable, the stability of the home.

Children thrive when the home life is stable. Strong communities are born when family is the center of culture. We know this, studies confirm kids grow up to be happier and healthier when both parents partake in the upbringing of children. Family values translate to good character in the public square, and it is not an illusion that when people come from strong and loving families, societies thrive.

This weekend we celebrate Mom, the most powerful person on the planet. It is she who fraternizes with destiny as the hand that rocks the cradle. Mothers also make men better husbands. It’s not alway perfect, but the plan is worthwhile.

In a free society, family is the prize, it is the greatest human achievement two people can share.

Maybe we should recalibrate our endeavors and make family a priority again. That would be a good first step to healing.

How We Save The Planet

By Jim Watkins, May 8, 2024

There is a march towards globalism, a nebulous idea that assumes centralized power in the hands of the few is a good thing. This is cause for great consternation for a singular reason. Most of those who are behind this push, notably the likes of Bill Gates (an avowed atheist who only “believes in science”), and George Soros, who stated publicly there is no moral ambiguity about making a profit (not unlike Mao Zedong, who believed the world was made “just for him”), are getting massive support from high-ranking members of the elite new world order who control the European Union, the World Economic Forum and The Trilateral Commission in the United States. There is growing support among the rank and file of British and American intelligentsia.media financial instituions and especially the healthcare industry who have no qualms being empowred with global authority and dominant market share.

Biden himself publicly stated he believes the new world order is coming, and he wants America to lead. A sentiment no one outside the U.S. shares.

The big picture is the bureaucracy of a New World Order , one in which \no one will really know who is in charge except in the apparatus of the technology that controls us through legalism, social credit scores and carbon monitoring.

The worldview of these NWO globalists is secular, exalted humanists who do not believe there is a God. I’ll get to why this is important in a moment.

These unelected bureaucrats, who believe man can be managed like cattle if people would only let the experts do their jobs, are in the process of making this happen whether we, the entirety of humanity, agree with their plans or not.

As illustrated by the insidious, but foollish belief man can control climate, it is a theory rooted in the hubris ideology that states centralized power is best for controlling and managing human affairs. In Road To Serfdom, Friedrich Hayek said the beast (centralized power) never stops feeding until the society it aims to “protect” collapses. Human nature guarantees a centralized power structure can never achieve its goal and power is best distributed among the people. This is also the premise of the American Republic, thirteen colonies with equal power and representation. It worked and it showed that people are happiest when left to live free and not be overly-taxed or regulated or controlled.

So for this reason I am staunchly against any effort to achieve globalism. If the globalist leaders were inclusive of a spiritual hierarchy, or they recognnized Man needs God because God is real and not the figment of the imagination of a stupid human, I might be midly tempted to accept a global power running the affairs of man. But God is real and the only way man can be controlled and improve his life is by living a deeply spiritual life. This idea might not sit well with our current trope of world leders, but it doesn’t make it any less true. If it were not true then Jesus Christ is a lie, and whoever it was who called himself the Son of Man was a fantasy.

The Stakes Are Drawn

This is the choice. If we believe man is endowed by our creator, then governments rule is subservient to the protection of the individual. If man is not endowed by a spiritual creator, then governments are the higher power.

Which do you believe is true?

The fact is most securlarist believe in the latter, and this is why they believe man can and should be controlled like cattle.

We all know man’s nature is both deceptive and cruel, there is just no way a centralized aggregate of powerful unelected and unaccountable people running the world could ever acheive success for the masses. These self-selected rulers would benefit enormously because they would hold the levers of power as they are trying to do today through media initiatives, online monitoring, regulation, control of “hate-speech” in their attempt to fight “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

No one asked the global elite for their guidance on this matter of global control; no one asked them tp plan it, nor did we request these people assume the role of being our overlords.

The globalists will never achieve their goals because they completely ignore the one singular and eternal truth. It is the Most Highs who rule in the affairs and kingdoms of men, not The WHO, not the EU, or the IMF.

At this very moment, we are being watched for and cared for by spiritual administrators who have been with us all along. The way to world unity can only come through the universal recognition of the brotherhood of man predicated on the fatherhood of God.

A Spiritual Solution

No matter how many diplomas you have or languages you speak, or how much economic or political power you possess, mankind is not capable, nor spiritually or emotionally responsible, to be handed such an esteemed privilege of power as to assume the role of planetary caretakers, a role reserved for only the most enlightened beings in our universe. Christ is the Planetary Prince, so how could humans assume this role when they won’t even acknowledge the authority of Christ, the bestowal Son?

There is only one other individual who would be repugnant enough to try to usurp such power, and his name is well established, and it is his mission the global elites serve, it is for his glory that there is a real cabal of people assuming privileged positions of authority in this newly emerging world order, where they hope to enslave the masses for their own good to preserve their privilege as enforcers and gatekeepers in this global regime.

We can try to solve the problems of war, pestilence, famine, and poverty with big government and constant surveillience, by creating electronic fences when we don’t comply with the overlords, but this will lead to misery, class warfare and serfdom on a grand scale.

A spiritual approach on the part of each individual will provide the better answer than mere collectivism. The 20th century taught us this hard lesson. But we keep forgetting it: Man is endowed with the spirit of free will – he must remain free, and not be subjugated to the whims of political or totalitarian social policies.

World governments compromised by greed do not end wars, they start them. Secret agencies with self-serving agendas cause social unrest, not people. Tech can be used to educate our young and teach them true sciences and histories, instead the makers of these devices have polluted young minds and have kept them obsessed with commercialism and superficial distractions designed to entertain but not enlighten.

The Beast

For a glimpse of this new world order on a global scale, one only needs to look as far as Beijing, China to understand what the future looks like if these “rules-based” bureaucrats get their way.

In Communist China, 30% of the population lives well; these party member (basically government workers) serve the Party because they benefit from its protections from poverty, meanwhile 70% of the population never rise above poverty as long as they are monitored and “managed” to serve the few.

To the Communist party members, they view the greater population as inferior. Mao Zedong replaced spiritual hope with service to the People’s party. It succeeds today because of sheer military force and a culture of secrecy. It is a human pecking order on a national scale.

In the secularized West, the elites froth at such a system (Justin Trudeau, among them), idealizing such a paradigm that serves them well. And it is the technical advances of surveillance that makes such control possible today, especially if IHR is adopted, which appears likely.

The only remainiing hurdle to global tyranny is convincing people to join in, that it is best to give up sovereignty for “the greater good,” in fighting pandemics, climate change and global inequality; that only centralized power is capable of managing such issues.

In late May 2024 world leaders from 194 countries meet in Geneva, Switzerland to sign off on the new International Health Regulations (IHR) treaty.

Imagine a boot smashing against a human face pinned to the ground. This is the future of man.

It is the vision of Bill Gates, et. al., to achieve global countrol through Science, the science of controlling population, food production and energy distribution; his philanthropy provides more than half the funding for the WHO. Gates and others of his wealth level also supply funding for a handful of NGO’s run by globalists who agree with his agenda. Gates has no interest in sharing the planet with what he sees is a phantasm in the sky commonly referred to as God.

The Choice

Every single human being is being asked to make a choice. That choice will determine the immediate future of mankind.

But peace and goodwill among all peoples will not come from the boot of big government. The only path for mankind to worldwide peace and true progress is achievd through spiritual means.

Jesus taught service to moral principles and a faith in a spiritual father who will unite his children with a common cause, “to be perfect, even as I am perfect.” It is this saving philosophy that will ultimately liberate mankind from the fear of death, the fetters of materialism, and will further shield him from being abused by the unrighteousness of men who seek only power.

Not until the individual chooses divine principles of living will life improve for every person in the family of humankind.

Government can most certainly servve mankind, but man should never be forced to serve governments against his or her will, which is the plan of a new world globalist order.

Secularlism, spiritual pessimism and abject immorality has led to more than 160 million people being murdered in the last century. Millions more today die from disease, starvation, medical malpractice, and violence than ever before, even though we have the technology to solve most of the worlds’ major social problems.

The reason is nationalities have become too powerful and corrupted by greed. To overcome this trend, faith-based peoples must clammer and form a unified front demanding change. Parents showing up at school board meetings is a great start.

These next few decades will determine our path for the next five hundred years, and we will not be saved by people like Bill Gates or George Soros. Tecnhnology alone won’t save us, we must save ourselves by first, being and teaching principled behavior (the golden rule), and second, by reinstating our priority of family in modern life. It is the family unit – and not the tribe – that is the bedrock to the foundation of a great society, it is here where generations can survive and thrive over the long stretches of human history.

It is time for a religious revolution among fath-based citizens on planet Earth.

If the religious sects of the world would come together under the banner of God, great things can be accomplished.

Left Vs. Right

Jim Watkins. May 6, 2024

The following are common-ground points upon which most progressives agree:

1. Being Anti-Christian

2. Being a Globalist instead of a Nationalist

3. Supportive of all LGBTQ Agendas

4. Hatred of assumed Conservative principles

… And I will throw in this one as well, being pro-COVID (which is to say you do not question the science behind the vaccines nor the policies that our institutions adopted to enforce COVID-19 mandates (vaccines, mask-wearing, social distancing, lockdowns, etc).

I’ll be honest, my spouse is as liberal as they come and would properly fit the definition of being a “Karen,” and most of my inlaws are also decidedly Left-wing as well, owing to the fact they lived in socialist countries and have been the benefit of generational wealth, so they haven’t experienced hardship, in fact the opposite, they are more like the typical “ugly American” ex-pat types who tend to lean Jacobian, confusing socialism with being compassionate and more European, snubbing Americans as trolls.

I’d like to break down each of these five principles of being Progressive and show you why their ideology is not only false but dangerous to the free world. 

It is this embrace of progressivism that poses the greatest existential threat to open democracies and fortified Republics that enjoy the benefits of free speech, open markets, economic prosperity and cultural nationalism.

Progressivism also denies social diseases such as evil behavior, immorality, and totalitarianism. To the Left morality is a fluid construct.

For example, most progressives endorse so-called hate speech laws because they believe it protects people’s emotions. Hence many would be willing to give up free speech in the public square if it spared someone from being verbally offended. 

In Scotland, calling someone a queer can get you in jail or fined, or both. In Ireland, calling someone the wrong pronoun can get you fired or removed from any position of power.

#1. Anti-Christianism

The very notion there is a God is bad enough for most progressives, but adding to it his Son Jesus coming to earth to save people is beyond atrocious. Such fables, according to the Left, are rooted in patriarchy and oppression. The idea of praying to a father in heaven has no place in a society ruled by science. Many corporate CEOs and billionaire influencers embrace Scientism, the notion that only that which can proven is real. Secularism, or what Bill Gates calls “the science” has no moral ambivalence. It either is, or it isn’t. This is why abortion, the actual cessation of a life form, is not seen as immoral. It satisfies a temporal need-to be free of responsibility.

To the progressive, the ability to have “reproductive rights” is more important than the unborn’s right to live.  Under the umbrella of the 1960s feminist movement, women wanted the right to walk away from parental responsibility as much as men were able to do. The lie was how women’s rights were framed as coming from men, not the mores that had long been established that women are the nurturers of the next generation, and therefore have a more vital role in the sustaining of a progressive society. This has been completely undermined by so-called “Women’s Rights.” 

And after 60 years of this, we see the results. Women are no happier than they were 100 years ago, except now the government benefits from having two taxpayers from every household instead of just one, and as a direct consequence, schools now have more influence on our children’s thinking than parents. The State has coopted our kids so that women can be free to enjoy industrial servitude.

The very right to abort is a symbol of the absolute autonomy of the female body. Religion is the antithesis of this liberty because religion teaches us to serve one another and to be more responsible as adults. The best way to learn this is to be parents, and what is more responsible than being a parent?

 It has been proven that children who come from two-parent families are happier and perform better in life. People who have children are also happier later in life than childless people. And yet, even today, marriage is being questioned as being just another form of “patriarchal oppression.”

Society is breaking down because the once-cherished idea of the family unit has been reclassified as “patriarchal oppression.” 

Progressive ideas such as “the community” becoming the family (tribes, sects, and groupings) only reinforces or State authority, and removing the religious component also posits the State as the final authority. In other words, real or not, without a supernal God, something else must fill the void. When the sacred is removed, the profane takes its place. Men become gods and the real oppression begins. 

Many communist rulers had no issue with people being killed, as illustrated by over 130 million deaths since World War II under communism; progressives and communists share in this duel joy of removing religion from society under the illusion of personal choice without any reverence or obligation to spiritual values. 

Imagine a world without religion?  Contray to John Lennon’s Magnum Opus, we will not “someday be as one” through secularism or exalted humanism; we will, Instead, find ourselves in a total surveillance system where no one is ever free from our human overlords.

The religion of Christ is an advanced religion for two reasons. First, it raises the dignity of the human being by declaring the soul as a thing of eternal value, something that makes it possible for us to survive mortal death, an idea people like Bill Gates and George Soros (and Mao Zedong and Josef Stalin) refuse to believe. 

And, second, the teachings of Jesus are open to everyone, not just the rich, the privileged or the educated. Jesus taught all people were children of God. 

In many ways Christianity was a beginning of a new way of looking at the parent-child relationship, only this time with a divine inheritance. This idea changed the entire direction of human civilization. Today, so-called modernists scoff at it as nothing more than an outdated tradition. 

#2 Globalism versus Nationalism

To the progressive, who now believes America is equal to every other nation; the idea of having pride in a country built on racism and sexism is revolting. Native Americans were slaughtered, Africans were enslaved while the white man raped their daughters and wives, and there was no reconciliation. Why, the progressive asks, should we want to “Make America great again”?

Globalism is much more respectable because in this worldview everyone is equal, all cultures are equal and no one should ever believe they are, for any reason, better than anyone else. The progressive view is that once we all agree to be equal, there will be universal peace, and no reason to fight.

It’s a wonderful idea except for the fact that not all nations are equal. Nor do most nations want to give in to global collectivism. 

The chance that any number of world leaders will give up their power is ludicrous and frankly, childish. But the “rules-based” State fosters these ideas as noble, and panders these childishly emotional ideas because only under centralized power can humanity be controlled by those few who dictate policy on food, energy, and movement. 

This is where exalted humanism rears its ugly head. A progressive taught to hate their country and completely ignore the last ten thousand years of human evolution is easy prey for the globalist elite. 

But imperialism is not dead, and globalism is modern imperialism disguised as democracy. North Korea has a democracy. So is Venezuela, and these are but just two examples of extreme centralized power. Technology only enhances State power. China is veritable prison housing 1.4 billion people.

And yet despite the evidence, hundreds of millions of people believe mankind is capable of creating a benevolent global government in the name of “the greater good.”

If the world adopted the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the world might be a better place, but the U.S. is becoming more like a socialist enterprise, such as the one EU leaders have embraced. And such a progressive shift would only reduce our country to nothing more than an outpost ruled by the very kinds of tyrants our ancestors had tried to escape from. Only this time the tyrants are atheists. 

Any progressive who fails to understand this as a problem has never lived in a totalitarian society. 

There is a reason people are trying to get into America. 

3. Supportive of all LGBTQ Agendas

In step with the previous points, creating special interest groups is one effective way for the government to gain power. Since the rise of equal protection for members of the homosexual community, the feds have figured out a way to control the 90% of the population who are not gay. It began with anti-bullying legislation and continues with federally-sanctioned transgender surgeries for adolescents and adults. 

In the U.S. military, the government will pay for your transition surgery upon demand. In exchange, other members will be forced to acquiesce to your view. 

With one simple stroke, the feds have codified 2 + 2 = 5.

The newly revised Title IX ordinance, intended to ensure women had the same academic and scholastic opportunities as men, has been rewritten to include protections based on gender identity. The ramifications will impact other students, faculty, and parents who refuse to believe one can simply change their natural gender to something other than how they were born. In other words, science does not apply, only feelings and perceptions.

Again, the government has broadened its protections to include transgendered people as new laws exclude the remaining 99.7% of the population.

2+2 = 5. 

If I hold up two fingers on each hand and I tell you there are five fingers, you are punished if you see otherwise. If I am a boy and I tell you I am a girl, you will, under the new Title IX, be forced to agree with me and acknowledge it in the public square. 

All of this was created to protect the feelings of people who, a generation before, were considered mentally ill. 

Pedophilia will be normalized in the coming decades, if not sooner. Sexualization of culture has become the business of government. That is why drag shows are protected; It is why men are allowed to be in women’s prisons if they claim to be woman; it is why children are being told in school that it’s okay for older people to be attracted to them. 

I’ll stop here. You get the point. 

4. Being Against Republicans and Conservative

Progressives tend to stereotype conservatives as being insensitive to the little guy, the bully, the banker, the landlord, people in power, etc. And yet, the biggest bullies today are groups who push progressive policy and influence public policy like ESG and DEI through threats of (legal) intimidation. I was taught that Democrats are ‘for the people’ and Republicans are for the bankers, and who (in Jacobian and Marxist fashion) oppress the poor. 

Ironically, it is through wealth creation that the poor have better opportunities, whereas governments who re-distribute wealth through socialist policies end up creating more poverty. 

The issue, therefore, is education. As long as the right is portrayed as being evil overlords, there is little we can do to wake up the woke.

Since the 1960’s, education has erringly taught that the oppressor is the capitalist. Until this image changes people on the Left will continue to demonize the free market principles that have raised the global standard of living. 

For now, progressives only see poverty caused by society (not individual choices), and falsely believe only the State can eliminate it. This is what Karl Marx believed, indeed a man who was perpetually unemployed and forced his family to live in poverty, except by the good graces of a few people who gave him money.

Progressivism is at the root of Malthusianism, that only governments can eliminate poverty, not the individual.

A true conservative understands it is better to have opportunity with risk of failure than to eliminate all risk of failure at the expense of opportunity. One road leads to true freedom of the individual to pursue one’s dreams, while the latter leads to the endless dependency of the individual on government as the price of protection and illusionary safety.

At the root of true freedom is the idea that man has free will, and is endowed by a creator who gave man the moral ability to choose between good and evil, right and wrong, altruism over selfishness, and individual growth over paternal dependency.

False liberty is dependency on the State, which decides what is good and what is right, who should succeed, and who should be prevented from doing so. 

In closing, I hope I have shone some light on the differences between the two competing ideologies, so that the reader can better decide which path will serve to enhance humanity quality of life for the greatest number of people. 

The stakes are very high and it is time to ante up.

The West Has Fallen

by James Watkins – April 24, 2024

During the dark ages when the Christian Church was mostly seen as a sect or cult, many believers had to work underground in secret. The work was taking what was then the Old and New Testaments and merging them into what we now have today, the Holy Bible, and making copies for users to keep and teach to the sects. 

In addition to the teachings of Jesus, The Bible also contained the teachings and philosophies of the Greeks, as well as Jewish Law, and these laws themselves are part of a vestige of ideas that, had not the Monks worked tirelessly and diligently through those long, dark years, where they could be put to death if they were caught, the entirety of Western thought, including the teachings of Christ, would have been lost to the world.

Without the Bible, we would have had no Magna Carta, or the charters of human dignity that followed, including the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, which ushered in a new era of liberty and free-thinking. It was Western thought that eventually led to the Enlightenment and the later Sciences. It was the human dignity of men who believed they possessed souls that led to the end of slavery, even to the liberation of women and the rights they had been denied previously.

There is a bit of irony to the idea that the Vatican Church, whose early members provided safe passage to great truths, would, centuries later, come down on those who dared to question the Christian doctrine, whose ideas gave rise to the age of Scientific discovery. Today, Scientism threatens to destroy religious thought as well as Western principles, such as fairness, property rights and free speech, even the right to suffrage.

Today, God, the message of Jesus’ teachings, Greek philosophy, and Rome’s reverence for law, are under the most extreme assault. Actual knowledge is now being manipulated and replaced with Marxism’s latest offspring: Wokeism. 

The call for Diversty, Equity and Inclusion are an antithesis to Christian teachings, because true tolerance, service to others, and reverence of God are rejected in the new social paradigm.

To the Woke, we are all gods, and the State is who we serve at the expense of Judeo-Christian values.

Wokeism destroys tradition, family values, and even moral law based on a divine principles. Today, the person on the street no longer values “divine” principles, because the very question of divinity (God) is considered patriarchal oppression. Mao Zeding’s dreams came true. Get rid of the family and tradition and you can redirect people’s allegiance to the State.

And it is working.

The values that provided the glue of an emerging modern society are today being cast asunder in place of the new value system, a system that declares man is NOT divine in heritage, nor entitled to freedom of will or freedom of thought. 

Instead, and in its place, is the new neo-modern idea that everyone is the same, and the only thing that matters is “the greater good,” as determined by the power centers of the collective, whether they be the Chinese Communist Party, the European Union, or the LGBTQ.

God is dead; it is the State that has dominion. And this godless philosophy could, depending on how quickly things turn, last a few hundred years, or even longer. What comes after this dark period depends on our ability to preserve those things that are under attack, as previously described. It won’t be as easy as saving your bible and hiding it, but it will be about teaching your children about the dangers of this new world philosophy that seeks to seperate them from their family and from God. We need to preserve the great writings, the great speeches, classical music and literature, art and even movies of the bygone era.

Mass indoctrination and mass censorship will become the norm. Mass injections of vaccines, population and food control, energy control, and even movement will be regulated by the emerging State. People are already taking in whatever the State tells them to do, simply following orders under the guise of “safety.”

Soon even death will be decided by a committee, and messages encouraging assisted-suicide will be prevelant, posited as a method of saving the planet. 

In the new order we are nothing more than carbon producers. Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, eagerly admits human beings are the most dangerous things to planet earth, and population must be brought under control. His heavily-funded contributions to WHO and NGO’s who support and promote infanticide echoes his father’s leadership as an executive with Planned Parenthood during Bill’s youth.

Young adults are getting sterilized in greater numbers,. Marriage is being delayed, which means families are fewer. This is the frst sign of societal breakdown because the family unit is the bedrock foundation of society.

Though you wouldn’t know by the way the media celebrates the pride of non-reproduction and the virtue of non-binarism, humans todayonly have allegiance to one’s preferred pronoun.

Totalitarianism has infected the body politic of once-former Western strongholds such as Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, most of Southeast Asia, India, Germany, France, and England. In certain sectors of the U.S. we see institutions embracing these new ideas of social Marxism.

Today’s battle cry is to ‘end hate’; The State’s number one duty is to ‘protect’ people from every from hate.

To accomplish this task people have to be monitored, and by virtue of a society that overwhelmingly supports anti-hate policies, censorship becomes acceptable. We see this emerging like wildfire all over Europe.

In Germany and Sweden it is a crime to complain about being raped by a migrant on your Facebook page. The offense is not the crime itself, but by calling out the assailant using a purjorative term such as “migrant.”

THE TIPPING POINT

The COVID-19 pandemic was the accelerant; it revealed to leaders that massive numbers of humans, through fear, could easily be controlled and censored in order to maintain “safe,” even to the level of getting the masses to agree to take an experimental vaccine, one that had never been tested in order to ward off a sickness (or death of you are chronically ill and over 65), from a virus itself created by the very institutions that offered an experimental vaccine as a remedy.

The profound implications of this shift in social acceptance is unprecedented.

THE DARK AGE IS FAST APPROACHING

Monks, such as the stalwart and dedicated followers of Christ in the 7th, 8th and 9th Century, will be required today to preserve Western Culture and Christian principles for future generations.

Though current society sees no use for Westen or spiritual ideals, once societal collapse occurs under the regime of totalitarianism, AS THEY ALL EVENTUALLY DO, a day will come when we will have to pick up the pieces and start over.  How long it takes depends on how we prepare today.

Start preserving your books, writings, scientific and philosophic journals, the Bible, and other spiritual literature, save even your music of the 20th and 21st Century; save physical copies of prolific writings and keep then in safe places.

Anything on the internet or “on the cloud” is easily deletable; everything will go down the memory hole based on the whims of the New Regime, and in a decade, knowledge will be corrupted by wokeism.

By the time our grandchildren are born in the later part of this century, it is likely most of Western history will have been altered or destroyed. We must preserve the records away from the State so that the children of the 22nd Century will have hope.

It is likely the State will soon make preservation a crime, or will try to connect collections of historical documents and entertainment as “hate-speech,” or intended as promoting “hate-thought,” or “hate crimes.”

It’s already here.

England has recently proposed that books such as Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s’ Brave New World do nothing more than incite hatred, and that people who read such books risk becoming “radicalized.”

Wikipedia, the global online resource for most tpoical stdies, is being rewritten to represent woke sinicization on a level we observe in China, where Biblical Teachings are being sinicized with “Xi (Jinping) Thought.”

Those of us who remember life before the Internet, smartphones, and Google understand the Kraken of State control is upon us. We were betrayed by the enticements of technology.

And it started the moment AOL began handing out free CDs that allowed us to join the “information superhighway.”

Little did we know that the moment we signed up, we sealed our fate. They, meaning they, the technocracy, now have eveything they need to know about us. And with this power comes great ability to control.

And we know (but will soon not remember) the famous adage, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Western society has fallen.