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Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh, Ileana Writes is a freelance writer, author, radio commentator, and speaker. Her books, “Echoes of Communism", "Liberty on Life Support" and "U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental Piracy," "Communism 2.0: 25 Years Later" are available at Amazon in paperback and Kindle.

Most Recent Articles by Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh:

How Did He Subjugate So Many?

How Did He Subjugate So Many?When I was growing up, I could not understand how an entire country was subdued into acceptance of their fate of living under the oppression of a tyrant installed in power by the Communist Party and the Soviet Bolshevik agents, a tyrant who was previously a shoe cobbler in his village of Scornicesti.
- Sunday, August 21, 2022

The “Friendship” Train of the Soviet Era

The Friendship Train of the Soviet EraAn Internet vlogger named Noel posted a video of his trip on the “Prietenie” (Friendship) line, a Soviet era train, connecting from Bucuresti, Romania, to Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. He was excited to travel in the first class, Soviet-era style car, on a 13-hour overnight ride that involved changing the wheels on each train car before the Moldovan border, as their tracks were not the same size as the European ones, they were wider. He had hoped that wider train wheels would translate into a smoother ride across the border into Chisinau, but that was not the case. The vlogger is overly enthusiastic about the prospect of traveling in Soviet-era comfort, just as he was thrilled, in a previous video, about his stay in a five-star hotel in Moscow, hotel reserved for Soviet and world dignitaries, such as the dictator Stalin and the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He was so ecstatic about staying in such a historical place, that he propped up his socked feet on the desk where Stalin allegedly signed important documents. I cannot say that I share the vlogger’s enthusiasm about Stalin, a killer of his own people
- Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Inflation and Recession

Inflation and RecessionEconomically speaking, the aggregate demand for the U.S. economy represents the quantity of domestic products in general that are demanded at each possible value of the price level. If there is too much money being printed and in circulation, an increase in the aggregate demand pushes the price level up. If the aggregate demand continues to increase month after month, the economy will suffer from inflation – a sustained increase in the general price level. When production falls and people lose jobs, two consecutive quarters to be exact, the economy experiences a recession.
- Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Driven by Fear

Driven by Fear
“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.”Thomas Sowell
Fear is a powerful emotional reaction, rational and irrational. The dictionary defines fear as “an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.”
- Thursday, July 21, 2022

The Making of a Tyrant

The Making of a Tyrant,  CeausescuIt does not take a tremendous education to become a socialist tyrant/dictator - just a resume full of social justice activism from an early age, protests in the streets, some peaceful, some violent, a few arrests, an adoring media, financial support from the right movers and shakers, and a pliant and adoring group of supporters who share the potential tyrant’s ideology. Once they give him unfettered power with the help of the media, corrupt politicians, and the military, the sky is the limit.
- Sunday, July 17, 2022

Let’s Buy Electric Vehicles We Cannot Afford

Let’s Buy Electric Vehicles We Cannot AffordI’ve been trying to purchase a new Toyota hybrid car for quite awhile. The dealer lots are quite empty. Customers are told that they must “reserve” a car in order to purchase. That never happened before in America in any previous administrations. In the meantime, Toyota recalled a few thousand electric cars before they rolled out to the dealers.
- Thursday, June 30, 2022

The Marxist Boat

The Marxist BoatSocial activists in this country are not familiar with the sordid history of Marxism but are nevertheless brainwashed and absurdly convinced in their ignorance that communism is the best answer to their imagined problems and their failures of personal responsibility. Ardent Marxists and accidental social activist travelers are convinced by Marxist academics and seasoned NGO lobbyists that they must replace with socialism the western “rotting” capitalism that enabled so many in this country to live the most prosperous lives in modern times. There is a reason morality and Christianity have fallen so low in the west. The new Marxists take to heart and believe Marx’s pamphlet entitled The Communist Manifesto. They are convinced that “communism establishes eternal truths,” while promising “to abolish all religion and all morality.”
- Monday, May 30, 2022

Young Generations, Hopeless Marxists

Young Generations, Hopeless Marxists,A famous acquaintance told me that our country is run and controlled by technocracy, control by those who own technology. Technological corporatism is enabling government control around the world, led by the U.N. and NGOs endowed by woke corporatists and member countries. The west is controlled by globalist Marxism, more powerful than the former Soviet style Marxism. It is a 21st century technocratic Marxism on steroids with the addition of a powerful technocracy that did not exist in the former Iron Curtain countries. The former Soviet Marxists had to employ an army of informants who spied on their neighbors and their families.
- Saturday, May 28, 2022

High Inflation and the Dollar's Velocity of Circulation

High Inflation and the Dollar's Velocity of CirculationA friend had asked me recently about the velocity of circulation of money in an inflationary economy like ours. Velocity of circulation of money is better understood through the quantity theory of money model. Our dollar is deemed fiat money because our government said so a long time  before people began questioning the out-of-control printing of it. The dollar has not been backed by gold since 1971 during the Nixon administration. The dollar is only worthy because the government says so and we must take its word for it. Fiat means "let it be" in Latin.
- Sunday, May 22, 2022

Why is Gas so High?

Why is Gas so High?For those Americans who are foolishly claiming that the skyrocketing price of crude oil and gas is Putin's fault, here is some news for you - it is the Biden administration's fault. We need plenty of affordable gasoline and Diesel to run our complex and exceptionally large economy. When Biden took office, gasoline was $1.69 a gallon in my town, it is now standing at $4.79 per gallon while Diesel is $5.55 per gallon. He closed oil leases, fracking, offshore drilling, and the XL pipeline which was delivering gas from Canada. He did this on day one and the price of crude and gas started to escalate immediately. Crude oil is being transported by rail (powered with Diesel or electricity created by burning coal and other fossil fuels), instead of transporting it via the much cheaper pipelines which crisscross our country from Alberta, Canada, and other places.
- Monday, May 16, 2022

Farming Practices, Food, and Food Shortages Caused by Inept Governments

I was watching in fascination a documentary about monastic farm practices in Tudor England.  A historian and two archeologists introduced the viewers and the visitors to farming methods, tools, food, clothing, and customs from 500 years ago by actually tilling the soil, planting crops, harvesting them, building tools from that period, cooking, burning crockery, churning butter, raising sheep, pigs, and chicken, hunting, fishing, and living, at least on screen, like the monks had done during the fifteenth century.
- Saturday, May 7, 2022

Advanced Cultural Marxist Society

Advanced Cultural Marxist SocietyWe already live in an advanced cultural Marxist society even though half of the country is still lulled in the false sense that we are still a Constitutional Republic. We have archived documents in museums that state that we are, but we have lost this Constitutional Republic bit by bit over the last 40 years to judicial activists on the bench, corrupt politicians elected by ignorant citizens, legal aliens, and illegal aliens who do not speak English nor know the history of the United States.
- Monday, April 25, 2022

Legal Emigration and Illegal Immigration

A dangerous direction:  Throwing the borders wide-open to a massive influx of unvetted illegal immigrantsWhen I was growing up, most citizens living under the socialist republic were not allowed to visit abroad, immigrate, or emigrate. The borders were shut tightly, holding everyone inside like a giant maximum-security prison controlled by the Communist Party and its dear leader. The government had an anti-emigration policy, immigration was suppressed, and travel abroad was tightly controlled and only allowed to those who had a clean record, deemed so by the Communist Party who investigated a person's lineage, political activity, land ownership, real estate, and private property. Emigration, the actual moving and settling permanently in another country was highly discouraged and so was immigration, the temporary movement of people from one country to another.
- Friday, April 15, 2022

“Democracy Has Gone To Your Head”

Democracy Has Gone To Your HeadModern politics have morphed into an all-out assault against our country and against its Constitution. If the Con-Con movement succeeds, the Constitutional Convention will be assembled to amend the Constitution to allegedly reign in the political corruption in Washington. The political class does not follow our Constitution as is, what makes one think that they will follow it with more amendments? And what will prevent a runaway convention in which delegates might replace our Constitution with their latest version?
- Thursday, March 31, 2022

What Human Capital Will We Have?

What Human Capital Will We Have?Human capital is defined by economists as the amount of skill found in the workforce. It is "measured" as the amount of education and training of everyone. Economists also talk about investment in human capital and human capital theory. Such a "theory" highlights the expenditures made to increase the productive capacity of various workers, either through education or training. The cost of education and training is usually borne by everyone, but some companies do pay their employees to invest in their own human capital and give them time off with or without pay. Investing in a person's ability to be more productive is important.
- Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Energy, the Inept Socialist Way

Energy, the Inept Socialist WayThe sunshine and balmier weather is giving some American people a reprieve from having to use so much energy to heat their homes as prices escalate due to the draconian measures the Biden regime had adopted on his first day in office – executive orders that shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, off-shore drilling permits, and drilling on federal land. We had been an oil exporter during the Trump presidency, but we have become an oil importer from Russia during the Biden regime. This is not a good time to become dependent on such a bellicose country which is now helping escalate the price of gas and fuel around the world. Poor neighbors such as Romania have found themselves having to pay 450 euros for a month’s electric bill when the country’s average salary is 350 euros. How are poor people supposed to keep warm or find affordable fuel for their cars? Is an energy crisis looming?
- Friday, March 4, 2022

American Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities Listed in a 1955 Brochure

American Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities One of the proud moments in my life was the day when I became a naturalized American citizen, following a long journey of four years which included tons of paperwork, interviews, expensive fees I could barely afford, and many trips to the Immigration office at a time when I was a mom, a wife, a daughter, and a student.
- Thursday, February 24, 2022

Rationing Electricity, A/C, and Heat

Rationing Electricity, A/C, and HeatA lot of humans have died from heat exposure, in freezing temperatures, in wilderness, in war trenches, frozen on Mt. Everest, marching in war convoys, marching to concentration camps, inside concentration camp barracks, in gulags in subzero temperatures, submerged in icy water, in crashes on mountain tops or jungles, hiking, mountain climbing, and in many other horrible conditions. Angel, a Jew sent to Auschwitz in Nazi Germany, witnessed an entire ward freeze to death overnight, without beds, heat, and food. She alone survived with an old man because she spent all night trying to warm him up, rubbing his hands, legs, face, and neck. When the sun came up, there was an eerie silence around them, they were surrounded by frozen corpses. Nobody should suffer such inhuman conditions.
- Friday, February 11, 2022

Diet in Socialism or Capitalism

Diet in Socialism or CapitalismThanks to food additives, semi-prepared foods in grocery stores, lockdowns, a more sedentary life in front of a computer screen, larger portions of food in restaurants and burger joints, ever present sugar in every type of food consumed, and less daily walking than the average human, Americans have added more pounds to their frames.
- Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Warm thoughts in a bitter, cold winter

Warm thoughts in a bitter, cold winterIt is bitter cold outside, it feels like 11 degrees Fahrenheit. The relentless Hawk is blowing arctic air, exacerbating the wind tunnel effect surrounding our house. Luckily, we are warm and cozy inside thanks to capitalism. When I was a kid growing up with my maternal grandparents, their tiny adobe style mud-brick winter house had two rooms, a barn for the animals, a tiny kitchen, and the hay loft for cats and mice. They never heated the big brick house because it required too much wood which they did not have. The communist farms had already deforested anything that could be cut down and used for wood.
- Monday, January 31, 2022

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