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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:

The Bubonic Plague Pandemic of 1348

The Bubonic Plague Pandemic of 1348The bubonic plague pandemic of 1348 England killed off a third of its population. As many as three generations of men were killed, allowing a single male heir, sometimes a woman, to inherit property from multiple peasant farms, making them more economically sound and increasing their wealth.
- Friday, December 9, 2022

Why Do We Give Christmas Gifts?

Why Do We Give Christmas Gifts? The Christmas tradition of gift-giving is tied by many to the Wise Men who gave Jesus Frankincense, Gold, and Myrrh. Frankincense was a perfume used in Jewish rituals of worship. Gold was the symbol of Kings, and myrrh was a perfume used on dead bodies. The historical Saint Nikolaos of Myra was a fourth century Greek Bishop of Lycia. He is said to have given secret gifts of coins to those who left their shoes outside, a practice celebrated on his feast day, St. Nicholas Day on December 6 in the West and December 19 in the East. He is the model for Santa Claus. The patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, and students, he is revered by Anglicans, Catholics, Lutherans, Orthodox, and by some Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Reformed churches.
- Thursday, December 8, 2022

Historical Narratives and Should We Change Them to Fit our Modern Culture?

HERODOTUS: THE FATHER OF HISTORYAs history is being modified in front of our eyes, to match the narrative of the ruling political class and of the billionaire elites running the tech industry and other crony capitalist empires, one wonders what parts of our history that we believed to be true and accurate have been embellishments of writers from long ago, with their own agendas, or perhaps writing years, decades, and centuries after the fact? Are historical events based on fact, are they part of surviving records, or have they been orally transmitted, or mis-translated unintentionally from an obscure language and text by a scribe or scholar with good or nefarious intentions? Pictograms on cave walls, on exterior rocks, before writing had been invented, hieroglyphs on pharaonic tombs, cuneiform writing on tablets, recorded important events in the lives of those who existed thousands of years before us.
- Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Incitatus, Political Ineptitude, and Senators

Incitatus, Political Ineptitude, and SenatorsThe Roman Empire lasted over a period of 1,000 years, beginning with the 27 B.C., and ending in the East with the Byzantine Empire. The Roman Empire is the post-Republican period of ancient Rome, and it stretched around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. It was ruled by emperors, with the capital Rome in Latium until 476 A.D. The imperial insignia was sent to Constantinople (the Eastern Empire eventually became the Byzantine Empire) after the capture of the Western Empire capital in Ravenna by Germanic barbarians when the last Emperor Romulus Augustus was deposed by the barbarian leader Odoacer.
- Friday, December 2, 2022

The American Left Marches To Deliver Cultural Marxism

The American Left Marches To Deliver Cultural MarxismThe midterm elections are over. The predicted red tsunami fizzled to a few bubbles in a washtub. The blues have won again. Who chose the color for the conservative party to be red and the socialists to be blue? Was this another ploy to conceal how communist red the Democrat Party had become? Congress barely returned to the GOP with a razor thin margin and, as such, will predictably do nothing to salvage what is left of the country and of the economy. The Socialist Democrats have been re-elected in most states and their new brethren joined them in the Senate and in Congress.
- Tuesday, November 22, 2022

So You Want to Buy a Car?

So You Want to Buy a Car

Here's another element of socialism/communism that most of you don’t realize what it is - the ability to buy high-priced items such as a car or a house.

For one, poor people, and we were all equally poor, could not afford a car or a home, and, should they have saved and scrimped their entire lives collectively in the family, the economic police was always on the prowl, looking for people who had more resources than the socialist/communist man was allowed.

- Thursday, September 22, 2022

How Green is Your EV?

How Green is Your EV?How "green" is your combustion engine car? Apparently not green at all, our fossil fuel guzzlers and our mere daily existence are "destroying" the planet with the carbon footprint. The "virtuous" leftists are driving electric vehicles (EV) which are powered by fairy dust. The constant gaslighting of the left appears to work.  They are manipulating the rest of us by psychological means that bring into question our own sanity and reality. The globalists who designed, pushed, and succeeded in implementing at local levels around the globe its U.N. Agenda 21, now converted into Agenda 2030, the World Economic Forum's The Great Reset (painful and expensive), have done so with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SD)at all local levels.
- Sunday, September 18, 2022

The Direction of Teaching in America

The Direction of Teaching in AmericaAs a former teacher, I was dismayed at times about the quality of teachers who were shaping impressionable young minds in public schools. I was shocked that they knew so little and often were proud that they were ignorant. Too many teachers were not ashamed to admit that they were weak in history, mathematics, literature, science, geography, physics, and chemistry. I watched such teachers like a hawk at my children’s schools. Every day I knew the lessons and the topics they covered. I monitored my children’s learning all the time even when they seemed tired of my questioning them. We went over homework, words, concepts, capitals, historical dates, math tables, spelling words, and cursive writing. It was a joy at the beginning of the school year to shop for school supplies with my children at Walmart and to organize the famous Trapper Keepers for each child.
- Sunday, September 11, 2022

Breaking Down America the Globalist Way

Breaking Down America the Globalist WayBefore it morphed into the very profitable climate change industry, the global warming agenda started to infiltrate public schools via student TV channels in the classroom, video games, movies, Saturday cartoons, and other mass media forms of indoctrination. Students were frightened by their teachers that the planet was going to burn up in a huge ball of fire or freeze up because their parents’ lifestyle and rate of reproduction was killing the planet. Rational people cannot logically understand how an extra tax is going to stop the alleged global warming caused by man’s daily existence and how a gas, CO2, that helps plant life to thrive and is added to greenhouses to speed plant growth, is suddenly so harmful.
- Monday, September 5, 2022

Shortage of Teachers

Shortage of TeachersThe teacher shortage across the nation is getting more critical, following two years of an extended and mishandled pandemic which affected education in public schools significantly. Unions have made unreasonable demands for their teachers who did not want to teach in a classroom due to an irrational fear of death from a virus. Some teachers quit because they refused to teach the divisive and racist critical race theory (CRT). Other teachers refused to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Students older than 12 were also forced to vaccinate against the highly ineffective Covid-19 injection to attend school and other school-related activities.
- Saturday, August 27, 2022

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

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