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.
For the past two years, I was dismayed at how many of my friends were watching and discussing on social media the series, 'The Walking Dead', and its companion, 'Fear the Walking Dead', two related shows about an apocalyptic world when Earth is struck by a mysterious virus originating from space.
Invest in inflation. It’s the only thing going up. – Will Rogers
The left is trying to justify the escalation of inflation as “Inflation isn’t inexorably a bad thing. In fact, it used to be considered good.” This is another overt attempt to habituate American consumers to soaring prices and to a new low standard of living and to shortages of food, goods, and services, a diminished quality of life. What scaremongering about inflation gets wrong - The Washington Post
In the 1980s, the environmentalists believed that using paper grocery bags harms the environment by excessive deforestation, so they moved in the direction of replacing the paper grocery bags with plastic ones. It made sense, plastic bags made from petroleum by-products were certainly cheaper and more plentiful.
Fast forward to 2021, environmentalist governments in counties like Fairfax, Virginia, moved to replace the plastic bags with paper bags by charging a tax of 5 cents per plastic bag previously given free (included in the price because nothing is free). Furthermore, a fine of $500 will be levied on anyone who dares to leave grass and other yard clippings on curbside in plastic bags other than heavy paper bags.
The silence of the falling, sticky snow is shattered by limbs creaking, crashing in the woods with a loud thud, a collective sigh of nature burdened by the heavy, pristine white blanket. The trees look like white giants with droopy arms dragging the ground.
It is the first snow of winter and of 2022, eight inches accumulation so far, and still falling hard. The hawkish wind is blowing it sometimes sideways, drifting in sudden gusts a few inches that fail to remove any significant amount of snow, already stuck like glue to the ground and on all horizontal surfaces no matter how small.
It’s finally 2022 and humans are making resolutions for the New Year, leaving behind 2021, the year of Fright and Flu. A saturating rain is drenching the woods. The distant river is shrouded in a greyish fog, concealing the silhouetted trees with exposed skinny branches stretched to the sky but meeting half-way the low ceiling. The animals appear in hiding, save for a few chirping birds and the occasional sparrow.
As long as I can remember, my Dad came home every December with a scraggly blue spruce, fragrant with the scent of winter, tiny icicles hanging from the branches. The frozen miniature crystal daggers would melt quickly on Mom’s well-scrubbed parquet floor. I never knew nor asked where he had found it, or how he could afford it. His modest salary of $70 a month barely covered the rent, utilities, and food. Mom had to work as well to afford our clothes. Prices were subsidized by the government and salaries were very low for everybody regardless of education and skill. We had to make do with very little.
I believe that some Marxists stay awake at night trying to find novel ways to subjugate the rest of the population whose free market ideology they despise. They certainly do not believe in supply and demand, they believe in centralized communist planning and forced equity of outcomes.
In addition to environmental justice, gender justice, sexual justice, gender justice, tree and shade justice, a recent Washington Post article dedicated an entire page to “A New Source of Inequality: Access to Charging Stations.” (Sunday, December 19, 2021)
Since 1992, billionaire globalists with money to burn, have been actively seeking to remove us from fossil fuel cars to save the planet from global warming/climate change/climate crisis Armageddon which U.N.’s Agenda 21/2030 has been actively seeking to do.
The latest push to "net zero" emissions by 2040 comes in the form of a book and a glossy insert advertising the said book in the Washington Post. Think of this "net zero" emissions as your ticket to more global warming taxation, cold winters in your homes, hot summers in your homes, expensive electricity, high fossil fuel prices, and total control of your movements and travel to and from work.
In "Speed and Scale" author John Doerr proposes an "action plan for solving the climate crisis."
I was asked recently if the recent Marxist takeover of our country resembles my experience under the rule of the Communist Party Soviet-style regime decades ago. My simple answer is that Marxism is much worse today in so many ways.
Take for instance one’s body. We used to teach our children to run away from strangers who attempted to touch them inappropriately and to let authorities know and their parents about such aggressors, some of whom may have been relatives. But the 9/11 terrorist attack on our country conveniently allowed the government to pass the Patriot Act to protect us from terrorists. Nobody blinks an eye anymore at the invasive searches at airports, touching personal parts, molesting grandmothers, toddlers, babies, and adults alike. If you ask the TSA personnel, some of whom look quite frightening, they save thousands of lives every day.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. – Karl Marx
As of October 22, 2021, the Romanian National Committee for Emergency Situations introduced a new 30 day “restriction” on its citizens via Decision 91: Ministerul Afacerilor Interne (gov.ro)
What I learned from the Communist Party which ruled my country with an iron fist and a heavy boot on our necks and thin, hungry bodies, can fill a lifetime of horror stories. Twenty years living under such depressing ideological, mental, and physical prison surrounded by barbed wire and heavily armed and guarded borders is enough to fill endless books.
National emergency is an interesting and useful government tool. History in general demonstrates the point.
The national lockdown to “flatten the curve for two weeks” has turned into three mandatory shots, that may or may not work, to keep your job and feed your family. Many nursing homes in Fairfax, Virginia, have been under lockdown again, with staff wearing not just masks but shields as well and patients wearing masks even when alone in their rooms.
It seems that every election cycle America-loving citizens pin their hope on a man or a woman at the local, state, or national level who is willing to support the interests of our nation instead of the communist globalist agenda. They know deep down that most politicians are liars and have a price – they can be bought by the wealthy globalist swamp. Add into the mix the non-governmental organization (NGOs) and their lobbyists to whom the same politicians are beholden. But honest Americans who still believe in honest and fair elections do not give up despite massive voting fraud.
I have been asked about the freedom of speech in my country where I was born and raised and how it compared with the freedom of speech we have in America. Is it just an illusion on paper under constant attack from the Marxist left which controls the country?
Invest in inflation. It’s the only thing going up. – Will Rogers
As Americans are struggling with inflation to pay their bills, buy food, gasoline, and other necessities such as medications and rent, few have the knowledge to point to the culprits of such accelerated overall price increases:
Many doctors and scientists with long bona fides have been suppressed by the media in general, the main stream, as well as the social media dominated by four giants; if they diverge from the controlled narrative of taking a vaccine at all costs, they will be excluded forcibly and entirely from society.
I was browsing through L’Occitane one day, looking for a bar of soap. Among the many offerings, I noticed three lovely and fragrant bars which were labeled shampoo soap. The fragrance brought back memories of the factory in Nice, France, which I had visited years ago on a trip to Europe with my students.
Why are generations of young Americans enamored with socialism as a better alternative to capitalism when everything in their abundant and privileged lives comes from free market capitalism?
Socialism, the state's ownership of the means of production, production planning, and distribution, has been repackaged by clever Marxists like Bernie Sanders and AOC under the name of Democratic Socialism, a term borrowed from Sweden to make socialism more attractive and palatable to Marxist useful idiots who do not understand much economics or history, even those with college degrees.
It was a decade ago when I wrote a book about my life under communism – education, religion, lack of freedoms, lack of food, lack of human rights, deprivation of basic travel, necessities, water, toilet paper, medicine, the horrible free medical system that was not worth having, bad hospitals, bad doctors, the lack of drugs and vitamins in pharmacies, the awfully crowded and miserable public transportation, the constant policing, the “socialist scientific” indoctrination in schools, and many more.