Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

Hippocrates and Modern Medicine’s Abandonment of the Hippocratic Oath

The old medical tradition goes back to 400 B.C. to the young Greek medic Hippocrates who established his practice in Cos. At that time sanatoriums existed which were dedicated to Aesculapius, the god of healing, and medical procedures involved praying to gods and various superstitions. Hippocrates learned his trade from his father and expanded his knowledge by traveling to Egypt to learn their medical practices of the time which included novelties such as having a clinical observation chart/sheet of the patient, using white and clean linen for babies and patients, watching closely the nutrition of newborns and toddlers, exercise and play in fresh air.

Global Warming and Other Fairy Tales

As I contemplate the very cold weather we’ve had recently across the U.S., with temperatures dropping by as much as 50 degree Fahrenheit in one day, during which time in New York and Buffalo people were buried under many feet of snow, some freezing to death, the global warming charade, renamed climate change when nobody was buying the global warming narrative, I wonder why Al Gore and other millionaires and billionaires have not sold their mansions by the ocean yet, or why they are not under the water as they have predicted? We are warm in our homes thanks to coal miners and pipelines that deliver oil and natural gas to our homes, we are not warm because of solar panels covered in snow and ice and frozen blades of wind turbines.

The Worst Are Leading Western Society on the Wrong Path

If you are wondering what happened to the American people and the West in general, on the road to committing societal suicide in short order, F. A. Hayek has a plausible answer in his book, The Road to Serfdom. Hayek, an economist and philosopher, a pioneer in monetary theory and proponent of libertarianism, lists three reasons why the worst elements of society have formed such a strong group of sycophants with homogeneous views on the direction that the western, free market societies must take to become the communist utopia-that-never-was.

Worrisome Predictions for 2023

In our western, vastly declining world, it is depressing and scary to make predictions for 2023 because we never know what other variables may intervene that may skew our reasonable forecasts based on current facts. Several podcasters have made projections recently as we approach the end of 2022. Some of the predictions are based on common sense, available data, economic trends that don’t seem to add up, others can be found in plain sight, and others are based on events that are unfolding as we speak.

Herodotus and the Phoenicians

Herodotus, the “father of modern history,” wrote his most famous book, Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian wars, the lives of important kings, and famous battles such as Marathon. He provided a cultural background to battles from the standpoint of geography, ethnography, and historiography. His contemporaries accused him of providing “legends and fanciful accounts” in his Histories. Herodotus defended himself that he wrote what he “saw and [what was] told to him.” But a large portion of his accounts have been confirmed by modern historians and archeologists.

The Bubonic Plague Pandemic of 1348

The 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.

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.

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

As 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.

Incitatus, Political Ineptitude, and Senators

The 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.

The American Left Marches To Deliver Cultural Marxism

The 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.

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.

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.

The Direction of Teaching in America

As 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.

Breaking Down America the Globalist Way

Before 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.

Shortage of Teachers

The 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.

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.

The “Friendship” Train of the Soviet Era

An 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

Inflation and Recession

Economically 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.

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.”

The Making of a Tyrant

It 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.