THE WITHERING

It is a beautiful day! The temperature just bumped above freezing at 33.2. I noticed via a Facebook memory I shared that is was -27.4 F on this day last year. Wow, that is cold for this time of year! I don't remember it. My weather calender, that has the recorded temperatures 60 miles or so South of us, has the record being -24 on this date in 1983. Must have been a cold year because tomorrows record is -29 for that that year.

We forget that it can get really cold in December. One year in the 70s I planted an orchard of trees that included pears and apricots that were supposed to be hearty on the zone 3-4 boundary. It was a mild Fall and the trees did not get a chance to harden off before the temperature plummeted. It got down to 40 below zero F. one night and in the Spring I discovered I lost all my trees including some sturdy zone 3 ones. According to my weather calendar, all the record lows this time of the year are in the mid -20 range.

We don't like anticipating weather that cold but when it happens we live through it just fine.

You notice how everything seems turned upside down. Trump could be the worst president we have ever had, however, it seems like we attack him for the wrong reasons, or at least not for all the right reasons. We [liberals] longed for a better relationship with Russia for a generation and then when Trump seems to be willing to cooperate with Russia we attack him. Trump is guilty of so many destructive impulses, that isn't one of them. I doubt if any collusion in the election had anything to do with him winning any way. The information that is leaked seems to have more to do with collusion with oligarchs not the government. Shady business dealings and money laundering, not election swinging.

There are so many horrible things happening, like lifetime appointments to the judiciary with ultra-conservatives. Congress blocked most of Obama's appointments and now the benches are being filled with characters that could affect us for generations.

Our governments support of Saudi Arabia has always been criminal, but Trump's support is over the top. He just lets his Generals do whatever they want. We are destroying innocent Yemenis, for what reason, because the Saudis and Iran have a pissing contest to see who will control the Middle East. Of course the the empire, which is corporate and world wide and housed in the USA, is behind it. The United States supplies the planes, the reconnaissance and in-flight fueling for the American supplied planes so they can continuously attack.

We have unleashed drone warfare and are now using them in third world countries that we have no formal quarrel with. We have created terrorism and anti-terrorism and are using it in a desperate attempt to get control of the world. This has been going on since the first Bush administration and it has been cranked up under Trump. I am not exempting the democratic administrations from responsibility. Actually, I am not sure presidents have much power over foreign policy. It seems like we have a government within a government. Presidents can slow down the momentum though, and they can be honest with the people if they dare. We have not had a president who has dared to be honest.

All the agencies that exist to protect the consumers, the environment, education, health etc. are being destroyed. All regulation and power is being handed over to corporate control. We hear very little about this. Why?

How come the main stream media which has been the darling of the conservatives is suddenly pretending it is liberal? Do you remember the MSM ever fully backing a democrat? We have had fox news which is rabidly republican and we have the rest of the MSM which is traditional republican.

If we look at substance and forget the window dressing, i.e. identity politics, we see that the lines have become quite blurred between the two parties. The Cabal [or deep state] runs the media and they will back any who will do their bidding.

I don't know why I am bring this up. I guess it is because I am tired of seeing people I love and respect getting caught up in causes and issues that are created by the media to create conflict and division. Doesn't it cause you to cringe when Trump says, “Fake news.” We have been saying it all along. We know it is true. There are grounds for removing Trump from office but most of the stuff that is thrown at him in the media is nonsense.

The Empire, The Deep State, The Cabal, whatever you want to call it, is losing its grasp. They are desperate and in their final throws to maintain power, they are causing death, homelessness, and destruction all over the world. It is not just in Yemen. The news doesn't cover Yemen much but we hear a little, we don't know much about the horror our drones are causing in Africa and in the rest of the world. Our mini-wars in South America have been going on for over a hundred years, lately they have been disguised as drug wars, they are for control of the continent.

I don't spend my time looking at this crap, because I know it is over. The consciousness of humankind will no longer support it. Those who are dedicated to power and money will gradually be replaced. Of course there will be some upheaval, but not as much as we might think. All the time the dark has been grabbing for power, people have been waking up. We have been seeing we can have a different world. Somehow it has occurred to us that everything is energy. The people of the dark use fear. We use love. Fear is no match.

If the folks of the world could refrain from accepting the invitations to be afraid, that are dangled in front of them by The Cabal, the dark ones would wither away. The Dark, The Cabal, The Deep State, no matter how they are labeled can only exist with energy of fear.

So just love each other folks and watch this ugly horror movie wind down. Let us not react to it. It is not real. We will discover only love is real.

Love and Peace, Gregg