September 22, 2020 | by Eriс

How To Make Your Home Safer

The following comes from a friend of ours, Mr. Phil

He is concerned with what may await us in the months to come and offers his suggestions on how to make you home safer and more secure. The text speaks of stopping burglars, but improvements outlined below work against any intrusion. These simple suggestions can make a lot of difference.

We hope you find it useful.

Eric

WINDOW INSPECTION: 
Windows on the ground floor require attention.  Give some thought to blocking them with a table or other form of barrier that will make an invader climb over, make noise and use up time getting into the premises.  Try not to leave ground floor windows with a wide open space in front of them.  Never assume a window is too small for an intruder to enter.  Home intruders have come up with clever ways to enter the smallest windows.  Be concerned about in-wall air conditioners that can be pushed in and then become easy entrances for burglars.  You can secure the in-wall  A/C unit by driving a large eye ring wood screw into the studs on each side of the A/C unit.  Then run a 5/8th or 11/16th rope through the eye ring screws across the A/C unit and secure the rope tightly to the A/C with large cable clamps.   Be sure all windows are locked correctly.  Keep windows locked at all times and lock them immediately after you have closed one.  Never block the view from your windows, allowing you to see an intruder on your property.  Never leave anything outside your home that can be used to help an intruder gain access to your home, such as a step stool or ladder.  Home invaders will not be carrying their own ladders but will use anything they find to their advantage.  Very seriously consider a home central station alarm system.  If you have a system, place NEW fresh looking stickers on all entrances.  Old stickers will appear to a home invader to be from the previous home owner!  Alarm stickers and signs are a good deterrent!  Check your windows, especially if you have windows made of vinyl or plastic and that have plastic locks.  If so, you need a secondary security measure such as a metal bar or a cut wooden closet pole wedged in.  If you have basement casement windows, check if they are standard or reinforced hinges.  Look to have protective laminate applied to the inside glass or baked into the glass.  This will keep the glass from smashing with a single blow.  The laminated windows will take repeated blows and are very difficult to shatter.

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September 20, 2020 | by Eriс

Are You White? It’s Not Your Fight

One doesn’t need glasses to see many young white people who joined the BLM marches since they began in the early troubling summer days this year. Death of one George Floyd (aka The Thug) fueled mass protests around the country. According to some press reports, the rallies against police brutality were held in a total of 140 cities, towns and villages of this country. Initial impulsive foray for peace and justice were joined by thousands of people who never street-protested over anything in their lives. A sight to behold. Countless black and white citizens of our country, marching together. Shouting with a single voice against police brutality, on our streets. A flood of outraged people who aspired to see the end of ‘racist’ police power manifestations over the lives of black Americans. Undeniably, it was a powerful statement, which was heard by the federal and local governments.

When protests occur, they eventually scale down. People make a statement and eventually go home, to speak their minds privately and online. But not this time. BLM rallies, riots and sit-ins continued, day after day, unabated. To be followed by fires, looting and destruction. In due course it was revealed that most people who fill the streets day after day are not ordinary protesters. They are a part of an organization or organizations that direct them to show up, with the same pre-made signs, at times and places of someone’s choosing. To put it simply: the protest being driven by ideology or money, or both. To this day, we know very little of the true organizers and instigators.

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September 18, 2020 | by Eriс

Monopolies That Must Be Broken Apart

While living in America, to which we pledge our allegiance, we simultaneously live in a number of fiefdoms, without realizing so. No, they don’t occupy any part of the physical landscape here. Yet, they are there, right next to us.

They have sprung up over the last few decades. In many ways, their lords are more powerful than the federal government of the United States. They have the power to tell us what to buy and to read; who to believe, how to vote. These powers alone decide what the future is going to look like. Some of them even try to change the past. Now and then, they erase our memories of events, small and large. By themselves, they define what is newsworthy and what is not. Through the means at their disposal, they know what we think most of the time, using it to their advantage. All our habits and vices are known to them, ditto for the lists of people in our orbits. Their relationships with societies, politicians, businesses and ordinary folks are complex and convoluted.

Why can they do all of that? Well, because we let them.

We willingly give them the keys to our homes and the passcodes to our minds.

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September 12, 2020 | by Eriс

Diversity Councils & Hiring Practices. Racism at its Worst

We swiftly moved into the age where Affirmative Action in the United States of America is no longer sufficient to meet the hiring targets. By itself, Affirmative Action has outlived its usefulness and became an impediment to hiring the best qualified personnel. Yet, that was not enough. The pestilence of ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ practices is suddenly in the picture.

We bet our bottom dollar this hideous new invention was born in the socialist, left-oriented minds. They love to form committees, councils and commissions to bring about societal changes. We let them.

The word ‘diversity’ in the title stands so much closer to ‘divert’ rather than ‘diversify’.

Don’t let the ‘inclusion’ portion of the name fool you either. Their goal is to exclude, not include. To discriminate, not diversify. On the surface it looks like a benign, justified initiative to make certain everyone has a fair shot at employment. In reality this is going to be quite the opposite. Members of the diversity councils will be diverting some candidates and wholeheartedly embracing others. Need we spell it out for you? Thinly disguised, they are really racial selection bodies. Whites need not apply.

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September 11, 2020 | by Eriс

Political Correctness. A Gag on America

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

These three short lines put to paper back in 1791 define some of the most important pillars of American life. Freedom of speech is one of them. Freedom from the censorship. Freedom from arbitrary gag orders by anyone with authority; imposed upon the people who want to be heard. Freedom to think, to write, to shout, to disagree, to be different, to state the truth no matter how painful it may be.

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September 7, 2020 | by Eriс

To My Fellow Black Americans

I’m a white man. I admit I don’t know what it’s like to be an American of African descent today. From the history I know your forefathers were brought here in chains and sold on the slave markets some centuries ago; to work on plantations on this continent. The life of your ancestors was very hard, yet not always as horrible as they want us to believe these days. Slaves were expensive. Those who owned them had to take care of their ‘investment’. Still, it was a period full of suffering; of tragedies for these unfortunate people. No matter how we look at it, the slavery was and is indefensible, something that had to be cast away.

I don’t for a minute condone slavery. No man or a woman should be deprived of freedom and a choice of their own destiny. But you can’t undo history. It was what it was. I’m glad the people eventually recognized that slavery was an inhumane, unbecoming element of life in the country marching forward and legally abolished it.

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August 25, 2020 | by Eriс

The Great Divide of the Year 2020

There is this proverb, supposedly Chinese, a curse actually. It says ‘May you live in interesting times.’ The ‘interesting times’ refer to the times of trouble. Whether Chinese or not, it conveys the view of world around us. And very well reflects on life in the United States of America in the year 2020.

We live in the times of trouble. What we knew for generations as a stable, reliable, predictable societal model, is falling apart in front of our own eyes. We are still here, but the expectations of the future have become fuzzy. Few people dare to say what awaits us few years from now.

It is as if a rock from outer space crashed among us. To-date, it wiped out close to a million people, shut down state borders, pushed people underground (figuratively speaking), broke economic ties and shuttered thousands of businesses, large and small. It caused social upheaval not related to the impact, but rather something that was waiting to happen, like a volcano explosion that needed a small push. The society we live in went into a turmoil. Part of it demands privileges we could have hardly imagined few short years ago.  The other part is on edge, holding onto their esteemed values. And guns. In the minds of many guns have become their insurance policies. You can’t cash them in yet, but they would come awfully handy when the proverbial substance hits the fan.

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August 16, 2020 | by Eriс

What Can We Do?

I’m no politician. I don’t know every trick in the book. Yet you got to start someplace. Here’s my version. Look at these ideas with a critical eye. Add your own thoughts as you go.

Remember the Oath of Allegiance? The part where “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic”. Well, now is the time when these important words transform themselves from being ceremonial to being practical. The enemy is here. Yet before we select the methods of defense, we must carefully evaluate what are up against. At this point of time, we have an opportunity to defeat them within law, by openly denouncing their rotten ideology. Raise your voices

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August 14, 2020 | by Eriс

The Accomplices

Since the BLM movement became a daily staple of the American MSM and the darling of the social networks, it has gained support of a good number of US corporations, both large and small.

Curious as to who they are? The list can be found here – https://conservativefiringline.com/list-of-269-companies-supporting-antifa-black-lives-matter/. It was compiled by a third party. I’m certain there are other companies that are not on the list. Regretfully, it reads as ‘Who is who of American business’. You know them.

These are the companies that decided to support BLM with money, hiring practices, publicity. For reasons I can hardly fathom, they jumped, head over heels, into clutching BLM and Co., to their collective corporate bosom, as if it was their long-lost child and they have just been reunited. I don’t quite get it. Why? What was so attractive? Were the giants of corporate wisdom waiting for the moment with baited breath? Can the dirty capitalists be so enamored with the destructive communist ideas BLM & Co. brings? No one can tell for sure.

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August 6, 2020 | by Eriс

A Very Different Race to the Bottom

In the normal world a ‘Race to the Bottom’ is an expression speaking of deregulation of the business environment and lowering the labor costs. Our race to the bottom is different, so read on.

Any single group of people putting themselves above the rest of society becomes racist.

Can you guess what I’m talking about? If you figured this is about ‘the white population’, you got it wrong. True racism these days lives among the BLM boneheads and their supporters.

They elevated the racial issue among the leftist crowd, positioning themselves as the ‘liberators’. BLM and their brethren must save the blacks of America from the horrors of white oppression, ancestral slavery, general misery and shortage of spending cash.

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