Georgia Patriot Files

In August of 2014 I attended a town hall meeting held by one of the really nice guys in congress, my 7th District US Representative, Rob Woodall. At his meetings Rob usually talks about the budget. He’s a numbers guy. And he will astound you with is knowledge of the US Federal Budget. Rob has even balanced the US budget on his computer! Representative Woodall But during the time in question, the world was abuzz about ISIS.  “ISIS did this. ISIS did that, ISIS…ISIS…ISIS.” So uncharacteristically, at this meeting Representative Woodall stepped out of his normal comfort zone, the budget, and ventured into mine, geopolitics. Anyone who knows me knows how hard I work to better understand history and world events. That’s just who I am. And so at this meeting, Representative Woodall took the time to update the attendees with the very latest ISIS propaganda, right off the presses at the US ministry of truth. The crowd ate it up, sadly. That’s when he made his mistake. Th...

“Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.” That declaration, vocalized by candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, put the world establishment, many of whom recently met at the annual G-20, on notice that a President Donald Trump would turn America against their globalist purposes. While many Americans have heard the term, “globalism,” few recognize its dire implications. Our US congress, our executive government and mainstream news are infiltrated, even infested, with globalists. To combat them, we must understand what they are attempting to do and how they would do it. To explain globalism, indulge me to recall a popular song from the 1950’s, one entitled, “Sixteen Tons.” It depicts the plight of a coal miner during the days before fair labor laws. The refrain goes like this: “You load sixteen tons, what do you get?/ Another day older and deeper in debt/ Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go/ I owe my soul to the company store.” Let’s ...

In last week’s column, I described how world demand for US dollars has been sustained by virtue of the petrodollar agreement between the US and the Saudis, as well with most other OPEC countries. That agreement ushered the means by which the US has been able to print unlimited numbers of dollars, borrow them into existence, and send them to producer countries in payment for valuable products from all over the world. Only in America can a people print money out of thin air and expect other peoples to take them as payment for valuable items. But they do, which explains how the US has been able to sustain a monstrous annual trade deficit for the last several decades. In case you missed last week’s column, the petrodollar system is very simple. The countries of the world must have dollars to buy OPEC energy. That creates demand for dollars around the world. To gain access to dollars, countries must sell us their stuff. To pay for the stuff, Wall Street prints more and more dollars; ...

We’ve heard it many times, that we all have the same right to vote and that all votes count the same, right?    Wrong. Unfortunately, friends, any impression that your vote counts the same as anyone else is the result of an orchestrated illusion. My purpose here is to take you backstage and show you how they perform the trick.   Let me begin asking you this question: Does the vote you cast for representation in the US Congress count the same as, say, the votes cast by the people of the 1st Congressional District of Wisconsin? You say yes? Well I say no. That is because House Speaker Paul Ryan is from Wisconsin’s 1st District. That means that the individual representing the people of Wisconsin’s 1st District holds virtual veto power over any legislation your representative may propose. That means the votes by people of Wisconsin’s 1st District wield more power than the votes by people of your district. Furthermore, the individual who represents the people of Wis...

I admit it, I grew up pretty sheltered. Sure, I got into a little trouble as a kid, but nothing major. Once in grammar school, while fulfilling my responsibilities as bathroom monitor, I remember the principle catching me swinging like a monkey on the commode stall door frame. I had to stay after school for that one. But to my credit, all you had to do was tell me once, and I’d fall in line. I was no rebel. My sister, older by three years, was the one always getting in the real trouble. Whatever she did to get herself in a bind, I wanted no part of.   And so except for a few scrapes along the way, I’ve kept my plate pretty clean, staying out of trouble. I always had a safe home and food on the table.   But a lot of kids don’t grow up in a safe home and with the sheltered opportunities I had. Of course, others grow up with every possible advantage, given breaks I would never imagine. But there is one great equalizer, short of death of course, which is my subject tod...

Friends, when is the last time you recall the passage of significant legislation accruing real benefit for the people? Thinking…thinking…What, the Reagan tax cuts? Yes, that was pretty good; but that happened over 30 years ago. And legislators always seem to have an excuse ready don’t they. “It wasn’t the right time,” or, “We don’t have a majority in both houses,” or, “They can’t get 60 votes in the senate,” or, “We did our job but the governor wouldn’t sign it.” But while most legislative records are sparsely populated with wins for the people, those same legislators rarely have problems passing new spy legislation, tax increases, or crony-capitalist welfare bills, do they. Why is that?   You know the answer already. Legislative bodies have long resisted representing the interests of those who elect them, opting instead to secretly represent the special interests who pay for their election campaigns. Those are corporations along with various other entities granted legal statu...

Recently an acquaintance let me know that he would not take Trump seriously until our president goes after the Federal Reserve and the too-big-to-fail banks. My answer was simple, “Okay, it’s time for you to take Trump seriously.” I said that because when our president shuts down TPP, renegotiates NAFTA, brings manufacturing industries back home, shuts down the Paris climate accord, reopens the coal mines, kick-starts the Keystone Pipeline, shakes down NATO and the Middle-Eastern countries to pay their own defense, gains agreement from the Saudis to invest in American infrastructure, repeals Dodd-Frank regulations impeding operation of our community banks, and lowers corporate and personal tax rates, Trump is going after the Federal Reserve Banks, with reckless abandon. That is because, in instituting these policies, Trump furthers a goal he has expressed many times, to lower the trade deficit. I’ll explain. When Americans purchase imported goods, dollars leave our shores for fore...

 …And which the American people continue to fall for. Friends, have you ever stopped to consider why the US Government, the most powerful government on earth, regarded the world’s only superpower, seemingly cannot pay its bills without borrowing money? Isn’t there something fundamentally incongruous about a “most powerful government on earth” that has no wherewithal to pay its own way?  And consider this, that the next 200 largest and most powerful national governments, operating under similar systems, are also in debt up to their eyeballs.  We are talking, trillions and trillions of dollars here.  We are talking debt that can never be paid back-ever, ever, ever.  Would a lender, truly at-risk, really consider making those kinds of loans? Now with all that money owed by practically every national government around the world, wouldn’t an inquisitive mind wonder who the final lender behind all those loans might be?  I mean, who is so well-healed as to p...

In his first trip overseas, President Trump placed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the top of his list of stops.  That is for a good reason.  Despite the Saudis horrific record regarding human rights, since 1974 the US and Saudi Governments have been strange bedfellows, locked into a special bond, one that neither can abandon and on which both country’s economies, and the world economy purely depend. Saudis Role Out Red Carpet for Trump Last week you might recall, Trump met with an unlikely White House guest, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.  That should come as no surprise, however, because in 1974, on behalf of the US Government Kissinger crafted the deal with the Saudis that would forever alter the course of history.  That was the petrodollar deal.  Since that time, the Saudis have held tight to the policy requiring that the world’s leading exporter of raw energy only take US dollars, or “petrodollars,” in exchange for oil.  That the US do...

In his first trip overseas, President Trump placed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the top of his list of stops. That is for a good reason. Despite the Saudis horrific record regarding human rights, since 1974 the US and Saudi Governments have been strange bedfellows, locked into a special bond, one that neither can abandon and on which both country’s economies, and the world economy purely depend. Last week you might recall, Trump met with an unlikely White House guest, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. That should come as no surprise, however, because in 1974, on behalf of the US Government Kissinger crafted the deal with the Saudis that would forever alter the course of history. That was the petrodollar deal. Since that time, the Saudis have held tight to the policy requiring that the world’s leading exporter of raw energy only take US dollars, or “petrodollars,” in exchange for oil. That the US dollar has maintained its value as the world’s reserve currency thro...