I’m a fan of the Clive Cussler Oregon Files franchise of books.  The latest installment involves a plot to draw the U.S. into a war between the NATO forces and Russia.  There was a line in the story that hit quite close to home and inspired this piece.  “Truth is treason in an empire of lies.”  Unfortunately, that line aptly describes our current circumstances.  In the Biden Administration in particular, and the United States in general, statements of the truth have been labelled as treason, while a tissue of lies is foisted on an unsuspecting public.  I always thought that the American people were too smart to fall for such chicanery, but now, I’m not so sure.  The late Rush Limbaugh used to talk about people he called “low information voters,” who could be shielded from the truth and convinced to vote for Democrats despite the fact that their votes were not in their own best interests.  Thanks to the Leftist hijacking of the educational system and the mainstream media outlets, and the manipulation of mail-in ballots after the Wuhan plague, I’m afraid that a majority of the voting public now falls into that category.  The current system permits the Biden Administration and its Leftist minions to lie with impunity.  You really can’t blame them for lying, when they know that they can say anything they want, secure in the knowledge that whatever the lie, no matter how blatant, and no matter how divorced it may be from reality, the media moguls will swear to it, while at the same time, suppressing the truth as “misinformation” that “puts our democracy at risk.”  Just look around.  Take corrupt demented imbecile Joe Biden personally.  He says he graduated at the top of his law school class.  It’s a lie.  He graduated 76th out of 85 students.  Depending on his audience, Joe either was raised Greek, Puerto Rican, African-American, Irish, or whatever.  He says he was a truck driver.  All lies, covered up by the media Empire of Lies.  Any contradiction is treason.  Joe says he’s reduced the deficit by over $1 trillion.  He’s actually raised it more than that, but the truth isn’t permitted.  Take Hunter Biden.  There is indisputable evidence that he took millions of dollars from foreign governmental interests, and transferred millions to family members, including Old Joe.  If there were bank records showing such payments to people named Trump, they would all already be in Leavenworth.  But anyone who might mention this is branded a liar, and we are told there’s really no evidence because it’s never been investigated and proven.  At the same time, no investigation is permitted.  Look at the border.  Joe let in over 4 million illegal alien invaders, then transported them all over the country at our expense.  They’re called “migrants” but they’re never leaving.  We’re told they’re only here to seek asylum, and that over 95% of asylum seekers are rejected.  But none of them are ever deported, nor will they ever be deported.  Democrats took pride in predicting that U.S. demographics were replacing caucasions with minorities.  Mention that now and you’re a traitor spreading unproven replacement theories.  The southern border has been erased.  Mexican drug cartel members are coming in to set up shop north of the border.  Democrats do nothing.  Tons of drugs are coming in, drugs that are killing more than 100,000 Americans a year.  Democrats do nothing, and Biden says the border is secure.  When even Eric Adams complains that Biden is destroying the country, that’s not reported.  Biden says the border is secure, despite videos of thousands of people from more than 100 countries back-stroking across the Rio Grande.  We’re not shown that, so it isn’t really happening.  Except it is happening.  Donald Trump tried to tell the truth.  Look what happened to him.  He said he was being framed by the Democrats, illegally investigated by the FBI and CIA, and wrongfully impeached … twice.  All those things are true.  This week, John Durham finally released a report proving that.  I told you that in these pages in 2017.  What’s the official message?  Trump lies, he’s a fascist, and he incited an insurrection that … wait for it … is an imminent threat to “our democracy.”  Seeing a pattern here?  It’s pervasive.  Take the environment.  Leftists used to be fond on saying “Save the whales.”  Now they’re embarked on a stupid drive for green energy.  Their off-shore wind turbines are killing dozens of whales every week.  We know this because dead whales keep washing up on our shores.  They won’t turn off the turbines, though, so now it’s “Screw the whales” we have to plug in our electric cars.  More lies there.  All cars must be electric by 2030.  That’s a bald-faced lie.  It will never  happen and physically cannot happen.  Anybody in touch with reality knows this.  Only reality no longer matters.  In truth, reality no longer exists.  Reality is what is true, and truth is treason.  Need I go on?  The Leftist orthodoxy all around us is a total disregard for reality and a rejection of the truth.  This weekend, Joe Biden said again that the greatest threat facing America is from white supremecists.  It’s an obvious lie, and a provable lie.  If we had an honest media, someone might well ask, “If white supremecists are a threat, what is the Biden Administration doing about it?”  When was the last indictment brought against a white supremecist group?  If charges haven’t been brought, why not?  If Biden isn’t lying, then doesn’t that mean his Justice Department is inept?  It’s all a function of the reality that America has become an Empire of Lies.  How else could a group like the bastards of Antifa conduct itself like Nazi Brownshirts and still be referred to as anti-fascist?  How else could they attack courthouses, burn down police stations, destroy property, and commit murder and aggravated assault and still escape prosecution, or at least condemnation?  If we permit a corrupt, out of control government to be the arbiter of truth, that is an imminent threat to “our democracy.” When it’s time for you to vote, forget about the political labels, and choose reality and your own survival over the Empire of Lies.

Everything seems more important, or at least more pretentious, when it’s in Latin, don’t you think?  The title of this week’s work refers to the Woke, so-called Progressive movement that’s plaguing our country, and it asks the question, “Where’s the progress?”  Another question which might be posed by someone like Cato the Elder could be, Hoc profectum vocas?  “You call this progress?”  These are questions that should be asked of the Woke imbeciles who are speeding the United States down the road to ruin.  The Woke mob proceeds full speed ahead, regardless of budget deficits, national debt, election results, or the wishes of the American people.  They do this because they’re convinced they’re always right, and they think they should be able to indulge all of their Leftist fever dreams, so long as they keep insisting that their only motivations are compassion and democracy, and that any opposition is a hateful threat to democracy.  But what are so-called Progressives doing in the names of compassion and democracy?  The first thing you need to understand is that Progressives (liberals, Leftists, or whatever you want to call them), exist in a world in which they pretend, or at least hope that you’re not intelligent enough to realize, that enormous advances have been made in the last 100 years.  Simply put, when Progressives emerged at the beginning of the 20th Century, they were fighting to bring about much needed improvements to our society to remedy urgent needs.  Anyone who has read these pages over the years knows how far I am from a bleeding heart liberal, but the early Progressives at least worked on real problems like child labor, health and safety standards, access to education, and unemployment insurance.  Then as now, early Progressives in the so-called Gilded Age, attacked the rich, and decried income inequality.  In an article in The Wall Street Journal this week, Phil Gramm and historian Amity Shlaes make a good argument for the proposition that the Gilded Age wasn’t a heartless time when robber barons got rich on the backs of the poor, but actually was a time of great economic gains for all Americans.  In 1892, Progressives railed against the 4,050 millionaires in America.  Today they rail against the 400 billionaires in America.  They ignore the fact these entrepreneurs create jobs that feed and clothe millions of people, and they ignore the fact that the top 1% of earners pay more than 40% of the taxes.  In New York City, about 1,400 taxpayers account for 50% of the tax revenue.  If half of them moved to Florida, the City would collapse.  No matter.  To Progressives they’re villains, because, “uh, income inequality,” “uh, you didn’t build that,” and “uh, you know … the thing.”  Gramm and Shlaes show that, when you add up all the transfer payments like food stamps and refundable tax credits, income inequality was worse in 1947 than it is today.  Facts mean nothing to Progressives, but the point is that Progressives are never satisfied.  Food safety, unemployment insurance, and building codes were good things.  That was progress.  These early successes ballooned during the Great Depression, resulting in Social Security, a myriad of alphabet soup agencies imposing regulations, and later welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, and tax credits that redistribute revenue to people who already pay no income taxes.  The thing is that so-called Progressives pretend that all these government welfare programs don’t already exist.  They pretend that we haven’t already spent $25 trillion on the War on Poverty, and we’re not spending trillions more today.  For Freud every dream was a wish.  For Progressives, every wish is an existential crisis, which can be met only by doing exactly what they demand, regardless of cost and regardless of reality.  Progressives operate in a make-believe world.  There are but two explanations for this phenomenon.  Either Progressives are imbued with a religious fervor that prevents them from seeing reality, or they are purposely attempting to bring about the destruction of the United States.  Review with me the issues driving Progressives, and ask yourselves, “Where’s the progress?”  Take the environment.  Environmentalists in the 1970’s faced cities obscured by smog, rivers so tainted with chemicals that one actually caught fire, smokestack industries causing acid rain to fall, and leaded gasoline that poisoned the air.  Through their efforts, all these blights were cleaned up.  That was progress.  Today’s climate alarmists insist we end the use of cheap, abundant, and safe fossil fuels which will greatly increase costs, close industries, and eliminate jobs, and all to no end other than “we say so.”  Is that progress?  Look at the border.  No one lacks compassion for foreigners who are abused by their governments, but does that entitle the entire world to come here?  It’s ironic that Progressives, preach that America isn’t exceptional, yet don’t understand that the fact that the whole world wants to come here proves we are better than anyplace else.  So in the name of compassion, they erase the border, admit millions of illiterates, new dependents, suspected terrorists, criminals, the victims of human trafficking, and tons of illegal drugs that kill hundreds of thousands of Americans every year.  Is that progress?  Progressives oppose the institutionalization of the mentally ill, and say that all drugs should be legalized.  These policies have resulted in an explosion of homeless people living, crapping, and ingesting drugs in the streets.  Progressives consider this the height of compassion, but is it progress?  Our streets have been turned into war zones because crime is out of control, police are prevented from doing their jobs, and Soros-backed prosecutors refuse to enforce the law.  In some places, looters are free to steal up to $1,000 without fear of arrest.  Hundreds of stores have closed, and some have locked up all their products, making shopping more difficult.  The store closures mostly impact people in “underserved communities,” the same people Progressives claim they want to help.  You call that progress?  The latest Progressive craze is transgender rights.  Trans people are estimated to be 0.03% of the population, three hundreths of one percent, or less than 100,000 in a nation of 330 million.  Progressives are willing to destroy all our culture, norms, and morals, and the right to privacy of every actual female to cater to a group that deserves toleration but not celebration.  Is that progress?  Progressives have taken us from welfare, to workfare, and now are supporting the payment of guaranteed incomes to discourage work and bankrupt already struggling governments.  Rather than progress, this is a wrecking ball, designed to collapse our society, in favor of what?  And that’s the point.   It’s increasingly  apparent that Progressives are not simply misguided, but are purposely attempting to bring about the destruction of the United States.  Our enemies, principally China, are behind this.  George Soros’ One World scheme doesn’t seek to bring the rest of the world up to our standards, but to pull the United States down to the level of the rabble.  Once we’re overrun with illegal aliens, bankrupt, stoned, destitute, and as hopeless as everyone else on Earth, we’ll be much easier to defeat, and the Progressive invocations of the word “democracy” will be merely a sick joke.  Progressives don’t bring about progress, only destruction, and it’s not a mistake, it’s been well planned.

(Our politics grows more and more depressing, and I’ve been on vacation this week, so here’s something different and a bit lighthearted)

The Earth has been around, most scientists agree, for 4.6 billion years or so.  We may think of our planet as “The Big Blue Marble” or as a world of temperate climates and vast oceans, but it’s much more than that.  At its core, the Earth is a magnet.  It’s no secret that the Earth has constant volcanic activity.  The entire perimeter of the Pacific, from Asia and Oceania to North and South America is called the Ring of Fire for that very reason.  The tectonic plates rub together, mountains arise, and volcanic activity takes place.  It’s pretty hot down there, because the center of the Earth is composed of molten iron.  There are several theories for how this came to be, the most intriguing of which is that some 4.5 billion years ago the nascent Earth was struck by the planet Theia.  This cataclysm gave us our Moon, whose size and distance from the Earth has long puzzled scientists.  The remains of planet Theia have never been found, but some scientists now believe that what’s left of Theia lies beneath our feet.  Two huge volumes of rock are buried deep in the Earth. Each is millions of times larger than Mount Everest, and denser and hotter than the rest of Earth’s mantle.  These rock masses interfere with the convection of molten iron at the Earth’s center, and affect the Earth’s magnetic field.  The magnetic field is the force that causes the needle on a compass to point due North, or at least that used to be the case.  For thousands of years, our magnetic North pole was always at the top of the Earth over the Canadian Arctic, but it’s changing.  When all that molten iron moves around, convection currents alter the location of the North pole.  We’re told that the geomagnetic poles have shifted north to south at least 10 times in the last 2.6 million years, but it’s been some 780,000 years since the last shift, so it’s overdue.  When it happens, the compass needle will point to the South geographic pole instead of North. It’s already begun.  The magnetic North pole has shifted southwest from Canada, and now is in Siberia.  It’s not known whether a complete shift will happen quickly or very gradually.  And since this has hasn’t happened in 780,000 years, it’s the first time that human beings will be affected by what is a natural phenomenon of the Earth.  The last time the poles shifted, Neanderthals were new arrivals on the scene.  Homo sapiens didn’t emerge until 300,000 years ago.  40,000 years ago, our ancestors were busy dodging wooly mammoths and painting on cave walls.  It wasn’t until 2,000 years ago that the Chinese learned to use lodestone to build a compass, which permitted them to navigate.  Throughout all of recorded history, the magnetic compass has shown travelers true North, until now.  This latest polar shift, when it comes, has the potential to disrupt the lives of migratory animals like turtles, whales and birds, who rely on magnetism to navigate, but scientists “think” human life is not at risk.  The geologists should consult the climatologists who seem to know everything about the future.  However, our technology may be disrupted.  We rely on artificial satellites for navigation, communication, and TV broadcasting.  The ignorant, shallow version of homo sapiens that currently inhabits the Earth may not care if whales, turtles and birds get lost, but if this annoying shifting of the magnetic poles causes them inconvenience when they’re trying to watch The Bachelor, or take the latest TikTok challenge, there will be Hell to pay.  Because the pole is moving toward Russia, I’m sure Donald Trump will be blamed, but how to fix it?  Listen, don’t worry, once Joe Biden gets reelected, I’m sure he and his Cabinet will figure it out.  They’ve already got government agencies downplaying the danger of a polar shift.  NOOA’s National Centers for Environmental Information says a shift won’t affect the environment.  They’re as sure of this as they are sure a one degree rise in temperatures will kill us all.  NASA says there’s nothing to fear.  Since the shift will affect transportation by disrupting GPS satellites, I guess Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will be tasked with fixing the problem.  Since Pete can’t even keep trains on the tracks, I’m sure that’s comforting.  Maybe Pete, Elizabeth Warren, AOC and the Squad will put their heads together and order everybody to wear aluminum foil hats to shift the magnets back.  It works for them, and it might even improve TV reception.  But this shifting of the North pole into Russia has more serious implications, and it’s no laughing matter.  Has anyone even considered how this will affect Santa Claus?  If Russia gains control of Santa’s workshop, a lot of elves will be out of a job.  The continual southwestward shift of the pole may bring it into northwestern Russia, to the vicinity of Veliky Ustyug, northeast of Moscow.  If this happens, Christmas will radically change, as even Santa Claus will be out of a job.  This part of Russia is home to the Russian version of Santa Claus.  His name is Ded Moroz, and he doesn’t work with elves at all, just with the Russian Snow Maiden, Snergurochka.   A lot of holiday advertising would have to change.  I’m sure Coca-Cola would be the first to make the transition.

Have a Coke and a smile, comrades.  But don’t get too comfortable Ded Moroz.  The pole may continue to shift south to Africa.  Think of the political implications for Leonard Jeffries’ “Ice People are violent and Sun People are peaceful” nonsense.  He might even have to give up his anti-Semitism just because some molten iron shifted around.  That doesn’t seem fair.  But there could be benefits too.  If the magnetic shift affects the rocks in Joe Biden’s head, he may regain some of his marbles.  Any shift he makes would have to be for the better, cause he can’t get any worse.

This week Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden released a 3 minute video packed with lies, announcing his decision to run for reelection next year.  He’s touting the great achievements of his Administration.  That’s why he had to lie.  The fact of the matter is that, like Trump or not, absolutely everything was better before Biden took over at the White House.  The Trump era saw higher wages, lower taxes, a secure border, energy independence, a stronger military, a revitalized NATO alliance, greatly improved trade agreements, no inflation, and a world in which China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea were under control.  Under Biden, all those things have changed for the worse.  But, without a doubt, the worst aspect of the Biden years is the crippling inflation that has been brought about by his reckless printing of trillions of dollars, resulting in a debt approaching $32 trillion.  Real wages are down 11%.  Credit card debt is up 27%.  And the price of everything is much higher than in 2020.  Gasoline prices doubled.  Heating oil up 87%, natural gas up 57%, and electricity up 23%.  Food prices are out of control.  Eggs up 229%, flour 33%, butter 21%, and coffee 23%.  This week the small cream cheese that used to be $2.99 was $5.99.  Meanwhile, in his insatiable drive toward equity (whatever the Hell that’s supposed to mean), Sleepy Joe has announced that he’s fighting the obscene increase in housing costs by imposing monetary penalties on home buyers with good credit, so he can subsidize buyers with poor credit; people who really can’t afford mortgages with inflated interest rates.  When this inevitably results in a 2008-like housing crash, and the poor credit risk buyers are foreclosed on, we’ll no doubt be told it’s due to systemic racism, instead of the real reason, governmental stupidity.  Inflation is so bad under Biden that he’s even managed to inflate the price of the money itself.  A nickel may buy less than it did before, but it costs more than 5 cents.  That’s right, the U.S. Mint announced that it now costs 10.4 cents to produce one nickel.  When the Mint produces coins, the amount that the face value exceeds the cost of production represents a profit to the government that’s called seniorage.  Producing nickels is costing the government money, as they lose 5.4 cents per copy.  They minted about 1.5 billion nickels last year, so they lost $81 million making nickels.  The price of pennies is even worse.  It now costs 2.72 cents to produce one penny, and they minted 6.4 billion of them in 2022.  That means we lost $110 million minting pennies.  I know they say you have to spend money to make money, but that’s ridiculous.  The increased coin prices are due to increased prices of the metals that make up the coins.  Biden inflation strikes again.  There is talk of reducing the amount of nickel in the nickel to keep costs down.  This really is nothing new for the Mint.  Until 1866, the 5 cent piece was called the half-dime, and was silver.  A run on gold and silver caused by the Civil War made those metals scarce, so the nickel nickel was born.  World War Two changed the nickel’s composition.  Nickel was needed for war industries, so the “nickel” was composed of copper, silver, and manganese.  A nickel with a new composition will continue to be produced.  Not so the penny.  The Mint expects that 2023 will be the last year the penny coin will be produced.  It costs too much to make, and there’s not much you can buy with one cent.  Plus, the penny already has been through a number of composition changes in its history, and you just can’t make a one cent coin out of any metal that costs less than one cent.  So the penny is going away, and it will be missed by collectors.  Until 1856, one cent coins were called large cents, big, ugly coins about the size of a half dollar.  In 1856, the small cent was born, and we haven’t seen many design changes in nearly 170 years.  The first small cent depicted a flying eagle.  The Indian Head cent reigned from 1859 to 1909.  Since 1909, Abraham Lincoln has graced the obverse of the penny.  Fun fact – While all other presidents on our coins face to the left, Honest Abe faces right.  That may be because he’s the only Republican on a coin.  The composition of the Lincoln cent has changed as events dictated.  From 1909 to 1943 the penny was bronze, a mix of copper, zinc and a small amount of tin.  Copper was in great demand during World War II, so the 1943 penny was cast in stainless steel.  From 1944 to 1946, the Mint produced what were called “shell case” pennies.  This might have been the first recycling project.  Spent shell casings from ammunition used in the War was made from copper, zinc, and tin – the same  bronze alloy as the pre-War pennies.  Empty casings were collected, melted down, and turned into new pennies.  The bronze cent was made until 1962, when the tin was removed.  Then in 1982, the penny went from 95% copper to 95% zinc, and the rest copper plating.  Cost has been a problem for a long time.  There was talk of making an aluminum penny, or even a plastic penny, but every time it came up, representatives of the vending machine industry shot it down.  Now that vending machines take mostly dollar bills that shouldn’t be a problem, but it looks like the penny is going the way of the Dodo bird.  The Mint says they’re not needed, as there are trillions of pennies sitting in drawers and in jars that could go back into circulation.  The Mint still makes money on dimes, quarters and half dollars, so presumably they’re safe.  Maybe the answer is more Biden inflation.  It still costs only 17 cents to make a hundred dollar bill.

This week is the 53rd edition of Chicken Little Appreciation Day, also known as Earth Day.  The title of this week’s offering came to me when I thought of Erich Segal’s book, Love Story.  In it, a character says, “Love is never having to say you’re sorry.”  With the history of Earth Day, and the predictions of global warming/climate change activists in mind, it occurred to me that being a so-called Progressive means never having to be right about anything.  A similar observation was made by Ronald Reagan, who famously said that, “It’s not that liberals are bad people, it’s just that they know too many things that aren’t so.” The record has proven that the super-geniuses of the Left, who are so positive that they and only they have the only possible plan to save the planet, have been dead wrong about absolutely everything for the past 53 years.  Simply put, the Earth Day story should be called B.S. Story.  The first Earth Day in 1970 was organized by Ira Einhorn and Paul Erlich.  This was before it was discovered that Einhorn had killed his girlfriend, stashed her mummified body in a trunk in his apartment, got lawyer (later Senator) Arlen Specter to bail him out, and absconded to France.  Erlich is a scientist, who “knew” that the global population of 3.7 billion was too high, and that hundreds of millions would die of starvation by 1980.  That was wrong.  Global population is approaching 8 billion, and people are better nourished than ever.  In 1970, the experts “knew” that we were running out of oil.  That was wrong.  They “knew” that we had to move to Green energy, or else the world would come to an end.  This sparked the Green movement, which gained momentum after the Berlin Wall fell and all the Reds became Greens.  The fact that the Communists simply repurposed themselves is lost on the super-geniuses.  Because they believe themselves always to be right (the mental defect I call delusions of rectitude), the Left adopted the climate change mantra as its religion.  Their religious fervor is what makes them so dangerous.  Of course, they never stopped to consider that they were being used.  And of course, even had they considered this they would have dismissed the notion, because, due to their psychosis, they have amended Descartes’ cogito ergo sum into cogito ergo verum (I believe therefore it’s true).  For 53 years, these people have been preaching the end of the world, but not just from climate change, which is a recent innovation.  Anyone who bothers to take a close look will see that, in the 1970’s, they predicted mankind would succumb from a new Ice Age.  This would have been troubling because humans are 27 times more likely to die from cold than from heat.  The Ice Age never came.  Then they moved to global warming.  “Woe is us, temperatures will increase 1.5 degrees in 100 years.  Mankind is doomed.”  When temperatures flattened out over more than a decade, the hucksters changed “global warming” to “climate change.”  This permits them to blame any increase or decrease in temperatures on CO2, which they consider a poison, and to blame all storms, winds, tornadoes, floods, or droughts on industrial and personal use of fossil fuels.  These are lies, of course, but remember, we’re dealing with religious fanatics.  It’s a matter of faith to them.  The Old Testament tells us that faith is the substance of things hoped for.  Third century bishop Tertullian was asked how he could believe the fantastic miracles in the Bible.  He responded, “I believe because it is absurd.”  That’s what we’re dealing with from the Green fanatics.  Undeterred by their half century record of always being wrong, the Earth Day celebrants continue to preach Armageddon.  Their official website EarthDay.org is replete with the disproven predictions of five decades.  Here’s some of their claptrap –  “The scientific evidence is clear and irrefutable — human activity is causing our planet to warm at an alarming rate.”  That’s the same story from 1970.  “In October 2018, the IPCC released its special report on Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees Celsius, giving us just a dozen years to halve our greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of a climate crisis.”  Of course, the report was based on the “hockey-stick graph.”  The man who created it later admitted he fabricated the data.  Never let a crisis go to waste though, even if you have to make up a phony one.  “There is simply no time to waste.  We need urgent and ambitious action at every level, from heads of state submitting increased national commitments to the Paris Agreement on climate change and cities walking the talk, to private sector leaders addressing climate change at every step of the supply chain, finance heads committing to divest from fossil fuels and green their investments and individual citizens using their unique influence to drive change and make an impact.”  The Paris agreement?  Only one nation on Earth met the Paris CO2 reduction goals.  The U.S.  We met the goals after President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the agreement.  The Paris goals are designed to strangle industry in the West, while permitting China, Russia, and India to pollute at will.  Only religious fanatics seeking martyrdom would sign up for that. “Travel smarter.”  Save the planet by taking public transit or walking.  Unless you’re a celebrity, John Kerry or Al Gore.  In that case, fly your private jet.  Carbon footprints are only made by the little people.   But here’s the best one – EarthDay.org calls for climate change action to reduce particulates (translation – eliminate industries) based on a World Health Organization report on pollution-related illnesses.  This is the topper.  The WHO is run by China, the world’s worst polluter.  The WHO is motivating well-meaning young people in the West to protest industrialization in their countries, which are also being hampered by the nonsensical drive toward green energy, which doesn’t work, and is prohibitively expensive.  Meanwhile, the Chinese are building a new coal plant every week.  Our industries die, and China rules the world.  The Communists once planned to take over the West by revolution.  Now there’s no need for war.  EarthDay.org urges Americans to “Vote Earth.” It’s ingenious.  The Reds turned Green and they will prevail when climate change activists in democratic countries, vote an end to their industries, their jobs, and their own prosperity.  Meanwhile, China, which permits no voting and no complaints about pollution, just takes over.   Happy Earth Day.  May the B.S. be with you.