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Feature Film: “Chinese Trade Tensions: What to Look Out For” and Short: “Raven Wars with Hawk” . by Alice B. Clagett

Feature Film: "Chinese Trade Tensions: What to Look Out For" and Short: "Raven Wars with Hawk"

Image: “Self-Portrait,” by Alice B. Clagett, 12 April 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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  • INTRODUCTION
  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
  • MORE INFORMATION
  • VIDEO CREDITS

INTRODUCTION

Dear Ones,

Here are a feature film about trade tensions with China and a short about a Raven warring with a Hawk …

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice.

I did some research on wi-fi cameras for surveillance outside the home … such as on a shed or at the top of the house … that can be fed into your handheld, for instance. I did that on Amazon.com. I found out something very interesting …

Of the standalone wi-fi cameras available on [mourning dove call] Amazon, as far as I could tell, all of them have a program that shows the image of [mourning dove call] the surveillance camera online (where you look at it online) …

[Raven says: Hawk, Hawk Hawk, Hawk, etc! I say: The Ravens. Hawk continues to call in the background.]

And the program is in China … almost every single one. There was one, if I remember correctly, where the programs was in an Eastern European nation.

The trouble that I have with this is that those images of your location … maybe your address and your financial information … credit card and bank and so forth … might be available to company that is hosting the images online.

I looked up the countries that had economic sanctions by the United States to find out whether China was being sanctioned. It is not, as far as I can tell; but Russia is being sanctioned, and Russia and China are allies in the war against the Ukraine.

The United States is against the war in the Ukraine; so you see there is a tension arising there, to do with Russia and its ally China as opposed to the United States.

The United States has already expressed this tension in terms of a trade embargo against Russia and parts of the Ukraine. But it has not done that with China.

Chinese technical knowhow is deeply interwoven with the companies of the DOW based in the United States. For instance, both Microsoft and Apple have …

[Raven: Hawk Hawk Hawk Hawk etc. Me to Raven: What’s up? ]

… Excuse me. Raven interruption! They both have … [Laughs.] Life is very unexpectable in the suburbs.

They both have strong connections with China. [Songbird: Listen to her! Listen to her!]

Also I have read that there is a fusion between the military sector and the economic sector in mainland China. What that might mean, for instance … and the thing that everyone fears … is that there might be backdoors, maybe multiple backdoors, in important electronic systems that might assist the military in of China gaining a foothold in the United States … for instance in the realm of surveillance cameras.

This might be applicable worldwide: The ability of the Chinese military to see into our backyards and at our front doors nationwide and globally might provide quite a military advantage … I am sure you can guess … to mainland China.

Then we have the issue of Eastern Europe and the cloud programs that host the images of surveillance cameras over there. The question I have about that is: Could it have to do with, say, a combination of hacking of our contact information and financial information such as credit cards … and home invasion / home robbery in select areas that are being surveilled and overseen by cameras that we ourselves have purchased from Amazon.com!

I know it is a scary topic, but I just thought I would mention that where the wi-fi cameras that are sold on Amazon are made is not really the important thing. They might be made in the United States. They might be made anywhere.

But it is not the cameras that are the issue. It is the software that hosts the images online … like HIK-Connect, and many others. That software feed into military intelligence in mainland China or elsewhere. The same might be true in the United States I guess; I do not know.

I do not know how the United States could get China to cooperate in that, especially if there are trade tensions and if the economic good of mainland China is perceived to lie with their people, and not with other people around the globe. I do not really know what the thinking is there.

So that is the main thing: Surveillance cameras, and how to unlink them from the cloud and get them somehow directly into our own handhelds without contact with foreign countries that might be sanctioned trade-wise.

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I have to wonder what is going to happen if there is a trade sanction against mainland China, and if all the DOW companies … and maybe all the S&P companies … are involved with China … what is going to happen with the stock markets worldwide, do you not?

I have to wonder if …. As if that were not enough bad news for one day! … I have to wonder issues like the exposure of 73 million people’s financial and contact information through the AT&T internet dark web debacle that happened a few months ago … if that kind of thing might not be planned by a foreign power inimical to the United States … China, Russia, or otherwise … whatever it is … and timed and used in conjunction with the surveillance camera issue that I just mentioned.

Operatives could be placed in the United States … en masse, say … to enter homes, rob homes, create mayhem, and at the same time all our finances might be disrupted through another great hack attack.

Of course, a lot of people say that the whole internet might go down.

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I have noticed, so far, four utility poles struck down in my specific geographic area. I have to wonder how many more there are, near here, and whether that might have to do with attempts to rob homes or businesses while the electricity is down because of the power failure … because someone has plowed into the telephone poles.

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Along the lines of ‘dark secrets’, I have another issue as well: That is that there may be operatives coming up from South America who are not the normal people who we are used to dealing with in terms of gardening and home maintenance and so forth.

I feel we ought to be very careful who it is that we hire; who we allow into our yards and into our lives. For instance, how do we pay them? Do we pay by check or by credit card? Each time we pay, we might consider which of these payment methods would be more vulnerable to forgery or cybercrime.

Amongst the good people of, say, Latin America, who are working in the United States, there may be people who are not good people, do you not know? … who are outlaws … even members of Cosa Nostra, or who knows what? … people who do not mean us well.

We should be on the alert, I feel. We should figure things out; because these times are far more tense than times have been in the decades past, as far as international relations are concerned.

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What a lot of things to think about! But there are many things to be grateful for, too. There is the Raven Tribe. There are three Ravens now. A lot went missing, but two Ravens stayed on. Then one more came along.

The have been doing the funniest things lately. There is a mated couple. Then there is this odd one out. And they play Hawk War Games together, as if one of them were the Hawk and the other two were chasing the Hawk .

When three Ravens do that, they are kind of kindhearted to each other. But when two Ravens and the Hawk get together, the Ravens go all out. I think that is because these Hawks are much larger, much stronger, and much meaner than the Ravens overall.

If it is one Raven against two Hawks, then it will be one dead Raven, I feel.

If it is two Ravens against one Hawk, usually they can chase it away.

By doing war games with each other, the Ravens toughen up their skills and their ability to stay alive in this environment … because the Hawks are always after the Ravens’ babies. They are always after them … much as you could say that operatives from other lands come into the United States, and they are used to sex trafficking adults and children, and they will attempt the same thing here in the United States. So there are children who may be in danger.

In the same way, when the Hawks come in, and to for the Raven nests, they try to eat the eggs and kill the children. It is really tense times here in the suburbs, is it not!

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Well, it is a beautiful day, even if the Sun is not shining. There is another chance of rain. It is a blessed year for California with regard to rain.

Let us not worry too much about things. Let us just be on the alert, just in case something comes up.

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Just one other thing: For those of you who come up with notions that are relevant to this conversation … and if you have some facts and figures before you … I think it is a wonderful idea to take a look at the Secret Service websites, which may have online forms for reporting all kinds of issues to do with national security and crime waves and so forth.

They have made it very easy for people to send them tips. It is really very easy: You just go online and say what you say. And they do what they do. Probably they already know everything about everything, but you know, as a concerned citizen you can possibly make a difference by offering a crime tip online.

Well, that is all for today.

God bless you all,
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Come and visit me at my website “Awakening with Planet Earth.” There you will see much more than on youtube. You will get references to other posts. You will get graphics that you cannot see on youtube. You will hear music that you cannot hear on youtube.

It is really altogether glorious at my website “Awakening with Planet Earth.”

Enough for one day. Hope all is well. Take care!

MORE INFORMATION

Link: “Blacklisting and White-Labeling: The U.S. Government Ban on Chinese-Made Security Cameras,” by i2c Technology … https://i2ctech.com/blacklisting-and-white-labeling-the-u-s-government-ban-on-chinese-made-security-cameras/ ..

Link: “Security Camera Users Banned from US Government Contracts,” by Hexis Consulting, 24 June 2022 … https://hexisconsulting.com/security-camera-users-banned-from-us-government-contracts/ ,,

VIDEO CREDITS

Feature Film: “Chinese Trade Tensions: What to Look Out For”
Short: “Raven Wars with Hawk”
by Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 12 April 2024
Produced on 13 April 2024

Location:
San Fernando Valley, CA
CC BY-SA 4.0 International

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Filmed on 12 April 2024 and published on 13 April 2024; revised on 24 July 2024

 

Music by its_tigri from Pixabay
“Sword 4” – Pixabay Content License

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Bobcats and Human Microchips: End Times or Time of New Beginning? . by Alice B. Clagett

Written and published on 3 September 2020

Image: “Calero Creek Trail Bobcat,” by Don DeBold from San Jose, CA, USA, 1 December 2007, from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calero_Creek_Trail_Bobcat.jpg … CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic

Image: “Calero Creek Trail Bobcat,” by Don DeBold from San Jose, CA, USA, 1 December 2007, from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calero_Creek_Trail_Bobcat.jpg … CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic

  • BOBCATS AND HUMAN MICROCHIPS: END TIMES OR TIME OF NEW BEGINNING?
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Dear Ones,

BOBCATS AND HUMAN MICROCHIPS: END TIMES OR TIME OF NEW BEGINNING?

Yesterday I was walking a new trail in Santa Clarita, California. When I started out there was not a car in the parking lot but my own. I went along until the track became a maze of trails not on the map, and then turned around and came back. Nearly back at the parking lot, I was about to pass an old oak tree, which led to a sort of box canyon, up which the trail wended its way.

As I got close to the oak tree, I startled a bobcat that had been lounging in the shade. I was so in awe of its handsome form and lithe healthiness that I forgot to make a video until it was nearly (and quickly) out of sight.

Just after that I saw my first and only hiker of the day, a Latin American gentleman about my own age. When I told him about the bobcat, he decided to turn back as, unlike me, he had not brought along his hiking staff.

He must have seen the cross I was wearing round my neck for, as we retraced the short rise that led to the parking lot, he spoke to me about his conviction that we are in the time of Apocalypse, the End Times, in which people of faith must face many signs of catastrophe.

He spoke of the Book of Revelation and of its author John. He mentioned a passage in Revelation 13, about the number 666, the ‘number of the beast’ …

11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon …

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

I have done some blogs about the Book of Revelation, but not a blog on Chapter 13. My hiking companion mentioned a concern he had that the number 666 (the ‘number of the beast’ and also the ‘number of a man’) felt to him to be the human microchip implants which he had heard might have been forced upon all people in India, and might be in use elsewhere in the world.

Then he mentioned that President Trump was requesting legislation be enacted to implant chips in all Americans. That was pretty upsetting to me, following as it did upon my amazement at sighting a bobcat, and my surprise at encountering a fellow hiker.

In fact, when I thought about it, the conversation of my fellow hiker was the first I had had with anyone at all, at length and in person, since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Los Angeles at the beginning of March 2020. Swiftly I computed that it had been 6 months since I had had a lengthy conversation with anyone at all, in person and within a distance where I could hear their voice on the physical plane.

I realized that people all across the globe are experiencing a kind of inward turning, a lack of social contact, that is causing our minds to come up with novel and often ‘out there’ explanations to encompass and express the novel and hence fear-provoking health concerns that have come upon all the countries of Earth. I did not know what to think about this theory of the sign of the beast and the human microchips.

As we reached the parking lot, though, we both agreed that in these times faith is of the utmost importance; that through faith we can overcome every obstacle of these times, no matter how insurmountable that obstacle may seem. We agreed too that those who align with Christ Consciousness will rise above the troubles of life on Earth, and that now of all times is the time in which this may best be happening to each of us.

The explanation that my hiking companion had about the ‘number of the beast’, President Trump, and human microchip implantation concerned me enough that today I took a look online about it. I was greatly relieved to find that most likely the CHIP associated with President Trump is the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), whose funding is in question.

That funding for CHIP is in question is an issue to which Congress must, I feel, rise. What could be more important to this country than the welfare of our children? It is, I guess, just as important as avoiding legislation to force Americans to have microchip implants. Both are important issues, I feel.

Because people globally are, I feel, carrying a greater than usual burden of anxiety over the state of the world right not, it is possible we may leap to unusual decisions about a number of legislative issues. That is a danger that Americans face right now: How to make wise decisions even though we are under a lot of stress because of the pandemic.

Right now I feel the thing for our legislatures … whether national, state, county or city … to do might be to make legislative decisions that decrease the burden of stress on all Americans. That lessening of the national burden of stress will help us to turn our visions of Apocalypse and End Times into the joyful visions of our Lightworker community: visions of a Second Coming of Christ Consciousness for all those who wish to embrace it; visions of a Time of New Beginning, and of New Life on New Earth for each of us, the New Humans.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

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REVELATION 13 (KJV, Public Domain)

1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.

10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

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Pragmatic Prophet: COVID-19 and the USA: Is the Death Count Higher or Lower Than Expected? . by Alice B. Clagett

Written and published on 8 July 2020

Image: “Scared Girl,” by Victor Bezrukov, 27 January 2007, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scared_Girl.jpg … CC BY 2.0

Image: “Scared Girl,” by Victor Bezrukov, 27 January 2007, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scared_Girl.jpg … CC BY 2.0

Dear Ones,

Given the press on the state of COVID-19 in California since the Fourth of July, I checked whether the greater picture for the pandemic in California, and in the United States overall, is grim or reasonable. Here is what I found out …

There is a question whether deaths due to COVID-19 are being misclassified on the high side in the United States currently, similar to the issue they were being misclassified on the low side in March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are aware of this issue, but cannot yet quantitate it, as there are state-by-state issues regarding standardization of statistical reporting.

Thus it seems reasonable to look at overall deaths in the United States overall, since the beginning of the pandemic in February 2020, and also state-by-state. That way we can ascertain whether overall deaths (including COVID-19, flu, pneumonia, and every other cause of death) are higher or lower than expected.

I turned to the CDC for the data. They say deaths in the United States, from whatever causes, are 4 percent greater than expected deaths for the period from 1 February to 4 July 2020. Ball-parking that, we might reasonably assume deaths from COVID-19 to have contributed most of that excess. That is the approach to the data taken as a given by the press and by all levels of  government in the United States, from city government, to state government, to government at the national level.

On the other hand, it could be that there is a range of numbers within which expected deaths are tallied, Taking that range into account, it is possible, from a multiple year perspective, that COVID-19 may not have contributed at all to this year’s excess deaths. It could be we are on the far end of the expectable range of deaths in 2020, and in the coming years there will be less deaths than expectable. In other words, excess expectable deaths this year might not be due to COVID-19 at all. That is the contrarian approach to the data.

From the stance of personal health and safety, it might be good to know which states have the highest numbers of deaths greater than expected since February of this year. We could take a look at deaths due to COVID or whatever other causes; that would be a figure beyond debate.

I see from the below chart that some states have had a notably higher percent of expected deaths than the United States in general, during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. These are Arizona (108%), Colorado (109%), District of Columbia (115%), Illinois (115%), Louisiana (107%), Maryland (116%), Massachusetts (123%), Michigan (112%), Minnesota (105%),  New Jersey (142%), New York (124%), New York City (203%), and Rhode Island (106%).

From this list the standouts in terms of having deaths greater than expected, from highest to lowest, are New York City (203%), New Jersey (142%), New York (124%), Massachusetts (123%), Maryland (116%), District of Columbia (115%), Illinois (115%), and Michigan (112%).

This table has the data in it …

Image: “United States Deaths from 2/1/2020 to 7/4/2020 as Percent of Expected Deaths, State by State,” from Link: “Daily Updates of Totals by Week and State: Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) … https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm … See: Table 2. Deaths Involving Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Pneumonia, and Influenza Reported to NCHS by Jurisdiction of Occurrence, United States, Week Ending 2/1/2020 to 7/4/2020 … public domain.

Image: “United States Deaths from 2/1/2020 to 7/4/2020 as Percent of Expected Deaths, State by State,” from Link: “Daily Updates of Totals by Week and State: Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) … https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm … See: Table 2. Deaths Involving Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Pneumonia, and Influenza Reported to NCHS by Jurisdiction of Occurrence, United States, Week Ending 2/1/2020 to 7/4/2020 … public domain.

In case the chart is too small to read, the data can be found here …

Link: “Daily Updates of Totals by Week and State: Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) … https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm … See: Table 2. Deaths Involving Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Pneumonia, and Influenza Reported to NCHS by Jurisdiction of Occurrence, United States, Week Ending 2/1/2020 to 7/4/2020

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In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

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The George Floyd ‘Flashpoint’ and Scapegoating of Police in America . by Alice B. Clagett *

The George Floyd 'Flashpoint' and Scapegoating of Police in America

Image: “Lieutenant (junior grade) Natasha McClinton, a surgical nurse, prepares a patient for a procedure in the intensive care unit aboard the U.S. hospital ship USNS Comfort. The ship cares for critical and non-critical patients without regard to their COVID-19 status. Comfort is working with Javits New York Medical Station as an integrated system to relieve the New York City medical system, in support of U.S. Northern Command’s Defense Support of Civil Authorities as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” by US Navy Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sara Eshleman, 23 April 2020, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:COVID-19_Nurse_(cropped).jpg … public domain

  • COVID AND SUBCONSCIOUS SYMBOLISM: “I CAN’T BREATHE”
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Dear Ones,

COVID AND SUBCONSCIOUS SYMBOLISM: “I CAN’T BREATHE”

I wonder if when George Floyd so poignantly said “I can’t breathe” and then passed on, whether that sent a message to us that face masks make it hard to breathe … that COVID also, they say, makes it hard to breathe … and somehow these two, the face masks and the COVID symptoms … are what are being protested, both at the same time, along with undue force by the policeman.

It seems almost as if the suffocation of George Floyd was the acting out in physical reality of our concerns about the pandemic, the concrete symbol of our fears. And now, after the ‘flashpoint’ event that occurred, it is almost as if the police are being pilloried as scapegoats … that our fears for our well-being have morphed into anger at them.

In recent weeks I have been doing an easy yoga set in addition to walking (which I love), and found these help quite a bit to divert my heart from the dramas so much in the news.

TRIPLE ECLIPSE PASSAGE

It seems likely to me that the events unfolding in the social arena have to do with the high energies of the Triple Eclipse Passage now underway …

Link: “Incoming Light! Triple Eclipse Passage,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 4 June 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-iuS ..

That passage heralds the New. Transforming to the New always requires courage, and overcoming one’s own desire to remain the same. Fear and anger do arise in our hearts, and we must counter these with positive emotions and right action in the world. That way we can become more like Christ, more like the Buddha, and more like Lord Krishna in our hearts and in the living of our lives.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 4 June 2020; revised on 30 April 2025

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Pragmatic Prophecy: Western States Pact and Possible Decentralization of the United States . by Alice B. Clagett

  • FORMATION OF THE WESTERN STATES PACT
  • POSSIBLE DECENTRALIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES INTO LOOSELY FEDERALLY RULED ECONOMIC REGIONS IN YEARS TO COME
    • Decentralization Stressors
      • COVID-19, AIDS, and Less Federal Revenues
      • The Price of Water and the Potential Need to Grow Crops
  • COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS VERSUS THE COMMON GOOD
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Dear Ones,

FORMATION OF THE WESTERN STATES PACT

As you may know, a Western States Pact has been formed in response to the COVID-19 issue. To date, the states involved are Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, and Nevada …

Link: “Colorado & Nevada Join California, Oregon & Washington in Western States Pact,” 27 April 2020 … https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/27/colorado-nevada-join-california-oregon-washington-in-western-states-pact/ ..

This is a power block or united front asking for financial help from the federal government in response to the impact of COVID-19 on their states’ economies.

POSSIBLE DECENTRALIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES INTO LOOSELY FEDERALLY RULED ECONOMIC REGIONS IN YEARS TO COME

While this power block has a focused purpose, it does present a small step towards consolidating a Western economic region, in a way that is reminiscent of this possible timeline for relative decentralization of the United States into economic regions, with less control by a federal government as a possibility in years to come …

Link: “What If: Will the United States Become Less Centralized?” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 6 December 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-fnm ..

Decentralization Stressors

COVID-19, AIDS, and Less Federal Revenues. Among the stressors, in the current scenario, would be COVID-19 affecting the current economy of the large United States cities; AIDS (which prevents having viable offspring) affecting the Eastern Seaboard economic region (which is hard hit by AIDS) first, and other regions later; and in the short term, inability of the federal government to provide financial aid because of decreased tax payments next year because of unemployment caused by lockdowns this year.

The Price of Water and the Potential Need to Grow Crops. In addition, here in Los Angeles the price of water has made it untenable to raise crops; water prices may rise elsewhere in the United States as well. For those in the cities, I suggest a power block lobbying for reasonably priced water. For those who can move away from the cities, I suggest moving to regions of plentiful rainfall, so that a sustainable or survival-oriented lifestyle can be maintained if necessary.

COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS VERSUS THE COMMON GOOD

My feeling is that riots and curfews are happening in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere because people who have no savings have been prevented from making a living by lockdowns in the urban areas of the United States. My hope is that our mayors and governors will see the wisdom of balancing relatively few lives lost through COVID-19 against social unrest caused by inability to get work.

Italy, for instance, was very hard hit by the epidemic, yet their people are going back to work and reopening churches. In addition, Dallas, Texas is doing so. From available news, the resurgence of COVID-19 in Wuhan, which reopened for business a while ago, has been far less in numbers than the good caused by the ability of the people to feed and clothe themselves.

In other words, I feel that, in terms of lockdown or return to normalcy, we must weigh the common good against our fears regarding possible, but as yet unproven, negative outcomes. For all we know, the worst is over, and better days lie just beyond the horizon, nearly within our ken.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 2 June 2020; revised on 13 May 2023

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