Garner Isn't

Electricity or Oil. Big oil has been running this country for over 100 years, but lots of people think it won't be the oil men who'll keep running the show. It'll be the electric men. Like it or not, oil men have a connection to the Natural World even if they exploited it. To extract something that was formed millions of years in the Earth makes you close to nature, where as electricity has always been here. It's existed since the beginning of time, before there was an Earth. The electric men aren't like oil men but are just as dangerous.

Putin's Reasons. For thirty years Ukraine has been stealing billions of dollars of gas transiting through five Russian pipelines, some meant for Ukraine's own consumption and others for Eastern European countries. That's really not why Putin invaded Ukraine. Putin is a capitalist and he believes in the integrity of legal contracts and agreements to further Russia's development. That's why a 10 billion dollar gas pipeline from St. Petersburg Russia to Germany took 12 years to complete and why after it was sanctioned he invaded Ukraine.

MUSIC Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky

The Hollowness. We thought all we ever needed was more stuff. But that's coming to an end.The rest of the world sees what we've become and we're going to be forced to understand we aren't the greatest country on Earth. A lot of people in this country are unhappy with who they are. They've been tricked into believing they sit at the front of the bus, but they're going to have sit at the back with everyone else. This country is bankrupt and Russia and China aren't going to bend to our will. They know how vulnerable we are.

Our Decay. If you think your troubles are going to end soon, think again. The propagandists, the politicians, the powerful keep telling you everything is getting back to normal. But they're lying. You've been made into a tool to support their agenda. And when things turn south they'll blame it on you. All you ever cared about was being entertained but now the jokes on you. You're addicted to the machines and you're going to reap the whirlwind. We're unhealthy, sufferring from decay and it's punishing. Mass killings aren't normal and neither is 30 trillion dollars of debt. It's decay.

El Salvador's Bitcoin. I didn't expect Putin to invade the Ukraine. I made a wrong prediction, but then again, if Russia ever toppled the Mexican government, the United States wouldn't take kindly to that. There could be real trouble when the smoke clears in the West cause it'll start rising in the East. America's hegemony is coming to a close. We controlled and toppled Central American governments for over a hundred years so why do our politicians act so sanctimonious when someone else does it.

Unethical Behavior. Winning is everything for a politician and how it's done may not be ethical. Would our president risk American soldier's lives to improve his sinking popularity with voters? Well he can act tough with Russia over the Ukrainian crisis but the truth is it's our oil companies insisting on blocking Nord-Stream-2 gas line to Europe. He can't win on either score with Russia. Unethical behavior goes beyond politics in America. Is it ethical to inject human DNA in an animal for growing an organ, to harvest it and then transplant it into a human? I would say no. We permit medical research to do that.

Petro Dollar or Gold. It's obvious something has gone wrong. In 1971 this country became a debtor nation and it has continued to this day. It'll probably never be able to repay its debt. But two years later, in 1973 something else happened, the laying of the transatlantic telecommunication cable from America to Belgium. It started the SWIFT banking messaging system. By 2006 the United States weaponized that system to punish adversaries. But China and Russia created their own messaging system negating America's sanctions.

Our Betrayal. We shouldn't fight a war with Russia, China or for that matter the smallest Caribbean nation cause this country is insolvent. It verges on the worst inflation it may have ever faced. We have daily mass killings. Our southern border has a record number of migrants attempting to escape poverty and corruption from countries we controlled for a hundred years. A virus still rages on and may be endemic. Our educational proficiency ranks us 35th with nations. Talk of a second civil war is common place. Betrayal is the order of the day.

Letter of Appreciation. When I was nine years of age I could barely read or write, and through out my entire life I thought I would never have my voice or thoughts heard. When I was 70 years of age Hal Abrams put me on his radio station THE ROCK in Morro Bay Cal. and then eventually played me on the ANIMAL RADIO NETWORK with a half hour podcast, GARNER ISN'T. Hal's moving on and so am I. GARNER ISN'T will be playing soon somewhere. Thanks Hal, it was more than I could have ever hoped for.

MUSIC Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Erik Satie

The Normalcy. In this country, some people spend all their waking hours on a computer never engaged with the real outside world. There's no escaping it. For millions the facts are what they're told by machines. They're living in the world of deceptions fed by the machines. Do you believe you've been told the truth about the pandemic or the government's debt or our future collapse? You can't be allowed to see what's headed for you. That's why you've been made to live an artificial life. You aren't safe cause the system is falling apart.