TIMES: What in the world?

Few have heard of “BlackRock,” asset manager of over $10 trillion, and which is forcing worldwide behaviors and shaping societies in its own image. CEO Larry Fink is smart and does not push “woke” on Russia or China.

There is a spirit of anarchy and tyranny hovering over America.

Once crown jewels, cities like San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago are now war zones. People and companies such as Walmart are fleeing these cities. There has been an exodus of half-a-million people from California since 2020; and rats are moving into the void.

Could anarchy get so bad that the powerful will not even heed a red traffic light, but runover the innocent, if they can get away with it?

National media no longer reports the truth. People focus on “Bud Light” and “Fox” controversies.

General Douglas MacArthur (1951): “History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline…” Be careful of the days (“daze”) and deception that we live in.

Our freedom is fragile. Do not follow a dead guy like Lenin and totalitarianism and communism.

There is money for wars and to bail out bankers — but what about families? Add to this inflation as another tax to the people.

Many people of faith know: “Your (GOD’S) word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” (Psalm 119:105).

JIM PEARL

Hayden