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Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of West Coast Milblogger. I’m your host Cyrus Emerson.
From A to Z’s excited to announce Red Roses 2nd Edition now available on Kindle Unlimited, meaning you can read for free on Amazon. This book has been edited - the interior reformatted - to make it the perfect companion for the original recording without music and sound effects schedule for release on Black Friday.
The paperback edition is also going live this shopping season. Plus, From A to Z Merch launch after our AI correspondents report on Climate Strikes, Tag Team - Israel Russia, and National Security.
Climate Strikes.
Since Henry Bear founded From A to Z in the hope of using hemp to solve climate change to present day focus on global conflict news, tell fans about the impacts of recent deadly storms.
Right now, it’s 91-degrees in Tampa Bay, Florida, yet it feels like 99-degrees according to AccuWeather. Baker Mayfield, Quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, one of the many forced to evacuate his home because of recent storm flooding. He’s leading his team to victory as of this writing with more than 300-yards passing and two touchdowns.
It’s easy to see in pictures from major news outlets, how the storms in Florida and North Carolina killing many people this week, destroyed towns that have for years been untouched by Mother Nature. This is also the site of a new culture war pitting marijuana against hemp.
For years, the cannabis plant found itself at the center of the war on drugs, after helping the Allies to victory in Word War Two. While prohibition continues for the most part to this day, one can see how it has become more common place thanks to medical marijuana state initiatives, where people facing death by cancer remained fearless in their conviction that this medicine helped.
By 2018, the fact that hemp contains extremely low amounts of THC forced then President Trump to sign the Farm Bill federally legalizing hemp. This was before the 2019 crash of the hemp crop price leading into the new year of 2020. A year many remember with dread.
Now, marijuana’s industry enjoys large cash surplus from growing sales. This has created the culture war in Florida, where Trump supports marijuana industry for CBD supplies, while Florida’s Governor has sided with hemp growers.
Lost in this debate, From A to Z’s founding mission to solve climate change with industrial hemp’s 24,999 other applications.
Tag Team - Israel Russia.
As global tensions escalate contextualize the recent UN drama with both Israel and Russia.
As West Coast Milblogger has reported, there looks to be a Nostradamus prediction with Netanyahu, The Putins, and Trump. As one could see at the UN assembly this last week, where Israel and Russia both threatened the members, while Trump met with Zelenskyy not shying away from previously disparaging remarks about the President of Ukraine, who played a central role in Trump’s first impeachment trial.
UN members filed out of the room before Netanyahu took to the stage. Israelis continue to cling to the perception of being a victim in the Middle East, as most people try to remember October 7th, 2023, while at the same time trying to overlook the brutality of recent airstrikes in Gaza and Lebanon. With television superstar Hassan Nasrallah confirmed dead the Ayatollah has gone into hiding.
While one might try their best to describe Israel as another freedom fighting state like Ukraine, the facts on the ground show a Russian regime type massacre of a lower-level fighting force, where cities are decimated, civilians must evacuate, and economies crumble.
The real Russia continues to make nuclear threats now at the UN. This remains the reason for countless lives being lost on the frontlines, as meat wave attacks get blown away by artillery, before finally killing defenders taking land in the process.
All attempts for peace get stalled with the ultimate threat from a nuclear arsenal jeopardizing human civilization. So long as the current Russian administration remains in power one can expect this environment. Yet there is always the hope of a future leader in the Kremlin who can peacefully embrace bordering nations as brothers.
National Security.
Explain different visions of future national security as seen through the eyes of presidential candidates with the election 36-days away.
A Harris administration soft on immigration because of empathy in the ranks of constituents hopes to create an easier path to living in the US. Harris sees immigrants more as friends than foes. America, founded on genocide of Native American tribes replaced with European settlers.
Evolving to Gen Z, one sees the cultural revolution of dispelling European sentiments in favor of a global view, as the pool of countries where immigrants originate from expands. One can see advantages to this as Earth attempts to transition into a multi-planet society.
This idealistic vision is ready to go toe-to-toe with Russia right now if need be. It sees constraints on immigration as racist. Nuclear threats as hate speech. Both, attempts to gangster economies in an effort to control cash flows off the books.
Trump, who had a chance to build a border wall as President while being accused of racism, ultimately found his undoing in fraud charges landing his former close associate Steve Bannon in prison.
If one can excuse the past, while putting faith in a new Trump administration dealing with current threats, one might see his propaganda speeches as a service to the military industrial complex wanting to win a world war without nuclear annihilation.
Immigrants are seen as possible adversaries controlled by the Kremlin, in much the same way as Poland faced onslaughts of foreigners trying to cross its border, before the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. These new American citizens portrayed as terrorist cells or spies on secret missions to destabilize the US if war breaks out. At its best, Trump’s stance on immigration - to secure the southern border and expel illegal immigrants - is meant to strengthen national defense in preparation of World War Three.
Trump seems to want Europe to maintain Ukraine support as an investment in its own continental defense. Meanwhile, America can turn its attention to China’s economic power, in a Zen like standoff. Neither side wanting to kill a fly while maintaining lotus position, praying for prosperity.
From A to Z Merch.
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This week, to promote the Kindle Unlimited edition of Red Roses the Company’s rolling out a Red Roses – Crewneck Sweatshirt, Red Roses – Necklace, and Red Roses – Jewelry Box. Supplies are unlimited and available forever. Keep watching West Coast Milblogger for more product releases.
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Thank you,
Cyrus Emerson
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