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The Year 2021 in Review

 Copyright © January 3, 2022 by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E.
All Rights Reserved.

Introduction

The year 2021 was a unique year in the history of the world.

This article will briefly review a few of the more important events that occurred during the past year.

Some Major Events of the Year 2021

Clock The United States Stock Market:
Let's begin by taking a look at how the U.S. stock market changed during the year 2021:

IndexClose
December 31, 2020		Close
December 31, 2021		Percent
Increase
Dow Jones Industrial Average30,606.4836,338.3018.8%
S&P 5003,756.074,766.1826.9%
Nasdaq Composite12,888.2815,644.9721.4%

The simple average of all three of the above stock market indicators is 22.4%.

The above increase could be due to any or all of the following reasons:
1. The economy is doing great, and all businesses are expanding, and investors have significant confidence that stock prices will continue to increase.
2. The government is increasing the amount of money in circulation and some of that money is finding its way into the stock market.
3. The bond market rates and the money market rates are really, really low and private investors, mutual funds, and retirement funds, that desire liquidity have no alternative except the stock market.
4. There are also a lot of people who have their money legally "locked" into the stock market and they can't withdraw their "paper profits" even if they desperately want to.

If the stock market crashes then a lot of honest people are going to lose their life savings, and all their retirement money, and they will be forced to depend on the mercy of the federal government in order to continue to survive on a day-by-day basis.

It should be mentioned that any company that is currently included in a stock index may be removed from that index if their performance fails to meet the expectations of the organization that has control of the index. When a company is removed from the index then it is replaced with a different company that has a more promising future in the opinion of the organization that controls the index. Therefore it is not possible to compare a stock index to itself over a long period of time because the stock index will remove a company that is performing poorly, or that goes out-of-business, and replace it with a different company that is performing exceptionally well. When these changes occur the public is informed of the changes and the reasons for the changes. However, many people are not aware of these changes and therefore they do not understand that the current stock index has been manipulated to improve its numbers.

The Amount of Money in Circulation in the United States:
Fake One-Million Dollar Bill The federal government has changed the way that they report the amount of new money they put into circulation. Therefore it is no longer possible to determine how much money was actually created out of nothing in the year 2021. Some of this money was given to a variety of people as a "gift" to help them remain solvent. But it is also possible that a reasonable amount of this newly created money found its way into the pockets of individuals who are already extremely wealthy. There is no way that an average person can learn the truth about what has actually happened to all the new money that was created during the year 2021.

However, an intelligent person will realize that creating money out of nothing cannot continue indefinitely. In other words, when the amount of newly created money exceeds the amount of additional food and products that are produced, then inflation is inevitable. And sooner or later something drastic will happen. And ordinary people, such as you and I, will be abandoned by the government to fend for ourselves. I pray that you have a reasonable plan for the survival of your family if that should happen.

Inflation:
World governments use a variety of sophisticated computer models to calculate inflation within their domains. By adjusting some of the variables in their equations they can create any final answer they desire. Therefore I personally do not pay much attention to the statistics reported by any government.

Food In the year 2008 I decided that I wanted to know the actual change in food prices from year-to-year. Therefore I created an emergency food supply for an adult that contained 60 different foods that had shelf lives of at least one-year, and I included enough of each of those 60 items in my food list to feed one adult a balanced diet for one year. Then I visited two actual grocery stores in my area in the southeastern United States and I recorded the prices of those 60 foods. Every year since then I have recorded the actual grocery store prices for those 60 items, and then I calculated the current actual total cost of the one-year emergency food supply. I compared that cost to the cost from the previous year to determine if prices were going up or down. In order to have a balanced index some of the foods were name brand foods, such as "Quaker" Oats and "Bumble Bee" Tuna. And some of the foods were generic brand or store brand foods, such as canned vegetables and flour. Each year I verified that the package size had not changed, and I used the same brand name item that I had used in previous years.

My index was very simple. The current price of the entire one-year emergency food supply was compared to its price one-year ago. No statistical manipulations were used to adjust the totals in any way for any reason. I believed this was the most logical way to determine how much food prices were actually changing.

During the year 2021 the 60 different food prices that I monitored changed as follows:
The price of 3 food items decreased.
The price of 31 food items did not change.
The price of 26 food items increased.
The change in the total cost of the one-year emergency food supply for one adult increased by 8.8 percent during the year 2021.
This was the largest one-year increase in food prices since Obama was president in the year 2011 when food prices increased 9.3 percent.

In addition to the above long-term storage foods, the following prices also changed during the year 2021:
The price of fresh beef and fresh chicken increased 32% compared to the year 2020.
The price of gasoline and diesel fuel increased 44% compared to the year 2020.

The significant increase in gasoline and diesel fuel prices will probably result in a significant increase in inflation in the year 2022 because fuel is needed to deliver products from where they are grown, or where they are made, to the place where they will be consumed. Even if you remain at home and do all your shopping online, and you have everything delivered to your home, the increasing price of fuel will still increase the total price you pay for those products.

It should be mentioned that it is a lot cheaper to transport an entire truckload of products to one large store for pickup at the store by the store's customers, when compared to packaging products in small quantities and paying to transport all those small packages to thousands of different locations.

Law and Order:
The criminal justice system in the United States sank to a new low during the year 2021. Although there are still many areas of the United States where the legal system works the way it should, there are an increasing number of areas where criminal behavior is not punished. And there are some areas where police officers are prosecuted and found guilty when they are simply trying to defend themselves from someone who is attacking them with the intent to kill them. There are some areas that have made deep cuts in the amount of money they pay to keep the police force staffed with qualified police officers. The police officers in some areas are being fired for lack of funding. And the police officers in some areas are quitting because they have been stripped of their rights to protect themselves when they are attacked by someone who is trying to kill them. This has made a lot of major cities in the United States unsafe to live. And by unsafe I mean it is not safe for law-abiding citizens, and is also not safe for criminals because the criminals can kill one another as easily as they can kill an honest person or a police officer. The following major cities in the United States have extremely high crime rates: Albuquerque, Anchorage, Baltimore, Buffalo, Chattanooga, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Lansing, Little Rock, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, Oakland, Rockford, San Bernardino, Seattle, Springfield, St. Louis, Stockholm, Tulsa, Wichita, and Washington D.C. This is not a comprehensive list. There are a lot of other cities that also have rapidly increasing crime rates. These high-crime areas are doomed to self-destruct in the long-run because criminals cannot survive unless they have someone to prey on. This means that the surviving criminals will spread out into new areas to find new victims. If this trend continues to escalate then what do you think will eventually happen in the area where you now live? I am not reporting this information to terrorize you. I am sharing this information to help you understand how serious the current situation really is, and to encourage you to make a decision on how you will defend your family if it becomes necessary.

Covid-19:
It doesn't matter if we have been vaccinated or not, and it also doesn't matter how many vaccinations we may have received. The most important decisions we will make are still in front of us. However, in order to make good future decisions we need to have a clear and unbiased assessment of how the future may unfold, and we need to decide how we can capitalize on that knowledge regardless of the decisions we have made in the past. The worst mistake we could make is to blindly continue forward without considering what we should have been able to learn from the year 2021.

Medical Doctor Covid-19 vaccines have been available since December of 2020. If the vaccines worked then there should be a significant decline in the number of people who are becoming infected with the virus. This is not happening and therefore the governments of the world and the vaccine companies must find someone to blame (except themselves).

Most people now realize that different people react differently when they become infected with covid-19. Some people have a mild to a moderate reaction to the virus but they recover in three to seven days without any type of special medical intervention. This includes people who have been fully vaccinated and people who have never been vaccinated. However, other people have a severe reaction and the covid-19 may kill the person. This includes people who have been fully vaccinated and people who have never been vaccinated. If the vaccine worked then fully vaccinated people would not be getting sick with the virus, and fully vaccinated people would not be spreading the virus, and fully vaccinated people would not be dying of the virus. However, the governments of the world and the media are desperately trying to convince people that the only reason the vaccine is not working is because 100% of the people of the world have not been vaccinated. At the current time you still have the right to decide whether or not this seems reasonable. (Please remember that fully vaccinated people are still spreading the virus, and fully vaccinated people are still getting sick with the virus, and fully vaccinated people are still dying of the virus.)

The current actual death rate due to covid-19 is extremely low and more people die of a case of the ordinary flu each year than covid-19. However, this is one of the statistics that the governments of the world will claim is a complete total lie. At the current time you still have the option to believe whatever you choose.

Covid-19 is a virus. The flu is a virus. The medical profession has had experience with viruses for many decades and they know that the flu virus is constantly mutating. Therefore the flu vaccine that they offer to people each year contains a small sample of the three most common flu viruses from the previous year. The people who voluntarily receive the flu vaccine normally get a mild case of the flu and then their chance of getting sick again with one of those three specific types of flu is extremely slim. However, the flu vaccine does not protect a person from a different mutation of the flu and the person could get really sick, or die, if they are exposed to a new mutation of the flu virus. This is common knowledge in the medical profession.

Most medical professionals know that the covid-19 virus will continue to mutate forever, just like the flu virus will continue to mutate forever. And they know that the current covid-19 vaccine will not protect anyone from a future mutation of the covid-19 virus. A person does not need a medical degree to understand this simple basic fact. This includes people in government and people in the media. Anyone who suggests that this simple basic fact is not relevant has an agenda that is different from the rest of humanity.

Thousands upon thousands of medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, and medical technicians, have lost their jobs because they refused to allow themselves to be vaccinated. These medical professionals understand the potential ramifications of the vaccine from a perspective that an ordinary person cannot begin to appreciate, and this includes people in government and in the media.

The government, the media, and the vaccine companies are doing their very best to accomplish the following objectives:
  1. Prohibit the use of any drug, such as Hydroxychloroqine or Ivermectin, to treat covid-19 patients.
  2. Discredit any information that would suggest that the vaccine does not work.
  3. Discredit any information that would suggest that the vaccine may have immediately and permanently damaged the health of a person who was previously in excellent health.
  4. Discredit any information that the vaccine may have resulted in the death of a previously healthy person, such as the December 17, 2021 death of the New York Times editor Carlos Tejada who loudly proclaimed that the vaccine was 100% safe and then he died of a heart attack at the age of 49 within 24-hours after his vaccination. (Note: Carlos Tejada will probably be just one of many millions of people who will insist that their death has absolutely nothing to do with the vaccine and it was just their time to die, and they would have probably died even if they had not received the vaccine. They will not admit that the vaccine weakened their body's immune system and this resulted in their premature death.)
  5. Discredit any information that may suggest that the vaccine may compromise the long-term health of a person by increasing the chance of blood clotting in one or more of the internal organs of that person.
The government and the military have rejected all of the Religious Exemption Requests that they have received and they have terminated the individuals, including chaplains, who refused to voluntarily accept the vaccination. This suggests that the governments of the world may have a different agenda than the eradication of the covid-19 virus. This issue will be discussed next.

First, however, it should once again be emphasized that covid-19 is a virus, just like the flu is a virus. Therefore the covid-19 virus will continue to mutate forever, just like the flu virus will continue to mutate forever. Therefore covid-19 will never be eradicated by a vaccine. This means the governments of the world can continue to force the citizens of the world to receive vaccine after vaccine after vaccine after vaccine because none of the vaccines will work against a virus that is constantly mutating. And the governments of the world can continue to misinform the citizens of the world that the only reason the vaccine is not working is because 100% of the people in the world have not been vaccinated yet. At the current time you still have the right to believe or not believe this propaganda.

Religious Exemptions:
The Bill of Rights in the USA clearly states that a person cannot be discriminated against because of the person's religious convictions. In the past a person could file a Religious Exemption Request and in most cases their request would be honored.

Since the government of the USA does not currently have the ability to legally change the Bill of Rights, the government of the USA has made the insidious decision to simply ignore a person's religious rights and they are saying that the government is all powerful and that everyone must do everything that the government says.

Fiery Furnace Most of the governments of the world have been ignoring the rights of their citizens for a very long time. But now the government of the USA is also ignoring the religious rights that were guaranteed by law to its citizens. It is unfortunate but many people in the USA don't care about this issue. They have been vaccinated and they believe it is okay to force everyone to be vaccinated. But the time may come when the government will demand that everyone do something that the people know is wrong, and then it will be too late for these people to resist (except at the cost of their lives). This scenario has been repeated again and again for thousands of years (most recently in Germany prior to World War II). For example, the Holy Bible tells us that King Nebuchadnezzar demanded that everyone bow down and worship the gold image that he had erected of himself or they would be thrown into a fiery furnace. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused and they were thrown alive into the fiery furnace. But they were not harmed and then King Nebuchanessar gave them his permission to walk out of the furnace and to continue their lives without having to bow down to his gold image (Daniel 3:1-30).

If sometime during your life your government tells you that you must worship the image of a beast that is set up in a rebuilt Jewish temple in Jerusalem then what will you do? The Holy Bible says that if you worship the image of the beast, and if you receive the Mark of the Beast on your right hand or forehead, then you will be cast into the eternal lake of fire and there will never be any escape from the eternal lake of fire. (Note: Since all the different governments of the entire world are now working together to "force" everyone to agree to be "voluntarily" vaccinated, it may not be very long before these different governments publicly join together into a one-world government.)

It is interesting that in the United States of America it is currently okay for a woman to have a legal abortion for any reason, it is okay for a teenage girl to get a legal abortion without the knowledge or approval or guidance of her parents, it is okay for two people of the same gender to get married, but it is not okay to refuse an injection that you believe might be harmful to your body.

Conclusion

Praying Child I am aware that some people do not like for me to mention scriptures from the Holy Bible in my articles. However, it is okay if I quote Shakespeare, or Plato, or Carl Marx, or a famous movie actor, but it is not okay for me to mention a scripture verse from the Holy Bible. What does this suggest about the direction in which our world may be headed?

In the United States in the year 1963 the Supreme Court legally expelled God from the public school system. Therefore many people who were born in 1960 or later have not heard about God, or the name of Jesus, or the word Holy, except in exclamations of surprise, or as part of a curse, or in an irreligious context.

If you have children or grandchildren, and if you truly love your children and your grandchildren, then you should assume your God given responsibility to be a moral leader in your family. If you do not assume this responsibility then your loved ones will not get this education anywhere else and they will believe whatever they hear in school, and in their music, and in the movies they watch. Is this what you want them to believe?

The Holy Bible says the following:
"You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking to them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." (Deuteronomy 11:18-20, English Standard Version.)

May God Bless,
Grandpappy.

Grandpappy's e-mail address is: RobertWayneAtkins@hotmail.com

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