Europe’s Energy Crisis Warns America While Academy Instructor Fired Over Vaccine Refusal

On October 4, 2022, Kim Monson connected Europe’s mounting energy crisis to American policy decisions while exploring parental choice in education funding with Ross Izard and hearing Lt. Col. Sandy Miarecki’s account of being terminated from the U.S. Air Force Academy for refusing COVID-19 vaccination.

Europe’s Energy Crisis: A Warning for America

Start listening at 15:00 – Hour 1

Kim Monson opens by examining the unfolding energy crisis in Europe, where the rush toward green technologies has left nations vulnerable heading into winter. Energy experts are sounding the alarm that Europe’s predicament serves as a clear and present warning for American energy policy. The discussion highlights how Colorado Governor Jared Polis’s ambitious renewable energy targets mirror the same policies now causing Europeans to cut down forests for firewood.

The February 2021 Texas power grid failure, which claimed 247 lives, demonstrates the deadly consequences of over-reliance on intermittent renewable energy sources. Kim emphasizes that fossil fuels remain reliable, affordable, abundant, and efficient, calling current policy an assault on American prosperity through government-induced scarcity.

School Choice and Douglas County Mill Levy Override

Start listening at 32:22 – Hour 1

Ross Izard, founder of ZFU Strategies and a K-12 education policy expert, breaks down the Douglas County School District’s proposed mill levy override and bond question. Living in Douglas County with three children, two of whom attend a charter school, Izard brings personal and professional perspective to the $60 million tax increase request.

Izard’s central concern is that the conservative school board elected on a platform of parental choice crafted proposals that exclude state-authorized charter schools from receiving funds. The district claims it will share 100 percent with charter schools, but this only applies to district-chartered schools. Colorado Early Colleges and Ascent Classical Academy, serving approximately 2,000 students between them, would receive nothing despite their families paying the increased property taxes.

The pandemic revealed what Izard calls an eye-opening moment for parents who listened to their children’s Zoom lessons and discovered discussions of race, gender, and sexuality in early grades. Colorado alone has seen roughly 30,000 students exit the traditional public school system since COVID-19, many never returning.

“If we’re going to have that conversation and ask people to open their wallets during a time when I think everybody’s being strapped by a whole lot of different forces, we’ve got to make sure that we’re doing it in a way that is supporting parental choice and supporting school choice in education.”

Ross Izard, Founder, ZFU Strategies

Fired for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccination

Start listening at 72:27 – Hour 2

Lt. Col. Sandy Miarecki, a retired Air Force pilot with over 20 years of service who later earned a Ph.D. in physics, describes being terminated from her civilian teaching position at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Her own vaccine injury during military service in 1992 and experience with the anthrax vaccine controversy gave her knowledge the administration did not want disseminated.

In August 2021, before mandates arrived, Miarecki warned her chain of command that forcing experimental vaccines would violate federal law, specifically 10 USC 1107. When mandates came despite no presidential executive order, she began helping students file religious exemptions, which triggered her first reprimand. Five students she worked with at the preparatory school developed new heart conditions after vaccination, conditions their doctors refused to connect to the shots.

The retaliation escalated through suspension proposals, relief of duty, and eventually termination on September 7, 2022. Miarecki contends her boss fabricated a claim that she wished to bring a weapon on base, building a domestic terrorist narrative to justify her firing. As a whistleblower with inspector general complaints filed, she believes legal accountability will follow.

“I can come to no other conclusion other than this is the intentional takedown of our military from the inside. I know that sounds completely off the wall and unbelievable when you look at it on its face.”

Lt. Col. Sandy Miarecki, Retired Air Force Pilot

Miarecki notes that approximately 700 to 2,000 pilots have been grounded due to vaccine injuries or refusal, representing potentially billions of dollars in wasted training investment. She urges Americans to read the Constitution, connect with patriot groups like FEC United and People’s Rights, and recognize that defending liberty requires active participation rather than passive observation.