More "Clues for you all" About Jesus' Ministry

.   Some of you are thinking it would be interesting to give “The Christian  church a report card on how well they’ve performed based on what they’ve accomplished over the past ten years or so.  Let’s do that.  Roe verses Wade still hasn’t been overturned as it hasn’t in 45 years.  That is still intact.  Gay marriage has been bad news for the fundamentalist right.  People only spoke of gay marriage in whispers ten years ago.  You would certainly never feature gay couples in soap operas or as contestents on game shows.  Now both are quite common.  Gay marriage has become leagel in all fifty states and there seems to be no turning back.   Utah has the worst pornography problem of any state in the union, so I’m told.  As to doctor assisted suicides- - these have become rapant.  Now you have these DNR notices in hospitals for do not recessitate.  This is like permission for the hospital to let you die when they could easily save you.  Christians have actually favored these, such as Judy.  These frivolous Hollywood marriages that last only a few months kind of mocking the institution of marriage are just as rapant as ever.  And then we have the matter of prescription opioid addiction.  These have become manifold worse over the past fifteen years or so.  You may look at this list and scratch your head and now wonder to yourself, “If there ANY area where the fundamentalist right has made any great accomplishments over the past ten years?  Well, there is one virtue, one accom-plishment that outshines them all.  And that is the election of Donald Trump as president, and  they are hanging on to that one as if their lives depended on it.  The president, despite a wholesale lack of any moral virtues besides no drinking alcohol, has become the embodiment of all virtue and stands for everything that’s right in America.  What does John Fugelsang think of that?  In this blog I plan to separate the things Jesus really said from the morass of theology that has surrounded him and “framed” the debate all these years.  Jesus is the one who’s been framed.   I would like to close this paragraph with one quotation in a New Testament book that I personally feel uncomfortable with, and my guess is that Martin Luther feels the same way.  It’s in the book of James.  It goes, “Count it all joy when you fall into all manner of diverse temptations”.   I have a major problem with that one.  Temptation as discussed in the Bible has to do with being baited or doing things on a dare or falling into a trap that others set for you.   I have found in my life that “doing things on a dare” seldom turns out well, and if you people reading this draw on your own experience I bet you will feel the same way.  It’s something to think about.  It’s more of a verse you’d find in the Satanic Bible or something, in my opinion. 

There are more pieces of the puzzle filling in with my ‘Judas on the cross” theory.  There are a couple of hints that Jesus was “going away” on a literal trip and not dying.  He said to the pharicees in John “I am going away.  You will look for me but you will not find me”.  He also told his disciples in John “The night is coming when no man can work”.   If the Holy Spirit were indeed here this would not be the case.  “Night” to be literal is where the light no longer is.  But the light moves to a different part of the earth.  Judas led a Roman cohort to have Jesus arrested.  The thought hit this morning that “Maybe this was an illegal use of Roman troops and Judas got in trouble with the government or it.  Maybe people saw the troops “led” by Judas and thought that HE was leading a government insurrection.  Then there is the “lanterns and torches” remark and the mystery (vanishing) full moon.  Jesus told his disciples if I’m not mistaken on the Mount of Olives “watch and wait with me”.   I believe Jesus went there to pray but I don’t believe he was “readying himself for the ultimate sacrifice” as Neil Savedra says.  Also we have Jesus saying to Pilate “If my men were fighting for an earthly kingdom they would fight with swords” perhaps referring to Judas’s troops.  The reason why Jesus was so calm when they arrested him is because he knew that he would “escape in the final reel”.   Also Pilate asked Jesus “Where is your kingdom” and in the movie version of Jesus Christ Superstar he responds “There is a kingdom for me somewhere, if you only knew”.   But the biggest puzzle piece that Jesus did not intend to be a human sacrifice on the cross was his teaching on forgiveness.  He said “If you do not forgive the sins of others then your heavenly father will not forgive yours”.   This would not be true under the Jewish priestly system.  Also Jesus said to pray for your enemies.   My new take on this line is that you are to pray for your enemy’s success.  You aren’t praying that he’ll somehow be struck dead by lightning or suddenly turn around in his tracks and now do exactly so what you would like him to.  Jesus said to love your enemies.  Keep in mind this is the same Greek word that describes - -  a Hollywood starlet in the fifties love for fur coats.  It is a love where you truly VALUE your enemy.  Also in that one parable Jesus possibly speaks of buttering up Rome so that when he bombs out as Jewish Messiah he cam move to Rome and try his luck there.  And Tassitus can refer to Jesus as LIVING as late as fifty AD. (!)  Another clue is that while a lot of the “Passion” the Gospels show unanimity,  their accounts of the crucifixion vary to a great degree, and the resurrection stories vary even more than that.   And there is another “clue for you all”.  It centers on the word “riot”.    It was said that if Jesus were arrested in the city then “a riot might break out”.   So we may infer that the night before “the end” that the heart of the people was still with Jesus.   I also happened to think that it might take maybe a half hour to even hike to the Mount of Olives.  This would be beyond the venue of the Temple police.  At least I think so.   I believe the reason why they sent him to Pilate is NOT because “We have no law to put a man to death”.  This is a false rumor that got started.  The truth is that they simply had no jourisdiction in the matter and never should have been handed the case to begin with.  Even if they had no jurisdiction over him- - - if they had wanted to they could have made life pretty rough for him throwing him in some dark dungeon and throwing away the key.  

Asking Questions is a Good Thing

Here are some questions you could ask yourself before deciding to become a Christian.  The first one is  - - What is the worst thing that could happen to me if I do not become a Christian?  The next is “Is this answer substantially different from what the worst thing that could happen if you DO become a Christian.   The next is from last night “Are you are at war with God or are you just at war with war with religion?  Maybe you’ve rejected religion but you haven’t rejected “God”.  Here is another question.  You know religion but if you don’t know God how can you either accept him or reject him?  The next one is key.  When does “Now” ever come for you as a Christian.  I didn’t say when it comes for  Evangelist- - when does “Now” come for YOU?   You see because if Christ purchased salvation from the cross for you to experience in the afterlife you might have to wonder “Will I even be even Around when “now” comes for me?”   Neil Savedra has taught that “Sure Jesus forgave your sins but you still have to pay for all of the consequences for said sin while in this life”.   Another question is “If salvation is only a matter of the will, as Neil Savedra says it is- - then maybe you should ask yourself whether you even HAVE the will to totally transform your life as Jesus promises (when HE makes a promise he expects YOU to keep it) so to speak.  If you Don’t have the will to do this and you know it- - then you know it’s something that’s not going to get done and you might as well find that out now.   Jesus liked to talk about people who “deny me before men”.    What about those who saw Jesus on Easter morning?  They didn’t “deny” Jesus but sure as hell were successful in keeping it secret because nobody who was unsaved ever got to see this  miracle and meet Jesus for themselves.   But to experience a risen Christ in the flesh would be to take power away from who?  From the Church.  And the Church has been on this power trip for two thousand years.  Think about it.  

We hope you will have a merry Christmas.  For the first time perhaps ever, I’m not going to see my family for Christmas for reasons I don’t entirely understand myself.   My latest blogger numbers have shown a little sign of hope.  I hope to get back into things and write longer and more frequent postings.  I think right now I’ll include some stuff from yesterday.  Did you know that Grandpa and Grandma were both 75 when they died just like Penny Marshall?   Basically she was an old woman when she died.  “Laverne and Shirley” ran apparently from 1976 to 1983 or for seven years.  This means that Laverne was 33 when the show began and forty when this series ended.  She wasn’t exactly a spring chicken.  People have a tendency to forget this.   This morning I woke up just after four thirty.  I wanted to get more sleep but Cathy was talking so loud and wouldn’t be quiet that I got up at five to five and showered.  I noticed that my jeans, which I had just put on, didn’t smell entirely clean.  They don’t have scents in the detergents.  I was lying on the bed a while.  I turned on Joel Olsteen at ten to six and it was another case of hard luck stories that got turned around by God.  Then there was the seven year old kid who has 22 million from his You Tube videos that he’s been starring in since he was three, which was just four years ago.  His name is Ryan and he’s lived his whole life seemingly on a continuous state of euphoria with all of his new toys.  I have to ask God what lesson he is trying to impart by having me see all of these instant success stories often featuring young kids that strike it lucky and the money comes pouring in.   Patty remembered to bring the Egg Nog today and it was pumpkin.  We had Cheerios for breakfast and scrambled eggs with toast, butter and jelly.  I drank Patty’s coffee at the table. 

The 2018 CHRISTMAS ALBUM

Holly Jolly Christmas  (Berle Ives)

Please Come Home for Christmas (Eagles)

Hey, Santa Clause (The Moonglows)

Sleigh Ride Together With You  (Fab Four)

Jingle Bells (Frank Sinatra)

Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire (Fab Four)

Santa Baby (Eartha Kitt)

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (artist)

Jingle Bells  (Barking Dogs)

Run, Run Rudolph (Chuck Berry)

I Want a Beatle for Christmas  (KLOS artist)

Merry Christmas, Baby (Charles Brown)

White Christmas (Bill Ward and Clyde Mc Phatter)

Beatles 1969 Christmas Record

No front cover photo was provided with the transmission.  We tried to keep the songs that are played all the time on the radio down to a tolerable minimum.    I hope you like it.  Here is another album “Lover’s Question” that was rel-released once again with revisions.

“Mystic Eyes” is dropped because that was a mis-transmission to begin with.  We now have three new tracks, “Drive My Car” by the Beatles, “Run for your Life” by Nancy Sinatra, With a Girl Like You” by the Troggs, and finally “Theme from El Casino Royal” by the Tijuana Brass, and this track is located right before “Is It Him or Me?"  (Chuck from around Chuck Berry's death March 2017) and this album officially came out on Tuesday December 18th of this year.  
Just in case you were wondering the two Circ De Solee tracks were removed from this album because the Romulans decided to withdraw permission for their use.  Something that's considered in bad taste to do but they did it anyhow.  The Federation went for the Ravens so they are happy.  Stu Sutcliffe is a Raven's fan.  The Federation still plans to put out one more oldies album sometime.

The View from Here

This Sunday morning on Meet the Press they announced that if Trump didn't shut down the government he could kiss his chances of reelection good-bye.  They believe the president is still so indebted to his political base on the far right that he dares not cross them.  So if Rush Limbaugh gets on the radio on Thursday and says the president is selling out on the border wall issue then Trump has to reverse his position on whether to compromise.  Dick Derbin and other democrats want to use the funds for the border to interdict drug money and drugs flowing both ways accross the border, which makes sense to me.  But those on the right believe somehow in that steel spike wall.  Now here are a whole bunch of other news items from earlier in the week.  .  They interrupted that show for ABC coverage that James Mattis has resigned as secretary of defense.  He’s staying on till February.  He was the “last adult in the room” and now Trump has all psycho-phants in his administration.  The military is all shocked at the President’s actions of the past few days.  Then at three it was Eye Witness news.    Many have likened this Mattis thing to a key bolder in a rock formation and if you move that lode stone of support then the whole structure topples.

.  The government was shut down last night at nine our time.  I might as well go ahead and say that yesterday at the 3:30 ABC network news that the move to get a congressional deal on The Wall failed.  President Trump blamed the democrats after telling people, bragging almost, that if the government shut down, he would proudly take credit for it.  Of course they need sixty percent to vote out a bill in the senate and they don’t have it now, and they won’t have it even with the new senate.  Trump wanted Mc Connell to use the nuclear option involving a rule change but Mc Connell wouldn’t do it.  Patty still thinks there is hope that sometime today the house and senate can come to an agreement and reopen the government.  Of course the mail and all of our checks will still go through, along with Christmas packages.  The stock market went down four hundred points yesterday.  This is the worst week since 2008 and they claim it’s been the worst December since 1931 or before FBI was elected.  Usually you get a little Christmas cheer in the stock markets this time of year.  Now Trump not only wants all 2000 troops out of Syria within thirty days, but now the President wants the number of fourteen thousand troops in Afghanistan cut in half. People in the military are against that one, too.   I don’t know what President Trump’s poll numbers are now but the last report I had they were dropping sharply back down into the thirties.   Mattis  wrote Trump a long letter when he resigned the other day outlining his many objections to Trump’s policies.   Trump likes doing stuff just to generate distracting headlines. 

The Dateline show on at two on KCOP was interesting in that it showed that a jury can convict a husband of murder seemingly on no direct evidence connecting him to the crime.  The wife who was middle-aged was discovered out in the tulies in the dead of night totally nude with some date rape drug in her system.  The cops interviewed the husband who reported that his wife was in the process of a mental break-down and would often wander out in the woods for hours or days (?) and not be in contact with anyone.  The husband also produced audio tapes of the wife flying into angry rages at the husband, and at one point stripped before her father in law and sexually propositioned him with her bare breasts showing and the father backed up the story.  Other evidence was produced that she and the husband otherwise had a good relationship and went on happy vacations together.   However there were four things in my mind that may have prompted the jury to render a guilty verdict on this case in just three hours and get the husband a life sentence for the crime.  Number one is that it was the husband’s DNA in the seaman of the dead body.  She wasn’t “date raped”.   The next thing were the 21 surveilance cameras all around the house that the police noticed as if the husband were a “controlling personality” and wouldn’t let the wife do anything but was very possessive.  Despite all of the computer records,  the portion from midnight to dawn has been professional erased by two “clean up” programs.  That is a professional “clean up” program was run twice, so the authorities could not retrieve the data.  Finally the reason for conviction is that there IS no other “reasonable alternative” to what happened that night.  With no other suspect, the husband obviously did it. 

This is Saturday December 22, 2018 and I didn’t type yesterday.  I woke up at a quarter to five and was going to try and get more shut-eye but I had restless bowels which proved to be phantom.  I showered and went out to look at the full moon which was still up.  But the image was distorted and fuzzy and at first I thought it was my eyes but it was because it was in a hole in the leaves.  Actually I’ve had all of that doctor stuff lately but for 2019 I need to do two things.  I need to go to the DMV and get my ID updated because since December 31^st 2007 I haven’tbeen me.  I haven’t had a valid ID since I was 57.  I need to finally switch my party affiliation to Democratic.  It’s about time.  Then I can get their litriture.  I also need to go to Paul’s eye doctor where I can get a good exam and they can at last confirm whether I have cateracts or not.  I was thinking about how “God is really the Pliades” in the heavens.  The seven sisters who are at enmity with Orion.  Interestingly the only two constellations I’m aware of mentioned in the Bible are the Pliades and Orion, referred to in the book of Job where God is lecturing Job on his great power just before he restores his Fortunes.  And as I’ve said in previous blogposts,  it pays to see which professions are disparaged in the Bible.  One of them is that of hunter, like Orion, the Hunter.  Nimrod and Esau were both “hunters before the LORD” and it is not a flattering term.  Of course then there is this bit with the Pliades and “strings” as in pulling strings and cutting strings.  Samson cut his hair and lost his power because he was a Nazarite.  The term “El” used as God in the OT elsewhere is referred to as the god of Storms.  The Pliades are associated with rain both because of the Elijah story and the fact (this is interesting) that nowhere in the Gospels does it ever refer to it being a rainy day.  There is talk of that Storm at sea, but it only refers to the wind and the waves but not rain.  Elsewhere it says “It thundered” in John where people were saying “God spoke to Jesus” his last week.  “Rain” is associated with receiving the Blessing of God.   Of course Jesus was a “pescatarian” meaning he ate fish but not other meat, just like the Nazarite vow people.  Nowhere in the gospels does it refer to either the preparation or the eating of the Passover lamb.  This might mean something.  At some point Millie came out and borrowed two cigarettes from me.  Now the fog was rolling in.  I’m not sure if I was out more than once.  I came in and it was before six and I happened to linger a moment on KFI when I turned on the radio.  They were talking about UFO sightings on that whacko program.  There was a triangular formation of three ships with shuttle craft traveling between the ships and witnesses say this went on for a half hour.  Then there was talk about the “red heffer” as a sign in Jerusalem that the Third Temple would soon be built.  They still close with that same Gaelic theme they’ve always used that sounds sort of like a post 1976 Ian Anderson composition.   

President Trump Withdraws All Troops from Syria

This is after breakfast and here we are in flagstone.  Tomorrow is the first day of winter and the shortest day of the year.  Today is Thursday December 20, 2018 and we are approaching a full moon.  Things are more positive than they have been.  Let’s hope 2018 is a year that shuffles off quietly because it’s been a long year and not a good year.   Stephanie had on all of these government officials and military leaders saying what a major mistake it is for President Trump to be pulling those two thousand troops out of Syria.  They are like an insurance policy against ISIS returning.  Even though they own no square footage now, there is still the risk that some infra-structure of ISIS may still be in place.  We need to continue to gather intelligence to insure that ISIS, like a bad disease, doesn’t come back.  None of the nations around ISIS were friendly toward them.  These include Turkey, the Kurds, Syria, Iran, and Iraq.  Now President Trump is talking about a sixth branch of the military talking about a new Space Force that will patrol outer space and insure that those pesky space aliens don’t attack us.  Last night they delayed that rocket launch from Vandenburg AFB shortly after five thirty.  I looked to the northwest last night and didn’t see any lit vapor trails that I expected to see.  For the fourth time the launch was delayed and is scheduled to occur at 5:31 today.  They like doing these launches about an hour after sunset.   We need people like Stephanie Miller around to throw in a little vanishing humor and lightness into the grim national scene.  Of course the weather is bad.  Now there is some super storm merging together from Texas to the east coast where they will be getting buckets of rain for the peak Christmas traveling season.  People have been asking me if they have Newyears Eve parties around here and I said “No, they don’t”.  Of course you are free to walk outside and listen to all of the fireworks and gun shots going off at midnight.  I guess I told you that that solid black cat got shot a few days ago.   I told you that Tux (our mascot cat around here) made an appearance the other day so he wasn’t the shooting victim.  Now there are packs of dogs attacking kids and stuff and they have been slated for destruction. 

Many people reading that blog post in “Wheels of Retrobution” may think that I have “sold out” religiously and am now claiming an “experience with God” or something.  This isn’t really the case the way people usual mean it.  Read the posting yourself.  Others of a more fundamentalist bent might say “your faith process was short-circuited, as you even admit on one place, and actually you have had an encounter with Satan and are under his control now”.  This isn’t exactly the case either.   I guess all I was saying is that people should be “at peace” or whatever with their own destinies, whatever that happens to be for you, because there is no point in fighting it anyhow.  As for my “Judas died on the cross” theory this is not a new one, and the rumor has been around Egypt for decades, but the teaching has stayed underground.

Last night was ordinary.  It was the ABC network news and then Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.  I got my medication from Jan without a problem.  Last night it was “Dateline” and the eight o clock episode showed that a wife can do a mafia hit job on her estranged husband and only get eight years for it.  But then she’ll be back on the streets and out to make another hit. I was drowsy at the nine o clock episode and went to bed sometime during that hour.  With the increased Resperidol I’ve been sleeping better.  I did wake up after four and went back to sleep and woke at 5:22 by the digital clock and got up.  Bill was in the bathroom.  I just got dressed and went out to smoke and then came in and made myself instant coffee.  I didn’t turn on the computer till six and had Stephanie on.  I got my medication around six.  

Paul says my mouse might not act up if I cleaned up.  It's the clicker that's the problem rather than the tracking.  I need to get another mouse in here so I can function.

.   I had on Rhapsody in Black.  Once again it was fund raising with “Maggie” on the phone.  Gardner said we were lucky because usually his show is preempted the second week in the month but we were so good last week with our pledges.   It was all Bill Gardner’s favorites just like the previous week.  There were some good songs such as “Have Mercy, Mercy Baby” by Clyde Mc Phatter again, and “Roll With Me, Henry” and “Little Bitty Pretty One” by Thurston Harris.  There was an earlier version of “I’m Leaving it all up to You”.   They played “Rip It Up” by Little Richard, and “Every Beat of my Heart” a 1961 song by Gladys Night.   Also during the day I called Judy and I was trying to get her to explain why I was excluded from this year’s Christmas gathering at their place.  I got no satisfactory answer at all.  All I know is that Wendy will be there.  I apologized for volunteering information that I shouldn’t have.  It turns out Paul was only "guessing" anyhow so it didn't matter what I did or didn't say.   Maybe it's my cough that scared off Judy. 


.  I had Leo Le Port on and caught Chris Marquardt.  He was talking about three big software inovations in cameras they didn’t have ten years ago when I got my camera (9 years).  The first is automatic “fuzz focus” of narrow depth of field for people who want that.  Also today’s cameras take multiple exposures for capturing extreme brightness and extreme shadow in the same photograph and have it turn out good.  Also today’s cameras have good scenes taken with very poor lighting without jarring the camera.  They take shots before and after the actual “click” so that you aren’t jarring the camera.  I kept looking for the Rams and didn’t see them.  The Bears defeated Green Bay in a bonus game and so the Chicago Bears have officially won the NFC North division.  In the afternoon game on CBS it was the Pittsburgh Steelers beating the NE Patriots in Pittsburgh. 

President Trump seems to be in a compromising mood for Christmas.  He has decided to sign that prisoner’s rights bill where many long term non violent offenders get a “get out of jail carrencd” early, because their punishments were so harsh under federal law.  President Trump has made the ultimate compromise by going against the bump stock gun lobby like the NRA.  Trump has decided to ban bump stocks as of the end of March and the people who own them have the option of either turning them in or destroying them.  These are the devices that turn semi-automatics into full automatic machine guns like the Las Vegas gun sniper used.  Then Trump wants to pull our two thousand troops out of Syria.  This is an area where he falls to the left of me because I think that’s a bad idea.  In small part it’s because we need to make sure ISIS is a thing of the past but more importantly,  I think it’s vital to keep troops in Syria because of the Russian menace and they’re likely to bomb more hospitals killing the most vulnerable of Syrian citizens.  I don’t see who can be against protecting these people.  But now Trump wants to compromise in the area of building the border wall.  Even Mitch Mc Connell, Mr. Political hard-ass himself, wants to compromise on a figure of 1.5 billion rather than the five billion President Trump is asking for.  FOX news and Rush Limbaugh have criticized this concession. 

Five people know that Abigail is not really insane on Days of our Lives.  This "secret" of her secret Sanity will become a harder and harder secret to keep.  The next thing is whether my "Judas theory" is sane or insane.  The more people who hear about my "Judas on the cross" theory may conclude that mine is actually the Sane approach.   

Impeach the Mother-Trucker Now

A Rude Pundit Repost.   (Without the Security detour)

In another one of his self-serving, self-justifying, self-indulgent public appearances, America's tallest dipshit, former FBI director James Comey, was at a New York City event where he was interviewed by MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace. Both Republicans (no, really, look it up), they discussed whether or not Democrats should pursue impeachment charges against President Donald Trump, also a Republican.


Comey said, "I hope that Donald Trump is not removed from office by impeachment because it would let the country off the hook. And it would drive into the fabric of our nation a third of the people believing there was a coup. And we need a moment of inflection, where we all get off the couch and say, 'That is not who we are,' and in a landslide rid ourselves of this attack on our values." Of course, Comey seems to have a faith in the American people that is more than a little misplaced at this point in our sordid history.


Like so many others, Comey seems to think that there would be some kind of uprising by the racists, the rubes, the elderly, the shut-ins, the fucking morons, and the syphilitic lepers who make up Trump's base should Democrats take down Trump. Trump himself asserted as much. "I think that the people would revolt if that happened," he told Reuters yesterday about impeachment.


This is part of a tactic that Republicans use on Democrats all the time. "If you do Thing X, then All These Dumbass Yahoos will be pissed" might as well be a motto for the GOP. Remember how Republicans swore that the Affordable Care Act was supposed to destroy the economy, steal your job, and shoot your dog? Yeah, no. Almost nobody's gonna fuckin' rise up to defend Donald cocksuckin' Trump, no matter how much Sean Hannity weeps and rends his garments. And the couple of people who do try something will crumble when faced with law enforcement. They'll be begging to give blow jobs to the cops arresting them to stay out of jail. It'll just be pathetic. And then hilarious. And then pathetic again. And then, finally, hilarious.



Democrats are also being told that voters will be upset if they just hold hearings and impeach and attack Trump and don't come up with an agenda of their own. Again, that is incredibly naive, like "anal sex means you're still a virgin" naive. First off, Democratic voters are jonesin' for a show of strength from Democrats, and part of that is punishing the bastards who have been shitting all over our nice country for the last two years. As I said before, the chance of 20 Republicans in the Senate joining all the Democrats to vote for Trump's removal from office after an impeachment in the House is about the same as the chance that Saturday Night Live ever really does political satire instead of putting celebrities in funny wigs. But you gotta give red meat to the beast of the base. Impeachment does that very thing.


Besides, Trump is gonna still take up all the media oxygen. It won't matter if Democrats attempt to pass, say, Medicare for All because all our 300 pound sack of spoiled orange marmalade president has to do is tweet out, "I'll wipe my ass with China!" while he's on the shitter, and no one's gonna talk about a bill that also ain't passing the Senate anyways. What Democrats need to do is control the Trump narrative. Hearings leading to an impeachment vote, with, say, Robert Mueller answering questions from Adam Schiff, will go a long way to puncturing Trump's increasingly ineffective ego-thrusts. It will steal attention from him (which will drive him fuckin' nuts).


Look, of course, we need to wait until the depth of Trump's criminality, venality, and immorality is revealed by the tide of investigations rushing in to drown him and his terrible family. Obviously, showing that Trump committed crimes that sold out the national interest for pure greed would strengthen any impeachment efforts. The Clinton impeachment shouldn't be a deterrent. In fact, it should be an encouragement, like "Wait, you mean they did this to Clinton for those bullshit reasons and now you don't want us to do anything for a goddamn mobster? Fuck you. Let's vote."


But, at the end of the day, Democrats should start the impeachment process as soon as practical because it's just the right goddamn thing to do. You can talk about what's "extraordinary" about it, you can say it's "overturning the will of the people," and you can complain that it's a distraction or whatever. Yet impeachment exists in the Constitution for a reason: it's precisely for situations like this where waiting for another election would damage the nation.


It is the responsibility of members of Congress to take down a dangerous president. That is part of your sacred goddamned duty. We shouldn't be questioning starting down the impeachment road. Especially as we learn more and more about how filthy Trump is, we should question why the Republicans refuse to remove him from office.


(Note: Of course, the more direct action is just to arrest the motherfuckers.)

An Infinite Number of Dimensions

This is Friday March 2, 2018 at just after five thirty in the morning.   Yesterday we talked about special relativity and “extra-light” mass and gravity.  Today we are doing it for general relativity.  (Wasn’t General Relativity just fired as national security secretary?)  We are speaking of Black Holes.  We’re calling this paragraph “moving toward singularity”.   People move toward singularity when they are obsessed with a task they need done.  But in this case we are talking about the shrinking of the size of a whole lot of Matter down to a single Point.  In fact we are speaking of Black Holes disappearing from our Universe.  In this case they don’t SEEM to disappear as they did in yesterday’s paragraph; they are really gone.  What follows the singularity of a whole lot of matter of course is the Big Bang.  This Black Hole has now come to occupy “unformatted space” as I call it.  Think of an unformatted hard drive for comparison.  None of the fence posts and guidelines are present in unformatted space.  They have to be created anew.  I am saying nothing so far you haven’t heard before.  Since dimensions don’t yet occur they have to be created fresh.  It is my contention that “anything that COULD happen DID happen.  The mass expands in all directions in infinite dimensions.  But only a certain set of three dimensions becomes a universe that we are familiar with.  We’ll set aside the possibility of poly-dimensional space for the time being.  (in Geometry the word "poly" refers to four or more)  We don’t want to complicate matters.  But here is where we depart company from all our other treaties on this subject.  Because if you look at this matter the way God looks at it you aren’t limited by now throwing geographic illustrations such as a star burst symbol or thinking in terms of “Directions” as we know them.  Stated another way speaking of "directions" in a star burst pattern by way of illustration, we are dealing with unformatted (hence non) space.  Because these directions don’t exist except as an abstraction of our minds.  Instead I want you to think in terms of probabilities.  Our Universe as we know it is the result of countless probabilities coming together the way we did.  When we in the past have spoken of (nearly) parrellel universes- - rather than see it as a parrellel wall or something, think of universes similar in the probabilities that occurred the same in that universe as opposed to ours.  Hence “nearness” would be like genetic close cousins.  Most of the DNA is the same- - the dice rolled the same way most of the time.  But no matter how similar, you can’t travel to these parrellel universes.  This is where the movies get it wrong.  This is not to say that such travel is logically impossible.  But you'd have to invoke God or the Creator of all this- -to do it.  I don't see any other way of it happening.  If you know a way of cross universe travel, then let me know.  This is because our universe is bound by this universe’s specific “roll of the dice”.  One must keep in mind that many if not most Universes will be lifeless, because it’s hard to create Life out of the blue.  We in the past have spoken of “sideways” or lateral Time.  This is a nice term but in reality what you are saying “suddenly the timeline doesn’t obey the laws of physical probability in this universe.  This is not referring to the math involved, which is universal, but rather the actual "choice" of probabilities that have already been met.  You can still call it a “dimension” of sorts.  But for instance, and I’ll end with this because I’m running long- - going to the “right” the relation to a universe going “left” is not necessarily that time runs backwards in the left universe as opposed to the “running right” universe.  Stated another way so you can understand it better, it just isn’t two dimensions or three dimensions where this “starburst” pattern appears.  It’s an infinite number of abstract dimensions based on differences in probability of the roll of the dice in each universe. 

There is stuff with Jered Kushner and how he is in a whole bunch of new trouble but it’s complicated.  Look it up yourselves.  Also Mac Masters is on his way out from being National Security Secretary perhaps in a few months.  But Trump says this is another case of “fake news”.  I certainly don’t want any sane members of Trump’s cabinet kicked out.  We all need to pray for the Trump administration and world peace.  Putin is making so much of this new nuclear system he has showing slides of Florida being blown up.  Maybe Putin has a screw loose as bad as Trump.  But if Trump can no longer relate to him, we’re all really screwed.  

The stock market indexes have been headed down in the past few days.  The reason, according to Norman Goldman is because Donald Trump has placed a 25% terriff on steel and a ten percent terriff on aluminum.  This will raise consumer prices, so the theory goes, and hence economic activity will be slowed and fewer taxes will be collected.  Hence this action will worsen the deficit and increase the interest rates we have to pay back. 

The whole theory of mine come up with in the fall of 2009 that everything Einstein talks about as far as how reaching the speed of light affects objects, is all an optical illusion.  Because time, mass and gravity can be explained as a flaw in the medium of observance, mainly the ether light travels in.  Take away this false impression and these speeding objects are just as “normal” as you or I.  This could be transferred to people.  We may see some people as trapped in mediocrity and unable to rise above a certain status no matter how hard they try.  But in this case it’s YOU who are the more objective analyst of what you can and can’t do.  Many have tried to place limits on the stock market saying “If it rises to a certain point a bubble will occur and the market will crash pulled down by its own gravity.”   We have seem time and again the markets easily exceeding people’s expectations of it.  When someone is watching you speeding away from them at near light speed, what they don’t know is that with just a little more effort on your part you can exceed their “event horrison” so they can’t even SEE you anymore.  (And if they can’t see you they can’t affect you)   I calculated back around Christmas of 1974 that it takes about a year of one G acceleration to reach the speed of light.  It is thus a simple matter of spending another year in acceleration to be twice the speed of light.  But our observer way back there in the dark mists can’t see you and you can’t see him.  So as far as HIS universe is concerned he’s right.  Your task is to surround yourself with people and objects that are “your speed”, with whom you can relate.  If you do this, there’s no problem.  (Selah)

We had two slices of pepperoni pizza for lunch and a green vinaigrette salad made out of spinach leaves.  We had rocky road ice cream for dessert.  I had the Gary and Shannon show on.  As far as Days of our Lives, Vivian and Stephen didn’t kill Andre.  Both were in his office and came across his dead body.  Perhaps Abigail saw them together.  Stephan had made a phone call to have Andre kidnapped to get him “out of the way” for a while, but not to kill him.  Vivian finally understands all of this.  They seem now to be planning to frame Kate for the murder using that incriminating coat and also the top of the funeral urn.

 Then I came back here and read up on “James, the Just”.  This is the founder of the Church in Jerusalem.  He never shaved or cut his hair and he never availed himself of the Roman baths.  He always wore linen as do the Jewish priests, and spent time in the Holy of Holies itself.  He was a very pious man who prayed for the people to atone for their sin.  One theory is that Mary had a second husband after Joseph and James was the offspring of that union.  That’s a new one.  Another theory they postulated was that somehow the death of James the Just and the destruction of the Jewish Temple are connected somehow.  Also we learn the name of James’ successor.  It was “Simeon of Jerusalem” who reigned till AD 96 or something.  Josephus in Antiquities wrote commentary on James the Just, whom most sources agree was stoned by pious Jews because the Sanhedren said he had broken the law, without saying what that law or laws were.  We know James ruled for thirty years.  He was picked for the post by Peter, James and John.  And the other James (the “Great”) was instrumental in getting James “the lesser” to come to salvation.  These are a few of the things that I read. 

"Ringo and Friends" is a compilation found on the February 5th 2016 entry of "Wheels of Retrobution".  There is also stuff about the eleven dimensions you might want to review.  

Vladimir Putin Introduces "Invincible" Bomb

Vladamir Putin has unveiled an “invincible” nuclear bomb that incorporates a cruise missile that can hit anywhere in the world with seeming accuracy and is invulenerable to any form of missile interception.  “This is not a bluff”, Putin warns.  Putin is running for reelection which of course he will win because they have fixed elections in Russia just like they do here.  I guess it’s a warning for Trump not to turn away from his pro Soviet stance.  It’s just another thing to worry about in foreign policy, not that we didn’t have enough on our plate already.  It is my hope that something happens to derail Putin's hold over the Russian people.  He has been in power an awfully long time.  Yet his popularity seems unbounded.  

Last night on ABC network news they talked of this meeting President Trump held with leading democrats on the best way to combat the gun polifferation problem.  As you know Trump wants to institute background checks to screen out the mentally ill, and he favors raising the age to buy a firearm to age 21.   There are a lot of households in rural America to when you are twelve or thirteen (or even younger) your father introduces you to guns and tells you how to use them.  Even a requirement that you be eighteen would be high in these states.  President Trump is playing a dangerous game going so blatantly against the NRA.  In the worst of all possible worlds, one of these NRA people could shoot Trump as vengeance for crossing them.  Of course you have reports of death threats against those Parkland High School students, which is stooping pretty low.  Then you have that school teacher who locked himself in a classroom and fired off a weapon sending the school into a panic.  There seems to be a lot of stories about how shooting attempts have been thwarted at the last minute by authorities. 

 

We’ve heard that the civil war in Syria is continuing and that they are on the verge of defeating the rebels, and I assume they don’t mean Savanna High.  What is not known is whether they are continuing using Seran gas and other banned poisons.  It just strikes me that since last April, neither Trump nor the news media has talked about Syria.   People don’t stop dying just because we don’t report it.  There are “good rebels” and “bad rebels” whom the US fights rather than support.  We hear there are good Kurds, who fight for liberty and there are bad Kurds, who are terrorists against Turkey.   To me the only logical thing is to give Kurdistan their independence.  If they did it for Israel, why not the Kurds? 

If one is to set aside all doubt about who Jesus was, one must accept that he is the antitype of the Jewish sacrificial system run by the priests in Jerusalem in Jesus’ time.  He is the sacrifice that validates the animal sacrifices done for the past two thousand years.  His sacrifice not only atones for sin at the current moment in our lives but for all people for all time if they will but accept that sacrifice, and confess that Jesus is the Son of God.  By faith the convert accepts "Eternal Life", which begins at that moment.  

 

MOM'S PASSING:  This morning I got up right at five and showered.  I was able to get cigarettes this morning.  I had at least some of Bill Press on computer.  Then it was Stephanie Miller.  Judy called just after six to announce that Mom had passed away in the nursing home.  She was alive last night at 12:30 and Paul was with her.  But she died just before six and when Paul got there her body was still warm.  So on this date March first she officially died.  Her breathing had become rapid, which is unlike her and the nursing home people gave her something to calm her down.  Yesterday Paul says she squeezed his hand to indicate that she loved Jesus when he asked her.  The last time I saw Mom was my visit of thirteen days ago.  I never heard Mom talk about Jesus.  Paul called after Judy called and he was calling from the nursing home.  Some official person has to arrive to pronounce the death officially.  Of course there will be no need for a coroner’s inquest or anything like that.  There is a lot of paper work involved and Paul said Mom’s body would be handed off to the mortuary today.  I went out and borrowed back the cigarette I had just lent Paul a few minutes earlier.  I needed the cigarette.  Paul asked me if I wanted to come over and view the body and after thinking it over I declined.  The next time I see Mom it will be in a cremation urn, just like Tony Di Mira.  But we won’t keep the urn on the fireplace mantle.  Her remains will be inturred in Riverside in a plot already picked out and where Dad’s cremation remains are buried.  I mentioned that we better start picking out appropriate Bible verses to read.  Judy said “Your Mom didn’t have that many friends”.   I think a lot of people would come out of the woodwork when they find out that Mom had passed away.   Hopefully Fred and Dianne can make it.  

Long-time Aid Hope Hicks Leaves Trump Administration

Hope Hicks is the 29-year-old former model and ex-Trump Organization employee has been by Mr Trump's side for years.  She is reported to have told colleagues she felt she had accomplished all she could in the White House.  She is the fourth person to serve as White House communications chief.  White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said it remained unclear when Ms Hicks would leave the administration.  She's the same one that was having the ongoing affair with what's-his-face.   I don't know.  People sure have been dropping like flies in this administration.  It seems only a matter of time before Trump runs out of people who are nutty enough to support his agenda for the country.   

WASHINGTON — Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, told House investigators on Tuesday that her work for President Trump, who has a reputation for exaggerations and outright falsehoods, had occasionally required her to tell white lies.

But after extended consultation with her lawyers, she insisted that she had not lied about matters material to the investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible links to Trump associates, according to three people familiar with her testimony.  The exchange came during more than eight hours of private testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. Ms. Hicks declined to answer similar questions about other figures from the Trump campaign or the White House.

Norman Goldman mentioned that there is new evidence against Jered Kuishner that’s indictable but he didn’t say what it was.  But also the Republicans in congress are threatening (going after them legislatively) corporations that recently cut out the NRA’s discounts for customers.   That’s dirty pool.   It's like something the Mafia would do.  It might even be an impeachable offence, except it was done by congress.  But it shows the hammerlock people like the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Addelson have on Congress.   

Presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has had his security clearance downgraded — a move that will prevent him from viewing many of the sensitive documents to which he once had unfettered access.   Kushner is not alone. All White House aides working on the highest-level interim clearances — at the Top Secret/SCI-level — were informed in a memo sent Friday that their clearances would be downgraded to the Secret level, according to three people with knowledge of the situation.

Dick’s Sporting Goods is no longer selling assault rifles and you have to be 21 to buy any firearm at the store.  Also Dick’s Sporting Goods has never and will never sell bump stocks at their stores.  Wall Mart is also scaling back their guns.  This is just another indicator that the corporate world is ahead of congress on this one. 

We are doing another rock compilation called “Elementary Logic” showing equations from the theory of relativity on a blackboard.  But none of the songs measured up so I canceled the plans.  But then reconsidered, so here it is with a little tinkering around the edges.  Actually the album came out today in the Federation.  Two of the tracks are from the "Crossroads" boxed set.  This is the third compilation that covers the period from 1969 to 1973 approximately we've done in the past year.  The song listings are on the back, and the open out portion features written commentary about the possibility of Jered Kushner having committed an impeachable offense that could bring down the whole Trump administration.  Rumors are they’ve got new proof. 

ELEMENTARY LOGIC

Chick-a-boom!  (Daddy Dew Drops)

My Sheree Amor (Stevie Wonder)

Build Me Up, Buttercup  (Foundations)

Only a Northern Song (Beatles)

Can’t Find My Way Back Home (Blind Faith)

Mississippi Queen (Mountain)
Hey, Hey, What Can I Do? (Led Zeppelin)

Key to the Highway (Live Eric Claptin)

Story in your Eyes (Moody Blues)

Scorpio (Dennis Coffey)

Bringing Home the Bacon (Procol Herum)

They Smile in your Face (Back Stabbers)  (the O J’s)

Convoy (artist?) 

I Don’t Want To Be a Soldier Mama (John Lennon)

High Court Refused Reconsideration of DACA Case

The Supreme Court today refused to hear the DACA appeal that President Trump made.  The court didn’t want to “fast track” the issue but let it go through the regular channels, which means the Dreamers have several more months.  The case will go through the Ninth Circuit Court of San Francisco.  That will rule in the "dreamers" favor.  Some have even said that the "dreamers" could have another year not worrying about having to be deported.  The High Court didn't want to touch this case right now.   Another High Court ruling that was favorable to the liberals was the one that stated that California has the right to have a ten day waiting period for firearm sales in the state.  Personally I think ten days is a little long.  Even a one day period would be a "cooling off period" if you were going to blow someone's brains out.  Perhaps a three day waiting period would be more suitable than a ten day period.  Because if there were burglars in your neighborhood you may not have ten days before the burglar strikes your house.  That's my oppinion anyhow.   

On the two o clock news people are being urged to boycott Florida for spring break.  Apparently a successful boycott of the NRA is occurring by businesses.  People from Alamo to Hertz to Delta to United are no longer offering NRA discounts.  They had about twenty or more corporations listed.  This movement is getting traction.  Many say these are just pin prick responses.  Raising the age to buy an AR 15 won't eliminate very many deaths.  Someone from FOX said that only three percent of the homocides in this country are committed by military assault weapons.  I guess maybe we need to think through access to other hand guns.  

There was a wave of school shootings in late 1997 through Colembine in April of 1999 that people aren’t talking about.  Jonesborough Arkansas was in that wave in 1998 and then it was Springfield Oregon in May of 1998.   I mention all this because someone said that there were NO school shootings in the period from 1994 to 2004 when an assault weapons ban was in full force.  We know now this claim of liberals is not the case.   I have Face the Nation now and there are little breaks in the sound.  I’m going to run quick clean right now.   I just ran quick clean after closing all browser windows first.  We’ll see what happens now.   Four congressmen and women are being interviewed, who plan to retire this year. 

 Sixty Minutes had the Seran gas attack by the Syrians and bombing hospitals last April when Trump kept talking about “the little babies” when he had a mild response.  We discussed this back then and I guess the episode was a rerun.  Then they had a photographer who posted his photographs on exterior walls of faces of protestors.  Then I went for medication.    One lady (I forget who) took a long time but the rest of the line moved fast.   Then I caught the third segment on some female actress who gets into the emotions of her parts.  

“Dun Ringal” is back on a rock compilation because the song it replaced was on “The American Night”.   (It replaced "Star-Trekking)  We use the live version of “Dun Ringal” because it was the version that became a hit and is on “Twenty Years of Tull”.   If I had readers that actually left comments (I used to get comments) this would have been pointed out weeks ago.  In case you didn't know we offer "dyspensations" for doubling up song listings either if the song is on one of our "Demento" albums, or else if the track is on the "Soul Train" album from May of 2006.   

The Long Awaited Democratic Memo is Finally Released

The Democratic response to the Republican “memo” addressed to no one, was allowed to be released today.  Apparently they had redacted enough material to satisfy the Trump administration.  I just hope that people actually read both memos and not just rely on the media summaries.  People don’t take the trouble to read anymore.  Democrats, in a rebuttal to a controversial GOP memo released Saturday, argue that the Justice Department and the FBI did not abuse their powers when they spied on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.  The GOP memo, assembled by the staff of House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, alleged the FBI and Justice Department officials relied on an unsubstantiated dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele to get a warrant to conduct surveillance of Page.  The dossier was funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign to look into Trump's ties to Russia; the GOP memo alleged that the FBI knew of the partisan agenda behind the dossier but did not alert the surveillance court.  But the Democrats, who have said the GOP document was released earlier this month to divert attention away from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, countered that in their own 10-page, partially redacted memo, saying Page had already been assessed to be an "agent of the Russian government" prior to the FBI receiving the dossier.  Additionally, the memo said the initial FISA application in October 2016 and its subsequent renewals provided the rationale behind surveilling Page, who no longer worked with the Trump campaign.  "The FBI had an independent basis for investigating Page's motivations and actions during the campaign, transition and following the inauguration," the memo said.  It said the Justice Department made "narrow use" of Steele's investigation into Page, specifically about Page's suspected meetings with Russian officials in July 2016.  Additionally, the memo contends that the Justice Department "repeatedly" informed the surveillance court about Steele's background, credibility and potential bias and was transparent about Steele's sourcing.   It also states that the department never paid Steele for the dossier. The Justice Department had used Steele as an informant before, which he had received compensation for, but that was for information "unrelated to the FBI's Russia investigation."  The release comes after weeks of back and forth over how much of the document would be redacted. The White House on Feb. 9 objected to its release, citing national security concerns. That sent the Democrats back to negotiations with the FBI over how much of the memo needed to be blacked out.

I had Leo Le Port on from before noon till two.  Some of that time I was watching curling at the Olympics.  Leo had Scot Wilkinson on who said that a good stereo system now will cost you $170.00 or so.  He talked about how good Google Chrome-books are and now now “the internet if your operating system”.  Time has passed people like me by.   For instance it seems absurd to me that a store would stop selling regular CD’s because they’re too old fashion.  Now of course they’ve stopped using earphone jacks in equipment.  You’re expected to use some form of wireless even though Leo admits Blue Tooth or some of these don’t work very well.  It struck me that the psychic profession has been pretty much supplanted because science fiction and all of this Power Ranger stuff is so advanced.  People have no need of psychic visions for their fantasies because the detail is so much more prolific in producer’s imaginations.  It’s a wonder that religion itself hasn’t been supplanted by “Black Panther” the greatest new movie to come along in ages with an all Black cast.  Of course with all of this stay at home stuff now with home theaters- - - -and people predicting for decades that people would choose to work at home rather than commute, it’s amazing how the traffic on our streets never lets up.  The corporations haven’t gotten the word.   That book I have called “Visions” came out in 1997 and every now and then I look at it.  When people predict the future they do so based on the present.  In some ways people are predicting that “Warfare” of the future will be all cyber-warfare and battles for information rather than the conquest of land.  ISIS hasn’t gotten the word.  There is a horrific war going on in Syria right now that everyone is ignoring.  Trump doesn’t want to get involved because he’s pro Russia even though they are the ones with the barrel bombs bombing women and children.  Or maybe he read the last blog and doesn’t want to start World War III.   When it comes to controlling people there’s no substitute for good old fashioned brute force.  But the Giz Whiz guy on Leo’s show says that there is a “toy device” that enables you to control the muscular actions of another.  This device will echo your own muscular actions such as clinching your fist.  If this were possible they would have discovered it a hundred years ago.  

Some Scarey Stuff About the Next World War

Trump has abandoned former U.S. President Barack Obama’s excuse for invading Syria, and replaced it by what is now clearly an American hot war against Iran, which indisputably has become the U.S. President’s target — no longer (even if only as an excuse) ISIS or “radical Islamic terrorism.”

Iran never attacked the U.S. However, Iran did overthrow the U.S.-installed Shah in 1979 and capture the U.S. Embassy, which had ruled Iran (and allowed or disallowed what the Shah did) ever since America’s 1953 coup there overthrew Iran’s democratically elected progressive secular Government and installed instead the Shah’s brutal dictatorship. But the aggression was by the U.S. Government, not by Iran’s Government.

And, after 1979, Iran never committed aggression against the United States; so, the U.S. is entirely in the wrong, now, to be planning (or instructing Israel) how to destroy Iran.

This U.S. President clearly wants an invasion of Iran, which Israel is now preparing to launch.

Iran is an ally of Russia. On February 19th, Russia’s Tass news agency headlined “Moscow calls on US not to play with fire in Syria” and reported the Russian Foreign Minister’s statement: “I once again call on our American colleagues not to play with fire and measure their steps proceeding not from immediate needs of today’s political environment, but rather from long-term interests of the Syrian people and of all peoples of this region.”

Here is a description of what will likely be entailed if Israel launches a military attack against Iran; it was published on February 22nd, by Russian geostrategic expert Peter Korzun, under the headline “Israel and Iran: Inching Toward Conflict”:

If Iran itself is attacked, its sites related to its nuclear program will top the list of the prime targets for Israel’s F-35, F-15, F-16, and Kfir fighters, drones, and intermediate-range Jericho missiles. There are different routes they could take, but all of them would require flying through the airspaces of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, or Turkey. None of these Muslim countries will openly allow Israel to use their airspace, but anti-Iran sentiments are strong in the Sunni-dominated Arab states. Some of them might be willing to look the other way. A clandestine agreement to tacitly allow Israeli aircraft to cross their air space is entirely possible. Anger could be vented publicly once the mission has been completed.

Iraq is not focused on monitoring its airspace – it has many other problems to deal with and Israel could take advantage of that. The route through Iraq looks like it might be the best option.

The distance that would need to be covered would be between 1,500 km (930 miles) and 1,800 km (1,120 miles). The aircraft will also have to make a return trip, so in-flight refueling will be a necessity. Israel is only believed to own between eight and ten large tanker aircraft (such as Boeing 707s). That will hardly be enough. The Israeli military is not particularly adept at aerial refuelling. If the aircraft have to fly undetected, the F-35s will have to forgo their externally mounted weapons in order to preserve their stealth capabilities. Then their payload will be reduced to only two JDAM-guided bombs in the internal bay. Pretty underwhelming.

Then Iran’s radars will have to be spoofed, and its air defenses, especially the Russian-made S-300, will have to be knocked out. It won’t be easy.

Israel has a few dozen laser-guided bunker buster bombs (the GBU-28). The Jericho III is an Israeli three-stage solid propellant missile with a payload of more than a ton and capable of carrying multiple low-yield independently targeted reentry warheads. All the targets in Iran fall within its range of up to 6,500 km (4,038 miles). These missile strikes are capable of destroying every command and control site, as well as all major nuclear facilities.

The Heron-2 and Eitan drones can hover in the air for more than 20 consecutive hours to provide guidance and intelligence and to jam Iranian communications and confuse its radar.

Israel would wage electronic warfare against Iran’s military and civilian infrastructure, such as its electric grids and Internet, creating interference with Iran’s emergency frequencies.

After the war has begun, Israel will come under rocket and missile attack from Iran’s proxies: Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hezbollah has up to 150,000 rockets that can reach anywhere in Israel. It is true however, that Israel possesses a sophisticated, multilayer, air-defense shield. A first-class intelligence and early-warning system will mitigate the fallout, but substantial damage will be unavoidable.

Israeli troops will have to deploy in the Strip and move across the Lebanese border. But the Shia group will have to fight on two fronts: in Syria to prop up the Assad government, and in Lebanon against Israel. Syria is likely to find itself involved in combat operations. Israel will go to any length to keep Iran and Hezbollah away from its border.

Iran may try to block the Strait of Hormuz. But even if it does not, global oil prices would go up. Iran or its proxies might attack US forces in the Middle East, primarily in Syria and Iraq. Should that happen, Iraq would likely become a battleground between US forces and Iranian proxies, with American reinforcements rushing in. Iran could punish the Americans for their support of Israel in Afghanistan.

An attack against Russia’s ally would be an attack that will significantly weaken Russia. Will Russia come to the defense of its ally, the victim of this uncalled-for invasion by America’s proxy, Israel? Will Russia retaliate by destroying Israel — and maybe destroying also its sponsor?

Most scenarios for a world-ending nuclear war entail “errors,” or else a traditional non-nuclear conflict (perhaps in Syria, or in Ukraine — or it could be in Iran, or in North Korea) producing victory for one side (it could be either the U.S. versus Russia, in Syria, Ukraine, or Iran; or else the U.S. versus China, in North Korea), unless the other side (it could be either Russia versus the U.S., or else China versus the U.S.) blitz-launches almost its entire nuclear arsenal against the other side and against the other side’s strategically key allies. (For example, if Israel invades Iran, then perhaps Russia will launch a blitz-nuclear invasion of both Israel and the United States.) The first-to-strike in an all-out war between the nuclear superpowers will have the best chance of winning (i.e., in military parlance “winning” means simply inflicting more damage on the other side than it inflicts upon the “winner” — regardless of how damaged both sides — and the rest of the world — are). If the U.S. or its allies invade more than they’ve already done (practically all allies of Russia), then a blitz from Russia and/or China would be reasonable, because then obviously the U.S. aims to become conqueror of the entire world — the only super-power. Once one side has lost the traditional conflict in Syria and/or Ukraine, or elsewhere, the other side will either unleash its nuclear stockpile against the other (except for whatever anti-missiles it holds in reserve against any of the enemy’s missiles that haven’t yet been destroyed in that blitz-attack), or else it will surrender to the other. There will be a ‘winner’, but the entire world will be the loser. This is what America’s ‘democracy’has brought us to.

Billionaires (including owners of controlling interests in weapons-manufacturers whose main or only customers are the U.S. Government and its allied governments — the ‘democratic’ decision-makers who had won political power because of donations from those billionaires) are planning to survive nuclear war. There seem to be two main ways:

Google this line: billionaires moving to “new zealand”

Others are buying bunkers deep underground in countries where they already reside — such as here, andhere, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here — to protect themselves from the nuclear blasts, though nothing can protect anyone (not even, ultimately in New Zealand) from the resulting nuclear winter, and global famine and die-off.

More about what’s behind this can be seen in an excellent article by Edward Curtin, which has been published at a number of terrific news-sites — especially Greanville Post, Counter Currents, Global Research, and Off-Guardian (all four of which sites are prime ones to visit regularly, if a person wants to understand today’s world) — and it is aptly titled “The Coming Wars to End All Wars”.