"The Atonists have the bomb and are seeking to immanentize the eschaton." -Rough Paraphrase from memory taken from the satirical conspiracy novel "The Illuminatus Trilogy" by Robert Shea and the late Robert Anton Wilson, patron saint and mystic of the libertarian left. The trilogy cam out, I believe in 1973. The book is quite humorous in places, but also has turned out to be prophetic. It's best to read the books, what AI research turns up is less than accurate.
Some people think Trump is somehow messianic in character, other have said he is the "Antichrist" (a charge leveled against W, AKA Chimpy) but what these "spiritual leaders" and their secular militarist collaborators all have in common, is at least by modern psychiatric standard (something that many also find questionable, and not without reason) is they are insane, the militarists Criminally Insane, and by our obedience and conformity at all levels of our behavior, we have enabled them. I do believe this war is incredibly stupid, and whatever failings their leaders might have in the eyes of those they govern, Iran is the wronged party and probably had no desire for a war. WTF did Trump expect? For that matter was in W's narrow mind? The main purpose of endless war is to create an endless demand for weapons, and enrich war profiteers, although endless geopolitical reasons can be found.
I can relate, having grown up in an apocalyptic church where the end times were always around the corner. Our leader/apostle, was definitely influenced by dispensationalism. Didn't know I was in a cult until I was out of it. But aren't they all? The end times is as old as Zoroastrianism, probably older.
Wonder how different Christian nationalism is from Christian Zionism. Also, racism and sexism are the twin heads that have been wrapped around the finger of many religions and have now become the foundation of MAGA and Trumpism (a political religion). In some states in USA, a ten-year old girl that is raped can be forced to deliver a baby; but if she dies trying to do so, oh well, that is just pro-life. White men had an opportunity to join the human race and just except they are part of the community and not the rulers of the community. What did they do? Decide that if they couldn't have their elevated role and the highest pecking order in society, they would destroy the community and now other parts of the world. Ultimately, the USA is a dead society. The bark and the memory of the tree still exist but the insides have been hollowed out. Trump was a fitting end to a country that had leaders since WWII who wanted to bully the rest of the world because the USA was a "superpower". It pains me to think of how great the USA and the world could have been without Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq I and II. What if all those people were alive instead? What if all that money for war had been put into building communities and countries instead of just putting more McDonalds all over the planet? What if alternative technologies had been invented to replace oil? China has been pursing this path. The USA has killed itself. The war in Iran is the final act of suicide. It died because of its false beliefs in its exceptionalism, it militarism and its greed. It died because the people are selfish and are mainly concerned only about what is good for them as opposed to what is good for the people in the country. Fortunately, USA and Israel make up less than 5% of the world's population. Other countries will now lead and carry on after the current madness comes to an end.
Americans are going to die in massive numbers right herein the US while this plays out. Gas prices are rising, which means that if people thought groceries were expensive before, they're in for a much nastier shock. Gas prices aren't only high at the pump when we're filling up our cars. They're higher for the trucks in our supply chain.
The ACA credits that Dems suddenly gave up without a fight and without another word are already choking people. Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP are still coming. People are losing healthcare, healthy people are leaving the ACA which will cause both ACA and private insurance to skyrocket (we knew this would happen). Very recent news reports say that people are cutting costs on groceries and other necessities already just to keep their already enshittified healthcare. Many people will literally die because of this particular choke point. We're not even talking about it because Epstein and Iran. They have quietly scaffolded structural eugenics for decades.
Others like me who aren't struggling yet, will be soon enough. To pay our rent and mortgages. To pay more for everything on top of already increased costs due to tariffs. Having to cut back on everything because prices and inflation are going to spiral out of control.
What about a draft? They are going to ask my boy to die for them while they make obscene sums of money off of this war and play out their end times fantasies on real battlefields.
I'm scared. Some of us may not survive this. Those of us who are "fortunate" enough to be somewhat insulated might regret living to see the world we will stand to inherit when the fallout comes. If they don't just drop the nukes (which I am honestly not afraid of, better than ending up homeless and hungry and sick and unmedicated or in a detention camp).
This is the apocalypse I fear. These are my boots on the ground, already preparing to fight the war that will be on my doorstep soon. I knew bad times were coming but I can't say I actually expected this much, this fast. The accelarationists are certainly happy.
Don't worry, Big Pharma is keeping me sedate and calm and despite these existential fears, Im going to check out what's new on Netflix after a doom scroll for awhile longer. Because what else can I do? When the time comes, I'll be prepared to fight. Maybe not too hard though. I'm tired, boss.
Bad News, from Ha'aretz just now, BB is egging Trump to put boots on the ground for a regime change.
There is a disconnect between the physical price of oil and the paper price . The Physical price world wide, depending on whether it is sweet or sour, ranges from $150 a barrel to $170 and will hit $200 by end of the week.
Israel struck Qatar's South Pars gas field,.
Qatar is a top global exporter of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), shipping approximately 80–81 million metric tons annually as of 2025-2026, with over 80% going to Asia. The country also exports around 5.5–6 million tonnes of urea and ammonia annually, making it a key global fertilizer supplier.
Trump threw BB under the Bus, claimed to not know anything about, but that is contradicted by his own people. In a midnite tweet he threatened to take out the South Pars field if Iran
strikes Qatars portion
Iran drills in the South Pars field. South Pars is the Iranian side of the world’s largest natural gas field, which is shared with Qatar (who calls their side the North Field). It is a critical energy lifeline, providing approximately 80% of Iran's natural gas and fueling most of its electricity generation.
This war has affected the world's economy, and we are already in a world war. this is going to get hotter.
China and India and Pakistan depend on gulf oil, LNG . So far Chinese and Indian ships are getting a multipass from Iran. Tankers carrying their cargo are routed north past Qeshm Island and some other islands so they can be visually checked by the IRGC to make sure that they are who they say they are.
If oil and LNG shipments are cut off to India and China, they will be totally dependent on Russia, and even Russia can't meet the demand.
Maybe the war won't be hot, at first, but just as devastating is an economic war.
And Israel pulled something stupid, one of their planes, dropped a bomb about 300 years from the Bushir nuclear power plant.
If that plant is bombed out of action, the radiation plume will cover everything from the gulf states to India, and the hottest part of the plume will cover the gulf states
... And then Iran bombs the Haifa nuclear plant in retaliation. Between the two, a large part of the middle east and central Asia will be irradiated for decades. A double Chernobyl within a few hundred miles of each other. Unless Trump drops a nuclear weapon first.
Actually from and objective and environmental, long term point of view, that will solve a lot of problems, kaput goes the petro cabal, kaput goes the Broligarchy, kaput goes the billionaire class, and we have saved our descendants from a lingering and horrible death. The middle east will become a Chernobyl, just too bad it can't wipe out the insanity of the Abrahamic religions.
I live in the country, have a long driveway. I estimated that it was about 200 yards then I measured it, 556 ft, I could never have done that with meters.
The English unit of measurement makes sense, an inch is the tip of the thumb to the knuckle, three inches the width of a palm, a yard is the tip of your middle finger to the tip of your nose (outstretched), a foot, well that is self explanatory, none of them are precise, but they work well when estimating and you don't need exacts.
The word mile comes from the Roman for thusand. They had a measuring cart with a wheel and as it rotated it dropped a pebble (actually a clay marble), and after 1,000 marbles they called it a mille, thus our mile
however there are various standards for a mile, the British mile is 5,260 ft, and a yard is three feet and you can roughly pace off a mile,there are 1760 yards in a mile, roughly 1760 exaggerated paces, what you would get in a jog.
The reason we have meters is because of a competition between the British and the French over science of all things, because command of science meant command of the seas and empire.
The British artillery was more accurate than the French because they had constructed artillery tables using algebra and trigonometry . and the two countries were rivals.
Britain had the Royal Academy of Science, and shortly thereafter France had their own French Academy of Science..
The whole thing was about empire and dominion of the seas.
necause France is in Europe and Britain is an Isle, the metric system was adopted
Do you know why Americans drive on the right side of the road, it is because of the Conastoga Wagon..
Conestoga wagon, lacked a dedicated driver's seat and required drivers to sit on the left-rear horse. This positioning made navigating right-side traffic easier.
Because America is the major consumer of automobiles, European and Japanese factories made vehicles to suit the Americans, and because it is expensive and troublesome for marketing and sales to make left and right hand side vehicles, they defaulted to the American Standard.
The UK drives on the left due to centuries-old traditions rooted in medieval safety, allowing right-handed travelers to keep their sword arms free to defend against potential enemies.
In the same way the English standard is based on the physique, not everyone carried weights and measures, but fingers, thumbs, arms, feet and legs are readily available.
You basically solved the whole thing Jim!
I have been following this for ten years and you out the pieces all together.
You must be going out of your mind ?
What is next?
How is this fixed?
How do we get our country back?
Where is the link for today's Sunday zoom?
Jim usually drops a short piece with the link sometime on Saturday or early on Sunday morning. It's still Saturday in my time zone. :)
Thanks Allan! Actually, I just realized today is Saturday, NOT Sunday. So, MY BAD!!! LOL!!!
"The Atonists have the bomb and are seeking to immanentize the eschaton." -Rough Paraphrase from memory taken from the satirical conspiracy novel "The Illuminatus Trilogy" by Robert Shea and the late Robert Anton Wilson, patron saint and mystic of the libertarian left. The trilogy cam out, I believe in 1973. The book is quite humorous in places, but also has turned out to be prophetic. It's best to read the books, what AI research turns up is less than accurate.
Some people think Trump is somehow messianic in character, other have said he is the "Antichrist" (a charge leveled against W, AKA Chimpy) but what these "spiritual leaders" and their secular militarist collaborators all have in common, is at least by modern psychiatric standard (something that many also find questionable, and not without reason) is they are insane, the militarists Criminally Insane, and by our obedience and conformity at all levels of our behavior, we have enabled them. I do believe this war is incredibly stupid, and whatever failings their leaders might have in the eyes of those they govern, Iran is the wronged party and probably had no desire for a war. WTF did Trump expect? For that matter was in W's narrow mind? The main purpose of endless war is to create an endless demand for weapons, and enrich war profiteers, although endless geopolitical reasons can be found.
Cannot find the link for today. Can someone help me with that please?
Wow, I really enjoyed listening to this. I'm guessing it was read by AI? Well done.
I can relate, having grown up in an apocalyptic church where the end times were always around the corner. Our leader/apostle, was definitely influenced by dispensationalism. Didn't know I was in a cult until I was out of it. But aren't they all? The end times is as old as Zoroastrianism, probably older.
KATNISS
Kier Starmer should keep
In mind that Trump is no Eisenhower. The PM could stand to be a little quicker on his feet.
Wonder how different Christian nationalism is from Christian Zionism. Also, racism and sexism are the twin heads that have been wrapped around the finger of many religions and have now become the foundation of MAGA and Trumpism (a political religion). In some states in USA, a ten-year old girl that is raped can be forced to deliver a baby; but if she dies trying to do so, oh well, that is just pro-life. White men had an opportunity to join the human race and just except they are part of the community and not the rulers of the community. What did they do? Decide that if they couldn't have their elevated role and the highest pecking order in society, they would destroy the community and now other parts of the world. Ultimately, the USA is a dead society. The bark and the memory of the tree still exist but the insides have been hollowed out. Trump was a fitting end to a country that had leaders since WWII who wanted to bully the rest of the world because the USA was a "superpower". It pains me to think of how great the USA and the world could have been without Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq I and II. What if all those people were alive instead? What if all that money for war had been put into building communities and countries instead of just putting more McDonalds all over the planet? What if alternative technologies had been invented to replace oil? China has been pursing this path. The USA has killed itself. The war in Iran is the final act of suicide. It died because of its false beliefs in its exceptionalism, it militarism and its greed. It died because the people are selfish and are mainly concerned only about what is good for them as opposed to what is good for the people in the country. Fortunately, USA and Israel make up less than 5% of the world's population. Other countries will now lead and carry on after the current madness comes to an end.
Trump Visits Chabad Lubavitch rebbe Oct 7th, 2024 with Howard Lutnick and Ben Shapiro.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cnrFZ-EpF_Y&pp=0gcJCZoBo7VqN5tD
Americans are going to die in massive numbers right herein the US while this plays out. Gas prices are rising, which means that if people thought groceries were expensive before, they're in for a much nastier shock. Gas prices aren't only high at the pump when we're filling up our cars. They're higher for the trucks in our supply chain.
The ACA credits that Dems suddenly gave up without a fight and without another word are already choking people. Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP are still coming. People are losing healthcare, healthy people are leaving the ACA which will cause both ACA and private insurance to skyrocket (we knew this would happen). Very recent news reports say that people are cutting costs on groceries and other necessities already just to keep their already enshittified healthcare. Many people will literally die because of this particular choke point. We're not even talking about it because Epstein and Iran. They have quietly scaffolded structural eugenics for decades.
Others like me who aren't struggling yet, will be soon enough. To pay our rent and mortgages. To pay more for everything on top of already increased costs due to tariffs. Having to cut back on everything because prices and inflation are going to spiral out of control.
What about a draft? They are going to ask my boy to die for them while they make obscene sums of money off of this war and play out their end times fantasies on real battlefields.
I'm scared. Some of us may not survive this. Those of us who are "fortunate" enough to be somewhat insulated might regret living to see the world we will stand to inherit when the fallout comes. If they don't just drop the nukes (which I am honestly not afraid of, better than ending up homeless and hungry and sick and unmedicated or in a detention camp).
This is the apocalypse I fear. These are my boots on the ground, already preparing to fight the war that will be on my doorstep soon. I knew bad times were coming but I can't say I actually expected this much, this fast. The accelarationists are certainly happy.
Don't worry, Big Pharma is keeping me sedate and calm and despite these existential fears, Im going to check out what's new on Netflix after a doom scroll for awhile longer. Because what else can I do? When the time comes, I'll be prepared to fight. Maybe not too hard though. I'm tired, boss.
Jim, you've got to get major journalists and Substack writers to cover your work. This should be discussed EVERYWHERE!
That was a chillingly accurate assessment of the world we wish we did not live in, Jim. That's all I got.
Who pays attention to the U.S. CONSTITUTION anymore!
The founding fathers understood the dangers of religious ideologies “choke-holding” entire civilizations in wars fought in the name of their Almighty!
Separate “Church, Temple, Mosque” from Government!”
Bad News, from Ha'aretz just now, BB is egging Trump to put boots on the ground for a regime change.
There is a disconnect between the physical price of oil and the paper price . The Physical price world wide, depending on whether it is sweet or sour, ranges from $150 a barrel to $170 and will hit $200 by end of the week.
Israel struck Qatar's South Pars gas field,.
Qatar is a top global exporter of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), shipping approximately 80–81 million metric tons annually as of 2025-2026, with over 80% going to Asia. The country also exports around 5.5–6 million tonnes of urea and ammonia annually, making it a key global fertilizer supplier.
Trump threw BB under the Bus, claimed to not know anything about, but that is contradicted by his own people. In a midnite tweet he threatened to take out the South Pars field if Iran
strikes Qatars portion
Iran drills in the South Pars field. South Pars is the Iranian side of the world’s largest natural gas field, which is shared with Qatar (who calls their side the North Field). It is a critical energy lifeline, providing approximately 80% of Iran's natural gas and fueling most of its electricity generation.
This war has affected the world's economy, and we are already in a world war. this is going to get hotter.
China and India and Pakistan depend on gulf oil, LNG . So far Chinese and Indian ships are getting a multipass from Iran. Tankers carrying their cargo are routed north past Qeshm Island and some other islands so they can be visually checked by the IRGC to make sure that they are who they say they are.
If oil and LNG shipments are cut off to India and China, they will be totally dependent on Russia, and even Russia can't meet the demand.
Maybe the war won't be hot, at first, but just as devastating is an economic war.
And Israel pulled something stupid, one of their planes, dropped a bomb about 300 years from the Bushir nuclear power plant.
If that plant is bombed out of action, the radiation plume will cover everything from the gulf states to India, and the hottest part of the plume will cover the gulf states
... And then Iran bombs the Haifa nuclear plant in retaliation. Between the two, a large part of the middle east and central Asia will be irradiated for decades. A double Chernobyl within a few hundred miles of each other. Unless Trump drops a nuclear weapon first.
Actually from and objective and environmental, long term point of view, that will solve a lot of problems, kaput goes the petro cabal, kaput goes the Broligarchy, kaput goes the billionaire class, and we have saved our descendants from a lingering and horrible death. The middle east will become a Chernobyl, just too bad it can't wipe out the insanity of the Abrahamic religions.
I assume you meant 300 meters from the Bushir nuclear power plant?
I misspelled Yards, I don't like meters, can't mentally conceive their length, but 300 meters is just short of 300 yards
Thanks, William.
I live in the country, have a long driveway. I estimated that it was about 200 yards then I measured it, 556 ft, I could never have done that with meters.
The English unit of measurement makes sense, an inch is the tip of the thumb to the knuckle, three inches the width of a palm, a yard is the tip of your middle finger to the tip of your nose (outstretched), a foot, well that is self explanatory, none of them are precise, but they work well when estimating and you don't need exacts.
The word mile comes from the Roman for thusand. They had a measuring cart with a wheel and as it rotated it dropped a pebble (actually a clay marble), and after 1,000 marbles they called it a mille, thus our mile
however there are various standards for a mile, the British mile is 5,260 ft, and a yard is three feet and you can roughly pace off a mile,there are 1760 yards in a mile, roughly 1760 exaggerated paces, what you would get in a jog.
The reason we have meters is because of a competition between the British and the French over science of all things, because command of science meant command of the seas and empire.
The British artillery was more accurate than the French because they had constructed artillery tables using algebra and trigonometry . and the two countries were rivals.
Britain had the Royal Academy of Science, and shortly thereafter France had their own French Academy of Science..
The whole thing was about empire and dominion of the seas.
necause France is in Europe and Britain is an Isle, the metric system was adopted
Do you know why Americans drive on the right side of the road, it is because of the Conastoga Wagon..
Conestoga wagon, lacked a dedicated driver's seat and required drivers to sit on the left-rear horse. This positioning made navigating right-side traffic easier.
Because America is the major consumer of automobiles, European and Japanese factories made vehicles to suit the Americans, and because it is expensive and troublesome for marketing and sales to make left and right hand side vehicles, they defaulted to the American Standard.
The UK drives on the left due to centuries-old traditions rooted in medieval safety, allowing right-handed travelers to keep their sword arms free to defend against potential enemies.
In the same way the English standard is based on the physique, not everyone carried weights and measures, but fingers, thumbs, arms, feet and legs are readily available.
Correction: 300 meters is just a little longer than 300 yards.
You care correct. I am not expert or even familiar with meteres, I can pace 300 yards, I can't pace 300 meteres, my legs aren't long enough.
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Brilliant and Important Analysis, Jim!
Thanks for sharing your insights into the dangers of religious ideology choke-holding our government!