Posted on 04/09/2024 5:20:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“Whoever doesn’t miss the Soviet Union doesn’t have a heart. Whoever wants it back doesn’t have a brain.” — VV Putin.
Have you checked if your hair is on fire today? Here comes an eclipse of the sun. Our moon will cast a totality of its shadow in a path about 100 miles wide arcing from Del Rio Texas to Bangor Maine, with lesser effects outward on each side of the path so that night will seem to fall at mid-day over most of America east of the Big Muddy. This event typically freaks out primitive peoples, and brings out the latent archaic terror even in supposedly civilized minds, reminding us in a powerfully spooky way that the cosmos runs things, not us puny humans.
You might ask: Are we hostages to cycles, Astronomical, Kondratieff, the Maunder Minimum, Fourth Turning, the Great Wave. . .? Considering the feckless doings of our own society, we seem to be yielding to some final act of cosmic punishment. What is not falling apart? Our livelihoods? Our politics? Our money system? Our morals? Our common sense, our families, our relations with other societies, our infrastructure, our culture, our business models, our education, our medicine? Alas, our government still lurches along, gone mad-dog on its citizens as it desperately sucks all power and resources unto its inner engine like a red giant star preparing for death.
Today is also the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, prayer, atonement, and reflection. What follows this pause in the troubled Middle East, a.k.a. Armageddonville? I daresay most adult citizens of sore-beset America actually don’t care. . . can’t care, because they have trouble enough of their own keeping a roof overhead, a car on the road, and food on the table. The Woke-Marxist college kids are wailing over the actions of Israel in Gaza — as they will for anyone within their dumb-a[__] equation of victims-and-oppressors, especially involving brown and white people. It is a brutal operation in Gaza, for sure, but so was the Hamas act-of-war on October 7 that many want to forget about now. They still hold and torture hostages, you know.
I doubt that Israel wants to exterminate the Gazans, but at this point they would probably like to export them to other nations that share their Arab culture. Those other Arab nations are not eager to take in the Gazans. The fractious minority in the USA who militate against Israel because, you know, the Jews, never ask if the Palestinians have some other plan, some other position other than From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! — meaning Death to Israel. Can you name any alternate proposal they have proffered? No, because there is none.
Not only have they no intention of getting along somehow with Israel, but they give every sign that they prefer to continue making war on her one way or another: rocket attacks, café bombings, rape and murder ops. Because they’re oppressed. They might have turned their 40 kilometers of Mediterranean beach-front into a world-beating resort, but instead they spent billions in international aid building a tunnel network and purchasing arms to wage war against Israel. And with October 7, they got war.
So, the rest of the world is very concerned now that this will lead to World War Three, world wars being the grand prize at the end of many historical cycles. Of course, the Iranians have been chanting Death to Israel in so many words for decades, so no one can mistake Iran’s intentions. And Iran has funded and deployed Hezbollah military bases on Israel’s northern frontier with Lebanon. They are said to have thousands of high-tech rockets capable of decimating Tel Aviv. Everybody knows that launching such an operation could result, ten minutes later, in Tehran becoming an ashtray.
And what if Mr. Netanyahu launches a peremptory attack against southern Lebanon to destroy those bases? Does Iran ride to the rescue? And does Russia ride to Iran’s rescue? And does China rush in to secure the sea lanes in the Persian Gulf and the oil refineries of Iran that Israel doesn’t manage to blow up? And what does the USA do? Or Europe (watching much of its oil supply go off-line)? Looks World War Three-ish, a little bit.
There is also, lest we forget, the mess in Ukraine, another world war flashpoint. There, the stark reality is that Russia is in control of the tactical situation on the ground. The WEF syndicate’s project — fronted by NATO — to weaken Russia and eventually loot its resources is a flop. The indignities heaped on Russia in sanctions and foolish objurgations will not be forgotten. There will be a Great Reset for Europe, but not the one it ordered. Not the nirvana of transhumanism and social control; rather a cold plunge into neo-medieval poverty, the breakup of large states, and a shocking simplification of daily life....
There is always “Pandemic-X” and subjugation by WHO to look forward to.
The eclipse was indeed a sight to see.
GSC - how was the traffic?
[the troubled Middle East, a.k.a. Armageddonville]
An incredibly-accurate and insightful comment.
For the REAL Armageddon WILL come as a result of the Middle East situation. Jerusalem IS the Cup of Trembling, as Almighty God has prophesied. These things WILL happen.
However, remember that the REAL Armageddon ONLY occurs at the end of the 7 years of ‘Peace and Security’ - the man that confirms that 7-year covenant will be the Antichrist.
Know this now before he comes and tells your family and friends. Oh, they’ll laugh and shake their heads, most of them.
[keeping a car on the road]
Boy is that ever true. I’ve been struggling, making mistakes, just to get parts for a 20-year-old car since a woman hit me nearly 2 years ago. I’ve decided that I’ll have to bite the bullet and buy some of the parts myself - they SEEMED to be available, but the supplier was just joking (major car manufacturer). And thanks to Joe and Pete’s supply chain shortages, I couldn’t get other parts in 2022. Not reliably.
My other car - yay I talked to the mechanic (thanks for those prayers! - I just need one more part - just deciding which one - THEN maybe I can get some part-time work for a little extra money besides SSI (thanks for the stupid earnings cap for those of us under FRA, BTW).
“The eclipse was indeed a sight to see.”
A real big nothingburger here in York, PA. Didn’t even get dark.
Traffic going up was much better than I expected (I-91 to the border).Going back...worst traffic I've ever seen. Left Magog at about 4PM...got home just after 4AM.
A once in a lifetime experience. Glad I did it. If it happens again...in my neighborhood I'll absolutely look up. But a 12 hour drive? No thanks!
It didn’t get totally dark where I was (totality happened there) but it got to a point you’d expect just before...or after...total darkness.
Not even dusk here; just a ‘mild’ shade, like with heavy cloud cover, but still daylight. Disappointing, but hey: it is what it is.
Did you have totality? We did...about 2 minutes. Were your skies totally clear? Ours were.
I’m told, that it is safe to look DURING TOTALITY IF YOURE IN THE TOTALITY ZONE.
The blindness comes from looking at the sun before and after totality without the glasses.
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