I had to change this paragraph because of breaking news (I started writing at 9:45 pm and then there was breaking news at 10:10 pm eastern):
Looks like Israel is “prepping” the narrative to justify its upcoming attack on Iran. I hope I am wrong and that Israel is engaging in verbal bombast and does not intend to follow through on its public vow to launch an attack on Iranian territory. In the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s drone and missile barrage, the West giddily celebrated a massive Israeli victory and a devastating defeat for Iran by claiming that 99% of Iran’s drone and missiles were shot down.
Damn. I was wrong about the timing but not wrong about the plan. U.S. news channels are reporting “Israel Striking Iran.”
Israel changed its tune today about its success in defeating the Iranian strike and shifted to claiming that Iran tried to hit an Israeli nuclear facility. CNN delivered the new spin today:
Who knows what was in precisely in the mind of the Iranian leadership. But they launched a bigger attack on Israel than any of the sophisticated air attacks that Russia has launched on Ukraine in the last two years of war. That tells you something. Yes. The drones take many hours. And yes, Iran did inform neighboring countries that something was coming in the next 72 hours. But this defense system that Israel was able to put in place with allies did a job that I think even the Israelis didn’t expect it to do, and certainly the allies didn’t expect it to do. Iran very likely hoped for a better outcome. We know that the air alerts that Israel put out to to the civilian population over the weekend told people in Dimona, where the nuclear facility is, to seek and take cover. So it’s clear that Israel knew that Iran was targeting the nuclear facility. And so this tells you several things. It perhaps explains, in part why Iran over the weekend, according to the IAEA, Director General Rafael Grossi, had shut down their nuclear facilities expecting the possibility of a very quick retaliation, which we understand was on the cards, a quick retaliation. But this also may signal that Israel is putting out in the public domain information about what Iran targeted. It was a nuclear facility, which to some people, would give legitimacy for Israel to strike an Iranian nuclear facility or its mind games, or they or they are just messing with the Iranians to the extent of maybe this is what we’ll target.
If you did not catch it let me make it clear — Israel is now claiming that Iran targeted the Dimona nuclear facility. That is going to be Israel’s propaganda spin going forward to justify the reported attack.
Israel may just have committed suicide. The Netanyahu cabinet is betting that Iran is unable to launch a massive retaliatory missile strike and that its threat to respond if Israel attacks are just hollow talk. Israel is pushing the bullshit that “this is a limited strike.” That is not how Iran views this.
I have confirmed from a source with access that Israel launched attacks on Isfahan and Tabriz with drones. Iran was prepared. Its air defense systems, according to my source, activated and engaged the Israeli drones and shot them down. Looks like we are witnessing the start of a serious war in the Middle East. This is going to escalate.
Fox news i reporting that strikes have been made in Iran not long ago Larry. It is not looking good. You may be only one man, but you are THE man we look to for real, honest news. Thank you and bless you.
Yes, God bless Larry and protect him in this constant endeavor for which we are all grateful.
Zero Hedge reports huge explosions in central Iran, Israeli strikes in Iraq and Syria.
zero hedge got zero accountability
ZH is well known for clickbait
The Israelis have gone off the rails here. I doubt even Uncle Sugar will be able to bail them out this time.
Heck. They have been off the rails for one hundred years! They were born off the rails
in homage to the Devil!
There are Unconfirmed simultaneous explosions have also been reported in Syria and Iraq (Baghdad and Babil/Babylon province).
Unconfirmed simultaneous explosions have also been reported in Syria and Iraq (Baghdad and Babil/Babylon province).
Iran has established a no-fly-zone over its western region.
How many nations are likely to start sending flying objects to murderville?
Oil is spiking and futures are tanking. “Can’t we all just get along?”
Very doubtful. Remember the good guy who asked that originally.
This Jesus? Such mixed messages…
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.”
Matthew 10:34
“I come to fulfill the prophesies, not destroy them.” Prophesies that unequivocally state the Jews will take back the Holy Land, and if necessary, kill all the non-Hebrew inhabitants they find there. That Jesus?
What? You haven’t left to join your dear people yet? Still tooting the one track horn? What a loser! Where’s your symbiotic partner in animosity?
Deflection.
Again, you won’t answer the question… does the Bible state that’s what Jesus said?
You’re SO easy… c’mon, more bile, ya know ya wanna… a few obscenities?
Or you could behave like an adult.
Seeking attention? You’re the one who insists on parading your religion like it’s some special badge of honour. I’m just showing the religious Emperor that you are has no clothes.
The Bible clearly states you should be adhering to the Beatitudes, turning the other cheek.
Pretty bad when a non-believer knows the Bible better than the Believer.
That person was a young black man named Rodney King, who in the early 90s endured a severe beatdown by several cops with boots and nightsticks. Problem was it was recorded on video.
This was in Los Angeles and there were riots. After a few days of violence, King made an announcement:
Can’t we all just get along?
So now you know who first said it. Not Jesus. That’s pretty funny though. 🙂
You overlook the small matter of atheist Jews slaughtering 20 million Russian Christians in the 1920s. And atheist Frenchmen launching their Terror in the French Revolution. What structures have you created to prevent a recurrence? What have you done to face down Bill Gates, who also thinks he’s God and has paralysed nigh on half a million Indians with his junk vaccines?
She doesn’t have to “prove” her God exists. She just has to believe. Her God is not an externality as you pretend. Such a being doesn’t even qualify as a God. I don’t understand why you so vehemently privilege the small part of the electromagnetic spectrum available to your senses.
We can all relate to the YouTube clip of the girl trying to open a bottle with an unfamiliar bottle opener with handles. She keeps begging her friends to hold the bottle, as she’s afraid it will break, until one drops the handles, the cork pops out, and they all laugh together.
Isn’t that your predicament? Your interlocutor’s God is all around you. But you’re bewildered by the packaging, and don’t know how to open it.
Science is a spinoff from the Peace of Westphalia. Once Christians accepted the principle of each to his own, that their Father’s house has many mansions, that nobody has the privileged insight you claim for yourself, they set about trying to find a common understanding of how the world works. But this was within God, who is everything. To disprove God’s existence, science would have to step outside God, which is impossible.
I’ve considered myself an atheist since 1962. Your arrogance and boastfulness makes me feel ashamed.
In this year’s Rio Carnaval, Vila Isabel came third with a parade addressing the wonders of creation, designed by Paul Barros. If you want to understand your interlocutors, I suggest you take a look.
<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVmjBi137-w”> Vila Isabel 2024 – Desfile Completo Carnaval [4K-HDR]</a> is a view from the second stand, which gives all the mind-blowing excitement.
<a href=” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scGBsm4jawk“> Vila Isabel 2024 Desfile COMPLETO HD</a> is the tv version, which explains what it’s all about, but reduces it to a conversational level.
Actually, that was not Jesus’ prophecy. His message went beyond the Jewish people.
Absolutely. Thank you once more for telling us the truth and being who we all can follow!
Where the hell is the up-vote button?
Removed due to lack of maturity and endless bickering. I miss it, but it would have taken a full-time monitor to deal with the pettiness. 😉
Shall we just have a moratorium on Jesus, bible and co here and focus on the topic of this thread?
if the zionists use Alamek to justify genocide , then it is relevant. If they use some stuff written a few thousand years for their strange claim of some lande given to them by some strange dude in the sky, it is also relevant.
for anything else, dear Christians, just demonstrate how beautifully you follow the two laws of Jesus. I can see the wisdom of the second one, and on a good day , I roughly follow it. So in that, only that little way I am with you …..
Agree…
You are with us. Well Dear God! How lucky can we be. And what will the moratorium for your
symbiotic partner be? A reduction in paranoia
and hostility perhaps?
Dialogue starts with trying to understand the other side and finding the communalities. It starts with understanding that we are all human beings and that no one of us is any better or righter for being or not being a Christ, a Jew a Ukrainian or an American for that matter.
destroying that dialogue over splitting hairs is one of the methods of the Straussian monsters. You and I can agree on the second rule that Jesus expressed. You live by that book, I’d rather toss it out primarily because it doesn’t make sense to me and because of the hate speech and because they never broke with the much more horrid Old Testament.
nobody here is my partner, but Any Person simply has much better arguments than you, to which you respond with sarcasm and ad hominem attacks. Which shows, that a. You don’t have much of a response and b. That you don’t live by your religion’s most important rule .. love your neighbour…
I never claimed to be a perfect Christian. But who could love a thoroughly hateful constantly
attacking paranoid Ass Pole? Hateful, hostile,
really destructive personality with no end in view.
It would take a saint, which I do not pretend to be. Why don’t you persuade your dear partner to
just stop it? Do you enjoy his destructiveness too?
Unexpectedly I spent much of my afternoon with a devout believer and his pastor. Nice guys, smart and witty, humble. They know my stance and respect it. It was an enjoyable time with good conversation, even though we were working together in the sun and heat.
You, on the other hand, are degrading your character and beliefs with petty, penny-ante and childish bullshit in the name of religion. You could rise above AP’s trolling and refuse to take his bait by showing a little Christian forbearance and tolerance.
Perhaps if you were to actuate the teachings of Christ you might convince one of us spiritually poor, ignorant and neanderthal non-believers to reconsider… One catches more flies with honey.
I never claimed to be a perfect Christian. — Karpatok
Problem is, you don’t even try… By their works, you shall know them.
It’s interesting how you describe yourself, Spanky. I am not a prosalitizer. But you call yourself neanderthal. Why so? Are you longing for something? The something that has disappeared in the West and allowed it to become a living sewer of perversity and criminality contrary to the view of the
unbelievers such as the AP.l
I was raised a Christian, Karpatok… but Christians like you, in part, convinced me it was wise to widen my spiritual horizons.
To be frank, I am agnostic. Happily so, if a bit confused by the need of others who require deterministic reassurance about what happens after death. Your need for leadership, for being a follower, eludes me — I chart my own course.
Is there a deity (or deities)? That I cannot say, but the one question I would most like answered is simply this — What caused the Big Bang which is (theorized as) the beginning of all creation that humans can see and sense? What existed one second before that cataclysmic event which created our physical reality?
What I’ve discovered is that all life lives upon death. That life, in our earthly garden, is a rich, diverse and precious thing. And that despite all its richness and abundance here on Earth, life is infintely rare in our vast universe.
Your focus on going to heaven after death misses the entire point of life — living — and of the possibility of creating heaven on earth in this beautiful garden.
You assume too much that you do not know of my thinking. But it is perfectly obvious that the possibility of creating heaven on earth in this
beautiful garden is faster than ever eluding us
as humankind continues it’s violent undertakings
as it has done through out it’s non evolution. The story of the garden of Eden is full of truth in a nutshell. There has never been anything other than tribal violence, murder, rape and mayhem
between different cultures continuing from the
beginning of supposed known history until today.
What fairy tale are you proposing that would presume it would stop?
You assume too much that you do not know of my thinking. — Karpatok
I read what you write, and presume you cast your words into this electronic void with forethought and intention. Perhaps, in some ways, I know you better than you know yourself, considering some of your contradictory statements.
…it is perfectly obvious that the possibility of creating heaven on earth in this beautiful garden is faster than ever eluding us… — Karpatok
Yes, I had noticed that as a student of human nature and history. But creation is an act of will, the only question is will we create heaven or hell on earth as our technology and knowledge advance… I cannot speak for past generations, only my own and my hope for our future.
The problem, or at least part of the problem as I see it, is that our technological knowledge has outstripped our ability to think and choose wisely. We never ask ourselves if we should not do something (i.e. create novel diseases or enhance the lethality of viruses), but simply plow on “ahead” because we achieved the technological capacity to do so.
The story of the garden of Eden is full of truth in a nutshell. — Karpatok
Yes, mythologically speaking, I think the story of the Garden of Eden captures what I’ve just described quite well — knowledge can be used for either good or evil — and we can make a choice (free will) about that use, but human nature being what it is… well, we are apex predators, after all.
What fairy tale are you proposing that would presume it would stop? — Karpatok
None. Just pointing out that the choice is ours.
My greatest fear is that, since we’ve achieved the technological ability to destroy ourselves as a species, we will do so long before we attain the wisdom to avoid that fate.
Careful. Remember the Latin for agnostic is ignoramus. — 46notout
Have never considered that I am anything other than ignorant… I am however attempting to ameliorate my shortcomings. What’s your excuse?
“What’s your excuse?”
Do you mean for my ignorance? I don’t offer an excuse other than l am human. Let us all however try to be wrong in more intelligent ways. I take the view that since the existence of God is actually obvious and that the knowledge that there is a God is available readily to most people atheism in the human adult is not really excusable though personally l understand why it is there.
“I am agnostic”
Careful. Remember the Latin for agnostic is ignoramus.
I find him much funnier and much more loveable than I find you.
and you are the guy who doesn’t lay off.
still, that wouldn’t make me I hate you, life is too short.
btw, he is not my partner.
amd if you find him destructive you seriously should question the basis of your beliefs
“question the basis of your beliefs” how so in relation to his destructiveness?
And how do I not lay off? I have implored the SOB to cease and desist! Just F ng Stop it!
You lay off by accepting him as a human being who is just as entitled to his opinion as you are to yours.
the point is that your guy asked you to turn the other cheek. so this is something that Christians are expected to do in such a situation.
It doesn’t apply to Any Person, on the other hand, because this stuff means nothing to him.
Clearly if you wish to be a proper Christian following your guy’s guidelines, it is your turn to lead by example.
You remind me a bit of the guy from Catch 22 who starts ranting and raving about the merciful god he doesn’t believe in. you preach about a Christianity without personal consequences. Funny, really …
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Just giberish. Who the H are you to talk
about proper Christianity. You are a what?
Well, I can read and I had that stuff shoved down my throat for some 15 years, so I am quite familiar with it.
if you are a Christian than you ought to follow the most important guidelines of Christianity, eg loving your neighbours or turning to other cheek and lead by example.
Any Person is not a Christian, so this does not apply to him …
it appears that you thump on the bible, but your behaviour does not show any of these values.
there you are.
hope you get it now
You lay off by accepting him as a human being who is just as entitled to his opinion as you are to yours.
the point is that your guy asked you to turn the other cheek. so this is something that Christians are expected to do in such a situation.
It doesn’t apply to Any Person, on the other hand, because this stuff means nothing to him.
Clearly if you wish to be a proper Christian following your guy’s guidelines, it is your turn to lead by example.
You remind me a bit of the guy from Catch 22 who starts ranting and raving about the merciful god he doesn’t believe in. you preach about a Christianity without personal consequences. Funny, really …
“But who could love…..”
Well, actually, old chap, you could because the commandment is Thou shalt love thy neighbour as yourself. We are not Jews who think only other Jews are neighbours we are Christians and if you are a Christian you are my brother. He is not a brother but he is a neighbour. So l say as a brother to you, in this case you are in the wrong. (Doesn’t mean l think he isn’t) So be a man and apologize.
*Amalek
Iirc in Matthew, the sword Jesus is referring to is metaphorical, in aramaic idiom, to divide the holy in spirit from the hypocrites.
The prophecies Jesus fulfilled are of the coming Messiah. The prophecy you refer to is Scofield’s interpretation of John’s revelation.
@Any Person
‘I did not come to bring peace, but a sword’
In Revelation it says the sword comes out of his mouth. It means the word of God. There will be no peace until the word of God is recognised and understood.
We are in the process of doing that now. People have been listening to someone in their heads who claims to be God but is not.
“This Jesus?”
Your citation of Matthew 10.34 is correct. This means that Christians are to expect enmity and opposition from non Christians (no doubt such as yourself) and persecution to the point of death from the enemies of Christ, (again no doubt such as yourself). It does not mean (although it has been taken to mean ) that Christians are given a licence for military conquest of others, although unscrupulous politicians have claimed that licence and attempted military conquest.
Your second citation is a slightly elastic quotation from Matthew 5.17.
This means that Jesus is the fulfilment of the prophecy of a Messiah. That Messiah was thought by the Jews in terms of a military conqueror. As we know that proved not to be so.
Perhaps you would identify the prophecies you mean when you refer to the slaughter of non Hebrews. I am confident that you are engaging in misattribution and misapplication of texts which effectively renders your arguments void.
Since this thread has been off the original topic for a while I feel it would be ok to add that for those who claim to be unbelievers – there are some of us who love you and pray that you’ll ease up on us who choose to believe. Look into the Gospel, you’ll be eternally grateful you did. Now Beckons the Voice of the Shepherd – Folk Potpourri
What will Europe do for energy? They cut off most Russian energy and now the Persian Gulf may get shut down.
Yeah, poor, poor Europe. Getting what it so richly deserves!
The EU needs an intervention or a motivational speaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8
I’ll up vote that. But the US neocons/exceptionalists don’t care, it has vassals not allies. They’re disposable like used condoms.
If Israel would only be finished off once and for all
maybe the rest of the world could have a lengthy
period of peace and friendship.
Any idea what to do about the big guy because he seems to be at the root of most of the problems of the world.
How about assassination by slow poisoning?
Might that be effective? Well no, it wouldn’t
because somebody else like the black homo
Obi is running him along with forty underlings.
How about a few more “boosters”?
Thats it! There you go.Good one!
Once again, Israel has put the ball into Iran’s court on the bet that Iran doesn’t have the means or the will to do what it says it can do and that Israel has the means to prevent Iranian success. Iran will have two options, to react immediately (with decisive results) or to act with restraint with on condition and demand of unified action to resist Israeli aggresion. Either way, Netanyahu’s leadership has failed. And there is a good chance that Iran will be going nuclear soon. Biden, Sunak, Macron, & Sholtz are probably already in their bunkers.
If you can call that Satanist a leader!
Nutty-yahoo a Satanist? Or Bribe’em, that good Zionist (self admitted) Catholic man?
Can’t tell the religious players without a program…
C’mon, hurl around a few ad hominem and nasty labels at me to show what good Christian you are…
Poor, poor you. So attention seeking? Where’s
your dear loving family in this moment of great need?
Dude, do the sarcasm but leave the bait at home. No need for the anti-Christian diatribe.
If religion wasn’t the basis of the conflict I’d agree, and the Believers don’t leave their Bibles at home either… but as you wish…
Religion isn’t the basis. It’s the excuse.
All wars are resource wars.
All wars are bankster wars.
Agreed,
but also no need for the Christian diatribe.
whether N is a satanist is besides the point. That he is a genocidal monster using religion masterfully to pull his crimes off, is
uptick!
restraint worked well last time, tanking shipping and the IOF economy. OTH, declaring a no shipping zone to anywhere in Israel, could be enforced immediately with precision missiles.
Then target electric generation, transformers, the Port of Haifa and Eliat, and the backup generator at the Dimona Power plant. Also, destroy lots of F35s.
Either way, the Iranian leadership seems to know what they are doing with Plans A to Z ready to be deployed as needed.
An attack on Isfahan, as reported, is very serious and will mark the end of Netanyahu’s presidency and likely the end of Israel as we know it.
We can only hope until confirmed.
I have just read this on almayadeen.net:
“No external aggression on Iran occurred after Friday midnight, Iranian sources informed on the matter told Al Mayadeen.
Following circulating news on Western-based media outlets, regarding a supposed Israeli attack on Iran, sources told Al Mayadeen that such an event did not occur. Instead, Iranian air defenses repelled a relatively small drone attack in Tabriz and Isfahan, which were likely launched domestically.
What is being circulated about an Israeli attack on Iran are lies and are part of a misinformation war, according to our sources”
Good night. We’ll know more in the morning.
“No external aggression…”
I don’t know if l believe this but it is consistent with Israel concluding (but not admitting) that they are completely outgunned by Iran and they’d better not escalate. Lying about an attack would get them off the hook of having to do something in retaliation without escalation and bringing a terrible response.
If it isn’t, then I have decided to leave Earth.
OMG this very bad news. No one is prepared result of this. Grateful for this report Larry. Did see a video on X last night loading up bfifty 2’s. Unconfirmed. Now I wonder ?
U.S. flew B52s to Diego Garcia one week before Israel hit the embassy.
It might be a day or so before we know what really happened in Iran and what their response will be. I am hoping for reason to take root, but I fear we are well past that now.
Agreed. Well past.
I don’t think it’s all that serious. The Financial Times says the following:
“…Israel launched strikes against Iran early on Friday morning, Israeli and western officials said, in what appeared to be limited retaliatory action for last week’s drone and missile attack by Tehran. … Iranian state media played down the damage from the attacks and Iran lifted flight restrictions imposed overnight. …Oil prices climbed sharply following the reports before falling back after Tehran appeared to downplay the significance of the strikes. ,,,”
If the FT isn’t panicking I don’t think we need to.
Word for word same as the bbc – must be true (?).
I meant the tone, not the words.
I read or saw somewhere (maybe one of Larry’s articles or shows) that the Iranians have threatened to develop nuclear warheads for their missiles if Israel continues to harrass them. I don’t see how a responsible government like Iran with the capacity to do so would not, it has the responsibility to protect its citizens in spite of any religios edict. I understand that Iran has enough missiles to level Israel, but nuclear deterence is a psychologically much more powerful deterrent. If you have an enemy cruel enough to cold blooded murder thousands of innocent children, you must do what it takes to protect your population from that same fate.
“A RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT LIKE IRAN WITH THE CAPACITY TO DO SO WOULD NOT, IT HAS THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT ITS CITIZENS IN SPITE OF ANY RELIGIOS EDICT.”
Remember the words in Biden’s Proclamation:
IRAN IS RESPONSIBLE
I have no idea what exactly you are trying to say?
There is a problem with your solution; it would kill most Palestinians and would not deter the Masada-complex fanatics.
“ISRAEL MAY JUST HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE. THE NETANYAHU CABINET IS BETTING THAT IRAN IS UNABLE TO LAUNCH A MASSIVE RETALIATORY MISSILE STRIKE AND THAT ITS THREAT TO RESPOND IF ISRAEL ATTACKS ARE JUST HOLLOW TALK. ISRAEL IS PUSHING THE BULLSHIT THAT “THIS IS A LIMITED STRIKE.” THAT IS NOT HOW IRAN VIEWS THIS.”
From https://twitter.com/normfinkelstein/status/1781052474926743820
Thank the Dear God for Norman Finkelstein, one of the best!
That exactly is the risk of our times, that some key actors, IL, US UK DE , nato and eu in general are all high up on the craziness continuum. And nothing seems to make any of them back off. It will end in tears as they force the rest of the world to unite.
And nothing seems to make any of them back off. — Johan
They cannot back off. The Western Empire, and they are all constituent parts of that empire, is now at the point where it must escalate… or capitulate.
The rest of the world is already uniting, and it will end in tears… the end of an empire always does.
The April 14 speech at the Security Council emergency session by Israel’s representative, Gilad Erdan, brought home just how lunatic Israel has become. Presenting a master class in—if nothing else—proximate projection, Erdan was seemingly persuaded to the bone of his being that “the Islamic regime of today is … no different than Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich…. Just like the Nazi regime, the Ayatollah regime sows death and destruction everywhere…. For years, the world has watched the rise of this Shite Islamist Reich, yet just like during the rise of Nazism, the world has been silent”; that “Iran’s hegemonic ambitions of global domination must be stopped before it drives the world to a point of no return, to a regional war that can escalate to a world war”; that Iran was “barreling towards nuclear capabilities … its breakout time to produce an arsenal of
nuclear weapons is now weeks, mere weeks.”
doesnt Erdan describe Israel to the T.
Indeed. A perfect description of those maniacs.
Erdogan is worried that Persia will eclipse Turkey on the world stage… and ruin his (day)dream of reviving the glory of the Ottoman Empire.
And how would you know that?
Are you confusing Erdan with Erdogan? 2 different people…
Apparently I did… please excuse my mistake. There was alcohol involved late last night at the thought of what we might be witnessing…
Nonetheless, Erdogan does have delusions of grandeur…
And the links aren’t working. I guess Elon isn’t the saviour of free speech we hoped for.
The Indian diplomat M K Bhadrakumar likens this moment to the suez crisis (https://www.indianpunchline.com/israel-grapples-with-its-suez-moment/) and observes
“The big question is how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will view Biden’s initiative — and, more importantly, US’ desperate attempt to block Palestinian statehood bid at the UN Security Council without casting a veto. In fact, ignoring the joint statement issued in New York, he proclaimed from Tel Aviv that Israel has a mind of its own and will take its own decisions in its interests no matter what its allies or friends might counsel. It is a barely disguised barb even as the representatives of Christian nations from Europe are journeying to Israel in the recent days to buttress the US attempts to mollify Netanyahu.
Apparently, Netanyahu asserted in the presence in Tel Aviv of the UK foreign secretary David Cameron and German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock that Israel will indeed climb the escalation ladder — showing the middle finger at the two visiting politicians who were on the other hand, bending over backward to show solidarity with Israel as it faces the moment of truth. What is secret behind such reckless audacity on the part of Netanyahu?”
Israel has just revealed the secret by this raid.
And now Iran has upped the ante
https://www.rt.com/news/596196-iran-israel-nuclear-facilities/
“The Iranian leadership has stated that it considers all weapons of mass destruction incompatible with Islam. Haghtalab, however, assessed that it would be “conceivable” for Tehran to reconsider its “nuclear doctrine and politics,” if Israel keeps threatening its nuclear facilities.
Nuclear sites are normally considered off limits for military action, the general said, but Israel’s attack on the consulate, an internationally-protected diplomatic mission, was proof that it does not care about playing by the rules”
So there you go.
Iran has also changed its narrative. Now nuclear weapons are no longer taboo, once the taboo against attacks on diplomatic missions has been broken.
From Bhadrakumar:
“..Raisi’s call to Putin on Wednesday followed a telephone conversation between Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Iran’s Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (at the initiative of the Iranian side) on previous Sunday, which itself was preceded just a day earlier by a discussion on phone between the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev and head of Israel’s National Security Council Tzachi Hanegbi. The Kremlin spokesmen Dmitry Peskov has since drawn attention to these ongoing “constructive” exchanges on the heightened tensions in the West Asian situation. ”
Adults are stepping in to separate the brawling kids. But the bully’s uncle is still out of the picture.
This is not going to escalate in any uncontrolled way. It is all carefully staged.
That said, the attempt by the US to re-establish its international credibility or some facade at any rate, is going to end badly for Israel as Iran will not give up on the prospect of driving Israeli citizens out of the territory simply by this slow mo strike and strike-back. This plays to Iran’s interests, not the US’s. Israel is now on borrowed time.
Iran possesses escalatory advantage in this scenario.
Indeed, Victor, and it won’t take much to drain the will of non combatants in Israel, starting with those with passports to somewhere else, and the ability to get the hell out.
If Iran gets serious, nobody will be getting out. Airports and ports will be high priority targets, I would think.
Zionists have, like Trump has, such seething inborn vengeance viciousness they cannot stop lying, irrational behavior, cutting off their noses in spite, shooting themselves in the foot, pursuing a death wish (suicide)and all things sociopathic.
Trump has the (marked) excuse of being born at a lunar eclipse.
Which is about as sociopathic as is possible. Black empathy.
“Israel is now claiming that Iran targeted the Dimona nuclear facility. That is going to be Israel’s propaganda spin going forward to justify the reported attack.”
A new item added to a long list from the government comprised of people who seem to have never heard the children’s story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
They lie about everything, all the time… but now the rest of the world is supposed to believe this one.
One thing about this: I just glanced around after seeing an item about “Israel attacks Iran”, and watched some short video loop, presented as “the attack”, and was thinking “what?… what am I seeing?”.
Absolute silence (still) on the net. Only a message in Telegram about an attack on Isfahan using small quadcopter drones. Nothing else. These small drones must have been launched from Iranian territory. So a terrorist attack. Let’s see what more information comes in.
Ease springs for now.
Might be an outhouse in Syria, a camel in Iraq and a few toys in Iran.
Israel does not have to worry. According to an American (General?) interviewed on the BBC, Iran will not be able to respond to Israel, because they used up all their missiles at the weekend.
However that is the direct opposite of what I heard elsewhere. That Iran essentially just sent some of the old stuff, with a few new one’s thrown in.
I wonder which version might be correct 🤔.
😜
John Rothery (Tauranga)
If not for all this being so intensely serious, that would be just plain hilarious.
It really is a whole huge subject of its own, just to examine the endless parade of people appearing on the US “news” networks, along with the BBC and other English language “news” outside the US, making noises come out of their faces with all sorts of “expert commentary”. Completely detached from reality, and more likely to be the exact opposite. The sort of people I commonly refer to as “bullshit nozzles”, among other terms.
The sort of people I commonly refer to as “bullshit nozzles”… — JL Eagan
You made me spit my drink all over the keyboard with laughter. That was a waste of damn fine whiskey. Post a warning next time! ;>)
“interviewed on the BBC”
The BBC, like the best professional liars occasionally tell the truth. This makes things difficult in terms of approaching their bulletins. However If you operate on the rebuttable presumption they are lying you won’t go far wrong
I have long since ditched my licence.
[…] Zdroj […]
The Netanyahu cabinet will go down in history as the morons who destroyed Israel.
More power to the destruction! We will all be better off with NO Israel and NO Zionists period.
For some reason, it seems to me that this was intended from the very beginning, perhaps from the day of the formation of Israel, as plan B (sacrifice Israel at hour X, if plan A – achieving lasting US world domination in another way – does not work).
The same applies to Ukraine – the same artificially created state with the same long-term goals. Only one is in the Middle East, the other is in Europe.
The avalanche of events that is now growing should not be viewed at close range. If you look in retrospect, a conclusion arises that only at first glance seems illogical.
Namely: 1. Israel was prepared for slaughter, fattened for a “rainy day.” 2. We are not ruled by crazy people, but by people (or non-humans) who clearly know what they want and what goals they are pursuing.
They are criminally insane, on the loose, and you are underestimating their insanity. In fine Armani suits, most naive say “they are normal”.
I keep hearing and reading discussions that completely ignore reality. Geopolitics is never about religions, democracy, freedom, human rights, some dubious values etc.. It’s always about interests. In the so-called “West”, governments, NGOs etc. are merely instruments. Whose instruments? Identify politicians, “experts” (bullshit distributors), public figures and verify their connections within the networks and corporations. Research cross-connections, for example donations from whom to whom etc.. In 99.9% of cases, you will come across any capital interests.
I don’t know whether the book “Inside Corona” by Thomas Röper has been translated into other languages. A data expert used special software for his research, similar to that used by law enforcement agencies and secret services. This software is used to analyze cross-connections from thousands and thousands of publicly accessible fragments of data, resulting in an overall picture. No human being is capable of finding this enormous amount of data, which only consists of fragments, checking it for connections and creating this overall picture. In this example, it was proven that “Corona” was the most powerful conspiracy in human history to harm humanity and was prepared many years before 2020. It came from the USA. Wuhan was a US project.
That’s just one example. Any truth lies beneath a gigantic pile of bullshit PSYOPs.
And supposed truths must always be questioned.
You expressed what was in my head, but I could not express it so clearly.
Thank you
The so-called Spanish Flu killed 55 million at the end of WWI – and it spread to India in days with no air travel.
Face it, Nature delivers these viruses all the time, and hits lethally when mankind acts like animals as WWI showed. Today expect waves of pandemics as the “West” acts like animals. Whether the many Fort Detrick spinoffs all over (300+ labs) can even approach Nature is pure hubris of tattered exceptionalism.
Time to act like daVinci, not the “Wests” house ape the Darwin biped.
There’s plenty of evidence the Spanish Flu epidemic was not natural, but a result of American experiments in immunization.
there is plenty of evidence of unnatural vaccinations going way back to the 1820’s
Whose instruments? Identify politicians, “experts” (bullshit distributors), public figures and verify their connections within the networks and corporations. …In 99.9% of cases, you will come across … capital interests. — heikomr
An interesting, and important, observation… Any Person follows the money trail as well, and his conclusion supports yours. With mathematical certainty, large fortunes never become smaller over time, but grow endlessly, relentlessly larger — as does the power and influence such fortunes create.
When is enough, enough? When whomever owns the largest fortune controls the world and all within it? And what would that hidden hand look like to those outside its bubble of insider knowledge?
These are reasonable questions to ask, if you seek actual answers to the obvious questions facing us.
I was fortunate(?) enough to attend a state college heavily populated by longstanding CFR members… You know, that private institution founded with JP Morgan and JD Rockefeller (the actual men themselves) money in the immediate aftermath of the First War to End All Wars, and subject of endless conspiracy theories.
Perhaps you did not realize that a CFR study group was simply incorporated into the US Department of State, shortly before the Second World War, as its Policy and Planning Division… Or the original UN Charter was written by CFR members… Or the CIA founded by CFR members…
But, why take my word for it.
Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World In Our Time, by former Georgetown University professor and historian Carroll Quigley — who also happened to be William Jefferson Clinton’s history professor.
It’s an interesting read, and good starting point for understanding how the Empire was organized and is controlled by capital… and whom people like Clinton, Buttigieg and Maddow (and many others, worldwide) actually represent.
Davos is merely the tip of an iceberg…
Quigley’s Anglo-American Establishment identifies the Venetian Doge system to draw the USA back into the British Commonwealth. Clinton got first-hand exposure as a Rhodes Scholar and knew the Imperial Oligarchy well. Today the City of London carries on the Rhodes imperative, which spawned the CFR.
We live in dangerous times. Let us hope the reason would prevail over the supremacist arrogance of all those who are blinded by hatred.
When I went to bed, the last thing I saw / heard was Iran said something like this:- don’t do anything silly, we have all your I Zrail nuclear nuclear facilities identified and targeted. Ready to go, ready to press the button.
Woke up to find a lot of static – inc sonar21, and very little light. Even RT has wishy, washy coverage. All we can say so far is, I Ran has taken some undefined number of hits. During the day we will find out if they were bruises, cuts, or broken bones.
As Mr Ritter said about I Ran about a week ago – its all or nothing, if you don’t fire all your kit, drones, missiles and so on in one go, you may not have them for round two.
I understand the logic, but it looks as though I Ran has a load of stuff widely distributed, and lined up ready for deployment against the genociders.
My gut feeling was this will turn out to be a nothingburger to allow the Jerusalem regime to save face. Or that’s what they hope. They are like the school bully who has suddenly come up against someone who stands up to their threats, folds his arms and asks – “And ..?.”. The reality is that their neighbours will all take note. I expect Syria in particular to be less scrupulous about allowing them to launch missile from aircraft outside their territory without targeting them. I hope I’m right. I believe Jewish interests have been buying up large tracts of land in Patagonia for years. Maybe it’ll soon be time to escape to their new bolthole?
Yes. Been reading about Israelis buying land in Patagonia for some years. And some disputes with the locals too!
There’s also the Jewish autonomous oblast in Russia on the Chinese border.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
Yes, I was surprised to read about the oblast in Russia a while back. I wonder why it’s not better known? Yes, I expect the locals in Patagonia must be worried they’ll end up being priced out of their own land if not worse. It’s curious how many times Jews have been expelled from their host countries. Goys do seem to be an intolerant lot aren’t they?
Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia – Birobidzhan.
Only the Jews did not want to live there.
According to the latest census, Jews live there 0.97% of the total population of the region, Russians – almost 93%.
If you want to understand why, find Birobidzhan on the map.
Yes. I just did that. It does not exactly look like a place described as “a favorite vacation destination” or somewhere wealthy people build a retirement home.
If Jews agreed to settle en masse in Birobidzhan, they would quickly become Russian 🙂
It’s curious how many times Jews have been expelled from their host countries. Goys do seem to be an intolerant lot aren’t they? — Wincombe
There does appear to be a pattern… must be all those other people.
Which explains these strange actions by Miley.
Shame, beautiful country
“Israel is prepared to drag the rest of the world down with them”. Glenn Greenwald interviews Norman Finkelstein.
There`s nothing more to add here, really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEfYVUzgxCk
“Israel is prepared to drag the rest of the world down with them”. Glenn Greenwald interviews Norman Finkelstein:
Ther`s nothing more to add here, really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEfYVUzgxCk
The distance from Israel to Isfahan is in excess of 1,550kms/960m – the F35 range is 2,200kms/1,360m. Without re-fueling at least once, if not twice, it cannot deliver a pay load to Isfahan. What is the nature of ‘explosions near’? Drone or saboteur?
Recently Larry discussed the NYT on the 12 CIA bases in UKraine and what they are doing.
Well, many wonder why Germany acts inexplicably, irrationally.
Here is the reason – these bases are packed with CIA in military uniform. 36,000 troops from 3 NATO states.
What are they doing – just look at the parties, ministers, boards of directors, priests, MIC, banks …
Oh wait, forgot the embassies, consulates, NGO’s….
correct. Pwned.
The coordinates of all of these are programmed in a large number of missiles etc
Sitting ducks.
When the dedollarization is completed upon the first truly stupid move by a he West, these bases will get wiped out all over the world. That’s the obvious first step
That map is not quite accurate, for sure GPS’s are much better known.
Ever seen Frankfurt-Hahn? Just one example of a massive base abandoned and decades later turned into real-estate. Notice the old DDR – the 2+4 Treaty said stay out- so abandoned Soviet bases all over.
Considering how difficult it was to repurpose Hahn, I wonder what Realtors are calculating? And they wonder why bridges, rail, autobahn are not repaired!
I understand that game now: Iran attacks Israel, but Israel confirms that the attack failed as there is no real damage.
Then, as a revanche to this failed and harmless attack, Israel attacks Iran, and Iran confirms that this attack failed as there is no real damage.
But Iran will make a counter attack even though the attack failed, and Israel will respond with the next counterattack.
After ten rounds, we even don’t note this any more.
Yesterday, I thought that Israel would wait for Passover and make a huge decapitation strike then.
Today I learned that I was wrong.
Is there any way not to expect apocalypse every day?
Is there anything else that I can do to stop these fellows on my planet? Are they aware that it is our planet too?
And I said then Israel is as smart as D.C, the Pentagon, Mike Johnson, King Joe, and their Zionist-in-Chief King Charles III . what could possibly go wrong?
I have learnt to loose and still keep on trying the game, don’t worry.
But what strikes me is that continuous apocalyptic feeling and the helplessness that the vast majority of people have to endure.
I am fed up with politicians that send people to war. Let see, as an optimist, I believe that I will find a way to stop this nuclear war game….
Sympathize.
To sidestep all the baiting issues I keep an eye on physical economics. Which is why I post so many maps.
Like Kepler – there were 4 competing “models”, baiting issues, he added 1 for fun, so none could be true. So he discovered physical gravitation outside all the circles and nice maths (well before Newton who tried to turn that back to maths)
Everyone sees NATO floundering thinking “finance sanctions” would put Russia in tatters, the Ruble into Rubble. NATOcons, NATOlibs have lost all contact with physical economics. Russia and China not.
CNN “bullshit nozzles” as JL Egan says are bad enough.
Kit Klarenberg says “mephitic myth”.
I had to look that up – Mefitis was a minor goddess of the poisonous gases emitted from the ground in swamps and volcanic vapors.
In other words a stinking, reeking, poisonous gas from the Swamp. Are P2 Masks any good?
“Russia has conveyed to Israel through diplomatic channels that Iran does not want escalation, Lavrov said in an interview with Sputnik, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Govorit Moskva.”
“Russia hopes that Israel reacted to Tehran’s attack in this way to show that it does not want further escalation with Iran — Lavrov ”
From telegram channel @SputnikInt reporting on live broadcast of Lavrov’s interview
Somehow Russia and china play in all this and have significant influence on Iran’s response. I also suspect that if NATO does something stupid in Ukraine that things will simultaneously come unglued in the ME. China needs oil, and maybe if they get a separate supply (think Russia) they won’t care what happens. Right now Saudi supplies the largest chunk, and in this mess, when the smoke clears, they will likely be a casualty along with Jordan and Israel, as the US gets ground down in Ukraine and has the Chinese to deal with. There’s definitely a bigger game at play, but we won’t know for sure what it is for a while yet. Israel is getting desperate as their economy has shrunk 20% since Gaza, and the Houthis are inhibiting their imports. Foreign investment has dried up as well. Israel is in trouble, and that means they are more apt to do something stupid. Ironic that Israel may be the black swan in its own destruction.
Any pragmatic approach to this looming apocalypses will accelerate it.
Reason must prevail – the planet’s very existence now hangs by a thread to something one cannot see, kick, nor smell – Creative Reason.
Pragmatism, the Sleep of Reason , breeds Monsters. It had to be this way, Merkel’s muddling through in small steps, durchwursteln, and US pragmatic baloney have led to this.
Anyone can watch the horses at the Zero Ranch , no need to buy the Farm!
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/futures-tumble-oil-and-gold-soar-reports-huge-explosions-central-iran-israeli-airstrikes
Various aggregated news.
Israel’s attack: what is the superlative of ‘idiotic’? They had the chance to celebrate ‘victory’ and keep it that way.
Seems oddly weak-ass for an Israeli counter. Tastes almost like an MI6 White Helmets media event. Also note coordinated news releases. Who would benefit from a “let’s you and him fight”?
Israel is by design weak, surrounded by hostile peoples, at the edge of Eurasia. Iran is central to the INSTC Corridor, and joining the EAEU right now. Israel, and Taiwan, are there to constantly destabilize this :
Someone makes a Christian comment and the topical discussion is hijacked. An annoyance for the Agnostic.
Indeed…
As Larry said below – leave the bait at home.
Even wild-eyed Zionists realize the strategic weakness of Israel, by design. PM Sunak told Gantz that Israel will never be a normal country.
There is no mention of Electric Power in the Old Testaments and as in UKraine generators and nodes are not defended. Electric War is the way today.
The last blackout for Israel was lifted by God’s Temple Miracle 2,188 years ago.
And it was a nothingburger. Israel launched a performance based nothing attack. Why? Let me tell a story.
When this hit last night, I was on WhatsApp with a very good friend in Mexico. We have shot international pistol matches together, travelled together, had one business together.
He is a Mexican but also has Swiss citizenship. And an excellent apartment in Paris that he lets me use. Not that I go to that Somali shantytown anymore.
He was convinced that it was time for the West to erase Iran. I was trying to explain to him that foregoing the why? The West was incapable of it. The US does not have the military we had during the Desert Storm days. The EU/NATO never had anything but sham militaries.
He was unconvinced. Positive that Israel and the US could wipe Iran. I told him Russia and China would not allow it. He said they could not project power there. I said, if the US gets bogged down in the Middle East? China takes Taiwan. And Russia takes off the gloves in Ukraine. We can’t fight a one theater war, much less a 3-theater war.
At the end, we rang off happy with each other of course. He is a dear friend. But he is absolutely brainwashed about the US military. And is convinced that the Russian army will collapse next week.
Propaganda. It works.
Per Southfront, Israel fired a secret, 2-stage missile at Isfahan. Likely air
launched. 1st stage booster was what was found in Iraq. The missile wasn’t intended to hit anything; just warn Iran. Also provided info to Iran about Israeli capabilities.
https://southfront.press/israel-used-secret-missiles-in-attack-on-irans-isfahan-air-base-photos/
PressTV: Situation normal after air defenses fire at ‘suspicious objects’ in Iran
Situation normal, nothing to see here. It’s just a few Israeli quadcopters buzzing around Iran’s nuclear facility at Isfahan as well as Tabriz. Explosions were from Iranian SAMs taking out a few quadcopters.
Nonetheless, Iran has said they will reconsider their stance on nuclear weapons especially if a nuclear facility is attacked by Israel. Maybe an Israeli quadcopter attack that resulted in no damage is sufficient cause?
I’d like to think that when Chuck Schumer said that Netanyahu “had lost his way”, it was because the US “ruling class” (shouldn’t be our ruling class”) had decided to distance itself from Israel.
Sort of a “look what that (patsy) Netanyahu did!”
Somehow I’d think so. Russia did say they would not stand by.
When Schumer spoke, I am sure Christian Zionists, Zionists and Jews world wide heard the words in Rembrandt’s Belshazzar’s Feast. The Artist wrote Hebrew vertically so the gold-clutching King and his harlots had to call in David!
Defying that is a loosing proposition :
Many, many ticked-off un-persons.
Why the BS, Larry ?
Dimona is a small town in the middle of the desert. Population under 34,000. The only reason one could think the Iranians would target Dimona, is because that is where Israel’s nuclear facility is situated – out in the desert where it is far from population centers.. So – is there ANY reason to target Dimona EXCEPT for the fact that that is where Israel’s nuclear facility is ? DUH !?!?!?1.
In addition: does ANYONE think ANY air defense system is 100% effective ? The Iron Dome, touted as a GREAT system, boasts 90% effectiveness. Any defense strategy based on the idea that ALL incoming missiles or drones can be taken out, is truly ridiculous. Do you really think the Israeli cabinet does mot understand this ? That is why DETERRENCE is the name of the game – both sides need to know that although they can be hit, the other side will be hit too. Do you base your analyses on the understanding that many people who read your words are ignorant of the real truth ?
https://sonar21.com/shift-in-israels-narrative-on-irans-14-april-missile-attack-signaled-israels-attempt-to-strike-iranian-nuclear-facility/#comment-242504
It looks like Iran is not counter-attacking because, apparently perhaps, there was no “attack” by Israel. Guessing it was simply a “demonstration of capabilities”, i.e. perhaps a test missile without a warhead. This would send a message to smart Iranian generals, while satisfying Israel’s honor. Both parties involved seem to have stfup. (leaving only America and UK to run their mouths.) Israel doesn’t have to get the crap beat out of it, and Iran also dodges being pummeled. Wins all around, and a surprisingly wise solution to a very difficult situation.
we now take you back to our regularly scheduled pogrom.
OT – Texas Bentley was killed in Donbass this week.
A great loss. He should be mourned.
And I’m sorry. He was just a correspondent and worked from the Russian side.
This says more about you, than him…
Damn…
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240419/sputnik-donbass-correspondent-russel-bentley-dies-in-donetsk-1117914011.html
Oh no. RIP…
Gee, wonder what’s happening in Ukraine… haven’t the Russians run out of missiles already and aren’t the Ukrainians about ready to begin their invasion of Russia?
Guess the corporate media knows a Ukrainian victory is just another $60 billion appropriation away. After all, pious House Speaker Johnson is calling Russia, Iran and China The Axis of Evil, and he ought know what evil looks like…
If American jewry (‘AIPAC’) chooses to identify itself as ‘Israelis,’ then its bloody-handed immorality and godawful devotion is its heritage and eternal damnation.
If not, their only other option is to establish they are ‘American’ jewry, sui generis, whereas ‘Israeli’ jewry is not Jews, but rather zionists.
It is AIPAC’s obligation to inform the difference.
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Biden lost at least one favorable vote when, as happened, he did say, “I am a zionist.”
Stop. Enough said. Quite clear.
That single-issue voter now listens only for ‘wacky’ fellow traveler RFK, jr.
Or nothing.
As to the topic, I thought — decades late and billion$ … uh, tens of billion$ over budget — F-35’s (models a thru f) still couldn’t fly. Couldn’t fly straight. Were not air-worthy.
Israel’s nuclear bombs is another figment. More folklore image than substance. What-cha call ‘all hat and no cattle.’ And if they had nukes they would know better than fly them around and flash them.
Yet ’tis a ‘Telephone’ tale of mystery and intrigue.
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Notarized anecdote:
My MIT Professor of Quantum Physics was maybe the most intelligent person I ever met. (The others were no slouches, though.)
A. (let’s call him), was often absent without explanation, leaving a post-doc or some such, to substitute lecture us. ( And they were each brilliant, too. Just not as dazzling.)
In the last session A. showed up and apologized for his trancies. He said he was called to the Pentagon to help engineer Reagan’s (read: Hollywood’s) ‘Star Wars’ dream of a ‘ray’ gun which could shoot incoming missiles out of the air. With a laser beam or EMPulse or somehow– ‘please build it for them.’
Well, which prompted time to explain and calculate Schroedinger’s Wave Equation (which, at heart, proves it impossible to measure a time particle’s (unit’s) position and momentum at the same time — it’s both there and not-there simultaneously [‘cat in box’] — the act of detecting one (position or momentum) destroys the other. They can’t both be known at the same time. Is light a (photon) particle or a wave? Uh, …both; or neither. (Either/or) But now, what was question?)
In all of that the important word is ‘Time.’ Differentiating its units. What the hell is a ‘unit’ of Time? …just a moment.
We/I tried to imagine a billionth of a billlionth of a second of Time.
But it is briefer than that.
Briefer than human thought operates.
In recent years Scientific American published someone’s hypothesis that it is a “zepto-femto-second.” I figure that means it is about 21 places to the right of the decimal point, or 10^-21.
We/he cranked out the equations for the necessary of such a ‘ray’ gun.
My head swam but I sunk. Somewhere beyond the Wave Equation’s 4th differentials, which go on to infinity of course.
Yet in result A. calculated the ‘ray’ energy would need to be about 6 or 7 GEv, or TEv, I don’t remember which. Heck that’s only 3 orders of magnitude.
And A. said that’s about the energy of a lighting bolt. Or bolts. And it equals Hoover dam energy production for days or years (I don’t remember) or many Hoover dams at one Time. Per shot.
The math kicker: if one had that much energy in Ev’s, then a ‘ray’ could be aimed with the accuracy of a lightning bolt. Meaning no aim.
If one wants to accurately aim at an incoming missile, then the ‘ray’ must have much less energy. Meaning ineffective — can’t shoot down anything.
Finally, A. said he tried to convey that, (choose one: Power or Control), ( momentum or position), impossible to have both simultaneously. However, the Pentagon wanted BOTH and went on spending years and billion$ …uh, tens of billion$ for their quixotic ‘Star Wars’ quest. In the end Reagan died and the dream endured only in Hollywood.
This above I wrote for the ‘Israeli F-35 with nuke’ thread. I didn’t finish until after Comments Closed.
Yet I kinda liked it if I say so myself, especially the MIT moments I’ve never shared. Maybe writing is cathartic.
There it is.
On topic: Escobar is a world wonder. I’ve admired his articles for many years; (has taught me a lot).
Of a kin with Dimitry Orlov, in some respects.
the emp doens’t makes much sense, but there’s photo evidence of israeli aircraft hitting ishafan nuclear plant, probably a radar of an ad complex. and usually ad complex are striken to disallow them to defend the area from other attacks. who knows it was a nuclaear one, but it seems it was a successful israeli attempt to attack an iranian nuclear facility. if it went so well there will be an high probably of another attack to ishafan. if escobar was even falry right there will be no further attacks.