It’s hot outside here in the Ozarks! September the 15th and we’re staring down the barrel of a 100 degree Fahrenheit afternoon. It hasn’t rained but twice in at least two months, once we got .06″ and the other time it was .01″, so things are terribly dry and the danger of wildfire has increased tremendously. I found myself wondering where God is in all of this, especially as I’ve been praying a lot for rain lately.

My thoughts go to the time when the Apostle Paul prayed for God to fix a problem he was suffering with and instead of answering Paul’s prayer to alleviate his suffering, God told him that His grace was sufficient for Paul. He would have to deal with whatever problem he was facing, but God’s grace abounded in his life to the extent that the problem was relegated to something Paul could manage with. There are times when we look at a problem we have and are sure of what the solution should be, but in almost every case, God has His own solution in mind, and more often than not, it won’t be the remedy we requested.

I’m an old man now and I can’t think of a time in my life when there were so many things going awry with our world, awful things we see happening and we’re often sure that if only God would do this or that, many or all of those issues could be solved. If God would strike this person or that one with death or serious illness, the issues he or she has created would somehow disappear, but they seem to carry on even though we’d think normal people would be disabled or worse. The fact is that God will deal with those people in His own time and in His own way. God already knew the solution to every problem before it arose to our attention, He also knew what we would think to be the correct way to deal with it, but God has His own ways – thank God!

We are currently at war with a country that has not attacked another nation in our lifetimes. This country, Iran, was at war with Iraq some years ago, but it was a war fomented by the United States. Our government armed both sides in that conflict in which several hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered. It boggles the mind to consider how evil the government of the US has been over the years. Even though Iran called the US “The Great Satan” for a long time, they never offered to attack us, and our whole nation should be ashamed of our government attacking them. Early in the conflict a girl’s school at a place called Minab was hit with a Tomahawk missile and scores of young girls were killed. Centcom, led by one of the most heinous liars in the world today, one Bradley Cooper, claimed it was a targeting error, but when an organization like Centcom which has turned it’s moral compass over to Satan, these kinds of “accidents” become commonplace. It was no accident, it was an act of fealty to Cooper’s overlords, Hegseth, Trump, and Satan in that order.

Hegseth and Trump are the same murderers who have been wantonly slaughtering Venezuelan men in boats off the coast of Venezuela. These murders are crimes, pure and simple – it does not matter what they say to try and justify them. If given the opportunity, every murderer who has ever murdered anybody would attempt to justify their acts, even Ted Bundy, it’s just that in most cases, murderers are subject to some form of law and do not have the luxury of a thoroughly corrupted legal system to hide behind. No law enforcement here on earth is of a powerful enough latitude to hold Trump and Hegseth to account, but that will not always be the case – you can trust that. For now, the whole nation of the US, and the rest of the world can see and understand this criminal behavior for what it is, and a time will come when they will be held accountable to the highest judicial Entity and the very one that no one wants to stand before – especially with blood on their hands. Especially with the blood of innocent schoolgirls on their hands. For all these cretins know, those guys on the Venezuela boats could be fishermen, and with no evidence to the contrary, they might as well have been and legally must be considered so. They were murdered. If there is a saving grace of any iteration to the Venezuelan murders, it’s that the honorable Admiral Holsey resigned his post of leader of Southern Command rather than commit murder on the high seas. Kudos to him and God bless him for understanding that no amount of attaboys from a crooked, evil creature would ever be worth having to live out his life as a war criminal and murderer.

There are a lot of malevolent undertakings in the US government right now, and I just would like to go on record as saying that for what it’s worth, there’s an old hillbilly in the Ozarks of southern Missouri who does not agree with: a) picking a fight, and starting a trade war with our much-beloved northern neighbor, Canada, a nation that has never given the US anything but support and whose friendship most of us value highly. b) Someone, a someone who has never served in the armed forces, a someone who is the least possible deserving of having his horrid name inscribed beside that of our former assassinated president John Kennedy, who was a beloved war hero. c) Instigating and pursuing an illegal war against Iran – a nation that has never threatened any other nation, especially any nation in our hemisphere. d) Having a purported president who cannot find the capacity within his evil constitution to speak the truth about anything. e) the efforts being undertaken as I write this article to undermine our democracy by attempting to interfere with the voting process. It is perfectly obvious that if the vote overturns the majorities in Congress, someone will be subjected to accountability for his high crimes and misdemeanors. This noisome creature is a liar by his very nature and cannot discern even a grain of truth from whatever surreality might exist in his decrepit imagination. As I’ve written elsewhere, every word that comes from this creature’s mouth is either a lie or a statement predicated on an earlier lie.

I’m assuming I’m only one of millions of Americans who hold these positions and since there are readers of this website in many other countries of the world, it behooves me to make sure foreign readers are aware this creature with his finger on the button does not represent any more than around a strongly deluded thirty percent of Americans, and most of their brains are pickled by cable news and they have no idea what’s going on outside whatever county they live in. Everything this man has ever touched, contacted or associated with in any way, has become putrid, bankrupted, or destroyed simply by having been associated with him. It behooves me to go on record for the Almighty to see at least one simple person who is unwilling to allow the reputation of the whole nation to be besmirched by loathsome, evil entities who only occupy their positions for the wealth they are able to steal for their own coffers. If we are to secure the blessings of Providence, we must declare our opposition to the “leadership” we find ourselves facing.

Congress has the tool kit necessary to rid the nation of this evil, horrid entity in the White House that is in the process of destroying everything in our country – including the White House itself! Call, text, and write Senators and Congress critters. Rep Greene has impeachment papers drawn up right now. This might be the avenue God has put before us to correct this abrogation of responsible leadership. Meanwhile, we must get ourselves realigned with our merciful God in order to get our country moving in the right direction again. Without His guidance, all efforts to right our ship will be in vain. Trust in Jesus Christ and pray for His blessings on our land.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

It’s a quiet, rainy morning outside in the Ozark woods. The kind of serenity that makes for nostalgic reflection. Unusually peaceful without even the whine of a chainsaw that drones when people like me are taking advantage of the coolness to begin the arduous work of cutting and splitting firewood for what bodes to be a long and cold winter. I say bodes because just like every year, folks are talking about things shaping up to be a really bad winter, sometimes they hit it and we get a really cold winter, but there are the other times when it doesn’t pan out to be all that bad.

The nostalgia part of my mood this morning is of course, that today is September 11, exactly 25 years since the events in Manhattan and the Pentagon and the plane crash in Pennsylvania – what a tragic series of events! Since that awful day, lots of people have suspected there was more to the story than we’ve been told, and like the Kennedy assassination, we won’t find out for sure until all the suspected actors are dead and gone. Others believe the official narrative about some terrorists with utility knives having pulled off the deed. I’m on the side of the folks who think something underhanded happened involving people in the US government and likely some from an unnamed foreign country.

Last night I was speaking on the phone with one of my readers who calls me from time to time and we got into a discussion about 9/11 and he’s of the same mind I am about it being an inside job, or at least a malevolent performance by the CIA and Mossad. Without concrete proof, it’s hard to convince most folks that it was a dirty deed by spooks, but if one chooses to look at the available evidence and listen to the accidental giveaways by some prominent people, such as Larry Silverstein’s famous “we’re going to pull it” statement about a building (building 7) that could not possibly have come down (or gotten “pulled”) the way it did without having been pre detonated, and he said it before it came down, it would be hard not to believe it was pre-ordained by some powerful people.

I didn’t set out to do this post to try and convince anyone about the true events of that day 25 years ago, but simply to remember with solemn reverence and genuflect on the losses of all the lives. To experience once again the emptiness one experiences at the sudden departure of so many souls from our world. The folks who were killed in that tragedy were normal citizens going about their daily business, never for a moment aware of what they were about to experience. Well, the ones who were killed didn’t know beforehand, but there is ample evidence that some people knew. The ones who ate breakfast every morning in one of the towers – every morning that is except the morning of 9/11. There are so many stories about foreknowledge of the events of 9/11 that becomes redundant to mention all of them, but they all seem to rotate around a certain group of people – including the ones who made substantial money from the tragedy. And then there are the ones who no longer needed to account for large sums of money that had come up missing, but here I go again.

The light rain we are getting this morning is only the second few drops we’ve had in a month or more and it’s been extremely hot and dry! It’s just not supposed to be that hot here in the Ozarks. The little wild birds are singing and fluttering around in the mist, and you can tell they’re enjoying the break in the heat. Sometimes I wonder if people like Donald Trump have ever taken the opportunity to go for a walk in the woods and listen to the birds and watch squirrels and such. Something tells me he doesn’t have any idea that world even exists. He grew up as a spoiled rich brat born with a silver spoon in his mouth and never watched deer grazing next to the woods as daylight broke with thrushes grumbling. He missed a lot and he doesn’t even know it. He’s never knelt by a stream and thanked God for all of the beauty and solitude he beheld. He has truly missed the real world, the one we were put here to enjoy.

Rich men know nothing of decent stewardship of the earth and responsible behavior towards our fellow creatures. The buildings that were wantonly destroyed on 9/11 sent tons of airborne asbestos into the air around New York and people are dying to this day from lung diseases caused by breathing the dust. The men who perpetrated the tragedy don’t care about trivial things like thousands of innocent people being killed or the great swathes of people in Manhattan being exposed to deadly carcinogens – things that do not make for profit. None of them have ever allowed their consciences to become exposed to anything that doesn’t affect their bank accounts, especially natural things that God put here for the enjoyment of normal, decent people.

I hope readers get a chance to see this post while it’s still 9/11. Maybe reading it on the anniversary will give it more impact to initiate genuine reflection. Take a moment to thank God for His presence in the lives of those who survived and in the hearts of those who lost loved ones as they lived through their grief. It was truly a horrible day in New York, DC, and Shanksville, PA. Those who perpetrated the act will surely answer to the Highest Authority before all is said and done.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

It seems like more and more people are posting and making videos or whatever these days about all of the bad things happening in the world, and yes, I’m guilty too – I believe folks should be informed about the imminent threats we face as humans on this failing planet in order not to be shocked when it all happens. There is a difference in our messaging though, and I want to make sure my readers are aware of it. The difference of which I write is that although a lot of bad things are coming upon us, we need not allow them to cause us fear and trepidation. We have been warned from time immemorial that this life, this phase of existence on the earth, would come to a screeching halt. Either at the end of our natural lives as people have experienced through the ages, or at the end of the world when God has had enough of people’s bad behavior, but if we are right with Him and stand with Jesus Christ through these times, we have absolutely nothing to fear.

I’m 73 years old now, and as far as life expectancy for men, I’m about to go onto borrowed time. All my life, there have been images of some bent, decrepit old geezer in a hoodie cloak with a big sickle waiting in the dark for us to cash it all in. The only thing wrong with that picture is that God reveals to us who are of faith that picture is not at all what awaits us. The end of this existence, I’m convinced, will be like stepping through a door and when we see the other side, things are going to be so magnificent we cannot begin to imagine the joy we will experience. Joy at being in the presence of Jesus! His astounding glory will be the greatest sensation we could have ever dreamed to experience. I believe His love will be so real that we will actually be able to feel it emanating from His presence through our whole being – a new and improved being – a new body with which He will clothe us as we meet Him. The sickle-bearing reaper (or some equally fearsome entity) may well await nonbelievers but not Jesus’ beloved.

Those of us with our ears to the ground know of impending disasters such as the water crises out west, even in Texas there are shortages, we hear of ongoing wars and threats of more wars. Kinetic war has not made it to the US yet, but I’m pretty sure that’s in the offing. Problem is, when war gets to us here in the land of the free, it’s likely to be in the form of nuclear missiles or some other such contrivances of destruction, and for the first – and likely the last – time American citizens will finally get to experience the effects of war in our country. I believe it’s just a matter of time, but instead of allowing our determination to flag, we need to reach down and find the strength for that final burst of energy we need to win this race!

Even if the war is delayed, we have other extant issues that will be a strain on us and on our nation. The prices of everything we consume are going through the roof. We are under the growing threat of tyranny by totally insane leaders who seem bent on the absolute destruction of our way of life. The gloomy prospect of our becoming under the total control of that damnable artificial “intelligence” is upon us. I think that’s one of the main things that’s going to bring about the end of our world as more and more biological hybridization threatens to take place and as so many people become accustomed to serving demonic entities that reside in evil data centers. I think it’s quite revealing as to the limits of the power of evil – the evil ones have to store digital data in huge banks of servers (to keep a tab on our tendencies not to obey the system), but our God doesn’t need such excessive intrusion into our lives because He knows at any second of any minute exactly what has happened – to or by – each of us and He doesn’t need stupid artificial means to keep up with our behaviors – maybe that’s because He forgives us of so much of them. That’s the difference between an omniscient God and the evil Satan and his minions who need to mechanically store records of things that happen. Neither does God’s way of keeping up with things require water nor electricity.

Not long ago I was watching a video in which the (AI) narrator was explaining the geological progression of Campi Flegri and the giant magma chamber under it and I noticed that out of nowhere came a long demonic laugh when the narration was explaining the threat of catastrophe if the volcano erupted. This happened several times and I actually took out my phone and rewound the video and captured the episodes of hideous laughter that wasn’t associated in any way with the subject matter of the video. That was some months back, then yesterday I watched a video which addressed a phenomenon they’re calling AI hallucinations. I don’t know if the reader is familiar with this aspect of AI, but the video went on to explain how right out of the clear blue, AI presentations will “glitch” and these unexplained and unsolicited noises will be part of the soundtrack of the narration and this is exactly what had happened in the Campi Flegri video. She gave other examples of unexplained noises, voices, or outlandish statements from the AI “interviewee” with several iterations of them speaking of being in hell or in torment and other things you might expect to hear from demons. You are free to believe what you will, but I’m convinced that all this AI garbage is demonic and those noises are just manifestations of the evil entities residing in servers, data centers, and (especially quantum) computers. I believe data centers are being built by wealthy individuals who have already sold their souls and have been given the financial wherewithal to build them as part of their deal with Satan and that they are actually temples where demons dwell and that explains the demonic “hallucinations” which are in reality revelations coming from AI sources. I also believe that a time will come when everyone will be required at the threat of death to go to data centers and forced to worship and sacrifice their water and who knows what else to the demons – data centers are temples to demons! CERN is another, very expensive foray into the world of the darkness of Satan, and I think deep down everybody is aware of that. God particle indeed!

Mass numbers of populations in all countries are and have for a while now been enslaved to the content on their cell phones. If you have doubts of this, just walk down any street of any city and see all the faces glued to those phones! That’s slavery and addiction of the most egregious sort. People have no choice but to obey. Evil entities have huge numbers of people under their control – everyone knows they are being controlled, although I don’t think they all know by what! If you should doubt this slavery, just ask them to put their phones down! Tens of thousands of people are killed on our highways every year now because more and more drivers can’t take a break from this addiction long enough even to drive somewhere! You see people every day in supermarkets who aren’t even aware of their surroundings because they’re too busy on their phone, either talking or texting – with other shoppers all around trying to dodge them. I grew up in a world that didn’t have cell phones, and we were able to cope with life just fine. We could – and should – do it again. Or we can just stay enslaved.

Here in the Ozarks, we’re not far from autumn, a blessed time of the year when God illuminates our world here with incredibly beautiful colors and if you’re a longtime reader here, you probably know I grow clumsy fingers of prose to try and describe the beauty and praise of God in different words than what we are used to, but as pitiful as my attempts to describe it are, they just sort of come over me. I hope to get something out soon but have to wait for the weather to start changing to get in the proper mood, and no, there is no AI in my presentations. Autumn is upon this old geezer in more ways than the time of year too, and I know the mood and colors are going to be fantastic in all the changes I look forward to, and some more than others. Before I get out of here though, I need to get words of encouragement to all my friends and fellow travelers, to make it loud and clear that we have nothing but joy and peace to look forward to and don’t let all the technology doom and gloom get under your skin – this part will be over in but a moment and after this our real life is about to begin – the one we place all of our hopes in as we stand in unshakeable faith in our Lord Jesus Christ! If you lack faith or when your faith wanes, remember you can always pray for more!

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

I’m no Democrat. In fact, the saddest part about getting rid of Trump – if that should happen – is that some Democratic politician will undoubtedly replace him. The other side of the same coin. Do not mistake the arguments being put forth in his article as coming from some leftist Democrat as this writer loathes both parties equally. There are more and more folks who are tired of both parties, which by rights we shouldn’t have anyway. The greatest president this nation ever had told us not to form political parties in our government in his famous farewell address and went to the trouble of describing the calamities which would result from partisan divisions in the country, among which: (political parties) become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. Sound familiar?

One of the most prescient warnings is this next paragraph. It must be studied in its entirety to grasp just how emphatically George Washington was trying to make us understand the dangers of institutional factions (parties): The alternate domination of one faction (party) over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

We’ve seen every possible iteration of the exact happenings come to pass, there was a case where one party wouldn’t allow a sitting president to appoint a Supreme court justice because in his opinion, it was too close to the end of the president’s term – which still had eight months to go. What???!!! There’s absolutely no Constitutional authority for that! But Mitch McConnell got away with it so the next President (Trump) could appoint a Republican approved justice. This kind of thing is exactly what President Washington was warning of.

How about this jewel? It (partisanship) opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another. .  Recognize anything in that one? or how about this? Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

This is too real, folks: Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.

The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. 

I don’t know about anyone else, but I really think we should have given this document at least the same consideration as the Constitution. There’s a lot more in it than what I’ve put into this article, and I would strongly advise every American to read it and so understand what we have done wrong. If we’d obeyed his admonitions, especially about political parties and foreign entanglements (such as merging our military with another country’s). If we’d have listened to President Washington, we wouldn’t be ruled by Israel today because that was exactly what he warned us against.

If Americans are to regain control of our nation, we must resort to the admonitions of the founding fathers and use their wisdom as a guideline to return to our free form of government where citizens rule and government only facilitates the will of the people.

The most critical action we can take is to return to God for His blessings for any endeavor to reacquire our lost freedoms – you can trust that nothing good will come of any effort otherwise. Jesus Christ kept this country on its feet for a couple of hundred years, and we made a lot of mistakes, especially when it comes to Native Peoples, but when we walked away from Him and adopted this lawless, immoral society, things started going south. We are at a critical inflection point today and the actions we take (or don’t take) must be predicated on our desire to live Godly lives or we are going to sink. You think things are bad now? Just keep giving the servants of Satan more and more control – surrender more of our rights to an evil authoritarian regime that operates under the control of the evilest country ever to exist, and yes, it will get worse.

As an American, I’m ashamed to even be writing about this travesty of a human being occupying the same office as one so honorable as George Washington. Can you even begin to imagine what President Washington’s reaction would be to hearing this vulgar, trashy maggot dropping an f bomb in public in front of women – and children? How far we have fallen!

I strongly suggest a reading of George Washington’s farewell address to be able to discern what we’ve done wrong, but I even more strongly suggest a reading of the Bible, the very Word of God – to find how we can get things right. We desperately need to resuscitate the Congressional Republicans from their Trump-induced stupor and get rid of this abomination – and soon, before he completely destroys the nation like he’s already done to the White House. He’s not gonna stop on his own.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

I’d wager that Johann Strauss would be turning in his grave if he could see his beautiful Blue Danube right now. How about the mighty Colorado, which has spent the last several million years carving out the magnificent canyons of the Southwest, and is faring no better? As the Colorado morphs into silent steam and disappears into the arid desert sky, Lake Mead which gets its water from the Colorado, is almost down to the point where it won’t be able to supply electricity, but not far down the road will be deadpool where no more water will pass through Hoover Dam. 40 million people in the desert Southwest depend on Lake Mead for all their water needs.

The thing I don’t understand is that folks are just standing by and watching all the demonic data centers being built at an astonishing pace and they consume vast amounts of our precious dwindling resource, water. Do we just stand and watch as the last of our fresh water is being stolen? I’ve mentioned on other posts that I believe data centers are actually temples to false gods that the wealthy guys are building in repayment to Satan for their wealth. It was part of the deal they made when they sold their souls. But John Q. Public didn’t sign the deal and it’s his kids’ water that is being stolen. Does he speak up or does he just do nothing as the rich thieves use their ill-gotten wealth to forcibly take his family’s future? Paying off local politicians to apply eminent domain to steal citizens’ property for power lines and site locations?

Not one person has been able to make a cogent argument that there’s any benefit to the public at large from AI data centers. They’re not really even trying. I just turned 73 years old and I’ve had opportunity to see how diligent and even desperate public relations narratives are crafted, especially by the authorities. I’ve seen how much work they put into building a false narrative such as the events of 9/11 or the downing of TWA flight 800, both of which are blatantly false, but they nevertheless TPTB put out volumes of false information to sell their propaganda. This isn’t happening with data centers. The wealthy who ever engage in duplicity and falsehood have seen just how easy it is to sell fake stories, and they are growing sloppy in developing their narratives – like the Charlie Kirk killing and the Butler, Pennsylvania false-flag atrocity that likely got this abomination of a president elected. In the case of the data centers, in which it looks more and more like they really need to come up with a narrative that elucidates some public need for them, they’re not even trying. They just mumble incoherent things about jobs – which only last through construction – taxes – for which traitors like Greg Abbott of Texas remove the tax requirements – but never even try to make a reasonable-sounding argument for why the public needs these travesties.

If we just take a moment to stop and consider the true costs of these horrendous temples to Satan and then compare that cost to whatever benefit might be implied for having them, I’m pretty sure that any thoughtful American would insist on having them dismantled. Having a new research and surveillance tool for fat deputies who will have more time to siphon down donuts by not having to actually solve crimes – with AI doing the heavy lifting just doesn’t seem to me to be a reasonable justification for this comprehensive threat to our Constitution – especially the fourth amendment. It is however, enough justification to bring law enforcement onto the side of the demon-possessed rich guys who are paying fealty to those demons and law enforcement’s just what they need to keep the citizenry at bay – for now. Our governments, local, state, and federal are abandoning our constitution and Godly principles at an astonishing rate! Instead of using highly trained and heavily equipped SWAT teams to address public disturbances, they’ll be sending battalions of militarized cops to chase down someone for wrecking a flock camera or posting something unfavorable to Israel on social media. That’s where we are, folks, and it’s gonna get a lot worse. A time will come – and is closer than you might think – when patriotic Americans will face the harshest of persecution for damaging or destroying a data center, but I can think of no greater act of patriotism that could be committed by a citizen concerned with an impending water crisis upon his countrymen. We need to start posting the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights on every street corner – especially this part “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Whatever the argument for data centers, it does not, nor can it, comport with the provisions in this document, and it is becoming more and more incumbent on the citizenry to comply with its remedy..

It’s rapidly coming down to a situation in which the rich (and thereby Satan) will have absolute control of the whole population, and this doesn’t just apply to America – it’s taking the whole world by storm. We are at an inflection point now in which we can choose to try and whistle past the cemetery and hope this ship will right itself without our having to get involved, or we can stand as men against something horrifically evil coming upon our nation(s). Peter Thiel is hoping you will continue to do the former – at least until he and his ilk gain the total control they desire. That is exactly what will end up costing you everything you ever hoped for – for your and your family’s future – assuming this world lasts long enough for anyone to make a difference.

The water shortages, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, wars, and other tribulations will only grow worse with time in a population of people who have collectively turned their backs on God. Too many of our fellow travelers have already opted to sit quietly or even support the travesties, genocides, sins, and immorality taking place. The other option could save us – putting our trust in Jesus Christ would be the most providential wisdom for our woes, but the further down this dark passage we go, the deeper entrenched the forces of evil become in our societies. Christ has become to many to be some religious notion for which they just don’t have time, don’t believe and ironically, He’s the only solution to our problems. We have to take time for Jesus Christ. When we choose to do otherwise, we seal our own fate – that of tribulation in our lives in this world but for the one who rejects Christ, life (if that’s what you call it) in the next world will be abysmal, indeed. But it’s your choice, He’s waiting – not sure for how much longer, but you have the opportunity to get to know Him if you do it now. Spoiler – it’s worth the effort to feel His blessing in your heart – even in this life!

Meanwhile the AI data centers continue to be installed apace. Just remember what an old half-educated hillbilly tried to share as best he could – that these data centers are not at all what they’re being sold as. They are some of the evilest projects on which mankind has ever embarked. We must do whatever is necessary to shut them down – God will be on our side as long as care is taken not to hurt another human. It’s time to take a stand. At the very least we must pray for God’s intervention.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father fins and keep us.

MK

For then there will be a time of great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. [Matthew 24: 21]

The world is barreling headlong into some horrible times and people who can anticipate them and see this tribulation bearing down on us are mostly continuing to ignore it. When Jesus Christ Himself says something this significant, everyone should open their eyes and prepare themselves as best they can. The biggest part of that preparation must be to answer the call Jesus makes to every one of us to dedicate their lives to Him and follow His guidance. It’s going to get extremely bad, indescribably bad, for mankind and we need to try and come to terms with it.

Try and imagine, if you can some of the tidings of a great tribulation: some places, probably entire countries will be destitute – lacking the basic necessities for life. Suppose that a nuclear exchange has happened and you are one of the pitiful survivors. Even in the first hours after such a horrific event, you will already envy those who did not survive. Whatever foodstuffs and water that are left will most likely be contaminated with radioactive toxins, but hunger and thirst will eventually drive you to consume whatever you can find – and pay the price. Radiation poisoning will be rampant, the few straggling, injured and burned survivors will all be suffering and violently ill, many to the point where they can’t even get up and walk – resigned to suffer to the horrible end lying on shattered concrete debris beside a puddle of poison black water which will be their end.

There will be no services, no government helicopters swooping in to evacuate the ill and wounded, all avenues of assistance will have been completely destroyed. If there are still places in the country – or the world – that still have any semblance of functioning societies, you can bet they won’t be concerned, they won’t even know of your plight as you lie in agony from the horrific burns all over what was once your functional body. Far away places will never be in contact with your city again. [Revelation 18:2]: “And he (the angel) cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!” Thick, toxic, black smoke will billow from every corner of your destroyed city. You probably won’t even be able to see anything around you except other piteous creatures in conditions similar to your own and such companionship of folks in that condition won’t do anything to encourage or alleviate your suffering.

Left unchecked, all the poisons that have been injected into the atmosphere during the last several years of “climate engineering” might have brought you to a similar situation, but after having breathed such contaminants into your lungs, your body is not able to recover from wounds and sickness as it might have been, so if you are to survive at all, your pathetic condition will linger much longer that it might have otherwise. There will be some few among the ranks of survivors who will be in better condition than you, but most will be in similar trauma, and some worse, but without medical help, none of those will last very much longer.

No birds will be left to fly across the leaden, windless skies, nor to sing their merry songs. The silent darkness of the day will scarcely be bright enough to discern the downtrodden, suffering survivors ambling through the debris-filled streets. They will be going nowhere in particular, like the Hiroshima survivors, there will only be small groups of bedraggled, tortured people, many blind, all burned beyond recognition, leaderless, wandering nowhere. Perhaps they will stop to drink from some dark, poison puddle, no longer caring that the water they consume might be fatal for them. They will be beyond any worry of death by then, in fact they will welcome the comfort of death. Life, as it was known in your city, is over. The following verses describe what is to become of the great city of the modern Babylon, but looks to be a nationwide future, perhaps even for a great nation like the US: [Revelation 18:22-24]: The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters shall not be heard in you anymore. No craftsman of any craft shall be found in you anymore, and the sound of a millstone shall not be heard in you anymore. ²³ The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore. For your merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived. ²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth.” There is no other nation in the world that has committed more evil in the eyes of God than the US, so why wouldn’t this prophecy, or at least something similar, be directed at it?

Mighty men, wealthy men, our leaders who we all trusted to do the right things, were contriving precisely this situation for the people of the world whole they were having lavish underground structures built and furnished with survival necessities where they planned to ride this situation out, presumably to emerge and resume their lives of luxury once the air cleared. None of them trusted the word of God, Whose prophets and Jesus Himself warned of the oncoming tribulation, and the wealthy were certainly not excused! Their plight will be especially painful, for when these days come about, the Almighty will have become fully engaged. It’s not going to be pretty for the rich and the mighty as they scurry like rats to get to their holes: [Revelation 6:16]: “¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, the great men, ^[j]the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, ¹⁶ and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! But the Bible also speaks of a great earthquake, a more powerful one than has ever been: [Revelation 16:18]: “And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth.” Maybe becoming trapped dozens of feet underground in the darkness with no way out will be the special punishment of the wealthy who brought these events upon the world, who knows? I do know that in the event of an earthquake of this magnitude, underground is the last place I’d want to be.

You don’t even have to be a Christian to see all of this coming, and you can believe what you will, but the words at the beginning of this post came from the mouth of the Savior Himself, Jesus Christ in the flesh. These things are what lies in store for disregarding what Jesus said about who He is and it will be painful for those who rejected Him as God’s Son at the final Judgement. Those who claim no religion at all and especially those (who are building demonic data centers) in avowed service to Satan (Molech, Baal, Remphan, etc.) will get the worst of it all. The godless world will indeed drink of the cup of the wrath of God, and it’s not going to go well for them.

Get right with God and commit the time you have left to serve Jesus Christ. Nothing else is worthy of your time now. Jesus is the answer to all of the problems upon us, and the spiritually blind will suffer for rejecting the Son of God because they chose to be blind.

May the blessings of the Almighty find and keep us.

MK

The world is running out of fresh water. We find ourselves rapidly approaching one of – if not the most seminal of situations in which we will finally plumb the depths of the abyss, a measure that, among other things, will demonstrate just how great the influence of vast pecuniary wealth proves to be when the world’s population grows thirsty. How dedicated will the proprietors’ security apparatus engage a public faced with one of – if not the most primal needs of biological existence. Will the billionaire’s whimsical pursuit of data centers or such wasteful consumption of the last fresh water overcome the desiccated hordes who desperately need water to survive? Do we watch our children slowly succumb to the ravages drying up their very metabolism by allowing thoughtless servants of Satan to use their binary (thus imaginary) digital wealth to accumulate what’s left of our planet’s most precious resource for their pet projects?

I’ve written before about the necessity of employing the use of eminent domain to acquire, for the greater good, of course, whatever wealth might be necessary to begin construction of the necessary desalination plants to alleviate our impending water scarcity, and we need politicians with sufficient understanding of this imminent disaster (and willingness to fix it) to start making some decisions that would doubtless offend the bank accounts of wealthy people. Asset seizure of financial assets is not a new idea – the authorities do it all the time and prior to now, it has always been directed at the segment of the population whose standing with the capitalist leadership is less than that of the group this new effort would necessarily affect.

If John Q. Billionaire has assets worth hundreds of billions of dollars, why should the authorities not avail themselves of some of that wealth like, say the working farmer whose property gets confiscated by eminent domain for the construction of a new airport? We need desalination no less than some airport or highway, and we need to get started on it as soon as possible to stave off an environmental catastrophe. One cannot imagine how many new jobs such a massive undertaking would necessitate. And think about the manufacturing, transportation and logistics chains that would be created overnight. What a boon to the economy it would be to all of a sudden have hundreds of thousands of construction and maintenance workers building hundreds of desalination plants up and down the coasts and around the Gulf of Mexico! Yes, The Gulf of MEXICO!

I’m surprised what with all the rivers and aquifers around the world that other countries haven’t already begun massive desalination efforts, and there are gulf monarchies in the middle east that have in fact done so, but those nations are trying to build civilizations in places nature did not intend for people to inhabit; what the US needs is to try and sustain the country already in place. Europe could certainly benefit from desalination with rivers over there going dry for the first time in recorded history. The point is that if the effort was undertaken on the scale that would be required, not only would the thirst of the world – the US in particular – be quenched, but economies of the participating countries would literally explode! Think of the tax revenue that could be created for a nation with a huge national debt – like one in particular that comes to mind.

If the billionaire monsters would actually consider doing something beneficial for mankind instead of serving Satan for a change, the financial requirements for such an undertaking might not require arm-twisting, and they could profit immensely from it by supporting it voluntarily, but their sole raison d’ etre is their dedicated service to Satan who made them wealthy to begin with, so it would undoubtedly take some serious persuasion. When one stops to consider the dishonest means these cretins used to gain their wealth, it doesn’t require much departure from moral norms to consider financial asset seizure for the “greater good”. All of them have stolen their wealth (from the citizenry) using some form of financial chicanery or the other. While we are at it, we should stamp out any further notion of data centers – ever – and raze the ones that have been built to the ground! With proper legislative authority, of course, to make it all legal. Congress could pass environmental legislation to make them illegal, which it should have done already. If mayors, governors, city councils, etc. do any shady deals without participation from the citizenry, they should be held accountable. Pressure, people, pressure! Numbers of people trump numbers of dollars! Although it would be a futile effort due to Satan’s immense control, it’s still part of our test here, to see who will stand up and be counted.

The world’s oceans cover three-fourths of the planet’s surface. There’s enough water in the vast seas to supply the needs of everyone on the planet if humanity should decide to capitalize on their potential. This won’t happen of course, due to political corruption in every corner of the globe. The Bible tells us the earth will burn and if one were to look at current events – wildfires everywhere, volcanoes, extreme droughts, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see it coming like a runaway freight train. Although the option of desalination of ocean water is available, it will not be undertaken, because Satan’s goal while he has some time, is to destroy as much of God’s creation as he can, claim as many souls to take with him to hell in the end and disrupt the lives of people who try to remain servants of Jesus Christ. Satan controls the wealthy and the leaders of this world, and they will do as they are bidden, if only to stay in power for the short time they have left, so where does that leave us who see what’s happening and choose to remain loyal to the Lord?

Although this post is full of doom and gloom, we really need to stop concentrating so much on the things that are happening that threaten our lives, at least in this pathetic iteration of it. This period of our time is only a trial. God seeks those who have the dedication to Him and are willing to continue in His work until the very end. The test will conclude for each of us, be it ending with a natural demise, or a worldwide conflagration, it will end, and then the real life will begin – for those who have remained faithful. An unimaginable eternal existence in a Paradise of joy so profound that as humans we can’t even imagine it. [1 Corinthians 2:9]: “But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” And as for the water shortage, [Isaiah 65:13]: “Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, My servants shall eat, But you shall be hungry; Behold, My servants shall drink, But you shall be thirsty; Behold, My servants shall rejoice, But you shall be ashamed;”

The writing is indeed on the wall; it is also in the prophecy for what must take place before the end of this time of trouble – this walk through the valley of death on which we find ourselves. There will be famine and droughts, there will be a time when the very sun will burn men with a horrible fire. [Revelation 16:8,9]: “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” The world will dry out and burn up, but Jesus Christ offers us a Way to overcome the evils of this world and become prepared for an eternal life in His presence, which will be far greater than anything we could ever even imagine. It’s high time to listen to Him and take Him up on His offer. He’s building our mansions now [John 14:2,3]: “In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”

I can’t speak for anyone else, but that’s where I want to end up!

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

Undoubtedly there are issues being considered that most of us aren’t privy to, but from what we can see, we have to call to question why certain actions haven’t been taken or at least recognize that there have to be good reasons for this hesitation. I’m speaking of some of the weapons systems currently possessed by adversaries and potential adversaries of the US. If we’ve learned anything about new military hardware, we should know by now that: a) countries develop new weapons, both offensive and defensive ones, and while they are new or just now being deployed, they are always shrouded in secrecy. b) When these systems are announced to the public, you can bet they have already been deployed for use. c) Adversaries always strive to – and eventually do – develop systems to counter, or defend against these new weapons as well as to copy the “new” technology to upgrade their own weapons. It is the time prior to this c part that explains the “open window”.

Russia, China, and Iran (and likely others in their orbit) have announced that they have – and have used in conflict for a while now – hypersonic missiles. Several types of these weapons have been produced, and notably some of them have maneuverable warheads that can alter their trajectories and approach paths, making them difficult, if not impossible to intercept with any degree of likelihood. Since the US does not have reliable hypersonic technology at this point in time, nor does it have any means of defense against such weapons, it is logical to say the window is open – for a while. The US can be expected to develop both aspects, hypersonic development of their own and interceptors capable of defending against them. History has taught us that this is bound to happen – it’s just a matter of time. A point to consider when discussing military technology as it applies to us and our “adversaries” is that in the capitalist US, making money on military hardware is the top priority, secondary to whether it works or not, but in Russia and China, the utility of the system comes before profit – maybe that’s why they’re getting ahead of us.

The concern herein is that Russia or China, or both, seeing that successive American government regimes have grown more implacable and unreasonable with each new administration, might just decide to capitalize on their brief window of opportunity and go ahead and use these advanced weapons to extract whatever level of submission from the US that might assure them of eliminating existential threat to themselves. As mentioned earlier, this window will undoubtedly close as US technology catches up, but it’s open for now and from my perspective, they’d be foolish not to act while they have this advantage – they know this.

This supposition takes into consideration the current conflict with Iran, in which Russian and Chinese hypersonic technology has been adequately tested (and demonstrated) to ensure western defensive systems are unable to challenge it. Both countries, along with Iran, have been able to consistently hit targets at various theater ranges with increasing numbers of weapons getting through the available patriot systems, which are actually proving to be a worthless investment especially for our Middle Eastern “allies”.

It seems like Iran and her allies have a discernable edge in drone technology as well, and this is being demonstrated in particular by the Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon. Iran has found that massive swarms of cheap drones are able to overwhelm advanced warships, a fact that has found the US Navy ships operating far from Iranian shores in the Indian Ocean. This advantage creates opportunities for Chinese hypersonic “carrier killers” to approach undetected in a cloud of cheap drones which are occupying US warship’s defensive systems. US adversaries might choose to attack American assets in various corners of the world while this window is open, i.e., before the US develops appreciable defenses against adversaries’ drone technology.

The current administration in the US has shown beyond any semblance of doubt that it cannot be trusted in any “agreement”. The sole ambition of our Zionist-controlled government is total (Zionist) dominance of every corner of the globe using American blood and treasure of course, and they have well-equipped enemies who are onto their scheme. As for the 60 percent or so of American citizens who would like to avoid confrontations with nuclear-powered adversaries, unless we can come together in a big way, we lack standing in our own country to effectively avoid a future conflagration. We are faced with a choice of being controlled by Putin or XI, or Netanyahu. Or if we can get together and act, by American leaders. Considering how Israel treats those whom it dominates, I’d have to vote for either of the former, but in the off-chance that we can regain control of our nation from the Zionist oligarchs, I think most of us would rather be governed by patriotic American leaders, but as the window of which this post addresses looks to be shutting and as the US closes the gap in technology, our adversaries may have other plans, because I don’t think they want to be controlled by Netanyahu either.

Another aspect of this open window idea is that our enemies (the enemies of the American people – not Russia or China) see their own window of opportunity closing and they are going all-out to get the surveillance state under their complete control. Data Canters are being built and put online despite stealing American water and power. The demonic oligarchs who are striving for control are frantic to get these and their ICE army in control of the American public. They are in a big hurry, too. [Revelation 12:12]: “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”

I believe the reason those ICE guys wear masks is that probably the majority of them are IDF and they don’t want patriotic Americans to know that Israel is beginning to treat American citizens like they do the Palestinians. They are pulling out all the stops, taking complete control of America with cameras, highway monitoring, data centers, and all the other accoutrements that inherently come with Zionist domination – if they can get the US under their complete control, they can take the rest of the world – unless Russia and China decide otherwise and take advantage of the open window they have right now. The Israeli Zionists already train almost all American police departments, so it’s pretty easy to ascertain where all the American police brutality comes from. Another open window Americans should close.

Before you get the wrong idea of what this post is about, remember we don’t need to waste what little time we have left hating on Zionist oligarchs or anyone else, for that matter. They work for Satan and are possessed by demons and will all burn in hell – it’s their choice. Patriotic, free Christians do, however, need to start praying fervently for God to give us courage, to take a hand in helping us to get out from under this dark threat by Satan and his synagogue. The window for Russia and China will only be open for a while, and it feels strange to me to be considering to be liberated (or destroyed) by nations who we’ve been deceived into believing were our enemies. Fresh water in the whole world is running on empty. Satan indeed knows he has a short time – such critical things as the country running out of water and Americans awakening and refusing to pay for data center power – Satan’s window of opportunity is closing too.

The final window will be closed which will essentially lock lost souls out of a chance at eternal life when Jesus returns. It’s not far away, and anyone who has read even a modicum of prophecy knows it’s about to happen. The water is running out, and when it does, so will humanity. The earth, as prophesied, will burn. The fabled data centers will burn. All the volcanoes erupting and wild fires burning in Europe and America, not to mention unprecedented heat waves killing people and evaporating the little water that’s left assures us that our time here is short and growing shorter – don’t let Satan take your chance at a future in Paradise where we will be forever in His indescribably wonderful presence – get to know Jesus Christ now while that window is still open. He’s waiting for you to open the door: [Revelation 3:16]: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.” Open it – it’s all you have to do – He’ll do the rest.

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK

March 27,1977

As Jacob Louis Veldhausen van Zanten moved the thrust levers forward, the four JT9D-7W Pratt & Whitney engines slowly spooled up until they blasted around 92,000 pounds of thrust that began to move the lumbering behemoth that was the Boeing 747-206B of KLM flight 4805 down a foggy runway on the Spanish Island of Tenerife – a takeoff roll which would in only a few moments take 248 souls on a flight to eternity. Another 335 people down the takeoff runway on a different 747 from America, Pan Am flight 1736, would accompany them on their journey to the hereafter.

Earlier that day as both flight KLM 4805 and Pan Am flight 1736 were en route to the nearby Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria, a terrorist’s bomb exploded at that facility, causing the airport to close as the authorities feared further action. Both flights were diverted to the Las Rodeos airport located on the nearby island of Tenerife. The American plane was nearing the end of a long flight that had originated in Los Angeles with an intermediate stop at JFK in New York City. The Dutch flight was coming from Amsterdam.

The small airport at Tenerife did not normally process jumbo jets, nor did it usually accommodate the large number of other large passenger jets that had to divert there. It was on a Sunday and there were only two controllers on duty who suddenly found themselves attempting to manage an unheard-of crowd of airliners and passengers at their tiny facility. The terminal was not physically large enough to accommodate all of the extra passengers, so the Dutch passengers, who arrived first were allowed to disembark to the terminal facility, but the American passengers had to stay on board the flight 1736 Clipper Victor for what turned out to be a long stay on the tarmac.

The arrangement of the planes found the 1736 flight spotted behind the Dutch 4805 on the tarmac. The captain of the KLM flight was under time pressure due to a company policy that required crews not to fly beyond a certain number of hours without a rest period, and van Zanten was becoming desperate to get back to Amsterdam, but he would still need to make his Las Palmas stop prior to departure back to Holland which would greatly increase the possibility of having to lay over (and KLM would have to pay hotel fees for his passengers). With this in mind, van Zanten opted to take on fuel at Las Rodeos since they were stuck there anyway rather than take the extra time that would be required to do so when they got to Las Palmas.

As luck would have it, they got the all clear from Las Palmas while the Dutch plane was still fueling, but with the KLM plane spotted in front of the Pan Am jet, the American pilots could not maneuver around the fueling KLM, so the Pan Am had to wait for van Zanten to take 55 tons of fuel and clear the taxiway. Then both of the huge jets began their rolls with destiny at the same time. Since there was only one runway at Los Rodeos with a parallel taxiway, and since that taxiway was crowded with jetliners and could not be used for the better part of the necessary taxi to the takeoff spot, both planes were instructed to taxi down the main runway with the KLM plane taxiing all the way to the end and turning a 180 and with the Clipper instructed to go about three fourths of the way down on the main runway and cross over to the taxiway, which this far out was clear of aircraft.

There was a side story happening at the Los Rodeos airport and no narrative of this tragedy could be complete without a mention of what God did to save the life of one Dutch girl. Her name was Robina von Lanschot and she was a tourist guide travelling with two of her friends on the KLM flight. Robina had a boyfriend who lived on Tenerife, and if the KLM flight had gone as expected, it was her intent to fly from Las Palmas over to Tenerife to stay with him but since they were already (unexpectedly) at Tenerife, she saw no reason to go back to Las Palmas at Gran Canaria and come back again, so she asked one of the KLM stewardesses if she could just stay there, to which the stewardess replied no, she would have to complete the flight to Las Palmas. As mentioned earlier, the Dutch passengers were off the plane and in the concession area of the terminal, so as the passengers were instructed to reboard the KLM jet, Robina sort of melted into the crowd and stayed behind. The friends with whom she was traveling arranged to take care of her luggage at Las Palmas. This decision saved her life as every other passenger on that plane – including Robina’s friends – died in a high-speed crash and horrific explosion – immolated in a huge burst of flames.

As the big jets were trying to get lined up for departure, there were some communication issues. Fog rolled in to the airport, reducing visibility to the extent the controllers couldn’t see either plane and the planes could not see each other. The Dutch plane reached the end of the runway and did its spin preparing for a takeoff roll that would last for eternity but never leave the airport. The American plane crew were busy trying to find the exit point (in the thick fog) they were supposed to take to get clear of the runway. Due to the lack of visibility and poor communication between the tower and the planes, van Zanten flying the KLM plane apparently thought he had takeoff clearance well before the Pan Am plane was clear so he began his takeoff roll and the Dutch plane only became visible to the American crew a matter of seconds later when they suddenly saw it break out of the fog headed at them approaching takeoff speed and far too late for Pan Am to exit the runway. Van Zanten heaved the yoke mightily trying to get the big KLM plane airborne, and without that extra 55 tons of fuel, they might have been able, but instead KLM landing gear crashed into the upper fuselage of the Pan Am at an estimated 160 knots, resulting in the total destruction of both aircraft but the Dutch plane was completely decimated, killing all 248 people on board. The Pan Am plane fared even worse with 335 fatalities but miraculously there were 61 survivors. The cabin crew and a couple of flight attendants on the Pan Am aircraft survived, as did several passengers who were all in the front section of the plane. Dorothy Kelly, one of the flight attendants who survived and went on to relate her incredible story of survival in many interviews and documentaries, had been reassigned from the rear to the front of the plane for this flight (due to the Purser, Francoise de Beaulieu being self-conscious of her own French accent) and had this reassignment not happened, attendant Kelly undoubtedly would not have survived.

Captain Victor Grubbs, First Officer Robert Bragg, and Flight Engineer George Warns of the Pan Am flight survived to a life of interviews and narratives for a curious public about the greatest aviation tragedy in history. The aforementioned Pan Am flight attendant would go on to tell and retell her story of survival. Of the other survivors of the Tenerife tragedy, all would remember with great sadness an early spring day when the world exploded around them on a remote volcanic island off the coast of Africa. Robina van Lanschot chose to keep a low profile after the tragedy, avoiding interviews as much as feasible and her bio has faded into the years since, but she couldn’t possibly forget the day at Los Rodeos airport on the tiny island of Tenerife when decided to break a rule to be with her boyfriend – not knowing at the time that it would save her life.

A few years back I worked with a young fellow who left the job where we worked to go to flight school to become a pilot. I reminded him that every time he started to move the thrust levers to power up for takeoff and his checklists are complete, he should take a second to remember Jacob Veldhausen van Zanten’s final roll and be 100% sure everything is clear. Especially if he can’t see the runway ahead…

The parallels are uncanny. In 9 AD, three Roman legions under the command of one Publius Quinctilius Varus were gadding about in the dark forests of the Central European back country, fully convinced of their unassailable military dominance when to their unimaginable chagrin, one Arminius, a Germanic Cherusci tribesman with a band of barbarians laid claim to what was to become the greatest defeat of the Roman empire until then.

Such was the hubris of all things Rome, Varus had been appointed as governor (thus military leader) of this area even though his was a purely political background (and being married to a relative of Augustus helped him along) – he knew almost nothing of warfare – a lack of professional military experience that brings to mind the current US DOD secretary. Varus’ only military experience had been his tenure as governor of Syria, which proved to be sadly lacking when he was faced with a determined enemy who was familiar with Roman military tactics – a situation comparable to Hegseth’s minimal tactical aptitude. Rome had been in the business of annexing places far and wide in order to avail the empire of resources and tax income from places the empire did not know very well. After all, that’s what empires did and still do to this day.

As Rome flourished, building a vast network of roads and aqueducts, similar to but much more useful than today’s data centers being built all around the current empire, the leadership, in a similar vein of arrogance, (Augustus) apparently felt that if he personally liked someone, that was all the necessary requirement for a fit into any governmental position, so there was the invariable posting of unqualified people in positions that should have required a great deal of expertise. Sound familiar? This lack of military prowess on the part of Varus came back to haunt Rome in a big way. This should be expected when an unqualified military group, depleted of experienced generals and admirals, led by a political hack who had very little military experience in leadership position starts a war against a very capable enemy who has spent years studying strategy in anticipation of such an attack.

Varus manned up his three legions went on a march across Europe, supposedly to consolidate Roman rule in Germania and remind the barbarian tribes of the taxes they were supposed to be paying to Rome, but by that time Arminius had deftly planned his strategy by having visited all the affected tribal leaders in order to bring them under the same rebellious umbrella. Arminius had also served for a time in the Roman army, so he had acquired some degree of familiarity with Roman battle tactics. None of the Iranian military leaders have served in the US or Israeli militaries, but with today’s communications and intelligence capabilities, familiarity with US and Israeli tactics has doubtless been gained as much or more than Armenius did with his service to Rome. Not everyone is aware that when those great armies marched across the countryside, they invariably amassed a following of all kinds of civilians, men and women who followed the legions to aid the armies by providing food and other logistics from which they might receive some profit, so there were probably as many civilians following along as there were legionnaires. All in all it was a big circus, designed to instill awe in any potential rebellious groups by show of arms and soldiers, and simply from their presence, the implied support of the populace.

Arminius had developed a plan of attack, but for it to work, he needed to lure Varus into taking a route through the Teutoburg Forest that he hadn’t planned on taking. Armenius planted a rumor of a Germanic uprising in the area that got to Varus, along with an urgent suggestion that Varus take his armies and go there to quell it, which he did. In their turn, Iran developed a plan in which they identified critical targets on American bases in the Middle East which were to be attacked, starting with the expensive and crucial radar systems that would prohibit Iranian missile attacks, or at least would no longer be able to give warning of their launches. The point here is that a determined enemy of an overconfident empire expended enormous effort developing unexpected strategies with which they might defeat their vastly superior foes.

Without going into a lot of detail, suffice it to say that using tactics studied over the years and superior knowledge of the terrain, Arminius’ barbarian tribes soundly defeated the armies of the Roman empire at Teutoburg, much like the Iranians with their missile and drone arsenals and superior planning did to the American military with its depleted ranks of generals. So far it seems that the US Centcom commander, this Cooper guy is at least as inept as his boss Hegseth and his boss Trump. Well, at least in everything but lying, but unfortunately lying does not win wars. Just as Arminius’ and his barbarian hordes did to an empire many centuries ago, the IRGC has thoroughly trounced a vastly outmatched today’s army of empire, the biggest difference is that as opposed to Rome, the US empire’s leadership is taking much longer to understand it has been whipped and so continues to lose assets. But with all the good flag officers gone, what can be expected? Stalin, anyone?

So a great military power prowls far away from home and an inferior foe with inexpensive but effective weaponry painstakingly develops a plan to defeat them. The battle of Teutoburg Forest proved to be a decisive defeat for Rome at the hands of an underequipped (but strategically superior) group of barbarians, and the much-hyped and ballyhooed US military got slapped by a brave and determined Iranian military. In both cases the army of empire chose battle in a place where they should not have been and went up against a lesser equipped, but far more motivated enemy. We Americans wonder now what it’s going to take for the leadership to pack up and go home.

Pray for peace.

MK