Bill, yesterday I heard Larry Wilkerson in an interview. Among his many roles, he's on the advisory board of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. He said that Hegseth (the drunk with the crusader tattoo over his right breast) is having "voluntary" prayer meetings in the center court of the Pentagon for the military brass, with preachers like John Hagee and Franklin Graham - who praise the war as a divine mission to bring on the Rapture.
In their view, Deathworld isn't figurative - it's literal, and they have their archangel Hegseth to help bring it on. The Dispensationalists now have what they've always wanted - the power to bring on their desired end. This scares me more than any blathering of Trump or the dark speeches of Netanyahu.
Besides the Tucker Carlson and brave beauty pageant type Christians--see this very brave one interviewed by Tucker at https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/2032502397977956404, whose beliefs are more concerned with Jesus' "love thy neighbor" than with 1400 BC "Amalek-kill thy neighbor," I think most of the Hagee-brainwashed congregations claiming they hope for "Armageddon" Rapture, are secretly (albeit LOL hypocritically) hoping to get longer lives on Earth. Billy and Franklin however certainly possess that psychopathological talent of gaining power over and duping their "followers."
Hello TomR... Watch Fareed Zakaria's 'GPS' this Week... It opens with how Britain, the leading Power in 1900, squandered it's Strength in nonsensical Wars of the Periphery, while the USA forged ahead by investing in itself... Is the USA doing this now vs-a-vie China... What do We get out Fighting Netanyahu's War?...
Hello Bill Astore... Nice Posting.... I would beg-to-differ calling Israel a 'Modern-Day Sparta' on many Levels... Where would Israel be without American $$$, and AIPAC?....
Remember the moment from the movie "Patton" when Patton (i.e. George C. Scott) looks out over the destruction of the battlefield and says, "I love it. God help me I love it so. I love it more than my life." Well at least that was for a good cause and at least he had his own skin in the game as they say. These modern leaders - not so much. Not so much at all. They love it less than their lives but more than other people's lives.
Gen. George C. Scott "Patton" one of my all time fave. Movies My Deputy Chief in the City I Served worked under Pattons Son (also a Gen. Officer he said, a Two Star Major Gen.) when he was in the Army, and said he was nothing like his dad...!
I had a college friend who had a friend whose dad witnessed the incident where Patton shot at a German fighter with his pistols. He said it went down as it was shown in the movie. He certainly had guts, as they said!
Yea.! "our blood his guts" I also worked with a brother Firefighter who was in "Old Blood & Guts" 3rd. Army in WWII. He received the Silver Star for Bravery and was the nicest, kindest, true Gentleman I ever met a Swede FF Lennart Plahn "Lennie"
My dad directed artillery fire under Patton. He said little about the war, but did remark that Patton was every bit the SOB he was portrayed as in the movie.
My friends' father served in Italy during WW II. His men frequented the ladies of the evening but kept coming down with VD. So he gathered a small group of approved ladies and made sure they were disease free. His men changed to frequent the group and VD rates dropped precipitously. The higher ups found out and shut it down. Of course. Nothing's too good for our men in uniform. Isn't that what they say?
Not familiar with “Deathworld,” but certainly everyone knows “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (Helen Benson - Patricia Neal character – “Gort. Klaatu barada nikto.”) Similarly an extraterrestrial arrives on earth, this time conveying the message that essentially goes, “You’re posing a threat to the rest of us out here in the cosmos. Knock it off, or we knock you off.”
Beginning to think that’s the only thing that’ll save us.
Closer to reality, and regarding that $236 billion surplus of twenty years ago, the Congressional Budget Office says that by 2036, just ten years from now, the debt-to-GDP ratio of this country will reach a historical 120%, with implications including, in no small part due to putting $1+ trillion per year in “defense” spending on the credit card:
• Higher interest rates
• Weaker economic performance
• Inability of government to perform its duties (in general, “provide for the general welfare,” e.g., infrastructure)
• Strains on Social Security and Medicare trust funds
• Decreased(ing) funding of social welfare programs
• Decreased standard of living
• Inability to address disasters, natural or otherwise, such as consequences of global warming
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/14/democratic-lawmaker-condemns-hegseth-no-quarter Which makes me even wonder how effective the increasingly murderous and genocidal language being employed by Hegseth-Trump can be in their effort to maintain the bloodlust of the worst of their warmongering base. The blood lusting that calls for outright murder of civilians has seeped into Trump-Hegseth's speech from being so close and constantly exposed to Netanyahu and his genocidal ilk. But I think even the majority of normal Christian and conservative people are starting to find the "Amalek" barbarism, calling for the killing of children from 1400 BC Torah times to be sickening and repulsive. This kind of talk may appeal to the 30% or so of Israeli-flag waving "Christian" churches of Rev. Hagee et al., the Old Testament fundamentalists who are trying to brainwash into thinking Trump is annointed to bring full "Armageddon," but I have a feeling that even many Hagee-Israel Firsters secretly don't want to meet Jesus quite this quickly.
Senator (former military officer-astronaut) Mark Kelly condemns Hegseth’s call for ‘no quarter’ for US enemies
"Defense secretary appeared to endorse killing prisoners, a violation of international law, during press briefing."
Or as WBW colleague opines, "perhaps Hegseth is so uninformed enough, he doesn't know the meaning of "no quarter."
The U.S. started (at least openly) down this dark road with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - when the monstrously evil Cheney spoke of going to the dark side.
That the U.S. proudly acknowledged that it was torturing people, with some being murdered - should have shown us where this would eventually lead (to the minister of war apparently endorsing the murder of prisoners).
"But I think even the majority of normal Christian and conservative people are starting to find the 'Amalek' barbarism, calling for the killing of children from 1400 BC Torah times to be sickening and repulsive."
Footnote: It was upon watching Netanyahu froth at the mouth on Oct. 28, 2023 when I first heard of the Amaleks, or Amalekites. Looked them up. Interesting Biblical story, I can see why Netanyahu would know it by heart. But the interesting thing is that it is a Biblical story, and as George and Ira Gershwin say in "Porgy and Bess,"
It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
The t'ings dat yo' li'ble
To read in de Bible,
It ain't necessarily so.
There is no archeological record of the Amaleks ever existing. In other words, the Bible, Old Testament or New, is a storybook, not history. Netanyahu, and Israel and Zionism for that matter, are making the world pay for a fiction.
My X home feed has been taken over by Zionists monopolizing it so that the people I actually follow are displaced. It makes me so angry I reply to each and every one with this same reply. It seems to have worked in chasing most of them away.
No denying the beauty of all the women you Zionists post in my X home feed. I will answer every one with this.
Israel in it's ugliness is the main instigator of antisemitism against Jews outside of Israel.
Israel is a the biggest terrorist state in the Middle East
Israel started the War!
The US led International Community has been silent on Israel's murderous genocidal massacre of Palestinian women and children in Gaza having NO DEFENCE against Israel's US weapons. Israel is duplicating that in Lebanon having no air force or tanks to resist Israeli aggression.
What you sow so shall you reap is a Scriptural dynamic.
Israeli Jews don't even believe their own Tanakh, giving mouth and lip service to the God of the Jews but your hearts are far from God.
NOW HEAR, O HEAVENS, AND GIVE EAR, O EARTH, FOR THE LORD HAS SPOKEN,
Children I have raised and exalted, yet they have rebelled against Me.
An ox knows his owner and a donkey his master's crib;
Israel does not know, my people does not consider.
Woe to a sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, evildoing seed, corrupt children.
They forsook the Lord; they provoked the Holy One of Israel; they drew backwards.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 1:2-3-4
The picture below was published by The Ottawa Citizen October 17, 1977 re the 1st Day of TV in the Canadian House of Commons.
Thanks be to God, I'm still alive in my 82nd year continuing the Prophetic mandate to this generation that will have to deal with the consequences bound to get worse without REPENTANCE.
This image actually appears at the bottom of my reply on X
Thank you, Bill! The expanding "israel" Empire has consumed USA, Australia, Canada, UK, the EU, India and others, they are all vassals now to this unfolding tragedy. We need to look behind the curtain to see who's really in charge, see https://kathleenmccroskey.substack.com/p/whos-in-charge
You seem to be saying that slaughter, destruction, death, chaos, reducing countries and societies to dysfunctional wastelands, squandering all our treasures of talent and wealth on wars, are bad things. What about the upsides?
Bill, yesterday I heard Larry Wilkerson in an interview. Among his many roles, he's on the advisory board of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. He said that Hegseth (the drunk with the crusader tattoo over his right breast) is having "voluntary" prayer meetings in the center court of the Pentagon for the military brass, with preachers like John Hagee and Franklin Graham - who praise the war as a divine mission to bring on the Rapture.
In their view, Deathworld isn't figurative - it's literal, and they have their archangel Hegseth to help bring it on. The Dispensationalists now have what they've always wanted - the power to bring on their desired end. This scares me more than any blathering of Trump or the dark speeches of Netanyahu.
Besides the Tucker Carlson and brave beauty pageant type Christians--see this very brave one interviewed by Tucker at https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/2032502397977956404, whose beliefs are more concerned with Jesus' "love thy neighbor" than with 1400 BC "Amalek-kill thy neighbor," I think most of the Hagee-brainwashed congregations claiming they hope for "Armageddon" Rapture, are secretly (albeit LOL hypocritically) hoping to get longer lives on Earth. Billy and Franklin however certainly possess that psychopathological talent of gaining power over and duping their "followers."
Colleen, thanks I'll watch that interview.
Hello TomR... Watch Fareed Zakaria's 'GPS' this Week... It opens with how Britain, the leading Power in 1900, squandered it's Strength in nonsensical Wars of the Periphery, while the USA forged ahead by investing in itself... Is the USA doing this now vs-a-vie China... What do We get out Fighting Netanyahu's War?...
What we get is the further unraveling and decline of the American empire.
Hello Bill... Like I have said, having served in the Infantry, Death-Marches are started with Eyes-Wide-Open...
Thanks - will check it out.
Hello Bill Astore... Nice Posting.... I would beg-to-differ calling Israel a 'Modern-Day Sparta' on many Levels... Where would Israel be without American $$$, and AIPAC?....
True. Of course, what I meant was the idea of a state built around a military composed of warriors.
Hello Bill.... I appreciate that Viewpoint... Consider that the Haridi, currently around 20%, and increasing are exempt from Military Service...
Remember the moment from the movie "Patton" when Patton (i.e. George C. Scott) looks out over the destruction of the battlefield and says, "I love it. God help me I love it so. I love it more than my life." Well at least that was for a good cause and at least he had his own skin in the game as they say. These modern leaders - not so much. Not so much at all. They love it less than their lives but more than other people's lives.
Gen. George C. Scott "Patton" one of my all time fave. Movies My Deputy Chief in the City I Served worked under Pattons Son (also a Gen. Officer he said, a Two Star Major Gen.) when he was in the Army, and said he was nothing like his dad...!
I had a college friend who had a friend whose dad witnessed the incident where Patton shot at a German fighter with his pistols. He said it went down as it was shown in the movie. He certainly had guts, as they said!
Yea.! "our blood his guts" I also worked with a brother Firefighter who was in "Old Blood & Guts" 3rd. Army in WWII. He received the Silver Star for Bravery and was the nicest, kindest, true Gentleman I ever met a Swede FF Lennart Plahn "Lennie"
My dad directed artillery fire under Patton. He said little about the war, but did remark that Patton was every bit the SOB he was portrayed as in the movie.
My friends' father served in Italy during WW II. His men frequented the ladies of the evening but kept coming down with VD. So he gathered a small group of approved ladies and made sure they were disease free. His men changed to frequent the group and VD rates dropped precipitously. The higher ups found out and shut it down. Of course. Nothing's too good for our men in uniform. Isn't that what they say?
Not familiar with “Deathworld,” but certainly everyone knows “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (Helen Benson - Patricia Neal character – “Gort. Klaatu barada nikto.”) Similarly an extraterrestrial arrives on earth, this time conveying the message that essentially goes, “You’re posing a threat to the rest of us out here in the cosmos. Knock it off, or we knock you off.”
Beginning to think that’s the only thing that’ll save us.
Closer to reality, and regarding that $236 billion surplus of twenty years ago, the Congressional Budget Office says that by 2036, just ten years from now, the debt-to-GDP ratio of this country will reach a historical 120%, with implications including, in no small part due to putting $1+ trillion per year in “defense” spending on the credit card:
• Higher interest rates
• Weaker economic performance
• Inability of government to perform its duties (in general, “provide for the general welfare,” e.g., infrastructure)
• Strains on Social Security and Medicare trust funds
• Decreased(ing) funding of social welfare programs
• Decreased standard of living
• Inability to address disasters, natural or otherwise, such as consequences of global warming
“Beam me up, Scotty.”
See Guardian article:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/14/democratic-lawmaker-condemns-hegseth-no-quarter Which makes me even wonder how effective the increasingly murderous and genocidal language being employed by Hegseth-Trump can be in their effort to maintain the bloodlust of the worst of their warmongering base. The blood lusting that calls for outright murder of civilians has seeped into Trump-Hegseth's speech from being so close and constantly exposed to Netanyahu and his genocidal ilk. But I think even the majority of normal Christian and conservative people are starting to find the "Amalek" barbarism, calling for the killing of children from 1400 BC Torah times to be sickening and repulsive. This kind of talk may appeal to the 30% or so of Israeli-flag waving "Christian" churches of Rev. Hagee et al., the Old Testament fundamentalists who are trying to brainwash into thinking Trump is annointed to bring full "Armageddon," but I have a feeling that even many Hagee-Israel Firsters secretly don't want to meet Jesus quite this quickly.
Senator (former military officer-astronaut) Mark Kelly condemns Hegseth’s call for ‘no quarter’ for US enemies
"Defense secretary appeared to endorse killing prisoners, a violation of international law, during press briefing."
Or as WBW colleague opines, "perhaps Hegseth is so uninformed enough, he doesn't know the meaning of "no quarter."
The U.S. started (at least openly) down this dark road with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - when the monstrously evil Cheney spoke of going to the dark side.
That the U.S. proudly acknowledged that it was torturing people, with some being murdered - should have shown us where this would eventually lead (to the minister of war apparently endorsing the murder of prisoners).
"But I think even the majority of normal Christian and conservative people are starting to find the 'Amalek' barbarism, calling for the killing of children from 1400 BC Torah times to be sickening and repulsive."
Footnote: It was upon watching Netanyahu froth at the mouth on Oct. 28, 2023 when I first heard of the Amaleks, or Amalekites. Looked them up. Interesting Biblical story, I can see why Netanyahu would know it by heart. But the interesting thing is that it is a Biblical story, and as George and Ira Gershwin say in "Porgy and Bess,"
It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
The t'ings dat yo' li'ble
To read in de Bible,
It ain't necessarily so.
There is no archeological record of the Amaleks ever existing. In other words, the Bible, Old Testament or New, is a storybook, not history. Netanyahu, and Israel and Zionism for that matter, are making the world pay for a fiction.
My X home feed has been taken over by Zionists monopolizing it so that the people I actually follow are displaced. It makes me so angry I reply to each and every one with this same reply. It seems to have worked in chasing most of them away.
No denying the beauty of all the women you Zionists post in my X home feed. I will answer every one with this.
Israel in it's ugliness is the main instigator of antisemitism against Jews outside of Israel.
Israel is a the biggest terrorist state in the Middle East
Israel started the War!
The US led International Community has been silent on Israel's murderous genocidal massacre of Palestinian women and children in Gaza having NO DEFENCE against Israel's US weapons. Israel is duplicating that in Lebanon having no air force or tanks to resist Israeli aggression.
What you sow so shall you reap is a Scriptural dynamic.
Israeli Jews don't even believe their own Tanakh, giving mouth and lip service to the God of the Jews but your hearts are far from God.
NOW HEAR, O HEAVENS, AND GIVE EAR, O EARTH, FOR THE LORD HAS SPOKEN,
Children I have raised and exalted, yet they have rebelled against Me.
An ox knows his owner and a donkey his master's crib;
Israel does not know, my people does not consider.
Woe to a sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, evildoing seed, corrupt children.
They forsook the Lord; they provoked the Holy One of Israel; they drew backwards.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 1:2-3-4
The picture below was published by The Ottawa Citizen October 17, 1977 re the 1st Day of TV in the Canadian House of Commons.
Thanks be to God, I'm still alive in my 82nd year continuing the Prophetic mandate to this generation that will have to deal with the consequences bound to get worse without REPENTANCE.
This image actually appears at the bottom of my reply on X
https://rayjc.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ejected-from-the-house-of-commons.jpg
Thank you, Bill! The expanding "israel" Empire has consumed USA, Australia, Canada, UK, the EU, India and others, they are all vassals now to this unfolding tragedy. We need to look behind the curtain to see who's really in charge, see https://kathleenmccroskey.substack.com/p/whos-in-charge
You seem to be saying that slaughter, destruction, death, chaos, reducing countries and societies to dysfunctional wastelands, squandering all our treasures of talent and wealth on wars, are bad things. What about the upsides?
See also: https://www.globalresearch.ca/west-clings-settler-state-dying/5901770
Very astute, Mr. Astore.