Gaza is the latest preview - as in every other genocide - of the ruling class's plans for all of us. When people are in the way or resist - they are crushed. When land is needed, it is taken. When plans are underway, no one or nothing is allowed to stand in their way.
We are distracted by spectacle; kept ignorant by a failed educational system and an MSM that is the propaganda arm of the owners; and kept fearful by an economic system that has failed us and enforced by an increasingly authoritarian and militarized police.
All we see are the grim statistics, as Bill posted, along with fleeting images of children and old people living in flooded tents to remind us of what they're doing. And all we know is food is becoming unaffordable and millions are being priced out of access to medical care.
But the NFL playoffs start next week - get back in line and cheer.
I'd almost be willing to wager - recognizing that would be ironic - that in the next decade there will be a betting scandal to rival anything like the 1919 World Series, the points shaving in 1950s college basketball; or the Pete Rose scandal.
I imagine a lot of sports insiders (actual employees of a given franchise) are laying their wagers on the "dark 'net." I guess only the careless ones are getting caught, and pretty regularly now those incidents make headlines. But fret not, the fine print in those ads for the legal betting operations give the contact info for those with gambling addiction. What could go wrong?? :-)
Watching a bowl game on ESPN today, every upcoming game schedule shown on the bottom chyron listed over/under numbers and percentage chances of winning - all to better assist the gamblers. It's beyond degenerate.
Yeah, this is more than "a passing trend." Obviously "somebody" is raking in big, big bucks thru these operations. And that's all that matters in USA for some time now (so, again, not a passing trend). Ethics? Morality? Where's the payoff in those archaic notions, right?
The bonhomie, the revelry of ringing (wringing?) in the New Year must of necessity be put aside, albeit too soon, in order to address the sober realities carried over from 2025. To wit, how is it possible, how is it conceivable, to see an opening graphic as presented here, as we pass the one-quarter mark of the 21st century? I cannot fathom, other than to conclude forlornly, that we as a species have been unable to advance over the eons, in other than a material sense, beyond what Kubrick depicted in the opening twenty minutes of "2001: A Space Odyssey." We were able to put on paper the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that's on the record. From paper to practice... ?
Problem is, that Declaration of Human Rights has NEVER had "teeth" for enforcement. Well, sure, there are international courts that, ON PAPER, can address accusations of war crimes, genocide, etc. But when it comes to actual enforcement, prosecution, etc. of course we run into the solid brick wall of reality. With the #1 Bully on the planet--take a bow, USA--behind so many crimes and currently steered by the most arrogant "leader" imaginable...well, you get my point, I'm sure. That declaration can join The Constitution of the United States of America as suitable now only for lining the bottom of a bird cage.
Apart from various ex post facto "peacekeeping missions" I think there were only two military actions undertaken by the UN to put an end to invasions, one being Korea, the other the Suez Crisis. Of course each had the US as the central player behind each action (should I include the Bosnian War in this?). Each was for geopolitical strategic reasons, not humanitarian. Why the world - well, this country - won't take action in the face of a genocide, which it could have done in a snap with a phone call to Netanyahu, "Look, we're shutting you off," when there's precedent under the UN leaves one with bitter, cynical taste in his mouth.
Another movie comes to mind, "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Here's the passage spoken by Klaatu, the alien: "I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hired policemen to enforce them. Now, we of the other planets have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is, we live in peace, without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war, free to pursue more... profitable enterprises. Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works. I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you. Gort, berenga."
Alas, this is artistic mankind speaking, not political.
I have often expressed my love for "The Day the Earth Stood Still" here and elsewhere. For the historical record, the US refused to relinquish its occupation of Korea after Japan's defeat, while the USSR kept its word and withdrew its troops from the northern region. This US action is the sole root of the Korean situation. The Korean people (as opposed to US puppets in the south) never considered there to be a "South" and a "North" Korea. Thus the US claim that they were trying to repel "aggression from the north" was totally bogus (and they tried the same game in Viet Nam later). Kim Il Sung's forces were simply trying to unify the peninsula. The UN's rubber stamp for the US action (Truman called it "a police action"!!) was and remains to this day a disgrace IMO, as the US still maintains many thousands of its troops in the southern region and continues to provide the source for tensions on the peninsula. But all we ever hear about is "the threat of aggression from the north." Disinformation now many decades old!!
Many thanks for filling in some of my historical lacunae. Years ago I came across a reference that the Korean War as we have come to know it was unwarranted in settling what was a civil war there. There was only one - one! - American historian, can't recall his name, who laid this out, but has been ignored in the ensuring years. I got the book from the library years ago, alas didn't have the patience to finish it, though it has periodically resurfaced in my mind.
But bottom line, and as you indicate, another post-war instance of the US violating treaties and agreements, because it could, not the war-weary, long suffering, savior from Nazism that Russia was. What the fornicate are we doing in Korea and 800 other places across the globe, aside from heaping onto the national debt, which will eventually lead to a giant liquidation sale?
'THE ISRAELI GENOCIDE IN GAZA HAS DIMINISHED OUR COMMON HUMANITY'
It’s an Old Adage, ‘TRUTH is the 1st CASUALTY of WAR’ and yet these words attributed to Christ Jesus the Jew, are dismissed out of hand in this Time of the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the nominally Christian Nations.
[9] I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Revelation 2
[9] Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Revelation 3
There is no excuse! Our EYES have seen the Death, Destruction, Devastation and Demolition Israel has brought to Gaza with US jet fighters, US bombers and bombs, US Apache Attack helicopters, tanks, artillery and BULLdozers against the innocent women and Children of Gaza having no defence against Israel’s self-defence of kill them all!.
What else could be expected when the President of Israel essentially said there is little difference between Hamas and Palestinians in Gaza?
The Israeli Genocide of the Palestinian People having NO DEFENCE against US jet fighters, US bombers and bombs, US Apache Attack helicopters, tanks, artillery and BULLdozers would not be happening without 100% US COMPLICITY.
If the American People think it is OK for their government to facilitate such DEATH & DESTRUCTION in Gaza, God's Justice and Judgment demands that desperate privation the People in Gaza are forced to endure, will spread to the US and the World in our Generations or lack thereof, to RIGHT a blatant WRONG.
"Here we are like mites on a plum on this little planet and it goes around an insignificant local star, the Sun a yellow dwarf. And.., that star is on the obscure outskirts of an ordinary spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, which contains about 400 billion other suns. And this galaxy is just one of something like 100 billion other galaxies that make up our Universe. So this idea that we are somewhat Central, that we are the reason there is a Universe is... "Pathetic"! We have to simply come to grips with the real Universe that we really live in and if some of our Myth and some of our Religion is inconsistent with it, it's time to change the Myth, and the Religion." Carl Sagan "Saganist!!"
Every new improvement in telescopes reveals incredibly more galaxies than Science dreamt of in past ages. See Mark Twain on "The Creator's Pet," i.e. humans.
That's why Isaiah, the last major Jewish Prophet some 2700 years ago, starts the last 66th chapter of his Book in the Book of Books with these words that include the pictures in your comment,
'So says the Lord, "The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool; which is the house that you will build for Me, and which is the place of My rest?"
Carl would have been fascinated to learn now we are amongst us sitting currently at least 2 Trillion galaxies."--James Webb Telescope!" And the more we learn as Homo Sapiens the more we know how little we actually know. Science I believe is the only path forward. I find more contentment & wonder in these words than I ever did in the worthless words in the bible, and have never looked back!! We are the Universe knowing itself and are conscious of itself for a little while while the Universe is infinite, and never needed a "Creator" Ever wonder why the Bible never mentioned "Galaxies?" All Myth and stories! And the people who wrote it didn't know much...
And the "ever popular" Book of Revelation was clearly penned by THE most loony-tunes of all the legion of different contributors to what is now considered the Bible.
Science also gave us NUKES! This world is getting closer to them being used on us!
The same Isaiah who announced 'The heavens are my Throne' including Galaxies, in 66:1 got into describing NUKES later in the same last chapter of his Book this way,
For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
Decisions like that are made by men made in the Image and likeness of God.
As an Agnostic/ Saganist I use the Analogy I am a temporary configuration of matter, briefly aware that it is looking at the Universe. Existing long enough to observe it is statistically strange. Billions of years of physics and one functioning nervous system made this moment possible. Most matter never knows it exists. But for a moment, this does....
And The Israelis Call Themselves A Just Nation... Anthony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Joe Biden could have stopped the Israeli War Machine a couple of Years ago.. Did you know that Netanyahu is still at Mar-a-Lago?... Is Netanyahu still doing Evil?...
Gaza is the latest preview - as in every other genocide - of the ruling class's plans for all of us. When people are in the way or resist - they are crushed. When land is needed, it is taken. When plans are underway, no one or nothing is allowed to stand in their way.
We are distracted by spectacle; kept ignorant by a failed educational system and an MSM that is the propaganda arm of the owners; and kept fearful by an economic system that has failed us and enforced by an increasingly authoritarian and militarized police.
All we see are the grim statistics, as Bill posted, along with fleeting images of children and old people living in flooded tents to remind us of what they're doing. And all we know is food is becoming unaffordable and millions are being priced out of access to medical care.
But the NFL playoffs start next week - get back in line and cheer.
Cheer -- and gamble!
I'd almost be willing to wager - recognizing that would be ironic - that in the next decade there will be a betting scandal to rival anything like the 1919 World Series, the points shaving in 1950s college basketball; or the Pete Rose scandal.
I imagine a lot of sports insiders (actual employees of a given franchise) are laying their wagers on the "dark 'net." I guess only the careless ones are getting caught, and pretty regularly now those incidents make headlines. But fret not, the fine print in those ads for the legal betting operations give the contact info for those with gambling addiction. What could go wrong?? :-)
Watching a bowl game on ESPN today, every upcoming game schedule shown on the bottom chyron listed over/under numbers and percentage chances of winning - all to better assist the gamblers. It's beyond degenerate.
Yeah, this is more than "a passing trend." Obviously "somebody" is raking in big, big bucks thru these operations. And that's all that matters in USA for some time now (so, again, not a passing trend). Ethics? Morality? Where's the payoff in those archaic notions, right?
And watch other people on a field destroy their brains and bodies, for the fun of it.
"I'm Spartacus!!"
The bonhomie, the revelry of ringing (wringing?) in the New Year must of necessity be put aside, albeit too soon, in order to address the sober realities carried over from 2025. To wit, how is it possible, how is it conceivable, to see an opening graphic as presented here, as we pass the one-quarter mark of the 21st century? I cannot fathom, other than to conclude forlornly, that we as a species have been unable to advance over the eons, in other than a material sense, beyond what Kubrick depicted in the opening twenty minutes of "2001: A Space Odyssey." We were able to put on paper the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that's on the record. From paper to practice... ?
Problem is, that Declaration of Human Rights has NEVER had "teeth" for enforcement. Well, sure, there are international courts that, ON PAPER, can address accusations of war crimes, genocide, etc. But when it comes to actual enforcement, prosecution, etc. of course we run into the solid brick wall of reality. With the #1 Bully on the planet--take a bow, USA--behind so many crimes and currently steered by the most arrogant "leader" imaginable...well, you get my point, I'm sure. That declaration can join The Constitution of the United States of America as suitable now only for lining the bottom of a bird cage.
Apart from various ex post facto "peacekeeping missions" I think there were only two military actions undertaken by the UN to put an end to invasions, one being Korea, the other the Suez Crisis. Of course each had the US as the central player behind each action (should I include the Bosnian War in this?). Each was for geopolitical strategic reasons, not humanitarian. Why the world - well, this country - won't take action in the face of a genocide, which it could have done in a snap with a phone call to Netanyahu, "Look, we're shutting you off," when there's precedent under the UN leaves one with bitter, cynical taste in his mouth.
Another movie comes to mind, "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Here's the passage spoken by Klaatu, the alien: "I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hired policemen to enforce them. Now, we of the other planets have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is, we live in peace, without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war, free to pursue more... profitable enterprises. Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works. I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you. Gort, berenga."
Alas, this is artistic mankind speaking, not political.
I have often expressed my love for "The Day the Earth Stood Still" here and elsewhere. For the historical record, the US refused to relinquish its occupation of Korea after Japan's defeat, while the USSR kept its word and withdrew its troops from the northern region. This US action is the sole root of the Korean situation. The Korean people (as opposed to US puppets in the south) never considered there to be a "South" and a "North" Korea. Thus the US claim that they were trying to repel "aggression from the north" was totally bogus (and they tried the same game in Viet Nam later). Kim Il Sung's forces were simply trying to unify the peninsula. The UN's rubber stamp for the US action (Truman called it "a police action"!!) was and remains to this day a disgrace IMO, as the US still maintains many thousands of its troops in the southern region and continues to provide the source for tensions on the peninsula. But all we ever hear about is "the threat of aggression from the north." Disinformation now many decades old!!
Many thanks for filling in some of my historical lacunae. Years ago I came across a reference that the Korean War as we have come to know it was unwarranted in settling what was a civil war there. There was only one - one! - American historian, can't recall his name, who laid this out, but has been ignored in the ensuring years. I got the book from the library years ago, alas didn't have the patience to finish it, though it has periodically resurfaced in my mind.
But bottom line, and as you indicate, another post-war instance of the US violating treaties and agreements, because it could, not the war-weary, long suffering, savior from Nazism that Russia was. What the fornicate are we doing in Korea and 800 other places across the globe, aside from heaping onto the national debt, which will eventually lead to a giant liquidation sale?
https://rayjc.com/2026/01/01/the-autopsy-the-anointing-a-prophetic-prescription-for-2026/
'THE ISRAELI GENOCIDE IN GAZA HAS DIMINISHED OUR COMMON HUMANITY'
It’s an Old Adage, ‘TRUTH is the 1st CASUALTY of WAR’ and yet these words attributed to Christ Jesus the Jew, are dismissed out of hand in this Time of the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the nominally Christian Nations.
[9] I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Revelation 2
[9] Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Revelation 3
There is no excuse! Our EYES have seen the Death, Destruction, Devastation and Demolition Israel has brought to Gaza with US jet fighters, US bombers and bombs, US Apache Attack helicopters, tanks, artillery and BULLdozers against the innocent women and Children of Gaza having no defence against Israel’s self-defence of kill them all!.
What else could be expected when the President of Israel essentially said there is little difference between Hamas and Palestinians in Gaza?
The Israeli Genocide of the Palestinian People having NO DEFENCE against US jet fighters, US bombers and bombs, US Apache Attack helicopters, tanks, artillery and BULLdozers would not be happening without 100% US COMPLICITY.
If the American People think it is OK for their government to facilitate such DEATH & DESTRUCTION in Gaza, God's Justice and Judgment demands that desperate privation the People in Gaza are forced to endure, will spread to the US and the World in our Generations or lack thereof, to RIGHT a blatant WRONG.
https://rayjc.com/2025/05/01/the-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-has-diminished-our-common-humanity/
we are as fickled as our gods. We need to step out of that box and think anew.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand...
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
From then some 2600 years ago to Today, 'It's the Economy, Stupid!'
Daniel 5 - The Writing's on The Wall!
"Here we are like mites on a plum on this little planet and it goes around an insignificant local star, the Sun a yellow dwarf. And.., that star is on the obscure outskirts of an ordinary spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, which contains about 400 billion other suns. And this galaxy is just one of something like 100 billion other galaxies that make up our Universe. So this idea that we are somewhat Central, that we are the reason there is a Universe is... "Pathetic"! We have to simply come to grips with the real Universe that we really live in and if some of our Myth and some of our Religion is inconsistent with it, it's time to change the Myth, and the Religion." Carl Sagan "Saganist!!"
Every new improvement in telescopes reveals incredibly more galaxies than Science dreamt of in past ages. See Mark Twain on "The Creator's Pet," i.e. humans.
Happy New Year of The Lord 2026 Fireman,
That's why Isaiah, the last major Jewish Prophet some 2700 years ago, starts the last 66th chapter of his Book in the Book of Books with these words that include the pictures in your comment,
'So says the Lord, "The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool; which is the house that you will build for Me, and which is the place of My rest?"
Carl would have been fascinated to learn now we are amongst us sitting currently at least 2 Trillion galaxies."--James Webb Telescope!" And the more we learn as Homo Sapiens the more we know how little we actually know. Science I believe is the only path forward. I find more contentment & wonder in these words than I ever did in the worthless words in the bible, and have never looked back!! We are the Universe knowing itself and are conscious of itself for a little while while the Universe is infinite, and never needed a "Creator" Ever wonder why the Bible never mentioned "Galaxies?" All Myth and stories! And the people who wrote it didn't know much...
And the "ever popular" Book of Revelation was clearly penned by THE most loony-tunes of all the legion of different contributors to what is now considered the Bible.
Science also gave us NUKES! This world is getting closer to them being used on us!
The same Isaiah who announced 'The heavens are my Throne' including Galaxies, in 66:1 got into describing NUKES later in the same last chapter of his Book this way,
For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
Decisions like that are made by men made in the Image and likeness of God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG2aJyIFrA
As an Agnostic/ Saganist I use the Analogy I am a temporary configuration of matter, briefly aware that it is looking at the Universe. Existing long enough to observe it is statistically strange. Billions of years of physics and one functioning nervous system made this moment possible. Most matter never knows it exists. But for a moment, this does....
And The Israelis Call Themselves A Just Nation... Anthony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Joe Biden could have stopped the Israeli War Machine a couple of Years ago.. Did you know that Netanyahu is still at Mar-a-Lago?... Is Netanyahu still doing Evil?...
Amen, brother.