Pearl Harbor

Burning  of the USS Arizona¹

My uncle swam away on December 7th, but many of his fellows trapped in hulls of sunken ships continued to "tap" until Christmas. In the weeks that followed, he and the few who remained resurrected those hulls, and the sea bleached bones they contained.

One moonless night my 90-something father revealed a latent agony long sanctioned to silence. Some days after the Battle of Buna, he and the few who remained, returned to the beach of Buna in total darkness to retrieve the bodies of their fellows buried in the sand.


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Fireside Chats

State of the Union Fireside Chat

The Governor of New York in 1929 faced a challenge, political opponents controlled the media. Press reports and editorial commentary consistently reflected partisan biases. He realized his continued political success required frequent direct and intimate dialogue with the electorate. Yet, his only recourse for such a dialogue was facilitated by the newspaper media!

At that juncture, the man, who would be president, implemented the new technology of "radio" that allowed him to speak directly to the populace, undistorted and unmodulated by a hostile media. His "fireside chat" communiqués continued through the traumatic days of war.

There is a man today who would be president who must also "bypass" the media of today by creatively implementing the technologies available today to engage in "fireside chats" with the electorate regarding another Leviathan "media"!

This is what a man who would be president did today, "bypass" the " Leviathan" media!


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The Old Gray Lady

New-York Daily Times, September 18, 1851.

The New York Times in a face saving Friday letter to its readers as a consequence of the "late Tuesday night" election results, allegedly "aim[s] to "rededicate [themselves] to... report ... America and the world honestly."

The NYT wrote "late Tuesday night, our newsroom turned on a dime and did what it has done for nearly two years — cover the 2016 election with agility and creativity," unfortunately the NYT no longer considers facts and accurately quintessential to journalism, had it done so it would have been unnecessary to turn on a dime to accommodate the "late Tuesday night" reality!

"The Gray Lady" then blamed Trump’s "sheer unconventionality" for the NYT's and other news outlet's failure to estimate his support, essentially conceding that the NYT is no longer a bastion of Truth amid other news outlets.

While pledging to "hold power to account, impartially and unflinchingly" it exempted itself, and offered this unmerited "weasel word" commentary "We believe we reported on both candidates fairly during the presidential campaign. You can rely on The New York Times to bring the same fairness, the same level of scrutiny, the same independence to our coverage of the new president."

The NYT which was once known for presenting "fact" as "fact" and signing "opinion" as "opinion" concluded with this contextually ludicrous sales pitch, once again spurning the word "factual" : "We cannot deliver the independent, original journalism for which we are known without the loyalty of our subscribers."

Cursory inspection of the internally conflicted letter suggests the authorship of a journalistically challenged college intern, however, the signatories are Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. Publisher, and Dean Baquet Executive Editor.

The NYT's failure to maintain the journalist standards of truth, accuracy, objectivity, fairness and public accountability, has caused truth to fall in every street in America.

"And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment" (Isaiah 59:14-15).

The classic document appended below must be required reading for every student of journalism, for it chronicles the demise of "The [Old] Gray Lady"

 To our readers,

When the biggest political story of the year reached a dramatic and unexpected climax late Tuesday night, our newsroom turned on a dime and did what it has done for nearly two years — cover the 2016 election with agility and creativity. After such an erratic and unpredictable election there are inevitable questions: Did Donald Trump’s sheer unconventionality lead us and other news outlets to underestimate his support among American voters? What forces and strains in America drove this divisive election and outcome? Most important, how will a president who remains a largely enigmatic figure actually govern when he takes office? As we reflect on this week’s momentous result, and the months of reporting and polling that preceded it, we aim to rededicate ourselves to the fundamental mission of Times journalism. That is to report America and the world honestly, without fear or favor, striving always to understand and reflect all political perspectives and life experiences in the stories that we bring to you. It is also to hold power to account, impartially and unflinchingly. We believe we reported on both candidates fairly during the presidential campaign. You can rely on The New York Times to bring the same fairness, the same level of scrutiny, the same independence to our coverage of the new president and his team. We cannot deliver the independent, original journalism for which we are known without the loyalty of our subscribers. We want to take this opportunity, on behalf of all Times journalists, to thank you for that loyalty.

Sincerely, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. Publisher
Dean Baquet Executive Editor

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Foghorn Leghorn

Foghorn Leghorn¹

Couldn't help but remember the immortal words of Foghorn J. Leghorn: "I WON!" "I WON!" "I WON!" but after a bit, he contemplated: "there must have been some way I could have lost." That is how I felt listening to Trump's post election address: "There must have been some way we could have lost."

As Trump waxed ever more "conciliatory" during his victory celebration, pledging to be a president “for all Americans” and calling for unity, the "some way we could have lost" became ever more apparent as he continued "to sell out the Red States mandate" just minutes after it delivered him victory. Can't help but wonder "who gelded the fair haired stallion."

A president has NO warrant to pledge to be a president for those who by intimidation, bribery, and corruption weave the web of deception recently revealed.

A president has NO warrant to pledge to be a president for those who abhorred the Constitutional mandate of law.

And, a president has NO warrant to pledge to be a president “for all Americans”! His only oath or affirmation must be "to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the CONSTITUTION of the United States."


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Googleware

Lovelace algorithm, 1843.¹

Imagine the ability to abort free speech at will, and to do it dynamically and retroactively. Google has the capability to squelch internet content, such as this, using a stealth search algorithm, an algorithm adaptable to the highest bidder.

Google since inception has analyzed "every" user interaction, parsing sentences into constituent elements, e.g., nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives... compliant with grammar and punctuation, processing it with an ever-evolving proprietary ultra sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm. As with any new technology, "Googleware" can conform to either good or evil, "aye, there's the rub."

I routinely publish a variety of commentary on my Google based blogs. To verify search engine retrieval, I recently copied and entered strings of text from random posts published over a number of years. In "EVERY" case, when Google Advanced Search searched for the exact string, the link for the post immediately popped up, "EXCEPT" when the words "Clinton" or "Obama" in conjunction with a less-than flattering "adjective" were contained in the post.

Google's dynamic and retroactive search algorithm at Google's inclination prioritizes and enhances some Web content while eliminating other content from search results effectively sanctioning it to silence.

Google's search algorithm has changed the course of history in every context, contingent on the highest bidder. In a "political" context, the ramifications span the better part of two decades, with the freedom of speech the most critical casualty.


¹By Ada Lovelace - http://www.sophiararebooks.com/pictures/3544a.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37285970

The Gray Lady

New-York Daily Times, September 18, 1851.

The day after the 2012 election the New York Times editorialized an in your face Barack "Hussein" Obama victory after months of denial of Obama's Islamic affinity.

The newspaper that once affirmed, "Fact is presented as fact, and opinion is signed as opinion" now presents "opinion" as fact and fact as "opinion"! The bias of this "yellow rag" is editorially emblazoned for all to see, having endorsed every Democratic nominee for president since 1960! And once more "The Gray Lady" has endorsed the old gray lady!





By The New York Times - ProQuest Database, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29474845

The Gray Lady

New-York Daily Times, 9, 18, 1851.

The day after the 2012 election the New York Times editorialized an in your face Barack "Hussein" Obama victory after months of denial of Obama's Islamic affinity.

The newspaper that once affirmed, "Fact is presented as fact, and opinion is signed as opinion" now presents "opinion" as fact and fact as "opinion"! The bias of this "yellow rag" is editorially emblazoned for all to see, having endorsed every Democratic nominee for president since 1960! And once more "The Gray Lady" has endorsed the old gray lady!





By The New York Times - ProQuest Database, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29474845

Legion

Gustave Doré nigra-lux

"My name is Legion: for we are many."

FBI Director James Comey on Friday evening revealed the existence of 650,000 emails of sufficient import for the FBI to “reopen” Hillary Clinton’s criminal investigation, perhaps a full complement of her personal email, pristine and without deletion. Consequently, Clinton's campaign was in free fall! However, on this All Hallows' Eve a legion from the abyss came to her aid. Just hours ago, the so-called Department of Justice (DOJ) interceded for Clinton with a letter to Congress essentially wresting control of the investigation from the FBI:

“... will continue to work closely with the FBI and together, dedicate all necessary resources and take appropriate steps as expeditiously as possible,” assistant attorney General Peter J. Kadzik.


Contrary to Kadzik, mutual acrimony and mistrust characterize the schism between the FBI and the "ethically challenged and politically motivated" Department of Justice. The DOJ has used every opportunity to impede the FBI's investigation of the Clinton Foundation, and recently succeeded in suppression of the investigation. It is now evident that during the yearlong investigation the DOJ was running interference for the alleged "nonprofit" corporation, pressuring corporate CEOs and foreign regimes to accommodate six-figure speaking fees for Bill Clinton.

The DOJ's overbearing presence in the investigation into Clinton’s emails that concluded in July mandated, after cursory inspection, the destruction of all computers that were part of that investigation. If the DOJ enforced that provision, could it not also mandate the destruction of the Weiner laptop and all backups of its contents after cursory inspection, preempting prosecution of the most egregious security breach in US history!

And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name?
And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many (Mark 5:1-9).

The Gatekeeper

Gate Keeper, Srivaikundam

FBI Director James Comey a few hours ago made a revelation now reverberating throughout the political pre-election world. The discovery of additional emails pertaining to Hillary Clinton’s personal email account, of sufficient import for the FBI to “reopen” her criminal investigation.

The files were discovered during an unrelated investigation of former Congressman Anthony Weiner's illicit, sexual correspondence with a 15-year-old girl. But how did files intended for "Hillary's eyes only" end up in Weiner's smut laden archives?

Clinton's quintessential aide Huma Abedin shared a laptop with her husband Weiner. A laptop she also used at State to send, receive, and print emails after transferring them to/from her various Yahoo, State Department, or Clinton server accounts. By using an unencrypted, unsecured and unauthorized network, she circumvented prescribed State Department protocol, breaching security. She also breached security by using unsecured and unauthorized hardware i.e., a personal laptop and printer.


It appears that she often transferred, sent, received, and printed emails without being aware of the classification of the content, suggesting additional lapses in security.

The volume of her email traffic was very significant because she is essentially Hillary's interface and gatekeeper to the world.

Abedin's frequent breaches of security may be of sufficient import for the FBI to “open” a second investigation.


By sowrirajan s - Flickr: Gate Keeper, Srivaikundam, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16248864

A Line in the Sand

Russia has drawn a line in the sand, and "appropriately" so, regarding the al-Qaeda rebels brigades the US is backing in Aleppo Syria. The current administration has once again coerced America into supporting the terrorist caliphate Osama bin Laden founded.

The "Obama Clinton" tag team in 2009 began legitimating, emboldening and supporting Islamists in their ascendancy over much of the Middle East. The tag team's covert logistical support in Libya armed the al-Qaeda franchises that eventually consummated the Benghazi attack.

Obama literally raced to the cameras, in May 2011 to take credit for killing al-Qaeda notable Osama bin Laden just hours after his body bobbed beneath the wake of the USS Carl Vinson. On a sequent campaign event, he reminded his admirers: "I promised to go after al Qaeda and bin Laden, and we did it," and during the final presidential debate he took credit for having "decimated" "Al Qaeda's core leadership."

Today, the Obama Clinton tag team is still undeterred; Obama promoting logistical support for Al Qaeda rebels in Aleppo, and Hillary, a "no-fly zone" in a situation that may have “nuclear” implications.

Dmitry Kiselyov, head of Russia's international news agency Rossiya Segodnya, warned that any “impudent behavior” in Syria could have “nuclear” implications. Kiselyov further clarified, if US bombers target official Syrian military forces. “We’ll shoot them down,” a warning not to be taken lightly. Kiselyov has previously affirmed that Russia has the capability of “turning the USA into radioactive ash.”

"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation" Romans 13:1).

"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation" Romans 13:1).

By Charles Levy from one of the B-29 Superfortresses used in the attack. - http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/images/ww2-163.jpg National Archives image (208-N-43888), Public Domain, Link

The Day the Internet Died

Solomonic Wisdom

Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré

The following couplet of Solomonic wisdom is not a contradiction:

"Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him" (Proverbs 26:4).

"Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit" (Proverbs 26:5).

 To answer a fool or not to answer a fool is a matter of discernment. Will answering refrain him from being wise in his own conceit, or will answering make you like unto him? That is the question.

A New World

Maracanã Stadium¹

When Ait Said’s left leg broke the sound echoed throughout the arena. He wasn’t the only gymnast who failed to negotiate a vault. Jake Dalton came close to landing on his face, and 2013 world bronze vault medalist Kristian Thomas fell. Andreas Toba injured his knee during floor exercise and had to be helped off the floor."

Mark Williams, the U.S. men’s coach commented on the obvious: "There’s a different feel to the one in the [Rio] competition arena than the one in the [U.S.] training gym."

It is obvious that "everything" at Rio 2016 fails to meet prescribed standards. Even Reuters headlines "Rio's Olympic Air: Dirty, Deadly and No Cleaner Legacy from Games."

When an 80-foot section of a newly constructed Rio seaside bike path collapsed in April, "at least two people" fell to their death."

The Maracanã Stadium is an island amid a cesspool of garbage, sewage, a menagerie of dead animals and thousands of dead fish, and deadly “super bacteria.”

The opening ceremony focused on climate change and how to "promote peace with the planet" – the preeminent theme of the event. The most political Olympiad since the 1936 "Hitler Olympics" featured simulated images of a melting polar ice cap and rising sea levels inundating millions of square miles of shore line around the world.

Rio 2016's legacy may eventually also include a Global Zika Epidemic or other viral conflagrations!

Rio 2016's motto is "A new world." Perhaps "A Brave New World"?


Updates:

Cyclist Van Vleuten, leading the women's road race, suffered a traumatic crash on the Vista Chinesa descent Sunday, as did her male counterpart Vincenzo Nibali on Saturday as he lead down the "same" descent. Apparently, the course was not appropriately contoured/banked for cars much less for a cycling competition. An investigation is in order to determine if frequent automotive crashes had been reported on the descent prior to its selection as a road race venue.

“Green Games for a Blue Planet” Rio 2016, in the opening ceremony chastised the world for failure to maintain climate control. Another pool turn green today; failure to maintain something as basic as pH. The only effective outdoor/indoor hygienic solution has been the Rio mandate that competitors keep their mouths closed during competition.

¹By Erica Ramalho/Portal da Copa/Março de 2013 - http://www.copa2014.gov.br/pt-br/dinamic/galeria_imagem/15037, CC BY 3.0 br, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26924555

The Twilight Zone

A Man Without a Country

Promenade des Anglais

Promenade des Anglais

The Obama-Clinton tag team consummated the "Arab Spring" that metastasized into an "Arab Winter."

They secured covert support for anti-Gaddafi rebels, encouraged anti-Mubarak rebels and affirmed they were pro-democratic, and sent arms and intel to the anti-Assad rebels.

As the Obama-Clinton tag team continued to introduce the world to insurrection, ISIS was spawned.

What was the motivation for the Obama-Clinton tag team to ferment insurrection on a worldwide scale? Rahm Emanuel explained the roots: "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."

The Obama-Clinton powers of darkness soon discovered an opportunity to do even more things they never thought they could do before by "instigating" crises!

Crises like the one in Nice, France, that ISIS is celebrating tonight.

"... we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places" (Ephesians 6:12).

By W. M. Connolley - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11733

Of One Blood

The Death of Abel. Gustave Doré

Once again it has been forgotten: The "Lord of heaven and earth... hath made of ONE blood all nations of men... on all the face of the earth" (cf. Act 17:26)
And once again last night, blood cried unto Him from the ground.

"And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand" (Genesis 4:8-11).

The Interview

FBI seal, J. Edgar Hoover Building¹

FBI Director Comey informed today's House oversight committee hearing on Capitol Hill that he was not present for the long awaited "interview" of the former Secretary of State, nor was she under oath, nor was the session recorded, nor was session transcribed, nor was he certain he spoke with the agents conducting the "interview."

House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz cut to the chase: “Did Hillary Clinton lie?” “To the FBI?" Comey queried, concluding with "We have no basis to conclude she lied to the FBI.” This was painfully obvious at that point in the hearing. Yet, without the aforementioned protocols, Comey gave the House the implausible assurance that "it’s still a crime to lie to us.”



The Director, some weeks ago, reprimanded Clinton's use of the euphemism “security review,” rather than the FBI appropriate word “investigation.” However, it now appears that the FBI conducts "interviews" not “investigations,” to which, Hillary has no objection!

"And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey" (cf. Isaiah 59:14-15).

¹By Stefanoka - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7770172

Justice

Lady Justice¹

Of course Hillary did not intentionally reveal classified information; 'Scientia Potentia Est' i.e., “Knowledge is Power”! She had no desire to share power with anyone but the Blumenthals, Abedins, and sometimes even the Bills in her life.

The real question, "not" asked or answered, is what was Hillary's "intent" in jeopardizing national security by using easily breached personal networks? Was it to circumvent transgressions "foreign and domestic," or to afford her perpetual "plausible deniability"?

Unfortunately, the FBI director is not familiar with the most fundamental "term" in criminal law "intent," but that matters not.

"For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops" (Luke 12:2-3).

"For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil"( Ecclesiastes 12:14).

¹By User:Continentaleurope, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46828052

How does all this end?

The Giants - Nimrod by Gustave Doré

As the European union is driven by the passion of the nations, many can but wonder:

How does all this end? Much as chronicled in Genesis, “the book of beginnings.” There we find the “Table of Nations,” and in it written “Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth. He was a mighty hunter before [against] the LORD” [a hunter of men]: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel [Babylon]… in the land of Shinar.”

 Here they said “let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”



By rebellion “one” man enslaved the world, and committed himself to “everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.”

In Revelation, ”the book of the consummation of all things” it is written
“I [John] stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea… “and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.” “and all the world wondered after the beast” “and they worshipped the beast, saying, who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”

In that coming rebellion “one” man will once again enslave the world!

Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory

"A week ago, as the UK voted to exit the EU, Johnson was on top of the world as the leader of the Leave campaign" until Nigel Farage quit "properly" blasted the European Parliament for "never having done a proper job" in their lives.

All is lost if the leadership role falls to one of lesser deportment!

Their Finest Hour

Today the Axis union of Germany and Italy was reunited with France in tow as in June of 1940. The fascist three demanded submission to a "European super-state" which would control virtually every aspect of life.

Three days ago, the Brexit referendum narrowly allowed the United Kingdom to escape this colossal EU disaster in a way reminiscent of the "Dunkirk Spirit" when an armada of the British and their small fishing vessels rescued the majority of 338,226 besieged soldiers when all was about to be lost and in all probability likely saved the world from the Third Reich, i.e., a fascist German and Italian millennium.

What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

Sir Winston Churchill
House of Commons
June 18, 1940

Debtors' Prison

A Victorian depiction of the debtors' prison

Debtors' prisons of Great Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, reinforced the quintessential reality of economics that debt must be repaid or there are consequences!

The time will come when the EU becomes the quintessential debtors' prison!

"If any would not work, neither should he eat" (cf. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 ).





By Henry Nicholls - Henry Nicholls' book "The Forest of Dean", Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11162186

Europa

Europa and the bull.

This coin depicts a scene from a mosaic in Sparta (third century AD), showing Europa being abducted by Zeus, who has taken the form of a bull. Europa is a figure from Greek mythology after whom Europe was named. Edge lettering of the €2 coin: EΛΛHNIKH ΔHMOKPATIA * (Hellenic Republic). Copyright ©: European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Standing Down

Medallion of "High Treason"

Just a few hours ago, British Prime Minister David Cameron all so conveniently announced he was "standing down."

But will "Justice," also "stand down"?

Is it not time for tribunals to be convened to address matters of "High Treason"?


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Independence Day

"Dare to dream that the dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom." (Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party).

"Surely—surely—this is an issue on which the British people, and they alone, have the right to decide, without the intervention of President Obama, who adopted his haughtiest professorial manner when lecturing us to stay in the EU, before making the naked threat that we would be sent “to the back of the queue” (i.e., the back of the line) in any future trade deals if we had the temerity to vote to leave" (Andrew Roberts, the Wall Street Journal).

An Inside Job

Chimeras

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for almost 50 years has been in the process of research and development of cybernetic replacements for human warriors. Now, after untold billions, it is apparent that they were barking up the wrong tree.

CRISPR, which was developed by researchers at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, and elsewhere, has transforming genetic engineering. The CRISPR/Cas9 system is so simple that even a high school student in his parent's basement has the capability to alter the human genome. This moment, human-animal variants (chimeras) are being created around the world by injecting human stem cells into animal embryos, allegedly for the purpose of organ replacement. The world is in denial, that there is a race to developed the first variant with a "human brain."
NIH ethicist David Resnik commented in November. “The specter of an intelligent mouse stuck in a laboratory somewhere screaming ‘I want to get out’ would be very troubling to people.”

However, as always the case with science, if it can be done it will be done!

"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God [fallen angels] saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children [chimeras] to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually " (Genesis 6:1-5).

"But as the days of Noah, so also shall be the coming of the Son of man. For as they were in the days which were before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day on which Noah entered into the ark" (Mathew 24:37).

Cities

In Eight Minutes

http://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-commander-we-can-destroy-israel-in-under-8-minutes/

WAR?

Starfish Prime over Honolulu

Two decades ago when Bill Clinton approved super computer exports to China. Sun Microsystems Inc. began marketing top tier "military" technology to China. Sun, parallel and distributed processing, computers were covertly sold to China with consensus of Clinton administration officials (1997). These critical Chinese acquisitions were transferred to their nuclear weapon development facilities.


As Americans continued, their mandated purchase of virtually every tangible 2007 good from China, a significant portion of the gross profit was diverted to China's military proclivities including a series of anti-satellite missile tests intent on developing capability to neutralize space-based hardware. More recently, China tested ground-based anti-satellite kinetic weapons and in 2013 demonstrated capability to threaten geosynchronous (GPS) satellites. Today, by laying claim to the South China Sea, China challenged U.S. dominance not only on earth, but in space as well. If war is provoked, and satellites are destroyed as they were by Starfish Prime in 1962, the consequences could be more catastrophic then a nuclear conflagration on earth, but we won't know until TVs, cell phones, PCs, the power grid and the GPS goes dead!


Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10284328

All Things New

Earth from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter 

Before the "new heaven and new earth" the Body of Christ was seated "together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (cf. Eph 2:6)" and Israel possessed her promised earthly kingdom.

But after this John "... saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away" And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new" (Rev 21:1-5).

It is in this new heaven and new earth the Father consummates "... the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him" (Eph 1:9-10; cf Colossians 1.19-20).

Could it be that heaven and earth become "One"!


Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University

The Judas Goat

Our Virtual World

The Delegate

Cruz transgressed the meaning of the word "delegate." A delegate is someone "entrusted" to represent the desire and intent of those they serve. Cruz conspired with the powers of "political" darkness to subvert this commitment. Knowing to do good, and doing it not (cf. James 4:17) Cruz and America are suffering the consequences.

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Galatians 6:7).

By Thomas Nast - "The Third-Term Panic", by Thomas Nast, originally published in Harper's Magazine 7 November 1874. Digital copy via Harper's Magazine website, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1438410

Again Last Night

Grange Barn, Colchester, England

It happened again last night: "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" (cf. Luke 12:16-20)


Image Credit: By Brian Snelson - originally posted to Flickr as Grange Barn, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6578175.

Harpers Ferry in Retrospect

John Brown, 1859

How "appropriate" for our President to confer this honor: Anarchist Harriet Tubman is to become the first "homegrown terrorist" on U.S. currency.

She was co-conspirator in John Brown's raid on the Harpers Ferry armory for which Brown was tried for treason, murder, and insurrection. Found guilty, he was hanged. Brown and Tubman's attempted subversion culminated in a war accounting for more American deaths than in all other U.S. wars combined!


By Reproduction of daguerreotype attributed to Martin M. Lawrence - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11934366

28 Pages

The Yellow Rag Journal

Division

"What really bothers me the most... these days is this notion... that we’re going to win... by dividing people." (Speaker Paul Ryan).

Jesus came to divide light from darkness and truth from lies and good from evil.

"Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division" (Luke 12:51).

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword: (Matthew 10:34 ).

Paul Ryan, unfortunately, is the "antithesis" of light and truth and good!

By Rama - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=286801

The Ides of March

So Angry

What can we expect if Trump becomes president? On Saturday Trump told supporters in Wichita Kansas:

"If I lose, I'm going to be so angry at you,"

Well, that answers that question!

“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city” (Proverbs 16:32 ).

Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Five days ago, Lindsey Graham held the opinion that the choice between Trump and Cruz was the choice of being "shot or poisoned." And "… If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.”

But today, after Cruz's Super Tuesday showing, Graham confessed "Ted Cruz is not my favorite by any means, but … we may be in a position where we have to rally around Ted Cruz as the only way to stop Donald Trump."

Liar Liar Pants On Fire

"And that guy's a liar,” Trump flamed regarding Cruz during the Houston debate.

Yet, some time later when Cruz challenged Trump's "more" than tacit support of anti-Gaddafi rebels during the 2011 overthrow of the Libyan dictator, Trump responded with a "I never discussed that subject" Liar Liar Pants On Fire "LIE":

"Now we should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick. We could do it surgically, stop him from doing it, and save these lives. This is absolutely nuts. We don’t want to get involved and you’re gonna end up with something like you’ve never seen before" (from Trump’s 2011 video blog).

Trump's concern is to be commended. However, his approach is essentially that of the 2011 administration. Consequently, we have ended up with something like we’ve never seen before!

No,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bluntly stated when asked on “Face the Nation” [MARCH 28, 2011] if the U.S. would intervene in Syria as in Libya. She defended her position by saying that the situations in Syria and Libya are respectively "unique." Unique, but not for reasons mentioned:

Syria's human rights record is among the worst according to Human Rights Watch. Syrian secret police detain, torture, and are suspect in the disappearance of an estimated 17,000 political prisoners. Libya's, by comparison, is hardly worth mentioning.

Syria, according to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), supports the following terrorist organizations: Hezbollah, the Iraqi insurgency, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Libya of course is culpable for Lockerbie, but even here, Gaddafi personal sanction on the matter is debatable.

Iran and Syria maintain a mutual defense agreement, while Iran and Libya are enemies with the former encouraging the West to arm their allies.

Syria possesses weapons of mass destruction (chemical and biological) and the capability to deliver them according to U.S.defense and intelligence reports. However, a 2007 Israeli air strike is generally credited with putting Syria's nuclear program on hold. Libya, in stark contrast, has complied with the "world community," and her reward, "decimation":

"[In] 2003, Libya announced it would dismantle its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missile programs. Since then, U.S., British, and international officials have inspected and removed or destroyed key components of those programs, and Libya has provided valuable information, particularly about foreign suppliers. Libya’s WMD disarmament is a critical step towards reintegration into the world community.... "(Sharon A. Squassoni and Andrew Feickert, CRS Report for Congress, Disarming Libya: Weapons of Mass Destruction, September 22, 2006).

And as a consequence of removing the powers ordained of God we have ended up with something like we’ve never seen before.' e.g., Benghazi, ISIS, the Syrian refugee crisis,, and the list goes on.

"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation" (Romans 13:1-2).

A Lion's Den

It is now evident that when Trump and Cruz walked onto stage for the Saturday debate they had unwittingly walked into a "lion's den"! A pit prepared for them by the Republican National Committee's pro-Bush/pro-Rubio allocation of debate tickets. During the event this "stacked deck" of unsated carnivores roared at every opportunity to eviscerate them. Meanwhile Rubio "purred" like a kitten.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki (Randhawa) Haley who used the GOP response to the State of the Union to slam Donald Trump and Cruz as "un-responsible," in recent days further extended her GOP complicity by distributing scores of tickets for the "Christians in the arena" event.

The GOP has "made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the hole which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate" (cf. Psalm 7:15-16).

Political Correctness

Political Correctness is a term used as a pejorative to describe policies, measures, or other constraints “allegedly” instituted for the purpose of not offending those of a particular societal “behavior” preference, e.g., ISIS' nasty habit of well..., or those for whom "white" lives don't matter, or those who excuse their lifestyle choices by some nebulous assertion of genetic predisposition.

However, when politically mandated, Political Correctness becomes political expediency in disguise.

A Misappropriated Dream

"... one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places plains, and the crooked places will be made straight... and before the Lord will be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together." With this crudely transcribed misappropriation of Scripture (cf. Isaiah 40:4-5), King concluded his "I Have a Dream" Black Liberation treatise.

"Misappropriation" is not an over statement, King plagiarized liberally and habitually from a variety of eloquent and high-minded sources in so much that Ralph E. Luker, King Papers Project researcher and civil rights historian, comments:


"Moreover, the farther King went in his academic career, the more deeply ingrained the patterns of borrowing language without clear attribution became. Thus, the plagiarism in his dissertation seemed to be, by then, the product of his long-established practice" (Ralph E. Luker "On Martin Luther King's Plagiarism" 2004-12-21).

King in Black Liberation eisegetical fashion "spiritualized," i.e., read into the Isaiah passage any idea he choose rather than allowing the literal contextual messianic meaning to pervade. It is one thing to misappropriate the words of men, but quite another to misappropriate the words of God to support a social or socialist gospel.

There are consequences for misappropriating Scripture even to end that blacks are liberated from real or supposed economic, political, or social, subjugation.

"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity" (Matthew 7:22-23).

By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36899467 Photo of the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in Washington DC. Taken from the National Park Service website, and identified there as a NPS photo.

Duplicity