They Are An Enigma, A Conundrum Of Contradiction

They are adult adolescents who whine over a broken potato chip, and are drawn to other adultolescents. Even as their kids, who wear all black and huddle in the far corner of the school-ground, smoke pot, curse the normal kids and dedicate their souls to Satan or Dungeons and Dragons.

But these "adult" adolescent parents are gown-ups, and dress like normal adults and have dedicated their souls to fame, fortune and sensuality by use of their talent to pretend a false reality. Who are they?  Several species. 95% of Movie Star, Actors and Actresses. Add to these pretenders their entertainment addicted fans who adore them, worship them, and hunger to know their every thought, word, and trivial fact of them. In addition to those hangers on, there is the enigma of well practiced fakers, the Socialist Politicians who never say the truth but habitually say what they want voters to think. These fakers dress that skeleton in Political Correctness. The balance of these conjoined, Left-wing, pretender contradictions is the lying fake News Media. The Left-wing press are also actors, pretenders in their own right. They quote the Hollywood playlikers and misguided politicians and portray them as super intellects and all knowing experts on political questions. When, in fact none of these delusionists even know who they, themselves really are.  Fortunately there are still a few honest, truth seeking news sources, but unfortunately, none of them, except FOX, have many viewers.

Those few actors, politicians and news people who are solid Patriots, mystify the press and make the Left Wing stutter, spew out venom, and throw fund raisers for their playacting, Political Comrades. They swear by their fellow pretenders in Congress, in the Fake News networks and the talented dim-wits in Hollywood. It is a depraved three way incestuous relationship... in the U.S. Socialist clan. 

Yes, President Trump can be blatantly… "intentionally", but benignly, obnoxious, and may be criticized for other flaws, but he is no actor and doesn't pretend to be anything but who he is.  That is a refreshing, uncommon, trait which Conservatives love, but a horrifying mystery to the Left-wing. The Left has no idea how to be openly who they really are. In fact they don't even know who they really are. Trump openly says, or Tweets, everything that crosses his mind. That being said, he is the kind of man, politically, with a broad, if dull, axe who Americans that truly love their country, want. That, because they are sick to death of lying, corrupt Politicians like Hillary, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Al Sharpton, Nadler, Clapper, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, the Idiot girls Squad, and the entire gaggle of Democrat Socialists in political office. You can throw into that pile Bush 1, and in many ways Bush 2. At least Bush 2, and even the noxious Bill Clinton, had likable personalities. But a likeable personality, in a politician, is like a good bedside manner in a doctor. Either of which may just be a likable ....  but unscrupulous quack.
The "elephant" in the Oval Office ointment is that Trump, no matter his great accomplishments, will most likely be in office when the world economy, that was teetering on edge when he was elected, comes apart ... and he gets the blame for it. But that fragile, pending, financial shambles is the fault of global Left Wing politicians who have brought it about by wild, Socialist, free spending ....for many years. That black swan's fall may be delayed but cannot be remedied. For that reason, I would almost like to see a Democrat in the Oval Office when it happens. They are primarily at fault, and would get the blame for it, and wouldn't win another vital election for years to come. They are an enigma, a conundrum of contradiction and deserve to win office just before the financial world unravels. RB

Our Uncle Sam Has Been Leading The Corruption Parade 85 Years

U.S. Socialism began in 1935....

Borrowing money, or buying things on credit a thousand times beyond your ability to ever repay it has always been a disgraceful sign of irrational bad judgment or willful dishonesty and was awarded with permanent bad credit, loss of reputation and incarceration in debtor's prison. But our corrupt Uncle Sam has been doing it for 85 years, since 1935 when The Social Security Act passed into law 

Who Owns the US National Debt?

The Biggest Owner Is You! 

This by Kinberly Amadeo

The U.S. debt was $22 trillion as of February 11, 2019. Most headlines focus on how much the United States owes China, one of the largest foreign owners. What many people don’t know is that the Social Security Trust Fund, aka your retirement money, owns most of the national debt. How does that work and what does it mean?

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The Debt Is in Two Categories

The U.S. Treasury manages the U.S. debt through its Bureau of the Public Debt. The debt falls into two broad categories: intragovernmental holdings and debt held by the public. 

Total U.S national debt was $22 trillion as of December 2018. Here is the percentage breakdown of categories:

Those phantom savings are now Federal debt

The Debt Is in Two Categories

The U.S. Treasury manages the U.S. debt through its Bureau of the Public Debt. The debt falls into two broad categories: intragovernmental holdings and debt held by the public. 

Intragovernmental Debt. This is the portion of the federal debt owed to 230 other federal agencies. In December 2018, intragovernmental holdings totaled $5.9 trillion or 27% of the debt. Why would the government owe money to itself? Some agencies, like the Social Security Trust Fund, take in more revenue from taxes than they need. Rather than stick this cash under a giant mattress, these agencies buy U.S. Treasuries with it.

By owning Treasuries, they transfer their excess cash to the general fund, where it is spent. Of course, one day they will redeem their Treasury notes for cash. The federal government will either need to raise taxes or issue more debt to give the agencies the money they will need. 

Which agencies own the most Treasuries? Social Security, by a long shot.

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My Comment on the Social Security "Trust" Fund:

It has lots of "Social" but no Security, no Trust and no Fund.

The bottom line is, our Uncle Sam has borrowed and spent all of your Social Security retirement funds and replaced them with $trillions of IOUs which they hold in the Judas Bag treasury filled with one huge, multicolored, zero bubble. So our alcoholic, drug induced Uncle just prints more new money each month to pay you your due and those thousands of "volunteer incapacitated" Americans who mostly are just too fat, to skinny, too nervous or too unwilling to work, who were added, by politicians, to the Social Security "entitlement" recipients list. They call it "SSI".

Our U.S. national, Federal debt and the newly printed counterfeit money to prop it up is wide open, bottomless, and thin air which leaves a long way to fall.

                                      

Suspicion Perceived Is Not Spiritual Perception

But if God's Word and the Holy Spirit live in you... 

The audacious, unorthodox actions of President Trump have cost him the good will of a lot of independent voters, establishment Republican type voters... and all liberal socialist voters. However, it is those same controversial methods which have resuscitated patriotism and generated uncommon success in healing the anemic, failing health of our nation due to Liberal Socialist leadership. Most of the things his opponents hate him for, are the very things which have drawn red blooded, raw boned America lovers and honest tax paying citizens to support him. I'm nearly 90 and, as a pastor, have dealth with tens of thousands of people in jails, hospitals, in mental institutions, the wealthy and the poor, in church and out of church, in my life-time. I can almost always tell you which people, I do not even know, who love Trump's accomplishents or hate him. They nearly always have a slight, but different, look and manner about them. I speak of a scant, subtle, outward appearance reflecting spiritual attitude. Only God can know their heart. But many Christians sence counterfeit Christians instinctively though they may not can tell you why, and if correct, will not voice it to anyone but God.  I believe it is what I think of as spiritual perception. In the president's case, I honestly cannot perceive if he is a true Christian or not. His accomplishments seem to say he is, but his personna appears not.  At any rate, God is using him at this critical moment in the world and our national history.  You might say I don't like him much ... but love him a lot. RB

Climate 'Experts' Cry Wolf, Sell Books And Buy Seafront

Castles on Hawaii and Martha's Vineyard

In 2008 former Vice President, Democrat, Al Gore, saw Global Warming melting the entire Arctic by 2013 and causing the oceans to rise and inundate all of earth's coastal areas. He screamed "Wolf", wrote books, deposited $millions, bought jets, and founded the Global Warming Religion. Its primary doctrine ... the carbon, which makes trees and plants green is the only sin. But it will send your soul to Indian, Elizabeth Warren's hippy hunting ground if you don't repent of eating burgers, letting gas, and flying in licentious, carbon spewing jets. Gore's Democrat convert, Obama, a fanatical Global Warming disciple, took up the cry of the end times weather wolf, bought a gazillion dollar mansion in Hawaii, by the Pacific Sea, and is buying another bazillion dollar (15 $Mill) mansion on the shores of another island in the Atlantic Sea. Do you sea my point?  RB
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The Greenwich Times Reported:

Built in 2001, the nearly 7,000-square-foot home offers plenty of space for entertaining guests (Fourth of July at the Obamas'!), but don't let those rustic-looking shingles fool you. Inside, the vibe is contemporary—and a little cold. That's not to say that this massive seaside property isn't stunning. It comes with beautiful views and plenty of privacy....

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The article below doesn't even account the predictions of a host of earlier witchdoctors, shamans, sorcerers, diviners, mystics, palm readers, and voodoo hucksters who saw nature's changing marvels and predicted sinister outcomes.... which didn't happen either.


So don’t litter, don't waste, don't drink blood or eat raw meat, don't abuse your body, be kind to animals.... and stop feeling guilty about doubting Climate Change ... like Obama obviously does. He who says he believes in Global Warming and rising seas, real soon, but proves he doesn’t with the $15 million he just spent on another oceanfront castle that we’re told is doomed to massive, melting, Artic iceberg, flooding.  Trust God and His word ... and vote against idiots.

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This from BreitBart News
By John Nolte

Climate ‘Experts’ Are 0-41 with Their Doomsday Predictions

For more than 50 years Climate Alarmists in the scientific community and environmental movement have not gotten even one prediction correct, but they do have a perfect record of getting 41 predictions wrong. In other words, on at least 41 occasions, these so-called experts have predicted some terrible environmental catastrophe was imminent … and it never happened. 

And not once — not even once! — have these alarmists had one of their predictions come true. 

Think about that… the so-called experts are 0-41 with their predictions, but those of us who are skeptical of “expert” prediction number 42, the one that says that if we don’t immediately convert to socialism and allow Alexandria Ocasio-Crazy to control and organize our lives, the planet will become uninhabitable. 

Why would any sane person listen to someone with a 0-41 record? 

Why would we completely restructure our economy and sacrifice our personal freedom for “experts” who are 0-41, who have never once gotten it right? 

If you had an investment counselor who steered you wrong 41times, would you hang in there for number 42? 

Of course not. You’d fire him after failed prediction two or three. 

And if that’s not crazy enough, the latest ploy is to trot out a 16-year-old girt to spread prediction number 42, because it is so much more credible that way. 

Sometimes you just have to sit back and laugh. 

Anyway, I want you to have the data, so go ahead and print this out in advance of Thanksgiving dinner with your obnoxious Millennial nephew. 

LIST OF DOOMSDAY PREDICTIONS CLIMATE ALARMIST GOT RIGHT 

NONE. 

ZIP. 

ZERO. 

NADA. 

BLANK 

DONUT HOLE 

NIL. 

NOTHING. 

VOID. 

ZILCH. 

LIST OF DOOMSDAY PREDICTIONS THE CLIMATE ALARMIST GOT WRONG 

Here is the source for numbers 1-27. As you will see, the individual sources are not crackpots, but scientific studies and media reports on “expert” predictions. The sources for numbers 28-41 are linked individually. 

1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975 
1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969) 
1970: Ice Age By 2000 
1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980 
1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030 
1972: New Ice Age By 2070 
1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast 
1974: Another Ice Age? 
1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life 
1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent 
1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes 
1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend 
1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s 
1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs 
1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not) 
1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000 
1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not) 
2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is 
2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy 
2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024 
2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018 
2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013 
2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World 
2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’ 
2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014 
2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 
2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’ 
1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide 
1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources 
1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years 
1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years 
1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s 
1980: Peak Oil In 2000 
1996: Peak Oil in 2020 
2002: Peak Oil in 2010 
2006: Super Hurricanes! 
2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015 
1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985 
1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable 
1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish 
1970s: Killer Bees are coming!
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Real destruction is coming, not by the hand of men but of God.

"Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee." Isaiah 47:13

Southern Border Wall Needed In Nuclear, Instant Annihilation Age

It Is A Clear And Urgent Priority 

Though the world has not reached the zenith of knowledge, it has entered a "last days", Tower Of Babel high, in every field of human endeavor. Knowledge, education, medicine, production, communications, massive travel, speed, distribution of goods, electronics, building, robotics, genetics, artificial intelligence, and military weaponry... to mention a few. The progression of  HiTec development, in every field, has improved from taking centuries between important advancements, to years to months to weeks to days and now, seemingly, hours. The world has gone into hyper, overdrive progression in everything except human morality, which seems to have gone off the track into a tangent of immoral insanity. Common Sense logic and spirituality have been left in the dust, victims of hit and run wickedness and drive by shootings of strangers, free flowing drug smuggling, pervasive addiction, public cursing, bikini blue jeans, obesity, fake news, pornography,  plus legal prostitution and marijuana. Churches are turning to worldly and even heretical message, means and music to attract huge crowds to build "super" churches with single digit, or zero spiritual content ... so as not to offend even the most vile recruits.

Now, nearly 50% of adult Americans live off of the tax payers, don't want to work but spend their "free money" government credit cards on food and their secret income, from prostitution, mugging, and drugs, on booze, boats, luxury and expensive cars. And guess who they vote for... not Ted Cruz, conservative congressmen, V.P. Mike Pence or Donald Trump, but that cabal of kooks cussing,  lying, and accusing their way to the front of the oval office line.
Facing the reality of what this country is rapidly becoming, and the radical, devilish means being embraced by a near majority, we Christians, Patriots, Conservatives and honest workers must also resort to radical means ... and I don't mean "bad" but "extreme", but justified methods, which we must use. Of course we must be consistent with Biblical truth, but think outside of the traditional box... if it isn't contrary to Scripture.  There are many ways we can deal with our national problems here at home, but I will address only the absolute crisis need for a southern border barrier to stop the rapid exacerbation of our internal problems coming into our country across the southern border. The Canadian border is no problem.... yet. But our southern border with Mexico has been wide open to everyone south of it and even world wide. It is like a funnel for drug lords, trafficking young girls as sex slaves, foreign terrorists, MS13 gangs, and every sort of criminal and illegal alien, good and bad, coming into our homeland.

I am no military or security expert, but it seems to me a southern border barrier guarded by the Border Patrol, and military if necessary to guard our sea ports, ports of entry, and wide open borders are the weakest links in our national security. 

Future wars, in this Nuclear age, must be fought far differently than in the past. Our best chance to survive is spiritual, but we must also become and stay superior to the world in the development and deployment of hi-tech military weaponry, and personnel to maintain and use those weapons. I don't believe we should ever fight another foreign, ground war with the loss of tens of thousands of our young men and women. Our primary, military objective should be the complete neutralization, not necessarily annihilation, of a threatening, enemy nation by use of such weapons as EMP (electromagnetic pulse) bombs which spare lives but destroy all electronic apparatus and would paralyze a nation. That is what our enemies could also do to us, with a basket sized bomb, especially with open borders and thousands of openly available, private plane, landing strips.

These small, but dirty nuclear bombs destroy no buildings and kill no one, but would burn out every electrical device, including the electric grid systems, communications and transportation, when ignited in the air above a city, state or entire section of our nation. This could  immediately neutralize the entire country. It could be done by missile, plane or drone from without or within the country.

It is not enough to wait until we are, ourselves, totally neutralized by an enemy which would cause thousands to die of starvation, thirst or maybe home invasion, before repairs and electricity could be patched up, which may be impossible to do soon enough.  In this age, our nation cannot wait until an enemy, explodes an EMP above DC, New York or above several states or even half of the country. And this is not done in outer space but inner space depending on how much destruction is intended. It can be done by a small plane flying high above the target area and limited only by the height of ignition and size of the bomb. 

Our most important assets, other than our faith and our God, in case of such a turn of events, would be superior high tech weapons, delivery systems; expertly trained high tech personnel; and willingness to use them pre-emptively. Our most  justifiable use of a preemptive strike with an immediate, overwhelming, suppression of a coiled, writhing, nuclear enemy... before they struck us first, would be the continuing existence of our entire nation.  Once they strike us, with devastating destruction, we would be completely helpless except for our offshore retaliating missile sites and ships or submarines at sea. But all those things could do, in retaliation, is deal a similar death blow to the enemy, and maybe get back to safe haven in an unaffected foreign country.

Our greatest defense, other than God, are two oceans and a gulf, east, west, and half of our southern border, with a passive, friendly Canada on our north. So our most vulnerable approach is from the oceans, by air, ports of entry and coming across our border through Mexico. I would think, by now, we are prepared for any attack from the ocean or air, but not from our southern border running from Texas to California. To stop up that approach we must have a strong barrier, well guarded, and ports of entry so tight that only legitimate entry is possible, and where no nuclear or chemical weapons or even large shipments of narcotics can get through. That may slow down all entry, but it could also save our nation.

We should pull all of our overseas troops home except those manning nuclear missile sites, and  from the hatching nests for terrorists, and use the freed up personnel to protect our country instead of foreign nations. We could use the billions now being spent keeping troops overseas to protect our southern border, ports of entry, and Navy and  Coast-Guard activity. The Air Force and new Space Force would guard our skies and outer space.

These changes, revised and improved to align with facts I am unaware of,  will never be done unless you Christians and Patriots get organized and make the politicians prepare for the worst. Most politicians are absorbed with re-election, personal gain, and partisan politics, but tax paying citizens can force them to take action or be voted out of office.  And for our homeland's sake, lets not let any of this crew of heathen incompetents running the Democrat Party, or Republican RINOs win any more battles for national power with their vain and insane imaginations. One vote may not seem like a lot, but it is all that determines who will lead us and protect our country. So convince those around you to vote and vote yourself. Your vote was never more important. RB

Could A Drone Be The Black Swan I Have Spoken Of Previously?

Drones are cheap, efficient, and almost undetectable.

They could be launched in swarms … by amateurs.

The term "Black Swam" alludes to an unexpected event which triggers a world catastrophe like the final snow flake which sets off an avalanche. 

This from Charles Smith 

as published in Of Two Minds

What was "possible" yesterday is now a low-cost proven capability, and the consequences are far from predictable.

Predictably, the mainstream media is serving up heaping portions of reassurances that the drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities are no big deal and full production will resume shortly. The obvious goal is to placate global markets fearful of an energy disruption that could tip a precarious global economy into recession.

The real impact isn't on short-term oil prices, it's on asymmetric warfare: the coordinated drone attack on Saudi oil facilities is a Black Swan event that is reverberating around the world, awakening copycats and exposing the impossibility of defending against low-cost drones of the sort anyone can buy.

(Some published estimates place the total cost of the 10 drones deployed in the strike at $15,000. Highly capable commercially available drones cost around $1,200 each.)

The attack's success should be a wake-up call to everyone tasked with defending highly flammable critical infrastructure: there really isn't any reliable defense against a coordinated drone attack, nor is there any reliable way to distinguish between an Amazon drone delivering a package and a drone delivering a bomb.

Whatever authentication protocol that could be required of drones in the future--an ID beacon or equivalent--can be spoofed. For example: bring down an authenticated drone (using nets, etc.), swap out the guidance and payload, and away it goes. Or steal authentication beacons from suppliers, or hack an authenticated drone in flight, land it, swap out the payload--the list of spoofing workaround options is extensive.

This is asymmetric warfare on a new scale: $20,000 of drones can wreak $20 million in damage and financial losses of $200 million--or $2 billion or $20 billion, if global markets are upended.

If it's impossible to defend against coordinated drone attacks, and impossible to differentiate "good" drones from "bad" drones, then the only reliable defense is to ban drones entirely from wide swaths of territory.

So much for the lightly regulated commercialization of drones.

What sort of light bulbs are going off in the minds of copycats? It doesn't take much imagination to see the potential for mayhem--and without sacrificing your own life. I won't elaborate on the possibilities here, but they're obvious to us all.

The range and payload of low-cost drones is limited. The big drones can fly hundreds of miles and carry hundreds of pounds of weaponry, but these can be targeted by radar and conventional ground-to-air missiles. So-called hobby drones skimming over the rooftops (or deserts or forests) are difficult to shoot down, especially if the attack is coordinated to arrive from multiple directions.

Small hobby drones may only carry 3 KG (roughly 6 pounds), but how much damage can 3 KG of high explosives cause? The answer is "considerable" if the target is flammable, or lightly shielded electronics.

Larger commercially available drones can carry up to 20 KG or 40 pounds--more than enough explosive capacity to take out any number of targets.

Defense and intelligence agencies have no doubt war-gamed the potential for coordinated drone attacks, and the world's advanced militaries are already exploring the potential for self-organizing "drone hordes" of hundreds or even thousands of drones overwhelming defenders with sheer numbers. The success of the oil facilities attack proves the effectiveness of much smaller scale drone attacks.

Put yourself in the shoes of those tasked with securing hundreds of miles of pipelines carrying oil and natural gas around the world. What's your defense against drone attacks? A.I.-controlled or remote-operated gun towers every few hundred yards, along thousands of miles of pipelines? Human patrols covering the entire pipeline 24/7? The cost of such defenses would burden the defenders with enormous costs without providing 100% reliable security. (Guards can be bribed, remotely operated guns can be overwhelmed by an initial wave of cheap unarmed hobby drones, etc.)

It's obvious there are no low-cost, effective defenses of thousands of miles of pipelines. (Recall that the Saudis depend on seawater being piped hundreds of kilometers into the desert to inject into oil wells to maintain production. Taking out these water lines and pumps would cripple production, too.)

The only effective way to limit drone attacks is to ban all drones and institute a shoot-on-sight policy in restricted areas. But that will not negate the potential for coordinated drone strikes or drone attacks on remote facilities.

The mainstream media will be under permanent pressure to downplay the consequences of this attack, but the cat is out of the bag: the Black Swan is a drone. What was "possible" yesterday is now a low-cost proven capability, and the consequences are far from predictable.

This unpredictability alone should unsettle markets, as the risk of future asymmetric warfare drone strikes just increased to a degree that is difficult to measure or hedge.