It looked like it was ready for just about anything.
What fun to drive and pretend your "Mad Max"
Maybe you really are. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Itzchak O.)
Showing posts with label Apocalypse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apocalypse. Show all posts
October 9, 2022
April 5, 2021
The Bombs Will Fall On Iran’s Nukes
Since Iran has rejected any new negotiations or participants to the Iran nuclear deal, we must assume that the flaws of JCPOA will not be resolved and that Iran’s existential threats remains unabated. Further, Iranian elections this coming June 2021 are forecasted to bring more dangerous Iranian hardliners to power. Therefore, regardless of whether the US reenters the deal with Iran now, it will only mean a short term stopgap for restrictions placed on the Iran’s dangerous program for weapons of mass destruction. The end game for the Ayatollahs has not changed in gaining nuclear destructive capability and threatening Israel, the Sunni Muslim states, and the western world with this.While reentering the Iran nuclear agreement buys the world some time, and not that much frankly, the US, Israel, and other key allies will need to continue planning in earnest for what comes after the failings of the JCPOA deal, and that will most assuredly bring us back to the massive and devastating bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities with the Mother of All Bombs (MOABS) and other highly advanced weapon systems fitted for this.
March 10, 2021
Fashion Masks
January 20, 2021
Walking Dead: Can't Wait
24 more episodes of killing the crazy zombies.
Everyone's got to hold on and survive in a world that is in full apocalypse mode.
It doesn't take much for society to revert to biblical Sodom and Gomorrah where the wheels come completely off the proverbial bus.
We should know because aside from advances in technology and medicine, a lot of the world is well on the way there! ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
December 24, 2020
The End of Times
I am looking for a good book on the Jewish view of the End of Times.
- Who fights who?
- What happens and how does the fighting finally end?
- Who will live and who will die?
- Who from the dead will be resurrected?
- What occurs in practical terms when the Mashiach arrives?
- What does G-d's revelation to the whole world look and feel like?
- Where is Israel at each step in unfolding of the redemption?
- How does the 3rd Temple actually get built?
- Is world peace not only possible, but also enduring?
Wow, would love to read a layman's book like this.
Can anyone recommend anything really good? ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
November 24, 2020
Who You Calling Bull?
August 21, 2020
You Get Your Own Special Table
Reserved for Mr. and Mrs. Social Distance. Thank You.
Wow, for people that are rightfully worried about Coronavirus or maybe they're just hypochondriacs, there is a secluded table for you in the restaurant, so you can still go out and eat and enjoy yourselves.
Mr. and Mrs. Social Distance, you are sitting far away but still part of the living, Halleluja! ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
May 5, 2020
Standing Tall
No people though on a Sunday or because of COVID-19.
I imagine this is what a ghost town looks like.
The statues stand tall but the remnants of the people are hiding in shelters.
End of times or a new beginning...we'll see. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
April 30, 2020
Predicted It Right In 2017
Holding a book called The End of The F*cking World.
Little did we know back then Coronavirus was coming our way.
One thing that is amazing to me is the incredible lack of responsibility when it comes to our fiscal (tax rates and spending) and monetary policy (interest rates and money supply).
For example, we've spent almost $3,000,000,000,000 (i.e. trillion) on Coronavirus Relief/Recovery.
And there is another package in the works to borrow and spend more money.
This on top of our already tens of trillions of dollars of national debt we already accumulated.
The crazy thing is that this is going on globally with Europe and Japan and others borrowing and spending without any sanity as well.
Now here is the BIG QUESTION for you all:
If everyone is borrowing and spending, who are they borrowing from???
Yep, this is called funny money!
Because it's not possible for everyone to be borrowing and carrying a bottom line net debt at the same time.
The money has to come from somewhere doesn't it?
The Federal Reserve is "injecting" trillions into the economy and their balance sheet of "loans" to us is going up towards $11 trillion dollars now.
These injections are short term medicine that may kill the patient down the road by overdose!
Have you ever heard of a Chair of the Federal Reserve that "urges policy makers to spend more"?
Simple economics tells us that this will yield at some point an unbelievable inflation.
We are injecting or "printing" more and more money (or electronic bytes of it), and that causes the money to devalue because there is so much of it (supply side economics) with nothing but hot air backing it up (we haven't been on the gold standard since 1971).
There is a DAY OF RECKONING coming when:
- People's savings and wallets will devalue and money will be worth close to squat after RUNWAY INFLATION.
- Also, what do you think will happen to the stock market and jobs too when people have only loads of valueless funny money and can't buy anymore like they used too--can anyone say MARKET CRASH and UNEMPLOYMENT!
Folks, you heard it here first, the end of the f*cking world is coming--it's called CONSEQUENCES, plain and simple. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Dannielle Blumenthal)
April 1, 2020
Pathogen Deaths - Worst Is Yet To Come
But in the U.S. we have 4,000 dead from Coronavirus and 3/4 of the country (all the major population centers) are on lockdown.
Yet, the projections are still for deaths in the U.S. to pile up between 100,000 to 240,000.
How do you get from 4,000 to 240,000 with most people under lockdown?
The numbers of projected deaths were in the millions before the lockdown and social distancing, so yes the numbers are lower and better now.
Still the escalating death toll is frightening in its magnitude of what is yet to come DESPITE the lockdown.
Moreover, the estimated death in the U.S. from the Flu was only 34,000 (2018-2019) and that's with everybody round and about doing their business.
My question is what happens after the (first) peak when they send people back to work and school?
There are still going to be people sick and contagious out there and the whole cycle STARTS AGAIN until we get the vaccine.
And even after the vaccine, it may become seasonal like the flu or mutate and become even more virulent.
It seems like there is plenty of reason to be cautious and concerned about what is yet to happen from here.
Then again we may be considered fortunate this time and actually beat this Coronavirus, but then again what happens when the NEXT really bad natural or man-made pathogen gets out? ;-)
Note: There are approximately 16 countries with deadly biological weapons programs.
(Credit Photo: My wonderful so-in-law, Itzchak)
March 30, 2020
Harris Teeter War Zone
But this guy in the respirator mask is showing us how bad things can start to get.
As an avid fan of the show The Walking Dead, I think we are entering TWD territory with the people walking around with their face's half covered and some looking sick with fear and worry or perhaps even with symptoms--who knows!
What is amazing is how things can go from boom to bust, and not just for our economy, but for life and civilization itself at the turn of a dime.
Yesterday, I read how the CFO of Jefferies Group Investment Bank (NYC) died at age 56 from Coronavirus.
Even as the Navy's hospital ships Mercy and Comfort enter the ports of Los Angeles and New York City to lend a hand and about 1,000 hospital beds each, it seems like more and more of these deadly cases are hitting the papers and social media every day.
Where does this sickness stop?
What happens if the virus mutates again and become even more virulent?
How do we ever feel even remotely secure again?
Can we keep taxing our already overwhelmed healthcare system with more and more sick patients?
How long can we keep printing Monopoly bailout money (incredibly, there is talk of yet another multi-trillion Coronavirus stimulus bill even after we just passed this $2.2 trillion one last week)?
Eventually, as we all know circumstances can indeed overwhelm the health and financial systems, and even our governments...thank G-d we aren't there.
But what we are all beginning to see in the midst of crisis is that "there" isn't really all that far away from "here."
...That life hangs by a truly thin thread.
And because we can only do so much, this is where we really need to look up to the heavens and ask for G-d's help and mercy. ;-)
(Credit Photo: my wonderful son-in-law, Itzchak)
March 19, 2020
Coronavirus - Something or Nothing?
And the actions demonstrating unpreparedness, disorganized response, general chaos, and panic do not match the few calming words we are getting.
No wonder everyone is panicking and the bottom is falling from the market.
On one hand:
- The officials tell everyone to remain calm, and there is no reason to panic.
- Help is on the way.
- People are overreacting.
- Most people that get Covid 19 won't even know they had it or the symptoms will be mild (or maybe moderate)
- The death rate is "only" like 3 or 4% and it's mostly older people or those with chronic ailments anyway (as if these people don't matter).
- Younger children aren't really getting it (although we don't know exactly why or the impact on pregnant women).
- It's less contagious and deadly than the flu (wait, it's more contagious and deadly).
- There are plenty of tests available for everyone (no, there aren't).
- It will be over in a few weeks when the seasons change and the temperature goes up.
- A vaccine will soon be ready for testing and then distribution after 12-18 months.
- The numbers of infected are going down in China--see they have it under control!
- Maybe we should allow investigative drugs to be used (or maybe not, the FDA thinks this is a bad idea).
- The impact to the economy will be over probably by August (or will it?).
- It'll ALL be over soon.
On the other hand:
- We don't know what we're facing (people are routinely using the words apocalypse and armageddon).
- This could be the "big one!"
- Is this a punishment from G-d (and is the Messiah coming)?
- This has reached pandemic proportions.
- We are declaring a national emergency.
- This may have come out of a Chinese bioweapons lab.
- Also, China suppressed information and initial response on this making the outbreak worse.
- "China should be punished for these things" (or some version of this).
- Cases are raising around the world.
- The contagion is worse than initially thought (there are comparisons to the Spanish Flu of 1918 which killed around 50 million people)
- The death rate is higher than expected.
- We don't know why or where certain people got Covid 19 from.
- The hospitals are already overwhelmed and are unprepared for a real surge of cases.
- We need to "flatten the curve" so our healthcare system isn't brought to its knees.
- We are already triaging patients and our doctors and nurses are working extra long hours and are exhausted.
- We aren't prepared for this--our healthcare system and government has "failed us".
- We're rolling out unprecedented economic assistance from the Fed, the Treasury...another trillion dollar deficit (no answer for how this gets paid, if ever...can anyone say runaway inflation in the future and lots of worthless dollars).
- Washing and "Social Distancing" are paramount.
- There is a run on toilet paper and disinfectants and these are either sold out or vendors are price gouging these items.
- We are shutting down the country (workplaces, fitness centers, eat-in restaurants, entertainment, travel, places of worship, and any significant gathering of people).
- The instructions to stay at home in "indefinite"!
- People are stuck in the house and worried about how long this will go on.
- Some places like New Rochelle, NY are under quarantine and the National Guard has been called out.
- There is talk of a curfew and further measures of quarantine to be enforced under penalty of imprisonment.
- The lines at the stores (Costco, Sam's Club, Supermarkets, Groceries) are out the door and the shelves are empty.
- Amazon announces that they are running out on consumer stables!
- Businesses are suspending workers, moving them to part time, and laying them off.
- The stock market is down by 1/3 and we're told that this could just be the beginning.
- A recession is looming and the economic impact and duration is unknown.
- Italy is on lockdown.
- Borders are being closed.
- People can't get home from abroad.
- Cruise ships aren't being allowed to port.
- Airlines are screaming for a financial bailout.
- Navy Hospital Ships with 1,000 beds each are being deployed to the east and west coast.
- We're sending $1,000 checks (or something like this) to people below a certain income level (maybe $65,000).
- Taxes are supposedly being deferred (although not filing of returns or estimated taxes yet).
- People are wearing masks everywhere (but we are being told only the sick ones need to wear it and we see everyone in China wearing it and of course our first responders and medical professionals, so which is it).
- Primary voting is delayed in some states and there is question whether the November Presidential election will also be delayed.
Summary:
Does anyone know WTF is going on around here???
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
March 16, 2020
Germs, Can't Think About Anything Else
Who can think about anything but germs!
Or should I say killing germs.
Nobody wants to get sick.
And we don't want to get others sick either.
- Wash your hands a lot!
- No more handshakes.
- No more touching "suspect" surfaces.
- Keep good ("far") social distancing.
- Quarantine yourself in the house for 2 weeks (actually it's more like indefinitely).
What has become of our world.
Just one big GERM BOWL.
Can we really hide from the germs? ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
March 15, 2020
The Coronavirus Panic
January 12, 2020
EMP Attack-->Danger, Danger, Danger
Everyone needs to see this!
The explosion of a nuke(s) in the atmosphere over the country causes an electromagnetic pulse that fries all our electronics.
Nothing would work!!!
Think cyberattack on steroids with everything out of commission and basically little to no chance of recovery.
Prognosis is for mass riots, starvation, and illness that wipes out most of the population.
Easy then for the enemy to swoop in and conquer the country with no resistance and the basic infrastructure still intact for them to build on.
Just having mutually assured destruction is not enough!
We need to genuinely be able to counter these threats and not just say: "You'll die if we die."
How stupid and immature is that thinking?
There are more than a share of radical nuts out there who don't care if they die as long as they take us down.
These are the threats we need to pay attention to before...before...before...it's too late. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
August 28, 2019
Revolting Bug Food
It says:
"Eat Bugs"
Bugs are a source of high protein.
Crunchy too.
The ones above were Cheddar Cheese Crickets!
There was also Chile-Lime Crickets (with Pumpkin Seeds) and Dark Chocolate Crickets (with Amaranth Seeds).
Then came the BBQ and Honey Mustard Crickets
And to top it all of some Salt and Pepper Mealworms.
OMG folks, we have gone back to the Stone Ages eating this crap.
Or maybe this is all that will be left when Armageddon finally comes. ;-)
(Credit Photos: Andy Blumenthal)
October 19, 2017
Never Ever More Vulnerable
As we all know, our cybersecurity have not kept near pace with our ever growing reliance on everything technology.
There is virtually nothing we do now-a-days that does not involve networks, chips, and bits and bytes.
Energy
Transportation
Agriculture
Banking
Commerce
Health
Defense
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
If ANYTHING serious happens to cripple our technology base, we are toast!
From a crippling cyberattack that disables or hijacks our systems, steals or locks down our data, or creates massive chaotic misinformation flow to a EMP blast that simply fries all our electronic circuitry--we are at the mercy of our technology underpinnings.
Don't think it cannot happen!
Whether it's Wannacry ransonware or the Equifax breach of our privacy data or the Kaspersky Labs hidden backdoor to our top secret files or North Korea threatening to hit us with an EMP--these are just a few of the recent cyber events of 2017!
Technology is both a blessing and a curse--we have more capability, more speed, more convenience, more cost-effectiveness than ever before, but also there is greater vulnerability to complete and utter death and destruction!
This is not just a risk that life could become more difficult or inconvenient--it is literally an existential threat, but who wants to think of it that way?
People, property, and our very society is at risk when our cybersecurity is not what it must be.
It's a race of defensive against offensive capability.
And we can't just play defense, we had better actually win at this! ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
October 14, 2017
We Broke The Weather
This was during the series of numerous recent hurricanes in just a few weeks period of time, including Harvey, IRMA, and Maria that devastated Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
He said to me:
"We broke the weather!"
And after decades of warning about the impact of global warming--maybe he is right.
This last September was the most active month for Atlantic hurricanes ever on record.
Further, we are seeing simultaneously the deadliest wildfires raging in California in its history.
This only 13 years after the deadliest Tsunami from the Indian Ocean in recorded times killing about a quarter million people!
And only 28 years after the deadliest Tornado occurred in Bangladesh in 1989 that killed 1,300 people.
All these as if the increasing threats of nukes and other weapons of mass destruction and cyberattack weren't enough to keep you up at night.
As we get more sophisticated and technologically dependent, incredible manmade and natural disasters are threatening us superbig time.
And over and over again, it is being reported that a well-placed EMP explosion over the United States would kill 90% of the population within a year--talk about a extinction level event!
As we experience temperatures15 degree above normal this fall, even the trees are behaving abnormally as the leaves are not changing to colors of yellows and oranges and reds and purples that we expect and enjoy.
Nature is messed up by our abuse of the planet and nurture is messed up by megalomaniacs with the weapons to do us in.
If we don't correct the dangerous path we are on polluting our planet and over-relying on technology then soon we could be turning horrible colors even if the leaves just fall to the ground or turn to ash. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
September 22, 2017
613 Everywhere
My wife and I continue to see 613 all the time and everywhere!
Prices, receipts, license plates, accounts balances, stock price changes, lottery winnings, bar codes, time of day, wait times, schedules, number of email, rows in a spreadsheet, road numbers, social media views, etc. etc. etc.
- I have questioned myself over and over whether I am seeing it because I am sensitized to it or simply even looking for it at this point.
The answer is a definite no!
Here's a recent example, of the change in the stock price for Teva Pharmaceuticals (above)--it's exactly -.0613!
But this isn't a one time event or a fluke.
As we all know stock prices fluctuate every moment on the marketplace. Yet, when I check at completely different and random times, it is up or down by a variation of 613!
Other times, I'll check multiple stocks... and they will simultaneously be moving or priced at variations again of 613--at the exact same moment, I repeat, different stocks priced at the exact same moment.
Here's another non-financial example:
I did a post a few weeks ago on the critical importance of emergency preparedness.
Look at how many views it got on LinkedIn...exactly 163!
This happens everywhere and all the time!
Here's a third example:
Here's a fourth example:
Can you see the code on the package...613!
A fifth example:
A sixth example:
A seventh example:
An eighth example:
An ninth example:
A tenth example:
Hey, I am not superstitious and I am not OCD--seriously.
But this happens all the time.
I cannot help but think that G-d is sending us an important message.
From a personal level, my wife and I have both tried to take the messages seriously and to continue to improve our lives--albeit we know, we are far from perfect human beings.
However, we also feel compelled to share this message more broadly.
There is a lot going on in the world, and could this mean something bigger and more consequential to a lot more people?
Please, please, please, G-d have mercy on your children...we are but flesh and blood...and we desire to do good.
(Source Photos: Andy Blumenthal)
August 6, 2017
What A Nuclear War Looks Like
Wow, wow, wow!
Great job Hashem Al-Ghaili on this video depicting the implicit horror of nuclear war.
16,000 nuclear weapons...2,000 ready to launch at a moment's notice.
Wake up world!
It just takes one numbskull to kill it for everybody.
"Few people laughed.
Few people cried.
Most people were silent.
Now I am become death.
The destroyer of worlds."
We need to pray to G-d and do everything to protect this amazing world and our people for the future.
There has got to be a tomorrow! ;-)
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