January 20, 2025 Keeping the Flame As Darkness Falls Now-again President Trump has just proclaimed the dawn of America’s Golden Age, and America First, but it feels more like the Tribulation has truly begun. Wrapping himself in the flag, anointing himself as the savior of America, the gaudy show reached heights of sanctimonious hypocrisy rarely seen in this country, crammed into the Capitol Rotunda so it would look even more impressive and united. Promising paradise to his followers and threatening hell to his foes was worthy of Hitler, and likely all those earnest prayers by the clergy urging him to wisdom and justice were wasted. For while he declared […]

January 13, 2025 High Likelihood of Civilization Ending by 2050 — or Becoming a Utopia A report by an Australian think-tank says that climate change and our inability to do something about it could lead to an increasingly chaotic world with devastating results. The Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration of Melbourne claims that even if global emissions peak by 2030, (a very hopeful view), several studies indicate that the whole deck of cards could still fall apart by 2050. ‘High likelihood of human civilisation coming to end’ by 2050, report finds This is but the latest in a long line of alarms that go back at least to the Club of Rome, another prestigious […]

January 13, 2025 Putin Claims Divine Honors Of course, Russia's unanointed tsar, Vladimir Putin, is also in the running for Antichrist. But he doesn't have to be in direct competition with his toady, Donald Trum,p for the dishonor as there are several other characters busily working with the Antichrist in Revelation, such as the False Prophet, the Image of the Beast, and the Scarlet Woman. Putin is, however, tossing his own hat into the apocalyptic ring by increasingly claiming divine honors for himself. In his latest move, the Russian president has asked Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill to inscribe Putin's own initials on the backs of crosses given […]

January 10, 2025 Fire and Frost Challenge US The system that brought raging winds and apocalyptic infernos sweeping across southern California is shifting east. Combining with a vortex of cold air swooping down from the Arctic, Winter Storm Cora will bring record-breaking cold, snow, and sleet to the southern states. So it appears that the same weather pattern is causing both kinds of extreme conditions of fire and frost. But is this all due to to the dreaded specter of climate change? Not necessarily. The fires around LA are apparently not climate change-driven. They seem to be just how the weather works out there — with desert Santa […]

January 8, 2025 Darkness Falls on America as Carter is Mourned In less than two weeks, Donald J. Trump will be come president of the USA again. Already, darkness is falling on the country. He has already infuriated allies with deranged schemes to buy (or seize) Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada, which of course, delights the Kremlin — and may be the point. Likely it is all just a distraction from worse things, such as his actual foreign policy. But who knows? Keeping everyone anxious and off-balance, focused on unreal possibilities, has always been part of his technique. But no-one can dismiss such gambits, due to his erratic nature. Even […]

January 7, 2025 Researchers Are Building an AI Dreamworld The Matrix is quickly becoming real. As reality slides slowly into chaos, scientists are intent on creating computer models of it to train AI systems in the quest for General Artificial Intelligence (AGI). Nvidia, for instance, is building a "multiverse simulation engine" to provide the massive amounts of data required to train generative AI systems to do anything. These neural nets would produce huge amounts of realistic videos based on real-world physics dealing with all potential outcomes of situations to train self-driving cars, among many other things. These would use statistical algorithms to decide each step of the simulation and […]

January 1, 2025 The Trumpet Sounds Welcome, seekers! Today being New Year's Day 2025, it is time to launch this website, devoted to the possibility that the first trumpet of the Apocalypse has sounded. The site will feature news updates, jeremiads (or rants, if you prefer) on significant Endtime topics, starting with whether or not Trump is the Antichrist. But mainly the focus will be on apocalyptic art, both by myself and others, current day or historical, (occasionally modified), both serious and humorous. The site is constantly being tweaked, and much more will be continually added for as long as possible. However, lest anyone think that […]

December 31, 2024 Artificial Intelligence — All About the Money OpenAI, one of the leaders in artificial intelligence, claims its new o3 system has reached "human-level" scores on an intelligence test designed to see how AI works learning new data. If correct, it could mean that general AI (AGI), the Holy Grail of robotics, could be closer than we think, with implications still hard to imagine. OpenAI Claims Its New Model Reached Human Level on a Test for ‘General Intelligence.’ What Does That Mean? However, there are good reasons to suspect OpenAI's motives. The company was founded by Elon Musk and others supposedly to create a safe form of AI […]

December 31, 2024 Kessler Syndrome Could Keep Humanity Earthbound Human pollution is not limited to Earth. It can be found in orbit, where space junk is already regularly threatening the International Space Station and other satellites. How much more would it take to make it all unusable? If ever a real world war is launched, we'll probably quickly find out, as satellites would likely be taken out right at the beginning. It may be possible to launch a sneak attack that might take out everything in geosynchronous orbit, producing huge amounts of debris. Since orbits below that altitude ultimately decay and objects above that will slowly drift away, the […]

December 28, 2024 CIA Confirms Ancient Life on Mars While NASA searches for life on Mars — or rather, pretends to — the Central Intelligence Agency is way ahead of them. Through their Remote Viewing program, leaked documents reveal that back in the 1980s, their trained clairvoyants "saw" a race of tall humanoids, with pyramids and immense roads there circa 1,000,000 BC. Not only that, but the viewers were given precise coordinates to look at, which suggests they had access to a lot more information already. Remote Viewing is so far out there that most skeptics don't even bother to attempt to debunk, just dismiss it all as "woo-woo". […]