State of the Octopus

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State of the Octopus

March 9, 2024

A NEW DOCUSERIES on Netflix had us thinking that somebody had been listening to 15-year-old episodes of P.I.D. Radio.

That’s not the case, of course. The Octopus Murders, a four-part series, is well researched and connected some dots that we hadn’t put together back in 2009. However, it was a bit surreal seeing people whose names we’d become very familiar with, like Danny Casolaro, Michael Riconosciuto, John Philip Nichols, Robert Booth Nichols, Cheri Seymour, and others, on screen.

If you’re not familiar with “the Octopus,” we refer you to our episode from October 4, 2009, where we summarized the investigation and highly suspicious death of investigative journalist Danny Casolaro in 1991. Casolaro was found dead in a hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia with his wrists deeply slashed 10 to 12 times. It was ruled a suicide, despite the impossibility of slashing the second wrist when the tendons of the opposite hand have been severed.

We also discuss this week’s State of the Union address, undoubtedly the angriest SOTU message we’ve ever seen. For a president who claims to be optimistic, Joe Biden sure seems ticked.

Also: If Israel isn’t the “real Israel,” why is the god of Islam and his followers obsessed with destroying it?

Party Like It's 1939

April 27, 2024

PRO-HAMAS PROTESTS on college campuses around the United States this week began to evoke images of 1930s Germany. Students forming a human chain to force Jewish students off the Columbia University campus was eerily reminiscent of Brownshirts blocking access by Jewish students to the University of Vienna. The so-called “anti-fascists” are, in fact, what they claim to hate. Here’s a link to video of Columbia student Khymani James saying “Zionists don’t deserve to live”: https://http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-3176089/video-columbia-encampment-leader-says-zionists-dont-deserve-live.html Who’s paying for the protesters’ matching tents? It appears that the anti-Israel protests are backed by George Soros (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/anti-israel-protests-nationwide-fueled-left-wing-groups-backed-soros-dark-money)—but if you say so, you might be labeled anti-Semitic because Soros is nominally Jewish. On the West Coast, a pro-Hamas encampment at the University of Washington in Seattle was postponed because it was “too white.” Yes, factions of anti-Semitic students are squabbling over who gets credit for demonizing Jews. Also: Problems with the Gaza relief pier; asteroid Apophis; US Congress to vote on stablecoin bill, bringing us a step closer to Central Bank Digital Currency; and the Deep State tires of the Biden Shuffle.

"They Wouldn't Just Eat Any White Men That Fell From the Sky"

April 20, 2024

THOSE IMMORTAL WORDS were spoken by Michael Kabuni, a political science lecturer at the University of Papua New Guinea, responding to a false claim by President Biden that his uncle had been eaten by cannibals after being shot down in WWII. Biden told the story twice Wednesday, in Scranton and then again in Pittsburgh. As it happens, his uncle, Ambrose J. Finnegan, was not a pilot and hadn’t been shot down; the plane on which he was flying lost power in both engines and ditched in the ocean with only the flight engineer surviving the crash. Needless to say, the people of Papua New Guinea are not thrilled about being characterized as cannibals. We also discuss the tense situation in the Middle East. Since last week’s program, Iran hit Israel with a wave of drones and cruise missiles, nearly all of which were intercepted. There was only one reported casualty, a 7-year-old Bedouin girl. In response, Israel on Friday reportedly destroyed the radar unit that protects Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant. Then, Friday night, reports from Iraq indicate that somebody struck a base south of Baghdad used by Iran-backed Shia militias. Israel and the US have denied responsibility, but the Shias in Iraq blame Israel nonetheless. We discuss who may have attacked the Shias there and why. Also: Bluetooth LE has created a mesh network independent of the Internet, ready for AI to transform into the real-world equivalent of Skynet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ub_fni_bvg the new song by the Caspar McCloud Band, featuring the Gilberts, Pastor Paul Begley, and Col. David Giammona.

UFOs, Red Heifers, and Tucker Carlson

April 13, 2024

THE MOOD IN ISRAEL is tense this weekend, as intelligence sources say Iran is preparing an imminent strike to retaliate for the recent airstrike against Iran’s embassy in Damascus. Against this backdrop are Internet rumors about plans to sacrifice a red heifer to prepare for construction of the Third Temple. Some say it will happen on April 22, 2024. Unless Israel National News was wrong about the ages of the five red heifers delivered to Shiloh last July when we discussed it on this podcast (or unless someone was lying), the earliest one of them could be slaughtered, according to rabbinic tradition, is this coming September. Meanwhile, Iran seized a container ship owned by an Israeli in the Strait of Hormuz. This suggests that Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates have been working with Israel to bypass Yemen’s blockade of the Red Sea on the other side of Arabia. We also discuss the recent fascination with UFOs and “aliens.” Christians should be prepared to discuss the inhuman entities that have been visiting the planet for thousands of years. They’re not extraterrestrial, they’re extradimensionsal. We call them angels. Finally, we address Tucker Carlson’s misinformed and antisemitic interview with Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac this week. Carlson has never been a friend of Israel, but he made his bias clear this week by giving a platform to an Arab pastor from Bethlehem who places more importance on his ethnicity than his Savior. Also: Keeping an eye on HPAI, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, which is now reported in seven US dairy herds.