When facing a life-threatening emergency, you call “Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!” on the radio in the hopes that someone will hear and save you. May Day, on the other hand, was deemed International Workers’ Day by the Second International, the organization of socialist parties formed in Paris on July 14, 1889. Whenever I see May Day…
Not conspiracy theories: mysteries
April 30, 2015
I’ve said before that I don’t believe in the classic conspiracy theories. None of them survive the Snowden Test. If there were giant secret operations being carried out by thousands of people, at least one of them would’ve provided irrefutable evidence by now. Edward Snowden doesn’t even have a high-school diploma, but he penetrated the…
The explosion in Yemen
April 29, 2015
On April 20, 2014, an unidentified nation dropped a gigantic bomb on a military base next to the Faj Attan neighborhood of Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. News reports said that this was a Saudi air strike that hit a SCUD missile depot. Close study of the explosion indicates that this is not true. For…
Armageddon averted by inches
April 27, 2015
Sit back, kids, and let your Grandpa Tom tell you about the time we skated to the very edge of Armageddon. It was during the Los Angeles riots of April 29 to May 4, 1992. The reason I’m telling you this is because of the current unrest in Baltimore, Maryland. Before that, it was Ferguson,…
Now I understand how the IDF did it
April 25, 2015
What I couldn’t figure out about Operation Protective Edge was how the Israeli Defense Forces could so accurately target buildings, rocket launchers, and mortar positions. The IDF has Tzayad (Hebrew for “Hunter”), the Digital Army Program that allows commanders to see the battlefield in both virtual and actual form. Assets and enemies are assigned twelve-digit…
Someone sends a message to Iran
April 20, 2015
There’s some amazing video of a massive explosion next to the Faj Attan neighborhood of Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. We’ve been told that the target was a SCUD missile depot or a missile base. There’s a difference between the two: A missile depot is where you store the weapons, while a missile base is…
Yom HaShoah
April 15, 2015
Wednesday, April 15, 2105, is Yom HaShoah in Israel, “Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day.” The Israelis remember not only those who were murdered but also those who fought back. This is what happens at 10:00 a.m. Unlike a lot of people, I never had any trouble believing that the Holocaust happened. My mother went to…
