Christmas Story

This blog looks at the Christmas Story from Luke 2. The divine names study adds some missing emphasis. Then we look at some prophetic trends, future travel plans and lessons learned from a day in the shop. Finally, a headline review.

BRB

Ryan's recent work in the BRB dealing with divine names is still ongoing. What has changed this week is that he is now dealing with the text of the BRB and TT directly. He is no longer needing to invent new tooling and manuscript related markup in order to deal with this ongoing divine names study.

But, there is still a very large amount of work ahead. This is going to take many weeks before he has worked through all the related issues. It is a new and permanent change in how he is looking at problems in the text.

The divine name study now involves input from the Hebrew Old Testament. So he is referencing the Hebrew interlinear found in the VR app. That data drives some of how the BRB is getting marked up.

For reference, and to understand the scope of his current work, here is some math. There are about 7000 references to Yahweh, 3000 references to Elohim, and another 400 or so references to Adonai. (Adonai shows up in Aramaic as another divine name related word hidden behind the Aramaic term for master.) Because Elohim is a later term, coming in from Ezra, it can cover an earlier Yahweh which increases the number of possible transformations. So working through this problem is a tedious process, ultimately tied to filling out the Table of 400 study that has been ongoing since 2018.

Another point that is important to note. The term "god" is often combined with another name. Say the "god of the skies" or the "god of Abraham." The standard rabbi approved list of names of god will sometimes include the latter terms, sometimes not. As a BRB convention, Ryan is always including the latter terms. This leads to a curious conflict in the Keyword markup. Abraham, for example, is a Keyword Name. But when combined with god, Abraham is marked as part of the name of god. The Keyword related options do the right thing for these strange cases.

How Ryan deals with these words is also tied into the study of the editors. That study shows up under the Filter related markup. Passages written by editors are not in the 400 and remain in the BRB using [ ] assist in translation notation that identifies these names.

Passages that are thought to be inspired usually have different original terms, usually Joshua. But, of course there are also passages where the inspired writers are calling out the false gods. So at times those Hebrew terms are used by inspired writers when those writers are calling out the crime of the editors. Inspired use of false god names is the interesting new case that is part of this study.

In the last 2 blogs I shared a developing example from Luke 1, where Gabriel shows up and visits Zechariah in the temple of Yahweh. It looks like all 3 of the key divine names show up in that chapter, including Elohim, Yahweh, and Joshua. The religious systems of those other 2 false gods are what will be defeated across the rest of the New Testament. Zechariah himself works in, and is trapped by, that religious system.

Another interesting example shows up in Luke 2. This second chapter of the New Testament turns to the problem of the customers of that same false religious system. This chapter happens to include the Christmas narrative, which is fun considering western Christmas is the Thursday after this blog goes out. Let me show you what we found in Luke 2.

Christmas Story

The link here is to the top of Luke 2 in the BRB. Let me step you through the flow of this chapter.

Census

Luke 2:1-7 is the story of the census that is going on when Joshua is born. The text here is conventional, but there is a FA, or Filter-Ananias tag that surrounds the place of Joshua's birth. Ananias forces Joshua to be a son of David instead of a son of Joshua, son of Nun, via Jeremiah.

We know Bethlehem is false because Joshua will state that his home town is Sychar, a contradiction to the Bethlehem references in Luke 2. See John 4:43-44 for the Sychar cite.

Sychar makes better sense as the family property was originally Abraham's double cave. It was likely purchased by Jeremiah and passed down via inheritance from that time.

The family went to register in their historical home town in order to pay the census tax, itself in order to protect their property from confiscation. Otherwise they could have stayed in Nazareth and been counted there.

A final point on that census passage. They were likely lodging in their own stables when Joshua was born.

Shepherds And Kings

Luke 2:8-20 is the story of the kings of Joshua appearing to the shepherds. In terms of additions, the only content that is suspect is related to the name of the town. Just like for the census part of this chapter, Ananias wanted this to be Bethlehem because they were trying to make Joshua to be an heir of David, so royalty, instead of the prophetic manuscript family of Jeremiah.

If you read through that story you will find the personal name Joshua showing up in verses where we traditionally do not see his name. Examples include how a king of Joshua shows up to the shepherds, and how the glory of Joshua shines around them.

Let me quote Luke 2:10-12 so you can see how profound this divine name study is to this passage, "The king said to them, Do not be afraid, for I bring you thoughts of great joy which will be to all the world, for this day is born to you the savior, who is Joshua. This is a sign for you, you will find the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger."

Notice that by substituting the divine name, following the normal rules that I've been covering in the last few blogs, we find the king calling out the exact name of the baby that is in the manger. In Luke 2:13 we find a host in the skies calling out that same name.

The story then continues, the shepherds hurry off to find that baby and explain to the family what has happened to them when they were out in the field. Those shepherds know the baby's name, and will have been using it when they recount what happened. This is true even if they do not know the divine name. As readers, we know what is going on because we have seen the name Joshua used since before Abraham's day.

Public Naming

Luke 2:21 indicates that Joshua was given his name on the 8th day. This appears to have been an ancient convention in order to make sure that children are born healthy before they are given a name and presented publicly.

There is a strange quirk in the naming story. Given the Luke account we are following here, Joseph has not been told the name. Matthew 1:21 indicates that Joseph was told the name as part of what happened when Joseph found out Mariam was pregnant. Again, neither Mariam nor Joseph are going to know this name as the divine name.

In any case, when these shepherds find baby Joshua, and report what had happened when they were out in the field, Joshua's parents are going to get a very amazing confirmation of the name that are planning for the baby.

This amazing aspect of the Christmas story is invisible to us in stock Bibles.

Joshua Presented in the Temple

Luke 2:22 begins the story of taking baby Joshua to the temple in Jerusalem. In this case the divine names study gets very interesting because the divine name references here are to the temple itself, the temple of Yahweh, and to practices that are almost certainly additions added by Solomon that cause the need to travel to the temple.

This becomes an interesting first real example of a situation where the inspired writer of Luke appears to quote uninspired practices from earlier writing added by Solomon. This has strange audit related implications, but save that for another time.

The key passage reads, "When the days for their purification were fulfilled according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to Yahweh as it is written in the law of Yahweh, Every male that opens the womb will be called holy to Yahweh, and to offer a sacrifice as it is commanded in the law of Yahweh, A pair of turtledoves or 2 young pigeons."

What stands out in this passage is how the family itself is caught up in the religion of the temple system at Jerusalem. They are following a false text, they are following Solomon's edited Yahweh.

This sets in place a context never seen before. Joshua is born into a family that is following Solomon's false religion. It is totally clear that this is the problem.

Normally, children are brought up in the religion of their parents. But in this important case, that religion is false. Baby Joshua will need to break out of the religion of his parents. It is the first real problem that he must overcome. We read about that victory later in the chapter.

But what of Joshua's parents? This chapter is also setting the context for the life arcs of both of his parents. His mother, Mariam, is going to follow her son, and leave that religion. His father will drop out of the account, probably because he cannot leave his religion behind. In his case we will later read about his wake.

Prophetic Words

In Luke 2 there are 2 prophetic words spoken over Joshua at the temple. There is trouble with both of these prophetic passages. Let me take each in turn.

The first of those is in Luke 2:25-35 by Simeon. Simeon is looking for the Messiah. There does not appear to be a way for this story to have an inspired core where he is not looking for Messiah. This is a Jewish concept, not an inspired concept. Messiah can be thought of as a false god title introduced into the text by Ananias. Though the term will be used in other situations, others are also looking for the Jewish Messiah, and Joshua is not that. Joshua evades the question in Luke 22:67 and in Matthew 24:5 he warns that calling Joshua the Messiah is a marker of deception.

The second prophetic word spoken over Joshua by Hannah is in Luke 2:36-38. This has long been on our list of problem passages. In part because Israel, in the days of the New Testament, is now Rome. Rome was founded in the same year as the Assyrian deportation. It now rules all the lands of the New Testament. Rome needs no redemption. Asher will be off in the northern provinces, not in Palestine.

Breaking From The Religion

Luke 2:40 provides a transition verse that leaps out to the time when Joshua was 12. This is outside of the Christmas story, but it is important because it answers questions raised in the birth narrative.

The problem, setup by the birth narrative early in this chapter, is that Joshua has been born into a family following a false religion. All of us today share the same problem. Very, very few people in all of history start any better. Everyone on earth today certainly starts in this condition.

So we need to know when Joshua had reached the point where he could break out and speak back to that religion. Joshua does this in the rest of Luke 2, especially verses 41-52.

The story is a familiar one. He travels to Jerusalem with his family for Passover. Joshua then remains behind in the city while his parents start traveling for home. When they cannot find him, they return to Jerusalem and find him sitting with the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Joshua's mother is the one who confronts him, asking why he has done this?

Joshua's answer is telling. First, did you not know I would be in the house of my father?

This "father" reference is normally taken as trinitarian, but I believe Joshua means the house of the religion of Joseph his earthly step father. A modern expression would be, Don't you know I needed to be at my father's church?

By this Joshua means, Did you not know I need to get to the bottom of Joseph's false religion?

Of course verse 50 indicates they could not understand what Joshua was saying, because they as yet have no idea how false their religion may be. They had no idea of the route out of false religions in general.

By verse 51 we read how Joshua returns home and remains subject to them. So he respects the position of his father Joseph and is not going to upset that religion. But we also read that his mother Mariam preserves these words. She knows what Joshua knows, and plays along just like Joshua, waiting and watching to see how Joshua handles this later in life.

Meeting Notes

Ryan and I have been to similar meetings many, many times. If you are in a false religion, and pay attention, you can eventually learn the internal contradictions. Ask them the right key questions, and they will eventually give contradictory answers.

If they are self aware they eventually get mad and run you out of the building. (Or crucify you, as they did with Joshua.) If they are not self aware, then they have no idea of their own mess, answering questions with gibberish in an endless loop, running forever.

We have seen both scenarios in our journeys. These days we normally do not engage in such conversations. They are usually fruitless. The Apostle Paul was most certainly using this same technique when he visited synagogues on his missionary journeys. Paul likely asked enough questions to show how following Yahweh is internally contradictory. This would enrage the now exposed synagogue leaders. But, some in the audience would see Paul as calling out problems with the religion, thus seeking out Paul because they wanted to learn the route out of those contradictions.

It took Ryan and I a long time to figure out that the Bible itself has internal contradictions. This is not just a lack of education on the part of those who run churches. We are still working on fixing the Bible problem.

In any case, asking the right questions and listening for contradictory answers is the route out of all such systems.

Joshua himself did it when he was 12 years old. Very nice. Very young. But, Joshua navigates his way through this problem in a way that matters to many others in the future.

When Joshua returns home, which is another aspect to the problem, he remains under Joseph's house rules. This is a very sophisticated way to play this game. Joshua needed to wait until he was older, and ready, before he could leave home, and leave Joseph's house and Joseph's religion. I dare say Ryan and I have been learning that lesson too. I digress.

I hope you can see from these examples in Luke 2 that cleaning up the divine name references is unlocking an understanding of troubles that we could not see before. We are only beginning. There are 1000s of references still to study.

Merry Christmas!

Night Lots

It is not unusual for me to be awake in the middle of the night and end up doing personal lot sets. This generally happens 2 or 3 times per week, some weeks more often.

It is in these sessions where I get a sense of what is going on with Joshua. Sometimes this is personal, but most often these are project related. Finding otherwise obscure or hidden references to exhibits have often come this way. These often call out curious details that eventually show up in the designs.

For the past several weeks these night lots have been speaking about several other things. I need to share some of those here in the blog.

Travel

As part of this general thread of prophetic lots, there has been a heads up to plan for travel across Passover Week. The formal dates for that week are February 5, 2026, through February 12, 2026.

There are references in the text when there were double week Passover celebrations, and in years past we have occasionally done those ourselves as well. These lots have suggested to plan for a double week of travel.

These sorts of lots have also been showing up in our normal Sabbath Lots, so this applies to both Ryan and myself. We've worked out the personal arrangements we need to be away from the house for such a trip. At this point we don't know where we are going. I would suspect we will be headed back out east across the USA, but I do not know for sure.

Note that last year at Passover we visited the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC, where we could look carefully at the Megiddo Mosaic floor. That trip dramatically shifted our understanding of the exhibits from a theoretical work, to a reconstruction of a historical set of artifacts. All of the chests came out of that trip. The vine was able to take on a final form that was otherwise obscure.

Previous year Passover trips have also been rather dramatic in terms of changes to our understanding of key topics in the text. The origin stories for the city of Jerusalem came at such a time as well.

I trust this year will be similarly important.

Planning

Night lots are also beginning to talk about coming up with a plan for the room where these exhibits will first be set up. All of the exhibits work as a family. It will be interesting to see them all setup together in 1 place.

I currently don't know where that room might be. There is not enough room in the shop, nor the house where we are staying, to setup all the exhibits where they can be shown off.

Geometric Units

These evening sessions are also where I get some of the most important direct inspiration. One of these inspirations came this past week. It deals with an important geometric unit used throughout most of the exhibits.

The 3d design for the models behind the alphabet have a system of proportional units that ultimately derive from the cubit. After seeing the Megiddo Mosaic, the cubit used throughout the exhibits was lengthened from 18 to 22.5 inches.

This slightly bumped most of the other sizes used throughout the exhibits, but it volumetrically increased the size of intricate parts like the birds and bird cages. This makes the birds much easier to print and makes them considerably stronger.

There is another unit of measure that determines the thickness of the panels used for the exhibits that hang on walls. This is also used for the sides and lids of the chests and for other exhibit bases.

The vine and lamp currently use these panels for their bases. The river exhibit will use substantially more of this same panel system.

That panel thickness was originally set at a minimum for carrying 3mm heat set inserts and related 6mm long bolts. There was also some room for sloppy installation. Ultimately a strange 0.5 inches + 1 mm thickness was selected.

In a particularly strong prophetic evening, I felt I needed to change this panel thickness to match the unit system used for the lettering system itself.

By doing this, the system of panel related parts could then be used to solve a bunch of design issues up inside the river exhibit. This would now work because the panel thickness would also be the unit of measure for vertical height within all of the exhibits. The same problems exist, and are similarly solved, in the exhibits still to come.

This strange panel height was originally set when the cubit was 18 inches, and has not changed since. Panel height was originally taller than the distance between points on letters, and could not be safely made shorter without using smaller, say 2mm, bolt hardware. Smaller bolt hardware has been used on the lamp, but easily rips out of the larger, heavier, panels.

My first impression after this prophetic insight was I would have trouble lowering the panel height while still handling the bolts. But I had forgotten the impact of the lengthening of the cubit. Now that original panel height is smaller than the distance used for drawing letters. This is very nice because I can easily make those panels slightly thicker.

Ultimately this adds about 2.2 mm to the panel thickness. The design files are updated, but still much testing is needed in order make sure I haven't messed up something.

This is not a change worthy of reprints on current exhibits. It will be picked up in future reprints and when first printing the exhibits still to come. It does make rework on the current exhibits more difficult.

A Day In The Shop

So the Saturday before this blog goes out I intentionally spent the day in the shop. I partly wanted to understand better what it means to sit and run the 3d print farm all day, without doing anything else. I also wanted to learn if there was a way to stop interruptions when I am doing other work, mostly computer work.

I was driven to do this in part because of last week's blog. I felt it was choppy and not very well written. The reason had been that I'd spent most of the previous week answering timers which were constantly going off related to the 3d print farm. The blog was a mess because I had not been able to focus on writing it.

So for that Saturday I was dealing with 3d printers needing attention and when they did not need attention, I was working on exhibit assembly. But I was also paying attention to what was causing the need for my attention. I was thinking about the 3d print farm as a whole, playing the role of a process engineer.

There are currently 8 printers in the farm, mostly able to run parts. One of the Vorons was down, needing attention on the bench, which is currently filled with parts, so 7 printers were actually running all day.

For the math that follows, imagine 9 printers. Also imagine a 90 minute average print time for each print job. In the actual farm, this print time has very wide variability. Some parts are about an hour. Some run many hours. But let me use these numbers to explain with simpler math.

In the morning, all the printers get started at the same time. So there is peace in the shop for about 90 minutes. Everything hums along like a bunch of purring cats.

Then one of the printers needs attention. Parts need to be removed and the printer reset. Not a problem. It will need attention in another 90 minutes or so.

But, what happens in the farm is that each print job has a different length. Through the day the completion times tend to spread out. On average a printer somewhere in the farm needs attention about every 10 minutes. (9 printers, 90 minutes on average, so a change every 10 minutes on average.) By the afternoon this is what is going on, something, somewhere, needs attention every 10 minutes. Sometimes they need attention at the same time, effectively bunching together, but that does not happen all that often.

Filament Changes

Life running the farm is more complex than this. After awhile filament spools run out and need attention, often within a print. If there is any manual filament color change then these need attention too. Multiple colors is a big deal.

The American made filament has a strange tendency not to load correctly. The printer thinks it is loaded, it looks loaded, but it under extrudes once it starts to print. Just loading that filament again fixes this strange problem. I am not purchasing this stuff any longer, just for the labor involved, but I have many remaining spools to use up before I am done with it.

This tendency to fail on load means it cannot be used in the multiple color setup that I currently have in the shop. It must be loaded and/or reloaded by hand so the first layers can be manually inspected.

I am also shifting the farm from PLA to PLA+. This new formula is harder and thus less likely to strip out in feed gears. It works better in the printers that support multiple colors. But, I still have lots of regular PLA to use up as well.

Most of the prints going through the shop are using multiple colors in each print. This is how we get lettering on panels, and art on the sides of the chests. This is also how I use up scrap spools. I cannot image doing this work without multiple color designs.

There are 2 printers in the shop that can handle multiple color of plastics, but, because of the mix of plastics, only one of the MMU equipped printers can realistically be used for automatically feeding different colors. Three of the other printers are still doing multiple color print jobs. But, they need attention mid print to change the filament. This reduces further the average time between printers needing human attention. On a bad hour this can mean a filament change is needed somewhere in the farm every 5 minutes or so.

So lesson 1 from that day was that going forward, all printers need to support multiple materials, and the shop needs to purchase only filament that reliably runs in those printers.

Bondtech Indx Tool Changer

The link here is to a video from last summer with a prototype demonstration of a new type of tool changer. It is expected to be available by mid 2026 as an option for the Voron printers and it is announced for use on Prusa printers, with general availability after Q1 2026. (For use on the Prusa Core One printers, which is an upgrade from the current Prusa printers in the shop.)

It is low cost because there is only 1 print head. It exchanges the tool when it changes the filament. No reloading of filament, which is the failure I see with certain plastics. Watch the video if you are curious.

I expect to eventually see the current Vorons updated to this new system. I am waiting until someone releases a kit and/or design files.

Elegoo

As part of the printers running that day, I was also running the new Elegoo printer. Just because it has a large bed does not mean it cannot also run small parts. This was another middle of the night insight.

So I set it up to run the backs of the new Ladders. Let the MMU run the dual color lettered ladder fronts and then let the Elegoo run single color ladder backs. No problem, right?

There were still bed adhesion issues that I'd seen with the large letter prints a few weeks back. So I changed out the bed to a brand that chemically matches the beds in the Voron printers. I've never seen bad bed adhesion in the Voron printers, so I expected the change in bed surface to fix the adhesion problem. But the Elegoo was still having bed adhesion problems. Nothing was sticking long enough to finish a print.

The next day, so Sunday afternoon, we had a guest in the shop, one of Ryan's nephews. He was asking questions about different types of plastics, if I had used anything besides PLA? I reviewed ABS, PETG and TPU which I've also used. These are trickier to print. ABS is used for building the Vorons and requires an enclosure to print without warping up from the bed...

Even a cardboard box will work. The first Voron parts were printed in a cardboard box on a Prusa Mini.

That question and answer session triggered the memory of ABS bed adhesion issues. ABS always needs an enclosure to print well. This is because it needs warm air to not shrink and lift.

That gave me an idea. What is the temp inside the enclosures used for the other printers? Turns out 92F to 94F is the common range in the enclosures where the rest of the farm is doing 3d prints. Room temp is around 68F to 71F. The Elegoo is an open air flat bed printer. It is also near the main garage door. The air around that printer is not warm enough for good bed adhesion. It needs an enclosure, even as simple as a cardboard box.

This is not going to happen any time soon. This is a very big printer and will need an even bigger enclosure. There is not room in the shop. But at least that problem is diagnosed.

Lessons Learned

There are different ways to look at the print farm. In order to max out the printing capacity of the 3d printers in the farm requires someone to man it, basically full time.

When someone is manning the farm all day, then there is time for other work in the shop. This could mean running more printers. It could mean doing assembly, but at least for me this does not mean doing design work. Design work is like playing chess. It needs focus. Timers going off every 10 minutes is not focus.

There are big exhibits still to come, so the river, mount of olives, fig tree, Eden model and crown. These are very much larger than anything printed so far. For my own sanity I need to shift back and forth between computer work and shop work. Some days shop work, some days design work. That is all I can do.

It may make sense to try and grow the farm a little larger. Running the farm does allow for running a bigger farm. Because I am in a borrowed shop, the total amount of shop space is the constraint against such growth.

Big, single color, print jobs are still very efficient. Whenever possible, this type of job needs to be run over night.

I really need to use up the plastic that does not run through the multi-color setups currently in the shop. This will reduce the attention needed when loading this type of plastic.

I need to seriously think about upgrades so the farm can change color without manual intervention. The best hardware for this is not yet available, but will be next year. Changing filament, so changing color, is what takes the most manual time and attention. It is also the biggest source of print fails.

I am going to try doing some computer work in the shop itself. This so I can remain in ear shot of the printers. I can only sit comfortably in the shop's bar stool chair for a limited number of hours each day. But I am going to try it. I can write most of the blog in the shop, even if not design work.

The printers are a little like keeping track of children. They have a normal sound that indicates everything is running fine. When they make strange sounds, that means they need unexpected attention.

War In Night Lots

In last week's blog I mentioned the meeting at 10 Downing Street. This happened on the expected prophetic date for the replay of the start of the reign of King David.

I did not initially see that meeting as very serious. I believe Alex Christoforou picked it up in his daily summary. It was then mentioned days later in a Military Summary channel video which then sat open in my browser for half the week.

What caused me to add that link, as a last minute addition to that blog, was because of another theme that has suddenly showed up in night lots.

As I understand, we have shifted from nuclear war as a theoretical future event to now it is a real war that is currently being planned by NATO against Russia.

Germany is getting ready to draft all young men in order to send them off to war with Russia, just like World War II. Expect the same to come to the rest of Europe and to the USA, only slower.

Now we are in the situation where the heavenly throne room is now putting attention into that war planning process. So anyone doing lots is going to start getting some references to the war. Hopefully the throne room puts some breaks on the war, but that is their problem, not mine.

Instead of calling it "future World War III" it now makes more sense to just call it, "The War."

Typical Cites

Night Lots have been landing on the main places where that war is mentioned in scripture. For example, Revelation 9:15-16 where 1/3 of mankind are killed, where there is an army of 200,000,000 horsemen.

Another example is Revelation 16:12 where the Euphrates is dried up to make way for the kings of the east.

Stories related to Noah are another common theme.

Beware The Weapons

Those 200,000,000 horsemen won't be modern soldiers on horses. The ancient vocabulary used throughout the text will transform into modern weapons and weapon systems. Are those horsemen robots? Might be. Maybe Tesla becomes a weapons manufacturer. We will see.

Once some Zionist somewhere actually does use a nuke, then use of battle field nukes will become fair game and common. The amount of destruction is hard to imagine. It will not require large armies in order to destroy much of the world.

All of this is still likely prelude to the 2028, 2029 and 2030 prophetic dates that I have covered in recent blogs. Those future dates are when this likely blows up. But note the planning is going on now, fast and furious.

Be Aware

In any case, I share this so readers here, who may also have seen this shift, will know this is not some one-off thing. Germany is going to war with Russia again.

German leader Friedrich Merz is our current guess as the modern replay for Hitler. He was born November 11, 1955. It is possible for him to even be Hitler reincarnated. Watch for AI generated pics of Merz with a certain style of mustache. This will mark when the public is figuring this out. Merz worked for Black Rock, so he is essentially a central banker now running Germany. The banks need Russia's natural resources, they need puppets running NATO.

Like in World War II, Germany is directed by bankers from London (and now Israel) who will force other countries to play along. In World War II it was Austria and Czechoslovakia that London manipulated to help Hitler. This time it would likely be the entire European Union and the other more distant NATO countries like Canada and the USA.

Joshua is now speaking and warning about this to the very few number of people who will actually listen.

Watch Dates

We are currently within the replay of the 40 years of the reign of David. We don't expect major headlines until mid January, 2026. Our next watch date is January 14, 2026, the first year of Solomon's reign, which we will return to in a future blog.

Shop Work

The 3d print farm has been producing parts for the 2nd of the major chests. Watch for initial pics on telegram as this blog goes out. That chest itself should be complete next week.

Headline Review

The following headlines caught my attention this week.

Europe Betting All On Ukraine

The link here is to a Glenn Diesen video with Alastair Crooke. Crooke is explaining how Europe is betting everything on the Ukraine war with Russia.

This is the sort of conversation that night lots are now supporting. Europe has decided to conquer Russia militarily, or else go up in nuclear smoke in their attempt. Smoke will win.

Russia's Side

The link here is to a Glenn Diesen interview on Youtube with Stanislav Krapivnik. Stan is a Russian citizen who also served in the US Army. He currently lives in Russia. Stan is an interesting recent addition to the general cadre of guests on the podcast circuit. His specialty is the Russian side of the war in Ukraine. He is also a regular on the Duran. Normally he focuses on topics related to the front lines in Ukraine.

This particular interview touches on the religious side of the war in ways we normally do not hear about. Stan suggests that the Russian public is shifting their view about the war in Ukraine, it is becoming a religious war of the Christian Russians against the heathen Europeans.

I may not use exactly the same vocabulary, but I see the war the same way. This is the Zionist controlled Americans and Europeans, ultimately out of Israel, attempting to complete their control of Russia in order to build their world government with a capital in Jerusalem. Zionism means conquering the world. It is a political activity.

From the Russian side, they are simply fighting heathens. Well put.

Gospa News: NATO Sec. Rutte, EU Escalation to World War

This link is to a Gospa News article detailing out European plans for a world war with Russia. This is an ongoing activity. I am citing this article just for the record. Beware how this is not a joke, and is showing up in Lots. Joshua's attention is on this war.

Jeffry Gundlach

I was talking to one of the readers of this blog about the Yen carry trade. This has been one of the sources of inbound cash that has propped up financial markets in the USA. For maybe 20 years, a breakdown in the Yen carry trade has been listed as a possible precursor to serious trouble in the financial markets in the USA. Recent rising interest rates in Japan break that trade.

We are also weeks away from the start of a replay of the Plagues on Egypt. Remember, those plagues played out as the 2008 financial crisis, so we might expect another such crisis to begin early next year. This is NOT going to be a single point event, but it could have a succession of financial, crisis level, events spread out over around 14 months. These crisis events may defund the western world enough to delay "The War" into 2029.

Jeffrey Gundlach was recommended as a source for a better understanding of the current situation on the American side of the equation. So I went hunting for an interesting long form video where Jeffrey could explain his understanding of what is going on.

Turns out, Japan is a minor problem, to the point of being unimportant. There are much bigger problems. The video above is dated in early November, 2025, when the US government was still shutdown. Other than that, everything Gundlach says is still valid. He has the credentials to defend everything he has to say.

Gundlach goes through the actual problems facing the US Treasury and the US Federal Reserve. Gundlach expects a family of tricks to be played by the US Treasury and Fed acting together as a single unit. In the end, they will be forced to break the law in order to try and prevent a collapse of the US Dollar.

These are not normal times, and the system will not be operated lawfully. The only open questions for investors is which institutions fail and which laws get broken in order to protect the US Dollar for another few months.

Ford Cancels EVs

The link here is to an Electric Viking video on Youtube. It surveys how Ford is canceling nearly all of their electric vehicles, returning instead to gas powered vehicles. Ford is taking a $29B earnings hit for their failed attempt at building Electric Vehicles.

This will end up as a case study in business schools around the world. Many different factors are in play, from very bad government policy, to the problems established companies have when adopting new technology.

The childhood phrase for this is, You cannot teach an old dog new tricks. This adage has been true forever.

At this point all we know for sure is Ford should have tried to adopt electric technology to only 1 car line at a time. Not the whole fleet all at once.

They would have learned this if they read Elon's early business plans for Tesla. Only 1 low volume, high profit, car model at a time in order to learn how to do the next car model, with a little higher volume and a little less profit per car. Ford was greedy.

For the rest of us, the USA does not produce enough of its own fuel to run the fleet of gas powered cars. Fuel, on the margin, is imported, paid for with fiat dollars. Some day, the US Treasury and Fed will not be able to prop up the US Dollar. Americans will wake up and there will not be enough fuel on hand to run the country. At that point, Ford goes under and everyone else risks...

More Later,

Phil