The Year of 8

Anno Domini 2024

Let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
~ Amos 5:24

A Reckoning Comes

You should have a sense by now of what has been and is being done. There is a reckoning and that quite soon. Things that were falsely promoted will be overturned. Those who have erred will be corrected. Those who have done deliberate harm will be punished. These are things beyond the scope off this essay, but expect them.

Examine your conscience. Repent of your sins. Turn back to God. Be of good cheer. There is a way home.

Cities in ruins

Nobody in New York City (Orthanc on Hudson), in the San Francisco/Arrakis bay area, in Hollywood, in the District of Corruption, in the City of London, nor anyone in Vatican City has any decency. Therefore, these cities will all collapse, and the world will be shed of their evil, soon. You can expect some changes this coming year but no one knows the day and the hour except the Father. Not even the Son.

In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley
~ Robert Burns, To a Mouse, 1785

Planned space missions

The year 2024 is intended to be an excellent year in the space arena. It should include several passenger trips into space, some bureau rat trips into space, and around 144 (that’s gross!) SpaceX launches if all goes to plan. Several landers are going to put payloads on the lunar surface - no people so far but there is definitely a “return to the Moon” in progress. There are some deep space missions and asteroid 2007 FT₃ might make another reconnoitre of our sky or even impact our planet. Let’s have a look.

Passengers

Passenger accommodations on the Dragon crew capsule are going to be experienced in the 4th month of 2024 if all goes according to Jared Isaacman’s plan. SpaceX will launch four people to 870 miles perigee, making it the highest altitude of any Earth orbiting craft with people aboard. (Translunar injection is not an Earth orbit.) The crew list suggests two men and two women, so we’ll find out later if there is an 870 mile high club. The orbit looks to keep its plane and reduce perigee to about 470 miles after a while. Plane changes are expensive.

Bureau rats

I regard “astronauts” and “taikonauts” and “cosmonauts” who work for gooferment to be bureau rats. Maybe they got into it with the best of intentions, idk Maybe they have the dream of spaceflight and they felt this was the way to get there. Okay. Fine. Still isn’t wholesome. And I’m becoming increasingly interested in a return to decency as I noted in my essay about The Future we choose.

For my own part I am very happy that the Space Shuttle (also known as “The Space Transportation System” or STS, which is one of the most arrogant things ever conceived by the arrogant mfs at NASA manned spaceflight centre) is no longer flying. That thing was a killer. So one of the upcoming flights is of a smaller and arguably more robust system called Dream Chaser from Sierra Space. Kinda reminds me of the DynaSoar that the murderers of JFK wanted to cancel in 1963, and did.

Meanwhile there is Artemis 2, which uses re-purposed elements from the STS, as if that were a good idea. They plan to fly some bureau rats around the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. Visions of 1968! But count them, Count Count, four, ah, ah, ah, four bureau rats!

Commercial cargo

Well, there are to be 144 SpaceX launches, it says somewhere on the web, in Anno Domini 2024. I say “that’s gross” because a dozen dozen is a gross, and that is 144, and if you don’t dig on mathematics jokes, why are you even here friend? idk

There doesn’t seem to be a good one-stop shopping place for a list of all commercial cargo flights on all vehicles. In the fullness of time I’ll be putting together some pages on the topic. There are generally commercial launches from all the spacefaring nations (Russia, China, Japan, USA, Europe, India, and some others) such as geosynch orbit communications satellites and Earth pointing observation satellites, and space manufacturing experiments. Oh, sure, you’d like to think that a list of upcoming missions would be available from the bureau rats at the department of transportation who licence commercial space launches, but a recent visit to their page suggests they cannot even estimate accurately how many payload missions go up in a given year. It is on days like today that I reflect that Americans are blessed we do not get all the gooferment we pay for.

So it looks like a job for In Space Today.

Gooferment cargo

India is launching an X-ray satellite early in the year. XPoSat will be placed in a polar orbit and observe cosmic radiation during the parts of its orbit when the sun is eclipsed by Earth. Also, India’s Aditya spacecraft will be entering the L1 point in the Earth-Sol orbit, where it will perform sun observations. India has plans to launch in the 5th month of 2024 the Proba 3 spacecraft built by the European space agency into a highly elliptical orbit (apogee 37,610 miles, perigee 600 miles). Proba 3 becomes two smaller spacecraft in orbit and does rendezvous and formation flying studies as well as coronograph investigations. In other news from India, they plan to test their manned orbital capability with unmanned test flights of Gaganyaan and SPADEX missions. Gaganyaan has a crew module and will eventually be launched with people after extensive testing. SPADEX is a spacecraft pair with a robotic arm for docking experimentation. The NISAR synthetic aperture radar spacecraft developed by ISRO and NASA will be launched in the second month of 2024.

Europa Clipper is going up on a Falcon Heavy in the 10th month of 2024. This NASA spacecraft will proceed to Jupiter’s moon Europa. It won’t orbit Europe due to worries about the high level of radiation from Jupiter in that orbit. Instead, it will orbit Jupiter in a highly elliptical orbit and make a series of flybys of Europa. Its science payload will evaluate Europa’s ocean and surface.

Another Falcon Heavy in the 10th month of 2024 will launch the Hera spacecraft. It will study Dimorphos and Didymos, a pair of asteroids that share an orbit. The Hera mission also carries two CubeSat microsats.

NASA has a programme called Simplex, possibly unrelated to herpes simplex. Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) is a pair of RocketLab spacecraft that are planned for launch to Mars by Blue Origin’s New Glenn spacecraft in the 8th month of 2024. It intends to help in the understanding of the magnetosphere of Mars as well as how that magnetic field interacts with the Solar wind.

NASA has some programme called Elana-43 that is going to be launched by Firefly Aerospace from their “not”-militaristic Vandenberg air force base launch site.

Something called BepiColombo was launched in 2018, and if I understand the series has already made its fly-bys of Venus for gravity assist orbit changes. It is going to fly by the planet Mercury late in the year (9th and 12th months) before entering into orbit about Mercury in 2025.

Bepi was a scientist in Italy who first proposed the gravity slingshot trajectory used by Mariner 10 in 1974 which also flew by Venus and Mercury. It may not seem clear, but the nature of the sun’s gravity makes it more difficult to reach Mercury than you would at first think. Biden might wonder what all the fuss is, since you could just go at night. When it gets there the BepiColombo will do both magnetospheric and visible surveys of Mercury. It is using solar electric propulsion combined with 9 flybys of the Earth, Moon, Venus, and Mercury.

Moon Missions

SLIM, a spacecraft from Japan will attempt to land on the Moon in the first month of the coming year.

Peregrine is a lunar lander from Astrobotic. Planned liftoff on a United Launch Alliance vehicle anticipated for 2024 01 08.

Nova-C is a lunar lander from Intuitive Machines. Three lunar lander launches are planned, including Intuitive Machines 1 from Kennedy space centre aboard a Falcon 9 early in 2024. They think two more are coming this same year. They also recently signed a contract to develop a lunar rover for an international space agency.

VIPER is a “volatiles investigating polar exploration rover” because everything about NASA is snaky. Well, it’s good to see that the data Alan Binder brought back with the Lunar Prospector mission is going to some good purposes. Now that we know water is there, we can begin planning on how to get it. Flight to the Moon planned for late 2024. A hundred day mission is planned if all goes well.

Blue Ghost from Firefly Aerospace will have its first flight to land ten payloads on the Moon for NASA. The unmanned lander will land in Mare Crisium.

Chang’e 6 is expected to launch from China and land on the lunar far side. There it will attempt to collect samples from the far side of the Moon and return them to Earth.

ICECUBE-Q is a Pakistani cube-sat mission that is to be launched with Chang’e 6. There is not a lot of meaningful information on the project, but it appears to be a satellite intended to do volatiles location research.

Beyond

The Juno spacecraft launched by NASA in 2011 will fly by the moon Io in its orbit around Jupiter this year.

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer was called JUICE because French is its own language. Launched in the 4th month of 2023 it should be on track for gravity assist around Earth and Moon in the 8th month of 2024.

The Parker Solar probe will be making its seventh gravity assist at Venus in the 11th month of 2024. Launched in 2018, at its very closest approach to the sun the Parker will be travelling 0.064% of the speed of light. The probe is named after Eugene Parker who predicted the existence of the Solar wind in the 1950s and its shape in the outer Solar system. He also predicted nano-flares in 1987. The probe is to examine and measure the Solar corona. It should enhance our understanding of the plasma physics involved in the heating and movement of the Solar wind, and in other areas. Near the end of this year the Parker is expected to make a perihelion, its current orbit’s closest approach to the sun.

Launched in 2021, the Lucy probe is expected to make a flyby of Earth in the 12th month of this year, on its way out to explore five Trojan asteroids in the camp of the Greek-named asteroids at the L4 point of Jupiter’s orbit around the sun, two main belt asteroids, and if all goes well in 2033 will encounter one of the L5 point Trojan asteroids. It encountered one of the two main belt asteroids in the 11th month of 2021. The asteroid Dinkinesh has a Mars-crossing orbit that includes time in the main belt region of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter. It is a binary asteroid, or an asteroid with its own little moon, Selam.

Planned military space missions

X37, which is some sort of Boeing abomination unmanned space shuttle thing built for the defence department (USA DoD) was launched 2023 12 29 so it is up there somewhere. Maybe it comes back down, maybe it does its stuff, maybe it blows itself up next to something else, who knows? The problem with dark space programmes is the nasty dark militaristic demon worshippers and their bad spiritual hygiene.

It is unclear to me whether Elytra, a part of the Responsive Space missions is a military payload, a snare drum in orbit, or what. But it seems one is going up from Vandenberg this coming year. There seems to be some commercial payload space available.

One of the reasons it is less than clear is that Responsive Space is a euphemism for rapid deployment of military assets to space. The nationalist socialist reconnaissance office (NRO) had Firefly perform a Responsive Space mission within a 24 hour launch window after a very brief notification in Summer 2023.

Maiden voyages

The Ariane 6 from Arianespace will make its first flight. Reaction Dynamics of Canada is making its first Aurora launch. Gilmour Space Technologies of Australia will launch its first Eris Block 2. Orienspace of China will launch the first Gravity-2. Innospace of South Korea will launch the first Hanbit-Nano. Deep Blue Aerospace of China will launch its first Nebula-1. Rocket Lab of the United States will launch the first Neutron. Blue Origin will launch the first New Glenn. No word on whether it will take the blame for the Keating Five scandal. Galactic Energy of China will launch the first Pallas-1. Rocket Factory Augsburg of Germany will launch RFA One. The UK’s Skyrora will launch the first Skyrora XL. The first Tianlong-3 mission, Space Pioneer, will be launched from China. The first Volans will be launched for Equatorial Space Systems of Singapore. The first Darwin-II will be launched from Rocket Pi of China. The first Vulcan Centaur is to be launched from the USA’s United Launch Alliance.

Planned military events

Ukraine seems to be having little success in regaining the territory claimed by Russia after various referenda brought certain majority Russian speaking provinces under Russia security guarantees. The ground is now frozen pretty hard there, so one might anticipate a Russian winter offensive. But who knows?

There was a recent success of some Ukraine launched underwater drone in blowing up a Russian warship. This event seems to have led to a retaliatory missile strike on one of Ukraine’s cities.

Israel seems determined to depopulate Gaza by murdering hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children, and forcibly removing the rest. These events, ongoing since the vicious attack by Hamas into Israeli territory, appear to involve war crimes by both sides. I should like to point out that the Hamas attacks against women at the music festival 2023 10 07 seem to have been extremely brutal, including both sexual assault (rape), mutilating torture, and murder in many instances. Islamic fundamentalist men are against individual liberty and personal sovereignty for women and are likely to make such assaults in other places. I believe American men are exceptionally determined not to have our women and children raped to death. So it may come up in the future when people ask why it is that America turned back the tide of jihadi terror, but also sought it out and eliminated it with extreme prejudice. It’s because men here don’t put up with our friends and neighbours and families being raped and mutilated and murdered. So maybe people in other parts of the world should pay heed.

Bab el Mandeb is a strait near Djibouti and Yemen. I spent quite a lot of time staring into those waters in 2001. Maybe some day I’ll write about it. Meanwhile it seems to be an explosive situation, with the USA military trying to project force with carrier battle groups and missile destroyers and the Yemeni insurgents being very well provided with undersea, sea surface, and airborne drones. The Indian Ocean has a gulf, the gulf of Aden, which connects to the Red Sea in the very narrow Bab el Mandeb strait. If you want to take a cargo vessel to the gulf of Aqaba or into the Suez canal and out into the Mediterranean, you need to get past the Bab el Mandeb. The French worked out its importance back around 1865 when they created their colony “the French Somali coast,” which is now Djibouti. We’ll see whose military economics works out. Pepe Escobar has put several essays in ZeroHedge in recent years, and some of these also appear at the excellent LewRockwell.com site. Escobar seems to think that the Yemeni insurgents are going to own the strait and do unto ships bound for Israel whatever they want because they are sending a few thousand dollars per drone to attack and the USA is sending million dollar plus missiles to defend. Could be an interesting look at force projection in the 21st Century. Alvin and Heidi Toffler wrote extensively on this topic in Powershift and in War and Anti-war.

Hormuz is a strait in the Persian Gulf. It’s another choke point. In this case if you want to get oil from Iraq or Kuwait by tanker, or deliver cargo to the USA military bases in Iraq, say, you would very likely want to get past the strait of Hormuz. And Iran is on the coast there. Well, they might have some determination to project force in the same way their allies in Yemen are doing.

Above is a map of some of the shipping routes. Russia has been saying that its Arctic ocean route is ice free much of the Summer and accessible with its fleet of nuclear powered ice breakers in Winter. There’s also a Northwest passage above Alaska and Canada. A casual glance at the map shows another choke point at the Sunda strait and, lately, Panama has been having a drought so its canal isn’t as accessible to larger vessels. America is exceptionally well provided for sea lanes. Unfortunately the people running California have gone nuts and don’t want diesel trucks to pick up cargo from their container ports, which is sort of the point of having container ports. All electric trucks, meanwhile, are brutally expensive and not really capable of long haul trucking due to the ongoing limitations of battery tech. You’d think some people who have built hydrogen fuel cell tech, or radioisotope thermoelectric generators for space missions fifty years ago could figure some parts of this out, but the application of intelligence goes against the bureau rat mentality. So here we are.

Herridge Event

No discussion of the grift that is what Smedley Butler called corrupt in “War Is a Racket” for 2024 would be complete without the Catherine Herridge claim that a black swan event will be used by the grifters in the deep state to invoke the “continuation of government” nonsense that you can read about on your own with a bit of research. I do keep reminding you that the presence of links in my posts is not meant to be any indication of policy change. You go search for things using Yandex or Search.whatever or that evil successor to AltaVista. You’ll find a few things and be more convinced you understand what you found than if I spoon feed you things. And comments are always open. L5 News is always free and open to everyone. Except when I am directed by the Holy Spirit to block someone.

Okay, so Herridge a few days ago at the end of 2023 said that something big would happen, involving some national security event. Maybe Ukraine/Russia, maybe Israel, China, North Korea, who knows. Obviously this sort of thing, especially on the heels of her being held in contempt on an FBI investigation into some reports she filed where she is diligently protecting her information source, seems to me to indicate that the deep state isn’t going to allow there to be elections in 2024 if it looks like a Trump runaway victory. And maybe not if it looks like an RFK Jr victory either. It would not be the first time a national emergency was orchestrated to push America into war (Spanish American war, World War one, World War two, for examples).

Planned elections

UK

There is a possibility of a general election in the UK before the first month of 2025. Of course, a vote of no confidence would surprise no one, as so few have any confidence in the mess in gooferment. It seems pretty clear that the conservatives want to postpone this as long as possible.

USA

There is quite likely going to be a series of caucuses and primaries in the United States, but whether the “continuation of government” emergency happens is beyond the scope of this essay. I wouldn’t expect to vote your way to freedom, if I were you. But as I don’t vote, I am well suited to comment on the whole mess, and likely will.

Canada

There is a possibility of a general election in Canada. If it caused Justin Trudeau to lose his office, I can think of tens of thousands of Canadians who would cheer. Many of them are on a Telegram channel for truckers that I follow.

Philippines

An election in the Philippines is likely given recent requests for proposal.

El Salvador

The presidential election in El Salvador is anticipated for 2024 02 04 (fourth day of second month). You may recall that the current president has made Bitcoin legal tender and has done some work cleaning up drug gangs and terrorism. So we’ll see how the Soros non-governmental filth and the cia filth and the mossad filth and the mi6 filth get together on this one.

Planned events

Olympix Paris

You remember the London Olympix? Kinda creepy stuff in the opening ceremonies. Well, it’s that time of decade again. Every four years they have a Summer sporting event for the teams that couldn’t make it as professional leagues, and some that could They also have these Winter events too. You can look it up. Paris is one of those places not very well cared for by the Venetian nobility who hate cathedrals, Christendom, Jesus, and Mother Mary. So the Paris olympiad is going to be very spiritually dark.

Economic events

Well, it is already 2024 where I am writing, and I don’t think I am going to get through all the economic events you can anticipate. Needless to say there are many. A massive global economic depression is possible. A tremendous debt implosion seems likely. To avoid these things central banks are likely to drop interest rates and throw trillions of dollars and euros and yen and everything else at their favourite banks, and encourage consolidation of the rest.

Bitcoin moon

Following a leading of the Holy Spirit I am reporting the expectation that Bitcoin (BTC) will reach a new all time high of $180,000 in the current rally of many months. If you follow the price (coinmarketcap.com can help) back to 2009 (the genesis block) you can see that Bitcoin has persisted for all this time in putting in higher all time highs and higher lows a little after the new high. This pattern suggests a clarity of the scarcity of Bitcoin. Even very angry people who ought to be in prison for running banks with tens of billions of dollars in fines for wrongdoing who have said that Bitcoin is only any good for money launderers, drug dealers, and gun runners are now in the midst of becoming the managers of Bitcoin spot exchange traded funds. Because who would know more about money laundering profits than Jamie Dimon? (Remember, the last name uses the French “i” and sounds like “eee” so it is “Demon” to the likes of you and me.)

There is an accompanying “crypto Spring” going on following the “crypto Winter” of 2022-23. Expect good things for the top 100 coins on CoinMarketCap.com and similar.

Gold will be up this year, having recently set a new all time high against the dollar. A $4,000 gold price in the fifth month of this year is not out of the question. But with the commodities markets as manipulated as they have been for the last 20 years, I am not confident of the timing. Silver is also poised for a leap upward.

If the economy has a major problem, such as depression or debt implosion or rampant inflation brought on by suddenly renewed quantitative easing, building and economic growth are likely to be impaired, so copper and industrial metals might flatline or even dip. Nickel, cobalt, lithium, and other battery metals are going to continue to be priced to meet the demand for batteries, which seems to be a highly political demand curve.

A vast trend

To round out the year, I would like to talk about a trend. Credit where due, it was this weekend reading an interview by the Substacker

Yuri Bezmenov

with

N.S. Lyons

that inspired this point of discussion. I wrote a bit about it in a reply or restack on that post. So there. (No there doesn’t seem to be a technology to see replies and restacks from a particular person, except in your timeline if you happen to follow or subscribe to them.)

In China there is a recognition of long term cycles, that have lasted thousands and thousands of years. China has a culture that probably goes back four or five thousand years in some places. One of the cycles is that when all the parts of China are united for a long time, they soon fall apart. And after a while, when all the parts have been separate for a long time, they start coming together. The fairly recent time when things are all separate in Chinese history is called “the warring states” period. Evidently we can see that very nearly all the pieces of what is traditionally called China have come back together.

Except Taiwan. And I was there when my dad was teaching them nuclear physics, so I believe the young men and women of nationalist China were dedicated to building some secret nuclear weapons for Chiang Kai-shek. Which ought to make the “reconquista” of Taiwan an interesting experience for a whole bunch of people on the Mainland. But that’s not the trend about which I wanted to discuss. (I digress, and I do it so well!)

The trend was going the other way in the 18 and 19th Centuries when European countries like Britain, France, Holland, Germany, Belgium (!), Italy, and Russia went forth to conquer other parts of the world. You can read about “the scramble for Africa” which is primarily about people in Europe conquering territories in Africa and then meeting at a congress in Berlin and drawing lines on a map of Africa to encircle groups of native sovereignties and, in the case of the Somalis, to divide them up (into five, count them, five different countries). By 1909 there were about 110 countries on the map of the world featured in what was then regarded as a fairly good encyclopedia, of Britannica. Since then, this trend has reversed dramatically.

By the end of the 20th Century there were about 180 countries that the Untied Nations, a freemason plot if ever there were one, officially recognised, a handful that had official observer status at the UN, and a few dozen more that the unrecognised nations and peoples organisation (UNPO) in the Hague. Which is a trend that you should watch. Because the globalists think they are going to grift their way into having only one world government.

Cecil Rhodes declared that it was his intention to pay lots of people and bribe others and have even more others killed for the sake of having all English speaking people be under one great huge empire. I believe it was his intention that there be a “king of the world” as Jim Cameron mentions in his film Titanic and it was Rhodes money managed by JP Morgan that sent RMS Titanic to the bottom of the Atlantic with all the prominent wealthy Americans who opposed the income tax and the feral reserveless scheme. The Boer war still hasn’t ended.

Despite this intention on his part, and the Alfred Milner and Bill Clinton types who signed up to carry out his will, the Rhodes plan has failed. Instead of fewer and fewer countries, there are more and more. And instead of trusting the Metropolitan police, people are getting a bunch of long sticks and beating the crap out of them. Instead of joining together to form a world government and pay its taxes and obey it, people are in open rebellion. Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

It was talked about in one of my favourite books by Alvin and Heidi Toffler which I’ve mentioned before a few times in these pages. In their 1993 book War and Anti-war they point out that Warren Christopher was secretary of state under Bill Clinton and hated the idea of people having their own countries. Secretary Christopher insisted that if people were allowed to have their own country based on traditional knowledge of their tribal group’s historical territories and the linguistic similarities that bring people together, soon there would be 5,000 countries. Why the evil filthy bureau rats managing the USA state department would have to buy thousands of desks so they could have a “country desk” for every country! It was an inspiring thought, to me.

What if there were 5,000 free countries? What if there were 50,000? Or 50 million? Maybe not every one of the billions of souls here on Earth wants to be individually sovereign, but why shouldn’t there be plenty of choices? We are market seeking. It is inherent in the nature of our souls that we seek what is good and choose the best to bring home. We don’t want to be forced to eat deep fried crickets, and nothing that the filthy demon worshipping scum who pretend to be “elite” but are merely effete ever say will make us do what we refuse. They may be able to kill some of us, but they aren’t going to enslave us.

There are more of us than there are of them. And do they have better armour? No, they don’t. For we have the whole armour of God. There are hosts of angels that God commands on our behalf. So do follow the commandment, “Fear not.” For God is with us. Amen.

That’s all I’ve got for now. Come back next time when I’ll have something new. Or old.