Cruising Toward Enslavement

Cruising Toward Enslavement

STEVEN GOLDSMITH   

Recently, I rented a 2026 Toyota RAV4 hybrid. A more spacious car than I needed but perfect for those who fantasize helming a yacht from a captain’s chair along intercostal waterways; and for those who require the instrumentation of their dashboards to be only slightly more complex than consoles in 747 cockpits. 

As for me, I prefer my 2004 Toyota Corolla, termed by its regular mechanic as “the tank” because of its durability and seeming indestructibility. Besides a burned-out clutch it has never needed major repairs. (In their design of that model, Toyota forgot the memo about planned obsolescence.) I require from my Corolla only that it goes where I point it and stops on command. The rest I can figure out.

So imagine my alarm after I slid into the rental and started the engine. The large dashboard screen above the radio lit up and announced Toyota Audio Multimedia Services with functions for Roadside Assistance, Destination Assist, Cloud Navigation, Intelligent Assist, Driver Support, Proactive Driving Assist, Lane Change Assist, Traffic Jam Assist, and Dynamic Radar Cruise Control.

As I shifted into Reverse to back out of my spot, a pinging startled me. The screen flashed to an aerial view of my car’s position in a space bounded by colored lines (a “Driver Assist” feature that I appreciated as otherwise I wouldn’t have known where my car was or that I was actually in it). “CHECK SURROUNDINGS FOR SAFETY” the screen commanded. 

Pondering that novel idea I exited the lot onto a country road. I drove maybe two hundred feet before a fresh set of  images on the screen drew my glance. With my touch of ADHD I couldn’t resist. Instantly, a message flashed on the dashboard directly in front of me: “DRIVER INATTENTION DETECTED. LOOK FORWARD.” I spewed a few bad words at my omniscient nanny. (Fortunately, my cell phone was off so Siri couldn’t hear me. Or maybe she could and was too embarrassed to comment. Who knows these days?)

To compound the insult, when I approached an intersection the electronic nursemaid finger-wagged, “CAUTION: CROSSING TRAFFIC DETECTED.” And I don’t know how I could have arrived at my destination in one piece if it hadn’t continued to flash for the duration of my journey the official speed limit for my route even though road signs were perfectly visible. Not to mention, thank God, that it alerted me throughout with a luminescent “D” that the gearshift was in Drive as opposed to Reverse, Neutral, or Park, the only four gears available. Once, when I parked briefly to study a street map, “VEHICLE WILL TURN OFF IF PARKED FOR 1 HOUR. PERFORM AUTO OFF?” followed with a YES and a NO button in case I couldn’t recognize a question when I saw one or was unaware of the binary choices for my reply.

You may laugh at this idiocy. I did at first. Then I reflected upon its implications. Starting in 2027, by federal law all new cars in the US must contain such functions plus a kill switch that stops the car if the driver shows signs of impairment like sudden swerving or the appearance of fatigue, intoxication, or inattention. Accordingly, my RAV4 rental represented a vanguard of the new smart cars designed to do one thing, and one thing only. It is not to make us safer. How does a chip that stops your car in the middle of a highway do that? A dashboard screen that distracts the driver with enough bling to make a neon-lit Times Square billboard blush—how does that make us safer? Safety is not the agenda; it rarely is anymore. No, the purpose is to seduce us into surrendering our agency, our autonomy. 

This anecdote coalesces with other contemporary phenomena that prompt us to jettison self-governance because of convenience, time savings, submission to authority, laziness, and/or fear: reliance on electronics to tell us where to go (GPS), what to think (AI, Siri, Alexa), how to count (calculators), how we function (wearables). We need only to lift a finger—literally—to have our smartphones tell us anything we wish to know. Why read books when narrators can read us audiobooks or Wikipedia provides synopses? Why struggle with illness or depression when government euthanasia programs can take care of us permanently? We have bought the lie that anything that makes our lives easier is good, and that includes letting others do our thinking for us. We have admitted this Trojan horse through the gates of our defenses, not recognizing the evil and degeneracy enwrapped within its beribboned and glittering package.

Our culture does not exempt children from this enforced dependence. Instead of allowing them to improvise their own leisure time with friends and activities of their choosing, we enslave them with scheduled playdates and rules under the panopticon surveillance of helicopter parents. Not to mention that fraudulent enterprise known as public education—indoctrination camps led by group-thinking mediocrities who discourage creative, autonomous thought while teaching to the test; graduates leave their years of such educational struggle sessions knowing only what they are supposed to think, perfect candidates to “drive,” or rather be driven by 2026 RAV4 hybrids. 

We find autonomy to have obsolesced in my profession, medicine, as well. The notion of the independent practitioner who alone decides what is best for patients seems as quaint as mutton chop whiskers. Today’s MDs have surrendered control over clinical decisions to the guidelines of corporate bosses, administrative boards, and electronic health records. Their elite credentials entitle them only to membership in bureaucracies that value above all their compliance as cogs on assembly lines.

Given these trends, is it any wonder that we have submitted to an incremental government takeover of our daily lives, have acquiesced to the increasingly open contempt and abuse that political grifters heap upon us? And why shouldn’t they? Who is going to stop them? Surely not the masked zombies who lined up for death shots like good little boys and girls during the Covid hysteria. 

Much ink has been spilled, much podcast time expended on the machinations of the elite globalist class who war against our autonomy, who strive to enslave us through control of our health and financial assets and to depopulate us. All true. But we commoners cannot control what they try to do, cannot temper their sociopathy. What we can do is look at ourselves in the mirror and recognize how we have been disempowering ourselves, allowing our autonomy to be up for grabs; how we have been surrendering that which differentiates us from other animals—free will. Without that we are merely beasts of burden, or useless eaters as Marxists would have it. We are inadvertently greasing our slide into a future hell of social credit scores, transhumanoids, and hive minds.

Reality Check: Interstellar Travel Is Impossible Anyway - Deception Coming

Reality Check

Joseph Shavit

Interstellar travel is impossible and aliens haven’t visited Earth, physicists say

Start with size.

Carl Sagan once reminded readers, “The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding.”

Earth spans about 12,742 kilometers. That feels immense until you zoom out. The Sun sits roughly 150 million kilometers away. Light takes eight minutes to cross that gap.

The nearest star system lies far beyond that mental horizon. Proxima Centauri sits 4.24 light years from Earth. The Parker Solar Probe, the fastest human-made object, travels about 692,000 kilometers per hour. At that pace, a trip to Proxima Centauri would take roughly 6,600 years.

If a spacecraft had departed when the Great Pyramids were completed, it would just be arriving.

The Milky Way stretches about 100,000 light years across. With present technology, crossing it would take hundreds of millions of years, longer than mammals have existed. Over such timescales, a traveling species could evolve into something entirely different before reaching its destination.

Distance does not merely complicate travel. It reshapes expectations about contact.

The Speed Limit That Will Not Budge

Many assume better engines could solve the problem. Feynman dismissed that hope.

“The speed of light is not an engineering limit,” he said. “It is a structural limit of reality. It is the speed of causality.”

Kip Thorne put it more plainly: “The speed of light is the ultimate speed limit built into the fabric of space and time.”

In daily life, pushing harder makes things move faster. Near light speed, physics changes the rules. As an object accelerates, additional energy produces smaller gains in velocity. Energy feeds relativistic effects instead of raw speed.

To push any object with mass to light speed would require infinite energy.

“I don’t mean all the energy in the Sun,” Feynman said. “I mean literally infinite.”

Even a civilization millions of years ahead would face the same boundary. Einstein’s equations apply everywhere.

Fuel, Mass, and the Exponential Trap

Suppose you accept the speed limit and aim for a fraction of light speed. Propulsion introduces another obstacle.

The rocket equation, written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1903, describes a harsh relationship. A spacecraft needs fuel to accelerate. That fuel has mass. The craft must also accelerate the fuel. That demands more fuel, which adds more mass. The requirement grows exponentially.

Feynman called it “an exponential curse.”

Imagine sending a crewed mission to the nearest star within 40 years. The ship would need to accelerate to high speed, then slow down upon arrival. It must carry fuel for both phases for the entire journey.

With chemical rockets, the fuel required for a single human would exceed the mass of the observable universe.

Freeman J. Dyson did not soften the verdict: “Chemical fuels are hopeless for interstellar travel.”

Advanced ideas such as fusion reduce the problem but do not remove it. Fuel mass would still dominate the spacecraft. Antimatter offers higher energy density, yet producing meaningful quantities would require dedicating humanity’s entire energy output for millions of years.

“Interstellar travel is the definition of inefficiency,” Feynman said.

An advanced civilization might master stellar energy and still decide that crossing interstellar space is not worth the cost.

Warp Bubbles and Mathematical Dreams

Science fiction offers escape routes: warp drives and portals that fold space itself.

In 1994, Miguel Alcubierre proposed a mathematical model in which a spacecraft could ride inside a “warp bubble.” Space would contract in front of the ship and expand behind it. The craft would not exceed light speed locally; space would move around it.

On paper, the equations hold together.

In practice, they demand enormous quantities of negative energy. That form of energy is not known to exist in the required amounts. Early estimates suggested energy exceeding that of the observable universe. Later refinements reduced the total, yet it remains far beyond human reach.

Stability adds another concern. Tiny disturbances could collapse the bubble. Some analyses suggest radiation might accumulate at the bubble’s front and release in a burst when the drive stops. Recent theoretical work argues that forming such a bubble may violate quantum constraints.

Feynman never commented directly on warp drives; he died in 1988, before Alcubierre’s paper. Still, he was wary of ideas that ran ahead of experiment. He insisted that physics must connect to measurable reality. If something could not, even in principle, be tested, he treated it as mathematical play.

Wormholes, often traced to Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen’s 1935 work, face similar barriers. A natural wormhole would pinch off too quickly for passage. Keeping one open would require negative energy or “exotic matter,” which remains hypothetical. Extra dimensions appear in some versions of string theory, yet no experiment suggests they are accessible or large enough to enter.

These ideas are not forbidden by imagination. They are constrained by evidence.

Even if propulsion and exotic physics somehow align, biology stands in the way.

The human body evolved under Earth’s gravity and magnetic field. Outside that protection, radiation exposure rises sharply. Cosmic rays consist of high-energy particles that can penetrate spacecraft hulls and damage DNA.

They tear through your hull, through your body, and smash your DNA to pieces like a shotgun blast to a library.

Shielding helps but adds mass, which loops back to the rocket equation.

Microgravity creates further strain. Bone density declines. Muscles weaken. Cardiovascular systems adapt in ways that complicate return to gravity. Astronauts spending months in orbit already experience lasting effects. Interstellar journeys lasting centuries would magnify those stresses.

Cryogenic preservation remains unsolved. Ice crystals rupture cells. Generation ships introduce social instability, genetic risk, and cultural drift.

“Biology is the software of Earth,” Feynman said. “It does not run on the hardware of space.”

Dyson once remarked, “Biology is more powerful than physics.” He meant that living systems impose constraints engineering cannot easily bypass.

Machines do not escape either. Radiation degrades electronics. Micrometeoroids strike with enormous force due to velocity. Over long periods, entropy erodes systems.

Even robots age.

Timing the Blink

Communication poses the final challenge.

Humanity has broadcast radio signals for about a century. That creates a bubble roughly 100 light years wide. Compared with the Milky Way’s 100,000-light-year span, that bubble is tiny.

“We are shouting into a hurricane,” Feynman said.

Detection requires alignment in space, time, and frequency. A civilization might transmit long before another develops receivers. Signals could arrive after extinction. Civilizations may rise and fall within cosmic moments.

Humanity has been technological for roughly 200 years. Even if it lasts thousands more, that remains brief against the universe’s 13.8-billion-year history.

Feynman compared civilizations to fireflies blinking on different nights in a dark forest. They never overlap.

“The tragedy of the universe isn’t that it’s empty,” he said. “It’s that the party guests are arriving at different times.”

Jill Tarter of SETI offered her own analogy: “If you dip a glass into the ocean, you’re not going to come up with a fish. That doesn’t mean there are no fish in the ocean.”

Silence does not prove absence. It may reflect misalignment.

Discussions of alien life often drift toward unidentified flying objects. Feynman applied physical reasoning to such reports.

Some accounts describe craft accelerating instantly to extreme speeds. Such motion would generate enormous forces, thousands of gravitational units, enough to crush biological occupants and strain materials. Atmospheric travel at those speeds would create intense plasma and sonic signatures.

“You don’t see that in the videos,” he said. “You see a blurry gray blob.”

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” he added.

Blurry footage falls short of that threshold.

VIDEO: ‘Interdimensional Beings’ Proof Is Coming, Congresswoman Claims

U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna just shared something pretty remarkable about the possibility of “interdimensional beings.” CBN’s Raj Nair and Billy Hallowell have the story. 

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UFO Files About To Be Released By White House - How Should The Church Respond?

The video's have led to many important questions about how Christians should respond if society increasingly embraces a worldview centered around extraterrestrial explanations for spiritual realities.

That question is no longer fringe.

Over the last several years, belief in UFOs and non-human intelligence has surged dramatically in mainstream culture. Hollywood, social media, podcasts, military testimony, and even government language have normalized the topic in ways unimaginable twenty years ago. 

The timing of such discussion among the Christian community could not be more important as the White House is expected to begin releasing the long-awaited UFO files on Friday - months after President Trump ordered top administration officials to get the ball rolling on the secretive intel.  It is expected large amounts of information will be released each week for several successive weeks although it is unclear just what information will be released.

We also have the summer release of Steven Spielberg's new UFO movie, Disclosure Day on June 12, exploring global reaction to the revelation that aliens are real.  This will further fuel the fire over this issue and so it important to have a Biblical understanding of this issue as people see this movie and it becomes a topic of conversation.

The late Christian scholar Chuck Missler often argued that UFO phenomena may involve spiritual deception rather than extraterrestrial civilizations. Christian researchers like Gary Bates and Joe Jordan have similarly suggested that many alleged alien encounters bear striking similarities to occult experiences, sleep paralysis events, demonic oppression, and spiritual manifestations described throughout church history.

Many Christians acknowledge that the Bible already prepares believers for massive end-times deception. Scripture repeatedly warns about "lying signs and wonders," deceiving spirits, and false narratives powerful enough to mislead many. Jesus Himself warned that deception in the last days would become so persuasive that even "the elect" could be shaken.

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Op-Ed: Something Bigger Is Coming

Op-Ed: Something Bigger Is Coming - And Most People Aren't Ready

Vince Stegall

In early 2020, most Americans had no idea how quickly their world was about to change.

Within weeks, normal life was replaced by lockdowns, mandates, travel restrictions, and a level of 

centralized control few would have accepted just days earlier. What once sounded extreme became 

normalized almost overnight.

That moment revealed something we cannot afford to forget: modern society can shift from “normal” 

to “new normal” with astonishing speed.

What we are witnessing today may not be the mark of the beast. But it may be something just 

as significant: the rapid construction of the infrastructure that could make such a system possible.

What Revelation Actually Says

Before speculating about technology, we must begin with Scripture.

Revelation 13 describes a global system unlike anything the world has seen — a convergence of 

political power, religious influence, and economic control. At the center of that system is a mechanism 

that restricts participation in commerce: “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the 

mark…” (Revelation 13:17, KJV).

This is not symbolic language about vague oppression. It describes a controlled economic gateway — 

a system in which access to buying and selling is conditional.

But the mark of the beast is not merely technological. It is spiritual.

Revelation makes clear that the mark is tied to worship and allegiance to the Antichrist’s system.

It is not simply something people use. It is something they submit to. And Scripture warns that 

receiving it carries eternal consequences.

That distinction prevents both fear-driven speculation and careless dismissal.

Not Fulfillment — But Preparation

The Bible places the mark of the beast within a specific prophetic timeline.

It will be enforced during the final three-and-a-half years preceding the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, 

under the authority of the Antichrist.

That means we should not claim that current technologies are the mark. But we also should not ignore 

what is happening around us.

For centuries, critics dismissed Revelation 13 as unrealistic. How could any system control buying and 

selling for everyone?

Until recently, that was a fair question.

Today, it is not.

For the first time in human history, the technological barrier to that kind of control has effectively 

disappeared.

The World Is Building the Infrastructure

Across the globe, systems are emerging that fundamentally change how identity, commerce, and 

access are managed.

Digital identity is replacing physical credentials. Instead of multiple forms of identification, individuals 

are increasingly represented by unified digital profiles tied to biometric data — facial recognition, 

fingerprints, iris scans, and behavioral patterns.

At the same time, commerce is becoming almost entirely electronic. Transactions are approved or 

denied in milliseconds. Accounts can be frozen instantly. Access can be restricted without physical force.

When identity becomes digital and commerce becomes programmable, participation in society 

becomes conditional.

That shift should not be ignored.

It does not mean these systems are the mark of the beast. But it does mean the world now possesses 

the capability to implement exactly what Revelation describes.

Medvedev: Russia Must Instill 'Animal Fear' In EU Warmongers As Goodwill Measures Futile

Medvedev: Russia Must Instill 'Animal Fear' In EU Warmongers As Goodwill Measures Futile

 TYLER DURDEN

Head of the Russian Security Council and former president, Dmitry Medvedev, has penned an article ahead of the 81st anniversary of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, or Russia's V-Day, lambasting Europe's new path of reckless militarization. As widely featured in state media, he argued that the "animal fear" of unacceptable losses will prevent Germany and the wider "United Europe" from launching another attack against Russia.

He wrote, "It is no secret that an attempt is being made to impose on us the doctrine of ‘peace through strength’. Our response then can only be 'the security of Russia through the animal fear of Europe.'"

He stressed that "neither persuasion, nor demonstration of good intentions, nor goodwill and unilateral confidence-building steps should be our tools to prevent a big massacre."

"Only the formation of an understanding among Germany and the United Europe supporting it of the inevitability of their receiving unacceptable damage in the event of the implementation of the Barbarossa 2.0 plan," Medvedev concluded.

RT reviews and pinpoints why Medvedev is taking direct aim at Berlin in his written piece: 

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz openly vowed to turn the German military into the “strongest conventional army in Europe” in a speech just days after the world marked the 80th anniversary of the fall of the Third Reich last May.

Last month, the German Defense Ministry unveiled a plan to reach this goal and field 460,000 combat-ready personnel by 2039, the 100th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland. German and other EU officials repeatedly cited 2029 as the first stage deadline to be “war-ready” for a potential conflict with Russia.

It is true that even after 4+ years of grinding war in eastern Europe, the Western powers have yet to intervene directly by sending their own forces, and after losses on both the Ukrainian and Russian sides have probably been in the hundreds of thousands.

The conflict is largely stalemated, with Russian forces in the east having had a very slow but steady, piecemeal momentum over the past year.

However, Ukraine's drone strikes deep inside Russia have been devastating of late, inflicting serious damage on Russian oil refineries - in some cases hitting key sites multiple times, with Russia's anti-air defenses appearing powerless to stop these attack waves.

The Moscow region itself has been coming under repeat drone attack. While these operations have little or no impact on the frontline situation in the Donbass, Kiev hopes to inflict serious costs on the Russian government and population, the latter which is surely growing tired and weary of the war.

But Medvedev's point is also that if broader conflict with Europe opens one day, the European powers won't be able to find an offramp before absorbing immense losses - no matter their efforts to revamp and expand their respective defense industries.

When The Gospel Is Criminalised, Who Suffers The Consequences?

When The Gospel Is Criminalised, Who Suffers The Consequences?

Christian Concern

In Colchester, one of Britain’s oldest recorded settlements, an entire church community is facing the possibility of being criminalized for their street ministry.

The church, Bread of Life Community Church in Clacton-on-Sea, has been issued a Community Protection Notice that risks criminalizing the entire church, regardless of their personal involvement, for preaching the gospel in nearby Colchester town center.

Over the last decade, we have defended hundreds of church ministries and street preachers who have been censored for their outreach ministries.

And the frequency of these cases is only increasing.

The message is clear: authorities, both in Colchester and beyond, are curtailing the sort of Christianity that might disrupt our complacent culture.

And the gospel has always been disruptive.

Whether it is preaching the gospel, providing food to the homeless, or simply offering educational resources to those interested in Christianity, church ministries that reach into the heart of local communities are vital to the spread of the gospel.

Jesus calls us to be disciples who go out and make more disciples.

But by this kind of action, there is a real danger that councils will seek to confine this kind of public proclamation of our faith to within the walls of the church.

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