July 16, 2026

The Podcasts I'm Listening To This Summer: The Book Club

 


Video Title: The Greatest Historical Novel Ever Written: The Leopard. Source: The Book Club. Date Published: July 14, 2026.

July 15, 2026

England Doesn't Go Down Fighting, Spain Made France Look Like Schoolboys

 

Spain will be too much for Argentina.


Thomas Tuchel is going to get a lot of heat in the British press for that bottlejob today against Argentina, even more so because he's German.

England had the champs on the ropes and decided to play like Congo for half an hour. Tuchel basically gave that game away at the end.

He did well to get England to the Semis but England already accomplished that feat in 2018. What they needed was a brave manager who would get them over the line.

Tuchel played scared and lost.

I have never liked the idea of foreign managers coaching a national team. 

Of the bigger nations at this World Cup, Portugal, Brazil, and England all made the mistake of hiring foreign managers. 

Even national teams like USA, Canada, Ghana, etc., shouldn't be hiring managers who are not from those countries. 

The successful countries of the past few World Cups have all had managers from their own countries. Spain's manager is Spanish. Argentina's manager is Argentinan. France's manager is French. Morocco and Croatia, teams that have made successful runs to the Semis, did not look outside their countries when hiring a manager. 

On Fossil Gods and Forgotten Worlds By Ev Cochrane


Maverick Science

My most recent book, Egypt Under the Stars, offers a paradigm-shifting vision of ancient religion.  Together with my previous book, The Case of the Turquoise Sun (2024), it summarizes nearly a half-century’s worth of research into ancient cosmogonic myth and archaeoastronomy.  The principal findings include:

The first gods were the planets, pure and simple.

Myths of Creation are best understood as eye-witness accounts describing singular cataclysmic events involving the respective planets moving in close proximity to Earth.

The earliest cosmogonic myths of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Vedic India, and Mesoamerica encode the “birth” of the Turquoise Sun, a Sun which is clearly distinguishable from the present sun.

The Queen of Heaven referenced in the Old Testament and in countless other ancient traditions around the globe is to be identified with the planet Venus.

The Warrior-Hero—represented by such familiar figures as Heracles, Gilgamesh, Samson, and Odysseus—is to be identified with the planet Mars.

The global myth of the hieros gamos, most familiar in Homer’s account of the torrid love affair between Aphrodite and Ares, describes a close conjunction (“marriage”) between Venus and Mars.

The origin of the primary institutions of human civilization—religion, drama, dance, music, philosophy, monumental architecture, New Year’s ritual, marriage, sports, etc.—is firmly rooted in, and ultimately inseparable from, the catastrophic events involving the respective planets.

The history of the solar system recounted in modern textbooks is utterly wrongheaded and divorced from reality.

An excerpt from, "On Fossil Gods and Forgotten Worlds" by Ev Cochrane, Lulu Press, May 2010:

How are we to explain ancient man's collective obsession with the comings and goings of the Great Gods-much less the mysterium tremendum et fascinosum evoked by their tumultuous fulminations from on high? For one reason or another, ancient man seems to have been fixated on observing the Great Gods and chronicling their extraordinary behavior-their peculiar births, uncanny metamorphoses, and innumerable love affairs. Why this should be the case has long been a puzzle and remains enshrouded in mystery to this very day. The answer, or so we have proposed in several monographs on the subject, is that ancient man actually witnessed the trials and tribulations of the Great Gods firsthand-this despite what we think possible nowadays. Indeed, a review of the evidence will reveal that the ancients were the traumatized survivors of truly extraordinary and devastating cataclysms involving various planetary bodies, the latter constituting the Gods themselves. Being at once life-threatening and strangely beautiful, the catastrophic events dominated the celestial landscape and were utterly mesmerizing. Indeed, it is precisely because the planetary cataclysms were so traumatic and fascinating that they were duly recorded-often in striking and painstaking detail. Upon being committed to memory, the events in question were eventually encoded in myth and endlessly celebrated in public celebrations and ritual reenactments. The unfolding celestial drama, properly reconstructed, is nothing less than the history of the Gods.

Like the fossilized bones of great dinosaurs revealed by a retreating riverbed, the testimony regarding fossil Gods provides telltale evidence of lost worlds and world-engulfing catastrophe. In this sense our work of historical reconstruction is not unlike that of a paleontologist, who seeks to deduce and reconstruct the biological record from a mere handful of scattered bones and teeth. Considered in isolation and without regard for historical context, no one bone or tooth can ever be conclusive. Rather, it is the comparison and analysis of detailed structures from around the globe that offers the most compelling evidence for the seemingly fantastic monsters that once ruled the earth. And the same logic and methodological rationale offers the surest guide for reconstructing the Great Gods who only recently dominated the sky. By revisiting and analyzing the abundant mnemonic structures attested in ancient myth and ritual, Fossil Gods and Forgotten Worlds attempts to shed some much needed light on the dramatic celestial events encoded therein-events that literally shook the world while exercising a decisive and formative influence on cultural institutions around the globe.

Zion On Mars

The red planet was prophesied to be the celestial home of the Hebrews.

"One small step for man, one giant leap for Zion." - Armstrong, 1969.


There's a relatively unknown ancient Israelite prophecy that says the Jews were promised the planet Mars 12,000 years ago. 

According to this prophecy the red planet was their original celestial home to which they will return as gods in the end of days.  

In the secret ancient Jewish texts it is written they were destined to be terrestrial refugees until the space age and the discovery of space travel. Based on the Biblical calendar and the scientific progress made since the beginning of the 20th century that time is now. 

In a technologically advanced age such as ours it is easy to forget the role of prophecy and ancient scriptures in forecasting future events. But it must be remembered that a great part of history is a religious story. For a considerable amount of time prophecy was history. 

Scientific literalism has sidelined alternative paths of historical investigation, making any effort to uncover the past a difficult enterprise. 

It is easy to mistake the literal territory of Palestine as the home and birthplace of the Jewish people since the Biblical tradition has taken precedence when evaluating ancient prophecies. But the true home of this ancient and powerful race is in the stars. And if mankind is to advance further in this century it is our collective duty to help this lost tribe find its way home. 

Every nation that's technologically capable should be building space ships around the clock to help facilitate their safe passage to their home planet. 

They are aliens on this one.

On Mars they will be free to follow their ancient laws, customs, and traditions. And this world will finally be safe from them. It's a win-win if there ever was one.

July 14, 2026

Death, Destruction, Terrorism: What The United States, Israel And The Islamic Republic Offer The Peoples of West Asia



Some deaths are worth rejoicing. 

I remember when Gaddafi was butchered in the street like a pig a certain Secretary of State of the United States at the time laughed about it on television, saying "we came, we saw, he died." 

The rest of the despicable U.S. political class followed suit, taking humour in the death of a foreign leader.

Now that one of their own in Lindsey Graham was barbequed we're supposed to feel bad about it? Fuck that. The only tragic thing about this is the motherfucker wasn't hanged from his balls. He deserved a worse fate. He got off lucky.

Graham helped put the worst of the worst in power in Syria. Terrorists are running amok there. And he would have advocated the same fate for the rest of the region. 

Death, destruction, and terrorism are all that blackmailed warmongers like Graham can offer. Not peace. Not freedom. Not stability. Not democracy.

They're not to be missed.