Mountains and Molehills

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There are mountains blocking the survival of our civilization. We’ve been watching them grow larger and larger as we move down this road, but few are talking about them. My hope is that someone will help get the word out, since no one seems to be paying attention.

We also have a great story of why Nixon helped save Israel in 1973, and an excellent video that gives a play-by-play of Israel’s massive victory over Iran. And I have some backstory to add to it.

Then, there are some molehills that I am facing, that feel like mountains. 

So, let’s dive in.

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Mountains and Molehills

No article last week, since I was facing a molehill that looked like a mountain. I was building a website for the after-school educational workshop run by Mrs. Little and her sister. I’m involved as well, but in more of an advisory role in stuff like building websites. But more on that later.

The Mountains We Face

I honestly don’t know how the world-as-we-know-it survives what’s coming. Growing up in the ’70s, the world seemed like it couldn’t possibly fall apart. The lights always came on. Cars always started, and when they didn’t… we fixed them. It was a hard decade, but the world was still a place where opportunities were there for all who worked hard enough for them. 

College and grad school flew by, and I wound up studying Hebrew in Jerusalem and working in the IT world, doing AI, online publishing and secure communications. I even did a website for the Jerusalem Zoo. 

I went through the horrors of the last part of the First Intifada and all of the Second Intifada. I discovered that I still have a little PTSD from all that. I was sitting church a few weeks ago and heard a rumble that sounded exactly like an Apache hovering overhead. For minutes, my mind was racing through all the possible scenarios for why an attack helicopter was there and what we should do about it. It was one of the most surreal experiences that I’ve faced in a long time.

Then the truck outside shifted into first gear and drove off. 

So, I guess that I have a thing for Apaches.

However, through all my time in Israel and then my first year here in Taiwan, I had no idea that a vast mountain stood in our way, waiting to fall on us. I discovered it in 2011, along with the threat of Solar EMP. I freaked out and immediately started writing about it. I’m still freaked out, because professionals in the natural resources industry are telling us that we are in serious trouble. And I’m on X precisely because of those professionals. Specifically Tracy Shuchart.

Tracy is founder, CEO and chief strategist of Hilltower Resource Advisors is the source of many of the graphs that I’ve shown you. And I’ve had her work verified over and over and over. Her record is as stellar as it is terrifying. Here’s a post on X from a couple weeks ago:

Her post is longer, but you might not be able to see it, unless you have an account on x.com. But the details don’t matter as much as this fact:

US oil and natural gas reserves are declining. 

And this is the first time that I saw confirmation that natural gas was part of that decline.

For those of you who may not know some of the oil industry vocabulary that they use, proven reserves are what we know is under the ground and can actually be extracted. And if those reserves are declining, it means that the future for US energy is bleak. 

No, I’m sorry. Bleak isn’t strong enough. The word is terrifying.

It means violence, war, scarcity, death and the lights going out. It means the collapse of everything that made life something more than absolute misery. The only really good news is that the rest of the world is in worse shape and doesn’t know it. 

There isn’t a single energy resource that isn’t in decline, except uranium – which peaks next year. 

Think of all the news headlines that are so upsetting. I don’t consume mainstream media, but all the really bad headlines that I see are nothing compared to this global collapse in energy reserves. I don’t care about any of the conspiracies you know about. I don’t care about the corruption that is everywhere. You could combine all of that and still not come close to what this means. 

This is the death of billions. First by violence. Then by starvation and disease. 

It will start in the Third World, progress to the Second World and then finally bring down the First World. And then, as the world lies helpless, Gog and Magog will come against Israel, destroying what is left of our civilization. 

Nothing will be left except rubble and a few desperate people struggling for survival amidst the ruins of a once mighty civilization. 

One Glimmer Of Hope

One of my other sources of energy resource news is Gail Tverberg. She offers some sound advice for those of us who see what’s coming:

What should individuals do in a world filled with conflict?
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2025/06/18/what-should-individuals-do-in-a-world-filled-with-conflict/

  • Every day, give thanks for the many things you do have.
  • To the extent possible, stay away from conflict yourself.
  • Expect declining complexity in the future.
  • Expect fewer goods and services to be available in the future, and money to have less value.
  • Focus on the present, not the past or the future.
  • Living in groups, particularly family groups, will increasingly make sense.
  • Young people should not go into debt for higher education.
  • People will need to be more flexible in their career choices.
  • Planting a modest garden, as far as this is possible, is probably a good idea.

Hopefully, you and I will be dead when all this rolls down upon us. Gail certainly offers more hope than I have at the moment, but she ends with this:

Concluding Observation: Why standing back from conflict is a suitable approach.

Most people have a completely mistaken idea regarding what oil limits will look like. They assume that oil limits will lead to very high prices or long lines at gasoline stations. They fail to appreciate that oil limits will arrive at the same time as many other limits, including affordability limits. They also fail to understand that prices that are too low for producers will bring down oil production quickly. In fact, too low oil prices, rather than too high, are the issue the world is facing today.

What oil limits really lead to is lots of conflict: among nations, among political parties, among people who feel that it is unfair that they have spent a lot of money on an advanced education but cannot find a job that pays well enough to repay their education-related debt with interest. As limits of many kinds mentioned in the beginning of this post are hit, today’s economy will need to greatly shrink back in size. Many governmental structures that we expect today, including the EU, the World Bank, and the UN, may disappear.

We don’t know precisely what is ahead over the longer term. Some people believe a religious ending is likely. Other people think that some of the research that is currently underway may eventually lead to a solution. Still others are concerned that some parts of the world will need to shrink back to a very low level, perhaps similar to hunter-gathering, before these economies can grow again.

Regardless of how things play out, it is the physics of the self-organizing system that determines what happens next. No matter how offended we as individuals may feel regarding what some political party or politician has done or has not done, individuals are not able to fix the system, except to the extent that available inexpensive energy supply allows such a fix. This is why standing back from whatever conflict is taking place seems to me to be a suitable strategy.

I can confirm that she is right. And I can hear the ride of the Four Horsemen through all of this. 

Why Operation Rising Lion Succeeded

I just saw this video, and it provides an excellent summary of how Israel won the 12 Day War. 

Israel’s Strike on Iran That Took 20 Years to Plan | Explained

He actually makes only one mistake. Israel was preparing for this, for 30 years. He neglects the formation of a unit called the Sayeret Yahalom. (The Wikipedia page for this unit is reasonably accurate, so it’s a good place to start.) That unit was created to crack open Iran’s nuclear tunnel bases and destroy their nuclear weapons development. 

Israel knew that they could do it, because they’d already destroyed on Iranian tunnel base in Syria. But they also knew that there was a very high chance that none of these elite soldiers would make it back. Which is why the guy in the video mentions ‘kamikaze attack’. 

Of course, Israel would have spent many more weeks preparing the battlefield to ensure that the soldiers would make it back. However, Trump decided that this was too long, and implemented a plan that had been in development for 16 years. I talked about that in my previous article.

Trump’s decision shortened the war, reduced the cost of the war and saved the lives of Israeli soldiers that might not have made it back. Trump deserves a lot of praise for that. But Trump wasn’t the first president to come through for Israel.

Why Nixon Helped Israel in 1973: A Promise To His Mother

I knew about what Nixon told Kissinger, Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger and White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig. He cussed them all out and threatened to fire every one of them if they didn’t start an immediate emergency airlift to save Israel.

That emergency airlift came from stockpiles in Europe and put NATO on nuclear alert. It was called Operation Nicklegrass. But there’s one thing that always bothered me.

Nixon wasn’t really all that friendly to Israel or the Jews. He was actually fairly antisemitic, so I couldn’t understand why he saved Israel at her darkest hour. Well, it turns out that the answer was quite simple:

His mother, Hannah Nixon.

Now I get it. His mother raised him to save Israel. And he did.

Here’s the article:

Why Nixon Helped Israel in 1973: A Promise To His Mother
https://www.israellycool.com/2025/07/04/why-nixon-helped-israel-in-1973-a-promise-to-his-mother/

My Personal Mountains

The fact that I’m even able to write all of the above means that I’m doing better than I have in a long while. But I’m not out of the woods yet.

Worse, every step in this process has felt like I’m facing a mountain. That website that I created for the workshop, seemed like a mountain until I crossed it and realized that it was just a molehill. And all the previous ‘mountains’ have been the same. 

Molehills. Every one of them. And I haven’t told you even the half of it. 

I still have grim mountains ahead, and I’m not sure how I’ll get over them. Of course, it means walking the Valley of Shadows. But God has been with me each and every time I’ve had to do that.  Many of you have the same story, so you understand how hard all this is.

So, I would appreciate your prayers. 

God is good.

The Donation Button

I took the donation button down. Paypal has changed how they do donations, and the button/link doesn’t seem to work anymore. And you have asked how you can still contribute to the costs of running this site, and I appreciate that more than you can imagine. 

The question is how to do this, and I’m not sure. I’m not a 501(c)(3) organization, so anything that requires that designation won’t work.

Any thoughts?

Alternatives?

I’m looking into this myself, but seems like another of those mountains I talked about.

 

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
שאלו שלום ירושלים

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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you… Hosea 4:6

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