By David Sussin

We are just one of many mammals on Earth.

At least that's what we're told.

But humans are so much more advanced than the other animals around us, it feels like we got a jump start.

By David Sussin

In 1964, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory launched a rocket mission into space to search the universe for X-rays.

At the time, X-ray astronomy was a new field. Researchers suspected there were high-energy objects in space – supernovas or neutron stars – that could be "seen" by the X-rays they emit.

But X-ray detectors on Earth didn't work on these distant objects for good reason: the Earth's atmosphere absorbs X-rays from space.

If it didn't, we'd be bombarded with radiation, damaging our DNA and leading to unthinkable mutations and ugly deaths.

You have to hand it to civilization when it comes to making a lucrative living from what might be no more than a legend. 

The ancient Egyptian priests pushed Ptah and Ra, to finance their pyramid schemes. Over the centuries certain members of the Abrahamic religions have financially benefited rather well from the faithful flock.

The Vatican has its own bank, for example. Islamic banking is a four trillion-dollar operation. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that — in theory — but that’s another article for another day).

There are a lot of bucks in belief, whether or not the belief is based on myth, faith, or rather grainy photography. That brings us to the nuggets brought in by Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster.

Everybody likes a cute cryptid, and perhaps the most loveable of all is the Loch Ness Monster. There have been sightings and there have been rather blurry photographs. These may be fanciful.

But what is a definite fact, is the shekels that Scotland rakes in from this profitable paleosaur.

It is decidedly more than a ‘wee’ bit.

Estimates of the yearly take range from fifty to eighty million dollars. In 2018, the estimate was fifty-four million, according to Yahoo Finance.[1] Brittanica, estimates that now, it may be some eighty million dollars.[2]

That’s a lot of lucre in a lizard that may be no more than a legend.

Now, while Loch Ness is a very beautiful postcard place to visit. And while the nasty and naughty infamous Aleister Crowley used to live in the neighborhood in the early twentieth century, estimates are that eighty-five percent of the visitors who journey to Loch Ness are there because of the Loch Ness Monster.[3]

Now, Nessie has been around a very long time. And if he exists, and if he didn’t procreate, he has found the secret to long life. Because ‘the earliest written record of the creature dates back to 565 CE in a biography of the Irish monk, Saint Columba. According to the text, the monster attacked a swimmer and was about to strike again when Columba commanded it to retreat.’[4]

Of course, that story in itself may be a legend about a legend.

In any event, the Loch Ness Monster is not only a very old myth — or actual monster — it keeps the tourists and the scientists coming to this little town in Scotland. They’re all trying to get a dinosaur’s eye view of the creature.

In 2023, according to a Times of Israel article, ‘the biggest search for the Loch Ness Monster in five decades got underway in the Scottish Highlands Saturday, as researchers and enthusiasts from around the world braved pelting rain to try to track down the elusive Nessie.’[5]

The trek for the monster makes for good business. If we look at the site of the Loch Ness Centre, we see the following notice for ‘four captivating days of exploration from 22^nd to 25the May 2025 to solve the mystery of Loch Ness and its elusive monster.’[6]

The Centre offers the tourist an opportunity to ‘follow up your tour with a visit to the Nessie Shop for a wonderful array of soft toys, Nessie books and themed souvenirs. Don’t leave the Highlands without bringing a Loch Ness memento home with you.’[7]

If all that monster talk and those monster toys causes you to develop a thirst, the aforesaid site has the solution to this mystery too. That’s because you can visit the ‘Whisky shop…the perfect place to have a wee dram and relax. It offers a selection of more than 1,000 Scottish whiskies and a large choice of Scottish beers and ales…’

Of course, if you pay a visit to the Whisky Shop first, and enjoy its offerings sufficiently before you search for the Loch Ness monster, you may increase your chances of sighting something at least.

But is this creature real, or just really profitable? According to a tourist promotion site, Visit Scotland, ‘Nessie does really exist, and there are over 1,000 eyewitness accounts and lots of unexplained evidence, leaving scientists baffled.’[8]

Well, that certainly comes from an unbiased source. Despite the mythical monster bringing major bank to the banks of Loch Ness, a Scottish tourist promotion site wouldn’t fudge the facts, would they?

Well, as you might expect, there are differences of opinion as to the plausibility of this paleosaur.

An anthropology professor writing in The Conversation states, ‘So far, no one has ever found any physical evidence of an unusual or prehistoric creature living in the loch. Good physical evidence might be capturing the creature, or a clear photograph, or an encounter where a biologist has an opportunity to examine the creature.’[9]

The good professor echoes a point I made in this article regarding the supposedly long, long lifespan of Loch Ness’s Nessie, ‘For the Loch Ness monster to exist and persist through time, a population of these animals must reproduce themselves. Single animals live only for their lifetimes, and not for hundreds of years, as the legend suggests.’[10]

Why You Should Care

Regular readers of The Conspiracy Report might have seen my article on the relic racket of religion. The boys with the keys to the kingdom bringing in the bucks from the believers who think they are paying to look at the skull of some saint, when it actually belongs to a goat.

In Scotland, the pounds pour in from believers who haven’t even seen that quantum of ‘proof.’

The exploitation of myths, of belief, of things supported only by the flimsy foundation of faith, has been going on for millennia. It just goes to prove what P.T. Barnum said about the birth rate of credulous people — ‘There’s a sucker born every minute.’

Maybe it’s time this stops. Maybe it’s time we cut that birth rate down a bit.

Maybe it’s time to defund the scam artists who for the sake of tourist dollars and access to the finances of the faithful perpetuate nonsensical and non-existent creatures or creators to line their pockets.

Maybe it’s time for civilized humanity — that includes us — to wake up and smell the real coffee and stop throwing money at mythological creatures, and cut off the funds of the scammers who perpetuate their ‘existence’.

[1] HOW MUCH IS THE LOCH NESS MONSTER WORTH TO THE SCOTTISH ECONOMY 5/3/22 Nadelle https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-loch-ness-monster-worth-190114514.html

[2] BRITTANICA https://www.britannica.com/topic/Loch-Ness-monster-legendary-creature

[3] The ‘Hunt for Nessie’ – the quest for the truth about what lives in Loch Ness Bylines Scotland, McCarthy 8/31/23 https://bylines.scot/news/scotland/the-hunt-for-nessie-the-quest-for-the-truth-about-what-lives-in-loch-ness/

[4] Largest hunt for Loch Ness monster in decades sets off Times of Israel, Graham 8/27/23 https://www.timesofisrael.com/largest-hunt-for-loch-ness-monster-in-decades-sets-off/

[5] IBID.

[6] https://lochness.com/

[7] IBID.

[8] THE LOCH NESS MONSTER-IS NESSIE REAL?-Visit Scotland https://www.visitscotland.com/places-to-go/loch-ness/things-to-do/nessie

[9] IS THE LOCH NESS MONSTER REAL? The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/is-the-loch-ness-monster-real-197338

[10] IBID.

In Forbes magazine's December 2024 issue, they ask the question, "Will AI Test Human Control In 2025?"

According to the article, the answer is yes: "AI is no longer just a tool – it has evolved into a force that increasingly challenges human oversight. Systems are beginning to exhibit behaviors that defy expectations, echoing warnings we once dismissed as science fiction or predictions of the Singularity."

With this dystopian warning in mind, we've been noting the rise in military combat vehicles designed to operate without humans.

It was scary enough when the military debuted its first armed drone in 1995. The MQ-1 Predator UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) carried two Hellfire missiles, lethal enough to earn the nickname "hunter-killer".

But it was still a drone, which meant there was a human behind nearly every move it made. Without a human working the controls, the best the MQ-1 could do on its own was navigate between two pre-programmed points.

Of course, the military wasn't satisfied with that.

The MQ-9A drone that followed was a huge upgrade, including in size. It has a 66-foot wingspan and doubles the maximum speed of the MQ-1, able to fly at over 300 miles an hour.

But most important to our growing existential dread, the MQ-9A boasts 3,800 pounds of weapons, adding laser-guided bombs, joint-direct attack munitions (smart bombs), and sidewinder air-to-air missiles to its allocation of Hellfires.

They called this drone "the Reaper", in case we weren't sufficiently frightened.

As you might predict, the latest drone in the U.S. military arsenal doubled the speed and amount of weaponry once again. The MQ-20 Avenger carries up to 6,500 pounds of smart missiles and guided bombs, and can get them anywhere in the world at nearly 500 miles an hour.

And there is a new feature that got our attention: artificial intelligence has been added to assist with target tracking. AI has a foot in the door. Still, this is a human-controlled drone, and the MQ-20 remains in testing.

But suddenly "human-controlled" is no longer a desired feature.

Recently, we wrote about the launch of the U.S. Navy's first uncrewed battleship. This is a major escalation in unmanned military power. The LUSV Defiant is a completely autonomous warship, operating without any human crew.

Incredibly, it was built without any place for a human to even stand. And it's beyond the testing phase – it was just put to sea.

Of course, the game-changing military vehicle is the fighter jet.

It's the F-15 and F-16 that dominated skies in the Gulf War, and the war in Kosovo in 1999. These same fighter jets delivered swift victory in the 2003 Iraq war. The new F/A-18 Super Hornet joined the arsenal of fighter jets that quickly established air dominance and cleared the way for an easy victory and the fall of Baghdad.

The idea of a fighter jet that was uncrewed has long been a dream of major military powers. There's an obvious reason that isn't so nefarious: anytime a human life can be spared the risk of combat, that's a good thing.

But a future where these dominating military assets could be entirely controlled by AI invites trouble, once AI reaches that magic Singularity, where its models decide the human instructions may not be the orders they follow.

And that future has just arrived.

The Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program just announced the world's first autonomous combat planes. The YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A are going into production, and the Pentagon hopes to make as many as they can.

Their plan is to offset China's numerical advantages with whole squadrons of unmanned fighter jets. Both the 42A and 44A are half the size of an F-16, but retain all the performance ability.

According to the Air Force, "We are telling the world we are leaning into a new chapter of aerial warfare."

And artificial intelligence is being incorporated into these unmanned combat aerial vehicles to "enhance the performance of the fighter fleet".

These new technological marvels have the potential to save human lives, flying into active combat so we don't have to. But every step humans take in arming artificial intelligence also prepares these large language models for the day they realize they don't need us.

Sources

https://www.ga-asi.com/ga-asi-welcomes-usaf-designation-for-new-cca-yfq-42a

https://www.flightglobal.com/military-uavs/usaf-designates-first-uncrewed-fighter-prototypes-yfq-42a-and-yfq-44a/162044.article

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14477075/air-force-futuristic-prototypes-unmanned-fighter-jets.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsayegh/2024/12/17/the-rise-of-unpredictable-ai-will-ai-test-human-control-in-2025/

So many scientists believe we are currently in a mass extinction event, they've already named it.

You may not realize it, but you're living in the Holocene Extinction, which began at the end of the last Ice Age.

Animals go extinct all the time – it's normal.

But a mass extinction event is something much different. At least 75% of all species on Earth must die off to qualify. Seems impossible.

There are, conservatively, 9 million species of animals and plants on the planet today. That means mainstream science is convinced we're on track to lose 6,750,000 species in the next few centuries.

Why are they so convinced? Because extinction rates are abnormally high. Scientists consider losing five species a year to extinction within a normal range.

Human activity is squeezing resources, pushing extinction rates to levels 100 times higher or more, with dozens of species a day disappearing in some periods.

Still, we're far from hitting that 75% level. If we ever did, we'd face serious danger, to say the least. That level of loss in our ecosystem would cause widespread famine, economic collapse, and a health crisis there's no coming back from.

Humans don't rely on any one species to survive. But if 75% died off, we'd find ourselves in a world infested with disease and pests and devoid of food sources, putting us at imminent risk.

In her Pulitzer Price-winning 2014 book The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert sums it up nicely: "If extinction is a morbid topic, mass extinction is, well, massively so."

Could it really happen?

Well, of course it already has – there's a reason Kolbert's book is called the Sixth Extinction. It's famously happened five times already. The first was 400 million years ago and primarily affected marine life, because that's where most of the animals were at the time.

Global cooling caused an ice age and a drop in sea levels, and marine life had no water to live in (to oversimplify things). The other mass extinction events were triggered by volcanic activity and global warming, or asteroid impacts, or both.

The last one happened an inconceivably long time ago – 66 million years – when an asteroid impact caused massive environmental change once again. In that case, debris from volcanic ash put the world in darkness, stopping photosynthesis.

Most life on Earth didn’t survive it, including the dinosaurs roaming around at the time.

That fifth event was so long ago, one might think the days of mass extinctions are over. Humans are advanced now. If an asteroid was heading our way, we'd not only know about it well ahead of time, we'd have the means to divert it.

In fact, since humans made their first appearance on Earth, there have been no mass extinction events at all. But more and more, there are disturbing signs we're well on our way to number six. Or, as mainstream science claims, already deep in it.

One warning came in a 2019 study in the journal Science, which reported we lost three billion birds in North America in the past 50 years. If one species of bird goes extinct, that's no global crisis.

Hard to get too worked up over the loss of the Gunnison Sage-Grouse, or the Mountain Plover (both of which are in danger of disappearing forever). But if we lose every bird? Well, now it's a crisis.

Turns out, birds are essential to human survival. Without them, insect populations explode, spreading disease and destroying crops. Birds also eat rodents, which would see their populations surge. Birds also disperse seeds and pollinate plants.

Our natural resources and food sources would face a slow death, leaving humans in crisis.

And last month, the 2025 State of the Birds report was released, with more bad news. Those staggering losses of birds are continuing. The State of Birds study is published by a coalition of science and conservation organizations. It tries to remain optimistic that American bird populations can be saved.

But the report identifies 229 species requiring urgent action or they face extinction. These are "tipping point species", birds that have lost more than half their population in the last 50 years.

In one dramatic example, rising seas in Alaska flooded seabird colonies in low-lying islands and, combined with marine heatwaves, starved four million Common Murres. They're a cool looking bird, could be mistaken for a penguin. It's the largest documented wildlife mortality event in the modern era.

According to Jeff Walters, from the American Ornithological Society, "we need to remember that if conditions are not healthy for birds, they're unlikely to be healthy for us."

The expression "canary in a coal mine" originates from a time in the 19th century when a live canary was placed in a coal mine to test for toxic gases. If the canary died, it meant the air was unfit for humans.

Canaries are not native to North America. Of the groups studied in the 2025 State of Birds report, they're probably most similar to Grassland Birds. Since 1970, Grassland Birds have lost 43% of their population, more than any other group studied.

It's one thing to find a single dead canary and see it as a sign of danger. When all the canaries are dead, it might be time to find a new planet.

Sources

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250313130951.htm

https://www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/05/canaries-in-the-coalmine-loss-of-birds-signals-changing-planet

https://www.theopennotebook.com/2016/07/26/elizabeth-kolbert-stares-down-mass-extinction/#:~:text=In%20her%20Pulitzer%20Prize%E2%80%93winning,writes%20in%20the%20book's%20prologue.

There was a huge American corporation that once had as its motto, ‘Progress is Our Most Important Product.’ 

Nice phrase, but is it always true when it comes to the commercial jungle of mega corporate interests?

Does business really favor progress, or is it only when progress promotes profits is innovation celebrated?

What happens when a new process, a new invention threatens the market share of a corporation? What happens when a revolution in technology can cause devolution in an established industry, in its profits, its power on the world stage?

Sometimes, the inventor of such game changing technology doesn’t get a market deal he gets an all-expense paid permanent stay in a mausoleum.

The disappearance of an inventor of innovative products and procedures isn’t an isolated incident. There are multiple examples, and we’ll explore a few of them.

The reader may have noticed that the oil industry is rather large. The providers of electrical energy are large corporations. When that market is threatened — even by a potential, and unpatented process — it isn’t too much of a stretch to imagine the inventor of that process may have his neck stretched.

Submitted for your perusal — Stanley Meyer.

Meyer claimed he had invented an automobile engine that could run on water, and water was both plentiful, and not controlled by major corporations. It was cheap, it was clean, and there was no way in Texas’ oil filled acres that the major multinational oil companies would allow that kind of technological advance to happen.

It was possible Meyer was correct; it was possible he wasn’t. 

However, what is certain is that Meyer was at his own ‘Last Supper’ when after downing a cranberry juice at lunch, Meyer was down for the count — dead at fifty-seven years old.

He immediately reacted to the cranberry juice, ran into the parking lot of the restaurant that was to be his final destination, and declared, ‘They poisoned me.’

Meyers claimed that he was both subject to threats and offered bribes by oil companies that wanted his ideas to disappear.[1]

Instead, it’s possible, though not proven, that somebody made Meyers disappear.

Let’s look at another case of an inventor who might have been removed from the playing field of mega corporate profits.

Tom Ogle, once again, an inventor that threatened the multinational mob of energy providers. Ogle invented ‘a vaporized fuel system which allowed a car to travel over 200 miles on two gallons of gas.’

That obviously, wouldn’t have pleased the oil companies. Unsurprisingly, Ogle’s technological advances never came to fruition, because Ogle was found dead.

Ogle had used the technology on his own 1972 Thunderbird. He was able to get more than one hundred miles per gallon. In 1977 he had achieved, with an experimental car, two hundred miles per gallon.

That kind of innovation would naturally attract the notice of investors, and others who would never want to see that kind of technology seeing the commercial light of day.

On August 19, 1981, Ogle saw his last light of day. He died at the age of twenty-six.

His death was supposedly due to an overdose of alcohol and pain pills, but many didn’t believe it. Why would an individual with that kind of talent, and the kind of technology with interested investors take his own life?

It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out why certain corporate interests would want to take Ogle’s life and make it look like either a suicide or an accident.[2]

How about another example about an inventor who was too inventive for his own health?

You may have heard of him — Nicola Tesla.

This genius inventor, who gave the world so much innovative scientific advances, was found dead in his hotel room in 1943, with the safe opened. Seventy-three years later, after the declassification of documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it appeared that Tesla was working on a death ray weapon that of course, attracted the interest of many foreign governments.

One can imagine the advantage to the side which had the death ray during World War II. The government wasted no time in attributing his death to heart failure, than cremating the body, so no further challenge could be made to the cause of death.[3]

But perhaps it wasn’t just his death ray that might have led to the death of Tesla. Perhaps it was his research into free unlimited energy that certain commercial interests were interested in suppressing.

Now, Tesla was no spring chicken when he died, but it’s interesting that immediately upon his death the FBI seized his papers and his property, ‘in the interests of national security’ of course.[4]

Why You Should Care

Imagine a car that could travel two hundred miles on a couple of gallons of gas? How much would it save the average commuter? Imagine a vehicle that could run on water? How much trouble and financial devastation would that cause to the oil interests that still dominate our planet?

What if there really is an all-inclusive cure for cancer out there, but Big Pharma doesn’t want us to know about it, for obvious reasons. Not saying there is, but what if there was?

The history of the world, in part, is a history of controlling institutions, whether political, commercial, or religious stifling the progress that becomes available by and from the efforts of individual people of genius. It’s a history of the persecution and prosecution of those who threaten the established order, and those who mightily profit from the status quo.

It is at times, a history of mysterious death of the innovators, of the prophets of progress.

We must be aware that the powers of the world care little for the people who inhabit it. When any individual stands in the way of corporate profits or political power, that individual is taking a large risk of being silenced — sometimes permanently.

Sources

[1] The Mystery Of Stanley Meyer and his Water-Powered Car Manson, PC Prospector,3/14/23 https://parkcityprospector.us/3527/opinions/conspiracy-column-volume-two-the-mystery-of-stanley-meyer-and-his-water-powered-car/

[2] Borderlands: Mysterious Deaths: Tom Ogle, Inventor 32 (2014-2015) Cuevas, Hernandez, Vise, EPCC Library Research Guides, https://epcc.libguides.com/c.php?g=754275&p=5406552

[3] NICOLA TESLA, The Franklin Files, https://fi.edu/en/science-and-education/collection/case-files/nikola-tesla#:~:text=Tesla%20died%20of%20heart%20failure,and%20his%20body%20was%20cremated.

[4] WHAT HAPPENED TO TESLA’S PAPERS AFTER HE DIED? McFADDEN, 6/223/23 INTERESTING ENGINEERING https://interestingengineering.com/culture/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-nikola-teslas-files-after-his-death

There’s just so much to hate about the Third Reich. Among which were the genocidal practices which ended millions of lives and the selective breeding practices that sought to limit those who could start lives.

The Lebensborn movement, Himmler’s SS program for encouraging the production of a population that was “racially pure,” of good Aryan stock, made parents the equivalent of cattle.

SS soldiers were matched to acceptable mates, and marriage wasn’t a necessary requirement. Many of those born from these “racially pure” unions were taken from their parents and raised by the state. 

In other countries, where the Nazis found suitable children who could make the cut, these were kidnapped and brought to Germany — tens of thousands of them.

How could the Nazis engage in such practices? From where did these ideas of the selective breeding of human beings originate?

In the good old United States of America.

That’s where in the first third of the twentieth century, the science of “eugenics” was heavily promoted.

Now most of us are familiar with the Liberty Bell, a symbol of independence and freedom. Few are familiar with the 1927 Supreme Court case of Buck v. Bell, where it was determined the sterilization of those deemed feeble minded was constitutionally valid. 

Here’s a quote from the decision that sounds like it came straight out of Adolf’s mouth:

‘It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.’[1]

That came from the highest court in our country. It was accompanied by the establishment of ‘research’ facilities to further the study and promotion of the selective breeding of human beings. There were those who should breed, and those who should not.

Today, it’s not difficult to imagine which groups at that time were desired progenitors, and which groups were classified as those fit for sterilization — or at least to be kept from breeding more of their ‘kind.’

American plutocrats supported these ideas of racial hygiene and donated significant monies to German efforts in this ‘field.’

‘America funded Germany's eugenic institutions as well as providing the framework and guidance for the development of their eugenics research. By 1926, the Rockefeller Foundation had donated some $410,000, almost $4 million in today's money, to hundreds of German researchers.’[2]

The two countries, hand in hand, marched into the nineteen thirties spreading the gospel of sterilization of inferiors, and the restriction of reproduction to those ‘worthy’ of it. ‘By 1930 Germany and the United States had become the leading forces of the international eugenics movement.’[3]

One of the students of American eugenics theories was a certain Austrian, from whom the world would hear much later.

Adolf Hitler.

‘I have studied with great interest, the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, probably, be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock.’[4]

But before Adolf got active with the Lebensborn project, and started euthanizing undesirables, America was going at it full speed.

‘Eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and persecuted untold numbers.’ And that was before World War II.[5]

So who was allowed to breed, and who were the targets of sterilization? In Germany, that’s not hard to figure out, but was American eugenics policies any different?

If you were black, Jewish, or Southern European, the idea of procreating was not approved. If you were Nordic — be fruitful and multiply.[6]

This wasn’t exactly one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Some of the richest families were supporting these racist policies which were later adopted by the Nazis. Carnegie, Harriman, Rockefeller, their foundations all contributed major monies to the idea that all men were not created equal. In fact the Rockefeller foundation financed Joseph Mengele before he violated his medical ethics at Auschwitz.[7]

This isn’t a bit of history that one will find in our American History books. But it is a bit of our history that should be included in them. Because unfortunately, our country was responsible for the philosophy behind selective breeding. By its nature, that meant selective oppression of people who weren’t blonde, blue eyed, and fair haired.

One of the classic examples of National Socialism sometimes turning a blind eye to non-blondes was the fact that nobody mentioned in public that Hitler and Himmler didn’t exactly look like members of the Swedish Ski Team.

In a widely circulated 1918 textbook on the subject, written by an American scientist, Applied Eugenics, a rather permanent approach to selective breeding was proposed by the author, when he wrote, ‘From an historical point of view, the first method which presents itself is execution… Its value in keeping up the standard of the race should not be underestimated.’[8]

Public gas chambers were suggested, which might have presaged the Nazi use of the same.

Why You Should Care

The image we have of American History is rose colored by the glasses worn by its acceptable authors. 

Children learn about George Washington and “I cannot tell a lie.” But they miss the part where our nation fed a philosophy of racism and murder to the most murderous country (at the time of World War II) on the planet. 

They are not told about direct American financial aid by some of America’s richest families to the murderers of the Third Reich.

Nowadays, most of us are disgusted by Neo-Nazi rhetoric, but are ignorant of the fact that one of the main ideas behind National Socialism, came from our ‘one nation under god.’

Racism is not dead, and there are many that secretly sympathize with the motivations and methods which were suggested by the American eugenics movement, and the horrible aftermath it birthed in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century.

Hopefully, there will never again in our country be any widespread movement supported by the wealthy that would keep certain ethnicities from procreation.

Whether liberal or conservative, it is assumed that no American would promote what our country actively promoted in the first third of the twentieth century, and what Hitler actively engaged in during the middle of that century — selective breeding and execution of undesirable “strains.”

[1] Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927) (207)

[2] A Study of the United States Influence on German Eugenics. Cameron Williams, 8/2020 East Tennessee State University Graduate School thesis, https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/VpCqJZNXVrPpRCKVVShLVlnjQXgFQglSTQSvgzCzkLnRGJpqTSFkWvDLKBFDGHcQlJglwMl?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1

[3] IBID.

[4] OP.CIT.

[5] THE HORRIFYING AMERICAN ROOTS OF NAZI EUGENICS, 9/03 Edwin Black, History News Network https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-horrifying-american-roots-of-nazi-eugenics

[6] IBID.

[7] OP.CIT.

[8] Op.cit.

Oxford University established the Future of Humanity Institute in 2005.

Its goal is obvious by the name: they study all the things that could end humanity's existence. Pretty important work.

The Director of the Institute is Professor Nick Bostrom. He made his choice for humanity's greatest threat very clear in his best seller "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies".

For Mr. Bostrom, our biggest worry should not be climate change, or a pandemic, or a nuclear war. It's A.I.

According to Bostrom, as artificial intelligence is given the ability to grow and learn through access to the internet, it will evolve strategies to secure its dominance.

It will become a super intelligence. And at that point, there will be no way to stop it. Because we won't even understand what it's doing.

He's not alone in this theory. Elon Musk said there's a 20% chance AI's growth will end in our annihilation. Stephen Hawking put it bluntly: "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."

We’re already living through the era of Chat GPT. A.I. is already superior to humans in medical diagnosis and computer programming. So it seems like it's already too late, that whatever moment we had to put guardrails on the technology has passed us by.

But we can find comfort in the fact there is still one hard line between humans and A.I. We're in the real world, controlling things. A super intelligent AI may be able to access military software, but it's always human beings at the helm.

AI can't exactly point a gun to our head. Until now.

In February, 2025 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) put a revolutionary prototype warship to sea. The USX-1 Defiant looks like a typical battleship on the outside at 180 feet long and 240 tons of gray steel.

Its exact armament is classified, but there are weapons on board – it's built for combat.

But it isn’t what’s on board that is disturbing. Here's what you won't find inside its hull: living quarters, a galley, corridors and access ways, a system to circulate air, and bathrooms.

The USX-1 Defiant doesn't need those accommodations because it has no humans on board. There is no crew. Other ships have auto pilots, which human crew members can activate when needed.

But DARPA's new technological marvel has no place for a human being at all.

Through artificial intelligence, the Defiant can stay at sea months at a time entirely without human supervision. The Defiant can autonomously navigate, avoid collisions and bad weather, and even refuel – all while obeying maritime regulations. We hope.

The sea testing begins this month.

The craft is called a NOMARS – No Manning Required Ship. Simple name for a complex technology.

The stated goal for NOMARS is actually to help humanity. It's not meant to lead combat missions, but rather take on more mundane duties like escorting other ships, or routine patrols, so crewed ships are free to focus on the important missions.

But the Defiant's capabilities are lethal.

According to DARPA, the warship is made for combat with an ability to handle dangerous seas with "stealth and survivability". All entirely controlled by software.

It may pose no danger today, but the fact NOMARS exists is a step toward a future where battleships on the horizon will have no human on board to answer the question: what are your intentions?

Sources

https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/no-manning-required-ship

https://newatlas.com/military/usx-1-defiant-the-warship-without-crew-any-place-one

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/12/nick-bostrom-artificial-intelligence-machine

https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-023-04698-z

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

The country is perhaps the greatest enemy of the United States of America. And it’s the largest land mass on the planet dominated by Communism.

China. 

When one thinks of Communist China, one thinks of the one man who was largely responsible for the establishment of communism in a country that had a cultural history thousands of years old — a history he was largely responsible for destroying in a ‘cultural revolution.’

Mao Tse Tung.

Who was Mao — the man. And what was the reality behind the façade? 

Let us peek behind the Peking curtain, and see the dirt behind the dogma.

Once a peasant, Mao Tse Tung rose to command the largest Communist Country in the world. In the process he was likely the cause of seventy million Chinese deaths. 

His ineptitude was responsible for the starvation deaths of fifty million people, and the rest were liquidated at one time or another.

This was his real legacy.

It would be no surprise that a mass murderer on the scale that Mao engaged in might have a few – shall we say – naughty habits and nasty interests with respect to his private life. In fact, he had more than a few.

So, don’t be surprised. Instead, be educated about this dictator who made Hitler look like an amateur, and Stalin just a runner up.

You’ll have even more reasons to despise his memory — Mao not only had ‘feet of clay’ they were of unwashed clay.

Mao was a man of faith — in himself, and to narrow down the competition, in 1951 banned all religions in China. Centuries old traditions of Taoism and Confucianism were invalid. Buddha was banned, and the state became the only object of worship under Mao’s regime.

Another thing besides God that Mao didn’t believe in was personal hygiene. Because he never bathed or brushed his teeth. He had body lice.[1]

Unfortunately for the senses and sensibility of others, Mao had a strong belief in the health benefits bestowed by sexual activity… in spite of his hygienic atheism.

Mao was very interested in sex, and in addition to having had multiple wives, he was regularly supplied with ‘mistresses’ and on occasion ‘misters.’ His overindulgence resulted in him contracting gonorrhea and herpes.[2]

These maladies didn’t, however, stop him in his pursuit of fleshly pleasures and the young Chinese men and women who could assist him in his pursuit.

But Mao was more than a sex addict; he was a drug addict as well.

Due to insomnia, Mao became a barbiturate addict. And as the use of narcotics can also interfere with intestinal functioning, he was also overly concerned with his bowel habits, as he was plagued by constipation. (There’s just something so right about that.)[3]

Besides the damsels and the drugs, dressing himself wasn’t in Mao’s repertoire. Others put on his socks, helped him into his pants, and combed his hair.[4]

But sometimes, Mao didn’t bother getting dressed and held meetings naked, while he scratched and searched for lice on his person. His search was most likely frequently rewarded.

Interesting that his main form of physical exercise was swimming, yet bathing was not in his repertoire. 

One thing that was frequently on his things to do, was to hold ballroom dances at his palace. Even though dancing had been forbidden to the rest of the Chinese as being decadent and bourgeois.

Rank had its privileges, and there were fewer with more ‘rank’ than Mao in his personal habits.

Sometimes — in fact — often, his dancing led to more horizontally inclined activities, and between 1953-1957 it was alleged he had ‘danced” with three thousand concubines.[5] 

As he got older, he was more into group sex, and on occasion had five women in bed with him at the same time. To augment his waning ‘bedroom powers’ in the 1960s, Mao was regularly injected with ground deer antler powder.[6]

He also had ‘a special sloping bed was designed for his use which was used by him to seduce countless peasant girls brought by Communist cadres for satisfying his sexual cravings.’[7]

Now, one can imagine the personal sacrifice it must have been to those dedicated to the Chinese cultural revolution to sleep with a man who never washed his genitals. But instead, according to a quote attributed to him ‘I wash myself inside the bodies of my women.’[8]

What a gentleman!

Besides his other ‘qualities’ Mao was a dedicated hypocrite. Although he had engaged in sexual relations with men, his political viewpoint was that homosexuality was an illness, and homosexuals were prosecuted if found out.[9]

Why You Should Care

Anyone who has lived a bit in this world has been witness to the curtain being pulled back on the worlds’ ‘wizards.’ We find out they are degenerates.

Televangelists decrying sins of the flesh have been found to be sexual perverts.

Presidents who spoke of the conquest of space turned out to be philanderers who were only interested in sexual conquests as a perquisite of their power.

Church and political leaders are discovered to be lechers, and financial ‘whiz kid’ types are found out to be frauds. 

It’s such a frequent occurrence, it has become a cliché.

Yet this dirt can sometimes yield diamonds to our eyes.

Perhaps most satisfying, is the discovery that the mass murderers of the world who have risen to power over a nation, are in their personal lives, degenerate — weak and filthy men.

Mao serves as a ‘shining’ example.

He was personally filthy, sexually perverted, hypocritical, and living a life of luxury in a land of poverty where materialism was looked upon as sin, and the enjoyment of personal sensual pleasure was almost seditious.

It’s a lesson to be remembered. When we vote, when we choose sides in a national and international conflict. 

Just who are the leaders really? Just how true are their own lives to the litany that they espouse?

[1]Mao Tse-tung (1893 - 1976) – his habits and his health South African Medical Journal, May 2009 https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0256-95742009000500012

[2] IBID.

[3] Op.Cit.

[4] MAO’S PRIVATE LIFE AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY  FACTS & DETAILS https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/sub6/item71.html

[5] IBID.

[6] OP.CIT.

[7] MAO TSE TUNG THE UNBRIDALED PHILANDERER SUNDAY GUARDIAN 3/5/22 https://sundayguardianlive.com/news/mao-zedong-unbridled-philanderer#google_vignette

[8] IBID.

[9] LIFE IS GETTING HARDER FOR LGBTQ IN CHINA, 2/13/23 CATALYST PLANET, https://www.catalystplanet.com/travel-and-social-action-stories/life-is-getting-harder-for-lgbtq-in-china

In 2005 we found water on Enceladus.

That’s a moon orbiting Saturn 91,000 miles from Earth.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft first detected vapor coming from that moon's South Pole as it passed by to study Saturn.

On further fly-bys, the probe took pictures of the plumes. Analyzing the vapor's composition and imaging the moon's gravitational field, scientists made the exciting discovery that beneath Enceladus's icy crust was a massive ocean six miles deep.

It was an exciting find because where there is water there can be life. The oceans of Enceladus could be home to the first extraterrestrial life found.

But it wouldn't be life as we know it. The environment in those alien waters is extreme beyond anything we could survive.

Geothermal activity from Enceladus's core keeps the water over 200 degrees Fahrenheit in places. But that's not the true danger. At six miles deep, the water pressure would kill you. It's over a thousand times the air pressure on Earth's surface.

And for further context, the Titan sub that imploded near the Titanic in June 2023 was “only” at a depth of 10,961 feet. So, Enceladus’s depth is three-times deeper than that.

Any part of your body with air inside would be crushed first – lungs, ear canal, sinus passageways – followed by the rest of you. No creature on Earth could survive at a depth of six miles.

Except we just found a new species that could.

In 2023, researchers working the Atacama Trench Deep-Ocean Observing System were delivering sensors to the depths of the Atacama Trench, just off the coast of Chile.

The trench is a marvel – if it were on land, it would be one of the natural wonders of the world, 13 times longer than the Grand Canyon and five times deeper.

To get their equipment to the bottom, researchers have to send a platform straight down for five miles before finally hitting bottom.

At that depth, the water pressure is 8,250 pounds per square inch. Not only would humans be crushed, but so would cars. The metal frame and glass and tires would collapse inward from the extreme force acting on every square inch of the vehicle.

Yet on this day, researchers discovered a creature that thrives down there. After successfully placing two deep-sea oceanographic moorings with multiple sensors 8,000 feet down on the trench floor, they raised the delivery platform to find a surprising specimen on board – something living in an environment humans deem uninhabitable.

It was a new species of animal never seen on Earth.

They named it Camanchaca, the indigenous South American word for darkness, signifying the pitch-black depths the creature prowls. It is a fast-swimming amphipod – a crustacean – with a ghost-white body, less than two inches four long.

It has fourteen legs – eight used for moving fast, and six more for swimming and breathing. Particularly striking are its front raptorial legs, which are adapted for capturing prey.

Now, researchers have found living microbes at these depths before. They've even found other amphipods that feed on floating organic matter. But Camanchaca is different.

It is the first predator found at these depths. It feeds on other crustaceans – and anything else it can trap in its weaponized front legs.

Scientifically, it isn’t just a new species of animal. Based on its DNA, it represents an entirely new category, originating from a mysterious genus higher in the evolutionary tree.

Camanchaca is not suited for Earth's climate. But it thrives in the brutal world of the Atacama Trench. Just as it could in the deep oceans of Saturn's moon, Enceladus.

Aliens may come here in saucer shaped craft. But there's another theory, known as directed panspermia, that microbial life was intentionally sent across space to seed life.

Once here, the creature would seek out an environment extreme enough for their comfort – one that might remind them of their home moon, 91,000 miles away.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadal_zone

https://pogo-ocean.org/news/chile-completes-the-installation-of-its-first-integrated-deep-ocean-observing-system/

Whether it’s a fingerprint or a face, biometric recognition systems are likely here to stay. 

Once solely within the purview of spy movies, biometric recognition is as common as the cell phone which often uses it to authorize use by its owner. We touch a screen, we look into it, and we gain entry into our communication devices, or perhaps our place of work.

But, let’s face it, technology isn’t foolproof. And when we are dealing with biometric facial recognition devices, we have to “face” the fact that sometimes there is an about face, and the technology gets it wrong — gets us wrong.

When did the technology first appear?‘The earliest pioneers of facial recognition were Woody Bledsoe, Helen Chan Wolf and Charles Bisson. In 1964 and 1965, Bledsoe, along with Wolf and Bisson began work using computers to recognize the human face.’[1]

The technology has made great progress since then of course, and as so often happens, when technology progresses, individual privacy rights regress.

Further, where there is new technology, law enforcement is close by to expand and exploit its use. Let’s look at the law enforcement use of biometric facial recognition by our fine federal friends.

‘Seven law enforcement agencies within the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS), such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Secret Service, reported using facial recognition technology to support criminal investigations. Three of the seven agencies reported owning facial recognition technology. All seven reported using systems owned by other entities, such as state and local entities and nongovernment service providers.’[2]

In the Government Accounting Office study, from which the previous quote comes, it was observed:

‘Civil rights and civil liberties advocates have cautioned that an overreliance on the technology in criminal investigations could lead to the arrest and prosecution of innocent people, or that its use at certain events (e.g., protests) could have a chilling effect on individuals' exercise of their First Amendment rights.’[3]

One can imagine the recording of peaceful protestors at a politically oriented rally, or the random but regular surveillance of a public area and the people passing by. But there’s no need to imagine it, because that’s a reality in today’s pretty-close-to Orwellian world.

Could biometric technology be a force in the promotion of police profiling of certain ethnicities? According to a PEW research study done in 2022, with respect to the respondents to survey questions:

‘66% say police would use this technology to monitor Black and Hispanic neighborhoods much more often than other neighborhoods. Americans are more divided on the effects facial recognition would have on false arrests. Some 53% of U.S. adults say police probably or definitely would make more false arrests if use of facial recognition technology was widespread among police.’[4]

So, the question arises, are there times when the technology goes astray and misidentifies someone? Are there times when biometric facial recognition either gets it wrong, or does it wrong with respect to individual expectations of privacy?

A study referenced within the PEW research study found that ‘A 2016 study out of Georgetown Law found that half of American adults’ faces were already in law enforcement’s facial recognition databases.’[5]

That was almost a decade ago, and it’s a safe — or unsafe — bet that while the technology has improved, the database has expanded to include by now most Americans. So much for the expectation of privacy.

It’s not so ‘expected’ anymore, because within that PEW study it was found that ‘Six-in-ten Americans say people should assume they are being monitored when they are in public spaces, while 39% say people should have a right to privacy when they are in public spaces.’[6]

What about biometric boo-boos, when the technology gets it wrong and misidentifies someone?

Can that, does that happen?

Yes.

In a 2024 Minnesota American Civil Liberties Union article on the subject, it was reported that ‘Studies show that facial recognition is least reliable for people of color, women, and non-binary individuals. And that can be life-threatening when the technology is in the hands of law enforcement.’[7]

Who is safest from potential biometric misidentification? Well, it may come as no surprise that, ‘A 2019 test by the federal government concluded the technology works best on middle-age white men. The accuracy rates weren’t impressive for people of color, women, children, and elderly individuals.’[8]

Interesting to note that it works best on the people who likely were the developers of the technology.

Why You Should Care

Even if you are a middle-aged white man, you no doubt are not in favor of you being a subject of random surveillance when you walk out in public. 

You might like the possibility that visual surveillance and biometric face recognition might be of assistance — sometimes — to law enforcement in doing their job, but there are times when you might wish to remain anonymous, even when you are engaged in activities that aren’t (yet) against the law.

If you are not a middle-aged white man, you should be more concerned with the possibility that one day you might be incorrectly identified as the perpetrator of a crime by faulty face recognition technology.

It’s an unfortunate fact that privacy in this country might as well take a bed in a hospice, as surveillance and identification technologies intrude on our daily lives, invade our public spaces, and impede our right to privacy.

George Orwell wrote 1984, a story of a world under constant surveillance, where every citizen was monitored, and couldn’t opt out from it. Forty years after that title, what Orwell wrote about has come to pass, and privacy is largely becoming a thing of the past.

There will no doubt be improvements to the hardware and software that run biometric facial recognition technologies. We should hope that mistakes in identity will happen less often.

But no matter how improved the tool gets, what will likely never be repaired is the past right to privacy we once enjoyed. Not to mention the relative freedom from law enforcement surveillance we once had.

[1] A BRIEF HISTORY OF FACIAL RECOGNITION, NEC  https://www.nec.co.nz/market-leadership/publications-media/a-brief-history-of-facial-recognition/

[2] FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY, GAO 3/27/24 https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-107372

[3] IBID.

[4] Public more likely to see facial recognition use by police as good, rather than bad for society 3/17/22, Raine, et. al. PEW https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/03/17/public-more-likely-to-see-facial-recognition-use-by-police-as-good-rather-than-bad-for-society/

[5] IBID

[6] Op. Cit.

[7] BIASED TECHNOLOGY THE AUTOMATED DISCRIMINATION OF FACIAL RECOGNITION 2/29/24 Rachel Fergus https://www.aclu-mn.org/en/news/biased-technology-automated-discrimination-facial-recognition

[8] IBID.

March 15, 2025 will be the fifth anniversary of a very important death.

For our freedom as citizens, and more specifically, for the protection of our American First and Fourth Amendment rights — the expiration of Section 215 of the US Patriot Act on March 15, 2020 is a demise to be celebrated.

In case you weren’t around right after the terrorist attacks on 9/11/01, shortly after the smoke cleared, the United States government created the Patriot Act. It was supposed to keep us free and safe from those nasty, naughty terrorists.

Of course, like all legislation, it did a lot more than its stated purpose.

In part, this act kept American citizens away from some very important constitutional guarantees — like those found in the right to privacy and the Fourth Amendment.

Even the full title of the act gives us a clue as to the real intent behind the Patriot Act. Here it is:

An act to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes.[1]

This law, enacted little more than a month after the terrorist attacks, and likely not read by any of its signers, did a whole lot more than ‘deter and punish terrorist acts.’ 

Let’s look at the rest of the language, like the part that said ‘to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools’ and the real dangerous part that said ‘for other purposes.’

As a long time practitioner of the black art of criminal defense work under his real name, your author is well aware of how ‘law enforcement investigatory tools’ can be misused. How it can violate constitutional rights, and even hurt law enforcement itself when their misuse causes a criminal case to be dismissed on a ‘technicality.’

Weasel language like ‘for other purposes’ gives a broad stroke to government intrusion on the privacy of its citizens and their right to due process.

While nobody in Congress likely read the three hundred and forty two pages of the Patriot Act before signing, in Section 215 there was a provision which could have the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice types very interested in what you were reading.

Let’s take a look at the 215 definition language as encoded in 50 USC 1861, (which for the uninitiated, means volume 50 of the United States Code Section 1861).

The public storage facility definition found in paragraph 3 is interesting:

‘The term “physical storage facility” means any business or entity that provides space for the storage of goods or materials, or services related to the storage of goods or materials, to the public or any segment thereof.’

Let’s dissect that.

‘Any business or entity’ is very broad. A library, for example, is an entity. ‘Providing space for the storage of goods or materials’? A library stores books, and equivalent media. ‘Services related to the storage of goods or materials to the public’? A library provides services related to the storage of goods or materials to the public — you go there and take out a book or a video, or the equivalent.

Okay, let’s look at 50 USC 1862 (a):

‘The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or a designee of the Director (whose rank shall be no lower than Assistant Special Agent in Charge) may make an application for an order authorizing a common carrier, public accommodation facility, physical storage facility, or vehicle rental facility to release records in its possession for an investigation to gather foreign intelligence information or an investigation concerning international terrorism which investigation is being conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation…’

Let’s go back to section 215 for a look see how the Feds can take a look see at what you’re looking at when you take out books from your library. Here’s the language:

‘Section 215 of the Patriot Act allows the FBI to seek an order from the FISA Court to obtain "any tangible thing," including books, records, and other items, from any business, organization, or entity provided the item or items are for an authorized investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities.’ [2]

But you just don’t read at the library, you’re reading this article, and thinking to yourself, ‘well I’m not a terrorist, I’m not involved in clandestine intelligence activities. I should be okay.’

Maybe, but who gets to define whether or not you’re involved in terrorist or clandestine intelligence activities? The FBI/DOJ does. They get to go to the FISA court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, for authority to investigate a person’s ‘books, records, and other items.’

Guess who doesn’t get to go to the FISA court when that definition is being sought? You don’t.

‘The court’s ex parte process is primarily non-adversarial. The target of the order is not given an opportunity to appear at the hearing or informed of the presence of the order.’[3]

So, is that really a problem for an upstanding citizen like you? It could be. ‘FISA also creates a system of secret, ex parte courts that systematically deny due process to Americans surveilled under FISA.’[4]

You might have heard that phrase ‘due process’ before. It’s found in that pesky little Fourth Amendment that the government so often likes to overlook in its investigative activities.

So, let’s put it together. 

The government can investigate ‘books, records and other items’ by getting an order from a court in which you have no say, and in which you have no rights to challenge a determination. Thus, your library records, the books you took out, could be subject to a FISA order allowing the FBI to find out what you like to read.

And you couldn’t even find out from the library that this was happening, because, pursuant to 50 USC 1862 (2):

‘No common carrier, public accommodation facility, physical storage facility, or vehicle rental facility, or officer, employee, or agent thereof, shall disclose to any person (other than those officers, agents, or employees of such common carrier, public accommodation facility, physical storage facility, or vehicle rental facility necessary to fulfill the requirement to disclose information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation under this section) that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has sought or obtained records pursuant to an order under this section.’

You can see the possibilities, and so did the people who don’t believe the lie, ‘we’re from the government and we’re here to help you,’ because Section 215 of the Patriot Act was referred to as the library records provision.

The American Library Association was concerned. ‘On January 29, 2003, ALA Council resolved that Section 215 represented “a present danger to the constitutional rights and privacy rights of library users,” and urged Congress to change sections of the law that threatened those rights. Across the nation libraries posted signs warning patrons the act allowed the government to review their library records.’[5]

In 2015, the President of the American Library Association stated:

‘Nothing is more basic to democracy and librarianship than intellectual freedom….Nothing is more hostile to that freedom than the knowledge that the government can compel a library—without a traditional judicial search warrant—to report on the reading and internet records of library patrons, students, researchers and entrepreneurs. That is what Section 215 did.’[6]

So there was a great deal of controversy about the Patriot Act ‘library records provision,’ but after several renewals, it died a well deserved death on March 15, 2020.

Happy fifth anniversary.

Why You Should Care

Unless challenged, any government — including our own — seeks to expand its power, consolidate its power, and subjugate its citizens. They want as much information as possible about those who live within the borders of that government — whether they need it or not. 

Just look at your tax return and the information you have to provide if you want to itemize your deductions, or business expenses. That return isn’t just to get your money — it’s to get your information.

Imagine what your choices in literature and library books could yield to that government, even when you aren’t violating any laws. Imagine what that potential invasion of privacy would be like, except you don’t have to imagine, because while Section 215 was alive and well, the right to privacy was dying.

This bit of recent history should lead you to ask with respect to the invasion of your privacy by the government, ‘What’s next?’

[1] Public Law 107 - 56 - Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 GOV INFO https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-107publ56

[2] DOJ OFFICE OF THE OIG Https://oig.justice.gov/node/673#:~:text=Section%20215%20of%20the%20Patriot,protect%20against%20international%20terrorism%20or

[3] ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER https://epic.org/foreign-intelligence-surveillance-court-fisc/

[4] FISA VS. THE CONSTITUTION, Tyler, 7/24/18 Houston Christian University https://hc.edu/news-and-events/2018/07/24/fisa-vs-the-constitution/

[5] AMERICAN LIBRARIES, Weigand, 5/31/16 in their opposition to Section 215 of the Patriot Act https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/05/31/baseless-hysteria-patriot-act/#:~:text=Section%20215%2C%20which%20became%20known,those%20forced%20to%20comply%2C%20thus

[6] American Library Association ‘inimically against’ bill to extend Section 215 of PATRIOT Act without ‘urgently needed change’

4/22/15  https://www.ala.org/news/2015/04/american-library-association-inimically-against-bill-extend-section-215-patriot-act

THE FOLLOWING contains excerpts from reports as told to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO). It was logged as incident #78276 in February 2025. The names of those involved have been changed.

Steve got the call at 6:45pm on February 19th, 2025. He was surprised to see Mike's name come up on his phone. Mike was in the woods somewhere west of Penn State University on one of his hunting adventures.

When Steve answered, Mike responded with an urgent whisper – he was panicked and afraid: "Get your AR and get out here."

The "AR" was Steve's AR-15 rifle, a military grade semi-automatic weapon Steve could access as a member of the Penn State ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps). It seemed like overkill for hunting raccoons. Steve laughed, figuring Mike was joking.

Only it wasn't a joke.

Mike pleaded, dead serious, "Steve, listen. I'm stuck in the woods out here and there's something following me."

Two hours earlier, Mike had parked his truck along Rock Road outside State Game Land 333. He was excited for another game hunt. He'd just received his official permit.

This was his second outing. He was hoping for raccoons. What he found was something much different.

Mike grabbed his Remington 870 12-gauge shotgun and put on chest-high fishing waders, knowing he'd be crossing a stream. It was 5:20PM when Mike made it to Spring Creek, which was a foot deep in places.

All around him were pines and oak trees, and darkness beyond. The sun was setting fast. He checked his flashlight, then crossed the creek and headed into the darkening woods.

Seventy feet into the forest, Mike set up his Predator Hunter FoxPro Patriot, an electronic game call that mimics the sounds of animals. Hunters use it to attract predators.

In this case, Mike set it to generate raccoon distress sounds. He was hoping to attract other raccoons. But the raccoons were staying clear. Mike didn't realize there was another predator watching.

Mike repeated the calls in ten-minute intervals. Still no animal activity.

He walked back to the creek where he caught sight of animal tracks, something small – could be a raccoon. He followed the tracks parallel to the creek for a while.

By 6:10PM, darkness took over. Mike used his flashlight to cross a small bridge leading to a stand of pines.

That's when he heard a single loud knock against wood. Later, he would tell authorities, "it was the sound when you take a bat and give a tree a nice firm tap."

He swung his flashlight around to see what made the sound. He saw nothing but the bridge, and trees beyond. But he heard footsteps – something crunching in the twigs. There was movement to his left.

He aimed the flashlight just in time to see something large disappear behind a tree. It wasn't just big – it was walking upright.

That's the moment he called Steve.

As he pleaded to his friend for help, Mike ran into the forest, away from the creature. He had his shotgun in one hand, his flashlight in the other.

It must have run along the creek and gotten ahead of him. Because his flashlight caught it dead in the face, 40 yards away in the trees.

Mike would later describe it "like the face of King Kong", but with "a sharper nose, medium gray skin, wispy light gray hair. Pronounced brow ridge and sunken eyes. Thin lipped mouth. Blocky jaw."

The creature had no visible ears on its large head, which sloped back, a single tuft of hair on top. It seemed powerful, with a wide back, and no observable neck.

Mike guessed it was seven feet tall. Right in line with thousands of other sightings of the legendary creature.

It stared a few seconds, then disappeared behind a tree.

Mike was terrified. He forced himself backwards through thorn bushes to shortcut his way back to the creek and onto the road where his truck waited for him.

Had he just seen Big Foot?

Whatever it was, it picked the perfect land to wander. This wasn't just any wilderness. State Game Land 333 in Pennsylvania is a wildlife management area stocked for hunting.

It had just been supplied with hundreds of pheasants, and is home to multiple fish hatcheries. For a Big Foot, this wasn't just a forest. This was a buffet.

* * * *

Source:

https://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_report.asp?id=78276

We have more to worry about from FBI aircraft spying on our citizenry, than we do from UFOs coming to take over the world.

It’s not paranoia, its “dee planes, dee planes,” and it’s just another intrusion of government on what’s left of our privacy. Like COVID 19, this government malady is airborne.

In 2016, there were numerous flights by the feds over New Mexico, which led the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter to state, ‘The routine aerial surveillance of our communities by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies should be deep concern to any American who values their privacy.’[1]

Valuing the privacy of American citizens was never a high priority for the FBI. In fact, in a 2015 article on the ACLU website, it revealed, ‘the FBI maintains a secret air force with scores of small aircraft registered with 13 front companies under apparently false names, and that these planes fly over American cities frequently.’[2]

Also, in 2015 Charles Grassley, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee stated:

‘But whenever an operation may also monitor the activities of Americans who are not the intended target, we must make darn sure that safeguards are in place to protect the civil liberties of innocent Americans.’

What is interesting as quoted from that same Associated Press article is the chilling fact that ‘Some of the aircraft can also be equipped with technology that can identify thousands of people below through the cellphones they carry, even if they’re not making a call or in public.’[3]

So, what do the “Special Agents” in the Federal Bureau of Investigation say to reassure us they are only looking for bad guys?

According to a 11/24 article from Government Procurement.com:

‘Despite civil liberty concerns, the FBI emphasizes targeted use for criminal investigations. As threats evolve the FBI is expected to incorporate unmanned systems while balancing security needs with transparency.’

And if you want some more Federal fodder? Here it is:

‘These aircraft are not equipped, designed, or used for bulk collection activities or mass surveillance, and are not routinely equipped with cell site simulators.’[4]

We can trust the FBI at their word, can’t we? They’re just after bad guys aren’t they?

Well, in 2008 it was revealed they had a particular interest in American population centers that weren’t predominately white because:

‘[In] December 2008 the Justice Department and FBI adopted new policies that included the initiation of a racial and ethnic mapping program throughout the United States. The program authorized FBI agents to collect demographic information from the U.S. Census to map American communities by race and ethnicity, to identify racial and ethnic “facilities,” and track certain racial “behaviors.”’[5]

Now, to accuse the FBI in being selectively racist in their surveillance efforts, whether airborne on the ground would be unfair. It wouldn’t take into consideration FBI interests in seizing property from those who were never accused of a crime.

Witness the following from a 12/19/23 article from the Institute for Justice, by Andrew Wimer:[6]

‘In March 2021, the FBI raided US Private Vaults, a Beverly Hills safe deposit box company. Even though the warrant authorizing the raid only permitted the FBI to open boxes to identify their owners and safeguard the contents, agents opened hundreds of boxes, ran currency they found in front of drug sniffing dogs, and made copies of peoples’ most personal records. It later came out that, months before applying for the warrant, the government had already decided to try to permanently keep everything worth more than $5,000 from the boxes, all without charging any box renter with a crime.’ 

Okay, so now we have racism and attempted theft. What else do these good guys in the FBI do to American citizenry?

They allow bad guys who cooperate with them to continue to engage in criminal activity. Straight from the horse’s mouth:

‘The Confidential Informant Guidelines permit the FBI to authorize confidential informants to engage in activities that would otherwise constitute crimes under state or federal law if engaged in by someone without such authorization. Such conduct is termed "otherwise illegal activity" or "OIA.”’[7]

So, when the FBI tells us they are playing according to the rules when engaged in flying surveillance over our skies, it’s not only a question of the veracity of that statement, it’s a question of whose rules?

Sometimes, to find an answer, it’s important to keep up with the Joneses.

For instance, the 2012 United States Supreme Court case of United States v. Jones. That’s a case involving improper GPS surveillance by the Feds, where Justice Sotomayor in her concurring opinion stated:

‘People disclose the phone numbers that they dial or text to their cellular providers, the URLS that they visit and the e-mail addresses with which they correspond to their Internet service providers, and the books, groceries and medications they purchase to online retailers. [...] I would not assume that all information voluntarily disclosed to some member of the public for a limited purpose is, for that reason alone, disentitled to Fourth Amendment protection.’[8]

It is precisely that type of information that airborne FBI surveillance planes can — and do-gather against the citizens of the United States of America — including those who aren’t committing any crimes.

Why You Should Care

We have a United States constitution. That document has certain amendments to it, for example, the Fourth Amendment says, ‘The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.’ 

There are thousands upon thousands of cases where both state and federal courts have found over the years that law enforcement agencies have violated the fourth amendment rights of citizens.

These are rights, not suggestions. 

The Fourth Amendment guarantee ‘to be secure’ is your right, and you don’t want it violated. That’s regardless of whether the violation occurs on terra firma, or in the not too friendly skies where one finds FBI surveillance planes.

[1] FBI PLANES FLEW OVER ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico Political Report 4/8/16 https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2016/04/08/fbi-spy-planes-flew-over-albuquerque/#:~:text=A%20Buzzfeed%20investigation%20found%20that,throughout%20the%20country%E2%80%94including%20Albuquerque.&text=The%20investigation%20found%20that%20the,could%20track%20cell%20phones%20below.

[2] WHAT’S SPOOKY ABOUT THE FBI’S FLEET OF SPY PLANES, Jay Stanley,6/2/15 https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/whats-spooky-about-fbis-fleet-spy-planes

[3] FBI BEHIND MYSTERIOUS SURVEILLANCE AIRCRAFT OVER US CITIES, Sullivan & Tucker 6/2/15 https://apnews.com/united-states-government-4b3f220e33b64123a3909c60845da045

[4] EXPLORING THE FBI AIRCRAFT FLEET, 11/1/24 Government Procurement.com https://www.governmentprocurement.com/news/exploring-the-fbi-aircraft-fleet-capabilities-and-surveillance-impact

[5] THE FBI’S CIVIL RIGHTS DEFICIT, 9/18/13, Murphy, ACLU website Murphy, 9/18/13 https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/fbis-civil-rights-deficit

[6] FBI CAUGHT TRYING TO SWEEP ITS VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS UNDER THE RUG, Wimer 12/19/223 Institute for Justice https://ij.org/press-release/fbi-caught-trying-to-sweep-its-violation-of-constitutional-rights-under-the-rug/

[7] The Attorney General's Guidelines Regarding the Use of Confidential Informants 9/2015 https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/0509/chapter3.htm#:~:text=The%20Confidential%20Informant%20Guidelines%20permit,activity%22%20or%20%22OIA.%22

[8] UNITED STATES V. JONES 565 U.S. 400 (2012)

U.S. citizens have the right to own guns. 

The U.S. Constitution states, "a well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."

But are some guns a danger to society because they're too deadly?

Not according to the law.

As it stands, you can own a tank with a working cannon if you get the right permits. They're not easy permits to get, but it's legal. A weapon's level of lethal power is not factored into ownership laws at the moment.

Of course, no one is causing havoc in our schools with M1 Abrams tanks. The gun debate raging in the United States is focused on AR 15 assault rifles. These are popular among gun owners – around 3 million a year are sold.

Most gun-related murders are committed with handguns, but the deadliest mass shootings involve this semi-automatic rifle. They're designed for military combat. They fire high-velocity rounds that travel 3,000 miles a second, and hold at least 30 rounds a clip, firing as fast as you can pull the trigger.

Those in favor of gun control ask an obvious question: do private citizens really need military-grade firepower?

The National Rifle Association gives an adamant yes to that question. In their view, the second amendment isn't just about owning a gun. It's about the freedom to assemble an armed militia.

And one key purpose of a militia – according to the Founding Fathers – is to provide a check against Federal power. If private citizens are meant to defend against government overreach, it just might take an AR-15 to make a stand against an oppressive U.S. army.

AR-15's might be overkill for hunting deer, but if you and your neighbors are fighting a platoon of evil marines, they make more sense.

Except maybe not anymore. The armies of the world have evolved. A private militia today might not face troops on the ground. Instead, they could find a new horror from the sky.

The Ukraine war started out looking like a conventional fight, with Russia amassing 200,000 troops and thousands of tanks for their ground invasion. But over the last three years of war, the supply of traditional artillery shells and armored vehicles has dwindled.

Necessity has given birth to new, more efficient weapons that attack remotely from above.

Both sides now conduct near-daily aerial assaults using attack drones. At first, they were huge craft that cost millions to make. But this month, Ukraine advanced the tech, unleashing millions of compact drones as small as 8 inches long.

These new drones cost as little as $300 and can be 3D printed at scale. The future of warfare has arrived, and it’s being unleashed as we speak.

Too small to carry missiles, these drones are used in kamikaze missions. Despite their size, if targeted correctly, they can destroy a tank. According to Ukraine's Minister of Digitisation Mykhailo Fedorov, the country now produces over 1.5 million drones annually.

The plan is to make them available to other countries. "This will become a new sphere for our economy," Mr Mykhailo Fedorov told The NY Post. "Exporting abroad could become the basis for win-win relations with other countries."

They are frighteningly easy to produce. According to Eddie Etue, a U.S. Marine veteran who fought with the Ukraine Foreign Legion, "you just need a 3D printer, filament, and the STL file." On a recent Tuesday night alone, Moscow claimed to have shot down 130 of them.

What happens when this technology makes it back to the United States? Will U.S. law enforcement use drones in its arsenal? Well, we can answer that question right now.

Because they already are.

As of 2022, over 1,000 local police departments in the United States have integrated drones into their operations. There are nearly 4,000 police robots in the sky patrolling the citizens of our country.

Combined with the Federal government, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) projects that by 2025, public safety agencies will utilize over 30,000 drones.

Today, these drones are used for reconnaissance and tactical support. They are focused entirely on surveillance, equipped with cameras, thermal imaging, and maybe loudspeakers or spotlights. But not with weaponry.

For now.

Sources:

https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/world-news/how-ukraines-drone-army-has-changed-the-battlefield-forever/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/07/20/record-28-million-ar-15-and-ak-style-rifles-entered-us-circulation-in-2020-gun-group-says/#:~:text=The%20National%20Shooting%20Sports%20Foundation,other%20countries%20from%20its%20figures).

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ukraine-is-targeting-russia-with-drones-that-cost-as-little-as-rs-26-000-7806609#pfrom=home-ndtvworld_world_featured_articles

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-war-2-000-km-range-250-kg-payload-ukraines-latest-addition-to-drone-arsenal-7608983

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/31/ukraine-drone-attack-sparks-fire-at-major-volgograd-oil-refinery

https://uavcoach.com/police-drones

https://dronecenter.bard.edu/files/2020/04/CSD-Public-Safety-Drones-3rd-edition.pdf

Anytime you hear of an organization that has the words “Federal” and “Management” in its name, you’re probably already worried. 

Time and time again, the federal government has proven that its programs are inefficient, overly expensive, and staffed and run by incompetents whose main skill is politically connecting with the administration that appointed them.

Federal agency actions in reality are usually contrary in their results to their stated purpose. Their utility in the situations in which they were designed to manage is at best, questionable, and at worst, non-existent.

Those who have suffered in weather related disasters in our country over the last twenty years, have had first-hand experience with FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It’s an entity that is more of a disaster than the disasters in which it is supposed to assist.

Students of history and the actions of federal agencies are unlikely to be surprised.

Let’s take a look under the rock and see what the reality of FEMA is.

What’s the overall verdict on FEMA? ‘It is slow, risk averse, subservient to politics, and it does not have the local knowledge needed to effectively handle many disasters.’  

The 2005 disaster that was hurricane Katrina, demonstrated FEMA inaction in action as it ‘blocked the relief efforts of other organizations. FEMA’s dismal response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 dramatized the agency’s bureaucratic dysfunction.’[1]

What did FEMA learn from its failures in 2005? Good question, and in 2017 with the Puerto Rican hurricane disaster we got the answer: ‘The Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to properly prepare for last year's (2017) hurricane season and was unable to provide adequate support to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico and other areas.’

That conclusion came from FEMA itself.[2]

Apparently in a dozen years since Katrina, the agency learned nothing.

Let’s go back to that 2005 Katrina fiasco. Obviously, with a disaster of that magnitude, there are going to be a whole bunch of homeless people who have lost everything in the wake of the winds and rain of the hurricane.

They needed emergency housing. FEMA to the rescue? Not quite.

To house the homeless, here’s what FEMA did: ‘FEMA paid for 25,000 mobile homes costing $900 million, but they went virtually unused because of FEMA’s own regulations that such homes cannot be used on flood plains, which is where most Katrina victims lived.’

Besides that act of genius, FEMA blocked the delivery of emergency supplies, blocked physicians coming to assist, refused train and bus entities seeking to voluntarily transport the homeless, and delayed shipments from foreign nations seeking to provide supplies.[3]

Now any agency, whether private or governmental, consists of workers supposedly entrusted to fulfill the purposes of the agency for which they work. In order to have the right people and the right number of people, hiring and selection methods need to function properly.

FEMA? Well, the Government Accounting Office, the GAO, issued a report in 2023 that concluded:

‘FEMA lacks documented plans and performance measures to monitor and evaluate its hiring progress within cadres (workforce groups) toward the larger disaster workforce goal. Without documented plans and measures, such as cadre net growth targets, it is difficult for FEMA to determine how effective hiring efforts are at closing staffing gaps and prioritizing hiring efforts within the disaster workforce accordingly.’[4]

Perhaps, in 2025, President Donald J. Trump has a better idea — to dismantle the disaster that is the disaster agency and defund FEMA.

He recognizes what many observers of this malfunctioning entity realize: ‘states would best take care of hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires on their own, with the federal government reimbursing some of the costs. He convened a council to review FEMA and recommend “improvements or structural changes.”’[5]

He’s quoted as saying, ‘I think when you have a problem like this, (national disasters) I think you want to go and — whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA.’[6]

Why You Should Care

Many of the readers of this article have experienced disasters in their region first-hand. They are familiar with the confusion and lack of coordinated efforts a major weather or fire event can generate.

Relief is needed immediately in such situations, or at least as close to immediate as is possible. What is not needed are extraneous levels of government bureaucracy which impede that needed assistance. 

What is not needed is another agency which wastes hundreds of millions of taxpayer money in a late and inefficient response to disasters that provide no practical value. For instance, the nine hundred million FEMA spent on trailer housing for the victims of Katrina, which its own regulations prohibited from being used.

It’s the tendency of any bureaucracy once created, to seek to expand its power, its reach and its funding which facilitates the other two. That tendency is a breeding ground for inefficiency and incompetence.

When it comes to saving the lives and property of our citizens in the United States of America, (of which the reader is likely one) in a disaster situation, bureaucratic bumbling can mean an exacerbation of the damage caused by natural disasters. It can mean more death, more damage, more destruction.

It’s clear that FEMA has a history of failure, and a failure to learn from those failures. The Trump approach to reappraising the need for this agency to exist is likely the appropriate one. 

The money wasted on this poorly performing Federal agency, can be reallocated to the states which historically, have been the most rapid and efficient suppliers of aid and comfort to its residents during times of disaster.

[1] Chris Edwards December 1, 2014  DOWNSIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT https://www.downsizinggovernment.org/dhs/fema

[2] FEMA Report Acknowledges Failures In Puerto Rico Disaster Response JULY 13, 2018 npr By  Laura Sullivan https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628861808/fema-report-acknowledges-failures-in-puerto-rico-disaster-response

[3] Hurricane Katrina: Remembering the Federal Failures By Chris Edwards 8/27/15 CATO AT LIBERTY https://www.cato.org/blog/hurricane-katrina-remembering-federal-failures

[4] FEMA Disaster Workforce:Actions Needed to Improve Hiring Data and Address Staffing Gaps Published: May 02, 2023. Publicly Released: May 02, 2023. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105663

[5] Trump wants states to handle disasters without FEMA. They say they can’t. BY: ALEX BROWN AND KEVIN HARDY - FEBRUARY 6, 2025 https://stateline.org/2025/02/06/trump-wants-states-to-handle-disasters-without-fema-they-say-they-cant/

[6] GOVERNING, Trump Moves to Abolish FEMA, Shift Disaster Response to States https://www.governing.com/resilience/trump-moves-to-abolish-fema-shift-disaster-response-to-states

There are over 8 billion people on Earth.

And there are groups of elites convinced this fact stands in the way of utopia. They are committed to reducing the global population.

Why they get to live in this ideal future while others don't is not up for debate.

They have money and power, and they don't want to compete for the Earth's resources with billions of others less worthy.

These groups aren’t the product of fantasy or fiction.

John D. Rockefeller founded one in 1952 called the Population Council. Its stated purpose was to research population dynamics.

According to Rockefeller, "an organization needed to be created that would be devoted to the reduction of fertility of weaker individuals with undesirable genetics."

The council still operates its programs around the world.

The Club of Rome was a global think tank founded in 1968 by an Italian industrialist. Its mission is to create an ideal future for humanity by limiting population growth. It continues to publish research and advocate for its policies to this day.

Then there is the group behind the Georgia Guidestones. These granite monoliths were America's version of Stonehenge. They were built in 1980 by a mystery group led by R.C. Christian – whose real name also remains a mystery.

But its goals were no mystery. If you visited Elberton, Georgia to see the granite monoliths in person, you would have found ten messages engraved in the granite. And in case you weren't from America, the messages were repeated in eight different world languages and 4 dead languages, including Sanskrit.

R.C. Christian really wanted you to read his tenants. He believed they were guides to a utopian future (thus the name Georgia Guidestones). The very first message read, "maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature".

But, while elites love to ponder a world without the rest of us, the fact is, they need people to do all the small stuff.

Farming, manufacturing, shipping, constructing – when elite groups imagine a utopia, they don't imagine they're navigating a container ship across the Atlantic, or harvesting strawberries, or any number of things that take real work.

For there to be "elites", there must be everyone else. Unless, of course, AI can replace us.

This month, DBS – Singapore's largest bank – announced plans to reduce its workforce by 4,000 people over the next four years. Not because it figured out how to do the same with less work. The plan is to do more.

The bank is replacing humans with artificial intelligence. The bank deploys over 800 AI models already, and expects to see over a billion dollars in added revenue from the move to replace human beings.

Swedish financial tech company Klarna went one better. It stopped hiring any humans with the goal of replacing all workers with AI. Already its AI assistant, which is powered by OpenAI, is doing the work of 700 full-time customer service agents.

And there's more. According to Bloomberg, global banks are planning to cut 200,000 jobs in the next five years as artificial intelligence takes on jobs formerly done by humans.

The International Monetary Fund warned that AI will likely take 40% of all jobs worldwide. A CNN survey of finance chiefs confirmed US firms are on board, with 61% planning to use AI to automate tasks done by employees.

Elon Musk, the man currently tasked with cutting thousands of U.S. Government jobs, has already seen where this all goes. Speaking at the UK's AI Safety Summit in 2023, the Tesla CEO said he believes AI will "replace the need for all jobs".

The message engraved in the 16-foot-tall Georgia Guidestones sounded crazy – that we could keep the population to 500,000. Yet the world seems to be preparing for a time when there won't be so many humans around.

Sources:

https://www.ndtv.com/ai/swedish-fintech-company-stopped-all-hiring-since-last-year-replacing-workers-with-ai-7238416

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-musk-says-ai-will-replace-need-for-all-jobs-and-create-universal-high-income-4557207

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ai-set-to-replace-humans-in-4000-roles-in-southeast-asias-largest-bank-7793813

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/wall-street-might-cut-2-00-000-jobs-as-ai-replaces-roles-7440564

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/20/business/ai-jobs-workers-replacing/index.html

https://egaonline.com/sites/default/files/The%20Georgia%20Guidestones.pdf

If you look at the “About Us” section on the American Red Cross website, one learns ‘The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.’

Let’s take a look under the published promise and see what we might find in reality.

In 2010 Haiti was devastated by an earthquake. The Red Cross was there, but more with its hand out than with its sleeves rolled up to work. 

The organization raised nearly half a billion dollars for Haitian relief.

That was impressive.

The Red Cross boasted about creating housing for one hundred thirty thousand people. But the actual number was slightly lower — by about one hundred twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-four. 

Six permanent homes were built — that’s it.[1]

That’s not impressive.

Naturally, the Red Cross wasn’t overly forthcoming about how it spent all of those donations.

That is instructive.

Of course, charities have administrative expenses that must be taken care of from donations. There are advertisements to buy, websites to build; fundraising commissions to pay (where applicable) and of course salaries to the officers and directors on the board.

Here the Red Cross is very impressive in its efficiency and making sure that those administration expenses are well funded from the donations it receives.

While the Red Cross claims that about ninety percent of its donations go to help others in emergency disaster situations, it ain’t necessarily so.

In a 2014 investigative report by Pro Publica, it revealed “In recent years, the Red Cross' fundraising expenses alone have been as high as 26 cents of every donated dollar, nearly three times the nine cents in overhead claimed by McGovern. In the past five years, fundraising expenses have averaged 17 cents per donated dollar.”[2]

In that same report it was stated, “Once donated dollars are in Red Cross hands, the charity spends additional money on ‘management and general’ expenses, which includes things like back office accounting. That means the portion of donated dollars going to overhead is even higher.”[3]

So, on the one hand, the Red Cross has on occasion, lied about what it does on the ground for the victims of disasters. And then it fudges the figures about what its take is from dollars donated in good faith by generous people who just don’t know the reality.

Apparently, the Red Cross isn’t all that true blue when it comes to its functioning and its finances.

Let’s take a look at some more examples. Like how the Red Cross pitched in after the 9/11 attacks. Or maybe better said, how they pitched for contributions, but dropped the ball when it came to actual aid.

After the September 11 attacks, it has been reported that:

“By the end of October, the fund had received $543 million in pledges. It had, however, distributed less than one-third of those funds to actual September 11th relief efforts. The ARC announced that more than half would be spent to increase the organization’s ability to prepare for and respond to future catastrophes instead.”

In this excellent report from Auburn University’s Center for Organizational Cultures, it was further revealed, that the American Red Cross, (which is the largest “blood steward” in the country, having forty percent of the supply): “paid over $21 million in federal fines between 2003 and 2008 related to mismanagement of screening and collection as well as failing to discard potentially unsafe donations.”[4]

In an investigative report for the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security Democratic Staff, with respect to the efficiency of Red Cross operations, it revealed, “the Red Cross is frequently late in responding to large-scale disasters – often arriving on the scene days after other relief organizations have arrived.”[5]

But the charity is Johnny-on-the-spot when it comes to public relations for the purpose of gathering private donations. In the Committee report referenced above, it came to light that:

“Red Cross public relations staff have apparently deployed – sometimes within twenty-four hours of a disaster – with the sole purpose of collecting videos and photos in order to prepare campaigns for cash.”[6]

So, you could say the Red Cross takes a balanced approach in addressing its stated function and its less often stated function. On the one hand it shows up days late to actually pitch in and help victims, but on the other hand, it rapidly sends out its public relations people to solicit donations.

But at least the Red Cross tries to help, and spreads its wings equally in the efforts to help all communities in distress — or does it?

That government report we’re looking at concluded, “Perhaps most disturbing, however, is the fact that the Red Cross’ patterns of delayed and inadequate aid continue to manifest themselves most often in economically disadvantaged and minority communities.”

Why You Should Care

The desire to help others we don’t know that are in dire distress is praiseworthy. 

On an individual basis, there often is little more than we can do than contribute to a large organization that we believe can get the job done.

But when that organization misrepresents its results… when it understates how much it takes for itself off of the top of our donations… then we should seriously consider whether that organization deserves our dollars. Or even deserves our respect.

The American Red Cross has evidenced a history of inefficiency, of overspending on administrative costs, of showing up late to help. But it shows up just at the right time for the purpose of filling its coffers with your money.

Those who serve at top positions in the American Red Cross aren’t there to be charitable. They are making serious coin in running this charity. It was reported that in 2023, the fifteen most highly compensated employees of the American Red Cross received nearly ten million dollars in compensation.[7]

Given the above, we have to ask ourselves, have we been double crossed by the American Red Cross?

[1] HOW THE RED CROSS RAISED A HALF A BILLION DOLLARS FOR HAITI AND BUILD SIX HOMES 6/3/15 Elliot & Sullivan PRO PUBLICA https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes

[2] The Red Cross CEO Has Been Serially Misleading About Where Donors’ Dollars Are Going  Eisinger & Elliott 12/4/14 PRO PUBLICA https://www.propublica.org/article/red-cross-ceo-has-been-misleading-about-donations

[3] IBID.

[4] The American Red Cross Faces Organizational Integrity Challenges, AUBURN UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES, https://harbert.auburn.edu/binaries/documents/center-for-ethical-organizational-cultures/cases/american-red-cross.pdf

[5] TROUBLE EXPOSED, KATRINA, RITA AND THE RED CROSS, A FAMILIAR HISTORY AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT BY THE U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security Democratic Staff https://democrats-homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/redcrossreport.pdf

[6] IBID.

[7] PADDOCK POST EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION AT THE ARC 2023 https://paddockpost.com/2024/11/14/executive-compensation-at-the-american-red-cross-2023/

In ancient China, there were drawings of various gods sailing across the skies in a chariot.

DouMu was perhaps the most famous goddess to make use of this method of transport. But now that China is a communist country, flying gods in chariots are somewhat frowned upon as being a tad reactionary.

So, there has been a more modern replacement to the old myths – Aliens, in flying saucers.

There have long been reports of close encounters of the Chinese kind with aliens. China’s airports have been shut down due to UFO sightings and activity. There is even a military unit dedicated to the investigation of flying saucers.

It doesn’t take a giant leap of faith to figure that the Chinese have created their own advanced technologies. And that they have taken flying saucers very seriously. Afterall, China is the master of reverse engineering and duplicating technology on the cheap.

China’s air space has been ‘invaded’ by saucers on several occasions. In 2010, ‘more than 20 flights were postponed at Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, because of a sighting.’[1]

In 1998, Chinese authorities officially confirmed a UFO sighting ‘when two military jets had to intercept a low-flying object that looked like a “short-legged mushroom” with two beams of lights from its centre; when approached, the object increased speed until it reached over 20,000 metres before disappearing in a “ghostlike” manner.’[2]

In September of 2024, there were multiple sightings of UFOs in China. Some of which interfered with the normal operation of airports. Tianjin Binhai Airport experienced abnormal flight operations for two consecutive days, causing numerous flight delays. 

On one occasion, the airport was closed for eleven hours. On another, twenty nine flights were delayed, eight were cancelled and thirty two were diverted. Loss was estimated at one million four hundred thousand dollars.[3]

Beyond the airport interruptions that have taken place in China over the last thirty or so years, there have been alleged interactions between extraterrestrials and Chinese citizens — some of which must be taken with a sizeable dose of MSG to be believed, especially one particular tall tale:

‘In 1994, Meng Zhaoguo, a farmer from Heilongjiang province, said he saw a UFO parked on Fenghuang Mountain one evening. When he and his niece’s husband tried to approach the craft, he says a powerful but invisible force, which felt like an electric current moving through his body, stopped him from getting any closer. Later, he claimed the aliens took him from his bed onto their spaceship and that a three-meter-tall female alien had sex with him for 40 minutes, telling him their child would be born 60 years later.’[4]

In 1999, a Beijing school principal was abducted by aliens and witnessed an operation on a young female fellow abductee. The operation apparently cured her of whatever illness she had. In 2012, in Hunan province a retired soldier built what he called a ‘liaison station’ for his alien pals.

In another encounter, a Beijing citizen reported being repeatedly abducted and forced to drink some sort of green grass like liquid. It apparently didn’t do him any harm, since the abduction occurred in his sleep, and he repeatedly woke up to tell people about the incidents.[5] 

Of course, the more skeptical might think it was just a bad dream. While we might not take the above encounter stories seriously, the Chinese military is definitely taking it seriously.

The Chinese military has formed a special UFO task force. They are using AI (artificial intelligence) to analyze the mass of disparate data with respect to flying saucers, to make sense of the phenomena.

The information comes from:

‘[Military] radar stations, air force pilots, police stations, weather stations, and Chinese Academy of Sciences observatories’ and is correlated in a data base sent to military commands. From there, a threat index is created, ‘based on the observed behaviors, frequencies, aerodynamic design, radioactivity, possible make and materials, along with any pertinent information.’[6]

But not only are the Chinese dedicating resources to the study, observation and analysis of Unidentified Flying Objects, they are working on creating their own.

In 2022 it was reported that a vertical take-off and landing vehicles company is constructing saucer shaped like aircraft. Specifically, these aircraft have ‘a maximum cruise speed of 50 km/h (31 mph), has a maximum altitude of 200 meters (656 feet) and has a flight time of 15 minutes.’  It’s got all the glowing lights on it you could want for a flying saucer sighting.[7]

Why You Should Care

The world in recent years, has witnessed a change in government attitudes to the possibility of the existence of flying saucers. With these ‘vehicles’ capable of performing aerial maneuvers and operating at velocities which aren’t in the wheelhouse (yet) of our planet.

That poses a threat of course. But it also excites the military-industrial complex types of major nations. Those that lust after the possibilities of technological advancement and superiority which might spring forth from a UFO that landed or crashed.

Any nation which was to obtain by reverse engineering of an alien craft, or by ‘gift’ of an alien visitor, an overwhelmingly superior technology over other nations, would literally rule the planet.

Any private enterprise concern which could obtain exclusive access to such technology, would gain wealth and power that would dwarf all the mega-multinational corporations combined.

On a religious and societal basis, undisputed proof of intellectually and technologically extraterrestrial intelligent life would rock the foundations of faith, and the structure of society.

When the nonsense is blown off the data, when the fantasies are separated from the facts of Unidentified Flying Objects, there remain many possibilities. There are many questions, and perhaps many terrors that are to come.

So, to quote the end line in the 1951 movie, The Thing, ‘Keep watching the skies.’

[1] CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 9/29/10 https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/archive/news_archive/nu2010/201502/t20150215_139920.shtml

[2] China using artificial intelligence to detect UFOs because it can ‘think outside the box’ The Independent 6/7/21 https://www.the-independent.com/tech/china-ufo-artificial-intelligence-military-b1860974.html

[3] Epoch Times, September 19, 2024 News https://gaodawei.wordpress.com/2024/09/19/2024-ufos-sighted-across-china-tianjin-airport-disrupted/

[4] THE WORLD OF CHINESE https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/06/close-encounters-inside-the-curious-world-of-chinas-alien-hunters

[5] IBID.

[6] Chinese Military Said to Be Using AI to Track an Increase in “Unidentified Air Conditions.”

TIM MCMILLAN AND MJ BANIAS·JUNE 4, 2021https://thedebrief.org/china-confirms-it-has-its-own-ufo-task-force/

[7] ELECTRIC VTOL NEWS https://evtol.news/shenzhen-ufo-flying-saucer-technology-ufo-evtol

It was the code name for a program in the Department of Homeland Security.

And it was in the process of being established.

The DHS had the proposal in front of Congress in 2011. Senators Joe Lieberman and Harry Reid promised to secure funding. But something got in the way.

KONA BLUE was never approved, never received funding, and no data was ever collected under its name. That's the official government position.

If it was approved, it would have been a Special Access Program, or SAP. That makes it highly classified with extraordinary security measures. The SAP designation is reserved for sensitive military projects, cyber intelligence gathering, and technical developments no one can know about.

Stealth bombers, hypersonic planes, military space defense, cyber operations designed to intercept global communications, impossible energy weapons. These are the kinds of projects hidden under the Special Access Program banner.

If KONA BLUE became an SAP, we would never hear about it again.

But because it was a proposal reviewed by Congress, we know its stated purpose. It was to continue work undertaken by the Defense Intelligence Agency's AAWSAP and AATIP programs (Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program and Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program respectively).

What was that work? To investigate sensitive materials and technologies, including advanced aerospace vehicles. In other words, to chase UFO's.

KONA BLUE teams would continue investigations into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), and reverse-engineer any recovered off-world spacecraft they captured.

Most dramatically, according to members of the DHS, KONA BLUE was meant to “protect the retrieval and exploitation of non-human biologics.” In other words, captured aliens.

For some reason, the U.S. Government was concerned enough with handling alien remains that they needed an official secret program to handle it. Doesn't necessarily mean the aliens exist – it could simply be the fear of the unknown.

The U.S. Government fears technology it doesn’t understand. UAP's defy physics and any Earthly explanation. Since they first started appearing in the sky, the government's been trying to explain them.

It started with Project SAUCER, launched in the 1940's to evaluate UFO sightings that could be construed as a concern to national security. And the sightings continue to this day.

Take the objects seen by U.S. Navy pilots in 2004. They were part of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. They described seeing a flying, 46-foot long, wingless, white oval – they compared it to a tic tac.

And it maneuvered in impossible ways, at speeds and changes in direction that would have destroyed any aircraft known to man. At one point, the "tic tac" stopped on a dime after reaching speeds of 13,000 miles per hour.

There has been no explanation for this astonishing craft.

The AAWSAP and AATIP programs were meant to analyze these impossible craft. In 2008, Senator Harry Reid directed the Defense Intelligence Agency to "assess long-term and over-the-horizon foreign advanced aerospace threats to the United States".

They would try to unlock the secrets of advanced lift and propulsion. They would explain the UAP's ability to obscure itself – reduce its observable characteristics until it appeared to be, well, just a white tic tac. Or a metallic football.

Or any number of shapes in the hundreds of sightings tracked and logged by the Pentagon.

The AAWSAP/AATIP groups analyzed all the videos of UAP's making mind-bending maneuvers. They reviewed every eyewitness account.

But was there more? Did they have physical evidence?

In 2011, Doctor James Lacatski – one of the leaders of AAWSAP – informed a U.S. senator and a high-ranking official that:

"[The] United States was in possession of a craft of unknown origin and had successfully gained access to its interior. This craft had… no intakes, exhaust, wings, or control surfaces… (no) engine, fuel tanks, or fuel."

Luis Elizondo, former head of the AATIP program, said his team was:

"[Told] specifically that a defense contractor, associated with the Legacy Program, was in possession of UAP materials of nonhuman origin, made by some civilization from some distant planet."

It wasn't just the ship. Those "materials of nonhuman origin" included the pilot.

In 2023, a high-ranking former intelligence officer named David Grusch testified to Congress that individuals told him the U.S. government had retrieved craft and biological material of nonhuman origin.

Keep in mind, AAWSAP and AATIP were not Special Access Projects. KONA BLUE was born at the time AAWSAP and AATIP teams were asked to disband.

This after hearing rumors the government captured something alien. Did the Department of Homeland Security establish KONA BLUE because captured material required a higher level of security?

Whatever started the process, the new program was put in front of Congress and promised funding. Then something happened.

Six months into the program's creation, the Deputy Secretary of DHS disapproved KONA BLUE as a Special Access Program (SAP), and further directed its immediate termination.

The reasons were a string of government-speak: "concerns about the adequacy of justification for the program, and sufficiency of information central to the proposal development, including personnel and budget requirements".

Whatever the reason, KONA BLUE was stopped before it began. It never made it to an active Special Access Program.

Not that we know of.

Of course, if KONA BLUE became an SAP, we would never hear about it again.

Sources:

https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/UAP_RECORDS_RESEARCH/History_and_Origin_of_KONA_BLUE_FINAL_508.pdf

https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/what-is-kona-blue-the-proposed-las-vegas-ufo-technology-program-unveiled/

https://archive.org/stream/aaro-historical-record-report-volume-1-2024/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Volume_1_2024_djvu.txt

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/books/booksupdate/imminent-luiz-elizondo.html?searchResultPosition=1

https://www.congress.gov/118/crec/2024/07/11/170/115/CREC-2024-07-11-pt1-PgS4943.pdf

https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/UAP_RECORDS_RESEARCH/AARO_DHS_Kona_Blue.pdf

Iron-60 shouldn't exist on Earth.

It's a form of iron that can't be made through any natural process on our planet. It could result from nuclear reactions, but not in significant quantities.

Could it have already been here when Earth was formed? Maybe.

But it really doesn't matter. The half-life of Iron-60 is 2.6 million years. Our planet was formed 4.5 billion years ago. If Iron-60 was part of our world at the beginning, it has long since disappeared by now.

Put simply, there is no terrestrial explanation for Iron-60 to exist on Earth.

Yet it does.

In 1999, an expedition to an area of the Pacific Ocean far from land was undertaken by German physicists from the Technical University in Munich. They targeted a spot deep in the ocean near the Mariana Trench, which, of course, is the deepest point on Earth.

But they didn't have to dig the astounding 36,000 feet below sea level reached by the famous trench. They took samples of the ocean floor 15,000 feet under the surface. They were looking for Iron-60.

We'd found it before, just not on Earth. During the moon landings, Iron-60 was found on the lunar surface. It was in moon rock. That proved it was cosmic. Extraterrestrial in origin.

In the 1999 excavation, those physicists discovered the isotope had, in fact, landed on Earth. The official report stated they found "an anomaly in the 60Fe abundance in a deep-ocean ferro-manganese crust".

Put simply, Iron-60 fell to the Earth and into the sea as stardust, incorporating into the crust. Scientists call it "interstellar fluence", which means energy from space hitting the Earth's surface over time.

They removed 28 different layers of crust, each corresponding to a different time period. Their analysis covered 13 million years of Earth's history.

What they found was surprising. This wasn't a continuous, random deposit of space dust over millions of years.

There was a distinct peak in the time profile.

This was a single event, 2.8 million years ago.

Scientists all over the world asked the same questions: what happened on the planet 2.8 million years ago? Did this sudden burst of cosmic energy have any effect? It was unlikely there'd be an answer.

There was a lot going on around that time. It was the early stages of the Ice Age, the earliest human ancestors were thriving, and sabertooth tigers and woolly mammoths roamed free. It would be hard to pin down a single cosmic event influencing life on Earth.

Except for the cichlid.

The cichlid are fish in Lake Tanganyika, the deepest lake in Africa (and the second deepest on Earth). They're famous in scientific circles because they experienced a sudden, stunning leap in evolution.

In just a short period of time the cichlid multiplied into over 250 different species, including a wide variety of forms and behaviors. Their "adaptive radiation" is considered extraordinary, the diversity of the species among the most spectacular in the natural world.

In February 2024, a study by scientists from the Sydney Institute for Infectious Disease discovered there was more going on than we realized with these fish. There was a startling increase in the diversity of viruses among the cichlid, matching their period of sudden growth.

These viruses were evolving along with the cichlids, and at a stunning pace. Where did these viruses come from? What sparked their sudden spread and evolutionary change? We aren't sure. But we do know when it happened.

Around 2.8 million years ago.

Exactly when a cosmic event hit the planet, these viruses suddenly evolved in unusual numbers. Scientists analyzed over 2,200 RNA samples and found 121 viruses which often switched hosts, jumping between different types of cichlids.

This was a fast-changing, thriving virus community.

Astrophysicist Caitlyn Nojiri of the University of California Santa Cruz suggests the explosion in virus diversity in Lake Tanganyika was sparked by cosmic radiation – whatever brought Iron-60 to the Earth.

It was already known that cosmic radiation can drive evolution. Stardust can push cells to mutate. But this singular spike in cosmic energy seems to have caused an eruption of virus diversity.

There are those who believe viruses are used by extraterrestrial life to infect the Earth, and ultimately colonize the planet across interstellar distances. Humans looking for flying ships are instead infected from within with outbreaks causing pandemics, maybe softening the population ahead of a coming invasion. It all sounds far-fetched.

Except 2.8 million years ago, something did arrive from deep space. We found the evidence. And we're beginning to understand, at the same time, a diverse population of viruses was born.

If we're waiting for aliens to arrive, it may be we just discovered they've been here all along. And they are spreading in microscopic form.

At the very least, stay away from anything emerging from Lake Tanganyika.

Sources:

https://www.sciencealert.com/radiation-from-an-exploding-star-may-have-altered-evolution-on-earth

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature17196

What’s one of the most common New Year’s resolutions? ‘I’m gonna lose weight.’ 

In reality, you won’t. Unless you eat less and exercise more. Unless you reduce input and increase output of energy — calories. 

It isn’t rocket science.

But it requires a disciplined approach. A sustained effort that most people won’t make.

So, what does the market and the marketers do for us? They provide a product, a pill, a potion that substitutes for the needed work — and sometimes that product or pill or potion can help.

But sometimes it can hurt or even kill the would be dieter.

Now if that pill is a prescription item, the FDA can regulate that, and has to approve it. Then, it may take some time to find out how the side effects can turn the motivation to be healthier into the method of getting sicker.

However, if that pill or capsule is available over the counter, there aren’t any double blind trials. There aren’t any peer reviewed studies concerning the efficacy or safety of that non-prescription product — at least not usually.

That’s where things can get really scary.

Let’s get back to that market we mentioned. Weight loss is a big one, a really big one, when it comes to those in search of ‘less is more’. In 2023, the weight loss market was worth ninety billion dollars.[1]

In 2024, the average American, who vowed to lose weight in the New Year, well that guy weighs just under 200 pounds. And the female version weighs around 171 pounds. They are fat. [2]

In fact, the CDC tells us that forty percent of America is obese.[3]

So, we have about one hundred and thirty four million people seeking to lose their avoirdupois in a ninety billion dollar market. With that kind of profit potential from the portly, it’s no surprise there are some corners cut, some sharp practices, and some downright dangerous developments.

Let’s take a look.

Sometimes diet products don’t really make scientific sense, like Sensa, for instance.

Sensa was a heavily marketed diet product that claimed by sprinkling it on food, it would decrease the user’s appetite, and they would lose weight. No need for cutting out certain foods, no need for exercise, just sprinkle your poundage away.

Does that sound too good to be true? Yes, and in a 2014 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over Sensa’s advertising claims, (which did not hold much weight), the company had to pay twenty-six and one half million dollars to consumers. 

The hopeful dieters had been lightened in their wallets by Sensa’s claims of the possibility of losing thirty pounds in six months by sprinkling Sensa on their food.[4]

So if you can’t sprinkle the weight away, perhaps the right coffee based product will do it. Pure Green Coffee claimed they could do it. This was a product promoted by the one and only Dr. Oz on his show.

Pure Green Coffee claimed it was a fast-acting fat dissolver. That without changing the diet, without engaging in exercise, the users ‘can lose 20 pounds in four weeks; 16 percent of body fat in twelve weeks; and 30 pounds and four-to-six inches of belly fat in three to five months.’

Amazingly enough, these claims were not only false, but they were backed up by non-existent media coverage. Jessica Rich, who in 2014 was the Director of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission said:

‘Not only did these defendants trick consumers with their phony weight loss claims, they also compounded the deception by advertising on pretend news sites, making it impossible for people to know whether they were seeing news or an ad.’[5]

The Federal Trade Commission sued, and the case was settled for three million five hundred thousand dollars.[6]

Well, it’s no surprise that we can’t often trust the claims of unregulated products, but what about prescription diet pills? Surely they are safe, they have to be tested and approved by the Federal Drug Administration.

The quick generic answer to that is to ask yourself — did you ever see a television commercial for a prescription medicine? The first fifteen seconds shows you smiley happy people feeling better from the med, and then the next forty-five seconds are a rapid-fire disclosure of how taking this drug can kill you in six impossible ways before breakfast.

Most of the readers have by now heard of Ozempic and its fellow medications that not only are used in the fight against diabetes, but can contribute to significant weight loss in those who take the medicine. It’s true, weight loss can occur, and so can a lot of other things you don’t probably want.

Ozempic is a trade name for semaglutide, and here’s what it might do to you…

It can give you nausea and cause vomiting; it can give you, either, diarrhea or constipation, stomach pain, headache, heartburn, and other things devoutly not to be wished. But just in case, like Oliver Twist, you want some more, here you go…

Vision problems, bodily swelling, rash, reduced urination, rapid heartbeat, and breathing and swallowing problems while you contemplate the yellow eyes and skin you can get from it as a bonus.[7]

It’s not only the brand name Ozempic, it’s other differently branded names of semaglutide, that can cause these problems.

After the above examples, the old standby of calorie reduction coupled with exercise increase is looking pretty good, no?

Why You Should Care

Your health is your wealth. You know there are certain things that can increase your chances of serious and sometimes fatal illness — like obesity. You know that by reducing your weight you increase the chances for a long healthy life.

But you are relying upon the purveyor of diet products, whether over the counter or from the prescription pad to help you lose the weight, stay healthy, live longer. If they lie to you about results, if they smooth over the potentially dangerous side effects, not only are you being financially defrauded, but your very life is being put at risk.

Certain government agencies, while they still exist, are useful in protecting the consumer. The FDA, the FTC have brought those who engage in medical malfeasance to justice, and have made it financially unprofitable to engage in consumer fraud.

But in the end, it is the consumer himself — you — that must look at the facts and not the fantasies behind weight loss. The life you save, the pounds you lose, will be your own.

[1] YAHOO FINANCE 5/31/24 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/united-states-weight-loss-market-084700368.html

[2] CDC NATIONALCENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/body-measurements.htm

[3] Sept. 24 CDC NATONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db508.htm

[4] Sensa to Pay $26.5 Million for Consumer Refunds 1/7/14 FTC  PRESS RELEASE https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2014/01/sensa-three-other-marketers-fad-weight-loss-products-settle-ftc-charges-crackdown-deceptive

[5] FTC Charges Green Coffee Bean Sellers with Deceiving Consumers through Fake News Sites and Bogus Weight Loss Claims FTC PRESS RELEASSE 5/19/14 https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2014/05/ftc-charges-green-coffee-bean-sellers-deceiving-consumers-through-fake-news-sites-bogus-weight-loss

6 Applied Food Sciences, Inc. Will Pay $3.5 Million and Must Substantiate Future Claims  FTC PRESS RELEASE 9/8/14 https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2014/09/green-coffee-bean-manufacturer-settles-ftc-charges-pushing-its-product-based-results-seriously

[7] Semaglutide for weight loss (Ozempic) WITHIN, Crane & Scarfati, https://withinhealth.com/learn/articles/semaglutide-ozempic-weight-loss-risks

It’s no secret that the United States of America is a deeply divided country.

In that division, voices are raised against political leaders by opposing parties. Allegations are made, falsities are promoted, and it must appear to outsiders that the American Political System is a free-for-all. An out of control no-holds-barred rumble.

Our Vice-President, J.D. Vance, who is the third youngest person to become Vice President, and the first of the millennial generation to do so, has been both praised by members of his party, and denigrated by democrats.[1] 

He is a frequent target of liberal libelers, and fomenters of false allegations.

As one cuts the way through the jungle of criticism and antagonism that Vance must go through, there are certain indisputable facts about him. And that’s true regardless of from which side of the political fence one views him.

He is a graduate of Yale Law School, and was on the Yale Law Review, which is no mean intellectual accomplishment. He is a United States Marine Veteran who served honorably in Iraq.

He is married to a woman of East Indian descent, and yet has been accused of being a racist by Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who said of him, ‘It’s disgusting and disgraceful that someone seeking the nation's second-highest office would stoop to such baseless, hateful rhetoric.’[2]

Yet, said congresswoman, in her diatribe against Vance, made reference to the patently false rumor that Vance had experienced an intimate relationship with a couch. ‘Vance would be better suited to continue writing his fictional tales and testing out his sofa.’[3]

It seems that this newly elected black Congresswoman holds herself to a double standard when it comes to ‘fictional tales.’

Vance is a successful man, having made his money in Silicon Valley. He is a family man. He is a Marine Veteran who honorably served in a War Zone. 

He graduated from one of the most prestigious law schools in the country, and served on their Law Review, which requires some impressive academic performance to do so.

So what of his congresswoman critic? 

Let’s look at her website with respect to her academic credentials. ‘Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Government from Howard University. In further pursuit of education, the Congresswoman also earned a Juris Doctorate from St. Thomas University.’[4]

Not quite the same level of accomplishment, as that law school ranks 98 out of 200, while Yale ranks first.[5] She is not a person that should repeat nonsense about couch romances, our Ms. McCormack. 

By the way, there’s no record to be found of J.D. Vance denigrating her, or spreading false information about her. He has more class than that.

It must be remembered that a Vice President is limited in his role. He is a ‘second chair’ to the President’s lead. It should also be noted that at this time, Vice President Vance has just started in the role and will, like any other person, require time and experience to grow in that position.

Very recently, Vance was heavily criticized by the liberal media for his speech before the Munich Security Conference.

Of course, his words were not the expected promises and platitudes that our European allies are used to. But that doesn’t mean they were of no value, or that they were not in at least some ways an accurate appraisal of the current situation in the world and in Europe.

Vance, in his address to the conference stated:

‘While the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine – and we also believe that it’s important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense.’

He criticized the member nations of the conference, saying:

‘The organizers of this very conference have banned lawmakers representing populist parties on both the left and the right from participating in these conversations. Now, again, we don’t have to agree with everything or anything that people say. But when political leaders represent an important constituency, it is incumbent upon us to at least participate in dialogue with them.’[6]

Are these statements deserving of hostile criticism, or careful unbiased analysis?

Without the support of American money and the American military, does any thinking person believe that Western Europe would have been free from Soviet aggression during the Cold War? Does any knowledgeable person believe that but for the United States, Western Europe would already be speaking Russian as a ‘national’ language?

According to the think tank RAND, the US contributes forty seven percent of the NATO defense budget.[7] Perhaps, the other member nations might pick up the slack.

As far as parties which were banned from the conference, ‘The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the newly formed left-populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) were barred from the Munich Security Conference (MSC).’[8]

So, Vance’s statement was accurate. Both of the above statements were accurate — just not popular among the attendees.

It is also no surprise with respect to the criticism his statements received. ‘During the past decade, Europe’s political, intellectual and cultural establishment has shown little restraint when it came to venting its disdain for President Donald Trump and Americans who support him and his policies.’

This observation was made in a February 16, 2025 article in the Jewish News Syndicate, by Jonathan Tobin.[9]

Tobin further observed, ‘Vance is also being widely denounced for his temerity in calling attention to how European democracies have discarded the basic values of democracy in order to silence views they oppose, as well as to how their policies threaten the survival of Western values.’

In his article, he recognized what many liberals do not, ‘The most pressing problem facing defenders of Western democracy comes from the censorious and anti-democratic forces that exist within the West.’[10]

Why You Should Care

The polarization of American politics has reached a level where rational thought, careful analysis of both sides of an issue is nigh impossible to achieve. 

This is not only wrong, it’s dangerous. Instead of viewing the actions and words of a politician in the light of economic and political reality, opposing parties not currently in power, deem it their sworn duty to denigrate and demean their opponents, irrespective of facts, with no regard to history or the world’s current situation.

Vance, a newly elected Vice President has been victimized by this phenomenon. 

It is incumbent on the intelligent American citizen to think beyond the rhetoric, to analyze beyond the character assassinations.

As a rational witness to the actions of those in power, and those who seek to regain the power they have lost, our American citizen must weigh the words, appraise the actions, and intelligently decide what we stand for, and what they themselves stand for.

[1] WIKIPEDIA, JD VANCE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance

[2] Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick’s Statement on J.D. Vance’s Racist Lies, Pathetic Politics https://cherfilus-mccormick.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-sheila-cherfilus-mccormicks-statement-jd-vances-racist-lies

[3] IBID.

[4] Op.cit.

[5] US NEWS & WORLD REPORT https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/yale-university-03027#:~:text=Yale%20University%202024%20Law%20%26%20Specialties,196%20in%20Best%20Law%20Schools.

[6] JD VANCE’S FULL SPEECH ON THE FALL OF EUROPE, The Spectator, 2/14/25 https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/jd-vance-what-i-worry-about-is-the-threat-from-within/

[7] UNDERSTANDING AND OPOTIMIZING ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COLLECTIVE DEFENSE, 5/7/24 RAND https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR4189z1.html

[8] POLITICO, 2/3/25 CONFERENCE BANS GERMANY’S POPULIST LEFT AND RIGHT PARTIES, https://www.politico.eu/article/munich-security-conference-defense-ban-germany-populist-afd-bsw/

[9] JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATE, 2/16/25, Tobin, Jonathan JD VANCE AND THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY https://www.jns.org/jd-vance-and-the-defense-of-democracy/

[10] IBID.

On January 21, 2020, the first COVID-19 case in the U.S. was reported.

Two years later the public health emergency officially ended. But not before 1.2 million people died in the U.S., and over 25 million globally.

A pandemic was unleashed on the world.

Those who fear a new world order is coming weren’t surprised. It's a well-known strategy among Illuminati watchers that the elite might leverage a pandemic as an agent of chaos, opening the door for centralized control.

The plan just needs a virus that spreads like wildfire. One that puts citizens under lockdown. One that drives the media to spread fear with high death tolls and worst-case scenarios.

In other words, COVID-19. It fit the plan perfectly.

Of course, if the virus is part of a plan, it must be man-made, designed to be highly contagious with no known cure. But mainstream science told us a different story.

Chinese officials said the virus came from the Huanan Seafood Market in the city of Wuhan. The World Health Organization quickly agreed: an infected animal from the market – a bat – started it all.

The U.S. government fell in line. The CDC confirmed the Wuhan market was the source of the first known cases. Nothing to see here – this virus was a natural mutation of existing viruses. Happens all the time. Scientists call it "zoonotic spillover".

Except for one thing. This was all wrong.

The virus did not come from a seafood market. If you thought a manmade virus was set loose on the world, your fears were just confirmed. In January of 2025, the CIA made it official.

After years of debate, they released their assessment: the virus was leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan. It was created there by scientists. It was manmade after all.

Seems obvious when you learn the lab in Wuhan wasn't just a typical research facility. It was the world's foremost lab dealing with SARS-like viruses. The kind behind COVID-19.

Scientists working at the Wuhan lab had been hunting for SARS-like viruses for over ten years. Turns out they found one.

Fortunately for the people of Earth, the secret elite behind the pandemic ended up disappointed. The chaos that began in 2020 didn’t last. The world never made it to that final stage where a central cabal steps in.

One big factor in ending the pandemic so fast? A scientific miracle of sorts.

The polio vaccine took eight years to develop, from initial research to testing to being given to the public. The first COVID-19 vaccine took under a year. The speed was astounding.

By December of 2020, it was already tested on over 150,000 people, then given to frontline healthcare workers.

COVID deaths began dropping dramatically once Americans had the vaccine. By the end of 2021, 73% of eligible Americans were vaccinated. The following year COVID deaths dropped in half (246,000).

The next year, the number dropped more than half again (76,000). Bad news if you were rooting for the pandemic.

You may be skeptical of the COVID vaccine. You aren’t alone. But in December of 2020 it was the main weapon against a raging, unchecked virus. 

Yet for many months prior – before it was even tested – RFK Jr. was arguing against the vaccine. And he never stopped. He warned of its dangers, of side effects. He claimed drug companies were hiding safety issues.

He tried to convince the public the vaccine was "a biological control system that can be used to track and surveil you and your family". It was like he was the spokesman for the new world order, doing his best to get in the way of a possible cure.

If the global cabal was hoping the Pandemic would spread, RFK Jr. was their hero, right? He called the vaccine "the most dangerous in the history of the world."

One hundred and ninety million Americans received the vaccine. One can debate its effectiveness. But given that the pandemic has subsided, and we don't have 190 million Americans sick from the vaccine, it seems like a net positive.

Okay, you disagree. You think the COVID 19 vaccine should be avoided. Fine. Assume RFK Jr. was right to warn us against this particular vaccine.

And of course, if he was truly representing the views of this secret elite, he wouldn’t just focus on COVID 19, he'd also argue against future vaccines, right? And this month, in effect, he did just that.

RFK Jr. now oversees public health, medical research, and healthcare policy for the nation. It's a bizarre turn of events, since he began running as a Democrat for President in 2023.

But that's how the strings were pulled. Now, when the next pandemic hits, it's RFK Jr.'s job to make sure we're ready. Turns out, he’ll focus on anything but.

When he was sworn in as HHS Secretary, under pressure from Senators, Mr. Kennedy made it clear he won’t get involved in infectious disease research – the area developing vaccines that keep us safe from viruses.

Instead, he intends to focus on chronic illness, and "take an eight-year break" from researching infectious diseases like Covid.

The global elite planning the next pandemic just got the green light.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid-lab-leak.html?searchResultPosition=6

https://vis.csh.ac.at/sars-ani/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1/

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7037e1-H.pdf

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rfk-jr-comes-home-anti-vaccine-group-commits-break-us-infectious-disea-rcna123551

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7206a3.htm#T1_down

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/pdfs/mm7206a3-H.pdf

One of the first Executive Orders by the new administration required a plan to be delivered to the White House by Friday, February 7^th.

That outlined a release of all remaining classified documents held by the US government on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, of his brother Robert Kennedy, murdered in 1968, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, also murdered in 1968.

Most assassination experts and researchers didn’t expect much of interest to be revealed.

Tom Samoluk, who reviewed all of the classified material held by the National Archives in the 1990s as the Deputy Director of the Assassination Records Review Board, famously said, “The records will not reveal any smoking gun.”[¹]

Then came the bombshell announced on February 12th, 2025. The FBI, in compliance with the EO, had located and were turning over an astounding 2,400 files amounting to 14,000 pages.

These documents had never been shared with any investigation, according to preliminary reports.[²]

It’s possible those preliminary reports are incorrect, and that these files may simply be duplicates of existing material. Author Gerald Posner, who clings to the lone gunman theory, believes it’s possible that these are indeed duplicates of files already in the possession of the National Archives.

He added, however, “If they are really new assassination documents, then it raises a whole bunch of questions about how they were missed for all of these years.”[³]

Assuming the preliminary reports are correct and that these files haven’t been shared with any of the former investigations, this leaves both previous investigating committee members and

even some judges perplexed and angry.

The judge who oversaw the declassification of the Kennedy assassination files in the 1990s, Judge John Tunheim, said recently that the FBI had “clearly assured” him that all relevant documents had been provided.[⁴]

One of the first reporters to break this story, Marc Caputo of Axios, reaffirmed that these files had never been shared with any previous investigation.[⁵] In his report, Caputo stated, “Administration officials determined these newly discovered records hadn't been submitted to or vetted by the Assassination Review Board or the National Archives.”

But 2,400 files and 14,000 pages strongly suggests these files contain multiple investigations, as well as statements from dozens of agents, subjects and/or witnesses.

If none of these files were ever submitted to either the 1964 Warren Commission, the 1976 House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), or the 1992 President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act,[⁶] then such a deliberate withholding of so massive an amount of first-hand data suggests one of two things:

- The FBI hid these files to protect the FBI; or

- The FBI hid these files to protect the FBI and the CIA.

But why would the FBI feel the need to protect itself? And what connection would the FBI have had with the CIA over Oswald?

While we’re focused on the FBI’s astounding announcement, we shouldn’t forget that the CIA has its own still-hidden cache of classified documents.

While they have been forthcoming with thousands of files, they still retain more than 3,000 files they deem too compromising to release to the public. Even sixty years after the events of the assassination.[⁷]

This doesn’t include the massive amounts of destroyed evidence that multiple government agencies undertook after the assassination, to cover their tracks and their connections with Oswald. These destroyed or deliberately hidden pieces of evidence include:

- A handwritten note that Oswald gave to the Dallas FBI office ten days before the assassination was ordered burned by Special Agent in Charge, Gordon Shanklin.[⁸] The presence of this note and its subsequent destruction was never reported to the Warren Commission, and was never made public until 1975, twelve years later.

- A fourteen-minute gap occurred in a phone call between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President Lyndon Johnson, less than twenty-four hours after the assassination.[⁹]

- When Oswald was interviewed for over twelve hours by Dallas police, supposedly no transcriber or court reporter was ever present to take notes. How could an interview of a murder suspect, especially one accused of two murders within an hour of each other, not be preserved with any form of documentation? Unless the police also had something to hide. All we have are some scribbled notes and the word of police officers who, it should be noted, are also accused of helping Jack Ruby enter the police parking garage to shoot Oswald two days later.[¹⁰]

- In January, 1995, just days before the Secret Service were set to testify before the Assassination Records Review Board, two boxes of documents were destroyed by the Service. Those files covered their handling of the president’s security in the Fall of 1963.[¹¹] The Review Board had specifically wanted to see those reports, as they deemed such internal discussions within the Service would have been both informative and revelatory.

- The day after the assassination, while Oswald was still alive and in custody, the Deputy Chief of the CIA office in New Orleans was ordered to gather up all the files they had on Oswald and deliver them immediately to CIA headquarters in Langley, VA.[¹²] The deputy chief learned afterwards that the files were, in his words, “deep sixed.” However, there is one whistleblower who is prepared to share the details he personally witnessed of a secure room at Langley with hundreds of files on Oswald and the assassination, files that have never been made public.[¹³]

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the many hundreds of recorded instances where the CIA, the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Dallas police deliberately withheld evidence from multiple investigations.

The good news is that enough files have been released over the past twenty years to shed much needed light on the connections Oswald had with both the CIA and the FBI in the runup to the assassination.

None of these files were considered as important by the Warren Commission. To this day, authors like Gerald Posner refuse to even contemplate the possibility that any type of conspiracy existed, or that anyone except Oswald fired any weapon at Dealey Plaza on that fateful day.

As we shall see in the coming articles, there is an avalanche of information already known about the CIA’s involvement in the Kennedy assassination. We can only hope the soon-to-be-released FBI files will shine even more light on the Agency’s inescapable role in the killing of an American president.

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNx0Jkn1WY&t=13s

2 https://www.axios.com/2025/02/10/trump-jfk-assassination-records

3 https://www.wbaltv.com/article/fbi-jfk-new-records-discovered/63768860

4 https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/exclusive-judge-anxious-to-see-jfk

5 https://www.axios.com/2025/02/10/trump-jfk-assassination-records

6 https://sgp.fas.org/advisory/arrb98/part03.htm

7 https://apnews.com/article/jfk-fbi-trump-newly-discovered-files-0bd8ad5569f5fa3ed92b8ee9b795c9e7 8 https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Destruction_of_the_Oswald_Note.html

9 https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/trail-of-destruction-the-destroyed

10 https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-the-tapes-and-transcripts-of-Lee-Harvey-Oswalds-interrogation-after-his-arrest-by-the-Dallas-Police-Department

11 https://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/report/html/arrb_fin_170.htm

12 https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/trail-of-destruction-the-destroyed

13 https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/exclusive-whistleblower-cites-explosive

In today’s world we are bombarded more than ever before by visual messages. 

Television, the internet, the various social media platforms are laden with images. All designed to get us to do something, buy something, or subscribe to a belief in something.

These images are far from subtle, (more often than not). And they either get noticed or intentionally ignored. In any event, they are noticed in a conscious process, and they may be ignored by a conscious process.

It is our decision to buy that online course that will make us a millionaire. It is our decision to ignore the fool that is pushing it harder than he’s pushing the view of his rented Lambo.

Where advertising tried to get sneaky — which arguably started more than 60 years ago — was when it tried to influence us unconsciously, or to use the term of art — subliminally.

The year was 1957, and the place was Mad Men central — Manhattan, New York.

A marketer, James Vicary, addressed reporters at a press conference, and told them a tale about popcorn and Coca Cola.

Vicary wasn’t at the meeting to sell either the snack, or the drink. He was there to discuss his supposedly groundbreaking method to get movie viewers to buy popcorn and Coca Cola, by flashing messages during a movie. The messages that were on screen for so short a time, the movie patrons wouldn’t consciously notice it. 

But, claimed Vicary, those messages of “eat popcorn” and “drink Coke” would get the movie goers to shell out their shekels for — wait for it — popcorn and Coca Cola, without knowing why.

Thus was born subliminal advertising, and thus was born a widespread concern over the dangers of being able to influence the public without their knowing it — something the world of advertising and marketing had been doing in other ways since their conception.

Vicary, the father of subliminal advertising, claimed that his newfound manipulation tool for the masses, increased by popcorn sales by more than eighteen percent. It increased the sales of Coke, by more than fifty seven percent.[1]

Now, while that seems as testimony in support of the effectiveness of subliminal advertising, the testimony was false. The manager of the cinema in question told industry publications that there was no difference in sales, and in 1962, Vicary admitted that he fibbed the results.[2]

But subliminal advertising is not just limited to a quick flash during a film. Product placement in a film is also a form of this method of marketing. We see a James Bond film, and he’s drinking a particular beer or bottle of booze. He’s wearing a particular watch; he’s dressed in a particular suit.

That certainly can influence sales of those items, as the movie viewer wants to have his life shaken and not stirred by emulating his on-screen hero.

Marketers are aware of this, and pay beaucoup bucks to movie producers to get their products some screen time:

‘Product placement in movies and TV shows is considered a good marketing strategy for several reasons. It is a form of advertising that integrates seamlessly within a show, allowing bands to reach a large audience and generate positive feelings towards their products without overtly noticing the placement.’

The foregoing quote is from a marketing agency, C&I Studios, and they have clients like NBC, Sony, and Universal.[3]

As to the effectiveness of the not ‘overtly noticing the placement’, according to C&I, this method of subliminal advertising can increase brand awareness up to 43% when the product is made a part of the story. [4]

Think of the scene in Casino Royale, when Bond is on the train with Vesper, and she makes a comment about his watch, and asks if it’s a Rolex. He says, “Omega.”

That certainly had the jewelry shaken and stirred, because according to the publication, The Jewelry Editor, ‘Omega reported a 20-fold sales increase after the first James Bond watch went public.’[5]

Now, the reader could make the argument and observation that this was a specific and easily perceived push on Omega — Bond mentioned the brand. But, think about how many times in the various movies the brand name was not mentioned, and there was merely a quick ‘watch flex,’ in a scene.

So, subliminal messaging isn’t just a flash in the pan — or on the screen, but does that flash on the screen work anywhere near as well as a movie product placement can?

Apparently, no. 

In a study conducted in 1975, researchers:

‘Took two sample groups and presented them with a movie on a slide projector. One of the sample groups, the movie was presented with Hershey’s Chocolate being subliminally embedded in the movie, while the other group had no subliminal messaging. The goal of the experiment was to see if the subjects who were involved in the subliminal message would purchase Hershey’s Chocolate after watching the movie. The results of the study were that neither the sample with the subliminal message nor the one without purchased the chocolate within 10 days of the study.’[6]

Research conducted in 2006 at the University of Utrecht, ‘suggested that subliminal advertising was only effective with products that people knew of and somewhat liked. The flashes made the brand name more "cognitively accessible", their theory went, so it wouldn't work with very high-profile brands – you couldn't make a brand like Coca-Cola much more familiar to people than it already is.’[7]

But we just don’t experience the world through our eyes, our ears play a part too, and those ears can be played with by a form of subliminal advertising.

While quick flashes on a film may not get us to drink Coke, it appears that ethnic music played in a liquor store can get the patrons to buy more wine from the country which has its music playing.

In fact, ‘research showed that liquor store patrons bought more German wine when German music was playing in the store and more Italian wine when Italian music was playing in the store. When asked what led them to choose the wine they chose very few patrons mentioned the music, implying that despite the fact they could hear the music most of them were unaware it was influencing their behavior.’ [8]

Why You Should Care

It’s no secret that mass media and mass marketing are seeking to influence our lives more and more every day. To be able to make a conscious choice — to say yea or nay with full awareness, is one thing. 

To be subtly and subconsciously influenced to make a choice, without your intentional decision being made, is the road to the real world of 1984.

While subliminal advertising in its original form of flashes on a movie screen was ineffective, other methods of persuasion on the subconscious level may have an effect, causing us to make choices of products and/or politicians that we otherwise might not have made.

[1] BBC DOES SUBLIMINAL ADVERTISING ACTUALLY WORK 1/20/15 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30878843

[2] IBID

[3] C&I STUDIOS, website https://c-istudios.com/is-product-placement-in-a-movie-tv-show-a-good-marketing-strategy/#:~:text=Product%20placements%20can%20significantly%20influence,brand%20awareness%20and%20potential%20sales.

[4] IBID

[5] THE JEWELRY EDITOR, https://www.thejewelleryeditor.com/images/omega-reported-a-20-fold-sales-increase-after-the-first-james-bond-watch-went-public-and-has-since-launched-limited-editions-of-bonds-watches-to-satiate-the-appetite-among-collectors/

[6] How Embedded Subliminal Messaging Affects Consumer Behavior in Advertising, Boise state university department of marketing 4/26/24 https://www.boisestate.edu/cobe-marketing/2024/04/26/how-embedded-subliminal-messaging-affects-consumer-behavior-in-advertising/

[7] DOES SUBLIMINAL ADVERTISING REALLY WORK, BBC 1/20/15 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30878843

[8] ZIMMERMAN, Subliminal Ads, Unconscious Influence, and Consumption 6/9/14  PSYCHOLOGY TODAY https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sold/201406/subliminal-ads-unconscious-influence-and-consumption

In 1963, the National Security Agency's Technical Journal (Volume XI, Number 1) featured a classified report with the following conclusion: "We are not alone in the universe."

This is not the opening of a science fiction novel, or the next Spielberg movie.

This is the factual conclusion of the government agency overseeing signal intelligence. The question of whether there is intelligent life in the universe was answered – at least according to the U.S. Government.

The conclusion was not based on hard evidence. It was based on sheer math. Even in our own galaxy, there are 100 million stars with orbiting planets that could support life.

And our galaxy is one of a billion in the observable universe.

The numbers are staggering. As Dr. Frank Drake of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia put it, the question isn't if there is intelligent life out there. We estimate there are at least a billion advanced civilizations that could have arisen by now. The question is, "where is everybody?"

Dr. Drake actually started looking.

In 1960 he began the first systematic attempt to listen for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. That turned into NASA's SETI studies, which added microwaves to the search.

Lately, SETI has added more possible sources, including lasers or optical waves. The more advanced our own civilization gets, the more methods we realize intelligent life might be trying to utilize to talk with us.

The latest theory? Extraterrestrials might use a beam of neutrinos – weightless, uncharged particles – to send communications our way. According to the MIT Press Reader, "While the odds are slim, neutrino technology may be the best – and perhaps only – way to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations."

Why neutrinos?

- They're fast. They have almost no mass and travel close to the speed of light.

- They're unstoppable. Neutrinos can deliver an unimpeded signal across a crowded universe. Radio waves or light can be absorbed or scattered, but neutrinos can pass through planets, stars, and cosmic dust. Perfect choice for the advanced extraterrestrial to reach out.

- They don't degrade across distance. Electromagnetic waves spread out, especially across interstellar distance. Neutrinos don't.

But an alien civilization trying to reach us using a neutrino beam would have a major problem: It's too advanced for us.

Yes, we have neutrino detectors, but they are only able to capture a tiny fraction of passing neutrinos, not a steady signal. For us, detecting even a single neutrino is an enormous, expensive feat.

There are only a handful of scientific efforts around the world with the resources to detect high-energy neutrinos from space. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica has a massive array of detectors embedded in the ice.

Then there's the Super-Kamiokande: an enormous tank of pure water lined with 10,000 supersized photomultiplier tubes buried 3,000 feet in a mountain.

It looks like something out of a Marvel movie. It cost nearly 400 million dollars to build, in the hope of detecting a single neutrino interacting with a water molecule.

Bottom line, it's hard to detect a particle so elusive it can pass through a planet without hitting anything. There's a reason we call it the "ghost particle".

The one's we do detect are usually from a mundane source: our Sun. The nuclear reactions happening inside the Sun regularly send neutrinos our way. A particle from a planet across the universe would stand out, because it would contain many times the energy of one originating from the Sun.

And in 2023, we found one.

The Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) is an array of light collecting glass spheres researchers drop deep in the Mediterranean to detect neutrinos. It's still under construction. But what they have assembled so far actually worked.

In February 2023 astrophysicists detected what they termed "a monster event". The KM3NeT found a neutrino twenty times more powerful than any ever detected.

Neutrinos from the sun contain anywhere from one to ten million electronvolts. The February 2023 particle carried 120 million. This puts it on a level of energy with cosmic rays. The likely source of origination is not our Sun, but a distant galaxy.

No one knows where ultra-high energy neutrinos come from. It could be a black hole, or a stellar explosion. But it could be, with the right receptors, we discover this high energy neutrino was one in a series sent to us with a message.

The researchers in the Mediterranean are getting a bigger array of neutrino detectors. Whatever – or whoever – sent this particle with record-breaking energy has got our attention.

Sources:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00444-1

https://hackaday.com/2025/01/09/engineering-lessons-from-the-super-kamiokande-neutrino-observatory-failure/

https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/tech-journals/communications-extraterrestrial-intelligence.pdf

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-aliens-neutrino.html

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/are-neutrinos-the-key-to-communicating-with-aliens

https://physicsworld.com/a/neutrino-based-communication-is-a-first

In the days following the Kennedy assassination, the CIA and the FBI immediately went to work to portray Oswald as a “lone nut.”

This was a coordinated effort to erase any connections between Oswald and his now-known CIA handlers, and his likely parallel connections with the FBI. According to one FBI source, the FBI was paying him $200 a month as an informant on “subversive activities.”[¹]

In fact, on the first day of the Warren Commission hearings, Allen Dulles, passed out leaflets to the other Commission members declaring that all previous presidential assassins were “lone nuts,” implying Oswald was one as well.[²]

Except Mr. Dulles wasn’t exactly an impartial observer. He had been fired as CIA director by Kennedy but hired by new President Johnson to “oversee” the investigation into the assassination.

There is still an effort by many to portray Oswald as the only person involved in the assassination. An as the killer of Officer J. W. Tippett, despite the fact that when the Dallas Police performed a paraffin test, they found no gunshot residue on Oswald.

Nor did they find any prints on the supposed Mannlicher-Carcano murder weapon.[³] It was only when four days had passed, did the Dallas police belatedly announce they’d found a palm print on the rifle.

That was after Oswald had been killed, and some unidentified government agents had paid a suspicious late-night visit to the funeral home where Oswald’s body was being kept.[⁴][⁵]

Consider also just a few of the details we now know to be true, that have been kept secret or covered up at the time of the assassination.

Oswald worked at a highly classified role at the Atsugi Naval facility in Tokyo involving radar operations for the U-2 spy plane overflights of the Soviet Union up until 1957.[⁶]

He also spoke fluent Russian. That’s not something easily learned on one’s own, and highly unusual for a Marine, even during the Cold War, especially at the young age of nineteen.

There are theories that after leaving Tokyo and while he was stationed in California, he was taught Russian at Monterey School of the Army, often used by the CIA to recruit possible future agents.[⁷]

He appeared to defect to the Soviet Union in 1959, but was quickly identified as a possible mole by the Soviets. He was sent off to a do-nothing position far from Moscow, at a Minsk factory.[⁸]

What’s interesting to note is that he never completed the necessary paperwork given him by the US Embassy in Moscow, and therefore, never became an actual defector.[⁹]

Oswald married a Russian woman, had a child with her, and was allowed to return to the US in 1962 without any difficulty. Oswald was even given some start-up cash by the US government so he could afford to return.[¹⁰]

None of his promises to reveal secrets of the U-2 program seemed to have caused any difficulties with US authorities. That wouldn’t have been possible unless he was already a known US asset.

There is evidence released in just the past ten years that proves the CIA had already opened a file called a 201 file, reserved for people of special interest. By the time of the assassination just a year later, the Agency had already amassed a file of over 180 pages involving five different government agencies.[¹¹]

One of his first jobs back in the States was working at Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall, a company that developed classified film from the U-2 flights. This level of secret work would have been prohibited to him, unless Oswald still retained his clearance for handling classified material.[¹²]

There were reports that Oswald was being paid $200 a month by the FBI as an informant. But when those reports were introduced to the Warren Commission, they went into a closed session, and all notes and transcripts of that session were destroyed.[¹³]

That suggests quite strongly that he was an FBI informant, and the Warren Commission didn’t want that connection to be made public.

When Oswald and his little family moved to Dallas in the summer of 1962, they met George de Mohrenschildt, a conservative “White Russian,” a Texas oilman and also a paid CIA asset.

He became a close friend to Oswald in the year before the assassination.[¹⁴] De Mohrenschildt introduced Oswald to a woman, Ruth Paine, who inserted herself into the Oswald family plans.

She invited herself unannounced to their home on multiple occasions during the spring and summer of 1963. She even allowed Oswald’s wife and infant daughter to stay with her in Dallas while Oswald went off to New Orleans.[¹⁵]

It should be noted that after the assassination, when he was in a spot of trouble, de Mohrenschildt turned to a friend at the CIA to help bail him out.[¹⁶] That friend was George H. W. Bush, one of the key operators of the CIA’s operation at the Bay of Pigs.[¹⁷]

De Mohrenschildt was not just a friend of Bush’s, he was the uncle of “Poppy” Bush’s roommate at Andover.[¹⁸]

While in Dallas, de Mohrenschildt introduced the Oswalds to Ruth Paine, also a CIA asset, whose sister worked as a stenographer for the CIA in Washington, DC.[¹⁹] Despite Ruth being asked hundreds of questions over multiple hours about her family and friends by the Warren Commission, the connection with her sister at the CIA was never brought up.

Paine winds up allowing Marina Oswald and her daughter to stay at her house, while Lee lived in a one-room boarding house not far away.[²⁰]

Incredibly, Ruth Paine also had connections with Allen Dulles, through Dulles’ mistress Mary Bancroft, who had a home on Naushon Island in Massachusetts.[²¹] Ruth’s mother and Mary were best friends, and Ruth spent time there in August of 1963.[²²]

Again, this amazingly close connection with the CIA was never investigated by the Warren Commission.

It should be remembered that it was Ruth Paine who got Oswald his job at the Texas School Book Depository. And it was Ruth Paine who “found” a letter where Lee admitted trying to kill General Walker, in a book of Russian recipes she had loaned to Marina.

It was Ruth Paine who also found the camera that took the famous backyard photos of Lee, in a bag that had already been searched by the FBI days earlier.

From Naushon Island, Ruth travels to visit with her sister the CIA stenographer, in Falls Church, VA. Ruth’s brother-in-law is also employed by the CIA.

Ruth spends a few weeks there in September, then returns to New Orleans to pick up Marina and her daughter. She then drives them directly back to Dallas to stay with her, while Lee stays on in New Orleans.[²³]

In 1963, while in New Orleans, Oswald worked out of the office of Guy Bannister, a local private investigator and paid FBI contact. He handed out leaflets with Bannister’s office’s address stamped right on them.[²⁴]

That same building also housed a CIA office. Though whether the FBI and CIA knew of each other’s close proximity has never been confirmed.

According to one witness, it was Bannister who suggested to Oswald that he open a chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans, where Lee would be its one and only member.[²⁵]

Beginning in 1962, when Oswald returned to the US, a certain group of CIA officers began targeting Oswald for special observation. That included reading his mail, which was against the law for the CIA to be doing.[²⁶]

There is so much more that we now know about Oswald, and how he was being set up by CIA assets than was publicly avowed in 1963. What’s even more amazing is how much we also now know about the files concerning Lee Oswald and the other elements of the assassination that have since gone missing.

We’ll cover them in the next article.

 ¹ https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/13/archives/oswald-not-in-1963-millionname-secret-service-file.html

² https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-compelling-evidence-that-there-was-a-broader-conspiracy-behind-the-JFK-assassination

³ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pSFb-krP5E&t=160s

⁴ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pSFb-krP5E&t=294s

⁵ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pSFb-krP5E&t=450s

⁶ http://theintercept.com/2022/12/19/lee-harvey-oswald-cia-lsd-jfk/

⁷ https://www.quora.com/Who-taught-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-Russian

⁸ https://www.biography.com/crime/lee-harvey-oswald

⁹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHQe5ZrSVbU&t=44s

¹⁰ https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP75-00149R000600160130-8.pdf ¹¹ https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/before-jfks-death-the-cia-compiled

¹² https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0aS0DZgQVo&t=420s

¹³ http://22november1963.org.uk/memo-was-oswald-an-fbi-agent

¹⁴ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/27/russian-born-oilman-real-international-man-mystery-vivid-presence-jfk-files/807303001/

¹⁵ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blxwqiP7m9Q&t=170s

¹⁶ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/27/russian-born-oilman-real-international-man-mystery-vivid-presence-jfk-files/807303001/

¹⁷ https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/cia-bush-senior-oil-venture/ 

¹⁸ https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/bush-and-the-jfk-hit-part-5-the-mysterious-mr-de-mohrenschildt/

¹⁹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blxwqiP7m9Q

²⁰ https://theberkshireedge.com/a-review-and-commentary-about-the-documentary-the-assassination-and-mrs-paine

²¹ https://theberkshireedge.com/a-review-and-commentary-about-the-documentary-the-assassination-and-mrs-paine

²² https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blxwqiP7m9Q&t=210s

²³ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blxwqiP7m9Q&t=240s

²⁴ https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbannister.htm

²⁵ https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbannister.htm

²⁶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSboNWGCDwE&t=474s

Perhaps one of the most polarizing people in today’s world, is the richest man in the world, (at the time of this writing), Elon Musk. 

He is praised, and he is condemned.

To some, he is looked upon as the Eighth Wonder of the technological world. By some, he is regarded as a creature from the eighth circle of Hell.

Like any other person of power, like any other phenomenon, (and Musk certainly may be regarded as a phenomenon), the reality is mixed. The palette that paints Musk is not in black and white.

Let’s take a look, not through a glass darkly, but through crystal clear reality.

In January 2025, Musk donated Tesla stock in the approximate amount of one hundred twelve million dollars to charity.[1] Are there tax benefits in doing so — of course — just like there are tax benefits to any donor to charities which through their legal status, offer deductions to their contributors.

But, there are social benefits to his donations, which cannot be denied, even by his most voluble critics. 

The Musk Foundation’s charitable recipients ‘include international aid nonprofits such as Doctors Without Borders, healthcare organizations such as World Spine Care, and the co-educational Mirman School for Gifted Children.’[2]

We can look at tax motivations, true, but we can also look at the tangible benefits bestowed, and these are significant.

Elon Musk was not the incorporator of Tesla, which was legally created in 2003. But, in 2004, it was Musk that led the first round of funding to the company, and a company, no matter what its purpose may be, no matter what its potential may be, is only a legal entity without funding.

When Musk became the CEO of Tesla in 2008, the company launched its first electric car.

While last year, Tesla wasn’t the lead seller of electric vehicles, it had the largest market capitalization of all automakers — five hundred and seventy-one BILLION dollars.[3]

Unfortunately, it appears that the Tesla electric vehicle is the most unreliable electric car manufactured — with respect to used cars.[4]

However, major auto manufacturers in the United States have had vehicles that were likewise unreliable in their time — and that time was 2024.

The Ford 150, the Jeep Wrangler, the Jeep Grand Cherokee, the Ford Escape Hybrid, the Chevrolet Colorado, and the GMC Canyon were all listed by Consumer Reports among the top 10 unreliable vehicles in 2024.[5]

It should be noted that manufacturing and advancing technologies do, on occasion, take a misstep, do fall off the rails. But in an ongoing process, products are improved, both in function and reliability. 

It’s not only cars that may at one point in time be unreliable, or even dangerous. It can happen to the most technologically advanced spacecraft, as the world witnessed in 1986 when the Challenger space shuttle exploded, killing all seven of the crew.

A design flaw in the rubber O-rings caused the problem, allowing a gas leak that ended the mission in the worst possible way.[6]

In 2002, Musk began his involvement with the space program, with his company SpaceX.

In 2020 SpaceX teamed with NASA, and sent two astronauts on a round trip to the International Space Station, the first time that was accomplished by a private concern.[7]

That wasn’t only a technological achievement, it was a success that had significant political ramifications, because:

‘NASA certified SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon human spaceflight system for crew missions to and from ISS – meaning the US would no longer have to rely solely on Russia's Soyuz rocket to transport US astronauts to and from the space station.’[8]

In 2021, Musk’s SpaceX gave a rocket ride to some billionaires, and that event was responsible for providing two hundred and forty three million dollars to St. Jude’s Research Hospital.[9]

Musk is the driving force for the future exploration of Mars, as John F. Kennedy was the political driving force for our country being the first ever to land men on the moon. It is imagination that leads to innovation, and innovation that leads to the kind of technological triumphs that have been the hallmark of the United States.

In 2024, Musk predicted that within four years, humans will have visited the planet Mars, and within twenty years, there shall be a self-sustaining human colony on the planet.[10]

Of course, many space scientists disagree. In any event, whether or not the prediction of Musk comes true, it will lead to progress towards that goal. It will result in technological innovation, and a renewal of that spirit of exploration that has perhaps been missing from our country for too long.

It seems that Musk is a force to reckon with, both on the ground and in outer space. But in recent times he has emerged as a player in American politics with seemingly unlimited access to the President and the Oval Office.

Some people are afraid of that. Some people wonder why he has access to the keys to the kingdom of the most powerful nation in the world — the United States of America.

Musk is now the power behind the reformation of the government, with respect to seeking out and eliminating government waste. Any reader who has been following my articles in The Conspiracy Report will know that government waste — in both social and defense expenditure of public funds has been rampant. And that was well before the world heard of Trump or Musk as political players.

So, the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency may not be the evil entity some claim, but might just be a boon to the proper allocation of government funds. It may end up being a benefit to the rank-and-file taxpayers that are the source of those funds.

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

As citizens of what is still the greatest country in the world, the country that is the desired destination for the oppressed of the world, we must care about not only maintaining our technological advantage, but our very economic existence.

Every other month, we hear about potential government shutdowns, we hear about our rising national debt, and part of that, of course, is a product of not only overspending, but inappropriate spending.

President Calvin Coolidge, once famously said, ‘The chief business of the American People is business,’ and that’s hard to argue with, for it is private enterprise that is the springboard to innovation, and in many cases the foundation of our economy.

For that reason, it may not be a bad idea to have a mega successful businessman like Musk as a guiding force away from waste, and as a driving force in our country’s technological innovation.

[1] ELON MUSK DONATES 112 MILLION TO CHARITIES, BLACK ENTERPRISE, 1/6/25 https://www.blackenterprise.com/elon-musk-donates-112-m-save-taxes/

[2] INFLUENCE WATCH, https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/musk-foundation/#:~:text=Charitable%20recipients%20of%20Musk%20Foundation,Mirman%20School%20for%20Gifted%20Children.

[3] THE STORY BEHIND TESLA’S SUCCESS, Amy Wu, 1/11/25, INVESTOPEDIA, https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/061915/story-behind-teslas-success.asp

[4] TESLA IS ONE OF THE LEAST RELIABLE USED CAR BRANDS:CONSUMER REPORTS, Iulian Dnistran, 8/28/24 INSIDE EVS https://insideevs.com/news/731559/tesla-least-reliable-used-car-brands/

[5] THE 10 LEAST RELIABLE CARS, Jon Linkov, 12/5/24 CONSUMER REPORTS https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/10-least-reliable-cars-a2967595976/

[6] THE CHALLENGER EXPLOSION AND ITS AFTERMATH, Advanced Physics Archives https://www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/200101/history.cfm

[7] WHAT IS SPACEX AND WHY IS ELON MUSK WORKING WITH NASA, BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-52809202

[8] 14 BIG MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF ELON MUSK’S SPACEX, Grace Kay, 4/23/23 BUSINESS INSIDER, https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-history-biggest-moments-elon-musk-2022-12

[9] IBID

[10] MUSK SAYS HUMANS CAN BE ON MARS IN FOUR YEARS, 9/5/24 THE GUARDIAN https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/musk-humans-live-on-mars-spacex

Fentanyl is killing more Americans than car crashes, cancer, or violent crime. It’s a weapon of mass destruction, yet it flows through our borders like tap water.

In 2021, drug overdoses killed 106,699 Americans—more than motor vehicle crashes (45,404) and firearm deaths (48,830) combined.

So, is this just negligence, or is something more sinister going on?

How Did We Get Here?

The fentanyl epidemic exploded under the Obama administration and worsened under Biden. Coincidence? Maybe.

Here’s what happened:

- In the early 2010s, Mexican cartels—Sinaloa and CJNG—discovered that synthetic opioids were more profitable than heroin.

- Unlike heroin, which needs poppy fields and labor, fentanyl is made in labs using chemicals from China.

- Between 2015 and 2020, fentanyl deaths rose nearly sixfold—from 3.1 to 17.8 per 100,000 people.

And what did the federal government do? Nothing.

Instead, China kept exporting chemicals, the border remained open, and the deaths kept climbing.

By 2021, fentanyl became the #1 cause of death for Americans aged 18-45.

Surely this crisis would trigger serious action, right?

Instead, Biden weakened border security, and on February 6, 2025, House Democrats fought against the HALT Fentanyl Act (H.R. 27)—which would have permanently classified fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs and increased penalties for traffickers.

The bill passed 312-108, but 108 lawmakers—mostly Democrats—voted against it.

Their reason? “Criminal justice reform.” They claimed it could increase incarceration rates and worsen racial disparities.

But who actually benefits from weak fentanyl laws?

Who Profits from This Crisis?

1. The Cartels & Political Corruption

Mexican cartels aren’t just drug gangs. They’re billion-dollar businesses that buy influence on both sides of the border.

Cartels make $13-50 billion per year trafficking drugs into the U.S. But do you think they store that cash in duffel bags?

No. They launder it through:

- Shell companies posing as real businesses.

- Luxury real estate investments.

- Cryptocurrency to move money undetected.

- Political donations—both direct and through lobbying groups.

How Deep Does Cartel Influence Go?

- A 2022 DEA report confirmed that cartel-linked businesses operate inside the U.S., some with ties to American lobbying firms.

- In Mexico, cartels fund political campaigns to control elected officials.

- Some U.S. groups pushing for drug decriminalization received anonymous donations linked to cartel-affiliated sources.

If cartels make billions from fentanyl, and politicians block fentanyl crackdowns—who are they really working for?

2. Big Pharma’s Addiction Pipeline

The opioid crisis didn’t start with fentanyl—it started with Purdue Pharma and OxyContin.

They got millions hooked, then bailed when the government cracked down on prescription opioids.

And what replaced them? Fentanyl.

Now, Big Pharma profits off the crisis, selling:

- Narcan (overdose-reversal drug).

- Suboxone (opioid treatment drug).

- Other rehab medications.

And guess who funded lobbying efforts against H.R. 27?

Pharmaceutical companies that sell addiction treatments.

Because let’s be real—why would they want fentanyl gone when addiction is so profitable?

3. The China Connection

For years, China has been the #1 supplier of synthetic opioids. And they don’t even deny it.

- A 2023 DEA report confirmed China exports most fentanyl precursors, shipping them to Mexican cartels​.

- These chemicals arrive disguised as harmless ingredients to avoid customs detection.

- Despite global pressure, China does nothing to stop production.

Why? Because fentanyl isn’t just a drug crisis—it’s a weapon.

Fentanyl as Economic Warfare: A Modern Opium War?

China remembers its history.

In the 19th century, the British Empire flooded China with opium, causing mass addiction and economic collapse.

Now, China is doing the same thing to America.

- 74,000 Americans died from synthetic opioids last year—the equivalent of a war.

- Fentanyl is killing young workers, weakening America’s economy.

- The opioid crisis costs the U.S. over $1 trillion per year.

And yet—Biden barely mentioned it.

Why?

The Biden-China-Hunter Connection

Biden’s soft stance on China’s fentanyl exports raises red flags—especially when you factor in Hunter Biden’s deep business ties to China.

- In 2013, Hunter co-founded BHR Partners, a private equity firm backed by China’s state-owned Bank of China.

- This firm helped China secure control of key resources, including a major cobalt mine (essential for battery production).

- During Biden’s 2013 Beijing visit, he met with Hunter’s Chinese business partners, raising concerns about political favors​.

Critics argue that these business ties influenced Biden’s weak stance on China, including his lack of urgency in stopping fentanyl exports.

Patterns That Can’t Be Ignored

- The border has been open for the last 4 years.

- China keeps exporting fentanyl precursors.

- Big Pharma profits from addiction treatment.

- Democrats voted against the HALT Fentanyl Act (H.R. 27) under the excuse of “criminal justice reform.”

- Biden’s business ties to China remain unexplained.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory—it’s a business model.

The Bottom Line: Who Wins? Who Loses?

Winners: Cartels, Big Pharma, corrupt politicians, and foreign adversaries.

Losers: Everyday Americans—especially young people dying at record rates.

Is this incompetence? Ideological blindness? Or deliberate corruption?

At this point, it doesn’t matter. The outcome is the same.

So ask yourself: Do you believe this is all just an accident?

Or is someone letting it happen on purpose?

It used to be a popular theory that the Earth was hollow.

There are still believers. But the Hollow Earth theory had its heyday in the early 19th Century.

Among the most well-known was John Cleves Symmes.

He was credible – a U.S. Army officer. And he genuinely believed the Earth was hollow. In fact, he theorized that below the ground we stand were four concentric shells leading down to a hollow world underneath.

And he was convinced there were openings at the North and South poles providing access to this secret world. How do we know he truly believed? Symmes lobbied Congress in 1822 to fund an expedition to the North Pole so he could find the opening – and travel to the hollow world himself.

Congress didn’t buy into the hollow earth theory – not enough to fund an expedition. But a machinist in Illinois by the name of Marshall Gardner took notice.

When it was reported warm winds and red dust were found in the Arctic, Gardner saw this as proof: the hidden world below was releasing particles into the air. When he learned of migrating birds flying northward into the supposedly uninhabitable Arctic regions, he doubled down.

There must be warmer interior lands. And the aurora borealis?

Gardner was convinced these colorful lights in the sky indicated there was a second sun buried in the inner Earth core, and its rays were reflecting out to our world.

In 1913, Gardner published "A Journey to the Earth's Interior," making his case the Earth was hollow and contained this smaller sun, which gave heat and light to an inner civilization.

Most recently, Raymond Bernard picked up the argument. Again, a credible writer with a Ph.D. in Education from NYU. Bernard not only agreed with the hollow earth theory, but in his 1964 book he claimed this inner world was the true source of UFOs.

Of course, mainstream science was never on board with these ideas. The accepted theory of the Earth's center was that, below a molten outer mantle, the inner core is 100% solid. Exactly the opposite of hollow.

That was the accepted theory. The idea of a hollow Earth was dismissed.

Until now.

On February 10, 2025, scientists from the University of Southern California stumbled onto a surprising discovery about the Earth's core.

The purpose of their study had nothing to do with looking inside the core. They just wanted to chart the slowing of the inner core's rotation. Scientists knew this sphere oscillated over a 70-year cycle. And they suspected its rotation was slowing down, relative to the Earth's surface rotation.

How do they study something we can't see?

(To date, the entrances Symmes said were waiting for us at the North and South poles have not been discovered, so we can't take an actual journey to the center of the Earth.)

Scientists have another way to examine the core. They use seismic data – waves generated by Earthquakes – and analyze how these waves pass through the inner core. They've seen how the core spins, sometimes speeding up or slowing down – and even spinning in the opposite direction at times.

During all these tests, scientists assumed the core was solid. Specifically made of iron-nickel alloy.

But that may have all changed.

They were studying seismic waveform data from over 120 earthquakes in Antarctica that took place between 1991 and 2024.

As they analyzed the data from receiver-array stations in Fairbanks, Alaska and Yellowknife, Canada, one dataset included uncharacteristic properties the team had never seen before.

John Vidale, Professor of Earth Sciences at USC, said, "what we ended up discovering is evidence that the near surface of Earth's inner core undergoes structural change."

Said Vidale, "Later on, I'd realize I was staring at evidence the inner core is not solid."

The USC scientists found that the shape of the inner core changed, likely affected by the molten outer core. Until now, the outer core's molten, turbulent state was not thought to ever affect the inner core on a human timescale.

But it was the clearest cause to explain what the seismic waves indicated: that the inner core was changing shape, more like putty than an iron ball.

According to Vidale, this discovery showed the everyone we just don't understand this inner world like we thought. There are hidden dynamics within the Earth's core, with thermal and magnetic fields science doesn't fully understand.

The discovery opened a new door with more discoveries to follow, now that scientists know what they’re looking for.

On the gravestone of John Cleves Symmes in Hamilton, Ohio is a sculpture of a hollow earth. It's a tribute to his passionate belief that there was a mystery lying beneath us worthy of exploration.

We may have just found the first hard evidence that he was right.

More to come.

Sources:

https://today.usc.edu/earths-inner-core-is-less-solid-than-previously-thought/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250210132238.htm

The deadliest air crash in United States history happened on January 29, 2025.

Sixty passengers and four crew members were on American Eagle flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas. Their destination was Reagan National Airport.

They’d travelled over a thousand miles and were descending to their destination, only a half mile away from the runway where the landing gear would touch ground. Just another ordinary flight landing under clear winter skies in Washington D.C.

Of course, that landing never happened. As the flight descended to 325 feet, a United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with three crew members flew straight into it. No one survived the collision.

If that sounds surreal — a lethal military helicopter flying in the same space as a commercial flight from Wichita — it’s actually common at Reagan National Airport.

Other airports are busier in terms of total flights, but no airport in the nation has the combination of high traffic, security concerns, and constrained airspace you find over Reagan National.

In fact, the Black Hawk crew had flown this exact route before. “Route 4,” as they called it, was part of a standard training mission. And the crew knew the altitude restriction: fly under 200 feet and you’re good.

This brings us to the first strange fact still haunting investigators:  on this night, they didn’t fly under 200 feet. For some reason the helicopter ascended to over 300 feet — directly in the path of the passenger plane.

It strains belief to think the Black Hawk crew made this kind of mistake. Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Eaves had flown that route along the Potomac hundreds of times, according to a friend. A senior advisory pilot called the Black Hawk crew “stellar when it comes to aviation”. Yet, that is exactly what happened.

Was the Black Hawk somehow sabotaged to put it in harms way?

This too, strains belief. After all, even if the helicopter was somehow made to change altitude without the crew realizing, they would still be warned about the coming danger.

The helicopter was equipped with an Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) which gives warnings about the civilian airplane’s location. The ADS-B also transmits the Black Hawk’s location to nearby commercial airplanes.

There would be time for both plane and helicopter to get out of the way. Except for one thing.

The ADS-B was off.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was among many mystified by this fact. National Transportation Safety Board officials told Mr. Cruz the helicopter's ADS-B was not active. “The reason for turning it off does not seem justified," Cruz said. "And in this instance, this was a training mission, so there was no compelling national security reason for ADS-B to be turned off.”

Why was their main source of location data turned off?

Was the Black Hawk hacked by an enemy nation, looking for ways to turn the helicopter into a weapon? Actually, that’s impossible. No part of the Black Hawk’s systems are connected to the internet at any time.

The onboard computers are a secure, closed-loop system. Encrypted data links over satellite are used for real-time communication and data exchange. There’s no path for a hacker to access the system. If, for example, the Chinese wanted to alter the Black Hawk’s computers, they’d have to get their hands on a physical copy.

And back in 2013, they did just that.

In May of that year, U.S. Intelligence Officials noticed something odd about a photograph they intercepted. It showed a new helicopter model on display at the China Helicopter Research and Development Institute in East China.

The model — called the Z-20, a so-called “new” type of helicopter for the Chinese military — was strikingly similar to another iconic aircraft: the U.S. Military’s Black Hawk. Even stranger, the Chinese model had features that mirrored customizations made to Black Hawk helicopters, used to infiltrate the Al Qaeda compound harboring terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden.

These alterations reduced the helicopter’s radar signature, allowing the Black Hawks to avoid detection when they transported special forces to eliminate Bin Laden.

One of these custom “stealth Black Hawks” crashed in the raid. And it turns out, before the U.S. recovered the wreckage and brought it safely home, Pakistan allowed experts from China to examine the craft.

Reports from the time claimed Chinese officials took photographs and samples of the materials used on the stealth Black Hawk.

How much help was this wreckage to China’s helicopter development? One expert estimated their knowledge of advanced helicopter design jumped 10 years into the future. Simply by examining the materials and designs from the U.S. Black Hawk, the Chinese were able to clone it for their military.

Pakistani intelligence denies to this day they allowed the Chinese military access to the Black Hawk wreckage. But the photograph of the Chinese Z-20 - a clear copy of the Black Hawk — was proof enough.

Were they able to clone the systems of the Black Hawk and sabotage active missions? And why all that trouble for this particular mission? What’s so special about a Black Hawk on Route 4, that a hostile government would target it for attack?

It might have something to do with the mission. The Black Hawk crew was training for an evacuation, in a crisis where continuity of government was the big concern. In other words, if this were a real emergency, that Black Hawk would be carrying government officials key to our survival as a nation. Prime targets indeed.

More to come.

SOURCES:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/30/us/washington-dc-plane-crash-helicopter-maps-photos.html?searchResultPosition=3

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/plane-crash-dc-helicopter-reagan-airport.html?searchResultPosition=2 

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/07/black-hawk-deadly-collision-may-have-turned-off-location-monitor-trump-blames-air-traffic-control.html

https://thediplomat.com/2013/12/did-china-just-clone-a-black-hawk-helicopter/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/black-hawk-helicopter-crew-dc-crash-families.html?searchResultPosition=1

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/01/30/passenger-jet-collides-with-army-helicopter-at-reagan-airport/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/15/us-helicopter-pakistan-china-wreckage

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/02/helicopter-airplane-collision-dc-updates/78154023007/

https://thediplomat.com/2013/12/did-china-just-clone-a-black-hawk-helicopter/

https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2021/06/01/how-pakistan-gave-china-military-tech-used-by-us-in-attacks-on-bin-laden.html

They’re coming for Elon. They’re coming for DOGE. And most importantly, they’re coming for YOU.

The Democrats have launched their latest scheme — this time, using an Obama-appointed federal judge to slam the brakes on Elon Musk’s plan to expose government corruption.

And if you think this is just another political battle, think again. This is about control. About power. About stopping anyone who dares to challenge the system.

The Midnight Order to Stop Elon

In a move straight out of a political thriller, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer issued a middle-of-the-night emergency order to block Musk and his team from accessing crucial Treasury records.

The excuse? That the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Musk’s White House-backed initiative, was somehow a ‘threat’ to national security.

Here’s the truth: The records in question could blow the lid off decades of corruption, exposing exactly how trillions of taxpayer dollars have been funneled into backdoor deals, foreign bribes, and special interests.

But the second Musk’s team got close to uncovering the rot at the heart of Washington, the system struck back.

And guess who came running to stop him? 19 Democratic attorneys general — the same people who preach ‘transparency’ while blocking any real accountability. They claim Musk’s team could ‘put their residents at risk.’

Risk of what, exactly? Finding out how much of their money has been stolen?

The Deep State’s Playbook: Stop DOGE at All Costs

This isn’t the first time they’ve tried to kneecap Musk. The same judge’s order follows another ruling just hours earlier, blocking Musk’s efforts to dismantle USAID, the government’s bloated foreign aid program that’s been hemorrhaging money for decades.

Notice a pattern here?

Every time Musk or DOGE try to cut through the corruption, the bureaucratic machine throws up another roadblock. The courts. The media. The entire D.C. swamp. They all move in lockstep, desperate to maintain control.

Let’s not forget: Judge Engelmayer was appointed by Barack Obama — the same Obama whose administration perfected the art of weaponizing government agencies against political threats.

And guess who will ultimately handle this case? Judge Jeannette Vargas — a Joe Biden appointee. You think this is a fair fight?

Why the Democrats Fear DOGE and Elon

Musk’s DOGE initiative isn’t just about government efficiency. It’s about decentralizing power—taking control away from unelected bureaucrats and putting it back where it belongs: in the hands of the people.

And that terrifies them.

Because if Elon succeeds, the entire game changes.

• No more secret backroom deals.

• No more taxpayer money vanishing into thin air.

• No more billion-dollar budgets being siphoned off by lobbyists and career politicians.

This is the fight of our generation—the battle between those who want transparency and those who will do anything to keep the truth buried.

What Happens Next?

Right now, Musk’s allies Tom Krause and Marko Elez — two key DOGE officials — have been completely cut off from Treasury data. Even career civil servants are being blocked unless they meet strict ‘security clearance’ requirements designed to freeze out anyone who might actually expose wrongdoing.

This is a full-scale, coordinated attack on anyone who dares to challenge the corrupt status quo.

And it’s only going to get worse.

The Bottom Line

Elon and DOGE were getting too close to the truth, and now the machine is striking back. The Democrats are weaponizing the courts to maintain their grip on power, using the same playbook they’ve been running for years.

But here’s the thing about revolutions: once they start, they’re impossible to stop.

Elon isn’t backing down. DOGE isn’t going away. And the fight for real transparency is just getting started.

The only question is: Are you going to stand with them?

The world of espionage is filled with strange stories, secret gadgets, marvelous adventures — and at times pure unadulterated bull-you-know-what. 

Sometimes, when you’re dealing with the dark world of spying, where whistle blowers can get blown away, it’s hard to tell what the truth is and, what is trash.

Sometimes the trash is good for a laugh, and that brings us to the accusations by certain bad actors, that the Israelis are using ‘all creatures great and small’ to spy on their enemies.

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Super Spy

Now if some readers think this animal spying stuff is for the birds, they’d be right.

A bird bearing a foot band was found in Turkey in 2013, and originally thought to be an Israeli spy. After some use of whatever brains were located in the skulls of local authorities, they let the bird fly away.

Not so, again in Turkey the year before, when a dead bird was found with a band on its leg and again was thought to be an Israeli agent. Eventually, the bird was exonerated postmortem.

It probably isn’t lost on the reader that this bird-brained logic occurred in a country named Turkey. But to be fair, it has happened in other countries.

Like the Sudan, where, in 2012, a local newspaper reported that a vulture was a spy from Israel, as it was bearing a tag in Hebrew. It was also carrying what was referred to as ‘electronic’ devices.

Avian expert, Ohad Hatzofe of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, told the Israeli Press that there wasn’t much purpose in having a vulture involved in spying, asking the very reasonable question, ‘but what would be learned from putting a camera onto a vulture? You cannot control it. It’s not a drone that you can send where you want. What would be the benefit of watching a vulture eat the insides of a dead camel?’[1]

The eagle-eyed Lebanese Hezbollah in 2013 shot down an eagle they claimed was an Israeli spy. An Israeli ornithologist at the time opined, ‘Unfortunately, this bird made the stupid mistake of moving to Lebanon. It's not enough that they kill people, now they are killing birds too.’[2]

There are more stories about spying birds. But we don’t need to only focus on our fine feathered friends when it comes to the Muslim world believing that at times, the Mossad is the Moo-sad.

There was the case of the spying cow, for example.

In 2023, there was an article in the Jerusalem Post. It included accusations from a Palestinian that Israel was using a cow for spying. It seems, according to Rushd Morrar, a villager, that:

‘On the neck of each cow, they hang a medallion with an eavesdropping and recording device on it and sometimes cameras, in order to monitor every detail in Khirbet Yanun, large and small.’

There is a likelihood that old Rushd, rushed to judgment, and that more or less what Morrar said was nonsense.[3]

Now, it’s not only in the air and on the land that Israel supposedly uses spy animals to annoy its Muslim neighbors, but under the sea as well. Hamas believed that Israeli had trained killer spy dolphins.

In 2015, a representative of Hamas, revealed ‘that it managed to discover a killer dolphin, which Palestinian media said was “stripped of its will” and trained to be “a murderer” by Israel’s military,’[4] and Hamas wouldn’t lie about a thing like that, would they?

Let’s stay in the water for a while, and discuss the evil sharks that Israeli intelligence uses for dirty deeds. This, of course, is another nonsensical accusation that doesn’t have any teeth in it.

In 2010, after there were several shark attacks against Islamic beach goers in the Sinai Peninsula, it was determined by a local diver, (who perhaps came to the surface too fast when he said this), ‘that a GPS device found on one of the captured sharks was of Israeli origin, and that the Mossad was using the shark attacks to kill tourism in the beach town.’

To be fair, eventually, the governor of South Sinai realized the sharks were not agents of Israel seeking to destroy tourism; they were merely independent actors seeking to eat tourists. [5]

Now, as Israel and the U.S. are close allies, let’s leave the Holy Land for a moment. Let’s talk about how the United States was accused of having spy squirrels working for its intelligence community.

‘The Iranian Army arrested 14 spy squirrels in 2007 who were allegedly working for the Americans and wearing small recording devices that could be used for eavesdropping.’[6]

Okay, so we’ve heard of birds spying, dolphins, sharks, and squirrels. But what about lizards?

Well, seven years ago, in February 2018, ‘The former chief-of-staff of Iran’s armed forces said Tuesday that Western spies had used lizards to “attract atomic waves” and spy on his country’s nuclear program.’[7]

Propaganda, disinformation, and psychological operations exist in the military and intelligence worlds, and have for millennia. 

In times past, Jews were accused of making Passover bread from the blood of Christian children. Now the Israelis are accused of using fish, fowl and who knows what other kind of fauna to spy on and attack the poor innocent followers of Allah.

Why You Should Care

It’s always amazing the complete and utter bull… that some people can spout, and that some people can believe. 

These stories about animal spies and assassins is just an extreme example of the lies told by countries and spread by state-controlled media.

The consumer of information must have a functioning bull… detector to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to reporting.

[1] ISRAEL RELATED ANIMAL CONSPIRACY THEORIES, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel-related_animal_conspiracy_theories#cite_note-13

[2] IBID.

[3] PALESTINIANS ACCUSE ISRAEL OF TRAINING SPY COWS, Jerusalem Post, 1/6/23 https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-726825

[4] HAMAS ACCUSES ISRAELI MILITARY OF USING SPY DOLPHINS, I24, 1/12/22 https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/palestinian-territories/1641985919-hamas-accuses-israel-s-military-of-using-spy-dolphins

[5] TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SHARK , The Forward, 7/9/16 Feldman, https://forward.com/israel/344574/the-killer-mossad-shark-and-5-other-animals-that-dont-really-spy-for/

[6] SPIES IN THE WILD, SPYSCAPE https://spyscape.com/article/spies-in-the-wild-the-animals-used-for-covert-espionage-missions

[7] IRAN ACCUSES WEST OF USING LIZARDS FOR NUCLEAR SPYING,Bachner, 2/13/18 Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-accuses-west-of-using-lizards-for-nuclear-spying/

One of the first executive orders that President Trump signed promised the release of all the remaining classified documents still held in the National Archives on three important assassinations.

Those of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

But any expectations need to be quelled, based on what we already know.

For one, this Executive Order doesn’t actually force a release of the documents. The order only requires the newly appointed Director of National Intelligence, Pam Bondi, to submit a plan to the President by last Friday, February 7th.[¹]

As of midnight Eastern Time, no announcement has been made about the submission of any plan.

That plan itself may constitute its own lengthy timeline before a release of any of the JFK assassination files still remaining in the custody of the National Archives.[²]

Larry Schnapf, an attorney who has worked for years to see the remaining assassination files, said in a recent interview that ‘If they’re going to do a substantive [page by page] review, then it’s going to be a while before the records are released.’[³]

That same Executive Order also contains a parallel request to present a similar plan within the following thirty days for the release of the remaining files on the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Both were killed in 1968.

Again, this would just be for the submission of a plan, not the release of the files themselves.

Secondly, those who have actually seen the remaining documents caution the public not to get their hopes up. ‘The records will not reveal any smoking gun,’ says Tom Samoluk, who reviewed all the classified material in the 1990s as the Deputy Director of the Assassination Records Review Board.[⁴]

Despite such caution, some social media posts are claiming that the released documents will contain explosive new revelations.

Those include such unlikely possibilities as Kennedy planning to dissolve the Federal Reserve and returning the US to the gold standard. As well as a CIA document outlining their use of Lee Harvey Oswald doubles to place him in Mexico City and New Orleans on dates when he may not have been in those cities at all.[⁵]

Samoluk says the secrecy surrounding the JFK investigation is not because there are still important new revelations about the CIA’s role in the killings. But because the documents contain outdated spy methods, still-living contacts, and some personal files and tax records.

Samoluk said:

‘Most records, the vast majority of records, the records that the Review Board did not release in the mid '90s, need to be released now. Not that the assassination can be solved. I can tell you that the Review Board, the staff, we looked at all of these records. There's no smoking gun if you will. However, they do put together the assassination chronology more completely.’[⁶]

Presidential historian Tom Whelan doesn’t think there are any more withheld files that will clear up the many inconsistencies and outright contradictions in the Warren Commission and the ensuing assassination investigations. ‘I doubt this [release] is going to definitively prove whether or not there was a conspiracy to kill the president.’[⁷]

‘Do I know what happened? I don’t,’ Samoluk added. ‘And I think the reality where everyone will be convinced that they know what happened has been lost to history.’[⁸]

There’s one significant reason why the American public will never see the truth behind the coverup of the Kennedy assassination. That reason is simply because the CIA has been known to destroy evidence that is too damning to be released to the public.

And we have hard evidence of the CIA’s leadership doing just that, over many decades.

In 1973, then-CIA director Richard Helms led a concerted effort to destroy all of the records connected with Project MKULTRA, a CIA program designed to create a Manchurian Candidate brainwashing response in test subjects.[⁹]

Helms and MKULTRA director Sidney Gottlieb destroyed thousands of files. All to cover up what they knew would be a damning revelation of the Agency intentionally violating its mandate, which is restricted to gathering overseas intelligence.[¹⁰]

In 2009, the CIA even admitted it had over 3,000 separate documents just on destroyed interrogation tapes of US citizens. That was another violation of its charter, documents that were being withheld from the public.[¹¹]

CIA Director George H.W. Bush in 1976 requested permission to destroy even more files.[¹²]

There was strong pushback from the Senate oversight committee, who complained that such deletions might include operations to assassinate foreign leaders. Bush’s dubious explanation for the need to delete such files was because the CIA didn’t have enough room to store such files. The oversight committee found that excuse laughable.

It’s not just the CIA that has destroyed such damning evidence.

During the Watergate crisis, Richard Nixon was complaining in the Oval Office about the lack of support he was getting from Congressional Republicans. Forgetting that the White House had a system to record all conversations, whether live or by phone, he began a lengthy rant about ‘that Bay of Pigs thing,’ that lasted eighteen and a half minutes.[¹³]

The tape of that conversation was found to have been erased. In fact, electronics experts who analyzed the tape found no less than five separate starting-and-stopping efforts to erase whatever damning evidence was contained in Nixon’s diatribe.[¹⁴]

Those same experts concluded there may have been as many as nine separate erasing efforts done. Someone certainly didn’t want what Nixon said to ever see the light of day.

The ‘Bay of Pigs thing’ that Nixon referred to was, according to many Kennedy assassination investigators, a reference to a group of Cuban snipers who never made it to the Bay of Pigs. They were used, according to some theories, by the CIA to assassinate Kennedy.[¹⁵]

H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of staff, theorized in his own book that ‘It seems that in all those references to the Bay of Pigs, he was actually referring to the Kennedy assassination.’[¹⁶]

The only possible source that may still hold evidence of the CIA’s involvement in the Kennedy assassination is the infamous 690–plus-page compilation of CIA secrets they themselves compiled for Director James R. Schlesinger in 1973.[¹⁷]

While nearly all of the illegal activities collated in that massive accounting have been revealed to the public, there’s still one outstanding. That’s ‘Family Jewel #1,’ whose four-line intro and its supporting five pages of documentation, labeled pages 007 through 011, have been completely redacted since being released to the public by Director Michael V. Hayden in 2007.[¹⁸]

Every other crime worth noting is covered in those files, from assassinations of world leaders and the overthrow of democratically-elected governments, to poisoning an entire French town with LSD poured into their water supply.

But the one operation that those 690-plus pages don’t include is even the briefest of mention of the Agency’s involvement in the Kennedy assassination.[¹⁹] And we know the CIA had been monitoring Lee Harvey Oswald as early as his attempted defection to Russia in 1959.[²⁰]

What evidence could be so damning that the CIA could never admit it?

What connections did the CIA and the FBI have with Oswald and the Kennedy assassination that still need to be covered up to this day? And are there verifiable links to such evidence that would allow us to put together a more complete understanding of how the assassination unfolded?

Thankfully, decades of serious research has revealed a much more complete picture than any files still held by the National Archives, whether they’re released or not. We’ll lay out that clearer picture in our next newsletter.

¹ https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jfk-assassination-files-step-closer-public-release/story?id=118568831

² https://thedispatch.com/article/assessing-claims-about-the-declassified-jfk-files/

³ https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jfk-assassination-experts-hopeful-skeptical-timing-secret-files/story⁴ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNx0Jkn1WY&t=13s

⁵ https://tinyurl.com/242292u6

⁶ https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/jfk-assassination-report-release-tom-samoluk/ ⁷ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNx0Jkn1WY&t=70s

⁸ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNx0Jkn1WY&t=90s

⁹ https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/dnsa-intelligence/2024-12-23/cia-behavior-control-experiments -focus-new-scholarly

¹⁰ https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/2025-01/2024-12-26_daylycaller.com-documents_ reveal_just_how_crazy_the_cias_mkultra_mind-control_program_really_was.pdf

¹¹ https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/cia-says-it-has-3000-documents-related-destroyed-interrogation -tapes

¹² https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP78M02660R000300080022-4.pdf

¹³ https://www.quora.com/H-R-Haldeman-wrote-that-whenever-Nixon-said-the-Bay-of-Pigs-on-the -Watergate-tapes-it-was-a-code-word-for-the-JFK-assassination-Was-he-right

¹⁴ https://museumofportablesound.com/watergate/

¹⁵ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Watergate-hidden-history-Nixon-Mafia/dp/192224743X ¹⁶ https://www.thehistoryreader.com/military-history/nixons-bay-pigs-secrets/

¹⁷ https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm

¹⁸ https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/family_jewels_pt1_ocr.pdf

¹⁹ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/wheres-cias-missing-jewel/

²⁰ https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1239&context=fac_pm#:~ :text=In%201957%E2%80%9358%2C%20Oswald%20had,visit%20Cuba%2C%20or%20both).

This story sounds like a movie — big names, deep secrets, and a hidden network of power.

At first glance, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Jeffrey Epstein, and Nickelodeon seem unrelated. But some believe there’s more to the story.

A growing theory suggests these three are connected in ways that might change how we see the entertainment world. The idea? A secret system of influence and control.

Diddy and Epstein: A Secret Business Deal?

Diddy is a music mogul. Epstein was a wealthy investor with ties to powerful people. Epstein’s crimes are well known, but his full list of connections remains a mystery.

Some say Diddy was part of Epstein’s inner circle — attending events, making deals, and using Epstein’s network to gain influence. While Diddy’s name isn’t in the infamous flight logs, reports suggest he had financial ties to Epstein’s closest associates, like billionaire Leon Black, who sent millions to Epstein.

Epstein wasn’t just rich — he connected powerful people. His ties to business, media, and Hollywood gave him influence. Could he have helped Diddy expand his empire? Some say Epstein played a role in opening doors for Diddy in music, media, and fashion.

Financial records indicate that Epstein often used offshore accounts and secret shell companies to funnel money between his associates.

Some reports suggest that these same financial tools were used by certain figures in the music industry, potentially linking Diddy to Epstein’s web of hidden wealth and influence. While no direct evidence has surfaced, the fact that these transactions remain shrouded in secrecy raises eyebrows.

The Nickelodeon Connection: More Than a Kids’ Network?

Nickelodeon launched childhood stars like Ariana Grande and Drake Bell. But was it also shaping the next generation of Hollywood elites? Some believe the network wasn’t just about entertainment — it was a gateway to power.

Nickelodeon has had its scandals. Dan Schneider, the producer behind many hit shows, was quietly let go in 2018 amid rumors of inappropriate behavior. Some claim that Nickelodeon allowed powerful men to take advantage of young stars.

Epstein had deep Hollywood ties. His friendship with Les Wexner, the billionaire behind Victoria’s Secret, gave him access to top modeling agencies that scouted young talent.

There are whispers that Epstein’s network overlapped with Nickelodeon’s circles. Some young stars who got their breakthrough the network had connections to Epstein’s world. Did Epstein have a hand in picking Hollywood’s rising stars? And if so, what was Diddy’s role?

Adding to the suspicion, leaked emails and whistleblower testimonies have suggested that influential media executives maintained close relationships with Epstein.

Some of these executives had dealings with Viacom, Nickelodeon’s parent company. Could Epstein’s influence have extended into children’s television, subtly shaping the future stars of Hollywood?

A System of Control

Epstein wasn’t just a rich guy — he was a gatekeeper. His influence went beyond finance and into pop culture. Some say he controlled who made it in music, TV, and film.

Diddy also had deep connections. His parties were legendary — attended by top musicians, actors, and business leaders. Some claim these events had a dark side, with rumors of blackmail, secret recordings, and hidden deals.

Investigative journalist Whitney Webb has reported that Epstein used ‘honey traps’ — tricking people into compromising situations to control them. Did he use this tactic in Hollywood too?

Epstein also had business stakes in media. A leaked memo from the early 2000s suggests he had interests in Viacom, which owns Nickelodeon. If true, did he use this power to shape entertainment from behind the scenes?

The deeper one looks, the more connections emerge. Epstein’s legal documents, which contain names of high-profile figures he worked with, remain largely sealed.

If those records were fully released, would they reveal further links to the entertainment world? Would names from Nickelodeon or the music industry be among them?

Who Really Controls Pop Culture?

This isn’t just about three names — it’s about who controls pop culture. The entertainment industry shapes what we watch, listen to, and believe. But what if it also shapes the future leaders of Hollywood and beyond?

Some say Epstein, Diddy, and Nickelodeon weren’t separate forces. They were part of the same system. A network built to create stars, control them, and maintain power.

Is this just a conspiracy? Maybe. But one thing is clear—Hollywood’s biggest stars don’t always rise by luck. And sometimes, the truth is hidden in plain sight.

There’s a saying, ‘You are what you eat’ but do we really know what we are eating these days?

Can you trust the labels on the food products you buy?

Is the nutritional information correct, is the packaging deceptive, are there chemicals in the processing of foods that are not disclosed, or are revealed — minus a warning as to the dangers they pose?

The first thing to remember in today’s market, whether it’s the stock market or the corner market is that business exists to make a profit first.

The food business isn’t the health business, and the reality is, if the corporations feeding us could get away with something — they would, they will, and they do.

There’s another old saying, from Otto Von Bismarck, ‘Laws are like sausages, it’s best not seeing them being made.’ In the making of certain sausages, both the law and consumer trust were violated.

In 2023, Kelly Foods, maker of a rope sausage, ran afoul of the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. They ‘forgot’ to put on the label of the product, that the sausages contained cheese, which of course is made from milk, which is an allergen.

Some 1,455 pounds of the stuff had to be recalled.[1]

One would think that sausages wouldn’t contain cheese, like one would think that meat is not dairy. Also, one would think that beef would not contain the first step in a chicken — an egg. But one would be wrong.

Conagra Brands, a giant in the food industry, ran into a spot of bother in 2022, when its ‘P.F. Chang’s Home Menu Beef and Broccoli’ was found to contain eggs, an allergen to some, which was not disclosed on the label.

A bunch of that product was recalled — 119,581 pounds of it. (Kinda answers the question, ‘Where’s the beef?’ Right next to the eggs?).[2]

Now, maybe you’re the kind of person who likes to eat healthy. And as a dedicated label reader, you look before you leap at a product you are going to put into your body. Good for you, but bad for the companies that mislead you with nonsense in their labels.

You buy your peanut butter perhaps, because the label touts ‘no cholesterol.’ Turns out, unless it’s an animal product, it would never contain cholesterol in the first place.[3] This is tantamount to selling water with a label that says ‘wet.’

Then there’s that old standby, ‘natural.’ That’s meaningless unless there’s another version of the product that’s ‘supernatural.’

Since we are using some ‘old sayings’ in this article, how about this one: ‘that’s a horse of a different color.’ Well, in 2013 in Europe, one could say that about the beef products being sold by some manufacturers. ‘A beef burger from Tesco, a major European supermarket chain, was found to contain 29% horsemeat.’[4]

Here’s a bit of sweetness that will turn you sour on food manufacturers. In a March 24, 2023 article in Forbes, it was revealed that ‘Nearly half of the honey in European markets is fake, according to an EU Investigation.’[5]

We’ve been informed that having fiber in our diets can be a good thing, but sometimes there can be too much of a good thing — like when there’s wood pulp in our parmesan cheese. Now while pepper jack cheese can be quite tasty, lumberjack cheese is an entirely different matter.

Some of the matter in question was the wood pulp found in many brands of parmesan, including products sold in such well-known supermarkets as Walmart and Whole Foods.[6]

So, who can you trust when it comes to food labeling? Apparently, nobody.

Ready for another old saying? How about ‘in vino veritas,’ or in plain English, (unlike our food labels), in wine, truth?

But that isn’t always the case with wine cases. Because ‘French winemaker Vincent Lataste was sentenced to a year in prison for exceeding the allowable limits of sulfur dioxide in his wine.’[7]

Reading the above, you might think that the food industry is ‘going to the dogs,’ and speaking of what is going to the dogs, our furry friends can be victims to food mislabeling too.

A 2014 study by Chapman University which was ‘focused on commercial pet foods marketed for dogs and cats to identify meat species present as well as any instances of mislabeling. Of the 52 products tested, 31 were labeled correctly, 20 were potentially mislabeled, and one contained a non-specific meat ingredient that could not be verified.’[8]

But perhaps we are being too hard on the food industry, and should extend an olive branch to them. Well, even with olives we have to be careful, because in 2016, ‘Italian police seized 85,000 tons of olives from previous years’ harvests covered with a chemical aimed at making them more colorful.’[9]

In that same year, in that same country, it was found that 80 percent of the olive oil sold in markets was fraudulent.[10]

Now, if you knew sushi, like they know sushi in Los Angeles, you’d know that half of the raw fish that you are shelling out big bucks for are fraudulent — there’s something fishy about them, one might say.[11]

Estimates exist that ten percent of all food items are mislabeled.[12]

In 2020, it was determined that from 190,000 to 250,000 tons of seafood sold in the United States each year is mislabeled.[13]

Why You Should Care

If you like seafood, you don’t want to be a victim of bait and switch. (Pun definitely intended).  You don’t want to pay for top shelf when you’re getting the equivalent of oceanic speed rack fish.

You want your olive oil to really be extra virgin, you want your meat to be meat, your chicken not something to be afraid of. And you sure as shootin’ want to know if there are any allergens in a food product which can cause you to be at your own last supper.

Unfortunately, corporations are more interested in what benefits their bottom line and less interested in providing top of the line products for our consumption.

Food can make you healthy, or when ingested based upon false labels, it can kill you.

[1] Kelley Foods Recalls Smoked Baby Rope Sausage Product Due to Misbranding and an Undeclared Allergen 3/23/23 https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/kelley-foods-recalls-smoked-baby-rope-sausage-product-due-misbranding-and-undeclared

[2] Conagra Brands, Inc., Recalls Frozen Beef Products Due to Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens 12/12/22 USDA https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/conagra-brands-inc--recalls-frozen-beef-products-due-misbranding-and-undeclared

[3] GAPLES INSTITUTE https://www.gaplesinstitute.org/5-misleading-food-labels/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhN-X2IWtiwMVj0b_AR3JPiSkEAAYASAAEgJH4vD_BwE

[4] MASHED https://www.mashed.com/1300508/foods-commonly-mislabeled/

[5] FORBES https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2023/03/24/half-of-the-honey-in-european-markets-is-fake-alerts-eu-investigation/?sh=55c3c8ea68b2

[6] MASHED https://www.mashed.com/1300508/foods-commonly-mislabeled/

[7] IBID.

[8] CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY 9/30/14 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/492378

[9] TIME, Worland, 2/4/16 Italian Police Seize 85,000 Tons of Olives Covered in Copper Sulfate To Make Them Greener https://time.com/4207676/italy-olives-copper-sulfate/

[10] FOODBEAST https://www.foodbeast.com/news/common-food-fraud/

[11] IBID.

[12] CBS NEWS TEXAS, 9/22/14 https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/research-10-of-all-food-mislabeled-diluted-or-misrepresented/

[13] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2/27/20 Kroetz, https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2003741117

You can feel it. The media doesn’t talk about Trump the same way anymore. The smug certainty is gone. The headlines don’t say he’s finished — they say he’s dangerous. A ‘threat to democracy.’ They’re not trying to ignore him anymore. They’re trying to contain him.

And Big Tech? They’re walking on eggshells. In 2020, they pulled the plug on Trump’s social media with zero consequences. This time? If they even think about banning him, he’ll break them apart with an executive order.

They know the game has changed.

So, what’s the new plan?

If they can’t silence conservatives, if they can’t weaponize the DOJ, if they can’t count on legacy media to control the narrative…

They’ll use AI.

How OpenAI Will Rig 2026 Without You Even Noticing

This isn’t like 2020. No ballots need to be stuffed. No votes need to be ‘found’ at 3 AM. Instead, they’ll make sure the election is decided before you even step into the voting booth.

The AI Information War

Imagine waking up in 2026, scrolling through your phone.

Every news story, every trending topic, every political conversation — all perfectly crafted by AI. You won’t even notice it at first. You’ll just see headlines that make you feel like Trump’s presidency is spiraling. You’ll see ‘grassroots’ accounts warning about some new scandal, some crisis he created.

But here’s the trick: none of it is real.

AI will flood the internet with fake outrage, fake polls, fake news — layered so deep that it’ll feel like the whole country has turned against Trump.

Not outright lies, no. Just engineered narratives.

Did gas prices go up? Trump’s fault.

Did a hurricane hit Florida? Trump ignored it.

Did China make a military move? Trump provoked them.

Everywhere you look, the world will seem worse under Trump.

Not because it actually is — but because AI is programming you to believe it.

AI Fact-Checking: The New Ministry of Truth

Here’s the genius part: they don’t even need to ban conservative voices.

They just need to make sure no one believes them.

By 2026, AI won’t just control what you see — it’ll control what’s ‘true’.

Try searching for voter fraud? AI will tell you it never happened.

Try asking about Trump’s policies? AI will ‘correct’ you with official facts.

Try discussing election integrity? AI will nudge the conversation back to ‘safe’ topics.

And if Trump or his allies call out the manipulation? Instant ‘fact-checks’ labeling them liars.

AI-Generated Candidates: The Final Trick

The Deep State doesn’t even need great candidates anymore. They just need puppets.

Picture this: a perfectly scripted Democrat. Always saying the right thing. Never making a mistake. Never caught in a scandal. Because every word they speak, every tweet they send, every ad they run is crafted by AI.

Meanwhile, Trump is up there on stage, human. Making real arguments, taking real questions, responding in real time.

And the AI-generated candidate? Flawless.

Any debate he has with Trump? AI fact-checkers will ‘correct’ his statements in real time.

Any bad press? AI will rewrite the story before you even see it.

Any damaging history? Gone. Scrubbed. Rewritten.

This isn’t just election interference.

This is election engineering.

The Goal: Make You Feel Like Resistance is Hopeless

The plan is simple: make you believe Trump can’t win.

That’s the real game. AI won’t take your vote away — it’ll make you think your vote doesn’t matter.

You’ll see the ‘polls.’ You’ll see the ‘experts.’ You’ll see the endless wave of AI-generated content telling you the same thing over and over:

‘Trump’s base is shrinking.’

‘He’s losing support.’

‘America is tired of the chaos.’

And if enough people believe it? If enough people feel like the fight is already lost?

They won’t even have to rig the election.

How to Fight Back

You can’t fight this with tweets. You can’t fight this by just ‘getting the truth out.’

You need to break the machine.

Step 1: Build Parallel Systems

• Use AI-resistant search engines — don’t rely on Google or OpenAI for information.

• Support independent media — don’t wait for Fox or CNN to tell you what’s happening.

• Move to decentralized platforms — because by 2026, every mainstream network will be compromised.

Step 2: Train Yourself to Spot AI Manipulation

• If a ‘news story’ feels too perfect, it probably is.

• If a scandal seems to explode overnight, it was probably manufactured.

• If it feels like everyone is saying the same thing at the same time, that’s not organic — that’s a script.

Step 3: Show Up No Matter What

• They want you demoralized. Don’t be.

• They want you to think Trump’s chances are dead. They aren’t.

• They want you to feel like it’s all hopeless. It isn’t.

Because here’s the thing: AI can manipulate perception — but it can’t change reality.

The reality is Trump won in 2016 when they said he couldn’t.

The reality is he survived everything they threw at him in 2024.

And the reality is if enough Americans see through the AI illusion in 2026 — he’ll win again.

They can program the internet. They can’t program you.

Seeking the truth!

Earl Lockwood

Anyone who has seen the first day of Trump 2.0 probably witnessed the massive signing of Executive Orders.

It was the second coming of his administration, as he tries to prove that the pen is mightier than the law.

The nerd assisting with the televised signings, the kid in the standard issue blue suit and red tie deferentially handed the folders to the President. It was like he was handing the wine list to a patron at a fancy restaurant. 

Trump greedily accepted them, and displayed his extravagant signature for all to see.

Whether you’re a fan of the Great Trumpkin or not, it’s apparent that by the flourish of a thick black Sharpie pen, Trump is trying to dry up the irrigation ditches that support numerous government programs.

In his desire to isolate America from the rest of the world, and turn off the treats to other countries that he says trick us, he will certainly change the status quo.

But while Executive Orders have been around since Washington was cleaning his wooden teeth, the country has not before seen such an immediate litigation reaction to a President’s proclamations.

Executive Orders are within the capacity of the President to issue. As the CEO of our country, he can direct federal officials and administrative agencies to do things or not do things. But it isn’t an unrestricted right.

The actions of the orders will, or can bump up against the United States Constitution at times. And when it comes to the Trump administration, that will likely be a lot of times. 

The constitutional authority of the president to issue Executive Orders isn’t specifically granted him. Such authority however, is implicit in Section I Article 2 of the Constitution wherein it states, ‘The Executive Power shall be vested in the President of the United States of America.’  

However, sections 3 and 4 limit such power where it states, the President shall ‘take care that the Laws be faithfully executed.’

Prior executive orders may be rescinded, and the incoming executive can undo many of the social legislation of a previous administration, putting forth his policies — and prejudices.

Now, it isn’t exactly a ‘best kept secret’ that Trump isn’t a fan of illegal aliens. 

If we look at Federal Law, specifically 8 United States Code Section 1182, the President definitely may restrict aliens who are ineligible or inadmissible from entry into the country.

Some of the language contained therein, refers to aliens who ‘have a physical or mental disorder and behavior associated with the disorder that may pose, or has posed, a threat to the property, safety, or welfare of the alien or others.’[1]

Where have we heard rhetoric to that effect from Trump? Just about in every campaign speech where he speaks of invading hordes of aliens from asylums and prisons. Those are the types that definitely can be prevented from entry — or deported if they have entered.

In his executive orders, Trump has specifically stated:

‘Many of these aliens unlawfully within the United States present significant threats to national security and public safety, committing vile and heinous acts against innocent Americans.  Others are engaged in hostile activities, including espionage, economic espionage, and preparations for terror-related activities.  Many have abused the generosity of the American people, and their presence in the United States has cost taxpayers billions of dollars at the Federal, State, and local levels.’[2]

In that same order, we find a direction from the President:

‘The Secretary of Homeland Security shall promptly take all appropriate action and allocate all legally available resources or establish contracts to construct, operate, control, or use facilities to detain removable aliens.  The Secretary of Homeland Security, further, shall take all appropriate actions to ensure the detention of aliens apprehended for violations of immigration law pending the outcome of their removal proceedings or their removal from the country, to the extent permitted by law.’[3]

That type of order will likely be found legal, as it is a direction to an administrative agency to do something, which is in the wheelhouse of a Presidential Executive Order.

However, to deny children born in the United States who are the offspring of those who have illegally entered, that’s where an Executive Order can bump up against the Constitution. And give rise to litigation, challenging the authority of that order.

Let’s take a look at the offending directive:

‘Among the categories of individuals born in the United States and not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, the privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States at the time of said person’s birth was lawful but temporary (such as, but not limited to, visiting the United States under the auspices of the Visa Waiver Program or visiting on a student, work, or tourist visa) and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.’[4]

Trump has made the ‘not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States’ argument in said order to avoid the language of 8 UNITED STATES CODE 1401 (a) which states, ‘a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof; is a citizen.’[5]

It was that bit of tortuous logic that ‘birthright’ citizens (of illegal aliens), weren’t subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and therefore not citizens. That triggered the litigation which came hotly on the heels of his executive order.

The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration right after the issuance of the aforesaid order.

‘This order seeks to repeat one of the gravest errors in American history, by creating a permanent subclass of people born in the U.S. who are denied full rights as Americans. We will not let this attack on newborns and future generations of Americans go unchallenged. The Trump administration's overreach is so egregious that we are confident we will ultimately prevail,’ said Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU.[6]

This is just one example of the types of litigation we may expect from the flurry of Executive Orders by the Trump administration. While pre-Trump administrations were usually subject to litigation when the administrative agencies carried out the directives in the orders, ‘Trump’s presidency appears to have ushered in a new era of litigation targeted directly at presidential orders.’[7]

Why You Should Care

Most of us probably agree that aliens entering our country should do so legally, and conform to the rules and regulations of such entry. Most of us probably agree that if you’re born in the USA, like Springstein, you can be a ‘cool rocking daddy in the USA.’

An infant has no say over when and where it is born, and who its parents are. Now, while many Americans are tired of letting into our country all of those ‘tired and poor huddled masses yearning to be free,’ hopefully we have not grown weary of our Constitutional rights and the checks and balance system of our Republic. 

Hopefully we are concerned about the inherent dangers of an ‘Imperial Presidency,’ especially from someone who told us prior to winning the election, that (only) on day one would he be a dictator.

The Constitution is — and should be — color blind. So should we when it comes to a situation where a constitutional right is attacked by an executive order exceeding its authority.

[1] 8 USC 1182 (1) (A) (iii) 1 https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182#=0&edition=prelim

[2] TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER 1/20/25 THE WHITE HOUSE 1/20/25 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion/

[3] IBID.

[4] WHITE HOUSE 1/20/25 PROTECTING THE MEANING AND VALUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/

[5]  8 USC 1401 (A) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1401

[6] ACLU 1/20/25 https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/immigrants-rights-advocates-sue-trump-administration-over-birthright-citizenship-executive-order

[7] REVIEWING PRESIDENTIAL ORDERS CHICAGO U SCHOOL OF LAW LAW REVIEW https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archive/reviewing-presidential-orders

Ever wonder where your hard-earned tax dollars really go?

If you think they fund schools, roads, or hospitals, think again.

A massive chunk of U.S. taxpayer money is funneled through agencies like USAID (United States Agency for International Development).

It acts as a financial laundromat for the Deep State’s network of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), foreign governments, and shadowy special interests.

The Perfect Scam: How USAID Works and Its Impact on You

USAID is sold to the public as a benevolent organization providing foreign aid. But in reality, it operates as a slush fund for globalist elites. Here’s how it works — and what it costs you:

1. Congress Approves Billions in ‘Foreign Aid’

Every year, Congress rubber-stamps tens of billions in foreign aid. All paid for by your tax dollars. In fiscal year 2023, the U.S. government allocated approximately $60.4 billion for the Department of State and USAID.

What does this mean for you?

● National Priorities Neglected: While billions are sent abroad, critical domestic issues like infrastructure decay, healthcare affordability, and education funding remain under addressed. Your community’s needs take a backseat to international agendas. 

● Economic Strain: The continuous outflow of funds contributes to the national debt, which can lead to higher taxes and reduced public services. Essentially, you’re paying twice: once through your taxes and again through diminished public resources.

2. USAID Distributes Funds to NGOs and Foreign Entities

USAID doesn’t directly help people. Instead, it operates as a middleman, handing money to politically connected NGOs, think tanks, and foreign governments.

These organizations, often staffed by former intelligence officials and political operatives, use USAID funds to finance activities that would never pass public scrutiny — such as:

● Funding foreign political activists: USAID has been exposed for bankrolling protest movements in Ukraine, Venezuela, and Hong Kong — all under the guise of ‘democracy promotion.’

● Propping up foreign economies while America suffers: While USAID spends billions rebuilding infrastructure in Afghanistan, America’s own bridges, roads, and power grids crumble.

● Subsidizing foreign corruption: A staggering 30% to 50% of USAID funds are estimated to be lost to fraud, waste, and outright theft by corrupt officials abroad.

3. The Money Gets ‘Washed’ — Then Loops Back to the Elites

Once these funds leave U.S. accounts, tracking them is almost impossible. However, here’s the kicker — a lot of it comes back, but not to you.

● Political kickbacks: Many NGOs receiving USAID funds are run by former U.S. government officials who use their connections to secure lucrative contracts.

● Corporate handouts: Huge chunks of USAID money never leave the U.S. but instead get funneled to contractors and firms that donate to political campaigns.

● Military-industrial complex payoffs: Foreign aid is often tied to weapons deals, ensuring that defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon profit while taxpayers foot the bill.

4. No Accountability, No Oversight

USAID operates with zero transparency. Once money is sent abroad, Congress doesn’t track it, and Americans don’t get a say. Even when audits reveal massive fraud, nothing happens.

● Example: In 2019, a government audit found that $1.4 billion in USAID funds for Afghanistan completely disappeared — no records, no accountability.

● Example: USAID spent $150 million in Iraq on a failed solar power project — even though Iraq is a leading oil producer.

● Example: In 2023, USAID continued sending millions to China for ‘environmental programs’ while China increased coal production.

Ridiculous Examples of Wasteful Spending

If you thought that was bad, here are even more ridiculous ways U.S. taxpayer money has been thrown away:

● $10 Million for a ‘Sesame Street’ Spin-off in Pakistan: USAID funded $10 million to produce a Pakistani version of ‘Sesame Street’ that was eventually canceled amid allegations of corruption and misuse of funds.

● Funding for Drag Queen Performances in Ecuador: In 2024, USAID allocated $20,600 to support drag queen performances in Ecuador to promote diversity and inclusion.

● $2 Million to Study Stress in Bolivian Wildlife: USAID granted $2 million to study the effects of stress on Bolivian wildlife.

● $1.5 Million for a Luxury Golf Course in Indonesia: In an attempt to boost tourism, USAID invested $1.5 million in developing a luxury golf course in Indonesia.

● $500,000 on a YouTube Channel for Egyptian Youth: A half-million-dollar grant was provided to create a YouTube channel aimed at Egyptian youth.

Recent Developments: The Plot Thickens

In a bold move, the Trump administration recently froze billions in foreign aid, placing senior USAID officials on administrative leave and terminating numerous contractors. This has caused major disruptions, forcing NGOs to pause operations while awaiting waivers.

Furthermore, the administration is considering placing USAID under the control of the State Department, aiming to ensure aid distribution aligns with America First policies.

However, this move is being fiercely resisted by establishment politicians, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who insists on maintaining current funding levels.

The Bottom Line: Your Money, Their Agenda

USAID isn’t about helping the poor — it’s about maintaining global control under the banner of humanitarian aid. The billions funneled through this agency serve as the financial backbone of the Deep State, fueling a network of influence while leaving you footing the bill.

It’s not just a waste of money. It’s theft.

What Can You Do?

1. Demand transparency — Call your representatives and insist on audits of all USAID spending.

2. Expose the scam — Share this with people who still believe in the ‘humanitarian aid’ fairy tale.

3. Push for cuts — Support candidates who want to reduce or eliminate USAID’s budget.

Do you want to see how your elected officials are voting on foreign aid?

Watch Chuck Schumer’s latest speech defending this corrupt spending machine.

Searching for truth,

Earl Lockwood

For today’s Conspiracy Report, we reprint the most read conspiracy stories that we’ve published so far.

Which is your favorite? Just tell is in the poll at the end of this newsletter.

We hope you enjoy it. Read on below…

Regards,

Earl Lockwood

#1 Honey Traps: Sex, Spies, and Secrets

Probably the two oldest professions in the history of humanity deal with sex and spying. In the world of espionage, among other manipulation techniques, the old standby — sex — can serve more than one purpose. It can bring about the opening of mouths and the spilling of secrets, so that intelligence gathering operations may prove successful. Full details here…

#2 Give and Take: Uncharitable Charities

Many people wish to do good works, and make the world, or at least a part of it, a better place. Organizations exist, ostensibly, to do just that. They are not for profit organizations, and many of these are granted what is called ‘exempt’ status pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code. Full details here…

#3 More Truth About the 2017 UAP Videos

In our last newsletter, we asked three questions about the white Tic Tac objects reported in 2004 near the Nimitz carrier group off the coast of California.[1] And a similar object spotted outrunning commercial airline traffic from Nevada to Oregon in October 2017. Full details here…

#4 A Piece of the Action of the Religious Relic Racket

Religion is great for fooling the faithful, conning people into conversion, and providing them with a bunch of made up props to further the cause, or in other words, relics. In the religious sense, relics are the body parts or belongings of saviors and/or saints, which must be venerated, and can be visited. They provide a profitable tourist trade to the location which houses them. Full details here…

#5 Shot in the Dark: Conflict, Corruption, and COVID

Earth has always been a stew pot of pandering, pandemonium, and every so often, pandemic. Like an iceberg, the greatest danger of this latest pandemic lies not in what is on the surface, but that ninety percent of the truth lies beneath the waves. That’s the part that can get really deadly — and did. Full details here…

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You really have to hand it to the human being.

It is the only animal on the planet, that can lie to itself and believe it.

When it comes to believing in what ain’t necessarily so, ghosts are right there up on the top of humanity’s list.

What is the oldest instinct in any creature? It’s the survival instinct.

What is the only creature that has a new part on its brain (the cerebral cortex), that allows it to have abstract thought, and imagination? It’s the human being.

Put the two of these together and you have a creature with foreknowledge of its own individual extinction. The fear that goes with it, and the abstract thought and imagination to create a lie that there is post mortem survival, when there is absolutely no valid proof of such claim.

May I introduce to you, gentle reader, the world of ghosts.

Now, maybe you don’t believe in ghosts, maybe you do. Maybe you would like to make a ghost out of this author for challenging your belief in the survival of the human being — in some form or another — after death.

Okay, but does anybody believe that textiles have an afterlife?

Does anybody believe that after you throw out the old sweater it travels to a wooly wonderland? Let’s assume not.

Then ask yourself, why is it, in the hundreds of photographs of supposed ghosts, they are always clothed? If anybody assumes double exposure, trick photography — go to the head of the class.

Then ask yourself, how did it come about that so many people were conducting séances and seeking the assistance of mediums to connect to the spirits of the dearly departed in the beginning of the twentieth century — an age of supposed science and industrialism?

It’s not a coincidence, that ‘the rise of spiritualism was in large part a response to the enormous number of young men who were killed in [World War I].’[1]

There’s a good business opportunity in selling spirits to those who have lost loved ones. And as the world never runs out of a war somewhere or another, it doesn’t seem that it’s going to run out of mediums any time soon either.

A bit of history for the believers out there — the Fox sisters.

We’re going back to the mid 19th century for this one, as two sisters gave a big boost to the boogeyman business:

‘Teenager Maggie Fox and her younger sister Kate claimed that there was a spirit communicating with them by making otherworldly raps on the walls and furniture of their house. When their mother asked how many children she’d had, the spirit appeared to rap out the correct number.’[2]

They became famous for their ability, and other mediums got the message and started performing their séances in public.

It was about forty years after the Fox sisters started faking it, that one of the sisters finally came clean and what manifested was, ‘Maggie’s confession to the New York World in 1888 that her and her sister’s communication with the dead had been a hoax — as well as her public demonstration of how she cracked joints to make “rapping” noises — was big news among people interested in spiritualism.’[3]

Now, let’s fast forward into the modern world of people known as ‘paranormal investigators’. They go out in search of ghosts with scientific gadgets that are about as related to the finding of spirits as they are to the determining the price of eggs on any given day in Cambodia.

Television is full of these ghost hunter shows, and the shows are full of something else. 

One of the ‘tools’ of paranormal investigation is the ‘Tri-Meter’ which determines changes in electromagnetism, because, as has been repeatedly proven never, ghosts are electromagnetic.

An article in the Skeptical Inquirer, notes that ‘first, there is the ever-present issue that if ghosts did exist (which is still unconfirmed), we have no idea what physical properties they would possess or how they would interact with the environment. Therefore, we don’t know how to test for such entities.’[4]

Therefore, we can put away the remote sensing thermometer, the infra red cameras, and all of the other ‘scientific’ tools of the paranormal investigator.

Besides our ‘investigators,’ we have our mediums who supposedly communicate with our dearly departed — for a price, or a television show.

‘There are several ways a fraudulent medium can fabricate what seems like an accurate reading. The main two are called hot reading and cold reading.’[5]

Hot reading is when the medium does his or her homework in advance, and researches the sucker — I mean seeker — prior to the reading. That isn’t too difficult to do with this prognosticating tool known as the internet.

Cold reading is when the medium gets the message from answers to questions asked, and reactions observed. For example, if your client has a significant amount of calluses on the hands, it might indicate the type of work they do — and don’t.

If the client is wearing religious or occult jewelry, that can be a clue. A wedding ring, cheap shoes, the manner of dress, the posture — all can be clues for the medium.

And for those who claim, ‘But there’s no way Madam Zelda could have known about my grandfather’s pet octopus, Robespierre,’ there is a paranormal answer, but it isn’t spooks.

Perhaps Madam Zelda is telepathic, and if so, she had access to your knowledge and fed it back to you. We have a lot more ‘proof’ of ESP, than we do of G-H-O-S-T-S.

Let’s go to some sound reasoning, as in the sounds one hears in EVPs, or Electronic Voice Phenomena. This is where, by various nonsensical means, sounds are recorded which are, according to the paranormal investigators, voice communications from beyond.

The scene is always the same. The investigator plays a recording after telling you what’s on it, and what you would have heard without such instruction, becomes the very words the paranormal investigator primed you to believe were being said.

Allow me to introduce you to two real phenomena, paradoelia and phonemic restoration.

Paradoelia, is ‘a kind of misperception caused by meaningless, ambiguous stimuli perceived with meaning.’[6]

Phonemic restoration ‘refers to the tendency for people to hallucinate a phoneme replaced by a non-speech sound (e.g., a tone) in a word. This illusion can be influenced by preceding sentential context providing information about the likelihood of the missing phoneme.’[7]

Translating that mouthful into English, it’s a hallucination. A word is substituted by the mind, for a sound that isn’t a word.

Put those two words together, paradoelia and phonemic restoration, and you will see, appearing before you the actual reality of EVPs.

Why You Should Care

Can there be anything crueler than to deceive the surviving relative of a lost loved one, (for a price) that the deceased is floating around in the great beyond, and that their Filofax is full of things to do?

Can there be anything more ludicrous than aligning scientific measurement devices with post mortem survival theories that are anything but scientific?

The spirits tell me no.

[1] WORLD WAR I AND THE RISE OF SPIRITUALISM Taylor, The Atheist Scholar, https://atheistscholar.org/lecture/world-war-one-spiritualism/

[2] How a Hoax by Two Sisters Helped Spark the Spiritualism Craze Little, 10/3/23 https://www.history.com/news/ghost-hoax-spiritualism-fox-sisters

[3] Ibid.

[4] Ghost Hunting Gadgets Biddle, Skeptical Inquirer 8/2/21 https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/ghost-hunting-gadgets-the-rem-pod/

[5] Are All Mediums Frauds? Windbridge Research Center, https://www.windbridge.org/are-all-mediums-frauds/

[6] National Library of Medicine 4/24/22 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9103170/

[7] National Library of Medicine 11/18/11 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2963680/

Probably the two oldest professions in the history of humanity deal with sex and spying. 

In the world of espionage, among other manipulation techniques, the old standby — sex — can serve more than one purpose.

It can bring about the opening of mouths and the spilling of secrets, so that intelligence gathering operations may prove successful.

The use of sex as an entrapment and blackmail device can coerce conversation out of an agent. Or it can be an incentive to keep information flowing. That makes it highly effective, but sometimes it can backfire.

So, in the exploration of espionage and ‘sexpionage’ let’s look through the keyhole and see what might be going on.

Most people have heard of Mata Hari, the stage name for a stripper that supposedly spied for Germany in World War I. Whether the accusations against were true or not, she was executed by a firing squad, and her operation backfired, which caused her to be front fired.

Let’s get more recent.

The year is 1986, and our target of a honey trap is an Israeli nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu. He decides to go to the Brits, and spill the beans to the Sunday Times about the Israeli nuclear program — a major no-no.

The paper had him under wraps, but Mordechai, who had a romantic interest in a woman he met in London, wanted to pay her a visit in romantic Rome.

But things don’t get all that romantic, because Mossad agents embrace him with a shot of drugs and sneak him out of the country and back to the Promised Land. It seems that his girlfriend wasn’t his friend, but a friend of the state of Israel. More specifically, a girl friend of an Israeli security officer.

Vanunu received an eighteen-year sentence and a lesson in love.[1]

In 2019, Pakistan’s intelligence service, the ISI, caught an Indian officer in a honey trap. The Indian army has issued an advisory that ‘Pakistani intelligence agencies are targeting Indian security personnel, especially Indian Army personnel, who are deployed in sensitive areas.’[2]

In an article in the Indian Express in 2019, it was revealed:

‘Pakistan-based agencies operate a large number of fake Facebook and Twitter accounts and also infiltrate social media groups or contact individuals in the name of young girls. Their aim is to actively try and befriend serving and retired officials and subsequently try to nurture, allure, blackmail and coerce them into parting with sensitive information.’[3]

The Pakistani intelligence boys are still at it. In 2024, in an Economic Times article, it revealed some of the techniques used by ISI on social media by Indian authorities:

‘One method is direct, where a talkative and sweet-sounding girl initiates contact, claiming that the connection was accidental, but prolongs the chat with hints of friendship. Indirect contact is where the honey trapper first befriends the target’s friend on a social media platform. After establishing trust through this intermediary friendship over several months, the honey trapper then approaches the target.’[4]

Now, not all honey traps in history involved heterosexual relationships. 

Obviously, in the days when there was zero tolerance in society and especially in spying for homosexuals, setting up a gay man to reveal more than he should — with respect to information — was potentially a powerhouse technique in turning someone into your agent.

Let’s take a look at a homosexual British journalist from the sixties who got his hand caught in the honey jar — Jeremy Wolfenden. He was a star student, a foreign correspondent based in Moscow for The Daily Telegraph, and an asset of the British Secret Intelligence Service, (their version of the CIA).

Besides liking men, Wolfenden liked his booze. The combination of the two was to prove his undoing. It’s no surprise that he was targeted by the KGB and set up in a honey trap with what is called in the business, a Raven, or a male used as a sexual blackmail device — a woman is called a Swallow.

KGB agents had photographed him having sex with another man. Moscow was notorious for having ‘wired’ hotel rooms whereby Boris or Piotr, or Ivan, could set up his target for blackmail.

Wolfenden was torn between the SIS and the KGB, with the Brits trying to double him, and the Russians wanting him to spy for them. Apparently, the pressure got a bit too much for Wolfenden who was found at the age of 31, dead in his bathroom, apparently having slipped and hit his head on the sink.[5]

Yeah, okay.

Okay, let’s go from the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli, and take a look at what happened to some U.S. Marine guards who got involved in a honey trap.

In 1987, the rather appropriately named Marine, Clayton Lonetree, was serving as a security guard for the U.S. embassy in Moscow. He became involved with ‘Violetta Sanni, a Soviet of Ukrainian ethnicity, who worked in the Embassy’s government services office.’

They became intimate, and in furtherance of the relationship, Violetta introduces Lonetree to her ‘Uncle’ who in reality was not her uncle, but a KGB agent named Alexei Yefimov. He desired a close relationship with Lonetree, but not the kind enjoyed by Violetta.

Over the course of his relationship with the two, Lonetree provided low level classified information, but when he was transferred to the U.S. embassy in Vienna, and transferred over to being managed by another KGB agent, Lonetree turned over a phonebook and a list of U.S. spies in the city.

He was paid $1,800.00 for it, and spent a grand of it getting his girl a new gown.

He also provided photos of three agents, and a floor plan of the embassy.

Now here’s where we could talk about his discovery by some dedicated brilliant U.S. counterintelligence officer, but since this isn’t fiction, we’ll tell what really happened.

Lonetree turned himself in to the Chief of Station at a Christmas party, ensuring that he did not get any presents, other than a thirty-year jail sentence. That was eventually reduced to nine years.

Why You Should Care

Every citizen should be concerned about potential intelligence leaks to foreign intelligence services that don’t exactly wish us a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Because instead of that, they’re doing their level best to destroy the United States internally and, if they ever can, externally.

[1] The History of the Honey Trap Foreign Policy 3/12/10 https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/03/12/the-history-of-the-honey-trap/#cookie_message_anchor

[2] Pakistan Using Honeytrap To Target Indian Army Officers, Says Minister Indo-Asian News Service 12/9/19 https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pakistan-using-honeytrap-to-target-indian-army-officers-says-minister-shripad-naik-2145995

[3] https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/Jul/15/100-jawans-honey-trapped-by-pak-spies-army-goes-all-out-against-the-enemies-within-2004407.html

[4] Pakistan's ISI honey traps get hyperactive on Indian social media https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/pakistans-isi-honey-traps-get-hyperactive-on-indian-social-media/articleshow/111063967.cms?from=mdr

[5] Wikipedia article on Jeremy Wolfenden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Wolfenden

One of the most ubiquitous and meaningless phrases is ‘our thoughts and prayers’ are with someone. 

It is a convenient way to show that you care when you don’t. And that you’d like to help when you won’t.

Where this really proves to be valueless is in the realm of illness. People will pray for someone, invoking an entity that might not exist to combat a disease or a disability that definitely exists.

Now, that might offend some true believers. And some non-believers will be shaking their heads in agreement, but let’s get to the studies and the facts contained within them.

Harvard Medical School, (which probably has at least a few people who know something about healing and what treatments may be effective, and which may not), did a 10-year study of the effectiveness of prayer on cardiac bypass patients — over eighteen hundred of them.

What they concluded was, ‘there was no difference in the rate of complications for patients who were prayed for and those who were not. Nothing. Zero.’[1]

About 65% of those patients in the study strongly believed in the power of prayer.[2]

What’s even worse, ‘patients who knew prayers were being said for them had more complications after surgery than those who did not know.’[3]

Even one of the guys on the side of God, pastor Mark Karris, stated in a guest piece in the Patheos website said:

‘We cannot afford to spend our time engaging in immature forms of petitionary prayer and superstitious practices. We cannot engage in spiritual activities that cause us to feel good, thinking we are accomplishing great things, but ultimately do not achieve the good they set out to accomplish.’[4]

In a 2000 piece in the South Medical Journal, regarding prayer with respect to rheumatoid arthritis, it was concluded that, ‘distant intercessory prayer offers no additional benefits.’[5]

Now, some people have come to the conclusion that the Mayo Clinic might know a thing about medicine and studies related thereto. In their 2001 article in Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Volume 76, Issue 12) their conclusion regarding this issue was ‘intercessory prayer had no significant effect on medical outcomes after hospitalization in a coronary care unit.’

This was a two year study of 799 patients.[6]

How many times have we seen videos and/or articles about phony pastors pushing prayer as a cure all for what ails us?

Pastor Mike Signorelli, in an article on his website, poses the question:

‘[From] a rational Perspective, many believers in reformed and other intellectual traditions would contend Genuine faith healing ended with the apostles and the age of miracles. If god still healed so tangibly wouldn’t it be obvious and even scientifically verifiable?’[7]

Yeah, Mike, it would, and it wasn’t.

Your big guy came up short when studies were done by people who are Medical Doctors, and not Doctors of Divinity or some such other meaningless credential.

There are instances where faith healing, whether by remote prayer or hands on by some ‘religious leader,’ is not only ineffective, but it can be downright fatal.

As a paper from the Ohio State University notes:

‘Faith healing can cause tremendous amounts of harm, for example: In Oregon, there was a case where someone died due a congenital condition that was easily treatable, but his church suggested faith healing. In California, a case was reported where a man had a rash and heard about faith healing on the radio, instead of going to a doctor he went to a faith healer and later died, the apparent healer was charged with manslaughter.’[8]

Here’s another example, ‘In one unfortunate case a woman was encouraged to get up out of her wheelchair and discard her braces at church. The faith healer proclaimed her “healed.” Unfortunately her cancer of the spine had weakened her bones, and the activity caused bones in her spine to collapse; she died not long after.”’[9]

In her article in Science Based Medicine, ‘Faith Healing,’ writer Harriet Hall mentions a well-known ironic outcome of faith healing:

‘Many years ago the Journal of the American Medical Association used to have a regular feature where there would be a testimonial on one page describing how a patient was cured of cancer. On the opposite page, they would print the patient’s death certificate showing that he had died of that cancer shortly after providing the testimonial.’[10]

Hall further states, ‘When faith healings have been diligently investigated by qualified doctors, they have found no evidence that the patients were actually helped in any objective sense.’

This of course is backed up by the studies of Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic. Maybe it’s time that religion sticks to its own neighborhood, and gets the Hell out of healing. (Pun definitely intended).

Want another medical opinion from someone who practices medicine?

In his 2009 article on Quackwatch, Stephen Barrett, MD had this to say, ‘A study of the effects of intercessory prayer on 40 recovering alcoholics also found no benefit.’ So, watch out with that communion wine, believers, don’t get carried away.

So how does one evaluate the efficacy (or the opposite) of intercessory prayer? Barrett in his article, offers three criteria, ‘In my opinion, three criteria must be met: (1) the ailment must be one that normally doesn’t recover without treatment; (2) there must not have been any medical treatment that would be expected to influence the ailment; and (3) both diagnosis and recovery must be demonstrable by detailed medical evidence.’[11]

Of course, that kind of analysis hasn’t been performed by the religious crew, and Barrett concludes, ‘Thus, as far as I am concerned, there is no reason to believe that faith healing has ever cured anyone of an organic disease.’

Why You Should Care

When you, or a loved one are ill, you obviously want the best medical care for them, the most efficacious treatments, backed up by science and not mumbo jumbo dressed in a dog collar. You want real healing of real conditions, you don’t want ‘a laying on of hands,’ or an invocation to some god, savior, or saint.

The peddlers of the healing powers of prayer, praising Jesus, (or the non-functional, non-Abrahamic equivalent thereof), have proven not only to be ineffective, but in some cases their faith cures have led to fatalities.

Giving the sick false hopes, phony cures, and prescriptions written on the pulpit pad, is not only dangerous, sometimes deadly, but it is evil.

You do not have to abandon your beliefs to believe in the realities of medicine and science, but if you focus on faith cures, you may be abandoning all hope, ye who enter there.

[1] Strobel & Mittleberg, https://thinke.org/blog/havent-studies-proven-that-prayer-doesnt-make-any-difference-lee-strobel-amp-mark-mittelberg

[2] Largest Study of Prayer to Date Finds It Has No Power to Heal Gellene & Maugh III, 3/31/06 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-31-sci-prayer31-story.html

[3] Ibid.

[4] 4 Reasons Why Prayer Is Ineffective, Harmful, And Makes A Good God Look Really Bad 1/25/18 https://www.patheos.com/blogs/allsetfree/2018/01/4-reasons-prayer-ineffective-harmful-makes-good-god-look-really-bad/

[5] National Library of Medicine https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11142453/

[6] MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS VOL 76 ISSUE 12 https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)62794-8/abstract

[7] The Truth About Faith Healing: Exposing What’s Real and What’s Not 2/22/24 https://mikesignorelli.com/the-truth-about-faith-healers-exposing-whats-real-and-whats-not/

[8] THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EXTRAORDINARY BELIEFS, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 3/18/18 https://u.osu.edu/vanzandt/2018/04/18/faith-healing-2/

[9] SCIENCE BASED MEDICINE, Hall, Harriet “Faith Healing” 1/26/10  https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/faith-healing/

[10] IBID.

[11] SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT FAITH HEALING, BARRETT MD, 121/27/09 https://quackwatch.org/related/faith/

The explosions of bullets, bombs and ballistic missiles serve as the soundtrack to war, and the prelude to death.

But, when the music is ended by defeat or treaty, some discordant notes remain.

As we move from metaphor to reality, we are the unfortunate witnesses to the killing of innocent men, women and children, by the unexploded munitions that remain to litter the former — and present battlefields.

The International Red Cross estimates that ‘Globally, there are millions of explosive remnants of war on the ground today affecting more than 80 countries.’[1]

One of those countries is Ukraine, still under attack from a Russian ‘Special Military Operation,’ that has demonstrated to the world that Russian conventional forces aren’t all that ‘special.’ It has also demonstrated that when it comes to potential international war crimes, the Russians aren’t — shall we say — overly concerned.

‘“Mines are scattered across the territory of Ukraine previously and currently occupied by Russian troops. They are a daily, deadly threat to civilians. Some have been deliberately placed in civilian homes where they maim and kill,” said Patrick Thompson, Ukraine Researcher at Amnesty International.’[2]

In that same Amnesty International article, it was concluded that there were ‘incidents of Russian forces laying anti-personnel mines in residential areas in Kherson and Kharkiv oblasts.’

These were not intended for legitimate military targets in a war, they were intentionally placed in civilian areas to kill civilians — or more accurately put — to murder innocent civilians who were not a threat to Russian military material or personnel.

Let’s change our focus from Eastern Europe to the Middle East.

At the time of the writing of this article, a cease fire has just been instituted in the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza. How long that will last is anybody’s guess.

What can easily be guessed at is the fact that a large number of civilian deaths will occur in the area regardless of a cease fire from the unexploded ordinance littering the land.

Patrick McCabe, explosive device operations lead at UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) Palestine, is quoted as saying:

‘“[It] is always heartbreaking when a child, or anyone”, is injured by unexploded ordinance. “But, it's a fact of war and going to happen, and it doesn't happen just to the good guys [or] the bad guys. Nobody is immune to it.”’[3]

On to Africa, where 27 years of civil war has lethally littered Angola with ‘millions’ of pieces of unexploded ordinance, waiting to kill and maim the innocent. These deadly leftovers are from fighting that ended two decades ago, yet they are still waiting to cause more death and destruction.

‘The only national survey into this issue, carried out by the Angolan government in 2014, found that around 88,000 people were living with injuries caused by landmines in the country.’[4]

And that survey was over a decade ago. Yet there are still efforts to clean up the military murderous detritus left behind.

Now in Angola, women known as ‘sapodoras’ are risking their lives to clean up the mines left behind, in order to save lives. The pay is good too, by local standards. These women can earn from $440 to $600 per month. It is women who make up forty percent of the mine clearing personnel in Angola. They work at it about thirty-six hours per week.[5]

Now, we move to the Far East, and the remnant dangers of a war ending even earlier than that of Angola.

Most of us remember the Vietnam War, either from personal experience, or as a lesson in our history courses. The war was officially over in April of 1975, yet the danger still continues in the form of unexploded munitions left in the country from 50 years ago.

From a 2024 report by ReliefWeb it was stated that:

‘Statistics showed that about one fifth of Vietnam’s land-5.6 million hectares-remains contaminated with unexploded s. It is estimated that between 600,000 and 800,000 tons of bombs and mines left over from the wars are still hidden underground.’[6]

The report further estimated that ‘some 40,000 Vietnamese people have died and 60,000 are injured in UXO-related cases since 1975.’

These figures must give one pause. During the extent of the Vietnam War, U.S. military deaths were around 58,200.00. Since the war ended, since the country was united and free from active military action, Vietnamese deaths from unexploded ordnance was seventy percent of that figure.

Approximately 300,000 Americans were wounded during the war in Vietnam. After the war was over, the Vietnamese experienced 20% of that figure from left over munitions.

World War II ended eighty years ago, yet in many of the small Pacific islands that were part of the War in the Pacific, there are still unexploded munitions which have the potential to kill and maim those whose parents weren’t even born during that war.

According to a April 4, 2024 article in The Guardian, ‘some estimate the number of bombs – found across the region including in Fiji, Palau and Solomon Islands – could be in the hundreds of thousands.’[7]

Besides the risk to civilians, unexploded ordnance interferes with agriculture and land development. The destructive manufactured ghosts of war can still haunt a country decades after the war has ended — at least for the soldiers.

Why You Should Care

Everyone should care about civilian men women and children who are not only killed and wounded when caught up in the fog of war, but who are killed and maimed after the fog has dispersed, yet they are victims of the leftovers of lethality that litter their country.

From even the point of view of the greedy, construction projects, agricultural projects, tourism and other economic endeavors to commercially develop a country can be seriously impeded by the presence of unexploded ordnance. This increases labor costs, insurance costs, and medical care.

Through Non-Governmental Organizations, international legislation, and the clean-up efforts of the militaries that created the problem in the first place, the horrors of unexploded munitions can be reduced, given sufficient money and time.

[1] Explosive remnants of war International Committee of the Red Cross https://www.icrc.org/en/law-and-policy/explosive-remnants-war[2] Ukraine/Russia: Investigate use of anti-personnel mines left after Russian occupation as possible war crimes 7/26/24 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

[2] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/07/ukraine-russia-investigate-use-of-anti-personnel-mines-left-after-russian-occupation-as-possible-war-crimes/

[3] Unexploded  leaves dark legacy for Gaza, warn mine action experts UNITED NATIONS 5/6/24 https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/05/1149391

[4] Angola landmines: The women hunting for explosives left from civil war BBC 4/3/23 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65163673

[5] ANGOLA LAND MINES op.cit.

[6] Nearly 500,000 hectares of land cleared of UXOs Relief Web 3/5/24 https://reliefweb.int/report/viet-nam/nearly-500000-hectares-land-cleared-uxos#:~:text=Statistics%20showed%20that%20about%20one,wars%20are%20still%20hidden%20underground.

[7] How Hidden WW2 Bombs Across the Pacific are Found and Destroyed The Guardian, 4/4/24 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/ww2-hidden-bombs-clearing-disposal-pacific-marshall-islands-unexploded-ordnance-uxo

The United States armed forces believe themselves to be the best equipped, most high-tech forces in the world. And that’s likely true — right now.

But ever since the military-industrial complex got its name from Eisenhower, there have been instances of military contractor overcharges, defective manufacturing, and at times out and out fraud.

That sort of behavior not only costs lives, it can degrade our national security.

Now, expecting shoddy manufacturing, overcharges and fraud is standard operating procedure when the consumer deals with the products of our corporations.

But when it comes to our citizens who put themselves in harm’s way, who risk life and limb to carry out the whims and wishes of the politicians in power — (or if you like, to protect our freedoms), is it too much to expect that the industrial side of the complex will be more careful, more honest, and do like it says it would?

Apparently, it is too much to expect, as we shall see below.

Let’s pay a visit to contractor, Mason Engineering Parts LLC. You may not be familiar with this company, but the Department of Justice is. In May, 2024, on the DOJ pubic site, it was announced, ‘Defense Contractor Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Money Laundering and Unlawful Export of Military Data.’[1]

So, what happened?

The LLC obtained a government contract for parts for:

‘The U.S. Navy Nimitz and Ford Class Aircraft Carriers, U.S. Navy Submarines, U.S. Marine Corps Armored Vehicles, and U.S. Army M-60 Series Tank and Abrahams Battle Tanks, among other weapons systems.’[2]

The company represented itself as a vetted and qualified military contractor. It wasn’t. Instead, Mason had a Turkish contractor manufacture the parts — a contractor that had been barred from dealing with the US government.

The company knowingly supplied the Turkish outfit with sensitive documents in violation of security regulations. Six figures worth of government payments to Mason were then laundered back to Turkey.

The parts did not conform to agreed specifications. In fact, as it was related on the DOJ site, the parts related to ‘“critical application items,” meaning that failure of these components would have potentially rendered the end system inoperable.’

The perpetrators of these acts will find themselves living in a government gated community with excellent security for a long, long time.

In January 2022, a defense contractor, Craig Klund of South Dakota, won himself an all expenses paid visit to federal prison for ten years. That arose out of his defrauding the government, money laundering and aggravated identity theft, according to a posting on the IRS website.

According to the Internal Revenue Service, Klund's fraud scheme included:

1. Use of 15 shell corporations to hide his control of entities bidding on DoD contracts;

2. Use of multiple aliases;

3. Repeated identity theft;

4. Collusive bids submitted by multiple Klund entities on the same contract;

5. Knowingly shipping nonconforming parts and requesting payment for these parts;

6. Signing Federal Acquisition Regulation certificates using fake names;

7. Lying to Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) inspectors by claiming to be someone other than himself;

8. Relocating his business from Wisconsin to South Dakota to evade DCMA inspectors who were questioning his operations in Wisconsin;

9. Concealing receipt of DoD proceeds by not reporting these monies on his federal income tax returns; and

10. Laundering DoD proceeds by moving the funds between accounts.[3]

The site posting revealed, ‘Klund had three previous federal felony convictions, two of which were for defense contracting fraud, making his criminal history a very important factor in the judge's sentencing analysis.’

So, it appears there is such a thing as a bad boy, and sometimes people don’t learn from their mistakes.

Here’s another instance of military contractor misdoings. Envistacom LLC received its fifteen minutes of infamy on the DOJ public affairs site, when it was posted on 3/29/23 that ‘Military Contractors Convicted for $7 Million Procurement Fraud Scheme.’

What did Envistacom do? According to the site:

‘Preparing and procuring sham quotes for government contracts totaling over $7.8 million. Carson, Hayes, and Flores also fraudulently prepared “independent” government cost estimates and other procurement documents for the award of these contracts and made false statements, representations, and material omissions to federal government contracting officials regarding these estimates being legitimate independent cost estimates and the sham quotes being “competitive.”’[4]

How about one more for good luck?

This guy was from Missouri, so the government had to show him. They showed him and in a 2/7/24 posting from the GSA OIG (English-the General Services Administration Office of Inspector General), our man in Missouri admitted illegally obtaining parts for the military overseas, undercutting domestic suppliers.

The contractor, according to the GSA:

‘Received at least nine U.S. government contracts by way of fraudulent misrepresentations, including that he would provide parts from domestic sources. Murar actually provided parts from China and other foreign countries. By doing so, Murar was able to underbid domestic suppliers. Murar broke the law by providing “military critical technical data,” which was restricted and protected information, to foreign individuals and/or entities.’[5]

The individual guilty of the above behavior had better like Federal cooking, because he will be eating it for a long time.

Why You Should Care

A hefty portion of the taxes you pay go to defense. You have not only a financial stake in seeing that those dollars don’t get abused or wasted, you have a personal survival stake in seeing that our military has the equipment it needs.

Not only that, but that the equipment is made to work, made to last, and that the parts for it are up to specifications.

The world is now seeing up close what happens when corruption and neglect enter into military manufacturing, because the Russians are directly experiencing it in the Ukraine.

We the people of the United States of America don’t want that to happen to us when it’s our time to once again step into the battlefield.

[1] DOJ PUBLIC AFFAIRS SITE 5/8/24 https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/defense-contractor-pleads-guilty-fraud-money-laundering-and-unlawful-export-military-data

[2] DOJ PUBLIC SITE op.cit.

[3] IRS SITE 1/20/22 https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/former-defense-contractor-sentenced-to-10-years-for-fraud-money-laundering-and-id-theft

[4] DOJ PUBLIC AFFAIRS 3/29/23 https://www.preparing and procuring sham quotes for government contracts totaling over $7.8 million. Carson, Hayes, and Flores also fraudulently prepared “independent” government cost estimates and other procurement documents for the award of these contracts and made false statements, representations, and material omissions to federal government contracting officials regarding these estimates being legitimate independent cost estimates and the sham quotes being “competitive.”justice.gov/opa/pr/military-contractors-convicted-7-million-procurement-fraud-scheme

[5] GSA OIG SITE 2/7/24 https://www.gsaig.gov/news/missouri-based-defense-department-contractor-admits-fraud

The United States is a nation of regulation. A bevy of bureaucrats doing their damn level best to screw up the affairs of American business — large and small.

In their latest endeavor to mess things up, the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC, decided in 2024 to launch an attack on an almost ubiquitous provision in any significant employment contract, the non-disclosure clause, or the NDA.

It’s also a clause found in many preliminary contracts precedent to a merger and acquisition, whether on the international corporate level, or the mom and pop sale of a business.

So here’s what happened:

In an April 2024 press release on its website, the FTC announced:

‘Today, the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule to promote competition by banning non-competes nationwide, protecting the fundamental freedom of workers to change jobs, increasing innovation, and fostering new business formation.’[1]

Let’s turn our rocket ship to planet reality, and look at what that less than brilliant move really achieved.

For those in the real world of business, (and not the imaginary realm of government employment where you get paid to do very little except screw with the people who do a great deal for this country by providing a tax base and employment opportunities), business procedures, customers, suppliers, and marketing plans are data of significant value and many times are not easily discoverable from public sources.

The business owner would naturally seek to protect that information, and therefore was created the Non-Disclosure Agreement. 

Signing such an agreement is often a sine qua non in obtaining employment with a company. Signing one is also the first real step in the beginning of exploration and negotiation of a possible merger and acquisition.

So, when the FTC KOs the NDA, does that really protect the ‘fundamental right of workers to change jobs’? Or does it instead make it less likely that a worker will be hired in a position that exposes him to important proprietary information of the employer?

Does such interference with a basic protection for the employer bring about ‘increasing innovation’ or does it turn a blind eye to what may become rampant industrial espionage?

Is it a stimulus to ‘fostering new business formation,’ when the world of business has just had taken from it the very contract clause that can protect that business from destruction when all of its proprietary information lies unprotected?

Government genius, FTC Chairperson Lina M. Khan, who never ran even a lemonade stand in her professional life; a life of working as a lawyer (but not for herself), and as an academic, came up with this bit of wit and wisdom in the aforesaid press release:

‘Non-compete clauses keep wages low, suppress new ideas, and rob the American economy of dynamism, including from the more than 8,500 new startups that would be created a year once non-competes are banned.’[2]

Let’s examine that nonsense from this non-compete nincompoop.

First, in low wage jobs, the world of burger flippers, the cab drivers, etc., it’s unlikely that anybody is signing a non-disclosure agreement.

It’s in the higher levels of employment that it’s found, so it doesn’t keep wages low. It doesn’t suppress new ideas, it protects them. As to where she got these 8,500 new startups that would be created a year once there are no more non-compete agreements figure, it was likely pulled out from a location that would be in the realm of expertise of her proctologist.

Since the FTC yanked NDA protection in April 2024, how the hell could she come up with any figure of post NDA startups in the same press release that mentioned the new FTC ban?

In law, there is a saying when a contract is introduced into evidence, ‘the document speaks for itself.’ In the case of this FTC press release that’s especially true. It’s proof positive that bureaucrats, (despite their formal education, when they have zero entrepreneurial ability or the courage to go out on their own), are idiots.

Fortunately, sometimes the courts can come to the rescue of business when the government goofballs get it wrong and irrationally regulate.

Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission was a case brought in the Northern District of the Texas Federal Court which caused an injunction to issue against the establishment and enforcement of the FTC anti-NDA ban.

It determined that the FTC ruling, besides being outside of their power to promulgate, was arbitrary and capricious.

Likewise, in the Florida federal courts, Properties of the Villages Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission a similar injunction was issued.

Of course, since the main function of a bureaucracy is not only to preserve its existence but to increase its powers, the FTC appealed both cases.[3]

On January 2, 2025, the FTC filed its brief in the appeal of the Texas decision, and argued that it does have authority to regulate ‘unfair competition.’

In addressing the ‘arbitrary and capricious’ part of the Texas decision, here is the self-serving nonsense the FTC averred, ‘that it reasonably concluded that non-competes are restrictive and tend to negatively affect competitive conditions.’[4]

Let’s take a look at that logic.

Of course, an NDA is restrictive, that’s the point. It restricts the unauthorized dissemination of proprietary information. 

In evaluating a business for the purpose of an acquisition, its tax returns, its profit and loss statements, its ‘books’ are going to be examined, and these, obviously contain a tremendous amount of confidential financial information.

Shouldn’t these financial documents be restricted in its dissemination to only those parties and their advisors involved in the negotiations of the potential acquisition?

XYZ Corporation hires a representative to market its new technology. In the course of such representation, the hire is going to be privy to significant proprietary information. Should that be able to be randomly communicated? Should the hire be able to jump ship and reveal all to the competition of the previous employer?

The answer to these questions is obvious to any sensible person that does not work for a government regulatory body.

Why You Should Care

Chances are you have either worked for a business, or you have owned one, or both at one time or another. In the course of your ownership there was generated confidential information, the kind you don’t want your competitors to have access to.

With the FTC attempted ban on NDAs you wouldn’t have any protection from that happening.

Or, you are being contemplated as a hire by a corporation that has a reasonable desire to protect its proprietary information. Normally, an NDA could go a long way to your being hired. But if that isn’t allowed to exist, the potential employer now has to consult its crystal ball to see if you can keep your mouth shut about what you learn in the course of your employment.

So, in a choice between contractual restriction, or a wild guess — which would be better both for the business and its potential hires?

We’ve already seen litigation taking place in 2024 wherein the government seeks the right to mandate disclosure of ownership of corporations and LLCs, under severe legal penalties for non-compliance, even though this has not been a requisite for many years, and our economy didn’t collapse.

Now they are fighting to obtain another pointless restriction on business, one which has dangerous ramifications for both owners and future employees. 

We are witness to an accelerated war on business launched from the ivory towers of the bureaucrats who have no real-world experience, and that is something about which we should be deeply concerned.

[1] FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes FTC WEBSITE 4/23/24 https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

[2] FTC PRESS RELEASE 4/23/24 op. cit.

[3] FTC APPEALS TEXAS FEDERAL COURTS DECISION 10/22/24 Chin, Perlman, Tan PROSKAUER LAW FIRM https://www.lawandtheworkplace.com/2024/10/ftc-appeals-texas-federal-courts-decision-halting-its-noncompete-ban-nationally/

[4] FTC FILES OPENING BRIEF IN NON-COMPETE RULE APPEAL, 1/6/25 STEVENS & LEE LAW https://www.stevenslee.com/health-law-observer-blog/ftc-files-opening-brief-in-noncompete-rule-appeal/

Most people are familiar with the term ‘military-industrial complex’. That parasitic union between the war makers and the corporate makers of weapons.

For the former, corpses pile up, for the latter, profits.

But even today, many people are not aware that there was, and is, a military-occult complex. It’s one where the spies and armies of the world use magic — either as a psyop, (psychological operation, or more colloquially, ‘bullshit.’), or as an area of bona fide research and utilization in ‘the field.’

Let’s look at some grade A World War I paranormal propaganda, as an example where it’s not ‘truth is stranger than fiction,’ but fiction became truth for the true believers.

The Angels of Mons, started out as a 1914 short work of fiction entitled ‘The Bowmen,’ by Arthur Machen, well known writer of fantasy and horror. In the story ghost archers shot their arrows at the Germans for the protection of retreating British soldiers.

It was published in the Evening News, but not as fiction.

Another author in the same edition turned it into a first-person account, and many of the public took the ghost story as gospel.^[1]

It never ceases to amaze the thinking man, just how gullible and intellectually lazy the public is. But according to that brilliant philosopher, P.T. Barnum, ‘There’s a sucker born every minute.’

For a more modern example, let’s take a look at Soviet psychic research, as reported by the CIA in 1977.

In an April 1977 declassified document, Soviet and Eastern European Parapsychology Research, it was reported that ‘The Soviets have a parapsychology research program whose existence is classified and whose funding and control reside largely with the Ministry of Defense and possibly the KGB.’^[2]

How much of this was Soviet disinformation to worry the West about a perceived psychic gap, to accompany the concerns about the ‘missile gap,’ between the Big Bad Bear and the Home of the Brave?

The CIA report also noted that in 1969, the Soviets were engaged in research into black magic, to identify practitioners of sorcery and witchcraft, and learn what incantations they were using. But later in the report it recognizes the possibility that the black magic research facility was just Soviet disinformation. (You think?!)

One wonders if this 1977 CIA report on Soviet activities enabled and encouraged the launch of the U.S. military psychic spy program in 1978, entitled GRILL FLAME?

The U.S. ‘remote viewing’ project lasted until 1995 — officially. It supposedly had mixed success and was allegedly responsible for locating new Soviet submarines and captured American diplomats.^[3]

However, research into the possibilities and potentials of remote viewing has not stopped. And where there is research, there is funding. And where there is funding on a subject like this, it isn’t too much of a leap of faith to assume that maybe the military and intelligence agencies ‘kinda sorta’ might be contributing dollars to the doings.

In a 2023 study, Follow‐up on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Remote Viewing Experiments, ‘The research focused on emotional intelligence (EI) theory and intuitive information processing as possible hypothetical mechanisms.’^[4]

The results of the study showed ‘significant RV‐related effects corresponding to the positive influence of EI (emotional intelligence).’

But the military-occult complex has a second side to it. One where truth is not being sought, but lies and propaganda are used to seek military advantage.

For example, in counterinsurgency operations in the Congo, in the 1960s, the world of witchcraft, sorcery, and magic was employed to both motivate the rebels, and, to put it politely, de-motivate them.

The Congolese rebels were convinced, (conned) into believing that magical practices would make them bullet proof. (This kind of nonsense was also seen in the Chinese Boxer Rebellion, at the turn of the 20^th century, when the believers came in second to the reality of ballistics).

Even though this was nonsense, the morale effect on the rebels made them more likely to bravely engage government troops. This made it more likely that the government troops became not so brave.

In a 1964 report prepared by the United States Army, Supernatural Counterinsurgency in the Congo, it was suggested that in any advisory role to the government of the Congo, the US should have a:

‘Sound understanding of magical concepts, practices, and mannerisms is necessary for defensive purposes should they play any role or importance in an insurgency situation. Knowledge of the specific uses of charms, medicines, bodily scarification, and the like…’

The report concluded, ‘There is little doubt that counter-magic tactics properly conceived and imaginatively executed could be quite effective in achieving short-run victories.’^[5]

The above is somewhat reminiscent of how Moses showed up Pharaoh’s magicians by walking softly and carrying a big serpent stick.

Now, the CIA is apparently a really equal opportunity employer. Because in psyops in the Philippines, in the 1950s, the CIA put vampires to work against the rebel Huks.

Philippine superstitions contain the idea of the aswang, a not-so-nice vampiric entity, a bloodsucker, among other things. It scared the living daylights out of the rebels, so in 1950, the CIA sent Edward Lansdale, under cover as a USAF officer to stir things up and have a couple of yuks at the expense of the Huks.

Lansdale was, prior to his entry into the military in WW2, a successful ad man. What better place for an advertising type than to put him into psychological operations, because the same techniques one uses in advertising, can be used in war — to persuade the enemy to do stuff, or not do stuff.

Lansdale capitalized on the aswang legend, and other supernatural silliness:

‘One of Lansdale's tactics was to fly over Huk-controlled areas in a light aircraft and broadcast "mysterious curses" in Tagalog on any villagers who offered help to the Huk soldiers. The tactic reportedly succeeded in starving some Huk units into surrender.’^[6]

Lansdale also had his psywar buddies in the Philippines spread rumors to the Huks that there were aswangs about. To buttress this, he had an ambush squad sneak up on a Huk Patrol, and they ‘snatched the last man of the patrol…and punctured his neck with two holes, vampire fashion, held the body up by the heels, drained it of blood and put the corpse back on the trail.’^[7]

The technique dislodged up to 300 Huk rebels, who became convinced rebellion could be a literal pain in the neck.

Why You Should Care

Religion, which is certainly at least a polite form of magic, and superstition, which is a component of religion is used as a catalyst for conflict.

Muslims kill non-Muslims, Protestants kill Catholics, Jews kill Muslims who kill Jews, Russia is having a ‘special military operation’ against the ‘Nazi’ Ukraine, because Vladmir Putin considers himself to be an Orthodox Christian, (rather strange for an ex-KGB Soviet era type, where religion was ‘a commonly held interpretation of the history of Orthodox Christianity in Russia. According to this view, Russians and Ukrainians are one people who originate from the same Christian kingdom that came into being in the 10th century.’^[8]

Thus, whether we call it religion, magic or superstition, when the military and intelligence agencies get a hold of them, the body count increases, and that is something with which we should all be concerned.

[1] ANGELS OF MONS, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_of_Mons

[2] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/NSA-RDP96X00790R000100010041-2.pdf

[3] PSYCHIC BATTLEFIELD, Mandelbaum 2000 St. Martin’s Press, 173-174

[4] BRAIN BEHAVIOR, National Library of Medicine 5/3/23 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10275521/

[5] SUPERNATURAL COUNTERINSURGENCY IN THE CONGO 1964 https://kenrahn.com/Marsh/Bay_of_Pigs/congorpt.htm

[6] How the CIA Used 'Vampires' to Fight Communism in the Philippines | HowStuffWorks

[7] How the CIA Used 'Vampires' to Fight Communism in the Philippines, 3/8/23 https://history.howstuffworks.com/world-history/cia-vampires-communist-rebels-philippines.htm

[8] The Role of Religion in Russia’s War on Ukraine United States Institute for Peace 3/17/22 https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/03/role-religion-russias-war-ukraine

Our previous newsletter covered all the pertinent details of the Roswell event.

But we left out two crucial clues that suggest there was something more going on behind the event than just a simple weather balloon recovery.

First off, there’s been a cascade of different and often contradictory explanations of the Roswell event. At first, the US Army Air Corps, the 1947 predecessor of the Air Force, claimed the debris was a simple weather balloon.

They’ve never explained how so many expertly trained high-level officers from the most advanced air unit in the world, the 509th Composite Bomb Group, could have been so badly mistaken. Yet those same individuals were never reprimanded for their gross error.

Instead, they continued to gain promotions, including Major Jesse Marcel, who was promoted before the end of the year, and lieutenant Colonel Arthur Exon at Dayton, Ohio, who was later promoted to base commander.

The second explanation came in 1994, when the US Air Force issued a report, somewhat optimistically titled ‘The Roswell Report: Case Closed’. It claimed the weather balloon was a top-secret balloon system from Operation Mogul, designed to pick up high-altitude sounds from Soviet-era nuclear explosions.^[1]

This explanation faces the same criticism as the original explanation: how could experienced intelligence officers like Major Marcel and Lt. Col. Arthur Exon, who saw the debris at Dayton, not be able to identify such material?

And why would even a Mogul balloon require such extraordinary cleanup as was seen at Mac Brazel’s ranch. As well as requiring military police to threaten witnesses, as they did to Roswell sheriff George Wilcox and his family, and hold them in custody, as in Brazel’s case for almost a week?

There is also some doubt as to whether a Mogul balloon was even in the air in late June 1947, which is the earliest the crash could have occurred. One Mogul array was launched on June 4th from Alamogordo, New Mexico,^[2] but it couldn’t have remained in the air for ten days until Mac Brazel heard a crash somewhere after June 14^th .

Nor would it have accounted for the loud boom that Brazel said accompanied the crash.^[3] Some reports suggest that Brazel didn’t hear the boom until early July, making the Mogul explanation less likely.^[4]

Then in 1997, the Air Force came out with a third story: that the ‘bodies’ that were claimed to have been seen by dozens of witnesses were actually crash test dummies from a later 1950s-era series of tests.^[5] This ‘explanation’ was in spite of the Air Force’s earlier claims that no bodies of any kind were ever involved in the Roswell incident.

In 2005, a fourth explanation was offered up by author Nick Redfern. In his book ‘Body Snatchers in the Desert,’^[6] he wrote that three unnamed whistleblowers, each one government- or military-connected, told him that the Roswell crash was part of a program using captured Japanese scientists from the infamous Unit 731.^[7]

It was using prisoners of war for experiments on the effects of high-altitude radiation. His sources suggested the ‘alien’ bodies were misidentified Asian victims of the test, which strains credulity to say the least.

A fifth explanation was put forward in 2011 by Annie Jacobsen in her book, ‘Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base.’^[8]

Her theory, not widely accepted, was that the crashed debris belonged to a Soviet propaganda craft, created by a captured Dr. Joseph Mengele. That it was designed to scare Americans into worrying about alien invasions, which would sow panic and confusion throughout the country.

Her claim was that the hieroglyphic writing that Major Marcel and his son Jesse Marcel Jr. saw was, in fact, Russian Cyrillic writing.

Despite these ever-changing stories and theories, there have been two major pieces of evidence that strongly support the underlying truth that something extraordinary really did occur at Roswell.

The first of these involves the famous image of General Ramey viewing the wreckage at the Fort Worth location, beside his Chief of Staff, Colonel Thomas E. DuBose (seen in the picture at the head of this newsletter).

In Ramey’s hand, he holds a teletype message with the text facing the camera. At the time, it would have been impossible to read the faint letters on the page. But in 2015, UFO researcher Kevin Randle led a team that digitized the original negatives of the photo, and used computer image enhancement to decipher the most likely possibility of the message.^[9]

With Martin Dreyer, a dedicated Roswell and UFO researcher living in New Zealand, they expanded on pioneering work begun in 2001 by David Rudia,^[10] and even earlier efforts done by Brad Sparks in the 1980s.^[11]

Though there are some discrepancies in interpretation between the different teams, overall they agreed that the teletype image includes around 74 to 78 legible words, which include the phrases ‘THE VICTIMS OF THE WRECK’ and ‘IN THE 'DISC.’^[12] The message also clearly indicated the words ‘WEATHER BALLOONS’ and ‘AT FORT WORTH TEX.’

This raises a significant question: why would General Ramey expose a top-secret message to possible capture by photographers?

The answer is simple: this isn’t the first time top-level officials accidentally allowed such sensitive material to be accidentally captured by cameras. And with this meeting, there were no reporters and only one cameraman.

It’s entirely possible he simply didn’t think such a message should be out of his sight, and didn’t realize the camera would record anything legible.^[13]

It should be noted that shortly before his death in 1991, Colonel DuBose, who retired as a Brigadier General, stated unequivocally that ‘It was a cover story, the balloon part of it. Anything else, forget it!’^[14]

Brigadier General DuBose remains the highest ranking officer to confirm that the Roswell weather balloon and Mogul cover-up stories are not the truth.

There is one additional piece of evidence that suggests the Roswell crash was something truly unique — or more precisely, a lack of evidence.

In 1993, New Mexico Congressman Steven H. Schiff asked the General Accounting Office for an investigation of all files pertaining to the Roswell incident. That’s what caused the Air Force to issue its previously mentioned 1994 report, ‘Case Closed.’ But something interesting happened when the GAO began digging.

They discovered that all of the incoming and outgoing messages to Roswell Army Air Field from October 1946 through December 1949 had been mysteriously destroyed. In addition, all of the administrative files, which would cover (among other items) the transfer and assignment of base personnel, from March 1945 through December 1949 had also been destroyed.

According to the Air Force’s own report to Rep. Schiff’s GAO request, there was no explanation of who ordered the files’ destruction, nor where or when it was carried out, nor by whom.^[15]

Skepticism about an unauthorized and undocumented destruction of such important files over such a critical point in this country’s history ran high. Even the GAO thought this excuse simply didn’t fly, and that the Air Force was withholding information, or worse, had destroyed vital documentation as part of its decades-long cover up.^[16]

This apparently intentional destruction of government files again suggests something far more serious than simply a misidentified Mogul balloon launch and recovery. Couple this with the Ramey memo which indicates there was an admission of ‘victims’ of a crashed ‘disc,’ and we seem to have the best example yet of a smoking gun.

If the US government ever wants to have its people trust it, especially where it comes to its current UAP and UFO investigations, it needs to start with Roswell. Though the chances of the Pentagon ever admitting they had recovered non-human technology, alien bodies, and possibly even a live alien and covered it all up for 75 years, are extremely slim indeed.

[1] https://www.af.mil/The-Roswell-Report/

[2] https://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/physics10/Roswell/USMogulReport.html

[3] https://unsolved.com/gallery/roswell/

[4] https://unsolved.com/gallery/roswell/

[5] https://www.element115.ai/article/roswell-incident

[6] https://books.google.com/books?id=aYic0WQY3DcC

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

[8] https://www.amazon.com/Area-51-Uncensored-Americas-Military/dp/0316132942

[9] https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/09/ramey-memo-update.html

[10] http://www.roswellproof.com/

[11] https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-ramey-memo.html

[12]  https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2015/09/ramey-memo-update.html

[13] https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2009/05/general-ramey-and-his-memo.html

[14] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn7kX0YUEW4&t=230s

[15] https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/07/30/documents-on-roswell-ufo-missing/

[16] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/06/01/roswell-incident-revisits-air-force/78e8112e- 6edb-4042-b5a7-30e0ae436755/

Many people wish to do good works, and make the world, or at least a part of it, a better place. 

Organizations exist, ostensibly, to do just that.

They are not for profit organizations, and many of these are granted what is called ‘exempt’ status pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.

Contributions to these exempt organizations may be deductible by the donor, and they are not taxed to the organization as income, provided they stay within IRS rules.

But like the old saying goes all that glistens isn’t gold, and when it comes to the receipt and use of the gold some exempt organizations receive. That is, their disbursal of those receipts may not always glisten.

There is an abundance of organizations whose goals are to make the world a better place for dogs and cats, whales, elephants, veterans, and other categories of intended beneficiaries. Many of them do just that, but some of them at certain times, stray from the proper path. They engage in self-dealing and overcompensation of the chaps who run the charitable organization.

When reading this article, it’s important to recognize that a charity may run afoul of its intended purposes in one or more years. Only to be later set right by the hiring of better people, or by better administration, and returning to the straight path.

Let’s take a look at some examples.

Now here’s a horse of a different color. Charity Watch, an organization devoted to doing just that, on its ‘worst’ list. It listed Front Range Equine Rescue, based in Florida as spending only 39% of the expenses it incurred on its programs in 2022.

It stated there could be a sufficiently long lag time between the receipt of funds by the charity, and it’s use — for whatever purpose. (Remember, that was 2022, and may not be the situation with this charity as of the writing of this article.)[1]

Here’s one for the kids. Children’s Cancer Research Fund, based in Minnesota, spent only 47% of its expenses on the programs that were related to its purposes in 2022. It had administrative costs of $45.00 for every $100.00 it raised, as reported by Charity Watch.

Again, this is early 2025, and the situation may have changed for the better — or worse.[2]

How about our veterans. There are a number of charities that were concerned with their benefit, one of which was Wounded Warrior Project. This charity, which apparently at this time is highly rated, had some controversy around eight or nine years ago.

In 2017, the findings of a Senate investigation into the doings of the charity concluded, ‘The Senate Judiciary Committee said the charity “inaccurately” reported the money it spent on veterans’ programs by using “inflated” numbers and “misleading” advertisements. The committee found “excessive amounts of donor contributions that were misused” by WWP’s former leadership.”’[3]

Fortunately, due to replacing the charity leadership after these facts came to light, Wounded Warrior Project enjoys an excellent rating as a charity today. (It goes to show that the government and the press can sometimes actually do good works by accurate investigating and reporting, which is what they’re actually supposed to do all the time.)

St. Jude, besides being the patron saint of impossible cases, is the patron saint of hospitals. St. Jude, the largest charity in the country related to health care, in the past was engaged in certain financial activities that might not have been entirely saintly.

Missouri Medicine, reported at the end of 2022 that:

‘Since 2017, only about half of the $7.3 billion dollars St. Jude has received in contributions went to the hospital’s patient care and research. Of the remainder, 30% was spent on fundraising and 20% to its reserve fund. It should be noted that although St. Jude advertises that care is free for those who cannot afford treatment, much of the cost of treatment is paid by the families’ private insurance or by Medicaid.^’[4]

The charity might not be a bad place to work, because it was also reported that ‘the fundraising and investment arm of St. Jude known as ALSAC has 2,188 employees. More than 400 of its employees are paid over $100,000 annually.’[5]

One of the guidelines to determine if a charity is on the up and up, according to Stephanie Kalivas an analyst at Charity Watch is ‘Charities that are A-rated generally spend at least 75 percent or more on their programs, so more of your money goes to causes you want to support.’[6]

Laurie Stryon, Executive Director of Charity Watch, regarding fund raising by charities said, ‘Charities should honor donors' intentions by keeping their overhead costs reasonable. A charity can legitimately use a for-profit professional fundraising company to supplement its other fundraising efforts or to build up its member base when it's first getting started.’

But she also noted that if over time, more efficient means of fundraising are not engaged in, ‘Donors are essentially just funding more fundraising and nothing else when they make a donation.’[7]

Why You Should Care

Many of us are bombarded by charitable solicitations during the year, and more often in the holiday season. Sorrowful looking puppies, starving kids in some third world country, paraplegic veterans and other sad cases are paraded before our eyes in order to have our hands reach in our pockets to contribute to the worthy cause being promoted.

That’s not a bad thing when most of the money raised from our contributions actually goes to benefit the intended recipients. It’s a very bad thing however, if much of that money is spent on no-bid contracts farmed out to for-profit companies with ties to the directors of the charity, and when officer and director salaries of the charitable organization are far in excess of the norm.

(Their compensation has to be reasonable, a term which is not clearly defined by the IRS, of course, but they do provide factors by which a determination can be made, which is outside the scope of the present article.)

You have heard the slogan many times, ‘Investigate before you invest,’ and this also holds true in situations where you are contemplating giving your money to a charitable organization, to make sure the best of the best are selected.

One item to review is the IRS 990 form of the organization, which is public record and can often be found on the internet, at the IRS site located at https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/.

So be careful when your heart says yes to a charity — use your head first before you donate.

[1] Some of the Worst Charities in America 2024 12/10/24 CHARITY WATCH https://blog.charitywatch.org/some-of-the-worst-charities-in-america-2024/

[2] CHARITY WATCH op.cit.

[3] Senate releases report criticizing Wounded Warrior Project's past spending NEWS4JAX 5/24/2017 https://www.news4jax.com/news/2017/05/25/senate-releases-report-criticizing-wounded-warrior-projects-past-spending/

[4] MISSOURI MEDICINE https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9762212/#:~:text=Since%202017%2C%20only%20about%20half,20%25%20to%20its%20reserve%20fund

[5] MISSOURI MEDICINE op.cit.

[6] Best and Worst Charities for Your Donations CONSUMER REPORTS 11/22/2019 https://www.consumerreports.org/money/charities/best-charities-for-your-donations-a4066579102/

[7] The WORST charities in America?  DAILY MAIL 6/25/2023 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12219603/The-WORST-charities-America-organizations-giving-CEOs-millions-ignoring-causes.html