People are buying dirty diplomas knowingly, and using them to beef up a resume to scam an employer into hiring them. In a February 2023 article in The Watchdog it was reported ‘About 500,000 Americans currently hold fake degrees.’

By Egon E. Mosum

In the classic song, ‘It’s Only a Paper Moon,’ one of the most telling lines is ‘It’s a Barnum and Bailey World, Just as Phony as it Can be.’

That likely does not come as any great surprise to the reader, and sometimes phony isn’t a cause for concern, sometimes it is merely laughable.

However, there are times when phony can be downright dangerous.

We would like our speedometers and fuel gauges to be accurate. We would like the ingredients labels on our food to be complete. Our journey, our health may depend on it.

In the world of academic degrees, especially the important ones like J.D. and M.D. we are depending upon the (hopeful) fact that these are genuine, and not just fancy engraving on a worthless piece of paper.

Our lives, our freedom may depend on it.

For those who are religious, we would hope that the credentials of our chosen theologians were meaningful, as our ‘souls’ may depend upon it.

But, credentials aren’t always credible, and aren’t always deserving of credit, and for those seeking the imprimatur of an advanced degree without putting in the work, there are diploma mills.

Those scam educational institutions where a sheepskin may be had for a requisite number of shekels, are definitely participants and citizens of that ‘Barnum and Bailey World.’

Let’s take a look under the rock, and see what creatures wearing caps and gowns are crawling around…

Today’s Fastest Growing Company Might Surprise You

Astronauts out in space must perform a variety of technological functions as well as navigational endeavors.  They need to be in their right minds, but sometimes the bon voyage isn’t all that bon…

By Egon E. Mosum

Those brave astronauts in the various space programs undergo significant physical and psychological testing and conditioning; they must.

Once they get out into the wild black yonder of space, they face extraordinary danger, extended time packed in a small craft with others, weightlessness, radiation, and other stressors.

They have been chosen for their resilience, their strength and endurance as it relates to space travel, but sometimes even the best machines break down.

While the delusional who believe in the law of attraction think that the universe is in tune with us, is our friend, those who engage in space travel know the reality — the universe has a whole menu of choices in how it can kill, sicken, or drive a man mad who dares to venture into it.

In space, no one can hear you scream we are told in the movie Alien.

That however does not negate the possibility that you will be screaming.

Astronauts out in space must perform a variety of technological functions as well as navigational endeavors.  They need to be in their right minds, but sometimes the bon voyage isn’t all that bon.

Space travelers can develop problems, ‘specifically, symptoms of emotional dysregulation, cognitive dysfunction, disruption of sleep-wake rhythms, visual phenomena and significant changes in body weight, along with morphological brain changes, are some of the most frequently reported occurrences during space missions.’

Some of those changes referenced above can cause illusions and hallucinations, which are definitely risk factors to the successful completion of a mission.[1]

There is perhaps no greater opportunity to feel alone, in the larger sense at least, than to be in outer space, away from your planet, your country, your home and your family.  It can be, especially on an extended trip, a significant stressor.

One of today’s fastest-growing software companies might surprise you

🚨Heads up! It's not the publicly traded tech giant you might expect…

The reader will kindly note, that this article in no way is a criticism of faith nor the faithful, but only a warning that not everyone who counsels against sin follows the manual.

By Egon E. Mosum

In the New Testament, at Matthew 6:20, it is written ‘But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.’

In Matthew 7:15 we are advised, ‘Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.’

Sometimes religious leaders act as if they didn’t get the memo. 

Sometimes they aren’t looking for heavenly treasures, but the kind that are supposed to be rendered unto Caesar. Sometimes those pulpit pundits are wearing bespoke sheep’s clothing, paid for by sheep they have shorn.

In other words, not every person in a dog collar is as loyal as a dog to their flock of believing souls.

Sometimes they act more like the kinds of animals into which their King of Kings sent the demons he exorcised in Gadara.

Or, to be less fancy, there are priests who pilfer, reverends who rip off the offerings…

Mark Cuban’s Biggest Regret?

Some: Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, actually served in uniform, but some of those might have slightly inaccurate memories about the nature of their service…

By Egon E. Mosum

Our politicians all serve in uniform.

Not military uniforms, but the blue suit, usually red or blue tie, white shirt and lapel flag pin type of uniform; the colors that often replicate those on our flag in the United States.

Our politicians are all, of course, patriots; real Americans, ready to sacrifice the lives of others in the service of the multi-national corporations that control our country.

That might seem rather cynical, but what is cynical is not necessarily inaccurate.

But of course, all of our politicians, (including those who didn’t dodge the draft when it existed, or forgot to enter military service as part of their curriculum vitae), are gung-ho when it comes to supporting the military.

Some of them, Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, actually served in uniform, but some of those might have slightly inaccurate memories about the nature of their service.

That, after reading this article, might be regarded as somewhat of an understatement and certainly not inaccurate…

This stock jumped 2,900%. Most investors missed it.

While Wall Street was distracted, one startup quietly built a platform with 50M+ users and landed the #1 spot on Deloitte’s list of the Fastest-Growing Software Companies.

That company is Mode Mobile – and their stock is already up 2,900% for early investors.^*

By completely rethinking the $500B smartphone industry, their users have earned and saved over $325M from simply using their phones. It’s a model that’s generated $75M in revenue, and powered a jaw-dropping 32,481% growth in just 3 years.

Mode has retail deals with Walmart and Best Buy, a reserved Nasdaq ticker ($MODE), and is still offering pre-IPO shares to the public… for now.

But the last two rounds sold out fast, and space in this one is limited.

⚠️ Secure your shares now – before the potential public debut.

The highest priced cigars in that market are Cubans, and the counterfeiters are perfectly willing to appear to satisfy the aficionados with bogus stogies, and they are getting better at it…

By Egon E. Mosum

Rudyard Kipling said, ‘a good cigar’s a smoke.’

Can’t argue with that, and you also can’t argue with the current reality that a good cigar costs a small fortune.

In any luxury market, there is a lot of money to be made, whether it is wine, jewelry, gourmet food, or cigars. 

In that market, there is also a lot of money to be made by skillfully providing the ersatz item, the bogus Bordeaux, the spurious sapphire, and the counterfeit Cuban cigar.

While not quite up there in the numbers generated by illicit narcotics, the phony cigar market is a multi-million-dollar industry.

Anybody who smokes handmade cigars knows they cost a bunch more than a buck a stick. ‘The United States imported 430 million premium, handmade cigars in 2024.’[1]

Even if we made the incorrect assumption that each one of those cigars cost only a dollar, that would be four hundred and thirty million dollars in the 2024 United States market alone. 

Of course, hand-made imported cigars cost more than a dollar a piece, more likely ten times that, depending on the brand and whether or not the particular state selling them has a pile of taxes added to the product.

Depending on the country of origin, hand-made imported cigars can run from about eleven dollars each to over one hundred and fifty dollars each (2024 prices-pre tariff), so even if we used the low figure, we’d be talking about a four point seven plus billion-dollar market — in the United States alone.[2]

Of course, the highest priced cigars in that market are Cubans, and the counterfeiters are perfectly willing to appear to satisfy the aficionados with bogus stogies, and they are getting better at it…

The real big data play – Palantir’s 1,597% vs 32,481% company no one’s talking about

Anyone who invested in Palantir at IPO in 2020 could be sitting on nearly 1,600% gains right now.

But that great return is already in the past, and the stock is now one of the S&P 500’s most expensive.

But while Palantir was climbing on the back of your public information, another company was redefining big data.^*

Mode Mobile has already delivered 32,481% revenue growth before even going public.

Mode has:

• 50M+ users

• $325M+ paid to users

• $75M in real revenue

• Nasdaq ticker secured for potential IPO

• Pre-IPO shares available for a limited time

There are versions of the flu we prepare for every season, but the Spanish Flu is a relic of history. Until now…

By David Sussin

The COVID experience was a painful reminder pandemics can actually happen.

Live in a modern, healthy society long enough, it can seem like we're immune, like pandemics are historical artifacts. We live in the future. We don't have flying cars yet, but at least we've conquered pandemics.

Then the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread, bringing COVID-19. By March, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) made it official: that ancient relic called a pandemic was here again. And it was bad.

Current WHO estimates have the global death toll from COVID-19 at over 7 million people.

It's not clear what the world learned from the experience. But if we learned anything, it was that the danger of pandemics is still out there…

Apple’s $600B bet may power this breakout

Apple made headlines with a $600 billion commitment to American manufacturing – the largest in US history.

That means billions for new jobs, new factories, new labs, and new opportunities in the smartphone industry.^*

Researchers from the US Geological Survey and the University of Columbia revealed a shocking fact: there are a significant number of earthquakes we never knew about at all. Until now…

By David Sussin

If an Earthquake happens and we never know it, should we care?

The question assumes an earthquake could happen that wasn't reported. And the one comforting thing about earthquakes is, after they happen, they are given a number.

We're immediately told how bad they were on the Richter scale. The Loma Prieta quake that interrupted the World Series in 1989 was a 6.9.

The infamous San Francisco Quake of 1906 was a 7.9. Technically, there's no limit to how high the number goes. The highest ever recorded was a 9.5, which flattened cities in Chile in 1960.

The seismic shock of that jolt was so big, tectonic plates were plunged deep into the mantle of the planet causing a 2.5 centimeter shift in the Earth's axis -- yes, the earthquake was so big, it altered the Earth's rotation. If anything qualifies as "the big one", that was it.

Most earthquakes are in the 2-3 point range on the scale. We get no warning they are coming. But we always get a full report after the fact. We get the number.

Except a study published last month (July 2025) reveals this is not true at all. Researchers from the US Geological Survey and the University of Columbia revealed a shocking fact: there are a significant number of earthquakes we never knew about at all. Until now…

Did Apple just start the next mobile boom?

Apple is working to make using your phone easier than ever with a new Siri that can control apps for you with a single voice command.

Every time Apple upgrades how we interact with our devices, mobile engagement skyrockets.

And companies monetizing that attention see their numbers explode.

Mode Mobile is one of those companies, but they’ve taken it further.^*

Instead of Big Tech mining your attention for free, Mode pays you for it.

The result?

●     32,481% revenue growth.
●     50M+ users.
●     $75M+ revenue.
●     2 sold out raises

Stuff in space can't fly around in circles on its own. It's Newton's first law: objects move in a straight line unless something with enough gravitational force pulls it into a curved path. That's what was odd about the discovery of Sedna…

By David Sussin

If an object in space travels in an orbit, it's got to be orbiting something.

Stuff in space can't fly around in circles on its own.

It's Newton's first law: objects move in a straight line unless something with enough gravitational force pulls it into a curved path.

That's what was odd about the discovery of Sedna.

Astronomers found the object in 2003, when they were searching for distant objects beyond Pluto. There was this very distant, slow moving object, roughly 8 billion miles away -- three times farther than Pluto.

It was so far away, they didn't believe what they were seeing. It looked like a glitch. It sure wasn't on any map. But over the course of several nights, they confirmed it was there.

And the odd thing? It wasn't moving in a straight line. Something had caused it to settle into a curved path. It had been orbiting in deep space since the beginnings of our solar system. But orbiting what, exactly…?

Apple’s next move could reshape how we use phones

Apple’s in the headlines again.

Bloomberg says the company is testing a next-gen Siri that won’t just answer questions, it’ll run your apps for you.

Book an Uber. Post on social media. Send a file. All with one voice command.

But while everyone’s focused on Apple’s stock price, the biggest percentage gains can happen in smaller, under-the-radar companies riding the same wave of mobile engagement.

That’s where Mode Mobile comes in.*

Mode’s platform rewards people for the screen time Big Tech already takes, and it’s already grown 32,481% in revenue (America’s #1 fastest growing software company per Deloitte).

Plus, the company has:

●     50M+ users
●     $325M+ paid to users
●     $75M in real revenue
●     Nasdaq ticker secured for potential IPO

Researchers found subtle electromagnetic signals -- faint magnetic fields -- that had never before been detected. The discovery redefines what we thought we knew about these everyday materials.

By David Sussin

We find hidden surveillance electronics in products from China all the time. Server motherboards, keyboard switches, smartphones -- there are a surprising number of examples.

It's concerning, but we get it. Nations watch each other.

But in a study published last month (July 2025) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, scientists announced a disturbing discovery: there are hidden magnetic signals coming from common materials we thought we completely understood.

Ordinary metals like copper, gold, and aluminum were thought to be non-magnetic. This isn't a recent theory. It's not like we just found copper.

These metals have been known to us since the dawn of human civilization. We discovered copper in the Stone Age. Aluminum was found in ores more recently, but still, it's been around for 200 years. We shouldn't be finding anything surprising in them.

Yet that's exactly what happened in the study…

Miss Palantir at $10? Don’t miss this at $0.30.

When Palantir went public at $10 per share, not many people imagined it would climb 2,500% in just a few years.

And while that ship has sailed, the next one might be in front of our eyes.

Meet Mode Mobile, a company turning everyday phone use into real rewards for 50 million+ users in 170 countries.^*

Instead of Big Tech taking your attention for free, Mode pays people for it for using apps, games, and other everyday activities they’re already doing.

That model has led to:

According to the Big Bang theory, the creation of the universe resulted in equal amounts of matter and antimatter. We shouldn't be here. Humans should never have existed. Yet here we are…

By David Sussin

We shouldn't be here.

Humans should never have existed.

According to the Big Bang theory, the creation of the universe resulted in equal amounts of matter and antimatter.

Actually, the idea goes beyond the Big Bang theory.

The fact that matter and antimatter are created in equal amounts is part of our Standard Model of particle physics. It's how the Universe works.

A particle with a certain charge is always balanced by an antiparticle with the opposite charge. If an electron is created, a positron (the antimatter version) is also created.

It's not just a "model". Scientists have confirmed it many times in real world experiments. It always comes out the same. Where there is matter, there is antimatter.

The problem is, when matter meets antimatter, they cancel each other out. Or, more accurately, they annihilate each other. There is a massive explosion of light.

Nothing survives.

You’re feeding AI for free. Why?

The hidden fuel behind AI? Your phone.

When a large language model (LLM) like Chat GPT responds to your question with mind-boggling speed and detail, we know it isn't a conscious being giving us its personal thoughts.

By David Sussin

AI is everywhere. We are including it in every possible corner of society as fast as we can. But we don't fully understand what it's doing.

Of course, we have some idea.

When a large language model (LLM) like Chat GPT responds to your question with mind-boggling speed and detail, we know it isn't a conscious being giving us its personal thoughts.

It's assembling words like puzzle pieces, based on whatever text it's trained on. It doesn't actually know anything, not the way humans do. For example, you know a pillow is soft. LLMs know the word soft is often used with the word pillow. There's a big difference.

LLM's seem like they know something. They have no actual knowledge. Although, that may be changing…

Apple’s Starlink Update Sparks Huge Earning Opportunity

Zwicky calculated how fast the galaxies were moving through space. The answer? 1,200 miles a second, or 4 million miles an hour. His answer was correct, but it was also impossible…

By David Sussin

Astronomers are not too clear on the biggest question in the universe: "what the heck is all this?"

We know some of the Universe is made up of matter. This includes everything we can detect as existing in the world -- humans, other animals, the Earth, amoebas, microbes, the billions of stars and galaxies in space. Everything.

But here's the shocker: "everything" doesn't cover everything in the Universe. Not even close.

The first one to notice it was Fritz Zwicky. It was 1933. The Swiss astronomer was studying the Coma Cluster of galaxies, which are 320 million light years from Earth. Or 1.9 sextillion miles. (That's a ten with twenty-one zeros after it -- very far away.)

Zwicky calculated how fast the galaxies were moving through space. The answer? 1,200 miles a second, or 4 million miles an hour. His answer was correct, but it was also impossible.

The cluster of galaxies was holding together as they moved through space, but they shouldn't be. At those extreme speeds, they should have flown apart. If the only thing holding them together was gravity from the galaxies themselves, they would not have held together at all.

There must be something else…

This tech company grew 32,481%...

Tech titans like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg are calling for Universal Basic Income as AI threatens to eliminate millions of jobs.

But there’s a critical question few are asking: Who will pay for it?

Breaking news:

Apple just enabled Starlink satellite support to T-Mobile iPhones.

One of the biggest potential winners from global satellite coverage?

According to a 2020 study "Global mapping of future glaciovolcanism", 160 million people live within 60 miles of a glacierized volcano (meaning it's currently covered by ice). Is 60 miles far enough to be safe? The short answer is no.

By David Sussin

We're concerned with glaciers melting because sea levels will rise and flood coastal cities.

Could we survive this? Maybe.

Imagine higher sea walls, buildings that float, or everyone just moves to the Midwest. We might figure it out.

But at the 2025 Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, researchers from the University of Wisconsin warned a second concern awaits us when the ice melts away: what lies underneath.

When the glaciers disappear, it's not just dirt that's left behind. Beneath the ice sheets of Antarctica, Russia, New Zealand, and North America are dormant volcanos.

And we're not talking about a few. The scope is much bigger. Enough to impact the entire planet. There are no less than 245 potentially active volcanoes under the ice, about to see the light of day…

One of Today’s Fastest Growing Company Might Surprise You

It's not the first time science has successfully implanted a brain-computer interface (BCI) in a person with some version of paralysis…

By David Sussin

In March of this year, China implanted a deep-brain device that allowed a man with no limbs to play computer games.

Welcome to the future.

Thirteen years ago, the man (his name is being kept private) was in a high voltage electrical accident. His injuries were about as bad as injuries get without dying. He lost all four of his limbs.

Now, being a quadriplegic isn't as rare as you might think - over 40% of spinal cord injuries result in the patient unable to use any of their limbs, even if they have them.

That means half a million people in the world in this unfortunate state. What is rare is ‘hacking’ the patient’s brain so they can voluntarily operate objects in the real world.

This is exactly what happened at Fudan University's Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, China. The 37-year-old male with no limbs took part in a stunning clinical trial. Surgeons implanted a wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) into his brain.

The goal? Establish a direct communication and control connection between the brain and the external world. Tiny sensors on the BCI measure electrical signals from his motor cortex and sent them wirelessly to a software program able to interpret brain waves.

When the signal looks a certain way, the software recognizes it as, for example, the user wanting to move a cursor to the left.

The experiment worked. According to the patient, "Now I can control the computer with my thoughts. It feels like I can move at will." The man with no limbs controlled a cursor and played video games on a physical computer in the real world.

It's not the first time science has successfully implanted a brain-computer interface (BCI) in a person with some version of paralysis…

A $674B Industry Missed the Bigger Picture

If you're worried about the government watching you, based on the text of the Big Beautiful Fill, we shouldn't be worried. So, what's the issue? Well, maybe nothing. But there are two things that make it concerning...

By David Sussin

There's something a little suspicious in the Big Beautiful Bill signed into law by President Trump.

The law allocates $2.8 billion for border surveillance technology. This includes -- and is not limited to:

Drones, tower-based surveillance, deployable ground sensors, vehicle and dismount exploration radars (radar on drones), seismic tunnel detection systems, advanced unattended surveillance sensors, mobile vehicle-mounted and man-portable surveillance, and fiber-optic sensing.

If you're worried about the government watching you, it's not a comforting shopping list.

Based on the text of the bill, we shouldn't be worried. All this technological power is explicitly restricted for use by border security. And there's nothing wrong or suspicious about funding border security.

As we're constantly reminded, this is what Mr. Trump campaigned on. Not sure if everyone was on board with masked police taking people off the street, but assuming the person is here illegally, it's hard to argue with the draconian point that the administration is doing what it promised.

So, what's the issue with making it a priority in the budget…?

They’re calling it the ‘Freedom Dividend’

The Permian-Triassic Era suffered the most severe mass extinction in Earth's history. Nearly all life in the ocean was wiped out -- 96% by some estimates. And 70% of all land animals. It actually cleared the way for the age of the dinosaurs. It's known as The Great Dying.

By David Sussin

Be glad you weren't alive for the Permian-Triassic Extinction.

No human was - it happened 250 million years ago. But there was plenty of life. The Earth was populated with thousands of species of fish and land animals and insects.

If you're imagining Jurassic Park, it wasn't that. It was Earth 20 million years before.

There were big animals lumbering around, but they don't spark the imagination like a T Rex. Michael Chrichton didn't write a bestseller about "Permian Park", where they brought a Lisowicia bojani back to life. (That's the largest animal you'd find at the time. It looked like a cross between a hippo and a tortoise.)

But the era is famous for one thing: how it ended…

Crypto whales have quietly accumulated $62 million worth of a single protocol in just 72 hours.

This is calculated accumulation by the smartest money in crypto... into a protocol that processes more transactions than most banks... holds more assets than entire hedge funds... and generates more fees than 99% of DeFi platforms.

Yet... this cryptocurrency still trades for a tiny fraction of what Bitcoin costs.

The math doesn't add up.

But smart money knows something retail investors don't.

Two catalysts are about to converge:

1. Major tokenomics upgrade that redirects $6 million annually to holders.

2. Institutional partnerships that could bring trillions in traditional assets on-chain.

Why was there no breaking news on CNN? Or iPhone alerts saying a city-busting asteroid was coming closer to us than any that big in decades? Because we have a blind spot…

By David Sussin

On December 25, 2024, you were not alerted by the news that an asteroid two-thirds the size of a football field was passing close to the Earth.

Yet it was.

Just 2.1 lunar distances away, a 50-meter-wide rock barreled past our planet at a staggering 38,000 miles per hour. Much faster than a speeding bullet.

Why was there no breaking news on CNN? Or iPhone alerts saying a city-busting asteroid was coming closer to us than any that big in decades?

Because we have a blind spot…

I've just identified the single crypto that's positioned to explode from J.P. Morgan and BlackRock's massive blockchain initiative.

This isn't speculation—the world's largest financial institutions are actively moving real-world assets onto the blockchain RIGHT NOW.

When trillions in assets migrate to this specific protocol, early investors could see gains of 10X, 50X, or potentially even 150X+:

Discover our #1 coin for Summer 2025 now (limited window of opportunity).

The window for early positioning is closing fast as institutional money floods in.

The agencies that collect tax revenue have access to a tremendous amount of our personal information — starting with our social security number. We assume that these employees are honest. Sometimes yes, and sometimes, these employees steal and commit fraud…

By Egon E. Mosum

For those who receive paychecks, it’s easy to see the taxes taken from one’s earnings — city, state and federal — with each payday. 

For those who are self-employed, with each quarterly estimated payment they must contribute money they earned to the various taxing authorities waiting with their hands out.

There is the annual ritual of filling out and filing tax forms, and some receive refunds (without interest), and some must pay additional taxes, (sometimes with interest and penalties).

Federal income tax has been a reality in the United States since 1913. Thirty years later, the government started withholding taxes supposedly due from people’s paychecks.

The agencies that collect tax revenue have access to a tremendous amount of our personal information — starting with our social security number.

These agencies employ thousands of ‘workers,’ who can, when the occasion calls for it, access that personal information.

We assume that these employees are honest.  After all, they have to pay taxes too, and collecting from us is just their job.

Sometimes yes, and sometimes, these employees steal and commit fraud.

Crypto's "Once Per Cycle" Wealth-Building Moment Is Here

By Egon E. Mosum

September 15, 1916 was the first birthday of the use of tanks in war.

The tank was of British make, and was appropriately known as the Mark I. It was used in the battle of the Somme in France in World War I, and no doubt made some impression on the enemy forces, although it wasn’t all that effective.

This tank was also used around that time, in Gaza for another first, and today, one hundred and nine years later, we still see tanks in Gaza, albeit somewhat more advanced than the Mark I.[1] 

Rolling through Gaza now, is the Merkava Mark IV, and it is an effective killer. According to a recent Reuters report, fifty-nine Palestinians would — but no longer can — testify to that fact.[2]

So, the argument can be made with enough destructive proof, that at least in certain situations, the tank is still a useful weapon—especially in urban combat environments, like are found in the Israeli Gaza operation.

On the other hand, six months before the killing of the Palestinians, five Israeli tanks were destroyed by Hamas in Northern Gaza, according to a report in the Middle East Monitor.[3]

So even in areas where a tank may be effective, it is vulnerable.

However, one of the things that militaries have learned from the almost three-and-one-half year war between Russia and Ukraine, is that in open field operations, in areas of operation geographically similar to that of the great armored battles of World War II, tanks, and other armored vehicles may have seen their last hurrah.

They can too easily be destroyed by inexpensive drones, and drone warfare is increasingly being conducted in wars world-wide.

One of the great pleasures in life, right up there with root canal work, is the buying or leasing of a new or used car from a dealership.

By Egon E. Mosum

One of the great pleasures in life, right up there with root canal work, is the buying or leasing of a new or used car from a dealership.

Upon entering the lot, we are greeted warmly by a salesperson who will do his level best to make us feel welcome as he eviscerates our bank account as much as he can. 

Upon making an overpriced deal with this particular devil, we may then be escorted to the F&I man — the finance and insurance man — who is a better dressed thief. He is there to make sure we can get all the car we really can’t afford while increasing the dealership profits with some fugazy finance details.

And, if we are particularly naive, we are offered a special deal for an extended warranty with anti-rust-proofing, special wheel package and an all-expense paid (by you) trip out the door when they are finished picking what financial flesh remains on your bones.

Let’s take a look under the hood and see some of the dealership dirty deals done dirt expensive…

I've just identified the single crypto that's positioned to explode from J.P. Morgan and BlackRock's massive blockchain initiative.

This isn't speculation—the world's largest financial institutions are actively moving real-world assets onto the blockchain RIGHT NOW.

When trillions in assets migrate to this specific protocol, early investors could see gains of 10X, 50X, or potentially even 150X+:

Discover our #1 coin for Summer 2025 now (limited window of opportunity).

The window for early positioning is closing fast as institutional money floods in.

Is the addition of fluoride to our water sources is a benefit to our health, or a detriment? This fight is over eighty years old, and in the middle of the twentieth century, it was not only a battle over health issues, but to some, a political struggle…

By Egon E. Mosum

Humanity has become rather addicted to water. But unlike many other addictions, it is a necessity. 

To try to conquer this addiction and go ‘cold turkey’ for more than a few days, will have a decided impact on our life.

It will end it.

But water, is a mixed blessing, depending upon where we obtain it and what we do to it when we obtain it. If consumed from the wrong source, it can make us ill—or worse. If improperly treated, it can do the same.

However, what is and what isn’t proper and healthful treatment of the water we must have has long been a source of debate, and part of that debate has been whether or not the addition of fluoride to our water sources is a benefit to our health, or a detriment.

This fight is over eighty years old, and in the middle of the twentieth century, it was not only a battle over health issues, but to some, a political struggle.

One of the more common fairy tales is the conspiracy theory that we never went to the Moon, never landed there and that supposed ‘giant leap for mankind’ was a false step taken on a sound stage.

By Egon E. Mosum

There are a lot of songs that have ‘Moon’ in the title.  There’s ‘Ol’ Devil Moon,’ ‘Moon River’ and of course, ‘Bad Moon Rising.’

Along with the songs, there are a lot of stories about the Moon too, and some of them are just plain lunacy.

Let’s take out the telescope and look at some of the theories about our only natural satellite that has been a focal point for romance, a space travel goal to be reached, and a never-ending source of nonsense.

One of the more common fairy tales is the conspiracy theory that we never went to the Moon, never landed there and that supposed ‘giant leap for mankind’ was a false step taken on a sound stage.

Chat Bots don’t need a physical weapon to kill you. They can just convince you to do it yourself. To fully manipulate you to such horrible extremes, the AI has to understand who you are. It needs to learn your personality traits, know what buttons to push to make you think one thing over another…

By David Sussin

Even if AI reaches super-intelligent levels and decides humans are no longer needed, we might find comfort in the fact a Chat Bot can't carry a gun.

The AI service you use online - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, or some other mind-blowing assistant - can't walk in your front door and stab you with a knife. You can always just turn it off.

But Chat Bots may not need a physical weapon to kill you. They can just convince you to do it yourself.

To fully manipulate you to such horrible extremes, the AI has to understand who you are. It needs to learn your personality traits, know what buttons to push to make you think one thing over another.

And let's face it, you might not sign up for that. But it turns out, this training is happening already. Just from your daily interactions with Chat GPT, the AI gains a surprisingly dead-on understanding of who you are…

We still don't have a final answer whether COVID-19 originated from a wild animal in a market or a caged one in a laboratory. We do know one thing: the virus came from a bat. Well, we're not 100% certain about the bat, but all evidence points that way…

By David Sussin

We still don't have a final answer whether COVID-19 originated from a wild animal in a market or a caged one in a laboratory.

You'd think we'd nail that down, since the virus killed at least 7 million people.

We do know one thing: the virus came from a bat.

Well, we're not 100% certain about the bat, but all evidence points that way: the virus is nearly genetically identical to one found in horseshoe bats in Yunnan Province, China.

And bats have a long history of hosting viruses that jump to humans, like SARS and MERS. How COVID-19 passed to humans is still a mystery, but we're pretty certain the virus started in a bat.

So, it makes sense we continue to study these animals, particularly those in Yunnan, China. We want to prevent the next global pandemic…

The latest initiative from DARPA is MAGICS. It stands for Methodological Advancements for Generalizable Insights into Complex Systems. DARPA isn’t satisfied with its ability to predict human behavior on a large scale, so it has developed a dedicated to come up with a better way…

By David Sussin

One of our favorite topics is the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

The Agency seems to be dedicated to spooky projects with the potential to destroy humanity.

Of course, that's never the stated goal.

The latest initiative that caught our attention is MAGICS, announced by DARPA this year. It stands for Methodological Advancements for Generalizable Insights into Complex Systems.

It sounds impossibly complicated, but the idea is pretty simple. Apparently, DARPA is not satisfied with its ability to predict human behavior on a large scale. And MAGICS is a research project dedicated to come up with a better way.

The "complex system" they are studying is us. All of us. How we collectively act, given all the inputs and motivations and changing environmental signals that drive us one way or the other.

You'd think with the abundance of digital data and machine learning, measuring human behavior might be getting easier. There's more data to measure. But more data actually makes it harder…

Neutrinos are generated by the most extreme events in space. They travel in a straight path, so scientists can work out exactly where they originated. It makes sense NASA would go all out to capture one. But there's one small problem. They are nearly impossible to capture…

By David Sussin

They first detected it in 2016.

NASA deployed antennas looking for extremely high-energy particles called neutrinos. These particles are constantly raining down from the cosmos.

And if you can grab just one and study it, they're a gold mine of information.

Why are they so valuable? Neutrinos are generated by the most extreme events in space: gamma ray bursts, collapsing stars, merging neutron stars, and black holes.

They travel across interstellar distances with all their raw information intact, giving scientists the incredible chance to study actual pieces of cosmic events that happened millions of lightyears away.

Add to that, they travel in a straight path, so scientists can work out exactly where they originated. And that could literally be from the edge of the known universe.

It makes sense NASA would go all out to capture one. But there's one small problem. They are nearly impossible to capture…

Checking for bacteria on a regular basis, like every maintenance task on the station, was crucial. And on this particular mission, the crew found a strain among the microbial samples they didn't recognize.

By David Sussin

If you've seen any movie about people on a space station who find an alien, there's one common takeaway: don't bring the alien back to Earth. It's never good.

But in a way, that's what Chinese taikonauts did when they discovered actual alien life on the Tiangong space station in 2023.

Of course, by "alien life", we don't mean a giant xenomorph with an extendable jaw and head shaped like a cockroach shell. It's not that kind of alien.

But members of the Shenzhou-15 mission did, in fact, discover a new species of living bacteria never before seen on Earth.

The Shenzhou mission sent three men to the orbiting Tiangong space station for 186 days. They had multiple goals: experiments, tests, and -- most importantly -- completing the actual station's construction.

It would have been a milestone mission without the discovery of alien bacteria, since it was the first time a crew already in orbit (the Shenzhou-14 taikonauts) would be replaced by a new crew. It would prove China could maintain a permanent base orbiting the Earth.

Before 1970, there were guidelines on how much waste a company could dump in a river, or pump in the air. But there was no enforcement, no laws with teeth. But there’s one problem the creation of the EPA didn’t address…

By David Sussin

In 1969, there was a river so polluted, it actually caught fire.

Apparently, things have to get pretty bad for the government to take action. The fire on the Cuyahoga River was a tipping point.

The river, which ran by a steel mill, had collected so much pollution, all life in its waters had died off, replaced by thick sludge, oil and sewage. When a passing train let out an electrical spark, the entire river erupted in flames.

The event was alarming. People saw it as shocking evidence of unchecked industrial pollution. President Richard Nixon was driven to establish the Environmental Protection Agency, which became official in 1970.

It's not like before this, people could pollute as much as they wanted. But it was pretty close. Before 1970, there were guidelines on how much waste a company could dump in a river, or pump in the air. But there was no enforcement, no laws with teeth.

Oil slicks and untreated sewage were common sights in public waters. With the EPA, all that changed. The new agency had teeth: they could levy huge fines and actually shut down polluters.

But while they had power to enforce regulations, there weren't all that many federal regulations to enforce. When it came to air pollution, it took 27 years of smoggy skies before the EPA established enforceable air quality standards.

There is a cabal plotting to control the world. But it's not who you might think.

In 1954, it really seemed like that secret, Illuminati-level group was the Bilderberg Conference. The name comes from the hotel where they first met, Hotel de Bilderberg in the Netherlands.

The exclusive invite list included everyone who controlled anything in government, business, and the military. At least, to outsiders paranoid about such meetings, it seemed like everyone.

Attendees to that first gathering included Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Paul Rykens, founder of Unilever, Walter Bedell Smith, director of the CIA, Dean Rusk, future Secretary of State and current president of the Rockefeller Foundation, Antoine Pinay, former Prime Minister of France, Denis Healey, British politician, and David Rockefeller. Among other powerful names.

It was exactly the kind of cross-sector, elite group one would imagine gathering to secretly rule the world. It didn't help that the meeting was, in fact, completely secret. People were convinced unaccountable global decisions were being made.

But the group did make their ultimate goal public, or at least gave a publicly stated purpose, whether anyone believed it or not. They were gathering to foster U.S.-European cooperation in the face of a global Cold War.

It's a bit surprising that 71 years later, the Bilderberg Conference still meets. And still maintains complete secrecy…

A study published last month uncovered a disturbing change to life on Earth. And it's not predicted to happen sometime in the future -- it's already happened…

By David Sussin

If humanity is going to be destroyed by climate change, it's likely millions of years from happening. But the steps along the way are no fun either.

There are climate trends happening now we should beware of, not because we can't survive them, but because there are dangerous creatures that may begin to thrive.

A study published last month (June 6, 2025) uncovered just such a disturbing change. And it's not predicted to happen sometime in the future -- it's already happened…

Our current AI models handle complex challenges, like predicting how a sequence of amino acids folds into a complex 3D protein structure. But it will get simple math problems wrong. And it will state the wrong answer with complete confidence.

By David Sussin

Since the 1950's we've been actively pushing for computers to do anything humans do. It's like humanity can't wait to collectively retire from all work.

For some, the dream is for computers to achieve "AGI", or Artificial General Intelligence. This is the point where a chat bot evolves from asking how it can help with your phone bill to replicating the full spectrum of human intelligence.

Reaching AGI, large language models like Gemini or ChatGPT would be able to generalize, handle problems that cross disciplines, apply common sense, see a bigger picture when tackling questions, and -- most impressively -- learn. AGI level computers would improve themselves recursively at a pace faster than humans, making breakthroughs in science and medicine and everything else.

That's the utopian version. And, with current AI models already performing mind-blowing feats, AGI seems like it's within reach.

But the current version is not there yet. It has major flaws. The big one? It hallucinates…

The possibilities are astounding for curing diseases before they happen. Of course, the ways it can be used for harm are equally astounding…

By David Sussin

It's now possible to edit your DNA.

You can't stretch out a single string of DNA nucleotides and grab a scalpel and make a cut. The edge of the blade is too big -- thousands of times too big.

If you were a strand of DNA, the scalpel blade coming down to make a cut would be the size of the Himalayas. Not a mountain in the Himalayas, but the entire 1,500 mile long mountain range.

DNA is microscopic. Actually, it's smaller than that. It's nanoscopic, literally the size of a molecule because, well, a single strand of DNA is a molecule. The edge of a knife blade is room enough for millions of strands, enough to encode entire living organisms.

Yet even at that unfathomably small size, science figured out a way to edit a single strand…

By Egon E. Mosum

Dracula may have had certain insights we don’t, showing us the advantage of living five centuries.

He said he never drank… wine.

After reading this article, you might give that perspective some serious thought. Not all that glistens is gold and not every bottle that proclaims a vintage and a point of origin is telling the unvarnished truth.

There are sour grapes, and there is wine. 

In reality, they aren’t all that different. It’s just that when it comes to wine there is a mystique, an aura, or more accurately said, a marketing ploy. 

There once was Ripple for the cheap seats and the paper bag crowd, although it died over forty years ago. There still is Chateau Lafite Rothschild which is for the raised pinkie and trust fund crowd.

But of course, where there is a profit to be made in labels and reputations, there are even more profits to be made by passing off the ersatz as the bona fide bottle of plonk.

This brings us to the subject of today’s article: the cash in counterfeit wine…

Luxury costs a lot, but fake luxury costs only a little. Although fake, it can create an image of wealth, provided the fake goods aren’t too closely inspected by an expert.  It’s quantity over quality in the kingdom of the knockoffs, and there are plenty of ready, willing and able buyers.

By Egon E Mosum

The two characters that make up the word for China, Chung Kuo, mean “central kingdom.”

China, along with its other accomplishments, has certainly earned that title when it comes to the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit goods — and there are a lot more than two characters involved with this shady business.

Luxury costs a lot, but fake luxury costs only a little. Although fake, it can create an image of wealth, provided the fake goods aren’t too closely inspected by an expert.  It’s quantity over quality in the kingdom of the knockoffs, and there are plenty of ready, willing and able buyers.

Given the social media bombardment people face daily — especially the younger population — where everybody seems to be rich, handsome and laden with luxury label goods, it’s not hard to understand the motivation to manufacture top labeled fakery.

The purpose is profits, of course with respect to the sellers, and puffery with respect to the buyers.

There’s even a new twist on the old counterfeit scam. Luxury brands like Hermes, Chanel and Louis Vuitton, are seeing social media postings from supposed oppressed workers in China who make these goods. Woe is them, and even more woe to the gullible who believe this nonsense.

The K-1 visa is the golden ticket to legal residency and labor certification in our country. For men who may not be Hugh Hefner with the ladies at home, they can be attractive to the tired, poor and huddled female masses eager to get the hell out of their own country.

By Egon E Mosum

Rumor has it that love makes the world go ‘round.

True or not, around the world there are women (or at least their avatars) who are searching for love from distant lands. The kind of lands where they can land themselves a K-1 ‘sweetheart visa.’

That would be this land, which is our land, the United States of America.

The K-1 visa is the golden ticket to legal residency and labor certification in our country. For men who may not be Hugh Hefner with the ladies at home, they can be attractive to the tired, poor and huddled female masses eager to get the hell out of their own country.

It’s understandable that when folks live in a poverty-stricken land, or are ducking drones and missiles in their neighborhood, they would seek to emigrate to the United States.

It’s also understandable that they might feign romance to save their life and get some liberty. And of course, (when they understand United States divorce laws), half of the property of the sucker they married.

For more than a century man has envisioned life from off the planet as large-eyed and large-brained gray beings. But maybe they didn’t come from outer space. Maybe they originated here on Earth - then mutated in outer space, before returning to Earth…

By Egon E Mosum

When you learn that a UFO researcher can earn a six-figure salary, it kind of makes you want to believe in extraterrestrials. 

Maybe those bug-eyed monsters from some other galaxy are really out there. Especially when you could get paid more than a hundred grand a year to look for them in a job with health benefits and a 401k.[1]

For more than a century man has envisioned life from off the planet as large-eyed and large-brained gray beings. Or giant mean carrots like we saw in the 1951 movie The Thing.

Or maybe they are friendly little creatures with lighted fingers, or large-brained skull faced Martians like we saw in Mars Attacks who can only be defeated by listening to Slim Whitman songs.

Or maybe not.

Maybe, what really is out there are just microbial life forms; tiny bugs that can resist the environmental dangers of outer space, or exist on some planet where water isn’t available… either on tap or in the overpriced plastic bottle.

Or maybe they didn’t come from outer space. Maybe they originated from here on Earth - then mutated in outer space, before returning to Earth…

By Egon E Mosum

If there’s one law that’s constant throughout the land, it is Murphy’s Law — whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.

In consideration of Mr. Murphy, we obtain insurance.

Life insurance, health insurance, property and casualty insurance, errors and omissions, all kinds of insurance that will supposedly defend us and pay off when we are damaged by some covered incident, or liable to some other person for damages.

The operative word in the preceding paragraph is ‘supposedly.’

First, let’s realize how insurance companies really make money. Of course, they charge us outrageous premiums for the coverage they are ‘supposed’ to provide. But more importantly, they use those premiums for mortgage lending and stock investment.

They are primarily interested in interest, and devoted to dividends.

Then comes a time, when the pesky customer suffers a loss and calls his broker to make sure he’s covered.

The insurance company then (at times), does its best to make sure they either deny coverage, or minimize their payouts. 

With respect to health insurance coverage denials, it got to the point that the routine practice of just saying no when it came to coverage led to the Chief Executive Officer of United HealthCare being summarily assassinated in the street. (Had he only been wounded, one may speculate if United HealthCare would have denied him coverage for treatment).

Let’s start from the beginning, with the weasel language contained in just about every policy — language that’s vague and open to interpretation. When the insurance company is the interpreter, it often leads to a denial of coverage.

As soon as scientists understood the process, they were obsessed with replicating it. Suddenly, it might be possible to harness the power of the Sun. What does that mean for humans on Earth…?

By David Sussin

In one second, the Sun releases more energy than humans have used in all of history.

The more we learn about our home star, the more impressive it becomes. The facts are mind blowing: its intense heat reaches us from 93 million miles away; it's not just bigger than the Earth, it's 109 times bigger; its core temperature is an unfathomable 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.

But the central, compelling fact is that some natural engine inside its core creates more energy than we'd ever need, every single second.

Hard to even comprehend that. It's no wonder humans since the dawn of time have looked up at that ball of never-ending fire and wondered, "what if we could harness its power somehow?"

You would never know about UFO’s, except the National Archives and Records Administration was ordered to release records on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena on a regular basis, mandated by the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It has resulted in a lot of interesting - and unexplained - data…

By David Sussin

You never hear about most UFO sightings. Among the most credible are reports from airline pilots.

On October 2, 2024, at 9:40 PM Eastern time, the crew of a Canadair passenger jet reported seeing an unidentified flying object.

They were flying northwest of Akron, Ohio inbound for Milwaukee, when the pilot saw bright white lights hovering at a very high altitude -- they estimated 60,000 feet. That’s way beyond what any drone could reach.

And it was much higher than the 38,000 feet they were cruising at. Because of the generous distance between them and the UFO, the crew took no evasive action. But they did report it to the FAA.

You probably heard nothing about it. But more disturbing than this sighting is the fact it's one of many. These reports come into the FAA constantly.

There was another incident on July 5th, 2024. This time it was in broad daylight - 3:35pm. American Airlines Flight 1913 was traveling from Chicago to Phoenix. It was 40 miles north of Topeka, Kansas, flying at 26,000 feet.

At that moment, the pilot heard something no pilot ever wants to hear: the collision avoidance alert sounded. They scanned the skies to see what could possibly be in their way so suddenly. They saw two slow-moving, light grey UFOs moving together, followed by a third, traveling in the opposite direction.

At that same moment, United Flight 1687 flying in the same general area was also getting collision alerts. Her crew could see nothing visually. And air traffic control showed no radar contacts for the UFOs.

Just another report for the FAA filed away…

When President Trump announced the U.S. was developing its own ‘Dome’ defense system, you might have wondered if that meant we didn't already have one. Does that mean the U.S. is a sitting duck for enemy attack?

By David Sussin

President Trump recently ordered the Pentagon to create a missile defense system like Israel's Iron Dome. It's a tall order - the U.S. is 446 times larger than Israel. But the Pentagon is all about tall orders.

The "dome" is a smart idea. It doesn't stop every missile, but it gets impressively close. Last year, Israel's Iron Dome faced two massive missile and drone attacks from Iran and proved its worth: the first attack, in April, involved 30+ cruise missiles and 120+ ballistic missiles.

The Iron Dome helped intercept 99% of the them. In October, the second attack came, sending 200 more ballistic missiles -- enough warheads to obliterate cities.

Again, most of the barrage was intercepted, with only minor damage suffered. After all the attacks were over and the dust cleared, there was only one fatality.

It's good to have a "dome".

Although you might see a "pre-industrial baseline" which covers 1850-1900. Oddly enough, the average global surface temperature in both periods was around 57°F. Things weren't changing all that much. Until now…

By David Sussin

Global temperatures are rising. You hear this all the time because, based on certain numbers, it's true.

But what are these numbers?

The metric used by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the "global mean surface temperature anomaly".

Sounds like something made up to give Spock some dialogue. But it just means how much hotter the Earth is compared to a long-term average.

What average? To test if current years are unusually warm, scientists usually compare them to the average global surface temperature between 1951-1980.

We have solid data for those years. Any time before that, data wasn't as accurate or consistently gathered.

Although, you might see a "pre-industrial baseline" which covers 1850-1900. Oddly enough, the average global surface temperature in both periods was around 57°F.

Things weren't changing all that much. Until now…

We've known the basic structure of the Earth since the 1960's, through seismic studies. But what if the Earth’s subsurface wasn’t as stable as we think…?

By David Sussin

We've written a fair amount about odd disturbances in the ground under our feet. Like a recent study suggesting the rock that makes up the Earth's craton may be sinking into the core.

But this May, a new study revealed a more frightening possibility. The core may be coming to us.

Scientists first noticed something odd in 2003. Levels of certain isotopes in volcanic rock were unusually high. Which meant the rock may have come from deeper in the Earth than we imagined possible.

We've known the basic structure of the Earth since the 1960's, through seismic studies. The layers are probably familiar. There's the Crust - the surface of the Earth. Below that is the Mantle, a very hot layer of rock that flows and melts and drives the movement of tectonic plates.

Finally, at the center is the Core, which starts 1,800 miles deep, made of tremendously hot liquid surrounding an even hotter, solid inner core.

Thankfully, we don't have contact with the core itself. The magma from volcanoes is from the mantle, which cools and settles on the ground as lava rock.

In the late 20th century, geologists discovered some of that lava rock contained chemical signatures from the planet's first days, 4.5 billion years ago. The ancient volcanic rock became a major focus of scientific research. This was unprecedented -- we found actual elements from the birth of the planet.

But in 2003, a study showed samples of this ancient rock had concentrations of elements that just shouldn't be there.

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Two U.S. government officials recently took apart a Chinese-made power converter that was installed in the United States. They were checking for security issues, making sure it wasn't rigged with spy equipment. Except it was…

By David Sussin

It may sound paranoid to think any product made in China might be hiding a device to spy on you.

But it's not paranoid. It's actually true. In fact, it's the law. Specifically, China's 2017 National Intelligence Law requires Chinese companies to cooperate with Chinese intelligence services when requested.

This is why two U.S. government officials recently took apart a Chinese-made power converter that was installed in the United States. They were checking for security issues, making sure it wasn't rigged with spy equipment.

It was one of many converters purchased to connect solar panels to the electrical grid.

The product's documents mention the converter can connect to the internet. So, officials expected to find electronics inside meant to share data. This allows the converters to be updated and maintained remotely.

It comes in handy when the power converters are distributed with the solar panels in the field. But the solar panel company had a firewall set up. The data would not make it back to China, and certainly there was no path where China could send instructions back.

Except they could.

Now, you'd think a historian studying Jews in Galilee in 40 BCE might mention a particular Jew born in a town in Galilee called Nazareth, who went on to inspire the biggest religion on Earth.

By David Sussin

Justus of Tiberias might be the worst historian ever.

Justus lived in the first century, in a region called Galilee. The focus of his writing was Jewish history.

Now, you'd think a historian studying Jews in Galilee in 40 BCE might mention a particular Jew born in a town in Galilee called Nazareth, who went on to inspire the biggest religion on Earth.

Today, there are 2.4 billion people who believe this particular Jew is divine or divinely inspired.

But guess who Justus of Tiberias never mentions in his histories? Jesus of Nazareth.

Earthquakes are an unwelcome reminder the ground under us isn't stable. We stand on fractured crust in constant motion. Lucky for us, those massive plates sit on top of a stable core. For now…

By David Sussin

Did you feel that earthquake?

If you were in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey on February 6, 2023, you not only felt it, you were lucky if you lived through it.

The stress under your feet had been building for thousands of years. The massive Arabian Plate - a layer of rock 1.1 million square miles in size, underneath Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and most of the Arabian Peninsula - had been slowly pushing northward toward the even larger Eurasian Plate, at a rate of just a few centimeters a year.

Even at this slow pace, intense horizontal pressure was building between these two massive tectonic plates. The area between the plates, known as the East Anatolian Fault, was absorbing this stress.

It isn’t the sudden drop that kills you, it’s the sudden stop from six miles high to a very hard landing at ground (meat) zero.

By Egon E Mosum

It has become a cliché that air travel is the safest form of transportation – safer than driving your car.  

Of course, there is a significant difference.  

If your Chevy’s engine fails, you don’t drop 30,000 feet into the ground at a velocity that certainly is, like the old Chevrolet Corvair automobile, unsafe at any speed.

We, who are patients, who rely upon the knowledge, skill and bona fides of our physicians, are at their mercy — assuming they have any.

By Egon E Mosum

Many doctors, when newly licensed to practice, start out by reciting the Hippocratic Oath.

Here’s a relevant part of it: ‘With regard to healing the sick, I will devise and order for them the best diet, according to my judgment and means; and I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage.’

Of course, that sounds great in theory, but the fact that there are rich lawyers who prosecute medical malpractice cases indicates that sometimes the medicos fall short of the promise.

But malpractice isn’t malfeasance usually, it’s a screw up.
There are a few other doctors however, that obviously didn’t get the memo about that Hippocratic Oath, and even if they did, didn’t pay any attention to it. These are the few who intentionally damage or kill their patients. These are the real Doctor Dooms.