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ABC News photojournalist Chris Plater, a witness to the scene after two National Guardsmen were shot in D.C.: "One person said something like, you know, man, the guy went up there and started shooting at the National Guard. I didn't get to talk to him, but I didn't get to, you know, know who he was. But it seemed like he suggested that somebody went up and started shooting at the National Guard." "One National Guard was lying on his side. They were rendering aid to him. He wasn't moving, but he was on his side. And then I looked at the the other National Guard member that was down, and I saw compressions going on. I, you know, it was -- it was a lot of people around there. So I don't think it was the person that had done the shooting. And all I could tell you is that I identified two National Guard members that were being worked on. Eventually, the one National Guard that was on the side, he got to move a little bit while he was on his side. And they were still, you know, kind of, you know, working with him. But the other national Guard member, I just saw compression going on with him in the chest area, and that's that's all I can tell you."

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Kyle Shanahan on Curtis Robinson: “He's really worked to get better each year, and he's a very talented guy. I think when he came here, he hadn't played in a system like this for a while. It took him a little bit to kind of pick that up, but we so believed in him as a guy and his talent level that after a year, you could start to see it clicking. He became a big asset on special teams, and last year was the first time that we really believed he was going to step in there, really contribute at linebacker at a high level. It was actually kind of a sad story, but it was about 20 minutes before he tours ACL, was the first time that I told him he'd be starting that week. It was his first start in his career, and he had earned it. We were going to move him ahead of Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles at the time. I had just told Flannigan, which was tough for Flannigan, but they were so tight, so he was happy for Curtis. Then it was about 20 minutes later that Curtis tore his ACL on special teams before he even got to a defensive rep. He was so coming in there and finally about to have his moment. Then he had that setback, which I know crushed the team for him. He's one of the most liked guys on our team, as good of a person and good of a dude as I've ever been around. He's worked for this moment, and we're excited to see him get his opportunity." via: 49ers on NBCS

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Q: “Because I think a lot of people are familiar with, you know, pop stars have these alter egos on stage and then they're also a little bit potentially different behind the scenes. Can you talk about what the difference is between those two personas?” ROSÉ: “I think, you know, like I started off as, my whole career started as Blackpink and I feel like it was so much fun creating this character on stage because I'm just from like Australia, like in my bedroom, but like it was so much fun creating this like pop star, like character. It was so much fun. And then I think creating my first solo album, it was my discover of like, you know, who am I? And like when I was naming the album, I really thought a lot about it. There was like options like, you know, number one girl. And then a lot of people did like, what about Rosie? And at first I was like, it seems a bit like narcissistic. ..I'm not sure. And then it slowly grew on me. And then, you know, just the idea of it being Rosie because Rosé has been such a big part of my life. And that's what we present ourselves as Blackpink, Blackpink Rosé. And I felt like this was very opposite. And so I noticed that it was closer to kind of introducing a different version of me, like because it combined all the stories I would talk about with my friends and family. And they call me Rosie at home. And of course, the online name that the company had made for me from at the beginning of Blackpink, I remember when it happened was like the day before they released my picture, profile picture, they were like, Rosé. And like the name got announced.”

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35,872 views • 4 months ago

“Because I think a lot of people are familiar with you know, pop stars have these alter egos on stage and then they're also a little bit potentially different behind the scenes. Can you talk about what the difference is between those two personas?” ROSÉ: I think, you know, like I started off as, my whole career started as Blackpink and I feel like it was so much fun creating this character on stage because I'm just from like Australia, like in my bedroom, but like it was so much fun creating this like pop star, like character. It was so much fun. And then I think creating my first solo album, it was my discover of like, you know, who am I? And like when I was naming the album, I really thought a lot about it. There was like options like, you know, number one girl. And then a lot of people did like, what about Rosie? And at first I was like, it seems a bit like narcissistic. I'm not sure. And then it slowly grew on me. And then, you know, just the idea of it being Rosie because Rosé has been such a big part of my life. And that's what we present ourselves as Blackpink, Blackpink Rosé. And I felt like this was very opposite. And so I noticed that it was closer to kind of introducing a different version of me, like because it combined all the stories I would talk about with my friends and family. And they call me Rosie at home. And of course, the online name that the company had made for me from at the beginning of Blackpink, I remember when it happened was like the day before they released my picture, profile picture, they were like, Rosé. And like the name got announced.
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“Because I think a lot of people are familiar with you know, pop stars have these alter egos on stage and then they're also a little bit potentially different behind the scenes. Can you talk about what the difference is between those two personas?” ROSÉ: I think, you know, like I started off as, my whole career started as Blackpink and I feel like it was so much fun creating this character on stage because I'm just from like Australia, like in my bedroom, but like it was so much fun creating this like pop star, like character. It was so much fun. And then I think creating my first solo album, it was my discover of like, you know, who am I? And like when I was naming the album, I really thought a lot about it. There was like options like, you know, number one girl. And then a lot of people did like, what about Rosie? And at first I was like, it seems a bit like narcissistic. I'm not sure. And then it slowly grew on me. And then, you know, just the idea of it being Rosie because Rosé has been such a big part of my life. And that's what we present ourselves as Blackpink, Blackpink Rosé. And I felt like this was very opposite. And so I noticed that it was closer to kind of introducing a different version of me, like because it combined all the stories I would talk about with my friends and family. And they call me Rosie at home. And of course, the online name that the company had made for me from at the beginning of Blackpink, I remember when it happened was like the day before they released my picture, profile picture, they were like, Rosé. And like the name got announced.

rosie

47,583 views • 4 months ago

Chamath's $420M debt story: “If I ever do that again, punch me in the face.” Chamath: “ I've been in debt. I've had a $420M credit line. And I had a moment where it was reflexively kind of collapsing inward because the assets that I was using to secure it shrank in value in a moment of market disruption. I was scrambling, and then at the same time, there was a risk, it was the worst moment of my professional working life. I had a couple hundred million dollars sitting at Credit Suisse and they were about to implode, and so on a weekend I was trying to figure out whether my money was still there. I had always had this rule, don't have debt, and then I violated it to try to run the number up. I almost got run over. I almost lost everything. I will never do it again, and if I ever do it again, if you guys ever hear me do it again, please just come and punch me in the face. Jason: “We will. We've been waiting for an excuse.” Friedberg: “Can we punch you in the face for other things too?” Chamath: “Yeah, absolutely.” Sacks: “This is how smart guys go bankrupt, they take on debt.”
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Chamath's $420M debt story: “If I ever do that again, punch me in the face.” Chamath: “ I've been in debt. I've had a $420M credit line. And I had a moment where it was reflexively kind of collapsing inward because the assets that I was using to secure it shrank in value in a moment of market disruption. I was scrambling, and then at the same time, there was a risk, it was the worst moment of my professional working life. I had a couple hundred million dollars sitting at Credit Suisse and they were about to implode, and so on a weekend I was trying to figure out whether my money was still there. I had always had this rule, don't have debt, and then I violated it to try to run the number up. I almost got run over. I almost lost everything. I will never do it again, and if I ever do it again, if you guys ever hear me do it again, please just come and punch me in the face. Jason: “We will. We've been waiting for an excuse.” Friedberg: “Can we punch you in the face for other things too?” Chamath: “Yeah, absolutely.” Sacks: “This is how smart guys go bankrupt, they take on debt.”

The All-In Podcast

327,279 views • 1 month ago

A year ago at Talladega I asked Kyle Busch about his upcoming 40th birthday and how he felt about it. Honestly, watching this back made me laugh a lot. "I mean, is it cool to have reached that point-" "No.😀... It's a 'damn.' I remember turning 30 and thinking that was gonna be it, y'know? I mean, it's fine, it is what it is, no big deal. But certainly Samantha has made the best of that for me where we celebrated my birthday on (a recent) trip as well too, just being a little bit early. "But had some fun, so that was good. Don't feel much older than I did five, six years ago, so that's a good part of it. And in pretty decent shape, so thankful for all that." Some of the longer tenured members of the beat then made mention of how hard it was on them to see Kyle turn 40 given they covered him when he was a teenager, and it got mentioned when Kyle was prohibited from racing Trucks at Fontana when he was 16. "Shut that place down, didn't I?" At that point I pointed out how that occurred because of tobacco advertising laws only for Kyle to be sponsored by nicotine pouches all those years later. "The world comes full circle, doesn't it?" he said with a nod. I really like the clips I got from this particular media session because Kyle was really on a heater in terms of being sharp and giving clever answers. He could be so charming and funny in the right time and place. I'm glad I got to experience that for myself.
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A year ago at Talladega I asked Kyle Busch about his upcoming 40th birthday and how he felt about it. Honestly, watching this back made me laugh a lot. "I mean, is it cool to have reached that point-" "No.😀... It's a 'damn.' I remember turning 30 and thinking that was gonna be it, y'know? I mean, it's fine, it is what it is, no big deal. But certainly Samantha has made the best of that for me where we celebrated my birthday on (a recent) trip as well too, just being a little bit early. "But had some fun, so that was good. Don't feel much older than I did five, six years ago, so that's a good part of it. And in pretty decent shape, so thankful for all that." Some of the longer tenured members of the beat then made mention of how hard it was on them to see Kyle turn 40 given they covered him when he was a teenager, and it got mentioned when Kyle was prohibited from racing Trucks at Fontana when he was 16. "Shut that place down, didn't I?" At that point I pointed out how that occurred because of tobacco advertising laws only for Kyle to be sponsored by nicotine pouches all those years later. "The world comes full circle, doesn't it?" he said with a nod. I really like the clips I got from this particular media session because Kyle was really on a heater in terms of being sharp and giving clever answers. He could be so charming and funny in the right time and place. I'm glad I got to experience that for myself.

Steven Taranto

81,145 views • 5 days ago

Remote Viewer Warns of a Terrifying Coordinated Attack on a Major US City?! Remote Viewer, Daz Smith, looked at April world events and what he got back is potentially concerning... "...So it was large structures, weirdly higher than any of containership. I shouldn't have looked at that a bit more detail, but I didn't. Maybe I just thought it was appropriate, moved it to one side, but definitely large structures." "And it felt like the structures were on fire. So I, you know, asked the question why here? And I felt like there was a ground based attack, that was going to happen in, in, in this city location. And it felt like it was like a bomb attack. And I had, like, this very strong visual of a, white truck or van that might be involved, which I tried to draw here. So the, you know, they had these kind of, modern looking van in front of a, multi-level structure, almost like this, like the entranceway or something of the structure." "So it felt like it was a kinetic event, of lots of explosive energy. It was very loud. There was wide dispersal. Definitely had a terror attack feel. It feels like it was a driven vehicle parts and then detonated, as an act of retaliation. The vehicle fills, larger than a car. Felt very van like, possibly white, possibly have branding on it as well." "...It was strategically positioned, in front of an important structure. The whole thing felt very US based. Just not that weird kind of U.S filled me, getting targets. And I also have a dang tang feel to this as well, so it felt like it was in a large U.S urban city, which gave me the idea of New York. Because maybe because I've been to New York and, you know, just had that, but definitely had an East Coast feel to this..." "...it was definitely driven, implanted..." "...it felt like it was in planning. So they were planning or rehearsing for a future event, which is, you know, what we're looking for, a month ahead. And I had a weird I had a well here, weirdly, of Holy Cross... it starts with fear and panic, and it's like they're just implanting a message.... Trying to timeline this site here. You know, again, this is all very experimental..."
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Remote Viewer Warns of a Terrifying Coordinated Attack on a Major US City?! Remote Viewer, Daz Smith, looked at April world events and what he got back is potentially concerning... "...So it was large structures, weirdly higher than any of containership. I shouldn't have looked at that a bit more detail, but I didn't. Maybe I just thought it was appropriate, moved it to one side, but definitely large structures." "And it felt like the structures were on fire. So I, you know, asked the question why here? And I felt like there was a ground based attack, that was going to happen in, in, in this city location. And it felt like it was like a bomb attack. And I had, like, this very strong visual of a, white truck or van that might be involved, which I tried to draw here. So the, you know, they had these kind of, modern looking van in front of a, multi-level structure, almost like this, like the entranceway or something of the structure." "So it felt like it was a kinetic event, of lots of explosive energy. It was very loud. There was wide dispersal. Definitely had a terror attack feel. It feels like it was a driven vehicle parts and then detonated, as an act of retaliation. The vehicle fills, larger than a car. Felt very van like, possibly white, possibly have branding on it as well." "...It was strategically positioned, in front of an important structure. The whole thing felt very US based. Just not that weird kind of U.S filled me, getting targets. And I also have a dang tang feel to this as well, so it felt like it was in a large U.S urban city, which gave me the idea of New York. Because maybe because I've been to New York and, you know, just had that, but definitely had an East Coast feel to this..." "...it was definitely driven, implanted..." "...it felt like it was in planning. So they were planning or rehearsing for a future event, which is, you know, what we're looking for, a month ahead. And I had a weird I had a well here, weirdly, of Holy Cross... it starts with fear and panic, and it's like they're just implanting a message.... Trying to timeline this site here. You know, again, this is all very experimental..."

Future Forecasting Group

14,822 views • 2 months ago

“In the wake of ‘The Boys,’ I signed a deal with Amazon. They wanted to develop something with me in mind, so I had a few meetings with different writers and different kinds of takes for shows. When I met Derek Haas, who created #Countdown and has written all 13 scripts, I just clicked with him immediately. He and I actually grew up in the same town; we went to neighboring high schools, so we had a lot in common right off the bat. But he's just a really great storyteller, and he comes from a long line of writing really kind of intense stuff. And so the character that he created, I just felt like I could tell that story in the world that he was also creating. That led to more meetings, and then that led to some outlines. I got to read the first script, and I just really liked where it was going. I liked the kind of world that he was setting it in, and I got excited about it. I was fortunate enough to be in a position to do that and be there from the beginning, the genesis of it all, 'cause that's not normal. For most actors, everything is kind of already cooked, and then they come in - they get cast in a role that's already happening. I was kind of, not involved creatively, but I was already on the train from the beginning in the station, so that was nice. And there are some twists and turns with this show; there are some big reveals, so to speak. So I'm excited for you guys. I'm excited to get it done - we're about halfway done with the season right now. I think they're shooting for June’s, probably, release, next summer, and I'm excited to see what you guys think and to see it once it's on its feet.” Jensen Ackles #SPNOrlando #SPNOrl
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“In the wake of ‘The Boys,’ I signed a deal with Amazon. They wanted to develop something with me in mind, so I had a few meetings with different writers and different kinds of takes for shows. When I met Derek Haas, who created #Countdown and has written all 13 scripts, I just clicked with him immediately. He and I actually grew up in the same town; we went to neighboring high schools, so we had a lot in common right off the bat. But he's just a really great storyteller, and he comes from a long line of writing really kind of intense stuff. And so the character that he created, I just felt like I could tell that story in the world that he was also creating. That led to more meetings, and then that led to some outlines. I got to read the first script, and I just really liked where it was going. I liked the kind of world that he was setting it in, and I got excited about it. I was fortunate enough to be in a position to do that and be there from the beginning, the genesis of it all, 'cause that's not normal. For most actors, everything is kind of already cooked, and then they come in - they get cast in a role that's already happening. I was kind of, not involved creatively, but I was already on the train from the beginning in the station, so that was nice. And there are some twists and turns with this show; there are some big reveals, so to speak. So I'm excited for you guys. I'm excited to get it done - we're about halfway done with the season right now. I think they're shooting for June’s, probably, release, next summer, and I'm excited to see what you guys think and to see it once it's on its feet.” Jensen Ackles #SPNOrlando #SPNOrl

Jensen Ackles Newsroom

26,830 views • 1 year ago

Kyle Shanahan recalls how he felt when Brock Purdy entered the game for an injured Jimmy Garoppolo against the Dolphins on December 4th 2022: “I just remember how good he was. The game that he came into, the duress that he was under, the style of defense they were playing at the time. The amount of blitzes that we had seen was probably the most we had seen in the six years I’d been here. At the time, he was our third quarterback to come in that year, so it wasn’t looking very good. But he didn’t hesitate, and right away, he was making plays. It was an awesome game; we were so pumped about it, but everyone was down a little bit after the game because we knew we had a good team and it was so unfortunate to lose Jimmy, which we knew would be for the year at the time. I’ll always remember going to bed that night and I was so upset about losing Jimmy. And I finally relaxed and started thinking, 'Holy cow, this guy played unbelievable, we might be all right'.” via: 49ers on NBCS
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Kyle Shanahan recalls how he felt when Brock Purdy entered the game for an injured Jimmy Garoppolo against the Dolphins on December 4th 2022: “I just remember how good he was. The game that he came into, the duress that he was under, the style of defense they were playing at the time. The amount of blitzes that we had seen was probably the most we had seen in the six years I’d been here. At the time, he was our third quarterback to come in that year, so it wasn’t looking very good. But he didn’t hesitate, and right away, he was making plays. It was an awesome game; we were so pumped about it, but everyone was down a little bit after the game because we knew we had a good team and it was so unfortunate to lose Jimmy, which we knew would be for the year at the time. I’ll always remember going to bed that night and I was so upset about losing Jimmy. And I finally relaxed and started thinking, 'Holy cow, this guy played unbelievable, we might be all right'.” via: 49ers on NBCS

Coach Yac 🗣

141,332 views • 1 year ago

❌ 𝐖𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐔𝐩 ❌ 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐨 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒❌ 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐒 𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐈𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒? 𝐈𝐓’𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐄𝐓 𝐔𝐏 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐇𝐒 Thank you Rebekah81USA🇺🇸 🗣️ First of all, I want to apologize because I feel I betrayed you. This is gonna be very hard for me to do, but it needs to be told. I'm not gonna tell you my name. You can just call me the whistleblower, because this needs to be told. I earn a small bread and breakfast slash hotel on the outskirts between London and Bristol. Exactly where, I won't say. I was commandeered by the office of 10 Downing Street to rehome refugee families. When the first lot of refugees came There was not one woman. There was not one child. The people that turned up were men from the age of 19 to 30, I would say. I have enough room for about 250 residents. I currently own house a 150 immigrants. Yes, I did receive quite a large sum of money for doing so. Upon doing so, the government told me that I had to fire all my staff, and they will supply their own. And, also, that they will supply security guards. And, so that they will supply security guards for the bread and breakfast. Well, about 2 weeks ago I received a phone call to say that a large parcel will be arriving some time this evening. Right about 2:30 in the morning, I received another phone call saying a parcel has arrived. And can I open up the rear servant entrance at the back of the BNB, which I went down and met some army personnel, which kinda surprised me very, very much? The person in charge, I don't know who he was, colonel or whatnot. Asked me to show him to a secure room within the BNB, which I did. On doing so. They loaded in roughly between 60-70 really big crates. I asked what was in the crates, and I was told that I was not permitted to know. He then handed me a smaller parcel and told me that I will receive a phone call to give me further instructions on what to to. And when to open this parcel, which was very strange. So I've had this personal for about a week in my office. And I started talking into a friend of mine, and he said, well, you know what? You don't know what's inside these parcels. It could be anything. It's your to see whatever's inside your property, you ain't the right state open, and I should have a look what it was. And I was a fating about it for a little while, and I thought, you know what? You are kind of right. If it's in my property, I wanna know what it is. So I opened the small parcel up, and inside was a letter with a list of names and numbers written next to name. On realizing it, each name on the letter was one of the refugees. Then there was a smaller box inside the the parcel. I opened that, and there was a series of keys with numbers on them. So I went down to a secure lock where these crates were. I noticed that each crate had a number on it, and each key had a number on it. So I took 2 keys for 2 of the crates, and I opened up the crates. 💥𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝟏, there was a load of AK 47 machine guns. 💥𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝟐 were a number of hand grenades. Now, when I say this, I'm saying this as you could start a new war off with what Wyatt I was looking at. There was enough ammunition inside one of the crates to easy. Wipe out my little village. Boom. Gone. Easy. Now I'm a bit stuck because I don't want these refugees here anymore, but I'm contracted to house them for a period of time. I don't know if I can give the government their money back and tell them to to be off or not. I don't know. All I do know is in good faith, I cannot I cannot allow these men to have these crates. I am gonna move them away from my property to a secure garage that I have. Not too far, because I'm not gonna be responsible for allowing our government to kill us, the innocent people. Because it's obvious to me know that this is their plan.
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❌ 𝐖𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐔𝐩 ❌ 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐨 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒❌ 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐒 𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐈𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒? 𝐈𝐓’𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐄𝐓 𝐔𝐏 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐇𝐒 Thank you Rebekah81USA🇺🇸 🗣️ First of all, I want to apologize because I feel I betrayed you. This is gonna be very hard for me to do, but it needs to be told. I'm not gonna tell you my name. You can just call me the whistleblower, because this needs to be told. I earn a small bread and breakfast slash hotel on the outskirts between London and Bristol. Exactly where, I won't say. I was commandeered by the office of 10 Downing Street to rehome refugee families. When the first lot of refugees came There was not one woman. There was not one child. The people that turned up were men from the age of 19 to 30, I would say. I have enough room for about 250 residents. I currently own house a 150 immigrants. Yes, I did receive quite a large sum of money for doing so. Upon doing so, the government told me that I had to fire all my staff, and they will supply their own. And, also, that they will supply security guards. And, so that they will supply security guards for the bread and breakfast. Well, about 2 weeks ago I received a phone call to say that a large parcel will be arriving some time this evening. Right about 2:30 in the morning, I received another phone call saying a parcel has arrived. And can I open up the rear servant entrance at the back of the BNB, which I went down and met some army personnel, which kinda surprised me very, very much? The person in charge, I don't know who he was, colonel or whatnot. Asked me to show him to a secure room within the BNB, which I did. On doing so. They loaded in roughly between 60-70 really big crates. I asked what was in the crates, and I was told that I was not permitted to know. He then handed me a smaller parcel and told me that I will receive a phone call to give me further instructions on what to to. And when to open this parcel, which was very strange. So I've had this personal for about a week in my office. And I started talking into a friend of mine, and he said, well, you know what? You don't know what's inside these parcels. It could be anything. It's your to see whatever's inside your property, you ain't the right state open, and I should have a look what it was. And I was a fating about it for a little while, and I thought, you know what? You are kind of right. If it's in my property, I wanna know what it is. So I opened the small parcel up, and inside was a letter with a list of names and numbers written next to name. On realizing it, each name on the letter was one of the refugees. Then there was a smaller box inside the the parcel. I opened that, and there was a series of keys with numbers on them. So I went down to a secure lock where these crates were. I noticed that each crate had a number on it, and each key had a number on it. So I took 2 keys for 2 of the crates, and I opened up the crates. 💥𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝟏, there was a load of AK 47 machine guns. 💥𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝟐 were a number of hand grenades. Now, when I say this, I'm saying this as you could start a new war off with what Wyatt I was looking at. There was enough ammunition inside one of the crates to easy. Wipe out my little village. Boom. Gone. Easy. Now I'm a bit stuck because I don't want these refugees here anymore, but I'm contracted to house them for a period of time. I don't know if I can give the government their money back and tell them to to be off or not. I don't know. All I do know is in good faith, I cannot I cannot allow these men to have these crates. I am gonna move them away from my property to a secure garage that I have. Not too far, because I'm not gonna be responsible for allowing our government to kill us, the innocent people. Because it's obvious to me know that this is their plan.

{Matt} $XRPatriot

290,087 views • 2 years ago

"I remember feeling very tired mentally, four days of sort of leading the tournament. I won the week before in Greensboro so I’d had a lot of media attention that week and so people forget that. You know to win two in a row is not always easy and then the Masters, I was late, day one, and there was no late and early times you get the first Tour. It was either if you score well the first round and you’re late, you’ll be late the second day so I was late the third day and then was obviously last off with Crenshaw. So mentally it was getting quite tiring because the course was very dry and it was just holding on because you had these four footers. You keep getting, keep making them and then you know, and then obviously I had a bit of a hiccup at 11th and 12th. Things didn’t go well there so now I was on the hunt to try and get that few shots back off Calcavecchia and it had come at holes that I thought wouldn’t happen. I thought 13th I can maybe get a birdie, and I had a good tee shot. I had 165 for my second shot, to give you some idea how good the tee shot was, and I still made par which was annoying. I made it close at 14th from about eight feet and I missed that for birdie, and I didn’t make birdie at 15th with a second shot just off the back of the green so I’m thinking you know, the chances are gone, a bit thin, and then you go and birdie 16th from above the hole which wasn’t quite, was on the gameplan but I’ll take it. And then the 18th, we all know that it was in the bunker and then got it out the bunker fairly successfully, and then – talking about the putts you have to hole to win, that was an eighteen, eighteen feet I think it was, the putt. Doesn’t look like it on TV, looks like about six feet and I got the memories of Trevino always saying if you’re going to have to win a tournament or a winning putt, he said I’d rather have a downhill putt than I would have a twenty foot putt uphill when you’ve actually physically got to hit it. So obviously I’m putting downhill all the way so to me, I’d had probably ten minutes to read the line. I don’t know if it was a good thing or a bad thing. You get too many ideas in your mind because Crenshaw was butchering the hole at the time and he was putting out and da da, so I was waiting for ages and that just took about a four inch back swing, if that, and just started the ball rolling and obviously we know it went in the can. I was saying to myself, thank **** I’m not going down the 10th on the play-off because I’d got no legs left." Sandy Lyle looks back on his win at The Masters in 1988, where he became the first Scottish player to win at Augusta National and became a two-time Major champion 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #TheMasters
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"I remember feeling very tired mentally, four days of sort of leading the tournament. I won the week before in Greensboro so I’d had a lot of media attention that week and so people forget that. You know to win two in a row is not always easy and then the Masters, I was late, day one, and there was no late and early times you get the first Tour. It was either if you score well the first round and you’re late, you’ll be late the second day so I was late the third day and then was obviously last off with Crenshaw. So mentally it was getting quite tiring because the course was very dry and it was just holding on because you had these four footers. You keep getting, keep making them and then you know, and then obviously I had a bit of a hiccup at 11th and 12th. Things didn’t go well there so now I was on the hunt to try and get that few shots back off Calcavecchia and it had come at holes that I thought wouldn’t happen. I thought 13th I can maybe get a birdie, and I had a good tee shot. I had 165 for my second shot, to give you some idea how good the tee shot was, and I still made par which was annoying. I made it close at 14th from about eight feet and I missed that for birdie, and I didn’t make birdie at 15th with a second shot just off the back of the green so I’m thinking you know, the chances are gone, a bit thin, and then you go and birdie 16th from above the hole which wasn’t quite, was on the gameplan but I’ll take it. And then the 18th, we all know that it was in the bunker and then got it out the bunker fairly successfully, and then – talking about the putts you have to hole to win, that was an eighteen, eighteen feet I think it was, the putt. Doesn’t look like it on TV, looks like about six feet and I got the memories of Trevino always saying if you’re going to have to win a tournament or a winning putt, he said I’d rather have a downhill putt than I would have a twenty foot putt uphill when you’ve actually physically got to hit it. So obviously I’m putting downhill all the way so to me, I’d had probably ten minutes to read the line. I don’t know if it was a good thing or a bad thing. You get too many ideas in your mind because Crenshaw was butchering the hole at the time and he was putting out and da da, so I was waiting for ages and that just took about a four inch back swing, if that, and just started the ball rolling and obviously we know it went in the can. I was saying to myself, thank **** I’m not going down the 10th on the play-off because I’d got no legs left." Sandy Lyle looks back on his win at The Masters in 1988, where he became the first Scottish player to win at Augusta National and became a two-time Major champion 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #TheMasters

DP World Tour

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"They put Trump in to get the control grid... [and he gets an] A+++. He's done a fabulous job... But... I don't think they need [him] anymore. That doesn't mean they're gonna get rid of him, but if they wanna get rid of him with Epstein, they can... by the end of the year...." This clip of Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report (The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts), is taken from an interview with Paul Buitink (Paul Buitink 🎙) posted to the Reinvent Money YouTube channel on August 3, 2025. ---------------Partial transcription of clip---------------- "So I think they put Trump in to get the control grid. And we have, at Solari, we have a collection that we update every week of all the things the administration is doing to build the control grid. And I have to tell you, if I had chosen Trump to get the control grid, and I was going to grade him on his performance to date, he gets an A plus plus plus. He's done a fabulous job. And I can't imagine another politician who could have done this much this fast "But if you look at what they've achieved, I don't think they need Trump anymore. Now, that doesn't mean they're gonna get rid of him, but if they wanna get rid of him with Epstein, they can. "So I don't know if he was using a lot in the campaign. I think Kash Patel was using it a lot, and I think Dan Bongino was using it a lot. "So here's who pushed it. And I didn't realize this until recently, because I was very early on in saying QAnon was a hope porn and ridiculous and not to pay any attention to it. But what I didn't understand was QAnon made a very big deal about Epstein and pedophilia and Trump secretly cleaning it all up. "And basically the Democrats were engaged in pedophilia and they were at the heart of Epstein and Trump was going to secretly clean it all up. So QAnon apparently made a huge deal about Epstein. And, you know, that is seriously, in my opinion, and I say this because I know many people trapped in it, you know, it's a cult, it's just a completely adult fairy tale, but they believed it. And so now that he's coming out and saying, oh, it was a hoax, you know, Epstein is a hoax, it flies completely in the face of the cult. So now we've got a really big problem. And I don't know why he didn't put it back in the box. I don't know why. "If the people who run the system want Trump out, they can use Epstein to do it. It will work, and they can get him out by the end of the year if they want."
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"They put Trump in to get the control grid... [and he gets an] A+++. He's done a fabulous job... But... I don't think they need [him] anymore. That doesn't mean they're gonna get rid of him, but if they wanna get rid of him with Epstein, they can... by the end of the year...." This clip of Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report (The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts), is taken from an interview with Paul Buitink (Paul Buitink 🎙) posted to the Reinvent Money YouTube channel on August 3, 2025. ---------------Partial transcription of clip---------------- "So I think they put Trump in to get the control grid. And we have, at Solari, we have a collection that we update every week of all the things the administration is doing to build the control grid. And I have to tell you, if I had chosen Trump to get the control grid, and I was going to grade him on his performance to date, he gets an A plus plus plus. He's done a fabulous job. And I can't imagine another politician who could have done this much this fast "But if you look at what they've achieved, I don't think they need Trump anymore. Now, that doesn't mean they're gonna get rid of him, but if they wanna get rid of him with Epstein, they can. "So I don't know if he was using a lot in the campaign. I think Kash Patel was using it a lot, and I think Dan Bongino was using it a lot. "So here's who pushed it. And I didn't realize this until recently, because I was very early on in saying QAnon was a hope porn and ridiculous and not to pay any attention to it. But what I didn't understand was QAnon made a very big deal about Epstein and pedophilia and Trump secretly cleaning it all up. "And basically the Democrats were engaged in pedophilia and they were at the heart of Epstein and Trump was going to secretly clean it all up. So QAnon apparently made a huge deal about Epstein. And, you know, that is seriously, in my opinion, and I say this because I know many people trapped in it, you know, it's a cult, it's just a completely adult fairy tale, but they believed it. And so now that he's coming out and saying, oh, it was a hoax, you know, Epstein is a hoax, it flies completely in the face of the cult. So now we've got a really big problem. And I don't know why he didn't put it back in the box. I don't know why. "If the people who run the system want Trump out, they can use Epstein to do it. It will work, and they can get him out by the end of the year if they want."

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💥 LAP Alert 💥 "I did this sort of spy thing where I changed hotel rooms and I changed taxis. I was making sure I wasn’t followed." ~Knapp Is Lacatski Lying to Us About the Craft and Breaching the Hull? ~ "If not for that [2017 NYT] story about AATIP and the problems that [Lacatski] saw with it, he would never have mentioned [AAWSAP]...I don't think, ever." ~Knapp (So, in other words...thank you from the UFO community, to the NYT, for getting it wrong? 🙂) ~ Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell: "Should we listen to Dr. James Lacatski on UFOs, on the fact, or the idea, that our government has at least one, he's admitted, and we breached the hull? Should we listen to him, George?" George Knapp: "I know a lot of people have noticed that he's talked about his role in counterintelligence as part of the AAWSAP program. And because they equate counterintelligence with lies, false info., cover stories, misdirection. Aha! He's putting out a bunch of false info. a decade after he retired from government service." (I saw one person suggest that, and I thought it was a questionable take...) Grant Lavac: "Given that Dr. James Lacatski was the 'counterintelligence coordinator' for AAWSAP, how much confidence can we invest in the veracity of his public statements that 'at least one recovered craft of unknown origin, a flying machine with no wings, no engine, no fuel, and no fuel tanks' is in the possession of the US government and that they had 'breached the hull' of the UFO? In the context of the counterintelligence value of UAP/UFO, his comments in this most recent interview on WEAPONIZED (edited for brevity) only raise more questions for me." ~~~ Knapp: "A, it's not [Lacatski]. He's not out there beating the bushes. He's talked to us, but that's pretty much it. He's telling the full story as much as he can in a series of books. And I was co-author on two of those, not on this one. And, you know, I remember the first time I met him, it was in 2018." ~ (In April of 2019, Knapp shared that story, minus Lacatski's name, at UFO MegaCon. Knapp in 2019: "I thought today I would share with you, sort of the informational foundation that I’ve acquired. So, one year ago, I made this trip to Washington, D.C. at the invitation of Senator Harry Reid. It was St. Patrick’s Day, 2018 and I already knew a little bit about AATIP and AAWSAP and what they’ve been studying and where the money came from and how the program was created. I did this sort of spy thing where I changed hotel rooms and I changed taxis. I was making sure I wasn’t followed. And if there was ever actually, anybody following me, they must have thought I looked ridiculous because it was way over the top. "But I ended up having to meet with Senator Reid and some other people who were directly involved in these programs and they gave me a download. And I thought I knew a lot about these programs when I went there and realized that I only knew a little tiny bit. The purpose of this was to learn about these programs. We all know about AATIP, but in reality, there was something before that. "I sat down for a couple of hours with Senator Reid and other people whose names, they don’t want to be known. They brought me up to speed on how AATIP was created. How its predecessor was under way for a number of years. It coexisted for a long time. People in this room. People who investigate this topic may have suspected for a long time that there was some kind of a program that still existed. We’ve all heard that Project Bluebook was the end. 1969 it ended and the government was done with UFOs. They closed up shop. And the reason they closed it down is because there was no evidence that it involved national security. "And we all knew that was baloney because of the stories that we’ve seen that are really well documented. For example, UFOs over nuclear missile bases. UFO encounters with the military installations and atomic facilities. Things of that sort the have been well documented over the years. There are cases that involved national security. So at the end of Blue Book, of course, this memo said, alright, any cases involving national security will continue to be investigated in the regular way. Well, what the heck was the regular way? We didn’t know. Well now we do know. At least a little bit of it." (Project Blue Book was shut down in December of 1969, but a few months earlier, in October, we had the Bolender memo, which noted that "reports of UFOs which could affect national security should continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedure designed for this purpose." What standard Air Force procedure? The regular way? Where did those cases go? We still don't know what Bolender was referring to in that memo.) ~ Knapp in 2019: "And one of the regular ways was this program called AATIP. So I went on this trip. [and] I learned this stuff about AATIP. I had known a lot about it before but I got this briefing about this alphabet soup of different programs, how they began and what they studied. December 2017, the New York Times breaks this story about AATIP. Now, I had known about it for a long time because I lived in Las Vegas. I knew Bob Bigelow. I knew Harry Reid. We’d talk about UFO stuff and what was going on. "So when I was told the New York Times was gonna break the story, I’m kind ticked off about it. Because hey, I’ve been sitting on this for a long time. Why don’t I get to break the story? And they had to, one after another, gently remind me, 'You know. You’re not the New York Times.' Which I had to admit! It was true. And if I had done the story, the Times had said that they weren’t going to do it if somebody else breaks it. So, if I had done it, it’d be another story from a UFO reporter. "The New York Times did it and they changed everything. Because they did it, wider organizations did it. Some of them took shots at the New York Times because The Times got the story and they didn’t. But that story was accurate, to a degree. But the story that it told was not the full story. AATIP, that we know about…the AATIP that studies nuts and bolts saucers…case of UFOs that have encounters with military units such as the USS Nimitz, that is studied by a group of people, Lue Elizondo was the head of it. "It’s not so much a program as it was a loose network of intelligence officials in different agencies, including the Air Force and the Navy, CIA, DIA, DARPA…there might be a couple of other agencies. But a case would come in from any one of their units [and] it would be shared with this group of people, analysis would be done, evidence would be looked at and then stashed in a draw and nobody ever sees it. It’s not passed up the chain of command. "In 2007, that changed. One of the guys (Lacatski. ~Joe 2025) I met with in this meeting in Washington is the one who changed it. He had been in the same position that Lue Elizondo had been in. And his name is just not out there. He grew frustrated with what was happening with the phenomenon and he suspected that UFOs flying around the sky, buzzing our military units every once in a while, is not the full story. Even if you could solve that part of the mystery it wouldn’t solve the bigger part of the picture. "So he grew interested in Skinwalker Ranch and he had read the (Knapp/Kelleher – 'Hunt For The Skinwalker') book. And after he read it, he called up Bob Bigelow and said…actually, he wrote him a letter and said, 'Hey, can I go to the ranch…go look around? I’m with the DIA.' Bigelow says, 'Come on out to Las Vegas and I’ll take you there.' And that’s what happened. He flew to Las Vegas. They flew on Bigelow’s jet. They went to the ranch. "This guy’s not there fifteen minutes and he has an experience. And I’m not gonna go into detail. I’m hoping that he’s going to maybe come forward at some point and describe his experience. But it was just for him. Of all the people in this room, in the encounter, he was the only one who could see it. He’s the only one who had an angle on this thing that appeared. And he’s pretending that he’s not seeing it but it’s right out of the corner of his eye. And he doesn’t say anything until he leaves the ranch. And he gets off and he asks Bigelow if he had seen it. And he had not. The other people who had been in the room had not seen it. "He flies back to Las Vegas, goes back to Washington, D.C. and looks up Harry Reid and tells him about it. Now Reid had some experience in these matters that I’ll get into in a little bit. But as a result of that conversation, Reid, who had an interest in UFOs and had maintained that interest over many years – and I can attest to that personally – called in a couple of his friends in the Senate – Daniel Inouye and Ted Stevens. They had a conversation in a secure room and they decided to provide some funding for a much broader study. Something that looked at…beyond flying saucers, that looked at other paranormal aspects…supernatural aspects that we would not normally associate with aliens or ETs. Assuming that that’s what this is, which I’m not sure anyone knows for sure. And that is how AAWSAP was born. The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program." ~~~ Knapp Yesterday: "The only reason [Lacatski] came forward, he was ticked off about how AATIP had been described in major media reports, and no mention had been given to the actual, real program. That one that had a $22 million budget, lasted 27 months, and which put together the biggest UFO data warehouse in history, that had written all these papers that still have not been released." (In the most-recent interview (Part 1) with Weaponized, Lacatski let it fly with his issues related to the 2017 NYT article: "The initial reporting...by the New York Times story in 2017 was totally inaccurate. Contrary to what some people claim, the authors knew my name and position at AAWSAP, yet never attempted to contact me. Likewise, the The Washington Post. POLITICO (laughs) contacted me within hours after the articles were published in the free publications, asking for my opinion. They knew my name, they had my phone number. Why didn't they contact me [beforehand]?" ~Dr. James Lacatski on Weaponized ~ Knapp: "So, Jim was a counterintelligence guy for AAWSAP, but in this role. He wasn't putting out cover stories or lies, he didn't put out anything. The world didn't hear that AAWSAP existed until years later, at least by that name. There was one statement made to the press about that program. It was by Robert Bigelow, whose company, BAASS, got the contract. A week after he signed it, he came on with me on Coast to Coast AM and said, 'We got this program dealing with UFOs, we have an unnamed partner, and we're excited to get going.' That was it. "Jim Lacatski wasn't putting out PR releases about AAWSAP. There was nothing. That was the last thing anybody said until the New York Times did the AATIP story, and then Jim Lacatski felt the real story was being covered up. If not for that story about AATIP and the problems that he saw with it, he would never have mentioned this. I don't think ever." (Well, then, thank you to the NYT journalists and editors for pissing off Lacatski!) Knapp: "You'll recall, AAWSAP, at the time that things went downhill, that the funding was moved away, they were trying to make it into a SAP, a Special Access Program. And if it had happened, we probably would never have heard of it. If it had happened, Lue Elizondo would have been the counterintelligence guy for AAWSAP, that he had already talked to Lacatski. "But Lacatski is not proclaiming the greatness of the program. He's not out there beating the bushes on podcasts and newscasts, other than with us, and he never put out in counterintelligence. His role, counterintelligence, meant something different for AAWSAP. The thing that DIA had told him was, 'Look, you know, it's not a rogue program. I know it gets weird into some of the phenomena that was at Skinwalker Ranch and other places. We don't care. Here's what we care about: Don't let the secret out. We don't want to see this on the front page of the Washington Post. We want it kept secret.' (John Greenewald was one person questioning whether AAWSAP was actually a prosaic program and Lacatski just decided to go rogue with a foray into UFOs and the paranormal.) Greenewald Tweet: "Did the U.S. government really sanction this, and if so, is this really how it was run? Or was this a rogue operation by a select few on the inside playing with Uncle Sam's coffers?" (Greenewald was quote tweeting a Greenstreet hit-piece video on AAWSAP. In his interview on Weaponized aired over the past few weeks, Lacatski said that former Deputy Director of AARO, Tim Phillips, also used the "rogue" word when describing AAWSAP. Did DIA really not know what AAWSAP was about? Did Lacatski go rogue and turn a program that was supposed to look at prosaic, advanced technology into one that studied UFOs and the paranormal? Here's an exchange from the 2023 interview Knapp and Corbell did with Lacatski and Colm Kelleher.) Kelleher: "The critical part of AAWSAP that we tried to convey in 'Skinwalkers at the Pentagon,' was that there were two fundamental, parallel tracks that AAWSAP ran on. The first one was the examination of UFO performance. And, you know, the UFO performance part was getting all of the data from eyewitnesses, plus deploying sensors into the field, in order to gather data on the performance of UFOs. That was track number one. And track number two was: What effects do UFOs have on humans? That was a parallel track that, from the get go, AAWSAP decided, unambiguously, to run both tracks in parallel. We documented psychological effects, and then we also documented paranormal effects." Lacatski: "Anything can be said on the internet it seems, factual or not. Well, one thing that is not factual is, DIA knew what it was getting into in regard to both aspects that Colm just described to you. And let me end my statement right here. We had no choice but to pursue both aspects." (That was a poor way of him saying: The claim that DIA was unaware of AAWSAP looking into all aspects of UFOs, including the paranormal, is NOT true.) Lacatski: "I want to emphasize something I said on my first and only interview. It was a closed program. It operated very similar to a SAP. The director, the director of analysis, and my office chief...and, of course, division chief, knew about this program. No one else did. Now, I was also protected by the stovepipe nature of that. I did not have to address political-type questions. I was insulated, but they were, too. There was no one else. People in the surrounding cubicles didn't know. Nothing was purposely being hid. It was a closed, stovepipe system, and it needed to be. It needed to be operated that way." ~~~ Knapp: "And so, Jim Lacatski took it on himself, put it in his own hands. He and Colm Kelleher interviewed all these people who applied for the jobs, the 50 full-time positions that they staffed, in a matter of months. They did background checks, they required security clearances for all those people, and they were worried about leaks. They didn't want information to get out. "They also were concerned about espionage by foreign players, by foreign companies, things of that sort. And some of that really did happen. As Jim has shared with us, there were a couple of phones that were transmitters that were found inside Bigelow Aerospace, inside the Bigelow, uh, facilities, and it was very alarming because they weren't sure who was doing it. I think they think it was a foreign government. I'm not going to say which one, uh, they suspected the most." (Lacatski said that the phones in question were made in China.) Knapp: "But, and then they also found weird frequencies emanating from Skinwalker Ranch. That's not strange, and there's a lot of unusual stuff that happens there, but it was some sort of a an espionage program that they believed was was not only looking at the ranch, but also at BAASS. "That was his primary concern. He was worried that the story gets out, because secrecy was of paramount interest to the heads of DIA and he's worried about the information getting out to the public. Because once it happened, then the knives come out in the Pentagon and within the intelligence community, which is kind of what happened. A memo was sent from Harry Reid's office, let other people know that AAWSAP existed, and that's when things started getting problematic." Corbell: "The bugging thing. So, it's not just like Bigelow Aerospace was tapped with something, he said, specifically, AAWSAP, right? So they were looking at that new UFO program. And I don't know how public this is, but he did say it was - not just him, other people have all said - it was multiple nations, multiple, different devices from those phones. And he also said that they worked with FBI, they had FBI liaisons looking at the ranch property, and also at Bigelow Aerospace. "Because, remember, they were supposed to receive a transfer of materials. That's why they reverse, reverse engineered (laughs), you know, they built everything to be able to hold SCIF-capable and material-capable property at that classification level. So, look, I think if we pull it back, the whole idea is, James Lacatski made a statement at some point that he was, you know, head of, or part of, or running the counterintelligence for AAWSAP. But his point was to keep AAWSAP itself secret from foreign nations. So then he has to keep it secret from the U.S. He did it. He did a great job. They actually kept it secret. That doesn't mean he's going out and creating false information to the public like he's been accused of. "So, should we listen to Jim Lacatski? That was like, you know, the main question. Oh, one second. He also identified that there is currently a counter-programming, counterintelligence operation going on to the American public, but not against the American public, by AARO." (In other words, spread misinformation to the American public so they can advance their goal of misinforming and confusing our adversaries who are always listening. National security! IMO, that's only acceptable if we're talking specifics related to propulsion, technology and weapons that can be used to give us a leg up on said adversaries. But everything else should come out and be made public. We shouldn't be told a bunch of lies about information we paid for and that could, potentially, give us some clarity about our species and other lifeforms on this planet.) Corbell: That was so clear in our interview with him that he said that, you know, 'Look, they're acting this way. They are telling you lies about AAWSAP and what happened.' And that's why he said, 'My books, I'm a government employee. This was paid by taxpayers. I'm trying to give you information.' And that's what his books are. "So it's clear from these rounds of interviews that we just had with Dr. Lacatski that he supports a controlled UFO disclosure. He made that very clear. So should we listen to what he has to say? I mean, he was a big dog, right, George?" Knapp: "He was the head of the largest U.S. government-funded UFO investigation in history, that we know of. He worked with Colm Kelleher, who was the boots-on-the-ground guy in Las Vegas. He worked with Jay Stratton. Stratton's role in the development of AAWSAP has not been really fully explored, but he's got a book coming out at some point, once it gets through the DOPSR process. But then we'll get additional information to buttress what Lacatski has said."
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💥 LAP Alert 💥 "I did this sort of spy thing where I changed hotel rooms and I changed taxis. I was making sure I wasn’t followed." ~Knapp Is Lacatski Lying to Us About the Craft and Breaching the Hull? ~ "If not for that [2017 NYT] story about AATIP and the problems that [Lacatski] saw with it, he would never have mentioned [AAWSAP]...I don't think, ever." ~Knapp (So, in other words...thank you from the UFO community, to the NYT, for getting it wrong? 🙂) ~ Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell: "Should we listen to Dr. James Lacatski on UFOs, on the fact, or the idea, that our government has at least one, he's admitted, and we breached the hull? Should we listen to him, George?" George Knapp: "I know a lot of people have noticed that he's talked about his role in counterintelligence as part of the AAWSAP program. And because they equate counterintelligence with lies, false info., cover stories, misdirection. Aha! He's putting out a bunch of false info. a decade after he retired from government service." (I saw one person suggest that, and I thought it was a questionable take...) Grant Lavac: "Given that Dr. James Lacatski was the 'counterintelligence coordinator' for AAWSAP, how much confidence can we invest in the veracity of his public statements that 'at least one recovered craft of unknown origin, a flying machine with no wings, no engine, no fuel, and no fuel tanks' is in the possession of the US government and that they had 'breached the hull' of the UFO? In the context of the counterintelligence value of UAP/UFO, his comments in this most recent interview on WEAPONIZED (edited for brevity) only raise more questions for me." ~~~ Knapp: "A, it's not [Lacatski]. He's not out there beating the bushes. He's talked to us, but that's pretty much it. He's telling the full story as much as he can in a series of books. And I was co-author on two of those, not on this one. And, you know, I remember the first time I met him, it was in 2018." ~ (In April of 2019, Knapp shared that story, minus Lacatski's name, at UFO MegaCon. Knapp in 2019: "I thought today I would share with you, sort of the informational foundation that I’ve acquired. So, one year ago, I made this trip to Washington, D.C. at the invitation of Senator Harry Reid. It was St. Patrick’s Day, 2018 and I already knew a little bit about AATIP and AAWSAP and what they’ve been studying and where the money came from and how the program was created. I did this sort of spy thing where I changed hotel rooms and I changed taxis. I was making sure I wasn’t followed. And if there was ever actually, anybody following me, they must have thought I looked ridiculous because it was way over the top. "But I ended up having to meet with Senator Reid and some other people who were directly involved in these programs and they gave me a download. And I thought I knew a lot about these programs when I went there and realized that I only knew a little tiny bit. The purpose of this was to learn about these programs. We all know about AATIP, but in reality, there was something before that. "I sat down for a couple of hours with Senator Reid and other people whose names, they don’t want to be known. They brought me up to speed on how AATIP was created. How its predecessor was under way for a number of years. It coexisted for a long time. People in this room. People who investigate this topic may have suspected for a long time that there was some kind of a program that still existed. We’ve all heard that Project Bluebook was the end. 1969 it ended and the government was done with UFOs. They closed up shop. And the reason they closed it down is because there was no evidence that it involved national security. "And we all knew that was baloney because of the stories that we’ve seen that are really well documented. For example, UFOs over nuclear missile bases. UFO encounters with the military installations and atomic facilities. Things of that sort the have been well documented over the years. There are cases that involved national security. So at the end of Blue Book, of course, this memo said, alright, any cases involving national security will continue to be investigated in the regular way. Well, what the heck was the regular way? We didn’t know. Well now we do know. At least a little bit of it." (Project Blue Book was shut down in December of 1969, but a few months earlier, in October, we had the Bolender memo, which noted that "reports of UFOs which could affect national security should continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedure designed for this purpose." What standard Air Force procedure? The regular way? Where did those cases go? We still don't know what Bolender was referring to in that memo.) ~ Knapp in 2019: "And one of the regular ways was this program called AATIP. So I went on this trip. [and] I learned this stuff about AATIP. I had known a lot about it before but I got this briefing about this alphabet soup of different programs, how they began and what they studied. December 2017, the New York Times breaks this story about AATIP. Now, I had known about it for a long time because I lived in Las Vegas. I knew Bob Bigelow. I knew Harry Reid. We’d talk about UFO stuff and what was going on. "So when I was told the New York Times was gonna break the story, I’m kind ticked off about it. Because hey, I’ve been sitting on this for a long time. Why don’t I get to break the story? And they had to, one after another, gently remind me, 'You know. You’re not the New York Times.' Which I had to admit! It was true. And if I had done the story, the Times had said that they weren’t going to do it if somebody else breaks it. So, if I had done it, it’d be another story from a UFO reporter. "The New York Times did it and they changed everything. Because they did it, wider organizations did it. Some of them took shots at the New York Times because The Times got the story and they didn’t. But that story was accurate, to a degree. But the story that it told was not the full story. AATIP, that we know about…the AATIP that studies nuts and bolts saucers…case of UFOs that have encounters with military units such as the USS Nimitz, that is studied by a group of people, Lue Elizondo was the head of it. "It’s not so much a program as it was a loose network of intelligence officials in different agencies, including the Air Force and the Navy, CIA, DIA, DARPA…there might be a couple of other agencies. But a case would come in from any one of their units [and] it would be shared with this group of people, analysis would be done, evidence would be looked at and then stashed in a draw and nobody ever sees it. It’s not passed up the chain of command. "In 2007, that changed. One of the guys (Lacatski. ~Joe 2025) I met with in this meeting in Washington is the one who changed it. He had been in the same position that Lue Elizondo had been in. And his name is just not out there. He grew frustrated with what was happening with the phenomenon and he suspected that UFOs flying around the sky, buzzing our military units every once in a while, is not the full story. Even if you could solve that part of the mystery it wouldn’t solve the bigger part of the picture. "So he grew interested in Skinwalker Ranch and he had read the (Knapp/Kelleher – 'Hunt For The Skinwalker') book. And after he read it, he called up Bob Bigelow and said…actually, he wrote him a letter and said, 'Hey, can I go to the ranch…go look around? I’m with the DIA.' Bigelow says, 'Come on out to Las Vegas and I’ll take you there.' And that’s what happened. He flew to Las Vegas. They flew on Bigelow’s jet. They went to the ranch. "This guy’s not there fifteen minutes and he has an experience. And I’m not gonna go into detail. I’m hoping that he’s going to maybe come forward at some point and describe his experience. But it was just for him. Of all the people in this room, in the encounter, he was the only one who could see it. He’s the only one who had an angle on this thing that appeared. And he’s pretending that he’s not seeing it but it’s right out of the corner of his eye. And he doesn’t say anything until he leaves the ranch. And he gets off and he asks Bigelow if he had seen it. And he had not. The other people who had been in the room had not seen it. "He flies back to Las Vegas, goes back to Washington, D.C. and looks up Harry Reid and tells him about it. Now Reid had some experience in these matters that I’ll get into in a little bit. But as a result of that conversation, Reid, who had an interest in UFOs and had maintained that interest over many years – and I can attest to that personally – called in a couple of his friends in the Senate – Daniel Inouye and Ted Stevens. They had a conversation in a secure room and they decided to provide some funding for a much broader study. Something that looked at…beyond flying saucers, that looked at other paranormal aspects…supernatural aspects that we would not normally associate with aliens or ETs. Assuming that that’s what this is, which I’m not sure anyone knows for sure. And that is how AAWSAP was born. The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program." ~~~ Knapp Yesterday: "The only reason [Lacatski] came forward, he was ticked off about how AATIP had been described in major media reports, and no mention had been given to the actual, real program. That one that had a $22 million budget, lasted 27 months, and which put together the biggest UFO data warehouse in history, that had written all these papers that still have not been released." (In the most-recent interview (Part 1) with Weaponized, Lacatski let it fly with his issues related to the 2017 NYT article: "The initial reporting...by the New York Times story in 2017 was totally inaccurate. Contrary to what some people claim, the authors knew my name and position at AAWSAP, yet never attempted to contact me. Likewise, the The Washington Post. POLITICO (laughs) contacted me within hours after the articles were published in the free publications, asking for my opinion. They knew my name, they had my phone number. Why didn't they contact me [beforehand]?" ~Dr. James Lacatski on Weaponized ~ Knapp: "So, Jim was a counterintelligence guy for AAWSAP, but in this role. He wasn't putting out cover stories or lies, he didn't put out anything. The world didn't hear that AAWSAP existed until years later, at least by that name. There was one statement made to the press about that program. It was by Robert Bigelow, whose company, BAASS, got the contract. A week after he signed it, he came on with me on Coast to Coast AM and said, 'We got this program dealing with UFOs, we have an unnamed partner, and we're excited to get going.' That was it. "Jim Lacatski wasn't putting out PR releases about AAWSAP. There was nothing. That was the last thing anybody said until the New York Times did the AATIP story, and then Jim Lacatski felt the real story was being covered up. If not for that story about AATIP and the problems that he saw with it, he would never have mentioned this. I don't think ever." (Well, then, thank you to the NYT journalists and editors for pissing off Lacatski!) Knapp: "You'll recall, AAWSAP, at the time that things went downhill, that the funding was moved away, they were trying to make it into a SAP, a Special Access Program. And if it had happened, we probably would never have heard of it. If it had happened, Lue Elizondo would have been the counterintelligence guy for AAWSAP, that he had already talked to Lacatski. "But Lacatski is not proclaiming the greatness of the program. He's not out there beating the bushes on podcasts and newscasts, other than with us, and he never put out in counterintelligence. His role, counterintelligence, meant something different for AAWSAP. The thing that DIA had told him was, 'Look, you know, it's not a rogue program. I know it gets weird into some of the phenomena that was at Skinwalker Ranch and other places. We don't care. Here's what we care about: Don't let the secret out. We don't want to see this on the front page of the Washington Post. We want it kept secret.' (John Greenewald was one person questioning whether AAWSAP was actually a prosaic program and Lacatski just decided to go rogue with a foray into UFOs and the paranormal.) Greenewald Tweet: "Did the U.S. government really sanction this, and if so, is this really how it was run? Or was this a rogue operation by a select few on the inside playing with Uncle Sam's coffers?" (Greenewald was quote tweeting a Greenstreet hit-piece video on AAWSAP. In his interview on Weaponized aired over the past few weeks, Lacatski said that former Deputy Director of AARO, Tim Phillips, also used the "rogue" word when describing AAWSAP. Did DIA really not know what AAWSAP was about? Did Lacatski go rogue and turn a program that was supposed to look at prosaic, advanced technology into one that studied UFOs and the paranormal? Here's an exchange from the 2023 interview Knapp and Corbell did with Lacatski and Colm Kelleher.) Kelleher: "The critical part of AAWSAP that we tried to convey in 'Skinwalkers at the Pentagon,' was that there were two fundamental, parallel tracks that AAWSAP ran on. The first one was the examination of UFO performance. And, you know, the UFO performance part was getting all of the data from eyewitnesses, plus deploying sensors into the field, in order to gather data on the performance of UFOs. That was track number one. And track number two was: What effects do UFOs have on humans? That was a parallel track that, from the get go, AAWSAP decided, unambiguously, to run both tracks in parallel. We documented psychological effects, and then we also documented paranormal effects." Lacatski: "Anything can be said on the internet it seems, factual or not. Well, one thing that is not factual is, DIA knew what it was getting into in regard to both aspects that Colm just described to you. And let me end my statement right here. We had no choice but to pursue both aspects." (That was a poor way of him saying: The claim that DIA was unaware of AAWSAP looking into all aspects of UFOs, including the paranormal, is NOT true.) Lacatski: "I want to emphasize something I said on my first and only interview. It was a closed program. It operated very similar to a SAP. The director, the director of analysis, and my office chief...and, of course, division chief, knew about this program. No one else did. Now, I was also protected by the stovepipe nature of that. I did not have to address political-type questions. I was insulated, but they were, too. There was no one else. People in the surrounding cubicles didn't know. Nothing was purposely being hid. It was a closed, stovepipe system, and it needed to be. It needed to be operated that way." ~~~ Knapp: "And so, Jim Lacatski took it on himself, put it in his own hands. He and Colm Kelleher interviewed all these people who applied for the jobs, the 50 full-time positions that they staffed, in a matter of months. They did background checks, they required security clearances for all those people, and they were worried about leaks. They didn't want information to get out. "They also were concerned about espionage by foreign players, by foreign companies, things of that sort. And some of that really did happen. As Jim has shared with us, there were a couple of phones that were transmitters that were found inside Bigelow Aerospace, inside the Bigelow, uh, facilities, and it was very alarming because they weren't sure who was doing it. I think they think it was a foreign government. I'm not going to say which one, uh, they suspected the most." (Lacatski said that the phones in question were made in China.) Knapp: "But, and then they also found weird frequencies emanating from Skinwalker Ranch. That's not strange, and there's a lot of unusual stuff that happens there, but it was some sort of a an espionage program that they believed was was not only looking at the ranch, but also at BAASS. "That was his primary concern. He was worried that the story gets out, because secrecy was of paramount interest to the heads of DIA and he's worried about the information getting out to the public. Because once it happened, then the knives come out in the Pentagon and within the intelligence community, which is kind of what happened. A memo was sent from Harry Reid's office, let other people know that AAWSAP existed, and that's when things started getting problematic." Corbell: "The bugging thing. So, it's not just like Bigelow Aerospace was tapped with something, he said, specifically, AAWSAP, right? So they were looking at that new UFO program. And I don't know how public this is, but he did say it was - not just him, other people have all said - it was multiple nations, multiple, different devices from those phones. And he also said that they worked with FBI, they had FBI liaisons looking at the ranch property, and also at Bigelow Aerospace. "Because, remember, they were supposed to receive a transfer of materials. That's why they reverse, reverse engineered (laughs), you know, they built everything to be able to hold SCIF-capable and material-capable property at that classification level. So, look, I think if we pull it back, the whole idea is, James Lacatski made a statement at some point that he was, you know, head of, or part of, or running the counterintelligence for AAWSAP. But his point was to keep AAWSAP itself secret from foreign nations. So then he has to keep it secret from the U.S. He did it. He did a great job. They actually kept it secret. That doesn't mean he's going out and creating false information to the public like he's been accused of. "So, should we listen to Jim Lacatski? That was like, you know, the main question. Oh, one second. He also identified that there is currently a counter-programming, counterintelligence operation going on to the American public, but not against the American public, by AARO." (In other words, spread misinformation to the American public so they can advance their goal of misinforming and confusing our adversaries who are always listening. National security! IMO, that's only acceptable if we're talking specifics related to propulsion, technology and weapons that can be used to give us a leg up on said adversaries. But everything else should come out and be made public. We shouldn't be told a bunch of lies about information we paid for and that could, potentially, give us some clarity about our species and other lifeforms on this planet.) Corbell: That was so clear in our interview with him that he said that, you know, 'Look, they're acting this way. They are telling you lies about AAWSAP and what happened.' And that's why he said, 'My books, I'm a government employee. This was paid by taxpayers. I'm trying to give you information.' And that's what his books are. "So it's clear from these rounds of interviews that we just had with Dr. Lacatski that he supports a controlled UFO disclosure. He made that very clear. So should we listen to what he has to say? I mean, he was a big dog, right, George?" Knapp: "He was the head of the largest U.S. government-funded UFO investigation in history, that we know of. He worked with Colm Kelleher, who was the boots-on-the-ground guy in Las Vegas. He worked with Jay Stratton. Stratton's role in the development of AAWSAP has not been really fully explored, but he's got a book coming out at some point, once it gets through the DOPSR process. But then we'll get additional information to buttress what Lacatski has said."

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