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Oh My God!!! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ Corbell Threatened to Release Hundreds of UFO Files, Which Were Also Given to Hundreds of Journalists! And Then He Backed Down! One Problem: It Never Happened I found the Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell clip I wanted to show you. But First: The claims... "Jeremy Corbell threatened to release hundreds of UFO files." ~Red Panda Koala And... "Jeremy Corbell says hundreds of journalists have been given the secret UFO files that will be released, if..." ~Red Panda Koala Full (inaccurate, IMO) claims, and the actual transcripts, are here: โฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธ The following interview was uploaded several days after Corbell made those early-June comments that are now going viral, and for which he's getting a lot of hate over. This is a more complete explanation of the situation. Andy, forgive me for uploading such a long clip. I know this won't answer every question but it should educate folks on what was said. Or what was meant. And I'm sure it will calm the haters. ๐Ÿฅด ~ Andy (That UFO Podcast): In 'Sleeping Dog,' you get your laptop out towards the end of the documentary. You know, dramatic, you dig some sh*t up. You've got a pen drive, you open it, and you see these files. And I'm sure, like many folks, I'm pausing frantically, reading all these names of files. I can just see the bottom of and the top. And I'm looking around your laptop screen. "And we begin to see clips of those videos. Now, those came out within the second release from the war dot gov, UFOs. Can you, first of all, clear up for me...we heard you had 46 videos that you were going to release." Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell: "No, who said that?" Andy: "So, generally, online, there was 46 videos were coming out. I think 52 came out. This is what I want cleared up, though. You know about those 52 videos that came out. How many came from you? Because the feeling online - and this even was for me - was, Jeremy's got his documentary, he showed what's going to come, and then within a couple of weeks we had the second drop, and bang, here's all these videos. Can you just clear up how many videos that were dropped, came from your end, and what's the story there?" Corbell: "Zero came from my end. Zero. Those are government-filmed UAP. They were provoked to release them by a variety of ways. George Knapp and I gave a multitude of lists of UAP filmed by our military, to Congress. They validated, they vetted, they found out where they were. We told them where they are, we had eyes on them, making sure they're not going to be deleted. "This is something we've acquired over decades, George and myself. You know, the newer ones are kind of the the best, I would say. You know, better hardware than, let's say, 15 years ago. But...so none of them came from us. That...it is government-filmed footage. "We identified the file names and file structures and location of holdings, gave that to Congress, and it's not just the 46. It actually surprised me when Rep. Anna Paulina Luna put out, and it was a gangster move. Rep. Luna put out a public letter to Pete Hegseth saying, 'Here are 46 files that we want.' "They didn't mention...it's actually 14 Air Force files that we've identified - even to the Department of Justice - that there's a bottleneck in UAP reporting within our own government. Remember 'Immaculate Constellation,' the idea of like, siphoning off the best footage. Well, George and I were able to identify that in Central Command, that there was a nexus point where there was a bottleneck, and the best UAP footage and evidence was being siphoned off even before it got to AARO. "Even our, you know, who were kind of enemies at a time, we informed AARO that there's this bottleneck, and if you want to find out where the good sh*t's going, we told them where. So, when you say 46 videos, 52 videos. Bro, there are probably hundreds of thousands. Very little ever get to reporters like George and myself, and it takes years for us to vet and verify. "And then, you know, anybody that leaks videos to journalists - if you consider them sources- they're at risk, you know, when journalists publish them. So, I have always been fighting. And then people yell at me, and they're like, 'It's not good enough, and the frame rates aren't right.' And all this weird sh*t. They're just baiting to try to like, dig in and try to investigate sources. It's all a charade. Everything with that online is a charade. They're just trying to entrap people. "So what we do, is we take the heat and we just keep doing the reporting. We gave Congress way more than 46 file structures, file names with locations, with evidence they exist. But we don't possess anything. We can't, legally. We can obtain and release. I'm familiar with, have access from time-to-time, too. "You know, you have to be really smart as a journalist on what your rights are. That's why I have a federal lawyer, which you learned in the movie is Chuck McCullough. Kind of one of the best federal lawyers you could have, now that I've admitted it, right?" (McCullough was the first Intelligence Community Inspector General, represented David Grusch, and is HIGHLY respected. The fact that he's representing Corbell is something that's lost on the Corbell haters.) Corbell: "So, basically, those are the protocols. Our government has hundreds of thousands, in full-motion video, which is like a layered, sensor system from satellite platforms, as an example, which you've never seen, no one's ever seen. With incredible fidelity, showing all-domain UAP coming from space-to-air-to-sea and back out, from sea-to-air-to space. That's fact. I know that for a fact. I have been witness to a lot of that information. "But I did not give anything to Congress except file names, and they verified, vetted, and put out a public letter for 46. They kept the other ones private, which I think was smart. Because sometimes even just the the file names themselves, you know, could be an issue for 100 reasons. Does that clarify what you're asking?" Andy: "100% And even in the Discord, when that drop happened, everyone's Discords and stuff were going crazy. People were asking, 'Are these the videos that Corbell and Knapp have provided?' So there has been this idea, from some, that you guys gave them the videos. But what you've given was the locations, how to get them, where they were." Corbell: "The exact file names and locations, with verifiable proof that they do exist, that they did exist upon delivery, of those titles. You know. I'm not gonna just... You know, and also, what we get, when they ask for them, from Pete Hegseth and Department of War, is when they do release them, which they were provoked to do. That's the thing. "And they're not all out. The 46, just read the file names that were in that list, and then look at what was released. They are not all out. So think about that. They give you the underhanded pitch, the bottom of the barrel. And George Knapp and I, as I have said, we're gonna continue our reporting. "But it's kind of like a warning shot. You're like, here's what is in the hands of over 100 journalists, including podcasters now. Meaning they they can get access if they need. That's a whole process. But, essentially, we're telling them what journalists have. So what you can do is get in front of it and release the full, original files. And then nobody argues about frame rates, nobody goes after sources. "That's the way it should work because the onus is on the United States government because they themselves have said that we are going to be transparent about this, we're gonna be putting out all this information. Good, good. "So you've started, and it was total happenstance that the first release was on the premiere of 'Sleeping Dog' date, In in the sense that, I had no idea they were going to do that. It's kind of hilarious. But, you know, we did inform them before about the movie and that we're gonna, you know, do our journalism. So, you do the math." Andy: "Yeah, no, that's useful. And can we just confirm, I am not one of the podcasters who has those files before I am raided, or the CIA get in touch." Corbell: "Nobody has the files. You know, George and I have been sure to back up our work and provide an ability, if anything goes sideways, that, you know, the American public gets what they need. You know, it's very simple, dude. It's not like cloak and dagger. "You have to make sure that when you're reporting on things of national-security concern, that you don't damage national security, A number one. I'm an American, I live here, I love my country. Like, straight up. But also, you put things in place so that you're not the only one who's been able to see or have access, at time. And that's what we did. "We did that to protect sources, whistleblowers, and the information itself getting out to people. I don't possess anything, Andy. Of course, you don't. You're a foreign journalist to me. I'm sorry, but that that's another aspect to it. Is that, even though we have Five-Eyes Alliance, we've never hung out and had a beer, dude." Andy: "Not yet." Corbell: "[Laughs] I hope to." Andy: "Next year's Contact [in the Desert], maybe. So those 100 journalists... Because so many folks got in touch with me to ask..." Corbell: "100-plus." Andy: "100-plus, journalists and podcasters. It's not like you've sent out a special-edition pen drive and went, 'Here's all the files, if something happens.' But there are ways and means that if something did happen to yourself and/or George (Corbell: "Oh yeah"), these folks can access this material?" Corbell: "Yeah. I said it in Episode 60 of Weaponized, right? So we have, as journalists, we have covered and made sure the American public will never be, you know, the American public will never stay in the dark about what we've reported on or what we have to report on. But, you know, we have to go slow, we have to vet everything. It's just an insurance thing that that people would have instantaneous access. "I don't want that, either. Like, I don't want...you can't tell your friends, somebody, without telling your enemies. You know, and I don't...I would rather that we just continue doing our journalism under First Amendment, in America, without any interruption, in any way, that is illegal. And that's what's been happening. You know, the influence campaigns and the threats and that kind of thing. "So, yeah, man, I don't know how far we wanna go into that, but just base-level, we have made sure to protect the information that George Knapp and I have obtained over the decades. We don't hold in possession of anything, but at the same time, we've democratized the way that information will get out if we're stopped in any way, and that's just how it is." Andy: "And you guys are in full control of that, that no one can go rogue that has the information, or, you know, 'Ah, f**k Jeremy and George. I can access this. I'm gonna go off and find.' No, you guys are in complete control of that?" Corbell: "No, because that's a national-security issue because the nature of any information that comes to us in this realm. But additionally, that's not the right way to go about... I don't wanna go too deep into this, but that's not the right way that journalists operate, right? Is, you don't just haphazardly... So, no. Is that okay? Just end with no?" Andy: "You can end with 'no' on that one. It might come back round in one of these other answers to a different question." Corbell: "Okay, yeah."

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๐Ÿ‘ฝ๐Ÿ›ธ Grusch on Disclosure: "I am, surprisingly, confident." ๐Ÿ›ธ๐Ÿ‘ฝ New Grusch: Disclosure, "could trigger a response [from 'them']." Lue in 2022: "If you acknowledge it exists, you can force the hand of...something to do something that you're not prepared to have happen yet." ~~~ (I am NOT confident, but I'm REALLY hoping to be wrong. If Trump brings us meaningful disclosure, his name will go down in history.) Grusch: "There's a lot of like, collateral effects. If you're not careful with certain stuff, you can, you know, trigger a response. And there is great fear that... I don't necessarily believe in this, but like, there has been assessments in the past that, you know, revealing certain things may, you know, trigger a response from a third party." Rogan" "Trigger a response from them? From these entities?" Grusch: "Possibly, yes. And that has been written up. Government think tanks wrote that up in reports to previous presidents." Rogan: "So, the theory is, that we disclose, people are now aware of it all over the globe, and they decide to show themselves?" Grusch "Yeah, I mean, I think there's a real fear of like, a Ghostbusters moment, I'll say." Rogan: "Oh boy,." (Are we talking about pulling Gozer and lots of spirits into our dimension, or a Stay-Puft-Marshmallow-Man event? ๐Ÿ™‚ Lue Elizondo, and others, have spoken about Disclosure possibly triggering an event.) Timothy Good: "From what I've gathered, many of the aliens don't want us to know what they are doing here. And that's kind of understandable. And 'they' could take retaliatory action if, say, those few people in the United States Government wanted to start talking. And it's quite possible they've done that already. So, it's not in their best interests." (I don't have the date for that quote but I'd guess that it's from a book or lecture of his from the 90s.) Lue in 2022: "From a national security, when we go into a country, and we're doing, let's say, Long-Range Surveillance, right? And I send in a LRS team to go do reconnaissance because we're gonna invade a country. Well, the moment that country finds out that I'm conducting reconnaissance into their borders, the jig is up. I now have to invade, I have to attack because the element of surprise is over. "So let's just say, hypothetically, waaaay just remote possibility that whatever is out there is planning to come here in 50 years. Let's just say. But, the moment that the American people find out it's real - and by the way, the American government acknowledges it, and the world acknowledges it, right? Now, whatever. may happen in 50 years, now has to happen tomorrow. And by the way, we don't have any type of way to counteract it, or to neutralize it, or to exploit it. We don't under[stand?]...there's not a damn thing we can do about it. "So that's not really good, from a national-security perspective, that's not really a good place you wanna be in, especially when it comes to national security. Because the mere fact of telling somebody, 'Yes, they're here and we don't know what it is and we can't do anything about it,' may actually predicate an action you're not ready to have yet! "And so, in a very weird, kind of twisted sort of way, it actually may be a sense of patriotism that certain people have kept this quiet for so long, bc we don't have a counter-measure! And so, it is the one secret that, if you acknowledge it exists, you can force the hand of someone or something to do something that you're not prepared to have happen yet. And so, it's something to consider. "Now, let me say, for the record: I don't agree with that, OK? But, I can appreciate that, I can understand that. I can understand that somebody who's very patriotic and very senior, says, 'Look, the mere fact that we have this conversation could lead to something we're not ready to deal with yet.' And so, I get it. And again, I'm not saying I agree with it, I'm simply saying, I can appreciate that, and I understand it, and it's not as...it's harder to demonize someone if that really was their motivation." Source is my 215-tweet thread from 2002: ~ John Keel to Friends in 1967: โ€œOnce the UFO powers realize fully that we are aware of their plans, they might feel it necessary to take immediate action." ~Back to Grusch on Rogan Today~ Grusch: "And it's one of those things where I'm trying to walk the line and be as diplomatic as possible, and also trying to prepare the populace at the same time. Because clearly, the government hasn't right now, and, I mean, Trump wants it out for sure. His team needs to be astute enough to know what to ask for, you know, massage the deep state, and get that information. Because we just saw Tim Burchett on Benny Johnson's podcast talk about, Stephen Miller called him and was like, 'Hey, I'm getting blocked, like, physically blocked from access to a lot of this stuff.' And, you know, that's very concerning." (Matt Laslo broke that story.) Grusch: "I would say Stephen Miller is an alpha dog, he's a pit bull. I do appreciate the fervency he is attacking the issue behind the scenes, and I just, I think he needs guided the right way and informed, and kind of how to cut this deal." Rogan: "I met him very briefly at the UFC event at the White House, and he told me that it's gonna come out. I'm like, 'Okay.'" Grusch: "That's good! Well, there you go." Rogan: "It was really quick." Grusch: "Yeah." Rogan: "He's like, 'I know you're interested in this.' This is literally all we talked about. 'The UFO thing is gonna come out.' I'm like, 'Okay, when? When's that coming out? Let's go [laughs].'" Grusch: "Exactly. (Just for context: The first three batches of UFO files were released on May 8th, May 22nd, and June 12th. The White House UFC event was on June 14th.) Grusch: "And Trump understands the subject pretty good, and, you know, he's in the know. And he understands some of the implications." (If he understands the subject pretty good, why does he only know SOME of the implications?) Grusch: "So, like I said, he has a lot of courage because this is likely gonna change society in a big way. I'm not like a social anthropologist or a psychiatrist. Like, I can't necessarily predict in what specific ways it might reduce, you know, feudal-nation-state, peer competition and other things, but it is gonna change. And I think, when people look back at this interview, it's gonna be very haunting because I think, in short order, you know, before Trump leaves office, we're gonna be in a new paradigm. "And I'm normally a very pessimistic, cynical person. A lot of my friends know that. But I have great confidence that the President is doing the right thing. And I feel there's eventually gonna...the people that are in charge of this are gonna have to comply with the President's order. But there's a right way of of doing this, I think. And like I said, I'm not some sycophant for the deep state. I'm a whistleblower, obviously, and, you know, I have philosophical differences about how this was kept and how they could possibly reveal stuff. "But, I am, surprisingly, confident, which is kind of weird for me to say. Because I just see the tea leaves, I know Miller's serious. There's other people in government serious. I mean, you even see Aaron Lukas, the DDNI, the Deputy Director of National Intelligence, you know, sign these big NDA waivers. It includes like, any kind of waiver of not even telling the president, sorry, you-have-to-tell-us kind of thing. And so, you're seeing kind of the chessboard being set. "I know everybody's not happy with the tranches coming out, with the low-hanging fruit videos and recordings and stuff. And Representative Burlison and I, before I left his office, recently, got a 1952 recording that was still classified from Blue Book, talking about the seriousness of this issue and all the crazy shit that they're seeing near nuclear sites and test ranges. Which is interesting, because in that video (it's audio) that's been declassified, it mentions the very sites that, in modern day, have that same anomalous activity to include stuff in the Southwest. I can't say where, it's in the ecosystem in the open source, but the executive branch hasn't acknowledged what specific tests and training range. They're seeing crazy orbs that they can't explain [that] accost helicopters and all that, so."

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๐Ÿ‘ฝ Did Grusch See Footage of Live Aliens? ๐Ÿ‘ฝ "Grusch has seen evidence that will leave you slack-jawed when you hear it." ~JF ๐Ÿ˜ถ What Left Congress Speechless, and Staffers with Their Eyes Popping Out of Their Heads? ๐Ÿ˜ฑ ~ "Examine biological evidence of living or deceased non-human intelligence." ~Burlison Proposed Legislation (I'm gonna break all of this down and give you my speculation on what left Fox with his jaw on the floor, members of Congress speechless, and their senior staffers with their eyes popping out of their heads.) ~ James Fox: " Probably about two weeks ago (late May), we were having meetings on The Hill with members of Congress. We brought in a PR firm, 42 West, and we were having a meeting with staff members, bipartisan. We had Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Rep. Tim Burchett Press Office, Rep. Eric Burlison. We had a representative from Congressman Jared Moskowitz's office. We had a number of Chiefs of Staff (top staffer for a specific member of Congress), like, present." (Don't really know why they needed a public relations firm in attendance, but if it helps them with advice on how to handle this, so be it. Just know: it appears like members of that PR firm know what Grusch said, and we don't.) Fox: "And, I can't reveal what was said. I thought it was gonna be said at the actual event that we had yesterday (June 9th) in DC with Mr. Grusch." (Don't be mad at Fox for keeping his word to Grusch and not sharing what was said in that private meeting. But I don't blame people for being annoyed that Grusch shared this information six or so weeks ago and we still don't know what he said in that room.) Fox: "Then, what Mr. Grusch revealed to all of us, what he had seen with his own eyes, left the room speechless. It drew the oxygen out of the room. I looked at everybody in that room, and their eyeballs were popping out. My jaw was on the floor. Like, I simply couldn't believe what he'd seen with his own eyes. Like, I can't wait for it to come out. "So I asked Mr. Grusch today, 'Can I talk about what I heard?' And he's like, 'No, but I will be addressing it very soon.'" (Like I said, it's almost been one month now (June 12) since Fox said this, so what does "very soon" mean? Was Grusch supposed to share this information on CNN with Jake Tapper last week but it didn't happen because that interview was, reportedly (Fox told us), postponed?) Fox: "So that's where we stand right now. But I can tell you, Mr. Grusch has seen evidence that will leave you slack-jawed when you hear it. It's coming, it's coming." (We heard that Gruch's Op/Ed was coming soon and that was 2.5 years ago. It never happened. So, I don't blame people for being skeptical about this. If Grusch hasn't told us by this time next week, I propose someone (a member of Congress) who was in that room just tell us. That's fair, right? Total transparency from our elected representatives?) ~ Fox: "Mr. Grusch is legitimately concerned about his personal safety. He's coming out with it, I promise you, this is coming out. He assured me today that he will address this issue to the general public very soon, in the near future." (I'm glad Grusch told a room full of people what he saw, as that may offer him some protection from people who allegedly want him to stop talking.) Fox: "So I can't speak to what he's gonna say, but I'm just telling you from what I heard out of his mouth, sitting in an office of a member of Congress? And everybody (Fox laughs) in the room, you could have heard a pin drop." Clayton Morris: "Could you give us a hint? Is it related to craft? Can you maybe dance around it a little bit? I want to say, 'You're killing me, Smalls (laughs).'" Fox: "Yeah, so if you can imagine, if you know about 'Moment of Contact,' that involves captured non-human intelligent beings. Think about that for a minute. Think about that case. I heard it out of his mouth, and I can tell you, I was in the room. And I looked around the room, and I'm looking at these young, like, guys in their 20s, you know, the staff guys? And their eyeballs were popping out of their head. My jaw was on the floor. I couldn't believe it." (There's a reason why I included that quote (living or deceased non-human intelligence) from the new Burlison/Carson/Crane legislation at the top of this tweet: At the very least, I'm confident Grusch told them that he saw photos of dead non-human beings. Bodies. But what about evidence of LIVING non-humans, aka aliens of unknown origin? More on that at the end. Fox: "My jaw was on the floor. I couldn't believe it." (Would Grusch saying he saw photos of craft and dead non-humans have that type of effect on Fox? Seems like that's something he would have expected to hear.) ~ Fox: "It was an [out of] body experience when I heard that. But I can tell you...the impression I got, was that he felt a little more protected to talk about this because of President Trump's directive to release the files, and that this... Again, this is my speculation, okay? This is not what Mr. Grusch said. "I got the impression that he was much more relaxed - even though he was still not fully relaxed - because of President Trump's directive to release these files. And that it was something that he had seen during his official investigations just within the last few years." (Imagine how much more relaxed Grusch (and others) would feel if we had an actual Executive Order from Trump with strong language to protect whistleblowers?) Fox: "And that it...I think it had an extremely profound impact on his life when he saw this evidence that he described. Again I'm leaving it right there. I've been talking with Republicans, and they said if Joe Rogan tweets about this, that the President will hear it, And I can't overstate the significance of that." (Why hasn't Rogan already done that? No excuse. Fox has been on Rogan and I'm sure he has Joe's contact information. Make it happen.) Fox: "We need people. We're not asking for money, we're not asking to get on your show, we're just asking, Mr. President, please, as many people as possible, release the files that should not be associated with national security. And that's the alien or non-human sentient beings. That's it." ~~~ (I'm going to speculate on what Grusch may have said in that room.) Fox: "I think it had an extremely profound impact on [Grusch's] life when he saw this evidence that he described." (Grusch has said he started out as a skeptic when he started looking into this. If he was shown what he felt were photos of non-human bodies, I think that might be enough to have an, "extremely profound impact on his life." Depending on exactly what those photos showed, of course.) In "Moment of Contact," Eric Davis had this exchange with Fox: James Fox: "Put me wherever you were when you got to see photographs of crash retrieval and documents. What did that feel like?" Dr. Eric Davis: "That was startling, when I actually see recorded evidence with my own eyes. Photographs, reports, and whatnot. That took it to a higher level, that kicked it up several notches of reality. And that made it very clear that this reality is very hard, very physical, very real. "And this type of evidence, you can't come by in the open literature, it's not public, it's classified. And I can't discuss what it was, but I can tell you, yeah, it's a crash retrieval, there's a craft, and there's alien bodies. That's all I can say about it." Fox: "You swear on your life that you saw those pictures?" Davis: "Oh, I swear on my life, and everybody's...my children's life, so (laughs). Yeah, I'm absolutely telling you the truth. I saw the evidence, and it's stark! I can't tell you the exact number, because it's classified, but I'll just say, there's a few dozen total retrievals." Full exchange with video... ~~~ As I said in my other post, I think Davis, Semivan, Puthoff, Kelleher, Grusch, Lacatski, Stratton, aka The AAWSAP Gang (I just made that up), may have seen the same evidence of photos and reports. Has Grusch seen more than that? I don't know. In 2025, Davis said this... Burlison: "Can you comment on whatever species have been piloting these craft? Are they largish? Are they multiple species? What was their size, and how many are usually on a craft?" Davis: "They're typically the multiple species people are familiar with. The Greys, the Nordics. People have talked about Reptilians and Insectoids. It's not that they're Reptilian or Insectoid, it's that they resemble, to the participant, a reptile, or insect type. A humanoid, because they have this...a hand, and four limbs, and a torso, so..." Burlison: "Large? Small?" Davis: "Human size, human scale." Burlison: "How many are in a crew?" Davis: "Well, the group, well, the Greys I'm familiar with from investigating the crash at Corona, which is misnamed the crash at Roswell. It's not the crash at Roswell, it's the crash at Corona, New Mexico. Those were Greys, those were four-foot tall. And the Nordics are typically human-sized, probably...I've heard five, six-feet tall. And same with the people who mislabel Reptilian and Insectoid. They're roughly that height, too. I haven't heard anything about anything seven or eight feet or nine-foot tall, of that nature." Full post with video... ~ And this past Sunday, Davis said this to The Good Trouble Show with Matt Ford... Davis: "I can say to you guys that there are a minimum of four different alien species. The credibility of that ranges on the spectrum from no credibility to high credibility. The high credibility is the classified part." Full post: My Final Thoughts (Based on everything Davis has shared, it seems he saw classified photos of what appeared to him to be non-human craft and photos that appeared to show dead non-humans (bodies) with enough detail that he could see that some resembled reptiles and others resembled insects. Were there also photos of Greys and beings that looked human (Nordic)? I don't know. These images of non-humans would fall into what Davis deemed "high credibility" and "the classified part.") Davis: "I saw the evidence, and it's stark!" (If Davis saw close-up photos that showed details of beings that looked like Reptilians and Mantids, I'd say that qualifies as stark!) Back to what Fox said... Fox: "Then, what Mr. Grusch revealed to all of us, what he had seen with his own eyes, left the room speechless. It drew the oxygen out of the room. I looked at everybody in that room, and their eyeballs were popping out. My jaw was on the floor. Like, I simply couldn't believe what he'd seen with his own eyes." (I think what caused that reaction was Grusch describing seeing close-up photos of different types of non-human beings. Maybe.) However, Fox also said this: "...if you can imagine, if you know about 'Moment of Contact,' that involves captured non-human intelligent beings (This is the Varginha, Brazil case. ~Joe). Think about that for a minute. Think about that case. I heard it out of his mouth, and I can tell you, I was in the room." (The biggest CLAIM in that film and from that case is that a live, non-human being was captured and that Dr. Italo saw video of it, and then stood next to it for a few minutes when it was in the hospital, in a bed, being cared for by another doctor. Did Grusch say he saw evidence (photos or videos) of a live being that appeared to be non-human? Joe Rogan asked him that in his November 2023 interview... Grusch: "Once you realize the phenomenon's real, then you realize we've recovered artifacts and, you know, biologics or, you know, dead pilots, if you will, even though it's kind of creepy to think about in your world view. You don't think they were ever, you know, alive sometimes, too, right? And I'll leave it at that, only because, you know, that is something the President and his cabinet need to disclose this in a controlled manner." (He was either hinting that he's seen them alive or that them being alive and on this planet is a huge deal and not his responsibility to announce. I think it's the latter.) Rogan: "Are there discussions of interactions with live beings?" Grusch: "Uhh, there was some water-cooler talk about that kind of thing." Rogan: "But that's it?" Grusch: "But, you know, I don't even wanna get into it because it's like, uh, there was some details provided to me but it's like, it's secondary and I don't know if that's like, the telephone game and I don't know if it was hyperbolized in any way...um, you know, in the break room, so to speak. So I just... I'm so anal about making sure what I say is accurate...I don't, you know, I don't know." (Based on what he said there, it seems like he has NOT seen any evidence of live beings. If he now comes out and says that he has, it will seem like a flip flop. So, I'm gonna go with Grusch said he saw photos of non-human bodies and they were of the different types/species that Dr. Eric Davis referenced. One more flashback to what Davis said in that public, congressional briefing in May of 2025.) Davis: "It's not that they're Reptilian or Insectoid, it's that they resemble, to the participant, a reptile, or insect type." (That sounds like someone who has seen exactly what they look like, via photos.) Final point... "Examine biological evidence of living or deceased non-human intelligence." ~Burlison Proposed Legislation (That language was in the original UAPD Disclosure Act co-sponsored by Senators Schumer and Rounds, and four other senators. Why put that language in there if you haven't heard credible reports of living or deceased (bodies) non-human intelligence? Are there stories of living, non-humans on this planet? Yes, and I'll leave you with one of them.) ) (Just to make it clear: I think Grusch will say that he saw clear photos of different types of non-human bodies and some looked like reptiles and others looked like insects. It would be amazing to hear Grusch say he saw video or film of living beings, but I don't expect that. However...this still bothers me... Would Grusch describing seeing photos of craft and different kinds of dead aliens leave veteran-of-the-UFO-field, James Fox, with his jaw on the floor? I guess we're gonna see. And hopefully soon.)

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"Tell us this isn't true." "They had a live being out [near Area 51]." "There were human experiments that went on." ๐Ÿ‘ฝ๐Ÿ›ธ Roswell: A Non-Human Craft or a Darker Secret? ๐Ÿคซ๐Ÿ˜ถ (Transcript is shorter than clip. I don't have room to type more in this post so I'll just wait for replies.) ~ Lex Fridman: "In your book on 'Area 51,' you propose an explanation that I think some people have criticized, at the very end. That this might have been a disinformation campaign from, I guess, Stalin, that the Roswell incident was a remotely-piloted plane with a quote 'grotesque, child-sized aviator.' Just looking back at all that now, years later, what's the probability that it's true? What's the probability it's not?" Annie Jacobsen: (AJ): "So, you know, I've never revealed who that source is." Lex: "Yes." AJ: "You know that? Want me to tell you?" Lex: "Okay, who was the source?" AJ: "So, before I say anything on that, let me speak to the question that you asked, right? So, you asked me, 'What's the probability that that is still standing as an idea, 12, 13, 14 years later,' right? So, I continued to work with that source for years, afterwards. We talked about this. Look, I mean, his whole family knew it was him. And I knew his family because I was an integral part of, you know, I was at his house, met all his kids, grandkids." Lex: "And we should say, the source is the main expert advisor behind the story that it was. Maybe you can explain what the story is that your report in the book, that it was a disinformation campaign created by Stalin to cause mass hysteria in the United States. The very kind that we've been speaking about with the CIA and so on." AJ: "Yes! Predicated on the narrative of the 'War of the Worlds,' right? And the 'War of the Worlds,' when it was a radio program in the United States, made people go crazy. 'Oh, my God, we're being invaded by aliens!' Well, the government was always interested in the story and Joseph Stalin was, too. We know that from declassified documents, right? "And so, the source told me that the reason for this program, and that the real Roswell crash remains, were in fact, it was a black-propaganda hoax infiltrated, you know, or rather, predicated at this idea that you were gonna overwhelm America's early-warning, air-defense system, cause mayhem and maybe be able to attack the United States. That was the plan. And Stalin was also messing with the United States, messing with Truman, who sort of, you know, turned his back on him, right? At Potsdam. "And so, this idea, and the reason that the source is important... And unlike, you know, a lot of people, 'I saw this, I saw that, I learned that.' Was, according to the source, once it was determined that this was a hoax and that Stalin was able to get a craft over the United States, and it crashed. And it had, you know, people inside of it, they were people that were sort of deformed and meant...surgically altered to look like aliens. "The United States government decided that it needed to know what on earth that was all about, and if it was possible for us to have the same program. This, according to this source, right? And so, it sounds preposterous, and if it was just someone saying, 'I...,' you might say, 'Well, it's ridiculous, get them onto another subject.' But, the difference was, is this source, who was very well placed, and friends with all of the other 75 people, you know, told me this as a confession, right? A real, tearful confession, because what he said is he was involved in the American program to do the same thing. And people died, because there were human experiments that went on." "And I write about this in the last 12 pages of 'Area 51.' It was an explosive, you know, revelation, and I felt very confident in writing this because the source wanted it written. Why? Because he said, 'I'm dedicated to my country. I know about being committed to national security, and this kind of thing must never happen. And if you give people too much power, they will take advantage of it.' And he wanted it on the record. "And his wife of 60 years did not know until after the book published. Nor did His children, okay? So, after the book published, I was called to his house and sat there with his family. And they said, 'Tell us this isn't true.' And he said, 'It is true,' right? (We need a tape of this confession or...for his family to confirm they heard this from him.) AJ: "Now that source is Al O'Donnell, who is the nuclear-weapons engineer who armed, wired and fired 186 nuclear weapons, okay? So if you wanna talk about someone..." Lex: "Woooooow." AJ: "You're the first person I've told that on the record, but it's kind of about time." Lex: "Woooooow. Well, you received a lot of criticism over this story, and it confused me why, because it's...given the context of everything you've described with the CIA and other intelligence agencies, it is reasonable that such action would be taken. AJ: "And, the source is extraordinarily credible, right? If you wanted to take the position, 'Well, that person isn't very reliable,' then you have to ask yourself, 'Why did they have Top-Secret clearances that are higher than any in the United States whatsoever?' Because he was responsible for arming nuclear bombs. He was called the trigger man. "And by the way, he told me that I could tell the world who he was. There's a lot of details that are really dark, involving that program. And when is it appropriate, right? Well, it feels appropriate now. First of all, because you and I have been talking for several hours. So this is what is truly a long-form conversation and it's the outcome of, you know, a very long time of my reporting, and also being judicious about what, you know, closing the loop on that, right? Because I do think it's important for people to know that sources have revelations." Lex: "And, like you said, the programs, both on the Soviet side, and the American side, conflicting, I think's the term we used previously? Ethically, morally, on all fronts. People have done some horrible things in the name of security. In your book, 'Surprise, Kill Vanish,' you write about the CIA." ~~~ Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell: "So, today, I want to focus on a really important story that you once told me, that has never been told all the way [from the] beginning, to all the way to the end. And I just think it's just so cool we get to do this today. So, the question I want to ask is: After you got hooked on the UFO thing, with Bob Lazar, and you as a journalist said, 'I'm gonna start getting sources.' Like, 12 people coming at you, people shut down by the government. You can tell that. But you finally, finally got to a credible individual who had direct, firsthand knowledge about UFOs, exploitation, reverse engineering, and beings. And, oh my God, I want the world to hear this story. Tell us the story." George Knapp: "I've shared some of it in very broad strokes over the years- little bits and pieces of it - without ever actually referencing, in my statements, the guy the source. But this will be the first time I've told it in totality. "And it takes me back to when I first started in this. It's 1989 KLAS-TV, we put together, we spent eight months working on this project called 'UFOs: The Best Evidence.' Nine-part series. It airs on television, it's the biggest thing that's ever been produced for local TV, to this date, and still. "And, along the way, as I'm trying to find...telling the story about Bob Lazar, and his allegations about what was out there at S-4, near Area 51 - recovered discs, alien technology being reverse engineered - I'm looking for people who would support that. And I found about two dozen people, witnesses who had worked out there, who had seen bits and pieces, who could corroborate parts of what Bob had said about these kinds of craft being out there in the Nevada desert. But there wasn't anybody big picture who knew as much as Lazar claimed to have known, so I was still looking for them. "In 1990, I started working on a follow-up series to Best Evidence, looking for new witnesses. And I got a hint from an elected official that I had known, I'd covered him in Nevada politics. He says, 'You know, you should talk to my dad one of these days.' 'Your dad?' 'Yeah.' And he told me what the dad's name was and what he had done, what job he had had. And I said, 'Ah.' So I started stalking the guy. I just started showing up at events where I knew he would be. One of those events was a reunion for employees of EG&G." Corbell (JC): "So I'm assuming that this source was working within EG&G in some capacity, which is, by the way, who Bob [Lazar] said, hired him to go out to Site-4, S-4 at Area 51. So you're like, 'Okay, I can now find out if this is bullshit, or if there's an element of truth to it.' Do I have that right?" Knapp (GK): "Pretty much correct, yeah. So, I'm looking for someone whose credentials are impeccable. Unlike Bob, whose credentials were questioned, and people still attack him on where he went to school and where he worked, and was he at Los Alamos? This guy is documentable. There's a paper trail of where he worked, what he did. There's no question that he was in a position to know. He was the first general manager of EG&G in Nevada. His name was Al O'Donnell, and he has a prominent family. "When I heard that EG&G was having a reunion, I went there. We took a camera [and I figured], 'This is a great chance to get him on camera before I start asking him the questions I really want to ask.'" JC: "And when you say he is a general manager, like, does that give him certain roles and responsibilities that would give him insight? Like, he's not a secretary, so what does that mean?" GK: "He's the boss. He was the boss of the Nevada office. And I'll tell you a little bit about EG&G. So, it was a company that was created in Boston, right around the end of World War Two. Al O'Donnell had been in the Navy, serving during the war. He got out of the Navy while the war was still underway and went to work for a company called Raytheon, which became this massive, gigantic defense contractor that's still around today, still in Nevada in fact." JC: Yeah, they've got a big connection to the UFO topic, right? But, when you say Boston, like, where in Boston was it created?" GK: "Well, MIT is where the company was born. Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier were the three guys, the EG&G in that. They were at MIT. Scientists, engineers, they created this company there. And Al O'Donnell, who had been working for Raytheon, working on the Manhattan Project. He didn't know he was working on the Manhattan Project, but they were building these devices, complex triggers, that allowed them to detonate nuclear weapons. He learned later what he was doing was part of the Manhattan Project. "He goes to MIT, starts working with EG&G. Their company in those days had, I think, 15 employees, Al said. So it was a very small startup. But it suddenly exploded because the American atomic program exploded in those years. In 1950, Harry Truman decides that we need a permanent, nuclear testing site somewhere in the continental U.S., so they looked at a bunch of places, and they settled on Nevada. "Prior to that, Al O'Donnell had been sent out to the Pacific. They had five of these massive, atomic bomb tests out in the Pacific, and they decided to move it into a continental U.S. location and Nevada's Test Site - it was called the Nevada Test Site in those days - was chosen. Al O'Donnell leads the exodus from Boston, out to Nevada. They start hiring engineers and scientists, physicists and other security, spies." JC: "What are they working on at this time when they make that move?" GK: "Atomic bombs. They're building, testing atomic bombs. EG&G was a really precise organization that was created in order to detonate, measure and photograph atomic weapons. If you look in the history of photography, you'll see some of these amazing photos that they took of, you know, water drops dropping in water and...they're pretty famous shots because of these cameras that they developed. And it was perfect for use and testing atomic weapons and documenting what the process was. "So, EG&G comes out to Las Vegas, they are the managers of the Nevada Test Site. They, subsequently, years later, become the managers of Area 51 when it opens in 1955. So Al O'Donnell is the top guy. He oversees the nuclear testing program out there, manages it for EG&G, works with the Atomic Energy Commission. He has a Top-Secret security clearance and he can go anywhere and see anything. There's, basically, no restrictions, nothing that is outside of his ability to find out and see." JC: "So, this is an impeccable resume. This is somebody who was in position to know, and would know if someone like Bob Lazar was telling the truth or not telling the truth. I find it, personally, humorous that EG&G was, its genesis, its seed, came from MIT, right?" GK: "So, late 1990 or early 1991, I'd have to look up the dates. But somewhere in there is this event, this EG&G reunion. I go there, we got a camera, I interview Al O'Donnell, introduce myself, and say, 'Hey, I'm really interested in this, can we continue this conversation?' So he invites me to his home. He says, 'Come on over, we'll arrange to come over on a Saturday or something. We'll sit down, I'll go through my scrapbooks and show you some documents and memorabilia and photos from that era.' I was like, 'Great.' "So I go to his house and meet this wife. And we sit down, he opens up these big scrapbooks, and he starts showing me all the stuff that he had done. Photos that had been taken out in the proximity of these gigantic nuclear tests. They had great stories about the camaraderie that developed among the engineers and scientists. And he's going through all this stuff and showing me all this. And I love it, I loved every bit of it. I've never had a bad day at the Nevada Test Site, by the way. Every time I've gone out there to do a story, it's just a terrific way to spend some time." JC: "Secrets should be kept, secrets are kept, and you are a proponent of keeping secrets when it's that kind of thing." GK: "Sure, absolutely. And I respected the boundaries that they set up for us in doing these kinds of stories. So I did go out to the Nevada Test Site a lot over the next 40 years or so and put together a lot of different stories. And they knew of my interest in that area that's just outside what the Nevada Test Site, a place called Area 51. In 1955, Area 51 was, basically, created and EG&G got the contract to manage Area 51, and had kept it for the next 30, 35 years. So, whatever went on out there, they had an inside knowledge of what was going on." JC: "So, you meet this guy, Al O'Donnell, for the first time when he's at this public thing. You probably say something like, 'Your son told me to talk to you,' or something. Whatever. It ends up, he invites you to his home, and you're going through scrapbooks, and he's showing you all this atomic testing stuff that he was involved in. GK: "Yeah, and I'm telling him, 'Boy, this is really interesting. That's fascinating. I'd love to do a story on it.' And after we're there for maybe two hours, he closes this one big scrapbook and he goes, 'You're not here to talk about this, are ya?' I said, 'Well, not exactly.' He says, 'I know what you're here to talk about. I know what you want to ask about.' And right about that point, his wife walks in and she says, 'Don't start telling them that stuff! Don't even tell him!' And he kind of joked about it.' JC: "What were you there to talk about?" GK: "UFOs, UFOs. Area 51, Bob Lazar, crashed saucers, reverse engineering, to see if he had any knowledge of that, because I'd been led to believe that he did. So he closes that book and he says, 'We'll have we'll get together another time and we'll talk about it in private.' And over the course of the next two years or so, he and I would meet at coffee shops and talk about it. And I would ask him questions, and really, it was like pulling teeth. He wanted to tell me stuff but he made me work at it." (AJ says his family was there for the confession. Knapp has over two years of meetings with him. A bit confusing.) GK: "And the condition was, I couldn't take any notes. I couldn't record it, I couldn't take any notes. So each time I'd meet with him, I'd rush back to my car and start scribbling notes on pieces of paper so I'd remember everything that he said. And the story that he told me, that evolved over those couple of years was pretty fantastic. "He said that they did have a flying saucer that had been recovered from New Mexico. I think he indicated that it had been taken from New Mexico to Wright Patterson Air Force Base, which is... He never said Roswell, but I think it was the Roswell incident is what he [was] talking about. And it confirmed some of the details about what we know, likely, happened with the Roswell craft." JC: "When he's telling you, 'We have recovered a craft,' did he say it like, this is secret, don't tell anybody?" GK: "Yeah, it was just for my knowledge, my background and information. It wasn't a story I could do then. We were negotiating about how, or when, or if I could ever use that information or make it public. He told me the details about this craft. He said that it had been stored at Indian Springs. Indian Springs is an Air Force Base that's been there for a long time. It's now called Creech. Indian Springs existed before Area 51 was made. "But he says it was there, they kept it there. It might have been in an underground facility, I'm not quite sure. But then when Area 51, after it opened in 1955, they moved it to an adjacent facility. He didn't say it was S-4, he didn't say it was Papoose, but I think that's what he's talking about. Papoose Lake is where Bob Lazar said he worked, and where they had built nine hangars underground, disguised to look like the desert, and where they had other recovered craft. "He says they worked on this recovered craft, reverse engineering, trying to figure out how it worked, who built it. Whether or not they could duplicate the technology because, apparently, they thought this was pretty advanced, and they'd like to be able to build more of 'em. "And he says it was a very closed program, very small. It was only, I think, five of them that were aware of it, at least in the early stages, that were working on this project. And it was very hush hush, and they didn't share it with anybody else in the company, or anybody else in the area, or the military. They just kept it to themselves. "So, after we're having these meetings - and I go back and write down all these notes and stuff, details about what he had shared with me - we have another meeting at a coffee shop, and I said, 'Well gosh, you know, aren't you worried that it would get out, that the word would get out?' "And he says to me, 'We were worried It would get out?' That's right. 'I mean, what...it? What do you mean, it?' It. Meaning a live being, they had a live being out there. I go, 'You had a live being, an alien as well?' [O'Donnell said], 'Tell you the truth, we didn't know what it was.' I said, 'You know, maybe it came from millions of miles away, out in space, and you're keeping it in a cage near Area 51?' He said, 'To tell you the truth, we couldn't communicate with it in the beginning. We didn't know what it was, we didn't know where it was from, and we didn't know what to do with it.'" JC: "When Al O'Donnell says to you, 'We had a live alien, a being,' obviously from another world, what was your feeling?" GK: "Well, I was overwhelmed, because it was, in effect, confirmation of things that I had come to believe, because of the reporting we'd already done. And then the evidence of cover ups and lies that had been told to the public. Here's this guy in a high position, with a high security clearance, telling me that it was true. That they really did have a craft and they had a being. "My second feeling was, one of overwhelming sadness for the being, whatever it was, you know, that was kept out there. I asked him, you know, what had happened to it, what became of it? He says, 'I don't know. I don't know whatever happened to it.' But it was out there for a while, alive, and eventually they figured out a way to communicate with it. "And so I asked him, 'Well, what did it look like?' And he made me guess, as he did with all these questions. He made me guess. He said, 'Well, it kinda looks like a certain political candidate.' I said, 'Well, who? A political candidate? Who?' And at the time, Ross Perot was running for president. He said, 'It looks like Ross Perot. A little skinny guy with a big ears and tiny head.' Not a classic Gray-looking alien, but a very odd-looking creature with really big ears, that looked like Ross Perot. And I laughed. "And so we had these conversations for a while, and I was blown away by the information that he shared. I took all these notes. I was hoping that someday, I might be able to get the information out. And I asked him, 'Look, you're getting up there in age. If I can't record something with you, could you record a statement to the effect of telling me the story on camera, and then when you pass on, I can have the tape?' And he said, 'Yeah,' he would do it." JC: "You know, look, I've heard a lot of wild stories that I can't verify. A guy's telling you something, and you get a sense as a journalist, when you go down a road with somebody, and you take your time and you vet it... Did you feel...I mean, is there any world where he's trying to f*ck with ya? Or is there a world where he's trying to, you know, dissuade...kind of put crazy information into your brain? Like, how did you feel when he was telling you this? Was he like, straight with you?" GK: "Yeah, he was very straightforward. And again, this was not information he was giving up, willingly. I mean, I had to really dig and coax and arm twist to get him to cough things up. And it was very slow-going over about a two-year period, maybe a little bit longer. And I know that this...you always have to be wary of people with different agendas and people that just make stuff up. I didn't get that sense from him because of his standing in the community. He had shared this story with members of his own family." JC: "And that's why they came to you, is because they kind of [gave] you a tip. And these members of his family, they're serious people, too." GK: "Yeah. One of his sons is an FBI agent, or was, he's passed on now. One was an elected official in Nevada. That was the one that gave me the tip." JC: So, I just want to nail this [down] so I understand. You were approached because he had shared this with his family, privately, and then you had to kind of coax to get through to him about the story?" GK: "Right." JC: "I think that's important because look, these things don't happen, like, people [don't] just come to us and say, you know, crazy stuff, and we're like, 'Hh, yeah, cool. Sounds good.' Like, the dynamic of that, socially, as a journalist, like getting in there, taking time. You know, we have to verify if what he said is true, and there are some major bombs coming about that. But it's like, that process is so important. "So here you are, you're sitting with him, he tells you now, they have a live alien. And you felt sad because you're an animal-rights activist, you love animals. I know with your cats at home and you've done horse stories and all the stories about like, the inhumane stuff to animals. So it made you personally sad, makes me sad, too now thinking about it." GK: Yeah. Well, we had these series of meetings, and then the last time we met, after he'd agreed to go ahead and record a tape - and give it to me after making an arrangement so I got it after he passed on - he said that he had been told to not talk to me anymore. He said he had been given a warning [and] it was not a good idea for him to talk to me any more about anything. Not just that topic, but anything." JC: "Well, who knows that you're talking? Who would warn him?" GK: "I don't know. I don't know. But you recall, back in those days, there was surveillance. We had our phones tapped at KLAS-TV. There were guys following us around. Me, Bob Lazar, Gene Huff, maybe Robert Bigelow." JC: "People were also coming to your news station, OSI. And they would come in and try to like, get to you and then they'd show you their card...and take it back. And you know your phones are tapped. So it's like, because of this story, all of a sudden you're on high alert. So, anybody could have called him, been watching you, had meetings with the guy. So what you're saying is one day he just said, 'I can't...I'm not allowed to talk to you any more.'" GK: "Yeah, I've been told not to talk to you anymore. I've been told not to."

Joe Murgia

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From Creator to Founder: The Rollercoaster Journey of Building Chatter Social Man, what a journey itโ€™s been so far. Four years ago, I was just another creator, spending late nights on Clubhouse during the height of the pandemic. Like so many others, I was searching for connection, for community, for something meaningful. But what I found there wasnโ€™t just connectionโ€”it was purpose. Alongside my brother, Jonathan Bing, we built a nightly show that reached over 5 million people. Imagine that: 5 million lives touched by conversations that felt real and unfiltered, all on a platform that at its peak had 10 million monthly active users. Clubhouse was magic. But then the decline began. Watching the platform struggle, I couldnโ€™t help but reflect: what made it great? What went wrong? And what could the future look like if we did things differently? The Spark of Chatter As a content creator, I understood the needs of both creators and users. I knew what excited people, what kept them engaged, and what made them leave. Clubhouse had tapped into something special, but it had missed the mark on scalability and sustainability. By September 2023, I couldnโ€™t stop thinking about the potential for something newโ€”something that brought back the magic of real-time interaction but made it scalable, engaging, and sticky. And so, I set out to build Chatter Social. But I wasnโ€™t a tech founder. I didnโ€™t have a background in software development or a network of Silicon Valley insiders. What I did have was determination and the belief that if I could bring the right people together, we could build something extraordinary. Building the Team The journey to build Chatter started with assembling a team. Through my network from my days on Clubhouse, I found Samir, my first CTO. He believed in the vision and was instrumental in getting the project off the ground. Shortly after, I connected with Tyler, our Head of Design, whose creativity brought life to our ideas. A developer joined us soon after, and we were off to the races. By the end of 2023, Samir had to step away due to other commitments, and we promoted the developer to CTO. At the same time, I brought on Banko, a Sony music executive, as our CMO. Bankoโ€™s connections led to one of our biggest early wins: landing Davido, a global superstar, as an owner-ambassador. To this day, I still marvel at the fact that Davido believed in our vision when all we had were Tylerโ€™s Figma designs. From Dream to Reality Early 2024 was a whirlwind. We hired Yurii and Vasyl, two developers from Ukraine who brought incredible skill and dedication to the team. Vasyl, in particular, stood out as a leader and has since earned an equity position in the company. But despite these wins, we were facing growing pains. Our new CTO struggled to meet deadlines, and as a result, I found myself constantly pushing back the launch date. What started as a January release turned into February, then March, then April, then May. By then, people on Twitter Spacesโ€”where I had been hyping up the platformโ€”started doubting if we even had a product. Launch and Lessons June 1, 2024, marked a turning point. It was the day my son Noah was born and the day we launched Chatter in private beta. We started with just 40 users, but by the end of the month, we had grown to 1,000. The engagement was unbelievable. Users loved it, even though we had launched with just one feature: live rooms. This represented less than 20% of what we had planned, but it was enough to show that we were onto something big. In July, we launched our public beta on the App Store as an invite-only platform. Within 48 hours, Chatter ranked as a top 30 social app in over 30 countries. But our invite system throttled access, and most users couldnโ€™t get in. While engagement metrics soared for those inside, our AWS costs exploded. In August, our AWS bill hit $10,000. By September, it had climbed to $15,000, and we were drowning in bugs and glitches. The breaking point came when our CTO became unresponsive, often disappearing during critical moments. Users were dropping off, frustrated by the issues, developers were confused and the team was also growing increasingly frustrated, I made the tough decision to let him go. A New Beginning Enter Horane, a long-time user of Chatter who had been with us since private beta. He was the first to discover some of the most innovative use cases for the platform and had a deep passion for its potential. After meeting him in person at a Chatter event, I knew he was the right person to step into the CTO role. When Horane took over, we discovered just how bad the situation was. Key areas of the codebase were locked, and there were no separate environments for development and production. Every fix seemed to break something else. But through sheer determination and countless 18-hour days, Horane stabilized the platform. Today, Chatter is far from perfect, but itโ€™s stable. The bugs that plagued us have been reduced to moderate issues, and our core usersโ€”those who stuck with us through the chaosโ€”are still engaged on the platform. Looking Ahead: Chatter V2 While the platform is stable now, weโ€™ve shifted our focus to Chatter V2. This is where the magic really begins. V2 isnโ€™t just an improvement; itโ€™s a complete reimagining of the platform. It includes all the features we couldnโ€™t release in V1 because we were too busy putting out fires. Imagine this: Chatter V1, with only one live feature, was incredibly sticky. Now think about what happens when we release a fully loaded platform with all the innovative features weโ€™ve been working on behind the scenes. The possibilities are endless. V2 is slated to hit TestFlight by the end of December, with a public release in January 2025. And this time, weโ€™re readyโ€”not just with the product but with the lessons weโ€™ve learned. The Hard Lessons This journey has taught me more than I ever thought possible: 1) Your Team is Everything: The right people can make or break your vision. Finding people who believe in your mission is just as important as finding people with the right skills. 2) Adaptability is Key: As a non-technical founder, I had to learn about development, DevOps, and product management on the fly. Challenges will push you to grow, whether youโ€™re ready or not. 3) Trust the Process: Every setback, every delay, every bugโ€”it all taught us something. Without those lessons, we wouldnโ€™t be building the incredible V2 product we are today. 4) Resilience is Non-Negotiable: From technical disasters to predatory investors who tried to exploit my desperation, Iโ€™ve had to fight for this vision every step of the way. Whatโ€™s Next December is shaping up to be an exciting month. We have some amazing events planned on the platform to close out the year, bringing our core community together as we prepare for the V2 launch. When V2 drops, it will mark a new era for Chatter. This isnโ€™t just a social audio platform or a social audiovisual platform. Chatter is all about interactive experiencesโ€”making social media social again in ways that are truly unique. The public launch is slated for February 2025, and for the first time, weโ€™ll have the marketing dollars to tell the world about Chatter. Our core community has been our biggest cheerleaders, and I canโ€™t wait to see how the world reacts when they experience what weโ€™ve built. Final Thoughts This has been the hardest year of my life, but also the most rewarding. To other founders, or anyone thinking about starting a company: know thisโ€”it will test you in ways you canโ€™t imagine. Youโ€™ll face betrayal, doubt, and moments where you feel like giving up. But if you believe in your vision and refuse to quit, youโ€™ll find a way forward. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, my team, and Chatter. Weโ€™re just getting started. Letโ€™s talk about it. ๐Ÿš€ If this story inspired you, please like and share it so others can learn from my experiences. The journey is far from over, but Iโ€™m more excited than ever for whatโ€™s to come.

Nelson Epega

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๐Ÿ›ธ ๐Ÿ”ฅ Grays vs. Reptilians โ€” or Something Much Stranger? ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿ›ธ โ€œWeโ€™ve documented that.โ€ ~Grusch, on apparent NHI-versus-NHI conflict โ€œIs this some other kind of weird shit?" ~Grusch (That line stood out to me. โฌ†๏ธ) Grusch - Tic Tac = Reptilians Davis - Tic Tac = Grays (Credit to Grusch for sharing things that most people will immediately reject because it's all so outside of their worldview and sounds crazy. Is it true? Let's hear from the people who claim they experienced this and let's see the photos, reports and videos Grusch says he's seen. Until then, I'm withholding judgment. But it's not as if we haven't heard about Grays, Reptilians, Nordics and others...for decades.) ~ Joe Rogan: "So tell me more about these Reptilians that your friend encountered. They were alive?" David Grusch: "Yeah." Rogan: "So they were alive post-crash?" Grusch: "Yes." Rogan: "Why do these things keep f*cking crashing?" Grusch: "So, some of it is NHI versus NHI." Rogan: "What?!" Grusch: "Yeah." Rogan: "They war in the sky?" Grusch: "Yeah." Rogan: "Isnโ€™t that in the..." Grusch: "You think itโ€™s like, wouldnโ€™t they get along? Theyโ€™re so advanced. But uh, the...we have records of them f*cking around with each other." Rogan: "Is that in the Mahabharata or the Bhagavad Gita?" Grusch: "I don't know." Rogan: "Thereโ€™s like, talk about sky wars in ancient Hindu texts." Grusch: "Oh yeah, in the Vedic texts, the blue people. And I know thatโ€™s why you asked blue. I donโ€™t recall them being that blue, but, you know." (He's referring to the human-looking cadavers. โฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธ โฌ†๏ธโฌ†๏ธโฌ†๏ธ ) ~ Rogan: "Right." Grusch: "I got a short little look, I'm like, ten seconds." (Again, talking about the video pan Grusch says he was shown of human-looking cadavers.) Rogan: "Maybe when theyโ€™re alive, theyโ€™re darker." Grusch: "Well, that is true. Thereโ€™s like a postmortem change in that affect (appearance/complexion is what he meant)." Rogan: "Sure, like people." Grusch: "Yeah." Rogan: "Thatโ€™s what happens with people." Grusch: "That is true, because, you know, as they were struggling and then died, obviously, their affect changed (Cross-talk so I can't make out the last few words. Maybe, "looked like sh*t.")." Rogan: "Now, this friend that encountered Rep[tilian]... First of all, weโ€™ll go to the Greek-god people first. What did their craft look like?" Grusch: "Uhh. boomerang, crescent moon, usually. Not all the time. Itโ€™s kind of like, once I go back, some people like to drive the Porsche 911. That tends to be - not all the time - but thatโ€™s what they like to roll up in [shrugs]." (What type of sources does he have for that? How many?) Rogan: "They talk about them as the Tall Whites." Grusch: "Yeah." Rogan: "Were they tall? Were they large?" Grusch: "They looked tall to me. I didnโ€™t have..." Rogan: "Hard to tell because you donโ€™t..." Grusch: "I didnโ€™t have a ground reference, really. I would say at least human size. They could be like..." Rogan: "Just looked very similar to humans to you." Grusch: Yeah, they could be, my big ass is 6'6", but, like, they looked big." Rogan: "Similar to humans?" Grusch: "I think so. And, there might be taller... Once again, Iโ€™m sure thereโ€™s other stuff I donโ€™t know about. Iโ€™m sure thereโ€™s other variants of them, too, that look more towards, like, the classic um... What is it in ufology, like, Nordic or, you know, Tall Whites - that are probably even taller." (He's sure there are other variants of the human-looking beings ? Based on what? Is that speculation or did he hear or read about that from a credible source, or sources? And I'm not talking about civilian reports.) Grusch: "If some of those experiencer stories are true, which, once again, as long as that source is credible, that might be a thing. So, I think we need to be prepared to kind of...that being a thing. I donโ€™t know, So, yeah." (As long as which source is credible? Each individual experiencer, or the source(s) he (Grusch) dealt with?) Rogan: "Yeah, that makes sense. Now, the Reptilian craft, what did that thing look like?" Grusch: "That one is Tic Tac-looking." Rogan: "Uh-oh." Grusch: "Yeah." Rogan: "I was hoping they were the cool ones." Grusch: "Yeah." Rogan: "The Reptilian ones are the ones that everyoneโ€™s terrified of." Grusch: "Yeah, and once again, like, weโ€™re doing like... And, of course, itโ€™s not always the Tic Tac. Once again, kind of like, what I said, but, like, that tends to be them. From what I understand...obviously, hopefully Iโ€™m not wrong, but Iโ€™m, you know, pretty good sourcing on that." (Tends to be them? So the Reptilians sometimes ride in Tic Tacs, but other times they ride in craft that have different shapes or configurations? Or, are the Tic Tacs usually piloted by Reptilians but other times piloted by other types of beings? Why do I ask? โฌ‡๏ธ) ~~~ H/T: Neil Goodman for also noting this. Here's Dr. Eric Davis in the "Age of the Disclosure," released in November of 2025. Dr. Eric Davis: "We have seen highly-credible, U.S. government intelligence on the Soviet recovery of a crashed UAP in 1989. They recovered a Tic Tac-shaped UAP that was twice as big as the Tic Tac that was encountered by the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, and they did recover four bodies of humanoid aliens. The Soviet scientists took apart the recovered craft and discovered a very advanced directed-energy weapon." ~ And this is from "Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters," released in December of 2025... James Fox: "Put me wherever you were when you got to see photographs of crash retrieval and documents. What did that feel like?" "Dr. Eric Davis: "That was startling, when I actually see recorded evidence with my own eyes. Photographs, reports, and whatnot. I can tell you, yeah, it's a crash retrieval, there's a craft, and there's alien bodies. That's all I can say about it." ~ (And finally, this, from an interview Josh Golembeske (Josh Golembeske) did with Dr. Eric Davis in July of 2026.) Josh: "Is that the one you saw in the photos, the Grays?" Davis: "Yeah. Yeah. This was foreign intelligence collected so this is a foreign crash, and that's classified, so I can't get into that. But the photos I saw came from the site of a foreign crash retrieval during the Cold War." Sourced here: ~ (If those comments refer to the same Soviet retrieval โ€” and I'm connecting dots here โ€” Davis appears to be saying the Tic Tac-shaped craft contained Gray bodies. Where does that leave us with what Grusch said about the preferred craft of the Reptilians being a Tic Tac?) ~~~Back to Grusch on Rogan~~~ Grusch: "When you see, like, malevolent behavior, right? Itโ€™s like, well, thatโ€™s a humanistic lens. Youโ€™re seeing, like, an animal-lash-out-in-captivity kind of thing. Or theyโ€™re in duress, theyโ€™re having an emotional experience, et cetera. And itโ€™s like, you know, are they actually scary, or is it just because of the situations weโ€™ve been in with them? And so, weโ€™re kind of biased and all that. So, yeah." (In other words, the Reptilians might not be so scary and "malevolent" if we encountered them in a different situation. There are reports of positive encounters with Reptilians. Like this... โฌ‡๏ธ ~ Rogan: "And so, these Reptilians, what did they look like?" Grusch: "Now, Iโ€™ve never seen that, personally." Rogan: "Right, but what did your friend describe them as?" Grusch: "But, itโ€™s like, very, almost like, um, seven-foot-tall-plus, uh, sort of gorilla-looking, scaly skin, though." Rogan: "Gorilla-looking...reptile gorillas?" Grusch: "But thereโ€™s multiple types. Thereโ€™s ones that are more humanoid-looking, so." (What's he basing that on?) Rogan: "Thereโ€™s multiple types of Reptilians?" Grusch: "Yeah, and Iโ€™m not an expert on that one. Thatโ€™s, once again, I never saw it in person to get the exact, you know, description." Rogan: "See if thereโ€™s an artist rendition (laughs)." Producer: "I'm looking already." Rogan: "Of course you are." Grusch: "Yeah, and once again, it sounds so schizo." Rogan: "It does (laughs). A gorilla with scales." Grusch: "Like, even for me, as an ex, deep-state intel officer, Iโ€™m like, I cannot f*cking believe Iโ€™m talking about this shit on Joe Rogan." Rogan: "Seven-foot-tall, scaly gorilla (laughs)." Grusch: "I know. I mean, it sounds schizo. And itโ€™s like, coming from somebody like me, you know, who is a credible person and has been in government, itโ€™s like, Iโ€™m gonna be that guy. Iโ€™m gonna be that guy. And then, like, down the road, people will review Joe Rogan and heโ€™s like, 'That motherf*cker, we thought he was crazy, but, what do you know? You know, itโ€™s true.'โ€ (Time may tell.) Rogan: "Well, of course, if there are things from somewhere else, youโ€™re going to sound crazy describing any of it." Grusch: "Because itโ€™s so outside my experience, because I never had some kind of woo thing growing up or some sort of interaction with the phenomenon. So, it feels so outside my personal comfort level and experience because Iโ€™m relying on the personal experience of others, you know, audio/visual stuff." Rogan: "Yes." Grusch: "And it still feels like Iโ€™m watching a movie. Like, itโ€™s like, โ€œIs that...is it real?โ€ I mean, I know it is, but, like, I have a cognitive dissonance a little bit, you know? So," (I'd think that most of the world will have cognitive dissonance if this is ever proven to be real.) Rogan: "And how were you able to watch this video? Do they have to put you into a secret room?" Grusch: "Yeah, I wonโ€™t get into the exact way it went down, but, uh, weโ€™ll just say it was kind of sketchy, but...to keep everybody safe." Rogan: "And so, there apparently is NHI-versus-NHI warfare?" Grusch: "Weโ€™ve documented that." Rogan: "Documented it?" Grusch: "In collection. Well, what we perceive as warfare. So, unless itโ€™s something..." (I'd love to see what intel has been collected and how many sources and incidents are involved.) Rogan: "Conflict?" Grusch: "Yeah, it looks like conflict, it smells like conflict. Is this some other kind of weird sh*t? I donโ€™t know. And thereโ€™s maybe an assessment on that, but it..." ("Is this some other weird sh*t?" is an important comment from Grusch, IMO. It shows he's using his analytical mind (like all of us should be doing) and not accepting things at face value. Is it two NHI species at war with each other, or is that just what something wants us to think?) ~~~ "We're part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extraterrestrial invasion." ~Terence McKenna โ€œI think itโ€™s something so bizarre that it actually masquerades as an extraterrestrial so as not to alarm us by the true implications of what it is.โ€ ~Terence McKenna "I discussed this once with an entity and it said to me, 'Well, you know, we've disguised ourselves as an extraterrestrial invasion so as to not alarm people with what's really going on.'" ~Terence McKenna What did he mean by that? McKenna: "What I meant by that was that an alien invasion is a myth of our culture. Since the 50โ€™s weโ€™ve had the example of The Day the Earth Stood Still and When Worlds Collide right on up through that television series which I didnโ€™t see, where they changed all the Nazis to aliens and then it was a huge success. So alien invasion is a piece of our cultural toolbox, but thatโ€™s not whatโ€™s happening. Whatโ€™s happening is somethingโ€ฆ less easy to name than 'alien invader' is reaching out toward us. It could be the Gaian Mind, it could be the Oversoul of humanityโ€ฆ I donโ€™t think it comes from the distant stars โ€” it knows us too well, and loves us too much. It could come from the dead. Now thatโ€™s what I mean by something weirder than an alien invasion. An alien invasion compared to a collective mass contact by the dear departed is pretty mundane stuff. "So, whatever this thing is, it keeps itself masked. So what I mean is that our journey through time, our historical journey to this moment, has not been unaccompanied. We have always been accompanied by this thing. The Demiurgos โ€” some people just throw down their cards and call it God and be done with it. Iโ€™m not ready for that, because I donโ€™t think itโ€™s the God who 'hung the stars like lamps in Heaven,' as Milton said. Itโ€™s not that God. If it is a god, itโ€™s the god of Biology. And I donโ€™t have any problem with that." He adds more and I'll link to that in the replies. Then we have this from 1970 and John Keel's "Operation Trojan Horse." ~Begin OTH Excerpt~ Whatever "it" is, it is often inimical (tending to obstruct or harm. ~Joe) to the human race, and the manifestations range from childish mischief to acts of horrifying destruction. The phenomenon has driven many people mad; but it has also produced miraculous cures. A cosmic system of checks & balances seems to be an actual fact. There are now well-documented cases of people being seriously injured, even killed, by flying saucers. But there are equally well-documented events in which the mysterious objects and their enterprising occupants have interceded directly in human affairs and thwarted disaster. Many flying saucers seem to be nothing more than a disguise for some hidden phenomenon. They are like Trojan horses descending into our forests and farm fields, promising salvation and offering us the splendor of some great super-civilization in the sky. But while the statuesque long-haired โ€œVenusiansโ€ have been chatting benignly with isolated traveling salesmen and farm wives, a multitude of shimmering lights and metallic disks have been silently busying themselves in the forests of Canada, the Outback country of Australia, and the swamps of Michigan. Before we can find any answers, we must first find the right questions to ask. We must understand the exact nature of these visitors, and of ourselves. I also believe that this same phenomenon is flexible to an unbelievable degree. It can create and manipulate matter through electromagnetic fields above and below the range of our perceptions and our own technical equipment. The phenomenon is mostly invisible to us because it consists of energy rather than solid earthly matter. It is guided by a great intelligence and has concentrated itself in the areas of magnetic faults throughout history. It makes itself visible to us from time to time by manipulating patterns of frequency. It can take any form it desires, ranging from the shapes of airplanes to gigantic cylindrical spaceships. It can manifest itself into seemingly living entities ranging from little green men to awesome one-eyed giants. But none of these configurations is its true form. The UFO sighting data confirm this theory, but we lack the necessary technology to prove it conclusively. There are thousands of microscopic life forms in a drop of water. You canโ€™t see them, feel them, or taste them because they are too small. A teenaged boy with a cheap microscope can peer into that drop of water and invade the privacy of those microbes. But the microbes donโ€™t know he is there. They swim about in their liquid environment totally unaware that their tiny world is actually an insignificant part of a much larger, and very different, whole. Our world may also be part of something bigger, something beyond our senses and abilities to comprehend. That bigger something is undoubtedly made of energies, too. But energies of a different frequency, forming atoms radically different from the atoms of our own world. These energies could coexist with us and even share the same space without our becoming acutely aware of them. The evidence we have outlined in this book does clearly point to this unperceived coexistence, and now we must come to terms with "it" or "them" or the Great Whatzit in the sky. This intelligence is able to manipulate energy. It can, quite literally, manipulate any kind of object into existence on our plane. (Assuming what Grusch says is true, and there's evidence of conflict between different NHI, is the phenomenon able to manipulate energy and create multiple physical craft and "species" into existence, and make them appear to battle so that we think it's the Grays vs. the Reptilians? Or is it actually a battle between the Grays and Reptilians? I don't know, but I'd love to hear what Keel would have thought.) Back to Keel's OTH... There have been many bewildering accounts of shell-like objects with no visible means of propulsion, no signs of any kinds of technology. Contactee Reinhold Schmidtโ€™s German-speaking ufonauts, who invited him aboard their saucer in Nebraska in 1957, didnโ€™t walk but glided across the floor of their spaceship as if they were on roller skates. Other sober and baffled witnesses have described how the UFO occupants seemed to fly from the ground to their waiting saucers. Still others have claimed that the ufonauts simply walked through the sides of their craft like ghosts. In story after story we have testimonial proof that the objects and their occupants are not made of normal substances. The hard (seemingly solid) objects are another problem. Bullets have been fired at them and have ricocheted off. They sometimes leave imprints on the ground where they land. If they are the product of a superior intelligence with an advanced technology, they seem to be suffering from faulty workmanship. (Maybe Keel would differentiate between "soft" objects and beings allegedly manipulated into existence by the phenomenon, and hard, physical objects and beings allegedly recovered, captured, and sometimes killed, at crash sites? Maybe there are multiple intelligences at work here? One that is physical and one that is not physical but can mimic the one (or other ones) that IS physical? ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ) More from OTH... Since 1896 there have been hundreds of reports in which lone witnesses have stumbled onto grounded hard objects being repaired by their pilots. In flight, they have an astounding habit of losing pieces of metal. They seem to be ill-made, always falling apart, frequently exploding in midair. There are so many of these incidents that we must wonder if they arenโ€™t really deliberate. Maybe they are meant to foster the belief that the objects are real and mechanical. In the foregoing I have tried to demonstrate how the soft objects seem to be directly related to the electromagnetic spectrum. This is hardly a new theory. Not only have the occultists, spiritualists, and religionists been telling us about frequencies, vibrations, and the color spectrum for centuries, but modern researchers such as Dr. Meade Layne worked all of this out years ago. Dr. Layne evolved a theory of mat' and 'demat; (materialization and dematerialization) of extradimensional objects. His findings were privately published and not very widely circulated. Others, such as British ufologist Harold T. Wilkins, also worked this out and published books about it in the early 1950s. But the spectrum theory lacks the strong emotional appeal of the extraterrestrial thesis. There is a rather curious entry in Project Blue Book Report No. 14 (1955) on page 295. In the section showing how various sightings are classified, "number 8 in Code 79-80 Final Identification is "Electromagnetic Phenomenon." This is crossed out (the report was reproduced by photo offset), and the now well-known classification of "Unknown" was substituted." ~~~End OTH Excerpt~~~ (If, as Grusch says, there were situations where Reptilians injured and killed humans, and humans defended themselves by killing Reptilians, that throws another major wrinkle into this. If it walks, talks and growls like a Reptilian...) Rogan: "And when this Reptilian craft crashed, the assumption was that it was some sort of conflict?" Grusch: "Correct." Rogan: "Because I would imagine that theyโ€™re the ones youโ€™d have to worry about." Grusch: "Correct, because there was dead...uh, dead Grays there, too. So, yeah." Rogan: Oh. So the Grays and the Reptilians were duking it out?" Grusch: "Yeah." Rogan: "Noo." Grusch: "I guess! I guess! You know. You know, I know the people who were there, and..." Rogan: "This sounds fucking insane, David (laughs)." Grusch: "It sounds fucking crazy. And once again, I donโ€™t want to get into too many specifics, because this is a very unique...thereโ€™s a couple unique retrievals out there that, to protect the innocent, and people that have risked their f*cking lives. Because a lot of the people that came to me with that kind of information, I mean, they were physically threatened like me and all that. And so, like, me going public was taking it for the team because I was able to create this umbrella of tacit, you know, protection in case somebody got f*cked with. Now, unfortunately, you know, my friend Matt (Sullivan), who knows what happened to him, but, you know, tragically he died, you know, mysteriously, so..." ~ "When people like Matthew Sullivan die in the way he did, unexpectedly, just before he was going to testify, I think that reaches the threshold that you say, 'Yeah, somebody should look at this.'" ~Christopher K. Mellon (And elsewhere in this Rogan interview, Grusch says Sullivan was part of the Legacy UAP program.) ~ Rogan: "Now, these Reptilians, what was their craft like?" Grusch: "Oh, like I said..." Rogan: "The Tic Tac." Grusch: "The Tic Tac stuff." Rogan: "And was their craft crashed into the ground, like broken up?" Grusch: "Yeah, yeah." Rogan: "Okay." Grusch: "It was like wedged into a hill." Rogan: "Like, had it been hit with something?" Grusch: "Um, I donโ€™t remember exactly what happened in that regard, but it did crash, so. And I donโ€™t want to misspeak on what exactly happened, so." (I'm going to go through the Grusch clips I shared in a future YT video.)

Joe Murgia

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"There was a willingness to communicate. [The non-human entity] wanted to establish communication with us." ~JV ๐Ÿ’ฅ Has AI Figured Out the Identify of Gilbert? ๐Ÿ‘€ ๐Ÿ‘ฝ Did an Alien Volunteer to be Studied and Communicate with Humans in a Secret USG Facility? Is it Still There? ๐Ÿ‘ฝ "My understanding is that there were teams there that had been working with that being and perhaps other beings for a while." ~JV This is Pt. 1 - Pt. 2 has the AI sleuthing on the possible identity of Gilbert. Excellent job by Ross Coulthart. And if you wanna see my post on Gilbert, the alleged Alien Entity, Vallรฉe...and ALL Gilbert-related entries in FS V7 โฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธ I'm taking with this with a major grain of salt until we hear from Gilbert. Then, I'll revaluate.) ~ Ross Coulthart: "You write in your Forbidden Science (7) diaries, in October 2021 for the first time, you mention someone called Gilbert. It's a pseudonym, but essentially, it's a long-lost friend, a discreet master remote viewer at the level of Uri Geller and Ingo Swann." Jacques Vallรฉe: "Yes." (If your response to hearing Geller's name mentioned is, "Oh, he's been proven to be a fraud. See Johnny Carson,' then you haven't done your homework on Uri. Drs. Kit Green and Hal Puthoff on Geller. ~ Kit Green: "Anybody who has studied Geller and seen what he does and the films of what he does recognizes that there are profound differences between what Geller does and magician's tricks. Thereโ€™s not even a remotely qualified individual whoโ€™s ever investigated Geller who believes this orthodoxy โ€“ that itโ€™s all trickery. The RV [remote-viewing] experiments for me were astonishing. He was a superb remote viewer, he was a superstar." ~ Coulthart: "And Gilbert tells you that, through official channels, presumably, government channels, he was taken to participate in a controlled, personal exchange with a, supposed, alien. And you acknowledge in your diary that these revelations are explosive. "And by September 2023, you've received five closely-typed pages detailing how Gilbert says he was taken to a U.S. laboratory, sheltered inside rock, where military guides exposed him to what they explicitly told him was a living alien entity. Now, do you believe Gilbert's account, Jacques? I know at one stage you query: was this a fully veridical (truthful) account? Do you think Gilbert was telling you the truth?" Jacques Vallรฉe: "I have....I believe it for two reasons. You know, believe is a bad word. It's a religious word, it's a commitment, and so on. And everybody is free to believe whatever we want to believe. In science, you know, belief is a contingency. You face a phenomenon. You build a theory of a phenomenon, but the theory, there is no such thing as a theory without a way of testing it. "Now I have no way of testing what Gilbert has told me. I'm not going to reveal the rest of his data because that's his data, and I know there are plans to publish it in the proper way, so that everybody has access to it. I have the data, but it's not up to me to publish it. "There have been other cases, and I've had one personal occasion of coming face-to-face with an entity that is very similar to the entity that he describes. To my shame, I was so scared because this was unprepared. I was not intending to do that." Coulthart: "Are you saying that you had your own personal encounter with an entity? Vallรฉe: "Yes." Coulthart: "When did that happen?" Vallรฉe: "I had no communication with that entity because I was simply too scared, and I mention it in the book." ~Begin excerpt from FS V6~ Hummingbird. Saturday 27 October 2018. ...something brief and terrifying happened last night, far more tangible than a nightmare. As I review it, I have to accept an experience outside my body. All I know is that in the middle of the night I found myself propelled away into the kitchen, a tall being between me and the window. I couldnโ€™t see a face, but it was tall like me, human-like, solid. A few seconds later I woke up suddenly, back into my lying body, panting and whimpering, terrified. It had been absolutely, shockingly real. No transition, none of that slow lifting of the soul people describe. I had been translated from the bedroom, standing up, totally aware, next to the entity that hovered near me without touching, yet encompassing me in a formidable presence. This is as close to a full out-of-body experience as I have ever had. It left me whimpering and scared. (Not a fan of JV mentioning this dream-like/out-of-body experience in the same breath as Gilbert's, alleged face-to-face, physical encounter with a living entity.) ~End Excerpt from FS V6 - Back to JV with Coulthart~ Vallรฉe: "Now in [Gilbert's] case this was very structured. He was asked to be there. And, by the way, it's not classified. I asked him if it was classified, he said, 'No.' And this was 20 years ago, this is not recent." Coulthart: "So, let's go through some of the detail of what you do reveal in [FS 7]. In December 2024, you write that you've seen Gilbert's structured results, and he says he was, apparently, instructed to put specific questions directly to the entity. And it gets fascinating. "Some of the questions generated impressions and responses he couldn't decipher. And what you conclude is that there may be two different levels of NHI, non-human intelligence. Your interpretation, or your friend's interpretation of what he got from the being, is that the higher-level controllers are genuinely alien, whereas the small beings - perhaps the Grays associated with UFO encounters - may be primitive biological hybrids, specifically engineered for terrestrial operation. Is that your conclusion, Jacques?" Vallรฉe: "Well, again, I'm an information scientist. I try to look for patterns of things, so I don't look at one case, you know, separate from others. I look for patterns of cases. In Trinity, in Socorro, in Valensole, and now in the case in Brazil that was revealed recently. "We have a dozen entities. These entities were small; they were the size of, you know, a 10-year-old or 12-year-old kid. They had two eyes and a mouth. They were breathing air. They did not look like our astronauts with, you know, all kinds of suits and [a] support system. They were breathing air. You could understand the, you know, any sense from their eyes. Overall, their structure was human." "Over the years, there have been efforts to theorize in biology about what it would take to create a different kind of human adapted to certain things. We are going to face that problem in space. NASA has looked at that. But before NASA, you know, certainly in World War II, that question was raised already. "And there are...and I mentioned a case from an American biologist who came back from Russia with at least a rumor that the Russians were developing short humanoids for future space missions, because that would save, you know... The most expensive part in the space missions we have now, like the Moon, is the human pilot, okay? If we could do away with the human pilot, or if we could minimize that pilot, then the technology would be safer and would probably function better. "So that question had been discussed in biology. Now, the threshold was, you know, a moral threshold. Are we permitted to create? I mean, we are clearly at the position where, as you know, that the question arose in China recently. You know, was there an experiment to manipulate an egg and create them? So, those are very current questions in biology. "Could some of the beings be just operators? Because in Brazil, especially, they did not seem to be in control at all. And the same thing in Trinity. Trinity is a very important case." (Speculatively speaking: If Gilbert actually came face-to-face with a non-human entity, how would we know if it was one of the actual alien "controllers (as JV suggests)" and not a different type of lower-level, artificial-intelligence-fused being designed to trick us into thinking we've actually met the controllers? Is there any way of knowing? Maybe Gilbert can shed light on that? Maybe what he encountered was just another type of being engineered and created by the controllers for terrestrial operation in order to keep their distance from us, or for some other reason? Or, maybe JV is correct and that was one of the actual alien controllers?) ~ Coulthart: "Can I just pull you back for a moment, though, to Gilbert's story, Jacques? Because I think it's incredibly important. What it's unique for, is it's actually somebody you have spoken to, directly, giving a first-person physical account of an encounter with a non-human being in what sounds like a U.S. military government facility." (Is the entity still there now?) Coulthart: "And there's actually a moment in your diaries, 12th of March 2025, where you actually get from Gilbert, a physical description of what he saw. He was, apparently, brought in as a specialist. He didn't know whether there were other captured or, interestingly enough, volunteer beings. But he had a rough idea of approximately where he was being taken. "He couldn't see outside the vehicle, but he was inside a small mountain, some kind of, perhaps, deep underground military bunker. Inside was a large, well-lit laboratory staffed by men and women wearing uniforms without rank or unit identification. There was no medical procedures or drugs. "And then, Gilbert says to you, he was brought face-to-face with the alleged entity. And it wasn't a Gray. It was over six feet tall. It, apparently, emitted light from different parts of its body, may have been enclosed in some sort of wired suit, test article, or a containment apparatus." (Was the suit designed to protect the being from our environment or to protect the humans in that room from the being? And just to reiterate, I'll assume it was an alien being. My friend made these excellent points... "We don't know if the parts of its body emitting light were its body or some sort of harness or device it was wearing. And if it was some sort of harness/device what was its purpose and whose device was it? Was it life support? Alien shackles? Was it meant to help, or control? "Say for instance, a harness device that emits a frequency that prevents the being from doing something? Leaving? Disappearing? Communicating?") ~ Coulthart: "And it, apparently, communicated through combinations of light, and permitted questions concerning psychic functioning. And he had several hours of communication with this being. Now, you've made it clear you believe Gilbert's account, you accept Gilbert's account. This is extraordinary." Vallรฉe: "I've known him for a long time, and I know what else he's done, which is extraordinary. So..." Coulthart: "I mean, this is very important, Jacques. Is this person willing to give evidence to a congressional inquiry, if they're not subject to classified limitations, security oaths, or NDAs?" Vallรฉe: "I asked him that because, obviously, I did not want to get into something that would take me, you know, beyond that range. And he said, 'No,' he was not... He asked, 'You know, do I need a special clearance for this?' He has done other work, you know, for the military." Coulthart: "Right. But I was analyzing the implications of what you say in the diary about Gilbert. And to summarize it, it's more than a psychic once met an alien. What it is, is, a classified U.S. group allegedly possesses, or hosts, a living, non-human intelligent being, and they've been operating a systematic, multidisciplinary communication program with it, over time. And Gilbert was brought in as one specialist to conduct controlled communications with it. Do you accept that that's the implication of what you say in the diary?" Vallรฉe: "This is logical in terms of what we know from a long time. What the procedure would be. The structure was...did not go into psychic functioning, you know? The questions that they had been asked were basic physiological, physical questions. They brought [Gilbert] in so that he was authorized to create his own questions and to probe...to see to what extent he could elicit a response that would be a psychic response from that entity. "The question is: At what level do they function? We know we have some ability to function on a psychic level. Some people can practice this better than others. We know from the SRI work by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ and others that this can be trained. As you know, I was involved in that project to some extent over several years, and with Ingo. So, I went through the procedure with Ingo for an entire year. What Gilbert is describing matches that very well. In other words, there was a procedure." Coulthart: "So, you allude, Jacques, to the fact that Gilbert is, apparently, writing his own book about what he encountered. Can you clarify for me, though, is Gilbert willing to give evidence to the ongoing congressional investigations into this?" (Good on Ross to follow-up because JV didn't answer it the first time.) Coulthart: "There are very few people who are willing to give first-person evidence. And if he's not restrained by classification-security-oaths constraints, what's stopping him from coming forward, even confidentially, to a secure SCIF in the Congress, and giving this evidence?" Vallรฉe: "I cannot answer for him. He has a long career in helping, you know, different projects in a classified setting. So, he's quite capable of answering that. What I know is...I don't know that he is writing a book. There is a project for a series of interviews, and I've participated in that. I've given a few interviews about my own work. But I know he's been part of that project. I don't know how it's going to be released or whether it's going to be released. I'm not part of the business that owns that data." (Well, whatever that is, it really needs to be released. Interviews in written form, or on camera?) Coulthart: "I'm very excited by the Gilbert character, and forgive me for harping on about him. Can I at least clarify, Gilbert is a he." (I'm just as excited. This COULD be HUGE!) Vallรฉe: "I don't want to give away any indication. You know, I have not had communication, recently. I don't know how far that project has gone. It's their project, and there is a boundary to what I can say." Coulthart: "But who are they, Jacques? Like, when you say it's their project, you're talking about the individual known as Gilbert by pseudonym?" Vallรฉe: "And the release of that information. His intent is to release it." Coulthart: "I've got to ask you this, and I appreciate you may not want to disclose, but is the person that you're talking about Keith Harary?" Vallรฉe: "Umm, no. I can definitely tell you it's not Keith." (Later in this interview, JV said he met Gilbert when he (Gilbert) was 22. Out of the public names associated with gifted psychics and remote viewers, Harary comes close. But there's another possibility that I'll let ChatGPT lay out in the 2nd tweet. If you've studied remote viewing, you know the name Keith Harary. If you'd like to read an excellent article written by Keith "Blue" Harary in Psychology Today, here ya go: dot com/us/articles/200411/confessions-of-a-star-psychic ~ Coulthart: "Is it Joe McMoneagle?" Vallรฉe: "[laughs] I shouldn't play... It's an interesting game, but, you know, there are two or three other names." Coulthart: "Joseph McMoneagle, of course, Jacques, as you and I both know, he worked with you at SRI. He was remote viewer number one in the U.S. Army intelligence program." Vallรฉe: "I have enormous amount of respect for Mr. McMoneagle." Coulthart: "So do I. Joe is probably one of the most respected remote viewers known to the U.S. military (JV shakes his head up and down in agreement) and the U.S. intelligence community. And I noted back in Forbidden Science 3, Joe told you about UFO-related material. And Joe talked about how a photograph of a disc had inexplicably disappeared from a classified safe under his sole control. And he you quoted him saying to you, 'There must be a higher level of authority that controls UFO data.' What's going on here, Jacques?" Here's the excerpt from FS V3... "Joe [McMoneagle] once obtained a detailed photograph of a disk. He placed a copy in a locked safe with double combination, a classified safe under his sole control. Yet the photograph vanished. โ€œ'There must be a higher level of authority that controls UFO data,' he said, 'a level beyond the folks who run the satellites.'" (The Gatekeepers?) ~ Coulthart: "Clearly, someone - if it's Joe McMoneagle, let's just call them Gilbert. Someone invited Gilbert to a secure facility, presumably, a secure-government facility, yet at the same time we have the government - in the form of AARO, the Pentagon - asserting, blue and blind, that there is absolutely no evidence of extraterrestrial-non-human-intelligence engagement with this planet. We know that's not true. What's going on, sir? You, probably more than anyone, know the answer to that question." Vallรฉe: "It's a central question, of course, and I don't want to make, you know, to treat it in a humorous way. But I recall a conversation with Dr. Hynek when I was working with him back at Northwestern. And I said, 'You know, what does the Air Force say and what does the Air Force think?' And he said, 'Jacques, you have to understand, there is no such thing as the U.S. Air Force. There are projects within the Air Force that do different things.'" (Kind of like when people say, "The GOVERNMENT does this and that." Like the Air Force, the U.S. government is not a monolith. AARO may have had no clue about the Gilbert story, until JV put out V7. Maybe they still don't know?) Vallรฉe: "And that's legitimate. [The USAF] are looking at different parts of, you know, the whole planet, with the tools they have. And they have different opinions about things, and they have budgets to pursue different things with different projects. And many times they don't know about the other project." Coulthart: "Is it possible that Gilbert was being played?" Vallรฉe: "[shakes his head back and forth] No. No." Coulthart: "That he was shown something that was an intention to try and see what a master remote viewer would think of what he was being shown?" Vallรฉe: "He's one of the best psychics in the world today, and has been throughout his career." (It's impossible to know 100% that what Gilbert encountered (assuming this actually happened) was a non-human entity. And even if/when he comes forward, that won't change. We're going to need evidence besides anecdotes.) ~ Coulthart: "So you find him very credible." Vallรฉe: "I met him when he was 22." Coulthart: "What state was the location in, where this facility that he was taken to is located? Did he give you that indication?" Vallรฉe: "I don't know the level of if there is a security wrapper around this. I don't know at what level. So, I've purposely been vague in the book, again." Coulthart: "I got that. Was there a date for the encounter? I think you indicated to me earlier it was about 20 years ago. Is that right?" Vallรฉe: "Yes." Coulthart: "Have you seen any evidence proving that Gilbert was actually at that location? Has he provided you with any substantiating...or corroboration?" Vallรฉe: "No. No. No. And that's why I don't want to go beyond, you know, reporting about that conversation and my trust in the conversation. I have no way of checking this. My own experience would indicate that that kind of thing is happening. Probably (in many places)." (Crosstalk, so I'm not 100% sure on "in many places." And what "experience" is JV talking about?) Coulthart: "Can I ask you a few questions, though? And you don't have to answer these if you're uncomfortable. Did he physically touch the entity?" Vallรฉe: "No." Coulthart: "Was the entity a prisoner?" Vallรฉe: "No. I asked him that question, of course, and he said the entity was a volunteer." (We need all the details on how that happened. Via a crash retrieval? Did it knock on the door one day? Teleport into their lab? Amazon Prime delivery in a REALLY big box with holes in it? ๐Ÿ™‚ And why should we trust the entity? My friend added this: "A death-row prisoner agreeing to cooperate with authorities on something could be considered volunteeringโ€ฆbut is still a prisoner. Did the being say itโ€™s a volunteer or was it the people at the facility? Do we really have to wait around for a possible book we actually might never see?") ~ Coulthart: "You, intriguingly, talk about, in your diary, captured or volunteer beings. You're clear that this being was there voluntarily?" Vallรฉe: "Yes." Coulthart: "But it suggests that there are other beings that are captured." Vallรฉe: "I don't know. I'm not, you know, fudging here. I really don't know the answer." Coulthart: "Okay. Do you know from Gilbert how long the entity had been with this facility, with the humans?" Vallรฉe: "No, and I asked Gilbert that. He did not know that. He was there just for that one presentation and that was..." Coulthart: "Was the entity alive, in the sense that we think of something being biologically alive?" Vallรฉe: "Yes. Now, I have no doubt, as you know, I'm not an expert about Hollywood, but I've, occasionally, seen what Hollywood could do in terms of special effects. And, of course, everything can be a special effect." (Again, according to JV, Gilbert may have seen, "a test article, a wired uniform or a safety container for the being rather than the body of an actual Alien." So, Gilbert may not know what it actually looked like. Hard to be definitive on what this entity was and we'll need to hear from Gilbert for more details.) Coulthart: "Did Gilbert explain why he, a remote viewer, was required to communicate with the being, if, as you say in the diary, it was communicating with light?" Vallรฉe: "Yes, yes. Because the people in charge were smart enough to understand that the communication that that being was capable of was beyond the... I mean, we have the same thing with whales, you know? Whales can read the inside of your body. I mean, women who were attending to whales, the whale would know they were pregnant before they knew they were pregnant." (That hasn't been proven.) Vallรฉe: "So, those situations are, you know...we have aliens (he smiled and I believe he used quotation marks with his hands) here on Earth in the form of some very intelligent animals that perceive things completely outside our range. So, it's not a new situation." Coulthart: "No, but I think this is the revelation - I think, one of the most important revelations in your latest book - that we are talking here about someone who you accept as telling the truth, who says they were part of what sounds like a U.S. government, U.S. military program, where they were asked to communicate with a non-human being. Can I ask you this, sir? Did conventional spoken language fail, or was it not possible with this being?" Vallรฉe: "The answers were in the form of light configurations." Coulthart: "And so, had we learned, had humans learned how to communicate with it through light?" Vallรฉe: "From what he told me, there was limited knowledge of what was positive and negative. He was asked to only frame questions in a way that where the answer could be yes or no, And that's why there were situations where he said he couldn't understand the answer." (Yes or no questions? I'm gonna assume the entity had no thumbs. Thumbs up? ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ Thumbs down? ๐Ÿ‘Ž๐Ÿผ ๐Ÿ˜Š) Coulthart: "One of the things you say in your diary - and I've learned to read Jacques Vallee's diaries very, very closely indeed - you say Gilbert's answers matched earlier results. Earlier results from whom, Jacques? I really think this is a very important question. What are you talking about there?" Vallรฉe: "Well, the...you know, my understanding is that there were teams there that had been working with that being and perhaps other beings for a while. I mean, this isn't just a one-off situation. They had a base. Again, I said, 'What were the insignias?' He said, 'They were probably people from different branches of the armed forces there. You know, the people there were experts, men and women, you know, who seemed to be coming and going.' There may have been other labs. You know, he was in one lab." Coulthart: "Is it your understanding that this communication with this being is communicating today? Is it still happening?" Vallรฉe: "I have no way of knowing." Coulthart: "So it was happening 20 years ago, but we don't know if that program is still operating today." Vallรฉe: "What was important to me, again, in terms of what we can derive from the database and from other, you know, all the other contact cases, is that the communication was primarily light, in the form of light."

Joe Murgia

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Min Hee-jin (NewJeans Producer) NHK Music Interview ๐Ÿ”— โ€œMeticulously planned debut โ€˜Attentionโ€™โ€ ๐Ÿงข: When I was preparing to launch NewJeans, I really struggled with deciding what our first piece of content should be. I thought about it for a long time and considered many possibilities. It was a project that came with high expectations, and for me personally, it was also my first opportunity to prove myself. So how I presented it mattered enormously. Even down to the smallest detailsโ€ฆ like the impression the very first released photo might give, or what kind of impact we could make at launch. I thought hard about what kind of content would be the most effectiveโ€ฆ should it be a video or a photo? What time of day would be most effective to release it? I consider things like that very carefully. For example, the way a person experiences content at night versus during the day can feel quite different emotionally. So I even thought about those subtle aspects. Eventually, the conclusion I reached was: โ€œLetโ€™s make the most of our situation.โ€ At the time, the members hadnโ€™t been revealed, and no one knew how many of them there were or what kind of group this would be. So I wanted to maximize that curiosity. You know how the more something is concealed, the more curious people become? I wanted to build that curiosity to a peak and then release everything all at once. Thatโ€™s why we decided not to release a teaser and instead go straight into a full music video. (This was actually inspired by Hyein suggesting we skip teasers.) I didnโ€™t think still images or photos would be enough to fully convey the feeling I wanted to express. I felt that video and music together would evoke the emotional response I was looking for because people experience things synesthetically. When sound, image, and feeling come together, the emotional impact is stronger. I believed the best way to present the membersโ€™ images was through music and a moving pictureโ€ฆ thatโ€™s why we led with a music video. In the debut music video, โ€œAttention,โ€ thereโ€™s a scene where the members act out a little drama. I paid very close attention to that moment and created music that would fit it precisely. For me, I donโ€™t just make contentโ€ฆ I design the entire process of how it should be shown for the greatest effect. And I believe thatโ€™s incredibly important. That first feeling someone gets when they encounter somethingโ€ฆ that emotion, that sparkโ€ฆ is so important to me. Iโ€™m very detail-oriented, but I also value fun deeply. So rather than just releasing content, I want to enjoy the process leading up to it. Even when we released our second album, since we shot the entire music video across the country, the sequence of how we released the videos was critical for me. Itโ€™s hard to explain all this simply in an interview, but maybe some people noticed: the first content we released that time was actually a teaser for the last track, โ€œASAP,โ€ and then we followed that with the full music video for โ€œNew Jeans,โ€ which was the first track. That order was a carefully calculated strategy. It was designed to guide the audienceโ€™s emotional journey. Seeing the audience react just as I had hopedโ€”that whole process was honestly so fun and thrilling for me. I think I really enjoy that kind of thing. โ€”โ€”โ€” โ€œHow 'Ditto' was bornโ€ ๐Ÿงข: People often praise the music of NewJeans, and I hear a lot of talk about genres. But actually, I donโ€™t feel bound by genre at all. I love a wide variety of music. Iโ€™m not the type to insist on only one particular genre. What I love are songs that blend genres cleverlyโ€ฆ those are my personal favorites. So going forward, my focus is not on genre but on whether something feels fresh and whether it can create an emotional moment. I donโ€™t want to define what kind of music we make. And I think you have to experience the flow of the times to really understand whatโ€™s meaningful in a given moment. For instance, the song โ€œDittoโ€ was chosen because it delivered emotion. It matched perfectly with the winter album concept I had envisioned, both in terms of timing and mood. When I hear a song, I tend to trust my gut. I have a pretty strong intuition for which songs will resonate. Itโ€™s not about objectively predicting what will be a โ€œhit,โ€ but about whether a song moves your heartโ€ฆ you can just feel it. Of course, my own taste plays a big role. But I think thatโ€™s actually my strength as a producer, not as a composer. When I hear a song, I can immediately picture the visualโ€ฆ what kind of story, what kind of vibe it could carry. That allows me to work faster. For example, when expressing something like school uniforms, there are so many possible variations. But I always like to start from the basicsโ€ฆ whatโ€™s the original idea of a school uniform? I try to return to that. So with โ€œDitto,โ€ I wanted to tap into something primalโ€ฆ the pure, basic feeling of liking someone. That kind of emotion is universal. Everyone has it; itโ€™s wired into us. When I saw Director Shin Woo-seokโ€™s interpretation of it, I thought, โ€œYes, thatโ€™s it.โ€ Thatโ€™s the kind of complete interpretation I look for. I believe the completion of a project comes from every person involved thinking about their part down to the final detailโ€ฆ the maximum quality they can bring out. My role is to unify and refine all of that. I draw out the essence of each personโ€™s creativity, trimming away anything unnecessary. So the final product is something thatโ€™s polished and high-quality, just the way I envisioned it. Thatโ€™s my working style. So itโ€™s not like Iโ€™m fixated on retro or stuck in a particular style. I donโ€™t think human taste has changed all that much. Things people liked in the past are the same things we like now. Itโ€™s just the form of expression that changes with time. I donโ€™t feel bound by โ€œpastโ€ or โ€œpresent.โ€ I donโ€™t even think in those boundaries. To me, itโ€™s all just good taste. You know how kids sometimes have their own little treasure boxes when theyโ€™re young? I think my work is kind of like that. I want to make things that never feel datedโ€”that are timelessly enjoyable. โ€”โ€”โ€” โ€œDance Expression and 'Hype Boy'โ€ ๐Ÿงข: I had a vision of what kind of girl group I wanted to create. Thatโ€™s why I chose a song like โ€œHype Boy.โ€ And to bring out that feeling, we created four different versions of the music video. Every choice had a purpose, everything was designed to maximize the experience of the song. โ€œHype Boyโ€ is such a unique song. It has this strange, piercing melody that gives people chills in a good way. To emphasize that tingling feeling, I had to break away from the standard K-pop choreography formatโ€ฆ you know, the kind where everyone is in perfect formation, doing synchronized moves. But our songs donโ€™t suit that kind of choreography. Our dances are much harder. They require the body to move very naturally with the groove of the melody and beat. So I think our members are incredible. Itโ€™s not easy to express naturalness with your body, and you have to really enjoy it to make it look effortless. But they pulled it off so well. Theyโ€™re still young, but theyโ€™re so talented. And through it all, I wanted to avoid making them look like they were performing just for business. I wanted them to show the pure joy and bright spirit thatโ€™s natural for people their ageโ€ฆ genuine, carefree, radiant. โ€”โ€”โ€” โ€œThe difference between NewJeans and conventional K-POPโ€ ๐Ÿงข: Ah, for me, itโ€™s all about naturalness. And honestly, naturalness isnโ€™t something you can produce or direct into existence. It comes from how I interact with the NewJeans members on a daily basisโ€ฆ what kind of environment they practice in, how they live and work. There are so many things that donโ€™t appear on camera, but those unseen aspects have to be in place in order for true naturalness to come through. Thatโ€™s why I wanted to create that kind of environment for the girls. And also, I wanted to shape my own working environment in that way too. Only then can something truly natural, something unforced and not overly stimulating, really come out. To begin with, I donโ€™t believe anyone can be completely natural in front of a camera or under the gaze of others. Itโ€™s human nature to become self-conscious. Thatโ€™s why I think naturalness is our strength, but it canโ€™t be our concept. If you try to turn โ€œnaturalnessโ€ into a concept, it actually becomes incredibly artificial. So why do I place so much importance on naturalness? Itโ€™s because the girls are still so young. While other kids their age are going through school and having a wide range of life experiences, these members are living very different lives. Before they officially debuted, I told them, โ€œThis is like studying together with me.โ€ Our standard contract is seven years, which is about the same length as going through high school and college in Korea: three years of high school and four years of university. So I told them, โ€œWeโ€™re going to school together. Weโ€™re learning together.โ€ And in that sense, I want to be a good teacher to them. Theyโ€™re also surrounded by an incredibly professional team, people theyโ€™d never meet even in a traditional school setting. Iโ€™ve never really liked the word idol. These days, that word is used more like a job title, something manufactured by the industry, and itโ€™s far from its original meaning. To me, the term idol feels misplaced. It doesnโ€™t really reflect who these artists are or what they represent. And Iโ€™m not the kind of person who clings to labels or terminology. In fact, what I really want is to break the stereotypes and preconceptions that come with the idol industry. I want us to show people something differentโ€ฆ to challenge those assumptions and redefine what this can look like. Thatโ€™s the kind of mindset I have. โ€”โ€”โ€” โ€œIsn't it difficult for the members to express "naturalness"?โ€ ๐Ÿงข: There were a lot of things I considered when forming the group. First and foremost, I think it was important that the members shared a similar vibeโ€ฆ like how I prefer working with staff who align with my taste. Itโ€™s important for the crew to be on the same wavelength. And by that, I mean more than just getting alongโ€ฆ it also extends to shared values. Of course, people wonโ€™t all share identical values, but when weโ€™re facing in a similar direction, everything becomes easier. Itโ€™s also just more efficient to work with people who have overlapping tastes. Now, when it comes to our members, they each have their own individual tastes, but those preferences are still in development. Just like we all went through as kids, theyโ€™re still growing, still discovering themselves. Theyโ€™re not in a finished state. So we didnโ€™t cast them based on some complete or polished version of themselves. It wasnโ€™t like, โ€œThis person is fully formed, letโ€™s pick her.โ€ It was more like, โ€œAh, she has potential, thereโ€™s something there.โ€ That sense of a sparkโ€ฆ those were the kinds of subtleties I paid attention to. I didnโ€™t cast anyone just because they were pretty or could sing well. I donโ€™t work like that. I really value those finer, more delicate aspects. Even the design of the light stick wasnโ€™t something that came from a long strategic planning sessionโ€ฆ it was actually a spontaneous idea. I didnโ€™t sit down and think, โ€œLetโ€™s make a light stick like this.โ€ NewJeans didnโ€™t have a fixed logo, but I felt we still needed a unifying symbol. So one night, just before going to sleep, I kept thinking about it. Right before dozing off, I started sketching and it turned into a rabbitโ€™s face. When I drew it out, the shape just continued and turned into a bunny. To me, the NewJeans members are like little bunniesโ€ฆ playful, innocent. Their visuals also resemble rabbits in a way. And rabbits symbolize abundance. That made me think: โ€œAh, maybe our fans will multiply like rabbits. That would be great.โ€ So that bunny face became both a symbol for the members and the fans. The image came to me all at once, and I imagined a venue completely filled with bunny light sticks. That vision led to the creation of the light stick itself. Since I always prioritize fun in everything I do, the next idea that came to mind was making the light stick customizable. I thought, โ€œWouldnโ€™t it be great if fans could personalize their bunny?โ€ That way, each rabbit would represent a different personโ€™s character. So we included accessories, allowing everyone to customize their own bunny. Itโ€™s symbolic of all these different bunnies coming together and enjoying a good time as one. Our light stick has a big head, so when itโ€™s used in a concert hall, it lights up in heart shapes that are very visible. That was the image I really wanted. And that bunny faceโ€ฆ itโ€™s also a heart. It represents both the face of NewJeans and our hearts. Itโ€™s the love weโ€™re showing to our fans, and the love we want to receive in return. Every time I see it, I feel deeply moved. Itโ€™s very emotional for me because itโ€™s a perfect realization of what I envisioned. As someone with a background in creative direction, thereโ€™s nothing more satisfying than seeing an idea materialize exactly the way you imagined it. That kind of work holds deep meaning for me. โธป ๐Ÿงข: Looking back, I think in 2023 we were able to achieve almost everything we had hoped for. Iโ€™m so incredibly grateful for that. Of course, this is an ongoing challengeโ€ฆ and the better things go, the more pressure there is. Thatโ€™s why I always try to return to my original mindset. Just like I tell the members, I try to remind myself of the beginning and keep things fun. Back then, when we were first putting out content, planning the music, and working on visuals, I felt this thrillโ€ฆ this rush of excitement. I donโ€™t want to forget that feeling. So I try hard to engrave that emotion into every album we release. Iโ€™m constantly working to rediscover the joy in all of it. So for 2024, I hope everyone can look forward to us with fresh anticipation. And even if we come out with something completely new, I hope people will receive it warmly and with excitement. Thatโ€™s really my deepest wish. ๐Ÿ™

1tokki

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Caught on audio: Another time top public health officials at CDC lied about Covid vaccines to the public. From: Full Measure News 2021: Today we begin with an investigation regarding the Covid-19 vaccine shortages. There are serious questions about an incorrect claim made by top scientists at CDC: the nationโ€™s premiere public health institute. Critics call it misinformation. CDC chalks it up to an โ€œhonest mistake." Whatever it is, it resulted in vaccines going to some who are said to need it the least depriving others who are said to need it the most. Like a lot of Americans, Congressman Thomas Massie already had coronavirus and wanted to know if he should still get a Covid vaccine. Most everyone whoโ€™s had Covid-19 is considered immune. But how long immunity lasts is unknownโ€”whether itโ€™s after infection or vaccination. An award-winning scientist himself, Massie quickly found that vaccine studies showed no benefit to people whoโ€™ve had coronavirus. Vaccination didnโ€™t change their odds of getting reinfected. The controversy began when Massie noticed the CDC was claiming the exact opposite. CDCโ€™s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices had just issued a high profile report authored by 15 scientists. It wrongly claimed Pfizerโ€™s study proved the vaccine is highly effective or showed โ€œConsistent high efficacyโ€ for people whoโ€™d already had coronavirusโ€”โ€œSARS-CoV-2.โ€ Rep. Thomas Massie: It says the exact opposite of what the data says. They're giving people the impression that this vaccine will save your life, omr save you from suffering, even if you've already had the virus and recovered, which has not been demonstrated in either the Pfizer or the Moderna trial. The mystery deepened when Massie contacted CDC for an explanation. Massie says he was so alarmed by the misinformation, he decided to record the calls. On a December 16th call, CDCโ€™s Captain Amanda Cohn seemed to agree that people whoโ€™ve had coronavirus shouldnโ€™t rush to get vaccinated. Dr. Cohn: People who have had disease, given that there's limited doses right now, we're, we are suggesting that those people wait. Rep. Massie: Right. That suggestion, to wait, hasnโ€™t always gotten out. NBC News Clip, Dec. 10, 2020: Anchor Lester Holt: Should I get the vaccine if Iโ€™ve already had Covid? Dr. John Torres: Most experts say itโ€™s a good idea because theyโ€™re not sure how protected you are after recovering. Our Full Measure investigation examined the database reporting illnesses after Covid vaccines. It shows numerous people are getting vaccinatedโ€” even though theyโ€™ve already had the virus. Some experts say thatโ€™s depriving others who need the vaccine most. CBS News Clip, January 21, 2021: Anchor Norah Oโ€™Donnell: Health officials in many states say they donโ€™t have enough vaccine. CBS News reporter: It is happening across the country, promised doses not delivered. On the call, CDCโ€™s Dr. Cohn thanked Massie for flagging their mistaken claim that vaccines were proven to work for people whoโ€™ve had coronavirus. Dr. Amanda Cohn: I think we read that thing so many times that when, you know, we just skipped right over it. We know we can't be perfect, we know we're gonna miss things. You will forever after be known in our office as โ€œEagle-Eyed Man.โ€ Rep. Massie: They said, โ€œThank you for finding the mistake. We're going to fix this.โ€ And I thought, โ€œWell, okay, problem solved. This is how government works.โ€ But it didnโ€™t quite turn out that way. Two days later, the same Dr. Cohn whoโ€™d promised a fix, joined other CDC doctors in repeating the false information, this time in an online session for medical professionals. They claimed studies show people whoโ€™ve had coronavirus do benefit from the vaccine. Dr. Amanda Cohn (CDC video): โ€œSo Sara Oliver, what, should people whoโ€™ve had Covid-19 be vaccinated and should they be vaccinated now?โ€ Dr. Sara Oliver (CDC video): โ€œ...Data from both clinical trials suggests that people with prior infection are still likely to benefit from vaccination.โ€ Then, this past week, a full month after CDC promised to correct the false information, Massie found it was still on CDCโ€™s website. Rep. Massie: So I called them up on Tuesday, as soon as I could, to ask them why it hadn't been fixed. And it was like, I was starting all over with the same people. And instead of fixing it, they proposed repeating it and just phrasing their mistake differently. Anstice Brand: Iโ€™m always happy to talk with you. This call with CDCโ€™s Washington DC Director Anstice Brand: Rep. Massie: If there's a "they," who is refusing to fix something that is factually and provably wrong, I wanna know who โ€œtheyโ€ is. Because this is gonna result, and it's already resulting in misallocationof the vaccine Brand: Let me check that and get back to you as soon as possible. Massie also argued the point in a call with Dr. Sara Oliver, the CDC scientist who gave the misinformation on the web video. Rep. Massie: Hi, this is Congressman Thomas Massie. Is this Dr. Oliver? Dr. Sarah Oliver: Yes Rep. Massie: There was an error and I noticed you are an author on it and I wondered if I could get your help in getting this error corrected. You can't say it's efficacious for people with prior infection. That's an absolutely untrue sentence Dr. Oliver: Yeah, I mean, we're- we're still recommending that individuals who have prior infection receive the vaccine. Um, but we wouldn't want to put out that if you had COVID before, you shouldn't get the vaccine. Rep. Massie: Actually, if you've had COVID before, and there's a 75-year-old person who can't get the vaccine and you're 30-years-old, you are, you should not get the vaccine because you are wasting resource. It will lead to people who- who die or have medical complications because we have a limitation of the vaccine. That's why I think it's important that that document get fixed Dr. Oliver: Okay. I- I can, um, I can talk with MMWR, and with Dr. Cohn and see, if, if we can tweak that language a little bit Full Measure found several other scientists equally critical of CDCโ€™s incorrect claim. Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University. Sharyl : CDC has had a scientific policy guidance on its website that claims the coronavirus vaccine has proven equally safe and effective in all age groups, races, and so onโ€” and including for those who previously had a coronavirus infection, COVID-19. Is that your understandingโ€” Is that true? Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: That second part is not true. People who have had previous infection, the vaccine, the evidence, the trial evidence shows that it is not effective in additionally preventing the disease. Why would it be? You're already immune. If the CDC has on its site, that it is doing the public a disservice, both to people that get vaccinated that don't really need it because they've been previously infected, and also the people who should be prioritized to vaccine, but aren't getting it because of shortages. We asked CDC, Dr. Oliver and Dr. Cohn for interviews but they declined. Some of the agencyโ€™s response was summed up during Congressman Massieโ€™s final call with CDC this past week. It was with CDC Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat. Thomas Massie: I feel like right now, we have the tail wagging the dog, that the folks who want to do the messaging, the folks who want everybody to get the vaccine, have pressured the folks who are doing the science, i.e. reviewing the Phase III trial from Pfizer, not to correct the documentโ€”but the document is false. So the CDC can do whatever messaging they want. That's, that's the CDC's job, not my job. But they cannot propagate false and incorrect science. So that's my position. And I'm- Dr. Schuchat: Sure. Thomas Massie: ... really disappointed it's gone on a month without being fixed. Like, really disappointed Dr. Schuchat: As you note correctly, there is not sufficient analysis to show that in the subset of only the people with prior infection, there's efficacy. So you're correct that that sentence is wrong and that we need to make a correction of it. I apologize for the delay. But in terms of a large scale, you know, trying to mislead people, I just give you my word that that was not the intent. So really apologize about the confusion that we apparently caused, and perhaps the, as you say, you know, people who are fairly low risk rushing to get vaccine ahead of people who are higher risk. CDC has now issued a correction. But Massie and other scientists we asked say the new wording still wrongly implies studies show vaccines work in people who have had coronavirus. Rep. Massie: And instead of fixing it, they proposed repeating it and just phrasing their mistake differently. So, at that point, right now I consider it a lie. I think the CDC is lying about the efficacy of the vaccine based on the Pfizer trials, for those who have already had the Coronavirus. Sharyl (on-camera): As for how 15 scientists who could have originally signed on to a paper that so plainly misrepresented vaccine studies there is no clear answer.

Sharyl Attkisson ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ’ผ๐Ÿฅ‹

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In honor of Y Combinator's 20th anniversary, here are my 6 favorite lessons: 1. The 7 minute espresso rule: Our first meeting with Sam Altman lasted just seven minutes. The batch hadnโ€™t even officially started yet and my cofounder Ryan Rowe and I drove down from Mountain View to the tiny SF YC outpost to meet him. Sam was making an espresso when we walked in. He opened with โ€“ โ€œhave you launchedโ€? We said no, too many bugs. Our product, kimono, made it easy to just point and click to build a web scraper. Our promise was to get you an API in 60 seconds, without writing a single line of code. But, the web is vast, and websites are very different. We needed it to work on a large enough spectrum of sites so that our first users would have a good experience. It worked on just a handful of sites at the time. Sam pushed us to make sure we were launched in less than 2 weeks. We debated, highlighting the complexity of the bugs and the limits of underlying headless browsing technology. The espresso finished brewing, he picked it up, looked at us and said, โ€œwell, you better get going then and fix those bugsโ€. We left, launched within those next two weeks and learned one of the most important lessons that day - speed matters. Ship something youโ€™re embarrassed by. 2. There are no experts. Ryan and I were not prepared for the rapid influx of user on launch day. We did 88 user interviews to validate our product idea, and everyone basically said they wouldnโ€™t use it. We thought they were wrong and built it anyway. It got tons of traffic on day 1. We didnโ€™t sleep in the 48 hours following because our servers and database kept crashing. We hadnโ€™t indexed it properly. We realized we werenโ€™t the experts and needed to hire one. We went over to Michael Seibel's apartment for advice. Michael smiled and told us about the early days at SocialCam, that eventually became Twitch โ€“ experts thought the streaming video problem was too hard to be possible. The answer wasnโ€™t hiring an expert, but hiring someone young, capable and naรฏve enough to give it an earnest try. So we opted to just figure it out ourselves. 3. Messages in Pizza Boxes. Startups win through incredible customer service, then through product, not the other way around. Michael Seibel told us how SocialCamโ€™s streaming infrastructure went down while a key teammate was unreachable off-grid in a Tahoe cabin for the weekend. Normal people would have waited until Monday. Not Michael. He called a local pizza delivery place and asked the delivery person to send a large pizza with an urgent message in the box to the cabin. Their infrastructure was back up in hours. 4. The Twinkle can matter more than the TAM. Ambition matters just as much as practicality. Before demo day, we were struggling with the end note of our pitch. We knew the value of our product, and had a fanatical and fast-growing user base, but the market size we calculated either seemed so ridiculously big that it was not plausible, or so narrow that it was equally silly. Paul Graham and Geoff Ralston sat with us and showed us that if we can really pull it off at scale, it would be bigger than Google. So, we could skip the market size, if we really believed it. PG suggested not talking about market size, but just making sure people could see the twinkle in our eyes when we talked about what you might be able to do with a structured copy of the internet thatโ€™s larger than Googleโ€™s. 5. Youโ€™re always at the Origin. Our demo day was successful beyond our wildest beliefs. Afterwards, Geoff Ralston drew a chart for us on a whiteboard. It was a hockey stick. He asked us where we thought we were. It was a rhetorical question. He said we were at the origin, and that the most important thing is to remember that. Sam Altman doubled down. When he invested in Kimono, he gave us a Zimbabwean Trillion dollar note (the result of extreme hyperinflation in Zimbabwe), as a cautionary reminder that the fundraising and valuation mean nothing. We have channeled this into our culture at @TheArenaAI with our ritual around neon shoelaces and a pair of neon track spikes hanging on the wall to remind us that weโ€™re at the Olympic starting line, but we donโ€™t have any medals yet. 6. High bandwidth discussions with users donโ€™t happen over email. The Collison brothers, who founded Stripe, took user engagement to the next level โ€“ so much so that โ€œCollison installationโ€ is part of YC lore. John Collison told us that talking to users was essential because email and chat conversations were not โ€œhigh bandwidthโ€ enough. He emphasized the importance of what you can learn being with users in person or talking to them over Skype (remember, this was early 2014!). We took this to heart, and spoke to hundreds of users at Kimono regularly over Skype. One power user Alexander Chung, who I met this way, has become a close friend and even attended my wedding in India. At Arena, we now go a step further and regularly fly to our users. We over-invest to a degree that is almost crazy in order to be more than a supplier โ€” a true partner to our early customers. YC taught us itโ€™s the only way to understand their problems on the ground and really make sure our products work for them. YC taught us to outsource very little. Own the problem. Own the outcome. And if you do, you get to be stupidly ambitious. If youโ€™re curious about Kimono Labs (which we later sold to Palantir ), here was our launch demo. No-code web scraping before โ€œno codeโ€ was even a term: Here's our demo day pitch, from 2014. Forever grateful to those above + Garry Tan Jessica Livingston Trevor Blackwell

Pratap Ranade

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๐Ÿ’ฅ LAP Alert ๐Ÿ’ฅ "I did this sort of spy thing where I changed hotel rooms and I changed taxis. I was making sure I wasnโ€™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? ๐Ÿ™‚) ~ 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 Iโ€™ve acquired. So, one year ago, I made this trip to Washington, D.C. at the invitation of Senator Harry Reid. It was St. Patrickโ€™s Day, 2018 and I already knew a little bit about AATIP and AAWSAP and what theyโ€™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 wasnโ€™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 donโ€™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. Weโ€™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 weโ€™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 didnโ€™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. Weโ€™d talk about UFO stuff and what was going on. "So when I was told the New York Times was gonna break the story, Iโ€™m kind ticked off about it. Because hey, Iโ€™ve been sitting on this for a long time. Why donโ€™t I get to break the story? And they had to, one after another, gently remind me, 'You know. Youโ€™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 werenโ€™t going to do it if somebody else breaks it. So, if I had done it, itโ€™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 didnโ€™t. But that story was accurate, to a degree. But the story that it told was not the full story. AATIP, that we know aboutโ€ฆthe AATIP that studies nuts and bolts saucersโ€ฆcase 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. "Itโ€™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, DARPAโ€ฆthere 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. Itโ€™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 wouldnโ€™t solve the bigger part of the picture. "So he grew interested in Skinwalker Ranch and he had read the (Knapp/Kelleher โ€“ 'Hunt For The Skinwalker') book. And after he read it, he called up Bob Bigelow and saidโ€ฆactually, he wrote him a letter and said, 'Hey, can I go to the ranchโ€ฆgo look around? Iโ€™m with the DIA.' Bigelow says, 'Come on out to Las Vegas and Iโ€™ll take you there.' And thatโ€™s what happened. He flew to Las Vegas. They flew on Bigelowโ€™s jet. They went to the ranch. "This guyโ€™s not there fifteen minutes and he has an experience. And Iโ€™m not gonna go into detail. Iโ€™m hoping that heโ€™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. Heโ€™s the only one who had an angle on this thing that appeared. And heโ€™s pretending that heโ€™s not seeing it but itโ€™s right out of the corner of his eye. And he doesnโ€™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 Iโ€™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 โ€“ and I can attest to that personally โ€“ called in a couple of his friends in the Senate โ€“ 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 atโ€ฆbeyond flying saucers, that looked at other paranormal aspectsโ€ฆsupernatural aspects that we would not normally associate with aliens or ETs. Assuming that thatโ€™s what this is, which Iโ€™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."

Joe Murgia

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We know that the incident that happened at present in Zambia has attracted a little attention, but particularly the use of a fraud gang leader, Hopewell Chinโ€™ono, and Emmanuel Mwamba. I think people have seen me in the past, in the last few years. Iโ€™ve confronted these two characters on matters that I was able to demonstrate were matters of fact, but there are also matters of accountability in a very big way. They were matters relating to money, movement of money across countries. How many people have seen my documentaries? How many have seen the Gatwick Airport hacking documentary that features a man called Hopewell Chinโ€™ono? In the last two years, I personally, physically recovered over a million British pounds in a property that had been robbed from a British man. Two years ago, in 2024, and the person who was singularly behind that scam is a man called Hopewell Chinโ€™ono. Brian Mundubile, the opposition leader, and Emmanuel Mwamba, the opposition spokesperson โ€” Iโ€™m not sure what title he has in Zambia. If youโ€™re watching right now in Zambia, please let me know which title he carries, because I know that there have been entities and institutions that have switched names, switched sides, or switched shape. So Iโ€™m not aware what title Emmanuel Mwamba now has, but Emmanuel Mwamba and Brian Mundubile, as the opposition leader, have been using this man who will lead a fraud gang, and is [a] fraudster, I would be [saying]. So Iโ€™m going to say it in Zimbabwean English, okay? Accent, Zimbabwean and Zambian, for I would beโ€ฆ [Speaking in a local language.] And on Hopewell Chinโ€™onoโ€ฆ [Speaking in a local language.] A million-pound property from him and his friend and his colleague, called Jennifer Bangurรฉ, in East Midlands. I think people have seen him sometimes posting a picture of him dressed in very, very buttoned trousers, boasting that heโ€™s got a house in East Midlands. Right there in East Midlands, two years ago, I had a copy of [the] property, but he himself and the colleague of him had taken off, unlawfully taken away from a British man. And so Hopewell Chinโ€™ono has been used by Mundubile and Mwamba with the two knowing well that he is a fraud gang leader. Some people have been claiming, โ€œOh, Brian Mundubile,โ€ and the likes of him that this man is a journalist. This person is a fraud gang leader, just using the face in the front of journalism. There is no person who is law-abiding who uses Hopewell Chinโ€™ono for anything. But what was happening was that Brian Mundubile and Emmanuel Mwamba were using this shady character for their communications, which were not factual at all. I mean, people were following over the time, every post that this man has been posting โ€” this character that Brian Mundubile has been using to make communications. In every single post, thereโ€™s always been some falsification, some misleading. This is not a character that anyone would want to sit having tea with, because heโ€™s well known for more than 30 years for being dodgy, shady and engaging in some of the most horrible [activities]. Iโ€™ve done thorough investigations over the years. Iโ€™ve done more investigations on this man than Iโ€™ve done on all my other documentaries and stories over the years. And so, what were they discussing? What were they doing? But mainly, โ€” what have they been posting around the elections, not just today? Over several years, by the way: this whole operation didnโ€™t start today. Even during the Edgar Lungu death days last year, I think people remember โ€” how many people remember? Thereโ€™s a dossier that I presented to South Africa, to the courts, where I was arguing, and I was even taking the SABC, the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation, to court. Very soon I will, for them using this type โ€” this character. And this is a big, big scam. Itโ€™s not a small scam. So, what has happened right now, thereโ€™s another operation that law enforcement have done in [Zambia]. Iโ€™m not going to talk about that because itโ€™ll be sub judice, and Iโ€™m not aware of the full circumstances of what that is. But I am aware. Iโ€™m fully aware. I think people saw me a few years ago. I was in Lusaka physically, and I was on live camera. Iโ€™m fully aware that Brian Mundubile and his crop were cooking some activity. Thatโ€™s how I was there. I saw it physically. They were doing something there that I canโ€™t say right now because it would be sub judice. People understand what the law says. I am aware of certain things that were happening around that time that were not clean. And thatโ€™s how suddenly I was in Lusaka around the same period in August 2023, which was the first time Iโ€™d been to Lusaka before, a few years before. My work โ€” I investigate, I investigate, I investigate matters relating toโ€ฆ Excuse me, sorry, I apologise. Iโ€™m just getting distracted. Just two seconds here. Those are coming right now live. I am just two seconds, just two seconds, folks. I think itโ€™s me, love. Yes, itโ€™s me. Walter. Yes. Okay, so just two seconds, folks. Okay, so what I was saying was that a few years ago, I was in Lusaka, Zambia. And the things that I witnessed there โ€” Iโ€™m not going to talk about the rest and things that have happened today because itโ€™s sub judice. I canโ€™t do that. And Iโ€™m not aware of the full circumstances. But there are definitely things that I know, and people have seen over the years. When Edgar Lungu died, there was one character who Emmanuel Mwamba started using. Many of the people started using. And they were firing an algorithm. And if you are in law enforcement here in Zambia, and if you are in law enforcement in any other country, I hope you can hear this tidbit that Iโ€™m dropping here. I investigate wrongdoing by notorious people, particularly people who target crowds. And so this person that Brian Mundubile has been using has been fronting the face and the badge of journalism. But, in actual fact, he leads a fraud gang โ€” a whole gang of people, some who were fully convicted and served prison sentences. This is all public record, by the way. So itโ€™s not what Iโ€™m saying here, so people listening โ€” itโ€™s not something from a special investigation that I guess, of course, there are things that Iโ€™ve done, that Iโ€™ve done. But this is public record. There is no person who is law-abiding. Thereโ€™s no person who follows the law who uses a man called Hopewell Chinโ€™ono for anything. For anything. [Speaking in Shona.] This is a record that is over 30 years old โ€” 30 years running, every year. Every year, this man called Hopewell Chinโ€™ono has a repeating incident, or for high-profile โ€” weโ€™re talking high-profile crime here. And one of them involves a million-pound property that I personally reversed in a documentary called โ€œGatwick Airport.โ€ โ€œGatwick Airport.โ€ So if you Google โ€œGatwick Airport,โ€ you see it. I mean, this is a whole broad, multi-million-pound property, massive property that I investigated and helped to reverse two years ago. And the records are all there. They are replete. Thereโ€™s also an article that was published that is on the New Statesman website, that is titled โ€œJournalism Rarely Generates Excessive Wealth.โ€ Well, this is not my work now. This is the work of the only investigative journalist of our time by the name Geoffrey Nyarota. Itโ€™s a very interesting piece. He died in March last year. And Geoffrey Nyarota published this article, investigated this character called Hopewell Chinโ€™ono, and published this article. If you see it, it audits money that he used โ€” money that he took from the United Kingdom and then used it to buy property in Zimbabwe. This is an article that is over four years, five years, in fact, in the public domain. Five years in the public domain. And the man called Hopewell Chinโ€™ono even responded, so he passed comments on that article in the article. That article is on a publication that Iโ€™ve got nothing to do with. Itโ€™s another major, major big independent newspaper that publishes in Zimbabwe. Itโ€™s on the internet, so if you Google โ€œJournalism Rarely Generates Excessive Wealth,โ€ thatโ€™s an article that has been available that Brian Mundubile, the opposition leader of Zambia, knows. And Emmanuel Mwamba, his spokesperson, knows that article. For over five years, he knows that Hopewell Chinโ€™ono is not a practising journalist, that he is doing his practising disguise. He is a disguiser. How does a person who has won an election use a disguiser? How do you go on video and say, โ€œI won this electionโ€? Number one, you donโ€™t show, you donโ€™t present any tabulation. You say that youโ€™ve got a tabulation that youโ€™re reading, but you donโ€™t show people that tabulation. Show people so that they see that you truly have won. Okay, letโ€™s just assume that you are avoiding this disclosure because maybe you donโ€™t want to get into trouble. Certainly, people around you, if you have those millions of followers, certainly those people could just present the tabulation. Not WhatsApp screenshots. No. The tabulation. The tabulation and those forms. Show the tabulation and then you also show the forms, which are a public record. The forms become public record at the polling station. So you donโ€™t even need to wait for the Electoral Commission Chairperson of Zambia to make the announcement. The announcement has already been made at the polling station. You donโ€™t need to record a video and pronounce yourself a leader. Because if you have won the election, that pronouncement has already been made at the polling station. And so the youngest child, a Grade One child, can do their maths. During the first hour of those results being placarded at the polling stations, you donโ€™t need to come out yourself. Because itโ€™s already there. If you have won the election, itโ€™s already there. Why did you do that? Why did you record this video? Whatโ€™s the point? Whatโ€™s the game? Whatโ€™s the hurry? Because itโ€™s already there. Itโ€™s a public record. Itโ€™s already there. Itโ€™s in the forest, itโ€™s there โ€” right at the polling station. So Brian Mundubile did not need to do that. Who was the point? Maybe other people have done it before. But what was the point? Iโ€™m trying to ask here. I donโ€™t know how I could say it in Bemba, in Nyanja. I donโ€™t know which language, folks. If those people will see you speak the language in [unclear], in Zambia, please click the video link and talk to me. And maybe say it to people, ask questions: Mr Mundubile, what was the point when you announced yourself, pronouncing yourself, on video? And then you get someone who leads โ€” who practises disguise. Whoa, whatโ€™s the point? Does not practise journalism? He practises disguise. Who doesnโ€™t know that if thereโ€™s a public record out there? So you used someone whoโ€™s engaged in some of the most dodgy things on earth, including election vote-tempering that he has been doing in other jurisdictions. You used that character. For what purpose? For what purpose? Because you didnโ€™t press a vote, Brian Mundubile knew that you did not need to go on video. Because if you won the election, you were already politically โ€” you would have already been proclaimed at the polling station. So any person who has got a small GCSE certificate can do their maths. They would have already known that they would have made the announcement for itself. Where is the regulation? So this is a big investigation because all watching on, as I said, I myself have recovered a million-pound property in the United Kingdom in the last two years, and the documentaryโ€ฆ

ZimEye

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War Diary Day 1,391 Blaise Metreweli, the Chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, sticks it to the Killer in The Kremlin. And all his creepy helpers. I agree with every fucking word. VPDFO! (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) ๐Ÿ“ท Welcome inside MI6. This iconic building, familiar to movie fans everywhere, is the home of Britainโ€™s foreign intelligence agency. But whilst hundreds of my team pass through the entry pods each day, the truth is that most of our work happens many miles away from this place - out of sight, hidden from the world, undercover, recruiting and running agents who choose to place their trust in us, sharing secrets to make the UK and the world safer. You might pass one of our officers on the street or sit next to them on a plane when youโ€™re about to set off on an adventure of your own, or in a foreign city taking selfies by the sights. Whether itโ€™s in seemingly everyday places, or on the front line embedded with our military, MI6 is there. In my first few weeks, Iโ€™ve heard repeatedly that MI6 is trusted and respected globally, two things that we never take for granted. We are seen as a source of hard power, soft influence and rapid innovation. Iโ€™ve also heard that people want to believe in MI6. Itโ€™s my job to make sure they can. Today, I want to talk about human agency. We all have choices to make about how we deal with the undercurrents shaping our world. About how, in our new, faster, more dangerous and technology-mediated world, it will be our rediscovery of our shared humanity, our ability to listen, and our courage that will determine how our future unfolds. Conflict is not inevitable. Understanding human nature is in my bones. From a family shaped by devastating conflict, I grew up with a deep sense of gratitude for the UKโ€™s precious democracy and freedom. I spent much of my childhood overseas, which is where my passion for travel and adventure began. I studied anthropology, and later psychology and AI, exploring how we make sense of the world and each other. Itโ€™s why I was drawn to MI6: it offers strong purpose, a chance to serve and a belief in the positive power of human connection. Like the Service, Iโ€™m operational to my very core. Over nearly three decades, my career has involved recruiting and running agents in hostile territory; and leading operations in warzones to defuse threats and support peace. Always in teams, always learning from others. Over the years, Iโ€™ve worked with hundreds of brilliant partners โ€“ and indeed occasionally those weโ€™d label as adversaries โ€“ across dozens of countries, tackling weapons proliferation and terrorism. During my time at MI5, I saw close up what it takes to defend Britain from being targeted by hostile states. Youโ€™ll find many like me in my organisation: powerfully motivated to protect our precious country; curious about how our world is changing, joining dots and taking action, across domains. But it was in my last role as โ€˜Qโ€™, where it was my job to turn emerging technologies from threats to opportunities that I could most see the world changing. As I dug deep into data and extraordinary innovation, I could see how technology was rapidly reshaping not just our capabilities but also conflict and trust, truth and global power. Let me lay out how I see the global issues MI6 must tackle. Because the greatest danger we face is to misunderstand the nature of the problem. Letโ€™s be in no doubt. Our world is more dangerous and contested now than it has been for decades. Conflict is evolving and trust eroding, just as new technologies spur both competition and dependence. We are being contested from sea to space, from the battlefield to the boardroom. And even our brains, as disinformation manipulates our understanding of each other and ourselves. Across the globe, we are now confronting not one single danger, but an interlocking web of security challenges โ€“ military, technological, social, ethical even โ€“ each shaping the other in complex ways. We are now operating in a space between peace and war. This is not a temporary state or a gradual, inevitable evolution. Our world is being actively remade, with profound implications for national and international security. Institutions which were designed in the ashes of the Second World War are being challenged. New blocs and identities forming and alliances reshaping. Multipolar competition in tension with multilateral cooperation. But thereโ€™s something distinctive that will make this change unlike any other: the impact of advanced technologies, which will accelerate the pace and scale of every threat and opportunity, and increasingly, individualise them too. Advances in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and quantum computing are not only revolutionising economies but rewriting the reality of conflict, as they โ€˜convergeโ€™ to create science-fiction-like tools. Thereโ€™s incredible promise in all this for all of us, from green technologies to hyper-personalised medicine. But also peril. AI-powered robots and drones are brilliant for scaled manufacturing but devastating on the battlefield. Discoveries that cure disease can also create new weapons. And as states race for tech supremacy, or as some algorithms become as powerful as states, those hyper-personalised tools could become a new vector for conflict and control. Power itself is becoming more diffuse, more unpredictable as control over these technologies is shifting from states to corporations, and sometimes to individuals. And at the same time, the foundations of trust in our societies are eroding. Information, once a unifying force, is increasingly weaponised. Falsehood spreads faster than fact, dividing communities and distorting reality. We live in an age of hyper-connection yet profound isolation. The algorithms flatter our biases and fracture our public squares. And as trust collapses, so does our shared sense of truth โ€“ one of the greatest losses a society can suffer. The defining challenge of the twenty-first century is not simply who wields the most powerful technologies, but who guides them with the greatest wisdom. Our security, our prosperity, and our humanity depend on it. Our world is being remade. And for the first time, we are all at the heart of it. My Service must now operate in this new context too: not just expert on hostile states, terrorism, proliferation and more, but also fluent in technology, able to anticipate the second and third order effects of advances that reshape the world in minutes not months. And as China will be a central part of the global transformation taking place this century, it is essential that we, as MI6, continue to inform the governmentโ€™s understanding of Chinaโ€™s rise and the implications for UK national security. Iโ€™m going to break with tradition and wonโ€™t give you a global threat tour, but will focus here on Putinโ€™s Russia. We all continue to face the menace of an aggressive, expansionist and revisionist Russia, seeking to subjugate Ukraine and harass NATO. I find it harrowing that hundreds of thousands have died, with the toll mounting every day, because of Putinโ€™s historical distortions and his compromised desire for respect. He is dragging out negotiations and shifting the cost of war onto his own population. But Putin should be in no doubt, our support is enduring. The pressure we apply on Ukraineโ€™s behalf will be sustained. Because it is fundamental not just to European sovereignty and security but to global stability. Alongside the grinding war, Russia is testing us in the grey zone with tactics that are just below the threshold of war. Itโ€™s important to understand their attempts to bully, fearmonger and manipulate, because it affects us all. I am talking about: Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. Drones buzzing airports and bases. Aggressive activity in our seas, above and below the waves. State-sponsored arson and sabotage. Propaganda and influence operations that crack open and exploit fractures within societies. Countering this activity is the work of intelligence and security services across Europe and the globe. And as the Foreign Secretary made clear in a speech last week, the UK is defending itself against this Russian information warfare โ€“ sanctioning Russian media outlets pushing Kremlin narratives. The export of chaos is a feature not a bug in this Russian approach to international engagement; and we should be ready for this to continue until Putin is forced to change his calculus. So, how should we respond? Itโ€™s not enough now just to understand the world. We must shape it too. MI6 is well-positioned to respond to these threats and wider global instability. And we will continue to evolve, just as we have throughout our long history. The UK government has invested in our intelligence agencies and we are all using our unique powers to keep the British people safe. Our โ€˜open and connectedโ€™ partnerships across the UK Intelligence Community, with HMGCC, NSSIF and the wider tech ecosystem in the UK will become even more important โ€“ because in the digital battleground, no single organisation can prevail alone. As a global agency, MI6โ€™s inbuilt strength is our partners and our people. The risks I have set out require us to work ever more closely with our colleagues in MI5, GCHQ and in defence and diplomacy. But also with our Five Eyes partners, with the E3, the EU, NATO, those across the Middle East, the Indo-Pacific and beyond. And with many valued partners whose identity needs to remain secret. Together, we integrate our diverse talent, data and tools to meet the threat. AI is a domain in which we will excel, using the technology to augment, not replace, our human skills. Every digital trace, every byte of data, every algorithmic decision has implications for the safety of the lives of the courageous people who work with us as officers and agents, and for the UKโ€™s strategic advantage. Mastery of technology will infuse everything we do. Not just in our labs, but in the field, in our tradecraft, and even more importantly, in the mindset of every officer. We will become as comfortable with lines of code as we are with human sources, as fluent in Python as we are in multiple other languages. Under my leadership, MI6 will continue to attract Britainโ€™s best and most creative minds: linguists and data scientists, case officers and engineers, behavioural experts and technologists. We need people who walk in the shoes and get in the heads of our adversaries. We need people who think differently, challenge assumptions, and act decisively. All can thrive and make a difference at MI6. At an operational level, we will sharpen our edge and impact with audacity, tapping into โ€“ if you like โ€“ our historical SOE instincts. Weโ€™re at our best when weโ€™re hustling to make things happen, because our intelligence is most valuable when it changes reality on the ground. We will take calculated risks, where the prize is significant and the national interest clear. We will never stoop to the tactics of our opponents. But we must seek to outplay them. In every domain. In every way. So intelligence must drive action. Action must deliver advantage. And advantage must serve Britainโ€™s security and prosperity. But at the core, our deeper contribution is also our simplest โ€“ how we unlock human agency. Our fast-paced, tech and threat-infused world now generates more heat than light. As nations retrench and rearm, we are losing opportunities to listen to whatโ€™s really going on. Iโ€™ve seen time and again throughout my career, that this is where MI6 matters most: we listen and we hear. We understand, because we take time to learn languages and cultures, complex technical and historical detail, immerse ourselves in whatโ€™s really driving the situation. Across the globe, right now, our officers are finding people with the courage to step forward, and they are taking time to sit and listen to break these tightening cycles of violence. They listen for nuance, for connection, for opportunity. Over the years, Iโ€™ve listened to terrorists who have told us how to defuse the bomb because they know that more violence wonโ€™t help. To proliferators and smugglers whoโ€™ve told us where to find the dangerous material, motivated to protect their childrenโ€™s future. To people trapped in authoritarian regimes who know, deep down, that their humanity is being chipped away โ€“ and that telling us whatโ€™s really going on is an important release, allowing us all to find better ways to navigate our changing world. So, we will work with our agents. And we will continue to engage directly, and with respect, with states and organisation currently working against us. Away from the glare of the media, we will use MI6โ€™s convening power wherever we can to make a material difference, bringing parties together to defuse tensions. But the response to the increasing risks we face wonโ€™t be delivered by the UK intelligence community alone. Wider society has a role to play too. That includes work taking place in schools across the country so our children donโ€™t get duped by information manipulation. Letโ€™s all check sources, consider evidence, and be alive to those algorithms that trigger intense reactions, like fear. It also means everyone in society really understanding the world we are in โ€“ a world where terrorists plot against us, where our enemies fearmonger, bully and manipulate, and the front line is everywhere. Online, on our streets, in our supply chains, in the minds and on the screens of our citizens. We must all stand together against this. As we do today with our friends in Australia after the shocking antisemitic terrorist attack this weekend. My thoughts -and those of my whole organisation โ€“ are with the family, friends and loved ones of the victims. Light will always win over darkness. In rising to meet these challenges we, in MI6, will remain anchored to our values: courage, creativity, respect and integrity. And to our principles: accountability and trust are not constraints on our work; they are the foundations of our legitimacy with the British public. Recently, I had the privilege of meeting and thanking a foreign agent who has worked with us for decades, taking extraordinary risks to help keep the UK safe. I asked why. They said simply, โ€˜Your values. Your integrity and respect. None of us have a future without themโ€™. This moment reinforced to me that we must remain a very human agency. And so, to sustain that trust, MI6 will continue to be more open. Not for the sake of visibility, but because it matters โ€“ and as my MI5 counterpart Sir Ken McCallum said recently - because it is a strength. We will continue the practice of speaking publicly, broaden our channels of engagement, and sustain our focus on attracting the most diverse talent to join our Service. Transparency does not mean revealing what must remain secret. It means showing the British people who we are, what we stand for, and why our work matters. We need your trust and support for the difficult and often dangerous work our agents pursue, every day of the year. In an age of uncertainty, one constant remains: the choices made by human beings still determine the shape of the world. Yes, technology can illuminate possibilities: but information requires judgement; complexity demands clarity; and only people can decide which path to follow. The United Kingdomโ€™s global voice has never rested solely on strength โ€“ it has rested on trust, principle, and the ability to understand others as well as ourselves. That is also the essence of intelligence: not simply knowing the world, but interpreting it through a uniquely human lens. Ours is the quiet service, the hidden service. It is one rooted in a profound belief that when human beings act with purpose and integrity, they can steady a faltering world. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was our shared belief in freedom that carried Europe forward. When acts of terror targeted open societies, it was intelligence, cooperation and resolve that preserved them. And when adversaries blur fact and falsehood, our task is to defend the space where truth can still stand. As we step into the future, the tools at our disposal will evolve. But what will always matter most is the human element โ€“ the person who stands in the shadows and says: this is right, and that is wrong. That choice โ€“ the exercise of human agency โ€“ has shaped our world before, and it will shape it again. Because in the end, it is not what we can do that defines us, but what we choose to do. Thank you. Published 15 December 2025

John Sweeney

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dave meltzer: youtube enthusiast ๐Ÿ’€ perfect. now we can stop pretending this was ever complicated. the real story is not that wwe is afraid of aew. the real story is not that โ€œhigh level wwe officialsโ€ are whispering scary things to dave meltzer. the real story is not even that tony khan got asked a planted question on a media call with very little distribution about the possibility of aew soon having very little distribution, although that sentence is so stupidly perfect it should be bronzed and placed outside the wrestling observer newsletter office like a war memorial for people who died pretending this was journalism. the real story is that aew is going to lose its wbd distribution deal. either it ends at the expiration of the three-year term in 2027, or it ends earlier if paramount closes wbd and decides aew has no strategic place inside the new company. and based on the board as it exists right now, the most likely landing spot for aew in 2027 is google / youtube. that is the story. everything else is laundering. tony khan wants the story to be: โ€œwhy would wwe say this about us?โ€ that is the whole operation. take my public analysis. run it through dave meltzer. assign it to wwe / tko. then let tony khan answer a canned question on a media call with very little distribution about potentially having very little distribution. a media call for a lightly viewed roh show. a planted story. a planted messenger. a rehearsed answer. a pr flack probably wrote it. tony khan performs hurt. tony khan says โ€œi donโ€™t know why wwe wouldโ€ฆโ€ tony khan denies the obvious. tony khan keeps me minimized. tony khan removes me from the public conversation about the exact thing i have repeatedly said is going to happen to aew. everyone is supposed to pretend this is organic. it is not. it is the most bubble wrapped, manufactured, artificial environment possible. aew is heading toward youtube because the domestic media rights board is closing around them. not as a troll. not as a bit. not as โ€œpr spin.โ€ as a business conclusion. aew is not leverage. wwe is not afraid of aew. the $185 million number was bullshit. the buyer universe was shrinking. paramount / skydance was coming for wbd. wbd was not going to be some permanent aew safe house. youtube was only ever a real โ€œoptionโ€ if someone at google was actually cutting a media rights check and underwriting production. not because every divorced mom with a ring light and a gmail account can upload video to the same platform. that was always the distinction. that is still the distinction. Nick LoPiccolo โ€” February 28, 2025 โ€œYouTube is an option the same way you or I could start a YT channel tomorrow. Is Jon Cruz cutting AEW a media rights check or underwriting a production budget? Hell no. Just the reality. It isnโ€™t the model. Jon is global head of sports over there.โ€ that was february, not last week. not after dave meltzer suddenly discovered youtube prelim numbers like columbus finding the new world. it is becoming inevitable now. Nick LoPiccolo โ€” April 30, 2026 โ€” 11:26 AM โ€” 251.2K Views โ€œto every journalist and every podcast who interviews tony khan from this day forward: please ask tony if wbd told him back in august they would not be renewing aew. wbd told him in august. i confirmed it directly and triple sourced it. please ask why tony has been acting like nothing is wrong for the last 8 months, and then please ask tony what his actual distribution plan is. because the only distributor left that will take aew is google/youtube. the myaew app is not realistic. the my aewapp is a death sentence in 2026 if youtube doesnโ€™t make an mg deal for aew. they started building it too late and there is no realistic way to scale it. also, who is going to sell ads for the platform? kiswe is not the best. they built the myaew app. they are new to the game. hold tonyโ€™s feet to the fire. Paramount is not real for aew. WBD passed back in August. CW/Roku is now off the table. Amazon and Fox do not want AEW. ask Tony why he's been lying to you and to the locker room and to the fans, acting like things are all great with the network? i am sure a lot of people would love to hear his answer.โ€ april 30. 251.2k views. not whispered. not hidden. not vague. not โ€œhigh level wwe officials.โ€ i said it publicly and directly: wbd passed back in august. paramount is not real for aew. cw / roku is off the table. amazon and fox do not want aew. the myaew app is not realistic. google / youtube is the only distributor left on the board that makes sense. that is the actual story tony khan does not want to answer. not โ€œwhy would wwe say this?โ€ ask tony khan if wbd told him in august that wbd would not be renewing aew. ask what his actual distribution plan is. ask who is selling ads for the myaew app. ask how a platform built this late scales in 2026. ask whether youtube is an actual rights partner with an mg, or just the place you go when the real buyers are gone. that is the question. not the fake question dave meltzer laundered into โ€œhigh level wwe officials.โ€ the real question. Nick LoPiccolo โ€” July 9, 2025 โ€” 10:51 AM โ€” 9,565 Views โ€œNo one in Hollywood believes the $185 million number.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” July 9, 2025 โ€” 11:35 AM โ€” 7,470 Views โ€œThe $185 million figure is inflated. Varietyโ€™s October 2, 2024 article was likely updated after a publicist called on AEWโ€™s behalf, as early reports placed the deal between $140 and $150 million per year. Tony Khan was also included in Varietyโ€™s Dealmakers 2024 list, which, while not officially pay to play, strongly favors those spending significant advertising dollars with the outlet. No one in Hollywood seriously believes WBD, which is in junk bond status, is paying AEW $185 million per year. Clear enough?โ€ clear enough? the number was never clean. the number was never real in the way aew fans and wrestling media pretended it was real. and when the $185 million number started getting laughed out of adult rooms, the number magically became $178 million. that is where the shell game gets funny. because $178 million was not some sacred sourced number either. it was brandon thurston taking the median between $170 million, reported by sports business journal, and $185 million, reported by variety and others. that is literally what wrestlenomics said. Wrestlenomics โ€” October 4, 2024 โ€œWhy use $178 million here for AEWโ€™s new deal when some outlets are reporting the average annual value is $185 million?โ€ Wrestlenomics โ€” October 4, 2024 โ€œI used $178 million here because it is simply the median of $170 million, as reported by Sports Business Journal, and $185 million, reported by Variety and others.โ€ there it is. arithmetic. not an all-cash rights fee. not a clean license number. not proof wbd valued aew like raw. not a finance-department document from warner bros. discovery. a midpoint between conflicting public reports. then wrestling media treated that midpoint like scripture because they needed the story to be โ€œaew is valued like raw,โ€ not โ€œaew pr inflated a number no serious person in hollywood believed.โ€ and by the way, $170 million was not the clean all-cash number either. that is the scam. float the number. repeat the number. launder the number. defend the number with people who do not understand the difference between cash rights fees, in-kind services, equity, marketing commitments, platform value, make-goods, ad inventory, and press release math. then when the number collapses, pretend the next number was always the number. that is not reporting. that is aew state news. Nick LoPiccolo โ€” July 10, 2025 โ€” 5:53 AM โ€” 12.6K Views โ€œAEW isnโ€™t leverage. Itโ€™s not competition. Itโ€™s a niche product with loud fans and limited reach.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” July 10, 2025 โ€” 8:56 AM โ€” 1,018 Views โ€œWe handle wrestling deals too, but thinking we need AEW for leverage is myopic. The landscape is changing and the game Iโ€™m playing is different.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” July 15, 2025 โ€” 25.7K Views โ€œAEW isnโ€™t leverage.โ€ that was never emotional. that was never tribal. that was never โ€œi hate aew.โ€ it was market structure. wwe did not need aew as leverage because real leverage was never โ€œanother wrestling show exists.โ€ real leverage is architecture, scale, subscriber churn, platform strategy, sports adjacency, global rights, advertising, sponsorship, live inventory, library value, data, brand safety, executive relationships, and the actual buyer universe of maybe 18-20 companies in the united states that matter for live sports rights. aew fans thought this was a wrestling argument. it was never a wrestling argument. it was a board. and the board was already moving. Nick LoPiccolo โ€” August 11, 2025 โ€” 482 Views โ€œI wasnโ€™t viewing the above in that context (TKO vs AEW counter programming), it was more of this is what Iโ€™m hearing after 2 weeks of big media deals rolling out (Skydance closing, South Park library moving) etc. Which have all been in the works for awhile.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” August 11, 2025 โ€” 388 Views โ€œBut if you were to look at it from a counter programming perspective (and I donโ€™t think this was a factor in UFC deal) - there are only so many players for these big media rights deals. PARA is likely off the board (via TKO deal) & then what if they acquire WB in 2026/27?โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” August 11, 2025 โ€” 535 Views โ€œYes, of course, that wouldnโ€™t mean the end for AEW. It would make navigating their media rights deal more challenging, I would guess. But this is a hypothetical scenario & I do not believe anyone is paying $7.7b for UFC or a $40b valuation for WB w/ how do we fuck AEW, either.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” August 11, 2025 โ€œAnd hearing all weekend Paramount is still interested in WBD.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” August 11, 2025 โ€” 1.3K Views โ€œI think more interesting for what it could mean as the dominoes keep falling in terms of the still evolving landscape. The deals are massive & the number of major players at the top are shrinking as still big push for consolidation & scale.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” August 11, 2025 โ€” 12:11 PM โ€” 2,588 Views โ€œAnd Iโ€™d view AAA on Google/YouTube as directly competitive. It targets both the CMLL collab & the audience that used to watch AEW Dark on YouTube, & WWE is able to send well known stars to AAA events with an eye towards converting more of the younger, YouTube demo of viewers who donโ€™t watch streamers.โ€ again: august 11. not yesterday. not after dave meltzer tweeted a netflix prelim number. not after anyone had to retrofit the argument. the point was already there: the major players at the top were shrinking, paramount was still interested in wbd, paramount was likely off the board for aew because of the tko deal, google / youtube was becoming directly competitive for the exact audience aew used to reach through dark, and the buyer universe was consolidating around deals much bigger than tony khanโ€™s feelings. this was not mysticism. this was not inside baseball for the sake of sounding smart. this was the board. Nick LoPiccolo โ€” August 24, 2025 โ€œThis isnโ€™t fair. I misread your question. AEW will exist but likely on the Discovery Global app (if it ever launches, I would bet that it doesnโ€™t) and it will continue to do consistent ratings. If Paramount/Skydance buys WBD in a yearโ€ฆโ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” September 4, 2025 โ€” 76 Views โ€œNo, thatโ€™s the WBD network division (cable, news, sports) that was already announced as being spun off under Discovery Global. The article youโ€™re citing is about them selling a minority equity stake in that unit to cut debt and boost valuation ahead of the 2026 split.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” September 16, 2025 โ€” 3.6K Views โ€œThis is not just about Hollywood scale. It is the foundation of a conservative aligned media infrastructure. A Paramount/WBD merger would fold CBS, CNN, HBO, and Warner Bros IP into Ellisonโ€™s orbit under Trumpโ€™s regulatory umbrella.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” September 16, 2025 โ€” 11K Views โ€œWithin 48 hours of the rumor, WBD stock surged ~55% and Paramount Skydance rose ~24%. That market response itself boxed David Zaslav in; his board, Wall Street, and his own contract now expect movement.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” September 27, 2025 โ€” 12:16 PM โ€” 3,516 Views โ€œNah homie. Enjoy watching the show on YouTube after Ellison buys WBD and Ari who is advising Ellison and used to represent Trump and runs TKO makes the call.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” September 28, 2025 โ€” 174 Views โ€œI believe if and when Paramount acquires WBD, TKO will push to lock down a monopoly on combat sports. The long knives are already out for competitors, and the rights deals have likely been spread around town precisely to keep rivals from signing with those streamers.โ€ none of that was random. paramount / skydance, ellison, ari, tko, wbd linear assets, youtube, aaa, the tko deal, the wbd split, the shrinking rights buyer universe โ€” all of it was one connected domestic rights architecture. that is why this conversation was always over the heads of the people screaming โ€œcopeโ€ in my replies. they were arguing like fans. i was reading the cap table. Nick LoPiccolo โ€” December 6, 2025 โ€” 3:07 PM โ€” 41.4K Views โ€œYes, I always believed Paramount would walk away with WBD. I was one of the first to talk about it on here, even if I wasnโ€™t the first to hear it. The Paramount Skydance acquisition closed on August 7. I posted this on August 11, about 1 month before the The Wall Street Journal first broke the news on September 12 that Paramount Skydance was preparing a bid for WBD.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” December 6, 2025 โ€” 3:07 PM โ€” 41.4K Views โ€œThe bid was always going to be hostile. We are only in this process because it was a hostile bid. Most people in Hollywood believed Ellison long coveted WB and Jack Warnerโ€™s chair. WB was not for sale when Skydance acquired Paramount, which is much smaller in scale.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” December 6, 2025 โ€” 3:07 PM โ€” 41.4K Views โ€œNearly everyone in town assumed an Ellison acquisition of WBD was inevitable until the Netflix bid shocked everyone. Signs were there for the last two weeks, which is also when I stopped posting about what might happen. Of course, its not over yet. Paramount still has paths to winning this acquisition. The one thing thatโ€™s for certain though is an Ellison-led acquisition of WBD is no longer inevitable.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” December 8, 2025 โ€œEND CREDITSโ€ space jam is a warner bros. movie. that was the joke. and the joke was the same thing i had been saying the whole time: paramount was winning the bid, for those who did not understand. Nick LoPiccolo โ€” December 19, 2025 โ€” 4:30 PM โ€” 828 Views โ€œHere is another reference to it. So tell me how exactly is Paramount the better outcome for Daveโ€™s argument? Netflix doesnโ€™t touch the WBD linear assets. Gunnar keeps his SpinCo.โ€ Puck excerpt โ€” December 19, 2025 โ€œMany industry insiders are also skeptical about Paramountโ€™s seven-year, $7.7 billion deal for exclusive UFC rights in the U.S. Yes, it can be read as a signal that Ellison came to play. But some people see it more as Ari Emanuel having his way with the person to whom he is ostensibly an (unpaid) advisorโ€ฆโ€ that is the board. that is the relationship map. that is the thing wrestling media either does not understand or pretends not to understand, because understanding it means admitting the story is not โ€œaew has leverage.โ€ the story is that aew is sitting in the middle of a consolidating rights marketplace where the people with leverage are doing much bigger things than worrying about tony khanโ€™s feelings. Nick LoPiccolo โ€” January 21, 2026 โ€” 4:22 PM โ€” 870 Views โ€œi mean get ready to learn youtube buddyโ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” February 19, 2026 โ€” 2.8K Views โ€œParamount was always my bet to acquire Warner Bros. Never wavered.โ€ Nick LoPiccolo โ€” February 28, 2026 โ€” 1:27 PM โ€” 118 Views โ€œyou donโ€™t need to look under a hood I AM SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ I BEEN SAYING IT SINCE JULY / AUGUST ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ PARAMOUNT IS COMING FOR WBD AEW WILL LOSE A TV DEAL ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ GUESS WHO WAS RIGHT ๐Ÿ’€โ€ so no, this is not hindsight. this is not showing up after the fact with a flashlight and pretending i discovered the body. this is a paper trail. february: youtube is not a real rights model unless google is cutting the check. april: wbd passed back in august, the myaew app is not realistic, paramount is not real for aew, cw / roku is off the table, amazon and fox do not want aew, and google / youtube is the only distributor left that makes sense. july: the $185 million number is inflated and aew is not leverage. august: the buyer board is shrinking, paramount is still interested in wbd, and google / youtube becomes directly competitive. september: paramount / wbd folds the board into ellisonโ€™s orbit, and if ellison buys wbd, enjoy youtube. december: paramount was always the bet, the bid was always going to be hostile, and netflix does not solve dave meltzerโ€™s argument because netflix does not touch the linear assets. january: get ready to learn youtube. february: paramount is coming for wbd and aew will lose a tv deal. same board. same thesis. same answer. now here is the part tony khan and dave meltzer do not want to say out loud. tony khan and dave meltzer do not mention me publicly for a reason. because the second they say my name out loud, they admit where this conversation has actually been coming from. not wwe. not some anonymous โ€œhigh level official.โ€ not some shadowy tko whisper campaign. me. that is the problem for them. behind the scenes, ask any real insider what happens when my name comes up around this subject. there is a reaction. not because iโ€™m magic. not because iโ€™m some internet boogeyman. because they know exactly who is saying it, why iโ€™m saying it, what rooms i have been in, what companies i have dealt with, what executives i have spoken to, and why the analysis keeps landing. that is why they keep trying to non-person me publicly while reacting to me privately. they want the argument. they want the benefit of responding to the argument. they just do not want to admit whose argument it is. when i said wbd told aew back in august 2025 they were not exercising the option for the fourth year, tony khan blew up behind the scenes and forced john mcmullen to revise / update his article 2-3 weeks ago after i tweeted it. which is hilarious because that should not even be crazy or damaging โ€œnews.โ€ that is how this business works. when a distributor is not continuing, they tell you early enough so you have time to find a new home. that is not sabotage. that is not wwe. that is not nick lopiccolo hiding inside david zaslavโ€™s air vents with a clipboard. that is corporate courtesy. wbd execs privately whisper and shake their heads at tony khanโ€™s behavior because their view is very simple: why does tony khan act like everything is great and rainbows and sunshine with the studio? we told tony khan as a courtesy so tony khan would have time to find a new home. and no, this has zero to do with paramount looming as an excuse. paramount did not even make its first hostile bid for wbd until september 11 or 12. that was after tony khan was already told there would not be a wbd renewal. so what did tony khan do? tony khan turned the truth into a wrestling angle. tony khan, or one of tony khanโ€™s minions, gets dave meltzer to drop a story assigning my claims and what i have been publicly posting about tony khan to โ€œhigh level wwe officials.โ€ why? because it gives tony khan a safer enemy. tony khan does not want the story to be the actual timeline. because the actual timeline is brutal. on february 28, i said youtube was not a real media rights model unless google was actually cutting the check and underwriting production. on april 30, i said wbd passed in august, the myaew app was not realistic, paramount was not real for aew, cw / roku was off the table, amazon and fox did not want aew, and the only distributor left that made sense was google / youtube. on july 9, i said no one in hollywood believed the $185 million number. on july 10, i said aew was not leverage. on august 11, i said the major players at the top were shrinking, paramount was still interested in wbd, and google / youtube was becoming a directly competitive lane. on september 16, i said a paramount / wbd merger would fold cbs, cnn, hbo, and warner bros. ip into ellisonโ€™s orbit. on september 27, i said enjoy the show on youtube after ellison buys wbd. on september 28, i said if paramount acquires wbd, tko would push to lock down a monopoly on combat sports. on december 6, i said paramount skydance was preparing a bid for wbd long before most people admitted the obvious. on february 19, i said paramount was always my bet to acquire warner bros. and on february 28, i said it in all caps: paramount is coming for wbd. aew will lose a tv deal. that is the part tony khan cannot answer directly, because the direct answer means admitting this was never โ€œwwe is scared of us.โ€ it was always the board closing. tony khan wants the story to be: why would wwe say this about us? that is the laundering operation. take my public analysis. run it through dave meltzer. assign it to wwe / tko. then let tony khan answer a canned question on a media call with very little distribution about potentially having very little distribution. a media call for a show with very little distribution answering a canned question about aew potentially having very little distribution. based on a planted story, from a planted messenger, with a rehearsed answer, after an roh show maybe 8-15k people watched. a pr flack probably wrote it. tony khan performs hurt. tony khan says โ€œi donโ€™t know why wwe wouldโ€ฆโ€ tony khan denies the obvious. tony khan keeps me minimized. tony khan removes me from the public conversation about the very thing i have repeatedly said is going to happen to aew. everyone is supposed to pretend this is organic. it is the most bubble wrapped, manufactured, artificial environment possible. a canned and rehearsed answer at an roh media scrum about a planted dave meltzer story based on my very real and very public analysis of the media rights board. but make no mistake. tony khan was responding to my words. tony khan just laundered them through dave meltzer and assigned them to wwe / tko so tony khan could keep lying about it publicly without ever saying my name. and now, voila. dave meltzer is posting about youtube viewers and prelims. Dave Meltzer โ€” May 16, 2026 โ€œAt this moment there are 340,000 people watching prelims for Netflix on YouTube. Itโ€™s a good number.โ€ yes, dave meltzer. youtube can have good numbers. nobody said youtube cannot have good numbers. that was never the issue. the issue is whether youtube is being used as a funnel into a premium rights ecosystem or as a substitute because the premium rights ecosystem rejected you. that is the difference. that has always been the difference. netflix using youtube prelims as audience acquisition is not the same thing as aew trying to spin youtube as a media rights home because the real buyers are gone. ufc using youtube as a funnel is not the same thing as aew using youtube as a life raft. wwe sending stars to aaa on youtube to convert a younger demo is not the same thing as aew retreating to youtube after the traditional buyer board closes. and the fact that dave meltzer is now suddenly tweeting like the mayor of youtube is the punchline. because the same people who mocked the youtube outcome are now going to spend the next several months explaining why youtube is actually good. of course it can be good. for the right use case. for the right property. inside the right architecture. with the right check attached. but when you spend two years telling everyone you were valued like raw and your next stop is โ€œplease subscribe and smash that bell,โ€ maybe stop pretending this is victory formation? i told yโ€™all where this was going. the record is right there. iโ€™m still right. and tony and dave: you guys are see through translucent. thatโ€™s it for ye ๐ŸŽค๐ŸŽค๐ŸŽค

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