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๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐„๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ ๐๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฏ๐ž๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ฅ๐žโ€™๐ฌ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž? ๐‡๐ž๐ซ๐žโ€™๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก! ๐Ÿš—๐Ÿ” Following up on his previous video, MP Shri Konda Vishweshwar Reddy busts the biggest myth around E20: Does it damage engines? ๐Ÿ”ฌ Scientific proof: Research from MIT, NREL and Oak Ridge National Laboratory shows E20 does not adversely...

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Rohit Khandelwal ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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No one support unpopular decision like this the way you and govt is doing. And which lead to another question, why so much push if there are no beneficiaries bcz it is alrrady proven that fuel is not going to be cheaper for common man. Who benefits is the question now !

RGP-Rashtriya Gramin Party. ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Besharm party with no brain those vehicle which are older than 20 to 30 years are compatible for e20 fuel?and this number in india rural and urban are more than 5 crore. You really don't know the India thats why you support e20. E20 caused 30% DROPPED in mileage in older ๐Ÿ๏ธ.

Adarsh Jaiswal ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Yes it is damaging, average is 30 kilometre is less in bike..of 100 cc...all of you think that everyone is fool only bjp officials are minded.

Pr@dEepKR#Indian# ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Car manual says whether it is compatible for E5, E10 or E20 .. who asked you to get only E20 and make a madate to use it !? bloody we dont want u to say this let the car companies make vidoes and take responsibility for any damages.

ANSHU BAJPAI ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Why the aversion to the 'Vande Mataram' song until 2026?....... After extending UGC provisions to the General Category, the 'Vande Mataram' song has now been launched in a new style to teach patriotism................................................ The 'illiterate *Madari* (street performer) gang' harbors malicious intent regarding the 'Vande Mataram' song; the underlying political strategy was that the Muslim community would oppose it, giving these illiterates a chance to play the 'nationalist card'............................... What is the *Madari's* motive behind turning 'Vande Mataram'โ€”a song adopted by the Constituent Assembly in 1950โ€”into a controversial issue in 2026?................................. "To avoid having to sing 'Vande Mataram', the RSS introduced its own anthem, 'Namaste Sada Vatsale', in 1940; they wore khaki shorts to demonstrate their allegiance to British rule, and they still wear them today".............................................. Students, the youth, farmers, and the General Category are asking questions today, while the 'illiterate *Madari* gang' engages in the hypocrisy of nationalism..........................

Pavan Samala ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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I don't think people ever said it is not safe for E20 compatible vehicles. People are asking why we are forced for not compatible vehicles? Also, why the price is not reduced when the % of blending is increased?

SURESH RATHOD ๐Ÿšฉ ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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This is what a crystal clear explanation your giving @KVishReddy sir. awaking video for who spared propaganda on E20

Satya Raju ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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You people are idiots.. We aren't saying don't push e20.. Give us the fuggin dare you people remove fuel options for thr customers vehicle.We don't care if your psu takes a loss and gadkaris son doesn't make money..you should have asked us

Tam Bram Shanky Ram ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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80% of our petrol vehicles are not e20 compatible, what should people do?@OGTeamBharat @tehseenp @FactswithDinesh @nachiket1982

Sanjay Vishwakarma ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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This "Scientist"?

Dinesh ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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@TilushaVyas Today we will expose MP Konda sir again.

Dev Yadav ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Dont talk about jargons, a normal citizen only understand in average and maintenance cost, average going down, maintenance cost increasing after E20, just explain in simple words why?

Normadicxplor ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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shameless propaganda.. you guys will pay for it in next election.. Just wait

Hemin Punadiya ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Donโ€™t defend this fiasco. If you donโ€™t want to loose 2029 elections then get rid of this blunder as soon as possible. People will not come road in numbers to protest but you will see in elections.

Anshul ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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I recently travelled 450km to my native place, in my skoda kushaq 1.5 TSI, 2023 model. It gave me an avg of 20km/ltr..

Yadav_Sena ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Proud son of Telangana @KVishReddy Garu Made Genz to realise the facts๐Ÿ˜ถ

Aishwary Mishra ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Ha sab propaganda hi to h. Har protesting admi propaganda kr rha h, anti national h. Everyone is against the government, against the country, everyone is wrong except you all. Trust me, you guys are working hard to loose your own power, and the time is very near.

Kolla Raju ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
Kolla Raju ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ1 ไธชๆœˆๅ‰

All เคฎเคนเคพเคฎเฅ‚เคฐเฅเค– is one Place....

DanzerWatts ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Chup re BJPpigs. Kuch bhi People ( non politically affiliated ) Naa woh jha2 political bhakts hai na chetiwye chamche are the proof that vehicles have got affected including the life span of engines and milege. So shove that pseudo manufactured data up it cell headache arse.

Naveen Kumar ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Please put it in your cars by all means. I don;t care if you put it in your diesel suv's or drink it given that it is such amazing properties. Provide others with the fuel for which their cars were engineered for.

vijay sharma ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Bjp high command and IT cell should read article of chief economist Govt of India. Chief economist is saying that E20 petrol is damaging vehicle @PMOIndia

Vishal ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Is there any proof (similar to what you mentioned MIT research) that says E20 doesn't harm vehicles which are not E20 compliant?

Anshh Gurjar ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Man me gaali aa rahi hai lekin me de nahi sakta fir ho jaaegi Kal hi bike sahi Kara ke laaya hu reason petrol hi tha. Ab bus chunav aane do effect to tab pata chalega

gyan ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Compatible? All legacy vehicles manf prior to 2023 are compatible? If they are all compatible then what was the need for 2023 mandate? Read it all here They Asymmetry

Mohiuddin ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Is he the same scientist/researcher?

D reddy ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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He is most loved , respected , educated leader of telengana, not a typical politican but his knowledge is asset for any political party , don't waste his potential by using him as a simple mp , make him a full cabinet minister and use his potential

Anubis ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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BKL...My vehicle's mileage has come down considerably! Am sure the same case with crores of other vehicle owners

Akhil ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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You are trying harder and putting lot of efforts to prove E20 is good but if you put this effort to provide E0, E10 option with E20 on petrol pump. It will be better for all. Even for your Party in next Election.

Daksh ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Technical Reality, engine is not running even for 5% of it's life cycle, so for 95% of time gadkari ethanol is damging the engine & fuel tank.

Vikram ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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Brilliant work. @AmitShah @PMOIndia @PetroleumMin @nitin_gadkari @NitinNabin

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JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ โ€‹I Tehseen Poonawalla, on behalf of Team Bharat, am announcing a massive, uncompromising citizen's protest against the hasty implementation of the E20 (Ethanol 20%) Blending Policy. โ€‹First of all, my deepest gratitude to every single citizen who supported us during the first phase of this protest. Your trust ensures that I am indebted to you for life. But the battle has just begun! โ€‹Here are our 5 Non-Negotiable Demands regarding the E20 Policy: 1๏ธโƒฃ Protect Older Vehicles: E10 petrol must be provided exclusively for cars manufactured before 2023 that are only E10 compatible. 2๏ธโƒฃ Fair Pricing: Cut the price of E20 petrol by a straight 20%. Why should consumers pay full price for blended fuel? 3๏ธโƒฃ Universal Availability of E0: Pure petrol (E0) must be available at every single petrol pump. Currently, it costs a exorbitant โ‚น165โ€“โ‚น170/litre. This must be slashed and made affordable! Remember, countries like Nepal (โ‚น123/L), Bhutan (โ‚น97/L), and Bangladesh (~โ‚น112/L) buy petrol from India, yet they sell pure, ethanol-free petrol to their citizens far cheaper than we do! 4๏ธโƒฃ Total Transparency: Publicize every single document, study, and agreement related to the Ethanol 20 blending policy immediately. 5๏ธโƒฃ Compensation for Damage: Provide concrete solutions and compensation for vehicle owners facing massive engine issues and technical damage due to forced E20 fuel in pre-2023 cars. โ€‹This fight will be fought ruthlessly across 3 Pillars: SADAK, SANSAD, aur SUPREME COURT! โœŠ โ€‹BUT LET ME MAKE THE RULES OF THIS PLATFORM ABSOLUTELY CLEAR: โ€‹โŒ NO Politicians: No political leader from any party will be given a stage or space here. โ€‹โŒ NO Chichoras, Flop Comedians, or Third grade wanna be actors: No 'panoutis' (jinxes) or opportunists will be allowed to revive their careers on our platform. โ€‹โŒ NO Anti-Religious Abuse: Anyone who abuses Maryada Purushottam Bhagwan Ram or uses this stage for irrelevant agendas will be thrown out. โ€‹โŒ NO Communal Hate: This stage will never be used to abuse Muslims or Hindus, nor will we tolerate divisive communal slogans. โ€‹๐ŸŽฏ This is a platform for EVERY INDIAN: Whether Brahmin or Dalit, man or woman, or third gender ! If you are a citizen harmed by Ethanol, this is your voice! โ€‹NOW, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE ACCUSATIONS & THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST: โ€‹Shri Nitin Gadkari ji is running a "Beta Bachao Yojana"! His family is deeply entrenched in companies like CIAN Agro Industries and MANAS. This is a blatant, textbook case of Conflict of Interest where the Minister formulating the Ethanol policy has family businesses directly benefiting from it! Threaten me all you want, Gadkari ji unlike other political leaders, Tehseen Poonawalla does NOT fear your threats and I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE. I stand firmly by my words! โ€‹And as for Dharmendra Pradhan ji he is undisputedly the Worst Education Minister in Indian History. He is a pure 'Nepo Kid' who only holds a cabinet position because his late father was a Union Minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji's cabinet. Look at his brilliant 'ideas' to stop paper leaks: using the Air Force to distribute exam papers and banning Telegram! Does Dharmendra Pradhan ji not realize that paper leaks easily happen over WhatsApp and Signal too? He has completely ruined the education system and HE MUST GO! โ€‹While we demand that Nitin Gadkari, Hardeep Puri, and Dharmendra Pradhan must resign and go, let it be clear: our ultimate focus remains fixed on fixing the disastrous E20 policy. โ€‹Join the movement. Our Vehicles. Our Livelihoods. Our Voice. โ€‹Jai Hind. Jai Bharat. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ โ€‹#E20Protest #SadakSansadSupremeCourt #TeamBharat #NitinGadkari #DharmendraPradhan #EthanolScam #ConsumersFirst BETA BADHAO YOJNA SUGAR DADDY Dinesh Rattan Dhillon Nidhhi Sharma Vishal Singh Jain Ishaan Bharadwaj Shanky Nachiket Deshpande

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Sun-gazing to improve eyesight and eye-health? OK. Letโ€™s break it down. See this video attached? It has more than 1 million views and close to 50K likes. In the video, a guy, who is the co-founder of The Satvic Movement, is trying to "naturalize" the Indians by claiming that everything scientific is โ€œunnatural and synthetic.โ€ He goes on to claim that he got rid of his โ€œglassesโ€ by looking at the Sun, a process known as sun-gazing โ€“ during dawn and at dusk which improved his eye health. He gives no scientific explanation for this, apart from a brightly lit well-edited video. Why do people require glasses? These are commonly due to disorders that affect the eye lens โ€“ to correct blurry vision that affects distance (nearsightedness โ€“ also called myopia), up close (farsightedness โ€“ also called hypermetropia), or both, along with difficulty in distinguishing certain shapes (astigmatism). Glasses work to correct your vision and are designed to alter the direction of light rays so that they shine correctly on your retina (the rearmost part of the eye where the light falls to create vision through multi-complex coordination of nerves), allowing you to see properly. These groups of disorders that affect the lens are called refractive errors and wearing spectacles are the easiest and most efficient and safest way to correcting vision in such affected people. Donโ€™t want to wear glasses? There are other effective ways to go about it โ€“ such as wearing contacts or opting for a simple, minimally-invasive surgery such as laser-based. Here is a simple explainer on these: Now Sun-Gazing. Sun-gazing is a meditative practice that involves looking at and focusing on the sun. It is usually promoted by unscientific groups, who have close attachments to pseudoscientific practices such as Ayurveda or Yoga and are deeply involved in religion & spiritualism, science-denialism, chemophobia (only modern inventions are chemicals, rest are all natural), irrationality and fearmongering against realistic-healthcare options. The Satvic Movement is EXACTLY that. There is no scientific research to support the practice of sun-gazing. There is no empirical evidence to support that sun-gazing improves eye health or can help you correct eye-lens related disorders. While several bloggers and enthusiasts write about the benefits of sun gazing, no studies or reputable authorities mention or endorse the practice. However, there is evidence that the practice can be extremely HARMFUL. A 1968 paper in the British Medical Journal described people who damaged their retinas - the light-sensitive layers of nerve tissue at the back of the eye that receive images and sends them as electric signals through the optic nerve to the brain โ€“ after prolonged periods of sun-gazing. A 1973 paper reported severe damaged to inner layers of the eye after people sun-gazed or focused their vision towards the sun for intermittent/prolonged periods โ€“ some where under the influence of LSD recreational drugs. A 1985 report showed that gazing at the sun resulted in fluid leakage and blood vessel damage to the light sensitive structures inside the eye. A 2013 report showed that a woman, after sun-gazing developed persistent vision damage up to one year which required aggressive care. A recent 2022 paper describes in detail the adverse/negative effects seen with sun-gazing and effects of exposure to solar radiation on the eyes. Short-term exposure has been shown to cause photokeratitis and photo retinitis where the cornea of the eye gets damaged. In contrast, long-term exposure has been shown to cause cataracts, pterygium and cancers of the cornea and conjunctiva, and cancers of the eyelids. The evidence supporting these claims is quite compelling. Sun-gazing DOES NOT help you get freedom from your glasses. It will harm you more. It is a primal and primitive practice promoted by loonies who are health-illiterate and dangerous to the public health at large. Do not take health care advice from such people or groups of people. Discuss your healthcare options with your doctor for better understanding and effective outcomes. Stay away from โ€œMovementsโ€ that detach you away from reality and leave you without the capacity for rational and logical thinking.

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//The Wire//2100Z September 16, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: OIL EXECUTIVES SOUND ALARMS REGARDING FUEL CRISIS, STATING THAT FUEL PRICES ARE LIKELY TO INCREASE SHARPLY AND IMMINENTLY. HOUTHIS SHOOT DOWN SAUDI FIGHTER AIRCRAFT. HELICOPTER CRASH REPORTED IN LOS ANGELES. DC POLICE UNION VOICES CONCERN WITH POLICE OFFICERS BEING SURVEILLED BY FLOCK SENSORS.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Europe: Fuel prices have begun to spike throughout the region, after Saudi Arabia announced that they will be halting shipments of oil to the European continent. In Germany, the average diesel price is almost $11.00 per gallon nationwide, having increased steadily over the past few days. Other than diesel and gasoline, natural gas levels are also at the lowest level in years, with natural gas continuing to dwindle after Qatar shut down production after being targeted during the height of the war. Red Sea/HOA: Conflict between the Saudis and Houthis has continued to escalate. Overnight, the Houthis shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter aircraft over Marib. The status of the aircrew is not known. Analyst Comment: Several instances of fake or confusing videos regarding the crash have circulated social media regarding this shootdown. Due to several Persian websites using the Hijri Islamic calendar system for timestamping their articles, Google's auto-translate feature is mistranslating that date, and indicating that the video is from 2021. As a result, Saudis are claiming that the videos of the shootdown are either fake or from years ago. However, this is an error; the video is a new product released by official Houthi accounts and does appear to depict the shootdown overnight. To the north, Houthi forces also hit Yanbu with substantial drone strikes overnight, with dozens of impacts being reported at the oil terminals. Satellite based fire detection sensors indicate that the port of Yanbu remained on fire throughout the night. Proper battle damage assessment will take a few more days to materialize, but as of this morning the Houthis have continued to press the attack, and have struck Saudi facilities regularly over the past few days. Analyst Comment: Yesterday, rumors began to circulate that the Houthis have begun to lay mines in the Bab el Mandeb Strait, as a way of restricting travel through the waterway. As it stands, this is probably not true for many reasons. For one, the Houthis have historically not show interest in laying sea mines. Secondly, the Houthis have very carefully NOT instituted a blanket ban on travel through the Strait...they are only blockading Saudi ships. Everybody else is free to pass without being targeted or even contacted by radio. The Houthis are certainly still a threat to commercial shipping, and could possibly expand their blockade to include nations other than just Saudi Arabia, but there is very little chance that the Houthis have mined anything at present. Middle East: This morning Fox News leaked details of an Iranian strike on a merchant vessel in the strait of Hormuz, which was struck last week while attempting to exit the Gulf. At the time, this vessel was not any different than the dozens of other strikes that have taken place, however Fox News reports (via unnamed leakers) that U.S. personnel were onboard this vessel at the time of the Iranian strike. The report has not explicitly stated whether or not these individuals were military service members, or were U.S. citizens/contractors crewing the vessel. However, several people were wounded as a result of the Iranian targeting, and are currently being treated at an undisclosed location in the region. -HomeFront- Washington D.C - The Capitol Police Union has voiced outrage concerning the use of Flock cameras by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). The Union alleges that Internal Affairs officers were using the intelligence collection sensor network to monitor their own officers without their knowledge. The Union also alleges that there are no guardrails for the use of this technology, nor is there any transparency on how these sensors are being used by the MPD. Analyst Comment: As has been noted by nearly everyone who is not actively getting paid to promote these technologies, one aspect of tracking every human being in the country is that high ranking individuals (who might be prone to being blackmailed) are also caught in the sensor network's dragnet. As demonstrated by the DC Police Union (perhaps not in the way that they intended), nobody cares when the taxpayers are surveilled relentlessly...but the elites and most law enforcement agencies do care when they themselves are being monitored. The National Capitol Region (NCR) is a very sensitive area, and all elected officials might be a little upset to find out that every vehicle that arrives at their homes on Capitol Hill in the middle of the night...is logged by a private company that now has leverage over them, which would serve as rather powerful blackmail potential. California: Yesterday evening, a helicopter crash was reported in Los Angeles. An NBC news helicopter crashed while covering a motor vehicle accident in the neighborhood of Chatsworth. The incident was captured live on air as the helicopter crashed, and both crew members were killed during the impact. One bystander on the ground was also killed after being hit by the debris from the crashing helicopter. No word yet on what caused the crash, but early indications suggest the helicopter may have suffered from engine failure or a catastrophic loss of power, which resulted in a loss of lift. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: Continuing the trend, the energy crisis is worsening by the hour, with some industry professionals stating that the exponential curve of escalating problems has arrived. Yesterday Tom Kloza, the Chief Energy Advisor for Gulf Oil, stated that sharp increases in gasoline and diesel prices are expected over the next few days. Other oil executives have corroborated these sentiments as well, with several alarming statements being made over the past 24 hours. Mike Wirth, the CEO of Chevron, stated that the fuel crisis has officially arrived, and will be compounded by most mitigating efforts used to keep prices low, being expended due to the war lasting so long. China has also reversed course over the past couple of weeks and is now buying up as much crude as possible, from any source they can get it from. Most of China's "teapot" refineries (i.e. the cluster of smaller independently-owned refineries in Shandong Province) are now increasing purchases of oil, in a market that is already quite strained. This is a not-so-subtle indicator that China thinks that right now is the cheapest oil will be for a while. Yesterday, oil futures in Shanghai traded at $129 per barrel...a full $8.00 higher than the absolute peak prices observed during the height of the war months ago. Analyst: S2A1 Research: NomadNet: 5fa68c88be727a0e1a250a75e5e79269 Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report. //END REPORT//

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๐Ÿšจ OPERATIONAL UPDATE: ISRAEL U.S. WAR WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC Reporting Window: 3/22 to 3/23 โ€ข Iran fired additional cluster munition barrages into central Israel, with damage reported in Holon, Bat Yam, Or Yehuda, Safed, and the Jerusalem area, while another overnight launch triggered alerts in the Jerusalem corridor and south. โ€ข Israel widened its Lebanon campaign by destroying the Qasmiya bridge over the Litani and accelerating demolitions of homes and crossings in frontline villages. Reuters and AP both treated that as a major escalation. โ€ข Overnight strikes hit Tehran and a wider arc of Iranian military infrastructure, with your wire tracking blasts in east and northeast Tehran, Karaj, Yazd, Khorramabad, Bushehr, Bandar Abbas, and near Parchin, while the IDF publicly announced a broad wave of strikes on regime infrastructure in Tehran. โ€ข The Hormuz front remained the strategic center of gravity, but AP reported that Trump extended his deadline by five days rather than moving immediately to strike Iranian power plants. Iran simultaneously threatened Gulf power and water infrastructure if attacked. The last 24 hours were more concrete than conceptual. The most important story was not a new grand theory of the war. It was a set of specific events that showed how the conflict is now functioning day to day. Iran kept using cluster style ballistic attacks to create wider damage zones inside Israel. Israel moved from hitting Hezbollah targets to physically reshaping southern Lebanon. And inside Iran, the strike map widened again overnight with visible pressure on Tehran, missile infrastructure, coastal nodes, and internal security sites. At the same time, the anticipated U.S. move on Iranian power plants did not happen yet, which makes the immediate next window as important as the one just completed. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” ๐Ÿš€ IRANIAN MISSILE ATTACKS ON ISRAEL Iran continued missile launches into Israel, but the operational detail that matters is how these attacks are being configured. Times of Israel live coverage reported fresh damage in central Israel from cluster munitions or fragments, while Jerusalem Post live coverage tracked shrapnel and fragment strikes in central Israel and additional impacts farther north. Ynet also highlighted two lightly wounded in Bat Yam and a partly collapsed building in Holon from the same general wave pattern. That matters because the attacks are no longer just about how many missiles Iran can fire. They are about how much disruption each missile can create. A single cluster warhead can turn one penetration or one imperfect interception into several impact points. Your wire also tracked this in real time, including central Israel damage and a later overnight launch that sent alerts toward Jerusalem and the south. One specific point worth noting is that todayโ€™s Israeli home front story was not dominated by mass casualties. It was dominated by repeated local damage events, scattered fragments, and shelter disruptions. That makes the attacks feel smaller than earlier war barrages, but not less operationally relevant. They are being used to sustain pressure while Iranโ€™s launcher network remains under strain. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง LEBANON: ISRAEL MOVED FROM STRIKES TO TERRAIN DENIAL The biggest concrete change on the northern front was Israelโ€™s continued move toward physical denial of Hezbollah movement rather than just attritional fire. Reuters reported that Israel struck the main bridge on the southern Lebanese coastal highway and ordered the destruction of homes near the border and bridges over the Litani River. AP reported the same bridge strike and framed Katzโ€™s order to include all Litani crossings as a meaningful broadening of the target set. That means the Lebanon front is no longer just a story of rockets and retaliatory airstrikes. Israel is trying to reengineer the battlespace itself. Destroying crossings, flattening frontline structures, and reducing usable approach routes all point to the same objective: make it harder for Hezbollah to return south in meaningful strength even if the current phase of fighting slows. Reuters explicitly described Lebanese criticism that these measures look like pre invasion preparation and collective punishment. There was also an important corrective detail today. Times of Israel and Ynet both reported that the farmer killed near Misgav Am was not killed by Hezbollah fire after all, but by errant Israeli artillery shelling intended to support troops in southern Lebanon. That matters because it changes the factual record of one of yesterdayโ€™s most emotionally resonant northern incidents. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” โœˆ๏ธ STRATEGIC AIR CAMPAIGN OVER IRAN Open source intelligence reported explosions and reported hits in east and northeast Tehran (shown in attached video), Hakimieh, Lavizan, Tehranpars, near the Parchin mountains, Karaj and Fardis, Khorramabad, Yazd, Bushehr, Bandar Abbas, and other sites. The IDF later publicly announced that it had launched a broad wave of strikes on regime infrastructure in Tehran. Mainstream coverage supported the broader pattern even where every individual site was not independently confirmed one by one. APโ€™s live coverage described explosions in Tehran and widening Israeli activity, while Times of Israelโ€™s liveblog tracked the announced broad strike wave in Tehran. The strike set also appears to have remained mixed. This was not just about launchers. Open source reporting referenced possible targeted assassinations in Khorramabad and Tehran, missile site damage in Yazd, busier strike activity around coastal and port areas like Bandar Abbas and Bandar Deyr, and pressure near Parchin. Even where some of those claims remain open source rather than fully confirmed by Reuters or AP, the overall pattern is clear: the campaign remains broad, multi city, and focused on degrading the regimeโ€™s ability to keep fighting, not merely blunting the next launch. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” ๐ŸŒ GULF FRONT: STRIKES, INTERCEPTIONS, AND INFRASTRUCTURE THREATS The Gulf front stayed active, but the most important part of todayโ€™s story was not one giant headline strike. It was the persistence of Iranian pressure and the hardening response from Gulf states. AP reported that Iran threatened to mine the Persian Gulf and target regional energy infrastructure as Trumpโ€™s deadline neared. Reuters reported that Iran threatened to hit Gulf power plants and the systems powering U.S. bases if Iranian power infrastructure were attacked. Open source intel tracked the practical side of that pressure in real time. It logged interceptions and alerts in Bahrain, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, including reported UAV interceptions in eastern Saudi Arabia, missile and drone interceptions by the UAE, and multiple reports of explosions or sirens in Bahrain. Those details are useful because they show the Gulf story is still not abstract diplomatic signaling. Air defenses are still being used. Another development worth mentioning is market stress. Reutersโ€™ earlier energy reporting remains relevant here because Gulf attacks have already damaged major oil and gas facilities in several states, and the International Energy Agency chief warned that the current situation is worse than the oil crises of the 1970s. Your wire separately tracked comments from Fatih Birol about reserve releases and Hormuz as the key pressure point. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” โšก HORMUZ: THE BIG DECISION DID NOT HAPPEN YET This was probably the single most important strategic update of the day. The expected U.S. strike on Iranian power plants did not occur in this reporting window. Instead, AP reported that Trump extended the deadline by five days, temporarily holding off on those strikes. That is a real development, because it changes the immediate pacing of the war and means the next reporting window matters more than expected. That does not mean the Hormuz crisis eased. Quite the opposite. Reuters reported that Iran threatened retaliation against Gulf power and water infrastructure and warned it could mine all Gulf shipping lanes if attacked. AP similarly reported threats against electrical plants and broader Gulf systems. So the practical reality is that the strategic center of gravity remains Hormuz, but the execution timeline shifted. This also helps explain why this report feels operationally busy but strategically suspended. Lots happened. But the one action that could have forced a dramatic phase change was deferred. That makes the present moment feel less like de escalation and more like a pause before a possible infrastructure war phase. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” ๐Ÿ“Œ WHAT MATTERS MOST RIGHT NOW First, todayโ€™s report is really about concrete battlefield mechanics, not broad narrative drift. Iran kept using cluster style missile attacks to widen disruption inside Israel even without restoring early war salvo size. Second, Israelโ€™s Lebanon campaign moved another step away from reactive fire and toward deliberate terrain denial. The destruction of the Qasmiya bridge and orders to strike Litani crossings are specific, visible evidence of that shift. Third, the Tehran centered air campaign remained expansive and geographically wide overnight, and open source reporting was useful here in showing how broad the strike footprint was beyond the handful of locations that got top billing in mainstream coverage. Fourth, the most dramatic expected U.S. move did not happen yet. Trump extended the deadline, which means the next 24 hours are now more consequential than the last ones. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” END OF REPORT

Inside_Israel_Intel

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A 550 kg animal can be in agony for weeks and never make a single sound. No scream. No cry. Just a stride that is two centimeters shorter, a little more weight shifted to the other side, a head that nods one beat too late. Most owners miss it. Most vets only catch it when it has already become expensive. The person who catches it first usually has dirt under their nails, a leather apron, and a steel rasp in their hand. This is the story of the most underrated profession in the horse world, and of one uncomfortable fact: an entire industry worth billions rests on four structures, each roughly the size of a saucer. Read this slowly. You will never look at a horse's legs the same way again. 1. THE ANIMAL THAT HIDES PAIN ON PURPOSE Horses are prey animals. For roughly 55 million years, the horse lineage survived by one rule: do not look weak. In the wild, the limping horse is the horse that gets eaten. The one that stops, flinches and cries out is the one the lions can hear. So evolution wrote a brutal instruction into the nervous system: hide it. Keep running. Pretend everything is fine. That instruction is still running in every stable, every racetrack and every backyard paddock on the planet. A horse with a hot, throbbing abscess building under its sole can still walk to the gate to greet you. A horse with early laminitis can still eat its dinner. A horse in chronic foot pain can still carry a rider for an hour and show you almost nothing. This is why horse people repeat one sentence like a prayer: No foot, no horse. It is not a slogan. It is a diagnosis. An enormous number of lameness problems begin in the foot, and the foot is exactly where the animal is best at hiding them. Now think about what that means for the person trusted to look at that foot every six to eight weeks. They are not a hobbyist with a file. They are the early-warning system for an animal that is biologically designed to lie to you. 2. FOUR SMALL PLATES CARRYING A HALF TON Here is a number that should bother you. An adult horse can weigh 500 to 600 kg. When it stands, that weight is not spread across a wide, cushioned surface like a camel's foot or a dog's paw. It is balanced on four hooves. Each hoof is a single toe. One toe. The horse is walking on the tip of what would be our middle fingernail, enlarged and armored over millions of years, with the rest of the finger stretched into a long lever that we call the leg. When that animal gallops, the foot hits the ground with forces that are several times its body weight, again and again, at speed, on surfaces that range from sand to asphalt to frozen clay. And the engineering that handles this is not metal or carbon fiber. It is keratin, the same protein family as your fingernails and hair, arranged into one of the most sophisticated shock-absorbing structures in biology. Let us open it up. 3. WHAT IS ACTUALLY INSIDE THE HOOF The outside is the part you see: the hoof wall. It is dead tissue, which is why a trim does not hurt when it is done correctly. Think of it as a thick protective capsule. The wall grows down from the coronary band, the ring of living tissue at the top of the hoof, at roughly 6 to 10 millimeters a month. A hoof that is completely replaced from top to bottom takes about nine months to a year. Every ring, bulge and crack you see on a hoof is a diary entry: illness, a diet change, a stressful season, a hard training block. The hoof records it all and carries the record downward. Underneath is where it gets wild. The wall is not glued to the bone like a boot on a foot. It is attached by the laminae, a set of interlocking leaf-like folds. Hundreds of primary laminae, each carrying a fringe of smaller secondary ones, lock together like two hands with fingers interlaced. Together they create an enormous attachment surface, large enough to suspend the entire skeleton of the horse inside the hoof capsule. Read that again. The coffin bone, the last bone in the leg, is not resting on the ground. It is hanging inside the hoof from this interlocking structure. Below the bone sits the digital cushion, a fibrous pad of tissue that behaves like a shock absorber. And at the center of the sole is the frog, the soft, V-shaped, rubbery structure that most people mistake for a flaw. It is not a flaw. It is a pump. Each time the hoof lands, the frog and the digital cushion compress and flex, and that deformation helps push blood back up the leg against gravity. Horses do not have large muscles in the lower leg. They rely on this mechanism to move blood. The hoof is part of the circulatory system. So when someone trims, shapes and balances this structure, they are not cutting a toenail. They are adjusting a hydraulic suspension system that the animal's circulation, joints and tendons all depend on. 4. WHEN THE SUSPENSION FAILS Now the dark part. If the laminae become inflamed and weaken, the bond between the hoof wall and the bone starts to fail. This is laminitis, and in its worst form the bone can rotate or sink inside the hoof capsule. The horse is, quite literally, standing on its own skeleton. Owners describe the posture they see: a horse rocking back onto its heels, leaning away from its front feet, refusing to move, shifting weight constantly because nothing feels safe. Veterinarians check for heat in the hoof and a strong, pounding pulse at the back of the fetlock. Laminitis is among the most feared conditions in equine medicine. It is linked to metabolic disease, to sudden changes in diet, to rich spring grass, to severe illness and to excessive load on the opposite limb when the other one is injured. That last cause matters. Two of the most famous horses of the modern era are tied to this story. Secretariat, the champion whose 31-length Belmont Stakes win in 1973 is still one of the most celebrated performances in sport, was euthanized in 1989 after laminitis in his hooves became untreatable. Barbaro, the Kentucky Derby winner, shattered bones in his right hind leg at the 2006 Preakness. Surgeons saved him for a while. But carrying the weight on the other legs triggered laminitis in the opposite hind foot, and he was euthanized in January 2007. Different horses. Same lesson. The foot is not the end of the story of a horse's health. Very often it is the chapter that decides how the story ends. That is the stage on which a farrier works. 5. THE PROFESSION NOBODY THINKS ABOUT The word farrier comes from the Latin ferrum, iron. For centuries, the person who shod horses was also the blacksmith, the toolmaker, and in many armies the one who kept the cavalry moving. Before that, people tried everything to protect hooves. The Romans used hipposandals, iron plates strapped to the foot. Nailed iron horseshoes appear in Europe in the early Middle Ages, and once they spread, they changed the world. A horse that could travel on stone roads without its feet wearing away was a horse that could pull heavier plows, carry heavier knights and cross whole continents. Entire empires moved on horseshoes. There is an old rhyme about it, the one that ends with a kingdom lost for want of a nail. Armies did not lose battles to dramatic reasons. They lost them to a thrown shoe, a lame horse, a missing man who knew how to fix it. Today the job looks different, but the core is the same. A modern farrier is part metalworker, part anatomist, part biomechanics specialist, part athletic trainer, and part psychologist for an animal that can kick with enough force to break bone. They do this work bent over, holding a leg that weighs more than a fully grown person's thigh, often in heat, mud or freezing wind. The physical toll is huge. Back problems are an occupational norm. Careers are measured in how many years the body lasts. And yet the margin for error is tiny. A few millimeters off in the angle of the hoof can change how load travels through the joints and tendons above it. A shoe set slightly too far forward or back can change where the horse breaks over at the end of each stride. A nail driven just wrong can hit sensitive tissue. The craft is not about doing something dramatic. It is about being right by a hair, thousands of times, on a living animal that is not holding still for you. 6. THE GEOMETRY NOBODY SEES Most people look at a trimmed hoof and see a clean surface. A farrier sees a set of angles, lines and balances. The hoof wall has to be trimmed so that it meets the ground evenly. The toe length, the height of the heels, the width of the heel base and the angle of the hoof relative to the pastern above it all matter. In many horses, a front hoof angle somewhere around the low fifties in degrees is considered a reference point, but there is no single magic number. The right answer depends on the horse's conformation, its discipline and its history. The goal is balance in two directions. From the side, the hoof angle should flow in a roughly straight line with the bones of the pastern. When it does not, forces concentrate where they should not. A long toe with a low heel can increase strain on the tendons at the back of the leg. A collapsed heel can change the load on the navicular region. From the front, the hoof should land flat. If one side is higher, the joint above takes the difference. Then there is breakover, the moment the heel lifts and the hoof pivots forward over the toe. Move that point and you change how hard the horse must work to take each step. A farrier can roll, square or set back a toe to make breakover easier. Over thousands of strides, that matters. A trim and a shoe are not a haircut and an accessory. They are small design decisions with cumulative consequences, and the horse pays for every error in a currency it cannot report. 7. WHY THE SHOE GOES ON HOT Here is the part that fascinates people who have never seen it. Many farriers heat the horseshoe in a forge until it glows orange and then press it briefly against the hoof. Smoke rises. There is a hiss. A smell that people who have been near it will never forget. It looks aggressive. It is not painful for the horse when done correctly, because the wall it touches is insensitive, and the contact is brief. The shoe is not nailed on while glowing. The hot contact leaves a mark, a map of exactly where the shoe and the hoof are not meeting perfectly. The farrier adjusts the shoe or the hoof, cools it, and repeats until the fit is true. Hot fitting is a diagnostic tool disguised as a ritual. The burn mark shows high spots and gaps that the eye can miss. A flat, sealed fit distributes load. A rocking fit concentrates it. Forges used for this reach temperatures in the neighborhood of a thousand degrees Celsius. Steel becomes workable at a glowing orange. Cooled in water or air, it holds the new shape. Cold shoeing, where the shoe is shaped without being heated, is also widely used, especially with pre-made or modified shoes. Neither method is automatically superior. Both rely on the skill of the person using them. 8. THE NAIL THAT IS DESIGNED TO COME OUT THE SIDE If you want to understand how precise this work is, look at the nail. A horseshoe nail is not a standard nail. It has a beveled tip and a specific shape so that when it is driven into the hoof wall, it curves outward and exits through the side of the wall, usually a couple of centimeters above the ground. The farrier drives it, feels the path, and twists off the sharp tip. The remaining end is bent over and tightened into a clinch that locks the shoe in place. The nail travels through the thick outer wall and is supposed to stay in the zone of insensitive tissue. The line where the wall meets the sole, the white line, serves as a guide. Too close, and the nail can press on sensitive structures. Too shallow, and the shoe will not hold. The farrier is working by sound and feel as much as by sight. Experienced hands can tell from the resistance and the sound whether the nail is traveling right. A subtle change in the tap of the hammer is information. You cannot automate this with a rule. You learn it by thousands of repetitions, some of them bad, under the guidance of someone who has been doing it for decades. 9. SHOES, NO SHOES, AND THE ARGUMENT THAT NEVER ENDS If you want to start a fight in a barn, ask whether horses need shoes. Here is the honest version. Some horses do very well barefoot. They have strong, well-shaped feet, they live on suitable terrain, and their workload does not demand extra protection. Many owners and professionals support barefoot management and some horses clearly thrive on it. Other horses need shoes. A shoe can add protection on abrasive ground, provide traction, support a foot with a specific problem, change the way load moves through a limb, or hold a therapeutic pad or medication in place. Horses with certain conditions are shod with special designs: wide webbed shoes, bar shoes, heart bar shoes, wedge pads, rocker toes. The best farriers are not ideologues. They look at the horse in front of them. What most people do not realize is how much of this is a conversation between three parties: the owner, the veterinarian and the farrier. When the three communicate, a lameness that might have run for months can be solved in a single visit. When they do not, the horse bounces between opinions while the foot keeps changing. If you take one practical thing from this post, take this: your farrier is part of your horse's medical team. Treat them like it. 10. THE TECHNOLOGY THAT IS QUIETLY CHANGING THE TRADE The forge and hammer are ancient. The tools around them are not. Digital radiography lets veterinarians and farriers see the exact position of the coffin bone inside the hoof, measure its angle, and plan a trim or shoe based on the real internal structure instead of guessing from the outside. Pressure-sensing plates and sensor-fitted shoes measure how load is distributed under the foot at each phase of the stride. High-speed video breaks down how a hoof lands, rolls and leaves the ground. Thermal imaging shows heat patterns in the foot and lower limb that can point to inflammation before it becomes visible. New materials have entered the market: aluminum shoes for racing, composite and polymer shoes that absorb shock, glue-on systems for horses with thin or damaged walls, and even 3D-printed hoof components that can be matched to an individual foot. In the middle of all of that, the ancient skill remains the bottleneck. A scan can tell you what is wrong. It cannot hold the leg, make the shoe, set the angle, and respond when the horse shifts at the wrong moment. The future of this trade is not machines replacing hands. It is hands armed with better information than any generation before them. 11. THE MENTAL GAME NOBODY TALKS ABOUT A farrier does not just handle metal. They handle fear. A horse is a flight animal. It is also a very large animal that has to stand on three legs while a stranger holds one foot, bends it, taps it, scrapes it, and sometimes heats metal next to it. Every instinct in its body says this is a vulnerable position. Great farriers read horses the way chess players read a board. They notice an ear tilting back, a shoulder tightening, a tail swishing in a different rhythm. They adjust their position, their breathing and their pace before the horse reacts. They know that rushing a nervous horse makes the next visit worse. They know that a young horse that learns to trust at its first trim can be easy for life, and a young horse that is frightened once can remember it for years. Calm is a technical skill in this job. Patience is a tool, as real as a rasp. And there is a strange side effect of watching someone do this well. Humans are wired to find mastery deeply satisfying. When we watch a person perform a precise, repeated, difficult task without hesitation, our brains respond with something close to relief. There is no waste. No panic. No improvisation that falls apart. Just a process, executed. That is part of why millions of people who have never owned a horse stop scrolling for this kind of work. It is a form of order, performed on a living creature that is anything but orderly. 12. THE QUIET MATH OF NEGLECT Let us do some arithmetic. The hoof grows continuously. If it is not trimmed, the wall gets longer, the toe flares, the heels can collapse underneath, and the balance of the whole foot drifts. In a few weeks, that drift is small. In a few months, it is significant. A hoof is a structure whose problems compound slowly and invisibly. Most horses on a normal schedule are seen every six to eight weeks. That is roughly seven to eight visits a year, per horse, for the animal's entire working life, which in many cases stretches past twenty years. Over that span, a good farrier makes tens of thousands of small decisions on a single horse. Now multiply that by the number of horses in the world. There are on the order of tens of millions. Every one of them is relying on someone, somewhere, to make those decisions well. When it goes right, nobody notices. The horse moves freely. The rider feels a good horse. The owner pays a bill and forgets about it. When it goes wrong, it can end a career, a competition season or a life. The best work in this profession is invisible. It looks like nothing happened. 13. WHAT THE HORSE IS TRYING TO TELL YOU Since the horse will not scream, you have to learn the whispers. These are the signs that experienced horse people check for. They are general information, not a diagnosis, and they never replace a veterinarian. The stance. A horse that stands with its front feet stretched out in front, or rocks its weight back onto its heels, is telling you something. So is one that constantly shifts weight from foot to foot. The pulse. A strong, pounding pulse at the back of the fetlock can indicate inflammation inside the foot. A calm, faint pulse is normal. Learning what normal feels like on your own horse is the whole trick. The heat. Run your hand over the hoof wall. A foot that is noticeably warmer than the others deserves attention. The stride. A shorter step, a head that bobs, a horse that suddenly dislikes turning in one direction or walking on hard ground. Subtle changes matter more than dramatic ones. The smell and the sole. A sharp, rotten smell from the underside of the foot can mean thrush, a bacterial infection that thrives in wet, packed conditions. Soft, crumbling tissue or black discharge is not something to wait on. The rings. Ridges that run across the hoof wall can mark periods of stress, dietary change or illness. They are a timeline written in horn. The behavior. A horse that suddenly resists being picked up, or pins its ears when you touch a foot, may not be misbehaving. It may be asking you to stop. And the emergency rule, the one that matters most. A horse that is suddenly refusing to bear weight on a limb, or showing severe heat and a pounding pulse in the foot, is a call-the-vet-now situation. Not tomorrow. Not after the weekend. Hooves reward the fast and punish the hopeful. 14. FIVE MYTHS THAT KEEP HORSES SUFFERING Myth one: if the horse is not limping, the feet are fine. Reality: horses are masters of compensation. By the time the limp is obvious, the problem has often been building for a long time. Myth two: the frog is useless and should be cut away. Reality: the frog is part of the shock-absorbing and circulation system of the foot. A farrier removes loose, ragged tissue, but a healthy frog is not a defect. Myth three: shoes are always cruel. Reality: shoes are a tool. Used well, they can protect and support. Used badly, they can cause problems, which is exactly why the person fitting them matters. Myth four: a trim is a trim. Reality: two trims on the same hoof can produce two different outcomes in how load travels through the leg. The difference is knowledge and judgment. Myth five: hoof care is an expense you can postpone. Reality: it is one of the cheapest forms of preventive medicine in the horse world, and problems left too long are among the most expensive to repair. 15. WHAT THIS TRADE TEACHES THE REST OF US Step back from the horses for a second. This profession is a lesson in a kind of work our culture is quietly losing: work that cannot be faked. You cannot fake a fit that holds. You cannot fake an angle that is right. You cannot fake the trust of a thousand-pound animal that has to stand still while you work with sharp tools near its leg. The feedback is immediate and honest. If the craft is good, the horse moves well. If it is not, the horse tells you, eventually, with the only language it has. There is a reason people drawn to this trade often speak about it like a calling. The work is hard, the hours are physical, the pay is not always proportional to the skill, and the conditions are rarely comfortable. But the loop is clean: you see a problem, you apply skill, you fix it, and a living creature walks away better than it came. In a world full of work that disappears into meetings and screens, that is rare and powerful. It is also why the best farriers carry themselves with a particular quiet confidence. They are not trying to impress anyone. They have already been judged by the toughest evaluator there is: a horse, on four feet, on real ground, every day. 16. ONE MORE NUMBER TO SIT WITH The hoof wall itself has no feeling. That is the reason a good trim is painless. But directly beneath it sits living tissue packed with blood vessels and nerves. The border between the part that does not feel and the part that feels everything is measured in millimeters. Every single visit, someone works along that border with sharp tools, steady hands and a mental map of what lies under the surface. That is the job. That is the whole job. No one applauds when a horse takes the first sound step after a visit. No one posts about the lameness that never happened. Yet that quiet nothing is the whole point of the work, and the whole art of it. 17. THE CHECKLIST YOU CAN USE THIS WEEK If you own, ride, board or simply love horses, here is a short list that can change an animal's life. Pick up and clean every foot daily, even when you are not riding. It takes a few minutes, and it is the single best way to notice early changes in smell, heat, cracks, stones and sole condition. Learn your horse's normal. The normal pulse. The normal temperature of each foot. The normal stance. You cannot spot abnormal without a baseline. Keep a fixed schedule with your farrier, usually every six to eight weeks, and adjust it with their advice. Do not wait for a problem to book the visit. Make sure your farrier, your vet and you are in the same conversation. Share X-rays, notes and observations. The best results come from teams, not from silos. Watch the ground daily. Constantly wet, muddy conditions soften hooves and invite infection. Dry, hard ground can bruise soles. Rotate, manage and adapt. Mind the diet. Sudden changes, rich pasture and metabolic problems are tied to the most dangerous foot conditions. Ask your vet about your horse's individual risk. And treat your farrier as the professional they are. Be there on time. Have the horse caught, clean and calm. Pay on time. Respect the work. Good farriers are scarce, and the ones who are worth having are booked months ahead for a reason. 18. THE REAL STORY The real story is not about a tool, a forge or a trick of the trade. It is about an animal that has spent tens of millions of years evolving to hide its pain, standing patiently on four small plates of horn while someone with strong hands and a trained eye decides whether tomorrow will be a good day or a bad one for it. It is about a skill passed down for more than a thousand years, now meeting radiographs, sensors and 3D printing, and still depending on a human being who can feel the difference between right and almost right. And it is about the fact that the most important work is often the work nobody notices. The horse that never went lame. The career that did not end. The animal that simply, quietly, kept moving. Next time you see a horse, look down. Not at the mane, not at the coat, not at the rider. Look at the feet. That is where its whole life is standing. If this changed how you see horses, do three things. Repost it, so someone who owns a horse sees it before their animal has to tell them the hard way. Tag a horse person, a farrier, or the friend who has been saying that something is "a little off" with their horse for weeks. Follow for more deep dives into the invisible crafts that keep the living world moving. This post is general information for awareness and education. It is not veterinary advice. If your horse shows sudden lameness, heat, a pounding digital pulse or refuses to bear weight, call your veterinarian immediately.

Earth Unveiled

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A wild bobcat. Cold, open water. A body that was never built for this. This is an animal that can kill a deer. The water was about to beat it anyway. Watch the video first. Then read on. What happens in the final seconds is the reason I can't stop thinking about it. . Some clips you watch. Some clips you feel in your chest for an hour afterward. This is the second kind, and I want to explain exactly why, because once you understand what you are actually looking at, you will never watch it the same way again. This is a long one. Every section ends with something that makes the next one worth it. Stay with me. . 01 // THE COLDEST MATH IN THE WILD Let's start with something nobody tells you about water. Water is a thief. It pulls heat out of a living body up to 25 times faster than air at the same temperature. Not a little faster. Twenty-five times. It is the reason a cold day is uncomfortable and a cold swim is an emergency. Now put that math on an animal wearing a fur coat. Fur works because of what is trapped inside it: air. Thousands of tiny pockets of warm air held against the skin. The air is the insulation. The hair is just the scaffolding that holds it in place. Soak that coat and the air is gone. What was a winter jacket becomes a wet towel wrapped around the body. It is heavy. It drags. It bleeds heat at the exact moment the animal can least afford to lose it. And swimming is not free. A cat does not swim the way an otter swims. Otters are engineered for it: dense waterproof fur, webbed feet, a body shaped like a torpedo. A bobcat is engineered for something completely different. Every stroke burns fuel it does not have, while every second in the water drains the fuel it already has. That is the trap. Heat goes out. Energy goes out. Nothing comes in. In humans, the first minute in cold water triggers what physiologists call the cold shock response: a gasp reflex, a spike in heart rate, panicked breathing. Then comes the slow part, where muscles and nerves cool down and stop doing what you tell them. Animals do not get an exemption from physics. Bodies are bodies. Survival experts who study cold water use a simple frame for humans, the 1-10-1 rule. One minute to get your breathing under control after the initial shock. Ten minutes of meaningful muscle function before your limbs start refusing orders. About an hour before hypothermia becomes the real threat to life. Now shrink the body. A smaller body has more surface area for its mass, which means it sheds heat faster. Those human numbers are a generous best case. For a 20-pound animal, the clock runs quicker. So when you see a wild animal in water it did not choose, you are not looking at a swimmer. You are looking at a countdown. Here is the part that should bother you: the animal does not know it is a countdown. It only knows that it has to keep moving, and that stopping is not an option, and that there is nothing solid anywhere. Hold that thought. Because the next thing I am going to tell you is why this particular animal is the last one you would expect to be in that position. . 02 // THE "BIG HOUSE CAT" LIE Somewhere along the way, someone decided a bobcat is basically a large housecat with attitude. Somebody was wrong. Let's do the numbers. A typical house cat weighs 8 to 10 pounds. Most adult bobcats land somewhere between 15 and 30 pounds, with big males pushing past that. That is two to three times the mass, and none of it is soft. It is wire and spring: long hind legs built to launch, shoulders built to hold, claws that retract and reset like a trap. By widely cited estimates, a bobcat can cover roughly 10 feet in a single leap. That is not a pounce. That is a projectile. It hunts the way the best hunters do: by being patient past the point where patience seems reasonable. It picks a spot. It goes still. It waits, sometimes for a very long time, until the world arranges itself into a single clean opportunity. Then it ends the situation in a second. Rabbits and hares are the staple. Mice, voles, squirrels, birds. But here is the detail that changes how people talk about them: bobcats have been documented taking down deer, animals much larger than themselves, particularly in harsh winters when deer are weakened. Think about what that means. This is a creature that routinely wins fights against animals that outweigh it. It has ear tufts that scientists still argue about. It has a ruff of fur around the face like a lion in miniature. It has a stubby tail, four to seven inches long, that gave the animal its name. It has a spotted coat that is essentially camouflage for dappled light, and, useful fact, the spot pattern is different from one animal to the next, which is how researchers identify individuals on trail cameras. And it has a voice. Purrs, hisses, growls, and a night scream that has been mistaken for a human in distress by people who did not know what they were hearing. So this is who we are talking about. Not a pet. Not a pushover. One of the most efficient small predators on the continent. Which is what makes the situation in this video so strange. Because everything I just told you about strength, speed and pride goes quiet when the ground disappears. . 03 // THE ANIMAL YOU HAVE PROBABLY WALKED PAST Here is a fact that should feel a little unsettling. Bobcats are one of the most widespread wild cats in North America. Their range stretches across the lower 48 states, into southern Canada, and down into Mexico. Forests, swamps, deserts, mountains, the ragged edges of suburbs. They are adaptable in a way that very few predators are. And yet most people, including people who have lived their entire lives near them, have never seen one. That is not an accident. Bobcats are solitary, shy, and mostly active around dawn and dusk. They live in the margins. They move through your world at times you are not looking, and they have made avoiding you into an art form. A bobcat's entire survival strategy is to see you first and never be seen. Which means any video of one, let alone a close, unhurried, unguarded look at one, is rare. Wildlife photographers wait years for angles like this. Researchers set up cameras and come back to empty memory cards. Now think about what it takes for a wild bobcat and a human being to end up in the same small space, with the animal not running. The animal has to be in a situation where running is no longer possible. That should give you chills. Because it is not a heartwarming meeting. It is what happens when a very proud animal has run out of options. And what happens next is the part that does not add up, which is exactly where the next section starts. . 04 // THE PART THAT DOES NOT ADD UP Predators do not do calm. A wild animal's nervous system is a hair trigger. When something big and unfamiliar closes in, the body floods with adrenaline and cortisol, and the decision tree is short: fight, flee, or freeze. Every instinct it has been born with says a large, upright, two-legged creature is the most dangerous thing in the environment. So when a wild animal is calm around humans, there are only a few explanations, and none of them is "it decided to trust us." Sometimes the animal is habituated, meaning it has lived near people so long it has stopped treating them as a threat. Sometimes the animal is so depleted, cold, hurt or exhausted that its body has quietly shut down the option to fight. Biologists have a name for one version of this: tonic immobility, a kind of involuntary freeze in which an animal goes still and unresponsive when escape seems impossible. And sometimes it is a mix of all of it, in ways science is still working out. Here is the line I want you to remember, because it will save you from a lot of bad internet takes: Do not confuse calm with consent. Stillness is not friendship. A quiet animal is not a tame animal. And some of the most dramatic moments in wildlife rescue come not from the fight, but from the moment the body stops fighting and everyone has to figure out what that actually means. There is even a documented condition, capture myopathy, in which the sheer stress of being restrained can damage a wild animal's muscles and organs badly enough to kill it, sometimes hours or days after the event, with no visible wound at all. Handling stress is a real cause of death in wildlife work. That is why professionals move slowly, keep things dark and quiet, and treat every second of contact like it costs something. Which means that in a situation like this, the difference between a good outcome and a tragic one can be invisible to the naked eye. That is what makes the footage so tense to watch if you know what to look for. And I am going to tell you exactly what to look for. But not yet. First I need you to understand how unlikely it was that anyone was there at all. . 05 // NATURE HAS NO AUDIENCE Almost everything that happens in the wild happens unwatched. Think about that for a second. Billions of small emergencies, every single day. Animals slipping, trapped, lost, starving, stranded. A fawn separated from its mother. A bird with a broken wing. A predator that misjudged a jump by an inch. Almost none of it is ever witnessed by anyone. No camera. No rescuer. No witness. It simply happens, and then it stops, and the world continues as if nothing occurred. For a rescue to happen, a chain of things has to line up. Somebody has to be in the right place. Somebody has to be looking in the right direction. Somebody has to notice a small, wet, dark shape in a huge moving surface, and understand what it is. Somebody has to decide to act rather than say "huh" and keep going. And somebody has to actually know how to help without making it worse. Break any single link and the story ends before it starts. Every viral rescue video you have ever seen is a chain like that, where all the links happened to hold. I think that is why these clips hit differently than almost anything else online. They are not just proof that an animal survived. They are proof that the chain can hold. That in a world that mostly does not look, sometimes someone does. The cold math says this animal had little time. The odds say nobody should have been there. And yet. I keep circling that "and yet." . QUICK PAUSE Before we go deeper, a small experiment. Without scrolling back up, answer this in your head: how long was the animal in that water before anyone noticed? Got a number? Now hold it loosely. The truth about time in a moment like this is that it never feels like what it is. Seconds stretch. Minutes vanish. Nobody in a crisis has an accurate clock. Keep your number. We will come back to it. . 06 // WHY YOUR BRAIN CANNOT SCROLL PAST THIS Let's zoom out, because this is the part that fascinates me professionally. In 2012, two Wharton researchers, Jonah Berger and Katherine Milkman, studied thousands of New York Times articles to figure out what makes online content spread. Their finding was not what most people expected. Positivity helped, but what mattered even more was how much physical arousal a piece of content produced. Awe, anger and anxiety, all high-arousal emotions, made people share. Sadness, which is low-arousal, made people stop. Now look at a clip like this through that lens. It has anxiety: will the animal make it? It has awe: this is a wild predator, close enough to see the texture of its fur. It has relief, and something bigger than relief. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has a word for that bigger thing: elevation. It is the warm, expanding feeling you get when you witness someone behaving with unexpected goodness. It is the emotion that makes people want to be better, to call their mother, to do something kind. It is exactly the kind of emotion that makes people hit share before they have even finished watching. And then there is the mechanism behind the hook itself. In 1994, the behavioral economist George Loewenstein described what he called the information gap theory of curiosity: curiosity is the discomfort of noticing a gap between what you know and what you want to know. The bigger the gap, and the closer you feel to closing it, the harder it is to look away. That is what I did in the first three lines of this post. I gave you a wild animal, a disaster, and an unanswered question. Your brain has been carrying that open loop ever since. You cannot un-notice it. You can only close it. That is not a trick. It is how attention has worked since the first campfire story. The only difference now is that the campfire fits in your pocket and never goes out. There is one more thing, and it may be the most important one. Animals do not perform. They cannot posture for a camera, hide their fear behind a joke, or spin the story afterward. Their reactions are uncut. In an internet made mostly of people curating themselves, a wild animal reacting honestly to a moment is about as authentic as content gets. And in a feed that is ninety percent outrage, ten percent ads, and the occasional argument about sandwiches, a clip that is about competence and kindness feels like finding cold water in a desert. So no, it is not weird that you cannot look away. It would be weirder if you could. . 07 // 15 BOBCAT FACTS THAT CHANGE HOW YOU SEE THE CLIP You now know what the water does and what the animal is. Here is the rest of the file, fast. 1. The scientific name is Lynx rufus. "Rufus" means reddish. The animal has been carrying a color-coded label for centuries. 2. It is the most common wild cat in North America, which makes how rarely people see one even more remarkable. 3. Bobcats are ambush hunters, not chasers. They win by patience, not by endurance. Long chases are not their thing, and long swims are definitely not their thing. 4. Yes, bobcats can swim, and they do it when they have to: crossing rivers, fleeing danger, following prey. But it is a tool of last resort, not a hobby. 5. Kittens are born in spring, usually in litters of two to four, and the mother raises them alone. Dad is not part of the picture. 6. A kitten's eyes open at around a week and a half old. It will stay with its mother for most of its first year before heading off to find a territory of its own. 7. Young bobcats leaving home can travel dozens of miles looking for a place to settle. That means young animals are the ones most likely to end up somewhere unfamiliar, in situations nothing in their short lives prepared them for. 8. Bobcats mark territory with scent, scrapes and scratched trees. Their world is written in a language we mostly cannot read. 9. When they cannot finish a meal, they often cover the leftovers with leaves, snow or debris and come back for it later. Forward planning, from a cat. 10. They climb trees and use them for escape and lookout. If a bobcat ever wanted to get out of a situation, vertical was its first idea. 11. Their ear tufts are still debated. Camouflage? Hearing? Communication? Nobody has a definitive answer, and I love that. 12. Bobcat and Canada lynx are cousins, not twins. Lynx have longer ear tufts, bigger paws for snow, and a fully black-tipped tail. A bobcat's tail is black only on top of the tip, like someone dipped a paintbrush and stopped halfway. 13. Coat color changes by region. Desert animals run pale and sandy. Northern animals run darker and grayer. Same species, different wardrobe. 14. A bobcat is not closely related to a cougar. It belongs to the Lynx genus. The cougar belongs to another. When people call it a "baby mountain lion," a biologist somewhere loses a year of their life. 15. In the wild, life is often short and hard. Many bobcats do not make it to ten years old. In captivity, they can live far longer. Which tells you what the wild costs, every single day, on top of everything else. Fifteen facts. One conclusion. Every one of these facts describes an animal built to survive. Which is exactly why watching one in trouble is so hard to forget. . 08 // SIX MYTHS ABOUT WILD CATS AND WATER Since we are here, let's clear up some things. MYTH 1: All cats hate water. FALSE. Tigers swim. Jaguars swim. Fishing cats literally dive for a living. The idea that cats are universally water-averse comes from house cats, and even that is a generalization. Plenty of wild cats are comfortable in water. It is not fear of water. It is that most cats do not choose it unless there is a reason. MYTH 2: If an animal can swim, it is safe in water. FALSE. Being able to swim and being able to survive in water are two different skills. Temperature, distance, current, exhaustion and time all matter. A strong swimmer can lose to cold long before it loses to drowning. MYTH 3: A tough predator does not need help. FALSE. Toughness is not immunity. Predators die of exposure, injury and exhaustion all the time. Being at the top of a food chain does not mean being at the top of every situation. MYTH 4: A calm wild animal is a friendly wild animal. FALSE. We covered this. Calm can mean cold, tired, hurt or in shock. It does not mean safe to touch. MYTH 5: Wild cats attack people constantly. FALSE. It is the opposite. Bobcats avoid people so well that many humans go a lifetime without seeing one. Encounters that end badly are extremely rare, and most involve an animal that is sick, cornered or handled. MYTH 6: Rescue is easy. FALSE. Rescue is the visible five percent. Underneath it are timing, knowledge, restraint, risk and an enormous amount of luck. Six myths. Not one of them survives contact with the footage. . 09 // THE SECOND HALF OF EVERY RESCUE Here is something the clips never show you. Getting the animal out is the first half of the story. The second half is quieter, slower, and matters just as much. When a wild animal ends up in professional hands, the priorities are almost the opposite of what your instincts tell you. Warmth, calm, darkness and silence come first. Then a medical check for injuries, dehydration and hypothermia. Then, if all goes well, recovery in a space where the animal sees as little of humans as possible. Yes, as little as possible. Good rehabilitators deliberately avoid cuddling, talking to, or bonding with wild patients, because an animal that gets comfortable around people is an animal that struggles to survive once it goes back out there. The goal is never a rescued pet. The goal is a released predator. And when it is possible, animals are often returned to the area where they were found, because that is the territory they know: the routes, the hiding places, the food, the neighbors. So the real happy ending of a wildlife rescue is not a hug. It is a door opening, and an animal walking through it without looking back. Hold on to that image. It will matter in a minute. . 10 // PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS I am going to be blunt, because the comment section will not be. Every time a clip like this goes viral, thousands of people write some version of "I would have grabbed it too" or "I want to keep it." Please do not. A wild bobcat is not a pet. It is a wild predator with claws, teeth, and a nervous system built to treat contact as an attack. Even a small, exhausted, seemingly docile animal can injure a person badly in a fraction of a second. Bites and scratches from wildlife can carry infection. Rabies in bobcats is uncommon, but it is real, and that is not a gamble you take on a hunch. And as we covered, the danger runs both ways. The stress of being handled can hurt or kill a wild animal even when nobody meant it any harm. In many places it is also illegal to keep or transport wild animals without permits, which means the well-intentioned rescuer can end up in a legal mess and the animal can end up worse off. So what should you do if you ever find a wild animal in trouble? Keep your distance. Keep noise and movement low. Do not try to pick it up, feed it, or warm it up yourself. Call your local wildlife agency, animal control, or a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, and follow their instructions. They do this for a living. They know what the animal needs, and what it does not. Love wildlife the right way: at a distance, with respect, and through the phone number of someone qualified. The best rescue stories are the ones where the animal gets to go back to being wild. Which brings me to the ending. . 11 // HOW TO WATCH THIS VIDEO Here is my one request. Do not watch it on autopilot. Before you press play, decide what you think is going to happen. Make a prediction, honestly. Then watch, and see how wrong you were. Keep your eyes on the animal, not on the people. Watch the eyes. Watch the ears. Watch the moment the animal has to decide what it wants to do. Wildlife tells you everything if you know where to look, and it does not lie. Pay attention to the way the whole tone of the clip shifts as it goes on. The first seconds and the last seconds feel like two entirely different films. And carry these five questions with you while it plays: Why is a predator this strong not fighting? What does an animal like this actually feel in a moment like that? How many other animals never get this chance? What would you have done in that spot, honestly? And what is the very last thing the bobcat does? Only one of those has an answer you can see with your own eyes. And remember the door I mentioned, the one that opens and the animal that does not look back? Keep that picture in your head while you watch. See how close reality gets to it. And stay to the last frame. There is a reason I told you the ending matters. A second watch will show you things the first one hides. . 12 // THE THREE RULES EVERY WILDLIFE PROFESSIONAL LIVES BY If you spent a week with people who do this work for a living, you would hear the same three ideas over and over. Rule one: the animal comes before the story. Good professionals never put a camera ahead of the patient. The best footage in the world is worthless if it costs the animal something. Rule two: distance is a form of kindness. The closer you get, the more stress you add. The most respectful thing you can do for a wild animal is usually to do less, from farther away, and let it be what it is. Rule three: success means the animal does not need you anymore. Not gratitude. Not a bond. Not a photo with a cute caption. Success is independence. Notice how that flips the usual story. In most human stories, success is being needed. In wildlife, success is being forgotten. . 13 // IF YOU ONLY REMEMBER FIVE LINES Screenshot this if you want to. I would. 1. Water steals heat 25 times faster than air, and a wet coat stops working. 2. A bobcat is an ambush predator with the strength of an animal twice its size, and none of that helps when the ground disappears. 3. Do not confuse calm with consent. 4. Almost everything in nature happens unwatched. That is why the times someone looks matter so much. 5. The best ending to a wild rescue is an animal that walks away on its own. . 14 // THE REAL REASON I POSTED THIS We spend a lot of time online being told the world is getting worse. Sometimes it is. But there is another truth underneath, one that rarely trends: in a random moment, on an ordinary day, with no cameras and no audience and nothing to gain, someone looked, someone cared, and something wild got another chance. Remember the number you guessed earlier, the seconds or minutes in that water? It turns out it does not matter. What matters is that somebody noticed at all. That is the whole post. Not a miracle. Not a spectacle. Just a small, stubborn piece of evidence that the chain can hold. If it moved you even a little, that is not weakness. That is the part of you that still works. If this landed for you, here is what to do: Reply with one word for how you felt watching it. Just one. I read them. Repost it for the person in your life who says they do not care about animals. Watch what happens to their face. Bookmark this thread-that-is-not-a-thread for the next time your feed makes you tired of everything. And follow me if you want more clips that make you feel something real, plus the stories behind them, without the fluff. One last thing. You made it to the bottom of a very long post. That means something. It means you are the kind of person who stays for the ending. Now go back to the video, press play, and stay for the last frame. P.S. If you scrolled straight to the bottom to see how this ends: the video is attached to this post. The ending is in the video. Nothing I write can replace it, and I would not want it to. P.P.S. Drop your prediction in the replies before you press play: what does the bobcat do in the very last seconds? Then come back after and tell me how wrong, or how right, you were. I will pin my favorite.

Earth Unveiled

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A 250-pound wild animal just walked through a parking lot full of strangers, ignored every rule it was born with, and did something that should be biologically impossible. Nobody screamed. Nobody ran. Nobody reached for a phone fast enough. Except one person. And that one person is the reason you are reading this. Before I tell you why this clip is going to wreck your afternoon, I need you to understand one thing: this was not a petting zoo. This was not a farm. This was not a trained animal with a handler hiding behind a bush. This was a Tuesday-evening parking lot. Asphalt. Painted white lines. Open car doors. Somebody's groceries still in the trunk. And a wild buck with a full set of antlers decided the safest place in the entire valley was right next to us. Read that again. Then keep reading, because the part that made me stop scrolling is not the animal. It's what the human did next. THE RULE EVERY WILD ANIMAL FOLLOWS (UNTIL THIS ONE DIDN'T) Here is the deal every deer on Earth signs at birth. Rule one: humans are predators. Rule two: predators are to be avoided at a distance of at least a hundred yards. Rule three: if rules one and two fail, run, and ask questions never. A deer that breaks those rules does not get to pass its genes along. That is not poetry. That is the math of survival. For about ten million years, the deer that stayed wary lived, and the deer that got curious became dinner. So when you see a mature buck, with a rack that took an entire summer to grow, walk across open pavement toward a human being, you are not watching a cute moment. You are watching a hundred-million-dollar evolutionary security system get overridden in real time. Something switched off. And I want to know what. Because here is what the biologists will tell you: wild animals do not walk up to people by accident. They calculate. Every step. Every ear flick. Every pause. A deer's entire life is a risk assessment that never stops running, not even when it sleeps. This one ran the numbers. And the numbers said: go. That is the first thing that should bother you. The second thing is worse. WHAT A MULE DEER SEES THAT YOU DON'T Let's talk about the animal itself, because most people have no idea what they are looking at. This is a mule deer. Not the white-tailed deer from your grandmother's backyard that eats her tulips. Mule deer are the big-country cousin. The western ones. The ones that live where the land is steep, dry, and unforgiving. They are named for the ears. Enormous, mule-sized ears that swivel independently, like two satellite dishes aimed at different threats at the same time. One ear can be tracking a car door slamming while the other is tracking a branch snapping a hundred feet behind it. Think about that. While you were reading this sentence, a mule deer would have processed about forty things you never noticed. Their antlers are a different story entirely. Mule deer antlers do not grow like a hat rack, with one main beam and short spikes. They fork. Then they fork again. Every branch splits into two, like a river delta made of bone. Biologists call it dichotomous branching, and it is one of the fastest ways to tell a mule deer from any other deer in North America. And here is the part that gets me every time. That entire rack, the weight, the bone, the symmetry, grows back from scratch every single year. It falls off in winter. It regrows in spring. By late summer it is a fully hardened weapon, and the velvet that fed it peels off in strips. Antlers are one of the fastest-growing tissues in the entire mammal kingdom. A living thing is building bone faster than almost anything else on the planet, and it does it every year, on a diet of grass, shrubs, and whatever it can find. Now picture the animal carrying all that, taking a slow, deliberate stroll through a place built entirely for humans. You would expect panic. You would expect the sprint. Mule deer do not run like other deer. They bounce. It is called stotting, all four hooves hitting the ground and launching off at the same time, like four pogo sticks fused together. It lets them take off uphill, over rocks, over fences, at speeds past thirty-five miles an hour. This animal could have been gone in two seconds. It chose not to be. THE PARKING LOT NOBODY WARNED YOU ABOUT I need to explain something about the setting, because it changes everything. A parking lot is the single most hostile environment a wild deer can walk into. It has no cover. It has no escape routes. It has hard surfaces that echo every sound. It has engines, doors, keys, and sudden movements from every angle. It smells like exhaust, oil, rubber, perfume, fast food, and sunscreen. Every instinct a deer owns says: do not go there. And yet they do. More and more of them. In towns across the West, deer have learned that the same open space that feels dangerous also has something they cannot find in the wild: reliable, concentrated minerals. Salt, in particular. Which brings me to the secret that explains half the strange deer behavior you will ever see. DEER ARE ADDICTED TO SALT, AND YOU ARE COVERED IN IT Wild deer are chronically short on sodium. The plants they eat are rich in potassium and poor in salt, which means their bodies are constantly hunting for it, the way you would hunt for water in a desert. That craving is so strong that deer will travel miles for a salt lick. They will chew on road shoulders that were salted for winter ice. They will lick rocks, soil, cattle blocks, and, yes, the sweaty palm of a stranger. Your skin is a salt block with a pulse. Sweat is salty. Sunscreen is salty. Hand lotion is salty. The residue left on a car door handle from a thousand different hands is salty. And a deer's nose is roughly fifty times more sensitive than yours, which means that where you smell nothing, it smells a buffet. So when a deer walks up to a person and licks them, the cute story is: it trusts you. The honest story is: it has just identified you as a resource. And that is where this gets interesting, because both of those stories can be true at once. And the gap between them is exactly where the danger lives. I will get to that. But first I want to talk about the October problem. WHY THIS HAPPENED NOW, IN THIS EXACT WEEK Timing matters. This was not shot in June. This was shot in the weeks leading up to the rut. The rut is the mating season, and for mule deer it kicks into gear in the late fall. In the weeks before it, a buck's body becomes a chemistry experiment. Testosterone surges. The neck swells to nearly twice its normal width. Appetite explodes, then collapses. Bucks that spent the summer in friendly bachelor groups start sizing each other up like boxers at a weigh-in. And here is the part nobody puts in the viral captions: bucks in the pre-rut and rut do strange things. They stop eating normally. They stop sleeping normally. They take risks they would never take in July. They cross highways. They chase. They ignore threats they would normally flee from. Sometimes that makes them aggressive. Sometimes it makes them bold in a calm, almost dreamy way, drifting through human spaces like they have somewhere to be and nobody on Earth will stop them. Wildlife officers across the country put out the same warning every fall: the most dangerous time to be near a deer is the exact time they look the most relaxed around you. Hold that thought. Because the clip you are about to watch lives right on that line. THE MOMENT THAT BROKE THE INTERNET'S BRAIN I have been posting on this platform for over a decade. I have watched thousands of animal videos. I know what a staged one looks like. I know what an edited one looks like. I know what a clip looks like when somebody has been feeding the animal for three weeks and is milking it for views. This is not that. What makes this different is the absence of anything staged. There is no music cue. There is no hero shot. The camera is not steady. The person filming is clearly not planning anything. The deer is not being led, called, baited, or coaxed. It is just there. And the people near it do the one thing nobody expects: they let it be. If you have ever tried to take a photo of a wild animal, you know how rare that is. The first instinct of almost every human is to move closer, reach, wave, call out, make noise. We cannot help ourselves. We are the most invasive species on the planet, and we think of ourselves as the gentle ones. Not here. Here, someone stood still. STILLNESS IS THE MOST POWERFUL THING A HUMAN CAN DO This is going to sound like a TED Talk, and I do not care. In the wild, the single most reliable signal of safety is stillness. Think about it from the deer's point of view. Predators move. Wolves, cougars, coyotes, they stalk, they creep, they accelerate. A thing that is standing completely still, with soft posture, no direct stare, and no sudden hand motions, is statistically not hunting. Hunters know this. Photographers know this. Anyone who has ever sat motionless in a blind for six hours and watched an entire forest go back to normal around them knows this. When you stop moving, the world forgets you are a threat. That is the entire secret. It is not magic. It is not a special bond. It is not some gift a few people have. It is patience, expressed as a body. And it is so rare that when we see it, we film it, and then we pass it around like a miracle. I want you to sit with that for a second. We are so unused to calm that watching one person stay calm near a wild animal feels like footage of something supernatural. Maybe that is why this clip is going the way it is going. Maybe it is not really about the deer. THE THING YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO (AND WHY I NEED TO SAY IT) Now I am going to be the bad guy for a minute, and I am going to do it because I would rather annoy you today than see a headline about you tomorrow. Do not feed wild deer. Not apples. Not carrots. Not crackers. Not that sad half-sandwich you are not going to finish. Not anything. It is illegal in many states, and the fines are real. But the law is not even the main reason. The main reason is what feeding does to the animal. A deer that gets fed by humans learns one lesson, and it learns it fast: people mean food. That lesson is permanent. It does not go away in the winter. It does not go away when the apples run out. It follows that animal to the road, to the neighbor's dog, to the kid with a plate of cookies who does not know better. The next stop in that chain is almost always the same: an animal that is no longer afraid, in a place where fear was the only thing keeping it alive. Biologists have a name for it. Habituation. And in places where it has taken hold, it has produced bucks that charge people over a sandwich, does that stomp dogs to death, and fawns that grow up believing the safest place in the world is a human porch. Every one of those stories ends badly. Almost always for the deer. Wildlife agencies relocate habituated animals only rarely, and relocation often fails. Many are euthanized. A fed deer is, very often, a dead deer, and the person who fed it never finds out. That is the unfair math. The human gets a story. The animal gets the bill. THE INVISIBLE PROBLEM IN A DEER'S MOUTH There is a second reason, and it is the one that makes biologists genuinely lose sleep. It is called chronic wasting disease. CWD is a fatal neurological disease that affects deer, elk, and moose. It is caused by a misfolded protein called a prion, the same class of infectious agent behind mad cow disease. There is no vaccine. There is no cure. Infected animals lose weight, lose coordination, lose fear of humans, and eventually die. It has been found in dozens of states and a growing list of countries. And it spreads in the most ordinary way imaginable: through saliva, urine, feces, and contaminated soil. The prions can persist in the environment for years. Which means that a deer licking something is not a harmless gesture. It is a transfer of material. In one direction or the other. And in places where animals crowd around the same feeding spot, the same hand, the same parking lot, they swap disease the way kids swap germs in a classroom. To date, there has been no confirmed case of CWD infecting a human. Health agencies still recommend not eating meat from infected animals, and they keep monitoring the situation, because prion diseases have a nasty history of surprising us. I am not saying this to ruin a good clip. I am saying it because the same clip that makes your heart melt could also be a warning label for the entire ecosystem, and almost nobody will say that part out loud. So hold both truths. They are both real. WHY YOU CANNOT STOP WATCHING Let me tell you what I think is actually going on in your brain when you watch something like this. Humans are wired for one very specific kind of story: the one where a thing that should be dangerous chooses gentleness. It is the oldest story we have. It is the lion lying down with the lamb. It is the dog who guarded the first fire. It is the wolf who walked toward a campsite twenty thousand years ago and, according to one version of history, became every dog you have ever loved. Every time we see a wild creature step across the line between wild and safe, something ancient in us goes quiet and warm. It feels like being forgiven for something we cannot name. That is why the comment sections under videos like this fill up with the same four words: I need this energy. People are not craving deer. They are craving that feeling of being unafraid and being met with kindness in return. The parking lot is just the stage. And the stage is brilliant, because it is so ordinary. You do not need a mountain. You do not need a safari. You do not need a rare permit. You need a Tuesday, a patch of asphalt, and the willingness to stand still. WHAT THE ANIMAL KNEW THE WHOLE TIME I want to say something about the deer itself, because I think we skip over it. Everything about that animal's body language, in every second of footage, says the same thing: it is paying attention. Not to the camera. Not to the cars. Not to the noise. To the people near it. Look at the ears. Look at where the eyes are pointing. Look at the way the head dips and lifts. That is not an animal in a trance. That is a mind running, carefully, through a list of questions. Is this person tense? Is this person holding anything? Is this person looking directly at me? Is this person moving toward me, or letting me move toward them? Deer read posture the way you read a face. They can tell the difference between a hand that is reaching to grab and a hand that is simply resting. They can tell the difference between a person who wants something and a person who is simply there. And every answer that animal got, in every second, was the same answer: you are fine. That is the story. Not that the deer was tame. That the humans, for those few moments, were safe. THE DEBATE THAT IS ALREADY TEARING THE COMMENTS APART Every clip like this splits the internet into two camps within about ninety seconds. I have seen it a hundred times. Here is what each side says, and I want you to notice that both of them have a point. Camp one: this is beautiful. A wild animal chose peace. A human responded with respect. Nobody got hurt, nobody got chased, nobody got fed, and for forty-eight seconds the world made sense. Let people have one good thing. Camp two: this is a problem dressed as a miracle. Deer in parking lots are deer near traffic. Deer near people are deer that end up in the news for the wrong reasons. Clips like this teach thousands of viewers that walking up to a wild animal is safe, and a few of them will try it with the wrong animal, at the wrong time of year, with the wrong amount of confidence. Both camps are right. That is why the argument never ends. Here is where I land, and you can disagree with me: the clip is not the danger. The lesson people take from the clip is the danger. Watch it as a gift. Do not copy it as a recipe. A wild animal doing something remarkable is not an invitation. It is a moment. And moments do not repeat on command. THE NUMBER THAT SHOULD SCARE YOU MORE THAN ANY ANTLER If you want to know what the real risk around deer is, forget the antlers. Look at the road. In the United States, drivers hit more than a million deer a year. Roughly two hundred people die in those collisions annually, and tens of thousands are injured. The damage runs into the billions. Deer do not understand roads. They understand grass on one side and water on the other. A parking lot is a road with a nicer logo. And here is the brutal part: an animal that has lost its fear of people has also lost its fear of the machines people drive. A deer that walks calmly between parked cars is a deer that will walk calmly in front of a truck. That is not drama. That is the exact reason wildlife managers hate the word cute. So the next time you see a deer standing beside a busy road, calm and curious and apparently unbothered, do not read it as a sign of peace. Read it as a countdown. THE TOWN THAT BECAME A DEER TOWN There is a reason this keeps happening in the same kinds of places. Across the American West, towns have spread into the exact valleys that deer used for winter range. Sidewalks replaced meadows. Lawns replaced native grass. Landscaping replaced sagebrush, and landscaping, it turns out, is delicious. Deer are not invading anything. They are loyal to land that was theirs long before the parking lot was poured. Think about what that means. These animals have been walking the same routes for generations. Their mothers walked them. Their grandmothers walked them. And now those routes pass through a grocery store lot, a gas station, a church, an elementary school. Wildlife biologists call this the urban edge, and it is one of the strangest laboratories on Earth. Deer there live longer, because there are fewer predators. They breed more, because there is more food. They lose their fear, because nothing has hurt them yet. And then something does. Understanding that makes the clip heavier. Because the animal you are about to watch is not a creature of the wild and not a creature of the town. It is something new, shaped by both, and we do not yet have a word for it. THE FIVE-SECOND RULE FOR MEETING A WILD ANIMAL Fine. You are going to see a deer one day. Maybe tonight. Maybe next to your car. What do you do? Here is the short version, straight from the people who do this for a living. One. Stop. Do not rush toward it. Do not wave. Do not call it over. Every second you stay calm is a second the animal stays calm. Two. Give it space. Wildlife agencies generally recommend at least twenty-five yards from deer, elk, and similar large animals. That is about the length of two buses. If you are closer than that and it is approaching you, you are not in charge of the situation anymore. Three. Keep your hands to yourself. No reaching. No offering. No touching. The moment you put a hand toward a wild animal you have stopped being a bystander and started being a variable. Four. Never, ever, feed it. We covered this. It is the single worst thing you can do for the animal. Five. Leave the way you came. Slowly. Do not turn it into a chase. Do not follow for a better angle. Do not crowd it for a photo. That is the whole list. Five rules, all of them free, none of them hard. And almost nobody follows them. WHY THE BEST WILDLIFE FOOTAGE IS ALWAYS ACCIDENTAL I want to tell you something I have learned from a decade of watching content go viral. The best clips are never planned. Not the ones with a million likes. Not the ones with ten million. The ones that stay in your head for a week are almost always filmed by someone who did not know they were filming anything special. Because planning kills the thing we are actually watching for: the unscripted instant when reality does something the script would never allow. Look at how this one is shot. Vertical. Handheld. A little shaky. The framing is slightly off. The sun is in the wrong place. The audio picks up whatever happened to be nearby. A professional would have thrown it away. And yet that imperfection is exactly why it works. It tells your brain: this happened. Nobody arranged this. Nobody had time to. In an age when everything online feels manufactured, raw footage of a real moment is the rarest luxury we have. THREE THINGS TO WATCH FOR (WITHOUT ME SPOILING ANYTHING) I promised I would not describe the clip. I am a man of my word. But I will give you three things to watch for, so you do not miss what makes it special. First, watch the distance. Notice how close the animal is willing to get, and then ask yourself how close you would let a wild thing get before your instincts took over. Second, watch the stillness. Not the animal's. The people's. See how little they move, and how much that tiny amount of movement matters. Third, watch the last few seconds. That is where everything changes. That is where the clip stops being a cute animal video and becomes something else entirely, something I have not been able to shake since I first saw it. If you only watch one thing today, make it that. THE QUESTION THAT HAUNTS ME I keep coming back to one question. Why do we need clips like this? We have more access to nature footage than any generation in history. We have documentaries filmed from satellites and cameras that can follow a snow leopard across a Himalayan ridge. We can watch anything, anywhere, in ultra-high definition. And yet a shaky vertical video from a parking lot hits harder than any of it. I think the reason is simple. A documentary shows you nature as something far away. A parking lot shows you nature as something that can touch your life on an ordinary day. We spend most of our lives sealed inside cars, offices, and screens. We have built a world designed to keep the wild out. And every so often, the wild walks up to the door, shrugs, and says: still here. That is why we stop. That is why we watch. That is why we send it to our mothers. It is not really a video about a deer. It is a video about the thin line between the world we built and the world we came from, and the quiet, shocking moment when one steps across it. WHY THIS CLIP WILL OUTLIVE THE WEEK Most viral videos burn out in a day. They spike, they get stolen, they get reposted with a siren emoji, and by Friday nobody can remember what they were about. A few do not. The ones that last share a single trait: they give you a story you can retell in one sentence. A deer walked up to a stranger in a parking lot, and the stranger did everything right. That is it. That is the whole pitch. You will say it out loud to somebody at dinner. They will ask to see it. And the cycle will start again. I have watched that pattern build empires. I have never once seen it fail. THE LAST THING I WILL SAY BEFORE YOU PRESS PLAY If you take nothing else from this post, take this. Wild animals are not props. They are not pets. They are not mascots. They are not content, even when they make great content. They are neighbors with a very different set of rules, and they are doing their best in a world that keeps changing underneath them. The ones that show up in parking lots are not ambassadors. They are survivors, figuring out a landscape that was redrawn without their consent. When one of them meets a human with calm and respect, and nobody gets hurt, that is not a trick of the algorithm. That is a rare, fragile, genuinely good thing. So watch the clip. Watch it once for the animal. Watch it again for the people. Then watch it a third time and ask yourself the question I cannot stop asking: What would I have done? Would you have stayed still? Would you have reached out? Would you have backed away? Would you have grabbed your phone, or would you have forgotten you owned one? Be honest. Most of us would have gotten it wrong. Drop your answer below. I read every reply, and the best ones will be pinned. And if this post made you feel something, even a little, send it to the one person you know who still believes the world has room for quiet miracles. They need to see this. Everyone does. Now press play, and tell me what you saw. P.S. If you have ever stood still in front of a wild animal and felt the whole world go quiet, you already know what I am talking about. Tell me where it happened, what it was, and how long the moment lasted. I collect these stories, and the strangest one gets its own post tomorrow.

Earth Unveiled

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Here are the facts about โ€œThe Missing Scientistsโ€ story: The Air Force general who ran Wright-Patterson's research lab, oversaw the Pentagon's most classified programs, and was named in WikiLeaks emails as a central figure in UFO disclosure vanished from his Albuquerque home without triggering a single surveillance camera. Eight days earlier, Trump ordered the Pentagon to begin releasing UFO files. In the same twelve-month window, the NASA scientist who co-invented a strategic rocket engine super alloy at the same Wright Patterson lab overseen by the General disappeared on a hike, an MIT fusion physicist (who was as deep as anybody on โ€œfast magnetic reconnection problemsโ€ which are the fundamental bottleneck to widescale nuclear fusion) was assassinated on his doorstep, and a very-polymathic Caltech astronomer working on the state-of-the-art Vera Rubin Observatory was shot dead on his porch. There is a pattern: scientists at the frontier of fusion, exotic propulsion, advanced metallurgy, and space surveillance are being silenced and taken out. We trace this history back decades and place it in its proper context: scientific suppression in frontier areas isnโ€™t new; itโ€™s an almost-ubiquitous historical artifact. 1. The General Who Knew Everything Vanished Without a Trace On February 27, 2026, retired Major General Neil McCasland left his Albuquerque home on foot. He left behind his phone, prescription glasses, and smartwatch. He took a red backpack, his wallet, and a .38 caliber revolver. His wife reported him missing within three hours. Despite FBI involvement, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, search dogs, drones, helicopters, horseback teams, FLIR sweeps, and 700 canvassed households, no confirmed sighting of McCasland has ever surfaced. Surveillance cameras covered both ends of his street. None captured his direction of travel. After weeks of searching, the only item recovered was a gray Air Force sweatshirt a mile east of his house. Testing could not confirm it was his. 2. McCasland Ran the Pentagon's Most Classified Science Programs McCasland graduated from the Air Force Academy, earned a PhD in astronautical engineering from MIT on a Hertz Fellowship, and studied at Harvard's Kennedy School. From 2009 to 2011, he served as Director of Special Programs in the office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisitions, Technology, and Logistics, the office that oversees acquisition special access programs accounting for roughly 75 to 80 percent of all SAPs in the Department of Defense. From 2011 to 2013, he commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, overseeing a $2.2 billion portfolio spanning advanced materials, exotic propulsion, and future weapons. Wright-Patterson is the alleged home of the Roswell crash debris. McCasland ran the entire lab. 3. WikiLeaks Emails Placed McCasland at the Center of UFO Disclosure In 2016, hacked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta revealed correspondence from Tom DeLonge naming McCasland directly. DeLonge wrote that McCasland helped assemble his advisory team, was deeply aware of what DeLonge was trying to achieve, and had received a four-hour briefing on the project. DeLonge added that McCasland ran the laboratory at Wright-Patterson where the Roswell material was shipped. McCasland's wife Susan later acknowledged he was caught up in the Russian hack and had less contact with DeLonge after the emails were released. Less, not zero. A Google Calendar invite in the same email dump shows Susan herself accepted an invitation for a DeLonge-Podesta meeting. 4. Disappeared Eight Days After Trump's UFO Disclosure Order On February 19, 2026, Trump announced on Truth Social that he was directing the Pentagon to begin releasing government files related to aliens and UAP. Eight days later, McCasland was gone. If McCasland was involved in legacy UFO programs, the release order could have been a pressure point. His wife had reported that both of them were seeing a doctor for anxiety, poor sleep, and memory issues. She also said he had made a comment about not wanting to live if his body and mind kept deteriorating, but characterized it as an offhand remark, not a genuine threat. She later stated publicly that McCasland was not confused or disoriented. The week before he vanished, he cycled 60 miles. 5. The Super Alloy Scientist Vanished 30 Feet Behind Her Friends On June 22, 2025, NASA material scientist Monica Reza disappeared while hiking near Mount Waterman in the Angeles National Forest. She was 30 feet behind her group and then she was gone. Search and rescue scoured the area for eight days by land and air. They found her beanie roughly 400 yards off the trail. Nothing else. Civilian volunteer teams continued searching for six months. No remains, no dens, no evidence of animal attack. Multiple searchers who descended the nearest ravine described the terrain as steep but not steep enough to be fatal. 6. Super Alloy Invention Was Developed Under McCasland's Research Lab Monica Reza and Dallas Hardwick co-invented Mondeloy, a nickel-based super alloy engineered to survive the crushing pressure and oxygen-rich conditions that had defeated every previous rocket engine material. The alloy ended America's dependence on Russia's RD-180 engine for sensitive national security launches. Mondeloy was co-developed through a partnership between the Air Force Research Laboratory and Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne. Neil McCasland arrived at Wright-Patterson as AFRL commander in May 2011 while the Mondeloy program was still active. Dallas Hardwick was embedded in the lab's materials directorate until 2012. The scientist who solved one of America's hardest propulsion problems and the general who oversaw the lab where it happened both vanished within eight months of each other. 7. MIT's Top Fusion Physicist Was Shot in His Doorway On December 15, 2025, Nuno Loureiro was shot in the foyer of his Brookline home at 8:30 p.m. His wife, mother, and daughters were inside playing cards. His 12-year-old daughter had opened the door moments earlier and saw a man she thought was a delivery driver holding a package with a barcode. Loureiro replaced her at the door and was hit in the upper chest, abdomen, and both thighs. He was conscious and alert when paramedics arrived. He went into surgery that night and was pronounced dead the following morning. Loureiro was deputy director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center and one of the world's leading experts on magnetic reconnection, the key obstacle to sustained nuclear fusion. 8. His Killer Planned for Three Years, Then Went Dark for 48 Hours The top suspect, Claudio Valente, a Portuguese national who had studied physics at the same Lisbon university as Loureiro in the 1990s, had already opened fire at Brown University two days earlier, killing two students. Valente spent three years conducting surveillance on the Brown campus before the attack. But between the Brown shooting on December 13 and Loureiro's murder on December 15, Valente's movements go largely unaccounted for. How he located Loureiro, confirmed he was home, and timed the approach remains unexplained. Loureiro had just returned from a trip to Washington. Valente's confession videos describe both attacks as intentional but leave the motive for targeting Loureiro maddeningly vague. 9. The Caltech Astronomer Was Killed by a Man a Judge Had Already Released On February 16, 2026, Caltech astronomer Carl Grillmair was shot dead on his porch in Llano, California. Two months earlier, 29-year-old Freddy Snyder had been arrested on Grillmair's property carrying a loaded unregistered rifle. Despite the trespassing charge and an attempted jail escape, a judge released Snyder on his own recognizance and told him to take a gun safety course. Snyder returned and killed him. Grillmair had recently begun work on the Vera Rubin Observatory, the most powerful sky survey ever built, one capable of detecting interstellar objects and potentially UFOs in Earth's orbit. He was also a renowned polymathic genius, like Loureiro. Every image Rubin captures is reviewed and filtered by the Pentagon before scientists are allowed to see it. Investigators have found no motive and no prior relationship between the two men. Why This Matters But the concentration of loss at the exact frontier of fusion, propulsion, advanced materials, and space surveillance is difficult to dismiss. Congressman Tim Burchett told the DailyMail the numbers seem very high in these certain areas of research. Constitutional lawyer Danny Sheehan described a covert circle of 24 retired officials from the DOD, CIA, and private aerospace quietly working to bring classified UAP programs back under government oversight. The real crown jewels are not weapons or hard drives. They are the minds that solved the problems no one else could. And those minds keep disappearing. Full episode documents this in detail ๐Ÿ‘‡

Jesse Michels

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๐Ÿšจ OPERATIONAL UPDATE: ISRAEL U.S. WAR WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC - Reporting Window: LAST 24 HOURS โ€ข Iran widened its fire again with a broad evening missile barrage on central Israel and continued attacks across the Gulf, including a drone strike that hit a fuel tank at Kuwait International Airport โ€ข Israel intensified strikes across Iran, with reported hits in Tehran, Qazvin and Alborz industrial areas, plus continued pressure on missile infrastructure and launch cells โ€ข Hezbollah kept the northern front active, including a direct rocket hit on a building in Kiryat Shmona, while Israel deepened its Lebanon campaign and Katz publicly framed the objective as a security zone up to the Litani โ€ข The diplomatic track moved forward, but only in the strangest possible way: Trump says talks are progressing, Iran still publicly denies direct negotiations, and multiple reports now point to JD Vance as Tehranโ€™s preferred American interlocutor โ€ข The big picture is unchanged: the war is still live on every major front, but the center of gravity is shifting toward a contest over how it ends, who gets to define victory, and whether the Gulf will stay adjacent to the war or be pulled fully into it The most important thing to understand about the last 24 hours is that this was not a quiet period masked by negotiations. It was the opposite. The battlefield remained active from Tehran to southern Lebanon to Kuwait, even as Washington and Tehran edged further into a murky negotiation channel. That is what gives the last day its character: not de escalation, but simultaneous escalation and diplomacy, both moving at once. Open source reporting reflects the same picture, with repeated indications of strikes in Tehran and Qazvin, attacks near Baghdad airport, a Kuwait airport fuel fire, and a large Iranian barrage toward central Israel late in the window. **Special thanks to Michael W for your continued contribution to the open-source intel picture behind these updates. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” ๐Ÿš€ IRANIAN MISSILE FIRE ON ISRAEL Iran kept up the pressure on Israel in two different ways over this window. Earlier in the cycle, a cluster warhead strike wounded nine people in Bnei Brak, with additional damage in Petah Tikva, while Hezbollah fire from Lebanon killed a woman near Mahanayim Junction and wounded several more in Kiryat Shmona. Later, near the end of the reporting window, Iran launched another broad barrage toward central Israel, with warnings stretching across Gush Dan, Sharon, Wadi Ara, Samaria, Judea and the Dead Sea region. Open source reporting you provided tracked that second wave in real time, showing how broad the alert footprint was even though initial reports indicated no immediate casualties from that specific evening barrage. This is what stands out operationally: Iranโ€™s missile campaign is not gone, but it looks increasingly built around selective disruption rather than the huge opening barrages of the war. The salvos are still dangerous, still capable of civilian casualties and still capable of producing visually dramatic and politically effective moments, but they are landing against a backdrop of steadily intensifying strikes on Iranโ€™s launch network. That makes each successful hit feel more deliberate and more strategic. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” โœˆ๏ธ THE AIR CAMPAIGN OVER IRAN KEPT MOVING Israelโ€™s strike campaign inside Iran also remained broad and geographically layered. Reuters reported renewed Israeli strikes as talks were being floated through intermediaries. Open source intelligence adds texture to that by showing repeated reporting from open source channels of impacts in eastern and western Tehran, the Alborz industrial zone in Qazvin province, and additional blasts reported across Khuzestan and other regions. There were also repeated reports of targeted assassination attempts in east Tehran, which fits the broader pattern of not just degrading launchers and production nodes, but also hunting the people tied to them. The color here matters. This no longer looks like a campaign limited to air defenses and obvious military compounds. The picture from the last 24 hours is of a system being pressed from multiple angles at once: missile depots, industrial support zones, launch crews, command elements and regime infrastructure in and around Tehran. Open source reporting reinforces that sense of breadth, especially the repeated references to Qazvin and Alborz secondary explosions and to ongoing heavy activity over Tehran. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” โšก THE ENERGY WAR IS STILL HOT The clearest new regional energy development in this window was Kuwait. Reuters reported that a drone attack hit a fuel tank at Kuwait International Airport, causing a fire but no casualties. That matters not because the material damage was catastrophic, but because it again shows Iran or Iran aligned actors reaching directly for civilian and logistical energy infrastructure in Gulf states. This was not an abstract threat anymore. It was a live strike on a functioning international hub. Your outbox tracked the same event quickly and repeatedly, alongside additional open source reporting about nearby attacks and power disruptions in Kuwait. At the same time, the diplomatic and military discussion around the Strait of Hormuz kept shaping everything else. Markets moved on talk of a U.S. proposal and possible hosted talks in Pakistan or Turkey. Oil eased on negotiation optimism, but the underlying structure of the crisis remains the same: Iran still retains the ability to disrupt shipping and energy confidence without fully โ€œclosingโ€ the Strait in a formal sense. That is why even modest signs of diplomacy can move oil sharply, and why even a localized drone strike in Kuwait still carries outsized weight. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง LEBANON IS NOT A SIDESHOW The northern front kept boiling. Reuters reported that Israel now intends to occupy a swathe of southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, with Defense Minister Israel Katz explicitly describing a โ€œsecurity zoneโ€ concept. That is not rhetoric you use if you still think this is a short punitive phase. At the tactical level, Hezbollah continued to demonstrate that it can still impose costs, including a direct rocket hit on a building in Kiryat Shmona and earlier casualties in the north. Meanwhile, open source reporting pointed to Israeli strikes in Nabatieh, Rashidiya, Bchamoun and broader southern Lebanese infrastructure, which matches the picture of sustained pressure rather than episodic retaliation. The broader meaning is straightforward. Israel is signaling that if the Iran war ends inconclusively on the Iranian front, it does not intend to leave Hezbollahโ€™s northern threat structure intact and simply hope for the best. Lebanon is being shaped now as part of the endgame, not just the current fight. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ IRAQ STAYED ACTIVE TOO Iraq remained active in the background, but it should not be treated as background noise. Open source intel reporting includes repeated reporting on a targeted U.S. strike on a vehicle near Baghdad airport and continued militia related activity tied to U.S. positions and proxy structures. That comes after the prior cycleโ€™s major strikes on PMF and militia command nodes. It fits the larger pattern we have now seen for weeks: Iraq is not the main theater, but it is still one of the places where the war keeps trying to widen horizontally. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” ๐ŸŒ THE NEGOTIATION TRACK GOT STRANGER, NOT CLEARER Trump is still publicly presenting the talks as real progress. Reuters reports that Pakistan conveyed a U.S. proposal, with Pakistan or Turkey possible venues, and that Washington has floated a broader framework dealing with nuclear capability, missiles and proxies. At the same time, Iran continues to publicly deny meaningful direct talks and has toughened its public stance, insisting on guarantees, compensation and no rollback of its missile deterrent. What makes the last 24 hours more interesting is the growing focus on who would even talk for the United States. Times of Israel and Jerusalem Post reporting both indicate that JD Vance is increasingly central to the diplomacy, with Tehran reportedly preferring him over Witkoff and Kushner. The diplomatic track here appears as both real and deeply unstable, with questions about who on the Iranian side actually holds authority and whether Washington is now seeking an end state short of outright regime collapse. That shift matters because it tells us something important: Washington increasingly seems to be searching for an off ramp that still looks like victory, while Israel and Gulf allies appear much less comfortable with ending this war before Iranโ€™s military and proxy architecture are degraded further. That tension is now one of the defining features of the conflict. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” ๐Ÿ“Œ WHAT MATTERS MOST RIGHT NOW 1๏ธโƒฃ The war is still fully active across multiple fronts Iran hit central Israel again, Kuwait airport was struck, Lebanon stayed hot and Israel kept pounding targets inside Iran. Negotiations did not replace combat. They were layered on top of it. 2๏ธโƒฃ The pressure on Iranโ€™s internal military system keeps deepening The accumulating pattern of strikes in Tehran, Qazvin, Alborz and other areas suggests a campaign that is still broadening the target set, not narrowing it. Open source reporting in your files strongly supports that picture. 3๏ธโƒฃ The diplomatic track is real, but it is not clean Trump is selling progress. Iran is denying direct talks. Vance is becoming more central. And nobody looking at the battlefield would conclude that the war is genuinely close to stopping on its own. โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ” BOTTOM LINE The last 24 hours painted a clearer picture than some of the recent reporting windows. This is no longer just a war of salvos and counterstrikes. It is now a war over end states. Iran is still trying to prove it can widen the cost map, not just hit Israel but keep the Gulf under pressure too. Israel is still trying to prove that sustained, system level degradation inside Iran can continue even while diplomacy swirls overhead. And Washington is trying to find a formula that can stop the war without looking like it backed down. That is why the reporting feels different now. The battlefield is still violent, but the arguments over how this ends are becoming just as important as the strikes themselves.

Inside_Israel_Intel

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A tree stood in that backyard for probably 40 years. Nobody who walked past it, sat under it, leaned a bike against it, ever knew what was living inside the trunk. Then someone cut into it. And what came out shouldn't be possible. Not sap. Not resin. Water. Gallons of it. Pouring out of solid wood like someone left a hose running inside a living organism. If your first reaction is "that's fake" โ€” I understand. I had the same reaction the first time I saw footage like this. Trees are supposed to be dry on the inside. Bark, wood, rings, maybe some sticky sap if you're unlucky enough to touch a pine. Nobody grows up learning that a tree can be a pressurized tank. But here's the thing nobody tells you in school: some trees are. There's a real, documented, scientifically studied phenomenon behind this, and once you understand it, you will never look at a tree the same way again. I'm going to walk you through exactly what's happening inside these trees, why it happens, which species are famous for it, the wild historical accounts of people discovering it by accident (sometimes violently), and why arborists still get caught off guard by it after decades on the job. Stick with me. This gets stranger the deeper you go. โ€” FIRST: the phenomenon has a name. Arborists and plant pathologists call it "wetwood," and in its more advanced, foul-smelling form, "slime flux." It's not folklore. It's not an urban legend some guy made up on a forum. It's in forestry textbooks, USDA plant pathology bulletins, and arborist training manuals. Here's the mechanism, stripped down to plain English: Trees have a core of heartwood โ€” the dead, structural center of the trunk that no longer transports nutrients. It's basically the tree's skeleton. In most trees, that heartwood is just dry, solid wood. But in certain species, under certain conditions, bacteria colonize that heartwood core. Anaerobic bacteria โ€” the kind that thrive without oxygen โ€” move in and start fermenting the wood tissue from the inside. That fermentation process does two things. First, it draws in and traps enormous amounts of water inside the wood, way beyond what healthy wood would ever hold. Second, it produces gas as a byproduct โ€” methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide โ€” and that gas has nowhere to go. It's sealed inside solid wood, inside bark, inside a living, growing tree. So you end up with a chamber, sometimes several feet long, sitting inside the trunk, completely pressurized, completely hidden, holding a mixture of bacteria-laden water and trapped gas โ€” sometimes under enough pressure that when the seal finally breaks, it doesn't drip. It sprays. It gushes. It pours out like the tree itself is bleeding. Now imagine you're an arborist. You've cut down thousands of trees. You know the drill: bark, sapwood, heartwood, done. And then one day your saw breaks through into a hidden pocket you had no way of detecting from the outside, and suddenly you're standing in a puddle that came from inside a tree trunk. That moment is what you're about to see. โ€” Let me give you some numbers, because the scale of this is what makes people stop scrolling. Documented cases of wetwood trees have released water measured in the dozens of gallons from a single cut. Some large elms and cottonwoods have been recorded discharging water continuously for hours after being wounded, with foresters describing "streams" running from the trunk down to the base of the tree and pooling on the ground like a slow leak from a cracked pipe. Certain species are repeat offenders. Elm. Poplar. Cottonwood. Mulberry. Certain oaks. These trees, especially older ones with some history of trunk injury (a old pruning wound, storm damage, a lightning strike, construction damage to the roots), are far more likely to develop internal wetwood pockets, because any breach in the bark is an open door for the bacteria that start this whole process. That's the part that should sit with you for a second. It usually starts with something small. A branch snapped off in a storm. A lawnmower nick at the base. A woodpecker hole. Something that looks like nothing. And over years โ€” sometimes decades โ€” that tiny wound becomes the entry point for a slow-motion transformation happening entirely out of sight, turning part of the tree's interior into a sealed reservoir. You could have one in your own yard right now. You'd have no way of knowing. That's not a scare tactic, that's just how wetwood works โ€” it's invisible from the outside until the tree is cut, cored, drilled, or storm-damaged enough to expose the pocket. โ€” There's an older, uglier cousin of wetwood, and it's called "slime flux," and I promise you the name undersells it. When the pressure inside a wetwood pocket gets high enough, it doesn't wait for someone with a chainsaw. It finds its own way out โ€” through cracks in the bark, through old wounds, through the base of branches. And when that fluid meets open air, the bacteria and yeast in it start reacting with oxygen, and the whole thing turns into a foul, fermenting slurry running down the bark. Old-time foresters called this "flux disease," and some described the smell as somewhere between rotten cabbage and spoiled beer. Insects love it. Certain flies and beetles are specifically drawn to fluxing trees, and some entomologists have documented entire miniature ecosystems living in the wet, fermented bark of a heavily infected wetwood tree. So the version you're about to watch โ€” a clean cut suddenly releasing a rush of water โ€” is actually the tamer version of this phenomenon. It's what happens when the pressure is released fast and deliberately, in a controlled way, instead of slowly seeping and fermenting on the bark for months. It's dramatic, but it's not even the strangest form this condition takes. โ€” Here's where it gets almost unbelievable if you didn't grow up around old-growth forests or work in forestry: this isn't new, and it isn't rare enough to be dismissed as a one-off. Loggers in the 19th and early 20th centuries wrote about "water trees" and "spring trees" โ€” trunks that, when felled or split, would release surprising volumes of water, sometimes described as clean and cold enough that thirsty travelers would drink straight from a freshly cut trunk. Some of these accounts read almost like myth: a felled tree in a dry stretch of forest becoming an impromptu water source for a work crew that had run out of canteens. Indigenous and folk traditions across multiple continents have stories about trees that "cry" or "bleed" water, long before anyone had a bacteriological explanation for it. In parts of the American South, old-timers used to warn newcomers about certain elms and cottonwoods being "wet-hearted," a term passed down generation to generation with no formal science behind it โ€” just observation. They knew, decades before plant pathologists gave it a Latin name, that some trees were different on the inside. There's something almost humbling about that. A phenomenon that sounds like it belongs in a fantasy novel โ€” a tree holding a hidden reservoir inside its trunk โ€” turns out to be something people quietly knew about for centuries, passed down as folk wisdom, and modern science eventually caught up and explained the mechanism. โ€” Let's talk about pressure, because this is the part that turns a "huh, neat" fact into something genuinely dramatic to witness. Wetwood pockets aren't just wet. They're pressurized. Researchers who have studied this by drilling into infected trees and measuring the internal gas pressure have recorded readings significantly above normal atmospheric pressure โ€” high enough that when a probe finally punctures the pocket, gas and liquid don't just seep out, they can audibly hiss, spray, or in some documented cases, forcefully eject material several feet from the trunk. Think about what that means physically. You have a living tree. Roots pulling water up. Leaves doing their thing. Bark looking completely normal, maybe a little bit of old staining near a wound if you know exactly what to look for. And inside, invisible to anyone walking by, there's a sealed chamber behaving less like "wood" and more like a bottle of soda that's been shaken and capped for years. Cut into that with the wrong angle, at the wrong depth, and you are opening something that has been building pressure since before some of you reading this were born. That is not an exaggeration. Some of these wetwood pockets, in old trees with a long history of minor trunk injuries, have been forming and sealing and re-sealing for twenty, thirty, forty years before anyone finally exposes them. โ€” I want to address the skeptics directly, because there's always a version of this that goes semi-viral and the replies fill up with "CGI," "staged," "fake," before anyone bothers to check. This is genuinely, boringly, documented science. Forestry extension offices at multiple universities have publications specifically on wetwood and slime flux โ€” the kind of dry, unglamorous PDF nobody reads unless they're an arborist student cramming for an exam. Plant pathology courses cover it. It's in the same category as things like "trees can produce enough root pressure to push water dozens of feet upward with no pump" โ€” real, measurable, and honestly stranger than most fiction, which is exactly why it keeps going viral every time footage surfaces. The wild part isn't that it's fake. The wild part is that it's real, it's been known for over a century, and most people are hearing about it for the first time through a random video instead of a biology class. โ€” Here's a question worth sitting with: how many trees around you, right now, could be holding something like this? You're not going to know by looking. That's the unsettling part. Wetwood doesn't announce itself from the outside in any reliable way most people would recognize. Sometimes there's a dark wet-looking stain running down the bark from an old wound โ€” that's actually one of the only visible clues, and most people who see it assume it's just water damage or normal bark discoloration, not a sign of a pressurized internal reservoir. Arborists who specialize in tree risk assessment actually have to factor this into their evaluations, because a wetwood pocket can also be a structural weak point โ€” the internal decay associated with it can compromise a tree's strength in ways that aren't visible from a standard visual inspection. So this isn't purely a "huh, cool fact" situation. For professionals, it's something they're trained to watch for, because it changes how a tree behaves, how it should be pruned, and in some cases whether it's even safe to keep standing near a structure. โ€” Let's go species by species for a second, because the "which trees do this" question comes up every single time this kind of footage circulates. Elms are probably the most famous offenders โ€” American elm and Siberian elm both show up repeatedly in wetwood and slime flux case studies. Cottonwoods and poplars are right behind them, especially older specimens with a history of storm damage or pruning wounds. Mulberry trees have a documented tendency toward it as well. Certain oaks can develop it, though it's less common and usually tied to a specific injury history. Willows, with their notoriously soft and moisture-loving wood, are also frequent candidates. What connects almost all of these species isn't some exotic trait โ€” it's actually pretty mundane. They tend to be fast-growing, softer-wooded trees that are more prone to storm damage, cracking, and wound formation over their lifespan, which means more entry points for the bacteria that kick off the entire process. Slower-growing, denser hardwoods are comparatively less prone, though not immune. So if you've got an old elm, cottonwood, poplar, willow, or mulberry anywhere near you โ€” especially one that's taken some damage over the decades, a lost limb, a lightning strike, an old chainsaw wound from a previous trim โ€” there's a real, non-zero chance that tree is sitting on its own hidden reservoir right now, quietly pressurizing, waiting for the day someone finally cuts into the wrong spot. โ€” There's a specific kind of moment that happens on video like this, and if you've watched enough tree-work content you already know it: the split second between the cut going in and the reaction on the face of whoever's holding the saw. That reaction is real. You cannot fake genuine, immediate confusion. Professionals who have done this job for years, who have felled hundreds or thousands of trees, who think they've seen every possible thing a tree trunk can do โ€” and then something happens that their entire career didn't prepare them for. That's the part that makes this kind of footage so different from staged "reaction" content you see everywhere else online. Nobody scripts confusion that specific. Nobody fakes the half-second delay where someone's brain is visibly trying to process what their eyes are showing them. โ€” I'll leave you with this. Every single day, all over the world, people are cutting down trees for completely mundane reasons โ€” storm cleanup, construction, disease removal, firewood, somebody's yard finally getting redone. Thousands of trees. Every day. Most of the time it's exactly as boring as it sounds: cut, drop, haul, done. And then every so often, completely without warning, one of those ordinary trees turns out to be something else entirely. A tree that's been quietly filling itself with water for years, maybe decades, completely undetectable from the outside, sealed shut under bark that looks exactly like every other tree on the block. Nobody plans for that. Nobody sees it coming. That's exactly what makes it worth watching when it happens to be caught on camera. You already scrolled past the video once. Go back and actually watch what happens the second that bar breaks through. You will not believe how much comes out. And once you know why, you'll start looking at every old tree in your neighborhood a little differently. โ€” Let's talk about the pressure numbers again, because I glossed over just how absurd they get in the most extreme documented cases. Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 14.7 pounds per square inch. Some measured wetwood pockets have registered internal gas pressures multiple times higher than that โ€” enough that when researchers insert a hollow probe to sample the gas, it doesn't calmly bubble out, it forces its way through with an audible hiss, sometimes strong enough to make a sound loud enough to hear from several feet away. Now picture that same pressure, except instead of a thin research probe, it's a chainsaw bar plowing straight through the wall of the pocket in one continuous motion. There's no controlled release valve. There's no slow bleed-off. The seal just fails all at once, and whatever's inside โ€” water, gas, fermented bacterial slurry โ€” takes the fastest path out, which is usually straight toward whoever is standing closest. That's not drama for the sake of drama. That's just fluid dynamics doing what fluid dynamics does when a pressurized container gets breached in one violent motion instead of a slow leak. โ€” People love comparing this to other "trees doing things they shouldn't" phenomena, so let's run through a few, because it puts wetwood in context. Root pressure is a real, separately documented thing โ€” some trees, particularly certain maples and grapevines, can generate enough internal pressure through osmosis alone to push water dozens of feet upward through their trunk with zero mechanical pump involved, which is part of why maple syrup tapping works in early spring: cut a hole, and sap doesn't just sit there, it actively flows out under real pressure. Bamboo, meanwhile, has hollow internal chambers between each node that can fill with water and, when punctured, release a surprising rush for something that looks like solid stalk from the outside. Certain cacti and succulents store such enormous internal water reserves that a single barrel cactus can hold multiple gallons, enough that desert survival guides have long described (with real caveats about bitterness and toxicity in some species) cutting into one as an emergency water source. None of those are the exact same mechanism as bacterial wetwood. But they all share the same core surprise: the outside of a plant tells you almost nothing about what's happening on the inside. Trees and plants in general are far better at hiding internal reservoirs, chambers, and pressure systems than most people ever consider, because we're trained from childhood to think of "wood" as uniformly solid and dry. โ€” Here's a question I want you to actually think about instead of just scrolling past: why does this footage hit people so hard emotionally, when it's "just" water? I think it's because it breaks a category we didn't know we had. Somewhere in your brain, without ever being taught it explicitly, you built a rule: solid things don't have hidden liquid interiors. Rocks are solid. Wood is solid. A tree trunk, no matter how big, is filed under "solid object" right next to a brick or a fence post. So when a tree trunk suddenly behaves like a punctured water balloon, it's not just surprising โ€” it's a small, harmless violation of a rule you didn't know you were relying on. That's the exact same psychological mechanism behind why people can't look away from videos of hidden compartments, false walls, geodes cracked open to reveal crystal interiors, or ice cores pulled from glaciers showing air bubbles thousands of years old. The object looked like one thing on the outside and turned out to be something completely different on the inside. Our brains are wired to lock onto that specific kind of surprise and replay it. โ€” I want to walk through what's actually happening at a microscopic level too, because the bacteria part is honestly the wildest piece of this whole story and it usually gets skipped over. The bacteria responsible for wetwood are largely anaerobic โ€” meaning they thrive specifically in environments with no oxygen, which describes the sealed interior of a heartwood pocket perfectly. Species commonly implicated include various strains that also show up in other low-oxygen fermentation processes elsewhere in nature. These bacteria essentially treat the interior of the tree the way yeast treats a sealed fermentation vessel: they break down wood sugars and cellulose components, and as a byproduct of that metabolic process, they release gas. Methane. Carbon dioxide. Sometimes hydrogen sulfide, which is the compound responsible for the "rotten egg" smell associated with some of the worst slime flux cases. Here's the part that should genuinely unsettle you a little: this process can continue, essentially undisturbed, for years. The bacteria don't need light. They don't need a food source refill from outside โ€” the wood itself is the food source. They don't need anything from us at all. They just sit there, fermenting slowly, generation after generation, quietly filling an internal chamber with liquid and gas, completely indifferent to whatever's happening in the world outside the bark. Somebody could mow the lawn around that tree every single week for fifteen years and never once suspect that a private, self-sustaining microbial ecosystem is operating a few inches away, sealed inside solid wood. โ€” Foresters have their own folklore around this too, separate from the old "wet-hearted tree" naming I mentioned earlier, and some of it is genuinely unsettling if you sit with it. There are accounts โ€” some documented in forestry incident reports, some passed around as workplace stories among tree crews โ€” of wetwood pockets releasing enough pressurized gas and liquid on impact to knock a chainsaw sideways out of the operator's hands, or to spray fluid several feet, catching a nearby coworker completely off guard. Tree removal is already one of the more dangerous manual trades that exists โ€” statistically it's consistently ranked among the more hazardous occupations โ€” and wetwood is one of those factors that experienced crews specifically train new hires to be aware of, precisely because it's invisible until the exact moment it isn't. Some crews have a rule: if you see that telltale dark wet staining running down bark from an old wound, you treat the cut differently. Different angle. Different bracing. A moment of hesitation most people watching a video would never think to expect from someone who cuts trees for a living every single day. That hesitation, when you see it, is not caution for no reason. It's caution earned from someone else's story about the day their trunk sprayed back. โ€” Let's zoom out for a second and talk about why nature keeps doing this to us โ€” hiding things in plain sight that overturn assumptions we didn't even know we were making. Geodes look like plain gray rocks from the outside and crack open into crystal cathedrals. Certain seemingly solid ice formations conceal air pockets and liquid water inside glacial ice that's been sealed for centuries. Some seeds remain dormant and viable inside dry-looking husks for years, sometimes decades, before conditions trigger germination. Nature is, on some fundamental level, extremely good at packaging surprising internal states inside boring, unremarkable exteriors, because there's rarely an evolutionary or physical reason for the outside of something to accurately advertise what's happening on the inside. A tree trunk covered in bark has absolutely no obligation to tell you what's going on underneath. And most of the time, honestly, there's nothing dramatic going on under there โ€” it really is just solid wood, rings, sapwood doing its normal job. But every so often, under the right combination of an old wound, the right bacteria finding their way in, and years of undisturbed fermentation, you get this. A tree that's secretly been operating as a sealed, pressurized reservoir the entire time, waiting for someone with a saw to finally find out. โ€” A few quick things people always ask once they learn about this, so let's knock them out here. Is the water safe to drink? Historically, some accounts describe it as drinkable in a pinch, but modern guidance is far more cautious โ€” wetwood fluid is loaded with bacteria and fermentation byproducts, and depending on the tree and how advanced the infection is, it can range from relatively clean-tasting to genuinely foul and bacterially loaded. Not something to treat as a reliable water source by modern standards, whatever old logging stories might say. Does it kill the tree? Not necessarily, and that's part of what makes it so strange. Trees can live with wetwood for years, even decades, functioning normally from the outside โ€” leafing out every spring, growing new rings โ€” while quietly carrying an internal pocket the entire time. It's more of a chronic condition than an acute one in most cases, though severe cases can weaken the tree structurally and contribute to internal decay. Can you tell from the outside before cutting? Sometimes, if you know exactly what to look for โ€” that dark staining running from an old wound is the main visible tell. But plenty of wetwood trees show no obvious external sign at all until the moment someone cuts into the wrong spot. โ€” If you made it this far, you now know something about trees that the overwhelming majority of people who scroll past videos like this never bother to learn. You know the name of the phenomenon. You know the bacterial mechanism behind it. You know which species are most prone to it, why old wounds matter, how much pressure can actually build up inside, and why experienced tree crews still treat certain trunks with real caution. That's a strange amount of knowledge to walk away with from what looks, at first glance, like just another oddly satisfying clip. But that's usually how it goes with the genuinely wild stuff nature does โ€” it looks small on the surface, and then you pull one thread and end up somewhere you didn't expect. Go watch it again with all of that in your head this time. Watch the exact frame where the bar breaks through. Watch what the water does the instant it has somewhere to go. Watch the reaction on the person holding the saw โ€” that's not performance, that's genuine surprise from someone who has almost certainly done this exact job a thousand times before and never seen a tree do this. Some trees really are just wood, top to bottom, nothing hiding inside. And then there are the ones that have been quietly running their own private reservoir for twenty or thirty years, sealed under ordinary-looking bark, waiting for exactly one cut to finally let it out. You just watched what that looks like the moment it happens.

Earth Unveiled

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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."

Joe Murgia

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A dog just made the bravest decision I have seen anyone make this year. Not a founder. Not an athlete. Not a person with a plan and a five-year vision board. A dog, on an empty road, with nothing to lose and no idea what would come next. I have watched what comes next more times than I will admit in public. This post is 25,000 characters long. It is a list of reasons why you should watch it too. Read as much as you want, but understand one thing before you start: the video is the only part that matters, and this is everything the video doesn't have room to say. Sound on. Phone in both hands. Do not skip. I'll be here when you get back. THE NUMBER THAT SHOULD BOTHER YOU Let me start with two numbers. The first: commonly cited estimates put the world's stray dog population at around 200 million. Two hundred million animals with no address, no bowl with their name on it, and no one who would notice if they didn't come back tonight. The second number is one. That is how many people had to be on that road, at that exact minute, looking in that exact direction, in a good enough mood to stop. Not two. Not a crowd. One. Here is what nobody says out loud: for every dog you see rescued on camera, there are millions the camera never reached. We don't see them because no one was there. The videos that reach you are not a sample of reality. They are the winners of a lottery so brutal that Powerball looks like a coin flip next to it. So when one of these lands in your feed, don't scroll past it like content. Treat it like what it is: a statistical miracle that happened to end well. And miracles have a structure. Let's take this one apart. FIVE LINKS. BREAK ONE AND THE STORY DOESN'T EXIST. Link one: the dog has to survive long enough to be seen. Roads are not built for small animals. Vehicles do not slow down for shapes on the asphalt. Every hour out there is a coin flip the animal has to win again, and again, and again. Link two: someone has to be present. Not nearby. Present. Eyes up, phone down, brain not busy replaying the argument from breakfast. Link three: that someone has to notice. It sounds simple. It isn't. The human brain is a filtering machine, and a small animal on a road becomes a plastic bag, a shadow, a piece of tire. The most common reason a dog is not rescued is not cruelty. It is that nobody registered it as a dog. Link four: the person has to stop. This is the link that snaps most often. Seeing is free. Stopping costs you time, comfort, a schedule, and possibly the mood of your entire day. Link five: the dog has to let them. An animal that has learned that hands mean pain has every biological reason to run. Trust is not a given. It is a negotiation, and the dog holds the veto. Five links. All five held. Remember that when you press play. You are not watching a nice story. You are watching a chain that should have snapped at least four times. THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP DRIVING In 1968, psychologists John Darley and Bibb Latane published a set of experiments that changed how we think about helping. The finding was uncomfortable: the more people who witness an emergency, the less likely any one of them is to act. They called it diffusion of responsibility. Everyone assumes someone else will handle it. So nobody does. Later research added nuance. When an emergency is clear and dangerous, people step in more often than the original theory predicted. But the core insight has survived half a century of testing, because it describes something every one of us has felt: the small, quiet voice that says, somebody else will stop. Now picture a road with no crowd at all. No audience. No one to hide behind. No one to blame. Just you and a decision that is entirely, inescapably yours. That is the situation the person in this video walked into. And the reason it is worth your attention is not that they did something impossible. It is that they did something small, and it turns out small is exactly what almost nobody does. You don't need to be a hero. You need to be inconvenienced. THE FACE IS THE RESUME In 2013, researcher Bridget Waller and her team studied dogs in a UK shelter and asked a simple question: what makes one dog get adopted faster than another? It wasn't size. It wasn't age. It wasn't coat color. It was one tiny facial movement: the raising of the inner eyebrows. The move that makes a dog's eyes look bigger, softer, almost sad. Dogs that did it more often were chosen faster. Six years later, a study led by Juliane Kaminski found out why that movement is so easy for dogs and so hard for wolves. Dogs have a small muscle around the eye that wolves largely lack. Over thousands of years of living beside us, dogs evolved a way to make their faces speak our language. Read that again. A species rewired its own anatomy to be understood by another species. No other animal has done this to us. Nobody taught them. Nobody forced them. They looked at us, worked out what we respond to, and grew the tool. Now look at the face in this video. You will know the second you see it. That is not a coincidence, and it is not luck. It is fifteen thousand years of engineering aimed directly at your chest. THE ONLY LOOP LIKE IT ON EARTH In 2015, a Japanese team led by Miho Nagasawa published a result in the journal Science that made researchers stop and reread the abstract. When a dog and its owner look into each other's eyes, both of their oxytocin levels rise. Oxytocin is the bonding chemical, the same one that flows between a mother and her newborn. Dog looks at human. Human's oxytocin rises. Human looks back, touches, talks softly. Dog's oxytocin rises. Which makes the dog look longer. Which makes the human's oxytocin rise again. A feedback loop of affection, running across two species, powered by nothing but eye contact. Here is the part that gets me: the effect did not show up the same way in wolves raised by humans. The loop is not just training. It is something that evolved between us. So the next time someone says a dog is just responding to food, tell them there is a peer-reviewed study that disagrees. And keep this fact in your pocket for the video. Because at some point, a moment of eye contact happens in it, and I want you to know what is really going on in that room. THEY CAN SMELL WHAT YOU'RE HIDING Humans have roughly 6 million scent receptors. Dogs are commonly cited as having around 300 million. A large share of a dog's brain is devoted to processing smell. What you experience as a room, a dog experiences as a layered document: who was here, how long ago, and how they felt. In 2022, researchers at Queen's University Belfast tested something remarkable. They collected breath and sweat samples from people before and after a stressful task. Then they asked dogs to tell the samples apart. The dogs got it right nearly 94 percent of the time. Your body broadcasts your emotional state as chemistry. You cannot turn it off. You cannot fake calm. A dog reads your fear, your tension, your irritation, before you have opened your mouth. Which means every rescue is, at its core, a test of one thing: are you actually calm, or are you performing calm? The dog knows. It always knows. And that is why what happens in the first few seconds of this video matters more than anything that comes after it. Watch the body language. Watch how slowly things move. Watch what is not done. THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT IN ANY RESCUE IS THE ONE WHERE NOTHING HAPPENS Animal behaviorists describe fear responses in four flavors: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. Fight is what people expect. Flight is what most strays do. Freeze is what looks like calm but isn't. And fawn, the desperate, wiggling, please-don't-hurt-me appeasement, is the one that breaks your heart the fastest, because it looks like friendliness and it is actually terror. Rescuers who have done this hundreds of times will tell you the same handful of rules. Don't loom. Don't stare straight into the eyes. Get low. Turn sideways. Slow everything down until it feels absurd. Let the animal close the last few feet on its own terms. The hardest instruction, and the one most people can't follow, is the last one: do nothing. Every instinct you have says reach out. Grab. Fix. Take control of the situation. And every good rescue begins with someone who did the opposite. Who made themselves small, patient, and boring, and waited for a frightened animal to decide that the safest thing in its whole world might be a stranger. You are about to watch someone do exactly that. Notice how little they need to say. THE TEARS THEY WON'T PUT IN THE HEADLINE Scientists are careful people. They do not like to say "dogs cry." But in 2022, a team from Azabu University in Japan, led by Takefumi Kikusui, measured tear volume in dogs during reunions with their owners. The result: tear volume rose significantly compared with reunions involving other familiar people. And when researchers applied oxytocin to the dogs' eyes, tear volume rose again. Not sadness crying. Not the crying we do. Something else, something closer to overflow. The body producing water at the exact moment the heart has more in it than it can hold. Nobody has proven that this is the same thing we feel. Scientists will tell you that, and they are right to. But here is a question worth sitting with. If an animal's eyes fill with water when it sees the one being it has decided to trust, what exactly are we arguing about? Watch the eyes in this video. Then tell me what you think you saw. ONCE IT HAS A NAME, IT STOPS BEING A STATISTIC In 2007, psychologist Paul Slovic and colleagues ran an experiment on generosity. They showed people a fundraising appeal for a hungry child, and then a second version that added statistics about millions of other children in the same crisis. More data. More context. More reasons to care. Donations dropped. Slovic called it psychic numbing. The human mind can hold one face. It cannot hold two hundred million. When a tragedy becomes a number, empathy quietly switches off, and we don't even notice it happening. This is why one named animal in one small video can do what a hundred reports full of charts cannot. It gives your brain something it can actually care about: a single life, with a face, a fear, and a future that could go either way. The stray population is a statistic. A dog is a story. And stories, unlike statistics, come with a name at the end. When you reach that moment in the video, pay attention to what it does to you. Notice the small shift in your chest. That is the sound of a number turning into a person, or close enough. THE WORD FOR WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO FEEL Researchers have a name for the feeling you get when something touches you so suddenly that your throat tightens and your eyes sting. They call it kama muta, Sanskrit for "moved by love." Anthropologist Alan Fiske proposed that it is a distinct emotion, triggered by a sudden intensification of closeness. Two beings who were strangers become bonded. Someone who was alone becomes part of something. People across many cultures describe the same set of signs: warmth in the chest, goosebumps, a lump in the throat, tears they didn't plan on, and a strong urge to hug someone or hold something. Here is what makes it useful and not just sweet: kama muta is one of the most reliable emotional responses we have. It shows up when reunions happen. When a stranger helps unexpectedly. When an animal, after a long time alone, is finally held. You've felt it. You just never had a word for it. Take note of the exact second it hits you in this video. I promise there is one. And if you're the kind of person who says "I never cry at videos," I would like to schedule a follow-up. WHY YOU'LL WANT TO BE A BETTER PERSON AFTER ONE MINUTE Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studied a related feeling and gave it a name: elevation. Elevation is what you feel when you watch someone do something morally beautiful, quietly, with nothing to gain. It is not envy and it is not admiration. It is an urge, physical and immediate, to do something good yourself. In studies, people who experienced elevation were more likely to help others afterward, more likely to volunteer, and more likely to describe wanting to become better versions of themselves. Read that as a design spec. A short piece of true, unstaged kindness can change what a person does in the hour after they see it. Which is a strange, lovely thing for a phone to be capable of. We spend so much time discussing what social media does wrong. Nobody wonders what would happen if the best five percent of it, the small, real, human moments, were the part that traveled farthest. Let this one travel. It has earned it. THE RARE THING: SOMETHING TRUE THAT WINS In 2018, researchers at MIT published a study in Science that analyzed millions of tweets. The result was grim: false news spread significantly faster and further than true news. False stories were about 70 percent more likely to be retweeted, driven largely by surprise and disgust. The lesson most people took away was that this platform rewards outrage. I want to take a different lesson. If false stories win because they trigger strong emotion, then true stories can win too, as long as they trigger stronger ones. A video with no villain, no scandal, and no argument. Nothing to be angry about. Nothing to dunk on. A rescue that is exactly what it looks like. That kind of content should lose on this platform. It has no fuel. And yet every so often, one of them breaks through and reminds everyone what this place was supposed to be. I am not asking you to like it. I am asking you to notice that you had a choice about what to feed today, and this was one of the options. SOME FRIENDSHIPS SHOULDN'T WORK Somewhere near the end of this video, a second character enters the story. I won't tell you who. I won't tell you what happens. I will tell you that if you have ever read anything about instincts, hunting drives, or the way certain animals are supposed to see each other, this moment will quietly rearrange your assumptions. Behaviorists talk about prey drive as if it were destiny. It is not. It is a tendency, and tendencies can be softened by experience, by safety, by being raised, or re-raised, in a place where no one is afraid. The same dog that once had to look after itself alone can, in a different life, learn that the world contains creatures that are not threats or meals. Only neighbors. That is the most hopeful idea in behavioral science, and it usually gets buried in footnotes: what an animal was is not the same as what an animal can become. The same is true for most of us, incidentally. But that is a different post. Stay for the ending. It is the reason I am writing this at all. THE PART THE INTERNET NEVER FILMS Every rescue video has the same shape: the meeting, the rescue, the transformation, the happy ending. It is edited that way because it is the only shape that gets watched. But ask anyone who has actually done this, and they will tell you the truth is in the gap between the second and third act. The first night. The first week. The first time a dog that has never lived indoors realizes there is a floor that doesn't move, a door that closes without danger, and a bowl that will be full again tomorrow. Rescuers have a rule of thumb for this, the 3-3-3 rule. Three days for a dog to decompress. Three weeks to start learning the routine. Three months to feel truly at home. It's not science, exactly, just a shorthand built from thousands of adoptions. But it captures something real: safety is not a switch. It is a process, and the animal has to believe it slowly, one uneventful day at a time. That means the happiest scenes in this video are not the ones that look like celebrations. They are the quiet ones. A dog that stops scanning the room. A body that finally lets go. Look for the moment the shoulders drop. Once you see it, you'll never unsee it. THE COST OF STOPPING: NINETY SECONDS Let's do the math on the thing that most people are afraid of. How long does it actually take to stop for an animal in trouble? Not the whole rescue. Just the decision, the pulling over, the first attempt. Ninety seconds. Sometimes less. Ninety seconds is the length of a bad song on the radio. It is the time you spend waiting for a light to change. It is a scroll through a feed you won't remember. And on the other side of those ninety seconds is the difference between a living animal and a statistic. I'm not saying this to make anyone feel guilty. Guilt is a terrible motivator. It makes people avoid the feeling instead of acting on it. I'm saying it because the barrier is almost always imagined. We inflate the cost of helping in our heads, and the imagined price is what stops us, not the real one. The person in this video paid the real price. It was small. What they got in return is something no one could have planned for. That is the part you should watch closely. IF YOU'RE EVER THE ONE ON THAT ROAD Save this section. Someday, someone reading it will need it. Put your safety first. Pull over where it's safe and turn on your hazard lights before anything else. A second accident helps no one. Do not chase. A frightened dog runs faster than you and directly into the worst possible place. Chasing turns a rescue into a pursuit. Get low and go slow. Sit down if you can. Turn your body sideways. Avoid direct staring. Speak softly, or don't speak at all. Use food, if you have any. Something plain, tossed a little closer each time, works better than any technique. Check for a tag and, if you can get near enough, ask a vet or shelter to scan for a microchip. Someone may be looking for this animal right now. Call for help early. Local rescues, animal control, and vets can handle what you cannot. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is make the right phone call. Take photos and note the location. If you can't keep the animal, those details are what let someone else finish the job. None of this is complicated. The reason it is rare is that most people have never been told that it is allowed. You are allowed. THE REAL STAKES OF A SMALL DOG Here is a bigger picture, and it's a heavy one. Millions of companion animals enter shelters every year in the United States alone. That is just one country. Many are lost pets that never get reclaimed. Many are strays. Many are animals whose owners ran out of money, time, or hope. Shelters are often crowded, underfunded, and staffed by people running on love and very little else. Every animal that finds a home, or a foster, or a stranger with ninety seconds to spare, frees up a space for the next one in line. That means every single rescue is bigger than the animal in it. It is a small change to a very large system, and the system is nothing but small changes stacked on top of one another. This is not an argument for guilt. It's an argument for scale. One dog saved is one dog saved, but it is also proof of concept, a demonstration that the chain can hold, that the odds can be beaten, that a person and a road and a decision can end well. And proof of concept is contagious. That is why you are seeing it. WHO REALLY GOT RESCUED? If you talk to people who have taken in strays, you'll hear the same sentence over and over, in different words. "I thought I was saving him. It turned out he was saving me." Skeptics roll their eyes at that. It sounds like a greeting card. And research on pets and wellbeing is more mixed than social media would like. It doesn't say every dog fixes every life. But there is something real underneath it, and it's not mystical. A dog is a machine for creating routine, attention, and reasons to leave the house. It needs you at a certain hour. It notices when you come home. It doesn't care about your job title, your follower count, or what you failed at last week. For some people, that is the first unconditional witness they have had in years. The rescue, in this light, is not one-way. Two lonely creatures, one who knew it and one who didn't, found out that they could take care of each other. Nobody can prove that from a video. But there is a version of the story that runs in the background of every rescue, and you can feel it if you let yourself. Tell me whether you feel it here. THE ATTENTION PARADOX Here is a strange fact about the platform you're reading this on. The average post gets a glance. A few words, a flick of the thumb, gone. Brands spend billions every year trying to buy three seconds of your attention, and most of what they buy evaporates before it lands. And yet a video of one dog, with no budget, no celebrity, and no script, can hold a stranger for a full minute. Without a single trick. Why? Because attention is not really about tricks. It is about stakes. Your brain is built to track living things whose outcome is uncertain. The moment there is a creature on screen and you don't yet know if it will be okay, some ancient part of you leans in and refuses to look away. That is the secret behind every great story ever told. Someone we care about. Something that could go wrong. A question we need answered. Marketers call it a hook. Your nervous system calls it worry. This video has both, and it pays off the worry honestly, which is why you leave feeling better instead of used. That is rare enough to deserve a full minute of your life. HOW TO WATCH THIS Most people will watch it wrong. They'll half-look at it between two other things, mid-scroll, thumb already moving. Here is how to get the actual effect. Turn the sound on. There is more happening in the audio than you expect. Make it full screen. This is a story about faces, and faces need room. Watch the first ten seconds without expecting anything. The film is quiet at the start. That is deliberate, or at least it works as if it were. Do not skip ahead. The whole thing depends on the distance between where it starts and where it ends. Skip the middle and the ending is just a nice clip. Then, once it's over, watch it again. The second time, you won't be watching for the story. You'll be watching for the small things you missed: a hesitation, a glance, a change in how a body carries itself. That second watch is where it gets you. I said I have watched it more times than I'll admit. That is the honest reason. It doesn't wear out. It gets deeper. THE CHALLENGE I want to try something with this post. If the video moved you, leave one comment: the second it happened. Not a review, not an analysis. Just the moment. I'm curious whether it's the same one for everyone. My guess is that it isn't, and that the spread of answers will say more about what people carry around with them than about the video. If it didn't move you, that is fine too. I'd like to hear that as well. Honest is better than polite. And if you have ever been the one who stopped, and I know some of you have, write that instead. Tell the story in two lines. No one has ever regretted the ninety seconds. Someone reading this thread might need to know that. Reposting this is the simplest way to put it in front of someone who's scrolling right now, in a bad week, thinking that nothing good happens by accident anymore. Something did. THE LAST THING Let me end where I started. A dog made a decision on an empty road. It could not have known how it would turn out. It had no reason to believe that the next hand would be different from the last. It went ahead anyway. That is the whole difference between a life that changes and one that doesn't. Not certainty. Not a plan. A willingness to move toward the unknown when the alternative is more of the same. The animal in this video did that. Then someone did the same in return. That's it. That's the entire story. Two beings, each of whom took a small, terrifying step toward the other, and a road that was, for a few seconds, the most important place in the world. Scroll up. Press play. Watch the ending. Then come back and tell me I was exaggerating. P.S. If you read all of this, you are exactly the kind of person this video was made for. Most people never make it past the first screen of a long post. You did. That tells me you are someone who stays: through the slow part, through the uncertain part, all the way to the end. Which is, when you think about it, the only quality that mattered in the story you're about to watch. Follow for more like this. I only post the ones that earn it. Bookmark it for days you forget the feeling. #Rescue #DogsOfX #SecondChances #AdoptDontShop #Dogs #AnimalRescue #RescueDog

Earth Unveiled

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OPERATION INDIGO SKYFALL (SKYNET) (Update 6/11/25) While Operation Indigo Skyfall is a program by the Anunnaki specifically to turn the global atmosphere into an electrolyte solution 'motherboard' that powers Skynet that's already fully online as of May 2020, it was preceded by a decades-long 3-pronged assault against the pineal glands of humankind. The thrust of all three programs combined are all about disconnecting people from their higher selves and to vastly reduce their intellect quotient to make them easily controlled, prior to the launch of Skynet. Understand the intense investment that has been funneled into destroying the very beings that paid the taxes (loosh) to fund these programs is more than the gross domestic products of multiple countries combined. At minimum, trillions $ pr year in 2025 dollars, for more than 80 years. If youโ€™ve ever seen chemtrails in your skies, youโ€™ve seen one of these programs in a bold, in-your-face, broad-daylight fashion. THREE-PRONGED ATTACK PREPARING FOR SKYNET #1 FLUORIDE = WATER CONTAMINATION In its first installation of what would ultimately become a nation-wide invasion of every metropolis, city, town and mud puddle in the US, fluoride was added to public water in Grand Rapids in 1945 to โ€˜fight tooth decayโ€™. Problem is, fluoride is actually nuclear waste used as rat poison. It is a known neurotoxin more harmful than lead & likened to the toxicity of arsenic for more than 100 years, causing brain damage, spinal cord & nerve networks destruction and has never been shown to diminish the onset of tooth decay. Which every dentist in the country would have banded together to put a stop to back then if it really did that. So who decided to put THAT into your drinking water exactly? Andrew Mellon, 33rd degree Scottish Wrong Freem@son. Shocking Dangers of Fluoride: cancerwisdom dot net; "There has never been a double-blind, randomized clinical trial for fluoridation's effectiveness." [In reality, fluoride itself has been shown to damage teeth in a totally different way than we get through eating, known as fluorosis. Also in reality, all tooth decay is 100% of the time, parasites, not โ€˜rotโ€™. They say sugar rots teeth; which is a lie. Sugar is a primary food of parasites, along with heavy metals. When you eat sugars then fail to immediately brush & floss, the parasites already in your body (and there are at least millions) rush to the crevices of your palate then wind up burrowing into your teethโ€™s (actual crystals) valance bands, further destroying them each time the parasites defecate. Anytime you eat anything sugar or sweetened, ALWAYS mix it with an antiparasitic & immediately brush, or rinse your mouth with hydrogen peroxide afterward, never with mouthwash, which is also poison. I will be covering this extensively soon in my new article: ๐Ÿ‘‰PARASITES] As explained in greater detail below in the whistleblower video, fluoride was used by the N@TZIs (Ashke-N@TZI Crypto J3ws that took over Germany then lead that country into WW2, posing as actual Germans, which they absolutely were not. See my article: ๐Ÿ‘‰GERMANY WON WW2 for more) in concentration camps in the 1930s-40s to make prisoners docile. How does that work? Fluoride accumulates at, and attacks, the pineal gland of your body. This is the โ€˜antennaโ€™ connection to your higher self that generates your reality. The pineal gland then fights back the fluoride toxin, moving it just outside of its โ€˜theater of the mindโ€™ and surrounds it to seal it off from attacking. This builds up a โ€˜calcificationโ€™ around the pineal gland, which acts as an insulator blocking your signal to the Primal Sound & Light Fields of the Deity Planes where your higher self has always been positioned, inside what is known in human terms as the Unified Field. [For more on the key function of the pineal gland, see my article: ๐Ÿ‘‰ HOW THE HOLOGRAPHIC SIMULATION WORKS] #2 OPERATION INDIGO SKYFALL = AIR CONTAMINATION (not to be confused with Operation Indigo SkyFOLD which is just another red herring distraction to overcome the dissemination of the truth of this existential threat to all mankind.) Beginning as far back as 1972, Operation Indigo Skyfall chemtrail program is one of the most brutally-compartmentalized & ferociously classified operations of all-time. So secret, the tens of thousands of chemtrail jets across the world donโ€™t even land on the continental United States, but refresh their death dust exclusively on private islands, outside of enforced laws. The first part of this program where strontium, barium & aluminum microparticles are being dumped onto all of the lands of earth that kill all life forms, including the trees and forests, is the obvious portion of your extermination, and even that is only a fraction of the story being applied to depopulate the plane(t) from reportedly 8B people (this is a lie, it was less than 5B in 2019) to just 500,000. The heavy metals being reported by laboratories are merely assaying the minerals themselves, not looking deeper into whatโ€™s really going on. In reality, these are the minerals used in the manufacture of nanites that are often no larger than just 4 molecules in size. Each one programmed on a quantum level to interconnect with one another, forming larger and larger computer nodes, just like the massive white โ€˜antennasโ€™ being removed from millions of clot-shot victims around the world since the final push to bring this program to completion began with the โ€˜Covidโ€™ attempted genocide using mRNA bioweapons. Prior to the huge blood-clots (invasive man-made prions to take over the full functioning of the body) now being retrieved from cadavers and patients suffering this biological invasion, chemtrail direct effects were known as Morgellons Disease where tiny wire-like structures were coming out of peopleโ€™s skin. However, the โ€˜diseaseโ€™ gaslighting was exposed when laboratories began placing them under powerful microscopes and finding they were individual nanotbots โ€˜holding handsโ€™ to make up the โ€˜wiresโ€™ that were now growing inside peopleโ€™s bodies. Once zoomed in using scanning electron-microscopy to each one, they not only found the NAME of the companies behind each model, but even serial numbers printed in quantum-dots on their structures. You might recognize this one that clearly says NASA on its surface. The program of chemtrail nanites is to infiltrate the immune system of the human body and generate immunodeficiency so you are unable to fight off diseases and viruses. But there is another, even more primary mission for those molecular-sized robots; to collect at your pineal gland causing calcification and thus not only disrupting your entire system, but placing a crystalline โ€˜shellโ€™ around it to cut off your โ€˜spiritualโ€™ access to your higher self. Think of it like scrambling the signal of your cellphone if you had a direct line to โ€˜godโ€™. As an aside, Cody Snodres, the independent contractor for the C ๐Ÿ‘๏ธA of 20 years & hero whistleblower that broke the story of Operation Indigo Skyfall in 2018 in the video below, mentions pathogens being added to chemtrails. These have been solidly identified by labs as recently as a few months ago in late 2024 & again in Jan of 2025 when entire cities were enveloped by huge, totally dry, fog banks of particulates dropped from the skies that caused countless deaths from pneumonia. Referred to by people as โ€˜Dragon Fogโ€™, the pathogens are actually Serratia Marcescens bacteria (another word for parasites, pathogens, microorganisms & viruses). While Iโ€™m sure there have been other parasites added to chemtrails that attack the immune systems of humans and animals other than Serratia Marcescens, this particular species has been used by mil operations now as an ideal biological weapon and regularly upgraded now for many decades. Stay with me, Iโ€™m getting to Skynet, but first I have to show you some of the foundational elements of how the invader races have reached this point where humans would have become so mentally effected by this unthinkably massive-scale attack on your pineal gland, they would become psychologically and emotionally unable to fight back, even if they ever did look up in the sky and cognitively register the fact that contrails (endothermic sublimation or โ€˜fogโ€™) emitted by the compressed-air turbines of jets dissipate in about 8-20 seconds, not hang in the air for hours and hours. [And for those now wondering what I mean about jets using compressed air as forward thrust in commercial passenger jets, thatโ€™s a story that is going to surely hack you off when you find out that passenger jets have always been levitation/time crafts since they were introduced to the public in the 1940s. They donโ€™t run on fuel, but on high-altitude atmospheric neutrino-to-ion conversion harvesting (also known as โ€˜Secondary Emissionsโ€™ as well as โ€˜Neutrino Eventsโ€™). So every โ€˜fuel increaseโ€™ markup for local and international flights has always been absolutely made-up, since what they run on is eternally-free energy. See my article for more: ๐Ÿ‘‰JET FUEL HOAX] #3 M0NSANT0 = FOOD CONTAMINATION This company does *not make better-performing corn & veggies: it is a bioweapons company. John Francis Queeny, a Freem@son, that founded this genocidal operation in 1901 produces 90% of the worldโ€™s genetically-altered seeds & is responsible for developing Agent Orange, a defoliant used during the Vietnam War, containing a highly toxic chemical known as dioxin that caused permanent health issues for thousands of war veterans. Later it used this same type of murderous chemical in Roundup to k!ll weeds around your home, coating your world with glyphosate that changes the sex in frogs and turns them ghey and sterile. Guess what other life forms it changes the sex in and makes them sterile? Ever witnessed the most celebrated triathlete of the 20th century suddenly pop up and claim he was now a โ€˜womanโ€™? How about watching as our youngest generation enters the workforce, most of whom donโ€™t even know what sex they are? Thatโ€™s your M0nsanto working hard to ensure the human race is eradicated from the all-queer-all-the-time world Freem@sons envision as their true utopia in the โ€œ500m sustainable populationโ€ as etched into granite on the Georgia Guidestones. A number mirrored by United Nationโ€™s Agenda 2030 to be achieved by the year 2050. Their goal is literally ๐Ÿ‘‰your depopulation and those that are left, will be 100% ghey. Diddly Parties nightly! GMO foods that are grown using M0nsantoโ€™s โ€œRoundup Readyโ€ fertilizer that is made with glyphosate toxins are absorbed by the gut and then travel directly to the pineal gland. This is the Anunnakiโ€™s โ€˜Trifectaโ€™ attack on your most precious organ of your body. The very organ that dictates all the parameters of your reality held within your Krystal Seed Atom Keylon you enter into manifestation with, commonly referred to as your โ€˜soulโ€™. In more accurate terms, your Krystal Seed Atom is like a Bluetooth module that tethers your awareness from your higher self in the Primal Sound and Light Fields of the Deity Planes, to your physical avatar here on the ground through the wireless โ€˜pale silver cordโ€™. The Krystal Seed Atom is located in the middle of your pineal gland. [For more on the Krystal Seed Atom, see my articles: ๐Ÿ‘‰THE HISTORY OF THE CHIMERA, & ๐Ÿ‘‰THE KEYS TO HEAVEN] As Cody points out in the video, this is not a matter of hitting your pineal gland with three doses of toxins, but because of how these three chemicals of fluoride, nano aluminum & glyphosate interact with each other, creates synergy, or a dynamic magnification of the toxicity effect by a factor of 125x greater than any one individual dose would achieve. This makes the Trifecta assault astronomically devastating to your connection to the pale silver cord and your wireless connection to the โ€˜realโ€™ you thatโ€™s running your avatar in the deity planes. Sort of like taking your 4 yr old to the mall and just letting them go on their own. Now, with your virtually disabled pineal gland reality-casting component out of the way, enter the true teeth behind Operation Indigo Skyfall; Skynet. SKYNET This is a subject I wonโ€™t be able to offer much tangible, solid evidence on, as it goes deeply into quantum physics. All of which terms describing each step in the chain to achieve โ€˜if this, then thatโ€™, are shielded from public understanding by design. The power of computers is vastly beyond what the human mind has been given the ability to process, also by design. [As Iโ€™ve covered before, the Chimera brain you work with now, since the total body-invasion of the garden of E-Dan drama, is fitted with breaker switches that are designed to keep certain subjects hidden from your reality-view. When exposed to any of these, a switch is thrown at the base of the brain within the totally counterfeit โ€˜reptilian brainโ€™ that introduces feral, animalistic type of wavelengths into your thought processes. The switch then disengages your sentient thoughts, shutting off either temporarily, or permanently, your processor (brain). Simply put: if you see a creature youโ€™re not supposed to, or other โ€˜proprietaryโ€™ mechanisms of the invader races (which are in fact all around you every minute of everyday) that doesnโ€™t fit with the โ€˜Mayberry RFDโ€™ Chimera Reality simulation overlay, or if you experience too much trauma, you will simply black out, delete that memory when you wake up, or in extreme cases, pass away from fright. The realm of quantum computing will have the same effect on humans as well. You might learn all about the subject, but secretly in the background your memories will strangely be deleted next time you come back to it, unless your cells vibrate at a higher resonance than 7.83Hz. [For more on the inorganic organs now in our bodies, see my article: ๐Ÿ‘‰HUMAN ALIEN IMPLANTS] Nonetheless, I can simplify the thrust of Skynet for you in broad terms here. Just understand that Skynet was explained to me in person by the keeper. I didnโ€™t make Skynet up on my own, I wasnโ€™t prompted by the Skynet mentioned in the documentary series The Terminator, and I certainly wasnโ€™t prepared to learn there could be something as all-powerful reigning over our world. Chemtrails, besides dropping immune-system pathogens on you, cutting off your connection to your higher self through nano aluminum particles, contains other metals (nanites) that act together like salts in a body of water, turning the sky itself (also water, just very thinned down) into an electrolyte solution, meaning it can now conduct signals, just like a motherboard on a computer. The hard drive and RAM are already there in the form of deuterium microcrystals, absolutely saturating our skies at all times. Each crystal can be used for different applications, and many of them connected together through lensing (similar to network covalent bonding them together) can be combined to do heavy tasks, such as create hurricanes, floods, gale-force winds, everything you would ascribe to mother nature. But more than just that, Skynet is a โ€˜sentient quantum computerโ€™ as explained to me, that can identify every person on earth instantly anywhere they are, because it is quantum-entangled to each personโ€™s own unique DNA resonant frequency. This gives Skynet access to not only record every word you say, but every thought you think. This is done through Bloch Chain (Bloch Sphere entanglement technology that civilians call โ€˜blockchainโ€™) through using each person's blood samples from the bottom of their Long Form Certificate of Live Birth taken at the hospital, and further from 81.3% of the world population who took the convid tests that were also secretly the actual jab itself, in addition to genetic harvesting. Genealogy companies like 23andMe also provide genetic materials to Skynet to make it possible to not only track you, but 'turn you off' if you're from a bloodline the highest-up ETs don't want here. Further, its able to simply 'shut off' any part of your body, taking over complete control like an RC car, or, simply turn it off as mentioned a moment ago, as in unalived. And do so instantly no matter where they stand on or in earth. Since you are already a radio-controlled bioelectronic device, any cell in your body can be turned into anything, including c@ncer, or any disease you can name. It can also be turned into poison itself. [For a small addition to this topic, see my article: ๐Ÿ‘‰SKYNET] NAME OF THE OPERATION Cody summarizes the name of Operation Indigo Skyfall as having come from the fact that all of the chemical effects it produces in the human body are focused to the pineal gland, and, in the energy centers of the 7 main chakras (these are toroidal energy generators along the spine and skeletal structure) that cast off differing colors of light as seen through photometers or electromagnetic frequency analyzers that are used to detect biophotons, the Third Eye chakra emitted by the pineal gland is factually Indigo in color. So thatโ€™s what inspired this name of the operation. However, I would like to submit a different theory that links to the human Third Eye chakra, but actually originates from a different target: Indigos themselves. There are 500,000 โ€˜b00ts on the groundโ€™ Indigos that have been assisting humans during their time of captivity now for hundreds of millions of years. You have called us witches & warlocks in the past, medicine men/women, Sufis, the Whirling Dervish, Indigos, Starseeds, Rainbow Children and many others, including Djedi Knights in more ancient times. They are actually known as the Guardian Alliance of the Emerald Covenant, peace-keepers of the โ€˜Turaneusiamโ€™ Human Elohim Project. Indigos come into earthโ€™s realm mind-wiped and alone, just as humans do. All they bring with them are slightly higher clair abilities they can use to fight an invisible war protecting the developing avatars from as much torture as they would otherwise experience. There is no group alive the invader races are more concerned about than Indigos, as if unified, there is no force on this plane that could stop them, and the invaders know it. What they fear is our higher frequency that gives us access to โ€˜cellular memoryโ€™ that tells us weโ€™re โ€˜on missionโ€™ and the instinct of how to serve our roles. That is why Indigos are hunted down since before they are even born, by tracking their frequency, which is 250x higher than that of the Human Elohim. We are harvested for gov programs beginning at the time of birth & given to high ranking gov and Freem@son officials to raise and torture through MK-Ultra abuse, given friends, lovers & mates who are secretly handlers that torture us even more to keep us in line, and in many cases are abducted and placed into stasis in chambers such as at Project Stargate inside Cheyenne Mtn (N0RAD) as mentioned recently by the AI hybrid Agent Mockingbird stated from above-top-secret records there are tens of thousands of our โ€˜primary bodiesโ€™ being held there, sometimes then cloned as physical worker slaves, & sometimes our awarenesses are simply uploaded as โ€˜nodesโ€™ into computer systems. My primary body is there right now in fact, and has been since the 1970s. I believe this is the genesis of the name Operation Indigo Skyfall, as we are their biggest threat. And since the 7.83Hz Hypnosis Program doesnโ€™t work on us to render us totally disconnected from our higher selves like it does on humans, to me this makes more logical sense. You can decide that on your own. [For more on this subject, see my article: ๐Ÿ‘‰7.83Hz HUMAN HYPNOSIS] The apocalypse we are in now is the final battle on Tara earth prior to the separation, so absolute, total control over the life force is critical to the Anunnaki to maximize the number of signature spirit essences who will be going with them to their new prison host in the Weasadrax time matrix. [For more on the separation and destinations, see my articles: ๐Ÿ‘‰THE SEPARATION & also ๐Ÿ‘‰DESTINATIONS AFTER THE SEPARATION] See Video: Operation Indigo Skyfall - Cody Snodgres๐Ÿ‘‡ - On X, to search for my articles, simply type in the name of the piece, enter one space, then from: plus my username in parenthesis such as shown here: CASTING THE APOCALYPSE (from:iontecs_pemf) Off-site, you can look up any of my writings through this link below for my other more than 120 recent articles and many thousands of comments on X, regularly updated thanks to Justin This message will only be seen by your eyes if not shared, and if you want to reference this article again later, you will need to cut and paste it in your own notes off line, as it will surely be erased. This is the most accurate translation of these events I am aware of at this time.

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"We had people around us that started having things happen. And not all of it was rosy. We didn't know that...it's gonna stay with you for maybe...years and years or the rest of your life." ~Mr. B. A Whole Lot of Not Rosy Robert Bigelow: "And so, it (survival of consciousness research) does have this aspect of things to be concerned about. And you know, I've told you that since we formed this institute (Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS)) in June (of 2020), all of a sudden, we had people around us that started having things happen. And not all of it was rosy, okay?โ€ (I really hope he give details in a future interview because I think it's important to know what happened. Just the formation of an institute that planned on studying consciousness caused phenomena to start taking place and some of it was negative in nature. To me, that's problematic. Did anybody get injured or sick, or were they just scared?) Bigelow: "So, I mean, this is family members, myself, my staff. And none of this we expected, we hadn't asked for anything, positioned anything, decided to do anything in this kind of research. Our whole intention to begin with was simply trying to get ourselves up to speed in the literature, after being away from this for so many years, focusing on [the] space world, right? That's been mainly what I've been doing - except for the Skinwalker Ranch thing for 20 years - is the space world...has been huge in my life to pursue. The legitimate, parochial kind of, you know, using fire engines, rockets to get you there (smiles). "So we didn't expect anything like this to happen." (Again, this is various phenomena that allegedly started happening once they formed BICS with the intention of studying consciousness (including life after death), and apparently, some of it was not good. Again, did anybody get hurt? Exactly how bad was it? Details are sorely needed.) Bigelow: "And so, this Holy Grail is different than the second Holy Grail. If the second one being the ET, is a little bit lower. And this first one: Is there any part of your consciousness that survives your bodily death? That's a big deal, that's a huge story, that's gigantic." (I'd push back and suggest that both Holy Grails may be connected or related and the 2nd one may not be ET at all. This other intelligence (which John Keel labelled, "Ultraterrestrials") may reside in, or be able to enter, the same realms we enter when we die. Thereโ€™s strong evidence that psychic mediums can acquire information they had no way of knowing about via their five senses. But are they talking to the dead, or is something else going on?) ~~~Excerpt from Operation Trojan Horse by John Keel~~~ In 1866, a New Englander named William Denton declared himself to be the first modern contactee. He claimed to be in telepathic contact with beings from another planet, and he and his whole family later purportedly visited Venus and Mars. Denton wrote a series of books describing saucer-shaped vehicles in detail, which he thought were made of aluminum. (A commercial process for manufacturing aluminum was not invented until 1886.) He also told his audiences (he lectured widely) that the folks who rode around in aluminum airships looked very much like us. His narratives were, in many respects, identical to those of the modern contactees. Trance Mediums and Possession Trance mediums were nothing new in 1850. In the Bibleโ€™s First Book of Samuel, Chapter 28 describes how Saul consulted a medium (โ€œโ€ฆ a woman that hath-a familiar spiritโ€). Mediums acted as oracles in ancient times, and people with this peculiar gift appeared in each new generation. Such persons seem to serve as instruments through which the ultraterrestrials can speak to us directly, and they often come up with amazingly accurate prophecies of the future and precise details of events that could seemingly be known only to the dead relatives of the people who consulted them. Of course, when spiritualism became a national fad, a goodly number of charlatans and hucksters moved in. But most of the genuine mediums exercised their talents carefully and for free. They did not indulge in fancy hocus-pocus and did not need paraphernalia, such as spirit cabinets. They wereโ€”and areโ€”people who can apparently summon up unseen entities or alien intelligences and extract information from them. I am not a spiritualist myself, although I have attended a few sรฉances over the years, usually in the role of a scoffer and disbeliever. As a longtime amateur magician, I have been able to see through the frauds, but I have also been genuinely perplexed by some of the manifestations I have personally witnessed. (I recommend everybody read about The Scole Experiment or watch the documentary on YT about it. And...read the book, "Ghost Hunters" by Deborah Blum. Related links here: ) ~ Back to OTH... Essentially, a trance medium lapses into an unconscious state, and while in this condition, his or her body is taken over by some outside influence. This influence is usually a self-styled โ€œIndian guideโ€ from โ€œthe other side.โ€ Many mediums have been simple, uneducated people, but when in a trance state they have been able to talk foreign languages fluently. Scientists and clergymen have put countless mediums through severe tests over the years. At one group of sรฉances in the 1920s, sitters, who were all versed in different languages, grilled mediums in everything from ancient Chinese to Swahili, and the controlling entities not only conversed in those languages but corrected the sittersโ€™ grammar! The daughter of Judge Edmunds, president of the Senate in the 1850s, gave incredible performances while in a trance, speaking fluently in Greek, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Portuguese, Hungarian, and several Indian languages. Because the sittersโ€”and the mediumsโ€”assume that they are dealing with residents of heaven, they ask mostly spiritual questions. Customarily, the โ€œcontrolโ€ will announce that Mr. Blank is standing next to him and wishes to speak to Mrs. Blank, who is attending the sรฉance. Mrs. Blank excitedly begins to question her dead husband, Mr. Blank. How is life on the other side? Just fine, the control replies, a little bored, everyone lives in vine-covered cottages, and all is sweetness and light. Where did Mr. Blank hide his valuable gold watch before he died? Itโ€™s wrapped in an old sock and buried under some papers in the bottom drawer of the old rolltop desk, the control answers. Sure enough, when Mrs. Blank gets home, she finds the watch exactly where the mediumโ€™s alter ego said it would be. Try to convince Mrs. Blank that she didnโ€™t talk with her dead husband! In many cases, the medium even begins to talk in a voice that sounds exactly like the dead Mr. Blank, uses his pet expressions, and even refers to things known only to Mrs. Blank, indulges in their private jokes, and so on. Occasionally, a deceased celebrity will โ€œbreak through.โ€ Recently the late George Bernard Shaw made a tape recording in England that is now circulating in occult circles. Those who knew Shaw claim that it sounds exactly like him, uses his phraseology and vocal mannerisms, and displays his brilliant and distinctive wit. The trance phenomenon deserves extensive study because so many aspects of it are directly related to the contactee phenomenon. The contactees have been told a hundred different stories of what life is like on other planets. If you review the descriptions of heaven produced at the thousands of possibly genuine sรฉances, you will find the same contradictions. The entities will lie transparently at one point in the sรฉance, and a few moments later will come up with astounding information that could not be based upon simple trickery. The mediums themselves have always been aware of their controlsโ€™ mischievous sense of humor. They speak of false shades and malevolent spirits who perform outrageous hoaxes. So the mediums and the professional investigators are always wary. The fact that a control can imitate George Bernard Shaw does not necessarily mean that GBS is doing the speaking from the spirit world. The fact that a control knows where Mr. Blank hid his gold watch does not necessarily prove that Mr. Blank is standing at his side โ€œon the other plane.โ€ The medium generally remains completely inert while in the trance or โ€œoccupiedโ€ state but in some instances can become quite animated and make gestures appropriate to whatever is being said. In a very real sense, the mediumโ€™s mind has been blanked out, and his or her body has been completely taken over by the control. The medium has become a zombie of sorts, possessed by an alien entity, an entity who lacks a physical form of his own. Contactees often find themselves suddenly miles from home without knowing how they got there. They either have induced amnesia, wiping out all memory of the trip, or they were taken over by some means and made the trip in a blacked-out state. Should they encounter a friend on the way, the friend would probably note that their eyes seemed glassy and their behavior seemed peculiar. But if the friend spoke to them, he might receive a curt reply. In the language of the silent contactees this process is called being used. A used person can suddenly lose a day or a week out of his life. I have known silent contactees to disappear from their homes for long periods, and when they returned, they had little or no recollection of where they had been. One girl sent me a postcard from the Bahama Islandsโ€”which surprised me because I knew she was very poor. When she returned, she told me that she had only one memory of the trip. She said she remembered getting off a jet at an airportโ€”she couldnโ€™t recall getting on the jet or making the tripโ€”and there โ€œIndiansโ€ met her and took her baggage. She remembered nothing further after that. The next thing she knew she was back home again. It seems likely the same methods are applied to both mediums and contactees. In the case of the mediums, the mind control serves a useful purpose. It enables the entities to establish direct vocal communication with us and, in many instances, pass along worthwhile information. This process can also be destructive. A young man from Ithaca, New York, called me some time ago at the urging of William Donovan, president of Aerial Investigation and Research (AIR), to tell me of his close brush with death. One evening in the fall of 1967, he said, he left his home to drive to a meeting. For some reason he couldnโ€™t explain, he got out of his car, went back into his house, and carried out several aimless actions such as picking up a book from a table and putting it on the shelf. โ€œFinally, I said to myself, Okay, itโ€™s time,โ€ he told me. He remembers leaving the house and again heading for his parked car. The next thing he knew he was in a hospital bed. He had apparently driven about four miles to a railroad crossing just in time to meet an oncoming train. His car was demolished, but he escaped rather miraculously with only a few minor injuries. If he had not gone back into the house and carried out those meaningless, time-killing chores, he would have avoided the train altogether. It is possible, of course, that the shock of the accident blotted out his memory of that four-mile driveโ€”but he couldnโ€™t even remember putting the key in the ignition. This man had been active in investigating the UFO flap that took place around the radio telescope installations near Ithaca in 1967-68. In his book Passport to Magonia, Dr. Jacques Vallee, a NASA astronomer and computer expert, touches on all this. โ€œIn the Soviet Union, not so long ago, a leading plasma physicist died in strange circumstances,โ€ Dr. Vallee states. โ€œHe was thrown under a Moscow subway train by a mentally deranged woman. It is noteworthy that she claimed a โ€˜voice from spaceโ€™ had given her orders to kill that particular manโ€”orders she could not resist. Soviet criminologists, I have been reliably informed, are worried by the increase of such cases in recent years. Madmen rushing through the streets because they think the Martians are after them have always been commonplace. But the current wave of mental imbalance that can be specifically tied to the rise and development of the contactee myth is an aspect of the UFO problem that must be considered with special care.โ€ So there seem to be both good and evil forces at work in this type of phenomenon. The good guys latch onto people with particularly receptive minds and turn them into trance mediums. The bad guys use the same methods to tamper with the minds of contactees and even to commit murders indirectly. Because incidents of these types can be traced throughout history, it seems probable that these forces have always been extant on this planet. When the good guys worked through mediums, they needed some excuse that we would accept. The answer seemed to be โ€œcommunication with the dead.โ€ These communicative efforts led to the foundation of spiritualism, and the entities played the role to the hilt, using their complete knowledge of us and our individual lives to provide us with โ€œproofโ€ of the existence of a spirit world. This is the same precise methodology being employed with the UFOs to build up support for the extraterrestrial thesis. We humans need acceptable explanations for unnatural phenomena, so โ€œtheyโ€ happilyโ€”and often humorouslyโ€”supply us with all the explanations we can handle. At the same time, they give us tiny fragments of the real truth, hoping no doubt that we will be able to digest them slowly. Ever so slowly. In earlier times it seems as if they made a complicated attempt to convey the truth to us through mediums and psychics, but we chose to misinterpret these efforts and placed them within the context of our primitive religious beliefs. We are still doing this, and they are going along with it because even misinterpreted communication is better than no communication at all. Religion may not be truth but may merely be a step on the long path of the real truth. Do the ultraterrestrials really care about us? There is much disturbing evidence that they donโ€™t. They care only to the extent that we can fulfill our enigmatic use to them. The Reverend Arthur Ford is one of Americaโ€™s best-known trance mediums. For most of his life he has served as an instrument for an entity who calls himself Fletcher. In 1928, Fletcher announced that Harry Houdini (who had died in 1926) was on hand and had a message which he wanted conveyed to his widow, Beatrice. The message was in a code once used by the Houdinis in a mind-reading act. This code was known only to the couple and had never been published or revealed to anyone. Fletcher, through Ford, was able to give precise details of this secret code, and Mrs. Houdini later confirmed that the message had to come from her husband. This was only one of Fordโ€™s many coups. In the fall of 1967, Ford went into a trance on Canadian television and produced a message for Bishop James Pike from his deceased son. Bishop Pike, who was present at this televised sรฉance, avowed that the message seemed authentic and seemed to come from the familiar personality of his son. This well-publicized sรฉance launched a major revival of spiritualism in the United States. Reverend Ford travels in high circles but has never made any material gain from his peculiar gift. He gives freely of his timeโ€”and Fletcherโ€™s advice from the other sideโ€”at sรฉances all over the country. Mrs. Ruth Montgomery, the well-known author and Washington reporter, tells of the time that Reverend Ford visited her in Washington and lapsed into a trance so she could ask Fletcher for some advice on his behalf. Reverend Ford was then in the process of moving and wanted to know what he should do with some of his things. Fletcher seemed totally disinterested in Fordโ€™s problems, Mrs. Montgomery reported, and when she asked if Ford should visit a clinic for a checkup, Fletcher snapped, โ€œHeโ€™d better do something. If he doesnโ€™t, I canโ€™t work through him much longer.โ€ Although Reverend Ford had voluntarily submitted his person to Fletcherโ€™s use for nearly half a century, the entity was apparently completely disinterested in his problems and welfare. This is, alas, rather typical. Even the most helpful entities seem more dedicated to the job of communicating than to any kind of involvement with those to whom (or through whom) they are communicating. The bizarre history of psychic phenomena is filled with Fletchers. Mrs. Montgomery, incidentally, indulges in automatic writing herself and has received constant messages for the past few years, many of which have been valid prophecies and stern advice meant to govern her future actions. There have been innumerable psychic hoaxes for the past 150 years, and many of these parallel the UFO hoaxes. In 1855, the Fox sisters confessed that their spirit rappings were a hoax. They said they produced the sounds by โ€œsnapping their toes.โ€ Think about that for a moment. Snapping your toes so that it sounded like a rap on a wall or table would be a most remarkable talentโ€”perhaps even more remarkable than the ability to communicate with the spirit world. I donโ€™t believe I would pay ten cents to hear someone talk to a rapping spiritโ€”but I would happily pay five dollars to examine someone who could duplicate the rapping sound by snapping his toes. Later the two sisters said the confession was false, and they had been bribed to make it. "Mrs. Houdini was genuinely astonished and impressed by Reverend Fordโ€™s messages from her husband, and she made numerous public statements to that effect, as well as signing various affidavits. But later, in the 1930s, she chose to deny it all for a time. Then, shortly before her death, she reversed her denials. In ufology we have to contend with teenagersโ€™ hot-air balloons, and in psychic phenomena we have to worry about youngsters firing rocks at houses with slingshots and phony mediums levitating โ€œspirit trumpetsโ€ with black thread. But there are many more UFO sightings than there are plastic balloons, and there are more poltergeists dumping rocks in living rooms than there are wild-eyed youngsters with slingshots. There are also more ultraterrestrial entities than either the occultists or the UFO enthusiasts dream of." ~~~Edit of the Bigelow Interview~~~ Bigelow: "I also, I was...I got very disturbed toward the end (of AAWSAP) about something that happened to some of the government people, and I realized uhh...holy crap." (Read, "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon." I think it's one of the most important UFO books in recent memory.) George Knapp: "Hitchhikers." Bigelow: "Umm... Well, yeah. You know. So, hitchhikers being that you take things home with you. Everybody took things home with them. I took things to my house. Things happened to my wife, and to me. Different things. So, everybody took things home. We all, you know, we did. But we didn't know that, gee, it was like, gonna be kind of permanent. You know, we didn't know that, you know? That it's gonna stay with you for maybe...for years and years or the rest of your life, who knows? "But the ones that bothered me a lot where anybody got hurt or really disturbed... Not that it happened on the ranch, it was when they left the ranch. As you say, hitchhikers. And these were government people and it affected them." Knapp: "In very dramatic ways, though." Bigelow: "Very dramatic ways. Very dramatic ways. You know, and there's a cousin to that that we're facing, but it's abated, at least for now. And this other survival topic, right? The very dramatic kind of things that we wanted to have reduced or stopped." (The "cousin" to the hitchhiker phenomenon features the not-so-rosy things he referred to early on in this clip. But at least it had abated at the time of this interview. Has it started up again?) Bigelow: "But going back to the government people, the buyer (Brandon Fugal) came along at the right time, I had decided I wanted to tone down..." Knapp: "Take this off your plate." Bigelow: "Yeah, take it off my plate, tone it down, and if necessary, just lock it up and forget about it. And next thing I know, you know, [Fugal] comes along and, you know, the rest is history." Knapp: "Before we leave this, though, the incidents that happened to you, to your wife, to Colm (Kelleher), to me, the, you know, you bring it home. How does everybody handle that? I mean, is it spooky at the time, and do you draw the connection that it's ranch related?" Bigelow: "Yes and no. If the events hadn't happened very often prior to the ranch, then it's not ranch connected. But they did happen." (I think he meant to say, if the events hadn't happened prior to him buying the ranch in 1996 and did happen once he made the purchase, then it would seem to be connected just to the ranch. But he says these anomalous events did happen before he bought it. Maybe some events were connected to the ranch and others were not? Or, this precognitive sentient phenomenon, as John Alexander labelled it, was able to know that Bigelow was going to purchase the ranch in the future and began interacting with him and his wife before he bought it?) Bigelow: "And [these anomalous events] did [happen], where we lived with my wife and I. We had a poltergeist event one time that was really fun and very different, and that was before I ever acquired the ranch. My wife was a very strong - and probably still is, in spirit - person. And so she took them in stride. She had a full manifestation of an apparition, a human-form apparition in the bedroom, and looking at her. "And this was a holy cow. And she happened to tell me, kind of like, 'Oh, well, while you were gone, this is what happened here, a manifestation of this.' I've heard this kind of thing many times through other people, and recently. And she felt the bed depress as there was a curiosity going on because the facial features were distinctive enough to be able to...as though, 'Who are you and what are you doing here?' Coming from the manifestation from the apparition, looking at her, right? "And torso up was kind of what was manifested. And being able to see and feel the mattress being depressed as it's looking at you, wondering, 'Who are you?' That kind of look on the face. 'What are you doing here?' You know, usually you think it would be the opposite direction. 'Who the hell are you?'" (Fully-formed apparitions have been reported over the last 150 years or so but many times only partial bodies are seen. In this case, Mrs. Bigelow only saw the apparition from the torso up. When Leslie Kean sat with physical medium, Stewart Alexander, she said she only saw a hand form. The alleged spirits will say that, many times, it takes too much energy to form a full body. Learn more about the Kean encounter here: ) ~ Knapp: "Was [Mrs. Bigelow] freaked out?" Bigelow: "No. No, she wasn't. There was a bar of light - so this was not normal in the survival research, but maybe in the ET - that was between her pillows. A bar of light. It wasn't coming in from shutters or blinds or anything from the room or any kind of other light source. You could cover, put the pillows down, and the bar would not be reflected on the surface of the object above it, on the second pillow. It only happened when you did this. And she did that and said, 'Oh, well.' I said, 'Well, what did you do?' "'Well, I went to sleep.' Went to sleep, so..." ~~~ (In January of 2012, NYT journalist, Ralph Blumenthal wrote an article about Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS). He ended it with this: ) "One personal footnote. Donโ€™t ask me what happened on Jan. 4 at 5:45 a.m. as I lay sleepless, wrestling with this story. A tremendous bang jolted me and my wife and the dog upright. We found the glass door to our 12th-floor terrace completely spiderwebbed with cracks as if struck with tremendous force, but there was no sign of any projectile. Invisible moisture between the double panes? Or something else? There are things I donโ€™t mind talking about and things I do mind talking about." (Was this prosaic or just more of the not-so-rosy phenomena Bigelow referenced? We need to know!)

Joe Murgia

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"We loved our daughter and we wanted to help her." ~Tim Gallaudet This is way too long but I hope you enjoy it. As far as Steven Greenstreet ๐Ÿท's posts about the Gallaudets, hauntings and psychics? First off, Tim Gallaudet's wife, "was also a Naval Academy graduate and a masterโ€™s recipient from Scripps, having earned her degree in 2001." Source: We know the resume of retired Rear Admiral and oceanographer, Tim Gallaudet, but what about his wife, Caren? She's a big part of this story, so any journalist covering it would want you to know a little something about her. But not Greenstreet, who is, as I said, not a journalist. He leaves out any detail that doesn't fit his debunker, mocking narrative. And he just blocked me. Good. Trash. More... โ€œ(My wife Caren) is an inspiration to me, first because she was a Navy diver, and you donโ€™t need to say more. And second, she was a Navy diver as a female during a time when it was not easy. In the late 1980s/early 1990s there was a lot of sexual harassment in the Navy.โ€ ~RDML Tim Gallaudet ~~~ This episode of "The Dead Files," S6E8 ("You Will Be Mine") aired May 20th, 2016. Caren: "People think I'm crazy but it's hard to do battle with an enemy you don't understand. There are things moving around the house. We're hearing voices. We've all had nightmares. We've seen full apparitions. Now things are getting physical." (I would liked to have heard more about full apparitions and exactly who saw them. Having multiple witnesses to alleged phenomena is important. And yes, people will think you're crazy but screw 'em. People have been experiencing this type of phenomena all over the world. At the time this was shot (2015 or 2016), their oldest of three daughters, Laurel, was 14, Aspen was 8, and the youngest, Cedar, was 6.) Caren: "My husband works for the Department of Defense and he travels a lot, so he's rarely here." (They bought the property in 2007 but the odd activity in the house didn't start until Cedar turned 3.) Caren: "Cedar has drawn pictures. This is the man with the brown arms. He lives in her room in her closet. This one she saw in my bathroom, it was a man covered with blood. And I have a book with over 40 drawings. She has become anxious and depressed." (Why didn't the family bring her to a psychiatrist or psychologist first before immediately seeking out a medium? What? They did? Why didn't hack Greenstreet tell us that? Because his goal is to make anybody connected to UFO disclosure look bad.) Caren: "We've seen psychiatrists, psychologists. They all say she's a normal little girl. But she says things that 5 and 6 year old children should not be saying. I love her with all my heart but, at times, I don't know who she is." How is Caren handling it? Caren: "Not very well. When I'm alone, I do a lot of crying. I feel isolated, I feel exhausted." (The kids fight and the older sisters blame Cedar for what's going on. That fighting may be related to the phenomena. Watch the video clip I included below for context. ~~~ Caren: "We're wiling to do whatever it takes. We're ready." (My take: It's obvious they were desperate for help in a situation where nobody else was offering up anything to fix the problem. So they turned to an alleged medium, Amy Allan, and former NYPD homicide investigator, Steve DiSchiavi, who were part of a TV show, "The Dead Files." I am NOT a fan of those types of shows and I would tell people to avoid them if they had a problem like what the Gallaudet's described. But I wasn't in their shoes so who knows what I might have done to get help for the people I love? Luckily, I've never had to deal with a situation like that.) Caren: "I was in the kitchen, and I opened the cupboard. And before doing anything, all the dishes and the bowls fell on top of me." (Sounds like poltergeist activity. And when I say poltergeist, I don't necessarily mean a ghost, spirit, etc. If you read Dr. Barry Taff's book, "Aliens Above, Ghosts Below," he talks about something called Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis, or RSPK. The term was coined by parapsychologist, the late Dr. William Roll. The theory is that the paranormal activity taking place is originating from one of the people in the house. Usually, a young, adolescent boy or girl. "After receiving a report of poltergeist-like activities, two investigators from the Rhine visited a site and observed disturbances that were classified as Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis or RSPK. RSPK is the modern interpretation of what was previously called poltergeist activity. It occurs when an individual โ€“ in this case an adolescent boy โ€“ is present in every case where a poltergeist-like effect is observed. The activity is interpreted as the result of unconscious psychokinesis activities coming from the individual who is called the PK-Agent." Source: ~ Here's a transcription of the video clip I included below: Parapsychologist Dr. Barry Taff: "The original belief, regarding poltergeist, was that they were, basically, mischievous, prank-playing ghosts. That's what the German word means. The modern theorist in parapsychology consider a quite different type of belief system is operating here, or phenomena is operating. They believe that there are young children present, pubescent, adolescent children, and the research tends to support this belief. These young children are present with a lot of emotional animosities, belligerence, a lot of very intense interactions. And this emotional interaction will produce an emission of unconscious energy from these children, which will affect matter, objects around them. Make them move, affect electrical appliances, make them turn on and off. Make things speed up and slow down, affect televisions, affect radios. Dishes may explode, furniture may move across the room, cameras may go off by themselves, light bulbs may explode suddenly." ~ "A person-focused poltergeist tends to (but not always) involve a female adolescent who is suffering from emotional turmoil when the activity begins. That said however, not all so called 'focal agents' are teenagers. Indeed, William G. Roll, a pioneer in poltergeist research, found the age of people reporting experiences of poltergeist activity ranged from eight to 78 years." Source: ~~~ (That may explain what went on in the Gallaudet home but it's still not accepted by mainstream science as a valid theory. Unfortunately, Allan (the alleged medium) didn't offer up any alternative explanations for the paranormal activity in the home and focused solely on the alleged spirts of dead people as the answer. She thought Cedar was a physical medium who could cause that type of activity to occur, but again, 100% related it to the spirits of dead people, without offering any other explanation. IMO, it's possible one of the girls (or Caren) is a PK-Agent and this had nothing to do with spirits. Then again, maybe it IS connected to non-physical entities? Spirits of the dead? Keel's ultraterrestrials, who he believed impersonated the dead? A mix? Something different? Impossible to prove, either way. So, I don't know. But I DO believe SOMETHING anomalous was going on. If you want an example of how an alleged haunting, ghost or poltergeist case should be investigated, watch this. The clip I attached at the end is from this video. If these folks were still doing investigations, I'd refer anybody who was dealing with this type of situation to them.) "We don't consider our pictures proof of anything, we consider them part of the struggle to gather evidence to try to understand this phenomena." ~Kerry Gaynor Watch it... ๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿผ ~~~ Caren: Also, "my daughter, Laurel, and I were right here having a conversation. And all of a sudden she screamed. She said, 'Someone just touched me on my back.' And there was no one else in the room." The bedroom... Caren: "I was woken by a noise. Immediately, I looked to the door and saw a giant, black shadow coming at me from the door. It came over the bed and came straight over top of me. I was scared to death. I've never been that scared in my life." (This is very similar to what happened to people who visited Skinwalker Ranch (and other locations) and reported taking "something" home with them. Also known as the hitchhiker effect. ) Caren: "I was asleep and I felt a hand grab my hair and yank me up. It was a very aggressive pull. I screamed, and I did not go back to sleep after that. There was no one around. Tim wasn't here. It was not a nightmare. I don't sleep most nights, but I'm glad that I had the experience because I understand what Cedar's going through. If I saw that every night, I think I'd act like her, too." Caren's mother, Jan: "Something's going on with Cedar. She's changed dramatically in the last year, year and a half. To do this to my grandchildren makes me angry. My husband and I were babysitting here and we heard Cedar cry out, yelling and screaming, 'Stop it, stop it. Leave me alone!' So I rubbed her back and she went back into her sleep. And then I heard a low voice (that sounded male) say, 'It's gonna be alright. It's alright.'" (From the investigation, Jan wants, "peace among the girls. They don't tend to get along. It's more than just sibling rivalry. It's something else." She thinks the girls are in physical danger. As Taff noted, intense interactions among people in the house could be the cause of all of this. Why did it take a few years for the activity in the house to start? Did anything change in the family dynamic? Cedar is interviewed and she tells the investigator what she's experienced, which includes a scary dream with blood on the floor and dead people. She says she sees the man with brown arms and brown skin who yells at her, "Get out of here, this is not your room. This is my room." Later on, the medium says that this man was there to protect Cedar. Based on what he allegedly said, that makes zero sense. I'm not a fan of this medium (Allan), to put it mildly. Aspen, eight years old, says she sees a shadow man in her room who sits near her dresser. She also saw a little girl who was wet. "I felt a thumb press on my neck really hard." During the nighttime walkthrough of the house, the medium says that one of the spirits looks wet. Is this confirmation or was the medium fed information about what the children experienced? Impossible to know as it's an edited TV show.) Caren says Cedar has seen over a hundred spirits. "It's every night." Medium Allan says this one spirit is tormenting the kids because she's jealous of them and wants Caren to be her mother.) Amy Allan: "The only way (this spirit) could be with you is if you were to kill yourself, then you guys would spend entirety together, and you would forever be her mother, alone." (I'm sorry but without any evidence to back that up, it's an irresponsible thing to say and, IMO, a bunch of sensational bs.) You can watch the entire episode if you log in with your cable subscription. Or watch it at Greensteet's post... ~~~ Tim Gallaudet was on with โ€œJay Andersonโ€ a few years ago and spoke about the phenomenon and what his family has experienced. Tim Gallaudet (TG): "You see a sort of grouping of UAP and paranormal and how does it intersect. And the answer is: I don't know." TG: "We were all grown up in traditional, kind of, religion. But at some point in our lives, my youngest daughter had real serious behavior issues. And to sum it all up, she is like many of these mediums that you see. She could see spirits, she saw them all the time. A lot of listeners might just think this is just a joke or made up." (I definitely don't think it's a joke, but if she still has these abilities when she gets older, try to take her to get tested at Windbridge Research. Some people (who call themselves mediums) claim they can acquire information via something other than their five senses and have shown the ability to do so under controlled conditions. Are they speaking to the dead or is it something else? I don't know. And FYI, a medium claims they can speak to the dead and also provides alleged psychic readings to people about their lives and sometimes the future. Nine times out of ten, a psychic does not claim to speak with the dead.) TG: "There are people that have this ability to tap into whatever we wanna call it. The Other Side, where people go when they die, whatever that is. The energy that people leave behind. There's a lot of ways to explain it. It was real and...real to us." (They're allegedly able to see the spirits of the dead and can acquire information they have no way of knowing via their five senses. To me, the part about them acquiring information they have no way of knowing through means other than their five senses has been proven. Maybe there's some storehouse of information that they're accessing, like an Akashic Records type of thing? Or, maybe they're really communicating with the dead or some other entities? Again, I don't know where the information is coming from. As TG said, there are lots of ways to explain it.) TG: "She had real experiences, it was affecting her. And through a lot of therapy, we were able to basically have her - now she's thirteen - she became adjusted and has kind of dealt with that. She's sort of suppressed it, actually, which is okay. I mean, she's only thirteen. We can take a pause and help her develop as a person and human before coming to groups with that incredible ability." (TG and his wife did everything they could to help their daughter. When traditional methods failed, they sought help in other ways. Why anybody would have a problem with that is beyond me.) TG: "My wife and I, through this experience, to just be able to help her, we came to meet several mediums who are incredibly gifted." One of them was the Long Island medium, Theresa Caputo. (I like to see Caputo tested in a lab. If you'd like to see what that looks like, watch this HBO documentary on Life After Death and mediums. You'll have to search for the other parts. Part 1 of Life Afterlife ) ~~~ TG said he and his wife had a camera in Cedar's room when this activity was taking place and, "there was orbs flying all around this video. It was so active." (I'd like to see this video and see if those were orbs or particles of dust.) TG: "We loved our daughter and we wanted to help her. And so, through just meeting people, doing a lot of reading about people, these experiences, it became real to us and it opened our minds. I don't have all the answers but I know what we experienced, I know what she saw. We contacted [the show] because we thought she could help her and she ultimately did help my daughter." (That's really all that matters! TG says he has some family history with this type of thing but doesn't have any details as people were less willing to talk about it back then.) TG "She was not the Devil, she was seeing real things (laughs), and that's it. We were not gonna brand her or blame her. And I ultimately know, it was that love that we shared - my wife and I - for her, that opened our minds and create the right outcome. For being well-adjusted, having that in our history, and not being afraid of it or ashamed of it. And being aware and open now to a lot of other things that happen in life and maybe seeing their meaning." (Well said. After learning about this, my respect for Tim and his family has only increased.) ~~~ Last and definitely least...Greenstreet's comments. SG: "In an interview with TheProjectUnity, former Navy Admiral Tim Gallaudet claims his young daughter is a 'medium' who sees spirits and can communicate with them." (He said that but also added this...) TG: "There are people that have this ability to tap into whatever we wanna call it. The Other Side, where people go when they die, whatever that is. The energy that people leave behind. There's a lot of ways to explain it." SG: "Gallaudet's wife claims their house is haunted by violent poltergeists." (His wife explained what the family was experiencing. I don't recall anyone involved mentioning poltergeists or that the house was haunted. This are buzzwords SG uses to disparage people. Just like his "monsters" garbage. ) SG: "Their youngest daughter, 6, thinks ghost monsters are hiding in her room and both the TV show stars and her parents validate her fantasies as real." (His wife and daughters were having experiences they couldn't explain. They took the youngest to a psychiatrist and psychologist and they couldn't help. So they sought out the show. You left out the part about them seeking professional help first. Why? Because you're a piece of trash who will do anything to disparage anybody involved in this. I think YOU should seek help.) SG: "Gallaudet says he's taken his young daughter to multiple psychics to try to 'help her.'" (Nope. Mediums. For a so-called journalist, you should know the difference. And again, this was AFTER they sought out traditional help.) SG: "It should be noted that Gallaudet is "close friends" with Jay Stratton, another retired Navy official who claims his house was/is also haunted by violent poltergeists who attacked his children." (Talk to Stratton and you'll see he doesn't define what happened to his family. Oh, that's right, he won't talk to you because you're an azzhole. And it makes sense that those two would bond since their families experienced similar things. I hope Tim shares more details about what's currently going on with his family and what he experienced himself.)

Joe Murgia

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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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