The original Alice Cooper band split 50 years ago but now Alice has re-united with, guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway , drummer Neal Smith and producer Bob Ezrin to revisit the 1970s shock rock era with the release in July of their new album entitled "The Revenge Of Alice Cooper".

The first single from the album , "Black Mamba" , was    released today featuring a guest appearance by legendary Doors guitarist Robby Krieger deputising for original guitarist Glen Buxton who died in the late 90s although Buxton also appears on the album thanks to his work on a previously unreleased song. 

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Quote:STRIPPED: When Earth's Shield Fails the Dead Will Rise | The Plasma Apocalypse Our planet's magnetic shield is deteriorating rapidly, creating a dangerous vulnerability to solar storms of unprecedented power. Throughout history, events like the 1921 New York Railroad incident and the 1859 Carrington Event wreaked havoc on early technology. Cultures across continents left warnings through winter solstice rituals and megalithic structures designed not for worship but as sophisticated energy channeling systems during cosmic upheavals. Their stone warnings remain while our understanding fades. Military documents like CONPLAN 8888 reveal government preparations for phenomena beyond power outages. The magnetic north pole races toward Siberia at increasing speed, while the South Atlantic Anomaly grows larger each year. The approaching plasma event threatens to do more than disable our technology—it will transform reality in ways our ancestors deeply feared.

In the half-light of England’s most glorious age, where discovery and danger mingled like mist along the Thames, there lived a man who sought to unite all knowledge into a single divine truth. His name was Dr. John Dee — the Queen’s conjurer, the mathematician who mapped the oceans, the scholar who dreamed of touching Heaven itself. Yet for all his brilliance, there are whispers that he reached too high, and in doing so, unlocked doors no man was ever meant to open.

Dee was a man of endless hunger. Born in 1527, a time when heretics still burned for asking forbidden questions, he spent his childhood pulling apart the mysteries of the natural world. By the time he was barely a man, he had mastered mathematics, astronomy, optics — even the secret arts the Church condemned. To the cautious mind, Dee was dangerous: a man who saw no wall between science and magic, only undiscovered laws waiting to be understood.

The court of Elizabeth I knew Dee as a trusted advisor, a navigator who helped set the course for England’s future empire. It was Dee who coined the term "the British Empire," dreaming of a mighty nation guided by celestial wisdom. Yet even then, he hid deeper ambitions behind his public face. Dee believed that true knowledge — absolute, God-given truth — was not written in books or maps, but hidden among the stars, the spirits, and the secret languages of the angels themselves.

By the 1580s, in the fading glow of his worldly successes, Dee retreated from public life into the labyrinth of his own mind. His home at Mortlake became less a household than a temple: its walls lined with ancient manuscripts, magical instruments, and relics of lost civilizations. And there, among crumbling scrolls and gleaming astrolabes, Dee began to seek direct communion with the divine.

He built an altar, clothed himself in white linen robes, purified himself with fasts and prayers. And before him, always, sat the black mirror — a disk of volcanic glass said to have been carved by Aztec priests, its polished surface so dark it seemed to drink the light from the room. Through this mirror, Dee believed, he could summon the angels and receive from them the secrets of the universe.

But the angels did not come easily.

Frustrated by his failure to pierce the veil, Dee turned to a strange and troubled figure: Edward Kelley, a former apothecary and alchemist, whose reputation for fraud was as famous as his talents for scrying. Kelley claimed he could see into the spirit world — that he could act as a medium between Dee and the divine. Desperate, Dee agreed.

Together, they performed ritual after ritual. Dee would pray and chant, invoking the archangels by ancient names. Kelley, peering into the black mirror or into a translucent crystal ball, would describe visions of radiant beings descending from golden towers, bearing scrolls written in a strange, musical tongue. Dee called it Enochian — the language of angels, pure and undistorted by human sin.

The messages were often cryptic, filled with symbols, warnings, and elaborate instructions for building devices Dee called "heptarchic tables" — tools that could supposedly command the angelic hosts. At first, the communications seemed glorious: the angels praised Dee's piety, promised him wisdom and favor. But as time passed, the tone shifted.

The beings they contacted grew more commanding, more manipulative. Their demands became increasingly bizarre. They instructed Dee and Kelley to swap wives, an act that tore apart Dee’s conscience but which he obeyed, believing it a divine order. Kelley, already unstable, fell deeper into paranoia and resentment, convinced the spirits were deceiving them — or worse, that they had never been angels at all.

Indeed, the sessions took on a darker character. The so-called angels began delivering prophecies of apocalyptic doom, offering fragments of knowledge wrapped in riddles and threats. Dee's once-orderly mind began to fray. His diaries from this period are a tangle of fear and hope, filled with desperate pleas for clarification from spirits who gave only silence in return.

Even as the visions grew darker, Dee could not stop. He was a man possessed — not by demons, perhaps, but by his own bottomless yearning for certainty in a world built on shadows. Kelley, meanwhile, demanded ever greater rewards, seeking to transmute lead into gold with promises given by the spirits. In Prague, where they sought the patronage of Emperor Rudolf II, their reputation deteriorated into scandal. They became wandering outcasts, pitied, scorned, feared.

By the end, Kelley abandoned Dee altogether, dying in disgrace after either falling or throwing himself from a window. Dee returned to England a hollowed man. His books and instruments had been ransacked by mobs during his absence. Mortlake, once a house of wonders, was a ruin. Dee — who had once spoken with kings and queens — died in obscurity, an old man scribbling faded memories onto rotting paper, trying to hold onto the fragments of a broken revelation.

Yet the mark he left has never entirely faded.

The Enochian language survives, studied by occultists and magicians who believe it holds power even now. The black mirror sits in the British Museum — mute, but still gleaming with a depth that seems to swallow the soul. Those who have dared to recreate Dee’s angelic rituals often report the same thing he did: a presence... something watching... something responding.

Perhaps it was never angels that spoke through Kelley. Perhaps Dee, in his yearning, tuned his soul like an instrument — but called forth a music too old, too terrible for the human mind to bear. Perhaps the mirror still remembers.

John Dee remains a figure balanced between two worlds: celebrated for his contributions to science and exploration, but forever tainted by the shadows he chose to pursue. His life is a cautionary tale carved into the bones of history — a warning whispered across the centuries:

Not every light that shines from beyond is holy.

And once you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back — patient, silent, and hungry.




After John Dee’s death, the black mirror disappeared into private hands, shifting quietly from one collector to another like a secret too heavy to hold for long. No one ever seemed to keep it for a lifetime. Eventually, it resurfaced, tucked away among a noble family’s heirlooms, and then was sold off — a relic, a curiosity, a whisper from an age most people preferred to forget. When it finally entered the British Museum’s collection, it wasn’t just another exhibit. It came with an invisible heaviness, a kind of pressure that isn’t listed on any inventory sheet.

Museum staff over the years have spoken in hushed tones about it. Not official reports, not things you'd find in the archives, but the kind of stories that pass between night guards and maintenance workers. Some of them claimed that standing too close to the mirror made their skin crawl, like something unseen was brushing just over their shoulders. Others felt a pulling sensation — not physical, but mental — as if their thoughts were being drawn inward, into that smooth, endless blackness. There have been incidents where visitors collapsed near the mirror’s display, seemingly overcome by something they couldn’t name. The official explanations were always vague: dehydration, heat exhaustion, random fainting spells. Nothing unusual, if you’re willing to believe that.

Photographers who have tried to capture the mirror on film sometimes came away with blurred or distorted images. Equipment would malfunction in ways that couldn’t be replicated once they stepped away. Faces in the background of photographs sometimes appeared warped or half-there, with ghostly smudges where nothing should have been. Those who claim to be more sensitive to energies say they’ve glimpsed faces peering from inside the glass — ancient, alien, and very much aware.

What chills me about all this is the realization that the black mirror wasn’t simply an object in Dee’s time — it was a portal, an interface. Dee and Edward Kelley didn’t think they were playing games; they believed the mirror opened a real channel to the angelic — or perhaps something else wearing the skin of angels. They recorded visions, languages, entire systems of communication that seemed too complex for two men to invent alone. What if they really did open a doorway? What if something stepped through and has been lurking ever since?

The deeper you look into this, the more you realize that black mirrors never really went away after Dee. They’ve haunted history’s edges ever since. Modern occultists still use scrying mirrors today, often fashioned from obsidian or polished black glass, attempting to reach across the veil like Dee once did. Some claim that the act of gazing into a mirror under specific conditions — darkness, candlelight, trance — thins the boundary between the world we know and the one that watches from beyond. Some say you can catch glimpses of spirits, or of your own death. Some say it’s not your reflection staring back at you at all — it’s something wearing your face.

When you trace the thread from Dee to now, it feels less like a history lesson and more like a living current — something that started centuries ago and never stopped moving. An invitation, still hanging in the air, waiting for someone bold or foolish enough to answer it.

Once you open a door like that, can you ever really close it?
Or does the mirror simply wait… patient, silent, and very much alive?

15 Baltimore (go figure) black teens attack a lone white 12 year old white boy for fun.

Quote:April 21, 2025 / Joseph P. Farrell

The readers of this site are aware that to a great extent, what I blog about largely dictated by the readership of this site, in a peculiar way. During the week, I sort through emails that I get on a daily basis, saving some and jettisoning others. At the end of the week, usually on a Sunday afternoon, I make a large mug of hot, or iced, tea (very strong and very sweet), and then sort through that week's saved emails and their articles, trying to decide which stories seem to be most blog-worthy, and noticing any "trends" or "related stories" that seem somehow connected.  Occasionally, as with this story, so many people send me various versions of the story that it is clear that it has caught their attention, and that they want me to talk about it.

That is clearly the case here, because so many of you sent so many different versions of this story that it vaulted immediately to the top of the list, even before I sat down with my Sunday tea for the Sunday sort.

The story concerns Mr. Trump's oft-mentioned remark that the U.S.A has some incredible and scarcely believable secret weaponry, and as the cherry on that sundae, the claim of a "spokesman" that the U.S.A. has technology that can manipulate space and time. Here are two versions of those stories shared by E.E., with our thanks to him and to all of you who shared similar articles about this story.

US has secret weapons – Trump

Remarks by Director Kratsios at the Endless Frontiers Retreat

As the first RT article points out, Mr. Trump has made such statements about U.S. secret weaponry before, and usually in a context that could reasonably be considered to be "saber rattling":

Quote:Asked whether he was concerned about Beijing’s next moves – and a potential “escalation beyond the trade war” – Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping is “one of the very smart people of the world” who would never “allow that to happen.”

“We’re very powerful. This country is very powerful. It’s far more powerful than people understand. We have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is, and it is the most powerful weapons in the world that we have. More powerful than anybody even, not even close,” he told journalists in the Oval Office.


“So nobody’s going to do that,” Trump added, reiterating that Xi is a “very smart man” who “knows exactly what has to be done.”

The US president, who has previously teased secret weapons using unusual scientific terminology, did not elaborate on the kind of weapons he was referring to this time.

In 2020, Trump touted what he called a “super duper missile” that could fly “17 times faster” than anything America’s adversaries had in their arsenals. He also claimed that Russia’s hypersonic technological breakthroughs resulted from stealing US missile plans during the presidency of Barack Obama – despite the fact that the US has yet to field an operational hypersonic weapon.

So there's the claim, at least, as far as RT understands it; the U.S.A. has "hyper-sonic missile technology" even though it has yet to deploy any operationally, and (2) it has other weaponry of an unspecified nature, leaving the the interpretation open to a variety of possibilities like weaponized weather, directed energy, rods of god/space-based or air-launched kinetic weapons, and in the wake of recent government-sponsored and staged "disclosures", even UFO-like technology and "anti-gravity" cannot be excluded from the list of possibilities.  We'll get back to those exotic things in a moment.

It's not the first time a world leader has rattled the "secret weapons" saber. During World War Two, Hitler made several public remarks about terrible weapons, which, from the context, now sound like allusions to nuclear weaponry, though some remarks could be understood to mean other even more terrible things. Fortunately for the world, those developments came too late to save the Third Reich.  But Hitler did not make the remarks in any attempt to drive the Allies to the negotiating table. Mr. Trump's remarks, on the other hand, appear to be deliberately targeted messages to foreign powers, and mentioning Mr. Xi by name gives the game away.  And the RT article is clear that the other intended target of the remarks is Russia, because the article goes on to observe that only Russia and China have operationally deployed hypersonic missiles.  All this is a bit of a misnomer for public consumption, because in point of fact, hypersonic missiles have been around since the World War Two German V-2 rocket. Every intermediate range and intercontinental missile in the arsenals of the USA, Russia, China, France, and Britain eventually travels at "hyper-sonic" velocities. What is new in the recent technology is that these missiles do not follow, nor have to follow, ballistic paths, and they are capable of being retargeted in mid-flight and redirected to different targets. It is this lack of ballistic trajectories and retargetability that makes them almost impervious to missile defense systems and the great threat that they are.

And most notably, neither Russia nor China are saying much of anything about what secret cards they might have up their sleeves, which brings us back to a bit of a history lesson. Just do a search on this website for 'Chelyabinsk meteor" and you'll pull up over two pages worth of blogs I've done over the years about space warfare, meteor and asteroid defense, and the famous incident of the "Chelyabinsk meteor" in Russia, and Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev's appearances on Russian TV both before that incident, and after it. In both instances Mr. Medvedev talked about the need for asteroid defense, for international cooperation to build such a system, and then went on to state that Russia would have to do so on its own if there was no international cooperation. When subsequently asked how Russia might defend itself against asteroids, Mr. Medvedev stated - clearly and unequivocally - that Russia could use its thermonuclear missiles, and that it had "other" means of doing so.  Cue asteroid, for a month later, as if scripted and right on cue, the Chelyabinsk meteor appeared, and blew up before striking the Earth.  No explanations of what was meant by "other" means of defense was forthcoming from Mr. Medvedev until after the event, when he clearly alluded to more exotic technologies than mere thermonuclear missiles.

The point is, Russia and America - and others - have been rattling the "exotic and unspecified weapons" sabers for a long time.

Which brings us to the second article linked above concerning the remarks of Mr. Kratsios.  If one reads the entirety of his speech, it is more or less standard boilerplate about American technological accomplishment in the last century, and regulatory stagnation since then, citing the usual facts in support of that stagnation, leading off with the fact that after the last Apollo mission, humans have not set foot on the Moon since.  The lines which are the focus of so much internet attention occur in this context of boilerplate:

Quote:Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity.

And from that point to the end of the speech, it is more standard boilerplate.

The remark does, indeed, stand out. Technologies capable of manipulating space/time can indeed leave "distance annihilated" and "cause things to grow".  But hyper-sonic missiles, and high-speed rail, and "flying cars" can do that too, and indeed, these are the technologies specifically mentioned by Mr. Kratsios in his speech, not, as many excitedly proclaimed on the internet, "teleportation".  But that still leaves that disturbing beginning of the remark: "Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space."  This, indeed, is a clue that something else may have been in Mr. Kratsios' mind than simply "high speed rail" or "flying cars".  Experiments have already been done with quantum entanglement that baffle the mind, experiments that appear to "manipulate" space and time. Scientists have already created minute "bubbles" in time, and have performed experiments that actually "remove" events from a timeline on a very small quantum scale. "Time crystals" are being openly talked about in some scientific articles and papers.


All of those things are, of course, a long way from "teleportation" or any of the other fanciful interpretations of Mr. Kratsios' remarks that have been advanced as interpretations of them.

But - let it be noted - they are necessary steps in the technology trees leading to such capabilities, and it is not, therefore, surprising that they are being pursued. The real question is, how far have they actually gone, and what are the secret capabilities? If Mr. Trump's and Mr. Medvedev's remarks are any indicator, they may be much further along than the public literature would imply.

While we're at it, let's take one final, colossal, leap into the canyon of high octane speculation: does anyone remember that "predictive" novel about Baron Trump written almost a century before Trump became president? There's been a lot of speculation about that novel, and some are even claiming a kind of time travel, and now we have this strange remark by Mr. Kratsios. It does make one wonder...

See you on the flip side...

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Picture this: a sprawling lake in Southern California, its surface hiding a secret worth a jaw-dropping $540 billion. Beneath the Salton Sea, scientists have struck "white gold"—18 million tons of lithium, a find so massive it could power the future of American innovation. This isn’t just a discovery; it’s a treasure hunt with the potential to reshape industries, boost a struggling region, and shift global power dynamics. But like any epic quest, it’s not without its hurdles. Let’s explore this $540 billion promise, the ingenious ways to snag it, and the high-stakes challenges standing in the way.
Salton Sea, California. (Public Domain)
A Fortune Waiting to Be Claimed
The Salton Sea, California’s biggest lake, has long been a curiosity—an oddity in the desert with a faded past. Now, it’s the stage for a blockbuster reveal: one of the world’s largest lithium brine deposits, valued at $540 billion. According to a U.S. Department of Energy study, this haul could churn out batteries for 382 million electric vehicles—more than every car on U.S. roads today. Michael McKibben, a geochemistry professor at UC Riverside, sees it as a game-changer: “This could make the United States completely self-sufficient in lithium and stop importing it through China.” California Governor Gavin Newsom has even dubbed it the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.” That $540 billion price tag? It’s a ticket to a new era of American dominance in a critical resource.
Hard rock spodumene ore, commercially important source of lithium (Li). (BJP7images/Shutterstock)
So, how do we get our hands on it? The plan is as clever as it is bold. Companies like EnergySource Minerals are set to drill geothermal wells thousands of feet deep, tapping into lithium-rich brine heated by the region’s volcanic underbelly. The lithium gets pulled out, and the brine goes back underground—a process that sidesteps the messier side of traditional mining. With operations potentially kicking off in 2025, the vision is to turn Imperial County—a place where the median income sits at just $49,000—into “Lithium Valley.” Jobs, tax revenue, and a shot at prosperity could follow, making this a story of raw ambition.
The Challenges in the Chase
But don’t think it’s a straight shot to the prize—there are some serious obstacles to navigate. For starters, the process needs water, and lots of it, in a region where every drop counts. Pat Dobson from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory points out that water consumption is a “main impact,” raising logistical questions about supply. Then there’s the sheer scale of the operation: drilling deep into the Earth isn’t cheap or simple, and it demands infrastructure and regulatory green lights that could slow things down. The Salton Sea itself adds a twist—it’s shrinking fast, a “race against time” as the Daily Mail puts it, which could complicate access to the brine as the lake recedes.
Cultural hurdles pop up too. Sacred Native American sites like Obsidian Butte dot the landscape, and any misstep could spark tension. It’s a high-wire act—move too slow, and the opportunity slips away; move too fast, and you risk a backlash. Still, the lure of $540 billion keeps the momentum alive, pushing innovators to solve these puzzles with grit and ingenuity.
Salton Sea Geothermal Power and Lithium Production. (The Desert Photo/Shutterstock)
The Payoff of Persistence
Here’s where it gets exciting: the potential rewards are astronomical. That $540 billion stash could break the U.S. free from foreign lithium dependence, especially from China, which refines 90% of the world’s supply. Jeff Marootian from the Department of Energy calls it “vital” for hitting big national goals, like powering a massive electric vehicle surge. For Imperial County, the stakes are even more personal. A 2020 California Energy Commission report pegs annual lithium carbonate revenue at $257 billion—money that could rebuild a region long overlooked. Sara Griffen of the Imperial Valley Food Bank sums up the hope: “We need to be able to dream about this County and fully envision what it would look like if it were better for everyone.” It’s a chance to turn a forgotten corner into a powerhouse.
This isn’t just about lithium—it’s about what $540 billion can unlock. Picture a supply chain that’s ours, a workforce that’s thriving, and a nation that’s calling the shots in a global market. The geothermal extraction method hints at a smarter way to win the prize, and the sheer volume of lithium promises a payoff that could ripple for decades.
Drone view of Salton Sea Beach. (The Desert Photo/Shutterstock)
The Road to Riches
The Salton Sea’s $540 billion lithium haul is a tale of curiosity and guts—a chance to crack open the Earth and grab a future-shaping resource. The extraction process, with its geothermal twist, showcases human cleverness at its best. The challenges—water, timing, and cultural stakes—test our resolve. And the potential? It’s a dazzling vision of independence, prosperity, and power.
As we eye this white gold, the question isn’t just how we’ll get it, but how far we’re willing to push. The Salton Sea isn’t some dusty relic anymore—it’s a $540 billion dare to dream big and make it happen. The clock’s ticking, the drills are humming, and the world’s watching. Ready to see where this ride takes us?
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Russia ain't as dead as some of us have been told

The golden hour is more like 23 minutes to save a critically wounded soldiers life

Have a listen to Konstantin that you won't hear anywhere else. Good bonus story at the end. Only 16 minutes. He's a genuine no BS kind of guy. April 18, 2025:



I use to watch his INSIDE RUSSIA vids all the time back when he only had around 20K subs (he has a very interesting back story on his Soviet life & aftermath), then like every other channel lost interest. Today, after watching a bunch of Russian vids Konstantin pops up in my feed.

Quote:For centuries, mermaids have been the subject of myth and legend, but what if the truth is closer than we think? In this video, we present undeniable proof that scientists are struggling to debunk. From bizarre underwater footage to mysterious discoveries along the shoreline, this evidence may finally expose the truth behind the mermaid myth.

I hope this works and is more than a propaganda video