"... Mr. Epstein... Calling Mr. Epstein, Pick Up The White Telephone Please"

Quote:Elon Musk's dad reveals he was asked to 'donate his sperm' as 'man who created Elon'

Errol Musk, who is 77 years old, claims a company in Colombia approached him and
asked him to donate his sperm in order to impregnate high-class Colombian women

'Elon Musk's father has revealed that he was asked by a company to donate his sperm as he is the man
who "created" Elon. Errol Musk, 77, claims that a company in Colombia approached him and asked him
to donate his sperm in order to impregnate high-class Colombian women.


Errol                                                                                          Elon

The 77-year-old argues that the incentive behind this is to get Elon's DNA, while by-passing the Tesla
CEO, instead opting to use his father's sperm instead. He previously told the Sun: "I've got a company
in Colombia who want me to donate sperm to impregnate high-class Colombian women because they
say, ‘Why go to Elon when they can go to the actual person who created Elon'."

When asked if he had been offered money in exchange for becoming a sperm donor, Errol clarified that
he hadn't, and revealed that the company offered him gifts such as first-class travel and five-star hotels
instead. In response to the possibility of accepting the offer, he replied: "Well, why not?"

Errol also added that he would like to have more children, despite his advanced age, claiming that, "the
only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce". He stated: "If I could have another child, I would. I can't
see any reason not to."...'

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Rise of the machines... The DoD's 'Replicator' program (the mass production of low-cost AI-fueled drones to offset China's numerical superiority), announced yesterday, might be more of a turning point in modern governance than warfare.

Quote:The Pentagon has unveiled its latest strategy to counter China’s rapid military progress, with a program named Replicator that intends to focus on fielding “thousands” of attritable  autonomous platforms that will be characterized by being “small, smart, cheap, and many.” The initiative seeks to harness U.S. innovation as a way to counter the mass of China’s armed forces, while also, once again, putting the onus on uncrewed systems that will benefit from AI algorithms.

The Replicator program was announced today by U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, speaking at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Emerging Technologies conference in Washington.

As to the threat that Replicator is meant to overcome, Hicks was explicit about what she described as “the PRC’s biggest advantage, which is mass: more ships, more missiles, more people.” Hicks also identified the particular challenge posed by China’s rapidly diversifying anti-access/area-denial capabilities. 

She added that there is a historical precedent for the kind of approach that Replicator espouses: “Even when we mobilize our economy and manufacturing base, rarely have America’s war-winning strategies relied solely on matching an adversary, ship for ship or shot for shot,” she said, before adding a barbed comment that seemed to refer to Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine: “After all, we don’t use our people as cannon fodder like some competitors do.”

In contrast, Replicator is intended to continue and build upon the U.S. ability to “outmatch adversaries by out-thinking, out-strategizing, and outmaneuvering them; we augment manufacturing and mobilization with our real comparative advantage, which is the innovation and spirit of our people.”

So, what will Replicator consist of once it becomes a reality?

Here, Hicks provided few details, other than to explain that the program seeks to “master the technology of tomorrow,” namely, “attritable autonomous systems in all domains.” The advantages of these kinds of platforms include that they are “less expensive, put fewer people in the line of fire, and [they] can be changed, updated, or improved with substantially shorter lead times. We’ll counter the PLA’s mass with mass of our own, but ours will be harder to plan for, harder to hit, harder to beat.”

Attritable, in this context, is normally taken to refer to a platform that’s inexpensive enough to be willing to lose on high-risk missions, while being capable enough to be relevant for those missions. More recently, however, the Air Force began to use the term “affordable mass,” on the basis that attritable suggests a greater willingness to actually lose these systems, which might not necessarily be the case in an operational scenario. There are other definitions of attritable, too, which you can read more about here. In the case of Replicator, it’s really not yet possible to get an ideas of what these platforms might cost, but, clearly, affordability, rapid iterative development cycles, and the possibility of mass production are all considerations at this stage.

In terms of autonomous systems, Hicks said that Replicator will be “developed and fielded in line with our responsible and ethical approach to AI and autonomous systems, where the DoD has been a world leader for over a decade.”

As we have explored in the past, the U.S. military has been working on developing autonomous capabilities for decades now publicly, and there has certainly been significant work done in the classified realm, too.

Hicks’ reference to a “responsible and ethical approach to AI” suggests that Replicator may still include humans ‘in the loop,’ especially when it comes to certain sensitive tasks, above all, decisions about whether or not to employ lethal force. In this respect, it’s widely assumed that China, in particular, takes a somewhat different approach, something that Hicks apparently referred to, when she described “another comparative advantage we have over the PRC,” namely, that “these systems will empower our warfighters — not overpower or undercut their abilities.”

Hicks brought up the example of the war in Ukraine to show how “emerging tech developed by commercial and non-traditional companies” can be “decisive in defending against modern military aggression.” Specifically, she pointed to Starlink satellite internet constellation, Switchblade loitering munition, and the use of commercial satellite imagery to influence the conflict.

The kinds of commercial and rapidly developed drones that Ukraine has used to great effect for intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance, as well as targeting and attack, may provide one pointer to the sorts of systems that Replicator may yield, but the program is altogether much wider.

While the development of attritable and autonomous systems has often frequently been in the air warfare domain, Hicks was keen to point out that the same concepts have already been subject to Pentagon investment through all the military services, the Defense Innovation Unit, the Strategic Capabilities Office, and at the level of the different combatant commands themselves. 

The development of attritable and autonomous systems already spans multiple domains, from “self-piloted ships to uncrewed aircraft and more,” and the same will be and the same will be the case for Replicator.

As well as bringing down costs, Hicks observed that the attritable concept also offers the significant benefit of allowing systems to be “produced closer to the tactical edge.” Such systems can be brought into battle faster than traditional defense technologies and once fielded, they can be used in more unorthodox ways, including outside the normal mission command chains, meaning that they can “empower the lowest possible echelons to innovate and succeed in the battle.”

Hicks also brought up another interesting function of Replicator’s attritable and autonomous systems, namely that they should have the ability to “serve as resilient distributed systems even if bandwidth is limited, intermittent, degraded, or denied.”

Perhaps the most striking aspect of Replicator is the speed and size envisaged, with Hicks outlining the goal of fielding attritable and autonomous systems “at a scale of multiple thousands, in multiple domains, within the next 18 to 24 months.” She admitted that this is “easier said than done,” and it’s one that will apparently require an altogether new approach to harnessing industry, almost certainly including non-traditional companies, for the benefit of the Pentagon.

In the past, the Air Force, in particular, has looked to so-called ‘digital engineering’ to help rapidly develop new aircraft that can be brought into production on an interactive basis. More recently, there have been suggestions that the concept isn’t likely to be so revolutionary in reality, with even the Air Force’s own boss, Frank Kendall, concluding that the digital engineering processes has been “over-hyped.” For Replicator, the Pentagon may have to look to other routes for rapidly developing and fielding new platforms.



Exactly what the kinds of systems that Replicator should produce will look like, and the particular missions they undertake, remains very much speculative at this point. However, Hicks emphasized the fact that these attritable and autonomous systems are not simply expected to supersede current systems overnight, but instead herald a longer-term shift in the way that the Pentagon prepares for and goes to war.

Hicks painted a picture of the future U.S. military as one in which “Americans still benefit from platforms that are large, exquisite, expensive, and few.” However, Replicator will “galvanize progress in the too-slow shift of U.S. military innovation to leverage platforms that are small, smart, cheap, and many,” with these also operating for benefit of, if not collaboratively with more expensive and less prolific systems. This is very much defines the Air Force and Navy's Next Generation Air Dominance efforts. In particular, the dichotomy between the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) drones that will accompany the extremely high-end manned NGAD aircraft into combat.

Hicks hopes that Replicator is the program that finally tilts the balance in favor of this kind of warfare. With extremely ambitious targets as regards the volume and velocity of the program, that may be very hard to achieve, especially since attritable and autonomous systems already present plenty of operational challenges, even without the accelerated timeline. 

And while details of the kinds of systems that Replicator is expected to produce are still to come, the program is already highly noteworthy, not least for the very central position given to the challenge posed by China’s growing military dominance in the Asia Pacific region and, in the future, likely elsewhere, too.

We can reasonably expect unmanned systems in the air, on the water, and below the waves of varying capabilities and complexities, none of which will be too 'exquisite' that it makes their development a long-term proposition or their price tag very high. But above all that, grand networking capabilities that can tie many of these systems together and keep controllers apprised of their activities will likely be the biggest challenge when it comes to operationalizing what Replicator produces to its full potential. The possibility for mesh networks spanning multiple domains over great area is likely also a critical aspect of this endeavor.

AI will not just be needed for autonomy, but also for parsing absolutely massive amounts of data produced by these systems which can quickly clog critical communications bandwidth 'pipes.' Parsing that data on-platform or at least in-theater before it is sent afar will be a major challenge and feature of any such concept. But above all else, the ability for disparate capabilities to collaborate autonomously in a diverse 'swarm or swarms' will be arguably the most impactful aspect of this emerging strategy. Overwhelming the enemy by volume and speed of action is definitely the critical play here.

Bottom line, this is a very big deal and not just in scope. This is a major part of the unmanned shift we have long been waiting for and predicting now coming into focus. It goes far beyond just near-term tactical and procurement changes. If it is realized as discussed, it will forever change the way the U.S. military fights and how it develops and procures weaponry.

As for the timing, two years from now puts the fielding of these assets at the heart of the time frame in which many are predicting China will make a move on Taiwan militarily. As such, Replicator could end up being as much a deterrence play as anything else. It's worth noting, that war gaming has shown that massive swarms of autonomous systems would be a decisive factor as to who wins a fight over the Taiwan Strait. You can read more about this here.

“We must ensure the PRC leadership wakes up every day, considers the risks of aggression and concludes today is not the day and not just today,” said Hicks. Time will tell to what degree Replicator is successful in helping achieve that.

I used to LOVE swimming in the ocean.  I was that dumb kid who wanted to see how far out I could swim, and I'd have lifeguards blowing their whistles for I don't know how long, telling me to come in.  I remember one particularly livid lifeguard, and I in my young ignorant asshole way said, "what's the matter, can't you swim?" I can't remember if she was red from sunburn or rage   

I don't do that shit anymore.  Absolutely no way.  The swimming, I mean.  We went to North Carolina one year for vacation, somewhere around the year 2000 I think, I was about 15 then.  We were near the Cape Hatteras area.  I loved it, to this day it's my favorite beach spot.  My parents rented a big beach house with my aunt and uncle, grandparents, and my cousins, who are close to my age.

It felt sort of isolated there, we had so much room.  It was a breath of fresh air from those cramped beaches in Jersey.  We were fishing a lot, I couldn't believe how many croakers we caught, and how my poor grandmom had to bread and fry all of them.  They were delicious, almost slightly sweet.  It felt so cool to eat what we caught.

Other times it was me, my sister, and my two cousins boogie-boarding.  The waves were excellent.  That beach was a bit odd, as it has a courser, gravelly sand, and had a significant drop off.  Ten feet out, you might have been up to your waist in the water, a few more steps, and the water was over your head.  That made for some interesting boogie-boarding, as sometimes the water would drop out from under you and flip you over into an inch of water and sand.  That left a nice abrasion on my back, but it was so much fun.

The other thing I loved was the fact there were no lifeguards there.  I thought, awesome, I'll swim out as far as I damn well please.  My dad can't swim, yet I begged him to come out and boogie board.  He did, and we got caught in a rip current, of course.  I had to swim myself, and my dad on my boogie board, parallel with the beach for what felt like 100 yards and an hour, but we made it in.  He never went back in the water 

So it was an adventurous time there, we left and went home.  A week or two later, a woman and her husband were attacked by a bull shark not 100 yards from where I was swimming, much closer to shore, in waist-deep water.  It killed him, and the woman was bitten badly.  I think her foot or leg was bitten off.  

I never swam out deep again after that.  I've always been an animal nerd, and even at the time knew much about sharks, but I had that young mentality of "that only happens to other people."

To this day, when I think about what I used to do in the water, I cringe and my hair stands up.  You're simply no longer at the top of the food chain the instant you're in waist-deep water.  Has anyone seen the tiger shark attack in Egypt?  It was horrific, the worst shark attack footage I've ever seen.  Plenty of tigers in North Carolina too.

This is the footage, and again, it is horrible.  The man died, they caught the shark, and found numerous body parts inside it's stomach.  



And for those reasons, Schmoe no longer goes beyond knee-deep water.  I don't even miss it.

I've always been on the fence with this Remote Viewing stuff (some say it's "stage magic" while others claim it's real and really does work), but nevertheless it's a fascinating topic despite it recently (re)-gaining popularity in the UFO/UAP crowd. Another one of those occult science rabbit holes?

Former military RV'er Lyn Buchanan: "I often make this mistake at the level I was in in the Gov't, the common Joe on the street does not have that level of information."

Quote from "Advances in Remote Viewing with Lyn Buchanan" from New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove. Youtube clip from yesterday's interview. (I did not listen to the whole vid)

I found this other recent interview on a shadow banned channel with Lyn to be quite fascinating...the 90 minutes flew by and found myself wanting more purely out of curiosity.

Lyn Buchanan interview | TRANS-TEMPORAL COSMIC VISION IN REMOTE VIEWING




Lyn Buchanan: "Controlled Remote Viewing is a highly organized set of physical/mental protocols which allow a person to bring knowledge that lies hidden within the subconscious mind to the surface, and report it. It is often called the "Martial art of the mind". The protocols also keep the information "clean" of pollution from the imagination, emotions, desires, fears, and other contaminants which lie closer to the surface of a person's conscious awareness, and which would tend to "color" them incorrectly."

On the flip-side when you make a livelihood out of the paranormal psyche and decide to take the Youtube tour to promote your business you're going to say intriguing good things about it. I do respect the old timer, but I'll remain skeptical since my knowledge base in it is relatively shallow.

His website: PSI - Problems-Solutions-Innovations (Browse the "Free Resources")

His newer site Remote View Ranch - A spiritual haven for remote viewers to learn, work together and explore the universe. My initial thought on the "Ranch" took me back to Jacques Vallée's "Invisible College".

The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered about UFO Influences on the Human Race (1975) by Jacques Vallée. Chapt 9: The Control System, under the header "The Conditioning of Homo Sapiens" we read:



Archive.org link to Jacques F. Vallée The Invisible College What A Group Of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influence On The Human Race

The story is the after effects of a Gamma Ray Burst upon civilization.. I am in the first hour of the audio book but so far it is interesting, well written, and intelligent. Enjoy..

Quote:Imagine a world where life as we know it is shattered in an instant. We delve into the catastrophic aftermath of a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) event, an unprecedented cosmic catastrophe that wipes out half of Earth's population. Join us as we follow a group of survivors on their perilous journey to the small town of Mercy, their last bastion of hope. But survival in this new world requires more than preparedness; it demands strength in the face of unimaginable challenges. Discover the untold story of a disaster no one can fully prepare for and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of devastation. Prepare to immerse yourself in the timeless allure of the undead with "Zombie Craze Unleashed: The Enduring Enigma of the Walking Dead." As you listen, we'll unravel the evolution of zombies throughout history, infecting the realms of literature, movies, and our collective imagination. Whether you're a devoted fan of the undead or just curious about their enduring fascination, let the gripping narrative take you on a journey through the mysteries of the walking dead. Tune in and embark on an enthralling exploration of the undead's undying appeal.

28th August 2023, almost two days after the inicdent.

Every so often, a puzzle is presented in the media due to a couple of things that aren't entirely to do with
the actual subject matter of a report. Usually, it's poor informative facts delivered -not for their accuracy,
but for their 'effective' impact on drawing the correct amount of intrigue to hopefully demand the viewer
or reader to tarry a little longer on their TV channel/website/newspaper.

Take this little tragic riddle.
"Liverpool flood deaths: Two dead after driving car into floodwater" -The BBC.
"Man and woman dead after becoming trapped in car in flooded Liverpool road" -ITVX.
"Man and woman die after Mercedes car driven into flooded area in Mossley Hill, Merseyside" -Sky News.


The titles should say it all, due to 'flooding' -a favoured noun by most left-wing mediums to hint at their Climate Change
agenda, and the outcome of two people dying in the ensuing waters from such a flood. The typical Hollywood reflection
of Britain is it's a rainy country, where everyone carries an umbrella and the residents of this waterlogged Isle have
somehow just offered an upper-lip to the constant inclement weather.



Liverpool is an English city where the average person may automatically assume this tragedy occurred in or around a
large volume of water. Liverpool is on the west coast and again, one might take it the Mercedes car became involved
with tidal issues effected by a large downpour. However, both assumptions would be wrong.


Here's the BBC's version:

Quote:'Two people have died after becoming trapped in their car in a flooded road in Liverpool. Police said they were
called to Queens Drive in the Mossley Hill area at 21:00 BST on Saturday night. Passers-by fought to help the
man and woman who were stuck inside a black Mercedes in deep floodwater. Emergency workers took them
to hospital, but they were pronounced dead.



Amateur footage filmed in the area appears to show water gushing onto the road - which dips under a bridge.
Met Office data shows heavy rainfall at over 32mm (1.25 inches) an hour near where the incident happened.
Flood alerts and warnings remain in place for areas of Merseyside due to the heavy rainfall...'

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Quote:"Once the herd accepts mandatory forcible vaccination, it's game over! They will accept anything - forcible blood or organ donation - for the 'greater good'. We can genetically modify children and sterilise them - for the 'greater good. Control sheep minds and you control the herd. Vaccine makers stand to make billions, and many of you in this room today are investors. It's a big win-win! We thin out the herd and the herd pays us for providing extermination services. Now, what's for lunch?"

I am going to transfer this here as this appears to be the last thread of mine to have survived on the topic. It appears there has been a purge of lots of my old threads.

https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1326579/pg1

Revisiting the Smokers Paradox as it is called. It is hard to get good information since "most" of the US studies counter the evidence that it exists in the first place. Early in the covid epidemic, it was noticed that "active smokers" were disproportionately under represented for contracting the disease and being hospitalized. Numerous studies in China, South Korea, France, India, and even the US confirm this (before the political US studies trying to cover this fact up).

The Japanese have been trying to find out why. They have some theories (listed below) that include ACE2 receptor protection and possibly radioactivity in tobacco could be blocking the Covid receptors themselves. Interesting information to say the least.

Has anyone else heard of any other theories and or studies / research into this?

Revisiting the Paradox of Smoking: Radioactivity in Tobacco Smoke or Suppressing the SARS-CoV-2 Receptor, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2, via Aryl-Hydrocarbon Receptor Signal?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10...8221075111

Quote:Despite current controversies, some reports show a paradoxical mitigating effect associated with smoking in individuals with symptomatic COVID-19 compared to the general population. To explain the potential mechanisms behind the lower number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients, it has been hypothesized that cigarette smoking may reduce the odds of cytokine storm and related severe inflammatory responses through cholinergic-mediated anti-inflammatory mechanisms. Japanese scientists have recently identified a potential mechanism behind the lower numbers of COVID-19 cases amongst smokers compared to non-smokers. However, we believe that this mitigative effect may be due to the relatively high concentration of deposited energy of alpha particles emitted from naturally occurring radionuclides such as Po-210 in cigarette tobacco. Regarding COVID-19, other researchers and our team have previously addressed the anti-inflammatory and immune-modulating effects of low doses of ionizing radiation. MC-simulation using the Geant4 Monte Carlo toolkit shows that the radiation dose absorbed in a spherical cell with a radius of .9 μm for a single 5.5 MeV alpha particle is about 5.1 Gy. This energy deposition may trigger both anti-inflammatory and anti-thrombotic effects which paradoxically lower the risk of hospitalization due to COVID-19 in smokers.

Quote:A team of Japanese scientists demonstrates that treatment with AHR agonists decreases expression of ACE2 via AHR activation, resulting in suppression of COVID-19.


Researchers have identified two drugs that mimic the effect of chemicals in cigarette smoke to bind to a receptor in mammalian cells that inhibits production of ACE2 proteins, a process that appears to reduce the ability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to enter the cell.

Quote:Results: The percentages of current smokers (4.1% vs 16%, p = .00003) and never smokers (71.6% vs 56.8%, p = .0014) were significantly different between COVID-19 and non-COVID 19 patients. COVID-19 patients had lower mean age (69.5 vs 74.2 years, p = .00085) and were more frequently males (59.2% vs 44%, p = .0011). In the logistic regression analysis, current smokers were significantly less likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 compared with nonsmokers (odds ratio = 0.23; 95% confidence interval, 0.11-0.48, p < .001), even after adjusting for age and gender (odds ratio = 0.14; 95% confidence interval, 0.06-0.31, p < .001).

Conclusions: We reported an unexpectedly low prevalence of current smokers among COVID-19 patients hospitalized in nonintensive care wards. The meaning of these preliminary findings, which are in line with those currently emerging in literature, is unclear; they need to be confirmed by larger studies.

Implications: An unexpectedly low prevalence of current smokers among patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in some Italian nonintensive care wards is reported. This finding could be a stimulus for the generation of novel hypotheses on individual predisposition and possible strategies for reducing the risk of infection from SARS-CoV-2 and needs to be confirmed by further larger studies designed with adequate methodology.

A rather compelling theory with supporting evidence -