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...

Quote:https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/lA...H4ZGaazNAF



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

In 1979 a group of paranormal researchers began to receive a series of psychic messages that foretold a quest in search of a magical green stone. This quest would eventually lead them to uncover a once hidden secret society and a talisman that once belonged to the Megalithic people of England.

Channeled messages kickstarted an adventure across the English countryside, and a chain of increasingly bizarre experiences — from deciphering Arthurian legends and unlocking clues left behind in the 17th century, to investigating the so-called “occult murder” of Charles Walton, uncovering hidden relics and eventually battling with an evil witch coven. And that’s just part one!

This is long (2 hrs) however, she is a good researcher & story teller on this type of stuff.




CHAPTERS
00:00:00 INTRO
00:01:22 CHAPTER ONE: STRANGE PHENOMENA
00:21:14 CHAPTER TWO: VISIONS OF JOANNA
00:35:26 CHAPTER THREE: GUNPOWDER TREASON AND PLOT
00:52:37 CHAPTER FOUR: THE ST GEORGE'S PARRY
01:05:10 CHAPTER FIVE: MEONIA FORE MARYE
01:15:13 CHAPTER SIX: THE ROLLRIGHT STONES
01:33:11 CHAPTER SEVEN: THE SWANS NECK
01:51:12 CHAPTER EIGHT: THE SEASON OF THE WITCH

12.8 billion years ago a Spiral Galaxy much like our own shone its light which has been now been seen by the James Webb telescope , the Galaxy has been named Zhúlóng taken from Chinese mythology.

Zhúlóng is similar to our Galaxy in size , mass and shape but existed just 1 billion years after the "Big Bang" making it the oldest Galaxy we have seen and another thorn in the side of the supposed Big Bang.

Quote:Previously, it was believed that galaxies like ours would take billions of years to form distinct features like spiral arms , vast star-forming disks, and central bulges of densely packed stars. Yet, rather than being the expected chaotic galactic blob, those well-ordered features appear to be present in this galaxy, which is so distant that its light has taken 12.8 billion years to reach us.

"We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning 'Torch Dragon' in Chinese mythology. In the myth, Zhúlóng is a powerful red solar dragon that creates day and night by opening and closing its eyes, symbolizing light and cosmic time," team leader Mengyuan Xiao of the University of Geneva (UNIGE) said in a statement. "What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way in shape, size, and stellar mass."
https://www.space.com/the-universe/james...long-image

A few days ago Jeff Bezos launched 6 self obsessed women to the edge of space , sadly he brought them back but in doing so he's brought claims of fakery to Blue Origin as footage of the door opening before Bezos had the opportunity to open it himself with his big wrench have raised questions about the authenticity of the event , when Bezos is seen opening the door it looks flimsy as seen when the space tourist inside opened it , another problem is the capsule door opens inward where real space capsule doors open outwards for obvious reasons.

For those with the stomach for it here's some "celebrities" floating in kinda space.
***viewer discretion is advised***


And the blooper moment that has caused the controversy.


I'm sure there's a plausible explanation for it.

Quote:April 14, 2025 / Joseph P. Farrell

Let us begin this week's blogs with a very strange story shared by S.D., and written by a Chinese woman, that argues that China's real population might be lower than the official statements by some hundreds of millions; the question is, how many?:

Lei's Real Talk: China's Population Is "Somewhere Between 300 and 400 Million"

The essence of Ms. Lei's argument is that China's population has fallen precipitously due to a combination of bad policies:

Quote:Lei says the country's population is drastically declining, due to the "Demographic Cliff" caused by an aging population after decades of the CCP's "One Child" policy, plus her estimated 400-500 million COVID deaths since the end of 2019, which she says the CCP is covering-up.
On March 12, Lei said she believed China's actual population was somewhere below 900,000,000, noting four key pieces of evidence:

1. Empty streets and markets
   
2. A drastic disparity between birth and death rates
   
3. GROK-3's estimate of the real COVID death toll
   
4. 5% of people aged 35–44 have died
   

VIDEO: “Lei’s Real Talk: 400-500 Million “COVID” Deaths in China Since 2019” - Pub. April 10, 2025 by ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.net

Quote:In the image above, Lei composed an Excel spreadsheet from official Chinese government data, which showed that 5% of the Chinese population aged 35-44 had vanished since 2019. This is the most economically-productive demographic of any population.

If one is having difficulty believing that the covid-and-quackcine planscamdemic could have such a drastic effect, the article cites western insurance actuarial data:

Quote:At the time, former Wall Street securities analyst, Edward Dowd reported that these excess deaths occurred in the US during Q3 of 2021 through Q2 of 2022 and was confirmed to him by his personal source at the Society of Actuaries. But this was only the excess deaths among Millennials with good jobs!

Dowd's continued investigations, as of May 2024 revealed that, "About 33 million Americans have been injured, disabled, or died from this vaccine, in our estimate."


• 1.1 million excess deaths
• 4 million people disabled
• 28.6 million vaccine-injured people often missing work, due to chronic illness

Lei ascribes this contemporaneous spike of deaths in China, within the 35-44 demographic – in the prime of their lives – to the "COVID pandemic", however, Edward Dowd correlates the US excess deaths, disability and injuries to the COVID injections, which he calls "The largest global crime against humanity ever seen."

The clincher may be the the Russian estimates of the Chinese population. After all, if any country poses a long-term threat to Russia, it's not so much the out-of-control USSA deep state or the kooky war-hungry nations of Europe, but China. But the Russians come up with very different figures than does the Chinese Communist Party:

Quote:Lei states Russian experts determined that it was impossible that China's population ever surged to 1.4 billion, saying:

Quote:"Other Russian experts added-up the publicly-available urban population of every Chinese city and county and got only 280 million people and based on the traditional urban-rural population ratio of 1-to-1, they estimated China's actual population being around 560 million."

Perhaps the most interesting argument, however, is from the transcript of Ms. Lei's presentation, where she is relating the on-the-ground experience of Chinese going about their every day business in Shanghai:

Quote:Across China people are asking the same question, "Where did everyone go?

Quote:(Roll several video posts by young people of what has become a viral trend in China, to describe the obvious abrupt population decline they see around them, saying that the usual influx of people returning to Beijing following the New Year holiday did not occur. Instead, the streets are empty, with a large number of homes up for rent, empty offices and no traffic at typically-congested intersections, with people asking "Where did 8 million Beijingers go?"

Shanghai residents are making similar video posts about the noticeable population decrease there and how the streets, the popular restaurants and malls are all half-empty, saying the city's famous nightlife has become much quieter. One post from a man in an A-line subway train in Shanghai is striking, with him as the sole person in the entire car.

We see similar video posts from residents and people in the real estate market of Guangzhou, the center of the largest megalopolis in the world)

Lei: What we saw is the situation in Beijing, Shanghai Guangzhou, the three Mega Cities of China and many people assume that maybe people in those large cities or Mega Cities had simply left for better opportunities in Second-Tier cities or they might have returned to their hometowns in the countryside.

Now, let's take a look at what's happening in the smaller cities.

Quote:(Roll video where young residents of smaller cities, like Zuzhai and Wuhan make similar claims to those above. One man in Suzhou remarks that the streets used to be crowded but now, they're almost deserted. He says he's heard similar reports from Shanghai, Yangzhou, Nantong, Wuxi, Changzhou and how all have fewer workers and laborers.

Others remark that the countryside is empty, too, with schools being shut down and streets and shops vacant. They report that "Society feels gloomy and lifeless" and ask "Where did our 1.4 billion people go?")

If all this is true, then it places the strategic calculation - if there was any, and I believe there was - behind the Trump administration's tough Chinese tariff policy into a very different light. If you've been following the media commentary - both pro and con - on Trump's tariffs, you'll have often heard (again from both sides) that the world markets are undergoing a long-overdue "correction" as they return from fantasy to reality. But if one of the major economic and financial players on the world stage has been deliberately lying about the size of its population, and hence, of its markets, the health and size of its financial institutions, including, above all, its manufacturing and labor potential and purchasing power, then we may, indeed, be in for a series of shocks.

In this respect, you'll note that the end of the article wonders if this practice of over-estimation of population extends to the USA, and my guess is it most probably does.  The influx of immigrants, whether legal or illegal, into Europe and the USA has to be a nightmare for  tracking and accurate actuarial of census estimations.

Perhaps, just perhaps, that is why we'll be seeing more such stories, along with calls for "real IDs" and eventually for everyone to be "chipped".  After all, it's hard if not impossible to run a beast system, if some people are not a part of the beast...

See you on the flip side.