Chicom science madness.

Quote:CHINA’S ALLEGED NON-NUCLEAR H-BOMB
April 28, 2025 / Joseph P. Farrell

Yes you read that headline correctly, and that headline is why we're starting off this week's blogs with this story, which was shared (with our very deep gratitude) by S.C.G.  The story is that China claims to have successfully tested a "non-nuclear hydrogen bomb." Before you get your knickers all in a twist and say "that's impossible", bear with me, because as we're going to discover in today's high octane speculation, there are three basic possible modes of interpreting the Chinese claims, and they're all rather stunning, and they're all - if true - military game changers. So, without further ado, here's the story:

Quote:China’s new hydrogen bomb aims to shock and awe Taiwan

Now, let's deal with the claims of the headline alone, before delving into the article. If there is to be such a thing as a non-thermonuclear hydrogen bomb, i.e., a conventional bomb that is able to create an explosion so large it rivals that of a tactical nuclear weapon, and without the nasty radioactive fallout that always accompanies a nuclear weapon's use, then a little reflection would suggest that there are three possible basic ways of doing so:

(1) use hydrogen as the oxidizer in a conventional explosive, rather like how nitrogen and oxygen are used in chemical explosives, where the nitrogen and oxygen are bound chemically to the rest of the explosive. When the detonation occurs, the oxidizers allow the rapid burn of the explosion to occur. This is the "standard" design of explosives; 

(2) Use atmospheric hydrogen as the oxidizer in a fuel air explosive.  This use of atmospheric oxidizer is what makes a fuel air bomb so gigantic, rivaling the size of tactical nuclear weapons in explosive power, for the explosive agent does not carry its own oxidizer, but rather relies on the ability to use local ambient atmospheric gas as its oxidizer. This method is a closely held secret but the concept I suspect is obvious enough. Indeed, in the early thermonuclear era, before the United States had tested its first hydrogen bomb, there was concern that the detonation would initiate a chain reaction in the planet's entire atmosphere, burning all its hydrogen, and leaving the planet a dead and barren rock.

(3) The third and final, and most sought-after method, is to find a way to achieve fusion of hydrogen (usually lithium deuteride  and some tritium) without the use of an atomic bomb as the "fuse" needed to created the immense heat, pressure, and energies to slam those atoms together for the really big bang of a full scale hydrogen bomb. Notice that in conventional thermonuclear bomb engineering, it takes an atomic bomb to ignite the hydrogen bomb, and it is from the fission of uranium 235 or plutonium 239 that the deadly radioactive fallout products from nuclear detonations original. The fusion reaction releases a lot of radiation, but most of it is is the form of x- and gamma-rays.  Most of the "bad stuff" is coming from the fission reaction, including those fast neutrons. 

So the quest of thermonuclear engineering has always been for a means of initiating a fusion reaction (the really big explosion) without an a-bomb to set it off (a really big explosion without the nasty by-products).  The latter quest as birthed all sorts of stories about substances or methods able to accomplish this, from the Red Mercury legends (which I've talked about in my books), to the tests of the so-called "Ripple" technology during the last atmospheric test shot of the American Operation Dominic, a test which I have talked about with our friend and colleague Daniel Liszt (Dark Journalist) on his show.  This last test, according to publicly available information,  was the last atmospheric test of a hydrogen bomb done by the United States in 1963, and was personally authorized by then-president Kennedy. The test allegedly achieved a fusion reaction that was "99.99 percent clean", i.e., with very little residual radioactive fallout.

Shortly after this test, the Soviet Union signed the nuclear test ban treaty, and my suspicion is that the USA, under Kennedy's prompting, shared the results of the test with the Soviets.  The reason for the sudden Soviet acquiescence is simple: if the USA did manage to explode a "clean" hydrogen bomb, then the unthinkable just became thinkable: one could achieve strategic destruction on a potential enemy without the radioactive fallout blowback on oneself.

Or to put it baldly and nakedly: nuclear war became possible.

But notice something else: on the level of the first two options - some sort of gigantic conventional explosion - strategic bombardment of a potential enemy is also possible. And it just may be that such hydrogen-assisted conventional explosions might generate shock waves that might initiate fusion, and much bigger explosions. Such were the claims of the Nazi-Argentinian physicist Dr. Ronald Richter (which I have covered in my book The Nazi International), and such have been some publicly aired claims since then for fusion reactors based on shockwaves in a plasma.  On this very speculative view and basis, one might then claim that hydrogen-assisted conventional explosives would be steps in a technology tree, if not to "clean" fusion bombs, then at least to conventional explosives  whose brisance approaches that of full order strategic fission weapons.

With these high octane speculations in mind, we may turn to the Chinese claims:

Quote:This month, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that Chinese researchers successfully detonated a non-nuclear hydrogen bomb in a controlled field test, citing a peer-reviewed study published last month in the Chinese-language Journal of Projectiles, Rockets, Missiles and Guidance.

But then the article continues by outlining the basic technique used to achieve the alleged result:

Quote:Developed by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation’s 705 Research Institute, the device uses magnesium hydride—a solid-state hydrogen storage material originally engineered for off-grid energy applications—as its main component.

During activation, shockwaves break the material into micron-scale particles, releasing hydrogen gas. This gas ignites into sustained combustion and reaches temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees Celsius.

Unlike conventional TNT blasts, which produce a brief, extremely high-pressure shockwave, China’s new bomb creates a lower peak blast pressure but sustains its fireball for over two seconds, causing extended thermal damage and enabling directed energy effects.

In other words, the Chinese have combined a highly flammable material that burns at very high temperatures (magnesium), with a gas that can also burn quickly (hydrogen and the well-known Hindenburg disaster), and created a very powerful explosive that sustains a fireball - much like a nuclear weapon - for some time. The Chinese have opted to pursue option number one: they have effectively created a bomb very similar to a themobaric bomb in its effects, but via an unusual conventional explosive which carries its oxidizer with it. Lest anyone is in doubt about the explosive power of such weapons, the article also gives us this:

Quote:Michael Schmitt and Peter Barker mention in an April 2017 Just Security article that the US Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) weapon, originally designed to be used against large troop formations or hardened aboveground bunkers, was thought to have a potent effect on Islamic State (IS) morale due to its reported 1.6-kilometer blast and the fact its detonation creates a mushroom cloud similar to a nuclear weapon.

A blast zone of a diameter of 1.6 kilometers is a blast diameter of exactly a mile, and on the order of a small nuclear weapon.  These weapons are, indeed, game changers, for bombardment of targets at strategic distances and to strategic levels of destruction need no longer be done just with nuclear weapons. In fact, with contemporary precision guidance, landing such a massive conventional explosion precisely on target no longer requires megatonnage yields to get "close" to a target to do that sort of damage.


So China's claim here, I think, must be taken very seriously. The production of such weapons might, indeed, explain why those explosions in Chinese chemical factories of a few years ago were so gigantic and so  very destruction. And one wonders if such new types of conventional explosives are not steps in the technology trees towards things like the Ripple test of Operation Dominic. What might happen if some engineer in some black project somewhere manages to talk his government out of a few million dollars, or rubles, or yuan, or yen or rupees, to test an implosion device utilizing magnesium hydride around a lithium-deuteride core that is itself already under extreme pressure. Would such a device produce a full-order fusion reaction? Probably not. But it might kick the brisance up a notch or two and be worth the effort anything.

If I can think of it, and you can think of it, rest assured, they already have, and might be well on the way to the next generation of the technology. Iran's nuclear program?  Yesterday's news, and yesterday's concerns.

1. Hydrogen as oxidizer in conventional explosive
   
2. Hydrogen as oxidizer in FAE
   
3. Red mercury and the Ripple test.
   

Quote:Mysteries of the Sea Vol 2: Ghost Ships & Desert Galleons | Unexplained Maritime Disappearances Throughout maritime history, ships have been found drifting with crews mysteriously vanished, leaving behind half-eaten meals and personal belongings undisturbed. The Mary Celeste in 1872, the Carroll A. Deering in 1921, and even modern vessels like the Kaz II in 2007 share the same eerie pattern – perfectly seaworthy ships abandoned in an instant. Some ghost ships reveal more disturbing scenes, like the Ourang Medan, where an entire crew was found dead with faces frozen in terror. Others seemingly travel through time, appearing decades after their disappearance or in impossible locations. Most fascinating is the legend of a Spanish galleon found deep in the Mojave Desert, miles from any ocean. These maritime mysteries span centuries and oceans, reminding us that despite our technology, some things remain beyond human understanding.

After months of quibbling and sabotage, they've finally signed a deal!

Zelenskyy pressured into it as he wants the war to continue! (he's the real Putin Puppet, not Trump) 

Now let's see if Russia attacks areas with U.S. vested interests!! 

Russia also holds areas with mineral deposits!!

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ZiLink---> US and Ukraine sign critical minerals and reconstruction deal

Quote:Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday announced that the United States and Ukraine have signed the long-anticipated minerals deal through the creation of a reconstruction investment fund.


The two countries have been trying to work out the deal since February, which would give the U.S. access to mineral riches in Ukraine in exchange for funding the country during its war with Russia. 

Bessent said the economic partnership positions the two countries to work collaboratively to ensure mutual assets, talents, and capabilities can speed up Ukraine’s economic recovery.

“Thanks to President Trump’s tireless efforts to secure a lasting peace, I am glad to announce the signing of today’s historic economic partnership agreement between the United States and Ukraine establishing the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund,” Bessent said in a statement. 

“As the President has said, the United States is committed to helping facilitate the end of this cruel and senseless war," he continued. "This agreement signals clearly to Russia that the Trump Administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine over the long term."

They're going to expose it!
They must have enough proof finally!
We all knew this and now it might actually be documented officially!
Bet we see criminal referrals against NGO people and exBiden Officials involved!
DOGE needs to audit all the past transactions assuming trails were left behind.

Quote:Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of being [i]actively complicit[/i] in one of the most disturbing scandals in American history — the trafficking of vulnerable migrant children for sex, labor, and slavery.


The explosive accusation came as President Donald Trump marked the 100th day of his second term with a high-level Cabinet meeting that addressed the crisis head-on.

“We have ended HHS as the role as the factor, the principle factor in this country for child trafficking,” Kennedy said.

“During the Biden administration, HHS became a [i]collaborator[/i] in child trafficking — for sex and for slavery. We have ended that. We’re now very aggressively going out and trying to find these children — the 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration.”

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I think we all been wondering and/or saying the same.

Quote:On August 16, 1951, the quiet town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in southern France was struck by a bizarre outbreak. Residents suddenly experienced severe symptoms: nausea, insomnia, and vivid hallucinations.

People reported seeing terrifying visions—snakes crawling out of their stomachs, fire engulfing their bodies, or blood dripping from the walls of their homes. Some cases were extreme: an 11-year-old boy attempted to strangle his grandmother, a man jumped from a window claiming he was an airplane, and others were restrained in straitjackets or chained to their beds.

By the end, at least 5 people died (some sources say 7), dozens were institutionalized, and over 300 were affected.

I remember as a 13-year-old kid reading about this in some magazine (I recall it was LIFE, but I could never find it since). For some reason, it terrified me and lived with me in my memory for 50-plus years. Recently, one of my readers turned me on to the story, and much has been written about it rather recently by other researchers.

As I remember the story, the outbreak was linked to bread from a bakery run by a local baker. Doctors and investigators concluded that the rye flour used in the bread was contaminated with ergot (claviceps purpurea), a fungus known historically for causing ergotism, or “St. Anthony’s Fire.” Ergot contains alkaloids similar to LSD, which could explain the hallucinations. This explanation was published in the British Medical Journal shortly after the event and became the prevailing theory for decades.

However, in 2009, Hank P. Albarelli Jr. reignited interest in the case with his book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments, claiming the incident was not a natural occurrence but a deliberate CIA experiment. While researching the death of Frank Olson—a CIA biochemist who died in 1953 under suspicious circumstances after working on LSD-related projects—Albarelli uncovered documents suggesting the agency had spiked the town’s food with LSD as part of its Cold War mind-control program, MKULTRA (or its precursor, Project SPAN).

One key piece of evidence was a CIA memo labelled “Re: Pont-Saint-Esprit and F. Olson Files. SO Span/France Operation file, inclusive Olson. Intel files. Hand carry to Belin – tell him to see to it that these are buried,” which implied a cover-up. Another document reportedly transcribed a conversation between a CIA agent and a Sandoz Pharmaceutical official (Sandoz being the Swiss company that first synthesized LSD), where the official hinted that the outbreak was caused by diethylamide (the “D” in LSD), not ergot.

Albarelli argued that the CIA, in collaboration with the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, might have sprayed LSD into the air or contaminated local food to test its potential as a weapon for behavioural control. This theory aligns with known CIA activities during the 1950s, when the agency conducted numerous LSD experiments on unwitting subjects, including American servicemen and civilians.

Wouldn’t it figure, eh?


Seems the CIA has been involved in nearly every odd, mysterious, and dangerous global happening since its founding in 1947. Of course, the CIA theory has faced skepticism. But I won’t go into that. This article isn’t about that, nor is it really about the incident in France in 1951, it is about people going crazy, and how often the reason we go crazy is because of external circumstances, either natural or created by some nefarious entity like the CIA.

Jump forward to the present day. We may not yet be seeing snakes crawling out of people’s stomachs or folks jumping off the tops of buildings because they think they are airplanes, but we may be headed in that direction.

Sure, it is a bit of a copout to say that all the kookiness we are seeing these days is due to some substance-induced insanity. But it certainly would not be impossible. We have been talking and writing for years about the adverse effects of video gaming, cell phone scrolling, social media influencing, pornographic titillating, and educational brainwashing, but what if most of these things are actually symptoms rather than causes? Maybe our minds are being eaten away physically rather than only psychologically?

I cannot even begin to start naming the physical stuff we have been literally swallowing and breathing in for a century or so. Thousands upon thousands of things on that list: chemical toxins, foodstuff toxins, chemtrails, pharmaceuticals, on and on and on. There is so much stuff that it would be a miracle if the accumulation had not seriously affected our mental acumen and ability to even think at all. How could it not? It is a miracle we are not ALL walking zombies, with our entrails dribbling out and our glassy-eyed presence as symptoms of our decades of physical abuse.

Pretty picture, eh? Well, leave it to me to paint it for you.

I have spent hundreds of pages writing and pondering on the causes of the obvious mental collapse of the majority of people in the world. What could be the explanation for this acute loss of critical thinking? What could be causing the hatred and the polarization we are seeing? What could be the reason for the apparent stupidity displayed when following the fuzzy wagging tail in front of us, rather than using common sense in assessing nearly every situation we are faced with? Typically I have focused on the mental, psychological, and emotional abuses the psyche has endured for so long. These things certainly are having their impact, and maybe they are indeed the primary causal factor for the mental erosion we are seeing. But maybe not. Maybe it is the poison we have been ingesting that has rotted the human mind.

Mattias Desmet calls it mass psychosis and explains how that could be in his book The Psychology of Totalitarianism. Dr. Michael Nehls does focus on a physiological brain pathology but blames it more on stressors in the environment than chemical abuse. In his book The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom, he argues that humans are losing cognitive reasoning and critical thinking due to a deliberate, neurobiological attack on the brain, particularly targeting the hippocampus.

He suggests that modern stressors—such as fear-driven narratives (e.g., pandemics, climate change), social isolation, and possibly even biological factors like mRNA vaccine spike proteins—disrupt neurogenesis, the process of generating new nerve cells in the hippocampus. This region is crucial for memory, individuality, and critical thinking. He does mention here the spike protein, which is a result of the recent Covid jab. So that obviously is a chemical intervention.

Nehls posits that these external pressures shrink the hippocampus, replacing personal experiences with uniform, fear-based narratives, thus weakening our “mental immune system” and making us more susceptible to indoctrination. He frames this as a coordinated effort by technocratic elites to control populations by undermining independent thought.

As I said before, I have tended to focus more in the past on psychological and spiritual issues that could be the cause of all of this insanity. But, again, I wonder if those things are actually symptoms. Maybe we have simply been poisoned, and our cognitive function has deteriorated, thus causing all of the psychological anomalies. More than likely it is a combination of the two.

So, is the cause of this deterioration of the human condition, both physically and mentally, found in the water? Yes, quite possibly so, but not only in the water but in the air, in our food, our medicines, our schools, our media (both entertainment and news), in just about everywhere and everything we come into contact with. Maybe all of this, including the perpetrators of the Armageddon we are facing, is affected. Maybe everyone is crazy, everyone but us. For now.

And why is that? Who knows.

There are always some people immune to the poison, or immune to the disease. We have somehow escaped; maybe it will stay that way, and we will never be affected, but maybe it will eventually get us, too. Eat, drink and be merry. Row, row, row, your boat, gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.


Todd Hayen PhD is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here

as a little one I remember Bigfoot (sometimes known as Sasquatch) as an obscure monster on par with the Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster.
at some point it seems that Bigfoot became mainstream.
Pizza Hut had a Bigfoot pizza.
Hollywood had a movie about called 'Harry and the Hendersons'.  as I recall there was a tv series.
the Colorado Avalanche NHL team had bigfoot prints on their uniforms.
   

speaking of the NHL, the Utah team wanted to call themselves the Yeti, but they were denied as there is a cup/cooler maker of that name.

so do we think the majority accepts Bigfoot as a real entity?  or is this just a modern myth?

https://www.reuters.com/world/pakistan-d...025-04-28/

 Pakistan's defence minister said on Monday a military incursion by neighbouring India was imminent in the aftermath of a deadly militant attack on tourists in Kashmir last week, as tensions rise between the two nuclear-armed nations.

The attack killed 26 people and triggered outrage in Hindu-majority India, along with calls for action against Muslim-majority Pakistan. India accuses Pakistan of backing militancy in Kashmir, a region both claim and have fought two wars over.

this doesn't seem to be getting much coverage so maybe it's known to be empty rhetoric.

a shooting war between these two would be a major event.
one good thing; they have a land border so the fighting shouldn't spread out too far.

there are serious water issues in that part of the world.  I've read commentaries that say WWIII will be fought over water, and could involve China and India.  Yikes.

Picture released from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows for the first time a Martian rover mid drive on the Planet. 

Curiosity was pictured on a drive through the Gediz Vallis channel where the rover has discovered conditions suitable for life adding to my belief there is still life on or rather in our red neighbour.


Staggering to think Curiosity has been on Mars for 13 years now.

Quote:The rover's work has been extremely intriguing to astrobiologists, showing that Gale was indeed a habitable environment long ago: The area hosted a long-lived lake-and-stream system that had the ingredients for life, as well as a possible chemical energy source that could support microbial metabolism.

MRO has been operating at the Red Planet even longer than Curiosity, reaching Mars orbit in March 2006. As the new photo shows, MRO is still going strong, hunting for signs of past water activity on the Red Planet, serving as a communications relay for surface craft like Curiosity and its younger cousin, Perseverance — and keeping tabs on these robots' movements from time to time as well.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/...anet-photo

Quote:Some guns just aren’t built to last—and after digging into reviews, owner complaints, and firsthand feedback, these 17 models prove it. Whether it’s the Taurus G3C’s fragile frame, the Hi-Point JCP’s deforming slide, or the Llama Max-1’s constant jamming, these firearms start breaking down fast—often before hitting 1,500 rounds. From weak springs and cracked slides to misaligned cylinders and worn-out triggers, the list includes compact pistols, budget revolvers, and even a few once-promising designs like the Kahr PM9 and Beretta Nano. If long-term reliability matters to you, these are the models you might want to think twice about.