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Jan 7, 1948: Capt. Thomas Mantell of the Kentucky Air National Guard died after he crashed his P-51 Mustang while pursing a "flying saucer." Project Blue Book investigators determined that the UFO was probably a high-altitude research balloon from the Navy's secret Project Skyhook.


The big questions on everyone’s minds: What did Mantell encounter, and why did he crash?


Newly rescued flying saucer artifact from the early 50s...




Highly skeptical of this sudden flip...


Meta ends fact-checking program as Zuckerberg vows to restore free expression on Facebook, Instagram

Sheep say wolves are eating the flock.

Wolf council rules the claim false.
No more active censorship, just lock everyone in soundproof digital cells and let them scream their little lungs out. Sometimes feels like they're building a Matrix inside the Matrix.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, secured a $6 billion investment in a Series C funding round with participation from BlackRock. This move underscores BlackRock's continued backing of Musk's innovative ventures, particularly in the burgeoning AI sector.


Germany's coalition gov't collapsed in November. France's gov't collapsed in a no-confidence vote and then South Korea's president was impeached in December. Trudeau just stepped down in Canada, and Austria's chancellor just announced he will resign.

Busy times. So who's next?


There seems to be an 'unseen hand' dictating a NEW wave of chess like moves in the WORLD today, (similar to what we witnessed in 2020/21) and over time a common theme will reveal a pattern, the agenda will become clear by recognising in which ORDER the moves were made.




Technate of America


1940 Map created by Howard Scott, founder of Technocracy, Inc.

This map illustrates "The American Technate," a radical geopolitical proposal by a radical organization based on pseudo-scientific economics and authoritarian, nationalist politics.

As the Great Depression deepened in the early 1930s, Americans looked in desperation to a variety of radical social and political solutions. One of the most popular was "Technocracy," which "offered a seemingly scientific explanation of America's ills," namely, the "disastrous inefficiency" of "the wage-price system, the very heart of capitalism." The technocrats proposed abandoning business and representative government as the driving forces of our economy, and replacing them with massive social engineering centered on "technicians - especially engineers . . . as the efficient, scientific, anticapitalistic, elite capable of reorienting the economic order around rational production and distribution. Theirs was a clarion call for technicians to plan and engineer the new order." Akin 1977, ix-x.

"Politically unbiased experts in red-and-gray Technocracy uniforms would assay each nation's yearly energy output, then divide it fairly among the citizenry." Goods and services could be purchased at prices set out "on a table of energy equivalents calculated by objective Technocratic savants," all led by the "Great Engineer." Mann 2018, 273. While originally based on energy calculations by scientists at Columbia University, the Technocracy dogma was written by "a charismatic Greenwich Village layabout named Howard Scott." Scott, who "dismissed the world's businesspeople, social scientists, lawyers, and teachers as charlatans" (ibid., 273-74), was the long-time Director-in-Chief of Technocracy Incorporated. Its program was essentially a "techno-autocracy," with a self-perpetuating elite, overt hostility to "aliens and Asiatics," and a wide range of "fascist trappings." Temple 1943, 118-119.

By the outset of World War II, the popularity of the Technocracy movement had declined substantially, but it continued to be active. In July 1940 - as war raged in Europe while America had not engaged - Scott published the organization's position, "America - Now and Forever," in the Official Magazine of Technocracy Inc. Consistent with the movement's isolationist policy, it proposed a dramatic increase in the nation's continental defense. Among other things, the government was to greatly increase the size of the military; "conscript" all American means of transportation, communications systems, public utilities, manufacturing industries, mining enterprises, and patents; close all bars; "abolish" all foreign language periodicals, advertising, radio programs, and organizations; and prohibit outgoing transfers of currency (pp. 13-14).

Along with these proposed steps, Scott wrote that the territory of the United States must be expanded in order to defend it properly. The new "Technate of America" was to include all of Canada, Greenland, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of Columbia, Venezuela and the Guyanas. "Defense Bases" were to be established around the perimeter as far afield as Attu; Pago Pago; the Galapagos; Georgetown, Guyana; Bermuda; St. John's, Newfoundland; and Cape Farewell, Greenland. In Scott's words, "On the map accompanying this issue is delineated the geographical territory required for the adequate defense and operation of this Continental Area. . . . We should immediately acknowledge our planned intentions of consolidating these territories, not as separate political entities, but as part of the Continent of North America. . . . America must possess all North American territories on the accompanying map of the Technate, for the defense of this Continent." (Pp. 10, 12.)

How to achieve this monumental consolidation? "The government of the United States should take immediate action to acquire these territories and others, such as Greenland and the Galapagos Islands. The acquisition of these territories should be a mandatory part of the program of Continental defense for immediate achievement - either by purchase, negotiation, or the force of arms." (P. 12.)

The success of the New Deal had already reduced the attractiveness of Technocracy's economic and political proposals at the time this map was published, and the attack on Pearl Harbor ended support for the isolation of the United States. Technocracy Inc. nevertheless continued to evolve, and it exists to this day (see technocracyinc.org).

Technate of America (Cornell Univ Library)

Elon Musk's grandfather, Dr. Joshua N. Haldeman earned a place in the political history of Canada, owing to his service as research director for Technocracy, Inc. of Canada from 1936-1941.

Haldeman resigned from Technocracy, Inc. sometime in 1941, when its New York-based central office changed its policies from "unequivocally opposed to Communism, Fascism, Nazism and Socialism" to "complete economic and military collaboration with Soviet Russia" following Hitler's invasion of the USSR. Always a man of strong convictions and principles, Joshua Haldeman could find no justification for any alliance with Stalin's godless dictatorship.
Source: Joshua N Haldeman, DC: the Canadian Years, 1926-1950 NIH site.

Technocracy, Inc. came to the USA in 1939, starting in Oregon of all places.



Until the End of the World (1991) an epic Sci-fi-Cyberpunk-Drama-Romance-thriller.

Set in a futuristic 1999, a woman (Dommartin) has a car accident with a pair of bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the stolen money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law (William Hurt), an American who's being chased by the CIA. He claims the charges are false. The authorities want to confiscate a device his father invented which allows anyone to record their dreams and vision. On the run from both the bank robbers and the CIA, the couple span the globe, ending up in Australia at his father's (von Sydow) research facility, where they hope to play back the recordings Hurt captured for his blind mother. A subplot about a damaged Indian nuclear satellite crashing to Earth and causing the end of civilization is a puzzling, though significant, addition to the film.

The only decent version of this movie that exists is the director’s cut which is nearly five hours long. The much shorter cut they made for theaters is horribly butchered, making it nearly unwatchable. After near 5 hours it could have been even longer.

Director Wim Wenders' original cut was 8 hours and the rough cut for this film was 20 hours long. It took 14 years and $23 million for Wim Wenders to bring his vision to the screen, shooting in 15 different cities in seven different countries on four different continents. Actor Sam Neill has said of making this movie: "Six months on the road with Wim Wenders. Quite a trip."


Wim Wenders was so taken by the Aboriginal culture and by the idea of dreamlines and songlines after his first visit to Australia in 1977 that he started to write a science-fiction film about the end of the world, where the images of the world were saved, in a remote place in the Australian desert. He later fused that concept with another one, a retelling of The Odyssey in which Penelope, frustrated by waiting for Odysseus, sets off to find him.

The imagery in the sequences involving recorded brain impulses were achieved with early high-definition video. Wim Wenders and technicians at NHK (the only facility which could play back HD video at the time) worked for six weeks on these sequences, and intentionally distorted the imagery to create strange visual effects; often recording a fast-forwarded version of the image, then playing it back at normal speed.



What's behind the huge green door?


This is Bunker 42, a 'Spare Long-Range Command Bunker of the Soviet Air Forces from 1951 to 1995' beneath the streets of Moscow. Now a museum.

One Man, One Map - Unexpected things from 66 countries.


Too cold, he didn't stay long...




Well, that escalated to an astronomical figure...


Navy Plan to Buy 85 New Ships Will Cost $1 Trillion, CBO Says