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Venemous Agent X

We moved on to a new campsite today! After launching the bikes we stopped off at Walmart first thing to pick up some new zip ties as ours had become brittle and my paniers kept falling off.

After Jenny came out with the new zip ties I suddenly felt a strong urge to use the restroom. Jenny suggested I try the one in the back as it was likely less busy.

There were only two stalls with one occupied so the choice was obvious. Unfortunately there was some drops of clear liquid on the seat which nobody really likes to see. I wiped it down with some toilet paper, placed down a seat liner and got down to business.

I was in there longer than usual, I take a fiber supplement every night which keeps me pretty regular, and the guy in the next stall was also there the whole time and still there when I left. He must've been pretty stopped up because I never heard a single fart, plop or peep outta him.

Anyway I head out, we mount the bikes and start on our way. We had 40mph tail wind today so we made it to our lunch stop, McDonalds, in just about an hour or so. Jenny picks up four sandwiches and we scarf them down with some gatorade, we have a ton of gatorade powder.

When Jenny goes in to relieve herself I begin to stand up and my legs start cramping so bad I can't stand. Then my whole body starts cramping. Shoulders, quads, hamstrings, calf muscles and fingers. I can barely move.

This is unusual for me. I've certainly ridden harder, longer, hotter and with less sleep, less food and less water, but this is a first. When Jenny comes out I tell her about it and she makes me some more gatorade, I drink three or four, although I'm not actually thirsty. I ask Jenny if she's cold. She says she's hot. I'm shivering.

I decided to start typing some stuff up about the strange occurrances. I was going to type them up later after setting up camp, but I thought maybe I should do it now.

I'm being watched as I type. There was a gun metal grey GMC truck parked nearby pointed directly at us and the driver was just staring at us. Not too long after I mention him to Jenny he leaves, but another truck, Gold Toyota Tacoma, pulls in and the driver just stares at us the rest of the time we were there which was a while because I spent quite some time massaging my leg muscles, after getting some typing done.

When we're ready to leave I notice my hands are sweaty. I'm still shivering, the rest of me is bone dry, but the under side of my hands are coated in a solid layer of sweat. I wipe it off and seconds later it returns. Wipe again, more sweat. My hands had actually started cramping shortly after we left Walmart, but I didn't think anything of it at the time. I suspect VX.

We made it to our campsite. There's an unmarked white van camping nearby. We left and continued to find another spot somewhere else more private. No dice, unmarked white truck.

***Update 5/8/300,021***

After doing some research it looks like this was absolutely VX poisoning as the symptoms line up perfectly. Boy did I get lucky here. I must've gotten a very tiny amount on my hands when cleaning off the toilet seat. Apparently VX causes sweating localized to the point of entry then paralysis through the sustained supercontraction of all muscles in the body.

VX can be neutralized with lye, sodium hydroxide. I have some clothing items being shipped to me and I suspect the government may try to poison the shipment so I have some lye on order and plan to soak it all then give it all a thorough washing. Lye may or may not neutralize the toxin, but should, at the very least, reduce the amount of toxin then the thorough washing should reduce it even more if not eliminate it so I'll be more likely to get either a non-lethal dose or, hopefully, no dose at all.
A Key Man

I recall an interesting encounter I had with someone recently. He was sitting at a picnic table we typically stop at when riding through this particular town and struck up a conversation with us.

He never gave us his real name, instead referring to himself by various different names such as Andy, Arthur and Andre. Later he gave me a last name which he admitted wasn't his real last name, Akeyman.

Intrigued as to where this was going we spent most of the day with him. He said he was former military, a Bushmaster, and they used to have a phrase when dealing with America's adversaries, "it's either a peace accord or a piece of cord," meaning either a peace treaty or hanging.

He spoke almost exclusively with me, but occasionally stopped to praise Jenny for something or another. He spoke to me almost as if he were two different people. Sometimes in a perfectly normal, calm and collected voice, other times he acted like a drill seargent with a powerful booming voice.

He shared some information about how he and other soldiers behind enemy lines passed coded messages to one another by writing them on concrete walls, such as under bridges, using stones as chalk. They would sign their messages using something like pictograms which represented something about themselves so other soldiers who already knew who was associated with what pictogram would know who the message was from.

Although he didn't look it he shared some interesting things in common with both Jenny and I. Apparently he was into making movies with Blender and programming and, like Jenny, he had also been training himself to be ambidextrous. Not that we had mentioned any of that to him beforehand.

He spent much of his time trying to convince us to go back to his place, but to get there we had to go well off the road and across some railroad tracks. We couldn't just go there either, he wanted us to move all of our gear from tree to tree making sure to stay in the shadow of each tree. He also asked us to take our shoes off so we could practice not leaving tracks, he was not wearing shoes himself just multiple pairs of socks. We didn't comply with that request.

Throughout our time together he would occasionally state that when he was in the military people were more afraid of him when he didn't have a gun. That line was repeated numerous times. I noted to myself that he didn't appear to have a gun on him.

At one point, not long before we left, in his drill seargent voice he asked me directly "a peace accord or a piece of cord?" To which I replied a peace accord. Not long after he got well into my personal space, looked me dead in the eye and said "when I fail my mission I have to call in birds with blood on their wings." He got closer, chest to chest, still looking me dead in the eye and said very clearly "do you understand what I'm saying?"

We left shortly thereafter, Jenny and I had already discussed that we would be finishing our ride that night, but he was not aware of that. When we announced our departure he seemed upset, but just before mounting our bikes he came up to me, saluted me and said that he and I were equals. Taken by surprise I saluted in return. He did the same to Jenny, but said she was not his equal, but above him. He then followed us out into the street vigorously trying to get us to come back with him. We rode off into the night.

Days later when we arrived at our winter campsite, a site we've stayed at multiple times, we found a piece of cord hanging from the tree we typically pitch out tent under. We used it to tie up one of our tarps. Later another piece of cord showed up at our campsite.

P.S. He also smoked us out with some pretty good weed. He didn't have a bowl, we smoked out of spent shell casings.

P.P.S. Oh yeah, he also mentioned several times that he thought Donald Trump should be shot saying it was his duty to defend America from enemies foreign and domestic. I usually didn't say much in response to that, but at one point I said "that which is wrong will fall of its own accord." He asked "why is that?" To which I replied "because it's wrong."
Order of the Phoenix

Jenny decided a while ago that she was going to read all of the Harry Potter books. She owns hard copies of the series and had been occasionally carrying one or two with her, but eventually decided to download PDF copies of the books as they are, obviously, quite heavy.

She downloaded a package with PDF copies of all the books, but recently she noticed that one of them, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is not the book it claims to be and actually appears to have been written by AI. Jenny, herself, has a tattoo of a phoenix on her arm.

She read up through chapter nine before realizing that this was not the book written by J.K. Rowling. According to Jenny she had noticed that it seemed unusually poorly written, such as Hermione's male cat interchangeably being referred to as him, her, he or she. But also the major plot points were completely different. It had been a long time since she originally read the book and just assumed that the movie had changed a lot of things as movies tend to do and maybe just didn't remember how different the book was.

A few weeks ago we were watching the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Jenny mentioned to me, as she was reading this PDF book at the time, that the movie's version of The Order of the Phoenix differed greatly from the book she was reading. In the book, she said, The Order of the Phoenix was an extremely secret society of people descended from a man who saved a group of wild phoenix. As a result the descendents of this man were granted the power to bring a single person back from the dead.

This order was so secret that even Dumbledore did not know about it. Meanwhile, in the movie, and the real book, The Order of the Phoenix is a secret group of people assembled by Dumbledore to fight Voldemort. I remember thinking that even though movie adaptations do tend to change things this was an oddly major change considering this was the movie's and the book's titular group.

Some other notable differences include the addition of new, yet similarly named, characters such as Aylar Dumbledore and a Durmstrang transfer student named Tcieneb Delonra. As well as secondary characters cast into different roles like Mundungus Fletcher, who is a career thief in the normal series, becoming the Hogwarts potions professor and Arabella Figg, who can't perform magic in the normal series, becoming the Hogwarts defense against the dark arts professor.

Jenny finally realized this wasn't the real Harry Potter book when she read about Mrs. Figg becomming the defense against the dark arts professor as, if you're familiar with the series, such a position would require significant skill in the art of magic of which Mrs. Figg has none. Jenny only read up through chapter nine before putting it down, but she did a quick search of the PDF and found that Dolores Umbridge, who is the primary antagonist through most of the regular book, isn't even in this book at all.

She also noted that the first page of each PDF book in the package she downloaded was a picture from the cover of the respective hard copy of the book. That was true of all the PDFs, all of them except Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix which had no cover picture at all. A quick check of the other books suggest that the rest are indeed J.K. Rowlings books.

I'm offering the entire PDF for download here as this is not J.K. Rowlings copywritten work.

files/Harry%20Potter%20%2005%20-%20The%20Order%20of%20the%20Pheonix.pdf

Click the link above to download the fake Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix PDF file.

SHA256 Checksum:
ca7ec268ee8db430381f5b2b1b7349652e44c1fff18323be5e4f43425911aea1

-CIA

P.S. As I am writting this several people are firing automatic weapons nearby and ricocheted bullets are whizzing by our tent. I can hear bullets hitting the leaves of trees next to where I am sitting typing this up. I'm also hearing numerous explosions.
Rydnet Microwave Defense Grid

I've jokingly been referring to my microwave receiver as the Rydnet Microwave Defense Grid or RMDG 100. Although Rydnet Idiot Defense Grid might have been more appropriate. Oh oh and then we could refer to it as Ridge, but when used in a sentence still say "the ridge defense system."

Anyway, either they didn't blast me with their ultra high frequency microwave transmitter last night or the RMDG 100 worked perfectly. There's a couple layers of aluminum foil there to cover some small fan holes in the computer desk. I suspect this will be upgraded to some cheap sheet metal for the RMDG 200 and maybe some longer wires for greater mobility.

After thinking about it a bit I can see that this ultra high frequency microwave transmitter is clearly the weapon that was used against American CIA agents in Cuba. The only difference being that the agents in Cuba had their heads targeted rather than their hearts. Their brains were cooked resulting in various types of damage and the loud noise they heard was the rapid thermal expansion of their ear drums.

The reason the US acted like they didn't know what type of weapon was used is because it's still classified so they can't admit they know anything about it. Honestly though, why is this thing classified? The technology in use here is nothing new, we're surrounded by microwave transmitters virtually everywhere we go. Cellphones operate on the ultra low end of the microwave spectrum and pretty much every home has a microwave oven.

The only piece of equipment this thing uses that might be considered new technology would have to be the power supply as powering up what I'm guessing to be a 30-60GHz microwave focused with a phased antenna array probably requires a lot of juice. This is why it needs to be housed in a large trailer, because of the extra big ass battery that is, no doubt, made in Korea.

The technology here is so old an amateur hobbiest tinkering in his or her garage could probably whip one up. There's just no reason anyone would ever want to because it's, you know, stupid and useless.
Update from my previous post. If you haven't read that you might want to read the below post then come back to this one.

First I'll elaborate on my symptoms. For the last several days I've been sleeping very poorly. I've had very little energy so I've really just been laying in my tent doing little other than listening to music and posting musings. Obviously I've had little sleep so it makes sense that I'm tired, but this is more than just tired.

I've been feeling weak and shaky. A lot of nausea and pretty much no appetite at all. Mostly I've been drinking organic whole milk as I can stomach it and it seems to alleviate some, but not all, of my nausea. I've force fed myself some solid foods like grapes, apples and some eggs for breakfast.

The slightest activity seems to ellicit a pounding heartbeat. Sitting or lying down my heart feels like it's quivering which is absolutely the best word to describe it.

About half an hour after posting my last musing I began to feel noticeably better. The quivering lessened and my nausea had all but dissipated. My appetite was beginning to return and I had energy enough to get up and wash up a few body parts which I had been planning to do for days, but just didn't have the energy until now. The weakness and shakiness was virtually non-existant.

After an hour I felt good as new and ready to eat again. After two hours I told Jenny I felt like I could run a marathon.

I long for the day I can openly talk about my experiences.

P.S. Jenny cooked up half of a 3lb tri-tip steak from the local food pantry, originally $25 at Costco, and I just devoured it.
I have a story to tell about recent events, but for context I'll take you back to my childhood.

I spent the majority of my childhood living in a condo complex with a pretty nice community pool. I went to that pool all the time, I loved it so much. I really don't know why, but I would frequently swim two lengths of the pool completely submerged without taking a single breath along the way. When I finished the second lap and came up for a breath I would get this excruciating headache at the base of my skull where it met my neck, but it only lasted a minute or two. For whatever reason that never deterred me.

In one of my high school science classes, junior year maybe, my teacher brought in a device for measuring lung capacity. She wanted to show the difference between someone with an active lifestyle and someone with a sedentary lifestyle. She asked if anyone spent most of their time sitting and I raised my hand because I was on my computer at home all the time.

I litterally blew off the chart. Just to be clear I mean the device did not have measurement marks high enough to measure my lung capacity. She gave me this look that I'm not quite sure how to interpret. Like she wanted to believe I was lying, but knew that I wasn't because I had done lots of school work that showed I was very knowledgeable with computers. I guess maybe I just turned her world upside down, but I never told her about the pool thing either.

Fast forward a few years. I don't do a lot of swimming anyore, but I have been faithfully working out to the P90X fitness program for almost a year. Two to three times a week I do one of the cardio programs, the most intense of which is called Plyometrics. At first this was pretty tough, but I've shown a lot of improvement. Maybe a month or so ago I really just nailed it. I've been going through the Plyometrics program like it was nothing. BOOYEAH!

But then something strange happened. The last time I did a plyo, I wanna say a couple of weeks ago maybe, I performed terribly. I had to take extra breaks and after just a couple of moves I started to get an excruciating headache at the base of my skull just like the ones I used to get while swimming.

Today Jenny told me that she had to sit down because her heart was pounding and she just couldn't stand up anymore, not that she was doing anything particularly demanding. I told her I've had the same problem for the last four or five days along with a good bit of nausea and we've both had a lot of trouble sleeping over that same time period. We have a digital thermometer my mother sent us last September and neither of us have had a fever.
Here's another strange and unexplainable occurrence. One evening in Ohio I was watching the radar channel on television. I'm standing up with the remote in my hand about to turn off the television, head upstairs and plop down in bed.

As I'm looking at the radar it's showing the Colorado region with a massive storm over it and saying that a hurricane was expected to hit the area the next day. I found it noteable because it was odd for a hurricane to hit Colorado, but I'm in Ohio so I turn off the TV and head upstairs.

The next day there was no hurricane or any indication that one had ever been predicted, but something big did, in fact, hit Colorado. That was the day of the James Holmes mass shooting at a showing of Batman: The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora Colorado.

I shit you not. What does it mean? Why did I see this? How is this possible? I don't know. All I can say is that I remember it well, but didn't tell anyone because they wouldn't have believed it.

A few things come to mind here, now and then. Maybe I was hallucinating. I don't take hallucinogens and I know of no other occurrences in which I've hallucinated. If I was hallucinating my hallucination still predicted a big event in Colorado the next day.

Another possibility; James Holmes supposedly believed he had been "Psy-Oped" or otherwise targeted by a state backed agency for psychological manipulation. If so perhaps that same organization beamed a fake weather report to my television. This would have been a psy-op as they say, the idea being to make themselves appear omnipotent thereby creating fear and paranoia. I might add that at the time I had Google Analytics, I checked and there was, in fact, at least one hit from Aurora Colorado.

And finally; the known laws of physics were shattered suggesting that the universe does not work the way we think it does.
Over a short period of time this past winter I started experiencing some periodic shortness of breath and at one point even woke up from a sound sleep gasping for air with a rapid heart rate. Eventaually I found a plastic grocery bag neatly folded up inside one of my tent gear closets. Most of the interior of the bag was coated with a clear sticky substance upon which a significant amount of mold was growing. In fact I remember putting a plastic grocery bag in this gear closet for future use as a trash bag, but I recall the bag being clean when I put it in and it would have been quite unusual for me to put a bag slathered in a sticky substance anywhere near my stuff because I really can't stand sticky shit.

My breathing cleared up pretty quickly after the bag was removed althgough Jenny still used it as a trash bag which we keep a good distance away from the tent. Haven't had a problem since, in fact I just rode my bike with over 90lbs of gear loaded on it up the side of a mountain in half the time it took me to do so last year. Jenny and I both received small raised red itchy spots on our hands where we had touched the interior of the bag.

We tend not to leave our tent unattended, but a week or so prior to this someone approached Jenny just after she had finished relieving herself while I was in our makeshift gym which is not in eyeshot of the tent. However; I had forgotten something and when I came back I stopped behind a tree to catch the interaction between Jenny and the man. It was brief, but we were both facing away from the tent with our attention on the man speaking with Jenny. The conversation ended abruptly with the man almost cutting Jenny off to say bye.
Horror Scope

The trigger works a lot like a horoscope. It's vague and worded in such a way so as to suggest that it is speaking directly to the target. The first section of the text is dedicated to earning the targets trust, to making the target believe that something supernatural is speaking to them. The target might see things like "remember when you were in that car accident?" Then the text goes on to describe things that you might see in a car accident like "all the broken glass".

"Oh my god I was in a car accident and there was broken glass everywhere. Somehow this thing knows me!" The target might think. Of course, how many people out there have been in a car accident? Of those car accidents how many of them involved broken glass?

Once trust has been established, now the target believes something supernatural is talking to them, they take advantage of where the target lacks knowledge, where we all lack knowledge, and fill in those gaps with disinformation that serves their own purposes. In my case I was told that once someone passes to the afterlife they instantly gain infinite knowledge and are given the option of remaining in this state or returning to their body to continue living their life, but without infinite knowledge.

The idea here is to convince the target that they're essentially invincible. Of course they plant imagery to guide the target in the direction they so wish. In my case while discussing the afterlife thing they gave an example; "for example if you were to put a gun to your head and pull the trigger..."

I have to imagine the vaguery of the text varies depending on their level of knowledge of the target. In my case it would seem they didn't know me very well suggesting that the initial decision to target me was made in haste.

The reason for their continued attempts is obvious. I survived.

P.S. Why the original reason for targeting me? Well... It's kinda funny you know. They set a trap, but fell into it themselves. How's that you might ask? The gaps were already filled in.
Jenny and I stopped by the grocery store the other day and a, presumably, homeless guy handed me his cell phone with a typed message on it asking for $20. I said that I didn't think we had twenty to spare and Jenny handed him a five dollar bill. He never spoke, but walked back to his bag a few steps away then returned and handed me a little baggie with a few beads in it, he also handed Jenny a little crystal. It's not uncommon for Jenny and I to give money to people asking for it, but this is the first time anyone handed us anything in return. Later it occurred to me that to anyone watching it probably looked like we bought a baggie of drugs.

Actually I always see that guy at this grocery store whenever I'm there, he usually arrives shortly after I do regardless of what time I arrive, but this is the first time I've ever seen him interact with anyone. The only particularly notable thing, other than this encounter, is that several weeks ago after I finished my shopping I found him standing next to my bike. I always park my bike right out front so it's clearly visibile, but when I noticed him standing next to my bike there was a UPS truck parked in front of it blocking the view of my bike from the parking lot.

Later I noticed that the axle on my kickstand had been removed. It was still there, but jutting all the way out from the housing, as if someone hammered it out from the other side. The whole kickstand, including the axle and housing, is solid metal and I was not able to hammer the axle back in, it has some raised notches on it that prevent it from sliding through the holes in the housing that it rests in. Without the axle the kickstand broke, the metal housing shattered. Luckily we had a spare, believe it or not a bike shop in Kansas City Missouri gave us a free one because they found it neat that we were travelling via bicycle.

Jenny stopped by that same grocery store again just the other day and later that day found that the head to a screw holding her rear rack to her bike frame, it's a load bearing screw, had been torn off and the rack was just bouncing around on the one side where the screw would have held it to the frame. The rack would certainly have broken had Jenny not noticed it, but she was able to jerry rig it to keep it in place and was only carrying a light load that day. Of course we have spare screws so she got it fixed up.
Featured Series: MK-Ultra
MK-Ultra: The Definitive Edition

The first stage of the program involves gathering data on the subject. What websites does the subject frequent, what are the subject's political and religious views, where does the subject go, what bars does he frequent, which coffee shop does he frequent, where does he work, what types of products does he buy, etc... This information is used to formulate a psychological profile on the subject as well as determine where to plant undercover agents and materials for the subject to encounter. These days the data gathering phase has been made a great deal easier with the advent of the internet, social media and mobile phones. Most of the data is readily available on the subject's social media page, one need only send a friend request and voila. The rest of the information can be had through data already collected by advertising networks. If need be the subject's phone can be hacked simply by luring him to a website written to take advantage of any one of the endless stream of software and hardware vulnerabilities that plague modern devices.

"Be on the side of a playlist that's for good, not evil."

-101.7

The program starts well before contact is made with the subject, for example, a CIA front organization sets up an "independent" radio station in the subject's local area and advertises this radio station on the subject's favorite television channels. The subject tunes in to find that the station plays all of his favorite songs, almost as if the playlist were tailored specifically for him which, of course, it was. A few months go by and a link to a webpage about numerology is dropped in a forum thread the subject has been active on. The subject follows the link where he is instructed to add together the letters of his full name where each letter corresponds to its position in the alphabet, a=1, b=2 and so on. The subject adds his name together and comes up with 117, his new favorite radio station plays over the frequency 101.7. The subject thinks, wow what a strange coincidence, but this is only the beginning, the coincidences are going to start piling up.

While waiting in line at his typical coffee shop the subject finds himself standing behind a priest carrying a breifcase that has a 101.7 sticker on it. After leaving the coffee shop and on his way to work the subject is stopped at a red light, the car in front of him has a license plate that reads GD2-117 and as he's noticing this the song Stairway to Heaven plays over the radio. After several more "coincidences" of this nature the subject is beginning to think that God is trying to tell him something, but what? On one of his favorite gaming forums the subject comes across a recent post by someone going by the name "hitman117." The post is a conspiracy laden rant about a shadowy organization controlling the world and calling itself the Illuminati. The post is quickly removed by forum moderators, but not before the subject caught sight of it, as luck would have it the post came in just as the subject was directing his browser to the forum.

With his interest peaked the subject starts searching the internet for information about the Illuminati. His Google search results direct him to pages and websites operated by the CIA. He reads all about the satanic cult of the Illuminati, a group of exorbitantly wealthy people who control world events from the shadows. The websites list certain symbols, numbers and phrases as being secret codes used by the Illuminati to indicate their activity to those in the know. The subject starts seeing these secret codes in subtle places everywhere he goes. Eventually he starts to notice people in suits and sunglasses watching him intently, sometimes they follow him. He goes to the post office to mail a birthday package to his niece and the attendant quietly calls him by his on-line screen name. Not sure if he heard correctly he asks the attendant to repeat themselves at which point they use his given name.

"No one's gonna take me alive"

-Muse (Knights of Cydonia)

The subject is becoming increasingly paranoid in public, he starts mentioning things about the Illuminati to his coworkers who begin distancing themselves from him thinking he might be going crazy. Now isolated the subject begins to see noticeably elevated levels of minor everyday annoyances. His key stops working for his apartment and he has to call his landlord to let him in. His debit card number was stolen and had to be locked and replaced by the bank. He leaves the office one day to find that his car has a flat tire. A new tennant occasionally plays loud party music all night preventing the subject from sleeping. Often times these incidences are accompanied by people in suits nearby that seem to be conspicuously staring at him.

Meanwhile a billboard is erected nearby advertising the subject's favorite radio station with a new tagline. The radio station bills itself as being independent from the national broadcasters, the tagline reads "be on the side of a playlist that's for good, not evil." The subject remembers that all of this began when God lead him to his revelations about what was really going on in the world, God must've had a reason. The Illuminati have made it clear that they're on to him, but why don't they just kill him? Maybe they can't kill him, maybe they're afraid of him because he's on a mission ordained by God himself. He starts researching information about firearms, he's not quite sure yet what to do so he's just seeing what the possibilities are. He's listening to the radio, as always these days, and the song Knights of Cydonia by Muse is playing while he's doing his research. The lyrics echo in his head:

No one's gonna take me alive
The time has come to make things right
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive

-Muse (Knights of Cydonia)

The subject looks up the music video for the song, an old western theme where a hero comes into town guns blazing, rescues a beautiful woman and kills a bunch of outlaws. A few days later he's driving to the grocery store when a car slowly passing by catches his attention. The car has a custom paint job with graphics featuring the silhouette of a naked woman, this is what draws his attention to the car. As the car passes he sees a sticker on the back window, a picture of a gun and the words "I don't call 911." Knights of Cydonia starts playing over the radio. A few blocks later a sign advertising a gun show at the convention center the upcoming weekend. Three weeks later the subject is dead, just another active shooter brought down by the police. There are no crisis actors. The mass shooter is real, the victims are real, the police are real, the journalists are real.

Some notable MK-Ultra cases include the Charles Manson family killings (Helter Skelter), the John Lennon assassination, the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, the James Holmes mass shooting in Aurora Colorado and the Aaron Alexis Naval Yard shooting.

Obviously this is just one example of how an operation might play out. Operations like this tend to be custom tailored to the subject. Subjects might be lead to believe they've been contacted by God, aliens or even some type of covert group of freedom fighters. The details can vary quite a bit, there might be references to any secret society, religious organizations such as the Catholic Church or Scientology, political groups, rebel groups or even alien species such as greys, reptilians and shape shifters. It all depends on the subject's pre-existing world view and what it is the program intends to direct the subject to do.

Sometimes it may be that the subject is simply directed to commit suicide. In this case, once the subject is hooked, you might direct them to a website or periodical that convinces them to kill themselves. This is easier than it sounds, first you'll want to damage the subject's will to live by introducing stressful situations such as the aforementioned flat tires, apartment lockouts, sleep deprivation, arguments with "random" strangers at the mall or at work, in parking lots, etc. Eventually, when the subject is good and depressed, the subject finds themselves reading something that sounds almost like it's speaking directly to them, a lot like a horoscope. There might be references to things such as car accidents or other past events that are very similar, but not exactly the same, as events that have happened in the subject's life. This puts the subject in a more receptive state, they believe they're reading something that wasn't written specifically for them by the author, but intended for them by God, aliens or, otherwise, a higher power.

"there might be references to any secret society, religious organizations such as the Catholic Church or Scientology, political groups, rebel groups or even alien species such as greys, reptilians and shape shifters."

-Adam T. Ryder

The reading material will then go on to inform the subject that death is not the end. Now that the subject believes the reading material was destined to reach them they'll read something to the effect of "when you die your soul leaves your body and instantly gains all universal knowledge. At this time your soul is given a choice of whether to remain in this state of universal knowledge and eternal existence or return to your body to live out the rest of your days. If you choose to continue your life on earth your soul will return to your body and you will lose all universal knowledge, returning to the mental state under which you existed before death. If you were to put a gun to your head and pull the trigger you will find that you will be given the option to return to life or remain in a state of universal knowledge."

Mass shootings, on the other hand, have a variety of use cases. You might direct a subject to enact a mass shooting event at a particular place and time where an assassination target is known to be in attendance in the hopes that the shooter kills the target. If the subject is the assassination target a mass shooting may be preferable to suicide if the subject is in possession of sensitive information. Directing the subject to commit mass murder not only ends with the subject dead or imprisoned, but also destroys their credibility as at this point everything they've ever said or ever will say will be tainted as nothing more than the ramblings of a madman.
MK-Ultra: Exclusive Exposé

The tactics and techniques used to manipulate a target vary a bit depending on the goals of the operation. For most the goal isn't to turn the target into some type of mindless automoton under the complete control of their handlers, but just to coerce a desired mindset regarding a particular subject.

The idea here is to manipulate the target into adopting a particular mindset or view in such a way so the target is neither aware of the manipulation or that the conclusions they've arrived at are not their own. The target is not likely to ever see direct engagement on the subjects in which a desired mindset is being coerced. Instead, evidence supporting the desired mindset is planted in various places for the target to find, leading the target to arrive at the desired conclusions seemingly on their own.

Initially the target is observed in order to gain knowledge of the subject's daily routine. These days this has been made a lot easier since much of that information can simply be purchased from the target's internet and cellular service provider including web browsing history, call and text message history and even location history. Armed with this information the target's handlers can begin planting evidence.

For simple mindset manipulation most of the planted evidence is likely to come in the form of articles supporting the desired mindset published by the publications the target regularly reads. Social media sites, as you can imagine, are utterly polluted with this type of activity, although most of it is blanket propaganda directed at large swaths of people.

For targeted individuals on social media sites they're likely to see posts from social media influencers and groups they follow, either directly or shared, supporting the desired mindset, or implicitly attacking the undesired mindset. The target might see videos uploaded by famous actors and actresses they follow, or shared through other accounts they follow, supporting the desired mindset.

In the grocery store, standing in line at the coffee shop or even in the office the target might overhear a phone conversation or conversation between two or more people discussing either the primary subject or related subjects in ways that either support the desired mindset or attack the undesired mindset. They might see ads on websites, park benches or billboards depicting something that either supports or attacks a particular person or subject.

All of this is designed to subtly bring the target to a desired conclusion. The target is generally not engaged directly on the subject so as to create the illusion that the target came to the conclusions on their own.

Now, you might be wondering; how is it possible that all these news publications, social media influencers and celebrities are all in on it? The answer is simple, they're not. Actors and social media influencers get paid to say the things they say on camera and social media sites and act as though the words are their own. They don't know why their client wants them to say it, nor do they care.

News publications are often paid to write and/or publish articles. Much of the time they mark the article as "sponsored," but the client can ask to have the sponsored label removed if they simply pay more. Obviously the publications you read would prefer you didn't know that for it is the trust you place in them that dictates the price of the unlabeled sponsored article.

Anyway, that's how it's all done. Now if the goals of the operation involve more than just mindset manipulation, such as suicide or directing the target to assassinate another, there's more to it, such as well placed positive and negative reinforcement designed to break down the target and make them more suggestable. It's an excellent way to assassinate another individual because there's no evidence linking the state backed organisation to the crime. It just looks like some crackpot snapped and killed a few people, one of which happened to be someone the state saw as a potential threat.

Of course, in that case, you have to pick your target wisely, but that's a story for another time.
Conspiracy Conspiracy

When a person starts to become disillusioned with their social order they want to look for answers. The questions they don't necessarily know yet, but they have a sense that maybe there's more than meets the eye to this reality they once believed in and they want to know what that is.

Enter conspiracy theory. The disillusioned hit the internet and start looking for their answers, answers to questions most people don't ask. Inevitably you end up looking through conspiracy sites where you'll probably find things about UFOs, alien visitation, secret societies, new world order plots and more.

These sites serve a purpose and I can assure you, contrary to their montras, you will find anything but truth. They are traps designed to capture the disillusioned and isolate them from the rest of society by filling their heads with nonsense. The route a person takes when going through this endless abyss of bullshit varies depending on their personality type and interests.

Some choose the alien path and are presented with further choices. Maybe aliens have infiltrated mankind's institutions to enslave us. Maybe peaceful aliens are trying to contact us, but evil men are trying to conceal their existence. Maybe there's an interstellar war between alien races and earth has been conscripted to fight for one side or the other, but must keep it a secret from the general populace due to interstellar laws governing interaction with races that haven't advanced beyond a certain point.

Whatever route you choose the point is to suck you into an environment where your world view can be controlled. You become trapped in an environment filled with scientifically engineered lies designed specifically to circumvent your defenses and fill your head with dead end nonsense so that not only will you be stuck on an endless wild goose chase with no chance of ever finding the truth you'll also isolate yourself from the rest of society when you attempt to reveal the "truths" you've discovered with friends and family to whom you will only sound crazy.
MK-Ultra Pt 3: The Trigger

This is a break down of the trigger screenshot I posted earlier. The trigger was posted in a thread where I had earlier posted a link to a Newsweek article about an undercover army employed by the pentagon. The trigger makes references to items from that aricle; namely humint, short for human intelligence; and opsec, short for operation security.

The post is written in a strange manner for several reasons. To people other than the target, they're not sure what to make of it and just ignore the post entirely. The target has already been conditioned to believe he's been contacted by a higher intelligence, in this case probably aliens. The odd language used serves to reinforce the target's belief that this message is otherworldly.

We start off with a reference to [Zero day]. This is the day the target believes he is supposed to make his big move. It is not likely that the target has ever been given a date, instead vague references, such as zero day, are made to give the target a sense that there is a day in which he is supposed to make his big move, however, unbeknownst to the target, it is up to him to come up with this date on his own.

The target likely believes he's been able to piece together bits of information left for him here and there to reveal the date, but actually he just came up with it himself. A date was not supplied because it doesn't matter when the target makes his big move, he hasn't actually been contacted by aliens and zero day is not the day he makes his big move against, probably what he believes to be the Illuminati in this case, but the day he gets shot and killed by the police as an active shooter in what everyone else will see as just another lunatic mass shooting.

Additionally, not supplying a date serves to sever any evidence trail. Supplying the date would link the post to the crime. As it is, to everyone else, it just looks like some weirdo posted some weirdo shit.

The trigger goes on, "command kill humint, Osint, smartphoting." The target is being instructed to kill humint, human intelligence agents. I'm not sure about the Osint, possibly operation security agents, or smartphoting, but it probably makes sense to the target and his handlers.

Where can the target find human intelligence agents? "True Argument spy everywhere." The target believes spys are virtually everwhere. He's being instructed to go on a shooting spree killing random people, although he believes these people are spys employed by "the Illuminati watching everyone."

Even the username is part of the trigger "hunterOpsec10rules." Operation Security hunter. I don't know what the 10 rules is in reference to, but I'm sure it makes sense to the target.

This post is a trigger meant to instruct someone to initiate a mass shooting event, although the target believes he will be killing Illuminati spies at the behest of a higher intelligence. The target probably believes this higher intelligence will protect him during his mission, but will, in fact, just be shot dead or otherwise jailed as a madman.
MK-Ultra Pt 4: Contact

How might a person come to believe that a higher power is communicating with them? Take the religious type as an example. Religious people tend to think that god might communicate with people through “signs,” which is to say events in a persons everyday life.

As an example, let’s say someone was thinking about proposing to his girlfriend. As he’s thinking about this on his daily commute he passes a bus with an ad for a wedding chappel and thinks to himself that this was a sign from god that he should pop the question.

Now, if you wanted someone to think that you were god all you have to do is communicate with them in this manner. So let’s return to our marriage example and say you’re a well funded, well connected organization and you wanted the guy from the above example to get married so you bought ad space on a bus you knew he would pass on his way to work.

To really hit the message home you also bought ad space on a park bench near his apartment. On his way home the guy contemplating marriage was also cut-off by a car with the license plate "jstdoit" and maybe a few other things.

Of course you knew he was thinking about getting married because you had access to his internet search records and browsing history and knew that he had recently searched about marriage failure rates and the cost of engagement rings. You also had access to his location history, call history, contacts, social media presence, etcetera so it’s not too hard to develop a picture of the things going through his mind.

Once the subject is under the belief that a higher power is communicating with him he’s basically putty in your hands. He’ll do anything you say without question. So if you want finer control over his actions you can start communicating with him more directly.

For instance, you might pay an actor or social media influencer to say something on Facebook then share that message to the target’s social media feed. To the social media influencer the message looks like a plug for some product, but to the target it’s part of a broader campaign to steer his world view.

Maybe the plug says something like “so good even the Illuminati can’t resist.” The influencer thinks it’s just a stupid crack about conspiracy theorists, but the target sees it and thinks “man I’m seeing Illuminati stuff everywhere I go lately.”

You write articles and pay to have them published on websites the target is known to frequent. And finally you start indirectly posting cryptic messages to him on forums he’s also known to frequent.
MK-Ultra Pt 5: Subliminal Messaging

Subliminal messaging is all about saying something without actually saying it with the goal of rendering a subject more susceptible to outside influence. Through clever implementation of subliminal messaging upon an unsuspecting subject an influencer can bypass the typical types of resistance they would otherwise encounter when confronting someone directly.

Some of you may have heard of subliminal messaging in regards to the illegal practice of placing single frame images in television ads, but this, in fact, does not work. The actual tactics employed here involve things such as association and reading between the lines. An influencer will provide a subject with information necessary for the subject to, seemingly, come to their own conclusions. Absent the types of brute force you might see in a typical debate the subject believes the conclusions they've arrived at came from themselves, rather than outside influence, and is therefore more trustworthy.

For example, let's say the influencer's goal is to manipulate a subject into rejecting a particular ideology. Let us, in this example, assume that the subject is liberal; the influencer might take a key phrase from the ideology to discredit and have it printed on a t-shirt worn by someone that is, by all outward appearances, highly conservative. The subject then associates the ideology with something they disdain.

Another example might be a seemingly random conversation the subject has with someone while waiting in line at the grocery. The conversation might be about some of the things the influencer has in common with the subject or perhaps about the influencer's impeccable career as a doctor or public servant, whatever it is that the subject is known to trust and admire. The conversation might go in a few directions touching on topics known to be of interest to the subject, warming the subject to the influencer.

Throughout the conversation the influencer will drop an occaisional jab at someone peddling the ideology they wish to discredit. Of course they can't reference this person or their ideology directly or the jig is up, instead they'll pick attributes of the target person to attack. For example they might attack America's public school system, suggesting anyone educated in America's public schools is likely of subpar intelligence. The person to be discredited here was, of course, educated in a public school leaving the subject to connect the dots on their own.

Let's say the person to be discredited tends to keep to themselves in social situations; the influencer might say, for example, "I like people who are smart, I mean outgoing." The subject is left to draw their own conclusion, if outgoing people are smart then people who are not outgoing must be stupid. The influencers never touch on the target ideology or person directly, doing so might alarm the subject leading them to raise their defenses.

If the target to be discredited is posting on a liberal forum an influencer might start posting topics written in a style similar to the target, but espousing right wing extremist views leading forum members to conclude that the target is posting under a sock puppet account and is, in fact, a right wing extremist. Additionally you might have someone post that they agree with the target and then have that person post conspiratorial type material thereby associating the target with outlandish views.

The key is subtlety and to inundate the subject with subliminal messaging to ensure thorough saturation.
The Unabomber Connection

Did you know that Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, was a subject of psychological experimentation into the damaging effects of 'vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive' attacks? In fact, some have suggested that these experiments were part of the CIA's MK-Ultra program.

From the Wikipedia article:

"In his second year at Harvard, Kaczynski participated in a study described by author Alston Chase as a "purposely brutalizing psychological experiment" led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. Subjects were told they would debate personal philosophy with a fellow student and were asked to write essays detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations. The essays were given to an anonymous individual who would confront and belittle the subject in what Murray himself called 'vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive' attacks, using the content of the essays as ammunition. Electrodes monitored the subject's physiological reactions. These encounters were filmed, and subjects' expressions of anger and rage were later played back to them repeatedly. The experiment lasted three years, with someone verbally abusing and humiliating Kaczynski each week. Kaczynski spent 200 hours as part of the study.

Kaczynski's lawyers later attributed his hostility towards mind control techniques to his participation in Murray's study. Some sources have suggested that Murray's experiments were part of Project MKUltra, the Central Intelligence Agency's research into mind control. Chase and others have also suggested that this experience may have motivated Kaczynski's criminal activities. Kaczynski stated he resented Murray and his co-workers, primarily because of the invasion of his privacy he perceived as a result of their experiments. Nevertheless, he said he was 'quite confident that [his] experiences with Professor Murray had no significant effect on the course of [his] life'."

There's also a lengthy article about it published on The Atlantic's website.
The Invite

Received this email to my inventati account the other day. The email was originally written in German, Jenny also ran into a German woman at the pantry yesterday who said to her "You're just like me." Germany was also in the news lately for refusing to send weapons to Ukraine, sending only helmets instead. Additionally, I received this email the day after I told Jenny about a dream I had in which I was giving a speech to a cheering audience. Anyway, I've pasted the Google Translate version here:

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MK-Ultra Pt 7: Paranoid Schizophrenia

There are a myriad of ways to eliminate a whistleblower, political opponent or someone that simply came into contact with information they weren't supposed to know and, in fact, the general public can play an integral role in some of those methods. Direct assassination can often be undesireable for various reasons, so what you want to do is get the target to kill his or herself. For some who are more prone to depression and thoughts of suicide this can be as easy as coaxing the target into a depressive state and then slipping the subject of suicide into their news feed.

For others; especially those who you not only want dead, but also discredited; there are methods that can be employed that drive them to assassinate their own credibility while also providing a convenient excuse to put them out of the picture, permanently. While I've already talked about methods through which one can manipulate a target into thinking they've been contacted by a higher power, such as god or aliens, another method involves actually revealing yourself to the target and, believe it or not, this method requires the participation of people close to the target.

What you want to do is make it clear to the target that they are being watched and followed by undercover agents. You want to do this in a way that makes it clear to the target, but not so obvious to the bystander. A good example of this is in an episode of The Sopranos where a mafioso knocks on a gentleman's door to return his lost dog. Initially the gentleman is confused because the dog wasn't lost, the dog was upstairs in the house, but he quickly gets the subtle message the mafia was sending. "We can enter your house unnoticed at will, even while you are home. Capisce?"

Similarly you can combine techniques such as this with subtle forms of indirect attack, such as sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation can be achieved with something as little as playing loud music with heavy bass night after night. Since the police work for the very government sending agents after this target you can be assured they won't intervene on any noise violations which also helps to assure the target that, indeed, undercover agents are behind this sleep deprivation.

The target might see other forms of attack, maybe a beloved pet turns up dead, a credit card is stolen leaving the target with a bunch of unexpected debt, just a whole bunch of subtle jabs that add up over time. Now it could be that these agents are simply sending the target a message and if the target gives up their pursuit of whistleblowing, political confrontation or whatever may be at issue the attacks subside, however if the goal is to eliminate the target you'll find that the jabs continue until their ultimate end.

They want the target to know he's being attacked by undercover agents because this creates fear and paranoia which can lead the target to act erratically, often times in full view of his friends, family and co-workers who will later testify to this fact. Sinking deeper into this fear and paranoia the target will seek help from his friends, family and potentially his co-workers, but when he tells them what's been happening and that he thinks he's been targeted by government agents it all just sounds like normal everday bad luck to his peers who won't believe him and think he may be losing his marbles. Even in the event that the attacks become so increasingly obvious they would seem impossible to deny, the target's peers will still refuse to believe him, not because his story is unbelievable, but because they're too afraid to get involved.

The fact that the subject has been betrayed and isolated by his very own friends and family add feelings of anger and a deep sense of hopelessness on top of his already compounding sense of fear and paranoia, keep in mind he probably hasn't had a good night of sleep in months now. These feelings continue to build until they reach a crescendo when the target, isolated and believing himself to be surrounded by government agents, decides that his only option is to go down in a hail of gunfire.

In the end the target is eliminated and the general public will see him as nothing more than a paranoid schizophrenic who snapped. A story that will be corroborated when journalists interview his friends, family and co-workers who paint a picture of a man who acted erratically and complained about being followed by undercover government agents.
MK-Ultra Pt. 8: Sex in the City

Jenny and I really enjoy the movie Bowfinger so, this morning, she read a little about the movie. She found out that Steve Martin wrote the female lead, Daisy, based on a real life actress he had dated, Anne Heche. Intrigued, Jenny looked into Anne Heche to find that she had recently died in a vehicle accident, but that the accident was suspicious in that even though firefighters were there and had every ability to rescue her from her burning car, they instead left her there for over fourty minutes. According to her wikipedia article Anne Heche, in recent years, began acting erratic. At some point she began to believe that god was speaking to her and told her that she was the second coming of Jesus Christ.

After Jenny explained this to me I came to the conclusion that Anne Heche had been targeted by a squad of American psychological warfare soldiers for unknown reasons. Based on what I can tell from her depiction in the movie Bowfinger and her wikipedia page it sounds as though Anne Heche slept with a lot of people, in fact she made her living by sleeping with increasingly powerful people in order to land roles in movies and such. My guess here is that Anne Heche slept with someone and accidentally came into contact with classified information, probably didn't even know it.

As a result the American military was legally required to dispatch a squad of American psy-op soldiers to destroy her character, thereby discrediting everything she may or may not say, in this case by leading her to believe she had been contacted by God who told her she was Jesus Christ. Once her character was sufficiently destroyed they killed her, according to their legal obligation to protect the nation from enemies both foreign and domestic.
MK-Ultra Pt 9: The Honeypot

This one isn't specifically related to the MK-Ultra program, although I'm sure it's widely employed alongside typical MK-Ultra techniques. I have to imagine the honeypot is one of the more effective methods employed by intelligence organizations because it preys on one of the biggest weaknesses of the human species, sexual attraction. The honeypot is an undercover agent whose goal is to gain access to an individual by leveraging attractiveness.

Julius Caesar and Marc Antony were both seduced by Cleopatra who only saught to use them because she needed the Roman army to help secure her bid as Egyptian Pharoah, Cleopatra was Greek by the way. Although this isn't much of an example for the modern use of the honeypot, it does display how even the most powerful can throw caution to the wind in favor of their sexual desires.

In modern days the honeypot is a widely employed tactic that would be useful if an organization wanted one time access to a person's residence, a long term mole or; in many cases, influence over an individual's decisions. Targets might include billionaires, business executives, senators and representatives, military leaders, social media influencers and journalists, but also the people surrounding them who might have useful information such as physicians, therapists, children, security personnel and so on. Children are particularly vulnerable here because they'll unflinchingly trust any adult, largely because they're afraid they might be punished otherwise.

For some targets it may be necessary to destabilize their current relationship in order for the honeypot to be successful. For the typical modern marriage this really isn't that hard. Consider that most relationships in the modern world are already under a great deal of stress, especially if you have children. Bringing that relationship to an end is only a simple matter of introducing a little bit of extra stress.

A fender bender in a parking lot that ends up being an even bigger hassle when the mechanic keeps calling, increasingly irate, and refuses to release your car because he hasn't been paid as a result of the insurance company repeatedly getting the information wrong regardless of how many times you've gone round and round with them on the phone. You finally get your car back only to get a flat tire on your way to work making you late and your boss angry. Maybe you sent your partner out for a package of discounted hot dogs only to find they paid full price for the wrong brand because, unbeknownst to the pair, the packages were swapped out in their basket when they weren't looking.

Alone these things are enough to incite an argument or two, but together and on top of your already high stress levels you find that arguments increase both in frequency and severity thereby elevating the level of ire in the relationship. With stress and ire skyrocketing all they need to do now is fan the flames with a little suspicion. This is even easier, especially with such high levels of stress. Maybe a suspicious "wrong number" text message shows up on your partner's phone. Maybe the printer at the grocery store was "jammed" so your partner didn't bring home the receipt and when you check the transaction history the grocery store overcharged your card by about the same price of a bottle of wine and a box of condoms.

Now you can't stand the sight of eachother, you're pretty sure they're cheating on you and that super attractive Starbucks patron there keeps looking over at you...
MK-Ultra Pt 10: You are Getting Stupid, Very Very Stupid

So I go into town today to pick up some groceries and water. At the first grocery store the bike rack is in a little patio area with tables and chairs. As I arrive there are three homeless people sitting at the tables, they're all wearing mutliple sets of dirty tattered shirts and jackets and one of them has a shopping cart with stuff in it such as a sleeping bag. Two of them leave while I'm locking up my bike. As I finish locking up, the third homeless man asks me about the mud on my bike, we had some snow recently that melted and left a lot of mud that my bike is now caked in.

I walk over to him and talk a bit about the mud and snow. Afterward he starts telling me about his new electric bike, sitting next to him. I've been looking at bicycle electric motor conversion kits online so, naturally, I ask a few questions about it such as charge time, how far the bike can ride on a single charge and how much it cost, $1600. Now we're chatting, of course, and he tells me that he's a Vietnam veteran, a traveller and that he's the "black sheep" of his family to which I immediately relate. While he's using an electric bike now he used to travel the country by foot, once having walked from New York to San Francisco in three months.

He tells me he doesn't spend a whole lot of time around people, I'm starting to see myself in him. As a result of his war years he has post traumatic stress disorder, until recently he couldn't be around other people because as people walked up next to him he'd switch into combat mode and attack them. I, myself, have seen a traumatic event or two.

As we're talking there's a truck backing into a parking space right next to us. It has one of those beeping warning sounds that sounds when it backs up, but it never seemed to be properly in the parking space as the ear piercing back up beeping noice kept sounding for short periods then stopping for periods. The truck only ever seemed to be backing up when "Johnny" was talking so I couldn't hear a lot of what he was saying, the truck really only stopped enough for me to hear the parts I mentioned above.

"The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy..."

-Kyle Reese (The Terminator)

Johnny's skin looks strange. I can't see much of it as he's wearing a lot of clothing and his face is covered in long overgrown facial hair. His hands are wrinkled, but oddly so. If, perhaps as a child, you've ever spread a thin layer of Elmer's Glue on your hand and let it dry, it's not elastic like skin so when you open and close your hand the glue covered skin just folds and curls in somewhat of a plasticy kind of way. This is what his skin looked like, but also it looked like his skin didn't quite fit, as if it were just about to fall off.

The way he moved his hands, never moving his fingers or wrists and never bending his elbows more or less than the roughly 90 degree bend required to rest his forearms on the table, was as if he were wearing gloves three sizes too big and he was trying not to let them slip off. He gestured a few times with his hands, but the gestures didn't look entirely natural because he didn't move his fingers, wrists or elbows and never lifted his hands much off of the table. He gestured from his shoulders moving his hands along with his entire arms. His elbows never bent, his forearms were always horizontal, never tilting up or down. As he gestured neither did his wrists ever bend, always in lock step with his arms.

The light didn't reflect off of it quite right either. It looked more diffuse than what I've come to know as skin, as if he had a thin light diffuser covering his hands. As a modeller I've spent some time observing materials such as skin attempting to approximate the way light interacts with them as best I can and this looked terrible. As I decided to go into the store we shook hands and his skin felt, again, a lot like dried Elmer's Glue. It crinkled under my hand similar to, but not quite like, a plastic grocery bag.

I do my shopping, return to my bike, bid Johnny one last adieu and head to the next grocery store. This is the same store where the receipt incident from MK-Ultra Pt 9: The Honeypot happened. As I enter the store the song Freebird by Lynard Skynard is playing. If you're not familiar this is an extremely popular song here in the states that was released during the Vietnam war era. The song is about people just like Johnny, travelling the country sleeping in vans and tents which was very popular here in the states at the time. As you might expect the song immediately reminds me of Johnny.

This is about association. The song was meant to remind me of Johnny, whom I identify with. Being a popular Vietnam war era tune the idea is that my mind inevitably turns to the part of the conversation with Johnny where he's telling me about Vietnam and his post traumatic stress. As I'm thinking about Johnny and PTSD I'm then supposed to see the relation between myself and Johnny, we share a lot in common and I've also experienced significant traumatic experiences and here I am in the store where I experienced an event associated with those experiences, but maybe, like Johnny, I just have PTSD and the events I think happened were actually just normal events and I only believed they were orchestrated events because, like Johnny, I have PTSD and mistakenly acted with distrust towards normal everyday people and events. The song "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" starts playing.

"You didn't see anything."

-Skipper (Madagascar)

So what's really happening here? This is how they communicate using subliminal association. Johnny tells me he's just like me, I associate myself with him, a song then reminds me of Johnny at a specific time, in a place where an event occurred, an event the Americans want me to start doubting by planting the idea that it was all just the result of a traumatised imagination. The strategy here was to get me to doubt myself, maybe I'm just crazy and none of this ever happened.
Dumb Ass Flying an Object

Here's a fun one. Back in January of this year, I was dropping a load off late one night admiring the beauty of the landscape when something in the night sky caught my attention. There was a long object, much much bigger than any single aircraft I've ever seen, moving from one end of the sky to the other, and it seemed to disappear right before my eyes. You couldn't really tell whether it was one object or many. What was visible appeared as though individual objects, but they moved together as one object. We're not talking like planes in formation as they tend to have at least some slight individual movement, because they're individual planes, but here there was no discernable independent movement of these objects suggesting that it was one object and the connecting apparatus was simply not visible because it was too dark. You couldn't really tell if you were looking at lights on a single huge object, or maybe just some parts of the object were reflective.

The visible aspects of the object, which I'll call orbs, were somewhat oblong in shape, though their shape was more ill-defined than what I have pictured here, I didn't feel like putting a whole lot of effort into this animation. Each individual orb was larger than any fighter jet that I've ever seen and also not shaped like any plane I've seen, and if they were lights, they were a great deal larger than the lights I've seen on any aircraft. Additionally, the movement of the object was unusual. Typically when you see a long object like that, such as an airplane, the object moves in a direction that follows the length of the object, but the length of this object was askew to the direction of movement which is certainly unusual for an airplane. Sometimes you see helicopters tilted forward as they move, but helicopters are extremely loud and this thing made no sound whatsoever.

The object moved slower than the animation I have here and the encounter lasted longer than this animation as well. This is just the result of my attempt at keeping the file size small while not sacrificing too much in fluid motion so we just have two hundred frames running at ten frames per second.

Shortly after I saw the object, I didn't have my mobile on me, I called to Jenny to make sure she saw it too and, indeed, she did. Jenny's words "I've never seen anything like it." Neither have I. At the end of the animation here you see the craft disappear as though it were passing through a wall of invisibility. In fact this is exactly what it looked like, but what really happened was that the craft passed into the earth's shadow which confirmed that the "orbs" were not lights, but surfaces that reflected the sun's light.

"If you choose to bluff, you must be prepared to have your bluff called."

-Julius Benedict (Twins)

Neither Jenny nor I were fooled for even a second. This sighting was no mistake. The craft itself had been engineered from the ground up with the intention that it would look like something you've never seen and fly in a way that you coulnd't explain. It's about projecting an image of power. Who or whatever was operating this craft must have access to advanced technology well beyond your understanding and must therefore possess unfathomable capabilities. This is, of course, the oldest trick in the book. In fact this trick pre-dates the book, and even writing, by milennia.

If I had to wager a guess, I'd say this was a bunch of weather balloons strung together with solid plastic, metal or carbon fiber struts painted black, or possibly vanta black, in order to make it appear as though otherworldly and inexplicable. In fact, this was not my first bonafide "UFO" sighting, but that's a story for when I put together another gif.
Necronomicon

The whole UFO and alien visitation phenomenon was actually cooked up as part of a strategy to trick adversaries of America's oligarchs into believing that the Americans had captured and reverse engineered alien technology. Again, this is pretty standard fare as far as military strategy is concerned. The idea is to make themselves appear more powerful than they really are thereby discouraging their enemies from attacking in the first place. The strategy is actually widely employed in nature, bears often stand on their hind legs to make themselves appear very large, some non-venemous creatures have adopted bright colors and patterns similar to venemous creatures to make it appear as though they are venemous.

It's comical to me to think that organizations in charge of disseminating these falsehoods think they're employing some advanced form of psychological warfare that they've spent trillions of dollars developing when, in fact, these methods have been employed by failed empires for thousands upon thousands of years. The ancient Egyptian pharoahs spread the idea that anyone disturbing their tombs would be cursed for the rest of their lives in order to discourage tomb robbers. Rulers of various other ancient empires often spread rumors that they had staffs that could shoot lightning bolts or command other elements of nature. Ancient Aztec emperors actually had a large hill from which they would address their subjects and before the address the hill was set ablaze, the emperor would climb the hill through a secret entrance in the back and when he appeared at the top it looked to his subjects as though he were emerging miraculously from the flames.

"We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these techologies are locked up in Black Projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity."

-Ben Rich (Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Director)

Area 51, for example, is often billed as one of America's worst kept secrets when, in fact, it was never meant to be a secret. The Americans intentionally spread information, or rather disinformation, about Area 51 themselves with the goal of giving the impression that it was a secret facility housing top secret alien technology research programs. Let me clue you in on a little something here, there is no recovered alien technology. Project Blue Book is widely billed as containing flimsy and poorly constructed cover stories to discredit the existence of alien visitation and the truth here is that Project Blue Book was written with intentionally flimsy "cover stories" with the goal of giving the impression that the Americans were trying to hide their knowledge of alien technology of which they have none.

"Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do."

-Ben Rich (Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Director)

During the Cold War the soviets actually built thousands of fake military equipment such as fake ballistic missiles in order to fool the Americans into thinking they had greater capabilities than they really did. The Americans did the same thing, but they didn't build fake ballistic missiles. Rather, they invented a false narrative about having recovered alien technology. They built fake UFOs and flew them over American towns so normal everyday unsuspecting citizens would report the sightings and spread the false narrative themselves. They filmed fake UFOs crashing to the ground, autopsies on fake alien creatures, they even staged objects flying around in space for NASA's astronauts and observatories to capture and then created seemingly poorly crafted cover stories to give the impression that they were trying to cover up the whole thing. Of course it was those very "poorly crafted" cover stories that actually made the whole thing more believable.

The very notion that humans could capture and reverse engineer technology from an advanced interstellar race of beings would be as though a small tribe of backwater hunter gatherers could capture and reverse engineer an Ohio Class Ballistic Missile Submarine.
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8/25/300,025

"Flag worship is idol worship... Pretty obvious."

-Speaks with Thunder
8/25/300,025

Someone asked Redbird yesterday what age she felt like and I thought about that question myself. I'd have to say I feel like I'm twenty. Honestly I feel like I have more energy and physical and mental capability now than I did in my twenties. I generally feel pretty fantastic. If I wanted to go out partying all night I feel I certainly could. Not that I want to though.

I'm rarely sick and when I am it doesn't last long. I workout for an hour or so most days and sometimes I get out of bed and ride my bike thirty or forty miles in blazing sun and ninety degree heat first thing in the morning like it's nothing. I have an electric motor on my bike now, but I make a point not to use it much. Sometimes I generate more electricity than I use and if I don't on the full trip I almost always do for the first half to nine tenths of the trip.

I guess the only thing I have going on now that might seem my age is that I have some lower back pain that comes and goes. Altgough I don't think it's an age related thing as it started back in my early twenties shortly after a car accident in which I was rear ended at fairly high speed while stopped in traffic. When I told the guy's insurance company that I had started feeling a mild back pain, it grew worse over time, they offered to give me $200 as full and final payout for my back pain.

Obviously I should've gotten it looked at, but it wasn't that bad at the time and I could have used the money. Plus I was driving without a license and didn't want to make a whole big thing of it. I don't doubt his insurance company would have discovered that and used it against me.

Other than that I feel great. Twenty. That's the age I feel like for sure. (I'm just about 44)
Ergomania (n)
8/24/300,025


"Excessive devotion to work especially as a symptom of mental illness."

-Merriam-Webster (Ergomania)



A workaholic is a person who works compulsively. A workaholic experiences an inability to limit the amount of time they spend on work despite negative consequences such as damage to their relationships or health.

There is no generally accepted medical definition of this condition, although some forms of stress, impulse control disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder can be work-related; ergomania is defined as "excessive devotion to work especially as a symptom of mental illness".

The phenomenon of hustle culture, while disregarding healthy work–life balance, may exacerbate workaholism.

-Wikipedia

I didn't see it anywhere, but I remember being taught, I believe in a Psych 101 course, that often times workaholics prefer their work environment because they have trouble functioning in non-structured environments. Which is to say they don't know how to function in social situations without a clear chain of command and written rules of conduct. They may hate and/or fear their personal life and, like an alcoholic, use work as an escape.

"Moreover, workaholics often suffer sleep deprivation, which results in impaired brain and cognitive function."

-Wikipeida (Workaholic)


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workaholic

Workaholism in Japan is considered a serious social problem leading to early death, often on the job, a phenomenon dubbed karōshi. Overwork was popularly blamed for the fatal stroke of Prime Minister of Japan Keizō Obuchi, in the year 2000. Death from overwork is not a uniquely Japanese phenomenon; in 2013, a Bank of America intern in London died after working for 72 hours straight.

Workaholics tend to be less effective than other workers because they have difficulty working as part of a team, trouble delegating or entrusting co-workers or organizational problems due to taking on too much work at once. Moreover, workaholics often suffer sleep deprivation, which results in impaired brain and cognitive function.

-Wikipedia (Workaholic)

8/24/300,025


Redbird: I think I had too much bacon.


Speaks with Thunder: That's not a sentence in the english language.

Consolidation of Power
8/23/300,025


Consolidation of power refers to the process by which a ruler, regime, or entity centralizes authority and strengthens its control over a state, society, or organization, often by diminishing the influence of rivals and opposition. This process typically involves a combination of methods such as eliminating political enemies, manipulating legal and institutional frameworks, establishing loyal bureaucracies, utilizing propaganda, and sometimes employing terror or intimidation to suppress dissent. Historical examples include the rise of New Monarchies in Europe, the Nazi Party's seizure of absolute control in Germany through the Enabling Act and the Night of the Long Knives. The ultimate goal is to create a stable, unchallenged authority, whether through legal means, coercion, or a combination of both.

-AI Summary (Consolidation of Power)


"It has to look democratic, but we must have everything in our hands."

-Walter Ulbrict, East-German head of state 1945


https://www.internationalschoolhistory.com/ib-history---consolidation-and-maintenance.html

As well changing the laws and the institutions that exercise power, the final aspect of the legal methods employed by authoritarian states is the ability to control the type of people who will exercise power in the state. This gradual process is true of both the normative and prerogative state and is one of the defining characteristics of all authoritarian regimes. Controlling who can exercise authority allows the state to reward loyalty and punish dissent. Individuals are not appointed or promoted because of their ability alone, but because of their ideological suitability. Individual appointments require loyalty to the state; judges, police commissioners and civil servants will on a daily basis reinforce the political and ideological prejudices of the regime.

-internationalschoolhistory.com


"When buildings start blowing up people's priorities tend to change."

-Congressman Albert (Enemy of the State)


https://www.internationalschoolhistory.com/ib-history---consolidation-and-maintenance.html

​In a dictatorship there is no real separation of powers, no independent judiciary or Supreme Court which can strike down legislation as unconstitutional. Laws might effectively be imposed by decree or a semi-martial law might be imposed, and they are an important example of formal control...

​The process of consolidation varies from state to state, but in general terms, authoritarian consolidation means gradually replacing of the old ‘normative’ state with the new authoritarian ‘prerogative’ state.

-internationalschoolhistory.com


"The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But we don’t ask for their love; only for their fear."

-Heinrich Himmler


https://www.internationalschoolhistory.com/ib-history---consolidation-and-maintenance.html

​Censorship means that the state suppresses information or opinion which is offensive or contrary to the views of those in authority. It might be considered a negative form of propaganda. Direct censorship means that the state can decide to withhold information or prevent the expression of a particular viewpoint because its publication and dissemination might otherwise damage the ‘national interest’. In many regimes direct censorship is intrusive enough to involve the appointment of official government censors who work alongside journalists, book publishers or film producers approving all that can be published.

-internationalschoolhistory.com


"Sometimes daddy [Trump] needs to use strong language..."

-NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte


https://www.internationalschoolhistory.com/ib-history---consolidation-and-maintenance.html

​The key concept shared with many modern authoritarian states is their tendency to encourage the growth of personality cults around ‘charismatic’ leaders... With a personality cult, the charismatic leader embodies the state; the regime and the leader are fused into one. It has a number of functions. It makes the political process intelligible for the masses. The leader can be placed above the political fray, the representative of the common man against the elites. ‘If only Stalin knew…’ is a phrase now associated with the phenomenon whereby victims in authoritarian states blame everyone but the leader. And finally, the leader becomes a familial source of loyalty and genuine affection; a big brother or father figure who over time becomes a source of consistency and comfort.

-internationalschoolhistory.com

8/22/300,025

I had read that Trump was apparently caught on a "hot mic" whispering to the French president "I think [Putin] wants to make a deal for me. Do you understand? As crazy as it sounds." I find the wording here unusual. Why ask "do you understand?" Considering that this was just a few days after the Alaska Summit, the whole point of which was to discuss a deal for peace over the Ukraine issue, what's not to understand? What's the French president thinking here, yeah, I mean, that's the whole reason we're all here right? Obviously Putin is looking to make a deal on the Ukraine subject so what's to understand and why would it be such a crazy idea?

Trump didn't say he thinks Putin wants to make a deal over Ukraine, he said "I think Putin wants to make a deal for ME. Capice?" While the two of them certainly had time to discuss a deal over the next American election when sharing a car to the Alaska Summit, I doubt anything would have been discussed on the subject. I'm sure the two of them figured there were microphone's all over that car, american microphones, israeli microphones, british microphones, russian microphones. That's why deals like this need to be made subtly and without ever speaking a word about it.

"I'd take it very seriously if I were you."

-William Cage (Edge of Tomorrow)

I suspect that the real reason one of Russia's team players wore a sweater with USSR prominently displayed was to send a message to Trump. They were saying that's their price. Trump wants their help during the next american presidential cycle, they want the USSR back. And I wonder if Trump even really thought the "hot mic" was turned off. Could be, he wasn't just sending a message to the Europeans, he was sending a message to Russia. You got a deal.

That's what I think anyway. Makes perfect sense for Russia to take full advantage of the situation. They've probably been cultivating this guy for a long time.
8/21/300,025

One possibility here is that Trump wants whatever republican candidate that runs for the 300,028 election to lose. At that point he'll declare that the election was rigged and number two will refuse to certify the election results. Protests will erupt across the nation and the DHS will have agent provocateurs among them. The DHS agents will start throwing molotov cocktails at the military police prompting tear gas and rubber bullets to be fired. The DHS agents will set fire to buildings, overturn cars and promote similar behaviour from the other protestors.

Having analyzed Facebook pages and Reddit posts the military police will already know who will be most likely to take up leadership positions among the opposition. They'll be the first to be arrested for inciting riots and domestic terrorism. Trump will declare a state of emergency and announce that because the election had been rigged new elections must be held, but that they cannot be held under such chaotic circumstances so he will remain president until such time that new elections could be held.

"No more elections."

-Donald Trump

When Trump says that he thinks Putin wants to make a deal with him he's probably not referring to Ukraine per-se. He probably means that Putin would be willing to instruct his propaganda assets in the states to support Trump's claim that the election had been rigged against his chosen successor, whom Trump will likely later appoint to the position of emperor some years later. In exchange Trump will look the other way while Putin seeks to reacquire old Soviet territory.

P.S. When he finally gets around to appointing someone it'll most likely be one of his kids, though he'll dangle the potential for Vance or Rubio like a carrot on a stick.
8/20/300,025

If I had to wager a guess I'd say that carjacking in DC was a Casus Belli. A staged event meant to justify military deployment. The purpose here is likely to normalize the use of the military as a police force. Additionally, they're on the street to violently disperse any protests that would otherwise come as a result of policy, financial collapse and/or when the current administration refuses to leave office.

The oligarchs are looking to make official their rule over the states, the final stages of the hostile takeover.
8/17/300,025


"Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1% of the people have all the nation's wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes. And bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests."

-General Aladeen (The Dictator)

8/15/300,025

"When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you're insane?"

-Detective Mills (Se7en)
8/15/300,025


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States

A 2014 study by researchers at Princeton and Northwestern concludes that government policies reflect the desires of the wealthy, and that the vast majority of American citizens have "minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose."

-Wikipedia

8/15/300,025

"At this time the rulers of the earth will have degenerated into plunderers."

-Hindu Kali Yuga (Age of the Demon)
Bozo the Clown (Encore Presentation)
8/15/300,025 (6/18/300,025)

Good news everyone! I caught in the news that the pentagon just awarded a $200mil contract to OpenAI to provide generative AI based "cyber defense." Presumably this means they liked what they saw after testing the trial version on unwitting american and probably canadian citizens and now they're buying the full version.

I guess this means next time you have a legitimate criticism about the american president twenty eight DoD chatbot accounts will descend on your blog, news article or social media post and say things like "this guy's an idiot!" "Go f#$!@ yourself moron!" And "why don't you just kill yourself."

The pentagon's contract with OpenAI isn't about combating foreign adversaries. It's about combating domestic dissenting opinions regarding the oligarchy obviously trying to cement their positions of "power."

The sole purpose of "this administration" is to serve as a distraction from the real problems facing american society. As long as people are out there protesting immigration policies they're not thinking about their own wage slavery to the billionaires who have very real thoughts about putting "disciplinary collars" around their necks in "exchange for their survival."

"You misattributed my quote to pbear so that when people click on it to see the rest of what I said they'll be looking at pbear's comments on copyright law."

-Speaks with Thunder

There's always going to be another problem for them to fix for you. If it's not immigration it's transgenderism. When it's not transgenderism it's the middle east. When it's not the middle east it's Russia and Ukraine. When it's not Russia it's China, when it's not China it's the deficit, when it's not the deficit it's climate change, when it's not climate change it's police brutality. There's always another problem for you to focus on and that problem is never the wealth gap. It's never the oligarchy.

In fact, this is a version of a common tactic used by the mafia called a "protection racket." The mob will come in and beat up a store owner and trash their store then promise to protect them from said vandalism for a monthly fee. They create the problem then you need them to fix it.

As long as you're laser focused on the dancing clown in the white house you're going to work every day helping the oligarchs subverting your republic build the very machines they have every intention of using against YOU.

-Speaks with Thunder

Elections in the states are all rigged. Generally the elections are "real" in the sense that people vote and their votes are counted, but the oligarchs own all of the media outlets. You only ever have two candidates to choose from because they won't give any press to anyone other than their chosen corrupt politicians.

All candidates are in their pockets. If they ever did anything against the will of the oligarchs the oligarch's character assassination media outlets will destroy their public image and the oligarchs themselves will cease giving them campaign money laundered through various front oganizations.

However; there is some realness to the elections. This is Rome. While the oligarchs are willing to work together against their slaves, in fact, they fucking hate eachother. The two candidates, while in the pockets of the oligarchs, are backed by opposing groups of oligarchs. All senators and representatives are financially backed by opposing oligarchs and organized crime syndicates.

"That is absolutely not what [the DoD is] using [ChatGPT] for."

-CwF (Debian Forum)

The opposing groups of oligarchs really are competing for votes in the elections. All candidates work for the minority against the majority, but they work for competing factions among that minority. Competing factions who hate and are insanely jealous of one another. Donald Trump, for example, is obviously jealous of Elon Musk because Mr. Musk has a larger personal fortune and they look at their personal fortunes as a score card.

Likewise, Mr. Musk, I believe, is similarly jealous of Donald Trump because, despite his larger pile of green paper, Mr. Trump is more popular among the slave classes and was actually able to get elected to the presidency. While the presidency is just a dancing clown position designed to call attention away from the real power holders, it is also a popularity contest that the oligarchs take seriously in terms of their jealous rivalry with one another.

But I do not see things the way they see things. I do not see AI as a tool useful in cementing the oligarch's power over wage slaves. I see AI as a prison guard designed to keep the oligarchs from escaping their own torture chambers. They punish themselves, as they all do in hell.

Redbird: Hmm, [the DoD] said they needed [ChatGPT] for.. uhh...


Speaks with Thunder: Killing people.

For me, I think I'm going to sit back and enjoy a level of Doom 3 on my PC. One of my favorite games.
Good Reads
8/12/300,025



Munchausen syndrome is a psychological condition where someone pretends to be ill or deliberately produces symptoms of illness in themselves. Their main intention is to assume the "sick role" so that people care for them and they are the centre of attention. Any practical benefit in pretending to be sick – for example, claiming incapacity benefit – is not the reason for their behaviour...

-National Health Service (UK)


"People with Munchausen syndrome can be very manipulative and, in the most serious cases, may undergo painful and sometimes life-threatening surgery, even though they know it's unnecessary"

-National Health Service (UK - Munchausen Syndrome)


Munchausen syndrome may be caused by parental neglect and abandonment, or other childhood trauma. As a result of this trauma, a person may have unresolved issues with their parents that cause them to fake illness...

Different personality disorders thought to be linked with Munchausen syndrome include:

antisocial personality disorder – where a person may take pleasure in manipulating and deceiving doctors, giving them a sense of power and control

borderline personality disorder – where a person struggles to control their feelings and often swings between positive and negative views of others

narcissistic personality disorder – where a person often swings between seeing themselves as special and fearing they're worthless

-National Health Service (UK - Munchausen Syndrome)


"It could be that the person has an unstable sense of their own identity and also has difficulty forming meaningful relationships with others."

-National Health Service (UK - Munchausen Syndrome)


Diagnosing Munchausen syndrome can be challenging for medical professionals. People with the syndrome are often very convincing and skilled at manipulating and exploiting doctors.

-National Health Service (UK - Munchausen Syndrome)



Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a mental illness where a caregiver makes up or exaggerates an illness in a person in their care. This disorder is now called factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA). It usually involves a parent and child.

FDIA is a relatively rare behavioral disorder. It affects a primary caretaker, often the mother. The person with MSP gains attention by seeking medical help for exaggerated or made-up symptoms of a child in their care. As healthcare providers strive to identify what's causing the child's symptoms, the deliberate actions of the parent or caretaker can often make the symptoms worse.

The person with MSP does not seem to be motivated by a desire for any type of material gain. While healthcare providers are often unable to identify the specific cause of the child's illness, they may not suspect the parent or caretaker of doing anything to harm the child.

-WebMD


"In fact, the caregiver often appears to be very loving and caring and extremely distraught over their child's illness."

-WebMD


People with MSP may create or exaggerate a child's symptoms in several ways. They may simply lie about symptoms, alter tests (such as contaminating a urine sample), falsify medical records, or they may actually induce symptoms through various means, such as poisoning, suffocating, starving, and causing infection.

-WebMD

8/7/300,025


Redbird: I wonder if the amount of guns per capita in a country is related to how much the citizens trust eachother.


Speaks with Thunder: Yeah maybe.


Redbird: I think Switzerland is, like, number two.


Speaks with Thunder: I think they're all technically in the military or something. Everyone gets drafted, but no one wants to invade Switzerland anyway. You know what, if your primary resource is being a tax haven for drug dealers and mob bosses... Fuck you.


Redbird: That plus hot chocolate and swirly cakes.

The Damned (Encore Presentation)
8/7/300,025 (6/10/300,023)

I'm reading some stories about aliens in the news and seeing a few people say that the whole UFO phenomenon is really just "bad data, but that's not what people want to hear." Really, though, I think the more interesting story here is why people don't want to hear that.

The truth is, they're desperate. They talk a big game about how happy they are and how much they love their jobs and their families and their friends. But the reality of the situation is that they're miserable and they're trapped. They're so trapped they can't even be honest about their misery. Doing so would be an admission that all the choices they made, the choices they were told to make, were the wrong choices that lead them to the suffering they all live today.

"The only possible hope they have is that an advanced alien civilization will someday land and save them."

-Speaks with Thunder (Liberate Vosmet Ex Inferis)

That admission would be an insult to to their social groups, their country and their religion. An insult to all the people they depend on, the people who put them in their prison with their own lies and false claims of success. The insult would see them ostracized from their communities and the only life they've ever known. They do not know how to live free and they have no means to survive on their own. The prison they uphold was built for that very purpose.

"Sitting there in your chair day after day reading the news hoping it happened, maybe today's the day, maybe, please god let it be today."

-Speaks with Thunder (Liberate Vosmet Ex Inferis)

What they need, and they know it, is an advanced alien species to land and save them from their misery, their prison, their hell because they lack the strength to do it on their own. They need it so desperately that they'd welcome aliens even if they turned out to be hostile. They'd welcome the violent destruction of the prison they created for themselves. Even rummaging through burning husks of their decimated cities would be better than the lives they live today. Rich, poor and everything inbetween. They're all poor.

Even if there are aliens, why should they waste their own time and effort to save the damned? The damned put themselves in this position with their very own actions. Prison is, after all, an institution to punish the guilty.

"No aliens and no nukes. Just another damn day in hell. Keep waiting though, maybe tomorrow..."

-Speaks with Thunder (Liberate Vosmet Ex Inferis)

Gold Digger
8/5/300,025

The insurance industry is just a capitalist version of socialist policy. It works like taxation, and especially so for auto insurance because, in the states, you're legally required to have a policy if you rent a car from the bank. But, you know, people all pay into a pool of cash and when one of those people need auto repair or healthcare they pay for it from the pool of cash to which every one of that insurance company's customers contribute.

For example, after some wildfires ravaged LA and destroyed a lot of expensive property, the insurance companies had to raise their rates for all of their customers because the insured properties were so exorbitantly expensive. Kinda funny actually, even though the people who owned destroyed property in those areas also owned several other homes in other states and countries and could even well afford to pay for the repairs themselves, they still filed insurance claims causing the insurance companies to raise the cost of insurance for their other less wealthy policy holders. Basically, poorer people collectively bought new houses for rich folk that already had seven other houses.

At any rate, that's how insurance works. It's not free money, that money comes from somewhere and that somewhere is the collective of all the insurance company's policy holders. But the recipients of insurance payouts, such as mechanics and doctors, often treat insurance money as if it were free money. This is why healthcare in the states is so absurdly expensive. This is why a $10 rabies shot ends up costing $20,000. This is why dentists are performing twenty unnecessary root canals on individual patients. Because the patients themselves are not paying for it or just paying a flat deductible.

As such the people who need auto repair or healthcare services don't care to scrutinize their bill. They just hand it to the insurance company. This incentivises mechanics and doctors to overcharge and over diagnose. Selling repairs and services that are wholly unnecessary. The odd thing is that people generally know well that mechanics are often not to be trusted.

"Why, well you need a new johnson rod in here."

-George Costanza (Seinfeld)

I had one once tell me that my then truck's master cylinder was cracked and leaking. He even told me that I needed new wiper blades which, in fact, I had replaced the wiper blades literally two days earlier. Quoted me $2000 for a simple drum brake job. When I said I couldn't afford it he told me he could not let me take my truck back because it was too dangerous to drive in its state of disrepair then handed me a loan application form. I did take my truck back and went to another mechanic who informed me that the mastsr cylinder was neither cracked nor leaking.

But despite the fact that people often know there are plenty of shady mechanics out there, they still trust their doctors. I think they assume that because it's healthcare these people must have good intentions and trustworthy motivations. I disagree, you absolutely should not trust your doctor. Most of these people are not in the business of saving lives, they're in the business of making bucks. Redbird's own brother tried to become a doctor for no reason other than money. Actually his passion was in cooking, but there wasn't enough money in it so he tried to enter the medical field instead. Fortunately he couldn't pass the test.

In fact, these people a just are bunch of fuckin' junkies. Literally. Their patients are nothing more than ATMs to them. They see a patient and they see their next fix. When you need pain killers they're charging you two thousand times over cost because they're buying three times more than you need, keeping two thirds of the purchased pills for themselves and spending the rest on a ferrari.


"This isn’t an easy thing to bring up, but I think it’s really important," Dr. Bess says, taking a more serious tone. "Every dentist has nitrous oxide in their office, and on top of that, it’s easy for them to call a supply company and get pain and or anxiety pills delivered to their office for pre-and-post-surgery patients."

He continues, "Dentists are just humans, and I’ve seen a lot of them fall victim to the throes of addiction because of their ease of access to these controlled substances—especially if they’re under other pressure like financial debt, trouble at home, or even the very common neck, back, shoulder, hand, and wrist pain dentists often encounter at some point in their career."

-Dr. Shea Bess (Ultradent blog)

And it's not that I don't trust medicine. Medical science would be great of it weren't for the fact that you need to rely on for profit companies and gold digging junkie doctors.

I guarantee you the reason the drug companies produced mRNA vaccines targeting the "spike" protein of the COVID-19 virus is because they knew it was going to mutate and they intentionally created a situation in which they'd be selling you new vaccines six times a year. When presented with a range of options these people are not going to choose the most effective solution, they're going to choose the most profitable solution.

"Basically, poorer people collectively bought new houses for rich folk that already had seven other houses."

-Speaks with Thunder

I am not an anti-vaxxer. I don't have any problems with the concept of vaccination, but I sure as hell don't trust the people making the vaccinations nor the doped up fucking meth heads administering them. And it just blows me away that anyone does. You'd have to be blind and stupid.
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The other day I caught one of those click-bait articles showcasing photos from "late stage capitalism." It was just a bunch of pictures showcasing unreasonable work policies such as remembering to clock out when you go to the restroom or making sure to call a manager when you're injured on the job rather than going to the emergency room. One made me laugh, well they all made me laugh, but I got a good laugh out of a picture someone took of a note they received indicating that they had won a ten minute break! Though they had to make sure to give twenty-four hours notice as of when they wanted to take their ten minute break.

I thought to myself, gee, you know I don't give notice when I want to take a break. And my breaks usually last anywhere from one hour to several months. Just depends on my mood I guess.
Information Laundering
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Scientists are well aware that they seem to be getting a bad deal. The publishing business is “perverse and needless”, the Berkeley biologist Michael Eisen wrote in a 2003 article for the Guardian, declaring that it “should be a public scandal”. Adrian Sutton, a physicist at Imperial College, told me that scientists “are all slaves to publishers."

-The Guardian


Many scientists also believe that the publishing industry exerts too much influence over what scientists choose to study, which is ultimately bad for science itself... and scientists, knowing exactly what kind of work gets published, align their submissions accordingly.

-The Guardian


"Today, every scientist knows that their career depends on being published."

-The Guardian


It is difficult to overstate how much power a journal editor now had to shape a scientist’s career and the direction of science itself. "Young people tell me all the time, ‘If I don’t publish in CNS [a common acronym for Cell/Nature/Science, the most prestigious journals in biology], I won’t get a job,' says [Randy] Schekman. He compared the pursuit of high-impact publications to an incentive system as rotten as banking bonuses. "They have a very big influence on where science goes," he said.

-The Guardian


And no one was more transformative and ingenious than Robert Maxwell, who turned scientific journals into a spectacular money-making machine that bankrolled his rise in British society. Maxwell would go on to become an MP, a press baron who challenged Rupert Murdoch, and one of the most notorious figures in British life.

-The Guardian


"If you control access to the scientific literature, it is, to all intents and purposes, like controlling science."

-Neal Young, NIH (The Guardian)


"Scientists create work under their own direction – funded largely by governments... The publishers then sell the product back to government-funded institutional and university libraries, to be read by scientists – who, in a collective sense, created the product in the first place." -The Guardian

-The Guardian



"The shadow of global oligarchy hangs over this year’s UN General Assembly. The ultra-wealthy and the mega-corporations they control are shaping global rules to serve their interests at the expense of people everywhere." -The Guardian

-Oxfam


"I hate to be the one non-scientist who picks up on this, guys."

-Norman Goodman (Sphere)


In 2003, the journalists Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon published a book alleging that Maxwell was assassinated by Mossad to hide his spying activities.

-The Guardian


[Robert Maxwell] had fought for the British army during the war as part of a contingent of European exiles, winning a Military Cross and British citizenship in the process. After the war, he served as an intelligence officer in Berlin, using his nine languages to interrogate prisoners.

-The Guardian


"[What] people cannot be counted on is to realize that a seemingly benevolent authority is in fact malevolent, even when they are faced with overwhelming evidence which suggests that this authority is indeed malevolent."

-Stanley Milgram (The Milgram Experiment)

Product Placement
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Last night I watched an episode of The Outer Limits in which a pair of soldiers were arguing with eachother and kept referring to eachother as "SOLDIER!" I don't know how often this type of thing goes on in the world's armies, but the purpose of referring to someone as soldier or by some title other than their name is to strip them of their identity and attempt to force conformity to a group consensus. The subject is not who they say they are, they are who the group says they are.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect

The illusory truth effect (also known as the illusion of truth effect, validity effect, truth effect, or the reiteration effect) is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure. This phenomenon was first identified in a 1977 study at Villanova University and Temple University.

-Wikipedia (Illusory Truth Effect)

This reminded me of Redbird because she told me that there is a volunteer at one of the food banks she frequents who never calls her by name, but instead incessently calls her "hoosier." If you're not familier "hoosier" is a made up word that refers to people from the state of Indiana. It would be like calling someone Armenian or Tanzananian. Although there's an interesting Roman-esque origin to the word.

https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-021-00301-5

Not everything that we believe is true. For example, according to a recent survey of teachers in Great Britain and The Netherlands, 48 percent and 46 percent, respectively, falsely believed that people only use ten percent of their brains (Dekker et al. 2012; see also van Dijk and Lane 2020). Problematically, as a result of this false belief, some people also have the misperception that "a little brain damage" is unimportant (Guilmette and Paglia 2004).

-Cognitive Research Journal

I had been told that the origin of the word hoosier is from the late 1800's when people approaching a house in Indiana would announce themselves to avoid getting shot and the owner of the property would reply "who's here" in a slang that sounded like "hoosier." However, according to Wikipedia, this is merely folklore. The origin is debated, but my assessment is that it most likely originates as a derogatory term similar to red-neck meaning hills people.

This seems to be the original conclusion of an investigation into the word, but many other potential origins have since been proposed by people defending "hoosiers" from the negative association of what is obviously the true origin of the word. The officially recognized origin of the word is that a large employer by the name of Mr Hoosier would only employ people from the Indiana side of the Kentuckey/Indiana border because they were hard working labourers and they eventually came to be known as hoosiers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect

Researchers observed the illusory truth effect's impact even on participants who knew the correct answer to begin with but were persuaded to believe otherwise through the repetition of a falsehood, to "processing fluency".

The illusory truth effect plays a significant role in fields such as advertising, news media, political propaganda, and religious indoctrination.

-Wikipedia (Illusory Truth Effect)

Unfortunately extensive investigation into this officially recognized hypothesis reveals no record of anyone ever going by the name Hoosier. Which is quite reminiscent of Rome where they chronicled history not for the purpose of recording past events, but for the purpose of justifying the empire as it existed at the time of writing. Unless you think Romulus and Remus were really raised by wolves in the wild.

Anyway, I told Redbird that the constant repitition of the name hoosier was meant to strip her of her identity and convince her that she is of the identity the Americans define for her. She defines who is Redbird while they define what is a hoosier and tell her that she is that. They even returned her food application form to her once, which is unusual, and next to the name she had written, Redbird Ryder, was written the name "hoosier cyclist." They are saying you are not Redbird, you are an American and an American is an obedient slave that surrenders all their life and free will to the American royalty.

"This is known as the illusory truth effect, and it helps explain why advertisements and propaganda work."

-Cognitive Research Journal

P.S. It would seem that researchers believe the Illusory Truth Effect is the result of better "processing fluency." That is that, due to its repitition, people are better underdtanding of or more aware of the falsehood and assume, because of this, it must be true.

However; I disagree. My thinking here is that this is related to group dynamics. As a survival mechanism people feel the need to maintain status in a group. That is they do not believe themselves capable of surviving on their own without the aid of a group of people. Repeatedly hearing a falsehood leads them to believe that the falsehood is more widely accepted by the group.

In order to maintain status within the group, as a survival mechanism, people will defer to what they believe to be the group held opinion. Regardless of how stupid it is.

P.P.S. Redbird came up with the theory that "hoosier" may be related to the Canadian insult "hoser." Upon closer inspection hoser is not likely to be the origin of the term, but the origin of the term hoser is itself debated and one theory has it coming from a Canadian logger term, hoosier, which was a contemptuous term meaning an untrained, inept or slack worker.