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"Alert! They Don't Care Anymore, Prepare For The Worst"
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"The Demolition of the World Trade Center (The Devil’s Trick)"
The crater in WTC 6
"The Demolition of the World Trade Center
(The Devil’s Trick)"
by Mark Gaffney
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth"
- Sherlock Holmes
Excerpt: "On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, more than enough evidence exists to draw reasonable conclusions about what happened that day and who was responsible. Most of the basic facts have been known for years, though unfortunately have not been readily available to the general public.
Way back in 2007, a physics professor at Brigham Young University, Dr Steven E. Jones, turned up critical evidence while investigating samples of World Trade Center (WTC) dust. The samples had been collected immediately after September 11, 2001 from the thick deposit of dust that blanketed the WTC site and much of lower Manhattan. Jones found tiny bits of an exotic incendiary known as thermate that can cut through steel like a hot knife through butter. Thermate burns at ~5,000°F. The main product of the reaction is molten iron.
Thermate differs from its better known cousin thermite in that it contains sulfur which lowers the melting point of iron, speeding up the reaction. The presence of both sulfur and aluminum was diagnostic for thermate. Jones called this “the last nail in the coffin.” (Dr. Steven E. Jones, Revisiting 9/11/2001. Applying the Scientific Method, 2007)
Jones also found an abundance of tiny iron microspheres in the dust (up to .05% by volume), proof that large amounts of WTC steel had melted. The diameter of the spheres ranged from one micron to 1.5 mm. When Jones obtained some thermate, which is commercially available, and used it to cut through a steel plate, the reaction produced an intense spray of molten droplets which cooled into iron microspheres identical to the spheres in the dust.
Other studies of the WTC dust also reported the iron microspheres. (Heather A. Lowers and Gregory P. Meeker, Particle Atlas of World Trade Center Dust, posted at https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1165/508OF05-1165.html ; also see Damage Assessment: 130 Liberty Street Property. WTC Dust Signature Report: Composition and Morphology. December 2003)
Jones and his colleagues learned that thermite/thermate can be made more explosive by reducing the particle size of the ingredients. This more reactive variety is known as super thermate or nano-thermate. (Niels H. Harrit, et al, Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe, 2009)
And there were other revelations. It is indeed shocking how far the development of thermate had “progressed” by the late 1990s. Jones & Co, learned that a liquid sol-gel form of nano-thermate can be applied to steel simply by spraying or painting it on. This means insiders could have prepped the twin towers for demolition undetected during an elevator retrofit, a fireproofing upgrade, or even during routine maintenance. Nor was it necessary to wire the entire building. Ignition can be accomplished remotely using a specially designed thermitic match triggered by a radio signal. Once thermate is ignited, the reaction is self perpetuating. (Kevin R. Ryan, The Top Ten Connections between NIST and Nano-thermites, July 2, 2008)
All of this is consistent with the many eyewitness accounts of explosions on 9/11. And it is consistent with the testimony of New York City firemen, first responders and clean-up crews who reported seeing copious amounts of molten steel on site. As one fireman put it: “molten steel was flowing down the channel rails like in a foundry…”
(David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor revisited, 2008, pp. 31-37; Mark H. Gaffney, The 9/11 Mystery Plane, 2008, pp.132-139; Graeme MacQueen, 118 Witnesses: The Firefighters’ Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers)
Office and building fires do not reach temperatures anywhere near hot enough to melt steel which has a melting point of 2,500°F. Nor were there any combustible materials in the WTC, nor any combination thereof, capable of approaching this temperature. Although burning jet fuel has been frequently (and incorrectly) cited as the reason for the WTC collapse, the reality is otherwise. Jet fuel is essentially kerosene and will not burn in air in excess of 1,832°F, far below the melting point of steel.
Not long after the towers collapsed, a hard rain storm drenched Manhattan. Firemen also sprayed millions of gallons of water onto the smoking ruin of the WTC in an attempt to extinguish the fires, all to no effect. This is consistent with burning thermate, which includes its own chemically bound oxygen. This is why a thermate fire cannot be smothered by dowsing and will even burn underwater.
The WTC site was so hot it melted the workmen’s rubber boots. Search-and-rescue dogs brought in to help locate survivors suffered severe burns, and three of the dogs died. Just how hot was the pile? We got an idea on September 16, 2001 when NASA conducted a flyover using an infrared spectrometer (AVIRIS) and detected surface temperatures as high as 1,376° F. Temperatures beneath the pile were undoubtedly much higher.
The site remained intensely hot for five months. Molten steel was reported as late as February 2002 when clean-up crews finally reached the bottom of the WTC bathtub. (Jennifer Lin, “Recovery Worker Reflects on Months Spent at Ground Zero”, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, May 29, 2002)
The discovery of thermate in the WTC dust should have been front-page headline news across America, and indeed, around the world. Yet, as we know, the US media went deaf and dumb on the issue. Why? If Muslim jihadists were behind the 9/11 attacks, why would the media censor this breaking story? The only plausible reason for suppressing it was to prevent the truth from emerging about what actually happened. Blanket censorship has been the rule, ever since."
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"Israeli PM Netanyahu Was Reportedly Warned About October 7 Attacks 10 Days Beforehand, Did Nothing To Step Up Security"
"Israeli PM Netanyahu Was Reportedly Warned About October 7
Attacks 10 Days Beforehand, Did Nothing To Step Up Security"
by Leo Hohmann
"The attacks have been used to justify three years of endless wars, including the one against Iran. Should we be surprised by an Israeli government that funds Hamas through a secret deal with Qatar? Another so-called conspiracy theory has been proven true. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knew at least 10 days before the October 7, 2023, terror attack on an Israeli music festival, that an attack was imminent. He sat on his hands and did nothing. More than 1,000 innocent people were killed.
Not only did Netanyahu know the attack was coming, he was explicitly warned about it by a highly placed leader of a friendly Muslim country. And he bypassed his own intelligence, which also had reason to suspect an attack was coming. Below is an excerpt from i24 News in Israel:
"An investigation conducted for the new book “Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment,” researched by Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval, reveals that UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a secure line about ten days before October 7, 2023, and warned him for 45 minutes that Sinwar was planning a major operation against Israel. According to the report, bin Zayed feared the event would destabilize the region and threaten the Abraham Accords.
Netanyahu reportedly responded calmly, telling bin Zayed he believed Hamas intended to operate in the West Bank and that Israel was prepared for any scenario. None of Israel’s security chiefs, including the heads of the Shin Bet and Mossad and the IDF chief of staff, were briefed on the warning, the investigation found."
The report traces the warning back to a secret Israel-Hamas channel, approved by Netanyahu, that had been negotiating a temporary truce and prisoner arrangement since early 2023. In September 2023, Sinwar abruptly cut off contact with the channel and told a Fatah intermediary, referred to as “Coal Eyes,” to warn Israel he was preparing “the mother of all surprises,” using the word “zilzal,” or earthquake.
The warning was relayed to bin Zayed’s adviser and eventually to Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, who briefed Netanyahu by phone on September 15. A security meeting held two days later ended without a decision. According to the investigation, Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel separately warned Netanyahu around the same time of “something unusual, a terrifying operation,” while Netanyahu told him Israel’s focus and forces were on the West Bank, not Gaza.
Netanyahu’s government has used the October 7 attacks as the reason to go on a three-year revenge war against all Palestinians, killing more than 90,000 in Gaza, most of them civilians, including 24,000 CHILDREN, and to invade southern Lebanon and Syria. Even the U.S./Israel war against Iran has been tied to the October 7 attacks by many Trump and Israel supporters.
This bombshell report, confirming our worst suspicions, also opens up the question: What did the Biden administration know? The U.S. government is very closely allied with the UAE, and it would be surprising if that country’s president warned the Israelis and not the U.S. administration. And if the Biden administration knew about it, it’s not unreasonable to assume this information would have been passed on to the next U.S. administration.
We are living in evil times filled with deception. Almost nothing is as it seems. Netanyahu is not who American evangelicals think he is. He’s a corrupt international war criminal with blood-soaked hands. Now, it’s become clear he’s even willing to sacrifice the lives of his own people in order to advance his regional war plans.
It’s well known that Netanyahu’s government has been part of a plot to bankroll Hamas by way of funding that comes through Qatar. The Israeli news outlet Ynet News reported on May 5, 2024: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the government of Qatar to continue the transfer of money to Gaza, in a secret letter sent to the Qatari leadership in 2018 and only seen by a handful of people since. In the letter, Netanyahu explained that the funding would reduce the motivation of terror groups there to carry out attacks, would prevent a humanitarian crisis and was vital for preserving regional stability.
There are two different time periods for Qatari funding of the Gaza Strip, which allowed Hamas to grow from an insignificant terror organization into a military empire with battalions, an underground network of tunnels and the fire power of a small army. The article goes on to say that between 2007 and 2014, Qatar provided Hamas with funds, away from any international oversight or review and from 2014 on, funding from Qatar was coordinated with the United States and Israel.
The U.S., UN, Israel and Qatar decided soon after the war to set up a new system in which $30 million would be delivered to the coastal strip by Doha each month. Netanyahu then uses the pain and suffering caused by a well-armed Hamas to foment fear in the Israeli population and justify continuous war in Gaza and the West Bank, and by extension Lebanon. It’s a master plan in evil. Even more shocking is the fact that a man of such low character has visited the Trump White House eight times in 18 months, more than any other foreign leader, by far. Birds of a feather flock together.
There are many researchers who have presented evidence that suggests the 9/11 attacks on America 25 years ago were similarly used as a false flag to stir fear and justify more wars in the Middle East, along with the destruction of constitutionally protected freedoms here at home with the passage of anti-freedom legislation such as the USA Patriot Act and Homeland Security Act. I pray the Israeli and American people get liberated from the evil governments ruling over them, and the sooner the better."
"9/11?" Here's the truth, if you dare read it:
"9/11 and the Creation of America 2.0 - 25 Years Later"
"9/11 and the Creation of America 2.0 - 25 Years Later"
by Donald Jeffries
"On September 11, 2001, my wife called and woke me up, screaming, “It’s the end of the world!” I was sleeping, after working the graveyard shift at the data center, which I did for many years. She urged me to turn on the TV. I saw then Mayor Rudy Giuliani walking through the dust covered streets of New York City. Was I dreaming?
It took me about two minutes, until I first saw video of the South Tower collapsing, to realize this was a giant psyop. The notion that 19 crazed Arabs, armed only with box cutters and plastic knives, had brought these wonders of modern engineering down, along with blowing a hole in the Pentagon, was something I immediately rejected. I’ve written about 9/11 several times before on Substack, and delved into it deeply in both Hidden History and American Memory Hole. Most of my readers are familiar with the monstrous holes in the official story. Building 7, hit by nothing, collapsing just like Buildings 1 and 2. Not to mention that the BBC reported live that Building 7 had collapsed, before it did. You can see it standing in the background behind the reporter. As USA Today helpfully explained, “BBC mistakenly reported that World Trade Center Building 7 had fallen before it happened.” Well, sure that’s understandable- to accidentally report events before they really take place, shortly afterwards.
All “conspiracy theorists” know about Building 7. But what about Building 6? Kurt Sonnenfeld, a videographer who worked for FEMA, took lots of videos, and claimed that the estimated $650 million worth of gold stored in Building 6 had already been emptied, by someone, prior to the 9/11 attacks. Sonnenfeld’s wife Nancy was shot and killed on December 31, 2001, and the authorities attempted to pin the murder on him. The murder charge was eventually dropped due to lack of evidence, but the prosecutor was still coming for him. Sonnenfeld fled the country, and was later granted asylum in Argentina. Sonnenfeld gave informed lectures on 9/11, talking about the mysterious power outages and evacuations in the weeks leading up to the events, and the fact that two close Bush family members controlled the company in charge of security at the World Trade Center. He charged that “hundreds of government personnel” were in New York City on September 10, preparing for one of those familiar “drills.”
I’ve written about the heart-wrenching tale of two life long female friends, who always flew together, which was reported ad nauseum by our state controlled media. On 9/11, we were told, they couldn’t get seats together, so flew on separate planes for the first time. Irony of irony, and defying all actuarial odds, both planes were part of the tragic story that day. The problem is that the same media had reported that all of the hijacked planes were well under capacity. So, it would be an absolute lie to say these women couldn’t have sat together. I seem to be the only one who cares. A story like this reflects the depth of the rabbit holes. They know they’re lying, we know they’re lying, and they know we know they’re lying. And yet still they lie. As I noted in American Memory Hole, the father of alleged hijacker Mohammad Atta went on German television (no U.S. media would talk to him), the day after 9/11, to report that his son had called him, in hiding because of fears the Mossad was trying to frame him.
You’d think a story like that would make the front page of The New York Times. CNN. Fox News. After all, it’s pretty remarkable for a hijacker to survive the crash into the World Trade Center. But then again, he was a terrorist. They aren’t like us. Their passports can survive an inferno which pulverized steel into fine dust. I discovered that, according to the official NIST investigation’s report (not some “conspiracy theorist”), the first person to jump from the WTC after the planes hit did so four minutes after the first impact. Now, to a mere community college dropout like me, this seems incomprehensible. Someone went to work that day, and couldn’t stop their suicidal thoughts for more than four minutes after something happened? Something no one quite understood yet? Why would you lose hope in being rescued that quickly? Well, perhaps they were planning on jumping out of a window that day anyhow. It just so happened that a plane coincidentally struck the building at the same time.
Early news reports talked about a large truck parked at the base of the Twin Towers, loaded with explosives. Over 150 firefighters alone reported, with great detail, hearing and seeing explosions in the buildings. This included Barry Jennings in Building 7, who would go on to die suspiciously. After his family vanished. After a private detective hired by Loose Change filmmaker Dylan Avery told him, “never call me again.” That’s almost as good a conspiratorial chestnut as when the programmer in charge of election forecasts told the Collier Brothers, who were investigating vote fraud, “You’ll never prove a thing.” People say the strangest things; Bill Murray supposedly likes to steal French fries from strangers’ plates and tell them, “No one will ever believe you.” Someone should invite him to Bohemian Grove or Bilderberg. The point is, these people don’t care. They know the sheeple won’t question them no matter how obvious it is. I mean, an intact passport on top of pulverized steel?
Obviously, whatever struck the Pentagon on 9/11, it wasn’t Flight 77. The hole in the building wasn’t big enough, and there were no impact marks from the wings, which also weren’t sheared off and left outside. In fact, there was virtually no debris from the plane on the lawn of the Pentagon. Well, that ought to be easy to settle. Just watch the video. After all, even in 2001, the heart of our national defense was equipped with security cameras from every possible angle. Tragically, they weren’t working that day. You know, like the new cameras at Sandy Hook weren’t working. And the government confiscated video from the nearby Citgo gas station and Doubletree motel. But they never released that video, instead belatedly producing a ridiculous, very short clip of a fireball hitting the building. It cannot be identified as a plane, a missile, a UFO, or anything else. Most knowledgeable researchers think a missile hit the Pentagon. I don’t know why they’d use a missile and say it was a plane. They lie about everything.
I took a really deep dive into the other plane hijacked that day, Flight 93, which we are told crash landed in Pennsylvania after some strapping patriots shouted “Let’s Roll!” and forced it down. I don’t know if there was a plane crash in Pennsylvania or not. There are very clear reports of little to no wreckage. No sign of any airplane. It could have been shot down by our government, who then as usual lied about it. According to the mayor of Cleveland’s very detailed account, Flight 93 was forced to emergency land in his city, because of a bomb threat. How do you possibly make that kind of “mistake,” if you’re the mayor of a city? The coroner’s wildly conflicting reports prove that he was completely dishonest. We don’t know why he was lying, but we do know that he was lying. As always, I need to thank Chris Graves and Peter Secosh for their sterling research. Whatever really happened, Flight 93 didn’t crash because of the heroics of some patriotic caricatures. Somebody talk to the mayor of Cleveland.
Readers have grown accustomed to me referring to America 2.0. If we try and determine just when we devolved from America 1.0 into America 2.0, I think the most obvious answer is that it happened on September 11, 2001. As a result of the ridiculous 19 crazed Arabs narrative, Congress rolled over for the Patriot Act, the most unconstitutional legislation ever created up to that point. The monstrous Department of Homeland Security was created. No one has ever suggested that we abolish it, and only a few have complained about the Patriot Act, which eviscerated what was left of our civil liberties. Americans accepted “Free Speech Zones,” which directly implied that outside those “zones,” there was no free speech. Anyone named Muhammad became suspect. Waterboarding, and other forms of torture, which were openly supported by our leaders. You know, the “good guys.” The ones who aren’t “terrorists.” Some of them still do support torture. And they all love Israel.
Speaking of Israel, they were the most obvious beneficiary from the events of 9/11. We didn’t need the dancing Israelis to tell us that. Donald Trump tried to convert them into dancing Arabs, but that isn’t going to work with anyone who actually has researched this case. The project involving Israeli art students, taking place on the 91st floor of World Trade Center Building 1. The New York Times felt this story important enough to cover, on August 18, 2001. A 2002 story in the UK Daily Mail reported that the U.S. government had arrested and deported 200 Israelis, some of them posing as “art students,” for spying and espionage, in the period leading up to 9/11. And we all know it was Larry Silverstein, not Larry O’Brien, who gave the order to “pull” Building 7, and profited from at least over $3 billion in insurance money after 9/11. He is somehow still alive today, due to a “miracle,” when his wife reminded him of a dermatologist appointment that morning. The good they die young.
There is so much to remember. Donald Rumsfeld’s mysterious announcement that the Pentagon could not account for $2.3 trillion on the day before 9/11. I can’t find any similar announcements from public officials. Cynthia McKinney would up being ousted from Congress by AIPAC and company, after her aggressive questioning of Rumsfeld regarding this. To this day, that $2.3 trillion has never been found. Vanished without a trace, like Judge Crater, Ambrose Bierce, and Natalee Holloway. Some family members couldn’t be bought off with lucrative memorial funds. The “Jersey Girls.” Ellen Mariani, who refused to accept anything from the Victims Compensation Fund established by Congress. Mariani’s death was exceedingly strange, as it wasn’t disclosed by her family until nearly two years after it occurred. Her attorney would say that “the reasons for Ellen’s illness and death remain somewhat mysterious,” but insisted that there was no evidence of foul play. There never is in these cases.
In the initial years following the events of 9/11, a lot more witnesses were publicly outspoken. Chris and Peter worked hard on getting contact information for them, but as invariably happens with research into these subjects, the phone numbers are almost always disconnected, and the emails bounce back with a delivery error, or are never responded to. April Gallop was adamant about seeing no debris at the Pentagon, and no evidence that a jet airliner struck it. I couldn’t contact her. Firefighter Lou Cacchioli, who stuck to his story of explosions in the Twin Towers, and lashed out at the 9/11 Commission. He didn’t answer me, however. Michael Hess, who like Barry Jennings, reported explosions in Building 7. I couldn’t find a way to contact him. “Jersey Girl” Kristy Breitweiser, whose father I spoke to twice. The first time, he indicated she’d be interested in talking with me, but on the second occasion, he referred me to her book. There were others, once willing, now unwilling to talk.
The 9/11 Commission, like the Warren Commission, did no investigating. They just rubber stamped the government’s absurd version of events. It didn’t bother them that the fires in the WTC were never reported as being close to the temperature science tells us must be reached for steel to melt, yet the same sources conclude that the magical jet fuel cocktail did indeed melt the steel. They didn’t find it strange that no fighter jets were utilized, when just a few months previously, they were quickly sent up, when all the passengers on a plane carrying PGA golfer Payne Stewart died tragically due to an oxygen leak, to prevent it from crash landing in a populated area. They weren’t suspicious about security cameras not working, in the WTC or the Pentagon. The most innocuous scenario is that our government stood down, permitting a plane to strike the center of our gargantuan Military Industrial Complex. What exactly were taxpayers getting for the countless trillions extorted from them?
While Alex Jones gets credit for coining the catchy “9/11 was an Inside Job,” many other forgotten and unheralded researchers did the kind of investigating that no mainstream “journalist” will. Devvy Kidd, who went to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, visiting the alleged crash site and trying to grill wildly inconsistent coroner Wallace Miller. Kidd has been on my “I Protest” podcast, but seems to be backing away from doing any more interviews. Christopher Bollyn visited Shanksville, too, and produced some valuable work. Tom Flocco, apparently gone from this vale of tears, was right in the center of 9/11 online truth. The always intriguing “Let’s Roll” forums. Patrick Briley, who according to Devvy Kidd, quit researching “for his mental health sake, and his family.” Greg Szymanski, who wrote for American Free Press before I did. The late, great photographic expert Jack White, who analyzed the anomalies at the WTC and Pentagon more thoroughly than anyone, but is never mentioned by researchers.
My friend Richard Gage is holding his annual “Turning the Tide” conference in New York City. I had the pleasure of attending last year’s conference in Washington, D.C., and got to meet one of my political heroes, Dennis Kucinich. Jimmy Dore will be there this year as well. My good friend RB Ham was part of the Exposing 9/11 Conference in Canada. Good people are doing good things. But more people aren’t doing anything, and in fact either believe this fairy tale, or don’t really care. 9/11 is the millennials’ JFK assassination. Like the JFK assassination, it changed this country forever. And not for the better. We invaded Afghanistan less than a month after 9/11. Two years later, we invaded Iraq. And now we are engaged in an utterly disastrous war with Iran. None of that would have happened without 9/11. 9/11 transformed our already neocon-inspired foreign policy into nothing more than a proxy for Israel. We lost our civil liberties, and lots of Arabs died, because of the 9/11 lie. America 2.0 is forever ZOG."
"Somehow Life Goes On..."
"At least 100 Palestinians were laid to rest in a mass funeral in Gaza on Sunday. At least 62 of them were children. The bodies were reportedly found in the rubble of a collapsed residential building. It is unclear when it was bombed but the excavation of the dead is painstakingly slow since Israel does not allow recovery equipment into Gaza. Just over a month ago, a similar mass funeral was held for 112 people, also buried in a residential building from an Israeli strike in November of 2023. Gaza officials estimate that at least 8,000 more people are similarly buried in their graves of rubble.
And yet, somehow life goes on. Last week, children in Gaza were shown a screening of Disney's The Lion King. The photo went viral because it captures an almost impossible juxtaposition. In the foreground, children watch a story about childhood innocence shattered by death and loss. In the background, a landscape of destroyed buildings bears witness to that very reality."
"Gaza Tells Us Who We Are"
SOTN Editor’s Note: "Truly, there is no bigger and badder stain on the soul of America than the Gaza Genocide. You read that headline above right - “Easily 200,000 Deaths in Gaza.” And that article was written well over a year ago.
"That the American people would allow their tax dollars to be used to fund Israel’s highly organized and long planned genocide of the Palestinians is perhaps the most highly consequential karmic event of the Third Millennium. That many tens of thousands of Palestinian women and children, elderly and infirm have been, and are being, systematically slaughtered by the IDF - both Christians and Muslims - is so far beyond the pale, we fear greatly for the future of the USA.
The entire world has watched the IDF deliberately bomb apartment buildings and stores, hospitals and schools, mosques and churches, refugee camps and aid sites, journalist tents and UN Interim Force locations, etc. in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon without any meaningful and righteous response.
Now the real problem for Americans regarding these horrific situations is that the US Military Industrial Complex is supplying virtually all of the bombs and bullets, missiles and mines for Israel to carry out this historic mass murder of innocents. Israeli warplanes and armaments of every sort and kind are being given to the Zionist state to execute completely powerless and defenseless populations in the name of the American people. And no one stateside is doing a thing to stop this wholesale carnage, even as it plays out during prime time and in glowing color in the mainstream media every single day.
As we have apprehensively intimated, this ongoing human slaughterhouse will come back to bite the United States of America when it’s least expected. For no one - no person or institution, no nation or corporation - ever escapes the jaws of karma. And when that happens, karma’s gonna be a real bitch, America. For there is now a terrible stain on the soul of America. Have we become soulless?"
"Gaza Tells Us Who We Are"
by Caitlin Johnstone
"Some days it’s hard to say which is more horrific: the Gaza genocide itself, or the moral decay throughout our society which makes it possible. I mean, the atrocities in Gaza have a couple million victims. If you add up the populations of the US, Europe, Canada and Australia, you’ve got around a billion people living in a dystopia whose collective conscience is so warped and twisted that they’d allow their governments to support a live-streamed genocide in full view of the entire world. A billion people who are so morally bankrupt that they find it tolerable for such a nightmare to be inflicted upon their fellow human beings right in front of them, with tens of millions of people falling all over themselves to cognitively sweep Gaza under the carpet so they can support the Zionist state which is perpetrating this genocide. At best they see Israel’s crimes as an annoying side issue which the left keeps disrupting their Kamala parties about, and at worst they support Israel’s actions entirely.
What a pointless, meaningless, soulless way to live. What a betrayal of truth, and of our own humanity. How could anyone possibly find satisfaction in that kind of zombie-like existence?Mindlessly shuffling along to the beat of the status quo, devouring human flesh because it’s more comfortable than the cognitive dissonance which would come with divorcing the power-serving worldview you’ve been indoctrinated from birth into espousing.
I was listening to an interview with a doctor who worked in Gaza during the genocide and he discussed the time many months ago when the IDF forced the evacuation of a hospital and left four premature babies to die in their incubators after assuring the staff they’d be taken care of. Their tiny bodies were found decomposing weeks later after Israeli forces cleared out of the area.
How did that one incident, just by itself, not stop the world? How did it not stop us all in our tracks and force us to re-evaluate everything that led to this point? It wasn’t a secret that those four babies died; it was in the mainstream news. It was right there, right in front of us, and we did nothing. Such atrocities have been happening on a daily basis for twenty-one months now, and still nothing.
We’ve got to live like this. We’ve got to live in this genocidal dystopia, surrounded by shambling sleepwalkers covered in human blood. Our lives here in the west are far, far more comfortable than the lives of people in Gaza, but they are also far less truthful, and far less capable of nourishing the human spirit.
We marinate in lies and psychopathy, watch lies and psychopathy, eat drink sleep and breathe lies and psychopathy. Our minds are full of garbage and our hearts are full of shit, and we are wading around up to our ankles in the blood, sweat and tears of the global south. This festering sore of a civilization is the only soil in which the western-backed genocide in Gaza could take root.
The people in Gaza have to suffer the consequences of who we are and what we have become, but we have to live with who we are and what we have become. We’re killing their babies and leaving them to rot, but we’re the ones who have to live with the corpses of rotting babies in our souls.
One way or another the killing in Gaza will end one day. But the forces within us which gave rise to that butchery will live on long after the sounds of the drones and explosions have ceased. We will have to live like that. We will have to live knowing that this is who we are."
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A Comment: There are no words strong enough to condemn YOU, Americans, for allowing and supporting this horror, for paying for every single goddamned bullet, rifle, tank, artillery piece, fighter bomber jet, everything! 97,000 identified civilians have been slaughtered, including 24,000 CHILDREN, at least another 10,000 buried under the bombed out rubble, and the Arab countries and the whole world watches it and does nothing! That blood's on YOUR hands too, damn you, to our eternal shame and disgrace! God damn them all, these killers of innocent old people, men, women and children to Hell, which is not hot enough, for eternity, which is not long enough for these psychopathically degenerate inbred monsters... That's my opinion, and f*ck anyone who doesn't like it... - CP
Americans! Read it, God damn you, you paid for it all, YOU allowed and supported this horror! Scott Ritter has said "Israel is Evil embodied. Israel is Evil personified." And so are we...
"Changes Coming To Social Security - Millions Wait"
Full screen recommended.
Snyder Reports, 9/8/26
"Changes Coming To Social Security - Millions Wait"
"Major Social Security changes are coming - and they could cost you $1,000 more per year. Republicans are now breaking their pledge never to raise taxes to save Social Security from insolvency by 2032. Here's what it means for your check. In this update: Why 70 million Americans are at risk, the two fixes Congress is weighing (cutting benefits vs. raising the tax rate from 6.2% to 6.7%), Rep. Tom Cole's proposal, and the 2027 COLA prediction - a 3.5% increase that could mean $73 more per month for retirees. Plus the key CPI dates: September 11 and October 14. What do you think - should Congress raise the Social Security tax rate to save benefits, or cut spending instead? Comment below."
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"This Is What's Coming To American Truckers And It's Scary"
Full screen recommended.
Epic Economist, 9/8/26
"This Is What's Coming To
American Truckers And It's Scary"
'This is not a forecast. It is nineteen American truck drivers and owner-operators filming what the job actually pays now, and what it costs them to keep doing it. A milk hauler paid by the load: $150 for one, $125 for the next, and detention that only starts paying $25 an hour after the first two hours are given away free. A week that went $2,100, then $1,250, then $650, with two nights out and not enough left to make the trip home worth it. A driver leaving over-the-road for a dedicated account at 60 cents a mile with a $200 weekly minimum. A broker who expected a full trailer of tires to be unloaded by hand. An $850 loading fee nobody mentioned until the truck was already in the yard, with a storage fee still to come. $500 for a 270-mile run, and a whole day standing in the dock to earn it. Then the other side of the ledger, the part that never appears on a rate confirmation. A trailer that would not take air on the first day back. An axle that came off on the interstate. A belt that popped ten minutes after pickup. Tire debris from the truck ahead that took out an air line. Fifteen tons on a truck rated for thirteen, on a hill, with gauges that were not working. A truck stolen out of the driveway with $410 in cash still in it. And a crash caused by somebody else, covered by a $5,000 liability policy that a street light and a guardrail had already eaten before anyone looked at the truck.
The mechanism underneath most of it is that the driver carries the clock and the risk, but only gets paid for the part that moves. Waiting is free for the first two hours. Detention has to be documented and asked for, and it rarely covers what the hours actually cost. Loading, storage and lumper fees come off the same rate that looked acceptable on the load board. Breakdowns, tires and deductibles come out of the settlement the load paid into. And the liability limit the other driver carries has nothing to do with what your equipment is worth. Four things worth copying from the people in these clips. Photograph the seal, the trailer and the load before touching anything, because that photo is what a claim turns on later. Get the detention start time written on the bill of lading instead of agreed over the phone. Ask what the accessorials are before accepting the load, since that is where the rate quietly goes. And check the other driver's liability limit yourself after a wreck, rather than waiting for their insurer to explain what is left. By the end, one driver is watching friends list their trucks on marketplace and offer them to him for a few dollars down. He turned them down. He is going through the same thing.'
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"A Look to the Heavens"
"NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula, dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by interstellar dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the heroic constellation Perseus, it lies at the edge of a large, star-forming molecular cloud.
This telescopic close-up spans about two full moons on the sky or just over 15 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 1333. It shows details of the dusty region along with telltale hints of contrasty red emission from Herbig-Haro objects, jets and shocked glowing gas emanating from recently formed stars. In fact, NGC 1333 contains hundreds of stars less than a million years old, most still hidden from optical telescopes by the pervasive stardust. The chaotic environment may be similar to one in which our own Sun formed over 4.5 billion years ago."
Chet Raymo, “Under the Surface”
“Under the Surface”
by Chet Raymo
Pleased enough with surfaces. Yes, I know what I meant. Pleased enough with this world, here and now, this world of light and matter. Not wanting or needing that other world that occupies so many people, a world of supernatural agencies, spirits, disembodied presences. Give me a world I can see and hear and touch and taste. Give me a world with heft and substance, a world with surfaces that shine and shimmer. What else is there? What else do we need?
Well, maybe not. I was scanning issues of “Science” and “Nature,” with their usual illustrations of the molecules of life, the nuclei acids and the proteins. The elaborate machinery that unseen, under the surface, endow the apple's flavor, the silk of skin, the abrasion of sand. Think of it. Atoms that are mere whiffs of resonance, binding into molecules, twisting and turning into endless shapes, fitting together like hand and glove, endlessly spinning and weaving, all without the slightest conscious participation on our part. Abbey's world of surfaces spun out of the mysterious, endlessly active, subsurface stuff of the world.
Pleased enough with surfaces? Not really. I want to know what's under the surface, that world of molecular frenzy that cannot be touched or seen, a world that in its own way is as beautiful and as meaningful as the macroscopic world we consciously inhabit. We don't need to know it. We can live a fulfilling life without knowing it. But I want to know it. I want to know what goes on behind the curtain of the senses. I want to hear that silent and ceaseless music of creation.”
- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/
"Killing Our Dreams"
"Killing Our Dreams"
by Paulo Coelho
"The first symptom of the process of our killing our dreams is the lack of time. The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the Good Fight.
The second symptom of the death of our dreams lies in our certainties. Because we don’t want to see life as a grand adventure, we begin to think of ourselves as wise and fair and correct in asking so little of life. We look beyond the walls of our day-to-day existence, and we hear the sound of lances breaking, we smell the dust and the sweat, and we see the great defeats and the fire in the eyes of the warriors. But we never see the delight, the immense delight in the hearts of those who are engaged in the battle. For them, neither victory nor defeat is important; what’s important is only that they are fighting the Good Fight.
And, finally, the third symptom of the passing of our dreams is peace. Life becomes a Sunday afternoon; we ask for nothing grand, and we cease to demand anything more than we are willing to give. In that state, we think of ourselves as being mature; we put aside the fantasies of our youth, and we seek personal and professional achievement. We are surprised when people our age say that they still want this or that out of life. But really, deep in our hearts, we know that what has happened is that we have renounced the battle for our dreams – we have refused to fight the Good Fight.
When we renounce our dreams and find peace, we go through a short period of tranquility. But the dead dreams begin to rot within us and to infect our entire being. We become cruel to those around us, and then we begin to direct this cruelty against ourselves. That’s when illnesses and psychoses arise. What we sought to avoid in combat – disappointment and defeat – come upon us because of our cowardice. And one day, the dead, spoiled dreams make it difficult to breathe, and we actually seek death. It’s death that frees us from our certainties, from our work, and from that terrible peace of our Sunday afternoons."
The second symptom of the death of our dreams lies in our certainties. Because we don’t want to see life as a grand adventure, we begin to think of ourselves as wise and fair and correct in asking so little of life. We look beyond the walls of our day-to-day existence, and we hear the sound of lances breaking, we smell the dust and the sweat, and we see the great defeats and the fire in the eyes of the warriors. But we never see the delight, the immense delight in the hearts of those who are engaged in the battle. For them, neither victory nor defeat is important; what’s important is only that they are fighting the Good Fight.
And, finally, the third symptom of the passing of our dreams is peace. Life becomes a Sunday afternoon; we ask for nothing grand, and we cease to demand anything more than we are willing to give. In that state, we think of ourselves as being mature; we put aside the fantasies of our youth, and we seek personal and professional achievement. We are surprised when people our age say that they still want this or that out of life. But really, deep in our hearts, we know that what has happened is that we have renounced the battle for our dreams – we have refused to fight the Good Fight.
When we renounce our dreams and find peace, we go through a short period of tranquility. But the dead dreams begin to rot within us and to infect our entire being. We become cruel to those around us, and then we begin to direct this cruelty against ourselves. That’s when illnesses and psychoses arise. What we sought to avoid in combat – disappointment and defeat – come upon us because of our cowardice. And one day, the dead, spoiled dreams make it difficult to breathe, and we actually seek death. It’s death that frees us from our certainties, from our work, and from that terrible peace of our Sunday afternoons."
"X-Files Season 10 - Conspiracy Overview"
"X-Files Season 10 - Conspiracy Overview"
"Watch this and have your mind blown. Whoever wrote the script for this episode of X-Files 20 year ago has to be a time traveler or a senior deep state operative who revealed their entire plan just for giggles." Sound familiar? It should, look around... Do your own research, gather all the relevant facts and draw you own conclusions...
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"When you've eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Sherlock Holmes"
"So, You Look Around..."
So, you look around in horrified astonishment at how totally insane it all really is, how the never ending bad news is everywhere you look, how truly hopeless it really is, and know there's nothing at all you can do about any of it, can't save anyone, can't even save yourself. So you remember what they said, and how you need to be, and carry on...
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority,
but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
- Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
“That millions of people share the same forms of
mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
- Erich Fromm, "The Sane Society"
“Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing
yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”
- Jim Butcher, "Changes"
And yet, sometimes, at the end of another long day,
your defenses are just worn out and it feels like you're losing your mind,
and you almost lose control and it feels like this...
Until tomorrow, when you do it all over again...
And so it is, lol...
"Every Day..."
“Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans to gain or maintain power. What is more, those who choose not to empathize may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it through our own apathy. If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”
– J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement, June 5, 2008
The Poet: Wendell Berry, "A Warning To My Readers”
"A Warning To My Readers”
“Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world. I am
a man crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant,
stubborn, angry, full
of fits and furies. That I
may have spoken well
at times, is not natural.
A wonder is what it is.”
- Wendell Berry
"I Don't Care Who Don't Like Me"
Full screen recommended.
Grandpa Got The Blues,
"I Don't Care Who Don't Like Me"
"We don’t have to stay young… just stay together. I Don't Care Who Don't Like Me is a laid-back, confident blues track about letting go of other people’s opinions and finally living on your own terms. With a touch of humor and hard-earned wisdom, it captures the moment a man stops trying to please everyone - and finds peace in just being himself. A gentle acoustic guitar carries the melody like an old man’s slow walk at sunset. The harmonica sighs soft and low, like memories drifting through warm southern air. The rhythm moves slow and steady - the kind of blues made for porch swings, fading sunlight, and hands that still find each other after all these years. Because sometimes the real blues isn’t about heartbreak…it’s about a love that stayed. Grandpa’s been around long enough to know: the best love story isn’t the loudest one - it’s the one that keeps going."
Hey, in 5 days I'll be 75 years old...I should care what others think? I think not...
- CP
"The Road To $40 Trillion"
"The Road To $40 Trillion"
by Joel Bowman and Lau Vegys
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”
~ William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act I, Scene 3
Buenos Aires, Argentina - "Aww… they grow up so fast! In another life... waaay back in 2008... your editor attended the Asian premier of the documentary I.O.U.S.A. in Taipei, Taiwan (where we were living at the time). Our friend and colleague, Addison Wiggin, had written and produced the “big budget movie,” and we went along to see what the local Taiwanese thought of the project. “It was terrifying!” one local moviegoer told us, trembling in her boots. “Debts grow up so fast.” “I worry for my own future,” her friend echoed. “I don’t even save one-third of my wage. I will do better!”
Plenty of water has passed under the bridge since those days. At the time the film was released, in August of that year, the US National Debt had not yet crossed the almost unimaginable $10 trillion mark. Fast forward to the present, and that figure looks positively quaint. Indeed, today’s $40 trillion pile dwarves even the ugliest predictions from that movie.
And as today’s guest essayist, Lau Vegys, explains, that’s not even the worst part. “The headline number is bad enough,” he writes, below. “But what should really worry you is how quickly it keeps getting worse.” Lau’s right, of course. The pace of the increase should give everyone pause. And yet, here we are… foot on the gas… heading right over the cliff.
We’ve actually known Lau for many years... having caught up with him here in Buenos Aires and also in his home country of Lithuania. Right now, he runs the excellent SNAFU Investing, here on Substack. After reading his column below, be sure to head on over and check out his work…
"The Road to $40 Trillion"
By Lau Vegys, founder of SNAFU Investing
"You may not have noticed it amid the ongoing Iran war and everything else going on right now, but the U.S. just smashed through another historic fiscal milestone: $40 trillion in national debt.
Source: usdebtclock.org
That’s roughly $361,000 for every U.S. taxpayer and about $117,000 for every American citizen. Back in the spring I wrote that on the then-current trajectory, $40 trillion would arrive before the end of fiscal year 2026, September 30 at the latest. It came six weeks sooner than that. That was already the third time I’d been too conservative about this number inside a year. And that’s the thing. The headline number is bad enough. But what should really worry you is how quickly it keeps getting worse.
In January 2024, for instance, the national debt stood at $34 trillion. By August 2025, it crossed $37 trillion. By late October, $38 trillion. In March of this year, $39 trillion. And now, five months later, $40 trillion.
Over the past year, the government has been adding debt at a rate of roughly $8.2 billion every single day. That’s nearly $6 million every minute. You can step into the bathroom, and by the time you walk out, the U.S. will be another $28 million deeper in the hole.
And from the looks of things, it’s only going to get worse from here. As I wrote to you a few weeks back, the Treasury recently announced that it expects to borrow another $739 billion between July and September. That’s in a single quarter. And that figure was nearly $70 billion higher than what the same department had projected back in May.
Remember, this is all happening at a moment when there’s no pandemic, no financial crisis, no single emergency on the scale of those that historically produced enormous spikes in U.S. debt. Yes, there’s the Iran war, but nothing remotely comparable in fiscal scale to the Civil War, World War II, 2008 or the pandemic.
The point I’m making is that this time, the crisis isn’t a moment. It’s the system itself. Which is quite something when you remember that before returning to the White House, Trump promised to pay off the national debt. Not reduce it. Not stabilize it. Pay it off. To the surprise of no one, that of course didn’t happen. Instead, the debt has climbed by trillions and has now more than doubled from where it stood when he first took office in 2017. (Mind you, that’s not Trump-bashing. It’s simply a fact that I hope even the administration’s most hardened partisans can acknowledge.) All of which brings us to the obvious question that rarely seems to get asked when one of these milestones goes by.
So Who’s Lending? Somebody has to lend the U.S. government the money. That forty trillion dollar mountain didn’t materialize out of nothing. Every dollar of it is owed to someone who handed it over and expects it back.
Some of it is Americans, of course. But for much of the past half-century the answer was, to a remarkable degree, foreigners. They ran trade surpluses, ended up holding dollars, and parked those dollars in U.S. Treasury bonds. It was the obvious thing to do. Treasuries paid interest, they could be sold in seconds, and they were backed by the wealthiest country on Earth.
As I write this, going by the government’s own numbers, foreign holders own about 30% of marketable Treasury debt. That sounds respectable enough until you realize it’s the lowest share in roughly two decades. Back around 2010–2011, they owned close to half. You can see the decline in the chart below.
But you don’t need a fifteen-year chart to see where this is going. The last few months will do. A short while ago, for instance, the Treasury Department published its capital flow figures for June. Foreign investors bought a net $6.8 billion of longer-term Treasury bonds and notes. In May, that figure had been $56.6 billion. At the same time, they cut their holdings of short-term Treasury bills by another $29 billion. Put the two together and foreigners were actually net sellers of U.S. government debt in June, to the tune of about $22.2 billion.
And you can understand the hesitation. You may have seen the chart I posted recently showing that, nine months into fiscal 2026, servicing the debt now costs more than Medicare and more than the entire U.S. military.
It’s crazy when you think about it. The second-largest item in the entire federal budget is now interest on money the government has already spent. So it isn’t hard to see why the same foreign buyers who spent decades falling over each other to lend the U.S. government their money are starting to get cold feet. Meanwhile, the government has close to $10 trillion of maturing debt to roll over this year. And it has to do that in a market where the 30-year Treasury yield has climbed to around 5.2%, from about 4.6% before the Iran war.
Keep in mind, every tick higher makes that refinancing more expensive. And that’s the circle the government can’t get out of. Lenders demand a higher rate because they worry they’ll be repaid in dollars worth less than the ones they lent. The higher rate swells the interest bill. The bigger interest bill means more borrowing. And the more the government borrows, the more lenders demand to keep lending. Each turn makes the next one worse.
So how does the U.S. government get out of this quagmire? Well, an outright default would be political suicide for those at the top. Which leaves one realistic option: inflating the debt away. That means devaluing the dollar. Not in one dramatic announcement anyone could be blamed for, but year after year, on a scale that could make the post-2008 money-printing era look like a warm-up. Situation normal. Position accordingly."
Situation normal indeed. SNAFU, FUBAR...
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