Physics, Geometry, and Consciousness

A brief attempt to define consciousness and relate it to geometry and physics

The Geometry of Life

For millennia, humans have wondered about what consciousness is. The debate essentially comes down to two opposing camps: The belief that consciousness arises from  physical processes, versus the idea that consciousness exists independent of the physical body. Neither has been proven because, like physicist Richard Feynman’s comment on energy, “no one knows what [consciousness] is.”

Let’s say that consciousness is self-awareness. Most people could agree on that. But consciousness is more than that, IMHO. It is the ability to have the awareness that you are aware.  Understanding that you are self-aware allows for self-reflection and the ability to discern on a nuanced level. The level of discernment reflects the level of intelligence.

“Even an insect can discern objects and food and danger from predators,” you say. “That’s not intelligence.” Well, the ability to be aware that one is aware is a peculiar and distinct ability of consciousness. In order to have this ability consciousness must be aware that it is independent of the physical world, just as we are capable of saying “my body” as opposed to “me.” Who or what is the “my” in “my body?” Consciousness. That which is aware that it is aware.

This distinction can also be reached by answering the question, “What happens to me after my body takes its last breath?”

The answer to this question separates the materialists, skeptics, and rationalists from those with a more nuanced metaphysical awareness. Fortunately, everyone will eventually discover the answer, because no physical lifetime lasts forever.

Reincarnation

Reincarnation is also a mystery because it involves consciousness.

A simple and understandable geometric analogy to reincarnation can be found in Edwin Abbott’s book Flatland. Abbott describes a world inhabited by two-dimensional beings who exist on a flat plane (like a sheet of paper). They have no conception of “up” and “down” because they can only see things on the surface of the paper. The main character in Flatland is a pentagon, a plane figure with 5 points.

How would a two-dimensional Flatlander perceive a three-dimensional being like a sphere? I imagine this as analogous to the animating principle entering the body at birth.

All kidding aside, let’s imagine the “birth” and “death” of the soul personality as something similar. Just like Sphere to the Flatlanders, a soul is invisible to us before incarnation. We don’t know where the soul comes from, but it must be from a higher dimensional area outside of the perception of human beings in the three-dimensional universe. Some refer to this as the “between lives area.”

The baby exits the womb, the soul enters, and the body takes its first breath. Everyone can see that there is something animating the body that keeps it alive. When the body takes its last breath the death of the body occurs, and the soul returns to the between-lives area and is again invisible to human eyes.

For 99% of humanity, the between-lives-area is hidden from us. There are, I’m sure, highly advanced teachers who are consciously aware of it. Many of us, in our meditations, can get to a place of serenity and higher awareness for short periods of time. But then it wears off. In our daily lives the higher planes of awareness are hidden from us.

Sphere’s passage through Flatland is a geometric representation of a lifetime in two dimensions. What could represent the soul’s life path in our three-dimensional universe?

The Life Path

A human being’s life path could be geometrically diagrammed as a circle. Birth and Death are at the same point on the circle.

Let’s say that the circle and everything inside it represents the physical universe. Outside the circle is the higher plane of existence that is outside of time and space.

As the soul/conscious personality travels around the circle it interacts with the physical universe. It gets further and further away from the between-lives areas from which it came, becoming fully immersed in the physical lifetime. As the person reaches middle age and then beyond toward old age, he or she begins to approach the birth/departure point again. At that stage of life a person begins to contemplate what will happen after they die.

“Will my self-awareness be terminated, or do I continue?”

This is a sort of forced self-reflection for those who never did any of it during the physical experience. Everyone – even materialists – will be forced to confront this question in the end. I imagine the dilemma of a materialist when confronted with his or her mortality to be something like this:

The Physics of Life

How long is the life path of the newly born soul? We explain longevity primarily as a crapshoot of genetics. If you have “good” genes you will live a long time, even if you don’t eat right or exercise. If you have “bad” genes you won’t.

There’s no way to determine at birth the length of any lifetime. We can say that the “average” human being might live 75 or 80 years, or that a cat might live to be 15 years. However, there is a concept in physics that can be applied to describe the energy of the soul before it incarnates, the span of its physical life while it inhabits the body, and the energy of the soul in relation to the physical universe after it leaves the body. We can use this concept because during the time an incarnated being (human consciousness) is part of the physical universe, it is subject to its physical laws.

Potential and kinetic energy

In the physical universe the total energy of any system is its potential energy plus its kinetic energy. Potential energy is essentially stored but not released energy as a result of the position of an object. Kinetic energy, on the other hand, is the energy of motion: the falling rock, the turbine that turns to generate voltage in the mains of your apartment, etc.

It is easy to calculate how much time it takes for a ten-pound rock dropped from the fifth story of an apartment building to hit the ground. (It takes about 2 seconds from 60 feet in the air.)

When the rock is held steady just before it is released, 100% of its energy is potential energy, because it has the potential to cause some damage if it is dropped. Its kinetic energy is zero because it isn’t moving yet. As the rock falls its potential energy decreases and its kinetic energy increases because the rock is being accelerated downward due to the force of gravity. When it hits the ground it releases all of its kinetic energy, makes a loud sound, and cracks the concrete. At this stage its potential energy is zero and its kinetic energy is 100%.

After the dust settles the rock’s potential and kinetic energy are zero.

Before birth the soul’s potential energy is 100% and its kinetic energy is zero. The incarnating soul has great potential for the coming physical lifetime, but it hasn’t gotten started yet. As the soul lives its life in the physical body, the person’s potential energy gets gradually converted to kinetic energy – lived experience – as the body ages. At the end, the result is that (hopefully) the soul, or conscious personality, gains wisdom from its life experience.

The physics of potential and kinetic energy, applied to consciousness, helps me to better understand concepts like reincarnation, birth, and death.

Final Thoughts

What happens after the body takes its last breath? Does a person’s consciousness continue, or is it snuffed out like a candle flame?  

This is a question materialism cannot answer. Only when we expand our awareness beyond the physical – when we utilize the peculiar and inherent ability of consciousness to be aware that it is aware – can we hope to explain fundamental concepts like birth, death, and reincarnation.

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The Runaway Train

We have kicked the financial can down the road as far as it will go – but is there a solution?

Elon Musk and DOGE are trying to eliminate the $2 trillion budget deficits that are now built-in to the current federal government spending regime. Musk promised trillions in savings, but that isn’t going to happen. Last week Musk said he is striving for a $150 billion cut in FY 2026.  But Trump wants to increase “defense” spending by $150 billion in his “big, beautiful bill,” exactly offsetting the DOGE cuts.

That means another $2 trillion deficit for fiscal year 2025, unless a miracle happens.

On the other hand, Trump seems very optimistic about the financial and economic future of the country. As President he has more information than the rest of us, and is presently trying to adjust the imbalances in the system of international trade. The goal is bilateral trade negotiations, bypassing global institutions like the World Trade Organization that are run by elites. This has some promise, I think. Will trade re-alignment be enough to rebalance the nation’s finances? Well, we have three and a half years to find out.

Meanwhile, the mainstream news media is united in their disgust of Trump’s tariffs, particularly the 145% tax on China’s goods. I think that the tariff on China is America’s retaliation for the CCP’s ongoing 20-year Unrestricted Warfare campaign against the US. This campaign was outlined by two People’s Liberation Army colonels in 1999. It has been very successful. You can read their book here.

Moreover,

“Alexander Gray, CEO of American Global Strategies and a senior national security official under the first Trump administration, thinks China’s behavior will weigh more in allies’ considerations than the United States’ behavior. “[Trump] has put China in an untenable position of revealing what many of us already knew: the PRC has built an economy designed to wage economic warfare for the perpetuation of the regime,” he told The Epoch Times in an email. “Beijing’s unwillingness and inability to change behavior reveals the CCP for what it is and puts the U.S. and its allies and partners in a unified bloc opposing Xi’s malign activity.”

— Terri Wu, The Epoch Times

We’ll see.

My take is that Trump is acting forcefully now because, if nothing changes, unsustainable $2 trillion budget deficits (or more) are going to be the norm every year. These deficits will have massive financial consequences.

Interest on the national debt

The interest on the national debt – money that has already been spent – is already over $1 trillion per year, fully one-fifth of what the government will collect this fiscal year in taxes and fees. And it will go up year after year if government spending continues on its present course. Treasury bonds and securities mature and have to be paid, and interest rates are several points higher than they were before the massive spending increases during Covid. It’s going to cost the federal government more to borrow than it did when interest rates were close to 1%. If the printing presses continue to pump out more fake money to cover increasing deficits, massive inflation will result.

Here’s a graph that shows how much the federal government spent yearly on interest on the national debt since 1990:

Interest on the national debt, 1990-2015

Data from the St. Louis Federal Reserve bank. Graph at https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/interest%20expense%20march%2025.jpg?itok=xZCoTD4h

The graph shows that the interest on the national debt began to accelerate rapidly in 2020–21. Out-of-control government spending has been the norm since then, using Continuing Resolutions that peg this year’s spending equal to last year’s, and it all gets thrown into a gigantic Omnibus Spending Bill that passes before anyone in Congress reads it.

DOGE discovered during its investigation of Executive Branch agencies that the system is set up to loot the Treasury. This process will likely continue until Congress wakes up and starts to do its Article 1, Section 7 and 8 duty, or this administration somehow pulls off a fiscal miracle.

I’m an optimist, so I believe (on faith) that everything will turn out all right in the end. But neither hope nor faith is a strategy

At this point in our nation’s history, we have kicked the financial can down the road as far as it will go. If nothing is done to cut spending, soon a financial reckoning will occur.

Trump is off to a good start with his bilateral trade re-negotiations, which have the added benefit of getting the nations of the world in communication with the US (over 75 countries as of this writing on April 11th are sending representatives to DC). More communication means more understanding, and the possibility of resolving other serious intra-national problem as well.

The 9 billion pound gorilla

But there’s a huge X-Factor in all this, which surfaced during Trump’s press conference on April 9 in the Oval Office. Trump said,

“We’re very powerful, this country is very powerful. It’s far more powerful than people understand. We have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is, and it is the most powerful weapons in the world…more powerful than, it’s not even close.”  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-UcvkNiNNA

WTF is Trump talking about? I think he’s talking about super-high tech developed by our private defense contractors that exist in our hidden black programs.

The disappearance of Flight MH370 in 2014 gives us some idea about this technology. Here is a thermal video taken from U.S. military sources, of MH370 (thank you Ashton Forbes). Watch what happens at the end. It’s frankly unbelievable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoUfR3x-2DQ

The best guess is that the three orbs in the vid are non-equilibrium plasmas that can generate tremendous charge densities around an object. If these charge densities become great enough, a tear in the fabric of spacetime occurs and an Einstein-Rosen bridge, or wormhole, is created. According to physicist Eric Davis, a wormhole is a teleportation device.

This is some serious technology.

A country that can disappear an entire Boeing 777 aircraft – 11 years ago! – probably has other exotic technology that no one has ever heard of. Such as the extraction of energy from the quantum vacuum. That’s a game-changer for our entire civilization because it would mean an unlimited supply of clean energy that can make everyone on this planet energy-independent. No more poverty. No more war. It’s unbelievable to even think about.

Seen in this framework, the collapse of the government’s finances isn’t catastrophic, because a civilization-changing solution is available. The problem is that it might take a while to roll out the new technology in an economy based on primitive fossil fuels, solar arrays, and wind turbines.

Trump wasn’t kidding at his press conference on Wednesday, when he said that the US has technology that is so powerful no one would believe it. I think this statement was a sort of soft Disclosure, and went much further than the nothing-burger UFO hearings in Congress. A UFO, by the way, is a zero-point energy craft – whether it is man-made or alien.

Dr. Steven Greer has been talking about the frontier physics tech in our black programs for three decades, but this is the first time a President gave it a serious mention. It was a public acknowledgment that in our black programs, we have advanced very, very far. Far enough, perhaps, that accessing energy from the zero-point energy field is possible in a practical way.

If Greer is correct then almost every “UFO” in our skies is a man-made one. But where do these craft come from?

Breakaway civilization funded by U.S. debt?

The money to build these things comes from the trillions diverted to the black budget. Catherine Austin Fitts estimates that there are at least 170 Deep Underground Bases (DUMBs) around the world, which are essentially top secret factories for building zero-point energy craft and who knows what else. These DUMBs are for all intents and purposes a separate breakaway civilization, whose goal is unknown. Needless to say, these facilities are fanatically guarded and no public access is possible.

I think Trump knows more about this exotic technology than he is saying publicly. Greer has briefed everyone interested in the Trump administration – as he has with other Presidents and administrations.

Who or what is behind the runaway financial train and its massive debt?

In 2021, Professor Mark Skidmore of Michigan State University and Catherine Austin Fitts, a former HUD executive, reported that tens of trillions of dollars have gone missing from the Department of Defense.  From solari.com:

“On January 22, 2020, Bloomberg posted an article written by Anthony Capaccio, “Pentagon Racks Up $35 Trillion in Accounting Changes in One Year” (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-22/pentagon-racks-up-35-trillion-in-accounting-changes-in-one-year). In the article, the author reports that the Department of Defense recorded enormous “accounting adjustments” for fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019:

FY2017:          $29 Trillion

FY2018:          $30.7 Trillion

FY2019:          $35 Trillion

Total:  $94.7 Trillion

“As described in previous reports and updates (Skidmore and Fitts, 2017), accounting adjustments are typically a small fraction of authorized spending, not many multiples of spending. Prior to this Bloomberg article, Skidmore and Fitts (2017) compiled government reports indicating that government had accumulated $21 trillion in unsupported journal voucher adjustments over the 1998-2015 period. The $21 trillion figure was so large at the time, bigger than the United States economy, that it resonated with the public. As a result, the “missing money” issue received considerable attention from both the alternative and legacy medias.

“The $94.7 trillion figure dwarfs the $21 trillion, and yet to our knowledge no other news outlets picked up the story, and in fact we did not learn about the Bloomberg piece until January of 2021, thanks to Rob Kirby who brought the article to our attention. How is it that $21 trillion could make waves in the media and yet $94.7 trillion in account adjustments went largely unnoticed?

“Focusing on fiscal year 2019, $35 trillion in accounting adjustments is 47 times the $738 billion in authorized DOD funding in that year, and 1.6 times U.S. GDP of $21.4 trillion. The enormity of the accounting adjustment defies any rational explanation.”

Certainly, $94 trillion in accounting adjustments does not mean $94 trillion was actually spent. But this begs the question: Why are you making such massive adjustments?

It appears that the U.S. Treasury is being looted to the tune of trillions of dollars. Go on the website from the links above and read all about it. This story is almost as unbelievable as the MH370 video and the claim that the US has zero-point energy craft.

How could this have happened? Your guess is as good as mine, but we do know that in 2018, the accounting rules for all federal government executive branch agencies – and the secret black budget programs – were changed to allow the federal government to “misstate and move funds in order to hide expenditures if it is deemed necessary for national security purposes.”

This is another unbelievable story.

FASAB 56 Statement

From solari.com:

“On October 4, 2018 federal government officials accepted the recommendation of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) that the government be allowed to misstate and move funds in order to hide expenditures if it is deemed necessary for national security purposes. The new guidelines are to apply to all agencies, not just the black budget.

“With the change in accounting guidelines, which is a full departure from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), only a few people with high level security clearances have the authority to determine what is deemed a national security issue, and these same people will now be allowed to restate financial reports in order to conceal actual expenditures without any disclosure. No one but those few people would know that such modifications were made, thus making evaluation of government financial statements impossible. From this point forward, the federal government will keep two sets of books, one modified book for the public and one true book that is hidden.

“The FASAB recommendation effectively institutionalizes non-transparency in federal financial reporting. While many aspects of federal finances are non-transparent now because government has failed to comply with existing financial reporting laws, at least citizens had the laws working in their favor. Now citizens have no recourse; non-transparency is going to proceed as a matter of executive branch authority and policy.”

[emphasis mine]

This accounting regulation is called FASAB Statement 56.

Well, there you are. The looting of the U.S. Treasury is the source of funding for a shadow government or a breakaway civilization, and is certainly contributing to the federal government’s $37 trillion deficit.

The diversion of funds has been ongoing for decades, but FASAB 56 made the looting of our Treasury official.

What happens if the US collapses financially?

It is obvious that Musk and DOGE are just sniffing around the edges of government corruption. The biggest scams always remain hidden, simply because they are too unbelievable.

(For an overview of the current situation with Catherine Austin Fitts, go here.)

Because most of the missing money has gone into the Pentagon, a FULL audit of the DoD and the black budget must discover where the missing dollars went (and are going).  

The key player, as always, is the United States. If we do nothing to solve our own debt crisis, the rest of the First World is probably toast along with us.

For Third World countries, the collapse of the corrupt fiat-money debt system used to control them might eventually be a good thing. 

On the bright side, a financial collapse may also bring with it a collapse of the polarity and hatred that infests our society. Without the endless printing of fiat money, the worldwide control system will starve and implode, and so will the criminals who have been looting our country. That might be a good thing, because the adults in the room could then begin to implement a saner civilization.  

Conclusion

The scope of the corruption makes a mockery of the democratic process and the entire human race.

Why is this information coming out now? Well, I guess it’s because the human race has been sleeping for millennia. But now we are waking up.

The world is going to be a different and much better place once hidden knowledge becomes public information.

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The Third World

I read yesterday on devex.com that Trump, in his zeal to cut programs formerly managed by USAID, the CIA’s $50 billion slush fund, had accidentally cut some “life-giving humanitarian aid” programs in the Third World. But that they had been restored.

Whew! That was a close call.

Then I started to think about the relationship between the First World and the Third World in the post-WW 2 period. All of which I have lived through.

First World humanitarian “help”

Let’s take a broad look at what First World “humanitarian” programs have done for the Third World.

Let’s see…color revolutions, political assassinations, and CIA- sponsored NGOs destabilizing societies in Third World countries when their governments take a false step. Leaders and governments in Third World countries overthrown: Mossadegh in Iran, Lumumba in the Congo, Arbenz in Guatemala, Allende in Chile. And who can forget the lovely war in Vietnam? The two civil conflicts in Ukraine – the Orange Revolution in ’04 and the EuroMaidan color revolution in ’14, in which Yanukovich, the popularly elected candidate, was “replaced” by one more sympathetic to NATO and the EU – because the CIA and the State Department don’t like pro-Russian leaders. And then there are the 20-year wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, whose leaders were simply unacceptable. That’s just a partial list.

Let us not forget about the IMF and World Bank loans that have kept many of these countries financial slaves to the First World. And, of course, our wonderful and helpful “foreign aid” that goes not to the people, but to dictators and elite rulers, many of whom graduated from a Western university. (For USAID’s role in all this, see John Perkins’ book Confessions of an Economic Hitman. Laughably, Perkins’ first-hand account of his actions was dismissed as a conspiracy theory!).

Then there are the First World created “rebel groups” who magically spring up when deposits of oil – or some other valuable resource necessary to First World industries – are discovered. And last but not least, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, who love to test new vaccines on African children.

Since Third World countries achieved independence over half a century ago, their peoples have never really had the freedom to choose their own governments, or to organize their societies, without First World interference.

Look at what happened in the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001. That country was a perfect example of the power of this disruptive system, as Yugoslavia broke apart into six independent countries exactly matching the six former Soviet republics that had previously constituted Yugoslavia. These conflicts were described by First World media as “inter-ethnic.” Bombs were dropped on civilians, villages were destroyed, and it was all blamed on dictators like Slobodan Milosevich. Magically, the activities of the CIA, the Pentagon, and other First World intelligence services were barely mentioned.

The only Third World country that has managed to get out of this trap is China, and that’s only because this 5,000-year-old society and their elites play the Long Game. China’s leaders turned the tables on their Western counterparts. China took the West’s money, built up their industries, became the world’s factory floor, and stole enough intellectual property to become independent. At least for the present. China is the one that got away.

Now, when the U.S. part of this corrupt system – which has spread its tentacles across the entire planet – is in the process of being dismantled, Western elites and media cry bitterly that Third World countries are being irrevocably harmed. As my father used to say, “with friends like that you don’t need any enemies.”

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is another example. The DRC is a pathetic communist country run by the usual thugs and dictators propped up by First World money. The DRC’s main claim to fame is its huge deposits of cobalt, which are essential for making the world’s lithium-ion EV batteries. A significant portion of this cobalt is hand-mined, by child slave labor. This has been known for decades. And of course the large foreign-owned mining operations have free reign to strip the DRC’s land for this valuable resource.

Nothing is done because the First World doesn’t give a shit. No, it’s much better to fight a pointless 20-year war in Afghanistan to bring “democracy” to a tribal society that has gotten along just fine on its own for centuries. Or to start a conflict in Libya to depose Muammar Ghadaffi (using a First World sponsored “rebel group,” the National Liberation Army). Ghadaffi was a Libyan nationalist who threatened to not pay for his oil with U.S. dollars. Heresy! This bothered State and the CIA and the powers that be, despite Ghadaffi’s popularity within his own country.

Seven wars in five years

Such wars harken back to the Pentagon’s program to overthrow “7 countries in 5 years.”

General Wesley Clark describes what happened on Sept. 20, 2001, shortly after 9/11.

“About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, “Sir, you’ve got to come in and talk to me a second.” I said, “Well, you’re too busy.” He said, “No, no.” He says, “We’ve made the decision we’re going to war with Iraq.” This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, “We’re going to war with Iraq? Why?” He said, “I don’t know.” He said, “I guess they don’t know what else to do.” So I said, “Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?” He said, “No, no.” He says, “There’s nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.” He said, “I guess it’s like we don’t know what to do about terrorists, but we’ve got a good military and we can take down governments.” And he said, “I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.”

The seven countries, by the way, are Iraq, Syria (which has recently experienced the toppling of its leader Bashar al-Assad), Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. By this time in 2001 the US was already bombing in Afghanistan.

And lately, Iran has been in the news as another possible war zone.

That’s how the system works.

Balance must be restored

We all know about the various wars that have been fought across the planet. These wars are almost exclusively created by First World elites looking to make more money for themselves. Establishing democracy? That’s just so much bullshit.

Everyone knows this. I’m not saying anything new here; I’m just venting at those who keep defending this system, even in 2025, when everyone should know better.

Should we be concerned about the dismantling of USAID, or other government bureaucracies? Well, this rotten, murderous system has been in place far too long. If a little excessive cost- and personnel-cutting occurs (at places like USAID, the State Department, and the CIA) it’s a price worth paying. And at other bureaucracies that support the system.

The First World has been living off the labor and exploiting the resources of the Third World for far too long.

That’s why the Global South movement is gaining so much steam.

Balance must be restored if humanity wants peace on earth.

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Note

The markets operate on fear and greed. In my post, “The Beginning of the End,” my conspiracy theory about an engineered collapse of the stock market was just that: a conspiracy theory. The market crashed after fears about Trump’s impositions of tariffs last Thursday. Today (Wednesday), Trump suspended the tariffs (except for China) and the markets are way up (the Dow up over 2,900 points).

Now, 70 countries are in negotiations with the US about trade.

Trump’s plan all along, I believe, is to lower tariffs around the world, primarily to reduce the absurd $1.22 Trillion U.S. trade deficit with the rest of the world. It’s clear to me that Trump is also trying to crush the Chinese economy with the goal of collapsing the Chinese Communist Party. The tariffs on CCP goods is now 125% (as of Thursday April 9). The “de minimus” exception for CCP goods into the US has also been canceled. All Chinese goods $800 or less used to enter the US duty-free, allowing the CCP to market directly to the U.S. consumer. Thus the rise of CCP exporters such as Temu and Shein. Bye bye!

One thing is certain: the US cannot continue to run $2Trillion annual budget deficits. The $1.22T trade deficit is a big part of the problem.

Who knows, if Trump resumes the tariffs the markets will probably go down again. But if that happens, it won’t be an engineered collapse: it will be just more fear and greed as usual.

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The Fragmentation

Have you ever wondered why people are at each others’ throats on social media? It seems there are only two camps in America: The Trump camp and the Anti-Trump camp. This was true even during the four years of Biden: social discourse was still about Trump.

Even those who don’t follow politics or current events can get drawn into these firefights, if they see an inflammatory post on social media, or during discussions at work, or at family get-togethers.

At some point, a person will inevitably experience the anger associated with an ideologically divided society.

Narratives

What are the elements behind this polarizing social discourse?

Well, one element is that reasoned thinking and self-reflection are buried by emotional attachment to Narratives. Headline: Trump eliminates the Department of Education. This is certain to trigger lefties. Headline: Paid Soros protestors demand the return of Tren de Aragua gang members sent to El Salvador prison.  This is sure to trigger those on the right. There are hundreds of others.

The structure of a Narrative doesn’t provide information; it is designed to appeal to a fixed identity (supplied by the Narrative) instead of self-reflection and reasoned thinking. In other words, the Narrative supports a belief in the correctness of the Narrative – often in the form of ad hominem attacks on those who do not agree. A friend of mine, for instance, directed me to an NBC News article to support his claim that a certain social commentator is not to be trusted. I wanted to read the article because I have been following this guy – who used to work in the cyber division at the State Department – for three years. Unfortunately the article was filled with unsubstantiated attacks on his character and used terms like “fascist” and “racist.”

For those who embrace a Narrative, these attack words are perfectly legitimate because they support the Cause. By its nature, a Cause is collectivist. The Cause is legitimate not because it makes sense, but because more and more people subscribe to it. A collectivist mindset is substituted for personal reflection.

“The enemy” becomes the organizing principle around which thought and belief organize. Unfortunately, polarization results because competing Narratives are shaped by opposing Narratives. This escalates conflict, which is required to supply the energy that sustains the Narrative. As those in support of the Narrative grow, it takes on a life of its own. Debate becomes emotional rather than reasoned.

In the US this statement used to be true: “I disagree with you but I will defend your right to say it.”

That generous mindset would be considered treasonous today, because Narratives provide a substitute for reason and give-and-take. Narratives provide an Identity for those who are angry, confused, and conflicted. This results in people taking sides without investigating or researching a subject. When research is conducted it often consists of looking for articles on the internet to support the favored Narrative. I know this because I have done it myself!

Fracturing

Failure to research a subject results in internal psychic contradictions, because Narratives are based in emotions. When a person discovers something that shows his or her Narrative to be incorrect, the contradiction is suppressed, not resolved. This causes a sort of mental fracturing, which requires the believer to rely even more on the Narrative for mental and emotional stability.

Otherwise, the believer experiences even more confusion and psychic discomfort.

The escalation of Narrative conflict prepares a person to embrace contradiction, because the language within the Narrative is often internally self-contradictory. Feeling emotionally and mentally stable makes far more sense to people than looking at the reality of a situation and being forced to embrace conflicting “facts.”  

This causes more irrational thinking and behavior.

“All liberals want to defund the police and send criminals back on the streets,” is a Narrative people on the right embrace. “Right-wing Trump supporters are all fascists and racists,” is a Narrative lefties embrace.

Both Narratives are irrational, generalized, and serve to demonize large groups of people. They are not designed to promote healthy debate, and stick people on one side or the other. Therefore, once a person enters the Narrative War he or she tends to remain there.

With the level of discussion at this low level of consciousness, conflict is inevitable. That is why some predict a second civil war. (Actually, we are already in the middle of the Second Civil War, but it is being fought as an Information War and not a kinetic war. During the past 160 years we have advanced some little way in consciousness.)

 What to do?

The only explanation for current events that makes sense to me is an esoteric one. The situation is too big, with too many people, for simple solutions.

Human consciousness is in the middle of a great Shift. The conflict we see is the result of 8 billion humans desperately searching for a better life, and an end to the millennia-old Age of Conflict and War. I believe that all planets in this galaxy must go through a war between light and dark. Some make it, some don’t.

This planet has been mired in darkness since the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago. Now, that darkness is being exposed by an explosion of awareness in human consciousness. More and more Light is shining, exposing the dark underbelly of the human psyche. It’s always been this way, but much more hidden. Fortunately the dark can no longer hide. Slowly but surely humanity is making its way toward a peaceful world, because the vast majority of human beings want it that way. The Information War is all part of the bigger picture.

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The Beginning of the End

In his “Liberation Day” speech on April 3rd, Trump began in earnest to restore the American economy and American industry

The shot heard round the world

In the war of freedom vs Collectivism, Trump fired a “Fort Sumter” shot at those who have been looting the American economy for over two decades. (Longer than that actually, but let’s say since 9/11.) The attack on Fort Sumter by the Confederacy in 1861 marked the beginning of the Civil War (1861–1865).

I have trouble listening to Trump’s speeches – he rambles on, utters incoherent sentence fragments, takes complete credit for situations that many people are involved in, and ignores the negative effects of his policies. But in this speech, he outlines tariff policies that are absolutely necessary to restore an economy that has been eviscerated from the inside out.

The US trade deficit last fiscal year was $1.22 TRILLION dollars. How is that possible? After WW II, when the US produced 60% of all goods in the world economy, we could afford to ignore tariffs placed by other countries on our exports. But the US is now, by far, the largest debtor nation in the world, with a government deficit of $37 trillion, and with 2- to 3-trillion annual budget deficits into the foreseeable future.

This insanity has to stop.

I read the transcript of Trump’s speech and agreed with all of it. The goal of the new tariff policy is to restore balance in worldwide trade. For too many years the US has been subsidizing the economies of other nations, to the detriment of American workers and a hollowed-out manufacturing sector.

Trump was diplomatic in this speech, saying correctly that U.S. Presidents of both parties allowed our massive deficits to happen. George Bush and Barack Obama presided over the exfiltration of thousands of factories, with good paying jobs, to China, Mexico, and S.E. Asia. This was done gleefully by the globalist millionaires who saw the opportunity to use cheap Third World labor and fatten their balance sheets.

This can no longer continue if the US wants to have a real economy, not one based on accounting tricks and government spending.

The fake economy

Even though the US supposedly has the world’s third largest manufacturing base, much of our economic “productivity” is based now on printing fake money by the trillions. If Elon is to be believed (I see no reason why he would lie about it, and no one has contradicted his statement) that is why Trump fired the Treasury paymaster, who wrote checks for over $4 Trillion with no Treasury account tags attached.  This means that no one can trace who the money was sent to because no one knows which account it went to. This is a joke. Everyone in the world has some accounting system, no matter how primitive, that outlines where their money is going.

The U.S. government is a gigantic, open air Grift that is being systematically looted, almost exclusively by people in the US. The massive trade deficit is a big part of the problem.

When the United States achieved its independence, it immediately imposed tariffs against the great economic powers of the world, chiefly England, in order to develop our domestic industries. This was the economic policy of the US up until the early 20th century, when tariffs were lowered and the Income Tax was established. China, after it was admitted into the WTO in 2001, did the same thing.

The goals of Trump’s tariff policy

The goal of Trump’s tariff policy – called a “trade war” by the mindless idiots in mainstream media – are 5-fold:

1. Bring manufacturing back to the United States to create well paying jobs. The US still has the largest pool of skilled workers in the world, so this is feasible.

2. Encourage direct foreign investment in the United States. This is already occurring. Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s premiere high-end chip manufacturer, is building a $200 billion plant in the US to avoid tariffs. According to Apple, it will spend $500 billion in the US over the next 4 years, in manufacturing facilities in Michigan, Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Iowa, Oregon, North Carolina, and Washington. Nvidia is also investing hundreds of billions of dollars over the next four years in U.S.-based manufacturing operations.

3. Lower long-term interest rates to reduce the cost of debt repayment. This is vital because in FY 2025 the interest on the national debt – money we have already borrowed and must pay back – is $1.13 Trillion! That is over $200 billion more than the entire Pentagon budget. The higher interest rates go, the more money it takes to repay the debt.

4. Shift the U.S. economy from fake financial engineering, accounting tricks, and money printing to the manufacturing of tangible goods.

5. Lower the value of the dollar to support exports. A lower dollar means U.S. exports are cheaper for other countries to purchase.

Number 5 is the heart of the trade deficit problem: other countries don’t want to purchase U.S. goods, but they want us to buy their exports. In 2024, the US had a $157 billion trade deficit with Mexico, a $100 billion trade deficit with Canada, a $113 billion trade deficit with Vietnam, and a  $274 billion trade deficit with China.

A trade deficit of $113 billion with little Vietnam? How does that happen?

The trade deficit with China is much larger than $274 billion because the CCP sets up their manufacturing plants in little countries like Cambodia and Vietnam, where they can exploit even cheaper slave labor than they have in their own country.

Many countries cheat the system in order to lower the price of their exports to the US – the world’s largest national consumer market. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), for example, practices predatory capitalism that distorts trade: The CCP, as is well-known, steals U.S. intellectual property; the CCP massively subsidizes its state industries, taking losses for years if necessary until their foreign competitors go out of business; it engages in currency manipulation, wage suppression, and labor rights violations. These predatory policies have led to the closure of many U.S. manufacturers and the loss of millions of U.S. jobs.

OK, that’s why Trump instituted higher tariffs. But the US will only impose HALF the tariffs on other countries that they do to us. Far from being a “trade war,” it is a very fair realignment of a totally imbalanced trade system that exploits the American economy, and American workers and taxpayers. The US is violating no World Trade Organization rules.

Trump understands that our own leaders have allowed this to happen. He states that if the US were in a similar position we would do the same thing. He doesn’t blame anyone for taking advantage of the U.S.’ crazy trade policies. He understands that U.S. companies make much of their money via arbitrage, not producing and selling goods themselves. This comes from the short-term mindset of “maximizing shareholder revenue” quarter to quarter. A U.S. company will contract production out to foreign firms (send its manufacturing overseas to take advantage of cheap labor), then import the product back into the US. This displaces American workers and kills off American companies, all for short-term profit.   

I support this trade policy even though my life savings are invested in the stock market. If stocks continue to crash I lose 90% of my savings. I am putting my money where my mouth is. And if more inflation occurs I am the loser as well, because I’m a senior living on a fixed income.

The End Game (warning: conspiracy theory!)

So what happened after Trump made his speech? The stock market crashed on April 3rd, down 1,697 points. On Friday the 3rd it crashed even more, down over 2,200 points.

This may be a calculated operation by the globalists to take down the stock market and crash the U.S. economy. These psychopaths finally see a way to take down Trump once and for all, and they will do it even if the United States crashes too. This conspiracy theory is not really so crazy. They tried to kill the guy twice, before the 2024 election. Trump knows where all the bodies are buried.

If there is a globalist plan to depose Trump (there always is), here’s what it might look like:

1. Crash the stock market by selling everything. Keep doing this until the clamor for impeachment reaches a frenzy.

2. Impeach Trump. With markets collapsing, there will be enough Republican votes to reach the 67 required to get him out of office. The Democrats have 47 votes and they will all vote en masse for impeachment. All that is needed is 20 Republican votes, and there will be little problem finding them. The UniParty is mostly Democrat, but there are plenty of weak-ass Senators in the controlled-opposition, fake Republican Party who smell blood in the water.

3. After Trump is impeached, the globalist’s operative in the White House, J.D. Vance, takes over as President. He works to appoint a globalist Republican like Senate Majority leader Thune, as VP.

4. All of Trump’s EOs are canceled, a new globalist Cabinet is appointed (quickly approved by the new UniParty coalition in the Senate), and The Grift continues until the U.S. financially implodes under a massive, unpayable debt burden. Or a second civil war begins. Either of these scenarios is acceptable to the globalists.

Even if this plan is implemented, I’m optimistic it won’t work, for two reasons.

1. Trump’s plan to restore the U.S. economy is already working. Yes, the stock market is crashing but this plan, I believe, is more supportive of the bond market, which is much bigger than the stock market and the source of all U.S. government borrowing. Despite all their bluster, eventually most countries in the world run by adults will agree to a more fair and balanced international trading system. It’s already begun as Vietnam and India are considering the lowering of their tariffs vis-a-vis the US. Trump will renegotiate with Canada and Mexico separately to restore trade balance in North America.

The goal of Trump’s tariff plan is to LOWER tariffs all over the world.

2. Even if the U.S. economy collapses, the solution will be a worldwide debt amnesty. It will be the only solution to avoid world chaos. Wipe the slate clean, erase the quadrillions of worthless investment bank derivative securities, wipe the debt clean from all Third World nations to the globalist IMF and World Bank, and pay off those who invested in U.S. securities.

A complete global financial reset.

Everybody starts over with a clean debt slate.

My guess is that plans have already been made for this.

The handwriting is already on the wall: the U.S. financial sector must collapse under the insane money printing policies of the current idiots in both parties in Congress, who can only agree to raise debt ceilings and deficits and to spend even more. Trump and Musk are trying to halt this process with DOGE and the exposure of the massive grifting and corruption within the federal government, but that might fail because only Congress has the Constitutional authority to spend. Neither the Executive branch nor the Judicial branch can do a thing about the self-centered, irresponsible children in Congress.

We’ll see what happens with the stock market in the coming weeks. If the crash continues, scenario 2 might occur, but in my mind scenario 1 is far more likely. Even though the U.S. Congress is the dumbest institution on the planet, there are too many smart and sane adult humans out there who won’t allow civilization on planet earth to collapse.

Postscript – The Grift continues

In case you thought grifting was reserved only to the federal government, check this story out. Apparently grifting off the government is also alive and well at the state level:

Minnesota food bank CEO steps down as legislators question her $721,000 salary.

Oh boy.  

“Allison O’Toole, CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, earned $721,000 in total compensation in 2022—even as the nonprofit has lobbied for taxpayer funding and warned of rising hunger across Minnesota, where 26% of households with children are food insecure, according to its own research. Now, as O’Toole steps down after six years at the helm, lawmakers are raising questions.”

This is Clown World. This woman was receiving an outrageous salary for six years before somebody in the legislature noticed? Maybe Congress is the dumbest outfit in the country, but the Minnesota legislature is a close second.

“Records show Second Harvest brought in roughly $260 million in total revenue in 2022—with over $6 million coming from government grants, according to a report in the American Experiment. And it’s not just O’Toole earning well into the six figures at the food shelf.

“Several executives at Second Harvest earn over $300,000 annually, with at least seven staffers making between $140,000 to $280,000 per year, according to the 2022 tax records. Despite the high salaries, Second Harvest Heartland has maintained a strong presence at the Capitol this session, requesting public funding to address what it calls record-breaking demand for food assistance. [This is the essence of The Grift. While ripping off massive subsidies from the government, NGOs and their entitled, self-indulgent “executives” lobby without concern for more money from the taxpayer.]

“Altendorf also pointed to what she sees as a deeper issue. She says the nonprofit hired a “voter engagement coordinator” in 2024 to conduct get-out-the-vote efforts—something she calls “a huge conflict of interest” for an organization receiving taxpayer dollars. “The public is waking up to the money funneling system happening within the Minnesota state government,” Altendorf said. “And I’m hearing loud and clear—taxpayers have had enough.”

So  – not only do these NGOs rip off the taxpayer, but they use that money for political activism instead of their stated mission (to eliminate hunger). But what do people like the former CEO of the food bank care about the sweaty deplorables who supply their funding? Those uneducated working class primitives and middle class desk jockeys deserve what they get!

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Alec Zeck Provides a New Look at Disease and Virology

A new paradigm of health is emerging

Recently, some medical researchers have questioned whether viruses exist and have offered a new paradigm for the origin of disease. This idea is gaining acceptance among what orthodox medicine considers “the lunatic fringe.” It challenges Germ Theory, and the existence of the entire subject of Virology. I do not believe these ideas are kooky at all.

In 2002 I wrote a book titled Dialogues, Conversations with My Higher Self. This was a period in my life when I had just finished reading Neal Donald Walsh’s Conversations With God. I brazenly decided to try to talk to God myself. One of the answers I received was that disease is primarily caused by the consciousness of the individual in response to certain metaphysical laws of the universe. This was an idea I never really accepted at that time, 23 years ago. Whether viruses exist or not is irrelevant, I thought – there’s something in your body that causes harm, what you call it is just semantic hair-splitting.

Fortunately, as the consciousness of humanity rises, new explanations have been offered by researchers and investigators for the origin of disease that take into account the powerful influence of thought and human consciousness on the human body. Maybe that answer I received back in 2002 was right after all.

Alec Zeck explains these ideas concisely in a short article on his substack, titled “Why Does It Matter Whether Viruses Exist?”

Thanks to Alec Zeck for this brilliant explanation of the new paradigm of disease.

Why Does It Matter whether Viruses Exist?

by Alec Zeck

If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ve probably seen me talk about this quite a bit — and you might already understand why it matters.

But if you’re new here, or only catch some of my content, you might be wondering: what’s the big deal? Why does it matter so much whether viruses exist or not?

I assure you, it matters deeply. And if this idea is completely new to you, I recommend checking out some of my earlier posts or listening to episode 141 of my podcast before diving in:

1. Collapse of the Vaccine Program

If viruses don’t exist as claimed, the entire foundation of vaccination crumbles.

Billions are spent annually developing and distributing vaccines to “protect” against pathogens that have never been demonstrated to exist.

Without viral causation, these interventions become not only ineffective and unsafe, but totally useless and entirely unnecessary.

It would demand a total reevaluation of public health strategies.

2. Exposes the False Dilemma: Lab Leak or Natural Virus

The “gain of function vs. natural origin” debate assumes viruses exist in the first place. But both are based on unproven claims and circular reasoning.

Once you understand this, you realize the entire debate is a distraction from more important questions. Check out episode 40 of my podcast, where I interview Dr. David Martin — widely cited to support gain-of-function claims — who clearly states that there is not, and never has been, a transmissible particle created through such research.

3. Stops the Senseless Culling of Animals

Every year, millions of animals are culled to “stop the spread” of supposed viruses like avian flu.

For instance, since February 2022, more than 166 million birds have been euthanized due to supposed H5N1 outbreaks.

This not only causes immense suffering but also destabilizes ecosystems and food systems. When you understand that PCR primers are developed using genetic material that has never been shown to come from a virus, the entire justification for these cullings collapses under scrutiny. It’s not just unnecessary — it’s an ethical and ecological disaster.

4. We’d Start Looking at the True Causes of Illness

When you stop blaming invisible invaders, you start asking deeper questions like:

What roles do terrain, toxins, trauma, lifestyle, and emotional stress play in disease?

What if symptoms are the body’s intelligent response — not something to suppress, but something to support?

And how many chronic conditions are being misattributed to viruses when the real causes are right in front of us?

5. End the Medical Tyranny

From lockdowns to masks to coerced injections — policies justified by “viral threats” have enabled unprecedented control.

If the foundational premise is false, so is the justification for medical coercion.

Focusing on masks and vaccines is important — no doubt, but without confronting the fraud of virology itself, it’s like whacking at the branches of a tree that keeps growing back. To stop the tyranny at its root, we have to expose the pseudoscience of virology.

6. Overlooking Metaphysical Possibilities

What if illness isn’t just physical — what if it also reflects emotional, energetic, or spiritual imbalance?

Could symptoms be messengers, not enemies?

Have we been so focused on microscopic particles that we’ve ignored the role of consciousness, intention, and coherence in health?

If we explored these questions seriously, how might it shift our entire understanding of what it means to heal?

7. We Realize the Power of Belief in Health

When the virus illusion dissolves, we start to see just how much our individual and collective beliefs shape our health — for better and for worse.

Fear, expectation, and suggestion can all manifest physically, while trust, coherence, and inner alignment can promote healing.

The placebo and nocebo effects, mass psychogenic illness, and social contagion aren’t side notes — they’re central clues. This realization puts us back in the driver’s seat of our well-being.

8. We Begin Studying the Biofield more Seriously

If diseases aren’t caused by microbes, we need to explore the energetic systems that regulate the body.

Modern science admits we can only perceive about 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum — what might we be missing in that vast unknown? The biofield — long dismissed by mainstream science — may hold the key to understanding health and coherence.

Could there be subtle forms of communication and regulation happening on an energetic level that we’re only beginning to grasp? If so, are we ignoring one of the most fundamental layers of human health and biology? I discuss the biofield on these three episodes of my podcast:

Episode 5, The Human Biofield with Eileen McKusick

Episode 88, Tuning the Zodiac & Balancing Through Sound featuring Eileen McKusick

Episode 121, Ez-Water, Aether, & The Biofield featuring Carrie Bennett

9. Reclaim Trust in the Body’s Innate Intelligence

The mainstream view often frames the body as vulnerable, constantly under threat from external invaders.

But what if there’s another way to see it— not as flawed, but as intelligent and responsive?

Could symptoms, no matter how unpleasant, be adaptive processes — part of the body’s effort to restore balance?

Trusting that inner intelligence may be one of the most important shifts we can make.

10. We’d Stop Fearing Others Who are Sick

The belief in contagious viruses creates social division and isolation.

If “infection” is misunderstood, there’s no reason to fear friends, family, or strangers simply because they’re unwell.

This could restore human connection, compassion, and trust in our body’s ability to adapt.

We’d stop pathologizing what are likely natural detox processes.

11. It Sharpens Your Lens on Other Unproven Assumptions

Once you see the lack of evidence behind virology, you begin to recognize similar patterns in other areas of “science” and medicine.

You start asking: what else have I accepted without question? Is the same circular reasoning, groupthink, or institutional dogma hiding behind other “consensus science”?

It teaches you to ask better questions, understand logic and empiricism, and stop outsourcing your critical thinking.

12. It Exposes the Limits of Modern “Science”

Much of what we call “science” today isn’t science at all — failing to follow the scientific method and actually validate cause-and-effect claims.

Virology is a prime example: no proper controls, no isolation, no direct evidence — just assumptions and models treated as fact.

It’s absurd to believe that what happens in an artificial lab environment can reveal, with certainty, the inherent intelligence and complexity of nature. True science should observe nature, not try to dominate or simulate it.

13. It Reframes How We View History

If the virus model is entirely unproven, then how do we reinterpret events like the 1918 flu, polio, HIV/AIDS, or COVID?

What if those events were driven by toxic exposures, pharmaceuticals, war trauma, mass psychogenic illness, nnEMFs, or starvation — not invisible particles?

This reframing doesn’t just change our understanding of disease — it changes how we understand power, policy, and propaganda.

14. It Breaks the Spell of Medical Authority

The virus narrative has handed massive control to centralized medical systems and unelected global institutions. If that narrative is false, so is their claim to authority.

It also forces you to question “experts” more broadly — if they got this wrong, what else have they misled us about? And who are they to tell you how to handle your own health, your body, or your life?

15. It Calls Us Back to Harmony With Nature

When you remove the concept of viral invaders, you also remove the idea that nature is something to fear or control.

We stop waging war on the very environments and ecosystems we’re meant to live in harmony with. Health becomes about rhythm, resonance, and relationship — with light, water, food, movement, community, and the Earth itself. Symptoms are no longer threats, but intelligent signals inviting us back into alignment with our natural design.

This shift reconnects us with the wisdom of the body and the intelligence of life.

16. It Reveals the Power of Story to Shape Reality

The virus myth is a story — and a very effective one.

It shaped worldwide behavior, justified authoritarian policies, and rewrote public consciousness.

If this story can manipulate billions, what other narratives are shaping our worldview?

Understanding the power of narrative helps us reclaim our perception — and write a new one.

17. It Shifts the Entire Paradigm of Health and Reality

This isn’t just a scientific debate — it’s about how we see life itself.

Exposing the failed viral hypothesis breaks the spell of fear and opens space for deeper exploration on health and the nature of reality.

It’s allowed me to remember that health is our natural state, and that reconnection might be the most important medicine of all.

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A Hard Look at the Global Warming Narrative

I have an interest in climate science because most of my friends believe that man-made global warming is causing irreversible damage to the planet (and I am tired of arguing with them), and because I saw a presentation of Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” speech back in the day. Gore’s presentation used the “hockey stick” global temperature graph of Mark Mann and claimed that man-made emissions of fossil fuels is causing inevitable and catastrophic global warming. It scared the crap out of me. I have always believed that fear-based narratives have no part in legitimate science, so I look for evidence to the contrary — evidence of a more positive climate future.

A new paper, “A Critical Reassessment of the Anthropogenic CO₂-Global Warming Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence Contradicts IPCC Models and Solar Forcing Assumptions,” details the pitfalls that characterize climate science. This is the first academic paper I have seen that openly acknowledges AI (Grok3) as one of the authors.

After reading this well-sourced and well-written study, I understand that AI can be used to help us drill down into the morass of politicized science to find the truth. I have personally found Grok3 to be pretty accurate on STEM subjects.

Climate science in particular has been manipulated to promote crazy ideas like runaway global warming, which states that the human use of fossil fuels is causing an irreversible planetary warming trend that threatens all life on the planet. While the end result of getting our economy off fossil fuels is necessary – we are polluting this planet’s air, soil, and water ­– using questionable science to promote scientific narratives only tarnishes the argument.

Here’s a short review of this paper. I did not use AI to summarize it because all AI-generated text must be fact checked. And in fact, that was the primary purpose of the human authors of this study. AI is great at collecting and summarizing large amounts of information but its conclusions are based on its human programming and the data it has been fed.

Summary

Introduction. This paper is a critique of the International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

1. The paper begins by critiquing the data sets and assumptions used by the IPCC and goes on to list its own data sources, which it claims are as free of bias as possible.

2. The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) states that the cumulative human emissions of 2,000 global tons of carbon (GtC) since 1750 is the cause of global warming. However, “the carbon reservoir in the oceans total 38,000 GtC, stored as dissolved CO₂, bicarbonates, and carbonates – a volume 19 times greater.” This just says that the oceans are huge carbon sinks that can easily absorb human CO2 emissions.

3. High-emission CO2 scenarios are common in climate research, especially those studies that claim severe impacts from CO2 in the future. “Approximately 20–30% of climate studies from 2004–2024 likely used these severe-impact scenarios.” In other words. some climate models are designed with a bias to promote the “global warming is dangerous” narrative.

4. The IPCC assumes that CO2 stays in the atmosphere for 100 years, and that 25% of carbon emissions are still present 500 years after emission. This supports the conclusion that long-term global warming (and runaway warming) is inevitable, as more and more CO2 enters the atmosphere over time. Other studies, however, show that the persistence of CO2 in the atmosphere ranges from only 3 years to 7.5 years, with the average being 3.5 years. This is consistent with the natural carbon absorption provided by terrestrial and ocean sinks that neutralize CO2.

5. Temperature changes precede CO₂ concentration increases by 6–12 months. The IPCC assumes CO₂ leads temperature (indicating that CO2 is the cause of global warming), yet unadjusted data and causality analyses indicate the reverse. This casts doubt on man-made global warming and suggests that “CO₂ responds to temperature via natural processes.”

6. Climate modeling studies exaggerate the response to CO₂. The models’ estimates of the earth’s temperature increase range from 2.0°C to 4.5°C, with a best estimate around 3°C. This far exceeds the observed global warming of approximately 0.8-1.1°C since 1750, despite a CO₂ increase from 280 ppm to 420 ppm (a 50% rise).

The study states that the accuracy of climate models is suspect, for a variety of reasons. “Ultimately, even when these [climate] models occasionally align with observed outcomes, their predictions stem from flawed assumptions rather than accurate physics…. they remain unvalidated against real-world data and have been repeatedly falsified across multiple metrics.”

7. When the 11-year solar cycle is at its maximum – when the amount of solar radiation is at its height ­– corresponds with warming trends on earth (1950s, 1980s). Solar minima, when the amount of solar radiation is at its weakest (1970s) correspond with cooling trends. Climate change models minimize the influence of solar radiation and exaggerate the influence of CO₂.

Comment: When you put a pot of soup on the stove it gets warmer. When you turn off the heat it gets colder. It aint rocket science.

8. The NOAA’s climate data used in climate models is “homogenized.” This is a fancy word for “fudged.” This happens because “weather stations are distributed densely in warmer urban areas and sparsely placed in remote regions, which necessitates interpolation to create regular grids for global temperature analyses.”

9. Warming temperatures liberate CO₂, not vice versa.

10. “A key finding of this study is the minimal contribution of man-made CO₂ emissions to the global carbon cycle.”

Conclusion

Lack of accuracy in accounting for Total Solar Irradiance (the amount of solar radiation that hits the earth), the irregular distribution of weather stations, with dense coverage in warmer urban areas and sparse representation in remote regions, codebase sharing of inaccurate weather station data biased toward higher temperatures, inaccurate IPCC modeling that is biased toward warming, and inaccurate assumptions concerning the effect of CO2 on temperatures, all result in a fear-based narrative of man-made global warming, and alarmist predictions that scare people to death.

As academic scientific papers go, this one is fairly easy to read. You can make your own AI summary of this paper by feeding it into your favorite large language model.

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Prof. Sachs Tells the Blunt Truth about U.S Foreign Policy, the CIA, the Origins of the Ukraine War

For all the adults in the room

This is the best speech I ever heard. 50 mins of telling truth with the bark off at the European Parliament.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4c-YRPXDoM

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The Earth’s Magnetic Field and Human Biology

The craziness in human societies might have a physical explanation

Figure 1.
The earth’s magnetic field is a magnetic dipole

Just like a regular magnet, the earth’s magnetic field is produced from a magnetic dipole. There is a North Pole at the top of the planet and a South Pole at the bottom.

Figure 2.
 The earth’s magnet field in 2025, showing the locations (colored circles) of Magnetic North from 1590 to 2025. Notice the very rapid shift of Magnetic North since 2001.

The earth’s magnetic field has been rapidly moving since the beginning of the 21st century.

Examine Figure 2 above. (All images are from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website). At the beginning of the 20th century the poles began to move. At the beginning of the 21st century they really began to move. From 1590 to 1904, Magnetic North was fairly stable and hardly moved at all. Earth’s magnetic field was also stronger back then.

Go to the website and play with it. You can see that when Magnetic North moves, it pulls and changes the earth’s magnetic field lines all over the planet. The magnetic field is changing every minute because the shift of the mag field is continuous. (The maps just show snapshots at particular times.) We are all immersed in this changing magnetic field, which I have been calling The Shift.

Figure 3.
Earth’s magnetic field, 1590.  In 1590 Magnetic North – indicated by the green dot – is over Canada’s far north.

Figure 4.
Earth’s magnetic field 2025.  In 2025 earth’s magnetic field is over Siberia in Russia (see green dot), and the magnetic field lines are totally different.

The effect of magnetic fields

A changing magnetic field – whether due to motion or variation in strength – induces an electric field. If the magnetic field moves relative to a conductor or a region of space, the change in magnetic flux generates an electromotive force (EMF).

So there is a force of some kind on the human body when the earth’s magnetic field moves, because the human body is a conductor of electricity.

The human body is essentially an electrochemical engine that is easily influenced by magnetic fields. The human body is approximately 70% water.

The water molecule – although not completely a dipole – is a conductor of electricity because the two positive hydrogen molecules are at an angle of 105 degrees from the central oxygen molecule, which is negative.

Figure 5.
The water molecule is a conductor of electricity

How strong is the earth’s magnetic field?

The strength of a magnetic field is measured in Teslas. The Earth’s magnetic field is generated by the movement of molten iron in its outer core. It has a strength of about 25 to 65 microteslas (µT) at the surface, varying by location, and protects the planet from solar and cosmic radiation.

A microtesla is one-one millionth of a tesla, so the earth’s magnetic field is about 0.00005 tesla. A refrigerator magnet is about 0.001 tesla and an MRI magnet is about 1.5 tesla. The earth’s magnetic field is fairly weak in comparison with inanimate magnetic objects, but it still has an effect on the human body.

What are the effects of earth’s magnetic field on the human body?

Humans have cryptochrome proteins in the retina of the eye, similar to those in migratory birds. People have speculated that humans also have a latent ability to perceive magnetic fields.

A 2019 study by Caltech researchers (Kirschvink et al.) found that brain waves (EEG) in humans changed subtly when exposed to rotating magnetic fields mimicking Earth’s.

Weak magnetic fields, including Earth-strength ones, can influence the way neurons in the brain fire, at least in lab studies. It has been suggested that natural geomagnetic fields can therefore affect cognition, mood, or neurological health in everyday life. Some anecdotal and small-scale studies propose links between geomagnetic storms and increased anxiety, depression, or schizophrenia symptoms. (This info from Grok.)

An example of the effects on the human body of changing magnetic field lines is jet lag. Of course going from one time zone to the other can have an effect on biorhythms, but slicing through the magnetic field lines also has a big effect.

The earth’s magnetic field lines aren’t moving anywhere near as fast as a passenger jet, but the shift is ongoing and continuous. This Shift is affecting the human body and, in my opinion, is causing mental and emotional instability in some people.

Can the insanity we see in our societies be explained by a massive planetary shift in the earth’s magnetic field? I think that it can, at least in part.

My hypothesis is that the movement of the earth’s magnetic field is not only affecting human consciousness, but that human consciousness is also affecting the earth’s magnetic field. In other words there is, as Native American cultures have always insisted, a symbiotic relationship between the human race and the planet.

That’s good news to me, because the human race is waking up to the darkness that has been part of human societies for millennia. If human consciousness becomes more positively oriented, we may also see a re-orientation of the magnetic field that would support more harmony and less conflict. Who knows but that is happening right now. An examination of the position of Magnetic North in the interactive Magnetic Declination program shows that the pace of movement is beginning to slow down.

In the end, when the magnetic field settles down and The Shift is over, we will hopefully see a much happier and more peaceful civilization.

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