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I am going to leave Fauci’s Congressional hearing to PAVACA. She is much better equipped for that discussion.
Natalie Winters is one of the best ‘finds’ of Steve Bannon. POTUS has mentioned propaganda from China. I guess you can not get any more direct than this.
The names include:
– Ezra Klein, New York Times columnist – Matthew Yglesias, Vox co-founder – Ronald Brownstein, CNN senior political analyst – Bradford Plumer, New York Times reporter – Marjorie Miller, former Associated Press vice president
– Marilyn Geewax, former NPR senior editor – Kathleen Deveny, former Newsweek editor – Tom Omestad, former U.S. News & World Report correspondent – Steve Chapman, former Chicago Tribune columnist – Bruce Stokes, former National Journal correspondent
– Cristi Kempf, former Chicago Tribune associate managing editor – Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times deputy editorial page editor – Julian Pecquet, former Foreign Affairs reporter
I. Introduction – What Is American Strategy?……………..1
1. How American “Strategy” Went Astray…………………1
2. President Trump’s Necessary, Welcome Correction…… 2
II. What Should the United States Want?……………………… 3
1. What Do We Want Overall?………………………………………. 3
2. What Do We Want In and From the World?……………………..5
III. What Are America’s Available Means to Get What We Want?.. 6
IV. The Strategy………………………………………………………….8
1. Principles………………………………………………………………8
2. Priorities………………………………………………………….. 11
3. The Regions……………………………………………………….15
A. The Western Hemisphere……………………………………….15
B. Asia…………………………………………………………….. 19
C. Europe…………………………………………………………..25
D. The Middle East………………………………………………27
E. Africa………………………………………………………… 29
How American “Strategy” Went Astray
To ensure that America remains the world’s strongest, richest, most powerful, and most successful country for decades to come, our country needs a coherent, focused strategy for how we interact with the world… A “strategy” is a concrete, realistic plan that explains the essential connection between ends and means… A strategy must evaluate, sort, and prioritize. Not every country, region, issue, or cause—however worthy—can be the focus of American strategy…
…the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests.
The questions before us now are: 1) What should the United States want? 2) What are our available means to get it? and 3) How can we connect ends and means into a viable National Security Strategy?
II. What Should the United States Want?
1. What Do We Want Overall?
First and foremost, we want the continued survival and safety of the United States as an independent, sovereign republic whose government secures the God-given natural rights of its citizens and prioritizes their well-being and interests. We want to protect this country, its people, its territory, its economy, and its way of life…
We want to recruit, train, equip, and field the world’s most powerful, lethal, and technologically advanced military to protect our interests, deter wars, and—if necessary—win them quickly and decisively, with the lowest possible casualties to our forces…. We want the world’s strongest, most dynamic, most innovative, and most advanced economy. The U.S. economy is the bedrock of the American way of life, which promises and delivers widespread and broad-based prosperity…
Cultivating American industrial strength must become the highest priority of national economic policy.
We want the world’s most robust, productive, and innovative energy sector—one capable not just of fueling American economic growth but of being one of America’s leading export industries in its own right. We want to remain the world’s most scientifically and technologically advanced and innovative country, and to build on these strengths. And we want to protect our intellectual property from foreign theft. America’s pioneering spirit is a key pillar of our continued economic dominance and military superiority; it must be preserved… Finally, we want the restoration and reinvigoration of American spiritual and cultural health, without which long-term security is impossible…
2. What Do We Want In and From the World?
• We want to ensure that the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable and well-governed enough to prevent and discourage mass migration to the United States…
• We want to halt and reverse the ongoing damage that foreign actors inflict on the American economy…
• We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity
• We want to prevent an adversarial power from dominating the Middle East…
• We want to ensure that U.S. technology and U.S. standards—particularly in AI, biotech, and quantum computing—drive the world forward.
These are the United States’ core, vital national interests. While we also have others, these are the interests we must focus on above all others, and that we ignore or neglect at our peril.
III. What Are America’s Available Means to Get What We Want?
America retains the world’s most enviable position, with world-leading assets, resources, and advantages, including:
…The world’s single largest and most innovative economy, which both generates wealth we can invest in strategic interests and provides leverage over countries that want access to our markets… The world’s most advanced, most innovative, and most profitable technology sector… An enviable geography with abundant natural resources, no competing powers physically dominant in our Hemisphere, borders at no risk of military invasion, and other great powers separated by vast oceans;..
In addition, through President Trump’s robust domestic agenda, the United States is:
• Re-instilling a culture of competence, rooting out so-called “DEI” and other discriminatory and anti-competitive practices that degrade our institutions and hold us back;
• Unleashing our enormous energy production capacity as a strategic priority to fuel growth and innovation, and to bolster and rebuild the middle class;
• Reindustrializing our economy, again to further support the middle class and control our own supply chains and production capacities;
• Returning economic freedom to our citizens via historic tax cuts and deregulatory efforts, making the United States the premier place to do business and invest capital; and
• Investing in emerging technologies and basic science, to ensure our continued prosperity, competitive advantage, and military dominance for future generations.
The goal of this strategy is to tie together all of these world-leading assets, and others, to strengthen American power and preeminence and make our country even greater than it ever has been…. [Ending at pg 11 in the PDF, page 7 in the document.]
Skip down to page 24 in the PDF page 20 in the document.
Economics: The Ultimate Stakes
Since the Chinese economy reopened to the world in 1979, commercial relations between our two countries have been and remain fundamentally unbalanced. What began as a relationship between a mature, wealthy economy and one of the world’s poorest countries has transformed into one between near-peers, even as, until very recently, America’s posture remained rooted in those past assumptions.
China adapted to the shift in U.S. tariff policy that began in 2017 in part by strengthening its hold on supply chains, especially in the world’s low- and middleincome (i.e., per capita GDP $13,800 or less) countries—among the greatest economic battlegrounds of the coming decades…
To accomplish this, several things are essential.
First, the United States must protect and defend our economy and our people from harm, from any country or source. This means ending (among other things): • Predatory, state-directed subsidies and industrial strategies; • Unfair trading practices; • Job destruction and deindustrialization; • Grand-scale intellectual property theft and industrial espionage; • Threats against our supply chains that risk U.S. access to critical resources, including minerals and rare earth elements; • Exports of fentanyl precursors that fuel America’s opioid epidemic; and • Propaganda, influence operations, and other forms of cultural subversion. Second, the United States must work with our treaty allies and partners—who together add another $35 trillion in economic power to our own $30 trillion national economy (together constituting more than half the world economy)—to counteract predatory economic practices and use our combined economic power to help safeguard our prime position in the world economy and ensure that allied economies do not become subordinate to any competing power. We must continue to improve commercial (and other) relations with India to encourage New Delhi to contribute to Indo-Pacific security, including through continued quadrilateral cooperation with Australia, Japan, and the United States (“the Quad”). Moreover, we will also work to align the actions of our allies and partners with our joint interest in preventing domination by any single competitor nation.
The United States must at the same time invest in research to preserve and advance our advantage in cutting-edge military and dual-use technology, with emphasis on the domains where U.S. advantages are strongest. These include undersea, space, and nuclear, as well as others that will decide the future of military power, such as AI, quantum computing, and autonomous systems, plus the energy necessary to fuel these domains. Additionally, the U.S. Government’s critical relationships with the American private sector help maintain surveillance of persistent threats to U.S. networks, including critical infrastructure. This in turn enables the U.S. Government’s ability to conduct real-time discovery, attribution, and response…
Section 1. Purpose. From the founding of our Republic, scientific discovery and technological innovation have driven American progress and prosperity. Today, America is in a race for global technology dominance in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), an important frontier of scientific discovery and economic growth. To that end, my Administration has taken a number of actions to win that race, including issuing multiple Executive Orders and implementing America’s AI Action Plan, which recognizes the need to invest in AI-enabled science to accelerate scientific advancement. In this pivotal moment, the challenges we face require a historic national effort, comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project that was instrumental to our victory in World War II and was a critical basis for the foundation of the Department of Energy (DOE) and its national laboratories.
This order launches the “Genesis Mission” as a dedicated, coordinated national effort to unleash a new age of AI‑accelerated innovation and discovery that can solve the most challenging problems of this century. The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection of such datasets, developed over decades of Federal investments — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs. The Genesis Mission will bring together our Nation’s research and development resources — combining the efforts of brilliant American scientists, including those at our national laboratories, with pioneering American businesses; world-renowned universities; and existing research infrastructure, data repositories, production plants, and national security sites — to achieve dramatic acceleration in AI development and utilization. We will harness for the benefit of our Nation the revolution underway in computing, and build on decades of innovation in semiconductors and high-performance computing. The Genesis Mission will dramatically accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen national security, secure energy dominance, enhance workforce productivity, and multiply the return on taxpayer investment into research and development, thereby furthering America’s technological dominance and global strategic leadership.
Sec. 2. Establishment of the Genesis Mission. (a) There is hereby established the Genesis Mission (Mission), a national effort to accelerate the application of AI for transformative scientific discovery focused on pressing national challenges.
(b) The Secretary of Energy (Secretary) shall be responsible for implementing the Mission
Sec. 3. Operation of the American Science and Security Platform. (a) The Secretary shall establish and operate the American Science and Security Platform (Platform) to serve as the infrastructure for the Mission with the purpose of providing, in an integrated manner and to the maximum extent practicable and consistent with law:
(i) high-performance computing resources, including DOE national laboratory supercomputers and secure cloud-based AI computing environments, capable of supporting large-scale model training, simulation, and inference;
(ii) AI modeling and analysis frameworks, including AI agents to explore design spaces, evaluate experimental outcomes, and automate workflows;
(iii) computational tools, including AI-enabled predictive models, simulation models, and design optimization tools;
(iv) domain-specific foundation models across the range of scientific domains covered;
(v) secure access to appropriate datasets, including proprietary, federally curated, and open scientific datasets, in addition to synthetic data generated through DOE computing resources, consistent with applicable law; applicable classification, privacy, and intellectual property protections; and Federal data-access and data-management standards; and
(vi) experimental and production tools to enable autonomous and AI-augmented experimentation and manufacturing in high-impact domains.
(b) The Secretary shall take necessary steps to ensure that the Platform is operated in a manner that meets security requirements consistent with its national security and competitiveness mission, including applicable classification, supply chain security, and Federal cybersecurity standards and best practices…
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For those of us following the destruction of science over the past decades:
Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics believe science is facing a reproducibility crisis. The falsification of data by leading researchers has led to high-profile retractions of federally funded research.
Unfortunately, the Federal Government has contributed to this loss of trust. In several notable cases, executive departments and agencies (agencies) have used or promoted scientific information in a highly misleading manner…
Sec. 2. Definitions….
Sec. 3. Restoring Gold Standard Science. (a) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP Director) shall, in consultation with the heads of relevant agencies, issue guidance for agencies on implementation of “Gold Standard Science” in the conduct and management of their respective scientific activities. For the purposes of this order, Gold Standard Science means science conducted in a manner that is: (i) reproducible; (ii) transparent; (iii) communicative of error and uncertainty; (iv) collaborative and interdisciplinary; (v) skeptical of its findings and assumptions; (vi) structured for falsifiability of hypotheses; (vii) subject to unbiased peer review; (viii) accepting of negative results as positive outcomes; and (ix) without conflicts of interest.
Sec. 4. Improving the Use, Interpretation, and Communication of Scientific Data…
Sec. 5. Interim Scientific Integrity Policies. (a) Until the issuance of updated agency scientific integrity policies pursuant to section 3 of this order, and except where required by law: (i) scientific integrity policies in each agency shall be governed by the scientific integrity policies that existed within the executive branch on January 19, 2021, except that in the event of a conflict between such policies and the policies and requirements of this order, the policies and requirements of this order control…
Sec. 6. Scope and Applicability. (a) The policies and rules set forth in this order apply to all employees involved in the generation, use, interpretation, or communication of scientific information, regardless of job classification, and to all agency decision-making, except where precluded by law…
Section 1. Purpose. Artificial intelligence (AI) will play a critical role in how Americans of all ages learn new skills, consume information, and navigate their daily lives. Americans will require reliable outputs from AI, but when ideological biases or social agendas are built into AI models, they can distort the quality and accuracy of the output.
One of the most pervasive and destructive of these ideologies is so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). In the AI context, DEI includes the suppression or distortion of factual information about race or sex; manipulation of racial or sexual representation in model outputs; incorporation of concepts like critical race theory, transgenderism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism; and discrimination on the basis of race or sex. DEI displaces the commitment to truth in favor of preferred outcomes and, as recent history illustrates, poses an existential threat to reliable AI…
This DePat Tuesday Open Thread honors the author of the original Tuesday open thread on this site, namely the late Susie Sampson, a.k.a. Deplorable Patriot, among her other handles, pen names, etc.
For more on the untimely passing of Dear DePat, please see these three posts.
At one time, DePat handled FOUR daily open threads here, in addition to taking care of her relatives, choir duties, and numerous other responsibilities. She was a powerhouse – a dynamo – a true force of nature.
DePat’s faith in Trump, Q, “The Plan”, the White Hats, and “the anons” in general, was legendary. Although I didn’t always agree with her quick acceptance of some sketchier evidence and fringier theories, I will gladly admit to “coming around” to numerous so-called “conspiracy theories” which she championed first. I was always careful to give her credit for being right, too, when I had been wrong.
It is impossible to overstate how much DePat did for not only this site, but for her country. I urge all to say a quick prayer of thanks, whenever you think of her, for the privilege of knowing, in life or after death, such an exemplary human being, and lover of God.
And thank you, Susie, for the firm foundation which you left us, when you were called to your true home!
Say an Extra Prayer for Kalbo, His Family, and His Son Tim
Gonna keep it simple! Take a moment – if I may suggest a full minute, right now – to pray!
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is STILL under DIRECT THREATS by hostile forces – notably COMMUNISTS – and they’re HERE IN AMERICA.
Daily outrage and commie phuckery still abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Commies won’t win!
And we will keep saying COMMIES OUT until we get their FRAUD and INSANITY out of our country!
THE STUFF
Your Quantum Homework
If we’re going to be talking about the whole Trump / Q / Quantum thing (AND WE ARE!), then it’s important to refresh ourselves on what the heck this “quantum” stuff is, anyway. THAT lesson will be coming soon – maybe later this week.
Steve did a number of posts on quantum mechanics, and I’m going to link them below as OPTIONAL study material.
However, today’s assignment is more fun. All it is, is to watch a video by Veritasium – a fairly easy and fun video – that I MAY have shown you before – probably not, but I can’t be sure.
The video appears to be in the context of relativity, but it’s really about the apparent conflict between quantum mechanics and relativity, and how that was – more or less – resolved.
The great thing about this video is that it actually takes you all the way to the current state of knowledge, and it does it without very much math at all. It’s pretty ingenious.
That’s it! Check out the video, and play it a second or third time, if you need to double or triple up on parts of it.
We can discuss after that!
Thank you and God Bless!
W
Steve’s Posts on Quantum Mechanics (and Other Things)
This DePat Tuesday Open Thread honors the author of the original Tuesday open thread on this site, namely the late Susie Sampson, a.k.a. Deplorable Patriot, among her other handles, pen names, etc.
For more on the untimely passing of Dear DePat, please see these three posts.
At one time, DePat handled FOUR daily open threads here, in addition to taking care of her relatives, choir duties, and numerous other responsibilities. She was a powerhouse – a dynamo – a true force of nature.
DePat’s faith in Trump, Q, “The Plan”, the White Hats, and “the anons” in general, was legendary. Although I didn’t always agree with her quick acceptance of some sketchier evidence and fringier theories, I will gladly admit to “coming around” to numerous so-called “conspiracy theories” which she championed first. I was always careful to give her credit for being right, too, when I had been wrong.
It is impossible to overstate how much DePat did for not only this site, but for her country. I urge all to say a quick prayer of thanks, whenever you think of her, for the privilege of knowing, in life or after death, such an exemplary human being, and lover of God.
And thank you, Susie, for the firm foundation which you left us, when you were called to your true home!
Private Messaging – The Role of This Site in Keeping with the Gospel
I had a bit of a revelation today, as I read today’s verse.
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone.”
Matthew 18:15
I feel that this has several levels of impact on this site.
One of those levels is how we criticize people OUTSIDE this blog, in our analysis of the news. I think we are reasonably safe there, because we are generally not well known. If we bring attention to our discussion on X or Gab, that gets a bit trickier, because that is very public. And while it can be very difficult to DM famous people on X, it isn’t hard to drop them a kind word or a courteous critique in the depths of their timeline, knowing that hardly anybody is going to see it. Sadly, however, that “hardly anybody” typically does not include the intended recipient.
Other times, I believe that public critique of public figures is more than permissible – it’s our duty. But where do we draw lines around this? I think that’s a valid question.
I do believe that much of what we say here gets looked at by anonymous “white hats” – and that’s a good thing! So if you think somebody in the administration made an error, and needs counsel, your stated opinion here may actually find its way to them.
Here on the blog, between ourselves, it’s a bit tougher, because our interactions are DESIGNED to be public, and I encourage public communication as a way to keep things honest and “sunlight-disinfected”. Courteous speech allows quite a bit of conflict to be resolved publicly, in a surprisingly low-key way, thankfully.
People here do PM me sometimes using PMTW, but conflicts with other members are – between public crises – surprisingly few. People can always approach each other on Gab, X, or through me as well, although in keeping with the Gospel, it is perhaps better if one approaches another party directly. Sometimes people just sharing a frustration with me fits directly into what the Gospel advises (since I may be the one in need of counsel on doing my duty to resolve a conflict), or it can be a “private” way to get me to hint to another person that there is a problem. No matter what, I strive to do what God would want, as best as I can tell, at all times.
I would love to hear other people’s thoughts on this, ranging from personal experience to theology, and that is why I chose that for today’s topic. Please keep the message of Christ in mind – particularly Matthew 18:15 – as you do this. I am seeking not to drum up conflict, but rather the opposite.
I’m all ears! And thank you in advance!
W
(Oddly, in the past, I always read this as “CURIOUS” – and only today realized it says “GLORIOUS” – which makes far more sense! LOL! Now, I absolutely cannot see the word “curious”. I guess that is a minor proof of how it can be impossible to unsee truth.)
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is STILL under DIRECT THREATS by hostile forces – notably COMMUNISTS – and they’re HERE IN AMERICA.
Daily outrage and commie phuckery still abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Commies won’t win!
And we will keep saying COMMIES OUT until we get their FRAUD and INSANITY out of our country!
THE STUFF
Family Matters
Not my family, this time – another Patriot’s family.
Thank you so much for your prayers. God has answered each and every one of them. He never fails. I’m so grateful for all of you. For over a decade you’ve been my rock, my happy place, my place to de-stress, to speak my mind, to share moments of grief and happiness. I’ll never…
Thank you so much for your prayers. God has answered each and every one of them. He never fails. I’m so grateful for all of you. For over a decade you’ve been my rock, my happy place, my place to de-stress, to speak my mind, to share moments of grief and happiness. I’ll never forget a single moment of it.
Throughout it all, I’ve done my best to give back when I can, to love those who share love with me, to comfort those who need it, and to remain who I am without changing. I hope I’ve given you an ounce of what you’ve given me.
My account will remain here, but I will not be active for quite some time. I realize that this doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. It only passes time. What’s important are my children, the family I’ve created from nothing, and the relationships we’re all building with God. My children are my goals. My children are my dreams. I have everything I could ever want right in front of me and I refuse to miss a single moment of it.
Too many times I’ve missed out on quality time because something horrible or significant politically is happening. I’m done. So it is time. I love you all. Please, take good care of yourselves and your loved ones because you never know when it could all go away.
Chill, as she is known – or chillum, Chillinois, etc. – used to be one of the supreme “second level” Twitter warriors. She wasn’t often the source of new information, but she was often the first to amplify great stuff. She always had loads of common sense, which goes well with bravery, concern, and her other virtues.
She is scrappy and humorous. She cracked me up so many times.
Many times she had access to powerful confirming or validating information when it was needed. She was not afraid to hit the trail of a story in Chicago like a gumshoe, and report back to Twitter. Her account was always a hoot, and frequently on the leading edge of a chase.
As the years went by, she needed to back off more and more for family reasons, but she has remained on X nonetheless.
Now, it appears that she really needs to pay attention to family matters.
I can respect that.
I encourage everybody to strike a balance, and to let that balance shift as needed.
We will remain on duty here, helping to protect family life in a GREAT AMERICA. You can also do your duty to this country by simply HAVING a great family life in America.
When God or Family calls, answer that call! We will be here, backing you up!
A salute to Chill, for all she has done, and will do, to help Make America Great Again!
There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s post for any AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none. If readers wish to post any AI-generated content in the discussion thread for today’s post, they must cite their source. Thank you.
Do not forget to LABEL AI articles video and such.
This is going to be very rough since I do not have time to do any editing and I had to transcribe by hand from the video.
I have mentioned a few times that I think the Trump administration is planning a major can of Whoop Ass. Every once in a while we see signs such as the indictment of Comey and Brennan’s freaking out.
Josh and Alpha had a recent conversation about just this subject, but before I get into that I want to point to a few shark fins surfacing.
Here we are 6 years later with the evidence of voter fraud by tens of thousands in just one blue city that have been held under lock snd key while the propagandist media declares the election steal to be fantasy. Multiply by literally thousands of locations to some undetermined extent. We know Fulton County, GA is going to be worse as an example..
Method explained in the article. One of many methods for cheating for the record.
We know the perpetrators are unlikely to see one day behind bars. We know even SCOTUS acted in defense of the perpetrators at the time. We now know with ample evidence that J6 was Fedsurrection. Yet, the perpetrators continue to walk free and pretend they did something great for America.
We also know that any person in America that opposes the provisions of the SAVE America Act self identifies as a criminal or complicit in seditious and perhaps treasonous behavior. All you have to do is ask any person where they stand on that issue and you know who they are.
There can be no peace and trust in government until justice is fully served.
After what was done to POTUS, there is no way he is going to let these monsters get off Scott free. They really blew it when they went raided his home in Florida. Makes you wonder if he moved there, to a friendlier legal environment on purpose.
The Badlands Brief: White House Task Force Gathers Intelligence Documents on 2020 Election for Declassification
A White House task force is gathering documents related to the 2020 presidential election for declassification from the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and the Justice Department.
The task force, which operates in addition to ongoing Department of Justice probes into the 2020 election, consists of
Just The News’ John Solomonand former Trump administration officials including former national security aide Derek Harvey. Lawyers on the team have been reviewing gathered documents for months.
The documents focus on areas including ballot irregularities, potential voting machine issues, and possibly other topics. Members of the task force have been encouraged to limit redactions in declassified documents, even if that means retaining the names of government officials or other individuals, according to two people with knowledge of the effort.
The initiative involves gathering thousands of pages from US intelligence agencies, with plans to declassify some of them. The team has been quietly reviewing materials for months, sometimes late into the night.
President Trump told reporters Wednesday that acting DNI Bill Pulte will serve for only “a month or two” but is authorized to “declassify almost everything.”
Ashe in America: This is one of those anticipated disclosures that will serve as a check on whether we’re actually winning.
We can’t have a Golden Age without a Justice Phase and the core of any Justice Phase has to be elections. And we can’t have real elections without accountability and honesty for how fake they’ve been.
This ODNI thing could be a rug. Or, it could be the exact catalyst for change we desperately need.
I’m also awaiting disclosure (and indictments) on weaponization of government. They weaponized the government to prevent the truth about fake elections from coming out. A real investigative effort on the 2020 election would yield both of those change-making revelations.
I hope it drops before the 250th birthday. If it’s not a rug, that would be quite the victory to celebrate. And, if it is a rug, then we should probably declare independence again. Either way, July 4th is going to be epic!
Happy Independence Day, everyone!
And speaking of Election Fraud Badlands (Ghost) dropped this. For background see my article on Petro and Columbia LINK
….Petro is asserting that the recent Colombian presidential election was stolen using computer servers that are based in California.
My favorite excerpt is this part:
“From my phone conversation with Trump, I was able to confirm that he didn’t know I didn’t support de la Espriella because of his old ties to drug trafficking and the genocide in Colombia.
I hope that amid his concerns he has time to call his intelligence agencies so they can tell him who Abelardo de la Espriella is and why he is a US citizen and who his partners are, including alias “Boliche”.
Colombia’s current president is faced with evidence of an electoral fraud via algorithms and with prohibited foreign financing in our constitution.”
Wew, lad….
H/T Duchess
RNC unleashes ELECTION LAWSUIT to STOP Illegal Votes!
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. The FBI has just FLOODED Fulton County, Georgia with hundreds of agents to ramp up the 2020 election investigation, following a raid that seized ballots
Material that was seized is being reviewed, including DATA taken from ballot tabulation machines
HOLY SMOKES. The FBI has just FLOODED Fulton County, Georgia with hundreds of agents to ramp up the 2020 election investigation, following a raid that seized ballots
Material that was seized is being reviewed, including DATA taken from ballot tabulation machines
Over 200 AGENTS were just deployed to Georgia, and the investigation “appears to be accelerating” — Atlanta News First
Field offices NATIONWIDE are reportedly zeroing in on this probe
🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump is set to announce that Democratic Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia were ILLEGITIMATELY ELECTED due to massive fraud, following an FBI investigation into Fulton County 2020 — @DC_Reporter
28 minutes Elon posts Taylor Swift AI by an Anon on July 4th and then on July 5th. There is in the background 4559 Jul 1, a Q drop.
46:30 Josh: Now going back to that video for a second. Did you notice all the presidents were carrying Something? A RED FOLDER…
Does anyone know where the Red Folder Came from?
I have been talking about the Red Folder since Jan 2nd 2021 and you [Alpha] started talking about it in the beginning of the Trump administration. Well before that back in 2024 because this actually was when we referred to what was happening with the Mar-a-Logo raid. Hey, they are looking for the Red Folder.
What is in the Red Folder? Well it is the Crosfire Hurricane binder and other various secrets that Trump declassified and took with him before he left including information pertaining to Nancy Pelosi’s laptop. We started it and it spread to the whole anon community because, well we had talked to somebody and they said, they are after the red ‘bull’
48 minutes Josh Reads Trump Truth about Reconciliation 3.0, the $350 billion for defence plus Save America Act… Why is this interesting?
So if you understand that Trump doesn’t really want the Save America Act passed as Alpha and I have been saying. There are a multitude of reasons. Trump knows what we are about to say. If it is passed, Mark Elias and all the Lawfare lawyers will innediately put injunctions on it in court. You will have lawfare judges immediately stop it from being implemented. In other words you will not have implementation of the Save America Act prior to the midterms. There is a chance it could go th the Supreme Court but the scary part is the Supreme Court could vote either way.
So the idea is if we want the Save America Act to secure the midterm elections, it is just improbable. It is not going to happen. This means Trump most likely does not want the Save America Act to happen.
Now Reconciliation 3.0 is the National Defense Authorization Act. Now why is this crazy. Because Trump has come out and made a declaration. “I will sign ZERO bills until the Save America Act is passed.” I think he has 90 days before he has to send them back.
So now we have the National Defense Authorization Act coming up. Sp what else is in the the National Defense Authorization Act?
You remember last week all the talk about the various different sections? One section where there is a convergence of Israel and the US military complex. Where there is information sharing, technology sharing of inovation thru the 2 military industrial complexes on the commecial viability side. And there is a merging of US and Israeli intelligence in the middle east. Those 2 things are in the National Defense Authorization Act.
Did Donald Trump just squash the National Defense Authorization Act by attaching the Save America Act to it by saying I’m not going to sign it unless this bill actually gets passed?
Here is my theory, I think John Thune is intentionally not bringing it up because Trump ordered him not to. We are going to act like we really want to get this passed by we really do not want to. Why?
You have DNI Poulti who is working with John Solomon. John just joined ODNI as a special contractor to go in there and help locate classified records pertaining to Crossfire Hurricane,Russia Russia Russia, 2020 election fraud
DNI Poulti inherited DNI Gabbard’s task force on election integrity & infrastructure. We are waiting for a report to come out on that. I think John Solomon [an excellent journalist] is actually coming in to help finalize that report with other types of declassified information. And where did they get these declassified files from? A lot of these are coming from the quote unquote burn bags that were found in the SCIFs of the FBI building that were set to be destroyed but never were. In other words it was the military that had it all along and somehow injected it.
How do you enter evidence legally? [Q quote] You put someone in the military in DNI who can find and retrieve these records where ever the military put them and then bring them out thru points of declassification.
[Could have been hidden during Trump 1.0 or perhaps in 2.0 –GC]
And I think Poulti is going to be the one who is going to release this information pertaining to the 2020 election fraud. And that is going to show that a foreign adversary was definitely involved. Probably a few different ones. I think you’re going to see Great Britain, Ukraine, China, Cuba [Karen Bass?] Venezuala Iran, all involved in stealing the 2020 election, as well as the mail-in ballot scheme.
And this is where it gets really really interesting, Alpha with the conversations that Donald Trump is bringing about. The last week he has been seeding the narrative against Communists. Commie, Comie, he is talking about Communists all the time. I get that communists may have just won. In Washington DC you have a gun bomb. Mandummi in NY, but what I also want to point people to. Go with the constructed narrative.Both sides construct the narrative and they seed that narrative along the way.
This is one of the ways that I have become incredibly accurate with what I do.
Donald Trump started talking about the Communists on the same day it was announced that there is a Grand Jury in NY that has subpoenaed Neville Roy Singham, the founder philanthropist of an NGO who lives in Bejing China.That collaborates directly with the Chinese Communist Party, is a self-proclained
Maoist, funded the ICE riots and protests, funded the No Kings riots and protests, funded BLM and ANTIFA. The guy is a billionaire. The same day the subpoena comes out Trump starts talking about Communists.
Why is it important?
Now go back to the whole infrastructure of what the US Attorney, Joe DeGeneva, is doing in the Southern District of Florida. Joe is obviously running the investigation into, basically, you’ve go to think 20216 and the 2020 Fisagate, Russiagate, Crossfire Hurricane & all that.
Well his team came out last week and they said that they are taking a different approach.
54:40 Alpha: there is something in that article that is very specific.
54:45 Josh: I have it right here. It is Paul Sperry BTW… [Can not find it]
Well basically Joe is investigating the Grand Conspiracy, the RICO investigation. One of the things his team has done is they have broken it down into smaller component parts… what they are likely talking about here is instead of one grand conspiracy with 50 people, and one trial with 10 to 15 years of court. Because of that they are looking at segregating this down into various different parts. Now one of the things that we got an indication of is PRE 2016. This is very interesting because if you ever listen to Patrick Byne, he says how he was recruited by the Obama administration, by the FBI, his FBI handler at the CIA, Cia/FBI handler, to actually infiltrate the early Republican candidates prior to the primaries including Trump. That began in 2015. He talked about this and said it began actually in Las Vegas. So we know they are looking into that part.
#2 is FISAgate, right? This is where you start to enter into the NGO infrastructure.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard released the classified email between Lenny Bonardo of the Open Society Foundations and another executive director at the Open Society Foundations, talking about Julianne Smith who is Hilary Clinton’s foreign campaign manager or foreign affairs campaign manager and how Julianne Smith had gotten back to him and confirmed that HRC was going to move forward with the Russian compromised story on Donald Trump but they did not have the evidence. But they said do not worry we will get it thru our verious different partners of ThreatConnect and Crowd Strike, which I found kinda interesting. So that was Open Society foundation. They enter on stage left right there early on 2016. This is pre-primaries, pre-election.
57:13 Then obviously you have FISA Gate. That email was the day before Bill Clinton met with Loretta Lynch. Clinton offered a seat on the Supreme Court if she dropped the case against hillary.
Then Hillary spent the July 4th weekend with James Comey while she was under investigation by the FBI. On July 7th she gets on Airforce One with Obama and flies to NC for a rally.
Late in July the Lead FBI Investigator drops the case against Hillary and 3 days later opens a case on Donald. Peter Strozk was the guy investigating the hilary Clinton email scandal
Starting 58:30 to 1:05:30 go over highlghted sections
1:05″30 to is discussion:
John Durham was about preserving evidence and not prosecuting. Admiral Rogers got position on recommendation of General Flynn. Bill Clinton & lynch met in the wee hours of the morning in what was supposed to be a private meeting. Reporter Christopher Sein was tipped off by old friend high in Intel community. He played football for Univ of Alabama. Trump was given a jersey #17 from the Univ of Alabama. And Jeff Sessions who also went to UofA was in the same farternity. Chistopher ‘commited suicide’ via hung by dog leash from door knob. A favorite of the CIA.
1:08:30 — 1:12:00 Josh explains why a video crew was needed so NSA could listen in to the conversation. Admiral Rogers according to Q misfiled that conversation…. The conversation was used to threaten Comey into re-opening Hillary server case…. Many more dots connected.
Josh brings up article Real Clear Investigations by Paul Sperry June 25, 2026. It is well worth the read.
1:12:00 – Backing up a bit. Joe DeGenova has not only broken up the RICO case but has TWO grand juries. The second one, operated by Jasson Reddy-Kionas, is in Miami and targeting Obama’s re-written 2016 IC assessment and John Brennan. Josh goes into what he knows of that case. (Do not miss the Mark Warner & Adam Schiff connections)
1:13:15 there is a whistle blower Thomas Speciali the Third. [Google & brave never heard of him — SURPRISE!]
1:13:30 — 1:15:00 Thomas Speciali, a cooperating witness, was hired by the Intel community to go out there and discover Russian interference in the 2016 election so he had full access to every state’s election system. The Dominion voting machines and everything. One of the things he said is that there was no Russian intrusion. There was no evidence but there were some foreign IPs that had touched our servers, basically pinged them. Some APPEARED to be Russian
Then Josh goes into Victoria Nuland, Ukraine, the Perfect Phone call, the 2nd impeachment and Eric Ciaramella who has been indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia. Eric Ciaramella ran the money aspect of the Maidan Massacre and hired the Wagner Group out of Russia.. Josh covers the firing of Shokin, who was investigating money laundering and trafficking by Burisma… Josh goes into how money laundering works in Ukraine
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1:15:00 to 1: The Perfect Phone Call. Most important part when POTUS asked “DO YOU HAVE THE SERVER? YOU KNOW CROWDSTRIKE, BURISMA, I want to have my Dept of Justice take a look at it.” [This is why they went after Rudy so hard BTW – GC]
That was PANIC IN DC.
Why did Crowdstrike a DNC IT company have a server in Burisma?
Burisma from circa 2014 was one of the heads for Human trafficking, arms trafficking, Money laundering for that region. [I wonder if this is where Justice Roberts adopted kids came from? They were supposedly Russia. -GC]
The server was a proxy server doing all the messing with the Alpha Bank server to compromise Trump. Second it was running Hammer and Scorecard which was meant to steal the 2016 election for Hilary.
Why was the server in Burisma? Because it was very close to the Russian border so you could spoof Russian addresses. Remember Thomas Speciali, saying the pings APPEARED to be from Russia? However someone shut them down. Josh thinks it was Russia and really pissed off the Deep State.
1:19:30 This is where it gets really interesting because in 2018 the elections were stolen at the STATE LEVEL. Red States all of a sudden flipped blue. It was almost like Trump let it happen because of what is going to happen now with all this information comming out. George Soros & the Open Society Foundation and other NGOs [Like Arrabella – GC] funded Act Blue from various private shell companies, spoofing credit card numbers and funding all of these candidates. They funded 3 of the primary state candidates thru all the states, These were, the governor, Sec of State and the State Attorney General. Back in 2018 we really did not know why. When you look back at it it makes complete sense. At the same time Soros, father & son and Bill Gates were investing in different types of companies.
Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Senaca invested in Metabiota a Disaster and pandemic preparedness company in 2014. (In eastern Ukraine) In 2018 & 19 & 20, Soros & Gates join collaborative efforts and start investing in zoological virus research companies investigating how to detect them if they spread to humans. Such viruses were not around in 2018 & 2019. They were also investing in Crisper-Cas9 companies, genetic modification companies, mRNA companies, AND companies dealing with pandemic response and pandemic testing.
1:22:50 in 2020 we learn the reason for stuffing the top state offices. In Sept of 2019, a level 4 biocontainment plant burns down in Russia on the eastern [obviously Western -GC] border of Russia which I find kinda sketchy… Then 3 days later POTUS standing with Fauci & Brixs signed an EO authorizing the creation of mRNA vaccines.
Josh discuses Event 201 (Oct 2019)
POTUS does a state of emergency.
Secs of State change rules on how mail-in ballots are handled… This is where the NGO infastructure comes in. The whole point was to get as many people on the voter rolls as humanly possible because the number of ballots PRINTED are based on that number.
That is why the Trump admin wants those rolls and the states are refusing to turn them over.
Basically you have a conspiracy forming in 2014 to 2016. The NGO infrastructure. Remember it is the NGOs, it was Neville Roy Singham, Soros, Weiss, Gates, Zuckerburg. They funded NGOs that went out and got people to sign up to vote. And then these same NGOs were running ballots to the Drop boxes.
in 2021, Citizens sued their states and the Supreme Courts of the states ruled in their favor, saying the Sec of state DID NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY to change mail-in ballot laws but since the elections had already happened there was nothing that could be done…. So that right there is the prerequisite for everything that we are going to see with Joe DeGeneva.
1:27:00 we haven’t even gotten into 2021 when they start to flood the border..
There is another 1/2 hour but I think that gives a good look at the information and actions.
A couple of references. With this first reference ONLY Yandex had the article. Google/Brave buried it and come up with nothing on Thomas Speciali the Third.
Miranda Devine zooms in on a pivotal and controversial event in recent U.S. political history: the October 2020 “Dirty 51” letter, signed by former intelligence officials, including ex-CIA Director John Brennan. The letter—claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation”—is dissected for its role in influencing the 2020 election and shaping public perception. The episode centers on a dramatic confrontation between Brennan and whistleblower Thomas Speciali, unpacking the latest developments in calls for accountability, including current DOJ investigations.
It starts at Yale and a professor of Arabic who romanticizes terrorism.
Eric Ciaramella was radicalized at Yale by professors like Bassam Frangieh. He was quickly recognized as a fellow traveler and became an insider in the Obama administration.
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A Fantastic Analysis of TRANS, Democrats, and Sovietism, Which is Tied to the Ohio Governor’s Race
This is on Twitter/X. As you dig back in time, it just gets better.
Note what the Dems are doing with Amy Acton. They are pretending to stand up to the PROGZIS, but they can’t be trusted to really do it, IMO. They got the progzis to shut up in this case. Why? How? What deals were made?
Transgenderism is an uncontrolled society-scaled experiment in conformity and obedience: a test of how far you can make people parrot absurdities, inflict cruelties, collude with unrealities, and ostracize and punish people for things they do not themselves believe.
Transgenderism is an uncontrolled society-scaled experiment in conformity and obedience: a test of how far you can make people parrot absurdities, inflict cruelties, collude with unrealities, and ostracize and punish people for things they do not themselves believe.
It is a test of whether the moral self-abasements and routine betrayals that occurred in the Soviet Bloc with its secret police and political prisons and armies of informants could be replicated in liberal, democratic, and pluralistic societies that lacked this formal apparatus of repression: whether minor rewards and punishments could force people to punish people for stating the most self-evident of all truths and inspire them to cheer on the chemical castration and dismemberment of their own children. It is a test of whether civil liberties organization could be twisted into instruments of state repression and human rights groups instruments of defamation and violence against women.
It is a test that most of the Western world is failing.
Quoting:
I think we would be surprised at how many people would quietly start to come out in support, if they were given “permission” by the public figures they rely on to open Overton Windows for them. That is pathetic, cowardly, lazy, & self-interested, because they are often consumed… https://t.co/gS5tElLWkY
— Willa, aka Liberty Belle, the 355 🇺🇸🔔 (@LBelle355) July 11, 2026
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I think we would be surprised at how many people would quietly start to come out in support, if they were given “permission” by the public figures they rely on to open Overton Windows for them. That is pathetic, cowardly, lazy, & self-interested, because they are often consumed with how they appear to the people around them, rather than forming their own opinions & standing by their own beliefs, but it is the reality of many of our fellow citizens. If they feel they have “permission” to support initiatives that protect the rights & dignity of females, I think the minority of vocal, unreasonable & zealous lunatics who’ve pushed this madness on us would start be increasingly marginalized, finding themselves with less power to shape the public discourse & public consciousness over the trans issue. I have myself experienced a few people who quietly, discreetly told me they agree with me that women & girls should have their own sports & spaces, but they would never tell other people. It was only after I experienced social punishment for expressing my opinions that they briefly mumbled they “kind of agreed.” People are cowards. They are afraid to form & stand by their own beliefs because they value social standing more than personal autonomy & the integrity that comes with being principled; more comfortable instead with social consensus & being included in the group. But, if the conversation shifts publicly, lead by people who are safer to express public opinions, the tide will change.
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A Democrat running for governor of Ohio has declared "I do not support boys playing in girls sports. This is already settled law in Ohio, and as governor I will enforce and uphold the law."
The way for Democrats to neutralize the trans issue is to co-opt GOP positions on… https://t.co/3kC3wrFPHN
A Democrat running for governor of Ohio has declared “I do not support boys playing in girls sports. This is already settled law in Ohio, and as governor I will enforce and uphold the law.”
The way for Democrats to neutralize the trans issue is to co-opt GOP positions on sports, private spaces, child transition, and compelled speech, supporting the removal of gender ideology instruction from schools, bans on child transition, and the removal of recognition of gender identity in law at every level of state, local, and federal government.
Everybody wants to think there is some other way. But there is no other way.
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Here is Acton's actual statement, which she gave to the Toledo Blade in response to the SCOTUS ruling upholding states' ability to ban transgender women and girls from participating in girls' and women's sports.https://t.co/M30hBvsLH1pic.twitter.com/ZN94UZ88lx
The progressives took down the following statement later. Hmmmmmm.
The Ohio Democrats Progressive Caucus is unhappy with Amy Acton over a statement she recently saying she does not support "boys playing in girls sports," and calling the issue settled law in Ohio.
The Demmunists fooled us once with Amy Acton – don’t let them do it again!
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The following information validates some of the information I learned from Colonel Towner.
Rough Transcript from an Economic Times video. 15 minutes
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: What did you learn about MK Naomi, and do you believe its activities were even more serious than what we know about MK Ultra?
Dr Kinzer: The MK Ultra project was aimed at seizing control of the minds of individuals. The Army was interested in something different, which was trying to use biological agents in warfare against entire populations. So, MK Naomi is the place where these two goals overlap.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: Did you find direct documentation between Paperclip scientists and the development of MK Ultra’s experimental protocols, specifically the use of mescaline, hypnosis, and sensory deprivation?
Dr Kinzer: I found what I think might be the first secret CIA prison or black site. It’s a nice chalet in Germany. These were the cells where the MK Ultra officers, working side by side with Nazis, uh carried out those gruesome experiments.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: These experiments were happening after the Nuremberg trials, correct? So, the CIA would have known that these were crimes against humanity. Um my first question is for Mr. O’Neill. MK Naomi, the joint CIA Army program that ran parallel with MK Ultra at Fort Detrick, appears to have been run with deliberate minimal documentation. Um Army records on Special Operations Division have apparently been destroyed. In your investigation, what did you learn about MK Naomi, and do you believe its activities were even more serious than what we know about MK Ultra?
Mr. O’Neill: I’m sorry. I didn’t learn anything about those operations. I kept my focus mostly on Dr. West and his work. I do know that the only reason I found the documents I found was cuz Dr. West accidentally left them in his papers, and he probably did that because he corresponded with Gottlieb under Gottlieb’s assigned alias, which was Sherman Grifford, and he addressed all his mail to a post office box here under Foss Cut Corporation.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: Thank you, Mr. I’m just going to real quick go to Dr. Kinzer. Are you aware of anything that exists with MK Naomi in your research? And if you could please press the button.
Dr Kinzer: My understanding My understanding of MK Naomi is that it was a joint project between the military and the CIA. And there’s a big difference because the MK Ultra project was aimed [music] at seizing control of the minds of individuals. The army was interested in something different, which was trying to use biological agents in warfare against entire populations. So, MK Naomi is the place where these two goals overlapped.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: And that was the 1953 Frank Olson death. Was that in a way tied to that? from some chatter that we had seen in
Dr Kinzer: Exactly what the motivation was behind the decision about Frank Olson, if there was such a decision, is unknown.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: My next question is also for you, sir. Operation Paperclip brought over 1,600 German scientists into the United States government after World War II, including individuals who had conducted human experimentation in concentration camps. The CIA and military were aware of their backgrounds and recruited them anyways. In your research, did you find direct documentation between Paperclip scientists and the development of MK Ultra’s experimental protocols, specifically the use of mescaline, hypnosis, and sensory deprivation, which were techniques also documented at Dachau?
Dr Kinzer: Absolutely. Um Kurt Blome, who was the chief of biological weapons development for the Nazi government, came to work for the CIA. So did Walter Schreiber, who was the surgeon general of the Nazi army. Um I can just tell a a brief story. When I was researching my book, I found what I think might be the first secret CIA prison or black site. It’s a nice chalet in Germany. And the guy who now owns it took me into the basement. He said these were the cells where the MK Ultra officers, working side by side with Nazis, uh carried out those gruesome experiments, which were actually just continuations of the experiments that those Nazis had been conducting just a few years earlier right down the road.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: Just for timeline and clarification, these experiments were happening after the Nuremberg trials, correct? So, the CIA would have known that these were crimes against humanity.
Dr Kinzer: [4:20] I looked for an episode in which the Nuremberg doctrines were posted on the wall in some MK Ultra or CIA office, and I was never able to find any indication that those Nuremberg principles ever were even consulted, much less obeyed.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: Thank you. My next question would be for either witness to comment, Dr. Kinzer or Mr. O’Neill. Both witnesses have written about the site psychiatrist Louis Jolly West. Sydney Gottlieb ran MK Ultra program for the CIA, hired West as a contractor to conduct research for sub-project 43, combining hypnotism, drugs, and sensory deprivation to create dis-associative states in which, to quote Mr. Kinzer in his book Poisoner in Chief, the human mind could be pulled away from its moorings. Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, West psychiatrically examined Jack Ruby, then in prison for murdering… Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin accused um of murdering President Kennedy. A report emerged from West’s examination said that Ruby had suffered an acute psychotic break. Can you explain why Dr. West in particular was chosen to conduct an examination of Jack Ruby alone in his jail cell with no other psychologist present?
Mr O’Neill: Be happy to. West inserted himself into the case of Ruby.. the day after the shooting, West approached the judge in the preliminary hearings and asked to be assigned to the case. He was refused by the judge. After Ruby was convicted at his first trial, an associate of West, Dr. Hubert Winston Smith, who was a psychiatrist and an attorney, took over Ruby’s defense for his appeal, and he had already discussed appointing.. West to the case. And as you said, West examined Ruby alone at the jail cell and emerged to announce that in the preceding 48 hours he had had a acute psychotic break from which he would never recover. He had been declared incompetent to stand trial in his the first time by a panel of I think eight psychiatrists. This psychotic break lasted until his death in 1967. Two months after West examined him, Ruby testified for the first time, and only time to the Warren Commission, and it was the first time he ever publicly was supposed to say what his reasons were for his shooting Oswald. The testimony had to be halted cuz he was babbling incoherently. As Allen Inspector, who was a counsel to the commission, wrote in his memoirs, he pulled him aside and said that they were cutting off the arms and legs of children in Albuquerque and El Paso, and he said he was making no sense whatsoever. West in his letters to Gottlieb from 1953 discussed experiments where he would induce specific mental disorders in people without their awareness. A year before the Kennedy assassination, he publicly spoke in Oklahoma City and talked about his LSD experiments inducing psychiatric breaks and psychosis in people with the use of LSD, which he of course later contradicted, when he told the New York Times he never used LSD in animal experimentation.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: What an interesting connection. I might have time but I’ll be now recognizing Mr. Burlison from Missouri for 5 minutes.
[7:54]
Mr. Burlison: Thank you Madam Chair. Thank you for your diligent work on this and hopefully we will hear back from the CIA on those boxes of documents that have so many questions about. Dr. Kinzer and Mr. O’Neill the CIA created MK Ultra in 1953 supposedly out of fear that the Soviet Union and China had developed mind control capabilities. Let me go back a little bit further. So one of my questions has to do with the event that happened in 1951 in August in France. There was a bakery that I guess the people that lived in that community over 250 some say 300 people were poisoned from the bread. It was determined that that was LSD that was causing all of these people to hallucinate. Some people died. Is there any connection Dr. Kinzer to that event and was that something that either inspired the MK Ultra program or the MK Naomi program or is that something that we were involved in even that early on?
Dr Kinzer: I would turn that question back to you. I don’t think anybody really knows the full story of what happened at that time in that town in France. That the United States could have been involved, that this could have been part of what was then called Operation Artichoke, the predecessor for MK Ultra seems to me not beyond the realm of possibility. There’s a lot of overlap between the ergot enzyme that is the basis of LSD and certain rye and wheat fungus that can be used in breads. Was that something intentional? Was it something the Americans were involved in? I have my suspicions, but just based on my background as a journalist, I don’t operate on suspicions. So, I would love to see more investigation of that episode.
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Comment on Ergot Poisoning. It is worth a quick look because it describes the symptoms.
In her excellent lecture “The SalemWitchTrials and Ergot, the ‘Moldy Bread’ Hypothesis,” historian Margot Burns describes a conversation with Linnda Caporael about the publication of this article.
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Mr. Burlison: My next question has to do with once the program began. I think one of the most shocking things that we determined is that Operation Midnight Climax that occurred in the early 1950s, ’60s, where the CIA had safe houses. And there was Dr. Kinzer, I mean this obviously extremely disturbing behavior that was happening where you had American citizens who were being lured into these brothels and then dosed with a hallucinogenic and then filmed during their sex acts. Was there anyone prosecuted for this for these crimes?
Dr Kinzer: No, there have been no prosecutions for any crime related to MKUltra as far as I know. To me, the remarkable aspect of Operation Midnight Climax was that there wasn’t even the pretense of scientific experimentation. The person watching behind the one-way mirror was a grossly overweight drug officer sitting on a portable toilet and drinking cocktails out of a pitcher. There was nobody there that was a scientist or somebody who had understood sexual behavior or human psychology. So, there was no science involved in it at all. I can add a little footnote. When I was researching Poisoner in Chief, I came across a document in which one of the officers involved in setting up that program, Operation Midnight Climax, said that Sidney Gottlieb himself used to fly from Washington out to inspect the project regularly and always asked that women be provided for him. So…. [Interrupts]
Mr. Burlison: That was my next question. Do you think that the agents were involved in the sexual encounters?
Dr Kinzer: Well, could that have actually been the reason why the bordello was opened? There was no prospect of any serious scientific result out of that project given the personnel who were overseeing it. So, those CIA officers, particularly Gottlieb, involved in overseeing Operation Midnight Climax, certainly were able to take advantage of what it offered.
Mr. Burlison: Thank you. And my my last question, first I want to say thank you to Mr. O’Neill. The book Chaos, I checked it out from the Library of Congress. and [I] greatly appreciate your work there. I was intrigued by one of the statements that you made based on your research that the MKUltra program, they were actually successfully able to replace memories. And because of that, I’m wondering if And Dr. Kinzer, you can chime in if you have any knowledge of this. Did the program continue? And do you think that the program in some aspect is still continuing today?
Mr O’Neill: You’re asking if the program continued after 1973 when it was halted supposedly. That’s a question I’m asked at almost every appearance I do. Is it happening today? Did it continue? I don’t know. I can’t imagine that it didn’t though because the technology that they worked to establish over 20, 25 years and spent more money on than any operation the CIA ever conducted was successful. I imagine it’s being used. I have no evidence of it being used, so it’s a complete assumption.
Dr Kinzer: I would just add that one of the letters to which Mr. O’Neill referred contains a quote from Mr. Gottlieb saying that these experiments were necessary quote in these times. I think it’s important to put yourself back in that mindset where the United States felt that it was under such overwhelming threat that the loss of a few lives or a few hundred lives was a small price to pay. Commitment to a great cause is one of the most fundamental justifications for committing immoral acts, and patriotism is among the most noble of causes. It can be twisted, and it can be used as an excuse to carry out research under the guise that this is simply research we’re doing to protect ourselves against others, and I think that is a mindset that may still be active in some parts of our government.
Mr. Burlison: Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you, Madam Chair. My time has expired. I yield back.
The House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets held a hearing entitled, “Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MKULTRA Project.”
INTRODUCTION:
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: Task force on declassification of federal secrets will come to order. Welcome everyone. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at any time.
I recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. This hearing is about the crimes committed by the Central Intelligence Agency against the American citizens and the decades of secrecy used to conceal them. The American people deserve a complete and truthful record. The victims and their families deserve acknowledgment, and this Congress has a constitutional obligation to ensure that full declassification is not delayed any longer. Project MK Ultra was not a policy failure or an overzealous program that got out of hand. It was a deliberate systematic governmental operation that subjected American citizens, prisoners, hospital patients, veterans, ordinary people to LSD, electroshock, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, psychological torture without their knowledge or consent. This went on for 20 years on American soil, funded by American taxpayer dollars, and authorized by the very top of US intelligence apparatus. And this program, when it did end, the men who ran it did not cooperate with investigators. They did not come forward. They committed another crime. They destroyed evidence.
The documents this task force has reviewed are unambiguous. In January 1973, the director of the CIA, Richard Helms, prepared to leave office. He personally ordered the destruction of MK Ultra records. The CIA official document in writing states, “Over my stated objectives, the MK Ultra files were destroyed by the order of DCI Mr. Helms shortly before his departure from office. A separate internal account confirms that Helms telephoned Dr. Gottlieb directly and instructed him to destroy quote all files pertaining to drug research and associated activities. Gottlieb compiled. Four people spent an entire day tearing burning down 152 files. Then Gottlieb had his personal papers destroyed by his secretary before he retired. The head of the CIA own records center protested the destruction in writing, but he was overruled. That is obstruction of justice. That is criminal destruction of federal records.
And neither individuals were ever charged with a crime for it. Helms received a $2,000 fine for lying to Congress about an unrelated manner and collected his government pension until he died. Gottlieb retired in rural Virginia and wrote poetry. No one went to prison.
No victim was ever formally compensated by the government for the harm that they caused. By 1975, the Church Committee and the Rockefeller Commission had already established through sworn testimony and the surviving 1963 Inspector General report that MK Ultra existed and that the CIA had run a program of human experimentation on unwitting Americans. The scope and detail of what we know today is largely because of an accident. In 1977, an archivist diligently complying with a foyer request discovered seven boxes of MK Ultra financial records that had been misfiled and escaped the bonfire. Those seven boxes included the names of institutions, the name of sub projects, the researchers who participated, the specific operation that the CIA had funded, and without them, the vast majority ofMK Ultra would only be a rumor, just as Helms and Gottlieb intended. Those seven boxes revealed the MK Ultra comprised at least 149 sub projects, operated across more than 80 institutions, and involved 185 non-government researchers.
They revealed that the CIA covertly contributed $375,000 to a hospital research wing, which was approved directly by DCI Allen Dulles, with Richard Helms concurrence, so the agency could use unwitting patients as experimental subjects in what their own documents called a hospital safe house. The CIA’s own inspector general said in 1963, his classified report concluded that the program had exceeded the agency’s legal chapter and covert testing on unwitting subjects placed the rights and interests of US citizens in jeopardy. The program ran for a decade that we know of and they ignored their own watchdog.
Let me be clear [about] what I believe that we are dealing with here. Administering drugs to people without their knowledge or consent, subjecting humans to psychological torture and using prisoners and hospital patients as nonconsenting research subjects. These are crimes against humanity. The Central Intelligence Agency committed them and then the director of the CIA ordered the destruction of evidence. Today we will hear from two witnesses who have spent years unraveling the cover up that our government ordered. Steven Kzer documented the life and crimes of Sydney Gottlieb in his uh book prisoner of chief and Tom O’Neill spent over 20 years investigating what the CIA buried and what they obscured that in my mind constitutes some of the worst notorious crimes against humanity in the 20th century. Their persistence in the research in this hearing is possible simply because they are patriots. The American people deserve the complete record. The victims and their families deserve acknowledgment, accountability, and justice. And this Congress has a constitutional obligation to make sure that the CIA never does this again.
With that, I’m going to be opening up first questions, and I’ll hold my question to the end, to Representative Berles. Before I do pass it, I did want to just note a few weeks ago, we did receive reports. There was some back and forth regarding the CIA and ODI pertaining to new MK Ultra boxes that were discovered. Myself and Representative Berles did go down to Langley. We did meet with the CIA and the CIA is currently in the process of declassifying newly found documentation. although the documents, and I feel comfortable enough to share it here, pertain specifically to a forgery program that was being housed under MK Ultra. So as soon as those files are released, we will be putting out notification with your help to also comb through some of the newly released documents, but I did want to give you a quick update.
There were three witnesses:
Dr Elizabet Ginexi,
independent Consultant and former Senior Program officer at the National Institute of Health
Dr Kinzer author of: Poisoner in Chief, Sydney Gottlieb and the CIA’s Search for Mind Control
Mr. O’Neill author of: Chaos, Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret history of the 60s
At 8 minutes Dr Stephen Kinszer’s opening statement.
Thank you very much, Madam Chairman. Let me begin by expressing my gratitude to this task force for confronting the enormous issue of over classification of government documents and the culture of secrecy that enables it. I’m especially gratified by your interest in MK Ultra, the project the CIA carried out through the 1950s in an attempt to find the secret of mind control. MK Ultra was one of the most secret government programs in American history. The chemist who directed it, Sydney Gottlieb, lived in total anonymity. My book, Poisoner and Chief, may be the most complete account of MK Ultra that exists in public, but I’m painfully aware that I have discovered only a small portion of what MK Ultra was and what Sydney Gottlieb did. In 1951, the CIA hired Gottlieb and directed him to launch what became MK Ultra. Gottlieb believed that in order to find a way to implant a new mind into someone’s brain, you first had to find a way to destroy the mind that was in there already.
In its search for ways to destroy a human mind and body, MK Ultra conducted the most extreme experiments on human beings that have ever been carried out by a US government agency. By any standard, they qualify as medical torture. These experiments took place in prisons, clinics, and safe houses in the United States, in Europe, in Asia, and even in Latin America. Officers of MK Ultra were authorized to travel to foreign countries, preferably those under formal or informal US occupation, and ask the local CIA station to provide them with expendables, human beings who would not be missed if they disappeared. Gottlieb had what amounted to a license to kill issued by the US government. Neither the number of MK Ultra victims nor the number of those who were experimented to death is known.
Gottlieb as a result of this license to kill might have been the most powerful unknown American of the 20th century. Some information about MK Ultra spilled out during the 1970s, but senior CIA officers had intentionally let Gottlieb operate without supervision. So they were able to claim that they knew nothing about his excesses. This was a way for the CIA to deny its institutional role in MK Ultra and to portray it misleadingly as the product of one man’s sadism or excessive zeal. Investigating MK Ultra is challenging because when Gottlieb and his mentor Richard Helms left the CIA in 1973, they illegally ordered that its records be destroyed. Soon afterwards, under DCI Stansfield Turner, a CIA analyst, as you pointed out, Madame Chairman, discovered a cache of MK Ultra documents hidden among financial records. Turner credited that analyst with doing a very diligent job of Sherlock Holmesing. That same diligence I believe could bring results today.
One of the great mysteries of MK Ultra has to do with the death in 1953 of an MK Ultra scientist Frank Olsen who had announced his intention to quit the project. His plunge from a New York hotel room was described in the press as the suicide of an army scientist. He was not an army scientist. He worked for the CIA and evidence suggests that his death may have not have been a suicide. So there could be hidden documents that could illuminate this case.
I would also point out that in addition to searching for unknown documents, this committee could do a tremendous service by simply asking for the end of redactions on the documents that we now have. There are reams of documents about MK Ultra that have heavy sections redacted. In the 1970s, this was justified by the argument that it had only been 20 years since these terrible things had happened and revealing details might affect national security. Now, 70 years have passed. That argument can no longer be valid. So, I would urge this committee to try to fill out all the blank spaces in the documents that we have because we know that is there. This task force could also consider trying to determine whether some new incarnation of MK Ultra exists today. When the main phase of MK Ultra drew to a close in the early 1960s, Sydney Gottlieb concluded that it had failed. That in fact there is no such thing as mind control. Even if he was right, however, he may have been right only at that time. In the many decades since then, there have been enormous advances in cyber technology, in artificial intelligence, in neuroscience. Covert agencies may have access now to tools for mind control that Sydney Gottlieb could not even have imagined. It may well have been true in 1963 that mind control is a myth, but whether it’s still true is uncertain. And that question of whether mind control might now be possible under our new circumstances is something that has presumably occurred to scientists who work for secret services, including our own.
This task force has a chance to connect the past to the future. A renewed effort to find MK Ultra documents from the 1950s and to fill out the redactions of those that have been released might shed new light on how the CIA operated during that period. It could also inform a new inquiry into whether any mind control projects are now underway inside the US security apparatus that might help prevent the emergence of a 21st century MK Ultra that could be even more destructive than the original. Thank you.
Tom O’Neill’s opening statement.
Thank you, Chairwoman Luna and members of the committee. It’s a privilege to be here today. Almost 50 years ago, the last congressional hearings into MK Ultra took place just a short walk from here in the Dirks Senate Office Building. At those hearings convened in August and September of 1977, representatives of the CIA told Congress and the American people that its 25-year effort to control human behavior had been a colossal failure. I believe Congress was never told the truth about what this program actually achieved. In fact, I believe the agency misled Congress in 1977 when it characterized MK Ultra as a failure. My name is Tom O’Neill and in 1999 I accepted a magazine assignment to write a story about murders committed by a group of hippies called the Manson family. For those unfamiliar with this horrific episode of American history, in the summer of 1969, four young people acting on the orders of a cult leader named Charles Manson, went to the home of movie director Roman Polanski and murdered everyone they found there, including his eight and a half month pregnant wife, the actress Sharon Tate. The victims were complete strangers to their killers. The following night, Manson’s followers murdered another couple in the same grizzly fashion. At the time I accepted the assignment, I’d never heard of MK Ultra, and I wouldn’t for another two years. After I’d missed countless deadlines, lost the assignment, and fall fallen down a nightmarish rabbit hole trying to answer the question I couldn’t quite shake. How had Manson, a barely literate ex-con, acquired the ability to persuade ordinary young people to murder complete strangers simply because he had told them to?
The pursuit of the answer to that question led me to Dr. Lewis Jolian West, known to his friends as Jolly. West was one of the most influential psychiatrists in America. During his career, he crossed paths with some of the most controversial events of the 20th century, including the Patty Hurst kidnapping case and the aftermath of the John F. Kennedy assassination investigation. In 1977, West was one of seven academic researchers named in a front page New York Times story alleging that the CIA had used American universities, hospitals, and prisons as secret laboratories for experiments involving LSD and other drugs on unwitting human subjects. West vigorously denied the allegations. He acknowledged that the agency had approached him but insisted he had refused because he said LSD was too dangerous and unpredictable to be used on humans. He added that he limited all of his research with LSD to animals. The revelations in the Times led directly to the congressional hearings held later that year. West denials, however, were effective. He was never investigated and his name never came up at the hearings.
I’ll spare you the long and tedious story of how my Manson reporting led me to West except to say that I eventually learned that in 1967 when Manson transformed into the cult leader we are familiar with today, he and his followers were receiving free medical care at a clinic in San Francisco where West had established a base of operations for a research project he was conducting nearby. After becoming intrigued by the allegations against West, I learned that UCLA, his last academic home, had inherited his paper following his death in 1999.
Nearly two months and more than 200 boxes later, I found the proverbial needle in a hay stack, correspondence between West and Dr. Sydney Gottlieb, the architect of MK Ultra. The letters begin in 1953, just two months after CIA director Alan Dulles authorized the program and while West was stationed at the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, where he was chief chief psychiatrist at the base hospital. In his first letter to Gottlieb, West proposed conducting experiments on unwitting human subjects, including military personnel, prisoners, and psychiatric patients at the base hospital. He then outlined the experiments themselves in six more pages that could have been written by Josef Mengele Using LSD in combination with hypnosis, West purposed inducing confusion, amnesia, and specific mental disorders in people who would remember nothing of their interaction with him afterward. He sought to develop techniques to extract true information and implant false information in unwilling subjects and to alter the attitudes and beliefs of quote previously loyal individuals. In other words, to completely switch their allegiance from one group or leader to another.
But it was another sentence at the end of that letter that stopped me cold. These experiments, he wrote, must eventually be put to test in practical trials in the field. Gottlieb’s response could hardly have been more enthusiastic. My good friend, he wrote, I had been wondering whether your apparent rapid and comprehensive grasp of our problems could possibly be real. You have indeed developed an admirably accurate picture of exactly what we are after. West replied that there was no more vital undertaking conceivable in these times. There was another document in West papers that had even more significant implications. It was a 14-page report that West wrote in 1956, just three years after he contracted with the CIA. In the report, West described administering LSD and other drugs in conjunction with hypnosis on unwitting human subjects. And then he made a remarkable claim. He announced that he had learned how to replace true memories with false memories on people without their knowledge. In other words, he clarified, it has been found to be feasible to take the memory of a definite event in the life of an individual and through hypnotic suggestion bring about the subsequent conscious recall to the effect that this event never actually took place, but that a different fictional event actually did occur. If West report was accurate, this was not the failure agency officials described in 1977. Quite the opposite. It was in fact the central ambition of the MK Ultra operation, the means of gaining the ability to seize the control of a person’sperceptions, memories, and ultimately their behavior.
But there was still one more discovery, and this time I found it in the National Security Archives at George Washington University. the official repository of the CIA’s MK Ultra records, which were released to Congress after the 1977 hearings. In those holdings was a different versions of West 1956 report. The original paper had been replaced by a four-page summary that did not exist in West files and appears to have been written by someone else. Here his claims about replacing memories were gone. in their place was a theoretical discussion of LSD and disassociative states. The versions supplied to Congress concluded that the effects of LSD and similar drugs on disassociative states had, and I’m quoting, never been studied. Never been studied. In the original report, West discusses observations from his own experiments, including detailed descriptions of using LSD to, as he wrote, speed the induction of the hypnotic state and deepen the trance in subjects. Those passages have been removed in the report turned over to Congress. The discrepancy could not have been more stark. Nearly 50 years ago, another congressional committee believed it had been given the truth about MK Ultra. It had not. In conclusion, I respectfully submit that these records, some newly available, and others that remained outside the government’s disclosure for decades, weren’t a thorough re-examination of what the program accomplished, what Congress was told, and what may still remain hidden. I’m happy to provide the documents I’ve referenced today and I’ve provided many additional details in my written testimony.
Dr Elizabeth Ginexi opening statement. [BOY is she angry her cushy job got smacked!] I debated on whether or not to add her opening statement since I do not see how it has anything to do with MK Ultra … What is glorious is at 47:20 she gets called out on just that AND Covid.
Chairman Luna, and distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. I’m a health research scientist with a master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology from the George Washington University. I spent 22 years from 2003 to 2025 as a scientific program official at the National Institutes of Health, managing more than $132 million in health research grants and co-authoring 18 federal funding programs. I left the NIH in April of 2025. I’m here today because what is happening to NIH right now is not reform. It is the replacement of scientific judgment with political control. [She is talking about Robert Kennedy]
For 80 years, US federal investment in biomedical research produced outcomes that no private market would have funded. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. NIH funded research on blood pressure, cholesterol, and smoking drove a 56% decline in heart disease between 1950 and 1996. Cancer has been transformed. treatments for breast, lung, prostate, and childhood cancers along with immunotherapies that converted previously fatal diagnoses into manageable conditions traced directly to NIH funded research. HIV AIDS were a death sentence in 1981. No pharmaceutical company saw a profitable market for treatment. NIH ran the trials that no one else would run. The result was antiretroviral therapy and preexposure prophylaxis. Global AIDS deaths have fallen 54% since 2010.
Rare diseases that affect 30 million Americans get studied at the NIH because no market will fund that research. Every dollar that’s appropriated to the National Institutes of Health generates $246 in economic output. NIH supported work contributed to 354 of the 356 new drugs that the FDA approved between 2010 and 2019. Cutting the funding source of that pipeline does not slow it. It ends it. The proposed OM federal financial assistance rule would give political appointees authority to terminate funded grants at any time without cause, including ongoing clinical trials with enrolled patients. This is not a hypothetical. NIH has already terminated or frozen thousands of grants, including hundreds of ongoing clinical trials since January 2025, concentrated in infectious disease, vaccine, and health disparities research. This proposed rule will make that authority permanent. The NIH director has eliminated the merit score thresholds that once protected peer review and political appointees are right now overriding peer review outcomes to screen grants for alignment with administrative pri priorities.
The proposed OM rule will also severely restrict international research. We’re managing an H5N1 blue bird flu outbreak that has more than 70 documented human cases. We recently concluded a hivirus response that required CDC scientists working alongside Argentine counterparts. The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the third largest on record and is outpacing containment efforts. This rule will curtail exactly that kind of cooperation that we need. NIH lost 1,112 PhD trained workers from 2025 to early 26. More than half of the NIH institutes right now are operating without permanent scientific leadership. The majority of its advisory councils required by statute to provide independent oversight have lost more than half of their members. The fundamental choice before this Congress is between a system where scientists make scientific judgments through accountable processes and one where political appointees make those calls instead. That choice will determine whether the next breakthroughs in cancer, Alzheimer’s, antibiotic resistance, and pandemic defense will happen here, somewhere else, or perhaps not at all. I urge this committee to support a joint resolution of disapproval to block the proposed OM financial assistance rule. that authority to replace peer review with political approval has not been granted by Congress…
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it’s over
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a phrase that AI loves to use in YouTube thumbnails
a phrase that clickbait loves to use in YouTube thumbnails
a phrase that typically means something is finished or done, permanently changed, now impossible, etc., although it may mean little or nothing
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THE STUFF
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