When I graduated from High School there seemed to be a “changing of the guard”. It was a generational change. And many of the early baby-boomers were dying off.

At that time, the United States was being ruled and run by folk that were born in the 1920s and 1930s. They had a different mindset from us kids of the 60s and 70s.

So as the one generation came to a close, we saw various signs of transformation. It started with John Wayne’s farewell… “The shootist”.

The Shootist

The Shootist was Wayne's final cinematic role, concluding a 50-year career that began during the silent film era in 1926. Wayne was not terminally ill when the film was made in 1976. He had been a heavy cigarette smoker for most of his life, and he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1964.

Then were were many others… such as “On Golden Pond”.

Ten years later, a new crop of Baby Boomers started to retire. Key in “Rocket Gibraltar”.

In a like way we are also experiencing a massive generational shift. And with that comes a consciousness shift.

Keep awareness of the big picture and do not get too caught up in the discomfort that change brings.

Today…

Why does the U.S. not care about China’s growing military, showing no interest or care by increasing their military?

The US does care, it’s just too path-dependent.

The US is still thinking about everything as a competition or zero/sum game, trying to out-military the Chinese military, out-tech the Chinese tech, and out-economy the Chinese economy.

In the past these competitions may have worked, because the opponents were all smaller in size than the US.

These strategies are destined to failure against China, due to the simple fact that China has more than 4 times the population and that China is less developed. Just like how you can become better everyday at a new sport, but can hardly overdo yourself when you’re already the world champion, a developed nation like the US will always have less growth potential than a developing nation like China.

The correct US counter against China was what the US did in the 1990s and 2000s, by embracing China. That way, the US can grow with China with its investment and influence. It can out-military the Chinese by growing with the Chinese military, out-tech the Chinese by growing with the Chinese tech, out-economy the Chinese by growing with the Chinese economy, because the boss, or the investors, always outgrow the employees.

Ask yourself, was the US in a stronger position today or in the 1990s and 2000s, when they grew with China?

The real problem that derailed the US lead was the distribution of wealth. The US made huge amount of money growing with the Chinese economy, but they never shared that money with its people, instead wasting it in destructive wars, enriching weapon manufacturers. The US made huge technological advances growing with China, brain-draining most of China’s best talents and employing them in chip-making, a.i. and scientific research at large, yet since the first Trump administration, the US has been attacking Chinese scientists and students and calling them spies, leading to many of them returning to China, helping China advance its tech.

The US had the utmost military advantage but instead of inviting China into the alliance, like how Japan and Korea didn’t see the need to over-militarize themselves, the US military just had to antagonize China, blinding all Chinese coastal radars with its growlers in 1996, bomb Chinese embassy in 1999, and kill a Chinese navy pilot and invade Chinese airspace in 2001. Ever since then, it carries out daily incursions on China’s coast. It’s the US that forced China to view the US as a threat and grow its military to match, leading to uninmagined advances. At the turn of the century, the best domestic Chinese fighter was still basically a twin engine Mig-21 which the US helped China develop.

The US tried to use China as the bogeyman to distract its people from the domestic issues at home, to avoid the ultra-rich sharing with the American people and the world for more sustained growth. In doing so they turned China into a rival that feels overtaking the US is its only course of survival, and that makes the US ultra-rich more insecure and more kin to strong-arm the opponent, falling into this vicious cycle of self-defeat. It will take a major philosophical change in the US for it to rebound back to the winning strategy.

Spicy Tomato Fettuccine

Yield: 4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

8 ounces fettuccine, cooked
2 ounces turkey bacon
1 large onion
4 or 5 large tomatoes, peeled and seeded
2 tablespoons fresh parsley
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 garlic cloves, pressed
1 teaspoon basil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Parmesan cheese

Instructions

Cook pasta according to package directions. Keep warm.
Fry bacon until crisp on 11 inch griddle; drain and set aside.
Chop onions and tomatoes with food chopper.
Snip parsley using kitchen cutters.
Heat olive oil and stir-fry skillet. Press garlic with garlic press into skillet. Stir-fry 15 seconds.
Add onion. Stir-fry 2 to 3 minutes. Add tomatoes, parsley, and seasoning to skillet.
Gently stir 3 to 4 minutes until thoroughly heated.
Remove from heat and serve over pasta. Grate fresh Parmesan cheese over top.

Attribution

Pampered Chef

L.A. Wildfires Made Catastrophic by . . . UKRAINE

Hal Turner Nation January 18, 2025

Let me tell you a story about how international politics made the Los Angeles Wildfires catastrophic. How over 12,000 homes, businesses and schools burned down in California, because of . . . . UKRAINE.

All of you recall that, in the year 2014, Crimea voted to secede from Ukraine, and to go back to Russia. Many of you might be surprised that I said “go back to Russia” because you may not be aware that, for at least 300 years prior, Crimea WAS part of Russia. –

Throughout most of recorded history it was “the Russian Crimea.” But on 19 February 1954, then Soviet Leader, Nikita Kruschev, GAVE Crimea to Ukraine. So Crimea was only part of Ukraine for sixty (60) years.

It was back in 2013-2014 under the Obama Administration that NATO wanted to expand into Ukraine. Their goal was to place American Missile Defenses on Ukraine soil. By having US Missiles on Ukraine soil, those missiles could strike Moscow in about five minutes, and Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Missile silos in about ten minutes.

As you may know, Russia flatly refused to accept having such a threat on their borders. They told Ukraine “no.” They told both Europe and America “no.” But NATO was determined and they continued trying to lure Ukraine.

At the time, Ukraine’s Democratically-elected President was Viktor Yanukovich. Both the US and EU approached Yanokovich and told him, among other things, that Ukraine should move away from the Russian sphere of influence and come into the West. It would be a boost for business, would improve the lives of all Ukrainians, and so on.

But Yanukovich could not make such a massive decision on his own. He told the US and EU he needed time to talk to his fellow government representatives, his country’s business leaders, and to his people. The US and EU said they understood and asked Yanukovich to set a date-certain for his decision. A date was set.

Yanokovich went about talking to his people, his business leaders, his government people, and when that date came, Yanukovich told Europe and America “Thanks, but no thanks. Ukraine is remaining with Russia.”

That was an answer neither the US nor the EU were going to accept.

Shortly thereafter, the United States and Europe fomented, facilitated, and financed violent riots throughout Ukraine. Upwards of one million dollars a day – cash – was coming out of the US Embassy in Kiev, to bankroll the riots!

Things got so bad, so violent, that the Ukraine government collapsed. Yanukovich fled the country. Guess who was right there to bankroll a new government – one that was favorable to the West? Yep, The EU and the USA.

A puppet government was installed in Kiev. It immediately set about banning Russian anything because it was the Russian-speaking Oblasts (states) in eastern Ukraine, which had won the election for Yanukovich. The new government wanted to get rid of the Russian-speaking population in the eastern Oblasts, especially Luhansk and Donetsk.

The Russian speaking population in Crimea saw this and decided they wanted no part of the new puppet regime in Kiev. They voted to secede.

The Public Referendum was held under the watchful eye of United Nations and other election monitors. It was a completely legitimate vote. The People of Crimea voted overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and return to Russia.

In the evening of 16 March 2014, Mikhail Malyshev, the Crimean election Spokesman, reported that as of 20:00, 1,250,427 people or 81.36% voted in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and 274,136 or 89.50% voted in Sevastopol for a total of 1,524,563 or 82.71% of the electorate. That 82.71% voted overwhelmingly (95.5%) to secede.

The collective West recoiled in horror. They had plans to put a NATO naval base on Crimea, near Sevastopol, and Crimea leaving would foul that up. So the West called the vote illegitimate and refused to recognize it. When the Russian state legislature, the Duma, voted to accept Crimea back into Russia, the West labeled it “an illegal annexation.”

There was nothing illegal about it. Under the UN Charter, all people have a right to self-determination and the people of Crimea voted for it. They left for Russia . . . and took their land with them!

Two days later, on 18 March, 2014, Russia accepted Crimea and Sevastopol into the Russian Federation – forever.

This was a huge problem for the US, the EU, and NATO. They whined, moaned, and complained endlessly.

At this point, the puppet regime in Kiev began massing troops at Crimea, and at the borders of the eastern Oblasts of Luhansk and Donetsk. On 12 April 2014 those troops began firing artillery and mortars into the civilian areas of those two states, to drive the (Russian-speaking) people out. This was overt Ethnic Cleansing and it was actually illegal.

But the West only cites the “Rules-Based Order” when it serves their own purposes. That’s the “rub” to the whole “International Rules-Based Order” – the West makes the rules and only uses those rules when it suits the West.

Luhansk and Donetsk fielded their state militia to fight-off the attacking Ukrainians, but they needed help. They were only a state militia and they were faced with the actual Ukraine army.

ENTER Little Green Men

Shortly after Ukraine began attacking Luhansk and Donetsk, “Little Green Men” began appearing en-masse on the side of Luhansk and Donetsk. These were trained troops, with full army gear, but no flags, patches or insignia. They were Russian troops sent to help Luhansk and Donetsk. They fought Ukraine to a standstill.

By 2016, it was election time in the USA and to the absolute horror of the political class, Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. Like magic, all the trouble in Ukraine just . . . stopped.

It remained stopped until ONE WEEK after Joe Biden entered the Presidency that he won through massive Ballot Fraud. At the time, the Democrats in the US used “COVID-19” as a reason to send Mail-in Ballots to even dead people, and those Ballots got voted. Trump lost the election to that FRAUD and Joe Biden became the (illegitimate) American President. ONE WEEK into his regime, the trouble in Ukraine started again.

By 2022, the actions of Ukraine, backed by the West, triggered the official entry of the Russian Army into Ukraine. Russia had no choice; if they allowed Ukraine to join NATO, it would mean American missiles on Ukraine soil with a five minute flight time to Moscow.

The West will not stop, so the Russian Army is now stopping them. By force. It is a matter of survival for Russia.

The politics surrounding this has gotten ugly, and it is THAT politics, that caused the Wildfires in Los Angeles to become catastrophic!

RUSSIAN FIRE-FIGHTING PLANES

Russia manufactures a particular fire fighting aircraft called the BE-200. It is made by a company named Beriev, and it is an amazing plane (Pictured above).

Each of the planes can haul 12 TONS of water. 12 tons is 24,000 pounds. Water weighs 8 lbs. per gallon, so that works out to be each plane carrying three-thousand (3,000) gallons per air drop.

CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES

The typical fire engine (in the USA) carries five-hundred (500) gallons of water, so each of these planes is the equivalent of six (6) fire engines, dumping their entire water load in literally seconds.

The planes can refill in . . . . get this . . . . fourteen (14) SECONDS, from a lake, a reservoir even the ocean.

They have a range of 2100 kilometers, so they can make multiple drops of 3,000 gallons of water, before they have to go refuel.

In terms of fire-fighting, these planes are “beasts.” They really get the job done fast.

From 2017-2019, the US and Russia negotiated the sale of ten Be-200 firefighting jets to California. They’d have been stationed just 200km from LA’s wildfire hotspots.

During the negotiations, someone on the US side decided to “stick-it” to Russia.

The US side demanded that the jets use Ukrainian-made D-436TP engines for the RUSSIAN fire-fighting planes. But the manufacturer of those engine, Motor Sich, wouldn’t certify them with the Federal Aviation Administration.

No certification = no deal.

That’s how the contract unraveled. No Be-200s for California.

Rostec, the Parent Company of Beriev, who makes the planes, confirmed that had the contract been signed by 2020, all ten planes would have been delivered by the year 2022. Well in advance of the recent – and still burning – California wildfires that have leveled more than 12,000 homes, businesses, and schools, killing at least 24 – so far.

Negotiators insisting on “sticking-it” to Russia, ruined the deal for California to get those Russian fire-fighting planes and as a result, there is now $250 Billion in damage to Los Angeles. All because some nitwit in government wanted to “stick it” to Russia, over Ukraine.

I am investigating who the persons are who demanded the Ukrainian Engines be substituted on those planes. When I find out who the persons were, I will name them in a future story.

It is time they get the attention they deserve.

In the meantime, all of YOU now know: The Los Angeles Wildfires couldn’t be put out because, among other things, the US Government wrecked a deal for fire-fighting planes in 2019 because they wanted to “stick-it” to Russia over Ukraine.

They could have had ten planes, equal to 6 fire trucks each plane, the water equivalent of a total of SIXTY fire trucks, flying-in and dumping thousands of gallons, refilling in 14 seconds and flying-in again to dump 3,000 more gallons.

Those fires could possibly have been knocked down in one day.

Yet California homes burned to the ground and people were killed, because some government idiot – likely in in Washington, DC wanted to “stick it” to Russia over Ukraine.

Why is anti-intellectualism prevalent and popular in the US?

This is largely a meme with little reality.

American universities lead the world in research. They spearhead great leaps in scientific, technological and philosophical developments. Students from all sorts of countries seek to study in these institutions. Along with American private and public companies like Google or NASA, they are leading the world in immense developments.

There are always going to be knuckleheads. In Britain, there are ignorant people who know absolutely nothing about the wider world, local politics or intellectual subjects. That is their right to switch off, but these type of people exist everywhere.

What makes America stand out compared to these countries is its technological and cultural prowess. Here are some products of the American intellect:

Europeans imagine themselves sitting on a pedestal of effortless intelligence and mock the so-called anti-intellectualism of Americans. They argue that there is an inherent strain of stupidity in the American soul borne from geographic isolation and democratic mannerisms.

This is an old trope about America that constantly recurs in European philosophy. It still rears itself in the contemporary European imagination. If you switch on one of the BBC’s many insufferable so-called comedies, state funded ‘funny men’ constantly make fun of America and act as if the British viewer has a natural intelligence far higher than their transatlantic counterpart.

Herman Melville, who wrote the epic nineteenth century novel Moby Dick, experienced this haughty attitude when he was a whaler. On the high seas, the American ship he helped sail was packed to the brim with whale oil after many successful and daring hunts.

There is a funny instance in the great novel when the protagonists’ whaling ship encounters a rare English whaling vessel which was characteristically empty of any loot. However, the English sailors viewed their industrious American counterparts with disdain. The Americans, whose base was located on the wild island of Nantucket in Massachusetts, was unfairly mocked.

Melville in Moby Dick Chapter 53

The English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant. But where this superiority in the English whaleman does really consist, it would be hard to say, seeing that the Yankees in one day, collectively, kill more whales than all the English, collectively, in ten years. But this is a harmless little foible in the English whale-hunters, which the Nantucketer does not take much to heart; probably, because he knows that he has a few foibles himself.

This attitude of cultural superiority by Europeans has long persisted, viewing Americans as the riffraff of their collective body. The original settlers of the American colonies who came from England and Scotland were Puritans and rough adventures with little time for the decorum of polite society.

They traversed great seas, endured hardships and experienced immense calamities. By their ingenuity, one of the greatest civilisations was raised from dirt. The French and Dutch also viewed their New World adventures with similar disdain.

There is a great moment on HBO’s miniseries John Adams that reveals this attitude of superiority during his era. In these scenes, John Adam goes to France as America’s ambassador, but he is shocked and mesmerised by the unnecessary refinements of this wealthy society when compared with his own hardier and far simpler frontier country.

Adams speaks very little French and in an embarrassing scene after he arrives into the sophisticated metropole of Paris, he is laughed at by the French king. Marching into the Palace of Versailles, around him stand the white powdered fineries of civilisation. He soon meets King Louis XVI, who later looses his head, and the king publicly humiliates Adams for his lack of French. All of the French nobles laugh at Adams whilst the amused king marches out with a cane.

Adams later gets his comeback when he attends a state banquet with French dignitaries. One of them asks Adams if he wishes to attend the opera, but the ambassador rejects the offer. Amongst the foolery of Paris and its stupefying luxury, he says he has little time for the finer arts. This initially seems anti-intellectual, but Adams begins to explain.

Now I must study politics and war, you see, so that my sons will have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons must study navigation, commerce and agriculture so that their children will have the right to study painting, and poetry and music.

The French court are embarrassed by their own luxury and the witty prowess of the monolingual American ambassador who reveals the frivolity of their society.

Whilst there might be complaints that America should spend more time trying to improve its painting skills, there are many great American artists in numerous fields of cultural achievement.

I also wonder if those who continue to make these complaints of American anti-intellectualism have ever attended a European football match?

Or have they tried to converse with one of these fanatical idiots?

There is only one country the whole world seeks to emulate. There is only one country that still has a positive outlook in almost all of Western civilisation. There is only one country that came to the rescue of Europe and defended its liberties when Nazi and Communist gangsters tried to destroy it.

I understand it’s not a popular position to sing the praises of America, but I have admiration for its society and the continued technological, intellectual and cultural march of its peoples. Whilst there is a lot of trash on television, those who complain about the Simpsons should watch British soap operas or spend a morning flickering through daytime Brazilian television.

America is by far one of the most intellectually active countries in history.

Andrew Is STUNNED By Goth Girl Who PS Her Boyfriend

Sentient

Submitted into Contest #283 in response to: Write a story that ends with a huge twist.… view prompt

Chris Broome

Ben was a stay at home father who loved his life. He spent his days with the children he loved so dearly as his wife Sarah was the bread winner. He loved being the “soccer dad”, as he was jokingly called by his male friends. Life was good and Ben felt fulfilled. He often thought he couldn’t have wished for anything more.Sarah loved the freedom that came with being the breadwinner. She had a wonderful loving husband and he was committed to her and the children. She was a junior executive at a local law firm whose emphasis was tax law. Numbers had always interested her since grade school. Her teachers and family tried to steer her to classes more suited to girls. English and Home Economy. She always felt frustration with her parents not realizing her passion and trying to shape her into the worlds image of what a girl should be.No Home Economics or an English degree with pressure from her parents would persuade her from her love of numbers. Being a teacher wasn’t for her. The main reason she fell in Love with Ben was his support for her passion. He was her encourager and her rock. It had been that way since middle-school. The two things Sarah knew since that time was she would have a Math degree and she would marry Ben.“ Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” This was a quote by Albert Einstein. Sarah said to Ben on Saturday morning as they lay in bed.“Your mind is like a wheel that never stops turning.” Ben told her as he reached over a gently rubbed her cheek with his right index finger.“You have been so kind to me and you love our children so much. i don’t know what I did to deserve you.” Sarah watched as Ben smiled and turned away.“I need you to do me a favor babe. I need to take some time and find myself.” Before he could finish his thought Sarah cut him off.“What do you mean? Is everything alright? Is our marriage in trouble? Have I done something to upset you?” She lifted her self up on her left elbow and look with concern at him.“No darling. No. I love my life. But there is a deep urge I have to find the inner me. The one that screams that I am a man. I feel like I have lost that over the years and I am scared if I can’t find a little piece of it, then I will slowly lose my passion.”“What are you proposing to me then?”“I have found a wilderness retreat that last about a week. I will have a guide and we will wonder through the forest and live off the land for a week.” Sarah watched Bens face light up as he spoke. She knew that just watching his body language he was captivated by the idea.“If that is what you feel like you need to accomplish to make you happy then I am al for it.” Sarah started calculating every step in he mind. The time off of work she would need to take, the time she would need to finish important work, the sitter for the children she would need, but most important the time Ben would be gone. Her logical brain was starting to be overwhelmed by her emotions. This was not common to her so she started feeling overwhelmed. She bent over and wrapped her hand under Bens jaw and turned his face towards him and kissed him.“Life is good and you are so good for me. I love you. Take the time, recharge and come back recharged.”“Thanks babe. I will let you know the plan once all is set and ready to go.” Sarah watched Ben get up and go to the bathroom. She got her cell phone and walked out of the bedroom. She walked downstairs into the kitchen and made a call.“Hello.” A nasal high pitched voice answered.“I nee help. Ben is acting strange!” Sarah said with an urgent whisper. She then went on and explained what was said in her conversation with Ben to the man.“That is new. Though not at all unexpected. This happens from time to time.” The nasally voice stated to her calmly.“ I can tell you how to handle this unless you want me to handle it.’““Just tell me. I can do what needs to be done, after all he is my husband.” Sarah heard an attempted chuckle.“Just tell me or I will come over there and make you regret the day you met me.” Her anger and anxiety was swelling.“Alright. Calm down.” He responded and went on to explain to her the plan to handle the situation. Sarah heard steps coming down the stairs just as the man finished talking. She hurriedly hung up the phone.“You in here babe?” Sarah heard as Ben walked into the kitchen.“Yes. I am going to fix some breakfast. I was thinking about cooking some eggs and cutting up some fruit. Do you want some?” Ben looked at her and had a devilish grin on his face.“Since the children spent last night with their friends and we have the house to ourselves, why don’t we go back upstairs?” Sarah smiled.

“That sounds wonderful.” The to turned and headed back up to the bedroom.

“I need to use the ladies room. Why don’t you get comfortable and when I get out I will give you a massage first.”

“Sounds heavenly.” Ben headed to the be and laid on his stomach. Sarah went to the bathroom and closed the door. She went to the sink and looked at herself in the mirror. Her heart was racing. She felt a warmness and felt little beads of sweat forming on her forehead. She took a deep breath. Turned on the faucet and splashed water on her face.

“I can do this she said to her reflection in the mirror.” She turned and walked into the bedroom. Ben was laying across the unmade bed on his stomach.

“I am ready for that massage.” He said and took a long breath. Sarah slowly walked to the bed and straddled his back. She began to slowly massage his mid-back and eased up to his shoulders. He sighed a relaxing breath.

“You are so good to me babe. I am a lucky man.” Sarah heard this but was so nervous she didn’t respond. She just kept massaging his shoulders.

“Is your neck soar? She asked.

“A little.” Ben felt her hands start to massage his neck.”

“I lo….” Sarah heard as she opened the little hatch and quickly mashed the red button. Ben became motionless. She jumped off of him and got dressed. She then made another call.

Shortly after the doorbell rang. A small framed middle aged man with a balding head stood outside as Sarah opened the door. There was a slight smell of peppermint as she drew closer to pull him inside the house.

“Come on we need to hurry the children will be back soon.” Sarah had grabbed him by the arm and started pulling him towards the staircase.

“I am coming. Slow down. If I fall and the new chip gets broke then it will take hours to get another.”

“I need this done quickly, Charles.” Sarah snapped.

“What is this like the sixth time we have done this since the real Ben died?” Sarah heard him say. She turned and pointed her boney finger in his face.

“He is what I have left of my husband. He is all the children have, do not marginalize this or make smart remarks.” Charles put his hands up in mock defeat.

“I was happy when you first contacted me about testing the sentient being I created at first. But now I feel like he has ruined you Sarah. You are my sister. You need to move past this!” Sarah heard him scream.

“I will move on when the time is right. But not now. I am not ready. He just has meant so much. Then there is the children. How? What? This just has to be!”

Is it true that Chinese Communist Party killed 60 to 80 million Chinese people?

China had 550 Million people in 1949 when the CPC came to power

China had 930 Million people in 1977 when Mao died

I presume nobody claims Deng had millions of Chinese murdered do they?

China’s Median Birth rate between 1949 to 1977 = Around 31 Births per 1000

Chinas Median Death rate between 1949 to 1977 = Around 12 Births per 1000

The Median Rise in Population between 1949 to 1977 = 28 * (13.73) = 385 Million

So Population in 1977 should be = 550+385 = 935 Million

This means 935 Million – 930 Million = 5 Million people missing

Of this around 3.75 Million to 4.10 Million fled China due to the Cultural Revolution

So this means around 900,000 to 1.25 Million Chinese who are not accounted for

This could be the maximum deaths that could have happened due to the CPC related tough measures imposed by Mao

As for the Great Leap Forward – THOSE NUMBERS ARE ALREADY INCLUDED IN THE DEATH RATE

A Lot of Villages reported their Dead

Every Village sent recruits to the Communists during the Civil War and had a list of their soldiers who served and eligible for pension

So the death lists are expected to be very accurate indeed

Still assuming a 30% error rate – That’s still a maximum of LESS THAN 2 MILLION

No way close to the 60–80 Million numbers the West makes up regularly

Kishore Mahbubani Explains IF China’s Economy is Going to Collapse

Why is Singapore the only developed country in Southeast Asia?

Not difficult to answer. I am sure you may not expect this answer to be a carbon copy of what you have already read.

I don’t need to dig any deeper for the hard fact why the rest of Southeast Asia countries can’t come any closer to Singapore that is worth to be called ‘developed country.’

Let’s look at few outstanding aspects that Singapore leaving the closest neighbor like Malaysia and Thailand and everyone in the dust.

Everyone knows that stable government that prioritizes long-term planning, efficient public services are the keywords for developed nations. Malaysia and Thailand know it as well but don’t bother.

Law and order that make country peaceful and prosper not only for kids’ bedtime stories like the 1MDB episode that is equivalent to Kids’ favorite—‘The Princess and the Frog’ So does corruption.. but taking a F1 free ticket, the minister should go to jail that’s the Singapore’s story.

While Malaysia and Thailand have made significant progress in economic development. But to come any close to achieve at the Singapore’s level of development requires hell of a lot, like addressing political, social, and economic challenges comprehensively.

I don’t mean to throw opponent in jail or let them live like Robinson Crusoe on ‘Pulau Langkawi or Koh Lipe’ but the unique combination of effective governance is what the 2 countries need-

Now you can see, one Prime minister is an ex convict and the other is the PM appointed by a resurrected ex- convict risen from death—-in Singlish is ‘where got hope!

With strategic policies not about the ban of chewing gum or putting molesters in jail but Singapore’s policies on housing, and keeping Singapore’s education on top of the world.

That Including, infrastructure like great public transport that many European countries could not match. Not only the MRT but also its connectivity is superb with covered walkways from your doorstep to the bus top even God is impressed (not even a raindrop is falling on your head)

Also, favorable geography has given Singapore a distinct advantage, like a free port that all ships love and airport and its Do-RE-Me in a blink of an eye and now the 5th airport is on your way that’s going to make KLIA and Suvarnabhumi look like the houses built by the ‘two little pigs’-another kids’ bedtime story.

However, Malaysia and Thailand have the potential to grow if they focus on long-term planning, education, and reducing inequality, and keep income from tourism at bay not solely depending on Russian mafia or Chinese crooks like what Thailand is treating them.

One last thing:-

Globalisation starts with speaking common language almost everyone in the world wishes like English and Chinese not die-die must take pride in speaking only ‘Malay and Thai’…

Singapore knows best and speaks all-Hokkien, Hakka, Cantonese, Malay, Tamil, Singlish, Chinese and Thai!—

That’s why Singapore’s PM could speak to any illiterate person in Singapore with no problems.

Bananas Foster Tart

Ingredients

1 Pillsbury Refrigerated Pie Crust
2 medium bananas, cut into 1/4 inch thick slices
1/2 teaspoon rum extract
1/4 teaspoon water
2 teaspoons orange zest
2/3 cup chopped pecans
2/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Vanilla ice cream

Instructions

Heat oven to 450 degrees F.
Prepare pie crust as directed on package for one-crust baked shell in 9 inch Stoneware Pie Plate.
Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until light golden brown.
Cool for 5 minutes.
In 1 quart Batter Bowl, combine bananas and rum; toss to coat.
Sprinkle orange zest evenly in bottom of baked crust. Arrange bananas in single layer over zest; sprinkle with pecans.
In medium saucepan, combine brown sugar, whipping cream and butter; cook and stir over medium high heat for 2 to 3 minutes or until mixture comes to a boil. Cook an additional 2 to 4 minutes or until mixture is thickened and deep golden brown, stirring constantly.
Remove saucepan from heat; stir in vanilla extract. Spoon warm filling over bananas and pecans. Cool for 30 minutes.
Serve warm or cool with ice cream.
Store in refrigerator.

Attribution

Pampered Chef

EMP Survival 5: Love in Nuevo Laredo

Submitted into Contest #283 in response to: Write a story with the line “I wasn’t expecting that.”… view prompt

KC Foster

From one of the nearby shelves, a can dropped, hitting the floor sending a clanking sound resounding through the empty grocery store. Masa cringed and held her breathe, trying to calm her racing heart. Not now, not now. Fearing an attack, she clenched her jaw and looked over the edge of the shelves. She locked eyes with Arion and relaxed. He stood strong, watching over them all and completely unphased by the sound. Masa was glad he had joined their group here. Arion had fought for her right to fight, unlike Leron, who had argued for her not to join the raid group. He was helpful and a good teacher, helping her to become strong and face this new world.Arion nodded, signaling that all was clear, and Masa returned to her task. She moved along the shelves, carefully placing cans of green beans, lima beans, and beetroot inside her backpack.The four other men who had come with them were doing the same, quietly raiding an old grocery store in an area controlled by one of the Nuevo Laredo cartels. It was one of the reasons, they had initially skirted around the city to begin with. The heads of the scouts they sent into the city to try and make contact were found jammed down on spikes just outside.Masa shivered and did her best to banish the image from her mind. This was no time to invite fear. When her bag was full, she rushed to the back of the store to the opening to the warehouse with the metal roll doors where they had broken in. She held the gun at the ready to provide cover for the others. With the guidance of the older men in their group, she had become quite adept at using it.“Hey, what are you doing in here?!” yelled a man’s voice, causing her to jump and grip the trigger.Gunfire followed, glancing off nearby walls and shelves sending glass and food supplies flying through the air. Masa leaped into action, following Arion through the shelves, and returning fire.“Retreat!” yelled Arion.Their raiding party, ran back the way they came, retreating into the warehouse. Masa returned to her corner, providing cover for the stragglers, and then rushed after the men. They were disappearing through the gap in the roll door and she leapt after them. A bullet grazed her arm and she cried out, before landing on the otherside and chasing after them. She did her best to ignore the pain while she moved from cover to cover to escape the men behind her.Through the streets they raced, weaving between abandoned vehicles and dodging the rotting corpses of looters. Nuevo Laredo had not been as fortunate as Monterrey. From the little they had learned; the cartels had abandoned their drug trade for governance and the war for supreme dictatorship was still going on here. Every day, a new body lay abandoned in the street or like their scouts, decapitated and their heads placed to set an example for anyone who dared cross them.Masa rounded the corner and found the raid team standing with their hands up facing a large group of armed men. From the group, a single man stepped forward, his hair cut short and teeth more metal than white. He laughed, “Not so lucky this time, are you?”Arion stepped forward; his hands raised in peace. “Our group is getting low on food, and we had no choice.”“The Western Canteena group? The one from Monterrey?”

“Yeah, and what of it?” demanded Arion.

“Rumor has it, your group brought seeds with you and you have farmers?” asked the man.

Arion stood silently, judging them and considering their request. After a time, he nodded. Masa watched, skeptical of trusting any of these cartels. She fumed, longing to yell at him. Arion had no right to make deals without the council’s approval.

“I am Don Marco,” the man said, “We have some food supplies we secured, but we are also running out. We will give you what you have taken as a peace offering, but I want to meet with your leaders. We need seeds and those who can farm if we are going to survive. Either that, or we must start moving north looking for better land.”

“We tried moving north,” said Arion. “One of the cartels has taken the bridge and we don’t have enough to move further west to cross the Rio Grande. I think we are in the same boat and we should work together.”

Masa approached Arion, standing behind him. He needed to stop before this got out of hand. “You can’t offer him that,” she hissed. “We discuss things.”

Arion looked down at her and frowned. “Trust me,” he growled, “The council will want this deal.”

Masa took hold of his arm, turning him to face her. “Tell him we’ll take his offer back. Let the council decide,” she argued.

Don Marco laughed. “She is certainly a spicy one. Is she your leader?”

“No, she’s not.” Arion snapped at Masa before facing Don Marco, his face a picture of calmness, “Fine. We’ll take your word back to our council. We’ll meet you at the Western edge of town where the old Walmart is in two days.”

“Agreed.” Don Marco and his men backed away before disappearing down a side street.

“I wasn’t expecting that,” said Arion.

“You idiot!” yelled Masa. “The only reason you are in charge of this raiding party is because you were a police cadet and you know the area. The council wouldn’t have trusted you otherwise.”

“And the only reason you are in it is because I let you,” he argued, glaring at her.

Masa balled her hands into fists and howled in frustration. “You…you…bastard.”

“Stuck up Bitch!”

Masa slapped him, and he took hold of her and kissed her. Her cheeks grew hot and she was distinctly aware of the other men around her laughing.

She shoved him backward and stared at the ground. “You…You…” her cheeks still warm. Her hands went to her lips. It wasn’t unpleasant, but the timing was terrible and she immediately thought of Leron. She had longed for Leron to kiss her since that night on the ridge, but he hadn’t. If anything he seemed to have lost interest, caught up in his new role in the council. Glaring at Arion, she ran towards their base at the canteena.

“Wait Masa!” cried Arion chasing after her. Masa could hear his footsteps behind her, growing closer. “It’s dangerous to go off by yourself. Come back! I’m sorry.” Masa didn’t listen, she continued to run, turning corner after corner through the narrow alleyways. Arion’s arms caught her, pulling her back as she fought him, but it was a lost cause. “I told you to stay still!” he yelled.

“Fine!” she said, glaring at him.

He ripped his shirt and bandaged her wound. “Masa, I find you incredibly attractive,” he said, smiling and her anger melted. “At first, I thought you were with Leron, but you two seem more like brother and sister than anything else. I stayed away and gave him time, but he hasn’t made a move so now I am making mine. Masa, I want you.”

Masa felt locked in his dark eyes. They drew her in, and the thought of his lips against hers brought butterflies to her stomach. He brushed her cheek and she smiled, moving toward her once more. This time she invited him, taking in his scent while his lips met hers. They touched gently and then harder. He pushed her towards the wall cupping her chin with one hand and running the other down her body.

The other men who had caught up to them cheered, and Arion looked back at them and laughed. “Come on, let’s go home,” he said, taking her hand and leading her towards the Canteena.

It was almost dark when they arrived. Masa emptied her bag onto the table along with the others. Arion disappeared toward the fire barrel where the council gathered in a circle, smiling back at her. She gave him a nod of approval and returned his smile.

Masa turned to go to her hiding place to think, but hesitated, watching Leron deep in discussion with the other council members. His dark face was barely visible in the flames, though his shirt, now in rags was bright enough. After all this time, she wondered why he had never changed it. Dressed like that and with his passive nature, he wouldn’t last more than five minutes out in the streets and was no real prospect for a future. She did love him, but he had never shown any indication of returning her feelings. For a long time, even she had waited, but he still hadn’t asked and now it was too late. Her feelings were moving on.

Leaving the others behind her, Masa climbed the storeroom ladder onto the roof. She needed a place to be alone and to think. On the edge of the building, she stared out at the sunset. They had come so far but were now stuck in Nuevo Laredo. They could not cross the international bridge. Even if they could get past the cartel that had made it their home, there was still the desert to cross. A few of the people who had joined them had spoken of rumors that all the major cities had been hit with bombs. Austin and Dallas were nothing but two great craters surrounded by radiation. If they could only find enough supplies to head out west they could find the prepper community along the border in West Texas. Her father had known a woman there by the name of Gerard. If Gerard’s computer had survived, she would have had access to satellite data on what had happened and could tell them where to go.

Masa picked up a rock and threw it off the roof. When she suggested they find the prepper community of West Texas, the council argued and became locked in disagreement. Leron who acted as their tie-breaker, voted against her, deciding it was a long shot to find some community in the middle of the desert. Of course, Masa couldn’t tell them where it was without revealing the maps in her pack.

The sun had almost fully set and Masa found herself nowhere. Her feelings were so tangled up over Leron and Arion that it was hard to focus. “I’m just another stupid teenage girl,” she muttered.

Leron snorted behind her, “You’re anything but stupid.” He sat beside her, joining her on the edge of the building and wrapping his arm around her.

“How did it go?”

“What? Oh, the council?” Leron sighed, “It looks like we are going to take Don Marco’s deal. If we can share what we have and work together to survive, then why not?”

“You’re not afraid of creating another Mattias?”

“No. This time any agreement will come with constraints,” he said.

“Aren’t you afraid they will take the deal and ignore any…wait…. did you use the word constraints?” Masa groaned, “You sound like a politician.”

Leron grinned. “And you look like a merc,” he said thumping the bandage around her arm and she yelped. His eyes went wide and he scowled at the bandage, rubbing the fabric between his fingers. He looked up at her, eyes filled with worry and Masa’s heart sank. “This is from Arion’s shirt. Are you…and he…?”

“I don’t see how that’s any of your business,” Masa snapped and Leron went silent.

The boy who had stared down Mattias after taking a beating from her and him wouldn’t look her in the eye. Instead, he stared off at the setting sun and was silent for a long time. He sighed and turned to leave.

“Seriously?” Masa demanded. “Is that all you’re going to say?”

Leron turned back, revealing tears forming in his eyes. “What do you want me to say, Masa? You’ve made your decision. I was waiting…”

“You waited too long… you should have acted. Arion did. He kissed me.”

“You want me to act, then fine!” he yelled and marched towards her. “I love you. I have loved you since I met you.” He pulled her towards him and met her lips with his in a long kiss. Masa’s breath caught in her throat, and butterflies filled her stomach. Her heart raced when she took in his scent. She ran her hand through his dreads, and down his neck, wanting more of him. It was nothing like with Arion. He didn’t just want her like Arion; he loved her and she loved him.

Leron pulled away, gazing into her eyes, his forehead resting against hers. “I didn’t act because I was waiting for you,” he whispered. “I will leave you to make your decision. If you choose him, I won’t get in the way.”

Tears filled Masa’s eyes when he pulled away, his hand held onto hers until their fingertips touched and he let them fall. He smiled his gentle smile and backed away from her. The pain she felt in her chest was almost unbearable.

“Wait,” Masa cried, rushing toward him. He froze at the top of the ladder and turned. Before he could react, Masa wrapped her arms around his waist and buried her head in his chest. “I love you too, Leron.” He wrapped his arms around her and rested his head on hers. His muscles relaxed and she felt his chest rise and fall against her cheek.

Leron held her tightly for a long time, rocking her in a dance across the roof. “I can’t believe I almost lost you,” he said, “I didn’t want you to fight because of how much I care about you, but if it’s what you want, I will support you.”

“It is.”

He sighed and nodded. “I’ll need to find you a different raid leader.”

How does being black in Canada differ from being black in the US?

I’m going to talk about something very specific I’ve noticed in Vancouver, where Blacks comprise only 1% of the population.

Imagine a world where there’s no anti-Black racism. People aren’t mistreated for being Black. People aren’t even treated differently. Instead, your skin complexion is treated as just as inconsequential a facet of who you are as your eye color. Would there be any race consciousness? Would people who share the same complexion feel any tribal affiliation towards one another?

I’m African. I grew up in a place where my race was a complete non issue. But I’ve lived in the US for more than half my life now. In the US, being Black is definitely a thing. It sets you apart. You are a minority. And, even if you try to pretend that race doesn’t exist, society will sooner or later remind you that you are Black first and everything else second. It is just what it is. So, in this environment, there’s a strong consciousness of being Black. I was sitting at a French-style cafe in Portland last week. This Black man entered. Immediately he took a seat next to mine—we were the only two Blacks in the establishment. We gave each other the nod, and we started talking.

This is what it means to be Black. The flip side of racial otherness is that you come to see every other member of your race as a brother. This is especially true when you’re in a place where Blacks are a small minority. Every time you see another Black person, you give each other a sign of acknowledgement.

I see you over there, fellow Black person, fellow passenger in this slow ride towards justice and equality, fellow fighter in the struggle. I see you. And I salute you.

But my experience here in Vancouver has been utterly different. Blackness is not a thing. In vain I search into the eyes of the Black people I encounter for a sign, a token of acknowledgement, a special greeting, anything. I’ve come to expect it, living in the US.

Nothing. Nothing at all!

I’m not a fellow Black person to them. I’m a perfect stranger, and an odd one at that.

Why is this fellow looking at me like that? Excuse me, you’re in the way! Hello? Can I help you?

This is what they seem to say when I look at them. It’s fascinating.

For the first time in half my life, I don’t feel Black. I can just be me, just another person, who merely happens to be chocolate-hued.

Why has the Chinese social app Xiaohongshu suddenly become popular in the United States?

The US government, in order to suppress China’s influence, threatened to ban TikTok, which resulted in a large number of users flocking to another app developed by a Chinese company. In other words, by “banning TikTok,” the US government gave China an opportunity to showcase its influence. Just like a blogger said on X, thousands of people downloading Xiaohongshu to spite the US government, finding themselves having lovely interactions with the millions of Chinese citizens on the app & inadvertently undoing decades of US propaganda.

Now both Chinese and Americans have found that they have a platform for direct dialogue and communication, and the best way to communicate is to share each other’s daily lives. So we can all see that Xiaohongshu is now filled with laughter and vitality. Isn’t this how the internet should be?

Without Western media manipulating public opinion by exploiting information gaps, nor the propaganda personnel of the US government, people on both sides can now understand the real situation of each other. For example, the Chinese people have now discovered that American schools attach far more importance to patriotic education than they had imagined. When an American said she spent $1,500 on having a wisdom tooth removed, and a Chinese said medical insurance covered all of his costs, both sides fell silent.

When the US government threatened to ban TikTok, it made a “great move,” dealing a heavy blow to the “information cocoon” fabricated by itself. And I’m glad to see that people are getting past the “wall” of false information and glimpsing a “new world.” This could mark a promising beginning.

Do Indians generally feel proud when comparing their country’s greatness to China’s?

Citizens of successful countries never feel proud of their country. They regard their successes as inevitable and taken for granted and get annoyed only when there is failure

China has reached such a level today

If something fails, it garners attention across China and Netizens have multiple comments

If something succeeds, it’s a “Very Good. What Next” moment

If China gets 40 Gold Medals in an Olympic event, it’s normal and merits a polite “Good News”

If China gets fewer medals and loses many games, it merits a lot more “What went wrong” moments and a lot more discussion

India is nowhere near such a level

So the smallest, teeniest, tiniest win is regarded a major success

Some random IITian does something which becomes newspaper headlines whereas in China, 10,000 Students do similar things regularly which never even get mentioned because their standards to praise are much higher

Chandrayaan 3 was part of main headlines and main mainstream news for 12 days in India

The ChangE mission formed part of headlines on China Daily and Peoples Daily and CGTN for 2 days in China

China hasn’t yet reached the level of US though

They still show pride in places like

Mate 60
Mate 70
Black Myth Wukong
Tianlong Space Station
XHS App and 13.1 Million Downloads in 3 days and

Americans don’t even take pride in such major achievements because for them it’s taken for granted even more than China

They don’t take pride in the Iphone or the F-35 Or F-22 Or World of Warcraft or Xbox or PlayStation or Harvard or MIT

For them its a “So what else is new” moment

Indians also feel proud of the stupidest and most mundane things

Indian Americans earn the most money
Indian born US Citizens become CEOs of Big Tech Or Senators or Congress men
Ambani and Adani have billions of Dollars
How Modi is called a ‘Rockstar’ by foreign leaders

Chinese couldn’t care less about any of these things

For instance Mainstream Media in India covered Modis lack of invitation for Trumps inauguration for 5 weeks whereas Xis invitation and refusal were covered for 1–2 days in China as token news

They gave more coverage to the Grenada and SL HOS visits to China

So We have to evolve our mindset

Bizarre

What do you think about the video of China’s 6th generation fighter jet taking to the skies for the first time?

Question: What do you think about the video of China’s 6th generation fighter jet taking to the skies for the first time?

Answer:

I think (as of 2024–12–27) we will have to wait for more information.

There is a famous quote from a Chinese movies and the quote “let the bullet fly a bit” (让子弹飞一会), meaning that in this day of internet age, initiate appearance and information can be deceptive, so you need to wait until more information surfaces.

Yes, if you are a private news media, then you had to guess because you need to the early on the “shocking news”, but if you are not getting paid for such action, then the much wiser move is wait and see.

So far, the information I gathered is that there is has been no official comments, so everything is guess and speculation at this point. But the observation has been that both designs differ drastically from the existing fifth generation fighters in service.

This could either range from a newer generation design (which isn’t out of the realm of possibility) or the Chinese aviation industry may simply been trying out different stuff, because, why not? They got the budget and the test facilities, and Mao has said: “Empirical test is the only way to verify truth”.

What was your most memorable encounter with Army personnel during your Air Force service?

One of the most memorable encounters with Army personnel I had, was at the Charleston AFB PAX Terminal. There were a group of Army enlisted that were flying to Germany for transition to their next assignment. Unfortunately, the plane had problems and so their flight had to be rescheduled for the next day. I happened to be at the terminal at the time and since some of my airmen were working the billeting desk and being both a 1st Sgt and former Army, I took it upon myself to take care of them. First we went down and got them rooms. That was the start of it all. I showed them their quarters, 2 men to a room which came with a bathroom, TV, remote controls, clock radio & phone. They quickly told me no! I asked why? They responded: we can’t stay here, we are enlisted & these are officer quarters! I explained that these rooms were what Air Force enlisted folks stayed in. Then.. it was on to the Dinning Facility which featured a smorgasbord selection of food and beverages with the atmosphere of a civilian restaurant. Again.. there was utter wonder shown at the facility. When we got ready to leave, as per Army protocol, they started to pickup their plates & silverware in preparation to take and clean them before stacking at a wash area. Again I intervened telling them to leave it on the table as the staff would take care of that, just like at a civilian restaurant. When we returned to their billeting I briefed them as to the check out time and that transportation would be waiting at the lobby to return them to the terminal for their flight. Before leaving I asked them if they had any other questions. The look on their faces was one of incredible awe. One fellow said… “ yeah.. I screwed up! How’s that I asked? He responded… I should have gone Air Force. I laughed, having been in the Army I knew just what he meant.

Is US witness protection as nice as it looks on TV or is it less luxurious? Why are the houses so nice and in such nice areas? Why not small apartments?

I just finished the book Witsec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program. My answer is based on what I read there.

Relocated witnesses are set up in hotels or motels until they find a place to live. They usually have to rent, as entering WITSEC usually means leaving behind anything that could tie you to your old identity. This includes investments, especially if they were of an illicit nature.

The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) supplies a stipend to the relocated witnesses for up to two years. The stipend isn’t anything to get excited about—typically around $30,000 per year, in monthly installments. The USMS also assists the witnesses in getting employment. Most witnesses don’t have any law-abiding world skill sets, and those who do usually can’t work in their former profession, as they may be noticed or recognized. Some of the occupations described were truck drivers, warehousemen, and security guards. Again, not usually careers to get excited about. The witnesses eventually have to earn enough to support themselves, and the salaries those jobs command won’t fund much in the way of luxury.

When a witness is still being debriefed or is awaiting relocation, they may be put up in a hotel or a rented house in an isolated spot. The USMS also has a facility in Virginia that can house up to four families at one time, all isolated from one another. This is where people new to WITSEC get evaluated, briefed, coached, and prepared for relocation. The witnesses arrive and depart the facility in blacked-out vehicles, so they don’t know its location.

A common theme among the many stories of relocated witnesses in the book was that life in WITSEC is hard. In most cases, you will never see your family and friends again, and anything you accomplished in life is rendered null and void. You start over in multiple senses of the term.

Minestrone Pasta Bowl

Yield: 8 servings or 24 sample servings

Ingredients

1 (16 ounce) package uncooked rigatoni pasta
2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
2 teaspoons Pantry Italian Seasoning Mix, divided
1 large zucchini, sliced
1 large carrot, chopped
8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
2 garlic cloves, pressed
1 (26 ounce) jar spaghetti sauce
1 (15 ounce) cangarbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
1/4 cup (1 ounce) grated fresh Parmesan cheese

Instructions

Cook pasta according to package directions in Professional (8-quart) Stockpot; drain using large Colander.
Return pasta to stockpot; add 1 tablespoon of the oil and 1 teaspoon of the seasoning mix, stirring to coat. Cover and keep warm.
Meanwhile, using Ultimate Slice & Grate fitted with v-shaped blade, slice zucchini.
Chop carrot using Food Chopper.
Slice mushrooms using Egg Slicer Plus(R).
Heat remaining oil in Stir-Fry Skillet over medium heat until hot. Add garlic pressed with Garlic Press; stir-fry 1 minute using Bamboo Spatulas.
Add zucchini and carrot; stir-fry 2-3 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender.
Add mushrooms, spaghetti sauce, garbanzo beans and remaining seasoning mix. Cook, stirring occasionally, 5-6 minutes or until sauce is bubbly and heated through.
Transfer pasta to Simple Additions(TM) Large Bowl. Carefully pour sauce over pasta. Grate Parmesan cheese over pasta using Deluxe Cheese Grater.
Serve immediately.

Nutrition

(Light) Per serving: Calories 350, Total Fat 9g, Saturated Fat 1.5g, Cholesterol less than 5mg, Carbohydrate 57g, Protein 13g, Sodium 480mg, Fiber 6g

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Pampered Chef

Why do people become poor and broke?

It all starts with the family. At least it did with my brother. My brother was a kid that had learning difficulties in school and needed extra help from teachers.

My dad was a person that had a hard time recognizing how a kid could have so much difficulty using a screwdriver or how doing simple things was tough for my brother. Consequently, my dad made fun of him or said things to belittle him. As time went along, my brother became a narcissist who had difficulty holding a job and difficulty saving money. Fortunately even though I grew up in the same house, I didn’t come out so bad.

I think having a bad upbringing could be a strong reason why you are bad with money.

When did you realize you “dodged a bullet”?

I had to evict a motorcycle gang.

In 2003, I was buying foreclosure houses at auction in Oregon with a real estate agent partner. We bought a house that, unbeknownst to us, was owned by a motorcycle gang member.

My partner and I knocked on the door, and a big, mean-looking, tattooed guy answered the door. We let him know we bought the place and wanted to talk. Two of his buddies entered the room and just stared at us.

We explained that we bought the place at auction and do not work for the bank that foreclosed on you. We asked about him. He said he was a steel worker and a member of a motorcycle gang, as were his friends, who were staring at us. We explained that the law stated that the previous owner had 10 days to move out, but we realized it takes longer for some folks. I then asked him how much time he needed. He said three weeks.

About 2 weeks later, I stopped by and asked how it was going. He was working on his truck and was holding a radiator hose. At one point in the conversation, he said that people who get hit by radiator hoses don’t leave a mark. I said, ya, I heard that and kept on talking. He then said he has an uncle who works for the mob. In one quick move, he can tear a person’s ear off and stuff it into their shirt pocket. I just said wow and asked again if he needed more time to move. He said he needed another week. As I was driving away, the thought hit me. He was threatening me, and it was a good thing we were talking on the front lawn with the neighbor next door mowing their lawn!

Two weeks later, he called and said he was out. He thanked me for treating him like a normal person. I went over and found 3 women living in the garage. They were drug users, and I had to talk them into leaving too.

Grilled Turkey Breast Steaks

Where has this been all my life? - MM

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup chicken broth
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons dried minced onion
1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
3 (4 ounce) turkey breast steaks, 3/4 to 1 inch thick

Instructions

Combine soy sauce, oil, chicken broth, lemon juice, onion, dry mustard and black pepper in Small Batter Bowl; whisk until blended.
Place turkey in resealable plastic food storage bag. Add marinade; seal bag. Marinate in refrigerator 1-3 hours, turning occasionally.
Prepare grill.
Remove turkey from marinade; discard marinade. Grill turkey over medium coals 6-8 minutes per side, turning with Barbecue Fork and Barbecue Turner, or until meat is no longer pink in center.

Nutrition

Per serving: Calories 240, Total Fat 15g, Saturated Fat 1g, Cholesterol 55mg, Carbohydrate 2g, Protein 23g, Sodium 1030mg, Fiber 0

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Pampered Chef

What’s the dumbest case you’ve ever had on jury duty?

Once upon a time, last century when I lived in NZ, my children had gone off to school, I volunteered at the then-overwhelmed social welfare system. At one stage, I was asked to attend children’s court.

A young girl from an island in the Pacific who was then living in New Zealand, and totally unaware of how the world lived was bailed up in front of the judge. Her whole family were in attendance, uncles and aunts, cousins, sisters, brothers, and what seemed to me to be a lot of teachers, most of them in tears, while the young girl (10 or 11 aged) stood there petrified and bewildered.

The case against this little girl was that she had falsified a withdrawal slip to obtain cash from her parents account.

It transpired that she had seen her mother sign this sort of withdrawal slip a number of times, and receive money for it. Christmas was coming up, and she wanted to buy something for her beloved family. Without understanding how the system worked and why her mother was able to get funds when she presented the withdrawal slip, she did as she had seen her mother do.

The teller at the bank reported it to the bank manager, idiot that he was, without asking any questions, he informed the police and they started the legal process that saw the little girl in court.

Lucklily for all, the most amazing judge presided, exuding kindness and understanding, with a large dose of goodwill, asked the little girl to explain, but she remained mute, frozen in terror, with the whole family weeping in the courtroom.

The judge silently read the prosecution’s case, turned to the little girl, explained WHY the mother could withdraw money from the bank and she could not, Made the appropriately worded but clearly annoyed comment about the stupidity of some adults (to bring this matter to court) and apologised to the whole family for this situation (which must have been of enormous stress to them during the many weeks of waiting for the court date to deal with this.) This judge was known for his integrity, sensible jdugement and as an enormously kind and sensible human being.

How miserable are Americans’ lives compared to the Chinese?

These days, I saw some American lives on Xiaohongshu.

The strangest thing I found was that many people said they needed to work 80 hours a week to pay their bills.

In China, the most sinful 996 is only 72 hours a week; and the 996 working hours can make them earn at least 3 times the income of ordinary engineers. They are indeed exchanging time for income. People who work 996 usually only need 1/5 of their income to pay all their bills. They work so hard so that they can afford a luxury house, not an ordinary life.

During the 3 years of this pandemic, I was unemployed and my daughter was in college.

My wife worked alone and was able to cover the household bills, my daughter’s college expenses, and we even went on 2 trips. My wife had 2 surgeries.

In addition, we still had money left over for savings.

My wife was just a low-level salesperson in the company.My wife works about 50 hours a week.

Multi-Millionaire Warns “We Risk Revolution” As Americans Grow Increasingly Desperate

The first two minutes are pure gold. It is just the reality.

This is serious times for the West. Especially for America.

And today’s GEM…

Looks like the Trump admin is finally admitting about the technology that the USA has. Interesting shit.

Time Travel Is Real and Here’s How it Works, Government Has Been Hiding It | Redacted

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In late 2023, Ashton Forbes and his group on X.com claimed to have solved the mystery of what happened to Flight MH-370, with the help of leaked US satellite and drone footage, Chinese satellite images and by consulting with numerous witnesses and experts.

The upshot of what Forbes believes happened is that there was a lithium ion battery explosion on the plane that caused a major fire, causing the Captain to turn the plane around and to descend to a lower altitude, to allow his passengers to breathe after cabin de-pressurization. Then, he believes a secret US Navy teleportation technology was directed at the airliner.

In the leaked videos that we see here, looped in Ashton Forbes’ interview with Clayton Morris on Redacted, we see three orbs rotating around the fuselage of Flight MH-370, before the plane appears to be “zapped” out of space-time.

These three orbs could be partial visible evidence of the process that Bob Beckwith was trying to get me to understand, 25 years ago, when I was writing a book about space-time manipulation.

Bob told me that by the late 1990s, the US Navy’s entire Osprey Class of minesweepers were equipped with teleportation capabilities and that these ships could literally “blip” themselves to anywhere on the planet. The ships could also be placed one second ahead of Universal space-time while cruising and thereby, go undetected.

If it’s true that this teleportation technology was on Osprey Class minesweepers in the 1990s, then it’s probably on a lot of other military vehicles by now, as suggested by Air Force General Steven Kwast and by White House Office of Science & Technology Director, Michael Kratsios, earlier this week.

Bob Beckwith was the Founder of the successful electrification systems engineering company, Beckwith Electric. He was an electronics wunderkind who at 23, was working at Bell Labs in the early 1940s, when the US Navy commandeered him for the war effort, mainly to work on “sonar invisibility”, to help make US ships undectable to the German mines being laid off the East Coast, which were blowing merchant ships out of the water.

The capability of placing ships ahead of Universal space-time would hypothetically eliminate this threat. In Bob’s book that he sent to me, ‘Hypotheses’, he expounded on his theory about “Divided Space”. He theorized that “bubbles” of Divided Space could be created and separated from what he called “Universal Space” by applying three counter-rotating EM fields of enough force.

He explained this is what enables UFOs to take 90º and 45º turns at thousands of g forces, without breaking up; because these craft possess technology that generates a field of Divided Space around them.

So, it’s very interesting to me that the leaked footage seen in video of Ashton Forbes’ interview with Clayton Morris shows three small orbs revolving around the fuselage of the airliner before they all disappear in an endothermic blip, with no heat signature – or what Ashton Forbes suggests is a “phase transition” of the plane, as he told Keith Malinak and Zeynep Yenisey on At The Mic.

Bob Beckwith wrote another short book called ‘Levitation, Teleportation and Time Travel’. Bob and the contents of this book are referenced in a 15-page document that Richard Dolan called “The UFO leak of the century”, which was entered into the public record during the May 17th 2022 Open House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee hearing on UFOs (“UAPs”).

Among many other things, the document confirms the existence of an “MJ-12-like cabal”, the 1947 UFO crash at Roswell, alien bodies and an ultra secret UFO crash retrieval and back-engineering program operating completely outside of government oversight and which was still active as of 2002.

Bob shared a lot of other interesting details, that I posted about, here.

I’m not a physicist and I can’t say with 100% certainty whether Bob was psyopping me – and psyopping the House Subcommittee on UFOs, postmortem – or telling the truth. All I can say is that the above is what he told me and you can read more about that and other, totally crazy stuff that people claimed to me was true in my first book, ‘The Philadelphia Experiment Murder’.

I also can’t say with 100% certainty whether Ashton Forbes is psyopping us. His digital footprint is limited to podcasts and social media. From a previous podcast, we learned that Ashton is an IT professional with a US Government security clearance. So his “bonafides” are mysterious but he’s very good at explaining things.

In this interview with Clayton Morris, Ashton goes into the fascinating details about the technology that we are witnessing in the leaked videos of MH-370, which he believes was quantum-tunneled, i.e., teleported from its flight path to an unknown location. He believes the “zap” that we see in the video is:

“Absolute proof [that] the orbs are inducing a Negative Energy state [“pulled-out” of Zero Point Energy] through a low energy Phase Transition…

“That’s gravitational lensing, right there…Now, what you’re seeing here is, you’re seeing space-time being contracted. And when it gets contracted, the Refractive Index, the Permittivity of the Vacuum changes. And when that happens, what you see is this effect, where the Ground State of…your orbs goes down.

“And what this does is it’s like a trampoline, like jumping on a little trampoline. It pulls a little bit of energy out and it doesn’t even have to be that much energy, because those balls of plasma are 20 feet wide of condensed charge. They’re extremely powerful magnets.

“So when you jam them together, the closer they get, that force goes up and it amplifies, to a degree where then, boom, space-time, itself breaks down…and magnetic reconnection occurs when the orbs get too close because these magnetic fields, these orbs is so powerful.

“Now, the last thing I want to say on the orbs, for you to understand, which is helpful, is that these are orbs of Coherent Plasma, meaning that what’s happening is the magnetic and electric fields the plasma is producing is what’s being used to make it into a sphere…

“So, what they figured out is if they move the plasma around the right way, the fields will cause the plasma to become an orb that stays coherent in the sky, that can float around.

“And that’s called Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). You’ll see the acronym all over the place. They’re using controlled powerful magnetic fields to move the plasma around, keep the charge separated, the positive and the negative, so that it acts like a lightning bolt…

“The last point I want to make is…I think [what we’re seeing in the videos is) actual teleportation. So what’s happening is the orbs must have an equal number of charge between the four orbs. You’ve got three orbs around the plane and you’ve got one orb somewhere else. So when this plane is being teleported – Delta, don’t sue me – and then comes back, the orbs need to cancel-out…

“[One] configuration could be that the three orbs next to the plane all add up to one negative charge. And then, you have one positive charge, let’s say, at Diego Garcia or in the Maldives. And then, when the orbs come together, it causes them to slingshot and come together and then they appear at your new location.”

Ashton goes on to say that he believes, “There is no way for you to actually go back to a previous time in the Universe. But you can actually travel in time. Time travel is 100% real…You can travel to the future, number one. You can slow your rate of time, so that everything else looks like it’s speeding-up around you, to such a degree, where you could go 100 years in the future…The other thing you could do is you could reverse your biological process. You could put a bubble around yourself and reverse the entropy of inside the bubble, which is you and your age, and you could reverse your age.“

This last description sounds a bit like the “bubbles” of “Divided Space” that Bob Beckwith was telling me about.

Shortly after my book came out in January 2001, the tiny cabin that I was renting on Big Fresh Pond in Southampton, NY was repeatedly broken-into and my personal belongings riffled-through – including on the day that I went into Manhattan to meet with FEMA in October 2001, at the apartment I’d rented for 8 years, 1/2 block from the World Trade Center, when my apartment was declared “Uninhabitable” and FEMA later wired me $4,000 to cover the cost of moving out and buying a new couch.

I was traumatized by the devastation of Lower Manhattan that I’d just seen. Then, I got back to my rented cabin and someone had broken into it again and tossed things around.

I was spooked by these repeated break-ins and I was sick of everybody thinking I was crazy, so I eventually stopped talking – or even thinking – about what I’d learned, while writing my book about the manipulation of space-time.

But suddenly, it appears that a discussion of this subject is fair game – even if ChatGPT’s Woke AI doesn’t like it!

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TRANSCRIPT

Clayton Morris: Alright, I want to talk about time travel. I’m looking forward to this all day. I’ve been looking forward to talking with Ashton Forbes all day in the secret technology.

Yes, the White House admitting this week, on the record by the way, that we possess the technology to manipulate time and space. In other words, time travel, teleportation technology, like the very same technology that was used to make MH-370, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, disappear in thin air on camera. And by the way, the people that are like, “Oh, that video has been debunked.”

Shut up. No, it hasn’t. In fact, it’s been the opposite. It’s been “bunked”. It’s not been debunked. And the man who helped really uncover the story from the beginning is Ashton Forbes.

One of our favorite guests, here on the show. I call him a “physicist” because he is citizen journalist and one of the most prolific individuals in this space. And just thrilled to have you on the show, Ashton.

Ashton Forbes: Great.

Clayton Morris: Great to have you. Welcome back to the show, my friend.

Ashton Forbes: Thanks, Clayton. Feelings mutual. It’s always fun to talk to you.

Clayton Morris: Blast. I hope we have fun here. I’m really looking forward to this.

So this is, the reason I wanted to have you on is because of this bombshell. There’s a couple of stories, over the past couple of weeks that kind of came out. I want to play this first soundbite from General Kwast.

Now, he worked in Colorado, training individuals, and he saw this technology basically, I think, on the desks of Air Force engineers in the United States Air Force. And it was basically admitting that we have these incredible technologies that allows us to teleport transport in ways that you wouldn’t blow your mind. So let me just play a few seconds of this. Watch this one.

(Roll video of General Kwast)

General Kwast: The technology is on the engineering benches today, but most Americans and most in Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what’s going on, here. But I’ve had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these engineers and these scientists.

This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental, to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour; to deliver Wi-Fi from space, where you never need a cell tower to connect, to deliver…

Clayton Morris: Yeah. And then this just happened over the past 48 hours. Trump White House official of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kriatsos said that, “We possess the technology that can manipulate time and space.” Watch.

(Roll Video of Michael Kriatsos)

Michael Kriatsos: Our passenger planes are slower than they used to be. Our trains crawl, compared to those in other parts of the world. Our cars do not fly. Advances have not stopped, but something has gone wrong. Stagnation was a choice. We have weighed-down our builders and innovators.

The well-intentioned regulatory regime of the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet, first hampering America’s ability to become a net energy exporter and then making it harder and harder to build.

We seem to have lost focus and vision, to have lowered our sights and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along. But we are capable of so much more. Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space.

They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow and improve productivity…

Clayton Morris: So he’s basically – and I love what you tweeted the other day – you pointed out basically, he’s admitting that we allowed our technology to purposefully stagnate, that we almost slowed it down, on purpose, yet we have the ability to manipulate time and space.

So first of all, when you heard his comments, what did you think?

Ashton Forbes: The first thing I thought was, “OK, let me see the context.” And when you get the context, it’s actually even crazier, in the context.

He’s saying that, “We intentionally made a choice to hamstring our technology.” And he’s talking, specifically about transportation technology. And then he says, “We are capable of so much more.”

And when he says that, “We have the ability to manipulate time and space,” he’s talking about gravity manipulation. That’s what manipulation of time and space literally is.

And then, after that, he speaks to other things that also would speak to things like what plasma might do, to make things grow, as well as, just other applications for the same technology, potentially as well, like AI.

He speaks to making things “more productive”, which in today’s day and age would mean AI. He says something about the 1970s, which I don’t think anybody really picked up on. But if you’re somebody that has researched gravity research, in the ’70s, the Mansfield Amendment was passed.

And what this did was made it so that the military could not fund things that were not related to combat; direct military applications. And so, gravity research got pushed to the defense contractors.

So all of these references, like, “There’s no way,” there’s so many people gaslighting about, “Oh, he’s talking about telephones and internet.”

These people are sitting at the little kids table, right? Well, there’s two videos out there in perfect sync that show a plane literally disappearing out of space-time, that is still missing 11 years later. So we got to just be real about it. As much as we don’t want to believe it, whatever, but it seems undeniable to me.

Clayton Morris: Yeah. We’re watching this. This is MH-370 on the screen here, which of course disappears using – so, would you say that maybe the same technologies that he’s talking about – is what allowed the United States government to disappear MH-370?

Ashton Forbes: Yeah, definitely. And what we’re talking about, here is technology that you can find a lot of videos of engineers talking about this, that Zero Point energy technology is an echelon above anything that we have conventionally, right now. So even nukes are completely obsolete, in the face of this level of technology.

And you’ll hear people talking about this all over the place. So you can imagine a lot of scenarios, where, with this type of technology, the United States Government is uncontested in the world. And this explains why nobody has really actually tried to challenge us on the global stage for almost an entire century, at this point.

And some people “Well say, if these are out there, could other countries have figured it out?” Yes. I think there’s a shadow arms race. And I think it overlaps with the UFO community where they say that “This might be UFO tech” or whatever, and then Russia and China are working on this.

This is what scares me the most about this is that if two warring factions get this level of technology, the science on display here that I want to go through with you today, it has the capability of producing not just a wormhole, but actually a black hole, like annihilation of the entire Planet – maybe even the entire solar system. This is a matter of scale.

And what you realize from these videos and the science related to them is that physics, the universe is scale-invariant. Stuff that you can do on the small level, small scale, you can also do on the large scale. Those orbs that you see there, they are mimicking atoms.

It looks like an atom. It’s a positively-charged plasma in the center with electrons, that you can see is as green; as a shell around it. You can even see the shell of the electrons move fluidly when they start to spin around the plane because the magnetic field they’re producing around the plane.

It’s just wild, when you look at it and you can see all of that detail from that.

So what I was hoping today is to – and I’ve seen you talk to Tucker Carlson – some people that are really prominent and connected. And I want to help, because you’re saying all the right stuff; to get all the lingo and arm you with all the tools that you need, to help explain to the general masses and to these people who are connected, like what’s really going on, here, from a scientific perspective and from a suppression perspective and National Security, as well.

Clayton Morris: Please. So let’s get into it. So, I mean, I think what you just said is amazing that nuclear weapons are obsolete. Nuclear weapons are obsolete that we have the ability to manipulate time and space. Those are the weapons that that’s why no one wants to touch us, because we have things that are far more powerful. And I think, I think you would agree that these technologies have come from UFO crash retrieval programs, if I’m not mistaken, right?

Ashton Forbes: Well, I think there’s a lot of options. I’m open-minded, you know, and I’ve now grown to have a viewpoint of anything that’s possible, under the right conditions. So does it come from aliens? Does it come from things that we dug-up? Does it come from future humans or another dimension?

I don’t know if we have enough evidence to say for sure, at the moment. I will say I’m pretty confident there’s a psychological operation going on, to get us to be convinced that humans can’t understand this, that it’s “alien technology. It’s alien physics that humans can’t possibly understand.”

And that way, if we’re doing Black Operations, covert operations – which is what the MH-370 videos show – we can blame it on “aliens”.

“Oh, it was aliens that zapped the plane away!”

No, aliens aren’t zapping the plane away. That’s us. That’s what humans do. So I think that they’re trying to get us to avoid that.

And it’s very important to realize that there is no alien physics. Anything that aliens can understand, anywhere in this universe, that’s physics that we can understand.

We are simply missing something that’s probably right in front of us, when it comes to how these UFOs we see flying in the sky are moving around. And absolutely, anyone out there: UFOs are real. There are things flying around that people do not understand. It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s “aliens” though.

Here’s the secret after I dug into it, as an investigator, the answer to the question of how this is all possible is Negative Energy.

And you go, “Wait, wait, Ashton, all the academics are saying that Negative Energy is this non-existent exotic substance!”

Yeah. Why are they saying that? Because it’s not, it’s a conceptual misunderstanding. And then, boom, the whole universe opens up to us. Tesla technology is possible.

Clayton Morris: Yeah. Let’s, so let’s break it down for the lay person and let’s, if we want to get this out to the masses.

So, in my conversations with Tucker and others about, about this, trying to kind of break through maybe the psychological operation that’s out there and lay it bare for everybody: Negative Energy, what is it and how could it be used in all of these applications?

Ashton Forbes: Exactly. So there’s something called the “vacuum catastrophe”, which is that we look up in the sky and we measure the cosmic microwave background. We’re measuring all the heat that we can see in the sky.

And we say that that’s all the energy that’s out there, in the Universe. And it comes to this relatively small amount of energy.

But then, Quantum Mechanics came around. Wheeler and Feynman came into play and Schwinger and Feynman won the Nobel prize for Quantum Electrodynamics in 1965.

John Archibald Wheeler and Richard Feynman said, when you do the math on the quantum perspective on the energy of the Universe, it’s over 120 orders of magnitude higher than when we measure the cosmic microwave background. Why this discrepancy? Which one is correct? Is there no Zero Point energy out there to be tapped into? Or is there a huge ocean of energy that can be tapped into?

The difference between this question is the difference between whether or not Negative Energy exists or not.

If you don’t think Negative Energy exists, because it’s an “exotic substance”, then you’re somebody that believes that the cosmic microwave background is the answer; that there’s no energy to be tapped into.

But if you’re somebody that understands Quantum Mechanics, you realize that we’re not talking about thermal energy. We’re not talking about heat. We’re talking about vibrational energy.

The Zero Point energy, that ocean of energy, it’s vibrating all the time, on the tiniest possible scales. And that’s how we interact with it. That’s why Tesla was saying that there’s an “ether” of energy and that “The answer to the Universe is energy, frequency, and vibration.”

So what these people need to understand then is, well, what’s the thing that we missed? Zero is not the bottom. Zero point energy is quite literally the energy that exists below zero. The energy below the Ground State.

So “zero” is not the bottom. That’s not “zero”. It’s just the Ground State. It’s just the equilibrium state. That’s us, on top of the ocean. We’re on top of the ocean, floating around.

So what’s Negative Energy? Oh, if we tap into that Zero Point energy, we pull it out!

And what are those orbs doing in that video? This is why it’s proof!

This is why the “zap” in the video is absolute proof. The orbs are inducing a Negative Energy state through a low energy Phase Transition. The Ground State of – imagine, just a hydrogen atom. The Ground State of the hydrogen atom is shrinking a little bit, because they’re shrinking the space.

Like, you look at my screen right here. Let me see if I can make this work. They’re shrinking the size of the space, itself. And when you do this, everything comes together. Everything gets squished together.

And when you do this, it changes the Permittivity of the Vacuum of that region of space-time. It allows for Negative Energy to be possible, because the Ground State goes down for every atom that’s there. And when that occurs, there’s a release of energy.

That release of energy is an ultraviolet light. This is why in the Whammy [?] video, the “satellite video”, you see a flash of light come.

So we’re like, “Oh, there’s light.” But when you look in the thermal, it’s black. It’s cold. So: ultraviolet light.

Clayton Morris: So, let’s show, let’s show that.

(Roll thermal video of MH-370 with three revolving orbs)

Clayton Morris: So this is the one where we see –

Ashton Forbes: – that’s gravitational lensing, right there.

Clayton Morris: So what are we seeing here? So there, it disappears.

Ashton Forbes: That was the frame, right beforehand. And then, the frame right after this wormhole opens up, by the way, there’s only four frames of this wormhole and you can actually see it open and close. You can even see the tail of the plane in the first frame right there.

Now, what you’re seeing here is, you’re seeing space-time being contracted. And when it gets contracted, the Refractive Index, the Permittivity of the Vacuum changes. And when that happens, what you see is this effect, where the Ground State of your atom; of your hydrogen atom, your orbs goes down.

And what this does is it’s like a trampoline, like jumping on a little trampoline. It pulls a little bit of energy out and it doesn’t even have to be that much energy, because those balls of plasma are 20 feet wide of condensed charge. They’re extremely powerful magnets.

So when you jam them together, the closer they get, that force goes up and it amplifies, to a degree where then, boom, space-time, itself breaks down. Space-time, itself breaks down and magnetic reconnection occurs when the orbs get too close because these magnetic fields, these orbs is so powerful.

Now, the last thing I want to say on the orbs, for you to understand, which is helpful, is that these are orbs of Coherent Plasma, meaning that what’s happening is the magnetic and electric fields the plasma is producing is what’s being used to make it into a sphere.

You would say, wait, what? It’s actually, itself is making the fields that keep it trapped? Yes. So what they figured out is if they move the plasma around the right way, the fields will cause the plasma to become an orb that stays coherent in the sky that can float around.

And that’s called Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). You’ll see the acronym all over the place. They’re using controlled powerful magnetic fields to move the plasma around, keep the charge separated, the positive and the negative, so that it acts like a lightning bolt.

And then, somebody at some point figured out, “Oh, let’s just jam a few of these together and then, boom, we can make things disappear!”

The last point I want to make is, well, you’re saying it’s “teleportation”. It could probably annihilate something, as well, but for several reasons, including the phones ringing, the plane being seen later on, and all this weird dance the orbs are doing on the plane, I think it’s actual teleportation.

So what’s happening is the orbs must have an equal number of charge between the four orbs. You’ve got three orbs around the plane and you’ve got one orb somewhere else. So when this plane is being teleported – Delta, don’t sue me – and then comes back, the orbs need to cancel-out.

So, let’s say you’ve got two of the orbs are positively-charged and two are negatively-charged. When they come together, they’re going to equalize and they’re going to dissipate. That could be one configuration.

The other configuration would could be that the three orbs next to the plane all add up to one negative charge. And then, you have one positive charge, let’s say, at Diego Garcia or in the Maldives. And then, when the orbs come together, it causes them to slingshot and come together and then they appear at your new location.

That’s what these people have figured out. And it’s crazy, because it’s so far beyond our current paradigm, to think that, not only could we have figured-out gravity and have an actual working warp drive and wormhole technology, but to actually use it on an airplane that, itself is not equipped.

It’s not like it’s a Starship Enterprise. We used it on an airplane that was flying around in the sky. So this is like, you realize the implications of this, right away, as I’m sure you’ve considered. You could teleport a nuke onto somebody. This is technology that obsoletes all prior forms of weaponry.

Clayton Morris: It’s amazing to think and you have this whole battle discussion over Iran and “developing a nuclear weapon”. And in many ways, the whole thing is moot, because this technology is so far more advanced than all of that.

I want you to stick around, Ashton, if you can, and we want to move our, we’re going to do this whole Rumble Premium thing and I want to kind of open it up for a lot of people to ask questions here, if we can. But before we get there, and by the way, if you’re watching us on YouTube, come on over to Rumble. We’ve got 30,000 of you watching us live on Rumble, right now.

All the tens of thousands of you, over on YouTube, come on over to our Rumble Premium, right now, because we’re going to hang out with Ashton, if we can.

When we talk about time travel, and we talk about when you’re moving into this wormhole, are we actually jumping through time or the way that we think of time, I guess?

Ashton Forbes: Yeah, I thought you might ask me that. It’s funny, because I spent last night trying to figure that out and now, I think I have a good answer: that the wormhole itself, if you’re traveling through it, there’s no time that’s passing, no matter where the opening and closing is.

And if you follow the Principle of Least Action, this would mean that there’s never going to be any passage of time, while you’re traveling through the wormhole. And if you then put one more restriction and say that “The mouth of the wormhole cannot move.” It can only be in one spot, as in, it opens and closes and it’s not there anymore.

If you make those two restrictions, it’s no longer possible to go back in time. Reverse causality is no longer possible, no matter how you look at it. You will always, even if you go through a portal, go through a different portal, you’ll never show up at a time before you started the process.

So, in my opinion right now, having done the physics, is that there is no way for you to actually go back to a previous time in the Universe. But you can actually travel in time. Time travel is 100% real.

You can do two different things, which I think are extremely significant. You can travel to the future, number one. You can slow your rate of time, so that everything else looks like it’s speeding-up around you, to such a degree, where you could go 100 years in the future.

All of a sudden, it’s 100 years in the future, and you’re like, “Whoa, how did that happen?” It would be extremely disorienting, but you could do it.

The other thing you could do is you could reverse your biological process. You could put a bubble around yourself and reverse the entropy of inside the bubble, which is you and your age, and you could reverse your age.

Before you ask me, would you remember that? I actually asked Navy engineer Salvatore Pais this question. His opinion is you would still remember, because his belief is your consciousness is stored in the Zero-Point Energy, not – your body as just a receiver – which, I tend to agree, but obviously speculative.

Clayton Morris: That’s unbelievable. Time travel is real, and I know I’ve always wanted to talk to you more deeply about this, and we will. Ashton, thank you so much.

Watch the video here…

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