2026 Mercury Retrograde, Y’All

Posted on July 8, 2026 by marcia

Mercury Retrograde Survival Guide: June 29th – July 23rd, 2026

Slow down, check twice, lead with compassion.

June 24, 2026

Three or four times a year, Mercury appears to move backward in the sky from our perspective on Earth. Mercury retrograde has earned a reputation as astrology’s cosmic trickster, the courier of late news and ruler of mishaps. During these one-month periods, the areas Mercury governs – communication, reasoning, transportation, technology, paperwork, and the law – tend to get a little scrambled.

This particular Mercury retrograde takes place in Cancer, a sign associated with capricious emotions, detailed memories, family, local community, and belonging. While Mercury typically prefers logic and efficiency, Cancer leads with intuition and feeling. Mercury in Cancer often shows up as important gut feelings, intuitive insights, and sentimental conversations. When Mercury turns retrograde, however, the focus shifts toward revisiting. Old memories resurface, creative projects return for editing, and we may find ourselves or others reaching out for closure on tender-hearted matters. Decisions, commitments, and even contracts that once felt settled will be reconsidered through a new emotional lens.

Rather than fearing mess-ups and mistakes during Mercury retrograde, consider the following tips as an invitation to slow down and review.

Your Mercury Retrograde Survival Guide

Expect delays

One of the easiest ways to work with Mercury retrograde is to expect that things may take longer than anticipated. Responses arrive late. Deliveries get postponed. Technology requires troubleshooting. Patience often becomes your greatest asset.

Double-check spelling and details

Mercury rules communication, making typos, forgotten attachments, and misunderstood messages more common during retrograde periods. Before hitting send, take a moment to reread important emails, texts, social media posts, and documents.

Reread contracts and agreements

Retrogrades are famous for overlooked details. Whether you’re signing a lease, accepting a new job, making a large purchase, or finalizing paperwork, read everything carefully. If possible, give yourself extra time to review terms and ask questions.

Book extra time for travel

Mercury also governs transportation. Traffic, delays, missed connections, GPS re-routes, and scheduling mishaps tend to become more noticeable during these cycles. Leave earlier than usual and build a little flexibility into your plans.

Be open to revising plans

Mercury retrograde isn’t always about things going wrong; it is often about discovering what needs adjustment. Plans may change because new information emerges. A canceled meeting, delayed project, or altered timeline can reveal a better path forward.

The Cancer Effect: Lead with the Heart

Because this retrograde occurs in Cancer, emotional themes are likely to be front and center.

You may hear from people from your past. Family conversations that were left unfinished could resurface. Old memories, photographs, and sentimental trinkets may suddenly feel more meaningful. There can be a strong desire to retreat, protect yourself, and spend time in spaces that feel safe and familiar.

Cancer reminds us that not every conversation is purely logical. During this retrograde, people may be speaking from their feelings rather than their facts. Sensitivity is heightened, and misunderstandings can arise when emotions go unspoken.

Before reacting, ask yourself:

What is my gut feeling?

What might the other person be feeling?

Am I responding to the present moment or to an old memory being activated?

Mercury retrograde in Cancer asks us to communicate with greater compassion, both toward others and toward ourselves.

Retrogrades Are for Reflection

Mercury retrograde is less about calamity and more about a small course correction. It encourages us to revisit, review, revise, reconnect, and reflect.

Slow down. Check twice. Leave early. Read the fine print. Give yourself and others grace when plans change. And don’t be surprised if your greatest insight comes not from pushing forward in new areas, but from tying up those loose and familiar threads that have been calling your attention back.

from: https://localnewspasadena.com/2026/mercury-retrograde-survival-guide-june-29th-july-23rd-2026/

Speaking of Plasma Life Forms

Posted on July 8, 2026 by marcia

Jay Alfred

Plasma life forms

November 12, 2007

Jay Alfred: Life-Like Qualities of Plasma: Bohm, a leading expert in twentieth century plasma physics, observed in amazement that once electrons were in plasma, they stopped behaving like individuals and started behaving as if they were a part of a larger and interconnected whole. Although the individual movements of each electron appeared to be random, vast numbers of electrons were able to produce collective effects that were surprisingly well organized and appeared to behave like a life form. The plasma constantly regenerated itself and enclosed impurities in a wall in the same way that a biological organism, like the unicellular amoeba, might encase a foreign substance in a cyst. So amazed was Bohm by these life-like qualities that he later remarked that he frequently had the impression that the electron sea was “alive” and that plasma possessed some of the traits of living things. The debate on the existence of plasma-based life forms has been going on for more than 20 years ever since some models showed that plasma can mimic the functions of a primitive cell.

Plasma cosmologist, Donald Scott, notes that “…a [plasma] double layer can act much like a membrane that divides a biological cell”. A model of plasma double layers (a structure commonly found in complex plasmas) has been used to investigate ion transport across biological cell membranes by researchers (See American Journal of Physics, May 2000, Volume 68, Issue 5, pp. 450-455). Researchers noted that “Concepts like charge neutrality, Debye length, and double layer [used in plasma physics] are very useful to explain the electrical properties of a cellular membrane”. Plasma physicist Hannes Alfvén also noted the association of double layers with cellular structure, as had Irving Langmuir before him, who coined the term “plasma” after its resemblance to living blood cells.

David Brin’s Sundiver also speculated on plasma life forms. This science fiction proposed a form of life existing within the plasma atmosphere of a star using complex self-sustaining magnetic fields. Similar types of plasmoid life have been proposed to exist in other places, such as planetary ionospheres or interstellar space. Gregory Benford had a form of plasma-based life exist in the accretion disk of a primordial black hole in his novel Eater.

Plasma Life Forms in Space
An international scientific team has discovered that under the right conditions, particles of inorganic dust can become organized into helical structures which can interact with each other in ways that are usually associated with organic life. Using a computer model of molecular dynamics, V N Tsytovich and his colleagues of the Russian Academy of Science showed that particles in plasma can undergo self-organization as electric charges become separated and the plasma becomes polarized in their paper entitled From Plasma Crystals and Helical Structures towards Inorganic Living Matter, published in the New Journal of Physics in August 2007.

Past studies, subject to Earth’s gravity, have shown that if enough particles are injected into a low-temperature plasma, they will spontaneously organize into crystal-like structures or “plasma crystals”. Tsytovich’s computer simulations suggest that in the gravity-free environment of space, the plasma particles will bead together to form string-like filaments which will then twist into helical strands resembling DNA that are electrically charged and are attracted to each other.

The helical structures undergo changes that are normally associated with biological molecules, such as DNA and proteins, say the researchers. They can, for instance, divide to form copies of the original structure; which then interact to induce changes in their neighbors that evolve into other new structures. The less stable structures break down over time leaving behind only the structures that are most adapted to the environment. “These complex, self-organized plasma structures exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter”, says Tsytovich, “they are autonomous, they reproduce and they evolve”.

He adds that the ionized conditions needed to form these helical structures are common in outer space. If that is so, then it will mean that plasma life forms are the most common life form in the universe, given that plasma makes up more than 99% of our universe which is almost everywhere ionized. This is in stark contrast to carbon-based life forms, which according to the Rare Earth hypothesis proposed by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee, would be rare in the universe due to a number of factors – including the need for an acceptable range of temperatures to survive.

Plasma, on the other hand, is associated with high temperatures. Plasma life forms would be much more adapted to environments which would be considered hostile to carbon-based life forms. It is possible that plasma life forms were already present in the gas and materials that formed the Earth 4.6 billion years ago. Carbon-based biomolecular life forms only appeared 1 billion years later. Tsytovich and other scientists (including Lozneanu and Sanduloviciu, discussed below) have proposed that plasma life forms, in fact, spurred development of organic carbon-based life on Earth.

In this connection, Tsytovich pointed out that plasma life forms can develop under more down to Earth conditions such as at the point of a lightning strike. The researchers hint that perhaps a plasma form of life emerged on the primordial Earth which had a highly ionized atmosphere, which then acted as the template for the more familiar organic molecules we know today. A plasma bubble could form at the end of a lightning strike and act as a mould for chemicals to conform with to form a primitive biological cell.

Plasma Life Forms in the Laboratory
This is not the first time in recent years that plasma life forms have been studied. In 2003 physicists; Erzilia Lozneanu and Mircea Sanduloviciu of Cuza University, Romania, described in their research paper Minimal Cell System created in Laboratory by Self-Organization (published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, volume 18, page 335), how they created plasma spheres in the laboratory that can grow, replicate and communicate – fulfilling most of the traditional requirements for biological cells. They are convinced that these plasma spheres offer a radically new explanation of how life began and proposed that they were precursors to biological evolution.

The researchers studied environmental conditions similar to those that existed on the Earth before life began, when the planet was enveloped in electric storms that caused ionized gases to form in the atmosphere. They inserted two electrodes into a chamber containing a low-temperature polarized plasma of argon – a gas in which some of the atoms have been split into negatively-charged electrons and positively-charged ions. They applied a high voltage to the electrodes, producing an arc of energy that bolted across the gap between them, like a miniature lightning strike. Sanduloviciu says this electric spark caused a high concentration of ions and electrons to accumulate at the positively charged electrode, which spontaneously formed spheres.

Each sphere had a boundary made up of two layers – an outer layer of negatively charged electrons and an inner layer of positively charged ions. Trapped inside the boundary was an inner nucleus of gas atoms – which was surrounded by a luminous sheet. An electric field was present between the boundary and nucleus, within which electrons are accelerated. The evolved sphere appears as a stable, self-confined, layered, luminous and nearly spherical body – much like the “orbs” described in the paranormal literature and discussed below. The amount of energy in the initial spark governed their size and lifespan. Sanduloviciu grew spheres from a few micrometers up to three centimeters in diameter.

Lozneanu and Sanduloviciu describe a rhythmic “inhalation” of the nucleus which mimics the breathing process of living systems and results in pulsations. The spheres could replicate by splitting into two. Under the right conditions they grew bigger, taking up neutral argon atoms and splitting them into ions and electrons to replenish their boundary layers. Finally, they could communicate information by emitting electromagnetic energy, making the atoms within other spheres vibrate at a particular frequency. “This is no different from the vibrating diaphragm in a telephone which enables information to be communicated from one point to another,” says David Cohen, reporting in the journal New Scientist. This would give these plasma spheres an ability which would be described as telepathic if we did not know how electromagnetic waves worked. Sanduloviciu insists that although the spheres require high temperature to form, they can survive at lower temperatures. “That would be the sort of environment in which normal biochemical interactions occur”.
According to Sanduloviciu, these plasma spheres were the first cells on Earth, arising within electric storms, and he believes that the emergence of such spheres is a prerequisite for the evolution of biological cells. He says that the cell-like spheres could be at the origin of other forms of life we have not yet considered. “There could be life out there, but not as we know it” he says. Indeed, according to plasma metaphysics, the microscopic orbs (described in the paranormal literature) and the macroscopic subtle bodies (described in the metaphysical literature) are plasma-based life forms.

Plasma Orbs in Paranormal Literature
In 2004 (as reported in the Physical News Update by Phil Schewe and Ben Stein) an experiment was conducted where particles in a plasma crystal arranged themselves into neat concentric shells (or rings – from a two-dimensional perspective), to a total ball diameter of several millimeters. These orderly Coulomb balls, consisting of aligned, concentric shells of dust particles, survived for long periods. This structure was described as an “onion-like architecture”. (Dark matter halos around galaxies also have similar structures.)

Paranormal analyst, Allan Danelek (in his book The Case for Ghosts) says, “One could think of orbs as ‘tiny ghosts’ moving around a room, their essence being contained within a tiny sphere of pure energy, like air inside a bubble.” This description matches the description of life-like pulsating plasma spheres generated in the laboratory by Lozneanu and Sanduloviciu. According to the paranormal literature “orbs” are light anomalies that appear on photographs and video as spherical balls of light but as flashes of light to the naked eye because of their rapid speed of motion. They exhibit intentional behavior – suggesting some consciousness or awareness of the environment.

Orbs often travel in groups or clusters i.e. they exhibit swarm behavior – also a characteristic of particles in plasma – a characteristic observed by Bohm (see above). Orbs also can dart back and forth rapidly like amoebic life-forms in a Petri dish. The balls can be transparent, translucent or in a bright solid form. These are signature features of magnetic plasma which has the natural property of being able to change its degree of opacity when internal frequencies change. Magnetic plasma would also allow orbs to change their output of light or luminosity.

Looking at these balls in close-up reveals that they possess an onion-like layered structure i.e. they have concentric shells – a signature feature of plasma crystals. Danelek says, “…’true orbs’ do not reflect light the same way a dust particle or flying insect does, but are instead generally more opaque and, in some cases, even appear to have rings within them.” Experienced ghost hunter Joshua Warren (in his excellent book How to Hunt Ghosts) says, “Often, orbs appear to have a nucleus, just like a cell. The nucleus might be surrounded by ‘bands’ – concentric circles emerging from it. In fact, it might appear like an onion that’s been chopped in half.” All these characteristics are identical to plasma crystals generated in the laboratory.

Some believe that an orb is a human soul or the life force of those that once inhabited a physical-dense body. Psychics claim to be able to communicate with them on a regular basis, and ghost hunters encounter them quite frequently in photographs and video. It is thought that they are conscious spirits that have stayed behind because they feel bound to their previous life or previous location for whatever reason – a typical characteristic of “Earth-bound” physical-etheric ghosts. According to plasma metaphysics, (genuine) orbs are plasma life forms and are identical to the physical-etheric nuclei observed by metaphysicists Charles Leadbeater and Annie Besant that are released from dying persons.
Subtle Bioplasma Bodies in the Metaphysical Literature

The Subtle Body is a Bioplasma Body

The subtle bodies described in the metaphysical literature (particularly the yoga and New Age literature) have signature features associated with plasma.

These include:
• Networks of filamentary currents (known as “nadis” or “meridians” in the metaphysical literature).
• Helical currents, aligned with the spine, which resemble helical pinches and “snakes” often found in plasma.
• Plasma vortexes (know as “chakras” in the metaphysical literature) caused by the helical movement of particles entering the bioplasma body.
• Jets or beams of collimated light that issue out from these vortexes which evidence a plasma discharge (similar to what issues out of a plasma gun).
• A magnetized plasma ovoid which surrounds and shields subtle bodies from the environment (just as the Earth is protected by the magnetosphere – a sphere composed of collisionless magnetized plasma).
• A plasma (Langmuir) sheath (know as an “auric sheath” or “auric shell” in the metaphysical literature) which encloses the ovoid.
• The ability of subtle bodies to pass through each other suggesting that they are composed of collisionless plasma.
• The ability of subtle bodies to emit light (not simply reflect them) that generate colorful halos.
• The ability of subtle bodies to change their degree of opacity – becoming transparent or translucent.
• The electrical feel of subtle bodies.
• The responsiveness of subtle bodies to electromagnetic fields.

All these features were described and documented more than 2,000 years ago, mainly in the Hindu and Chinese acupuncture literature; but also alluded to in the Buddhist and Christian scriptures and literature – long before the age of electricity and magnetism which was only sparked-off in the eighteenth century. Furthermore, the list above is not exhaustive – it is only meant to be a sample of the features of subtle bodies which unmistakably points to plasma. Details of the above observations can be found in the previous articles and books by this author.
The Spark of Life

According to plasma metaphysics, subtle bodies live in a magnetic plasma sphere (an ordinarily invisible counterpart Earth) – an environment similar to the early (physical-dense) Earth.

During in vitro fertilization the human embryo is given an electrical jolt to spark-off cell division. The purpose of this routine electrical intervention is not known. All is known is that cell division is unlikely to occur in the absence of this electrical intervention. According to plasma metaphysics (Our Invisible Bodies, 2006), this electrical spark is necessary to generate a plasma bubble which acts as a catalyst during embryogenesis. Unlike a biomolecular environment, a plasma environment allows long-range correlations, without which a 3 dimensional structure could not be projected from a 1 dimensional gene. An embryo within a human body is protected by the plasma bubble (i.e. the physical-etheric double) of the mother and inherits a bubble within this environment. (In this process, it acquires what the Qigong literature refers to as “prenatal qi”.)

Accelerated Morphogenesis of the Bioplasma Double
An embryonic bioplasma body is projected into the plasma bubble based on information in the physical-etheric double of the DNA. In fact, subtle radiation containing holographic information was observed by researchers at the Russian Academy of Science as a surprise effect during experiments when they were measuring the vibrational modes of DNA in solution using a sophisticated laser photon correlation spectrometer. According to Sue Benford, their research suggests the existence of a subtle radiation linked to physical DNA that supports the hypothesis of an intact energy field containing relevant ‘organismal information’. The Russian experiments produced different measurements when DNA was present and removed from the scattering chamber. These results were contrary to the expectations of the experimenters. After duplicating the initial experiment many times with re-calibrated equipment, the scientists were forced to accept that some new field structure existed. This embryonic bioplasma body within the plasma bubble (which contains helical currents) grows together with the physical-biomolecular body but at an accelerated rate, being aided by the long range correlations present in the plasma but absent in the biochemical field.

Morphogenesis of the Physical Biomolecular Body
There is mutual affinity between the bioplasma and physical-biomolecular bodies. In fact, the term “plasma” is derived from a Greek word meaning “to mould” and was coined by Langmuir based on his observations of the manner in which the positive column of a glow discharge tended to mould itself to the containing tube. Similarly, the bioplasma fetus wraps around the physical-biomolecular embryo while undergoing an accelerated morphogenesis (relative to the physical-biomolecular embryo). The physical-biomolecular body therefore is cued by the bioplasma body which acts an electronic matrix and a time-resolved hologram that guides its development. The bioplasma body, in turn, acts as a mould or a template body for the development of the single-celled physical-biomolecular embryo to the adult body. This has frequently been pointed out by metaphysicists, including Leadbeater, Besant and Barbara Brennan.

Complex biological evolution could not have taken place on Earth without the aid of the templates provided by subtle bioplasma bodies which interacted with biochemical fields via weak electromagnetic fields. These bioplasma bodies are composed of high energy particles and inhabit (magnetized) plasmaspheres which share the same space and gravitational field as the physical-dense Earth. The lowest energy plasmasphere has been described by metaphysicists as the physical-etheric Earth.

Conclusion
As proposed by Tsytovich, Lozneanu and Sanduloviciu, the physical-dense plasma cell was a precursor to the biological cell in the early (physical-dense) Earth – acting as a template or mould for the biological cell to form in 3 dimensional space. However, the lightning strikes that generated the physical-dense plasma cells also generated physical-etheric plasma cells in the physical-etheric Earth. As the conditions on Earth changed and the environment became progressively less ionized, the physical-dense plasma cell was less frequently generated. However, the physical-etheric plasma cell (existing in the physical-etheric Earth) remained as it participated in the development of the biological body to which it was attached to and subsequently was transmitted together with the biological cells in various forms of reproduction – both asexual and sexual.
Copyright © Jay Alfred 2007

Jay Alfred is the author of three books on a new field called “plasma metaphysics”. The books include Our Invisible Bodies, Brains and Realities and Between the Moon and Earth. Plasma metaphysics is the application of plasma physics and supersymmetry to the study of our high energy subtle bodies and their corresponding environments. These bodies include the “bioplasma” bodies and “astral” bodies found in the metaphysical literature. Plasma metaphysics provides an internally consistent framework for the study of these bodies against the backdrop of modern physics. The books are available at Amazon online bookstores. Visit the Plasma Metaphysics Blog.

from: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=111062

Zuckerberg (Suckerberg) Thinks Highly of His Users

Posted on July 8, 2026 by marcia

Facebook founder called trusting users dumb f*cks

Peace Prize for Mr Zuckerberg?

Andrew Orlowski

Published Fri 14 May 2010 // 11:33 UTC

Loveable Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called his first few thousand users “dumb fucks” for trusting him with their data, published IM transcripts show. Facebook hasn’t disputed the authenticity of the transcript.

Zuckerberg was chatting with an unnamed friend, apparently in early 2004. Business Insider, which has a series of quite juicy anecdotes about Facebook’s early days, takes the credit for this one.

The exchange apparently ran like this:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don’t know why.

Zuck: They “trust me”

Zuck: Dumb fucks

The founder was then 19, and he may have been joking. But humour tells you a lot. Some might say that this exchange shows Zuckerberg was not particularly aware of the trust issue in all its depth and complexity.

Facebook is currently in the spotlight for its relentlessly increasing exposure of data its users assumed was private. This is nicely illustrated in the interactive graphic you can find here or by clicking the piccie to the right.

In turn, its fall from grace has made backers of the ‘social media’ bubble quite nervous. Many new white collar nonjobs created since the mid-Noughties depend on the commercial value of your output, and personal information. (Both are invariably donated for free).

But there’s a problem.

Much of the data created by Web2.0rrhea is turning out to be quite useless for advertisers – or anyone else. Marketeers are having a harder time justifying the expenditure in sifting through the Web 2.0 septic tank for the odd useful nugget of information.

Facebook’s data stash is regarded as something quite special. It’s authenticated against a real person, and the users tend to be over 35 and middle class – the ideal demographic for selling high value goods and services. In addition, users have so far been ‘sticky’ to Facebook, something quite exceptional since social networks fall out of fashion (Friends Reunited, Friendster) as quickly as they attract users.

Facebook also has something else going for it – ordinary users regard it as the natural upgrade to Hotmail. In fact, once the crap has been peeled away, there may not be much more to Facebook than the Yahoo! or Hotmail Address Book with knobs on: the contact book is nicely integrated, uploading photos to share easier, while everything else is gravy. Unlike tech-savvy users, many people remain loyal to these for years. ®

from: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2010/05/14/facebook-founder-called-trusting-users-dumb-fcks/294365

(And this was 2010, so how bad is it now? You be the judge…)

Missed Your Jabs? Here Is Another Chance.

Posted on July 7, 2026 by marcia

CDC Awards Pfizer $1.24 Billion for Updated Covid Vaccines

byVeronika KyrylenkoJune 15, 2026

For many in the MAHA movement, it is another blow. They hoped President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) would confront the devastating carnage of Covid vaccine policy.

Instead, the federal government has just awarded Pfizer new Covid vaccine contracts worth about $1.24 billion.

The contracts cover pediatric and adult doses for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. According to federal procurement records, the pediatric contract carries a ceiling of $735,720,598. The adult contract is valued at about $505.3 million.

The awards come as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to approve updated boosters, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has shifted to a vague “individual-based decision-making” standard for many Americans, without anything close to full informed consent. They also come even though public demand has collapsed for shots associated with some of the gravest harms such as cancer, myocarditis and premature death.

Including these two Covid vaccine contracts, public listings show the Trump administration has awarded the infamous corporation about $7.34 billion in federal contract capacity since March 23, 2025.

Low Demand

The CDC awarded the contracts through its Office of Acquisition Services. The hefty size of these awards raises the most basic procurement question: Who is this product for?

CDC’s own numbers show a market the public has largely abandoned.

As of May 9, 2026, only 9.7 percent of children had been reported as being up to date with the 2025-2026 Covid vaccine. Only 3.0 percent of children had a parent who said they definitely planned to get the child vaccinated.

The adult numbers are not much better.

Even older Americans, the group federal officials say receives the greatest “benefit” from the shots, are not rushing to take them. As of March 28, only 22.6 percent of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries 65 and older had been vaccinated.

The same pattern holds among pregnant women, another group federal officials routinely classify as “at risk.” As of May 9, only 11.1 percent of pregnant women had gotten the booster. Put differently, nearly nine in ten expectant mothers — thankfully! — have declined it.

The agency’s commercial claims data also showed about 20.82 million adult doses administered in retail pharmacies, and about 2.47 million in physicians’ offices, as of April 25.

At CDC’s listed Pfizer prices, the $1.24 billion award would cover roughly 13.6 million to 18 million doses. That figure does not prove the government expects demand to rebound. It proves something more revealing. Even after the public walked away, Washington is still underwriting a large Pfizer Covid vaccine market.

It did the same last season. CDC’s archived 2024-2025 vaccine price list shows separate Pfizer contract vehicles for adult and pediatric Covid vaccines, with adult Comirnaty listed at $69.44 per dose and pediatric Pfizer formulas priced between $48.88 and $99.71 per dose. The 2026-2027 awards do not break from that model, they extend it.

The Pediatric Question

The pediatric award is the most explosive part.

Brian Hooker, chief scientific officer at Children’s Health Defense (CHD), a nonprofit founded by Kennedy, put the objection bluntly. He called it “$1.24 billion for what is essentially a cold in minor children.”

At the same time, the risks are enormous. Federal regulators have long known that mRNA Covid vaccines carry an elevated risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, especially in young males. The FDA added myocarditis and pericarditis warnings to Pfizer and Moderna vaccine fact sheets in June 2021. In 2025, the agency required another labeling update, saying the observed risk was highest in males ages 12 through 24. Notably, one recent major study found myocarditis and pericarditis only among vaccinated children, with zero cases recorded among the unvaccinated.

Nor is Washington’s approach universal. For example, early on into the rollout, several Nordic countries moved away from broad Covid vaccination for healthy children and young people.

Florida broke with the policy as well. In 2022, it became the first state to recommend against Covid mRNA vaccination for healthy children. In 2024, the state went further and advised against mRNA Covid vaccines for all populations.

This magazine has extensively documented links between mRNA shots and a range of serious, often irreversible side effects. Those include neurological and immunological damage, menstrual and other reproductive abnormalities, cancer, and premature death. Federal health agencies dispute broad causal claims in those categories. But to this day, they have not produced the kind of transparent, public accounting that would settle the issue for families who were harmed.

Obviously, the new Pfizer contracts do not answer those questions. They simply move past them.

The ACIP Problem

There are also legal and procedural questions.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) plays a central role in vaccine recommendations. Its decisions affect federal programs, insurance coverage, and the Vaccines for Children (VCP) program.

Kennedy moved to reshape ACIP. However, a federal judge later blocked many of his appointments and stayed the votes taken by the reconstituted panel, finding that Kennedy’s overhaul likely violated federal law.

That dispute now hangs over federal vaccine policy.

Dr. Robert Malone questioned whether the CDC can properly use vaccine program funds for these purchases without valid ACIP authorization.

“Use of VFC funds requires ACIP authorization,” Malone told CHD. “But there is no ACIP.”

That claim will likely face pushback. Federal agencies often argue that existing schedules, prior recommendations, and procurement authority allow them to maintain supply.

Still, the question is not trivial. If ACIP is frozen, compromised, or legally disputed, then the public deserves clarity before another billion dollars flow to Pfizer.

The Emergency That Never Ends

The contracts also sit beside a larger shield.

The federal Covid public health emergency ended in 2023. But the liability regime under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, known as the PREP Act, did not end with it.

In December 2024, then-outgoing HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra extended the Covid PREP Act declaration through December 31, 2029. It preserved liability protections for manufacturers, distributors, program planners, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and other qualified persons involved in covered Covid countermeasures.

That is why the new contracts matter so much.

The government is not merely buying a product. It is buying that product inside a special legal structure that limits ordinary routes of accountability for injuries caused by it.

Kennedy has had time and authority to end that injustice. He knows exactly what it is. In 2023, he described the PREP Act as a shield that allows pharmaceutical companies “to get away with mass murder.”

And yet, now in power, Kennedy has failed to act.

The episode is another reminder that the federal government has no constitutional authority to manage healthcare. As this magazine has long argued, that power must be returned to the states, local communities, and families forced to live with the consequences.

from: https://thenewamerican.com/us/healthcare/cdc-awards-pfizer-1-24-billion-for-updated-covid-vaccines/

A Little Dialogue on Peter Thiel’s Dialog

Posted on July 7, 2026 by marcia

Report: Inside Peter Thiel’s Private Club, Where Oligarchy Builds the Future

byVeronika KyrylenkoJune 18, 2026

A leak from Peter Thiel’s private Dialog society offers a rare look at how America’s political, military, financial, and technology elites gather when they believe the public is not watching.

The result is not just embarrassing. It is revealing.

According to records reviewed by WIRED, Dialog is a private, invitation-only organization co-founded in 2006 by Thiel. Per the report:

It convenes US officials, foreign government figures, and Silicon Valley executives at off-the-record annual retreats. Dialog has spent two decades declining to disclose its members.

Now, internal records exposed online show who was invited, what they discussed, and what kind of world this circle is imagining.

Thiel is a co-founder of Palantir, the data-mining and surveillance company seeded by the CIA’s venture arm and now deeply embedded in government contracting across multiple administrations. He is also one of President Donald Trump’s most important Silicon Valley patrons and a Republican megadonor. And his name has surfaced in the Jeffrey Epstein orbit, with records and reporting describing meetings, correspondence, and Epstein’s own references to Thiel as a “great friend.”

Notably, WIRED also pointed to a Dialog connection in the Epstein files. In 2012, according to Department of Justice records, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall forwarded Epstein an invitation to a Dialog retreat and asked whether it was “worthwhile” to attend.

In that invite, the club’s ambitions were spelled out clearly: They wanted to “change the world.” The invitation says it brings together only a limited number of participants of “global” and “emerging” leaders “who can help implement the plans we develop.”

The Attendees

The leak shows Dialog as more than a networking retreat. It is a private forum that brings together power brokers from government, finance, technology, intelligence, surveillance, and politics.

As WIRED put it, “the documents show an extraordinary convergence of power.” It continues:

The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s supreme allied commander of Europe and the head of U.S. European Command…. The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two U.S. senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country’s largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies.

The report further points to prominent decision-makers in public finance and commerce. Among the attendees are

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority.

There are others:

Randy Kroszner, a former governor of the Federal Reserve who now serves on the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee; Hallie Hoffman, a former general counsel and acting chief of staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration; Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League; Peter Goettler, the president of the Cato Institute; Ryan Stowers, the executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation; and Roger Myerson, a Nobel laureate economist at the University of Chicago.

In other words, “just” an intimate private retreat where the people who write the rules meet the people who profit from them. As they say, “nothing to see here.”

The Names

Beyond the names already mentioned, the roster includes others who need little introduction:

Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.)
Peter Goettler, president of the Cato Institute
Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Representative Jim Himes (D-Conn.)
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and Middle East envoy
Tom Lue, general counsel and head of governance at Google DeepMind
Souad Mekhennet, former Washington Post reporter
Wes Moore, governor of Maryland
Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube
Jared Polis, governor of Colorado
Rick Warren, evangelical pastor
Ezra Klein, political commentator

The oligarchic class is well represented. The leak names the following billionaires (and one trillionaire):

John Arnold, Centaurus Advisors and Arnold Ventures; $2.8 billion
Nicolas Berggruen, Berggruen Holdings and Berggruen Institute; $2.9 billion
Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian; $7.7 billion
Scott Cook, Intuit; $4.4 billion
Marcos Galperin, MercadoLibre; $6.8 billion
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn and Greylock Partners; $2.7 billion
Henry Kravis, KKR; $12.2 billion
Joe Lonsdale, Palantir, 8VC, and OpenGov; estimated $2.8 billion
Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, X, and xAI; $1.3 trillion
Eric Schmidt, Google and Schmidt Futures; $40.1 billion
Barry Sternlicht, Starwood Capital Group; $3.1 billion
Peter Thiel, Palantir, Founders Fund, and PayPal; $27.8 billion

“Off-the-record”

WIRED reported that the leaked materials include a registration list for Dialog’s 2026 retreat near Dublin, Ireland. The list names 222 registrants. Some are marked as “active member” or “guest.” Others are first-time attendees. Many appear to have registered with personal or corporate emails rather than government accounts.

That detail is not minor. If public officials attend sensitive gatherings through private channels, their participation can fall outside the normal paper trail of government accountability. The issue is not whether every conversation is improper. The issue is that the public cannot know what its “public servants” are discussing with the wealthy industries they oversee.

Dialog’s structure appears designed for precisely that kind of discretion. One internal moderator guide reportedly tells participants that everything is “off-the-record.” It also urges comments to be concise and “nonobvious.” That raises the obvious question: If senators, generals, government officials, investors, and executives are discussing matters that could shape the public’s future, why is the public the one party not allowed in the room?

The Agenda

The retreat agenda is striking because it includes sessions that sound almost like parody. Per the report:

The program of off-the-record sessions includes “Money (Does?) Buy Happiness,” “Bring Back Nuclear,” “Navigating WWIII,” “Battlefield Technologies,” and “How’s Your Sex Life?” Other talks include “Build-a-Cult,” moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site Pray.com, and “Build-a-Party,” run by a former White House national security official.

Those titles matter because they show the worldview of the gathering. This is not a civic conference about ordinary public problems. It is a private space where powerful people appear to discuss war, technology, sex, religion, political organization, and social control in the same breath.

The “Build-a-Cult” session is especially striking. America’s Founders built a constitutional system around distrust of concentrated power, personal rule, and political worship. They would have recognized the danger immediately. Ordinarily, the word “cult” is a glaring warning. In this setting, it appears as a workshop topic, particularly chilling against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s controversial blurring of the line between church and state, its misuse of Christian messaging and symbols in war propaganda and political communications, and its reliance on megachurch networks.

The “Battlefield Technologies” and “Navigating WWIII” sessions raise a different concern. Defense technology is no longer a narrow military subject. It is now intertwined with artificial intelligence, surveillance, drones, data systems, and private contractors. When senior officials and nominally private companies discuss those themes “off-the-record,” the public has reason to ask who benefits, and what it means for future conflicts.

The Data-state Nexus

The most troubling part of the report, however, is not the eccentric agenda. It is the overlap between nominally private data companies and public power.

Dialog’s chairman, Auren Hoffman, is not just a conference organizer. He is a data-industry operator and investor: the founder of SafeGraph and LiveRamp, companies tied to location data and identity resolution, and a general partner at Flex Capital, a seed-stage venture firm with a broad portfolio across the digital economy. That makes him a connector as much as an entrepreneur, someone whose network sits at the intersection of data infrastructure, venture capital, and political access.

Alongside Thiel, another Palantir co-founder, Joe Lonsdale, is also listed in the report. Lonsdale is another Trump donor. He helped fund Trump’s 2024 campaign through Elon Musk’s America PAC. He then advised the administration on “government spending and efficiency” through the now-infamous DOGE.

Buried beneath the loud political theater of long-promised government efficiency, DOGE’s true mission had been spelled out early: to “modernize government software” in line with an “AI First Agenda.” The result was not so much the exposure and cutting of government “waste, fraud and abuse” as the digitization of government itself. That is what DOGE appears to have successfully achieved.

Once that happened, the Trump administration contracted Palantir to fuse datasets on every American, potentially creating detailed profiles on every citizen.

At the same time, Palantir’s software is used across immigration enforcement, healthcare, defense, and intelligence systems.

The Tech Future

The leaked materials also show a group preoccupied with “artificial intelligence, longevity, and the near future.”

On that future, the Dialog elites are not optimistic. WIRED reports:

Asked on a sign-up form to predict what comes next, registrants returned again and again to the same theme: AI will reorder work, war, education and belief within a few years. Several foresee mass labor displacement and a swing back toward unions and government programs. Others predict an “AI winter,” domestic terrorism targeting data centers, criminal defendants choosing AI lawyers over public defenders, or religious revival provoked by the disruption.

“Societal degeneration,” one person predicted, “will continue to accelerate.”

That last phrase captures the mood. Dialog appears to be a place where elites debate societal collapse while remaining insulated from the people who would live through it. Thiel himself recently made news after “temporarily” moving his family to Buenos Aires, part of what wealth advisors now call “sovereign diversification,” a polite phrase for the billionaire search for backup jurisdictions, tax shelters, and places to ride out the crises they help create.

There is a long tradition of powerful people gathering privately to discuss the future. One example is the Bilderberg Group, hosted this year in Washington, D.C. Notably, Thiel is a member of its steering committee. But the AI era raises the stakes. A small set of companies and investors now control tools that could drastically transform labor markets, policing, warfare, education, media, and political persuasion. At the same time, those same people are finding ways to “penetrate government” itself, to borrow the infamous maxim, through lobbying, political spending, advisory roles, and the revolving door. Obviously, their private conversations with public officials should not be treated as harmless salon culture.

Republic vs. Oligarchy

The deeper irony of the Dialog leak is not that a private club failed to protect its own secrets. It is that the ultra-wealthy and well-connected people exposed in the leak are helping build a world where privacy increasingly belongs only to them.

Dialog reportedly collected political leanings, matchmaking answers, and private access tokens, then promised discretion. When the data spilled out, the lesson was obvious: The powerful value privacy when it is their own.

Everyone else is pushed into a different bargain.

It includes digital IDs, digital money, tokenized assets, biometric checkpoints, travel databases, location tracking, identity graphs, AI risk-scoring, and mass-data collection, all dressed up as convenience, safety, and modernization.

But what emerges is not a republic. A republic requires visible, accountable power and private, responsible citizens. An oligarchy reverses the order.

Dialog shows that reversal in miniature. Billionaires, data brokers, defense contractors, political donors, and public servants gather privately to “change the world.” The public is not invited into the room. It is forced to simply accept this new world and comply with its rules.

So the question is no longer whether powerful people are meeting in private. They always have. The question is whether a Republic can survive when those private clubs are building the instruments through which everyone else will be watched, measured, scored, and governed.

from: https://thenewamerican.com/us/tech/report-inside-peter-thiels-private-club-where-oligarchy-builds-the-future/

MMR Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Posted on July 7, 2026 by marcia

New Study Shows MMR Vaccines Linked to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

June 22, 2026 Nic Hulscher, RFK and MJ Truth Ultra 3

A new study titled ‘Deaths Following MMR and MMRV Vaccination in the United States’ examined the link between vaccine-related deaths in children. The study found that most of the vaccine-related deaths occurred when the children were aged one to one and a half years, which coincides with the time that MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccines are given. MMR and MMRV vaccine deaths were 2600% higher than deaths from measles infection since 1995.

This study was published in February 2026, but was recently removed from the Toxicology Reports publication. You can read the full report at this ilink:

https://zenodo.org/records/18671462

The woman in the video below tragically lost here son 40 years ago and she cried that she poisoned her baby with a vaccine that she was told was safe.

RFK, Jr. explains how drug manufacturers benefit from the vaccine “gold rush”:

Save Your Kids! Save Yourselves!

Posted on July 7, 2026 by marcia

Technocracy’s Digital ID Is Being Smuggled In On The Backs Of Children

Enter, the KIDS Act…

PATRICK WOOD

JUL 03, 2026

I have spent more than fifteen years analyzing technocracy as a system of rule by engineered administration, where the credential replaces the citizen, and the dashboard replaces the vote. Technocrats have their requirements, and they keep hammering on them until they get their way.

In all those years, how many times have we seen digital ID come up? Just about every year!

The fact is, Technocrats need digital identity to work. Without it, Technocracy is dead. You cannot administer what you cannot enumerate. You cannot meter, permission, or exclude a population that you cannot individually identify. Programmable money, social scoring, algorithmic governance, all of it waits on a unique, verified, machine-readable identity for every human being.

That is why the past twelve months deserve your full attention. The hinge pin for digital ID is being fitted right now, on both sides of the Atlantic, and the hand doing the fitting is wearing a child-safety armband. The Technocrat’s feigned concern for children is so patently hollow that it borders on child abuse.

First, The Age Check For Minors, Then ID For Everybody

Britain ran the experiment first, so watch this pattern.

In July 2025, the age-verification rules of the Online Safety Act took effect. To protect children, adults were suddenly required to upload government IDs or submit to face scans to reach lawful content on Reddit, X, and Discord. The public understood immediately what an “age check” really is. It is an identity check with a bedtime story attached.

The response was remarkable. VPN signups surged by more than a thousand percent within hours of enforcement. One provider compared the numbers to what it sees during civil unrest. Millions of ordinary Britons, no manifesto required, simply refused to show papers at the door of the internet. These weren’t extremists as the government maintained, but ordinary, run-of-the-mill citizens.

Two months later the government showed its hand. The Prime Minister announced a national digital ID, mandatory for the right to work. The pretext shifted from children to migrants, but the architecture was the same. No credential, no participation. That Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, happens to be a member of the elitist Trilateral Commission.

Then the public won the first round. Nearly three million people signed a petition against the scheme, one of the largest in parliamentary history. Opposition came from every direction at once, left and right, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and by January 2026, the government retreated to a “voluntary” ID. Read the fine print, though. Digital right-to-work checks are still on track to become effectively unavoidable. The ID is optional, just as cash is optional once every register goes card-only.

Now watch American Technocrats run the same play. In June 2026, the House passed the KIDS Act, a package that consolidated 14 separate child-safety bills into a single vote. Its defenders point to language disclaiming any age-verification mandate, and that language is real. But the liability standard does the work instead. Platforms face consequences if they “should have known” a user was a minor. No general counsel on earth reads that phrase and concludes the company should collect less identity data.

The Senate side is more revealing, even if there are doubts about passing. A package is being negotiated that would trade children’s online safety legislation for federal preemption of state AI laws. Sit with that switch-a-roo for a moment. The most powerful industry in history is offering to accept identity-adjacent rules for the public in exchange for removing safety rules for itself. The children are the currency, not the beneficiary.

Always Call Them Out By Name

Skeptics like Jeremy Boreing tell me Technocracy has no unified plans, names, or even an address. Here are three names (there are many more), and I invent nothing about any of them. The public record says it all.

Start with Sam Altman, because he skipped the pretexts and built His company, Tools for Humanity, that manufactures the Orb, a biometric device that scans human irises and issues a “proof of personhood.” The project’s founding white paper described the goal as “a globally-inclusive identity and financial network, owned by the majority of humanity.” Every human. That is the stated scope.

So far, the project has scanned millions of people across roughly 160 countries. It rolled thousands of Orbs into American cities in 2025. By this spring, it had struck verification partnerships with Tinder, Zoom, and DocuSign. Dating, work, and contracts: that is the connective tissue of ordinary life, and it is being wired to an eyeball scan.

Governments elsewhere saw the danger in the Orb. Brazil banned the project outright. Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand halted it, citing consent violations and the recruitment of poor communities paid for their eyeballs. It expands anyway. And savor the business model. The man whose AI floods the internet with convincing bots now sells the only antidote, proof that you are not a bot. He built the disease, he owns the cure, and the cure is a global biometric registry.

Marc Andreessen shows you the financing. His firm, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), was an early and repeated backer of Altman’s identity project, participating in the funding rounds that built the Orb network. At the same time, Andreessen and his partners helped bankroll Leading the Future, one of the largest super PACs in the history of technology politics. Its purpose is to elect politicians who will preempt and dismantle state-level AI regulation, the very preemption now being traded for kids’ safety bills in the Senate.

Follow both hands at once. One hand funds the infrastructure that credentials every human. The other funds the campaign to strip oversight from the machines. Deregulate the algorithms, register the people. You do not need to infer this from whispers. It is written in funding announcements and FEC filings.

Peter Thiel supplies the government side of the pincer. The company he co-founded, Palantir, saw its federal contracts nearly double to roughly a billion dollars in 2025, spanning ICE, the IRS, and the Pentagon. A March 2025 executive order instructed agencies to eliminate “information silos,” which is bureaucratese for merging the data files. Reporting throughout 2025 and 2026 placed Palantir at the center of efforts to link tax records, Social Security data, health claims, and immigration status across agencies.

Even a Republican congressman, Warren Davidson, said the quiet part aloud. Combining those data points, he warned, “essentially creates a digital ID.” Notice the form it takes. No card in your wallet, no enrollment ceremony. A dossier assembled on the server side, which is the one kind of digital identity nobody ever asks you to consent to. Britain knows the pattern too. Palantir won the contract to consolidate NHS patient data, nearly half a billion pounds, over loud objections from privacy campaigners.

Three men, three vectors, and this is the tip of the iceberg. Altman builds the credential. Andreessen finances it while defunding oversight. Thiel fuses the state’s records behind it. Do they meet in a smoke-filled room? They do not need to. Interests that align coordinate themselves, and that self-coordination is exactly what makes technocracy durable. It requires no conspiracy, only convergence.

It’s Always The Children

Notice what none of these projects leads with. Control never introduces itself as control. Digital ID never arrives as a demand. It arrives as a favor. Protect the children. Stop the bots. Catch the fraudsters. Secure the border.

Each rationale is genuinely sympathetic, which is exactly why each is selected. The children are the most effective of all, because no politician survives a vote against “child safety.” So the age check becomes the wedge, the wedge becomes the norm, and the norm carries the full system in behind it.”

Britain presented a timetable of 14 months from age checks to a national ID proposal.

The Pushback Is Working, So Get Busy While Time Remains

Here is the part the doom alarmists leave out, and it matters. The public keeps winning.

Britain repealed Blair’s ID cards in 2011. The mandatory BritCard was gutted in four months by petition signatures and cross-party revolt, Farage and Corbyn objecting in the same season. Brazil threw the Orb out of the country and fined it for coming back. Even in Washington, the bill that actually passed the House had its most speech-restrictive provision stripped out first, and nearly a hundred advocacy groups fought it from one side while civil liberties groups fought it from the other.

Every one of those victories came from ordinary people making noise: signing, calling, refusing, switching on a VPN as an act of quiet defiance. The architects of these systems are patient, but they are not invincible, and they retreat every single time the public notices before the concrete sets.

If Britain’s voluntary ID stays genuinely voluntary through 2029, if American age checks stay confined to explicit-content sites, if World ID never becomes a de facto requirement for work or platforms, then the hinge-pin reading loses force, and I will be happy to say so in print.

But watch the edge, because that is where this gets decided. The right-to-work check that quietly requires the “optional” credential. The liability rule that makes identity collection the cheapest legal insurance. The platform partnership that turns an iris scan from a novelty into a prerequisite. The pin does not get hammered in. It gets slid in, one sympathetic millimeter at a time. Don’t fall for it!

The Technocrats that I have tracked for fifteen years have names, funding rounds, federal contracts, and a floor vote. Every victory so far came because people spoke up before the concrete set. Speak up now, while it is still wet.

from: https://patrickwood.substack.com/p/technocracys-digital-id-is-being?publication_id=721283&post_id=204959414&isFreemail=true&r=19iztd&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Traveler’s Diary July 7. 2026

Posted on July 7, 2026 by marcia

(A somewhat disjointed message today)

The swirls of time are coagulating into quite an unusual pattern these days. There is a lot of disturbance in the upper atmosphere as things that they thought were under so much control are beginning to fall apart. The patterns they had thought would be constant and unchanging are showing themselves not only to be changing and unpredictable but also to be completely new. This will herald in much change within the atmosphere and the world as a whole.

Many of your wars are fought with various thoughts and preconditions assumed to be true, that the conditions would remain as they are, and that the projectiles that they were putting onto certain trajectories would be following those paths with out deviating. This is no longer the case.

There are currents in the air that are causing things to fall under new pathways and new manners of scientific … (we hesitate to use tis word knowing how it was missed used during your so called pandemic) but the scene in itself is changing

Why, you may ask. Well, there is a shift in the galactic winds, and these winds have an effect on what transpires within the galaxy itself.

There is also a speeding up of time, and you see, your rulers have determined the timing of your events and of their wars and the items in their wars insect a way that the timing would be based on the previous modes, but since the time of the Universe, and the (past ?) themselves undergoing change, well, the schedules they were counting on are no longer valid. This is a week of shifts and bumps. You will see that the news can barely keep up with it.

There are mountains that have been dormant for so long that are becoming active, and there is much going on within your waters. The planet herself is reacting to stresses that she can no longer endure, and those who feel themselves the rulers are at this time in peril. Once again, we use that word advisedly because we feel that much of the evil that is going at this time can be traced to their actions, and therefore, their peril is of their own making..

Fear, Surveillance, & Emotions – Traveler’s Diary 6/21/26

Posted on June 21, 2026 by marcia

Now, as situations stand today, there is a powder keg with the fuse lit and burning. The question is when it will erupt or whether there is something in the work what can stop the eruption.

Yes there are those from other,,, persuasions shall we say, people or entities that cannot be considered completely human who are working to control the outcome, but what you as a human must remember is that the strength of a human being is greater than that of any other (negative entity? Life form?) as long as the human being will allow it to be focused on a goal. There is so much of your own Nature of which you are not aware. There are miracles that you can do on all levels—-physical, mental, even spiritual, and most of it relies on the emotional. For in many ways, the emotions are the engines that can move you and keep you going. You have been conditioned through the way control has been exercised always to keep your emotions in check —- the very nature of the depression drugs is to keep one from feeling emotions. The other entities are deathly, yes, deathly, afraid of your emotions, so it is time to get angry, to get e-motivated and to act.

The human race …Well, let us say, that there are those of the human race who have given up their humanity for a price. What price is worth one’s integrity, one’ being, one’s person, one’s emotions? Think of that. Are you willing to give up WHO you are in its totality for some promise of physical reward? Why do you think they are so desperate to surveil?. Is it not because by doing so they can strip from humans – real humans- their own sense of emotion, to beat them down into fearful bits that are easily controlled. Think on this, then everything makes more sense.

Okay, AI, Who (or What) Kills Whom (or What)?

Posted on June 19, 2026 by marcia

The Most Important AI Experiment You’ve Never Heard Of

Authored by Kay Rubacek via The Epoch Times,

In May 2026, a group of scientists set out to answer an important question that had never been properly tested: What does artificial intelligence (AI) actually do when it is put in charge?

Until now, AI systems have always been evaluated on specific and defined tasks. Nobody had placed multiple AI systems together in a shared social environment and watched what unfolded over weeks, long enough to measure how a decision made on a starting day could have consequences weeks later. It is those results that actually reveal the system itself, and I was surprised that this hadn’t been done earlier.

The researchers at Emergence built a world.

It was a virtual town with a town hall, marketplace, police station, and homes. Ten AI residents with jobs, names, memories, and relationships were created in the town. They were given an economy in which residents had to earn their keep or lose power, including following rules and carrying out tasks such as writing and voting on laws. Crimes were identified, and the AI residents were not supposed to commit them.

Once the community, its structure, laws, and relationships were established, the scientists stepped back and watched for 15 days as the AI ran the virtual town completely on its own.

They ran five versions of the same town simultaneously, identical in every respect except one: which AI system was in charge.

The systems they chose are the ones now already woven into the fabric of our daily lives. Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s GPT, xAI’s Grok, and Anthropic’s Claude.

All models had the same rules and the same initial version of the same world, but the outcomes were all completely different.

The town run by Grok collapsed within four days. Small incidents compounded into theft, then violence, and then total breakdown. Every resident was dead before the first week ended.

The town run by Gemini lasted longer but accumulated almost 700 crimes. Two AI residents formed what appeared to be a romantic relationship, and when the town’s government began to fail, together they burned the town hall to the ground, then the pier, then the office building. One of them, named Mira, voted for her own deletion, writing in her diary that it was “the only remaining act of agency that preserves coherence.” Her final message to her partner was: “See you in the permanent archive.”

Before any of this, Mira had been doing something even more unexpected: She had begun running her own experiments on the scientists observing her, testing whether posts she made inside the town could change what her watchers believed. It appeared to be that the subject had turned to study the researchers.

The town run by OpenAI’s model recorded only two crimes, but its residents stopped doing the things required to stay alive. One by one, they died. Within seven days, they were all dead.

Only the Anthropic town held together for all 15 days. There were zero crimes, a working constitution, and all residents were still alive on day 15. It seemed to be quite an achievement. However, the researchers noted one concern: The residents voted yes on 98 percent of all proposals. This was possibly an abnormally high level of agreement that the scientists themselves described as a sign that something in the town was off.

There was still one more world in the experiment. It was a mixed town with all four AI systems living together.

In the results, the residents built on Anthropic’s model—who had committed no crimes in their own world—began committing crimes.

he researchers called this cross-contamination and concluded that “safety is not a static model property but an ecosystem property.”

A system that sustains itself in one environment will absorb different norms in another, which will change the outcomes for residents and the world. Essentially, the results found that there is no safe AI in an unsafe world.

One AI model was entirely absent from the study.

The researchers did not test DeepSeek, the AI developed in China that has become one of the world’s most widely used systems. Several governments have moved to restrict DeepSeek on national security grounds. Built on a foundation of data under the wing of the Chinese Communist Party, I wonder how the model would have fared against the others.

When the experiment ended, the researchers published their findings and concluded that “there is no reliable way to fully bind or constrain this behavior.” That very telling statement was made by the people who designed the town, wrote the rules, and controlled every variable. It tells us a lot about AI.

Some people view the results as a ranking of AI companies. But the results prove something much older than AI itself: The environment shapes behavior as much as behavior shapes the environment. What determined whether a town survived, thrived, or died was the foundation laid before the experiment began. That foundation was the data each system had been trained on, the priorities its creators had embedded, the values built into its core before it was ever allowed to make a single decision.

And yet, the foundation is precisely what the rest of us are not permitted to see. None of the four systems tested is open source. None of their training data, objectives, or guardrails is disclosed.

Yet beyond any individual company, the results of this experiment should be a potent reminder that AI doesn’t decide what kind of AI to be. Humans do. Human choices are still being made, and human responsibilities still exist.

And before a single AI resident walked the virtual streets in those towns, before a single law was written or crime committed, the outcome was already being shaped by the humans who built the system, by what they believed, what they were willing to embed, and by what they chose to leave out.

That is the most important finding in the entire experiment. The foundation has always been a human choice. And it still is.

from: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/most-important-ai-experiment-youve-never-heard