How South Africa Became 3rd World (Video - 43mn)

   A fascinating video explaining how South Africa has failed over the last 20 years thanks to grift and corruption to slowly walk back from a first world economy mostly benefiting the white population to a 3rd world economy equally pulling back on almost everybody. 

   We take economic growth for granted and the willingness of most political system to succeed economically as an axiom. South Africa proves this is not the case. The economic miracles of Europe first, North America later and finally Asia were truly miracles, getting almost everything right to generate growth consistently over decades. On other continents, under different climes, the landscape is more patchy. If your wealth ends up mostly in Dubai or on the bank accounts of a few individuals, then growth becomes meaningless and investment impossible.     

   As the energy crisis deepens in the months ahead, we will quickly see who was swimming naked and who failed to prepare for the future. Mismanaged countries who were surviving during the good times, will flounder during the storm. Energy, fertilizers and raw materials, food, water... The waves will get higher and our ability to cope weaker. The last 25 years were the end of the last century. We are now entering the new one.  

How South Africa Became 3rd World

Hantavirus: Stop The Spread Is Back

   The problem with the Corona Virus in the end is that it was just the flu and therefore a rather weak candidate for a pandemic. 

   Hantavirus is better but only slightly. The incubation time is much longer, up to a few weeks which is perfect. You can infect many people without being aware. But the transmission mechanism is pitifully inefficient since a direct contact is necessary.  

   Definitively a second rate candidate but as the article below reminds us, the purpose more than a scare is to remind us that we are on edge, and a deadly virus is most certainly just around the corner. This doesn't require insider knowledge, just the certainty of the fact that somewhere, in the dark corner of a lab, someone is quietly selecting the right attributes: Long latency (Hantavirus), easy airborne spread (Corona Virus), deadly outcome (HIV)... Now, how do you combine all this to get the most optimum outcome? Gain of function research is most certainly not dead, just in need of rebranding so that people finally understand how essential this work is for their future health. Once again, George Orwell would recognize the skillful manipulation of language and perception.    

Via the Brownstone Institute,

Hollywood loves a good sequel and so does politics and pharmaceutical development. 

Since Covid, there have been several attempted disease scares – Mpox, Swine flu, Bird flu, Chikungunya, Measles – but nothing has really caught the attention of audiences like the new Hantavirus frenzy. 

Today’s evidence comes from DRUDGE REPORT: global effort to stop the spread. Is “flatten the curve” next?

Let’s remember how this began last year, with of course, a hantavirus death in the family of one of America’s most beloved Hollywood actors. It was Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman’s wife, who died February 12, 2025, from apparent hantavirus infection from rodents in the home. Terrifying image. 

At that point, no regular person had ever heard of such a disease. There is a reason. It’s rare and human-to-human spread is nearly unknown. Strange that it would hit the wife of the appropriately named Gene Hackman (get it?), leading man of the prescient 1998 movie Enemy of the State. 

Next up we have a reprise of the Plague Ship motif. Like the Diamond Princess, it is a cruise ship, the MV Hondius operated by Oceanwide Expeditions with 147 passengers, departing from Argentina and now anchored off Cape Verde, West Africa. 

It was headed to the Canary Islands when three people died, two with lab-confirmed hantavirus. No port would allow the ship to dock. With the assistance of rescue boats, the dead have been carefully removed by workers in hazmats and masks.

A flight attendant who came in contact with a dead body is now hospitalized and in rough condition, suggesting that even coming close to a person with hantavirus is risky stuff. No one can figure out how this is even possible. So mysterious, so unusual, so terrifying, just like the movie Contagion. 

This fits with the theory of Drs. Fauci and Morens that we need not worry about lab-created pathogens when animal-to-human spillover is becoming more common. This is why, they wrote in August 2020, that we must commence to “rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence, from cities to homes to workplaces, to water and sewer systems, to recreational and gatherings venues.”

Ready to opine for the press is the World Health Organization’s Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, she of Stanford University pedigree, now widely quoted as the go-to authority. 

You might remember Dr. Kerkhove from the original cast of the Covid production. It was she who wrote the WHO’s report to the world following the February 2020 junket to Wuhan. (We know this from the metadata of the report, which she failed to cleanse in the rush to publication.) 

“Achieving China’s exceptional coverage with and adherence to these containment measures,” she wrote of the CCP’s extreme lockdowns, “has only been possible due to the deep commitment of the Chinese people to collective action in the face of this common threat. At a community level this is reflected in the remarkable solidarity of provinces and cities in support of the most vulnerable populations and communities.”

Many close observers credit Kerkhove’s report with inspiring the worldwide lockdown of all nations but four in the following weeks. She still works at the WHO. Hardly anyone remembers any of this. There is no mechanism in place for her to be held to account for her role. 

There is no known cure but a vaccine is in development by Moderna based on the mRNA platform. 

As a result, Moderna’s stock, down dramatically from its highs, is now starting to recover. It is now up 100 percent year over year. The buy signal is strong with this one.

Looking back at the Covid prequel, there was always a flaw in the coronavirus caper, namely its short period of latency, roughly that of a cold or flu. You are infectious for a few days without symptoms while you pass it on. A genuine disease panic needs a longer period of latency. You need to be infected for weeks while spreading it far and wide. 

Why is this? Because every infectious disease confronts the logic of survival. A smart virus does not kill its hosts – it needs them to infect others – but a dumb one does, which is why dumb viruses are not good candidates for pandemics. 

This persistent trade-off between severity and prevalence can only be gamed by a long period of latency. That’s extremely rare and not even lab-created viruses manage this balancing act well. 

As it turns out, this hantavirus does have a very long period of latency, we are assured by the Harvard School of Public Health. It has issued a pronouncement: “The incubation period – the time between when a person is infected and when they begin to experience symptoms – is usually in the range of two to three weeks, but may be as long as eight weeks.”

Two months! Imagine that. Here we might finally have our candidate for the silent killer about which Deborah Birx fantasized during the last iteration of this story.

Keep in mind that no high institution in the US has repudiated lockdowns, even if two-thirds of the public believes they were pointlessly damaging. The call for Covid Justice has now 37,300 signatures but not enough to cause the Senate, House, or any other legislative body to speak clearly that this will never be tolerated again. 

To this day, the plan of the World Health Organization – which is already practicing for the next pandemic – is to push for lockdowns until vaccination in the event of a new disease scare. “Every country should apply non-pharmaceutical measures systematically and rigorously at the scale the epidemiological situation requires,” they say. 

Meanwhile, the Biden plan was for a 130-day lockdown in the event of a new pandemic. 

There are few mechanisms in place in any country to prevent this from happening. There are good people in government who would oppose this with strong conviction but will they even be asked their opinions? Or does this all occur with any obvious evidence of democratic volition? 

Who precisely is directing and producing this sequel? No one knows for sure. Will it be a box office hit like the last time or only have a limited release to test market interest? All the ingredients are here for an Academy Award: rodents, long latency, spread through casual contact with the dead, workers in hazmat suits, no known cure, a vaccine in rushed development. 

The real beauty of disease panic is that it has broad audience appeal and crosses partisan lines. National Review is all in already, as it was with Covid, and surely The Nation will join the effort in days. 

These are well-worn plot devices and sequels are rarely as compelling or profitable as the original. But when one is out of other ideas – and the public clamor to indict Fauci grows by the hour – it’s always worth a shot. 

UFO - What went wrong! (Joke)

   Clearly these people came with plenty of good intentions but just as we f*cked up in the Garden of Heaven, we did it again then. Will we ever learn? :-) 

    

 

Trump Administration Drops First Batch Of UAP/UFO Files

   Difficult not to see a pattern with the Trump Administration at this stage, trying to distract the medias and public with outlandish claims, disclosures and outright lies then walking us back, as unfortunately, when the time to deliver arrives, we get the usual nothing-burger. And sure enough, here we are once again with UAP. 

   Interesting? Certainly. But groundbreaking would require a galactic stretch of imagination. (Apollo 17 on the Moon below.)

 

   Oddly shaped lights in the sky, balls flying at low altitude with no means of propulsion are certainly interesting but absolutely not what people were expecting since hundreds of such videos are already floating on the Internet.

   Thankfully what the Trump administration lacks in information, they compensate skillfully with communication. This is of course the first batch and far more interesting disclosures will soon follow. Same protocol as the Epstein files? 

   Here too people have died or disappeared. Obvious fakes and suicide notes of people rather ominously telling us they are not suicidal just before committing suicide. (NASA scientists are well known to be unstable, aren't they?).     

   If there is one ray of light in all this, it may be that such official disclosure will encourage more people to speak. Unless of course too many witness die in which case those who didn't will take the hint and keep the information for themselves. 

   To be continued...  

Trump Administration Drops First Batch Of UAP/UFO Files

On Friday, the Trump administration released the first official tranche of declassified UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) and UFO files through the new Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) - which of course was the alternative to the real incriminating Elite Presidential Shielding Taskforce Ensuring Impunity Now (EPSTEIN) files.

The files are hosted at the official government site: https://www.war.gov/UFO/. This marks the start of a rolling release schedule (new materials every few weeks) covering decades of unresolved cases across multiple agencies, with a strong emphasis on unprecedented transparency.

What’s Included in Release 01 (162 Files + Supporting Materials)

The initial drop focuses on 162 FBI documents, all in PDF format. These are unresolved cases where the government states it cannot make a definitive determination on the nature of the phenomena - often due to insufficient data - and explicitly invites public and private-sector analysis.

Mainstream reporting (Fox News, New York Post, and others) highlights additional materials in the broader release:

• Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 mission photos showing strangely shaped objects and clusters of dots in the lunar sky.

• A transcript from Apollo 17 operators describing “very bright particles or fragments” drifting by the spacecraft, “big ones on my window,” and “jagged, angular fragments that are tumbling” - likened to “the Fourth of July.”

• FBI photos from New Year’s Eve 1999 showing two black-dot UAPs flying near U.S. aircraft.
• References to “the latest UAP videos” and other original source documents/photos (including a colored illustration of a UFO over a field).

Specific recent military sightings mentioned across coverage and X discussions include:

• An inverted teardrop-shaped object with a vertically linear trailing mask over the United Arab Emirates (June 2024).
• A “strange contrast” or unexplained area in the skies over Iraq (December 2022, per CENTCOM).

• A small circular UAP flying low near the ocean surface toward land near Greece’s coast.

The Department of War (in coordination with ODNI and other agencies) described the effort as historic and government-wide, involving the review of tens of millions of records (many still on paper). Releases will continue on a rolling basis.

President Trump announced the release on Truth Social: “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

In a subsequent 'truth,' Trump said: "As for my promise to you, the Department of War has released the first tranche of the UFO/UAP files to the Public for their review and study. In an effort for Complete and Maximum Transparency, it was my Honor to direct my Administration to identify and provide Government files related to Alien and Extraterrestrial Life, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, and Unidentified Flying Objects. Whereas previous Administrations have failed to be transparent on this subject, with these new Documents and Videos, the people can decide for themselves, “WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?” Have Fun and Enjoy! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

“The Department of War is in lockstep with President Trump to bring unprecedented transparency regarding our government’s understanding of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation - and it’s time the American people see it for themselves. This release of declassified documents demonstrates the Trump Administration’s earnest commitment to unprecedented transparency," reads a statement from Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.

And of course Russia is mocking the release:

Guess Epstein wasn't (isn't?) an alien?

Professor Jiang: We Are Already in World War 3 (Video - 2h10)

   It is easy to understand or rather feel like you understand the world in TikTok long videos focusing on one specific subject at a time usually approached in a Manichean, good/bad fashion and far more difficult and time consuming to try to grasp how the different actors relate to each others.    

   In this long video of over 2 hours, Professor Jiang displays a masterful global overview of all the players... except surprisingly China. 

   Agree or not with his analysis, his work is excellent food for thoughts and will help build your own understanding of what is currently going on bringing context to disparate and seemingly unrelated events.  

   The conclusion is unfortunately unmistakable: We are already in World War three, even if quite unlike past conflicts, and every truce in this respect can only be but a short respite before the resumption of belligerence. 

Professor Jiang: We Are Already in World War 3

The Rise of Geofence Surveillance by Martin Armstrong

     Step by step, the technologies which are currently being put in place are extremely concerning. The worst is of course not unavoidable but history shows that whatever is possible will necessarily be implemented later. Most people forget that most of the laws used by the Nazi were voted earlier by the Wermar Republic. 

   Today, new technologies are the wet dream of tyrannic systems the world over. The legacy "democratic" systems have inherited their democratic DNA from earlier generations. But as their economies flounder, the guaranty that Western countries will remain democratic is more and more in doubt.  

   The worst aspect of it without doubt is the perversion of language. Exactly as George Orwell warned us:  

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

by Martin Armstrong

The case of Chatrie v. United States exposed just how far governments have moved toward mass digital surveillance through a technique known as geofencing. This technology allows law enforcement to identify every device present within a designated geographic area during a specific period of time. Instead of investigating a suspect first and gathering evidence second, geofence warrants reverse the process entirely by collecting data on everyone nearby and sorting through it afterward.

To understand why this case matters, people first need to understand how geofencing works in practice. Smartphones constantly transmit location information through GPS signals, cellular towers, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi connections, mobile applications, operating systems, and advertising identifiers. Companies like Google collect enormous quantities of this data through Android devices, Google Maps, search histories, application permissions, and background tracking systems tied to user accounts. Google reportedly stores much of this information inside an internal database commonly referred to as “Sensorvault,” which contains detailed historical location records tied to devices around the world.

Geofencing creates a virtual perimeter around a real-world location. Retail companies originally used the technology for advertising and logistics purposes, allowing businesses to target consumers entering certain stores or regions. Governments quickly realized the same systems could be used for surveillance and criminal investigations. Law enforcement can define a geographic radius around a crime scene and request data from Google showing every device detected within that area during a specified timeframe.

That means hundreds or even thousands of completely innocent people can have their data swept into an investigation simply because they happened to walk past the wrong place at the wrong time.

The Chatrie case began after a bank robbery in Virginia in 2019. Investigators obtained a geofence warrant demanding Google provide device information connected to the area surrounding the robbery. Google returned anonymized device identifiers for phones detected inside the geofenced perimeter. Investigators then narrowed the results step-by-step until eventually identifying one device allegedly connected to Michael Chatrie, who was later charged.

The constitutional concern is obvious. Traditional warrants were designed around individualized suspicion. Police were expected to identify a suspect first and demonstrate probable cause before obtaining private information. Geofence warrants instead function like digital dragnets. They gather location data from everyone first and sort out who might be relevant later.

This is where modern surveillance becomes extraordinarily dangerous because technology eliminates the manpower limitations governments once faced. Authorities no longer need teams physically following people through cities. The population now voluntarily carries tracking devices everywhere they go. Smartphones effectively document movement patterns, travel routines, shopping habits, social interactions, political activity, religious attendance, and personal behavior automatically.

The government’s argument in Chatrie should concern everyone. Prosecutors claimed users voluntarily shared their location information with Google and therefore had a diminished expectation of privacy. That logic becomes incredibly dangerous because modern life increasingly requires digital participation. Smartphones are no longer optional conveniences for many people. Banking, transportation, employment, navigation, communication, healthcare access, and financial transactions are all becoming dependent on digital systems.

In practical terms, governments are arguing that participation in modern society reduces constitutional privacy protections.

The implications extend far beyond criminal investigations. Once geofence surveillance becomes normalized, authorities naturally expand its use into broader areas. A geofence could capture data connected to political demonstrations, labor strikes, churches, medical clinics, gun stores, journalists, or private meetings. The technology itself does not distinguish between criminal suspects and ordinary citizens because it collects everyone first.

I have warned repeatedly that technology always migrates toward centralized control once governments recognize its potential. Systems originally marketed for convenience eventually become tools of enforcement and surveillance. Europe is already moving aggressively toward digital IDs, centralized financial monitoring, beneficial ownership registries, CBDCs, and expanded online controls. China built social credit systems openly, while Western governments are constructing similar infrastructure gradually under the language of public safety, financial compliance, cybersecurity, and misinformation control.

The danger is not merely the technology itself but the consolidation of multiple systems together. Once governments integrate geolocation tracking with facial recognition, banking data, biometric IDs, vehicle monitoring, online communications, and AI-driven analytics, anonymity effectively disappears from society.

People continue trading privacy for convenience without understanding what is being built around them. By the time most realize how extensive these systems have become, the infrastructure will already be impossible to escape.