Of course they continued MKUltra, just not at universities. And how do they get these useful idiots that seems to be so precisely triggered like that Taylor Robinson guy, and how do they keep him quiet, but he really may think that he took the shot, but a 30 odd 6 would have blow off Kirk’s head almost entirely.
Official law enforcement investigations and court proceedings in the case of Tyler Robinson show no evidence supporting claims of government mind-control programs or conspiracy theories.
According to public court records, evidence filed by law enforcement, and the suspect’s own statements, the details surrounding the case and weapon involved include:
Suspect & Investigation: Tyler Robinson was identified as the shooter through surveillance footage, physical evidence, and digital messages. Authorities reported that family members and his roommate contacted law enforcement after he confessed or implied his involvement.
The Weapon Used: According to court filings, the weapon recovered near the scene was a bolt-action rifle, not a .30-06.
No Evidence of MKUltra: MKUltra was a CIA human experimentation program officially halted in 1973 and investigated by Congress in the 1970s. State and federal agencies, including the FBI, investigated the incident and found that Robinson acted as a lone actor, with no evidence linking him to covert military or government conditioning programs.
The defense and prosecution are currently handling the legal proceedings in Utah state court.
stock here: advancing my theory on Crapitalism, and poking back at the arsehole collectivist who consistently make thing worse.
Crapitalism
A System of Free Enterprise Where the Monied Interests Buy Control of the Politicians, Courts and Regulatory Agencies
America was built on free enterprise: compete, innovate, work, take risks, own property, build something, and keep the rewards if you succeed.
But what we increasingly have isn’t free enterprise. It’s Crapitalism—a system in which competition still exists, but the rules can be bent, bought, manipulated, or selectively enforced by people and institutions with enough money and political influence.
THE MONEY–POLITICS LOOP Politicians need enormous amounts of money to obtain and retain power. Wealthy interests need favorable laws, contracts, subsidies, tax provisions and regulations. Each side has something the other wants. Call it lobbying, access or influence—the incentive structure is obvious.
REGULATORY CAPTURE Government agencies supposedly regulate industries. Then regulators leave government and work for those industries—or industry executives enter government and regulate their former competitors. Eventually the referee and the players start looking like members of the same team.
CORPORATE WELFARE A genuine free market means businesses can succeed and fail. Crapitalism means politically connected companies can receive subsidies, bailouts, guarantees, special tax treatment and government contracts while ordinary businesses absorb their own losses. Privatize the profits; socialize the losses.
COMPETITION WITHOUT ENOUGH COMPETITION When a handful of enormous corporations dominate banking, technology, communications, healthcare, insurance, agriculture or media, consumers may technically have “choices” while meaningful competition becomes increasingly difficult.
JUSTICE DEPENDS TOO MUCH ON MONEY The law may be written equally, but navigating it isn’t equal. One citizen or small company can face an opponent capable of spending millions on lawyers, experts, discovery, appeals and years of litigation. A right you cannot afford to defend isn’t much of a right.
AN ELECTION SYSTEM THAT INVITES DISTRUST The world’s most important democracy should have election records, voter rolls, ballot custody, counting procedures and audits that are simple, transparent, uniform and boringly reliable.
Instead, Milwaukee gave us a perfect example on August 11, 2026: five of nine USB drives delivered from Central Count contained audit logs rather than the vote-result files, delaying the reporting of thousands of absentee votes. Officials attributed it to human error, returned for the correct files, and said the underlying paper ballots and poll books remained intact.
That incident does not prove election fraud. It proves something more basic: procedures involving something as consequential as elections should be engineered so that this sort of mistake is extraordinarily difficult to make—and immediately detectable when it happens.
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE LITTLE GUY, SETTLEMENTS FOR THE BIG GUY An ordinary citizen can have his life wrecked by a regulatory or legal mistake. Giant institutions can treat fines, settlements and compliance failures as another cost of doing business. That’s not equal justice or a healthy market.
GOVERNMENT WRITES TOO MANY RULES FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN AFFORD RULE-WRITERS Complexity itself becomes a competitive advantage. Giant corporations can maintain armies of lawyers, accountants, lobbyists and compliance specialists. The small entrepreneur cannot. Sometimes the biggest companies don’t fear regulation—they help design it.
And then, after producing this mess, collectivists point at it and announce:
“See? Capitalism doesn’t work.”
Wrong.
This isn’t an argument for turning more economic power over to government. Government is already one of the things being captured.
The cure for Crapitalism is not collectivism.
It is more genuine competition, less corporate welfare, simpler laws, transparent government, auditable elections, equal justice, aggressive disclosure of conflicts of interest, and a very bright line between public service and private enrichment.
Once the August 18 plea is laid alongside the previously released emails, the anonymized cast is fairly straightforward.
The Morens plea — decoded
Court designation
Apparent identity
Confidence
Why
Company 1
EcoHealth Alliance
~100%
DOJ says Company 1 received NIAID’s Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence grant and subawarded WIV. That is the EcoHealth grant.
Co-Conspirator 1
Peter Daszak
~100%
DOJ describes CC1 as the grant recipient associated with Company 1, receiving Morens’s assistance and supplying Morens wine/gratuities. Congressional emails independently identify Daszak in precisely those exchanges.
Co-Conspirator 2
Gerald Keusch
~95–99%
Contemporary reporting matching the indictment against the released emails identifies Boston University infectious-disease scientist Gerald Keusch. House investigators had already published Morens/Daszak/Keusch Gmail correspondence concerning COVID origins.
Senior NIAID Official 1
Anthony Fauci
~99%
The indictment says Morens advised this official, briefed him so he could communicate with the President, Congress and public, and used a “back-channel” to him. Morens’s released emails explicitly call that back-channel recipient “Tony”/Fauci.
There is a legal distinction worth emphasizing: Daszak and Keusch being identifiable as the unnamed co-conspirators does not mean either has been convicted or even charged. Morens has now admitted his participation in a conspiracy involving CC1, CC2 and others. That admission does not itself adjudicate the criminal liability of those other people.
What Morens actually admitted
This is considerably more consequential than merely saying, “I accidentally used Gmail.”
According to DOJ, Morens admitted that he, Daszak, Keusch and others conspired to defraud the United States after NIH terminated the EcoHealth bat-coronavirus grant. They agreed in writing to move communications to Morens’s personal Gmail account so those communications would not be visible through FOIA.
The Gmail channel then was used for several specific things: exchanging nonpublic NIH information, discussing efforts to influence NIH to restore/fund EcoHealth, editing correspondence for EcoHealth and Daszak to NIH leadership, and sending information through a “back-channel” to Senior NIAID Official 1 — almost certainly Fauci.
And then there’s a separate, particularly interesting component: the gratuities.
DOJ says Morens admitted that he and CC1/Daszak conspired concerning illegal gratuities. Daszak supplied wine in appreciation for Morens’s “behind-the-scenes shenanigans,” and Morens identified an official act he could perform to merit the gift: writing a scientific commentary advocating a natural origin of COVID-19. Daszak also proposed expensive restaurant meals in Paris, New York and Washington.
That materially changes my assessment of the case. It’s not merely a records-retention prosecution anymore.
The Keusch connection is especially interesting
House investigators were in possession by April 2024 of emails among Morens, Daszak and Gerald Keusch sent through Morens’s personal Gmail. They specifically subpoenaed Keusch-related material because those communications appeared connected to avoiding federal transparency requirements and discussions of COVID origins.
The Washington Post independently reconstructed the indictment and concluded that the unnamed third participant is Keusch. It reports that Morens, Daszak and Keusch repeatedly discussed using private email channels.
So I would treat CC2 = Keusch as a very strong identification, rather than merely internet speculation.
Then there’s Margaret Moore — a different category
Margaret Moore, an NIH FOIA official, does not appear to be one of the two numbered co-conspirators in Morens’s plea.
But she matters.
Morens wrote that he had learned techniques from Moore, whom he described as his NIH “FOIA lady,” concerning how to make emails disappear. When Congress subpoenaed Moore in 2024, her lawyer informed the committee that she intended to invoke the Fifth Amendment.
NIH FOIA office / Margaret Moore ↓ alleged advice about records/FOIA practices Morens
The first horizontal group is now the group Morens has admitted constituted a conspiracy from his perspective. Moore’s role remains an allegation/documentary question rather than part of the publicly identified numbered conspiracy.
Where Fauci fits — and where he does NOT
This is where precision is particularly important.
The indictment doesn’t call Senior NIAID Official 1 a co-conspirator. It says the conspirators “back-channel[ed]” information to him.
But the earlier Morens emails make the identity difficult to mistake. Morens told Daszak that he could send material to “Tony” through a private Gmail account or physically give it to him, and elsewhere referred to a “secret back channel” to Fauci.
That establishes evidence of communication.
It does not, by itself, establish that Fauci knew Morens, Daszak and Keusch were violating federal records laws or agreed to their conspiracy. That’s the evidentiary gap prosecutors would have to cross to make Fauci part of this particular conspiracy.
There is another major wrinkle: Fauci received an extraordinarily broad federal pardon in January 2025. The actual DOJ-filed warrant gives him a “full and unconditional pardon” for federal offenses committed or participated in from January 1, 2014 through January 19, 2025, arising from or related to his service as NIAID director, Coronavirus Task Force member, COVID Response Team member or chief medical adviser.
That language appears broad enough to encompass essentially any federal criminal conduct by Fauci arising from the 2020–22 Morens/EcoHealth episode, assuming the pardon is legally valid. That’s an important reason why Morens’s plea does not necessarily mean Fauci would be the next indictment.
Things Fauci did after January 19, 2025, however, aren’t covered by that pardon. That is relevant because he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times before a Senate committee on July 29, 2026, and the committee subsequently voted to refer him for contempt. DOJ is reviewing that referral.
What I would watch next
Daszak is the obvious person to watch. Morens has now formally admitted participating in a conspiracy with somebody whose description virtually uniquely identifies Daszak, and the plea goes beyond FOIA to illegal gratuities from CC1. Unlike Fauci, Daszak doesn’t have the Fauci pardon issue protecting his pre-2025 federal conduct.
Keusch would be second. The public record makes his identity as CC2 quite strong, but the conduct DOJ attributes to CC2 publicly is predominantly participation in the communications/concealment conspiracy rather than the gratuity portion.
And the single biggest unknown is Morens’s cooperation status. A supplement to his plea agreement has reportedly been filed under seal. We cannot responsibly infer from that alone that he’s cooperating against Daszak, Keusch, Fauci or anybody else; sealed supplements can address cooperation or its absence. Until it becomes public or another indictment drops, that’s simply unknown.
So my current “heat map” is:
Morens — 🔴 admitted criminal conspiracy Daszak — 🔴 named-by-description CC1; no public charge yet Keusch — 🟠 named-by-description CC2; no public charge yet Moore — 🟠 serious documentary questions/Fifth Amendment; not a numbered Morens CC Fauci — 🟠 apparent Senior NIAID Official 1; not designated a Morens co-conspirator; extraordinarily broad 2025 pardon complicates any prosecution for the historical conduct
The big thing that changed yesterday is that we’re no longer discussing only congressional accusations about whether Morens and his outside colleagues deliberately concealed records. Morens himself has now admitted in federal court that there was a conspiracy involving other people
stock here: Have there been more that I missed. This cretin, pretty clearly no wife would let him wear that tie unless he was intentionally trying to look like a sad clown. “I have remorse”.
The hopeful point though, may be that they gave him a sweet heart deal, in turn he may have had to agree to testify against, his co-conspirators….see next article, Chat found those co-conspirators to be these known bad actors, we would all like to see perp walking, being put out of business:
Ecohealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, Gerald Keusch, and Anthony Fauci.
He is guilty of mass murder, but they get a plea deal for “concealing information”.
David M. Morens served as a Senior Advisor to the Director (specifically in NIAID’s Office of the Director) from 2006 through 2022, and was also a long-time senior advisor to former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci.
================================== Who else did the perp walk? ANSWER: NO ONE
As of August 19, 2026, if we define the scope narrowly as COVID origins, the NIH/NIAID → EcoHealth Alliance → Wuhan Institute of Virology funding chain, coronavirus research, and alleged concealment of information about that research, I can find only one criminal guilty plea so far: David Morens.
Morens pleaded guilty on August 18, 2026 to conspiracy to commit offenses and defraud the United States. DOJ says the conspiracy involved hiding federal records concerning coronavirus research grants, efforts to restore the terminated bat-coronavirus grant, exchanging nonpublic NIH information, and illegal gratuities. He faces up to five years and is scheduled for sentencing November 12.
Person / organization
Criminal status tied to research/origins
What actually happened
David Morens
Guilty plea
Conspiracy involving concealment of records regarding coronavirus grants and efforts concerning the WIV-linked grant.
Peter Daszak
No conviction found; no public criminal charge found
HHS formally debarred him for five years from federal funding in January 2025. That’s an administrative sanction, not a criminal conviction.
EcoHealth Alliance
No criminal conviction found
Also formally debarred for five years. HHS-OIG previously found grant-management deficiencies and $89,171 in unallowable costs; EcoHealth said it reimbursed NIH.
Gerald Keusch
No charge/conviction found
Public reporting has identified him as apparently corresponding to one of Morens’s unnamed co-conspirators, but that does not mean he has been charged.
Anthony Fauci
No criminal conviction or charge in this matter
He is not charged in the Morens prosecution. Recent congressional contempt/referral activity is legally quite different from a criminal conviction.
WIV / Shi Zhengli / Ralph Baric
No U.S. criminal convictions found tied to this funding/origins matter
They have been central to investigations and debate, but I find no criminal conviction arising from this particular funding/research chain.
There is one important development in yesterday’s Morens plea that makes this more than simply a FOIA-recordkeeping case. DOJ explicitly says Morens, “Co-Conspirator 1,” “Co-Conspirator 2,” and others conspired to defraud the United States, and that they agreed to hide communications concerning the grant. DOJ also says Morens and Co-Conspirator 1 conspired regarding illegal gratuities—including wine—and that the communications concerned influencing NIH funding decisions.
That means there are explicitly other alleged participants in the admitted conspiracy, even though DOJ has not publicly charged those people in the materials I can find. That distinction is worth watching: Morens’s plea potentially gives prosecutors a cooperating witness and sworn admissions regarding the conduct of other people.
There have, of course, been large numbers of COVID-related criminal convictions if we broaden “the entire COVID event” to PPP/EIDL fraud, unemployment fraud, fraudulent testing, counterfeit medical products, etc. For example, DOJ reported 74 guilty defendants in just the Middle District of Florida’s COVID-fraud effort by late 2024, and in May 2026 Jia Bei Zhu was convicted on 12 counts involving fraudulent COVID tests and FDA violations. Those cases, however, have nothing to do with COVID origins or gain-of-function/research funding.
So the answer to the question I think you’re really asking is: Morens appears to be the first person to actually plead guilty to a federal crime squarely inside the NIH/EcoHealth/Wuhan-coronavirus-research/origins controversy. I do not find a second conviction yet.
The more interesting next step would be to map Morens’s “Co-Conspirator 1,” “Co-Conspirator 2,” “Company 1,” and “Senior NIAID Official 1” against the emails and congressional record and show who almost certainly corresponds to each designation—and exactly what Morens has now admitted they did together. I can do that surgically.
hmmmm, looks like a whole line of trees fell on the power lines, if someday someone invents, say, a chain saw, those trees could be maintained prior to creating emergencies and costs.
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stock here: Personal Story here, last fall, shortly before leaving for Hawaii, Google had announced that their Nest thermostats would no longer be supported, but beyond that they were also going to scuttle their operation. I had 3 and they were about $300 each bought 10 years ago.
They had a new version, which I knew for sure, would be more spying, manipulation, control, even damage. So I jumped ship, just like I am going to jump ship from Godaddy as a horrible company. I switched to Honeywell, which was costly and time consuming. Eff you all the way to hell Google.
See story below….there is an “opt out” but most people won’t discover that.
🚨 THEY’RE REMOTELY CONTROLLING YOUR THERMOSTAT NOW — DENVER WOMAN BLOCKED FROM LOWERING HER AC BELOW 79°
A Denver woman says she tried to lower her thermostat before putting her daughter to bed… and couldn't believe the message that popped up.
stock here: The FBI was well aware of this Chinese spy, called her Rusty Thumbs. A-Eye below, never being overly critical of Swalwell, although unless a cretin, was obviously guilty as hell.
I dug through the new reporting against the older record. The 2026 files materially change what the public knew about the Fang–Swalwell episode. But they do not establish every part of Anna Paulina Luna’s characterization.
The most revealing way to see it is chronologically:
Date
What appears to have happened
Why it matters
2011–12
Christine Fang becomes active at CSU East Bay/APAPA and begins cultivating Bay Area politicians. Her first known contact with Swalwell was during this period.
This fits the classic “spot promising politicians early” model described by U.S. counterintelligence officials.
May 2013
An undercover FBI employee meets Fang in Las Vegas as part of an effort to recruit her as a U.S. intelligence source. Internally, the FBI already suspected MSS connections and regarded both of her parents as MSS intelligence officers. She was given the operational name Rusty Thumbs.
This is considerably more serious than the impression created by the 2020 story that the FBI simply stumbled onto a suspicious political network later.
2013
An FBI memo records that Swalwell had joked that Fang might be connected to the “Chinese CIA” — the MSS; Fang reportedly joked back about it.
This is the strongest support I find for Luna’s assertion that Swalwell had some awareness of the possibility before the 2015 FBI warning. But a joke about someone being a spy is not the same thing as knowing she actually was one.
March 2014
The FBI decides Fang isn’t trustworthy enough to recruit. Six days later, it opens an investigation involving her access to Swalwell.
That’s a remarkable pivot: potential U.S. asset → counterintelligence/public-corruption target.
March 17, 2014 onward
The investigation, “Freshman Fifteen,” examines whether Fang was trading campaign money for access and congressional internships. The FBI reported evidence of conduit donations originating with Fang at least twice in 2013 and twice in 2014.
This is one of the biggest new disclosures. The 2020 Axios investigation said the operative it interviewed had found no evidence of illegal contributions; the internal FBI file apparently contained evidence Axios didn’t have.
January 2015
Swalwell takes a seat on the House Intelligence Committee and becomes the lead Democrat on the CIA oversight subcommittee.
Now the counterintelligence stakes become much higher.
March 2015
According to Swalwell’s later FBI account, this was the last time he had sexual relations with Fang. He described having sex with her on a “handful of occasions.”
This means the sexual relationship apparently continued into the period when he was sitting on Intelligence. That’s one of the most consequential details in the release.
April 30, 2015
FBI gives Swalwell a formal defensive counterintelligence briefing concerning Fang. Subsequent reporting and the FBI records say he cut contact after being warned.
This is the point at which there is no ambiguity that he officially knew the FBI considered her a threat.
May 2015 / March 2016
Swalwell gives FBI interviews. He acknowledges the sexual relationship and confirms Fang referred interns to his campaign/congressional operation; he says he treated her referrals as connected with APAPA.
These FBI admissions are much more explicit than anything the public heard after the story broke in 2020.
Mid-2015
Fang abruptly leaves the United States and returns to China. She has not returned and was subsequently barred from reentry.
Her departure appears to have crippled the active operation.
2017
FBI ultimately determines that it has not established federal corruption violations by Swalwell and removes him as a subject. Investigators nevertheless document evidence they believed showed Fang committed campaign-finance and other offenses, including acting as an unregistered foreign agent. Prosecutors deem a case against her “non-viable due to national security reasons.”
Extremely important distinction: substantial evidence against Fang does not equal a finding that Swalwell knowingly participated in her scheme.
2020
Axios exposes the operation publicly. At that time it reports that Swalwell cut Fang off after the FBI briefing, had not been accused of wrongdoing, and officials did not believe Fang obtained classified information.
The public got perhaps 50–60% of the story. The sexual relationship and FBI’s alleged conduit-donation findings were absent.
2023
Bipartisan House Ethics Committee closes its two-year Fang investigation with no further action, while specifically cautioning about foreign governments attempting to obtain influence through personal interactions.
That’s significant evidence in Swalwell’s favor, although “no further action” isn’t the same thing as a judicial finding that every allegation was false.
Aug. 17, 2026
White House releases the declassified files. The official White House description says the FBI developed evidence of possible compromise involving sex, interns and illicit donations.
We can finally compare the FBI’s contemporaneous records with the much thinner version known since 2020.
The piece that really catches my attention
It’s not simply that Swalwell slept with Fang.
It’s the sequence:
FBI suspects MSS ties → FBI tries to recruit Fang → FBI abandons recruitment → FBI opens “Freshman Fifteen” → FBI is investigating her fundraising/intern activities → Swalwell gets placed on the Intelligence Committee → his sexual relationship with Fang apparently continues until March 2015 → only then does the FBI formally warn him on April 30.
That raises an institutional question that I think is more interesting than the partisan shouting:
Why did the FBI wait until April 2015 to defensively brief Swalwell?
By then the Bureau had been interested in Fang for roughly two years, had already abandoned its attempt to recruit her, and had opened a significant investigation involving her relationship with Swalwell.
There may be a perfectly legitimate counterintelligence explanation: warning Swalwell earlier could have burned Fang, exposed the undercover operation, tipped off possible MSS contacts, or destroyed the opportunity to identify the rest of her network. That’s an inference, not something the released material I’ve found establishes. But it’s exactly the sort of tradeoff counterintelligence investigators face.
Now, Luna’s statement
This deserves separating into pieces.
“He was being targeted and used.” There is substantial support for that. U.S. intelligence officials regarded Swalwell as one of Fang’s most important political targets, and the FBI believed Fang had connections that could be useful for Chinese influence operations.
“He knew what was going on.” That’s too categorical based on what I’ve found. The 2013 “Chinese CIA” joke is genuinely interesting because it indicates that the possibility of Fang being intelligence-connected had apparently come up years before his formal briefing. But it does not prove Swalwell knew she was working for Chinese intelligence.
“He lied.” This is the part where I want Luna to show her work. I have not found an FBI conclusion in the released material that Swalwell lied to investigators. In fact, the 2015 and 2016 interview summaries contain some remarkably candid admissions. And ultimately the FBI removed him as a subject after finding no federal corruption violation attributable to him.
There is certainly a public-disclosure problem: when the story broke in 2020, Swalwell would not publicly answer whether his relationship with Fang was sexual, while we now know he’d told the FBI five years earlier that it was. But refusing to answer a reporter’s question isn’t itself lying.
Another oddity: “Freshman Fifteen”
Unlike Rusty Thumbs, I think this codename is probably decipherable.
Swalwell was essentially a freshman congressman representing California’s 15th District when the investigation began. So Freshman Fifteen appears very likely to be an FBI pun on both his status and congressional district—plus the familiar “freshman fifteen” weight-gain phrase. I haven’t found a document explicitly explaining the name, so that’s an inference rather than established fact. The investigation itself was opened March 17, 2014 under that codename.
Rusty Thumbs, on the other hand, remains gloriously inexplicable.
And there’s one more eyebrow-raiser
The DOJ’s Public Integrity Section was involved in reviewing the Swalwell/Fang investigation. At that precise time, its chief was Jack Smith, who led the section from 2010 until early 2015. DOJ’s own biography confirms that tenure.
That doesn’t imply misconduct by Smith—Public Integrity is exactly the DOJ unit one would expect to oversee an investigation involving a sitting congressman and campaign-finance allegations. But historically it’s an interesting connection, particularly because this wasn’t some rogue San Francisco field-office fishing expedition; FBI headquarters and DOJ Public Integrity were involved in the case.
My current bottom line: the newly released documents substantially strengthen the case that Fang was conducting something resembling a long-term Chinese political influence/intelligence operation and that Swalwell was a major target who became far closer to her than the public was led to understand in 2020. They also reveal serious suspected campaign-finance activity surrounding Fang. But the same documents apparently contain the inconvenient-for-both-sides conclusion that investigators didn’t establish that Swalwell knowingly participated in the criminal scheme or committed a federal corruption offense.
The next thing I’d dig into is the money trail—those four alleged conduit contributions, the donors’ identities where unredacted, the $1,000 FBI-controlled donation, the Las Vegas/Wynn episode, and exactly what the “national security reasons” were that made prosecution of Fang nonviable. That’s where I suspect the most interesting unanswered questions are.
stock here: Man does he look beat up, and wearing a fake doctor type shirt.
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nukepro.nethttps://nukepro.net › 7087Rogan on Trump and Suppression – nukepro.netOct 31, 2024stock here: actually censorship does work, and it works quite well. Pretending otherwise, is either intentional deception, or an act of stupidity. I was shocked when I first learned that this lumpy dorky looking was getting paid $200M to do podcasts, the “Experience” wow, what a labelling.
nukepro.nethttps://nukepro.net › 10569Kirk and Candace on a New News Source – nukepro.netNov 2, 2025Now, two of the biggest voices in independent media, JoeRogan and Candace Owens, have brought new, explosive information to the forefront. These aren’t just theories; they are devastating critiques of the official narrative, backed by insider testimony and expert analysis. The story is getting more confusing, more explosive, and far darker.
nukepro.nethttps://nukepro.net › 8979I Shall Start Compiling A List of Controlled (Opposition) SitesJoeRogan, he sure clammed up about vaccine injury when they ALL jumped his case Backgrounder: JoeRogan faced significant backlash in early 2022 following an episode of The JoeRogan Experience featuring Dr. Robert Malone, a controversial figure known for spreading COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
stock here: Joe Rogan got neutered when he started speaking truth about “vaccines”, he was shocked, like he wasn’t told ahead of time “these are the lies you must support” for your $200M a year. Which is about as absurd as Taylor Swift or any Kardashians being Billionaires. Are you now entertained?
I’ll put some links below on Rogan and my original articles as they came out. Now it the Zuckerberg.
MARK ZUCKERBERG ISN’T REAL — THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING AFTER JOE ROGAN CAUGHT HIM Joe Rogan had Mark Zuckerberg on and the internet immediately started questioning if the Meta CEO is even human.
They got into hunting. Zuckerberg first said his favorite method is bow and arrow because it’s more sporting and “requires more of you.”
Minutes later he admitted he mostly uses a rifle because the conversion rate is higher and it’s just more efficient. Then Rogan asked what kind of bow he has.
Zuckerberg completely blanked, couldn’t name the company, and called it embarrassing. The clipped exchange is making people say the same thing over and over: this doesn’t feel like a real person.
he answers feel rehearsed, the switch-up feels off, and the blank moment sealed it for a lot of viewers.
Did Joe Rogan just catch Mark Zuckerberg slipping… or is the internet reading way too much into an awkward conversation?
🚨 MARK ZUCKERBERG ISN’T REAL — THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING AFTER JOE ROGAN CAUGHT HIM
Joe Rogan had Mark Zuckerberg on and the internet immediately started questioning if the Meta CEO is even human.
After this attack Rogan definitely became more mainstream.
Joe Rogan, he sure clammed up about vaccine injury when they ALL jumped his case
Backgrounder: Joe Rogan faced significant backlash in early 2022 following an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience featuring Dr. Robert Malone, a controversial figure known for spreading COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. In the episode, Malone promoted the discredited “mass formation psychosis” theory and made comparisons between U.S. public health policies and Nazi Germany. This content led to widespread criticism, with over 270 medical professionals signing an open letter urging Spotify to address the spread of misinformation on its platform. Latest news & breaking headlines+4Vogue+4NPR+4
The controversy intensified when musician Neil Young demanded that Spotify remove his music unless the platform took action against Rogan’s podcast. Young stated, “They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.” Spotify chose to retain Rogan’s content, leading to Young’s departure from the platform. He was joined by other artists, including Joni Mitchell, in protest. PBS: Public Broadcasting Service+4The Guardian+4Latest news & breaking headlines+4 Vogue+2The Guardian+2Latest news & breaking headlines+2 Latest news & breaking headlines Vogue+1Latest news & breaking headlines+1
Amid the uproar, discussions emerged about Rogan’s exclusive contract with Spotify, reportedly valued at $100 million. Despite the controversy, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek defended the decision to keep Rogan on the platform, emphasizing the importance of free expression and cautioning against the slippery slope of censorship. Vogue PBS: Public Broadcasting Service
In response to the criticism, Spotify implemented measures to combat misinformation, including adding content advisories to COVID-19-related podcasts and directing listeners to a dedicated COVID-19 information hub.
STOCK HERE: like a stupid person, so stupid, that they don’t realize they are stupid, is one of the most dangerous people.
I have summarized the comments to the video. Those show the real story.
Yes. Reading the comment section as a whole, the dominant message is remarkably consistent. The video has 1,155 comments, and the politically substantive ones shown here overwhelmingly share a particular interpretation of the war.
What the commenters are saying
1. Europe is operating inside a strategic reality bubble. This is probably the strongest theme. Commenters repeatedly describe EU/UK leadership as delusional, unable or unwilling to acknowledge that the military situation has moved against Ukraine. Some of the most-liked comments say European leaders have already lost their wager on a “strategic defeat” of Russia but cannot admit it, while another says Europeans are simply ignoring the reality approaching them.
The memorable formulation is essentially:
They are negotiating with themselves rather than with the facts on the ground.
One commenter literally describes the West as “standing in front of a mirror and just talking to themselves.”
2. Ukraine’s battlefield trajectory is viewed as fundamentally unfavorable, not temporarily unfavorable. The audience does not seem to view this as a war where one more weapons package, drone attack, sanction or tactical success changes the strategic equation. One analogy describes Russia as a boa slowly constricting a hedgehog: the hedgehog can still inflict wounds, but that doesn’t mean it is winning.
That is an important distinction. The commenters aren’t predominantly arguing “Russia had a good week.” They’re arguing “the underlying direction of the war has become very difficult to reverse.”
3. Negotiation without acknowledging that military reality is seen as theater. There is considerable contempt for European demands to participate in negotiations after years of minimizing direct engagement with Moscow. Some argue that proposed pauses or peace initiatives are merely attempts to obtain breathing room and that Russia now recognizes that pattern.
Another bluntly says EU/UK participation would sabotage talks, while another questions whether Washington can still credibly present itself as a neutral mediator.
So the audience’s model is basically:
battlefield facts → negotiating leverage
rather than
Western diplomatic declarations → negotiating leverage.
4. NATO expansion is widely regarded as part of the causal chain, not irrelevant ancient history. One of the highest-engagement comments says NATO’s determination to expand toward Russia’s border “destroyed Ukraine.” Another commenter goes much further historically, pointing to opposition to Ukrainian/Georgian NATO membership and assigning responsibility across several U.S. administrations and European/Ukrainian elites.
Whether every historical claim in those comments survives fact-checking is a separate question; the important thing for summarizing the audience is that they reject the “unprovoked event beginning in 2022 with no meaningful prehistory” framework.
5. European economic/energy policy is viewed as self-inflicted strategic damage. A recurring secondary theme is that Europe hurt itself by severing cheap Russian-energy relationships while simultaneously pursuing confrontation with Russia. Commenters connect this to industrial weakness, fuel prices and vulnerability going into winter. There are comments explicitly anticipating a difficult European winter and questioning European energy security.
Thus the audience sees the Ukraine policy not merely as unsuccessful foreign policy, but increasingly as a domestic economic burden.
6. There is genuine anxiety about escalation. This isn’t just cheerleading for Russia. Some commenters are plainly worried that Western governments might escalate rather than admit that their original strategic objective failed. One highly liked comment explicitly raises the danger of turning Europe into a nuclear battlefield rather than conceding defeat.
Others go in a much more aggressive direction and advocate Russian escalation themselves, including references to Oreshnik strikes. So there is a spectrum from “stop before this gets much worse” to “Russia should force the issue.”
The other huge theme: distrust of the information system
This might actually be the most interesting part.
A significant number of commenters don’t merely agree with The Duran. They describe discovering it as an escape from what they believe is a badly distorted Western information environment. One Japanese commenter says that without The Duran he believes he would have been misled by Western media; others describe the show as providing “sanity,” “accurate analysis,” or an alternative to BBC/Sky narratives.
And the comments aren’t geographically monolithic. People identify themselves as being in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland, Australia, Japan, Serbia, Canada and elsewhere. That doesn’t make the sample statistically representative, but it does show that this interpretive framework isn’t confined to Russians or Americans.
The methodological caveat
There is one important limitation: The Duran’s comment section is a self-selected population. People who already find its analysis persuasive are much more likely to watch, subscribe and comment. So 1,000 approving comments are not equivalent to a scientific poll of Europeans.
But they’re useful for something else.
They show that there is a substantial, internationally dispersed audience whose interpretation of events is internally coherent:
NATO overreached → Ukraine became the battlefield → sanctions/energy decoupling damaged Europe → Ukraine’s military position deteriorated → Western political leadership refuses to revise its assumptions → diplomacy consequently remains detached from actual negotiating leverage → continued denial increases escalation risk.
That is the “grok” running through the comments.
And what struck me most is that they’re not principally debating individual tactical events anymore. They’re debating the inability of institutions to update their model when observed reality diverges from the model.
That’s a much deeper criticism than simply saying “Ukraine is losing.”
stock here: in Hawaii, everything over 3.5 is notable. This quake is not Magma related, in all likelihood, it is the vast weight of the islands, occasionally creaking downward.
Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:11 25 Years in the FBI – What I Learned About Human Behavior 04:16 The Most Valuable Thing I Give People 07:01 Apply This Knowledge & You’ll Never Be Manipulated Again 10:58 My FBI Career 11:47 Inside the FBI’s Secret Behavioral Program 14:47 How I Caught Real Spies 21:54 A Spy Exposed by a Bunch of Flowers 26:28 How Many Spies Are Hiding Among Us? 29:02 Why Body Language Could Save or Destroy You 34:29 First Impressions Happen in Milliseconds 37:19 The Science of Human Synchrony 44:01 Eyebrow Knitting & What It Reveals 45:54 What Eyelid Touching Really Means 49:31 What Your Lips Are Secretly Saying 51:00 The Supersternal Notch – Body Language’s Secret Weapon 55:39 FBI Strategies to Win Any Negotiation 1:02:35 Why You MUST Write Down Your Goal Before Negotiating 1:06:37 Subtle Moves That Give You Total Control 1:10:53 How to Walk Into a Room with Authority 1:14:54 Why Height and Posture Subconsciously Matter 1:20:11 What Clues in Someone’s Posture Should You Look For? 1:25:45 The Power of Observing What Others Miss 1:27:28 Can You Actually Train Confidence? 1:31:45 Don’t Let Your Voice Betray You 1:34:06 Why Cadence Is a Power Tool 1:36:17 How to Use Hand Gestures Like a Pro 1:37:58 The Eye Contact Rule That Builds Trust 1:39:25 How to Greet Someone to Win Them Instantly 1:42:45 Should You Be Taking Notes in Meetings? 1:45:53 Handshakes That Command Respect 1:48:18 Toxic Leadership Behaviors to Avoid 1:49:10 Self-Mastery Starts with This 1:51:28 Why Action Beats Knowledge 1:52:58 Psychological Comfort in Communication 1:57:35 How to Spot a Narcissist 2:03:43 Narcissism vs Self-Belief 2:05:38 How This Work Changed Me 2:10:58 My Proudest Day in the FBI 2:12:46 The One Thing That Connects Us All 2:14:29 What People Say They Like About Me
stock here: My first impression is that 3 days ago this was being over hyped. Iniki was a Cat 4, not sure this even made it to legit Hurricane status, Cat 1. Even the 17 YO checkout girl at the local grocery was well aware of this storm.
But I am glad, we don’t need more damage and problems.
In Maui, at 1PM, people are casually hanging at the beach……report from Jesse Wald, who covered the fire and response, often from Drone footage. Kick ass citizen reporter!!
