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Your heart will be strong
About it
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In America
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In America
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In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
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And your worries behind
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And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
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Happy New Year, AD Gang.
Did two army guys really just coordinate New Years attacks in Vegas and NOLA? The coincidences make it very hard to believe the FBI line about “nothing to see here”. What I see is the FBI playing mind games with me on the cusp of another fish truck of waste.
FYI, the Green Beret are quite a bit more moral than you already credit them with being. o way the perp in Vegas was a malign actor somehow off the reservation or acting as a lone wolf. No way in hell. An SF Group has a committee seated specifically to address honor code issues in its own ranks. If you get two, and sometimes only one, speeding ticket near post, you lose your jump wings. It takes almost nothing and they break your sword, and rip your buttons from your blouse, and walk you out the main gate. The moral distance this “bomber” would need to travel is unbelievable to a thinking person. Let’s see: active SF master sergeant (means not so much as even a crosswalk violation or a missed credit payment), buys a new handgun and shoots self in head (what SF veteran hasn’t got a deep collection of ready handguns?), triggers a bomb with his dead fingers, fucks up the specifics by trying to make a steel, bulletproof bodied Cyber Truck into a working bomb (no good soldier would ever do that; it’s a mistake only an idiot makes), and now he’s surrounded by identification cards – too many such cards including his passport yet his body is unrecognizable. No. Flipping. Way.
2 seconds after I read the first headline on this thing I knew it was another wind up toy type incident.
Trump Tower
Musk truck
White Boy
Army Vet
How many dots have to be drawn before the picture is clear?
I mean, Come on Man!
Check out BCE’s take, he’s much more in depth at this stuff.
And don’t forget the comments.
https://bigcountryexpat.com/
Well boys and girls, get out your tin-foil hats. The LV Green Beret Tesla explosion “suicide” just pegged the Weird Shit-o-Meter at eleven. Zerohedge has the details. The putative Green Beret suicide left a manifesto, and it’s out in the wild. The Feds didn’t get it before it made it to the internet. Good going MSgt. He alleges USA war crimes in the ‘Stan, and Chinese and American drones using a “gravatar” propulsion system. It’s wild!
Well, that coincides with the reports from Joisy of noiseless drones.
Gravatar propulsion! That one word means somebody has figured out how to modify space-time. We are told that mass curves spacetime. But why and how exactly? Nobody knows that, it just does ok? So when you hold up a weight, you are accelerating it in curved spacetime, F=ma, and when you drop it the weight is now following an unaccelerated path (a “geodesic”) in curved spacetime. So if somebody has a gravity-cancelling method, they are creating a bubble of flat spacetime that is not curved, they are hiding the bubble from the effects of mass.
Creating something new is hard. But once somebody figures out something but doesn’t say how it works, a bunch of other guys get busy and figure it out pretty quick. Because they know it exists and it works. The boffins in the physics departments of all the universities are going to get busy this weekend.
Many years ago I read a science fiction short story about a gravitation-cancelling drive (or was it inertialess?). The technology was kept hush-hush and ultra-secret by the government, because if it got out, it would collapse the economy. So much of the economy is based on transportation. Cars, planes, trains, trucks, all of that would be obsolete in an instant, throwing millions of people out of work. The story tried to work out how the government could introduce the technology without creating chaos. I’ve kept that story in my head all these years, just waiting for this day.
And as for inertialess drive, the other part. Nobody know why mass has inertia. Why does a moving object continue to move, and why does it take force to accelerate it? Some of these UFO/UAP reports talk about objects that move in nigh-impossible ways. Perhaps if they figured out how to uncurve spacetime, they’v also figured out the corollary of modifying inertia. That’s some serious new physics there.
Well, we were supposed to have hoverboards by 2015 according to the Back to the Future movies. Ok, so they were off by 10 years. Now all we need is Mr. Fusion. Remember what I said above about the sci-fi story? Has somebody been seeding stories and ideas into the zeitgeist to prepare us for the future.
Oops, one tiny correction. The word the MSgt. used was “gravatic” propulsion. Same thing, spacetime modification. Oh, and it won’t work to help us travel in space that much, because outer-space spacetime far from mass concentrations is already flat.
Van Allen Belt
Your comment is a great read. Color me as doubtful that gravitic mechanisms exist.
Ryan McBeth, well-known YouTube intel analyst, has called bullshit on the manifesto. You might note that the Vegas sheriff and the FBI are endorsing the manifesto at this point in time. OTOH Veteran Biker is calling BS on Ryan McBeth. But, he’s messing his trousers while doing it.
Could an SF dude go bonkers, and make a duffel bag load of mistakes all in a row and perpetrate a crime like this? I suppose. But it stretches credulity very tightly. Did he get lost and go to Las Vegas, New Mexico on his road trip?
No Way. No. Flippin. Way.
Will things get weirder as Jan 20th approaches? Yes Way!
Did you see yesterday how Harris cannot even say the Pledge of Allegiance? And some say there are no Manchurian Candidates. Brother, there are Manchurians lined in depth waiting for thair moment in the news.
Re: “secret stuff”
A little known recent news story states that advanced math and physics – who cares about that stuff? – now fall under “national security” (as if they hadn’t been there at an informal level anyway). I would guess that means a fairly high-level security clearance will be required for PhD level studies at certain institutions – otherwise, one receives the accepted “normal” education and training at those “not certain” universities. Most would consider me of that “certain” class … I was once “inside” long ago … but I simply know enough now to know I don’t know enough. I’ve expressed some of my speculations to professional peers but am blown off because what I’ve stated does not always agree with the accepted narrative (nor am I any longer on the inside where such speculations would be given serious consideration even if proven incorrect; haven’t been for a long time. DARPA doesn’t like me anymore.)
At this point in my life, my attitude is closer to “so what – I no longer care” … but extrapolating from my past experiences? … your best hope is they don’t care about you and your feeble, harmless shouts into the digital wilderness. Which they don’t.
Until they do.
If they want you, they will get you.
“They” know who I am; they aren’t the ones for whom I remain “anonymous” (as if there is such a thing).
Locks only keep out the honest or incompetent.
Regardless of news stories implying otherwise, certain members of “them” are not incompetent; they are among the best of the best.
Do you own a cellphone?
Have you ever delved into the gutz of it and know every file on it even if they are encrypted?
There could be kiddie-pron on it right now, in wait, and you wouldn’t know it.
…til they found it, right after they kick your door in at 3am and shoot your dog.
They could find it on any of your devices, desktop, notebook, tablet, etc.
With AI the way it is there could be a vid file on your phone showing you murdering someone, maybe your wife.
scary shit
If you want to get out you have to get ALL the way out.
White House just posted this video on you tube—it is the end that raises concern. https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1874855734124687532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1874855734124687532%7Ctwgr%5E42576ec2f5fe569fda16f2639f32f2f75853b765%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Frevolver.news%2F2025%2F01%2Fwhite-house-posts-cryptic-eerie-video-from-2021-people-freaking-out%2F
The comments claim that vid is from 2021.
It was. They –“The White House”–just re-released it. Notice whose picture is at the end of the video–If O’Biden abdicates and it passes to her, we were forewarned.
It just keeps gettin better dudn’t it?
From PJ Media.
The Jan. 1 car bomb explosion of a 2024 Cybertruck in front of Trump’s Las Vegas hotel did exactly what the man behind the wheel wanted — it got the nation’s attention. And there is more.
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FACT-O-RAMA! Blowing up a Tesla, made by Elon Musk, packed with fireworks, in front of a Trump hotel on New Year’s Day, after committing suicide is hard to ignore.
ONE-LINERS:
Active Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger, 37, allegedly detonated the Tesla Cybertruck while almost simultaneously shooting himself in the head. His body was badly burned in the explosion and fire.
The explosion occurred several hours after a terror attack in New Orleans committed by an ISIS-inspired man who once served in the army.
Livelsberger and the New Orleans terror suspect both spent time at Fort Bragg, and both used the same car rental app to secure the vehicles they used.
Though Livelsberger’s body was burned beyond recognition, (he was identified by his tattoos), his cell phone and ID were somehow not destroyed.
My first thought was that the Vegas “attack” was related to the New Orleans ISIS-related killing spree, or perhaps the work of a whiny Antifa prag as a threat to Trump and Elon Musk.
As the various media pundits tried to unravel the motive for the Vegas explosion, an intelligence officer named Sam Shoemate was recording a podcast with Shawn Ryan that would rock the nation.
“What I am going to send you is going to change the course of humanity.”
Shoemate told Ryan that Livelsburger contacted him on his Instagram account with a doomsday message days before the Vegas explosion. In it, he claimed, “What I am going to send you is going to change the course of humanity.” He also asked Shoemate if he could forward that message to Fox News, incoming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Shawn Ryan.
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Shoemate claimed he woke up on New Year’s Day after the blast in Vegas to learn that Livelsberger had sent him a manifesto before killing himself, asking Shoemate to keep it — and his name — under wraps until Jan. 1. This was the first time he had seen it.
The manifesto, which is below, explains how the drones over the East Coast are from China, and are flown by a technology called gravitic propulsion, a sophisticated technology only used by the U.S. and China.
He explains that the drones can carry an unlimited payload and can be “parked over the White House.” He also states the Chinese are flying the drones as a “show of force and they are using it similar to how they used the balloon,” referring to the Chinese spy balloon that Biden allowed to do figure-8s over some of our military bases several years ago.
Livelsberger also suggested he is being followed by the FBI or Homeland Security agents, though believes they won’t “move on him” because he is armed and has a sizable car bomb (VBIED) in his vehicle.
The manifesto then takes an unexpected turn.
After admitting that he has knowledge of the secret gravitic propulsion technology, he states that he has information about alleged war crimes, deemed such by the United Nations, committed in Afghanistan in 2019. Crimes he helped orchestrate and later concealed.
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In a notes app on his phone, investigators allegedly found pages on which Livelsberger stated the following;
This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wake up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.
On another note in his phone, Livelsberger claims that we Americans are being led by “weak and feckless leadership who only serve to enrich themselves.”
As the podcast proceeds, Ryan states that his people did some research and found a UN report about the U.S. bombing of more than 60 buildings in Afghanistan in 2019 that were allegedly being used to produce narcotics, suggesting that Livelsberger’s story adds up.
FACT-O-RAMA! Ryan states in the podcast that a military official contacted him and said DNA from Livelsberger’s son proves the child is not his, perhaps to suggest as the motive for the explosion.
As expected, the deep state is now using its Operation Mockingbird media morons to paint Livelsberger as a troubled soldier.
FBI Special Agent Spencer Evans told the media, “Although this incident is more public and more sensational than usual, it ultimately appears to be a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who was struggling with PTSD and other issues.”
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Later in the podcast, Shoemate states that Livelsberger’s safety number on the Signal messaging app was changed after the explosion, leading some people to suggest that the body found may not be that of Livelsberger, or that someone else somehow changed the number.
Some people have been wondering if someone put an already burned body in the car and, using the self-driving mode, had the car deliver itself to the Trump Hotel.
FACT-O-RAMA! Elon Musk has confirmed that the Cybertruck can not function was not in self-drive mode when it arrived at the Trump Hotel.
Other reports are claiming Livelsberger was “depressed” and that his wife had recently left him over allegations of infidelity, leaving the New York Post to state, “With the new development in the case, investigators are probing whether the soldier’s motive was purely personal rather than political as previously considered given the location of the detonation and choice of vehicle.”
Ryan takes a break during the podcast to search through the thousands of incoming emails to his podcast, to find if Livelsberger had contacted the show. They found an unread email from Livelsberger that arrived a few days before the Las Vegas blast.
Though unrelated, the last 11 minutes of the podcast are the most terrifying. Shoemate tells us he has reliable information that the Iranians have snuck surface-to-air missiles into the U.S. — ostensibly to assassinate Trump, and no one knows where they are.
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Ryan goes on to say we are giving tens of millions of dollars per week to the Taliban, which then pays that money to their non-governmental organizations (NGO), which then use the money to train terrorists to kill Americans, and how woefully underprepared we are.
You can watch the entire Shawn Ryan podcast episode here:
Here is Livelsberger’s manifesto:
“In case I do not make it to my decision point or on to the Mexico border I am sending this now. Please do not release this until 1JAN and keep my identity private until then.
“First off I am not under duress or hostile influence or control. My first car was a 2006 Black Ford Mustang V6 for verification.
“What we have been seeing with “drones” is the operational use of gravitic propulsion systems powered aircraft by most recently China in the east coast, but throughout history, the US. Only we and China have this capability. Our OPEN location for this activity in the box is below.
“China has been launching them from the Atlantic from submarines for years, but this activity recently has picked up. As of now, it is just a show of force and they are using it similar to how they used the balloon for sigint and isr, which are also part of the integrated coms system. There are dozens of those balloons in the air at any given time.
“The so what is because of the speed and stealth of these unmanned AC, they are the most dangerous threat to national security that has ever existed. They basically have an unlimited payload capacity and can park it over the WH if they wanted. It’s checkmate.
“USG needs to give the history of this, how we are employing it and weaponizing it, how China is employing them and what the way forward is. China is poised to attack anywhere in the east coast
“I’ve been followed for over a week now from likely homeland or FBI, and they are looking to move on me and are unlikely going to let me cross into Mexico, but won’t because they know I am armed and I have a massive VBIED. I’ve been trying to maintain a very visible profile and have kept my phone and they are definitely digitally tracking me.
“I have knowledge of this program and also war crimes that were covered up during airstrikes in Nimruz province Afghanistan in 2019 by the admin, DoD, DEA and CIA. I conducted targeting for these strikes of over 125 buildings (65 were struck because of CIVCAS) that killed hundreds of civilians in a single day. USFORA continued strikes after spotting civilians on initial ISR, it was supposed to take 6 minutes and scramble all aircraft in CENTCOM. The UN basically called these war crimes, but the administration made them disappear. I was part of that cover-up with USFORA and Agent [Redacted] of the DEA. So I don’t know if my abduction attempt is related to either. I worked with GEN Millers 10 staff on this as well as the response to Bala Murghab. AOB-S Commander at the time. [Redacted] can validate this.
“You need to elevate this to the media so we avoid a world war because this is a mutually assured destruction situation.
“For vetting my Linkedin is Matt Berg or Matthew Livelsberger, an active duty 18Z out of 1-10 my profile is public. I have an active TSSCI with UAP USAP access.”
Who was the desert eagle registered to?
https://sonar21.com/the-fbi-account-of-the-las-vegas-bomber-story-does-not-make-sense/
Does not make sense that he would use a canon like that—-and then the all consuming fire—and then
Right.
That gun costs a minimal $1800.
https://www.guns.com/firearms/p/magnum-research-desert-eagle?i=30730
A pawnshop .38 can be had for $200 or less.
Why all the coin for a 1 shot ride?
Interesting, no?, that nothing in this story adds up.
Which, in and of itself, tells the (hidden) truth.
Thinking people know what’s going on but lack the where with all to do anything about it. Nobody wants to bell the cat and get their own version of kilt.
So, we sit back and do what my old platoon sgt used to say, “Give em enough rope and they’ll hang theirself every dam time.”
An oldie but goodie. Modern math.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3Yz3PiXZw
If
2 + 2 = 4
then
$2000 + $2000 = $20,002,000.00
The teacher missed an opportunity. She shoulda said “Ok then , let’s do DannyMath.” And away we go:
2+2=22 =112 = 121 = 211 = 1111.
Let’s see the little twerp argue that 1+1 = 11 ≠ 2. Which he will try and do.
So, in DannyMath, only 0-9 are the primes, and all other number are made of a sequence of these primes. So put 13 objects on the table, and ask the twerp to write a number for them. And then the teacher writes a different number, and who is right?
Cool. Now let’s do subtraction:
2-2 = ??? (equals 2 I think in DannyMath). So if I have two cookies and I eat them both, I still have two more left to eat, right? Well, said Danny, I still have two cookies, but they are transformed into stomach contents. So in DannyMath, nothing can be destroyed, it can only be transformed.
And when we get to multiplication and division, DannyMath is going to crash and burn, i.e. 2×4 = 2+2+2+2 = 2222, and 4 / 2 = 22 = 4.
Ok Danny, in this school we teach SchoolMath, and in SchoolMath you got and deserved an “F”. And tell the parents to go pound sand and home-school Danny because this school only teaches SchoolMath.
The point being, people make up new maths all the time. But the ones that are useful are those that give us predictable results and can be easily understood and used by everyone. And anyone who creates a new math, well, it’s their job to convince us that is useful, it’s not incumbent upon us to switch to their new math.
Remember the old calculators (not really old but circa 1999) that gave 2+2 = 3.9999999?