State of the Octopus

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State of the Octopus

March 9, 2024

A NEW DOCUSERIES on Netflix had us thinking that somebody had been listening to 15-year-old episodes of P.I.D. Radio.

That’s not the case, of course. The Octopus Murders, a four-part series, is well researched and connected some dots that we hadn’t put together back in 2009. However, it was a bit surreal seeing people whose names we’d become very familiar with, like Danny Casolaro, Michael Riconosciuto, John Philip Nichols, Robert Booth Nichols, Cheri Seymour, and others, on screen.

If you’re not familiar with “the Octopus,” we refer you to our episode from October 4, 2009, where we summarized the investigation and highly suspicious death of investigative journalist Danny Casolaro in 1991. Casolaro was found dead in a hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia with his wrists deeply slashed 10 to 12 times. It was ruled a suicide, despite the impossibility of slashing the second wrist when the tendons of the opposite hand have been severed.

We also discuss this week’s State of the Union address, undoubtedly the angriest SOTU message we’ve ever seen. For a president who claims to be optimistic, Joe Biden sure seems ticked.

Also: If Israel isn’t the “real Israel,” why is the god of Islam and his followers obsessed with destroying it?

Are They Really That Incompetent?

July 20, 2024

TWO MAJOR EVENTS shook the world over the last seven days: The attempt on Donald Trump’s life and the biggest IT outage in history. The biggest question in our minds for both events is this: Is it plausible these things occurred through sheer incompetence? There were so many obvious failures by the Secret Service and local law enforcement at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday that it’s led some to question how such a cascading series of errors is even possible. Likewise, a botched update rolled out to CrowdStrike’s anti-virus software caused Microsoft Windows to crash in computers all over the world. That led to grounded airliners and airport closures, banks and businesses unable to process credit and debit card transactions, and hospitals forced to reschedule non-emergency procedures. How is it possible that code so badly written was pushed out to millions of customers without being tested by CrowdStrike? Also: Israel’s Knesset passes resolution declaring that there will be no independent Palestinian state—“not now, not ever,” according to a Likud Party MK. And the electricity demands of Bitcoin farms and AI data centers are bringing a sharp dose of reality to Net Zero dreams.

Stumbling Into World War 3

July 13, 2024

NATO MET IN D.C. this week, celebrating its 75th anniversary with a series of moves that take the world closer to war. Specifically, NATO announced a new military command to coordinate arms shipments and training for Ukraine; offered Ukraine an “irreversible path” to NATO membership; opened a liaison office in Amman, Jordan; and signed a military agreement with South Korea, expanding its reach into the Asia-Pacific. The latter move is significant because it comes as China moves closer to reintegrating Taiwan, by force if necessary, and is engaged with Belarus in joint military exercises near the borders of Ukraine and Poland, a NATO member. We also discuss parallels between the geopolitical situation of a hundred years ago and the present day. Just as Europe fumbled its way into World War 1, which set the conditions for the eruption of World War 2, we’re seeing interlocking treaties and unbridled hubris setting us up for another global conflict—but this one may involve nuclear weapons.

DIANA and the New Golden Age

July 6, 2024

A SPIRITUALIST claims higher powers told her during a three-day out-of-body experience that a new Golden Age would begin between 2012 and 2032. 61-year-old Julie Poole of Cornwall in the UK says that back in 1984, she spent three days in the spirit realm and was told by angelic “guides” that a day of reckoning is coming for “evil global leaders.“ We take note because this is the same message we’ve been hearing the last few years from globalists and occult adepts who believe that the Great Mutation—the conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Saturn on the winter solstice of 2020—marked a transition to a new era of peace and prosperity. A Great Reset, perhaps? Ms. Poole has written a book on the Law of Attraction, an occult belief that Derek addressed on his podcast with guest Jon Clash. You can access the interview on our YouTube channel (link below) or at http://www.vftb.net. Meanwhile, NATO is hosting a conference in Washington, DC next week. Among the topics is how to safeguard the alliance from weapons based on autonomous artificial intelligence. In March, NATO doubled its tech accelerator sites under a program called Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA). We note that Diana, the Roman form of Artemis, is another aspect of the ancient Sumerian deity Inanna, a gender-fluid entity of carnal sex and mindless violence. In her modern, Neo-pagan form, Diana is venerated as a triple goddess that includes the lunar deity Luna/Selene, and the underworld goddess Hecate. This reflects the ancient myths about Inanna, who was called Queen of Heaven (see Jeremiah 7:18 and 44:17–25), controlled the principles of human civilization on earth, and attempted to usurp control of the netherworld as well. This is the entity that we believe is described by John as Babylon the Great in Revelation, the great harlot who rides the Beast. We also discuss elections in the UK, France, and Iran. The UK slides to the left, France shifts to the right, and Iran moves to the middle. In all three cases, the perceived changes are more theatrical than real. As for the upcoming election in the US, President Biden’s cognitive decline is undeniable, so we won’t belabor the point. What’s most revealing about his condition is that the media has spent the last week and a half pretending to be surprised by it. Corporate media sources now openly admit that there is a cabal around Joe Biden that’s been shielding him from outsiders and that a moneyed class of big donors are meeting behind closed doors to pick his replacement. Isn’t that what elections are for? (Rhetorical question; we already know the answer.) And we discuss a new grant from the US government to Moderna to develop an mRNA “vaccine” against avian flu. As Sharon notes, the strain of H5N1 currently circulating through bird and mammal populations, while dangerous, does not spread easily to humans. The only way to protect against a strain that is transmissible to humans is to tweak the virus through gain-of-function research—and we saw what that led to in 2020. Here’s the link to the new series The Promised Land: http://youtube.com/@thepromisedlandseries