Geoengineering is real and it’s a horrible idea. Civilian and military scientists have been attempting to control the weather for many decades. Anyone who’s just now discovering that is understandably shocked and probably disoriented. Hucksters rely on this effect. A mind that’s just been opened is easily duped.

“He who controls the weather,” Lyndon B. Johnson famously proclaimed, “will control the world!” No one remembers anything these days, though. When they do, it’s usually in the form of selectively edited quotes like this—cited as “proof” the government has long been capable of godlike weather control—which will occasionally resurface to stir a memetic storm.

After two decades, I’ve yet to see convincing evidence that any cabal has full control over the weather, whether it be heat waves or hurricanes. Cloud-seeding scientists have a hard enough time making it rain. However, there is ample evidence that shady actors are manipulating the noosphere—a.k.a. the realm of human culture—especially the interconnected sphere of our digitized minds.

In the old days, they called this “deception.”

The stone-faced “activist” Dane Wigington, founder of GeoEngineering Watch, opens his podcast with Lyndon Johnson’s “control the world” clip. So you’d think Wigington would grasp the full context. Yet last week, we heard him tell Alex Jones:

“The film you just showed [in] 1962—former president Johnson is stating on film and on the record that we had the power to control the world’s cloud layer then.” Wigington blinked at the camera. “Those who print the money, who control everything. … Of course they’re controlling the weather! The covert weapon with which they can and are bringing populations to their knees all over the world, and have been for decades—without those populations ever even knowing they’re under assault.”

Any time it’s convenient, the same people who tell you “The government lies about everything!” will cite government agents tasked to project power or government documents written to gin up more funding. “They think you’re stupid!”

It appears those who “expose” high-level psychological operations have also learned a thing or two about conducting a lowbrow psy op.

LBJ promises world control at Southwest Texas State University (1962)

Those watching the sky for man-made hurricanes know that Wigington has been making the rounds lately. From one credulous interviewer to the next, this guy is spinning yarns and dimming minds by the millions. If Wigington can’t even get Johnson’s “he who controls the weather” bit straight, why should we trust anything else that comes out of his mouth?

First off, any credible conspiracy theorist “knows” that Johnson lied about everything from the JFK assassination to the Gulf of Tonkin incident that dragged us into the Vietnam War. Now they suddenly believe Johnson revealed the secret of world control during a random commencement speech? That alone should raise any turbo-skeptic’s eyebrows.

The worst part, though, is that Johnson was not saying the US government—or anyone on earth—already had control over the weather. Addressing the graduates at Southwest Texas State University on May 27, 1962, he was just shilling the rebooted US space program.

“It lays the predicate and the foundation for a space communication satellite that will permit the people of the world to see one television program at the same time,” Johnson said. And in fact, the very first TV satellite, Telstar, would be launched into orbit a month and a half later. Thus began a new era of global brainwashing.

Johnson then promised the US space program laid “the foundation for the development of a weather satellite that will permit man to determine the world’s cloud layer—and ultimately, to control the weather!” After that came his money quote about controlling “the world.”

Obviously, Johnson was talking about what would happen, not what was happening. And in case anyone needs to hear it, politicians exaggerate with more ease than a crackhead burns hubs.

Three years later, Johnson delivered a message to Congress with a more sober tone: “We hope someday to acquire the knowledge permitting us to minimize the incidence and severity of hurricanes, tornadoes, and other violent storms and, also, to be able to improve the temperature and rainfall conditions in agricultural and industrial regions.”

Did the diligent “researcher” Dane Wigington not bother to listen to Johnson’s whole commencement speech? Did he miss Johnson’s later congressional report? Or is it possible that—stay with me here—Wigington is as much of a deceiver as Johnson was?

Incidentally, during his 1962 speech, Johnson also said the space program laid “the steps necessary to send a man to the moon!” Imagine believing the moon exists, let alone a man could ever walk on it. (I’m just joshin’, man, lighten up.) Some of the same people who say “they” faked the moon–landing in 1969—because NASA didn’t have sufficient technology—will also tell you they’ve had the power to control hurricanes for decades.

America’s rebounding space program, Johnson assured the Texan graduates, also laid the necessary steps to “provide a nuclear rocket that will produce benefits that are so unlimited that I couldn’t tell you about ‘em.” By 1962, rocket scientists had been working on nuclear thermal rockets for over a decade. Yet after numerous false starts and billions of dollars, they still haven’t produced a consistently useful prototype.

“But that’s the kind of a world you’re living in!” Johnson concluded. Indeed, sometimes your ambitions bear fruit, sometimes they don’t. Beyond that, it’s a world of lofty dreams, paranoid nightmares, and lies, lies, lies.

Artificial Icons of Real Human Suffering

Last month, Hurricane Helene paused to churn over Appalachia, bringing horrific destruction. The heavy rain inundated Asheville, NC, destroyed entire towns, and killed over two hundred people. As the disaster unfolded, social media was flooded with valid accusations that FEMA was dragging its heels in response. Government officials, both federal and local, impeded the efforts of competent civilian volunteers who arrived to save or aid survivors.

But there were also clumps of mental garbage floating on those waves of valid information. It’s what our would-be Ministry of Truth calls “mis-, dis-, and mal-information.” Random anons invented ridiculous body counts out of thin air—and highly regarded influencers cited them. AI-generated images of disaster porn were spread around, becoming artificial icons of real human suffering. Hysterical activists attributed this “unprecedented” storm to climate change, apparently ignorant of Asheville’s “Great Flood of 1916,” when the city was nearly destroyed by back-to-back hurricanes.

Meanwhile, Democratic politicians and FEMA officials took the opportunity to argue for tighter information control. As we enter an era of digital post-reality, various authorities are positioning themselves as the sole arbiters of truth—although you can be sure their false pronouncements will rarely be admitted and never be labeled as “disinformation.”

Our current left-liberal regime either implies or insists that whites are racist, “people of color” are innocent, men are bumbling fools, girl bosses are supercompetent, globalist wars are just, genitals are interchangeable, and citizenship is universal. After the lockstep Covidian response, it’s clear that authorities will say anything to establish control and apologize for nothing. As a result, their illegitimacy has opened an informational vacuum in the public mind. It’s rapidly filling with paranoid delusions.

A conspiracy theorist might suspect that phony conspiracy theories are being intentionally seeded to foment so much confusion, the populace will welcome the end of free speech and embrace the rise of unimpeachable media outlets alongside “superhuman” artificial intelligence.

Source: USGS Critical Minerals Review (2021)

Among the most outlandish claims is the accusation that the US government deliberately steered Hurricane Helene onto its murderous course, followed by Hurricane Milton two weeks later. To my amusement, various bots—from Alexa to ChatGPT—all appeared to confirm that hypothesis.

In the case of Helene, one alleged motive was to remove the townspeople of Kings Mountain, NC so the mineral company Albemarle, partnered with the Department of Defense, could access the lithium deposits there—which, according to InfoWars reporter Greg Reese, is estimated to be the largest deposit in America. The implication is the godlike Powers That Be sent a hurricane as an excuse for a treacherous land grab.

Setting aside the absurd idea of destroying an entire region to get at some battery-making resources, a cursory web search reveals that North Carolina doesn’t hold the “majority” of US lithium ore. The largest known lithium deposit in America is believed to be under Thacker Pass in Nevada, where mining operations are underway. There’s plenty more in the surrounding McDermitt Caldera.

In fact, there are around twenty known lithium deposits across the country. For instance, as of last April, researchers estimate that extracting the mineral from Pennsylvania’s fracking waste “could cover nearly half of the nation’s lithium demands.” The situation is hardly desperate. As you can see above, North Carolina’s deposits are a tiny blip on the map (lithium is in blue). Besides that, mining companies have been digging lithium out of Kings Mountain since the 1930s. So this is nothing new.

Another alleged motive is that “they” sent Hurricane Helene to Appalachia, then drove Hurricane Milton toward Florida, for the purpose of suppressing Republican voters. Apparently, stuffing ballot boxes is yesterday’s news.

People can be monstrous, though. Let’s assume the electric vehicle market is so ravenous that corporate and governmental conspirators are willing to inflict a hundred billion dollars in damage just to get a few more battery components. If they’re not stopped, “they” might rain terror down on mining towns across the nation—including the skilled miners themselves. Hell, they might activate Yellowstone’s supervolcano to flip the surrounding states blue.

How would these evil-doers steer a Cat 5 hurricane in the first place?

Birdwatching with GeoEngineering Watch

You’d think it was some sort of morbid joke given the human carnage that occurred, but the proposed mechanism is the NEXRAD Doppler radar network. That’s the sensor system that sends out microwave pulses to track clouds, precipitation, and to some extent, wind. Our man Dane Wigington, the embattled “truth-teller,” insists this is how the Powers shot two massive hurricanes from Indra’s mighty bow.

In the case of Helene, Wigington maintains, these Doppler towers sent out “frequency transmissions” to guide and hold the hurricane over Appalachia. He says these beams repel moisture and unspecified “nanoparticles” which were allegedly sprayed into the storms. Two weeks later, he asserts, “they” brought out the big guns in Cancun, Mexico to steer Hurricane Milton toward Florida.

As evidence, Wigington provides spooky NEXRAD maps that show pulsating blue blooms next to the hurricane. To my knowledge, he hasn’t described the mechanism in mathematical detail, but I suppose he doesn’t need to. Ominous pictures are enough to whip up a memetic cyclone.

So far as I can tell, these maps are either cribbed from a friggin’ birdwatcher’s website that reveals the frantic bird migrations that typically occur around severe storms—animals get freaked out by extreme weather—or else Wigington uses a similar animator. Either way, this doofus has a lot of explaining to do.

First, the obscure birdwatcher’s maps are nearly identical to Wigington’s. And the US National Weather Service has long explained that bird migrations and even butterflies show up as artifacts. This is old news that any “expert” should know.

Second, the purported mechanism makes no sense. A typical cyclone releases some 600 terawatts of energy—that’s 600 trillion watts—or around a quarter of the entire world’s energy output. The average hurricane is loaded with more force than 10,000 nuclear bombs, and the power behind Helene and Milton was well above average.

There are about 160 towers in the NEXRAD detection system. These are spread out across the entire country. The transmitters atop each WSR-88D tower are putting out around 750 kilowatts of power, or 750,000 watts. The most potent among them, the Mega 3 Doppler system in the Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas area, puts out a maximum of one megawatt—or a million watts.

Keep in mind that any Doppler station is only transmitting for around 7 seconds per hour. These focused microwave signals hit tiny water particles and bounce off without budging them. Claiming that Doppler systems control hurricanes is like saying a kid can blow ripples into a lake to shift a boat off-course.

What I’m getting at is that Dane Wigington is either pulling our legs or yanking our chains. Or, to be more charitable, he needs to show his physics equations and precise weather system models. Looking at his recent web posts, I just see him waving a magic wand and saying, “THEY CONTROL HURRICANES!!!!”

Many will insist “they” are lying about the real energy output of the NEXRAD system. Okay, fine. Maybe they’re using reverse engineered alien technology, too. Maybe every tower is possessed by its own demon. Knock yourselves out.

Third, one might wonder why no forensic meteorologists or TV weathermen have come forward to expose this evil plot. People say it’s because they all sign nondisclosure agreements, but NDAs don’t apply in a criminal court. If that’s enough to keep them quiet about mass murder, the weather service is locked up tighter than Area 51.

Wigington insists they’re all “reading scripts” handed down by the military corporations “Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.” The reason your local weatherman knows it’s gonna be sunny or stormy a week in advance is because their sinister masters are making it so. I guess “they” don’t have control of the Southeast, though, because the forecasters here never seem to get it right.

Finally, Wigington has a long history of easily debunked claims. Last year, he went so far as to tell Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that “in almost all cases” the streaks appearing behind airplanes are not contrails—trails of tiny ice crystals that form due to condensation emitted from a plane’s engine exhaust—but are in fact “sprayed particulate trails” that work all manner of hoodoo on the atmosphere and the populations below.

In fact, Wingington maintains that aircraft are secretly retrofitted with spray devices. Years ago, debunkers took notice and called him out for a slide “exposing” one of these supposedly ubiquitous chemtrail nozzles. As you can clearly see in the Airbus A319/A320/A31 technical training manual above, these are typical pylon drains for leaking fluid.

As any conspiracy theorist should know, media manipulation will twist your head into knots. Take all the red pills you want, you’ll just end up in another matrix.

Think of this article as a sort of Consumer Reports for conspiracy theories. After weeks of obsessing over ludicrous claims, I give the “technological storm god” narrative an orange circle due to wild misinterpretations of valid information. I would give it a damning red circle, but as I said, geoengineering programs do exist. Those include:

Ongoing cloud seeding operations to make it rain (e.g., using dry ice, table salt, silver iodine, and more recently, experiments with high-powered lasers); dubious attempts to steer storms (e.g., Project Cirrus in the 1940s, and Project Stormfury from 1962 to 1983); more dubious attempts to weaponize the weather (e.g., the Vietnam War’s Operation Popeye from 1967 to 1972).

As for recent plans to steer storms, check out this amusing abandoned patent going around—US20030085296A1—that proposes the use of sound waves to move weather systems this way or that. Talk about singin’ in the rain.

For those who insist patents are “proof” of viable tech, take a gander at the century-long list of patented flying cars.

Then there are the current mad scientist proposals for “solar geoengineering” to mitigate global warming (e.g., the injection of sulfuric aerosols into the stratosphere, or marine cloud brightening using anything from vaporized sea foam to electric charges). These “man-made climate change” operations are currently being funded and developed by major players and institutions such as Bill Gates, David Keith, Harvard University, Stanford University, Intellectual Ventures, and the US government, among others (hat tip to Naomi Wolf for providing abundant info on these programs).

And let’s not forget the HAARP project in Alaska, which injected energy into the ionosphere to study upper atmospheric dynamics. This sinister plot was famously investigated by the former pro-wrestler Jesse “The Body” Ventura in his corny mainstream TV show, Conspiracy Theory, way back in 2009. Seems like it’s kayfabe all the way down.

As LBJ would say, “That’s the kind of a world you’re living in!”

Whenever I consider elaborate plots, I ask three questions: Would they? Could they? Did they? In the case of a vast conspiracy to direct hurricanes onto hapless Americans, I’ve concluded some psychos undoubtedly would, but they most likely couldn’t. In any case, there’s no good evidence that they did.

Fact-checking and debunking are so boring, I’d rather pull potatoes all day. My motivation for playing MAGA Disinformation Czar here is three-fold.

First, I want most or all extant and future geoengineering programs halted, and any covert programs declassified (and maybe punished). Second, I don’t want our free speech crushed by authoritarians who justify censorship by citing actual “disinformation” that’s kicked into our own goal. Third, I don’t want to live in a nation full of lunatics.

Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds—be it “man-made storms” or “nanobot swarms”—make all of the above more difficult. It’s like watching a battalion in your own army aim up at the sky and waste precious ammo shooting at faces in the clouds. These psychic storms muddy the water. They undermine efforts to confront the technological system. And they offer up justification for a future Ministry of Truth on a silver platter.

For the true believer, discovering dark secrets behind the veil feels like “waking up.” Well, I got bad news for ya, fellas. Just because you left an indolent dream to enter a paranoid nightmare, that doesn’t mean you’re awake.

On the other hand, maybe I’m wrong about Dane Wigington. If so, he needs to be elevated as a national hero. He deserves a Nobel Prize and public statues. Future generations should celebrate his life every April 1st.

If this guy is the crank I think he is, though, his ideas should be stomped to dust and shot into the clouds. This might not be enough to start a hurricane, but at least they’ll be out of the way.

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The Omniwar Symposium was well worth watching in full. It hits many points I’ve been covering for years now, from transhuman ambition to religious inversion. Even so, there was plenty of new material for me to sink my teeth into. All the presenters are admirably learned and articulate, so the info went down easy.

Their overarching thesis posits an all-encompassing assault by elite powers on mass populations—the fat cats against “the people.” This is a global war, waged alongside various inter-elite geopolitical conflicts. In the long view, the omniwar is a struggle to establish a technocratic hegemony. It is a fight to crush our freedoms. It is a war against humanity.

By and large, this accusation is a response to the traumatic Covid measures brought down on the citizens of nearly every nation on earth. I may disagree with the symposium’s ultimate conclusions—especially those godforsaken nanobots—but they’ll get no argument from me about the 2020 terror campaign. In America, people in most states saw their rights trampled upon. Corporations and the federal government forced vaccination under penalty of unemployment. Lives were upended. Family ties were broken. It was a crime against human dignity.

Those were treacherous times. Without future safeguards, they’re likely to be repeated ad nauseam. One key component of resistance, though, will be to attack the system with precision, and not allow ourselves to get lost in puerile fantasies.

The symposium included my friend Patrick Wood, who has taught me a great deal about technocracy and transhumanism. His presentation was characteristically lucid, from the early history of the technocracy movement at Columbia University to its continued relevance in our present era. “Technocracy is the science of social engineering,” Patrick quoted from a 1937 issue of The Technocrat, “the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population.”

The Covid crackdown was nothing if not technocratic in essence. Governments used “the numbers” to lock down their citizens and neutralize their justified protests. Drug corporations hid the real numbers to deny their customers’ vaccine injuries. Both colluded to form impromptu biosecurity states. These people should all burn in hell—at least for a little while.

Despite the normie-con temptation to attribute everything to “Marxism” (which is sort of like Jew obsession, minus the nepotism and alleged moneylust), Patrick drew a clear distinction between technocracy and communism. “Marxists hated technocracy with a passion,” he explained, “and for good reason: technocrats would push man out of the picture altogether, resulting in a hierarchy of scientific dictatorship run by scientists and engineers.”

That insight doesn’t play well with TV-brained Fox News fans, but I appreciate the nuance. “Technocracy wanted to do away with all political systems,” Patrick went on, “including communism and socialism.”

Similarly, while acknowledging that most technocrats and transhumanists begin from atheistic premises—viewing the organic world as a system of interlocking mechanisms—Patrick emphasized that not all atheists are technocrats or transhumanists. Such distinctions will be critical going forward, lest we come off like torch-bearing witch-hunters.

As it happens, a recent paper by one Omniwar participant, Daniel Broudy, inspired me to resume my research into nano-scale technology. The idea is that the Covid jabs—and perhaps chemtrails streaking overhead—contain sophisticated nanobots which can be activated by 5G routers to monitor or manipulate a subject’s body and brain. Some say these self-assembling vaxxbots can kill a man like tiny ball-busting pagers floating through his bloodstream. Click… BOOM!

I remain unconvinced.

In fact, an expert commentary hastily published by the same outlet as Broudy’s paper—the International Journal of Vaccine Practice, Theory, and Research—flatly states there are “No Nanobots in Vaccines — Just Lipids on the Loose.” But in sensationalist vaxxbot circles, the psychological damage has already been done and the clickbait money already extracted.

Broudy avoided all mention of the nanos during his Omniwar presentation, leaving that to his co-authors Lissa Johnson and David Hughes. Instead, he focused on the broader sociological implications of technocracy. The presentation was well-written, and he read it from his screen with eloquence. His main point was that our leaders treat us like cattle, using surveillance and mind control to herd the masses at will.

My regular readers will know I agree with that up to a point. But a one-dimensional characterization misses two vital elements. First off, anyone who’s carefully studied the transhumanist literature knows that “liberty” and “morphological freedom” are key principles that complicate any top-down oppression narrative.

Second, and just as important, is the dark reality that—much like large-scale technocratic institutions treat mass populations like cattle—many business savvy “freedom fighters” have captured the imaginations of smaller sub-populations, filled their heads with sci-fi delusions, and made off with their minds (and money) like web-crawling cattle-rustlers.

Speaking about large-scale control systems, though, Broudy did include one quote from Bertrand Russell’s essay “Scientific Technique in an Oligarchy” that really captures the menace of our age. In his original passage, Russell highlights the “evils” of Soviet Russia and the “atrocities” of the Nazis, looking ahead to the more insidious possibilities of scientific totalitarianism. For whatever reason, Broudy omits Russell’s obvious disdain for communism, fascism, and dictatorship, but his excerpt is relevant nonetheless.

“Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine,” Russell wrote in 1951, “to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.”

Broudy pairs this quote with the 2016 slogan “You’ll own nothing and be happy,” which, to Broudy’s credit, he traces not to Klaus Schwab—as is fashionable—but rather to its original source. Even so, Broudy’s presentation had the effect of flattening the problems of our era to some World Economic Forum-centered conspiracy. If only life were so simple.

Lissa Johnson gave the most compelling talk, describing “transhumanism as a military-intelligence operation with Covid-19 as a supporting psychological operation.” Her literature review of military, government, and corporate documents was superb. She cited a number of white papers I’d never seen before, so I’ve been following her trail for several days now. This new information has been illuminating, and for that I’m grateful.

In fact, I highly recommend you listen to her talk in full. If that piques your interest, do read the four-part series that Johnson co-authored with Daniel Broudy and David Hughes. The information they marshal is of great interest, although I suspect their literalist, overly imaginative conclusions will do more harm than good. That’s for you to decide. (Well, you and objective reality, if anyone can grasp such a thing.)

Two themes from Johnson’s presentation really hit me: the “manipulation of reality perception” and the recurring dreams (and nightmares) of advanced nanotechnology. It’s true that, by their very nature, psychological operations are methods of perceptual manipulation. It’s also true that advanced nanotech transmitters—whether administered via injection or aerosol—are a long-standing goal of both military and medical authorities. Yet there’s an ironic connection between these two notions that Johnson seems to miss.

If, as Johnson, Broudy, and Hughes suggest, the human race is presently being seeded with self-assembling nano-scale circuitry or full-blown nanobots—whether injected into arms or dropped from fake clouds—then we live in a nightmare world of invisible creepy crawlies. These are basically UFOs in your bloodstream: unidentified floating objects. They can’t stop Covid, apparently, but they can monitor your vital signs and control your mind.

On the other hand, if such nanotech still remains in a fantasy realm alongside quantum computers and artificial superintelligence—both of which attract billions in funding, with little more than neat parlor tricks to show for it—then Johnson et al. are leading people to chase invisible Easter Bunnies down a rabbit hole to nowhere.

Whether they mean to or not, they also discredit any real resistance to governmental technocracy and corporate transhumanism by activating delusional loud-mouths.

“Don’t ya’ll worry about no mRNAs in them shots. It’s the nanner bots that’ll get’che!!”

Indeed, if viable, mass-deployed nanobots do not yet exist, then vaxxbot alarmism is itself a psy op. It’s a “manipulation of reality perception” that convinces dupes to believe their vaxxed friends and family are 5G-controlled zombies, or that airborne nanos are falling from the sky like demonic snowflakes. In that case, the evil vaxxbot is part of a “simulated reality” that rips people’s minds apart.

Johnson et al. do a great job of showing intent, though. No one can deny that well-heeled scientists and government agents want to use nanotech to cure illness—and to deploy nanos as weaponry. This is hardly a secret. You can find bold statements of intent everywhere, from best-selling books to YouTube videos posted by the would-be perpetrators themselves.

It’s far more difficult to prove that secret agents are deploying invisible nanotech right now. Johnson primes the pump with her more articulate version the oft-repeated mantra: “Top secret tech is decades ahead of anything we see today!!” To support this notion, she cites the former head of NASA’s Langley Research Center, Dennis Bushnell, whose infamous 2001 slideshow “Future Strategic Issues/Future Warfare [Circa 2025]” has been making the rounds for many years.

Johnson goes through a list of exotic technologies—genetic engineering of human beings, implantable electronics, nanobots, smart dust, biocomputing, artificial life, etc. She then interprets a vague bullet point on Bushnell’s slide as meaning “such technologies remain in inventory for over forty years” so they were “no pixie dust” back in 2001. If I understand Johnson correctly, she’s saying classified technology is already forty years into the Future!

To support this mythos, Johnson cites the Harvard science historian Peter Galison, who once argued that “classified scientific research is five to ten times larger than what we see in the open literature.” That wildly imprecise estimate seems overblown to me, but for the sake of argument, let’s assume this is true.

Why should we assume this galaxy of classified R&D has produced a slew of viable technologies? Think of it this way:

Two primary objectives of nanotech are to cure disease and reverse aging. If our clandestine agencies have nanos that are decades ahead of what we see today, why are Ray Kurzweil and Klaus Schwab deteriorating before our eyes? Wouldn’t they be among the first to get a neurological nano-boost, or at least a cellular face-lift?

Have their minds been uploaded to a secret metaverse for the elite, leaving their senile husks to babble onstage?

As a thought experiment, let’s imagine Bushnell’s speculative NASA slideshow contains literal descriptions of existent tech in 2001—actual “‘Bots and ‘Borgs” and “wonderous/ubiquitous land/sea/air/space multiphysics/hyperspectral sensor swarms.”

Okay then, why are two astronauts still stranded on the International Space Station? And why are windows blowing out of Boeing aircraft? Are NASA and Boeing pretending to be incompetent so no one looks for their secret moon base?

I’m serious.

To be fair, Johnson does confront the question: “Where is the tangible R&D?” However, her evidence is just another series of quotes from think tank employees and military propagandists who talk about all the great stuff they’re doing—i.e., justifying their paychecks. Johnson then cites a handful of well-funded nanotech projects. Allow me to put forward a counterpoint: so far, these people have wasted a lot of money for next to nothing in return.

Johnson presents exactly zero evidence that labs have produced self-assembling nano-scale circuitry or nanobots that are ready to be deployed on a dozen people in the wild—let alone half the world’s population. Even worse, she goes on to show us crudely rendered cartoons of proposed biodigital networks as evidence of mature technologies. She concludes by defending certain “scientists” who claim to find vaxxbots under their microscope lenses (which, again, was sternly rebutted here).

“It’s not pixie dust,” Johnson insists. Indeed, I’m more inclined to believe pixie dust actually exists.

Johnson and Broudy’s co-author, David Hughes, won me over at first during his Omniwar presentation. He and I share an appreciation of the satanist-hunting schizoid, Vigilant Citizen, whose dot-connecting analysis of mass entertainment amused me for many years—at least until VC went behind an esoteric paywall. Even if our metaphysics differ, I thought to myself, Hughes and I would probably have much to discuss over a couple of pints.

Then, as if to taunt me, Hughes went on to proudly endorse the harebrained theory that the World Trade Center towers were brought down by “directed free-energy technology”—a.k.a. space lasers. With a calm and confident British accent, Hughes suggested our “elite rulers” are lying about “finite resources” on earth so they can exert “global centralized control.”

“What happens, then, if all of that is a founding myth? What happens if there is such a thing as free-energy technology?” Hughes asks skeptically. “What happens if there actually is the possibility of limitless abundance in the world? These are the things that people need to know about, because it really exposes the foundation of the control system.”

Good questions. Allow me to pose another. What happens when the Skeptoid Ouroboros leads an otherwise sharp individual to abandon centuries of scientific research in favor of unlimited oil and magic “pixie dust” technology?

Is the ultimate objective for “the people” to get their hands on this “free-energy technology” so we can, I dunno, inject ourselves with life-extension serum or build space communes on Mars?

Look, I’m gonna let you in on a dark secret of the cosmos: most people will believe anything. That includes a belief in absurd technologies, whether benevolent or malevolent. A person’s high IQ is no protection from that tendency. In fact, due to the ample mental space a big brain provides, it’s oftentimes a handicap.

To paraphrase Mork: “Nano, nano.”

I humbly suggest that Johnson, Broudy, and Hughes look up from their stacks of white papers for a moment and think about what they’re saying. If top secret projects really are “twenty years ahead of anything we see today,” there would be an unknown continent where flying cars buzz around AI-controlled cities running on cold fusion generators. Maybe scientists there are using time machines to bring back dinosaurs for the local zoo.

No one can prove a negative. So I cannot prove that ubiquitously deployed nanobots don’t exist. Nor can I prove that viable flying cars (not those wobbly mini-copters) and sustainable cold fusion are only pipedreams clogging up the patent office. It’s a big world out there. What do I know?

But after five hours of listening to the Omniwar Symposium, I’m less convinced of vaccine- or chemtrail-borne nanos than when I began. Instead, I’m even more convinced that internet-borne memes can attach themselves to a person’s brain and detach his or her consciousness from objective reality.

I am not arguing that the vaxxbot theories floated by Johnson, Broudy, and Hughes are untrue. I am saying I don’t believe them. Their source material is of great value and I commend their research efforts. But their aggressive conclusions are unconvincing.

As for my readers, I encourage you to listen to this trio, to read their papers carefully, and draw your own conclusions. By now you know I have no intention of telling you what to believe. Not that it would matter if I did. If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past few years, it’s that people will believe whatever they like.

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Our elites want to live forever. The rest of us will make for rich compost

Today’s guest post on Transhumanism courtesy of Joe Allen, of  Singularity Weekly.

Fear of death is intrinsic to human life. As our years accumulate, we watch friends and family drop off, one by one, disappearing from our presence and lingering only in memories.

Barring some miracle, divine or otherwise, we’re all soon to follow, down to the sweetest baby ever born.

Unfazed by this horror, the faithful are emboldened by belief in resurrection or reincarnation—a direct participation in the eternal. For religious people, the body is just a vehicle for a transcendent soul. The mystery of death is a rite of passage.

For the materialist, there is only this world, beyond which the dying meet total annihilation. The brain dissolves into black nothingness. Consciousness stops with the Big Zero at the end of our lives. And for all sentient beings, and all memory of our existence, there awaits the Big Zero at the end of the universe.

The cosmos is nothing but atoms and the void. To make matters worse, the atoms are slowly freezing to death.

Wallowing in this trance of sorrow, our elites, and most anybody else, would pay anything to live forever—or just a little longer. Held in thrall by old age, disease, and death, they put faith in biomedical protection racketeers who swear they can keep the Reaper at bay.

Today, it’s the vaxx-addicts and maskholes.

Tomorrow, it’ll be needle-pocked mutants with blinking devices stuck all over them, who pray to AI for a place in the cloud.

Transhumanism offers synthetic salvation through three basic methods—bio longevity, bionic continuity, and digital immortality.

Genomics will stop aging on the cellular level. Bionics will keep the body running with replacement parts. Once artificial intelligence is sufficiently advanced, mind uploads will allow eternal communion with the digital deities whom techies are busy creating.

“I think that there’s a good probability,” the human-reptile hybrid, Jared Kushner, recently said, “that my generation is—hopefully with the advances in science—either the first generation to live forever, or the last generation that’s gonna die.”

A more likely scenario? This is the first generation to merge with machines, and the last generation to regret it.

Kushner is not alone. Many of our credulous elites, from Wall Street to the World Economic Forum, have been ensnared by a techno-religion. Its unfrocked priests are the scientists and futurists who push radical gene therapies, brain-computer interfaces, and various life-logging gadgets. As the actual technology becomes more and more sophisticated, you can be sure every atheist and his lapsed uncle will fall prey to this cosmic scam.

And for those who can’t afford it? Well, you know, there’s only so much room on the lifeboat.

Bio Longevity

In order to cheat death, at least for awhile, the first method is to preserve the body at the cellular level. One proposed line of attack is to correct defective genes and defuse the cell’s innate self-destruct programs. With the discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 complex in 2012, geneticists now have the power to more easily knock out faulty genes, and even insert new, superior genetic codes.

Joe Biden’s recent executive order, the National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative, has slated $2 billion for these “high-risk, high reward” projects to “write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers.”

There are also less invasive procedures, to be used in conjunction with gene-editing, such as munching vitamins morning, noon, and night, or gaining self-knowledge through Internet of Bodies surveillance devices—wearable trackers which feed every biometric data point into an artificial intelligence system, putting flesh on the bones of your “digital twin.” In theory, the resulting simulation could be used as a reference for targeted gene-editing.

“By preventing 90 percent of medical problems,” Ray Kurzweil wrote in The Singularity is Near, “life expectancy grows to over five hundred years. At 99 percent, we’d be over one thousand years. We can expect that the full realization of the biotechnology and nanotechnology revolutions will enable us to eliminate virtually all medical causes of death.”

Inspired by this sort of statistical fantasy, Big Tech oligarchs are pouring billions into various life extension laboratories:

• SENS Research Foundation – Co-founded by the transhumanist Aubrey de Grey in 2009, this organization seeks to halt and reverse aging. “No matter what caused a given unit of damage in the first place,” they assure us, “the same regenerative therapeutics can be used to repair it.”
• Altos Labs – Founded by Jeff Bezos and the corporate transhumanist Yuri Milner in 2021, this is a “new biotechnology company focused on cellular rejuvenation programming to restore cell health and resilience, with the goal of reversing disease to transform medicine.”
• Calico Labs  – Acquired by Google in 2015 at the behest of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, this company is focused on “the convergence of biology and technology, coupled with a long-term perspective and funding” with high hopes of “curing death.”
• Methuselah Foundation – Bankrolled by Peter Thiel (along with many other immortality start-ups), this foundation is on a mission to “make 90 the new 50 by 2030.”

And the list goes on and on. By all appearances, billionaires fear death as if hell awaits, and they’ll pay any amount to avoid it. If you’re lucky, you too might add a few years to your life through trickle-down immortality.

Should these gene-therapies and 3D-printed organs fail to keep your carcass shambling along, there are always cryonic doctors who’ll freeze you right before you die, then thaw you out once these transhumanists finally get their shit together.

Alcor Life Extension Foundation, for example, charges $80,000 to freeze your head, and $200,000 for the full body treatment. It’s a small price to pay for a shot at immortality.

Bionic Continuity

The second method is to replace failing tissues and organs with mechanical parts. We do this already with pacemakers, prosthetic limbs, cochlear implants, dental implants, deep brain stimulation devices, and flag-raising penile implants. In a real sense, the entire plastic surgery industry—from hair transplants to rubber duck lips to silicone boobs—is a means to stave off our inevitable dissolution, if only on a superficial level.

Transhumanists foresee a day, just over the horizon, when more advanced prosthetics will offer superior functionality—including brain function. We’ll have Swiss Army knives for fingers and versatile artificial genitals, sort of like today’s transgenders, but presumably way better. Any prospective immortal had better hope so.

This cyborg dream was fleshed out in the early 20th century by the Marxist thinker J.D. Bernal. “Already we know the essential electrical nature of nerve impulses,” he wrote in 1929, “it is a matter of delicate surgery to attach nerves permanently to apparatus which will either send messages to the nerves or receive them. And the brain thus connected up continues an existence, purely mental and with very different delights from those of the body, but now perhaps preferable to complete extinction.”

Bernal compared this bionic transformation to the metamorphosis of a butterfly, albeit one with hideous wings. “Apart from such mental development as his increased faculties will demand from him,” he speculated, “he will be physically plastic in a way quite transcending the capacities of untransformed humanity.”

As we hurtle toward this nightmare in the 21st century, futurists claim it’ll soon be possible to model the entire human brain—down to the last electrochemical thought pattern—using artificial intelligence. The transhumanist guru Ray Kurzweil predicts this will be accomplished by 2029. (It’s unclear if that will be early in the year, or just in time for Christmas.)

Following an AI-created digital template, doctors will replace our dying neurons with artificial neurons. Bit by bit, our meat brains will be transformed into a latticework of lightning fast transistors. It’s an upgraded mind-brain that could last forever—so be sure to get a warranty.

Would this mechanical monster still be you, though? The idea is that a pattern is a pattern, and the human “soul” is just a pattern of information. It doesn’t matter what the medium may be. Think of it this way—if you replaced every thread in a sweater, strand by strand, with artificial wool, it would still feel like the same old sweater. Maybe even better.

In a similar manner, many believe your personal consciousness will survive the transition from gray matter to circuitry. This mind-machine merger would be like looking out at the world through your smartphone—forever. You’d hardly notice the difference.

“If you think about replacing the neurons one at a time by prosthetic neurons made of silicon,” explains the philosopher of consciousness and NYU-employed transhumanist, David Chalmers:

Just say I replace ten percent of my brain with silicon chips…do it one at a time, and keep going and keep going…and they interconnect with the other ones in a perfect way. … I think as long as you do it gradually, and replace the neurons one by one, then it’s gonna be like getting prosthetic limbs or [an] artificial heart.

You’re gonna be replacing parts of me, but I’m gonna be present throughout, and I think I could even stay conscious.

Of course, these artificial neurons haven’t been developed yet—not even close—but they will be one day. You’ll see. Have a little faith. Scientists are working hard. It’s a solid investment.

Digital Immortality

The third method to attain quasi-eternal life is basically the digital side of bionic continuity. Rather than, or in addition to, replacing neurons with artificial neurons, the mind will be gradually uploaded to a computer, where the patterns of one’s personality can be entombed in perpetuity.

Transhumanists delight in pointing out we’re already doing this. Everyone from toddlers to creaky old codgers is feeding their inner self into Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, third-party data vultures, and any intelligence agencies with backdoor access to these companies. Perhaps one day they’ll sell our digital twins back to us so we can inhabit our virtual wraiths.

“Currently, when our human hardware crashes,” Ray Kurzweil wrote, “the software of our lives—our personal ‘mind file’—dies with it. However, this will not continue to be the case when we have the means to store and restore the thousands of trillions of bytes of information represented in the pattern that we call our brains.”

Kurzweil believes injectable nanobots are the key to this uploading process. These microscopic robots will travel through the brain, mapping every neuron and synapse, creating a perfect facsimile of the “soul” in a computer. But there’s more than one way to skin a cat.

As with most transhumanists, Kurzweil was deeply influenced by the Carnegie Mellon roboticist Hans Moravec, who in 1988 described a gruesome uploading procedure now known as the “Moravec Transfer.” Basically, the patient commits suicide by having his or her brain scraped off, like whittling an onion, with each skin copied in silico:

You are fully conscious. The robot surgeon opens your brain case and places a hand on the brain’s surface. This unusual hand bristles with microscopic machinery, and a cable connects it to the mobile computer at your side. …

The surgeon’s hand sinks a fraction of a millimeter deeper into your brain, instantly compensating its measurements and signals for the changed position. The process is repeated for the next layer, and soon a second simulation resides in the computer, communicating with the first and with the remaining original brain tissue.

Layer after layer the brain is simulated, then excavated. Eventually your skull is empty…your mind has been removed from the brain and transferred to a machine.

Some would call this biohorror, but transhumanists revere the “Moravec Transfer” as a pioneering vision of synthetic salvation.

One of Kurzweil’s distinguished disciples, the transgender tech innovator Martine Rothblatt, proposes a kinder, gentler man-machine merger by way of mind-cloning.

“This blessing of emotional and intellectual continuity or immortality,” she (he? whatever) wrote in Virtually Human, “is being made possible through the development of digital clones, or mindclones: software versions of our minds, software-based alter egos, doppelgängers, mental twins.”

In other words, with sufficiently detailed surveillance, our personal data can be processed through artificial intelligence to create a new, more durable “soul” in silico.

“When the body of a person with a mindclone dies,” Rothblatt goes on, “the mindclone will not feel that they have personally died, although the body will be missed in the same ways amputees miss their limbs but acclimate when given an artificial replacement. … The mindclone is to the consciousness and spirit as the prosthetic is to an arm that has lost its hand.”

Having been baptized in electromagnetic waves, you will become your digital ghost, floating forever among the AI angels.

The metaphysics of this process make no sense, but then, why should the transhuman techno-cult be any more realistic than traditional cults? Their delusions would be funny if they weren’t constantly intruding upon our lives through ubiquitous screens and surveillance devices, and blasted into our brains with wall-to-wall propaganda.

“If anything,” Rothblatt conceded in a TED interview, “I’m perhaps a bit of a communicator of activities that are being undertaken by the greatest companies in China, Japan, India, the U.S., Europe.”

You have to wonder if we’ll have social credit scores in heaven.

So You Want To Live Forever—Good Luck With That

Humanity is composed of three primary elements—the spiritual, the biological, and the technological. At best, we are eternal souls enshrined in bodies, with exceedingly powerful tools in our hands. At worst, we’re bumbling monkeys in the Machine.

As the materialist worldview erodes our spiritual consciousness, we’re left with nothing but mortal bodies. When God is dead, technology is exalted as the highest power, holding out the promise of free WiFi and synthetic salvation.

The delusion of physical immortality, whether bodily or digital—or both—is capturing our elites’ imaginations. It doesn’t take a mathematical genius to figure out that if they actually managed to live forever, and the planet has finite space and resources, some number of us will have to become compost for their biomechanical gardens.

Personally, I don’t mind the idea of being turned into mulch. That’s the fate of every man and woman ever born. What is eternal will endure.

My fear, writhing deep in my paranoid brain stem, is that our technocratic rulers, sweating over flawed calculations, are willing to huck us into the mulchers long before our time.

God will not be mocked. Nor will Mother Nature. I’m certain that, in the course of time, every billionaire cyborg and half-retarded upload will shuffle off this mortal coil. Unfortunately, I also suspect they’d happily push the rest of us offstage while they do their apocalyptic jig.

Joe Allen is the tech editor for War Room: Pandemic and host of Singularity Weekly on Substack. Follow him at @JOEBOTxyz on Gettr or Twitter.