A Morning Dose of Blue Light Can Help Us Sleep Better in Old Age

A better explanation is that blue light energerizes our cellular spirit bodies or super computers.  Extra energy allows more work.

having seen the inner sun which was blue, i have no doubt that this can super charge our spirit body which allows the miracles shown us by Jesus.

So the blue light is important for our general health.

A Morning Dose of Blue Light Can Help Us Sleep Better in Old Age

26 March 2025

ByDavid Nield

Blue light in the morning could do wonders for your evening. (Thinkstock Images/Getty Images)

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-morning-dose-of-blue-light-can-help-us-sleep-better-in-old-age?u

A morning dose of blue light might help older people sleep better in the evening, giving them a boost for their daily activities the following day.

Researchers from the University of Surrey in the UK ran an experiment involving 36 volunteers aged 60 or over, testing their response to two-hour-long sessions of blue and regular white light twice a day over several weeks.

The focus on the elderly was deliberate: as we get older, we tend to spend less time outdoors and more time exposed to artificial light, while our aging eyes also let in less blue light. These different factors can all affect the body's circadian rhythms, and subsequently our sleep patterns.

The researchers compared light of different colors and its effects. (Constantino et al., GeroScience, 2025)

"We believe that this is one of the first studies that have looked into the effects of self-administered light therapy on healthy older adults living independently, to help aid their sleep and daily activity," says chronobiologist Débora Constantino from the University of Surrey.

The results were striking: the blue light treatment preceded significantly better quality sleep an increase in regular daily activity. However, this was only true for morning doses, with evening exposure correlating with greater difficulties falling and staying asleep.

Timing is crucial, in other words. The researchers suggest morning doses help train our daily rhythms and teach the body when to be awake, and therefore when to sleep. Evening doses, on the other hand, disrupt the same patterns, which is also why your phone or laptop might come with a blue light filter for evening use.

"Morning blue-enriched light may have increased the signal for wakefulness during the day, increasing sleep pressure and the homeostatic drive for sleep in the evening, thus improving sleep consolidation," write the researchers in their published paper.

The study also showed that daylight exposure – exposure to light above an intensity equivalent to the ambient light of an overcast day – boosted daily activity levels and meant participants tended to get to bed earlier. This fits in with what we know about daylight, which has more blue wavelength light in it, and can boost our mood and levels of alertness.

This idea that blue light therapy could be helpful as we get older has also been shown in previous studies, though those studies usually involved elderly people with dementia who were living in controlled environments. This new research represents more of a real world test.

"Our research shows that carefully timed light intervention can be a powerful tool for improving sleep and day-to-day activity in healthy older adults," says chronobiologist Daan Van Der Veen from the University of Surrey.

"By focussing on morning blue light and maximizing daytime light exposure, we can help older adults achieve more restful sleep and maintain a healthier, more active lifestyle."

The research has been published in GeroScience.

Why Americans Are Working Less

Obviously it has all been changing and also for the better.  The really nasty stuff has been even outsourced.  Grade six farmboys are no longer available to carry buckets of molten steel.  Better yet, the advent of working robotics is upon us, and all those farmboy mechanics will be in serious demand.

Best practice means we need farm boys to manage the natural herd rotations  actually 24/7.  ANd to properly address woodland grooming to support wild husbandry.  Also farm girls obviously.

We have been trying to shed manpower on the farms which means earning the least per acre in practise and also mining the soil base.  that now must change out..

Why Americans Are Working Less

Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025 - 04:45 AM

By Jim Harter of Gallup

Full-time employees in the U.S. have been working fewer hours per week for the past five years. What are the implications for employees and their organizations? And what’s driving the trend?

Gallup finds that average hours worked have dropped progressively since 2019 when U.S. employees reported working an average of 44.1 hours. In 2024, they work 42.9 hours per week.

The decline in hours worked is more pronounced among younger (those younger than 35) than older workers (those aged 35 and older). Between 2019 and 2024, older employees have seen an average reduction of just under one hour per person per week, while younger employees have reduced their hours by nearly two hours.

Over a year, that’s the equivalent of older employees taking an extra week off of work and younger employees taking two weeks. These trends apply to full-time employees working at least 30 hours per week.

Possible Reasons for the Drop in Average Hours Worked per Week

Several new findings may explain this shift:Overall employee wellbeing has been on the decline.

Employees now have less trust in institutions in general and feel more detached from their employers.

After a decade of steady improvement, employee engagement has reverted to its 2014 level.

Advances in technology may be making work more efficient. Gallup finds that nearly half (45%) of employees say AI has helped them improve their productivity. However, a workforce that is becoming more technically efficient and less engaged may lack the motivation needed for long-term growth.

Employees -- especially younger ones -- now place a higher priority on their overall wellbeing. In fact, work-life balance and better overall wellbeing now rank among the most important considerations when choosing a new job.

Additionally, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows declines in overall hours worked per person, particularly in industries that traditionally employ more young workers such as retail, leisure and hospitality.

The Connection Between Hours Worked and Employee Burnout

Burnout may be a major reason why employees are working fewer hours. The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified “burnout” as a work-related syndrome resulting from chronic stress.

Previous Gallup research has found that an unmanageable workload is one of the contributing factors to burnout. This may help explain why employees report higher burnout (very often or always) as the number of hours they work rises above 45 hours per week.

Leaders and managers should view signs of burnout as a red flag. Employees who say that they feel burned out very often or always are:32% less likely to say they feel great responsibility for the quality of products/services their organization offers customers

58% less likely to say their coworkers always do what is right for customers

56% less likely to say their organization always delivers on the promise they make to customers

74% more likely to be looking for another job

In short, burned-out employees are unmotivated to serve customers and perform below their potential.

Gallup finds that the overall work environment strongly influences burnout risk. Employees of all ages who work 45 or more hours per week -- and are either not engaged or actively disengaged -- are at a greater risk of burnout. Younger workers are especially vulnerable, with more than half of those who are disengaged reporting that they often or always feel burned out.

Engaged employees, however, report much less burnout. About one in 10 engaged younger workers and even fewer older engaged employees report burnout very often or always when working less than 45 hours per week.

Although the burnout rate doubles for engaged employees working 45 or more hours per week, 80% of younger workers and 86% of older workers report that they rarely or never feel burned out, even when working 45 or more hours per week.

Burnout Isn’t Just About Hours -- It’s About Management

As Gallup has found in previous research, burnout is driven by much more than just hours worked. Other major causes include being treated unfairly at work, receiving unclear communication from managers, lack of manager support and experiencing unreasonable time pressure. These are all influenced by how employees are managed.

Organizations that focus too narrowly on hours worked -- and develop a one-size-fits-all “hours worked” policy -- risk missing the mark. Gallup data show that employees of different ages have varying preferences regarding work hours. Some thrive on a steady 9-to-5 schedule, while others prefer a more flexible approach that blends work and personal life. Some may choose to work extra hours to complete a meaningful project or simply because it is their way of excelling at work.

For managers, the key is staying closely connected to each employee, ideally weekly. This helps them support high performance by aligning work with employees’ strengths and accommodating each person’s unique work-life needs.

SpaceX Gigabay Will Help Increase Starship Production to Goal of 365 Ships Per Year

This is our design system loading and that obviously will need somewhere to go once in space.  That will have vto be a space Station built around a Core hub used for docking and cargo discharge which has to handle likely six individual cargos in zero g.

Suspension cables then extend to a large diameter rim which can easily be as much as a mile out if desired and the rim will easily sustain a one g artificial gravity and cargos can be distributed around that rim.

My take home is that a true Space station Bicycle Wheel just became practical and also needed.

SpaceX Gigabay Will Help Increase Starship Production to Goal of 365 Ships Per Year

March 25, 2025 by Brian Wang

The new SpaceX Gigabay at Boca Chica is designed to be a massive vertical integration and assembly facility to support the production and refurbishment of the Starship launch system.

The Gigabay will stand 380 feet tall and provide approximately 46.5 million cubic feet of interior processing space, with 815,000 square feet of workspace. It is engineered to support Starship and Super Heavy vehicles up to 81 meters (266 feet) tall and will feature 24-30 work cells for integration and refurbishment, equipped with cranes capable of lifting up to 400 US tons.

Compared to the existing Megabay facilities at Starbase (Mega Bay 1 and Mega Bay 2), the Gigabay offers over 11 times the square footage and 19 additional work cells.

Construction of the Starfactory began around February 2022, with multiple phases completed or underway by 2025. The facility, spanning approximately 1 million square feet across its phases, is designed to streamline manufacturing processes, with the long-term goal of producing one Starship per day (approximately 365 Ships per year).

The latest phase of the Starfactory came online in the summer of 2024, adding significant factory floor space. SpaceX has already begun producing components for Starship Version 2, which is optimized for mass production. A Starship Version 3 will be ready later in 2025.

The Gigabay at Boca Chica under construction and targeted for completion by the end of 2026. Starfactory’s production capacity is expected to ramp up significantly during this period.

The Gigabay can potentially hold 6 Starships in 5 rows.

Gigabay Dimensions

Length: 360 feet

Width: 426 feet

Height: 377 feet

Ramping to Mass Production

The Gigabay completed by the end of 2026, production could scale annual production 20-50 Starships. The Starfactor could make 1 Ships per week late in the year. Early 2026 might see continued focus on testing and refinement, with production accelerating post-Gigabay activation.

Super Heavy Boosters are more complex and designed for higher reuse rates, so fewer are needed. Production might range from 5-10 boosters. This would be enough for multiple launches from Boca Chica and initial Florida operations.

In 2027, if SpaceX achieves a production rate of 1 Ship every 3-4 days then 90-120 Starships could be produced. This assumes the Starfactory and Gigabay are fully synchronized, with demand from Starlink, lunar and Mars missions using the output. Two or more Gigabays will likely be built and more launch towers will be at other locations.

Super Heavy Booster production might increase to 10-15 boosters.

In 2028, Starships could get close to the one-per-day goal, production could reach 200-300 Starships. Super Heavy Boosters could reach 15-25 boosters.

Producing Power From Earth's Rotation

They have proven related potential and it needs to be worked with.  just imagine a superconductor able to accumulate power.  this could be awfully convenient in the right circumstance.

right now we have a hint and directions.

just like our atmospheric pressure power stack .  that is ideal for grid power.

Researchers Disprove Their Own Work by Producing Power From Earth's Rotation

Physics25 March 2025

ByDavid Nield

(Fotograzia/Moment/Getty Images)

A trio of US researchers claim to have successfully tested predictions that it's possible to harvest clean energy from the natural rhythms and processes of our planet, generating electricity as Earth rotates through its own magnetic field.

Though the voltage they produced was tiny, the possibility could give rise to a new way to generate electricity from our planet's dynamics, alongside tidal, solar, wind, and geothermal power production.

In 2016, Princeton astrophysicist Christopher Chyba and JPL planetary scientist Kevin Hand challenged their own proof that such a feat ought to be impossible. The researchers have now uncovered empirical evidence that their proof-breaking idea may actually work, as long as the shape and properties of the conducting material in their method are set to very specific requirements.

The researchers used a custom-designed cylinder to harvest electricity. (Chyba et al., Physical Review Research, 2025)

"This small demonstration system generates a continuous DC voltage and current of the (low) predicted magnitude," the researchers write in their recent paper.

In the early 20th century, American physicist Samuel Barnett resolved a nagging question over the non-rotation of a magnetic field with respect to its moving electromagnet.

While the proposed difference in velocity between the field and its magnet ought to allow for a voltage to form, proofs such as the one Chyba and Hand spelled out in their 2016 paper showed it wasn't possible. The reason was simple; any electrons pushed by Earth's magnetic field would quickly rearrange themselves and cancel out any difference in charge.

There were some assumptions at work, however, which together with Spectral Sensor Solutions scientist Thomas Chyba, the scientists set out to challenge with a rather specific set of circumstances.

To test them, the team used a 29.9-centimeter (almost one foot) long hollow cylinder made from manganese-zinc ferrite; a material chosen to encourage magnetic diffusion, where magnetic fields are less tightly constrained.

The cylinder was placed in a pitch black, windowless laboratory to minimize photoelectric interference, and angled in such a way as to make it perpendicular to both Earth's rotation and magnetic field.

After all was measured and accounted for, a voltage of 18 microvolts remained. This small potential disappeared when different cylinders were used, or the same cylinder was set at a different angle, suggesting it was being generated by Earth's rotation.

"The device appeared to violate the conclusion that any conductor at rest with respect to Earth's surface cannot generate power from its magnetic field," says Christopher Chyba.

The researchers observed the same response from the material in a second location, this time in a residential building rather than a laboratory.

It's exciting and promising research, but we shouldn't get carried away at this early stage – and indeed the researchers themselves are being cautious. We're talking about a very small amount of electricity here, generated with a very specific experimental setup.

"Both papers [2016 and 2025] talk about how it might be scaled up, but none of that has been demonstrated, and it might well prove not to be possible," says Christopher Chyba.

"And in any case, the first thing that needs to happen is that some independent group needs to reproduce – or rebut – our results, with a system closely similar to our own."

Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship

Trackable ID is good enough to clean up the system, particularly if we can observe it all in real time.  Quite simply you walk in and process through using your ID.  now everyone knows you voted.  Cheating becomes difficult as it needs to be.

This will certainly get the ball rolling and force opposing interests to go to court over and over.

Everyone now understands the gag and the hard shift in Trumps support last time around made marginal gags ineffective.  Also the hyped up fear of Trump had also weakened

Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship

ALI SWENSON and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY

Tue, March 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM PDT

6 min read

A sign for new voter registration is seen outside a polling location at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H., Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha)ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Donald Trump gestures as he departs a reception celebrating Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Supervisor of the Checklist for the State of New Hampshire Leslie Dombroski, left, registers Elise Collins, 18, to vote in Derry, N.H., Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha)ASSOCIATED 

Voting Proving Citizenship

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NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the U.S., including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and demanding that all ballots be received by Election Day.

The order says the U.S. has failed “to enforce basic and necessary election protections” and calls on states to work with federal agencies to share voter lists and prosecute election crimes. It threatens to pull federal funding from states where election officials don't comply.

The move, which is likely to face swift challenges because states have broad authority to set their own election rules, is consistent with Trump’s long history of railing against election processes. He often claims elections are being rigged, even before the results are known, and has waged battles against certain voting methods since he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden and falsely blamed it on widespread fraud.

Trump has focused particularly on mail voting, arguing without evidence that it’s insecure and invites fraud even as he has shifted his position on the issue given its popularity with voters, including Republicans. While fraud occurs, it’s rare, limited in scope and gets prosecuted.

The order’s documentary proof of citizenship requirement signals that the president is not waiting for congressional Republicans to pass their long-anticipated Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act, which has aimed to do the same thing.

Republicans have defended that measure as necessary to restore public confidence in elections. Voting in federal elections by noncitizens is already illegal and can result in felony charges and deportation.

Voting rights groups have expressed concerns that the requirement could disenfranchise people. An estimated 9% of U.S. citizens of voting age, or 21.3 million people, do not have proof of citizenship readily available, according to a 2023 report by the Brennan Center for Justice and other groups.

There are also concerns that married women who have changed their names will encounter trouble when trying to register because their birth certificates list their maiden names. Such hiccups happened in recent town elections in New Hampshire, which has a new state law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.

Trump's order directs federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration and the State Department to share with election officials federal data that could help them identify noncitizens on their rolls.

It also says the attorney general should “prioritize enforcement of federal election integrity laws” in states that don't share information about suspected election crimes with the federal government.

The order aims to require votes to be “cast and received” by Election Day and says federal funding should be conditional on state compliance. Currently, 18 states and Puerto Rico accept mailed ballots received after Election Day as long they are postmarked on or before that date, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Trump's order is likely to face legal challenges, given that the Constitution gives authority over elections to the states. While Congress has the power to regulate voting — and has done so to pass such laws as the Voting Rights Act — the Constitution makes clear that states have primary authority to set the “times, places and manner” for elections.

Colorado’s Democratic secretary of state, Jena Griswold, called the order an “unlawful” weaponization of the federal government and said Trump is “trying to make it harder for voters to fight back at the ballot box.”

Democratic Rep. Joe Morelle of New York, the ranking member of the House committee that oversees elections, said the executive order “is not just misguided — it is immoral and illegal.”

At least one Democratic attorney on Tuesday threatened legal action. Marc Elias, who has been the subject of Trump's ire, said in a social media post: “This will not stand. We will sue.”

The executive branch does have some authority over elections, said Justin Levitt, a constitutional law expert and former White House senior policy adviser during the Biden administration. He said some federal agencies provide election support, including the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which distributes federal grant money to states and runs a voluntary certification program for voting systems. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency helps election officials protect their systems.

Former President Biden issued an executive order in 2021 directing federal agencies to take steps to boost voter registration, which drew complaints from Republicans who called it federal overreach. Trump has rescinded that order.

Trump's order calls on the Election Assistance Commission to amend voting system guidelines to protect election integrity, including guidance that voting systems should not use a ballot that uses a barcode or QR code in the vote counting process. It said the commission should condition the funding it distributes to states on those new guidelines.

Virtually all in-person voters in Georgia, as well as voters in several other states, use voting machines with a large touchscreen to record their votes. The machines then print a paper ballot with a human-readable summary of the voter’s selections and a QR code, a type of barcode, that is read by a scanner to count the votes.

It is not entirely clear how the executive order would affect Georgia and the other jurisdictions that use these machines. Representatives for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger did not immediately respond Tuesday evening to messages seeking comment. Raffensperger issued a statement thanking Trump for the executive order, calling it a “great first step for election integrity reform nationwide.”

Rep. Bryan Steil of Wisconsin, the chairman of the House committee that oversees elections, said the order is a “welcome action to secure our elections and prevent foreign influence.”

Mike Lindell, a Trump ally who spreads election conspiracies and who wants to ban voting systems in favor of hand-counting ballots, fundraised off the news on Tuesday, saying in an email it will fix our “sick elections.”

Trump's executive order comes as the Republican National Committee launched a massive effort to probe voter registration list maintenance nationwide. The committee sent public records requests this week asking for documents related to voter roll list maintenance in 48 states and Washington, D.C., asserting that the public should know how states are removing ineligible people from voter rolls, including dead people and non-citizens.

Trump referenced election fraud as he signed the order Tuesday, saying, “this will end it, hopefully.” He added that more election actions would be taken in coming weeks.

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Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send money to a country for "aid"\

This all sounds like the work of George Soros.  just saying.  The level of outright meddling is obviously reckless and will now produce real blowback.

Cutting off the money faucet was a good start.  now discovering who benefited over decades is important because it clarifies important history.

A full hunt for real facts needs to be put in place.  The good news is that we have all comms going back to the year 2000.  They can be canvassed now using AI.  this also means that we can review documents going back to 1960 at least.

Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send money to a country for "aid" and instead..

03-24-2025 • 

https://x.com, WallStreetApes

 Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send money to a country for “aid” and instead laundering it to the Cayman Islands

He would then use that money to fund and train “Rent-a-Riots” for protests to overthrow governments

Sound familiar? Mike Benz on Joe Rogan: “A scandal during the Obama USAID era. We were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at the time. — I'm simply showing the American people where your tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the White House: — USAID pumped $1.2 billion in, and we sponsored these activist groups and these civil society organizations to learn how to use Facebook, learn how to use Twitter, lose, learn how to use hashtags, learn how to coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where to go, what street to show up on, what kind of slogans to know, to use in order to create the pro-democracy predicate for it.” He talks about how Obama funded a Twitter clone that would be used to push propaganda in Cuba to inspire these protests and overthrow the government (Mike Benz explains how Barack Obama overthrew many governments) “So what they did is they took the exact same thing as Twitter, same user interface, same like, and retweet button zunzunio is, is the Cuban slang word for hummingbird. So just, it means it's it's bird, it was the Twitter bird, the whole thing. But the whole trick about it was you have to make it look like it's coming from the Cubans if you're going to do this operation — We can get into the deeper layers of this, but contractors were funded by USAID The data would then be used for micro targeting efforts towards anti and pro government users. In Cuba, the developers aim to, at first used non-controversial content such as sports and music and hurricane updates — What was the plan the whole time? Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce political messages through social bots and encourage dissent in this, in this astroturfing — the whole point is, once they hit a critical mass, they would create ‘Rent-a-Riots” “You're using Cayman Islands bank accounts. You're saying it's, you're earmarking it for Pakistani aid.” But the money was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to the Cayman Islands to fund this whole operation

All this and much more is broken down extremely well in this video. This is INSANE

White House Demands Iran Give Up Entire Nuclear Program, Including Civilian Enrichment

Ah yes.  This has been an option forever.  Logically, there is no way that you tolerate any nation state medling with atomic bombs.  instead we have allowed this logic to be perverted.

so we start with Iran by blowing the nuclear assets  all up and promising a repeat every year until they understand reality.

Then negotiate a rapid nuclear disarmament with everone else.  Do note that the USA  can plausibly enforce this through military assault.

Obviously the fly in the ointment happens to be China and Russia.  Yet the situation will never age well.  not leazst because it has not aged well.  We have Russia running a meat grinder in the Ukraine and China hitting fever pitch in their threats against Taiwan.

Understand any and all can drum up a war of aggression.  only the usa has chosen to keep their paws off and their real power has generally maintained peace.  .

Long term russia must join NATO and then transition to confront China. ending its faux ambitions.  their arsenals have eliminated that option so far.

White House Demands Iran Give Up Entire Nuclear Program, Including Civilian Enrichment

Monday, Mar 24, 2025 - 11:00 PM

Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com,

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-demands-iran-give-entire-nuclear-program-including-civilian-enrichment

While continuing to closely tie the recent US attacks on the Houthis in Yemen to Iran, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz confirmed that the Trump Administration is demanding "full dismantlement" of Iran’s nuclear program, including its capacity to enrich uranium for civilian use.

Waltz made the comments on CBS' Face the Nation, and when asked what full dismantlement meant and to clarify the distinction between it and the verification deal the US had with Iran before President Trump pulled out of it in 2018, he made it clear this is far broader, covering everything, including enrichment, "weaponization," and strategic missile programs.

Iran’s enrichment program, which is under IAEA monitoring, has no military component in the first place. Enrichment was purely for making fuel rods for the Bushehr nuclear power plant along Iran’s coast and for making somewhat higher enriched fuel for its medical isotope reactor. Iran has a long history of having a substantial nuclear medicine program, and supplied its own isotopes for that.

The long-abandoned nuclear deal was meant to give Iran a design to produce isotopes without 20% enriched uranium through a heavy-water reactor. Like most of the promises to Iran under the deal this was never honored, and Iran is left with the old research reactor. Higher levels of enrichment were also done to try to encourage new negotiations, though Iran promised the IAEA that they would not go above 

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz meets with US soldiers in D.C.

Waltz’ new demand is not that Iran goes back down to 20% or anything, it’s to stop enrichment entirely. It’s unclear in the context if Iran is even allowed to keep it’s power plant, though without the ability to enrich uranium to make their own fuel, it would be effectively useless in fairly short order.

Beyond that, Waltz demanded Iran scrap its "weaponization" program, which will be a challenge because Iran does not have one, and US intelligence assessments have repeatedly said Iran hasn’t decided to try to make such a weapon though such assessments never seem to inform the content of US demands.

He also demanded Iran get rid of its entire strategic missile program, which since they haven’t even attempted to create nuclear warheads would exclusively impact conventional weapons in Iran’s arsenal. Though presented as something to do with nuclear dismantlement, it is effectively unrelated in the case of these missiles.

Waltz confirmed that the US had received multiple responses from Iran regarding the demands, which were initially submitted through a letter. He declined to discuss what the responses were in any way, but said there was an ongoing "back and forth" and that "all options are on the table." He further vowed Iran would face consequences if they didn’t submit to the demands.

The latest US demands are by far the furthest they’ve gone in demands for nuclear concessions from Iran, but they once again appear founded in the same false narrative that the program has a military component, even though US intelligence has consistently confirmed it does not.

The refusal to disclose what Iran’s response to the demands has been so far is likely based in part on avoiding talking about how Iran doubtless reiterated that they don’t have such a program to give up. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has publicly responded in part, by rejecting the idea of direct talks with President Trump on the matter.

Khamanei has previously expressed openness to direct talks with the US, but since Trump was the one who tore up the previous nuclear deal, he has said that there is no value in talking with a party they can’t count on to fulfill their commitments.

Russia issued a statement on Friday which appears to reject the basis of the US demands, saying Iran has every right to have a peaceful nuclear program for civilian purposes. Western European nations have previously given lip-service to past US demands to restrict Iran, but it is unclear if even they will go along with the idea that Iran isn’t allowed to enrich uranium to civilian levels. Beyond Israel, the Trump Administration might be alone given the severity of this latest demand.

JFK found out the CIA were essentially trying to take over the world, and he tried to stop them

understand that a random photo catches Bush on the steps of the book depository at the time and place and we also know both he and his son were in town.  circumstancial yes, but now we have J Edgar Hoover ordering his people to have Bush essentially be read in.  It is no longer a speculation to identify Bush as the man in charge of the operation.

Now we adress motive and it turns out that the CIA was engaged in a regime change program way beyond what we imagined.  And this was in full opposition to the presidential position.  So of course, they had to do a regime change.

As I have posted in the past, I suspect Bush managed the 'KILL' teams used internationally but never in the USA.  He was there and his career became golden thereafter.  I wonder if Reagan ever knew?

Just saying but we are adding confoming evidence even now.  Also explains why the CIA apposed disclosure because it is the bigger picture haunting them.


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Bush Head of CIA Before named Director? Declassified JFK assassination documents reveal an FBI memo from J. Edgar Hoover instructing subordinates to brief “George Bush of the CIA” to the agency years before his official role as director.

Sun. 23 March 2025: USAID has been exposed as providing funding for poppy fields in Afghanistan to grow opium to fund CIA secret operations, while Democrats said USAID was used to feed starving Africans. Mike Benz “This USAID, CIA, DoD, drug running operation that’s been going on for a hundred years.” …Denzel Washington on Telegram

Sun. 23 March 2025: The CIA possessed an “ASSASSINATION MANUAL.”

Sun. 23 March 2025: “The JFK files are less about JFK’s assassination, and more so an accumulation of evidence that the CIA are NOT carrying out their primary mission of “intelligence-gathering”, and instead are focused on regime change around the globe. JFK found out, and they didn’t like that. JFK uncovered that the CIA were NOT serving the American People, and were only serving their own personal interests, which was mostly global domination via espionage and covert operations. 

JFK found out the CIA were essentially trying to take over the world, and he tried to stop them.” …JFK Files on Telegram

In Plain Sight, Our Neanderthal Ancestors

The original expansion of humanity even only 200,000 years ago, but even potentially long before naturally produced a deeply distributed population of hunter gatherer bands with small individual numbers.  This encouraged a form of almost speciation across the globe.

The emergence of agriculture expanded the population which meant all hunting bands were natutrally subsumed into the larger populatins.

This is ongoing even today.  All first nations are been subsumed into the larger society and uniqueness is evaporating.  And the larger population is actively inter marrying as well.

In Plain Sight, Our Neanderthal Ancestors

Ancient Origins Editor

Mar 24

In Plain Sight, Our Neanderthal Ancestors

Left brain-right brain, intuitive-intellectual, patriarchy-matriarchy, make love-not war; is there a reason humankind seems so bi-polar? Maybe there is and the answer might be surprising. Of all the racially bigoted stereotypes that have made their way into public consciousness, none are more incorrect and odious than those attributed to the ancient race of humans called Neanderthal. The use of the phrase ‘race of humans’ is deliberate. If people all over today’s world carry at least two per cent or more Neanderthal DNA in their genes, then Neanderthals were not our ‘cousins’, nor were they ‘a branch of the human tree’ - they were our early ancestors. If we carry their genes, they did not disappear. Their stay on earth was a lot longer than ours has been so far, and they did not become extinct. They became us.

Neanderthal stereotyped (Fotolia)

Removing the Grunt

Neanderthals were not Alley-Oop, cartoon-like, ignorant, dumb, hairy creatures who walked heavily and carried big sticks. They made jewelry and specialized tools. They buried their dead with dignity, conducting funerals with flowers and memorabilia, just as we do today. They believed in an afterlife. They used makeup similar to what is found in every medicine cabinet in the so-called civilized world of today, but theirs was made of ocher and other natural pigments. They produced art which evidenced ‘symbolic thinking’ - the critical thought patterns needed to form a religious world-view. They did not grunt at each other. Modern studies done on Neanderthal remains prove they had vocal cords physically capable of speech patterns sufficient to produce and understand language. They probably had voices that were similar to people today who speak in raspy, high-pitched tones. Jon Mooallem, writing in the January 11, 2017 edition of the New York Times, went so far as to say they may have sounded a bit like Julia Childs.

No Neanderthal hyoid was found until 1983, when excavators discovered a well-preserved one on Neanderthal Kebara 2, Israel. (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Neanderthals manufactured a type of glue using birch bark that was heated to at least 644 degrees Fahrenheit. In a cave at the straits of Gibraltar they harvested the feathers of specific birds, using only dark ones, either for ceremonial or aesthetic purposes. They took down dangerous game, including an extinct species of rhinoceros that few today would want to challenge. But they also ate shellfish and drank chamomile tea. And then they used toothpicks to clean their teeth.

Musical Ancestors

To top it all off, they serenaded each other with music, their flutes tuned to what we call the pentatonic scale. In his book, The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body, Steven Mithen puts forth the theory that we are compelled to make music because we inherited the trait from our Neanderthal ancestors. Delving into archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience and musicology, he credits our fundamental need to express ourselves in song completely to the early merging of Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal. Without them there would have been no Willie Nelson or Ludwig van Beethoven. This is in direct contrast to anthropologists who dismiss music as a ‘functionless evolutionary byproduct’. Recent evidence even indicates that Neanderthals passed down to us the genes needed to fight off certain kinds of viral infections.

The End of U.S. Soft Power?

Every agency created by the US government was driven by good intentions.  Then they became immortal and thus open to capture by others with bad intentions.

Recall the Musk canned 80% of the workforce of twitter.  Last time i checked, it is in business and thriving.

The fact is that the government can also easily shed 80% of its staffing and still get the job done.

Misspending coin overseas has gained absolutely nothing except a class of elite beggars.  just inxisting on vested partners both foreign and domestic would change that and make it all better.

The End of U.S. Soft Power?

by Brad Pearce | Mar 24, 2025

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-end-of-u-s-soft-power/

Donald Trump’s second term has been something of a mixed bag with some very bad foreign policy moves and a ridiculous and cynical crackdown on anti-Israel dissenters. But it has also featured an incredible war against some of the worst aspects of permanent government.

I previously wrote about “Fighting the Middle State,” and at least on that count Trump has not disappointed. He has left the Democrats showing slavish devotion to the federal bureaucracy and the “NGO” sector which employs a veritable army of the useless and over-educated. Most notably, the Trump administration is doing its best to end the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and has also tried to shut down the Voice of America propaganda network—though at every step the Federal Judiciary has attempted to block these moves. Critics cry out that not only will this cause mass death but that it is the end of U.S. “soft power,” but few of those liberals ask if these programs work or deliver anything for the American people—or for that matter, people in the recipient countries.

To hear the liberals tell it, USAID and other such programs are largely based on the goodwill of the global elite, but simultaneously are good for U.S. business and function as soft power. At best, when used properly, these programs primarily function to employ administrators, enrich pharmaceutical companies, and keep agriculture commodity prices up by buying excess birdseed off of farmers to ship to foreign countries. In countries receiving aid it prevents economic development and breeds dependency and corruption.

You will notice that in the discourse about USAID being cut there are countless people who work for the aid programs crying, but none of the recipient governments imploring that the aid continue. In fact, many seem relieved, a sentiment described by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele. Among the better intellectuals who cover Africa, it is acknowledged that there will be pain in the transition away from aid dependency, but all acknowledge that even if it has some immediate benefits in the big picture it also has immense downsides.

When done properly such aid has many downsides, but much more of what these programs do is either pointless or nefarious. There are countless examples, but one which just came up is that the Prague Pride Parade was canceled due to a lack of USAID funding. How is that possibly necessary to have a foreign state fund your parade? And what American interest does this serve that it should be the responsibility of U.S. taxpayers, even if it is a tiny amount of money as far as government goes? In reality these programs have a tendency of discrediting both freedom and human rights because they are used to bludgeon host governments and prevent any sort of genuinely democratic development in favor of cultivating a class of dependents who serve little purpose but to open the countries to being looted by Western capital. It is quite obvious that if these programs were going to have a positive impact they would have by now, but very few countries in Africa are free or democratic, and many other countries where such money are spent are hardly even sufficiently poor to justify outside assistance.

On top of these organs of soft power, Voice of America is supposed to be shutting down. There is concern that everyone will give into Russian narratives if VoA isn’t there to spread the truth! There may have been some use for these programs during the Cold War, but in the modern era it serves no good purpose. Very few countries have the kind of censorship that existed behind the Iron Curtain, and anyway it is easy enough to get around censors and get international news in the modern era. Many of the countries where Voice of America operates have fairly free domestic media and also access to international media. For example, do they really need an Armenian service?

During the Cold War, anodyne reporting about the outside world could make the censors look foolish for blocking it. (This is said to be why distributing the novel Dr. Zhivago was effective, because it wasn’t particularly subversive so being banned made the censors look ridiculous.) It stands to reason that the sort of idiots who would actually consume Voice of America and hang on every word are so stupid and irritating they make other people in the country hate America.

It doesn’t seem that any of these programs make the global public like America. Soft power works when it develops economies, not when it builds dependence. Literacy programs without propaganda are popular, as is developing wells and roads and teaching the public how to repair and maintain them. Imposing weird cultural “values” and breeding dependency was almost the nightmare of William Lederer, who was in many ways the mid-century architect of modern soft power programs: the “ugly American” in his famous novel wasn’t badly behaved, he was “ugly” because he was dirty from living with villagers and working as a useful technician. It is certainly true that if countries are more prosperous they prove less of a breeding ground for terrorists, make better trade partners, and tend to be amicable towards America. But none of these things are accomplished by dumping grain to undercut their agriculture while incompetent women lecture the government and public about gay rights or whatever else is the nonsense du jour.

In the great text We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, Peter Van Buren tells of his time working for the State Department in Iraq during the “soft power” phase of the occupation. I highly recommend the text as it is quite comical, but it also provides deep insight into how these ridiculous programs work. In short, the government creates a situation where spending money is seen as being productive, the public is constantly pressured to change how they’ve been doing things to new, “smarter” ways that don’t work, and local corrupt chieftains are empowered at the expense of everything else. It is, overall, a huge waste of time that at best cultivates a small elite who can become a proxy target of ire of the public instead of the United States directly.

In Van Buren’s entire time there, one thing did work as intended: starting a 4H Club for the children. Parents thought it was great the kids were learning useful skills and had something to do, and what’s more, the kids genuinely learned about democracy when a farmer’s kid won the club president election over the child of a local Sheikh. What is funny though is that was the one thing that didn’t cost any money, amidst a year when Van Buren’s job was to help the government waste money on nonsense development projects. Iraq is an extreme example, but the text shows how the whole system functions in practice.

Watching these levers of the permanent state finally come under attack is like a dream to many of us who have opposed the government. No matter how many bad things the Trump Administration has, we have been waiting decades to see anyone view these programs as what they are: nefarious instruments of financial interests and a Mandarin class designed to subvert the public will at home and abroad. It is true they are a small amount of the budget and will do little about the debt, but the cost is not actually the issue—just an insult—but that the things they do are terrible and corrupt our society and the world and further do much to make people hate us. Unfortunately, our overpowered judiciary is doing everything to force the public to keep funding and employing these losers, so it seems that we are rapidly moving from fighting the middle state to fighting the judicial oligarchy: c’est la vie.

Allies Cancel Orders of F-35s, the Fighter Jets That Will Cost $2 Trillion

The future is finally catching up with the F - 35.  We understand that the tech is cutting edge and not obsolete at all.

what is clearly obsolete is the onboard pilot who is already at his or her physical limits.  We knew this was coming a decade ago and here we are and our so called relacement is still unready.

now imagine an f 35 platform without packing a pilot.  Turning at mach 3 and pulling 30 g's launching hypersonic missiles.  You want to be a long way away.

All those limitations we can readily imagine are on full display over the Ukraine while real air dominance is provided by drones.

What is interesting is the future of total war.  this was achieved by Ccanada in WWII.  Extrapolating to the present, Canada can mobalize 4,000,000 men for combat and combat support roles and also an additional 4,000,000 women primarily as drone operators.  No point buying hardware ahead of hostilities, but we will now have massive robotic factories so we can also self supply millions of combat sets and obviously drones. at throw away production rates.  All this will be ready in the next decade.

Throw in Canadian combat doctrine and the Canada corps will look like an angry wolverine.  just saying.

Inasmuch as the CCP continues to threaten Taiwan in particualar, we should likely issue a warning order and perhaps plan to do advance training there for a million man rotation..

Allies Cancel Orders of F-35s, the Fighter Jets That Will Cost $2 Trillion

The U.S., in turn, should cancel the F-35 program altogether.

Joe Lancaster | 3.17.2025 2:41 PM

https://reason.com/2025/03/17/allies-cancel-orders-of-f-35s-the-fighter-jets-that-will-cost-2-trillion/

So far, President Donald Trump's second term in office has been characterized by antagonism to allied nations. In just two months, Trump has shown hostility to the NATO defense alliance while gleefully pursuing a trade war against Canada and Mexico by imposing double-digit tariffs on the two largest purchasers of U.S. goods for specious reasons only to then agree to a pause, before repeating the cycle all over again.

One side effect of Trump's brash, undiplomatic attitude is that some allied nations may back out of purchasing F-35 fighter jets from the U.S., the latest indignity in a program that has infamously become a years-long boondoggle.

"The F-35 Lightning II aircraft (F-35) is the Department of Defense's (DOD) most ambitious and costly weapon system and its most advanced fighter aircraft," according to an April 2024 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). "However, DOD's projected costs for sustaining the F-35 continue to increase while planned use of the aircraft declines." While the DOD plans to keep the jet in service through 2088, it estimates the cost to do so at $2 trillion.

The department has little to show for the exorbitant price tag. "DOD plans to fly the F-35 less than originally estimated, partly because of reliability issues with the aircraft," GAO found. "The F-35's ability to perform its mission has also trended downward over the past 5 years."

In September 2018, the jet entered its initial testing phase, expected to last a year. In November 2019, a DOD assessment extended the testing period another year due to the sheer amount of problems it had found. "Although the program office is working to fix deficiencies, new discoveries are still being made, resulting in only a minor decrease in the overall number," the report found.

Among the jet's issues were "unacceptable" accuracy in its mounted gun and 873 separate software problems, 13 of which were classified "must-fix" issues "that affect safety or combat capability."

Yet despite the F-35's questionable track record and ballooning taxpayer-funded price tag, some allied nations agreed to buy them. In 2023, Canada agreed to purchase 88 F-35s for $19 billion after previously pledging not to. In April 2024, the Portuguese Air Force chief of staff said his country would transition from the F-16 to the F-35 in a process estimated to cost 5.5 billion euros ($6 billion).

That all appears to be changing. "Portugal is getting cold feet about replacing its U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets with more modern F-35s because of Donald Trump," Politico reported last week.

"The recent position of the United States, in the context of NATO," Defense Minister Nuno Melo told Portuguese media, "must make us think about the best options, because the predictability of our allies is a greater asset to take into account."

Over the weekend, the CBC reported Canada may follow suit: Defense Minister Bill Blair said his country was "examining other alternatives" to F-35s.

And it may not stop there. "Trump's calls to seize Greenland from Denmark and turn Canada into America's 51st state pose a 'real challenge' for the program," Audrey Decker of DefenseOne wrote last week, citing a former defense official, "as both countries fly the fifth-generation combat jet and rely on U.S. spare parts and software upgrades."

The U.S. could "degrade" allies' F-35s, Decker added, "by withholding spare parts, canceling services, and blocking software updates delivered by U.S. cloud-based software systems."

Last week, the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland called for the country's defense department "to stop the F-35 procurement immediately."

In May 2023, U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters the government saw the F-35 as a learning experience for how not to make the same mistakes on future projects—though in a perfect example of the sunk cost fallacy, the government continued funding it.

Indeed, canceling the F-35 program would not recoup the money already lost—which the November 2019 DOD report estimated at $428 billion—but it could prevent the government from continuing to throw good money after bad.

Incidentally, one prominent critic of the F-35 program is Elon Musk, who now nominally runs the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). "Some US weapons systems are good, albeit overpriced," Musk posted on X in November 2024, "but please, in the name of all that is holy, let us stop the worst military value for money in history that is the F-35 program!"

"Manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway," Musk added. "Will just get pilots killed."

So far, Musk has not addressed the F-35 in his capacity as government cost-cutter—indeed, Canada's National Post reported last month that the nation's Department of National Defense "continues to have confidence in the F-35 program" and did not fear any DOGE cuts.

But one potential benefit of Trump's chaotic public statements and antagonism of America's allies could be that it gives us a perfect excuse to finally kill the F-35, a project that has gone significantly over budget with little to show for it.