I think we all been wondering and/or saying the same.

Quote:On August 16, 1951, the quiet town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in southern France was struck by a bizarre outbreak. Residents suddenly experienced severe symptoms: nausea, insomnia, and vivid hallucinations.

People reported seeing terrifying visions—snakes crawling out of their stomachs, fire engulfing their bodies, or blood dripping from the walls of their homes. Some cases were extreme: an 11-year-old boy attempted to strangle his grandmother, a man jumped from a window claiming he was an airplane, and others were restrained in straitjackets or chained to their beds.

By the end, at least 5 people died (some sources say 7), dozens were institutionalized, and over 300 were affected.

I remember as a 13-year-old kid reading about this in some magazine (I recall it was LIFE, but I could never find it since). For some reason, it terrified me and lived with me in my memory for 50-plus years. Recently, one of my readers turned me on to the story, and much has been written about it rather recently by other researchers.

As I remember the story, the outbreak was linked to bread from a bakery run by a local baker. Doctors and investigators concluded that the rye flour used in the bread was contaminated with ergot (claviceps purpurea), a fungus known historically for causing ergotism, or “St. Anthony’s Fire.” Ergot contains alkaloids similar to LSD, which could explain the hallucinations. This explanation was published in the British Medical Journal shortly after the event and became the prevailing theory for decades.

However, in 2009, Hank P. Albarelli Jr. reignited interest in the case with his book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments, claiming the incident was not a natural occurrence but a deliberate CIA experiment. While researching the death of Frank Olson—a CIA biochemist who died in 1953 under suspicious circumstances after working on LSD-related projects—Albarelli uncovered documents suggesting the agency had spiked the town’s food with LSD as part of its Cold War mind-control program, MKULTRA (or its precursor, Project SPAN).

One key piece of evidence was a CIA memo labelled “Re: Pont-Saint-Esprit and F. Olson Files. SO Span/France Operation file, inclusive Olson. Intel files. Hand carry to Belin – tell him to see to it that these are buried,” which implied a cover-up. Another document reportedly transcribed a conversation between a CIA agent and a Sandoz Pharmaceutical official (Sandoz being the Swiss company that first synthesized LSD), where the official hinted that the outbreak was caused by diethylamide (the “D” in LSD), not ergot.

Albarelli argued that the CIA, in collaboration with the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, might have sprayed LSD into the air or contaminated local food to test its potential as a weapon for behavioural control. This theory aligns with known CIA activities during the 1950s, when the agency conducted numerous LSD experiments on unwitting subjects, including American servicemen and civilians.

Wouldn’t it figure, eh?


Seems the CIA has been involved in nearly every odd, mysterious, and dangerous global happening since its founding in 1947. Of course, the CIA theory has faced skepticism. But I won’t go into that. This article isn’t about that, nor is it really about the incident in France in 1951, it is about people going crazy, and how often the reason we go crazy is because of external circumstances, either natural or created by some nefarious entity like the CIA.

Jump forward to the present day. We may not yet be seeing snakes crawling out of people’s stomachs or folks jumping off the tops of buildings because they think they are airplanes, but we may be headed in that direction.

Sure, it is a bit of a copout to say that all the kookiness we are seeing these days is due to some substance-induced insanity. But it certainly would not be impossible. We have been talking and writing for years about the adverse effects of video gaming, cell phone scrolling, social media influencing, pornographic titillating, and educational brainwashing, but what if most of these things are actually symptoms rather than causes? Maybe our minds are being eaten away physically rather than only psychologically?

I cannot even begin to start naming the physical stuff we have been literally swallowing and breathing in for a century or so. Thousands upon thousands of things on that list: chemical toxins, foodstuff toxins, chemtrails, pharmaceuticals, on and on and on. There is so much stuff that it would be a miracle if the accumulation had not seriously affected our mental acumen and ability to even think at all. How could it not? It is a miracle we are not ALL walking zombies, with our entrails dribbling out and our glassy-eyed presence as symptoms of our decades of physical abuse.

Pretty picture, eh? Well, leave it to me to paint it for you.

I have spent hundreds of pages writing and pondering on the causes of the obvious mental collapse of the majority of people in the world. What could be the explanation for this acute loss of critical thinking? What could be causing the hatred and the polarization we are seeing? What could be the reason for the apparent stupidity displayed when following the fuzzy wagging tail in front of us, rather than using common sense in assessing nearly every situation we are faced with? Typically I have focused on the mental, psychological, and emotional abuses the psyche has endured for so long. These things certainly are having their impact, and maybe they are indeed the primary causal factor for the mental erosion we are seeing. But maybe not. Maybe it is the poison we have been ingesting that has rotted the human mind.

Mattias Desmet calls it mass psychosis and explains how that could be in his book The Psychology of Totalitarianism. Dr. Michael Nehls does focus on a physiological brain pathology but blames it more on stressors in the environment than chemical abuse. In his book The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom, he argues that humans are losing cognitive reasoning and critical thinking due to a deliberate, neurobiological attack on the brain, particularly targeting the hippocampus.

He suggests that modern stressors—such as fear-driven narratives (e.g., pandemics, climate change), social isolation, and possibly even biological factors like mRNA vaccine spike proteins—disrupt neurogenesis, the process of generating new nerve cells in the hippocampus. This region is crucial for memory, individuality, and critical thinking. He does mention here the spike protein, which is a result of the recent Covid jab. So that obviously is a chemical intervention.

Nehls posits that these external pressures shrink the hippocampus, replacing personal experiences with uniform, fear-based narratives, thus weakening our “mental immune system” and making us more susceptible to indoctrination. He frames this as a coordinated effort by technocratic elites to control populations by undermining independent thought.

As I said before, I have tended to focus more in the past on psychological and spiritual issues that could be the cause of all of this insanity. But, again, I wonder if those things are actually symptoms. Maybe we have simply been poisoned, and our cognitive function has deteriorated, thus causing all of the psychological anomalies. More than likely it is a combination of the two.

So, is the cause of this deterioration of the human condition, both physically and mentally, found in the water? Yes, quite possibly so, but not only in the water but in the air, in our food, our medicines, our schools, our media (both entertainment and news), in just about everywhere and everything we come into contact with. Maybe all of this, including the perpetrators of the Armageddon we are facing, is affected. Maybe everyone is crazy, everyone but us. For now.

And why is that? Who knows.

There are always some people immune to the poison, or immune to the disease. We have somehow escaped; maybe it will stay that way, and we will never be affected, but maybe it will eventually get us, too. Eat, drink and be merry. Row, row, row, your boat, gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.


Todd Hayen PhD is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here

as a little one I remember Bigfoot (sometimes known as Sasquatch) as an obscure monster on par with the Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster.
at some point it seems that Bigfoot became mainstream.
Pizza Hut had a Bigfoot pizza.
Hollywood had a movie about called 'Harry and the Hendersons'.  as I recall there was a tv series.
the Colorado Avalanche NHL team had bigfoot prints on their uniforms.
   

speaking of the NHL, the Utah team wanted to call themselves the Yeti, but they were denied as there is a cup/cooler maker of that name.

so do we think the majority accepts Bigfoot as a real entity?  or is this just a modern myth?

https://www.reuters.com/world/pakistan-d...025-04-28/

 Pakistan's defence minister said on Monday a military incursion by neighbouring India was imminent in the aftermath of a deadly militant attack on tourists in Kashmir last week, as tensions rise between the two nuclear-armed nations.

The attack killed 26 people and triggered outrage in Hindu-majority India, along with calls for action against Muslim-majority Pakistan. India accuses Pakistan of backing militancy in Kashmir, a region both claim and have fought two wars over.

this doesn't seem to be getting much coverage so maybe it's known to be empty rhetoric.

a shooting war between these two would be a major event.
one good thing; they have a land border so the fighting shouldn't spread out too far.

there are serious water issues in that part of the world.  I've read commentaries that say WWIII will be fought over water, and could involve China and India.  Yikes.

Picture released from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows for the first time a Martian rover mid drive on the Planet. 

Curiosity was pictured on a drive through the Gediz Vallis channel where the rover has discovered conditions suitable for life adding to my belief there is still life on or rather in our red neighbour.


Staggering to think Curiosity has been on Mars for 13 years now.

Quote:The rover's work has been extremely intriguing to astrobiologists, showing that Gale was indeed a habitable environment long ago: The area hosted a long-lived lake-and-stream system that had the ingredients for life, as well as a possible chemical energy source that could support microbial metabolism.

MRO has been operating at the Red Planet even longer than Curiosity, reaching Mars orbit in March 2006. As the new photo shows, MRO is still going strong, hunting for signs of past water activity on the Red Planet, serving as a communications relay for surface craft like Curiosity and its younger cousin, Perseverance — and keeping tabs on these robots' movements from time to time as well.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/...anet-photo

Quote:Some guns just aren’t built to last—and after digging into reviews, owner complaints, and firsthand feedback, these 17 models prove it. Whether it’s the Taurus G3C’s fragile frame, the Hi-Point JCP’s deforming slide, or the Llama Max-1’s constant jamming, these firearms start breaking down fast—often before hitting 1,500 rounds. From weak springs and cracked slides to misaligned cylinders and worn-out triggers, the list includes compact pistols, budget revolvers, and even a few once-promising designs like the Kahr PM9 and Beretta Nano. If long-term reliability matters to you, these are the models you might want to think twice about.

Henry Tillman: China's Thorium Revolution - 60,000 Years of Cheap Energy
"The Belt And Road will be powered by thorium" - if his advisory optimism is correct this may/will change the world. All the energy AI/datacenters & transportation will ever need. Thorium Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) sounds exciting on the surface but I'm skeptical. Iran should invest in it since it apparently cannot be weaponized. Even if it doesn't pan out, why hasn't the US pushed thorium tech onto the Iranians?





Vid summary::

So, China has reportedly built one in the Gobi Desert and it might shatter the Western energy order.

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) were first tested in 1960s America. Clean, meltdown-proof, and perfect for thorium.
But there was a problem.
They couldn’t make bombs.
So the Pentagon killed the program and shelved the data.

The Chinese exhumed the blueprints (apparently the tech was opensourced to the public), rebuilt the science, and quietly launched a thorium MSR program in 2011.

Why thorium?
3x more abundant than uranium
No enrichment needed
Can't be weaponized
Abundant in India, Africa, Brazil, and other countries.

This isn’t just about China going green.
It’s about China seizing control of the nuclear narrative.
No proliferation.
No petro-dependence.
No Western gatekeeping.

Imagine:
Indonesia, Pakistan, Kenya, Bolivia—running their grids on Chinese-built thorium reactors.
No sanctions.
No LNG extortion.
No lectures about democracy.

The West told the Global South:
"You can have wind, sun, or nothing."
China just offered them base-load, sovereign energy with no bomb risk.
That’s not a reactor.
That’s a geopolitical earthquake.

Next: What happens to the Western energy cartel when the Global South goes thorium?

Quote:Months after satellites picked up a massive nuclear fusion facility in China's Sichuan province, the country's nuclear industry has blown the lid off fission tech.

During a private meeting earlier this month, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the successful operation of a thorium-powered nuclear reactor located in the Gobi Desert. The team had achieved "full-power operation" last June, according to South China Morning Post, and recently succeeded in reloading the reactor while it was powered up — a world first.

It's a major milestone for nuclear power. Thorium offers a more accessible but less weaponizable alternative to uranium, according to the World Nuclear Association, which notes that "thorium-based power reactor fuels would be a poor source for fissile material usable in the illicit manufacture of an explosive device."

The Gobi Desert reactor is a two megawatt research unit engineered to use molten salt as fuel carrier and coolant. A molten salt reactor (MSR) theoretically carries far less risk in the event of a meltdown compared to water-based systems, as salts can carry greater loads of thermal energy at much lower pressure.

In fact, a "meltdown" is basically a non-factor for these systems — the fuel is already molten.

A report sponsored by the US government on MSRs notes that a "possible advantage of the MSR is that the fuel is subject to freezing," so "upon breach of a vessel or pipe... the fuel will disperse, and thus increase its cooling geometry, until it reaches a freezing configuration and thus will be confined to that location and configuration." Basically, imagine lava rolling slowly down a mountain as the air cools it back into rock, compared to a spectacular steam explosion like the incident at Chernobyl.

Curiously, MSRs are nothing new. They had their day in the US back in the late 1940s and early 50s, when American cold warriors dumped nearly $1 billion into developing a nuclear-powered stealth bomber. Congress halted research on thorium-fueled airplanes back in 1961, and uranium more or less became the gold standard, due in no small part to its military potential.

Assumed obsolete, the US' MSR research has since been made public, forming the foundation of the Gobi Desert team's work.

"The US left its research publicly available, waiting for the right successor," said the project's chief scientist Xu Hongjie. "Rabbits sometimes make mistakes or grow lazy. That’s when the tortoise seizes its chance."


China Fires Up World's First Thorium-Powered Nuclear Reactor

Quote:What if the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time weren’t buried in ancient ruins—but foretold by a woman who saw the future before it arrived? In today’s video, we dive into the chilling prophecy of Jeane Dixon, a renowned American psychic whose visions shaped headlines and haunted history. From predicting presidential deaths to warning of global upheaval, Dixon’s story is filled with astonishing detail—and one prophecy stands out above the rest: her vision of the year 2025 as a turning point for humanity. Could this be the final warning? Or is it just another chapter in the world’s long list of unsolved mysteries? Fasten your seatbelt as we explore what may be one of the most compelling unsolved mysteries ever recorded. If you're fascinated by unsolved mysteries and prophetic visions that defy explanation, don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell—because this is one mystery you’ll want to follow to the end.

The original Alice Cooper band split 50 years ago but now Alice has re-united with, guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway , drummer Neal Smith and producer Bob Ezrin to revisit the 1970s shock rock era with the release in July of their new album entitled "The Revenge Of Alice Cooper".

The first single from the album , "Black Mamba" , was    released today featuring a guest appearance by legendary Doors guitarist Robby Krieger deputising for original guitarist Glen Buxton who died in the late 90s although Buxton also appears on the album thanks to his work on a previously unreleased song. 

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Quote:STRIPPED: When Earth's Shield Fails the Dead Will Rise | The Plasma Apocalypse Our planet's magnetic shield is deteriorating rapidly, creating a dangerous vulnerability to solar storms of unprecedented power. Throughout history, events like the 1921 New York Railroad incident and the 1859 Carrington Event wreaked havoc on early technology. Cultures across continents left warnings through winter solstice rituals and megalithic structures designed not for worship but as sophisticated energy channeling systems during cosmic upheavals. Their stone warnings remain while our understanding fades. Military documents like CONPLAN 8888 reveal government preparations for phenomena beyond power outages. The magnetic north pole races toward Siberia at increasing speed, while the South Atlantic Anomaly grows larger each year. The approaching plasma event threatens to do more than disable our technology—it will transform reality in ways our ancestors deeply feared.