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Nick Sortor


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BREAKING: The US Secret Service SHOT AND KlLLED an armed intruder who penetrated the secure perimeter at Mar-a-Lago this morning

The man in his 20s was carrying a shotgun and a fuel can

Quote:It seems my last post stirred the hornet’s nest. I’ve been swamped with email castigating me for being so nonchalant about the Epstein files, and lambasting me for not fighting the evil. Apparently, forwarding “research” and posting outrage on socmed is considered fighting these days.

I’ve actually sat in the same room and stared the monsters in the face. If you read to the end, I’ll tell you precisely who and how you can fight, but first some history.

Everything in the Epstein files has been known for nearly 20 years. Wikileaks released the Clinton/Podesta files a decade ago. Seth Rich was murdered and Julian Assange was jailed for that one. I know of groups that have fought child trafficking since the 1960s, though I suspect many have been taken over.

All of this information has been widely available for a long time, but most folks dismiss it as “conspiracy theories” and shun anyone trying to expose the network. Even Stanley Kubrick was “heart attacked” for his film Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which barely scratched the surface and encoded most of the truly salient information.

First of all, some history. The Aztec, Maya and Inca empires all engaged in ritual human sacrifice. The Shang dynasty, ancient Hindu, Egyptians and Romans, Norse, Celts, Carthaginians, and Dohomey have all had documented human sacrifice. This very minute, bacha bazi boys are being traded and abused across the Middle East. The batteries in your devices and EVs likely contain materials that are the products of forced child labor. Even in the US and Europe, forced child labor was common during the Industrial Revolution, in mining operations, and in agriculture.

No society or culture is above reproach, and all have been victims. As I previously noted, these practices have gone on throughout all human history. In a few months, the attendees at Bohemian Grove will engage in ritual child sacrifice—possibly real—documented by Alex Jones and waved away as fringe lunacy for two decades. And look what they’ve done to Jones for his reporting.

With all this on the table, folks get lathered up when I say the Epstein files are barely scratching the surface. I also don’t take seriously anyone castigating me for not standing up with furious keystrokes in the socmed cat fight. That is all impotent bluster, a la Foghorn Leghorn.

Let me tell you the story of a friend of mine:

He was politically active, fighting corruption in word and deed. He actually faced down the monsters and called them out for what they were. For their part, the monsters were insidiously worming their way into his family, luring his wife with drugs and “psychotherapy,” a process begun when she was a child.

One day, while he was out of town on business, they launched a full-scale assault. When he returned, the house was completely empty and his wife and children had vanished. That initiated a four-year legal battle, during which his wife hung herself and he spent a quarter-million dollars and half a decade waging lawfare against the Leviathan to rescue his children.

No one would help him out of fear they would be targeted too.

For myself, I have worked in the entertainment and fashion industries all my life. I have experienced the total moral degradation and turpitude first hand. I fled Hollywood with my sanity barely intact. Exploitation of children and young adults is the primary product of those industries. The children are farmed out to elites, and the women exploited, much like as shown in Kubrick’s film.

Here in Asia and in the Middle East, I’ve had “people” offer to sell children to me, generally around the ages of 9 to 12, usually female, and all with lifelong contracts of servitude. The going price is about US$10,000 for subprime or untrained, if you’re wondering.

For decades, when I tried to tell folks what was going on under their very noses, I was dismissed as a crank at best, and a lunatic at worst. Now with the Epstein files floating around, I am lambasted for “not fighting”. It’s a thankless business.

I don’t need the Clinton, Podesta, or Epstein files to get me worked up. I have very personal experience with that world. I have fought for many years, and no one cared…until now. However, and as usual, folks just want to throw a lot of words and indignation at the revelations. I can tell you that is completely worthless and will change nothing, and in a few news cycles it will all fade away for another decade or two.

One correspondent asked me who they should go after. Here’s the thing—going after individuals will achieve nothing. Like Epstein, they will be cast off and disposed of as “liabilities” without changing anything at all. You have to go after the hubs, the roots. As Henry David Thoreau said in his book Walden, “For the thousands hacking at the branches of evil there is one striking at the root.”

First, there’s the NGO network that shows up to every war and natural disaster using your donations and tax money to abduct children with impunity. These operations are run by foundations belonging to prominent politicians and industrialists who exist far above the legal systems of the world. They are untouchables.

Within the regional and local levels, there is some form of “child protective services” or “family welfare services”—armies of “social workers” who, along with the “family” court network, steal children from the parents under color of law and sell them to the highest bidders, if they don’t butcher them for spare body parts.

The entire abortion industry is a child sacrifice operation vehemently defended by the very same folks getting all lathered up over human trafficking and the Epstein files. Those useful idiots perpetuate systemic evil by fighting for something they consider a “right”. The delusion is deep and wide.

On the surface, these organizations appear to provide valuable human services. It’s a ruse to pull the wool over your eyes. They are vile operations seething with evil intent using our own labor and wealth against us. It is a form of alchemy and all the rituals folks keep “posting” about are how they effect the deception, or so the monsters believe.

Remember all this the next time you vote or file your tax returns, watch a movie or TeeVee show, or buy designer apparel. You are directly supporting the trafficking of human beings and the legal web that defends the perpetrators. Every donation to an NGO or public grant from our Treasury is potentially enabling kidnapping, extortion, blackmail, torture, and abject servitude.

Tapping your indignation and anger to a deaf world changes nothing. It is not fighting anything. It is impotent whining that the monsters dismiss as easily as swatting flies. If you want to fight, then put your life and wealth on the line, and be prepared to suffer in ways you never imagined. Look at what they’ve done to Alex Jones, James O’Keefe, Julian Assange, and dozens of other journalists who dared to speak up.

Otherwise, go back to the couch and pretend all is well. May your chains rest lightly upon you.

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There is no film that properly captures the true horrors hinted at in today’s screed. Go read some history or the law of the land instead.

Don't hold back.

Life is short.

Say what you mean, mean what you say.

Who are you, really?

This is my 2nd post here so I'm basically a veteran now. 

ATS... DI... R.I.P.

I'm like a forum refugee with trust issues and three backup hard drives. At this point I don't unpack my bags anymore, just leave everything in the U-Haul. 

Anyway, good to see some of you made it here. If this place vanishes too, I'll see you on the dark web or a Discord server run by a guy named IntelJoker. Whichever comes first.  

The B-36 was flying all over my area of Texas; nothing sounds like 6 turning and 4 burning. 


Then the B-47 was made by Boeing and I remember thinking what a weird but beautiful airplane. Next came the BUFF or the B-52.

I went to flight engineer school with the son of a Boeing test pilot who rolled the 707 during a super bowl game.. The pilot nearly lost his job because the engineers were afraid in a roll you could sling an engine off the wing of the 707...That is what the son told me... I found that hard to believe and have never been able to confirm the story. I knew Tex the Chief pilot for Boeing  had rolled the aircraft over a speed boat race which helped sell the 707.

Given the right altitude and deck angle I always figured I could roll any aircraft as a bird does not care if it is right side up or dirty side up as long as there is a positive amount of "G" loading on the wing. . I did airshows at some of our local fly-ins with a Super Swift and never crashed , "Ta Da" however the first time I tried to do a low level roll in the Boeing 727 with no flaps I nearly crashed; without major rudder input I would have hit the simulated dirt.. Roll rate clean ( no flaps) was terrible at 250 knots in clean configuration.. The roll was attempted in one of our full motion simulators at the airline. I continued to mess around with doing what I considered fun weird stuff with the 727 but that bitch did not like it; otherwise the 727 (Iron maiden) would save your butt if you knew what to do in a given situation. 280 knots with 25 degrees nose up was the best speed to roll the 727 clean unless you were using some flaps which would enabled the actual ailerons on the wings to become operative. Flaps 2 you get the leading edge devices 2,3, 6 and 7 slats plus partial ailerons but you are speed restricted.
 
A lot of stuff happens when the flaps are extended but you never get full Aileron control until flaps 5 and beyond. It is designed that way to prevent wing bending/twisting at high speed aileron use. Lessons learned from the B-47 and B-52. 

OK a brief history on how we got jets and how a company bet the farm on an Idea.

https://www.rtx.com/news/2026/02/18/fast...the-future

Quote:Fast-tracking the fighter jet engine of the future

How Pratt & Whitney is using digital tools to speed development of its adaptive engine



How digital helps meet demand
Digital design addresses communication problems that have historically hindered engine development. On a typical program, as many as 1,500 engineers would work with hundreds of vendors across dozens of software platforms and even paper documents. They had no way to combine their information into a single place where everyone could see it.
Pratt & Whitney fixed that problem through a digital collaborative environment. Engineers now have a dashboard-like interface where teams can share information and work together in real time. Their goal was to develop XA103 in a way that would reduce errors, identify problems earlier, shorten turnaround times and improve communication between internal teams, vendors and the Air Force.
The digital collaborative environment takes decades of computer-aided design work that’s been happening across the company and brings them together for greater results.
“What is happening in the digital transformation that we are going through now,” Johnson said, “is that we’re having a more concerted effort to connect some of those digital tools to have them optimize with each other.”
The team completed the program’s detailed design review in early 2025 and is now preparing to build a prototype that will continue to be tested and refined until the engine’s ground test, which is expected in the late 2020s.

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The digital collaborative workspace is just one way the team is working differently. They’ve also realized time savings by bringing testing and validation earlier in the design process instead of adding test instrumentation after the engine has been designed. 
Another key component of the program is its use of model-based systems, or 3D digital models that contain all the relevant program details and data. This will simplify reporting because years of test data will be neatly stored and easily accessible in the model and make it easier for onboarding teammates mid-project.
“Our current engine is over 2,000 pieces of instrumentation sensors – all with their own little story that goes along with them and why they’re needed. In the past, you’d have somebody at the center of all of that who has lived it,” Seipt said. “Now, even if a new person comes onto the program that hasn’t lived the last four or five years of history with that particular test asset, they can jump right in and have those impact analyses available immediately.”
Model-based systems will help streamline the supply chain as well. Chris Scott, from Pratt & Whitney’s supply chain team, is training roughly 200 suppliers for model-based definition for manufacturing and inspection – a method that includes manufacturing data in a 3D model rather than traditional, hard-copy blueprints. Because the models are machine readable, the supplier doesn’t have to recreate the paper blueprint with their software, which means fewer errors in translation, and they can begin working as soon as they receive the technical data package from Pratt & Whitney.

Industry studies show the time between order receipt and delivery could be cut in half when using model-based technologies.
“There’s a lot of manual handoff of information. Model-based definition for manufacturing and inspection really focuses on automating a lot of those processes,” Scott said. “We want to get away from doing data-mining activities and really focus on making decisions with relevant information in front of us in real time. There’s a lot of opportunity to speed up that process and get to market faster.”
Pratt & Whitney plans to use a digital shop floor that will automate manufacturing – as it’s already doing across several sites including Asheville, North Carolina, for airfoil production and in Oklahoma City for maintenance, repair and overhaul.
Recreating the F119 experience
The move to digital processes has made it easier for the Air Force to collaborate with Pratt & Whitney – something both parties enjoyed in the 1990s, during the development of the F119 engine for the F-22 Raptor.
“They wanted that experience again not only from the performance of the engine but from the interaction with our team,” Johnson said. “We took that to heart as we started this program, and the digital tools have given us a way to step that up.”
The digital collaborative environment allows the Air Force to access program files and provide feedback at any time through a classified system. That transparency, coupled with Pratt & Whitney’s history in military engines, has strengthened trust and shown the team’s commitment to providing new capabilities quickly.
“We’re creating perhaps the most complicated machines on the face of the planet, and yet they are some of the most reliable machines on the planet,” Johnson said. “That’s important because our team is committed to making sure the warfighter has what they need to complete their mission and come home safely. You want to make sure that it’s going to work, and you want to make sure that it’s going to get done on time – Pratt & Whitney is the place that you can get that dependable engine.”

Sounds like we are getting Congress involved, which, depending on who owns them, renegotiation could be quick or take years.

Id imagine there is Chinese money pushing for negotiations. 

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 MAJOR BREAKING: The US Supreme Court has just STRUCK DOWN President Trump’s tariff authority,

6-3

SCOTUS just WRECKED our country.

One of the biggest economic comebacks in world history just got thrown in the incinerator.

What a shame.

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JONATHAN TURLEY: "There's a lot of runway still for the administration..."

"The administration has other tools in its toolbox. It CAN actually impose tariffs under other statutes!"

I am interested in the aging process and try to keep up on the latest longevity findings. This one caught my attention because magic mushrooms seem to be able to delay aging for a time in mice in this pre-clinical study. How it will act on humans is yet to be determined.

"Magic mushrooms rewind aging in mice—could they do the same for humans?"

"A surprising discovery from Emory University shows that psilocin, the active metabolite of psychedelic mushrooms, can delay cellular aging and extend lifespan. Human cells lived over 50% longer, and mice treated with psilocybin not only lived 30% longer but also looked and aged better.

"Emory is actively involved in Phase II and III clinical trials of psilocybin-assisted therapy for depression, and these results suggest we also need to understand psilocybin's systemic effects in aging populations," says Zarrabi. "My hope is also that if psilocybin-assisted therapy is approved as an intervention for depression by the FDA in 2027, then having a better quality of life would also translate into a longer, healthier life."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...223838.htm
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Fascinating!

Hi all!  I thought it would be fun and educational to share which books we are currently reading, have recently finished, and maybe a sentence or two synopsis, and what we thought of them.  Then we can learn what we are all into, and get some recommendations.

I will start


CURRENTLY
I am reading:

The Selected Letters of HP Lovecraft Vol 3 
Very erudite and shows what Ecclesiastes said is true , there is nothing new under the sun. In our pitifully short human life spans we repeat repeat repeat the sins and idiocies of the past. 



I Just Finished

The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron

Here is a great horror writer at the beginning of his career.  This book harkens back to Thomas Ligotti, HP Lovecraft, and other masters of gnawing eldritch and terrifying cosmic horror.  Highly reccomended!

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