Carrion has always been one of the sharper people in this farrago of nonsense.
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A survey of the weird, the wondrous, the wacko. Critical thinking welcomed.
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Plus, a possible point of interest emerges in the Octopus conspiracy, could it be a previously unknown remote viewer? Then the UFO fatigue really sets in with some updates on the mandatory UAP disclosure and the craven ghouls running interference.
A soggy ream of paper was left on my desk, a calling card of the Cystic Detective. Today, he recounts readings on Marian apparitions and other signs & wonders, as well as another book on the foreboding Franklin Scandal—it recalls UFO scandals worth revisting tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/cystic-det...
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Witnessing signs and wonders, the foreboding Franklin Scandal, and the psychics of The Last Circle + the UFO fatigue truly sets in.
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I never know how to feel about a Colville painting ... which causes me to stare at them for a long time before walking away, still uncertain. His most famous one is like that:
“Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.” -- Gary Snyder
Eavesdropping: "Everything makes sense. Just not a lot."
Albrecht Dürer, 1504: Adoration of the Magi (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
Alex Colville (Canadian, 1920-2013): Family and rainstorm, 1955. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Glazed tempera on Masonite.
“It is possible that there exist human emanations which are still unknown to us. Do you remember how electrical currents and ‘unseen waves’ were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.” ~ Albert Einstein (attrib.)
Tanner F. Boyle: "Throughout it all, the UFO/UAP ecosystem has represented a closed loop that never leaves the U.S. government or military. Independent inquiry ... is predominantly dead or victim to overreliance on military or intelligence sources." tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/cystic-det...
Cystic Detective Update #15
Witnessing signs and wonders, the foreboding Franklin Scandal, and the psychics of The Last Circle + the UFO fatigue truly sets in.
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James Carrion's latest video dissects the Paul Bennewitz Affair. AFOSI, Doty, Moore, LMH, the gang's all here, along with some less-commonly cited details & a former intelligence analyst's perspective. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xm5...
Las Vegas billionaire Robert Bigelow talks to 8 News Now investigative reporter George Knapp about a meeting he had with President Donald Trump regarding UFO disclosure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0N3...
Robert Bigelow and George Knapp discuss UFO disclosure
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Reality Check: "If you only care about scientific issues that are controversial, you will end up with a head stuffed full of garbage." www.lesswrong.com/posts/ndGYn7...
The Beauty of Settled Science — LessWrong
Facts do not need to be unexplainable, to be beautiful; truths do not become less worth learning, if someone else knows them; beliefs do not become l…
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Wow, this is some story. A reportedly frustrated agent made about a dozen illegal transfers out of a Russian account after he became disillusioned with FBI lack of enforcement action taken against criminals & adversarial states illegally using crypto. Then, they didn't catch him, he confessed.
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 2d agoFeds charge ‘frustrated’ FBI agent they say stole nearly $1 million in crypto from Russia
Oh wait. www.dailygrail.com/2026/02/elon...
Elon Musk is Full of Shit: We've reached the endgame of tech billionaires using science fiction as a marketing tool
Self-driving cars? Human colonies on Mars? Sadly, I have to admit that I was taken in by Elon Musk’s bullshit a decade ago. I told my kids that they’d probably not even need a driver’s license by the ...
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Yes yes, who could have imagined that the promise to have a humanoid robot army on the Moon building satellites and yeeting them into orbit using a lunar catapult to create orbital data centres and make humanity a Kardashev Scale 2 civilization might have been oversold?
DJ Khaled: Congratulations, You Played Yourself
ALT: DJ Khaled: Congratulations, You Played Yourself
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The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterdaySpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.
Processing DNA for nearly a million people in a year? No problem, ICE says. Attaching a $300 camera to an agent’s vest? Logistical nightmare. That's one of the most remarkable ironies of this great story (based on FOIA requests by @georgetownlaw.bsky.social's Center on Privacy and Technology).
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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"I'm going to start a new conspiracy theory in which observable, empirical data is revealed to be the truth."