stock here, h/t Cuttlefish, 4 awesome views on 1 screen actively managed. At bottom is a 500′ view from Wednesday.
stock here: Keep in mind, Hawaii is either -4 or -5 compared to CST depending on the bogus “daylight saving time”
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stock here, this is quoted on one of my articles on my “archive” nukepro. I first published the “Hot Lots” in June of 2021, and keep writing articles until “they” destroyed my blog, hosted on MY paid website, into August of 2021. So I helped get the word out, it was picked up by many.
This site is still up, so many have dissappeared.
stock here: this really is shameful. Truth is blocked, hidden. Lies are promoted. I am going to try some of these other Search Engines Links are here
The primary global search engines include Google, Microsoft Bing, Yahoo! Search, DuckDuckGo, Baidu, and Yandex. They help users find web pages, images, and videos across the internet. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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- Google: The world’s top search engine with the largest index and market share.
- Microsoft Bing: Microsoft’s core search engine and the second-largest worldwide.
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stock here: Beyond evil.
In 2021, public health agencies and major professional medical organizations in the United States shifted from initial caution to actively promoting and recommending COVID-19 vaccination for pregnant individuals.
Here are 5 key events throughout 2021 that marked this promotion and recommendation push:
- CDC Preliminary Safety Study & Reassuring Guidance Update (April 2021)
- Event: The New England Journal of Medicine published real-world data from the CDC’s v-safe pregnancy registry following over 35,000 pregnant individuals who received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The study found no red flags or increased risks of miscarriage or complications.
- Impact: Following the published data on April 23, 2021, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky publicly expressed that the agency recommended pregnant individuals get vaccinated against COVID-19, easing earlier ambiguity.
- ACOG and SMFM Issue Strong Joint Recommendation (July 30, 2021)
- Event: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM)—the leading medical associations for pregnancy care in the U.S.—updated their joint guidance to strongly recommend that all pregnant individuals receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
- Impact: This marked a critical consensus among frontline healthcare providers, urging doctors, midwives, and OB-GYNs to proactively recommend the vaccine during prenatal visits.
- CDC Issues Official Urgent Clinical Recommendation (August 11, 2021)
- Event: The CDC formally updated its guidance to explicitly recommend COVID-19 vaccination for all people who were pregnant, lactating, or planning to become pregnant.
- Impact: New safety data analyzing pregnancies in early gestation showed no increased risk of miscarriage. The official stance triggered widespread public health communications and public service announcements targeted at expectant mothers.
- CDC Issues Health Advisory Alert (COCA) Warning of Severe Risks (September 29, 2021)
- Event: The CDC issued an urgent Health Alert Network (HAN) advisory to healthcare providers and the public emphasizing that pregnant individuals faced a significantly higher risk of severe illness, ICU admission, mechanical ventilation, and death from COVID-19 compared to non-pregnant individuals.
- Impact: The alert urgently called for increased efforts to boost vaccination rates among pregnant individuals, given that less than 31% of pregnant women had been vaccinated by late September 2021.
- U.S. Surgeon General Public Campaign Push (Late Summer / Fall 2021)
- Event: U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and HHS leadership launched dedicated public service announcements, virtual town halls, and social media campaigns addressing common misperceptions about fertility and pregnancy.
- Impact: Public health initiatives directly addressed vaccine hesitancy in expectant parents, emphasizing maternal-fetal protection and antibody transfer to newborns.
stock here: I’ll add some historical data, but any 5.2 EQ anywhere in Hawaii is significant. Turns out this is the largest EQ right at Lo’ihi in 100 Years. Also significant, the depth was 40km, meaning this is at the same level as the lowest levels of the combined magma chamber for Moana Loa and Kilaeua. Meaning this could be creating a much larger “port” for deep earth magma.
Wikipedia has not been updated yet…..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama%CA%BBehuakanaloa_Seamount


Lo’ihi was renamed in the height of the Jab program, especially as they started really pushing pregnant woman to inject the mRNA into their dual bodies. To be “more culturally appropriate”. Just part of the program to change people lives in as many ways as possible in order to create “great change”.
The name Kamaʻehuakanaloa is a Hawaiian language word for “glowing child of Kanaloa“, the god of the ocean.[10] This name was found in two Hawaiian mele from the 19th and early twentieth centuries based on research at the Bishop Museum and was assigned by the Hawaiʻi Board on Geographic Names in 2021 and adopted by the U.S. Geological Survey.[10][11] From 1955 to 2021 the seamount was called “Lōʻihi”, the Hawaiian word for “long”, describing its shape. The change to Kamaʻehuakanaloa was made in an effort to be more culturally appropriate given native Hawaiian traditions for naming.[12]
stock here: I had this research very early on, this is when it got fishy, disgusting. Over half the women that lost their baby did it on the day of the jab, or the next day. That was my original research. If time, I will find the spreadsheet, and send it to Mr. Johnson.
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) June 18, 2026
stock here: besides just being not fat…do the Ketones help the brain? I bought this.

stock here: this was on my radar but just barely, no idea the damage was so bad and so long lasting…..
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7.8 Earthquake Creates Sinkholes On Balut Island (Philippines Epicenter Near Indonesia)
Kumander Daot 253K subscribers 71,988 views Aug 9, 2026 BALUT ISLAND TWO MONTHS ON FROM THE STRONGEST EARTHQUAKE IN A GENERATION, BALUT ISLAND IS STILL DEVASTATED. Many families are still living in tents, under tarpaulins, or outside their homes in temporary shelters, as aftershocks cause fear.
Indeed, there were two major aftershocks while I was there, and many more earth shaking events. Sitio Highlander in Batuganding is Ground Zero, with even the most well built houses collapsing.
But in Barangay Lipul on the other side of the island, an interesting phenomenon has occured – sinkholes creates where volcanic ash blew through on land, or water and rocks on the ocean…
DMSO, Alternate For Skin Cancers?
stock here: I still can’t get to a level of comfort in using DMSO on my own body.
Hello everyone. My name is Dr. Iggerov. I am a clinical oncologist practicing since 2010 in Russia. Today we are exploring a chemical chameleon of medicine: dimethyl sulfoxide, or DMSO.
Historically, it has been pigeonholed as two things: an industrial and pharmaceutical solvent, and a cryoprotectant needed to protect cells during freezing so they are not damaged. But modern science reveals a far more complex picture.
DMSO is emerging as a multifunctional agent with three evidence-based roles. Today we will explore the substance as a powerful drug-delivery vehicle, a bidirectional immune modulator, and a differentiation-inducing agent in cancer therapy.
So, let’s start our conversation.
This is a screenshot from a well-known journal, and it shows a randomized trial of topical ascorbic acid, a type of vitamin C, dissolved in DMSO and compared with imiquimod.
Imiquimod is a well-known cream for the treatment of local skin-cancer lesions such as basal cell carcinoma. What does imiquimod do? It attracts the immune system to attack the cancer and is a recognized treatment for many superficial and small basal-cell skin cancers.
The first role of DMSO is as a supreme delivery vehicle, and this has been demonstrated in clinical practice. This is its most established and practical application.
DMSO has a unique chemical structure that allows it to carry other drugs into tissues and let them penetrate deeper.
A 2022 basal-cell carcinoma trial tested 30% vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, in 95% DMSO versus standard imiquimod cream for skin cancer.
The result was that the DMSO-delivered vitamin C solution was more effective. It was almost 90% effective for clearance of these cancers and caused far fewer side effects than the standard treatment.
Critically, it left no hyperpigmented scars. Here, DMSO was considered not to be the drug itself, but rather the enabling technology. It made a high concentration of vitamin C deliverable, effective, and cosmetically superior to standard treatment.
As we know, high concentrations of vitamin C can become not antioxidant, but pro-oxidant. I covered this in lectures on intravenous vitamin C therapy for cancers. There are many clinical trials on this nowadays, especially involving resistant cancers such as pancreatic cancer or cancers with KRAS mutations.
Second, as I already told you, DMSO is an immune modulator, and this is where it gets fascinating.
It does not simply suppress immunity. It fine-tunes it based on concentration.
At low concentrations, less than 2%, it acts as a mild immune stimulant or irritant. Researchers found that it increases the release of histamine. Histamine is associated with allergy, but it is also a protective substance involved in inflammation.
As we know, acute inflammation is one of the body’s protective mechanisms, and this might potentially be harnessed to boost certain immune therapies.
At higher concentrations, above 2%, DMSO acts as a potent anti-inflammatory and immune suppressant. It blocks key inflammatory pathways such as NF-kappa B. This is part of the basis for its FDA-approved use in interstitial cystitis, an inflammatory condition of the bladder.
There is an interesting discovery that high-dose DMSO can reprogram naïve immune cells into regulatory T cells.
In simple words, these cells are the body’s peacemakers. They calm down immunity, allergies, and autoimmune attacks in people who have autoimmune conditions.
This is the basis for preclinical research involving, for example, type 1 diabetes and autoimmune conditions such as systemic lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and even psoriasis.
What about cancer treatment?
In one study, an intravenous infusion regimen used a mixture of DMSO and sodium bicarbonate. The dosage was 500 milliliters of 40% DMSO infused intravenously.
The frequency was once daily for seven consecutive days, followed by a seven-day break, and this was repeated in cycles. In other words, one week of infusions followed by one week without infusions.
These were patients with very advanced, highly resistant cancers of the bile ducts.
The study reported reductions in pain and jaundice, meaning yellowing of the skin, as well as improved quality of life in these very advanced-stage patients.
There are some critical safety issues with this because we know that concentrations above 30%, when infused intravenously, carry a significant risk of hemolysis, meaning rupture of red blood cells due to high osmotic pressure.
The 40% concentration used in this trial was at the upper limit of what is often considered tolerable. This is, of course, a high-risk protocol requiring very careful medical supervision and monitoring for hemolysis, renal function, and other side effects such as nausea.
These IV DMSO protocols are still highly experimental, are not standardized, and should only be performed in clinical trials or clinical research centers.
I also told you that DMSO is considered a differentiation-induction agent in cancer therapy.
What does that mean?
Our normal cells are differentiated, meaning they have their own structure and function. They are highly beneficial for our body and do what they are supposed to do.
Cancer cells become less differentiated. They become more evolutionarily primitive, stop performing their normal functions, and stop obeying the body’s central mechanisms of regulation.
We want to make these cancer cells more differentiated so they are not as aggressive and become more like normal human cells.
One direction of oncology research today is differentiation therapy. Cancer cells can be immature, rapidly dividing, and nonspecialized, unlike our normal cells.
We try to use drugs to re-educate these cancer cells, forcing them to mature into more harmless cells that stop dividing.
The classic example is all-trans retinoic acid in the treatment of acute leukemia, where it can help cure this form of leukemia.
In a 2023 review, researchers compiled decades of laboratory research showing DMSO as a differentiation inducer.
For example, DMSO can force leukemic cells to mature into normally appearing neutrophil-like cells, causing them to lose their ability to proliferate, grow, and divide, thereby slowing or stopping the growth of the tumor.
It appears to work in part by upregulating tumor-suppressor genes in these cells.
That was leukemia. What about solid tumors and cancers such as sarcomas?
Studies show that DMSO can induce differentiation markers in lung cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, liver cancer, and sarcomas.
So DMSO is potentially a useful and inexpensive adjuvant to sensitize cancer cells to other treatments, help slow their growth, and potentially make them more vulnerable to chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or immunotherapy.
I also mentioned interstitial cystitis, or painful bladder syndrome, for which DMSO is approved.
The formulation is a 50% DMSO solution in water called RIMSO-50.
It is introduced into the bladder through a catheter. Usually, 50 milliliters is instilled into the bladder for 15 to 30 minutes before the patient voids.
Treatment is usually performed once every one to two weeks for approximately two months, and sometimes maintenance therapy is needed.
What about safety and critical caveats?
This is not a recommendation for self-treatment.
Purity is non-negotiable. Only pharmaceutical-grade DMSO should be used medically. Industrial-grade DMSO can contain contaminants and may be dangerous.
What about side effects?
DMSO commonly produces a garlic-like smell or taste. It can cause skin irritation at high concentrations, and when high concentrations are injected intravenously, it can cause rupture of red blood cells.
There is also the generic-compound problem.
DMSO is old, inexpensive, and non-patentable. That creates a major financial disincentive for large pharmaceutical companies to fund the large-scale clinical trials needed to prove its efficacy as a primary adjuvant for cancer treatment.
That is one reason why it is not part of standard oncology protocols today.
What has been demonstrated in humans is primarily its usefulness as a drug-delivery vehicle.
There is also compelling preclinical evidence that it acts as an immune modulator and may potentially be part of differentiation therapy, but we still need large clinical trials to prove its efficacy in cancer treatment, determine the proper doses, and identify which cancers may respond best.
A few words about additional side effects and oral use.
One commonly reported effect is a garlic-like mouth taste.
There have also been clinical trials involving inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. In these studies, oral DMSO formulations containing 500 milligrams of DMSO were taken four times per day, and the studies reported a decrease in relapse rates.
I also want to underline that there are unofficial oncology protocols found on the internet that recommend taking DMSO orally.
Some suggest putting four drops of pharmaceutical-purity DMSO into water and drinking it, gradually increasing the amount to ten drops per intake as tolerated, or approximately 40 drops per day.
However, it can cause allergic reactions, stomach irritation, and discomfort in some people.
Again, oral DMSO cannot currently be recommended for cancer management because there have not been adequate clinical trials establishing its effectiveness and safety for this purpose.
That is why, officially, we cannot recommend it as oncologists.
Thanks for watching, and thank you for supporting this channel. My name is Dr. Iggerov. If you like this video, subscribe, and I will see you in the next series.
Have a good day and goodbye.
stock here: This is becoming a problem, especially in Honolulu where some streets are literally the Horse and Cows paths of old. Honolulu doing something correct.

stock here: Thanks to Miss Frill
Summary below. Holy Water, Holy Salt. Blessed by the Holy Hill Basilica
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What to Put on Your Door for Spiritual Protection: A Catholic Approach to Protecting the Home
For Christians, the front door is more than wood, glass, hinges, and a lock. It is the physical threshold between the home and the outside world.
Within Catholic tradition, that threshold can also serve as a visible reminder that the home belongs to God.
The idea is not that a blessed object functions as a magical charm. Catholic sacramentals are not magic, and they are not substitutes for prayer, faith, confession, or the sacraments. Rather, they are physical things set aside through the prayer of the Church to help turn our minds and our homes toward God.
The Biblical precedent is ancient.
In Exodus, before Israel departed Egypt, the Israelites were instructed to mark the doorposts of their homes with the blood of the Passover lamb:
“When I see the blood, I will pass over you.”
The marked doorway represented covenant, obedience, sacrifice, and belonging to God.
For Christians, the ultimate fulfillment of that image is Christ—the Lamb of God—and His victory through the Cross.
So what can a Catholic actually place at the entrance of the home?
1. A Blessed Crucifix Above the Door
Perhaps the simplest and most recognizable choice is a blessed crucifix mounted above or near the main entrance.
The crucifix is not merely decoration.
It represents Christ’s sacrifice on Calvary and His victory over sin and death. Placing one at the entrance of a home is a visible declaration:
This house belongs to Christ.
It also reminds everyone entering and leaving the house that Christian life is supposed to remain centered on Him.
Ideally, have the crucifix blessed by a priest.
2. A Blessed St. Benedict Medal
Another traditional Catholic sacramental associated with spiritual protection is the St. Benedict Medal.
The medal contains a remarkable series of symbols and abbreviated Latin prayers centered upon the Cross and the rejection of evil.
Among the prayers represented on the medal are words commonly translated as:
“May the Holy Cross be my light.”
“Let not the dragon be my guide.”
And:
“Begone, Satan.”
Because of this explicit spiritual-warfare symbolism, some Catholics place a blessed St. Benedict Medal in or above the frame of their primary doorway.
There are also St. Benedict crucifixes that combine the medal with a crucifix into a single sacramental.
Again, the object itself is not considered magical. Its meaning comes from Christ, the Cross, the prayer of the Church, and the faith with which the sacramental is used.
3. Keep Holy Water Near the Entrance
Holy water is probably the easiest Catholic sacramental to incorporate into everyday home life.
Rather than leaving a bottle forgotten in a cabinet, consider keeping holy water in a small container near the front door.
When leaving or returning home, make the Sign of the Cross.
You can also periodically bless the doorway and rooms of the house while praying.
Holy water carries an obvious connection with Baptism—the sacrament through which Christians are washed and brought into the life of Christ.
Its purpose is therefore much deeper than “warding something off.”
It reminds us who we are and to Whom we belong.
4. Blessed Salt
Blessed salt has an ancient place in Christian tradition.
Salt appears repeatedly in Scripture as a symbol of preservation, purification, and covenant.
Christ Himself told His disciples:
“You are the salt of the earth.”
In older Catholic rites, salt could be blessed using prayers specifically asking God for protection against evil.
Some Catholics therefore keep a small amount of blessed salt near the entrance of the home, place it discreetly in rooms, or use it in conjunction with holy water.
As with all sacramentals, however, the distinction is crucial:
Ordinary sodium chloride has no supernatural power.
The significance lies in the blessing, the prayer of the Church, and the faithful disposition of the person using it.
5. Have a Priest Bless the House
More important than accumulating religious objects is something Catholics sometimes overlook:
Ask a priest to bless your home.
A traditional house blessing involves prayer over the household and the rooms of the home, often including the entrances.
This is not something reserved for haunted houses or extraordinary circumstances.
House blessings are an ordinary part of Catholic life.
One particularly old custom occurs around the Feast of the Epiphany, when a home may be blessed and the doorway marked with blessed chalk.
A traditional inscription might look something like:
20 + C + M + B + 26
The letters are associated with the traditional names of the Magi—Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar—but they are also understood as an abbreviation of the Latin:
Christus Mansionem Benedicat
Meaning:
“May Christ bless this house.”
None of This Is a Spiritual Force Field
This may be the most important point.
A crucifix, St. Benedict Medal, holy water, blessed salt, and even a formal house blessing should not be treated as a supernatural security system operating independently of the people living inside the house.
That would turn sacramentals into superstition.
Catholic spiritual teaching instead connects the use of sacramentals with an entire Christian way of life:
- Prayer
- Confession
- Reception of the Eucharist
- Forgiveness
- Avoidance of serious sin
- Scripture
- Fasting
- Family prayer
- Trust in Christ
Someone could theoretically cover every doorway with medals and crucifixes while simultaneously living in ways completely opposed to the faith.
The religious objects themselves cannot substitute for conversion.
Look at What You Allow Into the Home
The physical doorway also raises a more difficult question:
What are we voluntarily bringing through it?
That does not mean every misfortune, illness, argument, nightmare, or emotional struggle should be attributed to demons.
Most difficulties have perfectly ordinary causes.
But Christians should still examine what influences they deliberately welcome into their lives.
Consider asking:
Is there anything in my home that I know does not belong in a Christian household?
That might involve media, pornography, occult practices, Ouija boards, serious involvement with divination, or other things fundamentally incompatible with Christian belief.
The more important doorway, ultimately, is not the one attached to your house.
It is the human will.
The Door to the Soul
The physical threshold becomes a useful image for something much deeper.
Just as the front door determines what enters your home, your decisions determine much of what enters your interior life.
What do you repeatedly watch?
What do you tolerate?
What do you dwell upon?
What grudges are you refusing to surrender?
What habits have you allowed to become permanent residents?
A beautifully blessed house occupied by people who never pray and never seek God has missed the central point.
The purpose of the sacramental is to point beyond itself.
Toward Christ.
Four Practical Things You Can Do
For someone who wants to put this Catholic tradition into practice, the process can be quite simple.
1. Get Holy Water
Obtain holy water from your parish and keep a small bottle or font near your principal entrance.
Use it intentionally rather than storing it away.
2. Place a Blessed Crucifix or St. Benedict Medal at the Entrance
Ask a priest to bless it if it has not already been blessed.
Then mount it above or near the main doorway.
3. Ask for a House Blessing
Call your parish and ask whether a priest can bless your home.
There is nothing strange or extraordinary about requesting one.
4. Take Care of the Spiritual Life Inside the House
Of everything on this list, this is the most important.
Pray.
Examine your conscience.
Forgive.
Go to confession when needed.
Receive the sacraments.
And make the Christian faith something actually practiced inside the home rather than simply represented by objects hanging on its walls.
A Simple Prayer at the Door
Standing at the entrance of your home, make the Sign of the Cross and pray:
Lord Jesus Christ, by the power of Your Cross and Resurrection, bless this doorway and this home. Let nothing enter here except what is consistent with Your will and Your glory. Surround this household with Your angels, protect everyone who lives here, and let Your peace dwell within these walls.
Our Lady, Queen of Angels, pray for us.
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.
Amen.
The Point Is Not Fear
Christian spiritual vigilance should not become obsession.
The message is not that a demon waits outside every unblessed doorway.
Nor should ordinary problems automatically be given supernatural explanations.
The far more important lesson is that Christians have historically understood the home as something worthy of consecration, prayer, and intentional protection.
Put the crucifix over the door.
Keep holy water nearby.
Use the sacramentals the Church has handed down.
Have the house blessed.
But remember what those objects are pointing toward.
The greatest protection of a Christian home is not an object attached to the doorway.
It is a household that sincerely belongs to Christ.
EAA Airshow Oshkosh, and NASA
stock here: This is one of the best pictures from the EAA Airshow, it speaks volumes.

stock here: this is rad!
Iceberg Collapse, Iceland
stock here: Amazing to see this iceberg rocking back and forth, and self-destructing.
stock here: This is Goodbye Time. I tried Zelle and it was fast and easy. This is bank based, not third party charlatans.
Paypal is requiring complete access to my primary checking account. They want to be able to log in, check balances, check entire history, and they specifically mention that they will have access to any medical or health payments and details.
This is bat shit crazy. Terms below
https://www.finicity.com/terms-privacy/en-US/#termsofuse
Your reaction is justified. This is apparently a legitimate PayPal/Mastercard process, but it is asking for a very high level of access. It is not merely confirming the routing and account numbers.
PayPal’s own documentation says its instant-confirmation option requires entering your online-banking login details through a third-party provider. That provider may then check your account balance and transaction information when PayPal considers it necessary. Mastercard describes Data Connect as an open-banking system through which customers log in and authorize selected account data to be shared.
My recommendation
Do not use this “upgrade” unless PayPal is forcing you to and you truly need that bank connected. The existing connection appears to be working, and the supposed benefits mainly accrue to PayPal: fewer failed ACH transactions, balance monitoring, account verification and fraud control.
Use the safer manual method instead:
- Close this page.
- Open a fresh browser tab and type
paypal.comyourself. - Sign in and go to Wallet → Bank Five Nine.
- Look for “Link your bank another way,” “Confirm another way,” or manual verification.
- Use the two-small-deposit method rather than providing bank credentials.
PayPal expressly says the manual alternative is available: it sends two small deposits, which you later verify.
Important distinction
A properly implemented connection may redirect you to Bank Five Nine’s own authenticated website, where the bank handles the password and issues an authorization token. That is much better than entering your password into a PayPal- or Mastercard-branded form. Mastercard calls this an OAuth connection.
Before entering anything, inspect the address bar:
- The login page should ultimately be on the bank’s genuine domain.
- Do not trust the PayPal logo or the bank name displayed inside the page.
- Do not proceed from a link in an email or text.
- A long encoded
?flow=...address is not itself proof of fraud, but the screenshot cuts off the actual domain, so the page cannot be authenticated from the image alone.
Bottom line: probably not phishing if you initiated it inside PayPal, but it is intrusive open-banking authorization. I would decline it and retain the present ACH connection or use microdeposit verification.
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they seem to be forcing me to give them full credentials, review this also
Yes. The terms confirm that they may require your actual bank credentials—not merely an authorization token. Your concern is accurate.
The agreement defines “Credentials” to include access numbers, passwords, security-question answers, account numbers, and other login information. It explicitly says you may have to provide those credentials directly to Finicity/Mastercard Data Connect.
More importantly, clicking Next authorizes Finicity to:
- use those credentials to access your bank accounts;
- retrieve and analyze your financial data;
- deliver that data to PayPal;
- act as your “attorney-in-fact and agent,” with substitution rights, to access third-party systems and perform whatever lawful steps are necessary to retrieve and disclose the data.
That is exceptionally broad language.
What they may collect
The privacy notice says authentication data can include:
- username and password;
- security questions and answers;
- PINs;
- multifactor-authentication responses;
- security tokens.
The financial-data access is also broader than confirming that the account exists. It may include balances, complete transaction history, account-owner information, loans, investments, income, payroll, tax-related information and transaction descriptions.
They may use this data to infer such things as your income, employment, cash flow, recurring payments and likelihood of making a payment on a particular day.
The agreement even warns that transaction records may reveal medical information and authorizes sharing that information with the recipient for a legal purpose connected to the requested service.
The credentials issue is not just theoretical
The terms distinguish between two connection methods:
- Access using an authenticated token, typically through the bank’s own OAuth login.
- Access through a “set of credentials,” meaning the aggregator receives or uses the login information.
The privacy notice expressly says it may access accounts through either method.
Therefore, unless the next screen clearly redirects you to Bank Five Nine’s genuine website, where the bank itself authenticates you and displays a defined permission screen, you should assume Finicity is requesting credentials that it can use to log into the account on your behalf.
Their liability terms are also one-sided
The contract says use is at your sole risk, disclaims warranties that the service will be secure or error-free, and attempts to disclaim responsibility for losses and damages.
It also requires individual arbitration and waives jury and class-action rights unless you mail an arbitration rejection within 60 days after agreeing.
You can revoke consent, but the agreement says they receive a “reasonable period of time” to process that revocation. Their retention provision does not promise immediate deletion; it says retention depends on business needs, possible reenrollment, legal requirements and limitation periods.
Are they truly forcing it?
PayPal’s own current help page says users who do not want to enter bank-login details should be able to choose “Link your bank another way” and confirm using two microdeposits.
However, PayPal may be forcing this newer connection for a particular existing account, transfer type, risk review or feature. The screen you showed is framed as an “upgrade,” but it may effectively become mandatory if PayPal disables the old connection or refuses certain transfers without the upgrade.
My assessment
I would not accept this merely for faster PayPal transfers. It is legitimate open-banking software, not necessarily a scam, but the permissions are materially broader than the screen’s friendly language suggests.
My practical approach would be:
- Cancel the Data Connect flow.
- Return directly to PayPal’s Wallet—not through an email link.
- Look for Link your bank another way or manual account entry.
- Try removing and relinking the bank manually using routing and account numbers.
- Use a credit card, debit card or a separate low-balance checking account for PayPal if manual verification is unavailable.
- Ask Bank Five Nine whether it supports a genuine OAuth/token connection to PayPal. A bank-hosted authorization page is preferable to giving Finicity reusable credentials.
I would especially avoid connecting your primary personal or business operating account. A dedicated PayPal transfer account containing only limited working funds sharply reduces both privacy exposure and potential loss.
Transcript of DEW Video
stock here: Gemini is great at these cleanups
This transcript discusses the technical feasibility and physical limitations of satellite-based directed energy weapons (DEWs), specifically comparing microwave systems against high-powered fiber lasers.
Key Takeaways & Analysis
- Microwave Weapons (Ruled Out): Satellite-based microwave weapons cannot deliver meaningful thermal damage. Due to the physics of electromagnetic divergence ($\theta = \lambda / D$), a 100 GHz microwave beam originating from Low Earth Orbit (LEO, ~400 km) through a 3-meter dish spreads to a 400-meter spot size on the ground. Delivering thermal damage across this $120,000\,\text{m}^2$ area would require impossible multi-gigawatt power sources on a satellite.
- Fiber Lasers (Feasible): Near-infrared fiber lasers (around $1\,\mu\text{m}$ wavelength) experience far less beam divergence. High electrical efficiency (>50%), solid-state durability, and compact size make them the primary candidate for space-based directed energy.
- Payload & Budget Constraints:
- LEO Altitude: ~400 km (e.g., International Space Station altitude).
- Pass Duration: ~10 minutes of visibility over a target per orbit.
- Weight Budget: ~2,500 kg total satellite mass (500 kg satellite bus + 2,000 kg weapon system).
- System Mass Breakdown: A 20 kW IPG fiber laser (~725 kg), lithium-ion battery array for 10 minutes of continuous power (~60 kg for 50 kW draw), and a lightweighted 3-meter glass mirror (~750 kg).
- Atmospheric Degradation & Spot Size: Combining optical beam quality parameters with atmospheric distortion (“seeing”), the laser beam spot on the ground expands to roughly 0.5 meters in diameter at 400 km.
- Power Output on Target: A 20 kW laser focused onto a 0.5-meter spot yields an intensity of $95\,\text{kW/m}^2$ (equivalent to ~95 Suns). Demonstration shows this intensity chaming cardboard and wood within 1–2 seconds.
Cleaned Transcript
Intro
Hi, today we’re going to do a deep dive into directed energy weapons. A couple of years ago, we created a video on microwave weapons and a follow-up on defending against them. Following the fires in Maui, there has been a significant surge in interest, comments, and questions regarding the actual capabilities of these systems. Today, we’ll address those outstanding questions directly.
Satellites & Orbital Mechanics
To keep this scope clear, we will focus strictly on satellite-based systems rather than shipboard, ground-based, or helicopter platforms, which operate at much shorter ranges.
Satellites face major operational limitations due to their altitude and the physical law of electromagnetic divergence: no electromagnetic beam can remain perfectly parallel; it inevitably spreads over distance.
Looking at typical Low Earth Orbit (LEO) parameters:
- International Space Station (ISS): ~400 km altitude
- Hubble Space Telescope: ~540 km altitude
- Iridium Satellites: ~780 km altitude
We will use 400 km as our baseline altitude. Because LEO satellites travel at high speeds (completing an orbit in 90 to 120 minutes), a satellite is only visible over a specific target horizon for roughly 10 minutes.
Mass & Power Budget
We cannot launch an oversized payload, so we must establish a realistic satellite mass budget:
- Total Mass: 2,500 kg
- Satellite Bus: 500 kg (structure, solar arrays, attitude control thrusters)
- Weapon Payload: 2,000 kg budget split across three components: laser unit, optics, and power source.
Beam Divergence: Why Microwaves Fail
Beam divergence ($\theta$) is governed by wavelength ($\lambda$) divided by beam diameter ($W_0$):
$$\theta \approx \frac{\lambda}{W_0}$$
- Microwave Scenario: A high-frequency 100 GHz microwave signal has a wavelength of 3 mm. Even using a large 3-meter dish antenna, the divergence rate is 1 milliradian (1 meter of spread per kilometer of distance). At an altitude of 400 km, this produces a 400-meter wide spot on the ground, covering an area of $120,000\,\text{m}^2$. Just to match natural sunlight intensity over that area would require a 120 MW generator. To inflict thermal damage, a multi-gigawatt power source firing continuously for 10 minutes would be necessary—making space-based thermal microwave weapons physically unfeasible.
- Laser Scenario: Optical lasers operate at wavelengths thousands of times smaller than microwaves. Consequently, divergence is drastically reduced, allowing for significantly higher energy concentration on the ground.
Fiber Laser Technology
For a satellite application, fiber lasers are the primary candidate:
- Efficiency: Converts electrical energy to laser output at over 50% efficiency.
- Durability: Solid-state architecture without free-space internal optics makes them immune to launch vibrations, dust, and misalignment.
- Commercial Availability: Off-the-shelf industrial units exist in high power ranges (e.g., IPG Photonics, TRUMPF, nLIGHT, Raycus).
For our model, we examine a standard 20 kW fiber laser:
- Raw Mass: ~725 kg (commercial chassis; can be stripped down further using lightweight composite materials).
- Beam Quality: Features a Beam Parameter Product (BPP) rating of 4.
Power & Optics Configuration
- Power Supply: Operating a 20 kW laser at ~40% net efficiency requires ~50 kW of electrical power over a 10-minute engagement window. Solar panels cannot supply this peak power continuously, requiring energy storage. An array of high-discharge lithium-ion batteries totaling ~60 kg can supply the required 50 kW output.
- Optics (Beam Director): A 3-meter primary mirror fits within standard launch vehicle fairings. While a standard monolithic glass mirror of that size would weigh 7,500 kg, modern lightweighted mirrors (utilizing fused silica or Ultra-Low Expansion glass with a honeycomb interior) reduce total optic mass by over 90% down to approximately 750 kg.
- Total Mass Tally: Laser (725 kg) + Power (60 kg) + Optics (750 kg) $\approx$ 1,535 kg, remaining well within our 2,000 kg payload allocation.
Spot Size and Atmospheric Distortion
- Ideal Beam Spot: A 20 kW laser with a BPP of 4 firing through a 3-meter mirror produces an initial diffraction-limited divergence of ~1.2 microradians, yielding a ~0.5-meter spot at 400 km.
- Atmospheric Seeing: Passing through atmospheric turbulence causes light to scatter and defocus. At near-infrared wavelengths ($1\,\mu\text{m}$), turbulence adds roughly 1 microradian of blur.
- Adaptive Optics: Incorporating fast-steering piezo mirrors and dynamic focus elements corrects low-order atmospheric distortions and thermal defocusing.
Combining the laser’s inherent beam quality with atmospheric effects yields a final focused beam diameter of roughly 0.5 meters at ground level.
Thermal Impact Analysis
Focusing 20 kW of continuous optical power into a 0.5-meter spot size yields an intensity of $95\,\text{kW/m}^2$—equivalent to approximately 95 Suns.
In scaled optical bench testing using equivalent power densities ($7.5\text{ W}$ focused to a $1\text{ cm}$ spot):
his transcript discusses the technical feasibility and physical limitations of satellite-based directed energy weapons (DEWs), specifically comparing microwave systems against high-powered fiber lasers.
Key Takeaways & Analysis
- Microwave Weapons (Ruled Out): Satellite-based microwave weapons cannot deliver meaningful thermal damage. Due to the physics of electromagnetic divergence ($\theta = \lambda / D$), a 100 GHz microwave beam originating from Low Earth Orbit (LEO, ~400 km) through a 3-meter dish spreads to a 400-meter spot size on the ground. Delivering thermal damage across this $120,000\,\text{m}^2$ area would require impossible multi-gigawatt power sources on a satellite.
- Fiber Lasers (Feasible): Near-infrared fiber lasers (around $1\,\mu\text{m}$ wavelength) experience far less beam divergence. High electrical efficiency (>50%), solid-state durability, and compact size make them the primary candidate for space-based directed energy.
- Payload & Budget Constraints:
- LEO Altitude: ~400 km (e.g., International Space Station altitude).
- Pass Duration: ~10 minutes of visibility over a target per orbit.
- Weight Budget: ~2,500 kg total satellite mass (500 kg satellite bus + 2,000 kg weapon system).
- System Mass Breakdown: A 20 kW IPG fiber laser (~725 kg), lithium-ion battery array for 10 minutes of continuous power (~60 kg for 50 kW draw), and a lightweighted 3-meter glass mirror (~750 kg).
- Atmospheric Degradation & Spot Size: Combining optical beam quality parameters with atmospheric distortion (“seeing”), the laser beam spot on the ground expands to roughly 0.5 meters in diameter at 400 km.
- Power Output on Target: A 20 kW laser focused onto a 0.5-meter spot yields an intensity of $95\,\text{kW/m}^2$ (equivalent to ~95 Suns). Demonstration shows this intensity chaming cardboard and wood within 1–2 seconds.
Cleaned Transcript
Intro
Hi, today we’re going to do a deep dive into directed energy weapons. A couple of years ago, we created a video on microwave weapons and a follow-up on defending against them. Following the fires in Maui, there has been a significant surge in interest, comments, and questions regarding the actual capabilities of these systems. Today, we’ll address those outstanding questions directly.
Satellites & Orbital Mechanics
To keep this scope clear, we will focus strictly on satellite-based systems rather than shipboard, ground-based, or helicopter platforms, which operate at much shorter ranges.
Satellites face major operational limitations due to their altitude and the physical law of electromagnetic divergence: no electromagnetic beam can remain perfectly parallel; it inevitably spreads over distance.
Looking at typical Low Earth Orbit (LEO) parameters:
- International Space Station (ISS): ~400 km altitude
- Hubble Space Telescope: ~540 km altitude
- Iridium Satellites: ~780 km altitude
We will use 400 km as our baseline altitude. Because LEO satellites travel at high speeds (completing an orbit in 90 to 120 minutes), a satellite is only visible over a specific target horizon for roughly 10 minutes.
Mass & Power Budget
We cannot launch an oversized payload, so we must establish a realistic satellite mass budget:
- Total Mass: 2,500 kg
- Satellite Bus: 500 kg (structure, solar arrays, attitude control thrusters)
- Weapon Payload: 2,000 kg budget split across three components: laser unit, optics, and power source.
Beam Divergence: Why Microwaves Fail
Beam divergence ($\theta$) is governed by wavelength ($\lambda$) divided by beam diameter ($W_0$):
$$\theta \approx \frac{\lambda}{W_0}$$
- Microwave Scenario: A high-frequency 100 GHz microwave signal has a wavelength of 3 mm. Even using a large 3-meter dish antenna, the divergence rate is 1 milliradian (1 meter of spread per kilometer of distance). At an altitude of 400 km, this produces a 400-meter wide spot on the ground, covering an area of $120,000\,\text{m}^2$. Just to match natural sunlight intensity over that area would require a 120 MW generator. To inflict thermal damage, a multi-gigawatt power source firing continuously for 10 minutes would be necessary—making space-based thermal microwave weapons physically unfeasible.
- Laser Scenario: Optical lasers operate at wavelengths thousands of times smaller than microwaves. Consequently, divergence is drastically reduced, allowing for significantly higher energy concentration on the ground.
Fiber Laser Technology
For a satellite application, fiber lasers are the primary candidate:
- Efficiency: Converts electrical energy to laser output at over 50% efficiency.
- Durability: Solid-state architecture without free-space internal optics makes them immune to launch vibrations, dust, and misalignment.
- Commercial Availability: Off-the-shelf industrial units exist in high power ranges (e.g., IPG Photonics, TRUMPF, nLIGHT, Raycus).
For our model, we examine a standard 20 kW fiber laser:
- Raw Mass: ~725 kg (commercial chassis; can be stripped down further using lightweight composite materials).
- Beam Quality: Features a Beam Parameter Product (BPP) rating of 4.
Power & Optics Configuration
- Power Supply: Operating a 20 kW laser at ~40% net efficiency requires ~50 kW of electrical power over a 10-minute engagement window. Solar panels cannot supply this peak power continuously, requiring energy storage. An array of high-discharge lithium-ion batteries totaling ~60 kg can supply the required 50 kW output.
- Optics (Beam Director): A 3-meter primary mirror fits within standard launch vehicle fairings. While a standard monolithic glass mirror of that size would weigh 7,500 kg, modern lightweighted mirrors (utilizing fused silica or Ultra-Low Expansion glass with a honeycomb interior) reduce total optic mass by over 90% down to approximately 750 kg.
- Total Mass Tally: Laser (725 kg) + Power (60 kg) + Optics (750 kg) $\approx$ 1,535 kg, remaining well within our 2,000 kg payload allocation.
Spot Size and Atmospheric Distortion
- Ideal Beam Spot: A 20 kW laser with a BPP of 4 firing through a 3-meter mirror produces an initial diffraction-limited divergence of ~1.2 microradians, yielding a ~0.5-meter spot at 400 km.
- Atmospheric Seeing: Passing through atmospheric turbulence causes light to scatter and defocus. At near-infrared wavelengths ($1\,\mu\text{m}$), turbulence adds roughly 1 microradian of blur.
- Adaptive Optics: Incorporating fast-steering piezo mirrors and dynamic focus elements corrects low-order atmospheric distortions and thermal defocusing.
Combining the laser’s inherent beam quality with atmospheric effects yields a final focused beam diameter of roughly 0.5 meters at ground level.
Thermal Impact Analysis
Focusing 20 kW of continuous optical power into a 0.5-meter spot size yields an intensity of $95\,\text{kW/m}^2$—equivalent to approximately 95 Suns.
In scaled optical bench testing using equivalent power densities ($7.5\text{ W}$ focused to a $1\text{ cm}$ spot):
- Standard cardboard begins to smoke and char within 1 second.
- Uncoated wood surfaces char almost instantly and ignite into open flame within 1 to 2 seconds when exposed to airflow.
stock here: I am a mad scientist, but this guy is me squared. Check out his other videos also.
Comment: CNC Fiber laser cutter operator here (LVD Phoenix, 12KW IPG laser source). I’ve personally witnessed the setup I’m working with, be able to cut 30mm stainless steel and Aluminium (highly reflective and pretty ‘abrasive’ to the head’s built in safety windows). It’s crazy what these things can do.
Every material has it’s own sweetspot for efficient cutting. Sometimes there’s a trade-off between speed and cutting quality (edge squareness, burrs forming on the underside of the parts, color change due to metal overheating, etc etc), but most materials can be cut quite nicely without losing too much quality. It’s an art to cut parts with a nice accurate, sharp, glassy looking side, and me and my fellow lasergods take pride in delivering the shiny.
One of the things fiber setups can do that traditional CO2 lasers can’t is store energy and release it as a massive but short blast. We use it to strike a hole right through metal, after which we switch back to “normal laser cutting” and spiral down the side of the “Strike hole” to enlarge the hole enough for sufficient amounts of “helper gas” to be able to blow through the plate (in our case either Oxygen or Nitrogen). After sufficient gasflow is achieved, we re-engage the laser and follow the cutpath while maintaining a set gaspressure. Laser does the melty bit, helper-gas does the material removal bit.
In a process similar to what the LHC does with particles, these laser sources can cycle photons inside a fiberloop and add on to them almost infinitely, and at a set time, they do a switchover into the cutting head, releasing all those coherent photons into the metal, instantly vaporising it, after which the helper gas can blow away the metal plasma (yes, it’s turning the metal into a plasma). Some motion systems and head leveling sensors do the job of maintaining a set height above (and a set x,y position on) the plate to be cut, and the rest is just G-code. Most of the time, all you need is basic knowledge of how to draw a shape in Inkscape, and you can cut it on the machine.
Tldr; These laser sources may be advertised as having an output capacity of 12KW, but they can do MUCH MUCH more than that, for small fractions of a second at a time. And most of the time, all you need is a short blast to “clear a path”.
stock here: RFK jr. is always on shaky grounds. The entire system is against him. But he is getting some victories, although hard fought, and often scuttled for a time by activist judges.
I ponder why the President doesn’t confront the greatest foes? He is not an idiot, but he looks at the world through a lens that does not reflect the vast diversity of personality types that really exist. He should confront head on, the communists (and the globalists that fund and will use the communists), the leftist media (perhaps the greatest threat, since 66% of people cannot think for themselves), and the activist judges, who absolutely need to be removed and even jailed, when they try to circumvent higher courts.
But on to the topic of the Title.
Some readers may recall that, last November, in a conversation on the PBD Podcast, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary stated that “with a high degree of probability,” Lyme disease came from the U.S. biodefense “Lab 257 on Plum Island just outside of Connecticut.”
Makary elaborated that the pathogenic agent was developed primarily by the German veterinarian and animal virus specialist, Dr. Erich Traub, who previously conducted biological warfare research for Nazi Germany and was brought to the United States after the war as part of Operation Paperclip to acquire German scientific research while denying it to the Soviets.