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Jessup In The HotZone

Here’s a new edition from the Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt, returning to the HotZone. That’s the region of the Caribbean Sea between the Bahamas and western Cuba that contains seabed ruins. Many believe Atlantis once prospered in this region before its disappearance between the sea.

The Dark Journalist’s focus is upon Morris Ketchum Jessup, an astronomer and archaeologist who was perhaps the most advanced UFO researcher of the 1950s. He wrote the book The Case for The UFO in 1955, linking “ancient monuments with prehistoric superscience.” Jessup not only delved into Helena Blavatsky’s cult of Theosophy but also Atlantis and the ancient continents of Mu and Lemuria. He died in 1968, supposedly committing suicide, the same day he had invited a friend to meet him to discuss the telekinesis that occurred during the Philadelphia Experiment.

To this day, the so-called suicide reeks of something more sinister — perhaps murder — as seemingly happened to so many UFO researchers in the 1950s and 1960s, among them Dorothy Kilgallen and Damon Runyon Jr.  Jessup’s situation is doubly suspicious because he is the grandson of Morris Ketchum Jesup (yes, he spelled the surname differently, removing one of the two “s” from the spelling.) This Jesup was a financial mover and shaker,  president of the American Museum of Natural History, who funded the polar expeditions of Robert Peary. He also was a member of the Jekyll Island Club, along with J.P. Morgan, William Rockefeller and others behind founding the Federal Reserve Bank.

This is a two-part video — the Jessups and other early UFO personalities occupy the opening half, while the conclusion returns to a deeper discussion of more recent HotZone figures, among them Marvin Minsky, who developed much of the framework behind AI; and Margaret Sanders, the eldest daughter of KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders. This segment extends to even more recent HotZone figures: The CIA/Mossad-connected blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein, his submarine-piloting paramour Ghislaine Maxwell and oceanographer Alexandra Cousteau, the grand-daughter of the deep-sea diving Jacques Cousteau.

The Dark Journalist promises a follow-up soon getting more deeply into the senior Morris Ketchum Jesup (1830-1908) that will contain explosive revelations, not only on the Arctic and Greenland, but also going back to dinosaurs! So’s there’s plenty of science, history, finance and adventure to digest here, as well as mind-boggling skullduggery and dark conspiracy theories.

AI Supremacy

The race for supremacy in the age of artificial intelligence has begun. China, the USA and Europe are vying for the top spot. So are individual tech companies and start-ups.

Who will determine which technologies will shape the future of humanity? Dominik Bretsch’s documentary follows key figures from the tech industry, science and politics who are working on artificial intelligence around the globe. They are tasked with making far-reaching decisions within a very short space of time. How can the technology’s potential be harnessed, while preventing a science fiction dystopia? The potential benefits of the currently emerging super-infrastructure are as limitless as its existential dangers. The latter include disinformation and election manipulation, as well as new forms of warfare and surveillance.

Made for DW, essentially the German public broadcasting service, the film focuses on three entrepreneurs whose start-ups are among the top players in the field of generative AI: Jonas Andrulis from Aleph Alpha (Germany), Thomas Wolf from the open-source platform Hugging Face (France) and Han Xiao from Jina.ai (China). Bretsch follows the three AI pioneers over the course of a year, from the spring of 2023, when the technology first became a mass phenomenon, to the turbulence surrounding OpenAI.

For the three of them, it’s all about capital, influence and economic survival in a fast-paced and mercilessly competitive world that’s changing more rapidly than any other. China has set itself the goal of dominating the technology worldwide. The USA wants to prevent exactly that. And Europe – caught between the two competing superpowers – must find its own way: Those who lose out now won’t get a second chance. The film provides insights behind the scenes in the tech world and introduces the people behind the technological revolution.

A.I. Revolution

Can we harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve the world’s most challenging problems without creating an uncontrollable force that ultimately destroys us? ChatGPT and other new A.I. tools can now answer complex questions, write essays, and generate realistic-looking images in a matter of seconds. They can even pass a lawyer’s bar exam.

Should we celebrate? Or worry? Or both?

Correspondent Miles O’Brien investigates how researchers are trying to transform the world using A.I., hunting for big solutions in fields from medicine to climate change. This documentary came out in 2025 on Nova, the PBS science series.

A Billion Deaths, Gates Warns

Our friend Bill Gates (+ his sweater) warned on Sunday that advanced AI, in a worst-case scenario, could cause a billion deaths. His voice was barely audible over the sound of hand rubbing. But when I looked into what Bill and other tech leaders and “whistleblowers” are actually proposing in response to the big ooga booga, the story got soooo much bigger.

In this investigation, I follow the debate over AI governance, Big Tech, Anthropic, the Gates Foundation, TerraPower, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Event 201 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution—and I ask who gets to write the rules as AI becomes embedded in everyday life…or you know, the data center eyesore across from your neighborhood.

The timing really couldn’t be stranger. On September 29, President Trump signed an executive order directing the executive branch to use “Super Intelligence” (SI) in place of “Artificial Intelligence” (AI). We’re rebranding, y’all. Here’s more from Really Graceful.

AI Warnings Growing Louder

What if the people building the most powerful technology in human history are starting to warn us that it could eventually destroy us?

Is there a deeper reason we don’t know about?

A growing number of AI researchers, scientists, and industry insiders are raising disturbing questions about what could happen if artificial intelligence becomes more capable than humans can control. Some have even warned that advanced AI could pose that threat within the next decade.

But how real is that danger? Are these warnings based on genuine evidence, or are we witnessing the beginning of a much bigger battle over who controls the future of AI?

Now, things are escalating. Florida is asking a court to intervene in the development of ChatGPT, putting new pressure on OpenAI as governments begin questioning whether AI companies are moving faster than regulators can keep up.

On this Edge of Wonder live show, Ben Chasteen and Rob Counts investigate the warnings coming from inside the AI world, the growing push to restrict advanced AI development, and the possibility that humanity may be creating something it cannot stop.

Rebuilding Lost Technologies

Scientist Weston Warren explains why he believes ancient civilizations possessed technology far beyond what we have been taught, and how his research group is rebuilding it from clues in ancient scripture.

In Part One, we discuss suppressed science, lost civilizations, and his claim that cathedrals once used sound, light, and sacred geometry for healing. We’ll return with a second part next Sunday. Here’s more from Man In America.

AI Will End Humanity, Unless…?

Does AI really pose a threat ton humanity, or is all the fear mongering an election year fraud, as the Democrats keep running out of complaints to address? Here, Mr. Reagan dives into the issue. He does believe there are problems, but he also believes “alignment” remains possible. Alignment means AI will work in conjunction with humanity, not in opposition to humanity. Here’s more from Mr. Reagan.

In case you wanted to see more, here is Roman Yampolskiy’s appearance on Triggernometry. 

Does AI Want All Of Us Dead?

Former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has publicly resigned, taking to Twitter/X to warn that the race toward supercharged artificial intelligence could end catastrophically for humanity.

While everyone is freaking out, I’m sitting over here wondering: gee, I wonder what we’re being distracted from? Here’s more from Really Graceful.

Why Fly?

In an age where flight simulators get ever more realistic and actual flight schools become ever more scarce, Bill Whittle makes the case for doing the thing In Real Life — in this case, taking up a hobby (and potentially lucrative vocation) that can make you feel like nothing less than the king of the air and a lord of creation.

Here’s a new edition of The Right Angle, led by Whittle and joined by Steve Green and Scott Ott.

Philadelphia: Disappearing Act

Why has President Donald Trump based his Golden Dome project at the site of the U.S. Naval Shipyards in Philadelphia? Does the project mirror in any way the scientific work behind the Philadelphia Experiment, which occurred at these same shipyards in the 1940s?

That experiment involved making a U.S. destroyer escort, the Eldridge, disappear and resurface in a feat of paranormal legerdemain.  In fact, nothing was publicly said about the work for more than a decade until a book eventually appeared in 1955 by Morris K. Jessup called The Case For The UFO: Unidentified Flying Objects.

Here, the Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt details connections linking the two projects. And he’s joined by Joseph Farrell, a dedicated researcher who has written one of the few books about the Philadelphia Experiment.

They touch upon the science, but also the extensive secrecy, much of which still shrouds this work more than 70 years later. In addition, they delve into Project Rainbow, another top-secret venture involved in trying to shrink the radar tracking of Y2 flights over the Soviet Union.

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