Month: November 2022

by Travis Mateer

If you do an online search about space lasers in 2022, you might run across a variety of memes mocking a particular political party and the space force projection being worked on as terrestrial power centers move to weaponize space.

When I rewatched the 1985 movie REAL GENIUS, starring Val Kilmer as a goofy nerd unknowingly working on a weapon for the CIA, I didn’t recall the opening sequence involving a space laser, and I certainly didn’t remember hearing the phrase “the rabbit is in the hole” being uttered by a military figure off-screen.

What I did recall about this movie is the basic narrative of a high school prodigy, Mitch Taylor (played by Gabriel Jarret) recruited at the age of 15 to attend “Pacific Tech”, a university modeled heavily after Cal Tech’s campus culture, along with MIT. Here’s a link and a screenshot that backs this up:

The character shown above is “Lazlo Hollyfeld”, a former child prodigy who snapped and now lives in the steam tunnels. I wonder if there are any REAL world examples of gifted youth made to snap by a University program?

The steam tunnels at Cal Tech are actually a thing. I even found a story about a professor connected to the Manhattan project who spent the night in the tunnels after losing a bet.

I’m sure you’ve all heard stories about Richard Feynman, who used to be a physics prof here. It’s well known that he picked locks and opened safes while he was working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. He also taught a class on lock-picking to undergrads for a while. But, what’s less well known is that he once spent a night in the steam tunnels, sleeping on this mattress. The story goes that he once made a bet with an undergrad about some physics fact that the undergrad thought he’d gotten wrong. Anyway, the forfeit he agreed to if he was wrong was that he’d have to sleep in the steam tunnels for a night.

While this stuff is interesting, how does it apply to what’s happening today? Maybe it will help to explain why I decided to watch this movie again in the first place, and it begins with the collapse of FTX.

Normally I’d say drug use and group sex is a private matter, but when that behavior potentially fuels a multi-billion dollar crypto-scam that reaches deeply into geopolitics, well, it might be something to take into consideration beyond the salacious and (in this case) disgusting mental images that may accompany serious inquiries.

I’ll let the New York Post frame this part of the growing scandal:

The in-house performance coach at FTX claimed Tuesday the doomed crypto firm’s headquarters in the Bahamas was a “pretty tame place” — despite rampant speculation about its executives’ sex lives and alleged substance use.

Online gossip alleging the group lived in a “polycule” — or network of polyamorous relationships — surged after CoinDesk reported the executives “are, or used to be, paired up in romantic relationships with each other.”

Dr. George K. Lerner, a psychiatrist, reportedly served as a therapist to disgraced FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and an adviser to many of the firm’s employees. Bankman-Fried and his ex-lover Caroline Ellison were reportedly part of a 10-person group that ran FTX and its sister cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research from a “luxury penthouse” in the Bahamas.

When I think of island getaways and nerdy academics, this is what immediately comes to mind.

Another thing that pops into my head is a different crypto-trader and what he claimed about Puerto Rico.

Getting back to the movie, 15 year old Mitch Taylor finds himself in a room with an adult woman who gets away with being a sexual predator because she’s a woman. We find out later in the movie she first wanted the 12 year old Lazlo, but he snapped after discovering his brain was being exploited by the CIA to create weaponry. Don’t worry (SPOILER!), she ends up with the adult version of Lazlo at the end, showing up in an RV with a plan to go to a “survival place in Wyoming”. Are you fucking kidding me?

The permissive sexual environment depicted in Real Genius isn’t just intended to entice teenagers to make a buck for Hollywood, it’s an actual reflection of the culture that has permeated this area for a long time. I’m thinking of Jack Parsons, the infamous scientist who helped establish the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where our very own Bryan Von Lossberg once worked.

Before getting to Bryan’s JPL provenance, here’s some perspective on Parsons and the occultist he became “enamored” with, Aleister Crowley, from a New York Post article about Parsons:

Parsons attended one of Crowley’s OTO masses, led by “magicians,” in LA in 1939, and became enamored with the odd leader’s beliefs in hidden dimensions and the religion’s unique sexual freedom. Participants were encouraged to swap partners — three decades before the sexual revolution.

Two years later, Parsons and his wife, Helen, were members of the OTO. The group was a strange blend of actors, opera singers, scientists, German expats and others who subscribed to Crowley’s teachings — particularly the no-strings-attached canoodling.

I wonder if this kind of behavior still permeates the culture at JPL? Maybe someone should ask Bryan Von Rocket Scientist.

Isn’t that fascinating? I think it’s fascinating. And here are a few more fascinating things to consider about this movie before I wrap this up.

Considering all the Epstein/MIT/vaccine connections in real life, I was rather shocked to hear the following line casually tossed out by Val Kilmer’s character, Christopher Knight. Here’s a screenshot of the dialogue:

Another interesting decision made by the filmmakers who created this piece of 80’s cinema can be seen near the end, when the youngsters must apply their prankster skills to thwart their military/intelligence handlers. The original target for the military testing of the laser is a motorcade that has a very obvious JFK assassination look. To drive this home, an extra at the end of the movie is briefly shown wearing a sports jersey with the number 22 prominently displayed.

Instead of hitting the motorcade, the pranksters program the laser to blast their mean professor’s home where a tinfoil covered ball of un-popped popcorn awaits. For those familiar with Philip K. Dick’s experience with a pink beam of light, the conclusion of this movie is synchronistically revelatory.

The relevance of how youth are “educated” by the institutions that seek to use them for agendas that don’t necessarily correlate with their own physical, mental and/or spiritual needs has never been more critical to understand than it is today, as shows like Stranger Things continues the psychological grooming of those intelligent youngsters who stand out early in their development, repackaging actual human experimentation as “entertainment” to keep their intuitive defenses down.

To wrap this up, I was going to include a song I made up yesterday while working on this post, but instead I’m going to post a documentary about Aaron Swartz, titled The Internets Own Boy. Why? Because it might be instructive to see what happens when someone as brilliant as Aaron tells an institution like MIT information should be free and accessible.

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by Travis Mateer

I’m just going to embrace the bitterness that erupts like bile in my throat when I see the same “reporter” who congratulated herself and the Missoulian for noticing the death of Sean Stevenson get some ink in the New York Times for her retail fiction, fiction that includes the following plot line (last emphasis mine):

Gwen Florio is one of those writers who regularly publish series and stand-alones that leave a lasting impression — like her latest, THE LEAST AMONG US (Crooked Lane, 293 pp., $29.99), the second book featuring the Duck Creek public defender Julia Geary, up to her neck in trouble.

Consider what she’s contending with: a relationship that’s on the rocks thanks to her boyfriend’s child custody issues; a loathsome intern who’s been foisted upon her; and the imminent need to find a new place to live when her mother-in-law, widowed like Julia, announces her husband-to-be is moving in.

Then there’s her new client, Ray Belmar, whom she’s defending on a public indecency charge. (He interrupted Duck Creek’s raucous St. Patrick’s Day parade wearing just a sock, which wasn’t on his foot.) When Ray is inexplicably charged in the death of a homeless man, Julia knows he’s not guilty. But she’s on the case for all of a few hours before her boss summarily removes her from it, making vague excuses.

Gwen Florio is smart, financially speaking, to use her words for a fictional play land. Putting the ACTUAL HOMELESS PEOPLE dying in Missoula into a more understandable context is NOT a smart financial decision, I am learning. I’m even getting turned down by podcasters who previously put me on their shows.

I won’t be deterred by all these little hiccups on the road to the truth of what is happening here. Tomorrow, get ready for a look at the movie REAL GENIUS and all the fun entangled in this “fictional” film from 1985.

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by Travis Mateer

One of the value-factors I know I bring to readers of Zoom Chron is analysis on how the local media landscape functions to omit, downplay, or otherwise manipulate readers and viewers in order to serve unspoken agendas. Oftentimes my focus is the Missoula Current, but today I’m going to compare two Missoulian articles and a KGVO article to see the differences in reporting as the target for completion of the renamed Higgins Bridge (now Beartracks Bridge) is moved once again.

In a Missoulian article on November 17th, the title claims work is “wrapping up” on Beartracks Bridge, but when one reads the article, you can see how some strategic moves allowed for things to happen at strategic times (emphasis mine):

Winter weather descending on Missoula is forcing the conclusion of a busy summer construction season, but not before two major local infrastructure projects — the Beartracks Bridge and the Mullan BUILD roundabouts — reach temporary completion.

One lane of traffic in each direction on the Beartracks Bridge is expected to open before the Thanksgiving holiday next week, according to Matt Straub with the Montana Department of Transportation.

“We’re focusing on the right fix at the right time,” Straub said.

For MDT, that meant opening the bridge temporarily in October, then disrupting traffic northbound again to facilitate repairs.

Hmmm, what happened in October? Did a certain politician need a bridge open for a political backdrop before the November election?

While Dave Strohmaier didn’t have to experience ANY disruptions to the use of this bridge for political purposes, the general public isn’t as lucky. You have to read further down to discover this bridge won’t actually be finished until spring.

Once Beartracks opens next week, it will remain open with only a small interruption this winter.

“We will have one day of minor traffic impact in December or January,” said Straub.

Then, the bridge will stay open until the spring, when another week of traffic impacts is planned. Straub said to expect those impacts in April or May, and he emphasized his appreciation for the public’s patience throughout the rehabilitation project.

I hope the Montana Department of Transportation appreciates how the Missoulian is helping them out with damage control, since this bridge was supposed to be done MONTHS ago, and has faced all kinds of problems. You don’t get any of this context with ANOTHER Missoulian article, published on 11/22. This article’s title reads as follows: Beartracks Bridge work takes break. Here’s the entirety of the article:

Construction work on the Beartracks Bridge over the Clark Fork River will pause at noon Wednesday as crews take a Thanksgiving break.

Work will resume on Monday. 

“Even though workers will not be present, we encourage everyone to take it slow through the project area so they make it safely to festivities with family and friends,” Montana Department of Transportation Missoula administrator Bob Vosen said on Tuesday. 

The bridge carrying Higgins Avenue over the river will have two-way traffic and no weight restrictions during the break. Speed restrictions and constricted driving lanes will remain in place. Motorists are encouraged to plan for slow traffic crossing the bridge and to consider alternative routes.

When work resumes, crews will install a temporary structure under its deck to replace some plate structures. That may involve one day’s interruption of bridge traffic, Vosen said.

Do you see anything in this article about the NEW completion date being sometime in the spring? Neither do I.

To get a more accurate impression of what’s happening with this clusterfuck of a bridge, KGVO published an article on the same day as the Missoulian article, but with a much more accurate title, which reads Higgins Avenue Beartracks Bridge Won’t Be Completed Until Spring. From the link:

“Our major delays were caused by supply chain issues and weather,” he said. “Some unexpected repairs came up during the reconstruction of the bridge that caused these delays, and then those delays were fairly further exacerbated by supply chain issues and material availability.”

Straub said unexpected extra expenses were incurred during the bridge reconstruction project due to a variety of issues.

“There was some additional work that was unanticipated during the rehabilitation of the bridge, and that work drove up some of the costs,” he said. “These were costs that would have been figured in the original total had we known that they were issues.”

I appreciate KGVO getting MDT on the record about the bridge’s delays, even if the answer is less than satisfactory. At least there’s an acknowledgment of the screwups and other issues, like the now ubiquitous claim of SUPPLY CHAIN issues adding time to any construction project.

I’ll have more on bridges in the coming week, so stay tuned. And stay safe out there as you move around the valley.

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by Travis Mateer

Are the morticians and funeral home managers and embalmers all lying? Are the white, fibrous “clots” and sand-like specks in the blood just aberrations that shouldn’t be connected to a certain medical intervention that the global population was coerced into taking, or are they something else?

Here’s another question worth considering: why would someone want to declare a pandemic amnesty if there was nothing to declare amnesty over?

This is the same kind of logic the mother of Rebekah Barsotti ponders to stay sane in this upside down clown world: why would a hitman be hired to kill me if my daughter’s death was just a “river accident”?

If you don’t see the connection between these two questions, that’s probably because you haven’t been studying the behavior of sociopaths and psychopaths like I have, or trying to figure out how trauma and substance abuse, combined with a spiritual malaise, opens the door for some truly evil shit.

The Thanksgiving day table I will spend as little time at as possible will be mostly comprised of people who will be thankful once I leave. And that’s fine, because I stood my ground when it mattered, and the only THANK YOU that matters is the one I got from one of my kids for what I refused to do to him.

Before you criticize anything in this post, I dare you to watch the new documentary, DIED SUDDENLY. And before you dismiss this new piece of media as an UNFOUNDED CONSPIRACY THEORY, think about this: either the documentary is fake, which means there was a conspiracy to make and distribute it in the first place, or there’s something actually wrong with the medical intervention we got the full-court-press to inject into our bodies.

If there is one and ONLY ONE question that requires a serious response, it’s the question of all-cause mortality sky-rocketing. What could be going on here?

Several US life insurance companies have recently revealed an overwhelming unexplained increase (40%) in “all-cause deaths” amongst 18 to 49-year-olds.

Three physician “whistle-blowers” have just released real data from the DoD, drawn from the clinical diagnosis codes. The increases found are from 2021, compared to the five year average from 2016 to 2020.

Myocardial infarction: 269% increase
> Miscarriages: 300% increase
> Bell’s palsy: 291% increase
> Congenital malformations: 156% increase
> Female infertility: 471% increase
> Pulmonary embolisms: 467% increase
> Neurologic abnormalities: 300% increase
> Cancers: 300% increase

Anecdotally, I can report no serious sickness since resisting THE SCIENCE, while sickness among the true science believers seems to be all around me. Anecdotal, yes, but it makes me feel pretty good about my decision.

My goal today is to abstain from telling patriarchal and matriarchal figures around the table that their cowardice and willful ignorance is an ongoing threat to the future of my children because this is a marathon and it’s far from over.

Have I risked a lot to bring these words to you, dear readers? I have, and it’s cost me, but I don’t regret the choices I’ve made. Because I know what’s at stake.

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by Travis Mateer

Earlier this year, before the massive series of cleanups that removed over 67 TONS of trash from the Reserve Street homeless encampments, the legal wrangling over how to remove the people worked its way through court. The result? An eviction process ensued (emphasis mine):

The Missoula County Attorney’s office on Thursday issued formal notice to county leaders of a lawsuit filed last week by the Montana Department of Transportation related to illegal camping under the Reserve Street bridge.

Deputy County Attorney Brian West said the lawsuit names Missoula County as a defendant in the case, along with “John Does one through 100.”

The lawsuit includes five counts including forcible detainer, trespass, a claim for public and private nuisance, a request for injunction and a declaratory action.

“By and large, what MDT is trying to secure is a court order where they can have the sheriff’s office assist them in clearing out the property under the Reserve Street bridge,” West said. “This is more or less the same thing as an eviction lawsuit through the forcible detainer and common-law trespass claims.”

Why is this important? It’s important because a formal eviction process, according to a conversation I had with MDOT’s Steve Felix back in September, necessitated the storage of “personal items”, like everything you see in this picture:

Is it feasible for the Montana Department of Transportation to store tons of trash removed from an illegal homeless encampment? Probably not, but they’re forced to do it anyway.

Since the Authorized Camping Site for “tenants” of Reserve Street closed last week, I decided to visit the area to see what remains, and it looks like LOTS of personal belongings remain. But for how long?

Now that this area is forbidden territory to the public, does it need to be “secured”? The trailer where the private security firm, Rogers International, once stationed their staff is still there, and it sounded like someone was inside, but I didn’t enter this forbidden land to find out. The messaging on the fence is quite clear:

My walkabout below and around the Reserve Street bridge was uneventful, unlike the last time I was in this area, and I didn’t see any evidence of people reestablishing illegal encampments. Yet.

If I can remember to follow up after Thanksgiving, I’ll see if I can find out how long this stuff will be stored, and if it takes private security to keep it safe.

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