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Lockheed-Martin/Raytheon have been spraying the world skies for 75+ years

All the compounds noted here have been brought to the listening audience of geoengineeringwatch.org

Dane Wigington has been screaming from the roof tops about this for over 20 years!

A good documentary to share with non believers of this travesty on humanity is

The Dimming, for free on u tube

Also, Planet of the Humans, free to watch, a very informative documentary of a 'greenie' who investigated and found the real motive and devastation that is being caused by the solar panels, wind turbines and the push for EV cars, not to mention the amount of diesel fuel and energy it takes to make just one turbine or battery, and to power those hokey EV stations

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Have you checked this one out yet? "Frankenskies the lies in the skies"

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Not yet, will today, thanks for the info

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It may all come crumbling down, though. I would like to give you some hope. On page 222 of David C. Korten's book, Agenda for a New Economy (2009), there's a quote by Howard Zinn (read it carefully because it matters greatly): "There's a tendency to think that what we see in the present will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, extraordinary changes in people's thoughts, 'unexpected eruptions of rebellion against tyrannies' (emphasis added), and the quick collapse of systems of power that seemed invincible." May I insist that you grab a copy of this invaluable book soon? Read Chapter 16, "WHEN THE PEOPLE LEAD, THE LEADERS WILL FOLLOW," from pages 222 to 232. Political science and history support this perspective: a nation that defends its independence and core values (such as democracy, sovereignty, or human rights) is considerably stronger. (Although the statement does not factor in economic stability, the quality of governance, and external alliances.)

https://www.transformarticles.com/p/peaceful-revolution?

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If CHEMTRAILS stop within the next MONTH the Trump is THE REAL DEAL.

If the CHEMTRAILS don't stop the Trump is not the REAL DEAL...

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Chemtrails are now a world-wide phenomena. And while it does seem that AGENT ORANGE is intent upon gobbling up the entire world (on behalf of his 'turd temple' masters)... nevertheless his putative 'powers' do not extend to eliminating chemtrails either in the BENIGHTED STATES OF AMERICA nor parts ancillary.

They will continue, as part of the grand strategy being bankrolled by 'billionaire philanthropists' who's aim is to send their brains to 'cloud immortality,' their bodies to 'robotic' replacement... and the rest of us to permanent 'de-souled' talmudic hell realms.

You may 'bank' on it. Or you may opt to buy Donnie's $Trumpet con/coin...

either way, head you lose, tails you lose. Please 'choose' ... accordingly!

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There were multiple chemtrails over West Central Indiana this afternoon February 7, 2025.

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You really have to be desperate to buy the Trump Meme.

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Thank u Un-Silent for posting

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Can’t wait to hear poor donny was misled on this choice.

Excuses round two already coming out.

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If not the he ain't...

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Same with the jabs . Also look at the pick for pandemic preparedness

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Trump cannot be forgiven for his role in the plandemic.

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In Florida, the difference is night and day since they closed USAID. Before, wall to wall overcast everyday. Since, hardly a cloud for a week. Maybe a coincidence, but I'll take it.

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They haven’t stopped in parts of Arizona or Nevada.

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Was recently in Gainesville, know what you mean, but here in my local area yesterday (Feb 7, 2025) the chemtrails were hot and heavy ahead of the incoming train of snow storms and polar vortex that's inbound over the Midwest Great Lakes region.

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That's interesting. Yeah, they seed the air with magnetic particles and beam microwaves from the doppler radar to suck up moisture and increase energy. It's really obvious when they do it over the Gulf of Mexico.

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Day 2:

My wife and I are doing another EDTA chelation fast tonight and this weekendish, so here is what we are doing and taking.

They are all pretty mild and chelate verious metals as well as can dissolve hydrogels. They also cross the blood brain barrier and bromelain gets into closed organs systems the others cannot, like the reproductive system.

By far IME the most important things are the EDTA and the ascorbic acid though, so you just start with those and add other things later.

So take it, leave it, ignore it, adapt it for your own use, do what you want with the knowledge I have gained and am sharing with you but EDTA works better than anything else so just make sure you dont take it wrong by taking it too close to anything it will bind with.

But even if it isnt this, Do Something. And by Something I mean take an antioxidant and a chelator together.

They say it right there in the moderna patent, Read It. Or listen to the people that have.

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Our EDTA fast:

Every 12 or 8 hours

Oral EDTA (Arizona Naturals (3 pills) & MedFive (2 pills)

ALA (via organic cold pressed hempseed oil> 2-1000mg pills)

Sodium (& natural) Citrate (I take a tablespoon dissolved in water, I dont remember how many grams that is and my wife takes a teaspoon or two, she hates it because along with vitamin C crystals and malic acid crystals she says it tastes like a lemons ass.)

Bromelain (1 500mg pill or 1.5 fresh pineapples/day vamped)

Vitamin C (1/2 tsp of crystals dissolved in water)

Malic acid (1/4 tsp of crystals dissolved in water)

Vitamin D (1 pill, I dont remember and dont want to go look)

Vitamin E (1 pill, I dont remember and dont want to go look)

NAC (1 pill, I dont remember and dont want to go look)

Glutathione (2 pills, I dont remember and dont want to go look)

- all every 8-12 hours or so for 3-6 days

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At least this is what we do, Im not a doctor or giving you medical advice, I am relating to you what I have found after Extensive Research to work well and that my wife and I take ourselves.

And I took it all, every single one, before she did, so I would know what to expect... but we feel Great. And I plan on Living.

Good luck to you all in any case.

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The desire to continue living is our human instincts to survive. It’s natural.

But, what will the world look like post EMF 5/6G nanotech onslaught?

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Thanks Bee Gee

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You may feel great, but how much of that is just wishful thinking or the Placebo effect? Do your blood tests verify that any of this is working? Not all supplements are created alike, and how many of yours are now being produced by Big Pharma?

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Another dumb question. You're not eating anything at this time of fasting, right?

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No its not a dumb question, I wasnt very clear about that but no we do not eat anything during our chelation fasts.

We only eat once a day anyway so the last time we ate was Wednesday night. I do put fresh orange juice into water and vamp fresh pineapples too, but no food.

Its actually much easier to fast while taking EDTA than without it so I highly recommend it.

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Thank you for this article Ana Maria. And, thank you for giving us all access to your valuable work. ❣️

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The People's sovereignty is their ability to be SELF-SUFFICIENT. Independent of government subsidies, and support.

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One of the papers cited at the end of Dr. Ana's post says:

"particulate pollution as a possible co-factor in the COVID-19 Pandemic,

specifically, as a potential means of viral transport, and as a role in exacerbating susceptibility and mortality, and diminishing immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus" - http://nuclearplanet.com/covid.pdf

Viruses are a fraud, does the 2021 article duck "covid" censorship, while meaning "bioweapon components"?

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Another paper in the set: "The aerial climate manipulation using coal fly ash greatly increases the potential for forest fire ignition by lightening." - http://www.nuclearplanet.com/cawf2.pdf

The most spectacular fires are ignited by DEW, with trees and bushes left intact around buildings burned to white ash. Except the INSIDE of the trunks burns when a certain type of DEW is deployed.

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It is the people's duty to support and defend the Constitution.

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Right On, Sister! (altwulf@gmail.com). Posted your USN vs. AI ....to Face. & X & DC & others as much as I could. Wunderwerk!!!❤️❤️❤️

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probably a way to make people involved is to shift the attention from blood to nasal mucus. The nasal passages are the entry point of this contamination/technology, the nasal sinuses host filaments and objects of every kind. Every person can verify this with a good magnifying lens or a very basic microscope, an even with the naked eye. Sinusitis is on the rise, sphenoidal sinusitis too. As far as I know (but maybe I've missed something) no one is talking of it, no one is incubating mucus. Why?

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They sent an implant in each side of my nasal cavity, I was able to get a amg et because this implant was being moved around and pulled it out, it was a Solis piece of what looked like carbon or iron it was the size of a fat rice grain a little bigger. Thisbis for mind control also they put it back in. We are magnetized I believe bt the carbon grapine biofilm sprayed on us.

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what is an amg et? May I ask you if you have ever taken a swab? Apart from implants, sensors, antennas etc, the nasal cavities are also the ideal place to put (or better try to) something like a more complex additional artificial brain, let me simplify this way.

If you think about it, it is not so far fetched: we are told that first came the reptilian brain, then the limbic system, then the neo cortex. Remember, we have to do with psychopaths.

Is it too conspirational?

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Magnet, my phone is hacked and terrible lol.yes nothing surprises me now that I've awakened..

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Also join forces with Reinette Senum's SAVE OUR SKIES: https://www.saveourskies.org

https://frankenskies.com

The demonic despots of Davos at it again! Weather warfare: geoengineering/chemtrails are a large component of their anti-life arsenal!

Those WEF monsters need to be depopulated off the planet! Anyone with 2 brain cells would know that 'NET ZERO' is an utterly insane off the charts idiocy, an absolute mathematical, physical, statistical and practical impossibility that can never be achieved or exist in reality!

Can't say this often enough! CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EVEN WORSE FRAUD THAN THE PLANSCAMDEMIC! SO-CALLED GREEN TECH IS A GIGANTIC SCAM! MINING AND MANUFACTURING 'GREEN' PRODUCTS NEEDS COAL, GAS AND OIL AND MINING RARE MINERALS IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THAN LEGACY PRODUCTS. SCREW YOUR DAMNED GREEN GRIFT AGENDA! https://climateviewer.com

It's always since the dawn of history, been about using knowledge for power and control by the psycho portion of the human population that learned how to manipulate 'normies' to obey them in their power-mad power trips.

In these modern times, this evil has become TECHNOCRACY, the vilest threat to the existence of all life on earth since forever!

EW! GROSS! HELL NO! https://www.technocracy.news

NOT MY BRAIN/MIND! NOT MY BODY! NO WAY, NO HOW, NOT PLAYING YOUR AI QUANTUM STUPID-ASS VIDEO GAMES! I AM LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD CREATING ART AND PERFORMANCES!

The more I learn about this stuff, the more sickened, nauseated and horrified I get, and I wonder what kind of inhuman psychopath loonies make this crap and want to use it!?

HELL NO TO STARGATE! HELL NO TO DEEPSEEK! HELL NO TO AI!

Life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!

AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!

THIS IS PURE SATANIC EVIL! IT IS MEANT TO DESTROY BILLIONS OF YEARS OF CREATION IN THE ATTEMPT OF TOTAL SLAVERY CONTROL BY POWER-MAD PSYCHOS!

I DO NOT COMPLY! NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL! May more and more wake up and resist and cultivate their health.

There is a fate worse than death - I would rather die than be a robotized slave of technocratic overlords! This is my hill to die on!

I have a landline and a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, all the tech anyone should ever want or need. I never had and refuse to ever have one of those infernal mobile devices that are designed to enslave you.

My loathing of AI and all things NANO and digital knows no bounds!

SCREW THE FEAR FAKERY! NO TRUSTING THE WEF RULING CLASS EVER!

Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.

I have no fear of 'germs' or 'viruses'. One of the best places to go for reality: https://virustruth.net

I try to live without fear! Fear is the mind-killer!

PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS BY POWERFUL, WEALTHY CRIMINALS WITH EVIL INTENT CAN CAUSE ALL KINDS OF HAVOC! QUESTION EVERYTHING!

And these, the criminals behind the NAC and all the other schemes will use hypochondria hysteria and 'climate' hysteria to propagandize the gullible 'sheeple' into complying with TOTAL ENSLAVEMENT which is what this is really about!

A vast majority of so-called leaders and Public 'Serpents' around the world have been bribed, blackmailed/coerced into serving the interests of their technocratic New World Ordure parasite masters and not We the People.

GREED is behind every evil assailing us in the world!

The demonic despots of Davos at it again! They are behind everything bad! At it for decades and cronies like The Rothschilds and the Black Nobility and The Khazarian Mafia have been plotting planetary domination for centuries! ALL BECAUSE OF AVARICE!

We the People must try harder to live by The Golden Rule, doing so would solve most problems!

THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough! Mistakes were not made, it was always malice aforethought.

AUTISM TSUNAMI/SADS/TURBO CANCER/BIZARRE TERMINAL ILLNESSES: More tragic victims of the ruling parasite genocidal enslavement agenda, sacrificed on the altar of psychopathic greed and hatred of humanity.

Migrant/Entrant Invasion/Infrastructure Attacks - all part of the destructive plot to achieve total slavery!

Apoplectic livid rage hardly describes the intensity of emotions I have had and am having over what these malignant globalists are perpetrating!

There is no noxious crime that the evildoers desiring to lord it over us won't commit to maintain their stranglehold on power. A groundswell critical mass resistance to their murderous enslavement plans is needed urgently!

Creative performing arts, fine arts and literary arts are the best part of being human and the thing the globalist predator technocrat megalomaniac total slavery control freaks most want to destroy.

Too many 'sheeple' are brainwashed to blindly obey authority figures on the media or in daily life in corrupt system ruled by control freak psychopaths who use propaganda lies to enslave their subjects and they are dumbed down to be obedient by 'education' institutions. Fortunately I was raised to question everything. This transcends party lines. We need a system that punishes psychopaths and rewards compassion and sharing, we need a system that actually follows The Constitution in reality.

Kudos to Dr. Mihalcea's and Reinette Senum's heroic efforts and success in the struggle. We the People must always be aware of the existential threats lurking behind this fight!

How I stick my thumb in the eyes of the grotesque billionaire bastards pushing their enslavement agenda and how I embrace being fully human.

Fighting the globalist predator technocrat psychopath megalomaniac TOTAL SLAVERY AGENDA one performance at a time!

Amazing Amy: Eccentric Yoga Entertainer!

As an entertainer, I have been devastated and practically destroyed by the closure of all performance venues and then when they reopened, because MY BODY, MY CHOICE - being made a total untermenschen pariah outcast in NAZI NIGHTMARE LAWLESS 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' JAB CROW APARTHEID/DISCRIMINATION/SEGREGATION HELL NYC WHERE THE MAD/DRUNK WITH POWER TYRANT POLS DOUBLE DOWN ON THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES. I am trapped here with zero financial resources to leave or do anything else about this 'wish I were dead' endless misery life has become. The tragic irony is that my SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE performances are all about health, miraculously overcoming age (69) and injury to achieve feats of flexibility few can attain at any age. So BIG PHARMA who wants to addict every person on the planet to their toxic products hate people like me who prove that we do not need them if we eat healthy organic food and exercise daily!

https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/amazingamycontortionistuniqueyogadancer

I try and live and embody the creative performing artistic world and life I so fervently want existence to be about.

They can stick their f*cking damned NANO, Digital IDs, AI, jabs and chips up their asses where the sun don't shine!

All manner of lies and propaganda spew forth from the upper echelons in governments worldwide who are completely intertwined with the global criminal ruling class that wants to commit the worst atrocities imaginable and suffer no consequences. And their corruption slithers down the chain of command creating petty tyrants everywhere.

We the People are facing HORRIFYING TECHNOCRATIC PSYCHOPATHY TO DESTROY HUMANITY AND ALL NATURAL LIFE!

It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back!

We must never lose sight of the larger picture of the vile malignance we are fighting against.

There is an insidious global ruling class plot to enslave all life on earth behind all the madness and suffering inflicted on We the People.

How to fight back against this TOTAL SLAVERY!

RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED 'SMART' PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!

Other than getting rid of nuclear weapons which I support 100% the rest of the anti-nuclear peace movement and CLIMATE CRISIS propaganda is parroting UN utter GARBAGE, a complete surrender to the ENSLAVEMENT AGENDA by the diabolical despots of Davos - ruling class criminals who lust for total power and control and all of whom should be tried and jailed for life and their malign organizations dismantled: the UN, the WEF, the IMF, the WHO, the BIS, NATO, Blackrock, Vanguard, The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, The Bilderbergers, the CFR et al.

There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, geoengineering, EMF radiation, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!

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APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!

MAKE THE WORLD AND AMERICA 2019 (comparatively speaking), AND FREE AGAIN!

NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT MONKEYSHINES! WAKE UP ALREADY!

TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.

NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.

STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!

NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.

Links to reinforce my comments.

https://wrenchinthegears.com

https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com

https://pandemicfacts.info

https://wearehumanwearefree.org/7-days-campaign/

https://questioningcovid.com

https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1581-james-corbett-breaks-down-the-great-reset/

http://www.stopcp.com/GlobalResetPSYOP/GlobalResetPSYOPMindMap.html

https://everydayconcerned.net/2020/09/04/breaking-major-investigative-report-by-association-of-french-reserve-army-officers-finds-covid-19-pandemic-to-have-a-hidden-agenda-for-global-totalitarianism-nanotech-chipping-of-all-5g-irradia/

Pam Popper: https://makeamericansfreeagain.com

Naomi Wolf: https://dailyclout.io

www.nojabforme.info

https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-must-awaken-from-corona-coma-reject-great-reset-robotic-technocracy-assert-common-humanity/5745213

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AMEN AMEN AMEN!!! (altwulf@gmail.com)

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All real and true! At least some of this is finally being done, but we will have to see how long Trump's new view will last with time.

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"The more I learn about this stuff, the more sickened, nauseated and horrified I get, and I wonder what kind of inhuman psychopath loonies make this crap and want to use it!?"

Well said as the rest of your post!

It is well known Pathological lying causes liars to believe their own lies, that leads to their medically defined insanity. That is why so many politicians claim they "know" information that does not exist or completely opposes well-known facts in hundreds of scientific articles. It is also easy to see that WEF cult billionaires, that all have more cash than they need to live the rest of their lives, still need more cash and will do anything for it. They are all medically defined insane. They are so stupid they have published they have evolved beyond normal humans and that is why they have the right to murder all of us and take over the earth for themselves. I have a Ph.D. in evolutionary ecology, so know they have de-evolved below normal humans, opposite to their retarded beliefs.

You are really smart to use the landlines, no cell, no wifi, (etc.). Mine have been disabled for decades! I have lived in the wilderness surrounded by mountains with few people for miles for over 40 years, only where the air is fresh! However, now I need to take EDTA because they drop their garbage over my house and garden by planes, so thank Ana for her help!

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Why did you use DrNixon's stunning images without naming him. It is very unfortunate.

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It would certainly appear that the Cabal and AI want to plan it all for themselves, poisoning men and women and children. Then,perhaps, AI would get rid of the cabal too. Big deal. Don’t these narcissistic psychopaths think ahead?

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Hi Dr. Ana Maria - Dr. Rob Williams with https://www.ourgeoengineeringage.org here. I work with Dr. J Marvin Herndon, Dr. Mark Whiteside, and Ian Baldwin. Our OGA team has launched a new podcast for 2025, and already featured Elana Freeland and Elizabeth Nickson as guests. We'd like to feature you on our podcast this spring - if this is of interest, please email me at contact@doctorrobwilliams.com. I've purchased and read all 3 of your books - thank you for your good work - and we'd like to share your research and POV with our readers. Courage, Team Human!

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I first comment on this statement

"When diluted in water and analyzed coal fly ash revealed 38 elements, including Alumium, Barium, Strontium, Titanium, Silicone and other elements"

I notice that there is a typo in the spelling of Aluminium or Aluminum. Of more importance however it should be noted that Silicone is not an element; silicones are compounds of the element Silicon (a semi-metal) with carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. While this would seem to be a minor error or just typo it does not improve the credibility of the articles.

I used Grok AI to list articles written by Dr Herndon and to see if there are any critiques of his work and found that there are several critiques with similar concerns to my own. I also found several of his articles have been retracted. I don't propose to undertake a general review of his work and I will concentrate on one paper "Chemtrails are Not Contrails: Radiometric Evidence" where he and the other authors claim to have found direct evidence for the presence of Coal fly ash in contrails. His claim rests on the detection of an absorption band in 250-300 micrometer band when his radiometer scanned across a contrail. It is his contention that this is characteristic of coal fly ash thereby proving its presence.

Remembering that the contrails are the result of condensation of the products of combustion of jet fuel it is important to understand the chemistry of jet fuels. Jet fuel and diesel fuel are similar and contain relatively high molecular weight aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons. Their high molecular weight means that they are difficult to ignite compared to gasoline fuels for motor vehicles although once ignited they burn well and produce a lot of energy.

Jet fuel and diesel fuel differ in the additives that they contain. Jet fuel contains additives for anti-icing in fuel lines, antioxidants to prevent degradation of the fuel, metal deactivators to avoid problems with any metals catalysing combustion, corrosion inhibitors and several others. All these additives are organic materials and none of them contains any metals. Diesel fuel contains other additives to improve the operation of injection pumps and keep the fuel systems clean. Again there are no metals in diesel additives either.

Amongst the compounds found in jet fuels are mono cyclic aromatic compounds including benzene, xylene and toluene and polycyclic aromatic compounds such as anthracene and naphthalene. These compounds have strong absorption in the 250-300 micrometer band. Given that combustion of any fuel is seldom complete, the absorption band found when scanning a contrail is certainly due to the presence of small amounts of unburnt or partially burnt jet fuel. Naphthalene and anthracene are more likely to be incompletely burnt or remain unburnt because they are of high molecular weight compared to the other components of the jet fuel.

There are logistical reasons why it is unlikely that flyash is being dispersed from aircraft. It consists of fine particles of solid that would have to be dispersed in air stream requiring a hopper and a mechanism for agitating its contents so that the flyash can be dropped into an air stream. Such devices exist and they are large and require maintenance mainly to combat abrasion of their interiors. No sensible engineer would allow an abrasive solid anywhere near an operating jet engine for fear of wrecking it or at least compromising its lifespan.

If such a device were mounted away from the jet exhaust say to dump dust over a wing edge, then the dust would certainly leave evidence of its presence by deposits on the wings near its exit point. Furthermore just dumping dust into an aircraft slipstream would produce a narrow stream of dust that would not disperse in the way that a contrail does which is formed from a stream of hot expanding gas. I guess you could drop dust into the gas stream from the engine but there would likely be problems due to turbulence and potential blow back into the engine.

In short the paper does not provide any evidence of the distribution of flyash into contrails.

Finally on the persistence of contrails, I would point out that at 10,000m the air temperature is around -35C. Combustion products of jet fuel are mostly water vapour and CO2. The water vapour rapidly cools well below its freezing point and is therefore present as very finely divided ice crystals. At these altitudes ice crystals will take some time to settle to levels where they can liquefy and above this point can only evaporate by sublimation which seems to me to be necessarily slow. Thus contrails will tend to persist for some time.

The photo of contrails in this article clearly shows contrails crossing each other without interference and at different angles. Crossing without interference is due to their being formed at different altitudes which is due to the practice of vertical separation of air craft routes, e.g. N-S routes from City A to City B are flown at a different height to the S-N routes to avoid collisions. This could give the impression of something nefarious where the observations are merely a consequence of a normal operations. Also updrafts or local weather systems could prevent dispersion of the contrails contributing to the misinterpretation of the evidence. So as I see it persistence of contrails can be explained by basic physics and by operational practices in the airline industry.

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