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"Free Palestine!" is "the new 'heil Hitler'!" says Israeli PM Netanyahu following the double-murder of Israeli embassy staff in Washington DC last week - a sickening development that fortuitously eased growing international pressure on the Israeli regime to stop starving the Palestinians in Gaza to death. Just how much pressure will Western leaders actually bring to bear on Israel though? Why don't they do more to restrain the Jewish State? Like, stop gifting it weapons and ammunition? And...

Matt Hurley is the creator of badaliens.info, a website dedicated to exploring the darker aspects of the UFO phenomenon. In this episode of MindMatters, Hurley shares his journey into UFO research, sparked by reading Above Top Secret as a teenager, and his subsequent disillusionment with contradictory and overly optimistic narratives in ufology. With a focus on physical evidence over speculative theories, Hurley discusses disturbing topics like abductions, animal and human mutilations, and...

Trump's recent grand tour of the richest petro-states of the Middle East saw him feted as an emperor, make "trillion$ for America" in "yuge deals," and meet the "young, attractive," head-choppy leaders of the Arabian peninsula and "the new, free Syria." Speaking about the "dawn of a bright new day" for the region, the farce of Trump staging what amounted to a MAGA rally in the ostensibly ultra-conservative Saudi kingdom - complete with the YMCA soundtrack - was completed by Israelis...

Today MindMatters welcomes back John Carter to talk Cixin Liu's Three-Body Problem, science fiction in general, and to compare NHI theories. Do UAP represent extraterrestrials putting on a show to appear more advanced than actually are? Or super-advanced ultraterrestrials who may have their own weaknesses? What is the possible connection between tech and psi? And would humanity actually unite in the case of an ET threat, as Ronald Reagan so endearingly believed? Running Time: 01:56:57...

Rumors are swirling this week that Trump and Netanyahu 'aren't friends anymore', and that the breakdown in their relationship portends divergence in US-Israeli policy in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Trump has suddenly declared an end to the US military bombing of Yemen, just as yet another US fighter jet 'falls off' the USS Truman. And US and Iranian officials are again meeting in Oman to 'further discuss a (new) nuclear deal'. The 'wee war' between India and Pakistan appears have ended, for...

Trump's joke about being made the next pope hasn't gone down too well with Catholics, but it's his big policy ideas that are really falling flat - especially his 'Liberation Day' tariffs and his 'peace pressure' against Putin to end Russia's war in Ukraine. His Ukraine 'minerals deal' essentially rehashes the NeoCons' 'Iraq reconstruction deal' that did NOT rebuild that country and instead enriched American contractors, while his failure to 'annihilate' the Houthis' military capability...

Joshua Cutchin is one of the most interesting thinkers on the paranormal alive. He is the author of 8 classic books on the subject, including highly focused investigations into the role of food in paranormal encounters, paranormal odors, and child abduction in folklore and contemporary culture. He has also produced wide-ranging analyses on Bigfoot, widening the conceptual aperture to include paranormal features ignored by many until now, and the relation of death to all things paranormal....

The 'random' terror attack in disputed Kashmir last week has apparently brought the two nuclear-armed powers of India and Pakistan to the brink of war. It probably won't come to anything serious, but this isn't the first time a major international incident has sparked by a 'previously-unknown terror group in Pakistan'. Meanwhile, in neighboring Iran, a gargantuan explosion at its largest port has gone largely unreported in the media - an explosion that looks remarkably similar to the one...

Turns out, out-competing China is the reason for Trump's "return to 19th-century tariffs." But as we've been seeing, Trump "flinched" when the US bond market spiked, something he apparently didn't expect to happen. And so now, just a couple of weeks after the introduction of tariffs, the US government is "pausing" the tariffs - and even exempting from tariffs the bulk of key imports the US depends on from China. Still, American rhetoric about "beating China" is picking up steam, and sounding...

What's Trump's plan? HAS Trump got a plan?! He promised American voters "a golden age," so ending globalization is presumably necessary to achieve that, but what if his new tariffs regime opens Pandora's box? Running Time: 01:44:13 Download: MP3 — 95.4 MB

At long last, 'all remaining JFK Files' are being released, but IS it all of them, what do they reveal, and do they tell us who killed JFK, and why? The assassinations of both Kennedys have long since been thoroughly investigated and analyzed, to the point that it is no longer contentious to state that they were killed by a clique of operators from within 'the intelligence community'. The only remaining contention is whether operators from the Israeli regime were a.) involved, b.) central to...

A rare cosmic alignment between Washington and Moscow means a peace settlement in Ukraine is within reach, but there's a catch: Russia is winning on the battlefield so it wants a real peace deal, not another tricky 'ceasefire'. While saying he wants to "stop all the killing in Ukraine," Trump apparently has no problem using military force to bring Yemen's Houthis to heel. Multiple other Western (and Arabian) leaders have tried bombing them into submission before. What makes Trump think it...

Mayhem in Syria this weekend as hundreds - and possibly thousands - of Alawite Syrians are slaughtered by the new 'diverse, jihad-reformed' Western-backed regime in Damascus. Although the spark was apparently armed resistance by the local population against 'policing' incursions by HTS militia, their brutal response of collective punishment was beyond the pale. Qui bono? The usual suspects. And the prognosis is terrible for the entire East Mediterranean/Levant region. Also in this NewsReal,...

Well, he had that coming. The extraordinary showdown in the Oval Office of the White House last Friday between President Trump, Vice-President Vance, and Ukrainian President Zelensky appears to have killed the agreement between the US government and Kiev for US corporate interests to 'buy into' Ukrainian natural resources and thus have a vested interest in defending Ukraine's interests in the upcoming peace talks with Russia. This week on NewsReal, we analyze the row (caused by Zelensky, by...

Trump talks peace with Putin over Ukraine: is this the end for the worst European war since WW2? Meanwhile, JD Vance's speech in Munich stuns the stewards of 'the Western Order', who aren't used to being lectured on democracy and human rights. RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard are confirmed as HHS Secretary and DNI, signalling likely further significant transformations to the US government. Running Time: 02:13:30 Download: MP3 — 122 MB

All week long, US government agency USAID's 'charity work' has been laid bare, revealing (to those who've never seen it before) rank corruption at the heart of the US empire. Next week, the Federal Reserve? The Pentagon? Or will this 'line-by-line auditing' of the US government's bloated budget be limited to relatively tame items like small grants for 'trans operas'? If the Trump Avengers are serious about it, there are trillion$ to go! In the meantime, what will conducting such open-heart...

Two air accidents a couple of days apart, one in the heart of Washington DC, the other in Philadelphia... one may have been an accident, but both? Also on this NewsReal, tense times in the Senate as Trump's MAGA nominations - RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel - are grilled, and trouble on the horizon for empire-lovers as Trump's tariffs kick off in earnest. Running Time: 02:19:06 Download: MP3 — 127 MB

Week one of Trump's second term has been a doozy! This week on NewsReal, we look at the good, the bad, and the ugly developments in Trump's 'tornado' of activity. Internationally, with his shocking insistence on returning to "100% tariffs" rather than so-called free trade, and that Denmark "hand over Greenland" to the USA while "Canada has no sovereignty so it may as well become the 51st US state," Trump appears determined to end NATO and return to 19th century 'pre-globalization' trade. And...

The world awaits the return of Donald Trump as president of the USA. Will the champion of free speech stop the banning of social media app TikTok? Assuming he wants to, can he stop Israel's genocide of Palestinians? Running Time: 01:40:26 Download: MP3 — 92 MB

Two major brush fires in the Greater Los Angeles Area have turned suburbs into war zones, and current weather conditions mean they could continue burning for another week. Amid reports of arson, looting and incompetence, many are wondering whether this natural disaster was entirely natural. Meanwhile the British government is still feeling the heat over its handling of the 'grooming gangs' scandal, the French government is trying to silence Candace Owens for digging into the past of France's...

Pure coincidence that two trucks were rented by two military guys and used to commit terror attacks in two US cities late on New Year's Eve? We think not! This week on NewsReal, Joe, Niall and guest Adam review the farce of an 'investigation' into the sickening 'crowd-plow' in New Orleans - blamed on 'ISIS' - and the equally nonsensical explanations for why an active-duty Green Beret super-soldier rented a Cybertruck and detonated it outside Trump Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. If it looks...

Musk was only trying to point out that the world's 'top geniuses' should come and work in the USA, wasn't he? In an unexpected turn of events, a raging debate has flared on social media platform X over the hot topic of inward, LEGAL migration, resulting in the champion of free speech himself cussing and fuming at MAGA supporters over their discovery that the very same legal migration routes Musk advocates greatly expanding... are being heavily abused by corporate America - including Musk's...

As much as we may 'want to believe', it's probably just the US govt lying again! This week on NewsReal, we discuss the spate of 'UFO-drone' videos and reports coming out of the US Northeast, primarily over the state of New Jersey. Is this a classic 'UFO flap'? Or are the flashing lights and 'plane-like' design of these 'UFOs' pointing to man-made origins? The US govt is being very coy about the phenomenon, so for now Joe & Niall are going with 'US military test'... In the second hour...

8 years after the Russian military freed most of Syria from the terror grip of Western proxy army 'ISIS', the remainders of that horde, holed up in Idlib province in northwestern Syria, last week broke out of containment - clearly with Turkish and Western approval - and re-took Syria's second-largest city, Aleppo. First hour of this NewsReal: Joe & Niall recap the Astana peace process that 'froze' the so-called 'Syrian Civil War', resulting in this enclave of 'moderate' terrorists, why...

Russia's hypersonic response to the US government giving 'Ukraine' the green-light to launch long-range missiles into Russia is a stark warning. Will the West take heed? While runaway 'hot war' resulting in 'mutually assured destruction' remains an unlikely outcome, the West's dear leaders are so supremely confident that Russia is bluffing, it looks like Russia is going to have to hit at least a few American and/or European military targets to really drive the message home: the Age of...

Trump's initial nominations for cabinet positions are a mixed bag, to say the least. Congress has yet to vet them, but the RINOs (Republicans in name only) can't block all of Trump's 'Avengers', surely? Joe & Niall run through the list in the first hour of this NewsReal, then assess the one major issue Team Trump could realistically 'solve' in the coming year: the Russia-Ukraine War. Running Time: 01:47:31 Download: MP3 — 98.4 MB

A stunning electoral victory for Trump indeed marks the most amazing political comeback in American history. Amid all the tears of Never-Trumpers, liberal-left ideologues, and NATO boomers, resounding vindication for the multiple millions of courageous dissidents who were mocked, cancelled, bullied and sometimes jailed by agents of a regime which should now rightfully be consigned to history. Will they go away quietly though? A peaceful transition of power seems set to take place, but the...

Joe & Niall are back this week with two main topics: final thoughts on what could happen in the upcoming US election, not just this week but in the months ahead until a new administration takes the reins in January. Ordinarily, Trump would surely win in a landslide, but with election fraud now so widespread and out-in-the-open, it's possible the Deep State intends to swipe it for Harris. In a separate but related issue, it's also possible that Iran could use the cover of US election...

Israel has launched what looks like its 'final solution' in Gaza, massacring Palestinian refugees in the north of the Strip and cutting off food, water and aid supplies. Meanwhile Israel is threatening to bomb the US peacekeeping forces in Southern Lebanon as it continues 'softening up' that country with terror-bombing, likely ahead of full ground-war intervention. Everything appears to be going Israel's way, but there's just one problem: global public opinion of Israel is now so bad,...

Eliminating Hezbollah's leadership, and Hamas's leadership, doesn't seem to have 'satisfied' the Israeli regime, which is perpetually paranoid about its neighbors' intentions. This week on NewsReal, Joe & Niall discuss the latest escalations in the Middle-East, and where they're likely leading to. Running Time: 01:21:24 Download: MP3 — 74.5 MB

Israel scored another major 'PR victory' with many Westerners when it blew off the hands of thousands of Lebanese people last week. But the Levantine enclave also has a problem. And it's not the normal kind of problem. This week on NewsReal, Joe & Niall examine what could lead a country's government to spend decades plotting to remote-detonate thousands of technological devices in a neighboring country... for no apparent gain. What IS Israel's 'grand plan'? Can it even work? Also,...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer took his entire cabinet to Washington last week for a pow-wow with their American war allies to plead his case for allowing Ukraine to use long-range precision weapons to target Russian military bases and missile launch sites deep within Russia. Putin said Russia will 'respond in kind' and, although no one knows what that means, the Anglo-Americans are confident the Russian president is bluffing. This week on NewsReal, Joe & Niall explain, again, that...

RFK Jr's teaming up with Trump is an unexpected development in the US presidential election campaign. Will it cement a Trump win? Or is the wall-to-wall favorable media coverage for Harris going to secure it for Her 'campaign of joy'? This election has unique features - Kennedy democrats supporting Trump, and Bush era NeoCons supporting Harris - but isn't it 'the same old' when it's 'Israel first' for both 'sides'? Also on this NewsReal, Joe & Niall discuss the AFD's 'unprecedented...

In fact, can any of us?! Joe and Niall with their latest analysis of the failed Trump assassination, Trump's next - and arguably more difficult! - challenge of defeating Deep State puppet Kamala Harris in a US election that won't be free and fair, and the draconian fallout from the UK's worst rioting in years. Running Time: 01:46:25 Download: MP3 — 97.4 MB

Today on MindMatters, Dr. Karen Mitchell, founder and CEO of the Kalmor Institute, shares insights from her pioneering PhD research on the "persistent predatory personality." Unlike previous studies that relied primarily on incarcerated populations or graduate students, Dr. Mitchell's work draws from the extensive experiences of practitioners who have dedicated their careers to working with individuals exhibiting dark triad traits and psychopathic tendencies. Her research includes data from...

Inner speaking, inner seeing, feelings, sensory awareness, unsymbolized thinking. Do we all have the same inner experiences? And how aware are we of what we actually experience from moment to moment? In this episode of Mind Matters, we interview Dr. Russell T. Hurlburt, a pioneering psychologist from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Hurlburt discusses his groundbreaking work investigating "pristine inner experience" - the unfiltered, moment-to-moment contents of our consciousness. He...

It's all happening out there folks! A veritable 'white-lash' has erupted in cities across the UK following the brutal mass stabbing of young girls at a dance class by a second-generation Rwandan immigrant. Working-class Britons bearing the brunt of the social and economic effects of uncontrolled mass immigration have apparently reached their breaking point. Meanwhile, in what is probably not an unrelated issue, the Israeli regime has assassinated another political leader, this time the...

There was almost certainly a second gunman at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania last week. The police and Secret Service 'confusion' and finger-pointing over who had what security duties is a hallmark of 'deep state' involvement, but would its operatives really leave it to a skinny 20-year-old to take out their 'Number One National Security Threat'? This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall take a closer look at the venue layout of the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds to suggest that a professional...

That was close, REALLY close... Joe and Niall with their initial thoughts on the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump. The shooter was probably put up to it, and it's miraculous that the first shot only grazed Trump's right ear. What an amazing turn of events... Running Time: 01:23:43 Download: MP3 — 57.5 MB

Self-talk. Visualizations. Bodily awareness. Unconscious thought processes. In our day-to-day course of existence our minds assimilate, respond and react to any number of stimuli from within - and without. But how often do we stop to consider just how we do this and what faculties of apprehension are actually put to use? And do we even have a framework, vocabulary and level of awareness from which to do it? Inner speech (inner monologue), inner vision, sensory awareness, emotions and...

Israel continues its slow-motion genocide of Palestinians, this week brazenly placing an injured Palestinian on the bonnet of a military jeep as a human shield, targeting more humanitarian aid workers, bombing more refugee camps, and bombing more UN buildings. Will Israel soon also invade Lebanon to do to Hezbollah what it has done to most of Gaza: wipe Lebanon off the map? Also on this NewsReal, Joe and Niall look ahead to what promise to be 'furiously' interesting French and British...

Chaotic scenes in Parisian politics last week as French president Emmanuel Macron, the moment EU parliament election results were announced, called a snap election 'to defeat the far-right'. But given the trouncing his party received in the former, how can he expect to fare better in the latter? Our hot take: Macron will remain in the Élysée, refusing to take the hint that the people want him gone. Meanwhile, the stand-off between the West and Russia over Ukraine remains as tense as ever....

The leading candidate to win the next US presidential election is now a 'white-collar criminal and a felon', we're told, on the basis of a farcical 'trial' that saw Donald Trump 'convicted on 34 counts' of paying his lawyer to make some woman he had a dalliance with go away. In 2016, 8 years ago... This trial and its outcome is so obviously politically motivated and 'democratically-concocted' that even Never-Trumpers are reluctant to hammer Trump too hard with it, fearing that it will...

It's sure shaping up that way in Russia's Caucasus neighbor, where the government in Tbilisi is facing a veritable battering ram of Western NGO-activated protests in response to its move to rein in thousands of... those same foreign-funded NGOs. So, Kiev's Maidan movement redux? The country's PM fears this to be the case, telling media that NATO seeks to open a 'second front' against Russia. Meanwhile, multiple 'hits' and plots against various countries' leaders suggest intense interest on...

So you've been 'red pilled'. You're well versed in false flags, deep states, secret governments, and state-sponsored assassinations. You've watched documentaries about stolen elections, the New World Order, child trafficking, and mind control. And then when you were through with those, you read extensively on the criminal acts of intelligence agencies, psychopathy among the elite, exotic weapons, and more. And now you simply know, in your bones, that the reality presented to you on CNN (and...

Nah, not really. Although, that's what they'd all LIKE you to believe. Trust us, you'll know Armageddon is here when it actually happens, and you won't need the media to tell you so. Following Israel's barbaric attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus two weeks ago, Israel and its Western stooges have practically goaded Iran into 'taking revenge' (while warning its government to 'keep it proportionate'). This finally happened last night, and both sides are claiming 'victory' from it. In...

...but it won't change the outcome of the war. 133 dead civilians mowed down at a concert in Moscow by 4 Tajik gunmen-for-hire. Who paid them? Western media is sure they were 'ISIS', yet they were caught trying to escape to Ukraine. And that this occurred amidst increasing strikes and counter-strikes between Ukraine and Russia, the true motive for this atrocity is clear: to unsettle Russia and provoke Putin into escalating and/or deviating from 'the SMO plan' to demilitarize Ukraine. Also in...

Neo-gnosticism without Gnosis. Gnosis without neo-gnosticism. These are just a couple of the frameworks, dichotomies, and strains of gnosticism making their way into the religious, social, and political consciousness and conversation of today's world through literature, film, and other media. In this follow-up discussion with author and scholar Arthur Versluis, we continue our discussion on his Oxford University Press-published book 'American Gnosis: Political Religion And Transcendence.' We...

Biden's aggressive, hopped-up 'State of the Union' speech inadvertently revealed the state of the American union: fatally fractured. With 10 million migrants pouring into the US during his term, in service of stuffing the ballot boxes and packing the military, this desperate 'Late Rome' attempt to maintain the political status quo in perpetuity is destined to fail. The unanimous self-delusion two years ago that Ukraine was going to 'defeat' Russia has given way to bitter acknowledgment that...

Astrophilosophy. Exotheology. Whitehead. Andrew Davis is the program director for the Center for Process Studies. A philosopher and theologian, his latest work is on the metaphysics of exo-life. Today on MindMatters we discuss his work on science, religion, and what the impact of the discovery of ET life would mean for philosophy, and a general philosophical framework that would make sense of it. We also discuss the opening up of public and academic interest in the topic of UFOs and...

We heard last week that some EU leaders, notably French president Macron, want to send Western armed forces into Ukraine in order to 'stop Russia from winning'. We know that their armed forces ARE already in Ukraine, but the implication of recent fighting-talk is that they're considering escalating the current 'proxy war' to 'the next level'. How serious ARE Western leaders about doing this? They sound convinced that there is no other way, but are they just 'posturing'? We may soon find out...