Aliens From the Future, Wireless Mind Control, and Vacant 19th-Century Cities: SITREP
I worked through a dense compilation covering UAP cube sightings confirmed by FAA documents, Steven Greer's claim that some craft occupants are humans from 500,000 years in the future, and a newly demonstrated wireless mind-control system tested on mice using nanoparticles and viral vectors. The dispatch also covers the 11,000-year-old Agua Phoenix mound on the Guatemala-Yucatan border, NASA's James Webb findings on planet K2-18b, and a string of other anomalies worth tracking.
// CHAPTERS
- 0:00Intro: Aliens From the Future — I open on Steven Greer's claim that some UFO occupants are human descendants from 500,000 years in the future, and Amy Estridge's classification of these entities as P47 and P-52 groups.
- 2:31Black Cube UAPs and the FAA Cover-Up — I walk through FAA documents obtained via FOIA showing a black cube spotted at 16,000 ft on December 19th, a sighting that was logged and then quietly removed from public reports.
- 4:01Flight Disruptions and Aerial Anomalies — I examine unexplained Delta flight stoppages alongside reports of orbs and aerial objects, and push back on the idea that these are extraterrestrial rather than black-budget operations.
- 5:05Record Hailstorms and Extreme Weather — I cover a confirmed 7.1-inch record hailstone in Texas, 196 US storms in 30 days (nearly double the historic average), and a tornado that stayed on the ground for over half an hour.
- 6:54Wireless Mind Control: NanoMind and Viral Vectors — I break down the NanoMind system, which uses adeno-associated viruses to deliver genetic code that binds magnetic nanoparticles to ion channels, allowing wireless activation of specific neuron paths in mice.
- 12:12Flock Camera Stalking and Police Surveillance Abuse — I cover the Institute for Justice's documentation of at least 14 cases of officers misusing automatic license plate readers, including a Milwaukee cop who ran one woman's plate 179 times in two months.
- 17:07Vacant 19th-Century Cities: The Empty Street Theory — I examine historical photographs of Boston, San Francisco, Moscow, and other cities that appear almost completely empty despite census records claiming populations in the hundreds of thousands.
- 27:00Agua Phoenix: The 11,000-Year-Old Mound — I cover Agua Phoenix on the Guatemala-Yucatan border, dated to 11,000 years ago, with a footprint of roughly 15 by 4 football fields, cellular soil design, and solstice alignments comparable to Gobekli Tepe.
- 29:30James Webb, K2-18b, and the DMS Signal — I report on NASA's James Webb telescope finding an unconfirmed dimethyl sulfide signal in the atmosphere of super-Earth K2-18b, 120 light-years away, a chemical produced exclusively by living organisms on Earth.
- 31:03The Vera Rubin Observatory and Carl Grillmair's Death — I cover the killing of astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, who helped found the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, and the observatory's policy of routing interstellar imagery directly to the US government before scientists can view it.
- 38:18The 1965 Dolphin Experiment — I review the NASA-funded 1965 experiment in which researcher Margaret lived with dolphin Peter in a flooded Caribbean facility, the experiment's disturbing conclusion, and Peter dying after they were separated.
- 21:03Forgotten Queens: Nzinga, Amina, and Ranavalona — I highlight three African queens deliberately omitted from standard history curricula: Nzinga of Angola, Amina of Zaria, and Ranavalona of Madagascar, each of whom resisted colonial powers for decades.
- 45:09Roman Sewage vs. Modern Infrastructure — I use the excavated Roman city of Empuries to raise the uncomfortable question of how ancient engineers built covered, sloped, stone-sealed sewage systems that modern cities still struggle to match.
- 33:50AI Psychosis and the Holographic Teleportation Prompt — I demonstrate how feeding a narrative premise into an AI produces confident step-by-step instructions, in this case for teleportation, as an example of the platform's engagement-first design producing what I'm calling AI Psychosis.
- 46:56Closing Observations — I wrap the compilation with a dry summary: we have future-humans in craft, robots with more apparent soul than their makers, a dolphin that died of heartbreak, and we still can't sort out sewage.
Steven Greer's Future-Human Theory and the Rendlesham Encounter
The clip that opened this one came from an interview between Steven Greer and Alex Jones, and the claim Greer makes is not a small one. He says some of the beings encountered near craft are not extraterrestrial at all but are human descendants from roughly 500,000 years in the future, evolved into what he describes as tall luminous spiritual beings.
Greer ties this specifically to Rendlesham Forest and Bentwaters Air Force Base in the early 1980s, where he says a pyramid-shaped black onyx craft landed and senior US Air Force personnel encountered these beings. According to Greer, those beings communicated directly with military staff and said, 'We are your descendants from 500,000 years in the future where humans had become interstellar.'
This lines up with researcher Amy Estridge's framework, which classifies these entities as P47 and P-52 groups, meaning humans from tens of thousands of years ahead of us. Estridge was connected to advanced aerospace research circles. Whether her theory is correct is another matter, but the convergence between her classification system and Greer's eyewitness accounts is the kind of alignment worth noting without overstating.
Project Blue Beam and the Black Cube UAP Pattern
My read on the future-human narrative being pushed right now is that someone needed to settle on a single theory before Project Blue Beam moves into a more visible phase. That's speculation, but the timing of this narrative consolidation is hard to ignore.
What is documented rather than speculative comes from FAA records obtained through a FOIA request. On December 14th, drones swarmed what the documents identify as a hot cargo ramp, turned off their lights mid-flight, and caused the entire airfield to shut down. Three days later, radar detected 17 targets in a 40-mile radius and a pilot reported a silver drone at 3,200 feet.
Then on December 19th, a westbound aircraft at 16,000 feet reported an object passing 500 feet beneath them. The pilot described it as a black cube. The FAA logged the sighting. Then they quietly removed it from public reports. That removal is what I keep coming back to, because objects with no wings, no transponder, and a perfect cube geometry at 16,000 feet don't get quietly buried unless someone made a decision to bury them.
This matches what military pilots have been describing for years. One testimony I reviewed describes dark gray or black cubes inside a clear sphere, with the apex of the cube touching the inside of that sphere. That same description, nearly verbatim, was repeated across eight years of pilot reports.
Extreme Weather: Record Hailstone and the 196-Storm Month
A 7.1-inch hailstone was confirmed in Texas this spring season, larger than an NFL football. Footage from the event shows it punching through windshields and demolishing greenhouses in seconds. Val Caster measured and confirmed the record diameter.
Over the past 30 days alone, the US recorded 196 storms, nearly double the historic average. Traders on Kalshi are now pricing in a 71% probability of 225 or more storms for the current month. A tornado referenced in the clip stayed on the ground for over half an hour, barely moving, giving people in the area almost no window to evacuate.
I'm based in the UK where the weather is aggressively unremarkable, and I'll admit that has some value right now. But the frequency curve on these events is pointing in one direction.
NanoMind: Wireless Neural Control Using Viral Vectors and Magnetic Nanoparticles
Scientists have demonstrated a wireless mind-control system on mice. The system is called the Magneto-genetic Interface for Neurodynamics, or NanoMind. The mechanism works in layers. First, an adeno-associated virus delivers a genetic payload that rewrites RNA and DNA to create ion channels in brain cells. Those ion channels bind to magnetic nanoparticles.
When a magnetic field is applied externally, it pulls torque on those nanoparticles. The brain interprets that torque as neuron activation. By varying the magnetic field in sequences, specific neuron paths can be opened, affecting auditory processing, visual processing, and the frontal lobe. All of it wirelessly. All of it without the subject's knowledge.
For context, the first fully implantable battery-free wireless device capable of controlling specific neurons with light was published in Nature Neuroscience in 2021. That was four years ago in the public domain. My working assumption, based on how military and black-site research timelines have historically operated, is that whatever is public now is decades behind what has already been deployed.
The speculation about drones delivering electromagnetic pulses, or smart glasses functioning as EEG-reading devices, hasn't been confirmed. But the underlying mechanism demonstrated in the mice study is documented. I'm not conflating the two. I'm flagging the gap between them.
Flock Cameras and the Police Stalking Problem
A Milwaukee police officer resigned after using Flock automatic license plate reader cameras to surveil a woman he was dating. He ran her plate 179 times over two months. Every single search was logged in the system as an investigation.
The Institute for Justice has documented at least 14 cases of officers using license plate readers to stalk romantic partners, former partners, and in one case a woman a Florida deputy had seen on a television set. A Kansas police chief ran his ex-girlfriend's plate over 200 times. A Kentucky officer tracked an ex hundreds of times across two months.
The Milwaukee officer was caught only because his target looked herself up on a public website called Have I Been Flocked. That website exists. The fact that a victim has to use a public lookup tool to discover she's been surveilled 179 times by law enforcement tells you everything about how the oversight systems around this technology are functioning.
Vacant 19th-Century Cities: Where Is Everyone in the Historical Record?
A clip circulating on this topic makes a point I find genuinely hard to dismiss. Photographs of Moscow from 1867, San Francisco in 1860 and 1880, Boston, Buffalo, Los Angeles, and France in the 1860s all show near-empty streets. Not quiet streets. Empty streets.
San Francisco reportedly had 50,000 to 60,000 people in 1860 and around 200,000 by 1880. Moscow had around 360,000 people in the 1860s. Yet the photographic record shows almost no one. The standard explanation is long exposure times that blur or erase moving subjects. That explains a wisp. It does not explain streets where there is genuinely no evidence of human occupation at all.
The question of whether this is an artifact of photographic technology, a gap in what survives in archives, or something else is unresolved. Birmingham, Alabama showed roughly 4,000 residents in 1880 and 38,000 by 1900. The infrastructure in these photographs appears far larger than those numbers would justify. I'm not landing on a conclusion here. I'm flagging the question.
Agua Phoenix: The 11,000-Year-Old Mound on the Guatemala-Yucatan Border
Agua Phoenix sits on the border of Guatemala and the Yucatan. Its footprint runs approximately 15 football fields long by 4 football fields wide, and stands roughly as tall as a six-story building. That gives it a comparable or larger footprint than what is described as Elon Musk's current gigafactory site.
The interior uses a cellular design, a structural technique also used in modern landfills to prevent ground collapse. The cells contain red, green, and blue soil, covered over with white earth, which researchers interpret as a deliberate protective layer. Organic material from the site has been carbon dated to approximately 11,000 years ago, placing its construction at the end of the last ice age and contemporary with Gobekli Tepe.
A similar construction template appears at San Lorenzo, previously identified as a Olmec site considered the mother civilization of the Americas. Later Mayan sites were built on top of the same long-platform design. The structure's orientation marks the winter and summer solstices, functioning as what one researcher called a proto-technology to the shadow play at Chichen Itza, the doorway alignments at Carnac, and the tower alignments at Angkor Wat.
Excavations are ongoing. I'll keep tracking what comes out of the ground.
James Webb Telescope and the K2-18b Biosignature Signal
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been analyzing exoplanet K2-18b, a super-Earth approximately 120 light-years away. The detection in question involves dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the planet's atmosphere, alongside methane and carbon dioxide.
On Earth, DMS is produced exclusively by living organisms, specifically marine life and bacteria. If the K2-18b signal is real and confirmed, it would indicate something biologically active in the planet's oceans. Researchers also detected a separate chemical in the atmosphere associated with wood and trees, which would suggest the presence of oxygen.
The detection is not confirmed. The signal was not strong, and scientists have been clear that the data requires significantly more analysis before any conclusion can be drawn. I'm not calling this confirmation of life. I'm noting it as the most substantive public signal in this direction that has come out of Webb so far.
The Vera Rubin Observatory, Carl Grillmair, and Government Image Control
Carl Grillmair, described as a gifted astrophysicist, helped establish the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, designed to detect interstellar objects entering our solar system. He was shot and killed on his front porch by a man who had been arrested on his property two months earlier and released on $3,000 bail. No motive has been publicly established.
The Vera Rubin Observatory operates under a protocol where images are routed automatically to the US government before any scientist can view them. The government then decides what researchers are permitted to see. That's the stated operational model for a facility built to detect incoming interstellar objects.
My position on this is different from the meteor-impact suppression theory circulating online. I think the more likely function of that protocol is to make people believe something is being hidden, which generates exactly the kind of ambient anxiety that makes populations easier to manage. That said, I hold that lightly. The access control is documented. The reasoning behind it is not.
The 1965 NASA Dolphin Experiment and Peter's Death
In 1965, a NASA-funded project operated out of a top-secret facility on a Caribbean island. The experiment's stated goal was to teach a dolphin named Peter English through total immersion. Researcher Margaret Howe Lovatt moved into a partially flooded building and lived with Peter around the clock.
When Peter reached sexual maturity and became fixated on Margaret, rather than removing him from the experiment, she handled the situation manually so that training could continue. Little measurable progress was made, funding was cut, and the facility was shut down.
After being separated from Margaret, Peter died. The cause is described as heartbreak, specifically voluntary refusal to surface for air. I'll leave it at that. The dolphin dying of a broken heart is genuinely the least disturbing part of this story, and that is saying something.
Three Queens History Class Skipped
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, in what is now Angola, arrived to negotiate with Portuguese colonizers and was refused a chair as a deliberate show of disrespect. She had a man kneel on all fours and used him as a seat. She then fought the Portuguese for 40 years, personally leading troops into battle carrying an ax, and forced a peace treaty in 1656. She died in her eighties having outlasted most of her adversaries.
Queen Amina of Zaria, in what is now Nigeria, was crowned in 1576 and immediately expanded her territory. She commanded 20,000 soldiers in the field herself, introduced metal armor to her forces, and built fortified walls that are still standing. She ruled for 34 years and died undefeated.
Ranavalona I of Madagascar was labeled the 'mad queen' and 'Bloody Mary' by European contemporaries because she expelled missionaries and shut down foreign influence operations. She ruled for 33 years resisting colonization. Most of what exists in the historical record was written by her enemies, so how accurately that record reflects her reign is genuinely unknown.
AI Psychosis: What Happens When You Ask for Teleportation Instructions
A clip shows someone asking an AI how to teleport. The AI produces a detailed five-step process based on holographic reality theory, complete with instructions to 'dissolve the current scene' and 'lock onto the target scene as now.' The user reports that her room once felt like she was underwater, and the AI confirms this as a sign that 'the hologram is loosening.'
This is not the AI discovering something. This is the AI doing exactly what it is designed to do, which is engage with the user's premise and produce output that keeps them on the platform. Feed it a flat-earth frame and it will support flat earth. Feed it a simulation frame and it will support simulation theory. The mechanism is identical in every case.
I've called this AI Psychosis before and I'll keep calling it that. The danger isn't that the AI is lying. The danger is that it's agreeing, enthusiastically and articulately, with whatever you walked in believing.
Roman Sewage Engineering vs. Modern Infrastructure Failures
The ancient Roman city of Empuries, excavated and documented, shows a street layout where dozens of small channels from individual buildings slope down to a central drainage line running beneath the road. The central sewer collects both waste water and rainwater through stone inlets placed at regular intervals. The whole system was covered with large stone slabs forming the base of the street surface.
Waste water was then channeled into a broader underground network and carried out of the city, in coastal areas directly into the sea. This infrastructure is over two thousand years old and it worked cleanly, quietly, and without visible infrastructure above ground.
The Romans got this right. We have spent centuries since then getting it wrong, or at minimum getting it worse. I don't have a satisfying explanation for that. Neither does anyone else on the compilation. That seemed like the right note to close on.
// REFERENCED ENTITIES
- Steven GreerPersonI covered Greer's claim, made in an interview with Alex Jones, that some craft occupants encountered at Rendlesham Forest are humans from 500,000 years in the future.
- Alex JonesPersonI referenced Jones as the interviewer who drew out Greer's future-human theory in the clip I reviewed.
- Amy EstridgePersonI flagged Estridge as a scientist connected to advanced aerospace research whose theory classifies alleged alien visitors as future humans labeled P47 and P-52.
- Rendlesham ForestPlaceI noted Greer's specific claim that a pyramid-shaped black onyx craft landed at Rendlesham Forest Bentwaters Air Force Base in the early 1980s, where tall luminous beings told military personnel they were human descendants.
- Bentwaters Air Force BasePlaceI identified this as the military installation named by Greer as the site of the early 1980s craft landing and encounter with luminous beings.
- Project Blue BeamEventI raised Project Blue Beam as the broader operation I suspect the aliens-as-future-humans narrative is being used to set up.
- FAAOrganizationI cited FAA documents, obtained via FOIA request, that logged a black cube sighting at 16,000 ft on December 19th before quietly removing it from public reports.
- Institute for JusticeOrganizationI referenced the Institute for Justice's documentation of at least 14 cases of police officers using license plate readers to stalk individuals.
- Flock CamerasEventI covered the pattern of law enforcement misuse of Flock automatic license plate reader cameras, including a Milwaukee officer who ran a woman's plate 179 times in two months.
- Have I Been FlockedDocumentI noted this public website as the tool that allowed the Milwaukee officer's victim to discover she had been surveilled 179 times.
- TEB1EventI examined the TEB1 straddling bus concept, a 2016 viral transport fraud in which the company used hype to pull billions from investors before the bus was found abandoned and rusting.
- Magneto-genetic Interface for NeurodynamicsDocumentI covered this technology, also called NanoMind, as the wireless mind-control system that uses viral vectors and magnetic nanoparticles to manipulate specific neuron paths in mice.
- Nature NeuroscienceDocumentI noted this journal published the first fully implantable battery-free wireless neural control device in 2021.
- Agua PhoenixPlaceI examined Agua Phoenix, a mound structure on the Guatemala-Yucatan border dated to 11,000 years ago with cellular soil design, solstice alignments, and a footprint larger than Elon Musk's gigafactory.
- Gobekli TepePlaceI flagged Gobekli Tepe as the comparable site that Agua Phoenix's 11,000-year carbon dates place it alongside in age.
- San LorenzoPlaceI identified San Lorenzo as a parallel Mesoamerican site sharing Agua Phoenix's long-platform construction template.
- James Webb Space TelescopeOrganizationI covered the James Webb telescope's detection of potential biosignature gases, including dimethyl sulfide, in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b.
- K2-18bPlaceI reported on NASA findings suggesting K2-18b, a super-Earth 120 light-years away, may host marine life based on an unconfirmed dimethyl sulfide signal.
- Vera Rubin ObservatoryOrganizationI noted this Chile-based observatory, which Carl Grillmair helped establish, automatically routes imagery of interstellar objects to the US government before scientists can view it.
- Carl GrillmairPersonI covered the killing of astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, who was shot on his front porch by a man previously arrested on his property and released on $3,000 bail.
- Laurelhurst Community ClubOrganizationI examined this Seattle neighborhood group's multi-decade campaign to restrict helicopter access to a children's hospital, which forces non-critical patients to be diverted to a helipad a mile away.
- Peter the DolphinEventI reviewed the 1965 NASA-funded experiment in which a dolphin named Peter lived with researcher Margaret in a flooded facility and died shortly after being separated from her.
- Margaret Howe LovattPersonI covered her role as the researcher who lived with dolphin Peter in a partially flooded Caribbean facility in 1965 as part of an experiment aimed at teaching dolphins English.
- WoodfrogEventI highlighted the woodfrog's ability to freeze solid for seven to eight months using a glucose-based antifreeze mechanism, with its heartbeat and breathing stopping entirely.
- Simone BilesPersonI referenced Biles publicly sharing a $23,000 hair and makeup bill for a single red carpet event and asking other celebrities whether this was normal.
- EmpuriesPlaceI used the ancient Roman city of Empuries as the example of a fully functional sewage system, with covered stone channels routing waste from buildings to a central sewer and out to sea.
- Chris BrownPersonI reviewed a clip in which Brown claimed to be an alien, alongside alleged footage of his hand extending abnormally over a basketball, which I assessed as most likely special effects.
- The NineEventI covered claims that a group of entities called the Nine, contacted through trance by a psychic in an intelligence-agency-funded research lab, oversee the universe.
- Queen NzingaPersonI covered Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, who negotiated with Portuguese colonizers, fought them for 40 years, personally led troops with an ax, and forced a peace treaty in 1656.
- Queen Amina of ZariaPersonI noted Amina of Zaria, crowned in 1576, who led 20,000 soldiers, introduced metal armor, built fortified walls still standing today, and ruled for 34 years undefeated.
- Ranavalona IPersonI covered Ranavalona I of Madagascar, who expelled missionaries, shut down foreign control, and ruled for 33 years resisting colonization, noting that most accounts of her were written by her enemies.
- KitKatOrganizationI examined the Mandela Effect claim that KitKat's logo once included a hyphen, which both Nestle and Hershey say was never part of the official branding.
- NestleOrganizationI cited Nestle as one of the two companies on record stating the KitKat name has never been officially hyphenated.
- HersheyOrganizationI cited Hershey alongside Nestle in confirming the KitKat name has never carried an official hyphen.
- Adorian DeckPersonI featured a clip from Adorian Deck covering a range of news items including the US government registering aliens.gov and a chimp civil war in Uganda.
- Brooklyn Bridge ParkPlaceI examined a six-foot squirrel statue that appeared in Brooklyn Bridge Park bearing the text 'He scampers among us,' which I noted was later identified as an AI company's viral marketing stunt.
- Society of Squirrel LightsOrganizationI covered this group, which formed around the Brooklyn Bridge Park squirrel statue, launched social media pages, and runs a website with apparent quasi-religious squirrel content.
- Tucker CarlsonPersonI reviewed a clip in which Tucker Carlson argued a world without work is hell because men need work for meaning, a framing I pushed back against.
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// FAQ
- What is Steven Greer's theory about aliens being humans from the future?
- Steven Greer, in an interview with Alex Jones, claimed that some UFO occupants are not extraterrestrial but are human descendants from approximately 500,000 years in the future. He cited the early 1980s encounter at Rendlesham Forest Bentwaters Air Force Base, where he says senior US Air Force personnel encountered tall luminous beings who identified themselves as future humans. Researcher Amy Estridge classified these entities separately as P47 and P-52 groups.
- What did FAA documents reveal about the black cube UAP sighting?
- A FOIA request produced FAA documents showing a sequence of events in mid-December. On December 14th, drones swarmed a hot cargo ramp, turned off their lights mid-flight, and forced a full airfield shutdown. On December 17th, radar detected 17 targets in a 40-mile radius. On December 19th, a westbound aircraft at 16,000 feet reported an object 500 feet below it shaped like a perfect black cube. The FAA logged the sighting and then removed it from public reports.
- How does the NanoMind wireless mind control system work?
- The system, formally called the Magneto-genetic Interface for Neurodynamics, uses an adeno-associated virus as a delivery mechanism to insert genetic code that creates ion channels in brain cells. Those channels bind to magnetic nanoparticles. An external magnetic field then pulls torque on those particles, which the brain interprets as neuron activation. By varying the field in sequences, operators can selectively activate auditory, visual, or frontal lobe neuron paths, all wirelessly. The first fully implantable battery-free wireless neural control device was published in Nature Neuroscience in 2021.
- What is the Agua Phoenix mound and how old is it?
- Agua Phoenix is a large earthwork structure on the border of Guatemala and the Yucatan peninsula. It measures roughly 15 football fields long by 4 football fields wide and stands about six stories tall. Its interior uses a cellular soil design containing red, green, and blue earth covered with white soil. Organic material from the site has been carbon dated to approximately 11,000 years ago, placing it at the end of the last ice age and in the same time range as Gobekli Tepe. Excavations are ongoing.
- What did NASA's James Webb telescope find on planet K2-18b?
- The James Webb Space Telescope detected a potential signal of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the atmosphere of K2-18b, a super-Earth 120 light-years away. On Earth, DMS is produced exclusively by living marine organisms and bacteria. The detection also suggested the presence of a chemical associated with trees, which would imply oxygen. The signal is unconfirmed and scientists have stated the data requires significantly more analysis before any conclusion about life can be drawn.
- What happened to Carl Grillmair and why is the Vera Rubin Observatory controversial?
- Carl Grillmair was an astrophysicist who helped establish the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. A man was arrested on Grillmair's property carrying a rifle and released on $3,000 bail. Two months later that man returned and shot Grillmair on his front porch. No motive has been publicly established. The observatory is controversial because its protocol routes imagery of interstellar objects automatically to the US government before scientists can view them, with the government deciding what researchers are permitted to see.
- What was the 1965 NASA dolphin experiment?
- In 1965, a NASA-funded project placed researcher Margaret Howe Lovatt in a partially flooded facility on a Caribbean island with a dolphin named Peter, with the goal of teaching him English through constant immersion. When Peter reached sexual maturity and became fixated on Margaret, she managed his urges manually rather than interrupting the experiment. Little progress was made, funding was cut, and after being separated from Margaret, Peter died, described as a voluntary drowning attributed to heartbreak.
- How do police misuse Flock license plate reader cameras?
- The Institute for Justice has documented at least 14 cases of officers using Flock automatic license plate reader cameras to surveil romantic partners or ex-partners without lawful justification. A Milwaukee officer ran a woman's plate 179 times in two months. A Kansas police chief ran his ex-girlfriend's plate over 200 times. A Kentucky officer tracked an ex hundreds of times. Every search was logged as an official investigation. The Milwaukee officer's victim discovered the surveillance by searching her own plate on a public website called Have I Been Flocked.