WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ernie:

I have been eliminating physical activities from my regimen since my 20s. I could have been an Olympic-Trials-level javelin thrower, but I would have had to devote several hours a day to training. I had too much going on in my life for that, and javelin throwing certainly didn’t pay the bills. But I stupidly injured my back in my senior year, trying to come back from injury too quickly, and I was managing my damaged back less than an hour ago. In the next few years I had shoulder and knee problems. I learned the hard way that I couldn’t just sit at a desk for six months and then play baseball or go on a 40-mile backpack. I learned my greatest mortality lessons then, and by age 25 I decided that I would do whatever it took so that I could hike in my 80s. It looks like I’ll pull that off. It is my favorite form of recreation. I gave up all competitive sports long ago. I avoid any kind of competition.

My nephew hopes to make the Olympic trials in the marathon. He is running-obsessed, and the good news is that his girlfriend is too. They just moved here from the East Coast, and Uncle Wade has been giving them lots of tips. She recently did a 22-mile run in the mountains, with a 7,000 foot elevation gain. It took her 8 hours. Oh, what our bodies are capable of in our 20s. Others in her group ran for 24 hours straight in the mountains that day, and did 60 miles. Even she thought that that was insane.

So I have been trying to age gracefully and hike as long as I am able. So far so good, with little mishaps such as breaking my shoulder.

When my uncle who introduced me to hiking was about my age, two years in a row he nearly died in the mountains. I want to die in bed.

Going from 95^th to 99^th percentile will be accomplished by improving my diet and doing upper-body work.

Best,

Wade

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
I have veneers and crowns, and I basically can trace it all back to before I was 10 years old. It is just one of the many prices of my journey.

My first 10 years were on my Dad's dairy farm, living off the raw milk from those cows, what my mother grew in the garden, eggs from the chickens of a next door farmer, and the wild game my uncles hunted. We were too poor to get much store bought food, or any herbicides or fertilizers for the garden or pastures. The land was woodland bordered pasture with rivers on two sides that flooded more rich silt onto the pastures each spring. There were only mostly unpopulated hills and forests feeding those rivers; they were practically clean of any "modern day chemistry."

I didn't own a toothbrush nor practice any oral hygiene. My teeth were flawless ... just as Weston Price would have expected.

Then my Dad sold the farm (only the "big farms" with "big bank loans" could survive) and we moved into town. My Dad got a job with a corporation, and we switched to store bought food. My dental history since then sounds rather like yours.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Pythonic:

Maybe you were able to avoid crowded teeth, but you were only 10 when you went to processed food, and still had some growing years ahead of you. My mother had no teeth left by the time she was 18. Not getting vaccinated much, and changing our diet to whole food when I was 12, were keys to my lifetime of good health. Thank God I stopped drinking 25 years ago, or else I might not be here today.

It is highly ironic that Americans have the worst health among industrialized nations, the highest medical bills, the shortest life expectancy, and the USA is the richest and most powerful nation of all time. What is wrong with that picture?

Kennedy is bringing long-overdue attention to this issue, and the media is fighting him the entire way. That kind of says it all about the media, which is a Big Pharma lapdog and attack dog, among other roles.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

The daily agonies of my broken shoulder have slowed down my posting, but the worst is finally over. I should soon begin to post regularly again. I was working on a post, but it is too ambitious for my current state. So I will do this short post instead.

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began, RFK, Jr., was one of the few voices of sanity, and his book on Fauci was a revelation. There has certainly never been anybody like him to head the USA’s medical bureaucracy. His MAHA agenda is ambitious, I have written about what I hope that he accomplishes, and he has a long hill to climb and he faces stiff headwinds. Here are the basic issues that he faces.

The Medical Racket Won’t Go Quietly

This is a multifaceted issue. For starters, the medical racket is one of the cartels that control the world economy, and it kind of came into the open during COVID-19, for those with eyes to see. The mainstream media is also one of the rackets, and it enables the other global rackets. These situations are always 1% conspiracy and 99% complicity. Ed Herman’s structural model explains the West’s media performance quite well. American mainstream TV news gets a quarter of its ad revenue from Big Pharma. That alone will guarantee media hostility towards Kennedy’s agenda, and the vitriol coming from the media aimed at Kennedy has been breathtaking.

The Medical Racket’s Many Accomplices

But there are accomplices at all levels, and the biggest by far is the public’s inertia. I have watched people embrace certain death over questioning their indoctrination and changing the lifestyles that gave them their fatal diseases in the first place, which is almost all about what they willingly put into their bodies. Americans go through their days pursuing their addictions, from caffeine in the morning to alcohol in the evening to various taste sensations from processed food. The primary reason why Americans have the shortest life expectancies and the poorest health among industrialized nations is because of what we put in our bodies.

A Broken Paradigm

I began my medical racket essay with a chapter on paradigms and followed it with a chapter on the conflict between male and female paradigms in medicine. As I mentioned in a recent vaccine post, male-based medicine is a form of warfare. As Suzanne Humphreys mentioned in her interview with Joe Rogan, under the current paradigm, everything gets medicalized. It is medical procedures for everything, and almost all of it is worthless or harmful (but lucrative). The trans craze is a perfect example of this insanity. A “joke” in the trans industry was that before long there will no longer be gay people, because they all got transed as children.

As Robert Lustig noted, 75% of American medical dollars are spent to treat the symptoms of metabolic disease, which comes from our diets of processed food. Those interventions are all worthless. The only solution is to eliminate processed food from our diets, but that is part of the problem, which brings me to the biggest structural problem with MAHA: it will be expensive.

Fresh Food versus Processed Food

A calorie of whole fresh food (think the produce section in the grocery store) is about five times as expensive as a calorie from processed food. I have not run the numbers, but there are good reasons for that, and it might be the biggest challenge that MAHA faces. There is a long view to see on this, which explains the predicament. When humanity’s ancestors left the shrinking rainforest several million years ago, their diet was no longer the fruit and leaves that chimpanzees and gorillas enjoy today. Arguably the biggest dietary change of early humans was becoming meat-dependent. That spurred evolutionary changes, and there is great debate on the benefit and detriment of such changes. But it was not sustainable, and the humans that conquered Earth drove most of Earth’s big animals to extinction.

The Domestication Revolution began in the so-called “lucky latitudes,” basically by developing seed crops. Seed crops are far from our natural diet, but they comprise most of humanity’s dietary calories today. But wheat, rice, and maize have the virtue of being able to be raised in huge monocrop environments, with mechanized planting and harvesting. Wheat is never eaten in anything close to its natural state but is heavily processed. The same goes for maize, and rice is the only partial exception.

Those seed crops are processed and can be stored for a long time. The problem with the lucky latitudes is that the growing season is not constant, so there are planting and harvest seasons, and getting through the winter was always a problem. So, those heavily processed grain crops are humanity’s staple, and the way they are raised and processed, with little urgency to get to the consumer, makes the distribution process a lot easier, which is why it is far cheaper than fruits and vegetables. But its nutritional properties are poor.

People are addicted to their processed-food diets, both psychologically and physically, and there is great resistance to changing them. As I have long noted, people will rather die than change their diets. But even if all people realized that fresh whole food is the best possible food, outside of the tropics, there would be no way to provide that for all people, with our growing seasons. This is the biggest obstacle to MAHA’s success.

The Solution to MAHA and All of Humanity’s Existential Issues

As I have written, in what I call the Fifth Epoch, everybody will live to be 100 and will be healthy the entire way, with almost no medical interventions. That is because they are no longer drugging themselves, eating processed food, and suffering from other industrial-era insults to their biology. The so-called work day will be only a few hours at most, and it will be the highlight of everybody’s day. I have seen it called Joy Time, when people happily contribute to their world, and humanity will not know drudgery. Indoor farms, run with AI robotics, will produce whole food in perfect growing environments that could easily feed humanity 100 times over. And they will not dominate Earth’s ecosystems to provide it. A tiny part of the Antarctic ice sheet could easily host the farms that could feed humanity. Or they could float in the ocean, be underground, in orbit, or even on the Moon. There will be no more domination and destruction of Earth’s ecosystems to feed people. While aspects of permaculture which are nice ideas, humanity could give Earth back to nature, like Edward O. Wilson suggested. This is just one more side effect of the arrival of the Fifth Epoch.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

When I did my first video interview last summer, I thought that it went well. I had never really seen myself like that before. Maybe 15 years ago, I had thought about telling my story and presenting my material in video form, to get my testimony on the record. Well, today, I can do it myself. So today, I published the first of what may be many video sessions.

We will see how it goes. If it goes as well as I think it might, I’ll have my own show, and I’ll have pals on.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

This is an outline to support my video, which I posted here.

It is time to have a post on a topic that I have dealt with before at some length: What is the source of so-called free energy? It is a good question.

There are various kinds. A windmill or a solar panel captures so-called free energy, which is ultimately powered by the Sun’s fusion. But the free energy that I’m talking about is something else. I suspect that some so-called free-energy devices took advantage of the electric potential between the atmosphere and Earth’s surface. Tesla went after it, Moray may have, and I have heard of other “Earth battery” technologies.

But the free-energy source that I am most interested in it is currently unrecognized by orthodox science. Einstein’s protégé David Bohm hypothesized it. Jeane Manning collected dozens of names for this alleged energy source, and I use “zero-point field” (ZPF). Jeane calls it the background energy of the universe. Orthodoxy generally dismisses the ZPF as any kind of practical energy source. What I call Level 3 people are generally scientists and other so-called experts who usually cite the “laws of physics” in their dismissals. As Brian O’Leary liked to say, there are no laws of physics. We only have our theories. Even using the word “law” is a conceit that belongs more in organized religion than in science. When somebody witnesses anti-gravity technology, the so-called law of gravity becomes something else: an incomplete theory. The funny thing is that my friend who got that underground technology demonstration does not believe in zero-point energy, but I suspect that that is what he witnessed being tapped.

The bottom line of orthodoxy and energy is that orthodox scientists have no idea where the energy that comprises this universe came from, and they don’t even know what energy is. They can only describe what energy does. Even in orthodox circles it is suspected that dark matter and dark energy, which have never been observed, are just fudges to preserve Einstein’s relativity equations, along with the cosmological constant. That is similar to how a phantom planet was proposed to explain the aberration of Mercury’s orbit in Isaac Newton’s theories. Similarly, string theory has no empirical support for it, and it has been derided as fairy-tale physics. So, I regard all those cocksure dismissals of zero-point energy to be shaky at best, when orthodox scientists can’t even answer the most basic questions regarding energy.

The first time that I heard of such energy was in 1990, when my close friend described to me his visit with Sparky Sweet. Sparky’s papers have mind-bending concepts in them. Sparky observed that there is really no thing such as nothing. Even Einstein admitted that. Einstein realized that if space was bent by gravity in his general theory of relativity, something was bent in seemingly empty space, and he revived the concept of the ether that his special theory of relativity theoretically made obsolete. That could all be considered pretty theorizing, but Sparky’s device worked. Einstein knew that his theories would one day become obsolete, but that the best parts of his theories might survive in the new theories.

My friend who visited Sparky was an internationally known expert on electricity, and Sparky’s advice defied conventional concepts of electricity. I will never forget that awe in my friend’s voice as he described watching Sparky’s device go into overdrive, as ice formed on it. Sparky’s device was measured to output 1.5 million times as much energy as went into it. I think that it was tapping the ZPF.

There was a segment on Sparky in Steven Greer’s Lost Century movie. Sparky’s device also produced anti-gravity effects, and all of his equipment and papers were confiscated upon his suspicious death. As with Dennis Lee and his heat pump, Sparky thought that he would receive the tickertape parade after he mailed working prototypes to the leading energy institutions. The opposite happened, and Sparky was hounded to his death.

James Gilliland worked with a scientist named Max, who had a device like Sparky’s. The spooks came running, people died, James and Max realized that they were in over their heads, and they ceased their effort.

Mark Comings similarly stumbled into tapping the zero-point field through piezoelectrics, and like Sparky, Mark had hell to pay. Mark tried the sneak-past-them approach before he was shown the folly of his ways and he wisely ceased his efforts. One of my scientist friends was a colleague of Elizabeth Rauscher. Mark studied under Rauscher at Berkeley. Elizabeth not only confirmed Mark’s story, but she built her own free-energy prototype. I was asked on her behalf if it was safe to come forward with it, and I replied that it wasn’t.

I suspect that the ZPF is divine, and that if galactic civilizations do not have the proper motivation, they will not tap the ZPF or tap it for long. It is it is also why I advocate the love and enlightenment approach to free energy. It may be the only approach that will work.

This post will serve as an outline of my video post. I think that this will become my style, of having a Substack post which is a summary of my video post. I’ll write the post first, and use it to guide my video discussion.

As I often state, science in the Fifth Epoch will only have a faint resemblance to today’s version of it.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

This post will be the summary of my video on the John F. Kennedy assassination. I did an oral version of Gary Wean’s story, but doing a video on the JFK assassination is something new to me. This will be quite a ride. For starters, people do not need to believe anything that Gary or I wrote. They can just compare the chapter of Gary’s book on the JFK assassination, published in 1987, to the Operation Northwoods document, which was declassified in 1997. Gary described the CIA’s plan to frame Castro to justify an invasion of Cuba, while the Northwoods document described the Pentagon’s plan to frame Castro to justify an invasion of Cuba. Both operations were planned at the same time. Northwoods never seemed to become operational, although the public may never know for sure. That simple comparison should remove any doubt about the veracity of Gary’s reporting. In my opinion, Gary’s reporting should have become the foundation of all subsequent JFK theorizing when Northwoods was declassified. But Gary’s reporting is still marginalized, even though the most prominent theories today are almost exactly what Gary reported, minus the interposed operation.

In this video, I will discuss some of the evidence that I examined over the years, such as the Magic Bullet, Oswald’s trip to the Cuban embassy, his “commie” past, the ET connection, the Israeli connection, and the Johnson, Dulles, Bush, Hoover, and Rockefeller connections. Dulles’s alone should make anybody’s eyebrows rise.

My main takeaway from the JFK hit was not who did it so much, but that with JFK’s murder the American presidency was permanently demoted. All presidents since JFK were puppets and knew it. The American president sits far down the hierarchy of power on Earth.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

This is the summary of this video.

From the day that I became Dennis Lee’s partner in January, 1987, I had a very good idea of what the transformative potential of free energy was for human societies. Free energy will herald an era of abundance and will end the world as we know it. The scarcity and fear that have been humanity’s constant companions would vanish. This was very evident to me. That understanding came to me on the brink of my harrowing adventures over the next few years. At the end of them, I was introduced to the idea of zero-point energy, and I soon realized that technologies that utilized zero-point energy were older than I am. It is the Holy Grail of the human journey.

But it took more than another 20 years before I developed my concept of Epochs of the human journey. I had to resume my science studies to reach those understandings, and it has been immensely gratifying. Popularized science is plenty to reach the understandings that I think are needed for an effort such as mine to succeed. If it does, it will be the biggest event in the human journey, and I decided that it was worth my life to try out my approach.

When I wrote my lifetime’s most ambitious essay in 2013-2014, half of it was concerned with the journey of life on Earth before humans arrived on the evolutionary scene. That was the most fun for me, to study those eons. From the very beginnings of life on Earth and its development of enzymes, which sped up chemical reactions by up to billions of times, to cyanobacteria that evolved to split water to get its electron for photosynthesis, which saved Earth’s ocean from being blasted into space, to the development of complex cells and evolving to use oxygen for respiration, life became a voracious consumer of energy. Pound-for-pound, complex life burns energy 100,000 times as fast as the Sun produces it.

From its watery beginnings, life eventually migrated to land, which led to us. Evolution was constantly inventing new ways to obtain energy, reproduce, and survive. That evolutionary story was punctuated with mass-extinction events, which were really energy crises. When a bolide event wiped out dinosaurs, previously marginal mammals rose to dominance. Some migrated to fruit-rich tropical canopies, and primates made their homes there. Humans represent the end of a primate line that migrated from the shrinking tropical canopies as Earth has cooled down over the past 50 million years.

Some monkeys migrated from the canopies to the ground and became apes, and some apes learned to walk upright as they left the rainforest. Pair-bonding might have begun then, so less energy was spent on competing for mates. Their hands were free for new uses with their bipedal posture, and more than three million years ago some of those apes learned to make stone tools. Tools were innovations that increased the caloric intake of tool users, as food thereby became easier to obtain. I believe that it is no coincidence that once stone tools were invented, and other tools that did not survive in the artifactual record, those apes had explosive brain growth. Neurons are energy hogs, so fueling that spectacular brain growth needed lots of energy.

In a little over a million years, the brains of those tool-using apes doubled in size, which was the most spectacular brain growth in the journey of life on Earth. When Homo erectus arrived on the evolutionary scene, it was something very different. It was completely adapted for living on the ground, it controlled fire, and it became an apex predator. Some scientists also think that by that time, Homo erectus had something like language. Individual intelligence grew with brain growth, and language allowed for a great increase in collective intelligence as social learning became key. Social animals are social because sociality increases the survival and reproductive prospects of a society’s members. But societal members often jockey for ranking and the benefits it provides, while also in the delicate dance of keeping a society cohesive. That dance is a constant in simian societies.

The human journey has revolved around energy, intelligence, and tools. The artifactual record showed continual progress in tool-making, the fossil record showed continually growing brains, and Homo sapiens appeared on the evolutionary scene maybe 300,000 years ago. But it took another 200,000 years or so before Homo sapiens achieved what we call behavioral modernity. The time between the first stone tools and behavioral modernity I call the First Epoch of the human journey, when we became human.

Chimps and bonobos are our closest evolutionary cousins that survived the rise of humanity. Chimps are hundreds of times more aggressive and violent than the most violent human societies. The war scholar Azar Gat stated it as succinctly as I have seen: the biological compulsion to survive and reproduce in a world of scarcity is at the root of all violence. Bonobos however, were chimps that found themselves isolated south of the Congo River more than one million years ago. They did not have gorilla competitors, their foraging parties expanded, and females banded together and overthrew male dominance. They are the most peaceful great apes, where violent deaths are virtually unknown and life is one big orgy. That contrast between chimps and bonobos holds lessons for humanity. The relative energetic abundance that bonobos enjoyed allowed them to become far more peaceful.

What I call the Second Epoch of the human journey is when those behaviorally modern humans conquered Earth by expanding from Africa. The process took about 50,000 years to complete, and when it was finished, all other human species and all of Earth’s easy meat became extinct. The end of that process was when humans invaded the Americas and quickly drove nearly all of its large animals to extinction, including five genera of the elephant family, who had lived in North America for more than 16 million years. That human expansion was devastating to the planet.

By the end of the Second Epoch, the human population was about 1,000 times as much as when it began, the continental ice sheets had receded on schedule, and the stage was set to domesticate plants and animals. The Domestication Revolution happened several times, independently. I call it the beginning of the Third Epoch. It has also been hypothesized that domesticating plants could have only happened where large animals largely went extinct, so hunting megafauna and its attendant warfare were no longer prominent. Otherwise, early farmers would have been too vulnerable to raiders. For some of those early farming societies, because women were the primary plant-raisers, as an adjunct to their gathering duties, they became matrilocal and broke up the gangs of related males that had always dominated human societies. Those became the human journey’s most peaceful preindustrial societies.

In several places on earth, after several thousand years of agriculture, civilizations formed. It was another huge watershed moment of the human journey, and led to new kinds of social roles, especially professions and elites, who were relieved of subsistence duties as they rode on the backs of those who provided the food.

Many of humanity’s greatest blessings and evils came from the rise of civilization. But, in general, life became better for the inhabitants of each successive Epoch, as their energy surplus rose and they could afford to be less violent and more humane.

From the very first civilizations, they conquered each other. It was the rare agrarian potentate who lived a long and peaceful reign. They often died violently, usually from within their own ranks, as everybody tried to reach the coveted thrones.

Up to half of all male chimps die violently, about a quarter of hunter-gatherer men did, and it was a much lower proportion since people began domesticating plants and animals. In my affluent community, next to Microsoft’s headquarters, violence is unknown between members of the community, and all crime is imported from the poor parts of the area. Poverty and crime are companions.

Europe’s rise to industrialization began a millennium ago, with the spread of watermills, in what has been called the Medieval Industrial Revolution. The introduction of Greek writings, which Islamic cultures had preserved, led to the rise of humanism in Europe and, eventually, the Scientific Revolution, with the Industrial Revolution close behind.

Also, during that rise to industrialization, Europeans learned how to turn Earth’s ocean into a low-energy transportation lane, and Europe conquered humanity. In the midst of that, deforested England turned to coal and became the first nation to industrialize. That also allowed them to become the first global empire. My great nation of the United States is the second, but we pretend that we are not an empire.

Each Epoch of the human journey was founded upon its energy practices, and no Epoch was ever energetically sustainable, as it plundered one resource after another to exhaustion, from megafauna to soils to forests to fossil fuels, which will be largely depleted in this century. But over each Epoch, humanity’s tools became more sophisticated, the energy surplus grew, and human societies became more humane and less violent.

Before industrialization, humanity had Malthusian constraints. That meant that every time that humanity plundered a new energy source, it just meant more mouths to feed, and humanity’s standard of living didn’t rise all that much, especially for the people who produced the food. Industrialization, with its energy-powered machines, was something different. Economic production leapt by orders of magnitude, and one side effect was the elimination of childhood death, which is the biggest event in the human journey so far, and it had nothing to do with medical interventions, but came from improvements in sanitation, nutrition, and hygiene. From gorillas to only three centuries ago, half of all offspring died before adulthood. In today’s industrial societies, almost none do. Nothing like it has ever been seen before in the eon of complex life.

Elites have played a dirty game from the beginning, garnering their disproportionate share of the economic surplus, generally violently. They also invoked divine status or sanction, to enable their charade. They were always economic elites above all else, and flaunting their status with conspicuous consumption was part of the game.

My sense is that with Europe’s conquest of the world, elites could begin to think in global terms for the first time. We encountered the minions of global elites during my free-energy days. It was not pretty. Global elites are very well aware that the arrival of free energy would mean the end of their reign. In a world of abundance, hoarding economic output would make no sense. We live in an era of artificially induced scarcity so that global elites can play their power games. As I stated in my video yesterday on the John Kennedy assassination, American presidents are way down the hierarchy of power on Earth.

We are on the brink of what I call the Fifth Epoch, if enough of us common people can muster sufficient integrity and sentience and pursue what I call the love and enlightenment path towards free energy. It wouldn’t take very many of us. My next video will be on what the Fifth Epoch can look like and why.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

This is the summary of this video.

There has been a method to my madness of my previous video posts. I began with my adventures, and then on the source of free energy, the JFK assassination, and my review of the journey of life on Earth and the human journey. Those videos should help people understand how corrupt American society is (and all societies, really), what is being hidden from the public, and the role that energy has played in the human journey. This video is going to outline what I call the Fifth Epoch of the human journey can look like and why. If people understand the material presented in the previous videos, then the vision that I present in this video will be much easier to understand.

There are reasons why I have stated that the people I seek need to have awakened from their indoctrination and conditioning. Awakening past the reality that we are fed from our cradles is vital, and it can be done in any walk of life. I have also suggested that people have paranormal experiences before they explore spiritual literature. Once people have experience, such material takes on a completely different character. There really is no substitute for experience. However, I have not been kidnapped and given the underground technology show, and few people on Earth have. But I have no doubt that such technologies are on Earth today and are likely older than I am.

Not very many people got to visit Sparky Sweet while he was alive to watch his free-energy device crank out energy. I have been to Mount Adams several times to watch UFOs fly over, and I was never disappointed. I’ve also had many extraordinary paranormal experiences. Several people close to me have either invented free-energy technology, seen it in action, or people close to them have. The people I seek need to bring free-energy technology out of the realm of speculation and into the acknowledgment that it’s real. Many of the experiences that I have had, they can seek, which can bridge the gap of somebody who has not seen free energy technologies for themselves, as in being in the same room with it as it produced energy.

I am reminded of a quote that I saw in Raymond Moody’s latest near-death experience (NDE) book: that people do not believe in NDEs until they have one, and then, that is all that they can talk about. I never had one but I have no doubt that they are real. I have had too many paranormal experiences to muster much doubt on the subject, especially since I have read hundreds of NDE accounts and many books. There is an amazing consistency to NDE accounts, and they are anything but what one would expect if people were making up experiences from ego needs. NDE experiencers come back better people and realize that life is all about love. To me, there is no greater testimony to the truth of their experiences than that.

In 2002, I wrote my first essay to deal in some depth with what I came to call the Fifth Epoch. I updated it in my 2014 essay, and last year’s essay also sketched it. In 2023, I wrote a little story on what the first century of the Fifth Epoch can look like. I have made my vision very clear, and this video will discuss why my vision is not really all that imaginative, but just logical assessments of what the arrival of free energy would change in the human journey.

In my 2014 essay, I organized the changes into immediate material changes, cognitive and social changes, and long-term changes. That is a good place to start. If people think that life is supposed to be full of hardship and misery, to then die a terrible death, they are not going to like my work, and especially my vision of the Fifth Epoch.

Immediate material changes

The story that I wrote had my ideal transition to the Fifth Epoch, and this video will assume that free energy comes to the world something like that, in that it will be harmlessly implemented and all of humanity will participate and benefit. The first thing that will happen will be phasing out all other energy sources and related technologies. All combustion would soon end. If an effort like mine is successful in 15 years, AI robotics (the ultimate expression of energy, intelligence, and tools) will make it a very quick transition. If there is a need for flames of some kind, water split into hydrogen and oxygen and burning the hydrogen results in water (or Brown’s Gas), for zero environmental impact. All air pollution would quickly end, and humanity could decide what carbon-dioxide level they want in our atmosphere, and it would be as easy as setting a thermostat. I would think that preindustrial levels would be ideal, but others would decide that. It would not really be done for humanity’s benefit, but for the rest of nature. Whatever the climate does would no longer impact human welfare.

There would no longer be water pollution, and water can be infinitely recycled in pristine condition with free energy. Everybody would drink pure water. Because my friend was shown antigravity technology, and this has long been testified to by Disclosure Project witnesses and others, humanity will quickly become a spacefaring species in the Fifth Epoch. Earth would never be mined again. The asteroid belt and rocky planets would provide far more material than humanity could ever use, and it could be mined with AI robotics. The global elite also have exotic materials. Flubber is not all that fictional. There would be no need to plunder Earth’s ecosystems for organic material for our material needs, such as wood. There would be no more oil spills, nuclear accidents, etc. I have long written that indoor farms could be placed anywhere on Earth (or even our solar system). Plants would grow in perfect environments and easily feed all of humanity. I foresee that humanity would also become vegetarians in the Fifth Epoch, as humanity continues to become more humane.

Humanity’s ecological footprint on Earth would largely vanish, and Earth could almost entirely go back to its natural state. What impact humanity might have on Earth could largely be a symbiosis with life on Earth. This is all easily foreseeable. Everybody on Earth would be richer than Bill Gates is today, just like the average American today is richer than the richest man in Europe was three centuries ago. Since processed food is the root of most diseases that Westerners suffer from, when everybody is eating whole fresh food, everybody would live to be 100, will be healthy the entire way, and medical interventions will be almost unknown.

Cognitive and social changes

In the Fifth Epoch, poverty would almost instantly vanish and never return. All of humanity’s economic needs will be easily met. This will have far-reaching changes on human journey. Scientists have discovered that children’s brains are permanently damaged when they are raised in adversity. That adversity almost all arises from poverty. Our amygdalas are our emotion and fear centers, and children raised in adversity have swollen amygdalas and shrunken prefrontal cortexes, which host our “intelligence.” An evolutionist might argue that this is not brain damage at all, but simply adaptation to an environment which calls for quick, violent action and reliance on instincts for survival. In the Fifth Epoch, people will no longer be conditioned to survive in that way.

Bucky Fuller said that children are born geniuses, but our societies beat it out of them. This is directly related to the many lies that societies tell their children. If children are not raised in adverse environments and lied to, to turn them into cogs in societal machines, crammed full of propaganda designed to dumb then down, I think that we will see a new kind of human in the Fifth Epoch. Today’s genius-level intelligence will be normal. Human societies will be vastly smarter than what we see today. Evolution will march on, and I expect that humanity will continue to become less muscular and more intelligent.

Almost everything in today’s mainstream economic theory will become obsolete. Economists are largely intellectual warriors for the capital class. Virtually all economic theory will die a deserved death, as well as many other ideologies, such as nationalistic ideologies. The concept of money will become meaningless.

Humanity will quickly be seen to be one family. Races and ethnicity are outcomes of geographic isolation. All humans will easily travel the planet and even the solar system. Geographic isolation will end, and one of the first things to go will be the idea of nations. Humanity will have one culture, one language, and one race. In-group ideologies will cease to exist. Elites will cease to exist, as will many other social roles. The nuclear family may become quaint, and what will supplant it will be vastly more enlightened.

Most of today’s professions will vanish. The so-called workday will only be a few hours, and it will be the highlight of each person’s day, when people get to contribute to their world. There will be no such thing as drudgery. In my lifetime, AI robotics will be able to do anything that a human does and better, as far as what our arms, hands, and legs do. Human creativity will be unleashed as never before, and creativity that serves humans that live in abundance and love has never been seen before. It will be quite a show.

The reasons for cities to exist will also end. People would rather live in pastoral environments with urban amenities, and all people will easily enjoy them. I expect all cities to be remediated back to their natural environments, as part of a global cleanup. Toxic industrial chemistry will end and ecosystems will regenerate. There may be something like cities, but they will be more like works of art and social-gathering venues, rather than places where people live cheek by jowl. Everybody will be able to instantly communicate with everybody, and be in the physical presence of anybody that wants to.

All organized religions are corrupt because of scarcity, just as all human organizations and ideologies are. None of today’s organizations will survive for long, including all organized religions. The human view of spirituality will become vastly more enlightened, and all dogmas will end.

Similarly, all violence, warfare, and crime are rooted in scarcity. They will quickly vanish, but there may be a short transition period, until people no longer need to be reminded. Gangs, in their many permutations, will cease to exist. All capitalist distortions of science and medicine will end.

The first order of business for being spacefaring is cleaning up all of the space junk. Then it would be domesticating the solar system, and the first thing would be to clean up all Earth-crossing asteroids and comets. It would be easily done, AI-guided craft would do it, and I can foresee the creation of a planetoid in the asteroid belt, of all of those collected asteroids, and that could become humanity’s principal mine. There would eventually not be a stray pebble in the solar system, and a child could safely travel in it.

There will no longer be human-piloted vehicles of any kind, and there will never be any accidents. Harmlessness and safety will be humanity’s only dogmas.

This post and related video is just a sketch what the Fifth Epoch can look like. I have been living with the idea for nearly 40 years, and I know that I can barely imagine what the Fifth Epoch can look like. What I presented in this posting video are just the easy achievements if we lived in abundance, and only free energy makes that possible.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

This is the summary of this video.

I have done this in Substack posts in the past, and this will be the video version. I made a summary version and will discuss the paths of failure and I what I think can work.

First, the topics around failure:

• Inventors are not the key;
• The money chase;
• Sneaking past the organized suppression;
• Free-energy demonstrations;
• Why mass movements do not work for this;
• The folly of exposing and conquering the global elite;
• Media campaigns;
• The hero’s journey;
• Dennis Lee’s changing strategies;
• Conferences;
• The beseeching route;
• The many traps for the ego.

And the one that I am trying out: the love and enlightenment approach. I am trying to build what I call the choir (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

This is the summary of this video.

The day that I met Dennis Lee, he had a bodyguard because of all the death threats that he had received. He also survived a murder attempt at his home. Bill Delp and friends were earning their pay. The overt organized suppression of Dennis’s company began, as far as I know, when no bank in the Seattle area would work with Dennis and his incredible marketing plan. Dennis had to leave the Seattle area to find a banker willing to work with him, and as with the chairman of the board of American Express, John Spickard understood. Few businessmen did. That is common with genius, as those mired in conventionality cannot see it. Also, Dennis did not go for the quick capitalist kill, which few businessmen could understand, as it went against their proclivities.

The electric companies were behind what happened in Seattle, but the global elite may have also been involved, as Mormon grifters stole both our Seattle and Ventura companies, and the Mormon financial empire was the ringleader of the global elite and probably still is. The attorney general was sicced on Dennis’s company, as was the federal bankruptcy court, as were the media, as were OSHA and other agencies. It was a full-court press to wipe out the threat of the world’s best heating system. One of Dennis’s employees died in the mayhem, which radicalized Dennis.

In Steven Greer’s The Lost Century movie, he listed nine tactics of organized suppression. Only one – national security orders –I was not intimately familiar with. I had lived through nearly all of them. Organized suppression is real, and it wrecks and shortens lives. But it is a big mistake to attribute all organized suppression to the global elite and blame them for everything. They have had a lot of help, from all of us.

My first big awakening moment during my journey with Dennis was the moment that his Seattle company was stolen. When it became evident that the Mormon grifters would prevail, a cheer went up from the crowd, who were mainly Dennis’s employees. My boss engineered the theft, and his criminal sidekick was our general counsel. There were a handful of “loyalists,” and two months after the theft, I was the only person who was still eager to work with Dennis. Well, Mr. Engineer also was, but he was largely in it for the money. I was the only person who chased Dennis out to Boston, out of his hundreds of employees in Seattle. Only two of the “loyalists” bowed out with honor, and several of them tried to extort money from us the next year. Dennis later said that Mr. Professor and I were the only two people (and Mr. Professor’s widow) who walked away with our integrity intact.

I watched our Ventura employees steal everything that wasn’t nailed down. After witnessing several attempts to steal our companies by our business associates, I told Dennis how shocking it was to see. His reply was that the first 50 times he saw it, he was shocked too.

When the gangster officials took out our Ventura company, likely at the global elite’s behest, promotions were handed all around to those who got their hands bloody. Corruption pays well, for a time. I wouldn’t want their afterlives. Our attorney investigated and heard that the order to take us out was given by the CEO of the local electric company. But he may have been also following orders.

Organized suppression can originate at the local, state, national or global levels, as protecting one’s turf looks similar, from street corners to boardrooms.

As terrible as bearing the brunt of organized suppression was, my greatest pain was often inflicted by my friends and family. I was repeatedly attacked, and my friends and family knew where to hit me where it hurt. Relationships that I thought would survive anything crumbled in those days. But I did find out who my true friends were through that, and they are like gold nuggets to me today. But I have no contact with my immediate family because of my journey, and I rescued all of them. That is not unusual in this field.

Some of them tried to ruin my remaining family relationships. My own mother made a scrapbook of all the libelous newspaper articles about us and took it on tour to my friends, family, and investors, telling them the story of her son the criminal. When I heard that, it didn’t even hurt anymore, as I was so used to it by then.

Today, talking heads in the free-energy field lie about Dennis, which is only one of many symptoms of how the free energy field is in a state of arrested development. We do nearly all the dirty work of the global elites, gratis.

Those are all signposts of the path I took to my journey’s greatest lesson: personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity. But it is also its most precious, and it is the key to manifesting the Fifth Epoch.

The organized suppression of free energy is 1% conspiracy and 99% complicity. All so-called conspiratorial situations are like that, which also aligns with Ed Herman’s Propaganda Model of how the media operates. We all have a hand in this, and it is the victim’s view of the world to blame all of this on misbehaving elites. This heaping of all our woes on global elites is another one of those “Anything But Homo Sapiens” situations, as people deny their collective responsibility and those of their ancestors. Only a creator’s mindset will succeed, in my opinion, and creators create with love.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

I am currently reading Noam Chomsky’s final book. His contribution to it was made before his 2023 stroke. I always thought that Noam and Ed Herman were at their best when writing about American foreign policy and how the American media covered for the empire. The book is titled: The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World. Noam's coauthor was one of his fanboys, similar to how my being Ed’s fanboy led to my becoming his first biographer.

The book’s theme is that American foreign policy has always been described by the government and media as being driven by humanitarian, human rights, and democratic concerns, but that is a Big Lie. The USA acts like all other empires have: it is all about plundering the empire’s victims. For the American Empire, it has been all about securing resources and cheap labor, and oil sits at the pinnacle of American foreign policy. The USA has been the world’s leading consumer of oil ever since the days of John D Rockefeller (but China is catching up fast). Oil is the black gold of the world economy. As Bucky Fuller said, if oil was priced at the benefit that humanity gets from it, it would cost a million dollars a barrel. I have roughly recalculated Fuller’s estimate. Middle East oil is history’s greatest material prize. Noam had plenty to say about the USA and the Middle East in his final book, and how oil guided American foreign policy there.

I’ll make a full report after I finish the book, but I wanted to write a post that was inspired by a recent article that I read. A pal referred me to the article, and it was originally written in Covert Action. That magazine introduced me to Ralph McGehee’s work, and I am glad to see that it is still around, although saddened that it is still needed. The article’s theme was that American foreign policy has long been guided in the Middle East by the oil issue. The article prominently mentioned that the genocide in Gaza may well be motivated by Israel’s aspirations to become an oil producer, as there are huge oil and gas deposits off the Gazan coast. That would not be surprising.

In my opinion, the Middle East’s fate was sealed when Winston Churchill converted the British Navy from coal to oil in 1911. I am also reading a tome on the British Empire’s bloody rule, which I will also write about one day.

In all of those works, the West’s obsession over Middle East oil is evident. But among Western pundits, it is the elephant in the room that nobody talks about. Over a decade ago, I was kind of amazed, if not very surprised, that American pundits wrote at length about the American-led invasion of Iraq without ever mentioning oil. This is nothing new.

That Covert Action article emphasized the USA’s postwar efforts in the Middle East, to basically elbow aside the fading colonial powers. The USA has been the king of the Middle East ever since. In Noam’s book, he wrote at length about the USA in the Middle East and our awesome hypocrisy on human rights. Saudi Arabia has long been one of the world’s most repressive regimes, but since the Saudis played ball with the USA, they have always received preferential treatment, even when they murdered and dismembered a Washington Post journalist. No human rights outrage is enough to dim the Saudi Arabian star in Washington, D.C. (or the Israeli star).

The USA overthrew the Iranian government in 1953 on behalf of American oil companies, and that began a bloody and oily era for the USA. After 9/11, the gloves were off, and our unprovoked invasion of Iraq began an imperial era that is still with us. We can largely predict American foreign policy by looking at the nations with the largest oil reserves. Venezuela tops the list, which explains everything about the USA’s bellicose stance toward it and the recent Nobel Peace Prize farce. That newest Nobel Peace Prize winner is openly advocating war on her own nation of Venezuela, in Orwellian fashion. In second place is Saudi Arabia, and it leads in conventional oil production, which is the good stuff. Venezuela’s oil is heavy oil, which is not as easy to extract and refine, as are Canada’s tar sands (third on the list), which helps explain Trump’s desire to add Canada to the imperial larder. The next three are Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait, which explains everything about the USA’s interventions in those nations. Number eight and nine are Russia and Libya, which also explains the USA’s actions, including overthrowing Libya’s government, which has been a catastrophe for Libyans.

The USA also intervenes in nations without much oil in the Middle East but with strategic interest, such as Syria, which was allied with Iran and Russia before the USA helped overthrow the Syrian government.

Of course, this all ends and more with the arrival of free-energy technology for public use. All of these geopolitical games and genocides would then end. But until then, oil will dominate American foreign policy.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

This is the summary of this video.

This will take several posts, and I will make them video posts, as a kind of oral history. About 15 years ago, I thought about doing this, and advancing technology has finally made it easy to do. My first video covers some of this territory, but these posts will go into depth at times.

In this series of posts, I will discuss my journey through the grim realities of my society, including its endemic violence, and how anybody who tries to make the world a better place, but runs afoul of the various rackets in the process, has hell to pay. I developed an approach that I think can avoid that, and I seek people who can do it with me. For the people that I seek, I think it is important to know, and if they follow my guidance, they should not come anywhere near the situations that I am about to describe. I plan to keep the people I seek safe, as far as their involvement with me goes.

Heterotrophs – organisms that feed off of other organisms – may be as old as life itself. Predatory animals really took off with the Cambrian Explosion, and we have had apex predators ever since. Male chimps kill each other with gusto. Homo erectus became an apex predator, and the world’s easy meat began dying off. Hobbes was right, in that human life was nasty, brutish, and short until industrialization.

I am a beneficiary of history’s greatest crime, which was the invasion and settlement of the Americas by Europeans, which was part of Europe’s conquest of Earth. My ancestors eagerly took advantage of all that “free” land, once the Indians were dispossessed. A current version of that process is what Israel is doing to Palestinians today, especially the genocide in Gaza, which is not far removed from what Hitler did to the Jews.

The USA is an empire that pretends that it is not one. The sitting president is an emperor, and is really a puppet with little real power. It has particularly been that way since John F Kennedy’s murder.

In my family are criminals and murderers. I doubt that my family is very unusual, with some men who rarely worked an honest day in their lives, and there may even be a prostitute or two in their ranks. I don’t have much to do with such relatives. I rescued all of my immediate family, and they all attacked me. This is how it often goes for the family Boy Scouts. I have lived with three different people who took lives, but it didn’t start that way.

I was raised in Baby Boom America, which was the most prosperous era in the human journey, and I am a member of history’s most privileged demographic group, as a white straight male American Boomer professional. My introduction to American violence was when I was five, when I saw my grief-stricken mother watching JFK’s funeral. A few years later, my father was at work in NASA’s Mission Control when three astronauts died in a training exercise. The USA was in the middle of an unprovoked genocide in Vietnam at the time, but I was oblivious to it at age eight. The next year, RFK and MLK were murdered, about the same time that a boy down the street ran his bicycle under a street sweeper and died. My grandfather died around the same time, which was my first close relative who died in my life.

I later learned that that grandfather was in World War I, in the trenches, and nearly died from the influenza pandemic. He also survived a mustard gas attack, and I don’t know what else, but it must have been horrific. He was crippled by the war and walked with a cane when I knew him. My other grandfather was in World War II, and also nearly died. My father was in the Korean War. They all came back from war either physical or emotional wrecks.

I had several uncles, and all but one served in the military. I am the first man in my family, going up my family tree for more than a century, who did not serve in the military, and I nearly did. The biggest employer in Ventura County, where I was raised, was the US Navy, with two naval bases. Other than the year at NASA, my father spent his career there. Being a soldier was just what my family did and I really didn’t question that I would also become one. But my mother had a very good idea what the military would do to me, and she prevailed to my father to talk me out of going to the Air Force Academy. I can only be grateful.

I got my first energy dreams at age 15, when my first professional mentor invented an engine that was considered the world’s best for powering an automobile. A literal rocket scientist became that engine’s greatest champion, but a high-ranking federal official told my mentor that if he thought that his engine would make the internal-combustion engine obsolete, to make his funeral plans. An industrialist stole the engine and drove a prototype in the Rose Parade, and I think that I later heard of that company’s fate.

About the same time that my mentor invented his engine, he invented a bomb that would destroy weaponry but not harm people. The Pentagon quickly suppressed it. Many years later my mentor told me that working for the military was a soul-deadening experience. He discussed how he would be in meetings, and amid all the euphemisms and technical talk, the subject was killing the most people in the most effective way possible. He realized that he would lose his soul if he worked there much longer, and he soon quit. In his retirement, he built a vapor-injection carburetor, before he realized that corporate America owned many patents on such carburetors (which never came to market), and he wisely ceased his effort. Billions of people use my mentor’s technology today, but all of his inventions were suppressed, stolen, or both.

As a young adult, I learned that one of my close relatives was a CIA contract agent who worked for Henry Kissinger. He never knew that I knew about his secret life, and I heard about it from his ex-wife. The only reason she found out about it was because an operation went bad and he had to have a bodyguard for a while. Then he brought her in, and years later, she spent an afternoon telling me about his secret life and how he nearly tried to recruit me into the “business.” He worked for Henry Kissinger, when Kissinger had no official role with the American government. Everybody is long dead and gone, but my spook relative has living relatives who may not know about his spook life, and it is not my place to reveal it. So I do not expect to publicly reveal his identity.

His spook activities ruined his life in several ways. For one thing, he had a very checkered career because he was regularly being called upon to play spook, and his extended absences from his day job meant that he often lost his job. His handlers would give him money after he would lose his jobs, so he could eke by. He was deeply in debt when I knew him.

One time he was ordered to kill a member of his team, because the member was a suspected double agent. My relative didn’t relish the job, but orders were orders. About 40 years later, I read that Allen Dulles advocated having double agents killed, and when I read that, it took me back to when I was told about my spook relative. Unless people are psychopaths, they don’t kill people with clear consciences, no matter how justified it may seem. I don’t know how many people my relative killed, but I doubt that that suspected double agent was the only one. My relative drank himself to death, which is common in that profession.

I have friends and family who served in Vietnam, and some were in combat. I have yet to meet a veteran who wanted to talk much about his wartime experiences, especially if he had been in combat.

When I was a child, Los Angeles was a hellish place that I rarely visited. I had an idyllic university experience, and when I graduated from college and moved back to my natal city of Seattle, I lived with my grandparents and began my career in downtown Seattle. It was my first daily exposure to life in the big city. They were homeless people everywhere, and it was somewhat of a shock. It was during the worst recession in 40 years. I was unable to get a career going in Seattle, and moved back to Southern California, defeated. I lived with my mother for six months before I began my career in Los Angeles.

My LA days were shocking. I worked in Skid Row for several months, it was like working in hell, and my drinking problems really began then. Walking past a dead body on the way to lunch epitomized those days. It was the first time that I had seen a dead body. I had a battle with the bottle for 20 years, and if I had not finally conquered drinking in 2000, I might not be here today. After asking a naïve question about how our profession benefited society, I eventually learned that my profession was worthless, and my energy dreams seemed further away than ever. I had rather unwitting brushes with death in the Sierras in those days. In early 1986, when I felt trapped in my career and LA, I made a desperate prayer, for the second and so far last time in my life, and then my big adventures began.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

This is the summary of this video.

When I hit Seattle in March, 1986, after that voice suggested it, I had a yuppie war chest, was living for free with my grandparents, and was ready to take as long as it took to find work in Seattle. I spent a day updating my résumé, then hit the streets of Seattle, handing out my résumé to firms, including an accounting recruiter that I met with late on Thursday afternoon. He said that with my credentials, I would easily find something to my liking in a month, and I was ready to take a year to find work.

The next morning, I was awakened by that same recruiter, who called to ask if I could be ready for an interview that afternoon, for an interview with a “solar company.” It felt like a lightning bolt hit me (which reverberates to this day), and I knew then why that voice told me to move to Seattle. That was ten days after that voice spoke to me. It was Dennis Lee’s company, and the rest is history.

This oral history won’t make a lot of sense unless I sketch Dennis’s journey before I met him, so this post will be about that. I lived with Dennis and his family for about a year, when I became his partner, he saw me as his heir apparent (but nobody else can do what Dennis does). I heard many stories from his life while living with him and afterward, heard some of it from his wife, and Dennis wrote the story of his business adventures in his My Quest, which was written from his jail cell in Ventura. I will draw on all of those sources for these posts, and I have previously summarized it here.

Dennis was born in 1946 in Yakima, Washington, and was raised as a migrant farmworker, when white people still did that in the USA. In one year while young, Dennis attended more than ten schools, to give an idea of how much they moved around. Like his father did, Dennis left home at age 13. That was not unusual in that culture. When I saw Dennis in September, he verified the high IQ that I knew he had: well into the genius range. I was mentored by two world-class geniuses, and I became a student of genius. The geniuses I have known don’t think like the rest of us, and their trait that I most treasure is their ability to look at something without the presumptions that the rest of us have. They approach their subjects like children, with their fresh eyes, and cut to the heart of the matter. That was when their insights could become the keenest.

After Dennis left home, he was homeless. He worked to feed and clothe himself, but he still went to school. He lived in abandoned homes in a very dangerous culture, in which the men who frequented such venues could have easily killed him. Dennis learned how to protect and booby-trap his sleeping places. In his last two years of high school, he secretly slept in the janitor’s closet at the school. Two weeks before graduation, he was caught and expelled in those benighted times.

Then Dennis then did what agrarian youth had long done in the United States, including my father: he joined the military. I believe that it was in 1964, just before Johnson began his invasion of Vietnam. Dennis was a medic, stationed in Germany. He initially did not fit in and was about to be discharged when he turned it around and became soldier of the month on his base, when he got his infirmary to pass its inspection, for its first time ever. He was then inducted into Special Forces. During his marathon of cleaning up his infirmary, he became so exhausted that he had an out-of-body experience, which was a preview of where he was heading. Dennis ended up in Vietnam on a Special Forces mission, just before he was discharged. As he wrote in his The Alternative (largely written in prison), he killed people on that mission. Dennis eventually realized that the USA’s mission in Vietnam was not noble, and he is not proud of his days in Vietnam.

Dennis returned home to Yakima, his first job was loading munitions to Vietnam, and he went to the local community college. He became president of his class and a straight-A student before it was discovered that he never graduated from high school. The school president made an exception for such an outstanding student.

In those days in Yakima, Dennis had his first awakening experience. As a migrant farmworker Baby Boomer, Dennis dreamed of joining the American middle class. His surrogate religion while growing up was American nationalism. Dennis fervently believed in the American Dream. In the Army, he would get in fistfights with soldiers who disparaged the USA.

When he returned home to Yakima, working and going to college, he bought a Mustang convertible and decided to get a $200 loan from the local bank. It was not because he needed the money, but because he was playing the game of reaching middle-class respectability, and the loan was his first planned step building a credit rating. Immediately after the branch manager handed him the loan, as Dennis was about to walk out of the bank, in came a family of starving migrant workers. It had been a difficult harvest season, the mother died, and the widower had several children to care for. They were living in their car, and this man walked into the bank with his skeletal children, seeking the bank’s help.

The man obviously came to the wrong place for help, and the branch manager let him know it in no uncertain terms. The branch manager coldly told the man that there were charities in town, and that was where people like him needed to go for help. Dennis and I never really discussed what led up to that moment. In my experience, and the experience of those like me (those disillusioned idealists), awakening doesn’t happen instantly, but it is more of a process, in which cognitive dissonance slowly increases to culminate in a moment of awakening. Dennis’s moment was in that bank lobby. As the dejected man turned around to leave, with his children in tow, Dennis’s nationalistic religion went up in smoke. He realized that he believed in something that did not exist.

Dennis then did what only people like Dennis do. He called out to the man, and said: “Sir, this is your lucky day. The bank has decided to give you $200.” Dennis then turned around and said to the branch manager: “You will never get that money back, as long as either one of us lives.” Dennis then said to the man, “Furthermore, you get a new car.” Dennis then handed him the keys to his new Mustang. The man’s eyes were bugging out of his head.

Dennis had to take the bus home, as he had just given away his car. He cried all the way home. When he got home, he decided to end his misery the way that a soldier would. He got his shotgun, put the barrel in his mouth, and was about to pull the trigger when a voice suddenly appeared in his head. My voice was just alien thoughts, but some people actually hear a voice. I don’t know what the case was with Dennis, but for the next half hour, Dennis had a dialog with the voice in his head.

The voice asked Dennis what he thought he was doing, and Dennis replied that he was exiting this damned world. The voice seemed to be somewhat Socratic and noted that because Dennis had been led to believe in something that didn’t exist, he was going to kill himself. By the end of the dialog, Dennis reached an agreement with the voice. Instead of killing himself, he would live to try to make that dream a reality. Dennis says that every day since then has been gravy, as he was about to pull the trigger.

Dennis calls that voice in his head God, but in the other instances that I’m aware of, including mine, the voice never identified itself. I suspect that it was our souls that spoke up, but if Dennis wants to call his voice God, that is his right. Maybe he is right.

One summer after school was out, Dennis did what youth in Washington often did in the summers, which was work in Alaska. He worked in the infirmary at a radar base. While a medic, Dennis performed a tracheotomy and made the incision for an appendectomy in his Army days. Dennis’s dream was to become a surgeon. His boss at the infirmary pioneered heart surgeries for children and buried most of his patients. He told Dennis that if Dennis gave up his surgeon dreams, he would pay for the rest of Dennis’s college.

Dennis had a girlfriend, who was about the only woman within 100 miles. After a month, she confessed that she was being used as bait by local mobsters. They wanted to recruit Dennis to dispense their legal drugs from the infirmary. Dennis instead went to the FBI and led them in a sting operation. The sting was successful, but then Dennis survived two Mob hit attempts and had to leave Alaska. His Special Forces background helped him survive the murder attempts. I think that Dennis had many brushes with death by that time in his life. When I saw him in 2013, I asked him how many times he nearly died, and he replied with dozens of times, some of which I will recount in these posts.

That doctor in the Infirmary was from New Jersey and retired there. Dennis took him up on his college-funding offer and attended Fairleigh Dickinson. Dennis studied social psychology and was a Utopian thinker. His senior project was on Utopian societies through history. He was at the top of his class, as usual, and soon before graduation, he was invited to attend a conference that was hosted by B.F. Skinner. Dennis sat near the stage in some kind of honors section. As Dennis watched the conference, he slowly became horrified. The conference was about getting the public to believe whatever elites want him to. It was kind of like Pavlov for humans. In the middle of Skinner’s presentation, Dennis stood up, gave him a Hitler salute, stormed out, and dropped out of school on the brink of graduation.

When Dennis was in New Jersey, he hobnobbed with the Eastern elite, the kind that you see in movies such as Heaven Can Wait. He worked during his last year of college, and he was an aluminum siding salesman for Sears. He made more than his entire department combined, including his supervisor. While the others stood around, Dennis sold. He was at a customer’s home one evening until past midnight while closing the deal, and he arrived at work the next morning five minutes late. He was fired on the spot, and as his boss handed him his final paycheck, he said that Dennis had made many enemies at Sears. Dennis was in the wrong environment for being such a talented salesman (the best that I ever saw), and that was the last time that he ever worked as an employee.

When he dropped out of college, he then pursued his Utopian dreams. He made a deathbed pledge to a member of the Eastern oligarchy to protect her daughter from her father. Instead of adopting her, he married her, and they soon had a child. But the child was born premature and never left the hospital in her short life.

Dennis’s first utopian effort was a home remodeling company that he named Old World Builders. He hired a master craftsman to do home remodels and also employed his brother. Dennis was learning the hard way about being an entrepreneur, after some big mistakes on jobs, but was finally getting the hang of it when the Oil Crisis hit, which ended the Postwar Boom. Many construction companies went bankrupt during the Oil Crisis. When Dennis’s supplier illegally repossessed what it had sold him, then the customer whose property the repossession happened at stopped payment on his check, and Dennis’s business was doomed. In his youthful naïveté, Dennis went to Las Vegas to gamble up the money that he needed to save the company. It wasn’t that naïve, however, and his basic play was betting that the house cheated. He sat next to high rollers and subtly bet against them. He won enough money to save his company, but then he got a call from his wife, who said that the police were looking for him. In a moment of panic, he put it all down on one bet and lost it all, and then went home to face the music. His daughter died and his marriage failed at the same time.

When that customer put a stop payment on his check, Dennis’s checks started bouncing, and Dennis was prosecuted for fraud for bouncing those checks. That was no crime, but Dennis got what seems to have been intentionally bad legal advice, and he pled guilty to fraud for bouncing those checks. He later tried to reverse the plea, when he realized how he had been hoodwinked, but the judge wouldn’t have it. That guilty plea still haunts him more than 50 years later.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

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When Dennis had his bout of what he thought was automatic writing, he came up with a concept, of a way to unite the consumer and help small businesses, to level the playing field of capitalism. He started a company called United Community Services (UCS). Years later, his old employer, Sears, came up with a watered-down version of Dennis’s concept, called the Discover Card, which saves as people use it.

Until I came along, Dennis always began his companies with no capital, which was not an easy trick. Dennis got his companies going with his unparalleled persuasive ability, his ability to survive on no capital, and getting involved with technologies or concepts with great promise, which he sometimes invented. UCS was that way. But building a business that way was very difficult. Part of Dennis’s talent was making it look easy.

Dennis fled organized crime on the West Coast and sought refuge in New Jersey, of all places. The Mafia began trying to muscle in on Dennis’s businesses nearly from the beginning. Mafia lieutenants were everywhere. Dennis once threw a Mafia lieutenant down a flight of stairs after he tried to muscle in, and Dennis subsequently survived a hit attempt in a way which gained the respect of New Jersey mobsters, and they generally left him alone after that, at least that family, but he was continually fending off mobsters. Also, his business partners regularly tried to steal his companies, and they were sometimes successful. The last time they did it before his Seattle days, his partners allied with mobsters, but I get ahead of myself a little.

When Dennis was a child, he had no use for organized religion and never really believed the fire-and-brimstone services that he attended. Early in his UCS days, he met a young idealistic woman named Allison. She was Jewish, and she soon became his wife. Dennis was in some kind of debate club in those days, pursuing his Utopian ideals, and in one moment, he realized that people were incapable of governing themselves and needed a benevolent dictator called God, and he suddenly believed that the Bible is the literal word of God. He still believes that way. I do not share Dennis’s Christian faith, but I have been very impressed to see how Dennis uses it in his life. When I saw him in September, my summation was “God is love.” Dennis agrees, and that is enough common ground for us.

In his early Christian days, he was quite a zealot, and at one point he tried to surround himself with Christians, which was a disaster, with all the Christian infighting. I believe that his UCS effort lasted about two years, and it was $1 million in debt with slim prospects. Dennis decided to give it away to the Christian community and ended up trying to give it to Pat Robertson. Although Dennis tried to give it to Robertson, Robertson was so impressed that he wanted to become an investor instead. He put in $150K before his lawyers decided that Dennis’s company resembled a pyramid scheme, and he decided to walk away from it but then blamed Dennis. The company folded when Robertson walked away.

UCS was an early example of multilevel marketing, which was partly what made the business work, but which also made it resemble a pyramid scheme. Amway is probably the leading multilevel marketing company, and we had dealings with them when I was Dennis’s partner. Those kinds of marketing plans can sow the seeds of their own destruction, because people can get infected with greed. This was one of the Achilles heels of Dennis’s companies: they were too successful for their own good and attracted thieves, and later, organized suppression.

After UCS died, Dennis then got involved with energy conservation. He originally got involved with low-flow showerheads on the Jersey Shore and sold them under a shared-savings program, which was the first of its kind.

Before the Oil Crisis, Americans were profligate users of energy. Today’s average American uses about 15% less energy than in the 1970s, which is reflected in our declining standard of living. Homes were not insulated, but Americans quickly discovered the virtues of insulation.

Dennis then got involved in the foam-insulation business, and this is where his genius was first brought to bear in industrializing businesses. When Dennis got involved, foam insulation practice was a man, a hose, a bucket, and foam mix. Not only was it highly inefficient, it also had poor quality control. Poor quality control in the foam-insulation business meant off-gassing of formaldehyde, which presented a health hazard. Dennis created specialized teams to prepare the home for the foam, to spray the foam into the walls, and to reseal the walls. He also invented a “battle wagon” that carried the foam and computer-mixed it, so that it was perfectly mixed and would not off-gas.

Dennis’s foam companies immediately skyrocketed, and he not only had to continually fend off mobsters, but his business associates tried stealing his businesses. Dennis also brought considerable entrepreneurial skill to the situation, and every time the thieves would steal his companies, they thought that they had jumped on the gravy train and could just sit back and watch the money roll in. But without Dennis there to run it, the companies always collapsed. Those greed-blinded idiots always killed the golden goose. I came to learn that that is typical in small-time entrepreneurial waters. Not only did mobsters and associates try to steal Dennis’s companies, but the fiberglass-insulation interests felt threatened. With Dennis’s crews and battlewagons, he could insulate a neighborhood in a day. So Dennis started to experience organized suppression that was directed from the fiberglass interests. One newspaper called Dennis the “Con Man of the Year.”

When mobsters stole Dennis’s companies, which then collapsed, they could blame Dennis, in their peculiar logic. After one such incident, the mobsters were planning on breaking Dennis’s legs, but Dennis was “saved” by coming down with Guillain-Barré syndrome, which paralyzed him from the neck down. Alison gave birth to their first child around the same time. I believe that it happened in 1979.

Of course, with his company stolen once again, they were destitute. Because Dennis was a veteran, he got treated at a VA hospital, and they were every bit as bad as depicted in Born on the Fourth of July. The VA staff nearly killed Dennis three times due to their negligence. He had to flee the hospital to survive, as Alison nursed him back to health. Dennis could eventually stand, but he has no sense of equilibrium to this day. Just walking has been an ordeal for him ever since. I have pushed him around in wheelchairs.

When Dennis could walk again, he became a salesman for medical-emergency pendants and immediately began thinking big on how to sell them en masse. Dennis always thought big like that. Dennis’s second daughter was born then, in 1981. He began to get involved in energy conservation again and put on a show in a mall, hawking his wares. Dennis considered solar systems a scam, and they were back then. They barely worked, and most companies sold them just to take advantage of Carter’s tax credit, which reimbursed 40% of the sales cost, up to a $4,000 credit.

At that mall show, as a favor to a business associate, he put a demo model of a solar system in the show. He put it in the back, next to the bathrooms, so that nobody would see it. But during that show, a man repeatedly asked Dennis about that system. After repeated inquiries, Dennis finally responded with: “Are you ready to pay $12,000 for it?” The man replied that if it worked like he thought it did, he would. That got Dennis’s attention.

That happened in Delaware, next to DuPont’s headquarters. That was no run-of-the-mill solar system, but was the world’s best heating system. It was the LamCo system. Dennis’s first sales were to DuPont scientists, who were enthralled by the system. Dennis quickly brought his entrepreneurial genius to the situation. He revived his shared-savings program, lowered the sales price, and sold nearly 300 systems in his first month in one county, when LamCo had only sold a few systems a year on the entire East Coast. When Dennis got involved, half of the buyers installed the systems themselves, which led to poor quality control and systems that barely worked. As Dennis did in the foam business, he immediately set about professionalizing the installation.

Dennis found his rocket ship and thought big, as usual. He wanted to carpet the United States with that heat pump. As usual, almost nobody understood what Dennis was doing, which is the typical fate of geniuses. But Dennis eventually got the attention of the chairman of the board of American Express, who understood. American Express was about to commit $1 billion to carpeting the United States with Dennis’s heat pump. Just then, LamCo’s other owners (Dennis owned a third of it at that time) stole several hundred thousand dollars from Dennis, and mobsters stole the rest. Dennis went from living in Southampton to being destitute once again, just after his third child was born, a boy.

That happened in late 1983, and Dennis took his family to Yakima for Christmas, to introduce them to his son. But his son died of crib death during the visit. Dennis had nothing to go back to on the East Coast, and as fate would have it, he stumbled into the middle of an energy disaster. The biggest municipal bond default in American history to that time was in Washington State, when the electric companies floated bonds to build nuclear power plants that were not completed (of five planned, only one was completed). Washington’s electricity was the cheapest on Earth before that happened, at one penny per kilowatt-hour. It tripled in short order and was projected to go much higher. Dennis could not sell energy-conservation equipment where the electricity was the world’s cheapest, but when he saw full-page ads by the electric companies, calling for conservation, that was a fateful moment.

Dennis not only stumbled into an energy disaster, but the electric companies were pulling off a scam on the public. Homes that heated with electricity were being offered conventional heat pumps, which would save them 50% over electric-resistance heating. The electric companies actually provided a subsidy to customers who bought the heat pumps, but they paid for it by raising everybody’s electric rates. Dennis thought that if they were promoting 50% savings, they should love 85% savings. When I saw Dennis in September, he said that Amory Lovins published an article that basically said that Dennis’s technology would be bad news, as it would create “bad load” with the electric companies, which essentially meant that it saved too much energy.

In Eastern Washington, however, Dennis’s heat pump would compete with gas heating that agribusiness was using for processing fruit, especially apples. So, taking market share away from the gas companies was fine with the electric companies, and they even sent an engineer out to help Dennis. But when Dennis mentioned that the big market was all those homes in Washington, that engineer got a deer-in-the-headlights expression and fled.

Dennis got kind of ensnared with a local oligarch and wasted a year with him. When the oligarch started telling people that he didn’t need Dennis any longer, Dennis had enough and took his family to Seattle. He had a beat-up station wagon, $20, and no place to sleep. Eight months later, Dennis’s net worth was $50 million.

When Dennis hit Seattle, he discovered that when LamCo was stolen from him, a man who stole the worthless patent lived in the Seattle area, and a bank was actually making the systems. They had no idea what they were doing and were on their way to going out of business. Dennis approached them and said that he would solve their problems. Instead of treating them like their savior, they treated them like an unwelcome beggar.

Dennis took the approach that he always did, of selling his systems and stacking contracts so high that a financier would get interested. Dennis still thought that the electric companies would love him, but somebody was killing his deals with the banks. He later learned that it was the electric companies. Shut out from Seattle’s banks, he found one in Spokane, and its owner, John Spickard, like the chairman of American Express, saw the genius in what Dennis was doing. John not only got excited, he wanted a piece of the action. One of John’s employees put Dennis in touch with a corporate-shell owner. Corporate shells were a quick way to take companies public. Dennis did his deal with the shell, retained 80% ownership, John’s company got 10%, and the rest went to some early investors, some to the shell owners, and shares were sold to the public. Dennis’s stake was soon worth $50 million.

Just then, the electric companies struck. An electric company called a press conference, called Dennis’s company a scam, and called for an Attorney General’s investigation. Dennis had gone so far as to rig up one of his heat pumps on a truck, parked in an electric company parking lot, and begged them to come out and see his system. We later heard that he had terrified the electric companies. All that they could see was billions of dollars in lost revenues if Dennis was able to carpet Washington with his heat pump.

Just as they were ordered to do, the Attorney General’s office began an investigation, which was fraudulent from beginning to end. The hatchet lady was named Betsy, and she lied out of both sides of her mouth as she attacked Dennis’s company. Around the same time, the Rockefellers’ bank (Chase Manhattan) wiped out Dennis’s manufacturer in California, so Dennis had to build his own factory. In Yakima, Dennis picked Mr. Engineer off the scrapheap. His real name was Stan, and he led the engineering teams that designed the Boeing 707, which was the world’s first mass-produced airliner. Stan later supervised the construction of the world’s largest building – the 747 manufacturing plant – and was its first plant superintendent. Stan knew Frank Lloyd Wright, among other luminaries. Stan got bladder cancer and was eased into retirement, where Dennis found him in Yakima. Stan built Dennis’s factory.

At about the same time that that mayhem was happening, Bill Delp approached Dennis’s company, offering to smooth things with the electric companies. Bill was a corporate hit man who worked for the electric companies. His job was to try to topple the company from the inside, while Betsy, the media, and other government organizations were trying to take it down from the outside, in what I have come to call an inside-outside job. Bill did not fool Dennis for an instant, but Dennis hired him anyway, wanting to keep his enemy close. I would not have done that, and Bill would soon be responsible for the death of one of Dennis’s employees.

Dennis did all he could to cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation, but Betsy had a job to do. Dennis took a business trip to Indiana, which was a Rust Belt state that wanted to attract industry, and he was thinking of moving his company there. Before he left, Dennis told Betsy that if she wanted him to stay in the state and not go on the trip, just say the word. Betsy replied that all was well, and Dennis left. While he was gone, she not only filed a fraudulent lawsuit against Dennis’s company, she orchestrated a media splash against it. Bill attempted to incite a mutiny on the inside at the same time. Bill had stolen documents from Dennis’s company, which ended up in Betsy’s files, which she hurriedly returned when Dennis threatened an FBI probe of the Attorney General’s office.

Bill’s mutiny attempt failed, and then he engaged in many criminal acts to try to put the company out of business, including repeated burglaries of Dennis’s company, siccing government agencies on the company such as OSHA and the IRS, and capping it off with a fraudulent bankruptcy suit. When he was responsible for a woman’s death, it didn’t even slow him down and he spread rumors that Dennis was responsible for her death. Bill was the first of a number of talented psychopaths that I saw sicced on our companies over the years.

When Betsy’s nose was rubbed in her crimes enough, her conscience finally awoke, and she quit the Attorney General’s office and taught law school. She was the best of those sicced on Dennis’s company, but she couldn’t help herself and was disbarred several years ago for looting more than $100,000 from a client’s bank account. Betsy hung her hat on the fact that one person in the state of Washington misunderstood one thing that Dennis said. The civil law she used made it clear that it did not matter if Dennis never intended to deceive anybody. That one person in the state misunderstood one thing that Dennis said was enough. Betsy then took Dennis’s customers hostage to force him to sign a civil settlement, which I have watched all manner of assailant use as “proof” of Dennis’s criminality.

Carter’s tax credit expired at the end of 1985, and Dennis was in a race to install those systems. Otherwise, his customers would have been screwed. On New Year’s Eve, 1985, a man arrived at Dennis’s house to take him away to murder him. The “deal” was that if Dennis went along peacefully, the man would not also murder his family. What the assassin did not count on was that at midnight, Dennis’s installation crews showed up at his house to swim in his swimming pool to celebrate. Suddenly, Dennis and the assassin were surrounded by Dennis’s employees. Dennis told the assassin that it was a nice try, but he would live to see another day, as the assassin slinked away.

Soon afterward, Dennis’s head of marketing hired a bodyguard for Dennis, and he had a bodyguard the day that I met him. After New Year’s Day, the company was kind of dead in the water, partly because Bill’s fraudulent bankruptcy suit strangled the company.

In February, 1986, a voice in my head suggested moving to Seattle, and ten days later I was interviewing at Dennis’s company.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

This is the summary of this video.

I want to provide a little more color on what I’ve covered so far in these videos. I mentioned those shared-savings program for Dennis Lee’s heat pump, in which the $4,000 down payment was refunded by Jimmy Carter’s tax credit, for a $10,000 heat pump. That took all the risk away from the customer, which is why a chimpanzee could sell Dennis’s heat pump under his program. Also, financiers who understood the genius of what Dennis did were eager to participate, such as the chairman of the board of American Express and John Spickard. It was the opportunity of a lifetime.

What I did not mention in the videos was that Dennis determined that the direct cost of building, selling, and installing the heat pump was about $4,000. In the accounting world, there is a concept called gross margin, which is calculated as the sales price less the direct cost of what is being sold. Only the manufacturing and installation costs would be calculated in a gross margin, so the gross margin on Dennis’s equipment was about 70% ($10,000 sales price less $3,000 manufacturing and installation).

My last job was working for a company that sold high-tech cutting equipment, and its gross margin was about 25%. General Motors’s gross margin is about 14%. Carrier, the world’s largest heat pump maker, has a gross margin of 25%, which Dennis approached to make his heat pump. A 70% gross margin for Dennis’s equipment was surreal. But the reason for that incredible margin was because it could deliver heat so much more cheaply than anything else could. If we put dollars and cents aside for a moment, Dennis’s heat pump delivered heat into homes and businesses at less than half the energetic cost of other heating systems (more like about a third, and 15% when replacing electric-resistance heating in Washington). Those huge energy savings are what paid for everything.

Dennis performed a brilliant act of financial engineering, but it was the real world of energy savings that made it all work. Financial engineering in the absence of real economic productivity is largely worthless, and scams are done that way. But Dennis financial-engineered around the world’s best heating system.

In the end, what was really happening was that customers were being gouged for their energy costs, paying three times as much for their heating as they needed to. This situation is very similar to how high-mile-per-gallon carburetors have been suppressed for a century. The energy suppliers are in cahoots with the energy-technology companies, and the result is milking the captive consumer. That is the essence of capitalism, and anything that threatens the rackets is wiped out, as Adam Smith observed.

I have yet to see one of Dennis’s assailants ever have a rational discussion of those issues, as they invariably lie about Dennis instead, such as Mr. Skeptic. I will add a little more color to the Seattle days, such as when Dennis was on that business trip to Indiana and Betsy and Bill tried to wipe out his company while he was gone. That day at the office/factory, Alison was in charge, and when she arrived at the office, news camera crews were waiting for her. They asked her to comment on the Attorney General’s lawsuit, but Alison had no idea what they were talking about. It turned out that Betsy had not even filed her lawsuit, but sicced the media on Dennis’s company in the meantime.

Betsy did not file the lawsuit for days after the media splash. When she finally did, it was a string of lies and non sequiturs. One of Betsy’s charges was that because Dennis’s heat pump had been measured to get a COP of five in January in Minnesota, it did not mean that systems in Seattle would get such high COPs. It takes minimal scientific literacy to understand that if his heat pump got a COP of five in Minnesota in January, that it would do better in Seattle’s milder climate. Betsy was counting on her audience’s being idiots, and it largely worked. Perhaps my favorite charge of Betsy’s 40-plus counts was that there was no factory where Dennis’s heat pump was being made (after the Rockefellers wiped one out). The lawsuit was served at Dennis’s factory. Before the attacks by the electric companies and the Attorney General, Dennis had sold 1,000 systems, and everybody who had not made a downpayment canceled their contracts, leaving only 400 customers, and Dennis never made another sale in Washington after that.

In my previous video, I failed to mention that when Dennis was experimenting in Yakima with his heat pump in the summer of 1984, his system got up to COPs of 12, in the summer sunshine. I have heard of COPs as high as 16.

There were many technical and economic issues to overcome with that heat pump, which was partly why Dennis’s companies were the only ones that succeeded out of more than a hundred that came and went. When Dennis got involved, the systems had ten panels, but Dennis’s R&D efforts eventually resulted in eight. The panel was the heat pump’s only exotic component, and the industrial presses needed to produce such panels would only run lots of 1,000 panels (a $100,000 order, at $100 per panel). So the panel buyer had to sell 125 systems or none. That was an economy-of-scale issue that only Dennis’s companies could overcome. I wrote a series of posts on reviving Dennis’s heat pump in North America.

There was another issue that air-to-air heat pumps did not face. Those panels produced more energy than a home could often use. They performed better in the daytime, with sunshine and wind, but the primary heating needs are earlier in the morning and in the evening for most households (where people are at work or school in the daytime and asleep at night). Because of all that energy coming from the panels, the condenser needed to be similarly sized. Water has much more thermal capacity (ability to absorb heat) than air, so the condenser for Dennis’s heat pumps heated water. That was why commercial hot-water installations were always the best performing, as they had huge and continual demands for hot water. For homeowners, the ideal was a water tank that held hundreds of gallons, to store energy in the daytime. That was generally not a big problem, but some smaller houses may not have had room for them. But houses that had those water tanks never needed to worry about running out of hot water.

Carter’s credit tax specifically exempted air-to-air heat pumps from getting the credit. The tax credit was intended to spur innovation, not subsidize something that already existed. Dennis’s heat pump was the epitome of the innovation that the tax credit encouraged, and it always qualified for the tax credit. But Dennis also sold what was technically a heat pump. To distinguish it from air-to-air heat pumps, Dennis called it “solar refrigeration,” and his companies always carefully instructed the customers on how to apply for their tax credit. Dennis even attended Congressional hearings on the tax credit, and he was assigned to a committee of one to write performance criteria for qualifying for future credits, as almost all of Carter’s tax credit money went to fund scam solar systems. But that did not stop Seattle’s media from lying about it. That lying news segment was my first inkling that maybe the media was not a seeker of the truth.

How the Washington power structure could portray the world’s best heating system, put on people’s homes for free, as a scam was initially mind-boggling, but that was before I saw the media’s Orwellian treatment of genocidists such as Suharto and Kagame, portraying them as heroes, not to mention my great nation’s genocidal founding fathers, such as George Washington and Christopher Columbus. The system can portray saints as psychopaths and vice versa, and the public is rarely the wiser.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

Today is the 62^nd anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s murder. I did a video on the JFK assassination recently. I could go on for days on the JFK issue and, for me, it is enough to know that Lee Harvey Oswald did not do it. Comparing the chapter of Gary Wean’s book to the Operation Northwoods document, declassified ten years after Gary’s book was published, should remove all doubt about the veracity of Gary’s reporting. Both documents described operations intended to frame Fidel Castro to justify an invasion of Cuba. That is the nexus of the JFK hit, and Gary originated the “Israel did it” hypothesis, which inspired Michaels Collins Piper’s Final Judgment, which remains the leading effort on the “Israel did it” hypothesis.
Today’s leading JFK theories closely follow Gary’s reporting (Oswald, Cuba, E. Howard Hunt, and the CIA), without ever mentioning Gary. They even discuss Northwoods and still ignore Gary, which is incredible to me.

This morning, Sam Husseini published on the “Israel did it” angle. He linked to one example of many that discuss the Israel angle on the JFK hit, and Gary is never mentioned in such articles. I have given my views on the Israel connection to the JFK hit – there were some connections and Israel may have been involved, but I see them more as muscle than masterminds. Many more domestic interests wanted JFK dead, and if I had to put my money on it, I would bet on the Eastern Oligarchy and MIC. JFK was not nearly an eager enough capitalist and imperialist for their tastes. If the ET angle was the final straw, I would not be surprised. But who did it and why is not that important to me.

For me, the primary lesson of the JFK hit was the permanent demotion of the American presidency. The sitting president could be murdered in broad daylight in front of hundreds of witnesses, and it would all be covered up. All presidents since JFK have been puppets and knew it, which brings me to Trump 2.0.

Every day, it is something new with Trump. If Trump ends the specter of nuclear war, I am OK with his winning his coveted Nobel Peace Prize, farce that it is.

As Sam has noted, Trump can contradict himself in nearly the same sentence. In Sam’s article, he noted that RFK, Jr., is a Zionist puppet, which is one of RFK’s aspects that raises my eyebrows. Kennedy founded the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, and I have written on what I hope that he accomplishes. He is trying, and the media hysterics over the CDC’s changing stance on vaccines and autism is predictable. I have written on Kennedy and the vaccine/autism connection before, so I do not need to belabor it other than to note that the loud calls that the connection has been disproven is one of the bigger lies that I have seen in recent years, and that is saying something.

That Kennedy sits where he does is astounding, and something that I did not expect to live to see. The medical racket is doing a full-court press to thwart Kennedy’s efforts, and the endless media attacks are part of it.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

This is the summary of this video.

A reader remarked on a prior post regarding the high gross margin on Dennis Lee’s heat pump. The 70% gross margin was partly due to Carter’s tax credit. Remove the tax credit and reduce the sales price by the same amount, and the margin drops to 50% ($6,000 sales price minus $3,000 cost of sales divided by the $6,000 sales price: ($6,000 - $3,000) / $6,000 = 50% - Dennis’s systems with the tax credit were ($10,000 - $3,000) / $10,000 = 70%), which is still twice Carrier’s (or that of any similar industrial company). But that is not quite a valid way to look at it, either. The $10K sales price was determined by Carter’s tax credit (40% up to a $10K sales price).

If the distortions of the tax credit (which was only for homes) were removed, the margin may have settled at around 60%, which is still an unheard-of margin for such equipment. Commercial installations had far greater energy demand, and Dennis’s heat pump saved huge amounts of energy and, consequently, money. Commercial installations did not qualify for the tax credit, so Dennis’s financial-engineering play was muted for those, but I saw commercial systems that paid for themselves in two years and less. The only moving part was the compressor, and that was usually the only part that would have needed to be replaced (maybe once or twice) over 30 years or so of operation. The system would pay for itself many times over.

An installation tech once told me that the reason why Dennis’s system produced such high output and COPs was that the compressor’s exhaust was twice the pressure of air-to-airs (which also raised the exhaust temperate from about 100 degrees Fahrenheit to 200), which doubled the BTU output and more than doubled the efficiency (more like tripled). The HVAC textbooks stated that the output of air-to-air heat pumps was 12,000 BTUs per horsepower (AKA “ton”) of compressor. But Dennis’s heat pump got 25,000 BTUs per horsepower, as can be seen with this test. The textbooks did not apply to Dennis’s system. It broke the rules of HVAC systems because of those huge panel evaporators. That was why refrigeration mechanics had to go to class for a week to learn some new rules so that they could successfully install Dennis’s heat pump.

The bottom line was that gas and oil furnaces and air-to-air heat pumps could not compete with Dennis’s heat pump, nor could standard solar systems (or electric resistance, obviously). Dennis’s heat pump blew them all away at between 15% (replacing electric resistance) and 30% (replacing oil and gas heaters) of their energy costs. In the 40 years since Dennis’s company in Seattle was wiped out, heat-pump technology has improved, but so would have Dennis’s heat pump. Those huge evaporators created a great and permanent advantage over the tube-and-fin arrays of air-to-air heat pumps.

The only company in the world that I know of that makes Dennis’s style of heat pump is in Portugal (it advertises up-to-85% savings, consistent with Dennis’s heat pump). By looking at the panels, it seems to be an inferior version. Dennis’s panels were much more “veiny,” and the Portuguese systems seem to hold far less refrigerant than the 60 pounds in Dennis’s system. It would be interesting to see those specs.

I have mentioned this before in my videos, that Betsy hung her entire case on the fact that one man in the state misunderstood one thing that Dennis said. Then she held Dennis’s customers and John Spickard hostage to coerce Dennis to settle the case. Dennis had his customers vote on it, and Dennis called it the dirtiest deal he ever did. Dennis’s settlement essentially admitted that one person in the state misunderstood one thing that he said. The End. But ever since then, I have watched Dennis’s critics and assailants use the settlement in Washington as “proof” of Dennis’s criminality. The Attorney General (Ken Eikenberry, who died in 2023, which I just discovered, so I will now name him) got a huge public black eye from his vendetta against Dennis. He ran for governor several years later (1992) and barely lost, likely because another one of his victims fought back. That man was trying to end homelessness in Seattle. That was his “crime.” He and Dennis gave the Attorney General the two biggest publicity black eyes that he ever got.

When Betsy’s conscience eventually awakened after her nose was rubbed in her crimes she quit the Attorney General’s office to teach law school but was eventually disbarred for looting a client’s bank account. But Betsy was simply replaced by another “consumer protection” attorney, who kept up the attacks on Dennis for many years. She endlessly lied about Dennis, retired to teach law school, and is a noted “philanthropist.” This is typical, as I eventually learned. Jesus’s critiques of the hypocritical Pharisees were timeless. Fittingly, she helped Eikenberry run for governor.

During the mayhem in Seattle, Dennis conceived of a way to overcome installation issues, by making the system in a self-contained unit that just had to be unloaded at the customer's site, which Dennis called the Heat Injector. I have long thought about such a device, and it is intriguing. The bottom line is that if that industry around that heat pump ever developed, there were a number of ways to overcome installation issues while keeping the system performance high. It is largely unexplored territory.

Bill Delp, with his psychopathic talents (which included sleeping with employees to enlist their help), duped several of Dennis’s employees into joining in his fraudulent bankruptcy suit, which the federal courts were in on. When Dennis’s company was stolen, which I will get to, Bill’s job was done and he soon left the state, leaving his dupes to hold the bag. He spent most of the rest of his life in sunny Florida, defrauding his customers when he could and threatening legal action when his victims complained, to keep them silent.

To return to the beginning of my relationship with Dennis, my first interview on that fateful day in March, 1986, was with the controller, whose name is Clark. Over the next two weeks, they moved their facilities from north of Seattle to the south side of Seattle, so they were not able to do interviews, but as soon as they settled in, I interviewed with Dennis and his wife. Dennis later said that I was shaking in the interview. I was brought in to reconstruct their accounting records. Little did I know that I was reconstructing the records of the greatest attempt ever made to bring alternative energy to the American marketplace. Thus began my life’s happiest year and my lifetime’s greatest hiking year.

Dennis hired me on the spot, to begin the next day. But that evening, he made a speech at the Seattle Center, in front of about 1,000 people and several camera crews. Dennis announced his response to Whoops, which he called Whoopee, in his inimitable style. In that speech, he outlined his plans to produce electricity, to compete with the electric companies. Dennis didn’t know what technology could do it yet. I did not know it that night but Dennis had a bodyguard, because of the many death threats. Months later, I had a nice conversation with that bodyguard, and one of his friends had a 200-mile-per-gallon carburetor. So, he was hip to what Dennis was living through. In those days, Dennis heard of another man whose innovation threatened electric company profits and who was dragged into a Seattle alley and beaten nearly to death.

As I sat in the audience for Dennis’s audacious Whoopee speech, I happened to sit behind Bill’s attorney, and he heckled Dennis about the fraudulent bankruptcy suit that he was waging. I imagine that it was the same attorney who gave Betsy documents that Bill stole from Dennis’s company. My grandparents lived close enough that I was able to walk home from Dennis’s speech, and I remember a feeling of amazement of what I had walked into. I was going to be able to pursue my teenage dreams.

I began the next day, and I was one of the only company hires in 1986, as my reconstruction effort would produce financial statements that could help Dennis’s effort, but it only helped Clark after he helped steal Dennis’s company. There were still several dozen people working there when I began, but I received one paycheck before the company stopped making payroll, and I worked for free for months, as it turned out.

I worked 10-hour days during the week and hiked on the weekend with my cousin. In May a few noteworthy events happened. One was that Dennis visited Joe Newman’s operation, came back, and made a presentation to the office. It was the first time that I ever heard of free energy. Joe eventually thought that he was the Second Coming of Christ, which is a common affliction with free-energy inventors, as I eventually learned. One evening, as I worked late in the office, Dennis asked for a ride home, and on the way, he told me of how his employee died. That event obviously deeply affected Dennis. Dennis had his 40^th birthday that May, I answered the phone while the party went on upstairs, and I talked to a very unhappy John Spickard, who wanted the party to end so that he could talk to Dennis. John was in the midst of having his company stolen, so I came to understand his anger. I saw him the next month, as his stolen company was used to steal Dennis’s, and John had a stricken look, which I would come to know well, and I often wore it myself over the coming years.

In May, I finished my reconstruction effort, and Dennis promised me stock in the company to keep working. But by early June, only a relative few people and I were really working at the office much. One morning, when Dennis was out of town trying to rescue the company, I saw several people in the office whom I had never seen before, and one came over and introduced himself. I did not know what was happening, and Clark told me to take the rest of the day off. That evening, Dennis called me, and said that Clark had unsuccessfully tried to steal the company. That was a key moment in the losing of my naïveté, but I had many more moments to come. About ten of us met at Dennis’s home the next day (Saturday), and I helped an inventor in Dennis’s stable, Bob Van Der Maas (AKA Mr. Inventor), store his equipment that was at our facility in Stan’s (AKA Mr. Engineer) barn in Ellensburg. Those ten became Dennis’s “loyalists.”

Just like Betsy and Bill did, Clark waited until Dennis was out of town to strike. Clark had the locks changed to lock Dennis out of his company. Dennis had them changed back. When I performed the reconstruction of the records like an auditor and I got to the equity section of the balance sheet, Clark said that he would take care of that. Did he ever. John Spickard put Dennis in contact with one of John’s employees to buy that shell company, which gave John 10% of Dennis’s company for his $10 million loan commitment. But those same shell holders had stolen John’s company two weeks earlier, and they were coming to steal Dennis’s. Dennis said that John’s shareholders – friends and family that he had given shares to – assisted the thieves. I eventually came to understand how normal that was. The people closest to you often stick their daggers in the deepest, and often also those that you went out of your way to help.

The theft of Dennis’s company was simple and criminal. When Dennis did the deal with the shell, he put his private company’s assets into the shell, and the shell gave him 80% of the shell’s publicly traded shares. But now, the shell owners said that they did not properly ratify the issuance of Dennis’s shares. They declared that he was not entitled to the shares, but that they were entitled to Dennis’s company. Clark was hired specifically to ensure that the shell transaction was properly executed, but Clark used his position to steal the company. That is called fiduciary fraud in the legal profession. It would be like putting your life’s savings into a bank, to be later notified by the bank that the bank officials who accepted your money and opened your account were not properly authorized to accept it, and instead of giving you back your money, the bank kept it. Theft does not get starker than that.

The shell owners were Mormon grifters, led by a man named Dick Southwick. They stole John’s company as a way to steal Dennis’s. Clark had an assistant on the inside named Sam, who was the general counsel. On Monday, I was back at my desk when Clark and Sam barged into the building and tried to get to their offices, to retrieve incriminating documents. Dennis literally threw his body in front of their door, and it looked like it could become violent, but Clark and Sam left.

A couple of days later was the shareholders’ meeting, to determine who owned the company. A representative from the state government was there to witness it. The night before, I slept in the office as a kind of guard dog. I was getting in deep, and I had been there less than three months. I helped perform clerical functions at the shareholders’ meeting the next day. That is when I saw John with his stricken look, and there were maybe 200 people at the meeting, most of whom were employees, the same people who gave Dennis a standing ovation on the day that I met him.

A couple of hours into the meeting, the theft was complete, and Southwick took the podium and announced that the company did not need Dennis anymore. Then a cheer went up from the crowd. It was my first big awakening moment with Dennis. The theft of Dennis’s company was evident to a five year old, but the crowd cheered the theft. Clark was the new president. The company was largely dead anyway, although the customers owed millions of dollars over the next several years from energy savings.

I had just worked for free for two months and became a creditor of the stolen company. Dennis left the state in a day or two, figuring that if he stayed and fought, the police would “find” a barrel of heroin in his closet. Alison and her children were a few days behind Dennis. Dennis and Alison soon ended up in Boston, living with the family of one of Dennis’s salesmen. Dennis later wrote that it was a relief to have his company stolen, as his company was dead in Washington.

The loyalists met weekly, waiting for Dennis to make something happen. The head installer went to work for Clark and the Mormon grifters, repairing systems that had been poorly installed to make that tax credit deadline, and one-by-one, the loyalists dropped out (we had not been paid for months by that time), and by the end of July, I was the only one left who still wanted to work with Dennis (Stan did, but he waited at home in Ellensburg for Dennis’s call).

Some other eye-opening events happened that summer. One was that Bob and I spent the evening with another loyalist, and Bob said that he had been involved in inventors’ groups, but they never really worked. Each inventor tried to commandeer the organization into supporting his invention. They all vied to become the alpha inventor. With that kind of dynamic, those inventors’ groups never went anywhere. When I interviewed with Clark, I saw inventors as heroes, and that evening with Bob was my first inkling that maybe they weren’t. Bob had some adventures in unwittingly helping General Motors steal patents.

The thieves had a creditor meeting at the office, and I attended with another loyalist that I became friendly with. Clark tried to hire me at that meeting. I was sold on Dennis and nobody else. But Clark did talk me into signing an affidavit, attesting to the financial statements that I had prepared. Clark showed me a glossy brochure of the heat pump when I signed the affidavit at his attorney’s office. I do not know what they were thinking. Had they become entranced by the technology, as the thieves always did? Clark saw what happened to his company when Dennis ran it, as it was attacked from all sides. With the tax credit expiration, Dennis out of the way, and the electric interests vigilant, if they were sincere, they should have known that they did not have a prayer.

Bill’s oblivious dupes kept waging their bankruptcy lawsuit. I attended one day of the hearings, and it was a farce. The hearings were all about the four remaining creditors’ trying to establish their claims with stories. None of them were bona fide creditors like I was. Looking back, those hearings were surreal, and the judge was obviously in on it, as the lawsuit should have never been accepted. Bankruptcy court was for bona fide creditors with documented claims (such as unpaid invoices). With Dennis out of the picture, the judge finally saw the light. He not only dismissed the case, but recommended to Clark and his fellow thieves that they should countersue the pants off of the bankruptcy petitioners. Clark and his cronies were not the only group fighting over the carcass of Dennis’s company. I saw another man in the courtroom who tried to steal the company who tried to join the huddle at a court recess, to be rudely stared down by Clark and friends. As I took in the scene, of Bill’s dupes, of the judge who was in on it, of Clark and his swindler friends, and that other thief who tried to join in, it was all a melee of avarice and criminality. As I walked from the courtroom, I remarked to my fellow loyalist that it was like watching the sharks versus the piranhas in there, but my friend remarked that there were also barracuda and crocodiles in the room. It was one of the salient moments of my awakening process.

At the end of July, after all of the other loyalists dropped out, I called Dennis. I would not be denied my teenage dream, and I told Dennis that I still wanted to work with him and asked what to do. Dennis advised me to find a permanent job and that one day, I might hear from him. So I began looking, met with recruiters, but after two weeks, I could not stand it any longer and called Dennis again, said that I would sleep on a floor to help him rebuild, and I won him over. I then got a temporary job at a medical-insurance company, making a whole $6 per hour. By that time, I had moved back in with my grandparents, as my yuppie war chest was gone, and I worked to save up gas money to drive to Boston.

In August, the thieves’ play had ended. I do not know what all they stripped from the carcass of Dennis’s company. But we were not able to get all of Bob’s equipment out of our facility and into Stan’s barn, and a lot was left in a locked room in the facility. Bob called me to accompany him and the police to access the abandoned facility, to see what was left. The thieves had broken into the room, it was a shambles, and Bob had that stricken look that was becoming familiar.

At Dennis’s company were many Mormons. I did not know what to make of that at the time, other than people got in position to hire their friends and family. Maybe that cheer in the room when Dennis had his company stolen was because fellow Mormons were stealing it. But a Mormon led the theft of our Ventura company a couple of years later, and Dennis discovered that the Mormon Church was the biggest investor in Washington’s electric companies. Was that all more than a series of coincidences? A generation later, I heard Steven Greer say that the Mormon Financial Empire was the ringleader of the global elite that suppresses free-energy and other technologies. It was one of my life’s “Isn’t that interesting?” moments. I will never know how deeply that all went, but nothing would surprise me much. In the mayhem of 1985, a U.S. Senator visited Dennis’s home to warn him about what he was up against, like David Rockefeller did when he called Dennis at home many years later.

By the end of October, the hiking season was over, and I had saved enough gas money to chase Dennis to Boston. That was my fourth attempt to live in Seattle, and leaving to chase Dennis was one of the hardest things that I ever did. I left behind a girlfriend who soon ended the relationship, and I drove from Seattle with tears in my eyes.

I visited friends and family in Southern California on the way out there and arrived in Boston in mid-November. Dennis called me an enigma but trusted his God to put people in his life who needed to be there. My wild ride was about to begin.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

I was introduced to Noam Chomsky’s work in 1990 when I began my media studies. Two years later, we had a brief correspondence. Noam is the USA’s greatest dissident intellectual ever, and his passing will mark the end of an era. I became Ed Herman’s biographer, and Ed was Noam’s most prominent co-author. I recently finished reading what will almost certainly be Noam’s final book: The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World, which was co-authored by a left-wing colleague, Nathan J. Robinson, whose contribution was largely summarizing Noam’s work. Noam completed his work on it before his debilitating stroke in 2023, and he will likely never write another book (if he does, I’ll be astounded).

I always thought that Noam and Ed were at their best when describing American foreign policy and the media’s treatment of it. That is basically the theme of Noam’s latest book, and if it is his last, it will be a fitting end to his writing career. I learned at their scholarly feet for many years, and I cannot overemphasize their influence on my thinking.

Many imperial apologists have assailed Noam since the 1960s, and it continues, with reviews such as this one, in which Noam’s critics seem to willfully miss the entire point of Noam’s work. Noam’s ethical stance has been clear since his political coming-out essay in 1967, but his critics cannot seem to understand what he writes about or why. As an American, Noam primarily criticizes his nation, not some other nation, because he can do something about his nation’s behavior, especially when it commits epic crimes and threatens humanity’s future.

I am going to summarize the book, chapter by chapter, and make some observations along the way. I do not expect to do this again on Noam’s work.

Introduction: Noble Goals and Mafia Logic

The introduction’s beginning kind of says it all: “Every ruling power tells itself stories to justify its rule. Nobody is the villain in their own history. Professed good intentions and humane principles are a constant.” Noam quoted Hitler’s and Himmler’s lofty justifications for their genocidal efforts. He finished his opening paragraph with, “The worst of history’s criminals have often proclaimed themselves to be among humankind’s greatest heroes.”

Noam noted that imperial conquests are unfailingly depicted by the conquerors as done for the good of the conquered. Noam noted how imperial Japan voiced such high-minded rhetoric as it committed atrocities in China, such as the Rape of Nanking.

Noam quoted Edward Said, who said: “Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort.”

Noam wrote: “Virtually any act of mass murder or criminal aggression can be rationalized by appeals to high moral principles.” Noam quoted Robespierre’s justification for the French Reign of Terror during the French Revolutionary days. Noam wrote: “When anyone wields power over someone else (whether a colonist, dictator, a bureaucrat, a spouse, or a boss), they need an ideology, and that ideology usually comes down to the belief that their domination is for the good of the dominated.”

I don’t plan to quote Noam very much in this review, but those quotes kind of set the stage. Nearly the entire point of Noam’s book is that the United States is no different from all other empires but pretends that it is. The USA pretends that it isn’t even an empire, although it is occasionally admitted.

Noam then dealt with the pronouncements of American politicians that described the USA as a “shining city on a hill,” the world’s “indispensable nation,” and the American president as the “leader of the free world,” and Obama’s statement that the USA “is and will remain the greatest force for freedom the world has ever known.” As Noam has written since the Vietnam days, the USA never commits crimes in its eyes but can make mistakes in pursuit of its virtuous goals.

Noam then went on to quote American politicians and academics that presented the USA as uniquely wholesome in world history, with its high mission of protecting human rights, democracy, and free markets. Noam noted that evidence is rarely provided to support such grand pronouncements, and most of the book supplies evidence that the opposite is true. Noam replied to those vacuous statements with the argument that the historical record is the only credible test of such statements.

Noam wrote that reality is largely what Adam Smith called “the vile maxim of the masters of mankind,” which was a constant throughout history and boils down to, “All for ourselves and nothing for other people.”

Noam also called it the Mafia Doctrine. The Godfather’s will is supreme, any defiance is punished, and dissent is never tolerated. One of Noam’s favorite illustrations of this is noting how the Mafia’s protection racket works. If a small shopkeeper refuses to pay the protection money, the money will scarcely be missed, but it could encourage other shops to stop paying, so the recalcitrant shopkeeper is made an example of, sometimes fatally, as a lesson to anybody else who might think of challenging the protection racket. Noam noted how even Godfathers are convinced of their own benevolence.

Noam noted FDR’s Four Freedoms and argued for a Fifth Freedom: to dominate others by any means possible. Noam noted that when the Four Freedoms conflict with the Fifth, they are readily suspended, as the Fifth is paramount.

Noam provided an example of the USA’s Mafia logic, as he reproduced a 1958 discussion by the National Security Council Planning Board about the Middle East. The issue was whether the USA would violently support the UK’s efforts to retain control of Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. The argument for it was controlling Middle East oil, and the argument against it was that relations with Pan-Arabic nations and other nations could be harmed. The argument was all about the best way to control Middle East oil, and nothing about the interests or welfare of the inhabitants was considered. Orwell called them “unpeople.” The issue of what right the UK and USA had for their Middle East activities was nowhere mentioned. The only debate was whether violence would serve the USA’s interests or not. Morality had nothing to do with the discussion but with whether it would work.

Noam then presented an example of the Kennedy administration’s attacks on Cuba, and in the internal documents of the discussions, only one time did anybody mention the moral ramifications of the USA’s terrorism directed at Cuba.

Noam discussed “national interest,” which was really the interests of a small group of domestic elites. Noam noted that the interests of elites did not align with those of the cannon fodder used to fight wars. Noam noted that if the opinions of the working class really mattered, the national treasure would go to raising the standard of living of average Americans, not lining elite pockets with foreign interventions. Hence, a sophisticated propaganda system keeps the public in the dark as to what is really happening. Noam does not take it easy on Putin in his book, noting how Putin threw thousands of antiwar protestors into prison.

Noam argued that to call the USA some terroristic entity, as if all Americans were engaged in it, is misleading. The terror and other crimes are directed by elite interests, with the public largely unaware of what is happening.

Noam had a section titled, “The Principles of Imperial Grand Strategy: We Own the World.” Noam’s writings on the American Empire identify World War II as a pivotal time, when the USA emerged with unprecedented global hegemony. American planners knew this when the war began, and the State Department referred to “Grand Area” planning, which included the Western Hemisphere, the Far East, and the former British Empire, but ideally also took in the Middle East’s vast oil deposits and, really, the entire world if possible. The Soviet Union (and later, China) were the only impediments to it. I am aware of levels of supra-national control that Noam is not, and I will deal with that more before I finish these posts. Noam had an extensive quote of George Kennan’s infamous 1948 planning document, which argued for continued global dominance by the USA at the expense of the rest of the world. The primary method of dominance is superior means of violence, which all empires resorted to. In fact, without superior means of violence, there would have never been any empires.

In practice, no national government with coveted resources – oil above all – would be allowed to control their resources. They would be under American control, by any means necessary, from toppling governments with covert action to invasions and genocides. Local development always had to be subservient to American interests.

Noam noted a 1945 conference on the Western Hemisphere in which all Latin American governments were to be subservient to American interests.

Noam’s next section was titled, “Confronting the Implications: The Reality of Violence for Its Victims”. This is where Noam begins to deal with the media. The victims of American imperialism are carefully ignored by the press, or demonized, so that their treatment is justified. Adam Smith observed that imperial wars are entertaining for those at a safe distance from the bloodshed. I recently mentioned my mentor’s participation in war-planning meetings and how the euphemisms and technical talk seemed designed to obscure the fact that the subject was about killing the most people in the most effective way. Noam also discussed that in that section, and quoted Carol Cohn who observed that nuclear-war planners employed, “the elaborate use of abstraction and euphemism, of words so bland that they never force a speaker or enable the listener to touch the realities of nuclear holocaust that lay behind the words.” Cohn saw that those men were able to discuss blowing up the world as coffee-break chatter.

Noam wrote: “Abstraction and euphemism also protect us from having to look into the eyes of the victims. They are removed from our conscious. They do not speak.”

For those who see war’s realities, words fail to convey the situations. Noam discussed how Ashleigh Benfield was fired from NBC in 2003 when she observed in a lecture that the American public only got sanitized reporting of the USA’s invasion of Iraq, especially the civilian casualties. Noam had a lengthy quote of Chris Hedges, who wrote that nobody who has really seen war’s realities is enthusiastic about them. Even wounded American veterans are kept out of the public eye. Noam noted that Donald Trump did not want “wounded guys” in military parades, because they would be unsightly.

Noam reproduced a 2013 exchange between Marco Rubio and UN Ambassador nominee Samantha Power, who was forced to recant previous statements that suggested that American presidents had committed crimes. She had to eat her previous words and genuflect to the Empire to win her position. Noam noted that sometimes, imperial officials will openly admit the real game, such as when Tom Cotton, a Senator from Arkansas, said that what was important in American dealings with foreign governments was not whether they were democratic or dictatorial, but whether they served American interests or not.

Noam discussed how it would be irrational to summarize his book as the USA is history’s most evil nation or that it is responsible for all of this world’s woes. Critics of American policy are described as “America haters” or people who “blame America first” (which was actually in the title of that review that I cited earlier, as if the author did not bother reading Noam’s book or was inadvertently trying to prove Noam right).

Noam wrote that the USA was not uniquely evil. It is no worse than many other powers have been. But it is uniquely powerful and is “captivated by a dangerous false mythology.” The USA poses unique risks for humanity.

Throughout Noam’s writings since the 1960s, he often observed that if the subject was Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, or the French Empire, it would be uncontroversial to compare rhetoric with empirical reality. Only in American circles are American motives beyond reproach. Noam stated that American intellectual history is marred by naïveté and self-righteousness, and those dangerous delusions risk humanity’s future.

Then Noam discussed what he has long observed: we are all the most responsible for the predictable consequences of our own actions. Americans who critique foreign governments are moral ciphers if they do not critique their own government far more often. Americans can influence the American government and no other, so it is their duty to critique their government. Noam has constantly called out American hypocrisy as the USA holds foreign peoples to standards that we openly disregard in our own behavior.

Noam makes it very clear that such discussions are not just academic exercises, but that American policy threatens humanity’s future, so it urgently needs to be changed.

The next section was on power systems in general, and Noam noted how it can be difficult to refrain from taking sides, that one is either an American cheerleader or an apologist for its opponents.

Noam once again stated that all national governments portray themselves as benevolent and their adversaries as evil incarnate. Noam noted Soviet propaganda during the Cold War, and it depicted itself as defending from American imperialism, while the USA did the same thing. Noam noted that both nations operated very similarly, with steeply hierarchical economic systems over which the public had very little control. The people at the top exploited the people at the bottom, as it has always been since the dawn of civilization.

Noam then summarized the book’s purpose, which was to “demonstrate how the United States has actually wielded power in the world, what the consequences have been for many innocent people, and what are the risks that U.S. foreign policy now poses for the future of humanity.” Noam then discussed that the subsequent chapters would illuminate the gulf between American rhetoric and reality, and deflate the myth of American idealism and the lie of “American exceptionalism.” Noam argued that those manifold delusions threaten humanity’s future. But Noam wrote that these species-suicidal dynamics can be changed, which is his book’s point.

That chapter was one heck of an introduction, and Noam followed it with 12 chapters, which I will summarize in coming posts.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

Part 1 of what will likely be Noam Chomsky’s final book is on the realities of American idealism, and the first chapter of it is titled:

Disciplining the Global South

I have written on the material in every chapter of Noam’s book, and many of the situations that I wrote about I first encountered through Noam’s work. I’ll sometimes link to my renditions of them. Because Noam was a scholar, his claims are heavily supported by documentation, and declassified documents often form the bulk of Noam’s support in this book. Those documents were declassified long after the events, when they didn’t matter any longer for the events that they were related to, but they cast a clear light on how American officials thought and acted.

What is called the Global South is generally from the Northern Hemisphere’s warm regions on southward, which to this day are largely unindustrialized and were conquered by Europe. Noam began his chapter with the American overthrow of Chile’s government, which had an elected Marxist as president: Salvador Allende. I have met and know of prominent people who were driven from Chile as children when Chile’s government was overthrown. Noam quoted the architect of Chile’s overthrow, Henry Kissinger, whom a close relative worked for as a spook, who nearly tried to recruit me into the family “business.” Kissinger wrote in his memoirs, “I cannot accept the proposition that the United States is debarred from acting in the gray area between diplomacy and military intervention.” The same year that Kissinger engineered the Chilean coup, he won the Nobel Peace Prize, of all things. Chile suffered through the reign of terror by the Pinochet dictatorship that toppled Allende.

Noam wrote of how declassified documents shed light on the CIA’s role in undermining Allende from the moment that he was elected, and how Kissinger lied to the Senate in 1974 about the American role. Kissinger explained to Nixon why Allende had to go:


“I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.”


Allende posed “threats” to corporate profits, so he had to go. Nixon wanted to make Chile’s economy “scream” in pain before Allende’s overthrow. Pinochet was lavished with American support during his bloody dictatorship (and hagiographic mainstream media treatment), which lasted until 1990. Noam wrote that, as Nixon admitted, Allende presented the threat of a “good example,” which might inspire other nations to leave the capitalist orbit.

Noam wrote that George Kennan and others realized that Western industrial societies needed to be rebuilt to provide corporate opportunities, and that the world’s working class would pay for it all in blood and toil. The biggest obstacle was anti-fascist resistance, which resumed the USA’s love affair with Nazis. The USA suppressed democracy movements globally and often put fascists and Nazi collaborators back in power. The Soviet Union posed no military threat to the West after World War II, as it was a devastated nation that lost tens of millions of people in the war. The threat that the Soviet Union presented was an alternative to the capitalist West that could attract other nations, especially those that were throwing off the shackles of colonial powers that were weakened by World War II.

One of the USA’s first postwar tasks was ensuring that communists did not win elections in Italy, to put fascists back in power. The CIA helped rig Italian elections for a generation and was prepared to overthrow the government if the communists ever won national elections. Between 1946 and 2000, the USA interfered in more than 80 elections globally.

The UK controlled Greece when World War II ended but was unable to maintain control, as a leftist revolution was underway. In 1947, the USA joined the fray and waged a war that killed 160,000 people in Greece, and hardly any Americans have ever heard of that slaughter. The American “success” in Greece became a model for what the USA did in Vietnam. Adlai Stevenson explained to the UN in 1964 that “The point is the same in Vietnam today as it was in Greece in 1947 and Korea in 1950.” Noam wrote that Reagan used the same model in talking about Central America and many other places. The enemy was democratic governments that would not be subservient to American interests.

Noam wrote that in 1947, Japan was going democratic under MacArthur’s military occupation, but the USA quickly suppressed labor unions and other bodies that advocated democratic rule. Nearly 30,000 leftists were purged from public- and private-sector jobs as a fascist system was installed, which historians called a victory of capital over labor. The USA shepherded Japan’s move to the right and embraced many who architected Japan’s actions in World War II.

When the USA entered Korea in 1945, it quickly put down the anti-fascist resistance against Japan and brutally suppressed those democratic forces with Japanese collaborators and actual Japanese fascists from World War II. Noam noted that about 100,000 South Koreans were murdered before the Korean War began, as South Korean fascists worked under American command.

The next section of the chapter was titled, “The Threat of a Good Example.” Noam quoted Dean Acheson, Truman’s Secretary of State, who stated in 1963 that U.S. strategy is to prevent any challenge to the “power, position and prestige of the United States.” Even the tiniest and least threatening nations were not immune from such treatment, and Noam provided the example in British Guiana, in which the Kennedy administration approved a covert operation to ensure that a leftist dentist would not win the election, as a “second Cuba” was intolerable. The USA initiated a reign of terror in British Guiana to subvert its election. The USA turned a democratizing nation into a nightmare of violence and repression, and the threat of a good example was averted.

Noam then provided the example of the Congo, as its first elected leader was murdered by the CIA and friends. This is an area where I have a bit of a bone to pick with Noam. Patrice Lumumba was murdered during Eisenhower’s administration, and Ike approved Lumumba's murder during a briefing with Allen Dulles. JFK had a love affair with Africa, and treated it better than any American president before or since. From Truman to Nixon, JFK was the only president who did not privately call black people the N-word.

Lumumba was murdered three days before JFK took office, and a future CIA station chief drove around Congo with Lumumba’s body in his trunk, wondering how to dispose of the body. He figured it out, as Lumumba’s body was never recovered. I posted up a photo taken by the White House photographer, of JFK’s anguish when he heard the news about Lumumba’s murder, after he had been president for weeks. In fact, JFK had his brother Teddy circulate a memo in the federal government, calling for Lumumba’s release. They did not know that Lumumba was already dead, it was the first of many times that JFK was not in the loop on vital federal actions, and the last time resulted in his murder.

Noam wrote what I consider a misguided book (Rethinking Camelot) that argued that the CIA would not have had any motivation to kill JFK. The CIA had plenty of motivation, as JFK was a lukewarm capitalist and imperialist. JFK fired Allen Dulles, who led the CIA, over the Bay of Pigs debacle, and Dulles led the cover up of JFK’s murder. Dulles had strange associations with JFK’s murder, and Rodney Stich heard that Dulles helped plan the JFK hit, which is not surprising. Dulles despised the man who fired him.

For me, the lesson of the JFK hit was the permanent demotion of the American presidency, not who did it, although my money is on the Eastern Oligarchy and MIC (and Israel may well have been involved). All presidents since JFK were puppets and knew it, and Noam might even agree with me on that. Sitting American presidents are far down the hierarchy of power on Earth, farther down than Noam thinks. In my journey, we encountered capitalism on steroids, although the American left generally denies that those interests even exist, Noam included. That is part of the Left’s delusions (the right and the mainstream have different delusions).

Noam then mentioned how Vietnam was made an example of, as they threw off colonial rule. Noam wrote that the so-called “domino theory” was true in a way, in that if Vietnam was successful in throwing off white rule, it might inspire its neighbors to do the same. Then the West would lose capitalist access to “oil, rubber, and tin” (as per the Pentagon Papers). The threat that Vietnam posed was the threat of a good example, and they paid dearly, with millions of deaths from the USA’s murder machine, in what is rightfully called a genocide.

In Noam’s words, the official rationales of the “threat” that Vietnam, a nation of peasants, presented, were “too ludicrous to consider.” Noam wrote that the Guatemalan experiment with democracy was another such “threat,” which the CIA took care of in 1954, and instead instituting a genocidal reign of terror for generations.

The next section of the chapter was titled, “Cuba: The Infernal Little Republic.” Noam began that section with Castro’s revolution and how the Eisenhower administration immediately began plotting Castro’s overthrow, with many assassination schemes. Noam even mentioned Operation Northwoods, to frame Castro to justify an invasion, which was the Pentagon’s counterpart of what E. Howard Hunt of the CIA came up with, which most of the world is oblivious to, Noam included.

JFK was devastated over how he had been duped into approving the Bay of Pigs debacle, and he never again trusted the CIA or his military advisers. It is true that under JFK, Cuba was embargoed and subjected to terror operations. JFK owns some of that, but he was constantly trying to corral his Strangelovian military advisers. He overrode his advisors and prevented the Cuban Missile Crisis from becoming a nuclear holocaust. Cuba is under economic attack from the USA to this day, as the USA defies the rest of the world. Cuba represented another threat of a good example that could “infect” Latin America. That is the reason for more than 60 years of attacks from the USA. Noam traced the American stance toward Cuba to the Monroe Doctrine of more than two centuries ago. Cuba had been a virtual colony of the USA since the Spanish-American war, and to this day, the USA’s illegal prison at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba still operates, although Obama boasted that he shut it down.

The next section of the chapter was titled, “Our Little Region over Here.” Ever since Monroe, the USA has considered Latin America as its imperial backyard. Its fabrication of Panama was an early instance of how the USA ran its empire. Noam wrote that “communist” meant any government that made its citizens’ welfare a priority.

Noam revisited Guatemala. When the slaughters began reaching genocidal levels, the “human rights” president, Jimmy Carter, cut off military aid to Guatemala in 1977 but still sent millions of dollars to Guatemala through backdoor military programs. Under Ronald Reagan, it was full-on genocide in Guatemala and El Salvador and a proxy war against Nicaragua, which had thrown off the imperial yoke. The US-backed Contras murdered tens of thousands of people. Noam noted that he could only scratch the surface of the USA’s support for Latin American murders, as the full account would take many volumes.

Noam mentioned Operation Condor, which was an American-backed killing program founded by Pinochet that lasted for several years in South America. Tens of thousands of people were murdered. Noam described some of the El Salvadoran atrocities (I have described some of them), and about 75,000 people were slaughtered in El Salvador and 200,000 in Guatemala. About the only reason why those dictatorships failed to achieve Nazi-level reputations was because those are tiny nations.

The next section was titled: “Constructive Bloodbaths: Indonesia and East Timor”. When Noam and Ed Herman wrote their first book together, they developed a bloodbath framework that Ed used for the rest of his life. Some background is warranted. Their first joint book, printed in 1973, was subjected to one of the most outrageous censorship incidents ever. In 1979, they published a two-volume work that built on the censored one. The Indonesian coup and resultant genocide was a “constructive” genocide in the 1973 book, while the East Timor genocide was a “benign” genocide in their 1979 work. Noam did not present the framework in his latest book, and the classification of the East Timor genocide changed in this latest book. Also, the East Timor genocide was compared to the Cambodian genocide (“nefarious”) in their 1979 work, to show how similar bloodbaths had radically different treatments, depending on who inflicted them. In the documentary Manufacturing Consent, a segment is devoted to the East Timor genocide and the American media’s treatment of it, and it compared East Timor’s treatment to the Cambodian genocide. The Cambodian genocide (“nefarious”) received heavy media coverage, while the East Timorese genocide (“benign”) was rarely mentioned at all, although they both began the same year (1975) and were comparable in significant ways.

In the first volume of their 1979 work, Noam and Ed compared the discrepancy on the media’s attention on the Cambodian and East Timor genocides, they devoted most of the second volume to the media’s treatment of postwar Cambodia, and that volume was a precursor to their landmark Manufacturing Consent. But to this day, their writings on the media’s treatment of Cambodia have been used to smear Noam and Ed as supporters of the Khmer Rouge. That is vividly evident in Ed’s libelous Wikipedia biography.

I just grabbed a bunch of Noam’s books off my shelf, and I didn’t find any references to the smear campaign there, nor do I recall reading it in his books, but he did address it in this public talk and these interviews (1, 2). I think that Noam does not defend himself out of principle, such as he has never sued for defamation and has even defended the defamers. That reflects his commitment to free speech.

However, Noam minimized JFK’s stance on Indonesia. JFK respected the Non-Aligned Movement and planned to visit Indonesia in 1964, which would have been a first for an American president. Lyndon Johnson began reversing JFK’s Indonesian policy before JFK was even buried (as he did with JFK’s Vietnam policy), and Indonesia’s government was overthrown by the CIA and friends in 1965. Noam noted how Suharto’s genocides (he inflicted three – communists (mainly ethnic Chinese), East Timor, and Papua New Guinea) were all supported by the USA, and when the USA told him to step down in 1999, when he outlived his usefulness, he obediently did.

Noam’s next section was titled, “Successful Defiance: Iran.” Noam began with postwar Iran and the election of “old-fashioned liberal” Mohammad Mosaddegh as Iran’s Prime Minister. Mosaddegh nationalized Iranian oil, which the UK had a monopoly over in 1951. In 1953, the Dulles brothers architected the overthrow of Iran’s government on behalf of American oil companies. The Dulles brothers had been Rockefeller fixers for their entire careers. The American role in the coup was covered up for many years, and as John Perkins was taught in his training as an economic hit man, after the Iranian coup, the USA began privatizing covert action to make it less traceable to the American government. Hence my relative’s part-time spook career working for Henry Kissinger, when Kissinger had no official role with the American government.

Iran under the Shah had the worst human-rights record on Earth. The 1979 Iranian Revolution overthrew the Shah, and Saddam Hussein answered the USA’s call and attacked Iran the next year, which began a war that lasted several years and killed about a million people. As with Manuel Noriega and Osama bin Laden, while Hussein was doing the USA’s bidding, he was a respected ally (while committing atrocities), but he outlived his usefulness and did not reckon what the fall of the Soviet Union meant for the USA in the Middle East (carte blanche). Iran began its nuclear program under the USA’s guidance when the Shah reigned, and Noam noted the hypocrisy of the USA’s stance toward Iran and nuclear weapons, when Israel has a nuclear arsenal that the USA has turned a blind eye to for over 60 years. Noam noted that the USA’s stance toward Iran often invokes human-rights violations, but Noam wrote that it was laughable, as the most extreme fundamentalist regime on Earth is Saudi Arabia, and even murdering and dismembering a Washington Post journalist has not dimmed oil-rich Saudi Arabia’s star with the American government. My first public writings were about Iraq, and Noam’s section laid bare American hypocrisy in the Middle East. The only thing that really matters is the oil, and everything else is a sideshow.

That chapter’s last section was titled, “The Political Economy of Human Rights,” which was the title of Noam and Ed’s 1979 work. Noam began the section with a briefing that George Kennan gave to Latin American ambassadors, in which Kennan stated that a primary concern of U.S. policy was the “protection of our raw materials.” Noam observed that “our” raw materials are protected from the people who sit on them. This goes back to Noam’s “We own the world” observation. Kennan made no bones about the violence that the USA would unleash to protect “our raw materials” from the natives. Eisenhower had a panel on covert action, and the stated attitude was that anything goes in subduing the enemy, and Noam noted that the human-rights situation in nations is irrelevant.

Noam noted the same situation that Tom Cotton remarked on, in that human rights are irrelevant in American foreign policy, and they are only invoked for propaganda purposes. Noam discussed the Bahrain dictatorship as an example, in that its horrendous human-rights record did not prevent the Biden administration from signing a security pact with Bahrain. Bahrain was like Hussein’s Iraq, with a vicious Sunni ruling class in a predominantly Shia nation.

Noam finished that chapter with: “As a general rule, the United States opposes the criminality and violence of those powers we wish to contain and supports the criminality and violence of our valued partners and allies. There is a single standard, then: whatever serves our perceived interest is good, whatever undermines them is not.”

Best,

Wade