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Author John Perkins’ economic hitmen still alive and well in Africa

Posted: April 19, 2025 in Bankrupting the Third World, Underground Knowledge
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The poverty in South Sudan is too awful to behold as its people try to cope with escalating violence and a deepening humanitarian crisis. This despite the fact that the world’s youngest nation possesses an enviable variety of natural resources, including gold, diamonds, silver, various ores, water resources, luxury timber, fertile land, and diverse wildlife. Not to mention oil, its major export.

South Sudan’s story is essentially the story of Africa, which John Perkins highlights in his bestselling (must-read) book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, and which we highlight in our book Bankrupting the Third World: How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt.

John Perkins…coined economic hitmen.

In our lesser-known book, we regrettably inform readers that the economic hit men popularized in Perkins’ 2004 bestseller are still alive and well – in Africa in particular but elsewhere as well.

Just look at the humanitarian crisis in the DRC (Congo), which possesses a vast array of natural resources, including significant mineral deposits of copper, cobalt, coltan, and diamonds, as well as substantial hydroelectric potential, fertile land, and diverse wildlife within the world’s second-largest rainforest.

We identify the cause of Africa’s woes: corrupt politicians, greedy corporates (a la the economic hitmen) and questionable aid packages provided by the likes of the World Bank, the IMF and USAID. Packages some suggest are scams designed to subjugate Third World countries.

Bankrupting the Third World is dedicated to the impoverished in forgotten places of the world. When we wrote it 21,000 people were dying from starvation every day. That’s one person every four seconds! We suspect the toll is even higher today.

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Bankrupting the Third World: How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt is available via Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores and public libraries and via Amazon… 

https://www.amazon.com/BANKRUPTING-THIRD-WORLD-Underground-Knowledge/dp/B08CJNJRQK/

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‘INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$’ still very relevant in Trump era 2.0

Posted: April 14, 2025 in INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$, Underground Knowledge
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As world stock markets reel from huge losses in Trump era 2.0, it seems much has changed and little has changed since our book INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$ was published.

The man of the moment.

Trump’s tariffs war might have turned the markets upside down like never before, but one thing that hasn’t changed is the contents of our book’s very first chapter titled ‘Banksters on the rampage’. In it we remind readers we live in a really perverse world where we have almost unlimited military expenditure to finance wars, where our governments readily bail out privately-owned banks with multi-trillion-dollar relief packages, and yet politicians tell us there is not enough money to cover the measly costs of citizens’ basic healthcare, food, education and shelter.

The above-mentioned chapter, incidentally, includes my favorite quote of Warren Buffett’s:

“If a graduating MBA student were to ask me, ‘How do I get rich in a hurry?’ I would not respond with quotations from Ben Franklin or Horatio Alger but would instead hold my nose with one hand and point with the other toward Wall Street.”

There’s a growing awareness in the general population of large-scale financial corruption by the so-called global elite, or the 1%, if you will. Regardless of whether or not Trump’s tariffs work, I hope the 99% demand greater transparency in the way their money is being managed, and I pray the grotesque gap between the haves and the have-nots closes sooner rather than later.

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INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$: The Global Banking Elite Exposed and the Case for Restructuring Capitalism is book 5 in our contentious Underground Knowledge Series. It’s available via Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, public libraries and Amazon.

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‘The Catcher in the Rye Enigma’ reveals substance of certain declassified CIA documents

Posted: April 7, 2025 in The Catcher in the Rye Enigma, Underground Knowledge
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The revelation that a phrasing technique used in our novel The Ninth Orphan is based on declassified CIA documents is revealed to readers in our book The Catcher in the Rye Enigma, co-authored by James Morcan and I.

The actual phrase we use is the names of the planets “Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.” When subjects hear or read those words in precisely that order, they immediately fall into a hypnotized state, having been programmed under a CIA mind control initiative codenamed MK-Ultra.

Far-fetched? We thought so until we learned that MK-Ultra is, or was, real. The declassified documents show that it gives handlers total control over their charges, forcing them to do anything – even kill.

In ‘The Catcher in the Rye Enigma’, book four in our contentious ‘Underground Knowledge Series’, we inform readers that the aforementioned phrasing technique is only one of many techniques used, but it’s one that crops up again and again in the documented evidence of successful mind control experiments.

As alluded to by our book’s subtitle J.D. Salinger’s Mind Control Triggering Device or a Coincidental Literary Obsession of Criminals?, it’s suggested by some that Salinger and/or his publisher craftily implanted into his bestseller The Catcher in the Rye neurolinguistic passages or coded messages that act as post-hypnotic suggestions or mind control triggers. In turn, these triggers enabled CIA handlers to activate Manchurian Candidates for assassinations.

Some conspiracy theorists believe the novel was part of the CIA’s now mostly declassified mind control program MK-Ultra, and that while assassins were being brainwashed they were forced to read the book over and over until it was embedded in their minds.

Accepting for a moment that Salinger’s ‘Catcher’ is such a triggering device, it would likely set off MK-Ultra subjects by having carefully phrased words in strategic parts of the book. Nobody outside of the sleeper assassins and their intelligence agency handlers would be able to recognize such phrases as being abnormal, especially if crafted by such a skillful writer as Salinger.

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The Catcher in the Rye Enigma: J.D. Salinger’s Mind Control Triggering Device or a Coincidental Literary Obsession of Criminals? is available via Barnes & Noble, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, public libraries and via Amazon… https://www.amazon.com/Catcher-Rye-Enigma-Coincidental-Underground/dp/0473380498/

It’s only fitting that Salinger should have the last word. Here’s a quote of his from The Catcher in the Rye:

“It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.”

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‘Medical Industrial Complex’ highlights the disconnect between doctors and the role of nutrition in patients’ health

Posted: April 2, 2025 in Medical Industrial Complex, Underground Knowledge
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When did your doctor last talk to you about your diet? In MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: The $ickness Industry, Big Pharma and Suppressed Cures my co-author James Morcan and I ask this question.

Most will be aware of the old adage, You are what you eat. It seems to us, though, that many members of the medical profession aren’t aware – or, if they are, they consider it an old wives’ tale.

We suspect that more often than not doctors only deign to discuss diet when a patient dares to raise the subject. And then, if your experience is like ours, you’ll be greeted with a frosty stare or, at best, a few mumbled banalities about not over-eating or the importance of a balanced diet or cut down on fats.

Which leads to more (related) questions such as: How long do doctors-in-training spend studying nutrition at medical school, and why isn’t nutrition on the curriculum alongside biochemistry, pathology, physiology and the like?  

These questions and more are raised in a very appropriate discussion thread on the ResearchGate.net site. A random selection of comments from that thread follows:

•“We need clinicians to remember to consider nutrition when seeing/treating a patient rather than being a full nutritional expert. However, they should know basics such as basic nutritional needs and guidelines, calculating and interpreting BMI, when to give nutritional support and be aware of the importance of using nutritional screening tools to see if referral to a dietitian is required.”

•“I would be a staunch supporter of making nutrition a major field of study in a medical doctors pursuit of their degree.”

•“Before health care providers can get into…details about individual response to nutrients and talk about personal nutrition, they need to establish their nutrition knowledge and clinical skills foundation. For physicians this needs to happen in medical school and requires a serious effort.”

•“Considering the importance of nutrition for a patient’s recovery from disease and maintenance of health it is surprising that nutrition isn’t a bigger part of conventional medical school education.”

•“It should be within the core responsibilities of doctors to address nutrition in patient care and it is essential that all doctors know the appropriate time to make a dietitian referral.”

•“Why is it so hard to understand that robust familiarity with nutrition is equally or even more important (than surgery training)?”

To add some balance to the discussion, one contributor (from the University of Jordan) to the above thread observes that nutrition is “a specialized field and huge in its content.”  He adds, “Medical students (are) overwhelmed by texts, labs, and courses. It requires an evolutionary plan to incorporate nutrition with medicine curricula”.

Medical educators at least pay lip service to the importance of nutrition, and they appear to be in general agreement that there’s not enough instruction on this topic in today’s medical schools.

For example, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) addresses this via its official online site AAFP News. In one article, the writer reports that although most medical schools (in the US) offer some form of nutrition education, only one-quarter require a dedicated nutrition course.

The article continues, “In fact, the amount of nutrition education that medical students receive is so ‘inadequate’ that ‘medical school graduates feel unprepared to intervene in their patients’ care with regard to nutrition,’ according to the UNC preliminary survey results”.

A report published by the US National Library of Medicine in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health concludes that “The amount of nutrition education that medical students receive continues to be inadequate”.

That report summarizes a survey of 109 medical schools, which revealed that “most (103) required some form of nutrition education” of their students. The most disturbing revelation, however, is that “Overall, medical students received 19.6 contact hours of nutrition instruction during their medical school careers”.

The link between diet and health is well proven and, more importantly, widely acknowledged by doctors for ailments such as diabetes and heart disease but are roundly ignored by them in treating other human conditions – cancer being one of those. Indeed, mainstream (Western) medicine seems to go out of its way to discourage cancer patients from making too much of the cancer-diet connection.

The good health site HoneyColony.com neatly addresses this in an article quoting Dr. Carolyn Dean, a medical advisory board member of the nonprofit Nutritional Magnesium Association. She says, “There are many reasons why diet is not stressed in cancer treatment” and “Most of them stem from the fact that medicine does not put any emphasis on nutrition in medical school…In about 3,500 hours of typical medical school training, maybe one, two or three hours’ worth of classes are devoted to basic nutrition”.

There’s a serious disconnect between (most) doctors and the role of nutrition in their patients’ health. Whether you blame those who set the already crowded curricula at medical schools or whether you blame the tunnel vision mainstream medicine has regarding diet, the fact remains there’s a problem…

… If doctors are aware their patients are diet-conscious and if they’re constantly reminded nutrition is important to them, perhaps they’ll fall into line and give it (nutrition) the importance it deserves when it comes to treating people.

Hopefully, this chapter has provided you with some ammunition to fire their way.

Footnote: We acknowledge that the inference that doctors are not nutrition-minded or, for that matter, not supportive of alternative health measures is very much a generalization; we are aware there’s a growing number of physicians (and other health providers) in mainstream medicine who are very knowledgeable about nutrition and alternative health, and who incorporate this knowledge into their everyday practice.

Unfortunately, they are very much in the minority.

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On a lighter note… “First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.” -Steve Martin

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MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: The $ickness Industry, Big Pharma and Suppressed Cures is available via Harvard Bookstore, Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, public libraries and via Amazon.

The book’s Amazon link is: https://www.amazon.com/MEDICAL-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX-Suppressed-Underground/dp/B08CJR21HQ

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‘Antigravity Propulsion’ authors examine Einstein’s unified field theory

Posted: March 26, 2025 in Antigravity Propulson, Underground Knowledge
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There was a rumor going around at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study that Albert Einstein did indeed complete a version of his Unified Field Theory for Gravitation and Electricity – even though officially it remains a never-completed theory.

In a chapter titled “Einstein’s unified field theory”, we examine this in book two in our Underground Knowledge Series, ‘ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION: Human or Alien Technologies?’

Albert Einstein…Famous theory completed?

Einstein’s theory was published in German and appeared in a few scientific journals. In his papers, the scientist called his purported mathematical proof of the connection between the forces of electromagnetism and gravity as being “highly convincing”. However, this work was withdrawn as incomplete, although no published reason is given save that Einstein suddenly grew dissatisfied with it.

British mathematician Lord Bertrand Russell considered Einstein’s Unified Field Theory complete but felt that “Man is not ready for it and shan’t be until after World War III.”

Thus the Unified Field Theory on the connection between gravity and the electromagnetic field remains unproven.

Leading scientist and former high-ranking employee of Japan’s Ministry of Defense, Dr. Takaaki Musha, published an article in the 2004, Issue 53 edition of the Infinite Energy Magazine relating to this very question. The article, which covers a unique formula Dr. Musha developed for the link between electromagnetism and gravitation, was titled The possibility of strong coupling between electricity and gravitation.

After publication of the article, Dr. Musha claims he was contacted by a scientist (name redacted) from the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, in Bulgaria. The scientistwas already working on a similar formula to Dr. Musha’s.

According to Dr. Musha, the Bulgarian’s “formulation proves it is possible to create an unbalanced acceleration by creating intense electric and magnetic fields in a dielectric or ferromagnetic medium. These predicted coupling effects for electromagnetic and gravitational fields would be static and thus they should be able to produce a net force to propel a spaceship.”

The Bulgarian scientist wrote two papers on his formula in 1994.

“However,” Dr. Musha claims, these “papers were rejected by two well-known science journals.”

The strong implication is there was a cover-up. Either that or mainstream science was just not prepared to consider such theories on antigravity.

T. T. Brown, who discovered this electrogravitic effect first, conducted several experiments during the 1950’s and succeeded to generate thrust without the reliance on a surrounding medium, such as air, by applying high voltages to materials with high dielectric constants. Around this time, US aerospace companies also become involved in such research, but their results are mostly classified.

In the late 1990’s, Dr. Musha says he worked with the Honda Corporation Research Institute in Japan and conducted an experiment to confirm the electrogravitic effect. Astonishingly, Dr. Musha claims he and the Honda Corporation obtained a positive result.

Dr. Musha also says, “In Dr. Thomas Valone’s 1993 book Electrogravitics Systems: Reports on a New Propulsion Methodology, Dr. Paul LaViolette claimed that electrogravitic technology was developed under US Air Force black projects since late 1954, and it may now have been put to practical use in the B-2 Advanced Technology Bomber to provide an exotic auxiliary mode of propulsion.”

Dr. Musha continues, “An electrogravitic drive of B-2 could allow it to fly at a sufficiently high speed at high altitude, or even (in) space, and it could fly around the world without refueling in an antigravity mode.”

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Antigravity Propulsion is available via Amazon and public libraries.

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/ANTIGRAVITY-PROPULSION-Technologies-Underground-Knowledge/dp/0473365391/

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Americans’ obsession with Doomsday bunkers in New Zealand noted by authors of ‘Underground Bases’

Posted: February 26, 2025 in Underground Bases, Underground Knowledge
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American company SAFE which supplies underground shelters has confirmed that it has built a “Doomsday bunker” in New Zealand for a client – the first time such a project has been confirmed in the land we Kiwis fondly call “God’s Own”. That’s according to this NZ Herald report dated 23 Feb. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/apocalypse-now-doomsday-bunker-secretly-installed-on-nz-property-confirmed/IHQ47FV7ZJGDLMJUEA3YMUG6MM/

It transpires that SAFE (Strategically Armoured & Fortified Environments) has been providing high-tech customised security systems for the mega-wealthy for years – one of the dearest being “a single $103m estate in the US, capable of protecting 28 people from every known threat short of the Earth tipping off its axis.”

The same Herald article reports that SAFE Founder and president Albert Corbi would not divulge exactly where in New Zealand the underground shelter was located and “He was similarly tight-lipped on the project’s budget.”

Apparently, there are several underground homes in New Zealand, including a bunker house near Lake Tekapo and a multi-million-dollar compound with a safety bunker and steel gates in the Western Bay of Plenty. It seems American billionaires are the main customers for such homes.

I will likely include Americans’ apparent obsession with buying Doomsday bunkers in New Zealand if I ever release a new edition of the book Underground Bases – Book 7 in the contentious Underground Knowledge Series co-authored by James & Lance Morcan.

That book focuses on Subterranean Military Facilities and the Cities Beneath Our Feet, which happens to be its subtitle. It reveals details of confirmed and rumoured underground facilities in the US and around the world. However, from memory, New Zealand doesn’t get a mention. The nearest we get to NZ is Pine Gap across the Ditch in Australia.

Given Americans’ apparent obsession with Doomsday bunkers here in God’s Own, NZ may well get a mention in the next edition.

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‘UNDERGROUND BASES: Subterranean Military Facilities and the Cities Beneath Our Feet’ is available via Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/UNDERGROUND-BASES-Subterranean-Facilities-Underground/dp/0473365405/

Underground Bases makes a compelling case for there being an enormous hidden world under the Earth’s surface.

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Contentious questions addressed in THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES I-V box set

Posted: February 24, 2025 in Underground Knowledge
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Secret Techniques and Technologies to Increase IQ? Human or Alien Technologies? The $ickness Industry, Big Pharma and Suppressed Cures? J.D. Salinger’s Mind Control Triggering Device or a Coincidental Literary Obsession of Criminals? The Global Banking Elite Exposed and the Case for Restructuring Capitalism?

These are the subtitles allotted to the first five books in the contentious ‘THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES I-V’ co-authored by James and Lance Morcan.

Books 1 to 5 in the series are available as a box set; they have all featured in recent LinkedIn posts and are listed below…

-GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: This book (with foreword by leading scientist Dr. Takaaki Musha) shatters the myth that geniuses are born not developed. https://www.amazon.com/GENIUS-INTELLIGENCE-Techniques-Technologies-Underground/dp/0473318490/

-ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION: A far-reaching exploration into the UFO phenomenon that covers all possible scenarios and discounts nothing. https://www.amazon.com/ANTIGRAVITY-PROPULSION-Technologies-Underground-Knowledge/dp/0473365391/

-MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: An explosive book that explores the contention Big Pharma and other participants in the healthcare sector put profits ahead of patients’ wellbeing.   https://www.amazon.com/MEDICAL-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX-Suppressed-Underground/dp/B08CJR21HQ/

-THE CATCHER IN THE RYE ENIGMA: This book unearths the mysteries surrounding arguably the most controversial book of all time – J.D. Salinger’s 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. https://www.amazon.com/Catcher-Rye-Enigma-Coincidental-Underground/dp/0473380498/

-INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$: This book identifies who is responsible for the gigantic financial gulf that separates the top 1% of the population from the common people, or the 99%.  https://www.amazon.com/INTERNATIONAL-BANKSTER-Restructuring-Capitalism-Underground/dp/B08CJXDMCP/

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THE UNDERGROUND KNOWLEDGE SERIES I-V is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook only. However individual books in the series are available via Amazon as both Kindle ebooks and paperbacks.

Other books (6, 7 and 8) in the series are:

BANKRUPTING THE THIRD WORLD: How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt – https://www.amazon.com/BANKRUPTING-THIRD-WORLD-Underground-Knowledge/dp/B08CJNJRQK/

UNDERGROUND BASES: Subterranean Military Facilities and the Cities Beneath Our Feet – https://www.amazon.com/dp/0473365405/

VACCINE SCIENCE REVISITED: Are Childhood Immunizations As Safe As Claimed? – https://www.amazon.com/dp/0473521598/

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It seems we, the authors of ‘Vaccine Science Revisited’, share a common goal with RFK Jr. regarding vaccine safety

Posted: February 21, 2025 in Underground Knowledge, Vaccine Science Revisited
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America’s new Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long argued that drugmakers have too much sway over the approval of their products, is preparing to “minimize what he’s criticized as undue industry influence” over US health agencies. That’s according to today’s report in Politico.com  

RFK Jr…on the warpath in his new role.

This should come as no surprise as RFK Jr. has long sowed doubt about the safety of vaccines as one of the nation’s most prominent vaccine critics. He has been especially critical of childhood vaccines, and this week, according to ABC News, advised reporters “he will ‘investigate’ childhood vaccine schedule and (the prescribing of) antidepressants”.

I resonate with this as I’ve long questioned whether childhood immunizations are as safe as claimed. In fact, that refrain is the subtitle of my book Vaccine Science Revisited: Are Childhood Immunizations as Safe as Claimed?

Co-authored by James Morcan and I, Vaccine Science Revisited is Book 8 in our contentious Underground Knowledge Series. It’s an unbiased, neutral, fact-based investigation that simply allows the science to do the talking on childhood vaccinations, and which includes a foreword by medical laboratory scientist Elísabet Norris.

This exhaustively researched book avoids all rumor, conjecture and anecdotal evidence, and steadfastly focuses on what the latest medical studies actually reveal about vaccines listed on the immunization schedule. All chapters include links to approved medical and scientific papers and documents.

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Vaccine Science Revisited has a global rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon.

“A work of extensive research into the antecedents and current status of childhood vaccinations.” –Amazon Vine Voice

“Easily the most comprehensive work I have read on the subject of vaccine safety. This book is truly a masterpiece!” –Amazon Reviews

“The book is a gem and it should be compulsory reading for soon-to-be parents, not to mention health professionals.” –Jeff Tran, Lawyer

“Thought-provoking and very readable (with) 740 references with hyperlinks to the original papers.” –Pro-vaccine author and mom Lee Murray

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Book 7 in ‘The Underground Knowledge Series’ very relevant given superpowers are busy building subterranean bases

Posted: February 18, 2025 in Underground Bases, Underground Knowledge
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Confirmed and unconfirmed reports the world’s superpowers are constructing or enlarging a variety of underground bases to serve various nefarious purposes have sparked renewed interest in Book 7 in our contentious Underground Knowledge Series.

Titled UNDERGROUND BASES: Subterranean Military Facilities and the Cities Beneath Our Feet, it asks what the superpowers get up to in their secret underground bunkers, and it examines confirmed and rumored underground facilities, and undersea facilities, in the US, China, Mexico, Australia and elsewhere.

Reports dating back to before (and during) the COVID plandemic that members of America’s so-called Global Elite were investing in the construction of underground bunkers in New Zealand in case of a nuclear holocaust saw a healthy spike in sales of this book.

Now we are experiencing the same reader interest in the wake of renewed reports of underground activity. These reports include:

Construction in China of a massive underground military command complex dubbed “Beijing Military City” near the Chinese capital. Once completed, it’s expected to be the world’s largest military command center and is designed to protect personnel against bombardment in the event of conflict.

The unveiling of a new underground missile facility along Iran’s southern coastline. Apparently, this so-called “Missile City” houses a range of missile systems and is part of Iran’s strategy to strengthen its military assets amid escalating tensions with the U.S. and its allies. This facility stores hundreds of cruise missiles capable of countering electronic warfare from enemy destroyers, and it features winding underground tunnels housing missile launchers.

In our book we speculate that the covert underground infrastructure around the world may be far bigger than anyone has previously supposed and is likely used for the development of suppressed technologies. Our sources include declassified files, university reports, WikiLeaks’ documents and interviews with ex-military personnel turned whistleblowers who claim to have worked in “cities below ground”.

In the book’s blurb we state:

“The exposé covers everything from: the US Department of Defence’s verified evacuation areas beneath the White House and the Pentagon as well as their acknowledged sites at Mount Weather and Cheyenne Mountain; underground facilities around the world including Russia’s sprawling Mezhgorye complex and Australia’s CIA-managed Pine Gap; the long-forgotten newspaper headlines which reported that Adolf Hitler and senior SS officers may have built a Nazi colony beneath Antarctica after WW2.”

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Underground Bases is available via Amazon (via link below) and via public libraries. https://www.amazon.com/UNDERGROUND-BASES-Subterranean-Facilities-Underground/dp/0473365405/

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The atrocities continue with no improvement in the Congo since publication of ‘Bankrupting the Third World’   

Posted: February 13, 2025 in Bankrupting the Third World, Underground Knowledge
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Reports this week that clashes between the rebel coalition Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) and Congolese forces have left more than 3,000 people dead in the DRC in less than two weeks shocked me – for two reasons.

Firstly, nothing has changed in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the (once-Ugandan-based) Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commenced its campaign of atrocities in the DRC and in South Sudan and the Central African Republic as well.

Secondly, nothing has changed in the DRC since our book Bankrupting the Third World was published in October 2015.

In this book, appropriately subtitled How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt, we devote an entire chapter – appropriately titled Banksters swindling the DRC – to the DRC. We remind readers that in book three of our international thriller series The Orphan Trilogy, our leading man (Nine) has reason to cross Zambia’s northern border into the DRC – previously and variously known as the Belgian Congo, Congo Free State, Congo-Leopoldville, Congo-Kinshasa and Zaire.

Nine’s target is a coltan refinery owned and operated by multinational conglomerate Carmel Corporation. The corporation is a fictitious entity, but the rare metallic ore known as coltan – official name columbite-tantalite – is very real.

 A coltan mine in Rubaya, DRC.

This precious ore is found in large quantities in the DRC’s disputed eastern regions. When refined, the result is metallic tantalum, a heat-resistant powder capable of holding a high electrical charge – properties that are essential for the creation of electronic elements known as capacitors.

These capacitors are included in the manufacture of mobile phones, digital cameras, laptop computers and in communications technology generally, making coltan an indispensable part of the burgeoning and extraordinarily profitable communications and technology sectors. Hence its value.

As chance would have it, the DRC is believed to have 70% to 80% of known coltan reserves worldwide. It also has around one third of the world’s known diamond reserves and is rich in other precious metals, too. With reserves of untapped mineral deposits estimated at US$24 trillion, it’s little wonder the DRC is considered by some to be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, if not the wealthiest, in terms of natural resources.

Now here’s the rub: the DRC has been beset by war and is one of the most violent, unstable and poverty stricken nations on the planet.

A CNN report this week refers to this very problem in a report titled “Fighting in Africa’s mineral-rich DRC killed over 3,000 in less than 2 weeks. Here’s how your phone plays a part.”

It’s depressing, but it’s worth a read…

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/12/africa/fighting-drc-congo-minerals-phone-intl/index.html

Bankrupting the Third World – Book 6 in our contentious The Underground Knowledge Series – is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook and paperback. https://www.amazon.com/BANKRUPTING-THIRD-WORLD-Underground-Knowledge/dp/B08CJNJRQK/

This book is dedicated to the impoverished in forgotten places of the world.

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