Regarding some of the early comments made in ATP. Remote viewing programs (StarGate Project) implemented and funded by the CIA and the US Army in the 70's and 80's are documented fact. Hal Puthoff was involved as a contractor through the institute he founded, SRI International.
"The StarGate Project was the code name for a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International (a California contractor) to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence applications. The Project, and its precursors and sister projects, went by various code names — GONDOLA WISH, GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE, SUN STREAK, SCANATE — until 1991 when they were consolidated and rechristened as "Stargate Project".
Stargate Project work primarily involved remote viewing, the purported ability to psychically "see" events, sites, or information from a great distance. The project was overseen until 1987 by Lt. Frederick Holmes "Skip" Atwater, an aide and "psychic headhunter" to Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, and later president of the Monroe Institute. The unit was small-scale, comprising about 15 to 20 individuals, and was run out of "an old, leaky wooden barracks".
The Stargate Project was terminated and declassified in 1995 after a CIA report concluded that it was never useful in any intelligence operation. Information provided by the program was vague, included irrelevant and erroneous data, and there was reason to suspect that its project managers had changed the reports so they would fit background cues."
Regarding Tom DeLonge, he made a significant amount of money while in Blink-182 and his music still generates steady revenue through album sales, streaming and terrestrial radio mechanical royalties, and publishing royalties for things like TV and movies. Regardless, if you watch the YouTube video from UFO Seekers breaking down the TTS AAS corporate setup, you see that through some impressive (legal) accounting maneuvers, his business managers moved over
$400K in debt from the old, pre-existing To The Stars Inc. corporate entity over to the newly formed "To The Stars Academy" corporation that DeLonge just announced. Combine that accounting sleight of hand with the publicly available information on this new "public benefit corporation" clearly outlining that DeLonge is personally guaranteed
annual payments from the new entity of a minimum of
$100K over the next 7 years. As a result
, on Day One the new company is already $500K in the hole for its first accounting year before it even flips on the light switch. So anyone "investing" the minimum of $200 into this new company so as to have some "ownership," as Tom put it, is merely contributing to paying off that accrued $500K debt, and a
minimum of $100K per year after that. This would ostensibly be before any money could be spent on science, research and developing new technologies, as he claimed to be supporting with this new venture. I'll say it again, Bassett and Greer must be kicking themselves for not having come up with this potentially lucrative angle before this interloper, DeLonge, came along and effectively stole a good bit of their "fleece the true believer" thunder.
About Gene's comments regarding Stephen Bassett not being around much lately, nothing could be further from the truth. He has popped up on several other podcasts this past year since the election peddling this utterly ridiculous tale of how close we were to disclosure with Hillary and Podesta, and that she lost the election
because she did not talk MORE about the UFO issue in the debates and in news interviews. The man is fucking delusional. He is now in Europe for 4 months trying to hype the disclosure movement over there since he can't peddle any bullshit disclosure nonsense involving Trump.
Nick is always a great guest. However, this wasn't one of his better visits due to the somewhat unfocused nature and occasional stream of consciousness direction the chat took. Sometimes that results in podcast gold, this was not one of those times. Not every show can be an instant classic. The good thing is you'll be doing a new show next week and the possibility for awesomeness springs anew! I sure do appreciate your efforts though.
