I came across an interesting thing on social media the other day. It said that the things we have today were once our dreams. It not only made me almost cry but also made me see things differently and I am now more thankful for all that I have rather than to whine about the things I don't. I borrowed money for an airplane ticket to travel to America 16 years ago. Yes, the life I have today was a dream when I was on that flight.

There is a sinister duplicate of that aspect in the world of politics. The threats to humanity's survival today were once in the realm of nightmares. The conspiracy theories that were laughed at once have almost all turned out to be true. Charles Manson was a creation of the CIA's MKUltra and FBI's COINTELPRO programmes, designed to control human minds. Ted Kaczynsky became the Unabomber because of what was done to him during mind experiments at Harvard by the same MKUltra. Timothy McVeigh who did the Oklahoma City........

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