Starting with a startling group of articles and videos, seeming to imply a coming change in the official Iranian government story as to what happened to President Raisi and his entourage.
The article has the video with the interview with english captions. So you have to watch the video, can’t just listen. The man being interviewed on Iranian TV is Raisi’s chief of staff Gholam Esmaili, who was on one of the two choppers which did not go down. Plus another video, with only a sound track, with captions, again needs to be watched. My comments follow the second video.I thank my friend Cindy Ragusa for proving this treasure trove. The article is at The Cradle.
Esmaili: After our noon prayers, we departed toward the direction of Tabriz. The weather was clear, there was no weather condition to be worried about. After half an hour of being in the air, prior to reaching the Sungun copper mine, there was a small patch of clouds
Interviewer: So there was no fog?
Esmaili: Not at all. There was fog on the ground, but not in up the air where we were advancing with the helicopters. However, in one small compacted area, there was a small patch of clouds above a cliff. In terms of height, this cloud was at the same height as our flight’s height.
It was there that the now-martyred helicopter pilot, who was also the commander of the fleet, told the rest of the pilots to ascend above the clouds. We were third behind the president’s helicopter. We rose above the clouds and advanced for approximately 30 seconds. Our pilot suddenly realized that the main helicopter carrying the president was missing.
After some tries, calling the cellphone of the captain accompanying the president, someone picked up the phone. It was Ayatollah Hashem, the Friday Imam of Tabriz. He told us that he was not feeling well. He didn’t tell us anything special. I asked him what exactly had happened. He told us that he didn’t know what had happened, and when asked about his whereabouts, he said that he didn’t know. He only described what he could see, described to us what he saw, for example, how he was surrounded by trees. I asked him about the condition of the others, the Ayatollah replied that he’s alone and couldn’t see anyone else and he’s alone.
Raisi's chief of staff describes downed helicopter's final moments, The Cradle, 5/22/24.10 minutes
And this one, posted today,
Iranians Growing More Suspicious Of How Raisi Died? Biggest Deeper Probe Plea; All Theories Decoded, Hindustan Times, 5 minutes.
"After the death of former Iranian President Abraham Raisi on May 19 in a helicopter crash, suspicions of foul play have grown. Iranians question why Raisi's helicopter was flying over a hilly area shrouded in dense fog. There is a widespread suspicion that the reason for the Raisi helicopter crash could have been signal jamming."
My comments. Turkish investigators reported that the helicopter’s transponder was either off the aircraft or was not installed. The trade embargo is making it very difficult to obtain spare parts for the many aircraft which were purchased when the Shah was still in power, i.e. before February 1979. So, who provided the weather reports which stated that there was rain and fog in the area, during the flight and for a long while after, hampering rescue efforts? Iranian state officials have up to now never contested the reports of these conditions in international media. They must have talked to the chief of staff right away after the event, so why was his account kept hidden for four days while a different line was being put forth? Is the Iranian state simply calculating which version would be a better one to sell to the world, and contemplating changing the news, doing a Winston Smith maneuver? I don’t know, it’s just that it seems strange that this info is just coming to light. Whatever is broadcast in Iran has the approval of the state, which would otherwise jail people if not worse if they act “improperly” per the state.
And, everywhere around the world, biometrics are being pushed by both private as well as state entities.
2024 & the Inevitable Rise of Biometrics, Kit Knightly, 5/22/24.
Have you noticed a lot of two-factor authentication prompts lately? Are you getting emailed verification codes that take forever to arrive, so you have to request another? Perhaps you are asked to do captchas to “prove you’re human” and they seem to be getting more complex all the time or simply not working at all. Why do you think that might be? We’ll come back to that.
Did you know we’re in a “breakthrough year” for biometric payment systems? According to this story from CNBC, JPMorgan and Mastercard are on board with the technology and intend a wide rollout in the near future, following successful trials. In March this year, JPMorgan signed a deal with PopID to begin a broad release of biometric payment systems in 2025.
A Mastercard spokesman told CNBC: "Our focus on biometrics as a secure way to verify identity, replacing the password with the person, is at the heart of our efforts in this area,” Apple Pay already lets you pay with a face scan, while Amazon have introduced pay-by-palm in many of their real-world stores. VISA showcased their latest palm biometric payment set-up at an event in Singapore earlier this year. As we covered in a recent This Week, PayPal is pushing out its own biometric payment systems in the name of “preventing fraud”.
As always, this is not just an issue in “the West”. Chinese companies have been leading this race for a while, with AliPay having biometric payment options since 2015. Moscow’s Metro system has been using facial recognition cameras for biometric payments for over a year. And it’s not just payments, “replacing the password with the person” has already spread to other areas.
Hoping to corral support for biometrics from the right, national governments are collecting biometrics to “curb illegal immigration”. You can expect that to spread. The European Union will be implementing a new Biometric Entry-Exit System (EES) as soon as October of this year.
Biometric signing is on the rise too. Laptops tablets and smartphones already come with face-reading and fingerprint scanning technology to confirm your identity. Social media companies have been collecting biometric data “for security and identification purposes” for years. Google Play launched a new biometric accessibility feature only a couple of weeks ago.
It’s all just so convenient, isn’t it? So much faster than e-mailing security codes and solving increasingly impossible captchas (both of which have unaccountably got harder and more complicated recently, and will doubtless continue to do so). That’s how they get you: Convenience. They won’t ever remove the “old-fashioned” ways of accessing your accounts, but it will get increasingly slow and difficult to use while biometrics get faster and easier.
Meanwhile, the propaganda will begin to flow. Influencers will be paid to use “cool” “futuristic” biometric payment options that “feel like having superpowers” in contrived “viral” videos. Biometrics will save the day in a trendy movie or TV show. Some old fuddy-duddy will go on Question Time and rant about the new technology…just before saying something racist or denying climate change.
Maybe a major hack or cyber-attack will only affect those who haven’t switched to biometric authentication yet. You get the idea.
And all the while supra-national corporate megaliths will be creating a massive database of voice recordings, finger and palm prints, facial and retinal scans. It’s a good thing we’re ruled by a morally upright elite. Imagine the damage they could do with all of that.
Ending this edition, part 2 of the interview with Kelly David by Craig McKee And Adam Ruff, about the role of master pathologist Cyril Wacht in the making of the 9/11 masterpiece movie The Unspeakable. Part 1 was in yesterday’s edition.
Leap of faith: the road trip that nabbed Cyril Wecht, w/ Kelly David, Truth And Shadows, 5/22/24. 37 minutes.
In part 2 of my interview with former AE911Truth chief operating officer Kelly David, she explains how the crew of The Unspeakable drove to Pittsburgh in the hope of getting famed forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht to do an interview about what human remains from the World Trade Center have to say about what destroyed the Twin Towers and Building 7.
We get a sense from Kelly of who Wecht was (he passed away May 13) and why his contribution was so important. Over a more than six-decade career, Wecht was involved in more than 60,000 autopsies. He was called on to consult on some of the most famous deaths of the past century, including those of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Elvis Presley, Sharon Tate, Nicole Brown Simpson, Vince Foster, Sunny von Bulow, Mary Jo Kopecne, JonBenet Ramsey, and Kurt Cobain.
During the interview, I show a clip from a talk Wecht gave in 2017 about JFK. Here is that link:[Link]
Here is the article I just posted on Thought Crimes and Misdemeanors about Wecht’s involvement in The Unspeakable. The article has previously been posted on the AE911Truth website.[Link]
You can watch the first part of my interview with Kelly David on YouTube and Rumble:[Link]
And here is the entire film, directed by Dylan Avery and conceived by AE911Truth