...the single greatest piece of American writing. What about the people? Why is it not the greatest country in the world? Professor, that's my answer. The NEA is a loser. Yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paycheck. But he gets to hit you with it any time he wants. It doesn't cost money. It costs boats. It costs airtime. Columns. You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so smart, they lose always. Hey! And with a straight face, you're gonna tell students that America is so Star-Spangled Awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom. Japan has freedom. The UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom. So, 207 sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom. Alright, and yeah, you, uh, sorority girl. Just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there's some things you should know. One of them is There is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world. We're seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, number 4 in labor force and number 4 in exports. We lead the world in only three categories. Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real and defend spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined. 25 of whom are allies. Now, none of this is the fault of a 20 year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period. So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what you're talking about. Sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons. We passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were and we never beat our chests. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and we cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, acted like men. We aspired to intelligence, we didn't belittle it, it didn't make us feel in fear. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election and we didn't scare so easy. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed by great men, men who were revered. First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world any once. We're torn and dirty as he stood there. He took off his three-cornered hat. We wrote the Constitution for future generations. This legacy we gave in this, the way we secured for you, we always keep parents labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage's lost, you're no more than a slave you buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent, although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't education value the current news in a regulated press. And you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth per paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken sermon control, harm, so they could burn down churches and thieves, put men of God in jail, harass your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters, the artillery and guns to foreign shores, and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Wish your children, Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great republic and each God-given right, as Iowaki vanished in the midst of when he came. His words were true. But we have ourselves to blame. Even now as tyrants trample each God-given right, we only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. He stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep. What would be your answer, called out from the grave? Ladies and gentlemen, this is the third hour of the Morning Intelligence Report. I am Mark Kurnkey. And I'm Don Betcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both behind the lines and occupied territories west, central, southeast, and east. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on... We read here that 4mg.com. India, I've heard you've talked where you... and we're on the Micro Effect in the morning! That's right, themicroeffect.com. We're on AM&FM Microstations, CB Bay stations, and alternate technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. We're on the Hallmark Network, Eastern Seaboard, Tabamene, the butt of a Florida. From the butt of a Florida crossing the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, at Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Big Chesky, a whole bunch of Wyoming, two of the Blue Bulls, fifth, third, fifth, and our friends in Colorado, the recall state, recall them all. We couldn't work going for all of them. You focus on the one you want to get rid of, even a recall tag for the governor. Bad guys on the other side play scatter dodge. Remember, when you've got all of the balls, you don't throw it just one. Keep a couple busy or try to go for all the targets at once, but you got one. Maybe it's that better clear. You want to take him and get him out of the game. Keep everybody busy and confused. The more bodies moving around and trying to shuck and jive, the more likely you're going to get something. Anyway, waving left coast. Einsteinism and the diaper brown stain turning the West California Soviet Socialist democracy the stench Soviet socialism and the occupation by the foreclosure officers of communist China on the way back to the east we sweep across planes over the Mississippi land in the small piece with the restaurant crews gravity is okay teams of model gravity service can bring us it's by John what is the day today sir well mark we're looking at the sixth number year of our Lord 2013 and it's rain here's as if it is gonna When it's done, we'll have a rain here in Michigan and LaToni for in my neighborhood. We could be running and all of those things that got intended to happen when the rain comes down, good to have a touch on that. You know, I hate, they're here for the bullets with no more in my hand. Bullets in there, you know, one goes down and it's not just, you don't use just that put senators believe because we got to outlaw those. But hey, now with the magazine between index finger and And now it's underneath the magazine well and now the magazine is in the magazine well. We can tell everybody this weapon's one-stake perimeter is secure and you know, there's plenty more where that came from. Our equal opportunity course at force. And we can even out. If all fails, we can beat it with it. One of the things I was pointing out for the first hour, two hours of the program here, weatherization. I'm going to tell you something about that in 1911. In its basic original form, guys, it was designed to operate in the dark side of the moon. If you understand and know the tests that were done with the 1911, it's taking all of what I discussed in the first couple of hours about freeze, rain, cold, mud, blood. You did that? of a gun, ain't it? That 1911 handled all of that and more. Now the problem is, it's not a big problem, but remember that everybody decided to ock and make that .45 tighter. Ock and make it shoot straighter, and it does shoot very straight as a competition gun, so that it'll put a bullet right on your nose over and over and over and over and over and over again. I mean literally one on top of the other guys, the shooter knows what he's doing, and any of the shooters out there using a gun that costs thousands of dollars, do. The 1911, its original design, as it was spec for the military, is based on battlefield conditions. And because of that, it was put through the freeze mud test. Oh yeah, and if you ever want, they can do research on combat qualification testing that was done, and it was a standard going to service. Now one of the reasons for this is because again, battlefield conditions, dark side of the moon. So the weapon will function in that. Just wobbling around out here in the back 40 should continue to work just fine. It's just the idea that if it's in your holster or it's in your shoulder holster or if it's in your kit moisture builds up, moisture is not the friend of your firearm. Constantly do maintenance. You need to constantly be checking and again performing supplemental preventive maintenance As you go while you're in the field, you're not leaving, it's not a two-hour movie. I'm done, I'm going back to the Bronco, Don, I'm gonna go sit in the Bronco. You guys are done, when you're done shooting those guys, let me know. If I need any help, I'll come over here. How did that go? That flaming hulk up the road there, is that where you were going? Yeah, what do you mean? Oh, I got my Mercedes first, and now I got my Bronco, you buggers! I might spend an extra hour out in the field because of that. Wait, is that the walk home? I might do an extended episode movie version with three hours with all the excluded scenes. Johnny walks home. Yeah, in reality it's like, oh man, well, again guys, look at the weather you have out there. If you have to fight in it, that's what you're going to be fighting in. So be prepared accordingly. Now, we did mention oil clots, we talked about other covers, which is also true even for your optics. Something that we should point out, the lubricants or any oil cloth that's built is not going to harm your optics. The thing is to obviously always protect the lenses. Needless to say, we don't want any distortion. That's something that has to be careful. So, oil cloths are not dripping to begin with or, again, in this day and age, 3M water repellent products are readily available. You can make a nice camouflage drop cloth that goes over everything that can be multiply treated or heavily treated. There's nothing that says you got to take it out of the fat you put it in when you soak the cloth with a 3M repellent. Now granted you can also, well Mark, I can buy it if it's a spray on. Okay, if that's your gig, do it. In fact, you don't even have to buy it because a lot of the stuff, if you watch yard sales and these or recycle points, guys, partial cans of this and partial cans of that are all over the place for free. The caution there is when you start putting things on your fabric, going out at night, some of this stuff almost got in the hook. That's again reflective potential. That's the other thing. Does it enhance or does it gloss? Does it create again a crystalline base that can either create reflection or in and of itself may be a kind of a brightener. which still is a reflection process, but there are different ways that it affects the material. Now, again, the oils, anything and everything in the field. If the oil spills, any kind of oil can be used as long as you understand you don't want it dripping. Now, as a case in point, one of the things that the guys are doing overseas even with their for camouflage, this isn't talking about weapons maintenance, but remember, one of the tricks for making camouflage work better is to use a little bit of crankcase oil and letting that get into the cloth of the uniform, then rubbing it into the ground of the area that you're operating in. It's interesting that that's where the company got the idea for this latest dirty camo that you're seeing out there right now. I don't know what the name for it is, but I call it dirty camo. Because it's basically what we've come full circle in camouflage, and we've now discovered our roots again. Remember what I told you about camouflage fashion? We've gone multicam with the big thing for a bit there. It is still right now. Multicam is in kind of in bulk, but the latest fashion statement is the next step, which is basically dirty camels, where you have fog and finer layers, but different shades, and they're not really with defined lines. They just virtually roll into each other. Now we talked about this. We used to call this in tank operations overspray. where you don't do a nice fine tight line of anything. Instead you do an over spray so that there's a little bit of beading and wash from one color to the next. And what happens is it creates a fogging effect so you don't get that defined line that is something a person's eye can focus on and go, I'll follow that line here and I follow that line there and that doesn't look natural. Whereas again, even right now, if you look out in the fields, you've got dying maples, you've got sumac, you've got oak trees that still have full leaf on them. And if you look through an area, you get a mish of, you get a combination that overlaps and part of it's broken up. And if it's natural, there's no real pattern to it right now. It was just typical in any condition, but especially in the dying cycle of the temperate areas. completely random, purely a matter of what food or what nutrient a branch of a tree or a plant still gets. And it's absolutely the throw the dice in the fickle finger of fate. So that's what you're trying to mimic. Unfortunately, man always tries to make... There's something about that with regard to regimen. People try to make patterns. And instead, randomization is the key to camouflage it whenever possible. It doesn't mean everybody switched out from one camel to an expo that they live with if that's what you got. But matching the colors or the color cycle is more critical than anything. The other thing is motion, something I brought up about the idea that at night or even during the day, if you are doing a physical inspection of your equipment, You don't start flashing your arms around or moving quickly. Guys, learn it's like when you're deer hunting, if you know what you're doing when you're deer hunting, your hands should move slowly and close to your body and you should, again, work from one station to the next. If you're doing a physical inspection of your web gear, your pockets and everything else, or even your weapon, touching and feeling the weapon to make sure everything's where it belongs. When you do this, always move slowly and move close to the other bearing surface that's near you. Do not create a shadow effect or a shadow motion. Keep your hand close and your arm close to your body. Quietly touch and then move if something needs to be re-fastened. If a magazine pouch is empty, again I'll point this out, this is part of your ongoing priority modification slash maintenance of your gear, your combat load. If you've dropped mags and lost mags or the mags are empty and you have a moment where you can readjust your gear, now if you have a long-range engagement first you should start with the farthest back magazines on your combat load first. But if you've made emergency contact and you're just going for whatever you have as quick as you have it because that's what you're supposed to do, remember that once you have an opportunity to reconfigure, reload and recap the magazine you have, Adjust the magazines forward that you have that are still loaded. Reload what you can if you have time in that situation. And then get on with business. Check the rest of your equipment out accordingly. Make sure you haven't lost anything. You're going to notice, this is something else I would point out. If you start living with your equipment and you will be living with it on your person, you're not going to take it off. You're not going to be taking web gear off. You're not going to be dropping your weapon. You're not going to be taking your boots off. because you want to feel comfortable. That doesn't happen kids. You're not in your living room and people are hunting you to try and kill you. You need to be prepared so that if you are set upon, you can return the favor. Okay? Now, in the process, you feel your equipment. You will notice when a knife is not in correct station or maybe you weren't paying attention but something broke. Something even might have been shot. You didn't know it. And what happens, guys, a bullet passes, it severs something, stuff in the foliage you're passing through is tougher than you thought. You might have been passing through an urban battlefield situation, stuff is razor sharp, fortunately it didn't cut you, but it may have cut some of your equipment you didn't even notice. Okay? So, up on, in the process of moving, you will begin to realize your balance is off, something's not right. Well, pay attention. Your subsense, your second sense, your subconscious is registering that. Now again, slowly check and inspect. Or if you're obviously in a daylight situation, your position is, your actions are known anyway. You're in the middle of the situation. You tap it and you get used to the idea of feeling it and getting both a physical and an audible response. That's the most important thing to remember. Again, know yourself, know your system. The other thing is, again, it can be equipment to the rear of your kit. Not as critical because, again, while it's stuff that you're carrying for a reason, if you're carrying it, there's a reason for it being there. It's not just for the fun of it. Kind of like on an airplane. Eventually you'll learn that on your combat load, whatever you're trying to carry serves a purpose. And if not, it shouldn't be on your combat load. It should be in your house back, okay? of the It shouldn't make any difference with regard to your familiarity of your equipment, which you had better learn to be able to grope around with in the dark. In fact, it shouldn't even be groping. It should be, I can reach to a place and I know what is here. I can reach to a place and I know what is here. I can reach to this pocket and I know what is here. This also means that for yourself, personal SOP is actually critical. Now, I'm going to talk to somebody else here who's, our job is we're putting holes in people and killing them. We're putting holes in people and putting them down. We're going to prevent them from hurting any of our friends and doing any more damage to our country. We're going to wipe them out. However, there's another man that has just as critical a mission who is probably standing next to you and will be carrying a weapon and will be fighting and that's the medic. And the medic has to be thinking the same way. Doctors, well actually, medics are pretty well used to this idea right from the get go. Because guys, they know that seconds count when you're bleeding on the ground. A paramedic doesn't walk up and open a big bag and stuff is just jumbled up in it, is it? Each pouch that he carries has everything in a particular place. He can reach for a pocket and he knows when he reaches in there and pulls something out what it is. Now that's an example of material support SOP. That's how you need to be with your fighting equipment. And if you're not yet at that level, you need to be. That's what training operations are for, so that you can practice what we are preaching. I'll just reinforce the word ahead, Doc. Please don't say, well, I'll just look at my belt and I'll get out that hook and then I can walk up the walls. That guy on the pan, remember his name, perhaps it's locked into history. But while he's pouring that powder on the pan of his flint, he's not looking at what he's doing, he's looking down range at his target. When you can go running across the field, you know it's hard to run and look at your belt. As soon as you distort your running, as soon as you disconnect yourself from the horizon, how weird things start to happen in those little tubes in your ears and the little hairs. All the sensory input doesn't match up the horizon and the motion and the sensation. Many times you fall down looking for that grenade in your pouch while you're running. Or, look at this magazine in the gun and I'm running. Don't look at it. The horizon, look where you want to be. Look at your opponent. Look at the guy who's trying to put holes in you while you fill the magazine hole and then put holes. You're trying to reinforce to people. If I have to look away from what my opponent is trying to do while trying to kill me in that instant. When I get something out of my pocket, when I put something on my gun, when I get in my shoes, shoes when you're tying them, if I have to look at what I'm doing, some new thing, what something important is going on, that important thing might be the alligator that bites me in the look over there and do something here about your honor, about your body while you're looking at something else. This is a higher form of survival and a way to deliver to your opponent. is what they like to come up with. Only the professionals can do that. Everybody has the ability to get to this level of performance. And again, it's a matter of using your mind and focusing. You are in an environment where focus is critical. In fact, it's life or death, kids. There's no second place in the gunfight. Second place is a real, real bummer of an aspect. The idea is to be on top and to do that first, perfecting your skill as an individual and then working as an integrated team. Another thing that you need to get used to is mixing your people up to force their brains to work. Now, what do I mean by that? Well, just as Dom was talking about looking to a certain area. Guys, if there are three of you and you are deploying or you're in the field, you should automatically each be look- if one guy's in the middle, let's say, or there's three people, automatically you should all be scanning the environment and not all looking in the same direction. If you're to the left, you should automatically be working on the third quadrant or half of the area of activity from your direction. The individual who would say would be in the middle is panning and scanning his area of control. Automatically, you take up a security or a defense posture. You should not have to be told. There's another basic rule of the field operations. This is the order. Don't stand when you can kneel. Don't kneel if you can sit. Don't sit or is late if you're allowed to do so. Understand the tension of the situation, but if the team leader has signaled you and you understand that you're able to again, rest and relieve the body of energy, you know, energy consumption, do it. In other words, if you're standing next to a tree and you can drop to a knee, do it. Why? Because you're taking pressure off your feet. Your feet apply so many pounds of pressure to the ground, guys. Everything that's above is pushing down on that small area of the body. If you can leave pressure on those two dogs, then guess what? You're now changing the dimension of energy consumption. If you're in the rest position and you can sit, but in a sit prepared position, when I say sit, we're not talking about a convenient chair out there in the woods. We're talking about the idea that you're in a sitting prepared position, much like a sitting shooting position. Whenever you're sitting, you're also still in a prepared stance. If you can lay down, if you're able to lay and rest whenever possible, especially if you're in a 24-hour clock system, when the team leader tells you to rest, you will rest. No, Sarge, I don't feel like no. I have a terrible, I've had a terrible problem with this people. I've had to run 48, 72-hour nonstop operations, and especially some people that were older myself, they're on the, clock and for whatever reason they just simply would not shut down. Of course the problem is they hit the wall at about the 40 hour mark. If they haven't rested so long you're gonna stay 100% or close 200% and the degradation is very quick. There's a ledge for a lot of people and it's just a real steep ledge. It's like well I can handle it I can handle it blah blah blah blah. And I don't mean passing out so much as just the operational performance is now a hindrance to the you are told to rest, you rest. Let me give you an example of one of the better examples of this is a three man reconnaissance team. Why a three man? Why not a two man? Why not just one guy out there by himself? Don, one guy out by himself, he's an army of one, isn't he? He's got to go to sleep, doesn't he? Yeah. I remind you of the old Arab saying a running man can cut a thousand throats one night, both throats if they're awake. Yes, and especially he's exhausted. Okay, so a three-man reconnaissance team is used for a reason. One man is observing, one man is in maintenance mode, the third man is in rest mode. It is an eight-hour cycle. Each man progressively moves into rest mode. If you're actually able to get eight hours of rest, it would be amazing. But the plan, the big plan, is that you will do this. Now when I say rest, we're not talking about going to find it a campout point. We're talking about laying down in the field, Each man in contact with each other so that they know where the other is. Each person performing a mission. The primary individual is monitoring and observing, utilizing whatever electronic sensor, technology, and observation of resources available. The other guy is recording or doing maintenance on equipment and or signal communication. The third is asleep. Anyway, we're gonna go to break here. We're not asleep. You're very much awake. If you're out there out west and beyond us time-wise, you're probably going to work right now. Grab that cup of coffee. Look back in a bit. Donna Mark, Intel Report. It's Weapon Wednesday. I'd like to share with you Lisa K candles calm is an all-natural soybean candle alternative Before I found Lisa K candles I had lingering foot and allergens in my home Not today my Lisa K candles are clearly a difference to see and breathe and you know, that's a good piece of mine Lisa K candles calm is an all-natural soybean candle Handmade from their popular line of fragrances and guys These candles make a perfect gift. 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Stab him with the bandit all around. I'll hold him while you kick him. I think he's done being kicked, sir. He stabbed with the bandit, helped a lot. Good for it. Alright, on to the next one. Oh no, don't run, come back. No sense in running. I've only died tired. Here we go, I guess that rifle does come in handy. Bam. Remember, it's like zombies when you pass the enemy, you stick a bayonet in their head just to be safe. That's one thing about down on the cable, I mean, guys, Walking Dead is a what not to do in a zombie battlefield situation for the most part, but it's fun to watch. I mean, only in that it's like, nah. And they're trying to do, they've done more of the political correctness thing about, you know, like, oh, oh my god, you guys are like, you need, like, malicious type stuff. Well, the ones who have been malicious type stuff have been failures. What's your point? You know, so they've got some little political correctness twist while they're telling you all about how you need to gun up or you need to get ready to fight with clubs and bludgeons because you weren't prepared and didn't have enough ammunition. Oops! Did I say that? Yes, I did. Anyway, uh... Treat them like zombies kids. If you're walking across and especially in a fresh situation make sure you stick them back into their head real quick. Only because again you don't want to hurt you or your buddies as you pass through now do you? Yeah just something to think about there. Again with the situation is not going to be nice there is no such thing as a pair the bad guys will laugh about burying you, being killing and pillaging burning you. In fact they're already they're already yucking it up. They've had class after class on hating Christians. They've had class about how being a, you know, American is bad and that tells you they're all being taught to be international pigs slash swine slash globalist. The international pig is going to have to be run from this country. We're going to be fighting the international pig. Feed them accordingly. They will be yucking it up when they steal from you. Yes, I say we don't give them a chance. Kill them all. Don't worry about it until later as far as which one is which. Stupid enough to stand in the ranks and do what they're doing, they die like the rest. Another thing here real quick again, even with our night vision technology, and before we're going any farther, Don, you have night vision technology available about 30 minutes out. You're going to be available on the phone. How can we get hold of you? And what technology could I put on the roof of that AR-15 while I'm sitting in the dark in the middle of this cold, wet weather here in Michigan? Well, we could go with a first or a second generation, or even a third generation gun sight on top of that gun nut. We've got a first to live on top of your AR-8 battle rifle, live top of your M1, NFAL. to me about that device or the second generation device 308 capable or a second generation device 50 caliber capable capable or if you want to talk about thermal if you work just write in your pocket or a thermal gun we've talked about something disappearing into the dark looking at it with your natural eye magazine scientific american and this is going to be the one on illusions and we're going to talk about legend and a candle in midnight in someone else's work i can't help but is this paragraphs, it's titled, uh, Vanished Without a Trace. It's by Susan Martinez Conde and Steven L. Play hide and seek with your perception. I don't think there's anything wrong with wiping to have a blank wall. And then we go into the, run with me on this you guys, because it's some of it's a little goofy and it fits into one of us. Martinez Conde hurt going up in Spain. Anyone can see the devil's face. All you need to do is stare at your own face in the mirror to stroke a midnight. Call the devil's name and the prince of darkness will look back at you. I was both fascinated and terrified by the possibility. And I knew that this was an experiment I must try. I waited a day or two before gathering my courage, then stayed awake until midnight, got up from my bed, and went into the bathroom. The door behind me so that my family would not hear me calling loud for Satan. Wide-eyed reflection made my invocation and then, nothing happened. I was disenchanted, literally, for the very word itself he quite relieved. Now, the mirror illusion by vision scientist, C. Capuccino in Italy, may explain my lack of results. I asked 50 subjects to gaze at their reflected faces in a mirror for a 10-minute session. After less than a minute, most observers began to perceive those strange face illusions. Some participants described putting huge deformations of their own faces, seeing the faces of alive or deceased parents, archetypical faces such as the old woman child or the portrait of an ancestor, animal faces such as a pig, cat or lion, and even fantastical and monstrous beings. All 50 participants reported feelings of otherness, confronted with a face that seemed suddenly unfamiliar, or full emotion. After reading Caputo's article, I had to give Satan, as in quotation marks here, another try. I suspected my failure to see anything other than my petrified self in the mirror 30 years ago had to do with sub-optimal lighting conditions for the strange facial illusions to take recommended dim lighting so that the observers might see their facial features and details but experienced time. I turned off the bathroom lights and turned on my cell phone flashlight then placed it on the floor behind me so that I could not see its reflection in the mirror. My efforts were quickly rewarded because of my face started to appear contrived. Suddenly all the features would come back, giving me a bit of a start of identity effect of the existence of face-daring. So, pointingly, I did not see any monstrous creatures or ghosts of ancestors calling me from beyond, or even Satan for that matter. But I think I came close to seeing one of the archetypical faiths. Halfway through the experiment, my face appeared to morph into a serf of an old Native American warrior. But as soon as it arrived, it was gone. It took great. How does this happen? To explain, we need to start with Irma Starwin. Yeah, there's that name, but it's a different star. Irma Starwin, English natural philosopher and physician and grandfather of Charles Darwin. This is his grandfather of Charles Darwin. Late 18th century he described how objects can fade after steady gazing. When looking long at an area of scarlet silk, about one inch in diameter, laid on white paper, the scarlet color becomes fainter till at length it The lead vanishes, though the eye uniformly and steadily upon it. Swissfelac corroborated Darwin's observation using colored patches on a wall. Phenomenon became known as trochlear fading. Full adaptation, the mechanism by which neurons decrease or stop their response. Unchanging stimulation by perceptual fading during probe engaging at an object or a scene. Once the target of interest has vanished, microscopic involuntary eye movements called raucastatus can restore it to perception partly explained when we gauge long and steady into our reflected face the nature of the visual stimulus causes voluntary eye movements thereby our brain will open the gaps according to our experiences expectations dark-wired neural mechanisms involved in shape and face perception The results can be amusing or disquieting. A few years ago I had the opportunity to collaborate with cognitive scientist Daniel Simmons, author of The Invisible Gorilla, and his colleagues at the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, on an experiment to investigate visual fading entire scene. You can experience the effect by focusing your gaze precisely at center of the blurry image while there's a picture here, while paying attention to the entire scene. careful staring for just a few. Minimize your eye movement, seeing the scene to fade to gray. Your gaze and the scene will come right back. Scientists are able to make non-blurred scenes fade or by confidence, nervous eye move. Paragraph here, and I'm gonna read this again. After fading and neural adaptation may partly explain, Caputo, when we gaze long and steady into our reflected face, the unchanging nature of the visual, stimulational features to this appear and then reappear as pink or make involuntary eye movements, thereby re-fifty caliber can into the giant standing in the wood line. Again, you guys, you know, we've told you a number of times on the hour here that what they're looking at, be it of a part of sentence situations, even just the light shiver is in front of you many times to pay attention and you know it's good to have more than one person looking around and as Mark pointed out earlier, you know, you're supposed to be looking Because you've got three people, it's good to have 120 degrees at the very least of everybody looking in. So now you've got that 360 degrees covered. You feel that sharp rib and that sharp elbow in your ribs. And somebody says, what is that? One of the things to do with this, and this gets into a discussion we had with a class here a whole several days ago where actually we're talking back and forth about, automatically micro adjust, which is confirmed by what we were talking about here with the researchers that we've done. We've known this for years. There is a point in which we actually have an optical blind spot. All of you do. You just don't know it. Why? That micro adjusting. Part of what is the formula for what they're talking about here is your mind literally adjusts through the optic collector, your ocular collector, your eyeball. It adjusts automatically and that blind spot does not exist in your mind per se. But your subconscious and your natural controls know it's there. And this is another reason when you direct a person, tell them to look left or right of the objective. And the reason for that is the same as with night vision. Now with night vision, natural night vision, not down to electronic night vision, that gives you a leg up in several ways. With natural night vision, you do not look directly at the objective. Anybody ever know, I've been in the military, you were taught this, guys. Think about why. Why couldn't you look straight at the object and identify it? Why is it when you look straight at the object, the very phasing that Dom's talking about, you know, it looks kind of gray. If you look left or right, the detail appears. If you actually look off by five degrees, six degrees, 15 degrees, and in fact, what you will be taught to do is either to use a Z pattern or an X pattern when you're observing something. When, either in daylight or night, you need to think the same way with regard to the buddy system. If you're looking at an objective, you'll say, on my 12 o'clock, the individual who's given the signal should start at the 11 o'clock or the 1 o'clock station and move in their eyes. In fact, if you have multiple spotters, you have them work the same way. And there's a reason for this because, again, not only do we have this issue that you've addressed on, but we have different variations in genetic performance with each of the people that are out there. Remember that different races, and this is something, oh my god, we mentioned race. Some, each race has its forte, its specialty because of its environment. Each race has developed over the years based upon the needs of the environment. So we have that factored in with also the genetic role of the dice. One out of four million people that exist have perfect night vision. You can see right now at this moment, well not this moment, but at night, you can see just as well as you can with a Gen 3 night vision device guys. One out of four million people. This is a proven fact. The numbers are known. They're searching for the... government searches for these people. When you go into the military, there's a reason they do all of the testing that they do with your eyes and ears. Oh yeah. They're looking for people. They're looking when they play the sound meter there and they do the... do you hear this? Guys, they start out in an inaudible range. And if you put your hand up at a certain point, there's a big check mark that goes on your paperwork there. Don't think that you're not going to be you know again There's gonna be somebody coming up and putting a hand on your shoulder and say we just like to talk to you for a minute Now hear this. Yeah, exactly. You're going to be hearing things in a different perspective and family. You have a different mission. You look like a strong, burly guy to make a great infantryman, but it looks like you got a little bit of an IQ. And oh, by the way, on your test here, that hearing perception, we got some other work for you over here. That's a talent we can use. Yeah, and we don't have to build a machine for it. You know what I mean? Yeah. The same is true with vision. But again, in the field we have to perfect our team. And so this is one of the reasons this is part of the SOP. We're giving you a lot of stuff to remember. Yeah, life's a bugger, isn't it? You're trying to stay alive. But you know what? Think about this. What most of what we're talking about was part of the natural cycle. If you think it's bad in this day and age, what do you think hacking and chopping wars were like? Oh, geez. You're talking about man on man facing each other not at 10 20 meters out not at 100 meters out You got to get close with the battle ax and broadsword to do that In fact, if you set upon your enemy with with surprise chances are you've got the upper hand. That's it Oh, yeah, so learning to do everything we're talking about guys was the norm. Please say you can put right in there in the thick of it. Okay artillery indirect fire weapons that's what they were that's what that's what the bow and arrow originally was the tiny or indirect fire artillery piece Okay, we are yes. We are for everybody out there guys Jeff and it's coming up next again Hopefully we gave you some ideas Organize army quippin train has a malicious flash team for mutual defense the wars coming bad guys hate Christianity the bad guys are Satan worshippers the cultists kosher mafia scumbags that plan on trying to rule the world we're gonna cut them off to the legs and And then we're gonna stick a magnet in their head and finish them off to make sure they're in a problem for our children. Sound your number for night vision. It's 231796, 8458. Urah! God bless the Republic. Step for old order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the march, both day and night. Close your fire. Use the heaviest weapons you've got first. Always man the biggest weapons. If somebody falls, you've gotta step in. So everyone needs to know each other's job and mission. Don your number for night vision closes, please three one seven nine six eight four five eight. Thank you mark. God bless you God bless America's destruction of Death's construction In the fields the body's burning he keeps turning And hatred to mankind wash my mind I'd like to share with you LisaKCandals.com is an all natural soybean candle alternative. Before I found Lisa K. candles, I had lingering soot and allergens in my home. Not today. My Lisa K. candles are clearly a difference to see and breathe. And you know, that's a good piece of mine. LisaKCandals.com is an all natural soybean candle handmade from their popular line of fragrances. And guys, These candles make a perfect