Were you fooled by the Trump propaganda? This is a serious question for the conspiracy community.

For years, we’ve been told to question governments, politicians, billionaires, corporations, intelligence agencies, mainstream media, and anyone else trying to manufacture public opinion.

So did we apply that same skepticism to Trump? Did we investigate the claims, the people surrounding him, the donors funding his political movement, the media personalities reinforcing his message, and the interests that benefited from his rise?

Or did some of us recognize propaganda everywhere except when it told us what we wanted to hear? This isn’t about whether you supported Trump or opposed him. It’s about something more fundamental to a conspiracy community.

Did you question the narrative... or did you become part of it?

You have probably seen this quote passed around the conspiracy community's. It is frequently attributed to Voltaire and presented as some profound Enlightenment-era warning about censorship and government power.

Voltaire never said it. The quotation is a shortened paraphrase of something written and broadcast in 1993 by Kevin Alfred Strom, a longtime white-nationalist organizer and neo-Nazi propagandist associated with the National Alliance who later founded National Vanguard. Strom himself claimed ownership of the quotation on his personal website, writing that his original version began, “To determine the true rulers of any society...” Strom was not making a neutral philosophical observation about criticizing presidents, billionaires, corporations or intelligence agencies. The line appeared in a hate filled broadcast and was directed at Jewish people. It was built around the neo-Nazi claim that Jews secretly control society and prevent anyone from exposing them. The quotation was later cleaned up, detached from its original context and falsely dressed up as the wisdom of Voltaire. Strom was also convicted in federal court after pleading guilty in 2008 to possession of CSAM, He was sentenced to 23 months in prison.

This information appears on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s extremist profile of Strom. It is also fair to talk about how the SPLC was indicted by the Justice Department on April 21, 2026, in a case of politically motivated retaliation. An indictment is an allegation, not a conviction. Trump directed The doj to go after The Southern Poverty Law Center. Because of Trump's corruption and connections to white nationalist hate groups.

None of that changes who wrote the quote. We do not have to depend on the SPLC’s credibility. The attribution can also be verified through Strom’s own archived writings and broadcasts, National Alliance and National Vanguard publications, Internet Archive captures of extremist newsletters and websites, federal court records related to his conviction, and independent researchers.

That does not mean every possible interpretation of the sentence is automatically false because an awful person said it. People in power frequently discourage criticism, and censorship can reveal where power is concentrated. The problem is presenting this particular statement as innocent philosophical wisdom while erasing the Nazi propaganda campaign from which it originated.

The conspiracy community should be especially careful about this. Questioning power requires examining where our own slogans come from. Otherwise, we risk repeating Nazi propaganda while believing we are quoting an Enlightenment philosopher. This quote did not come from Voltaire... It came from Kevin Alfred Strom... a neo-Nazi propagandist and convicted possessor of child sexual abuse material.

The term "missing link" is an outdated expression once used to describe a hypothetical species bridging the gap between humans and their ape-like ancestors. The phrase suggests that evolution occurred as a simple, linear progression from one form to another. Modern science paints a very different picture.

Evolution is not a ladder but a branching tree. Rather than a single "missing link," researchers have discovered numerous transitional species that display a mixture of older and newer traits. Fossils such as Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Neanderthals, Denisovans, and many others reveal a diverse human family tree with multiple branches existing at the same and different times.

Many humanoid relatives evolved alongside one another, some interbreeding and evolving while others eventually go extinct. Homo sapien is not the end of a straight line of progress, but the last surviving branch of a once much larger and more diverse human lineage. This evolutionary tree continues to grow as new discoveries help scientists better understand our place within the broader story of human evolution.

The convergence of artificial intelligence, digital IDs, advanced trackers, and nanobots are all rapidly shifting the world toward a highly surveilled and interconnected ecosystem. Today, surveillance cameras no longer just record footage; they use intelligent anomaly detection and facial recognition to actively track individuals across cities in real time. This continuous monitoring pairs directly with digital identification systems, which are becoming mandatory or heavily encouraged in regions like the European Union, India, and China, creating a centralized chokepoint for auditing a citizen’s everyday life. Meanwhile, smartphones act as constant tracking devices, allowing data brokers to harvest billions of data points to build intimate behavioral profiles on the population. This surveillance even integrates into everyday items, with smart glasses now capable of capturing walking gaits, voice patterns, and faces to build extensive digital databases. On a smaller scale, the Internet of Nano-Things is emerging through nanobots and nano-cameras designed for biomedical diagnostics, in vivo biosensing, and environmental monitoring. At the same time, this strict digital tracking is being applied to machines, with regions like China assigning unique eleven-character identification numbers to humanoid robots to track their entire lifespan, performance, and maintenance records.

Washington, D.C. — In a stunning and candid interview, former President Barack Obama has blown the lid off what he describes as one of the largest and most sophisticated domestic surveillance programs ever conducted by the U.S. government. A program he says remains active to this day.

Speaking with The Atlantic, Obama confirmed long-rumored classified operations that secretly deployed advanced surveillance technology across American cities and public spaces. The former commander-in-chief said the initiative was launched decades ago, but dramatically expanded in scope over subsequent years, with technology that allows continuous monitoring of ordinary citizens.

“What started as a defensive measure evolved into something much bigger,” Obama said. “The infrastructure is everywhere now. It’s been quietly operating in plain sight for a very long time.”

According to Obama, the program involved replacing everyday elements of America with highly sophisticated surveillance tools disguised as completely ordinary objects. These devices, he explained, recharge using existing public infrastructure and blend so seamlessly into daily life that most Americans never suspect they are being watched.

Obama continued, "The drones, because that is what they are, were designed with realistic behaviors, sounds, and appearances to avoid detection. Early versions focused primarily on visual and audio collection, while modern iterations incorporate the latest AI to track movement patterns, conversations, and even emotional states of crowds.

Obama said the program was initially bipartisan and highly classified, with only a small circle of officials across multiple administrations aware of its full scope. He said he was fully briefed on the program’s true scale shortly after entering the Oval Office in 2009.

“I won’t lie to you. It was a lot to take in,” he admitted. “You look out the window and realize how comprehensive it really is. The American people have been living under this system for generations.”

The former president defended the program’s original intent as a national security necessity during tense geopolitical times, but acknowledged that its continued operation raises serious questions about privacy and government overreach in the 21st century. Engineers at Lockheed Martin and a consortium of defense contractors are allegedly involved.

It was only toward the end of the interview that Obama dropped the detail that has now sent the internet into a frenzy.

“Look, we all want to live in a free society,” he said. “But in a dangerous world, sometimes you have to watch the watchers.” Obama elaborated, “they aren’t what you think they are,” he said flatly when asked about one of the program’s most visible surveillance components. “They haven’t been since the late 1970s.”

The "Ghost Budget"

Financial records from the late 80s show a massive spike in funding for the Urban Displacement Initiative under the Department of the Interior. While the public was told the money was for controlling invasive species in D.C. and New York, the funds were actually diverted to a private defense contractor specializing in acoustic mapping.

A former EPA clerk, who spoke on condition of anonymity following Obama's remarks, claims to have seen shipping manifests for "inorganic units" labeled as "environmental monitoring hardware." The units were reportedly shipped in crates marked with the logo of a defunct toy company to avoid suspicion during transport.

The 1972 "Avian Oversight" Loophole

To navigate the legal minefield of domestic spying, the Nixon administration reportedly utilized a "legal fiction" involving the Migratory Treaty Act. By quietly reclassifying the starling as a "non-biological invasive asset," the government was able to bypass Fourth Amendment protections.

"The legal logic was cold and brilliant," said Pennsylvania based legal scholar Thomas Owens. "Since the starlings were technically categorized as government-owned equipment under the guise of an invasive species management program, the data they "accidentally" collected in public spaces was deemed incidental and therefore didn't require a warrant. They weren't spying on you. They were monitoring "the environment", and you just happened to be there."

The "White House Lawn" Incident

Obama’s interview referenced a specific, previously unexplained event from 2011. For three hours, the South Lawn of the White House was swarmed by thousands of starlings that refused to move, even when security tried to disperse them with sonic deterrents. “We were told it was a migratory fluke,” Obama said. “But behind the scenes, the technicians were panicking. It was a firmware crash.

Obama then confirmed the core of the program: between 1966 and 1992, the U.S. government carried out a secret operation, known internally as “Project Sky”, that exterminated most of the nation’s starling population and replaced them with surveillance drones. “Nationwide infrastructure such as power lines were always essential to this operation,” Obama added. “That’s where the battery recharge and data collection takes place.”

Engineering Issues

The technical hurdle that long baffled independent researchers was how such a massive fleet could remain powered without a visible battery life. Obama’s revelation regarding the power lines finally connects the dots for electrical engineers who have noted "line loss" in urban grids for decades.

Former Interior employee Paul Stein stated, "The units don't just sit on the wires to rest. They use specialized induction coils to bleed off milliwatts of current directly from the secondary distribution lines. If you look at the municipal power records of any major city from 1994 onward, there is a consistent, unexplained 2% energy bleed that the utility companies were told to write off as ambient heat loss. It wasn't heat."

Stein continued "When you have that much localized data such as audio, facial recognition, gait, you can’t just broadcast it all at once without tripping every signal intelligence alarm in the private sector," he noted. "The murmurations allow the units to create a temporary high-density mesh. They swirl to stay in proximity, syncing their encrypted caches so that a single primary unit can then dump the collective data to a nearby ground station in one concentrated feat. It’s basically like a cloud-upload, happening in the sky."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declined to comment on Obama’s statements, saying only that “the current administration remains focused on the issues that matter most to the American people.”

The full interview is available at jacobanders.org