Things Worth Noting
Downtown San Francisco faces a drug zombie apocalypse, with fentanyl-laced drugs fueling a crisis of addiction, homelessness, and urban decay. The Tenderloin and Union Square are hotspots, where open-air drug markets and encampments thrive, driving crime and overdose deaths—806 in 2023, 635 in 2024, and rising in 2025. Fentanyl, often mixed with meth or heroin, […]
Operation Midnight Climax, a CIA subproject of MKUltra, ran in the 1960s during the Cold War to test mind control using LSD. Led by Sidney Gottlieb and George Hunter White, it unfolded in San Francisco and New York City safehouses, like 225 Chestnut Street. Prostitutes lured non-consenting men, who were drugged and watched through two-way […]
Bohemian Grove is an exclusive men’s club founded in 1872, situated in a 2,700-acre redwood forest in California. Its 2,500 members, primarily influential men, gather annually in July for a secretive two-week retreat. The Grove hosts the famous “Cremation of Care” ceremony and serves as a networking hub for individuals in politics, business, and the […]
Room 641A is a facility in San Francisco operated by AT&T and used by the NSA for government surveillance programs, which intercepted internet traffic without public knowledge or consent. The revelation of the program sparked a public debate about privacy and government surveillance, leading to legal challenges and reforms to government surveillance policies. The legacy […]