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Ann Tomoko Rosen's avatar

When I asked Ms. Dyer if she could tell me which industry served as Glitterex’s biggest market, her answer was instant: “No, I absolutely know that I can’t.”

I was taken aback. “But you know what it is?”

“Oh, God, yes,” she said, and laughed. “And you would never guess it. Let’s just leave it at that.” I asked if she could tell me why she couldn’t tell me. “Because they don’t want anyone to know that it’s glitter.”

“If I looked at it, I wouldn’t know it was glitter?”

“No, not really.”

“Would I be able to see the glitter?”

“Oh, you’d be able to see something. But it’s — yeah, I can’t.” https://www.thecut.com/2018/12/who-is-the-mystery-glitter-buyer.html

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Ann Tomoko Rosen's avatar

More on the glitter mystery here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y08scEk59G0

and here: We might not know that modern glitter was invented and developed by Henry F. Ruschmann, a German immigrant who arrived in New York on the MS Bremen in 1926 and was hired, right at the pier, as a machinist by the Westinghouse Company, Irvington, NJ. (The captain of the ship had recognized his skills as an excellent machinist and wrote him a letter of recommendation.) https://www.pffc-online.com/web-handling/167-roll-handling/16723-the-discovery-development-of-glitter

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Pamela A Everett Goodman's avatar

Omg Ann, just reading this creeped me out. There’s a woman at my gym in NJ, she’s actually a teacher who I refer to as so & so glitter because she’s got this stuff head to toe on her body/skin daily. She loves it and it’s her TM to bring more “ light & laughter to the world, she’s also very jabbed and currently disappearing by the day physically from ozempic.

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Ann Tomoko Rosen's avatar

Oh that's so sad. And kind of by design when you think about it. We've been primed to embrace "all that glitters" and it's incorporated into just about everything celebratory. It gives new meaning to the "glitterati." Meanwhile, somehow snow and sunlight have become more blinding than ever... weird fog (that sometimes smells oddly like Fabreze) hovers globally.. and we wonder what's being sprayed in our skies.

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Pamela A Everett Goodman's avatar

Yeah it is. She follows me on Facebook so I’m definitely not posting this. I think she’s getting scared of me. Lol.

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Nathan's avatar

The Army Chemical Corps, back when all forms of weapons development were on the table, had a piece of specialized equipment (called the 8-ball) which allowed them to test the stability of aerosols at various altitudes. Because their tests were so successful, alternative methods of deployment were almost entirely shut down which included genetically modifying fleas and ticks to carry lethal diseases. Once certain weapons were deemed inhumane, the organizations were rebranded as being defensive in nature and committed to getting ahead of future threats from hostile forces. Fast forward a bit and you have that interesting anthrax letters event...eventually it was discovered that the specific formula was produced domestically and couldn't be linked to anything being developed in Iraq. So, were people who don't know why we're sick or who caused it. I guess I'll just blame Gary at work because he doesn't cover his mouth when he coughs.

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Ann Tomoko Rosen's avatar

Thank you for this. It's believable because we see this pattern again and again. Dark agendas using fabricated threats to justify sketchy and dangerous research... and always enough plausible deniability to deflect responsibility.

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Nathan's avatar

So, we're*

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letterwriter's avatar

Taylor Swift "bleeds glitter", her fans have been losing memory at her concerts from the intensity, and no one can tell me her live show is good enough artistically to generate the mania for repeat attendance at the extraordinary ticket prices we see. Yet there clearly is a mania, among some of the meanest normies I've ever seen, who claim the shows are all about some sort of love and bonding, idk.

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Ann Tomoko Rosen's avatar

Yes, I was thinking of Taylor Swift as I listened to the recorded letter. None of it would surprise me. So many people seem to be under the influence of something…

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letterwriter's avatar

If you've ever spent enough time on the cultural development that is "taylor swift" to have looked at her parents' involvement... In my opinion it would be absolutely within bounds for her dad, mainly because nothing seems out of bounds for him.

I'm not sure she'd think of it herself (she seems to copy more than anything else) but I've never gotten the impression that she thinks deep thoughts about morality, so I doubt she'd object.

Well there are lots of other reasons that people go along with ganging, and find a lot of emotional satisfaction in it, but I definitely thought of the article by the writer who went to the TS concert knowing in advance that people were blacking out on what exactly happened, and then it happened to them. Like, they knew in advance, and it still happened.

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Singing in the Dark's avatar

I’ll toss out a wild theory: large-scale “invisibility” shields, that can both block large areas of the skies, and be used as a projection screen.

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Ann Tomoko Rosen's avatar

I can't rule much out at this point. Most of what I thought I knew was wrong, so...

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Oil Burner's avatar

Thank you for your in depth article.

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Ann Tomoko Rosen's avatar

It’s still haunting me. I can’t confirm it, but the fact that it is no longer hard to believe says a lot.

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Rosie Barnes's avatar

At this moment, zero and I mean ZERO would shock me. That’s how I view everything at the moment, I’ll watch and wait with open mind.

Subscribed to you 🤝

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Ann Tomoko Rosen's avatar

Thanks!

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Ann Tomoko Rosen's avatar

Here are some other theories... https://youtu.be/ODy1K7FB97I?si=AifCadwAYygqz6Lh

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Art Hutchinson's avatar

I may be wrong, and go ahead and hate me for raining on this parade, but as a published fiction writer, my strong blink on "Real Creepy Stories" is: excellent fiction. No one writes letters with that much literary and scene-setting flair to a work colleague, especially on their deathbed.

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Ann Tomoko Rosen's avatar

It's entirely possible. And it's certainly not a parade.

But someone like me, for example, would absolutely write something like this at a point when there's nothing left to lose. I think the foundational elements, to the extent they can be matched to other accounts, can also be useful. The secrecy around glitter factories is definitely weird. And in the last video, Henry W. Ruschmann confirms government contracts, a link to the Manhattan Project, Picatinny Arsenal, radar chaff and other uses. So if we can't take the story as truth, we can still find the seeds of truth in it and learn from there.

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Art Hutchinson's avatar

One strategy the TPTB / deep state uses to hide their myriad murderous mischiefs is this realm of *seeming* like fiction--i.e., "the big lie,"--sounding so outlandish that only a tiny fraction of us are willing to even consider circumstantial evidence, whilst the rest are egged-on to call us conspiracy nuts.

The brilliance of the X-Files for TPTB / deep state was that they could use it as sort of blender--alongside stuff guys like me pull out of our own wild imaginations--and so blur the lines, making it easier to throw skepticism on the real stuff.

That was my main point, perhaps not expressed so well on a first take.

Could this one be true? Absolutely. Five years ago I still thought that men walked on the moon. But this *particular* one feels/sounds/blinks to me like stuff I've heard good writers drop on each other at fiction workshops.

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Ann Tomoko Rosen's avatar

Yes, I agree. It seems like many stories, particularly in the realm of Sci-Fi, use narrative to connect viable dots. The stories may be more or less true, but unverifiable. In this case, we already know that glitter is unhealthy. And now we know it's also used as chaff released into the sky to enable/disable radar signals. We know there are "hush hush" military and government contracts and carefully guarded secrets at the factories. And the inventor of glitter just happened to work on the Manhattan Project. I guess you could weave together something pretty juicy. But so can powerful psychopaths...

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S. Anderson's avatar

I agree but also Tomoko Rosen effectively pulled together a lot of strands in this piece that does make me think there is something "there" there. https://hxlibraries.substack.com/p/all-that-glitters

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Steve's avatar

Thankfully, most metal bands aren’t into glitter. Hopefully no industrial (part metal, part weird sound fx you can dance to) bands are, either.

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Vinnie's avatar

Stick with this listen...

If your curious...

https://youtu.be/1qAtxA6C8P8?si=iVgEJZRAi8msHpRt

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