Connecting the Dots w/Dan Happel

DANCING THE MINNEAPOLIS TWO STEP

The Minnesota Two Step seems a lot like 2020 deja vu all over again and a catalyst for nationwide insurrection and Bolshevik Revolution 2.0
Minnesota has evolved over the years into an epicenter for radical progressive politics, its significantly Christian and community focused rural Scandinavian and German forebears notwithstanding. They brought a socialist political leaning with them from the old country that was reinforced by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal farm and public works programs during the 1930s and 40s.
New Deal Republican Governor, Harold Stassen, was even selected to be one of the 17 U.S. delegates to the 1944 San Francisco Conference that drafted the United Nations Charter because of his unflinching support of world government. In 1944 the Minnesota Democratic party formed the Democratic Farmer/Labor Party and over the next 30 years moved its political base from rural areas to the Minneapolis/St.Paul area where it continues today.
What started as a community strength and execise in citizen involvement has metasticized into something far beyond the public good, having become much closer to a do-gooders nightmare than a utopian dream. Minnesotans need to be careful of what they wish for. It might just destroy the very society they have worked so hard to create.

The Infiltration of the Church on Multiple Fronts

The church on both sides of the pond, has been infiltrated by Marxism and the woke agenda, liberation theology to the social gospel.
In this weeks show, Mark Sutherland is holding the fort for Dan.3 authors, 3 books, that cross reference each other.1 published in 2011, 2 published in 2025.
Karl Marx said his Nemesis was Charles Spurgeon, Spurgeons College in South London is now shut, Rick Warren had become honoury chancellor of spurgeons college he of saddle back and purpose driven drival fame.
I did not leave the church, the church left me and it left the Bible.
How did this happen and what can we do about it if at all.Lets discuss.
EPHESIANS 6We are not fighting flesh and bloody but principalities and powers.https://danhappel.com

EXPOSING 21st CENTURY REALITY

Advanced weapon technology is being developed to sometimes protect, but often threaten those least capable of protecting themselves. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but most things accepted as science fiction when I was a kid, turned into scientific reality long ago.
The evil side to human nature that will do just about anything for money and justify it as necessary; has been hard at work enriching the international banksters and military industrial complex for the past 100+ years at civilization's expense.
If Americans only knew how far advanced our scientific/military technology really is, we would be terrified and at the same time extremely angry that we're completely kept in the dark and often used as lab rats by our own government. America's future is now, not 50 years from now!
We are at, or past, the point of no return! Should we fail to recognize our immediate peril and react , human singularity may end forever. The transhumanist movement is very real, and far more advanced/dangerous than we are being led to believe. Science fiction 1.0 has morphed into science reality 2026.10 squared.
There are crucial questions that must be asked when looking at the big picture and connecting the dots back to the: problem, reaction, solution Hegelian thinking that seems to define most current events.
Are we willing to risk the survival of the human species to advance a transhumanist agenda that is clearly the goal? Isn't it time to wake up and fight back before it's too late?
Guest: Ashton Forbes investigates breakthrough physics and hidden technologies through his podcast HARD TRUTHS and regular livestreams. He explores cold fusion, plasma physics, zero point energy, advanced propulsion systems, and unexplained phenomena; connecting fringe science, declassified patents, and mysterious events to reveal what's possible beyond mainstream understanding and what may already exist in classified programs. Through this he is known primarily as an independent citizen journalist and investigator who gained attention for his work related to the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Forbes has proposed unconventional theories regarding the flight's disappearance, including ideas involving advanced physics concepts like teleportation and wormholes.
Investigative Focus
-   MH370 Investigation: Forbes has analyzed video evidence and developed theories suggesting that the flight may have been involved in a cover-up or advanced technology use.-   Viral Content: His videos and claims have attracted significant public interest, leading to debates and discussions about the validity of his theories.

HYPOCRACY THE ACHILES HEEL OF LIBERALISM

Much of modern history is being fabricated by those who have the most to gain by manipulating and enslaving the rest of us.
Since the international banksters, globalists, collectivists, crony capitalists and social progressives have been running the world for the past 125 years, much of our accepted history contains little factual truth, and is largely fabricated to promote social or political agendas.
That isn't to say that every journalist or author is lying or misreporting the truth; there is an amazing amount of balanced, truthful, thoughtful writing that normally goes unrecognized.
It just never seems to make it as far as, or get promoted by, the mockingbird corporate media.
It certainly doesn't help that our universities, teachers colleges and journalism schools have been completely taken over by Frankfurt School Marxists with their SEL, DEI, WOKE, radicalism. They are leading the charge against truth, journalistic integrity, common sense and logic.
Objective truth has become so mis/underreported in modern journalism that many people ignore things they can see with their own eyes to believe things that make absolutely no sense just because it's repeated by the corporate media so many times.
A classic example is the 1619 Project, a book written by New York Times Reporter, Nikole Hannah Jones that won just about every major journalism award including the Pulitzer and was eventually made into an Emmy winning Documentary series by Hulu.
Although it's basic thesis is provably false because of all the "historical facts" that were intentionally omitted or misrepresented by the authors, it is a perfect example of rewriting history to fit a particular political narrative while promoting social and racial unrest to destabilize national cohesion.
Its omissions are beyond noteworthy, recasting America and the original intent of our Founders as evil, brutal and hate filled racists that only existed to exploit the African Negro.
The same injustices can be said for the recasting of Afrikaners as the ultimate slave traders that stole the lands and wealth that makes up South Africa from the indigenous black natives that are only now being compensated for centuries of brutality and senseless White racism.
The Arabs, Brits, Portugese and Black Africans were the ones that started and nurtured the trans Atlantic slave trader for centuries................not Afrikaners.
Don't get me wrong, racism and slavery are very wrong, but have existed on every continent since the beginning of time.
Where do you think the term the Slavic nations of Eastern Europe originated? It was from the enslavement of the native European peoples during the Islamic Caliphates under the Ottoman Turks.
WAKE UP AMERICA and pay attention to the hypocracy inherent in liberalism.
Look beyond the headlines and do your own research and reading to uncover the unvarnished truth.
Then and only then will we see the world as it really is.
We are the only ones that can save ourselves, but we can't do it until we connect the dots between historical truths and the disastrous hypocrisies of liberalism.

AMERICAN EMPIRE OR REPUBLIC?

The building of a new British Empire was never in the founding vision for America. Why are we moving in that direction? Recent military/police actions in Venezuela to blockade shipping and arrest Nicolas Maduro are being justified as necessary, but what are we doing when we talk about occupying and running a country larger than Texas with 26 million pissed off people, and why are we threatening to do the same to Columbia, Cuba, and Bolivia?
Moreover, Trump is still talking openly about annexing and/or buying Greenland from the Danes and incorporating significant parts of Canada as our 51st state. Is he nuts......or is this just part of the Kabuki Theater that increasingly surrounds this President? Is there a 3D chess match methodology to the madness that us mere mortals can't comprehend, or is he really so cheeky and filled with hubris that he's willing to play Russian roulette with our future? I have supported President Trump in many things, but it is very difficult to understand, let alone justify, overt acts of Imperialism in direct contradiction to our historical constitutional mandate.
There are many dots that need to be connected to learn the truth, but first we must find the dots...
GuestsMary FanningInvestigative journalist specializing in national security, intelligence operations, and the Middle East. Mary is the founder of The American Report and co-host of The Intelligence Report, where she regularly works alongside retired generals and intelligence professionals. Her investigations into election interference, intelligence community abuses, and foreign influence have been published months or even years ahead of mainstream reporting.Website: https://theamericanreport.org
Michael DiBari (Badass Uncle Sam)Political satirist, street activist, and creator of the iconic Badass Uncle Sam persona. Michael is known for confronting propaganda and censorship through public satire, live street engagement, and unapologetic political commentary. His work challenges passersby to question official narratives and reclaim civic courage in the public square.Website: https://www.badassunclesam.com

THE REAL JOHN BRENNAN

America has been nearly destroyed by a dual system of justice and lawfare that attacks the fundamental framework of Rule of Law.
In this episode of Connecting the Dots, Dan Happel examines how America’s Rule of Law has been undermined by lawfare, selective justice, and the weaponization of U.S. intelligence agencies, using former CIA Director John Brennan as a central figure in that transformation.
The conversation connects Brennan’s role in Operation Crossfire Hurricane and the Russiagate narrative to a broader system where intelligence assessments are used to shape public opinion, media functions as institutional protection rather than a watchdog, and accusations of authoritarianism are projected onto political opponents.
What emerges is a picture of unelected power operating with near-total immunity, while constitutional oversight is treated as an obstacle rather than a safeguard.
Joined by Ian Hamilton Trottier, author of High Stakes Treason, Dan explores why these actions represent more than political excesses. They point to a dual system of justice where accountability is reserved for citizens, not institutions, and where disclosure is the only remaining path to restoring trust in the republic.
It's time to shine the bright lights of true justice on those provably profiting from corruption and the manipulation of the system; in legitimate courts of law under a constitutional framework. Our future hangs in the balance.
Guest: Ian Hamilton Trottier is an author, podcaster, and constitutional advocate focused on exposing government corruption and defending the American republic. He is the author of High Stakes Treason, which examines allegations surrounding former CIA Director John Brennan and the weaponization of intelligence and lawfare against the American people. Trottier is also the host of the Discussions of Truth podcast and a former congressional candidate committed to civic accountability and transparency.
Book: High Stakes Treason (Amazon)https://www.amazon.com/High-Stakes-Treason-Compromised-American/dp/B0FJFZL85X/
Podcast: Discussions of Truth (Apple Podcasts)https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/discussions-of-truth/id1377137895
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PROTECTING A BRIGHT FUTURE

The United States is behind the curve on clean, affordable sources of electricity. It's time to modernize our antiquated electrical grid and advanced nuclear power generation capabilities.
Most Americans don’t think about the electrical grid until the lights go out. But here are a few facts that change the picture fast: much of the U.S. grid was built over 70 years ago, it was never designed to withstand major solar storms or EMP events, and it is already struggling to meet demand before AI data centers begin doubling national power consumption. At the same time, the United States has some of the safest and most advanced nuclear technology in the world, yet political resistance and regulatory paralysis keep it sidelined.
In this episode of Connecting the Dots, the conversation digs into why America’s energy problem is not a lack of technology, but a failure of policy. Public Service Commissioner Randy Pinocci explains how outdated transmission infrastructure, slow permitting, and ideological opposition are preventing rapid grid upgrades that could dramatically increase capacity and reliability. He also outlines why advanced conductors, underground transmission, and decentralized generation are critical for resilience and national security.
Renowned nuclear engineer Dr. Robert Zubrin traces how excessive regulation crippled the U.S. nuclear industry despite decades of proven safety, and why modern nuclear power is cleaner, safer, and more efficient than the public has been led to believe. He explains how regulation, not science, has stalled innovation while other nations surge ahead.
Grid modernization expert Dr. Zongjie Wang brings the engineering reality, explaining how nuclear power and small modular reactors provide stable, predictable electricity that renewables cannot, and why they are essential for supporting AI data centers, industrial growth, and a reliable national grid.
This episode reframes energy policy as a national security issue, not just an economic one, and makes the case that without modern nuclear power and serious grid modernization, America’s technological future is far more fragile than most people realize.
Guests & Resources
Randy Pinocci – Montana Public Service Commissioner (District 1)https://psc.mt.gov/
Dr. Robert Zubrin – Nuclear Engineer, Authorhttps://www.marssociety.org/https://pioneerastro.com/The Case for Nukes: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Nukes-Global-Warming-Magnificent/dp/1736386069/Merchants of Despair: https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Despair-Environmentalists-Pseudo-Scientists-Antihumanism/dp/1594034761/
Dr. Zongjie Wang – Grid Modernization Expert, Colorado State Universityhttps://energy.colostate.edu/
Dan Happel:https://danhappel.com/protecting-a-bright-future/

NIGERIAN GENOCIDE (A SECOND LOOK)

In this episode of Connecting the Dots, Dan Happel takes a second look at the Nigerian genocide with returning guest Mike Arnold, whose firsthand investigations challenge the growing narrative that the mass killing of Christians in Nigeria is merely a resource or climate conflict.
Arnold has traveled to Nigeria 16 times since 2010, visiting slaughtered villages, displaced person camps, and frontline communities targeted by jihadist violence. He breaks down how coordinated propaganda, public relations firms, and political alliances are being used to deny the religious nature of the attacks and shield those responsible from accountability.
The conversation examines how genocide denial is laundered through official talking points, why Western governments continue working with compromised Nigerian officials, and how terror is being used to clear land, destabilize populations, and enable outside economic interests.
Arnold also explains the human cost of this crisis, particularly the millions of displaced children facing radicalization without intervention, and why education and exposure are the most powerful tools for breaking the cycle of violence.
This episode cuts through the spin and lays out what is actually happening on the ground, why the narrative matters, and why ignoring it has global consequences.
https://danhappel.com/nigerian-genocide-a-second-look/

RINGING IN 2026

What challenges will 2026 bring for humanity? Are we up to the task, and how will we respond as Christians?
As 2026 unfolds, we face an unprecedented convergence of technological power, moral decay, and geopolitical instability driven by leaders who have abandoned constitutional and spiritual foundations. While the threat of destruction is real, the same era also offers an extraordinary opportunity for awakening through access to truth, history, and knowledge.
The future will be shaped by whether we choose fear and submission or courage, responsibility, and faithfulness to God in a moment that demands moral clarity
Guest: Everett Triplett started his adult life as a high school dropout and a minimum wage construction worker before Jesus Christ came into his life. Thereafter, Everett became a successful businessman, Real Estate Developer and Owner of a Commercial Construction and General Engineering Company.
Everett has written a number of books available on Amazon, where he became a watchman and voice for sanity and a Christian worldview in an increasingly humanistic secular world. Everett is a frequent speaker on the subjects of: Electro Magnetic Pulse weapons, the New World Order, and Independent Survival in a world spinning out of control.
Books by Everett Triplet (Amazon):Imminent EMPBattlefield: United States of America

DIAGNOSING THE HUMAN CONDITION with Dr. Lee Merritt

Dr. Lee Merritt is just the right person to diagnose the human condition. Her initial response to me is that a frontal lobotomy or strong coffee enema might help clean out the intellectual constipation that keeps most people from thinking clearly.
All kidding aside; it's no joke that most people are so convinced they must make nice with everyone that they are willing to go along with just about any injustice or fruitcake idea to placate the social justice warriors and internationalists that populate the loony left or neocon right.
For fear of being labeled as an isolationist, racist, sexist, fascist, homophobe, or anti-Semite, they sheepishly submit to endless war, forced vaccinations, patdowns at airports, suspension of Habeas Corpus rights, accept Drag Queen story hour at the local public library, relinquish all rights of association, etcetera, etcetera. Where will this insanity end?
It will end when we finally decide that enough is enough and quit accepting abnormal as normal, and Marxist social justice as American constitutional justice. We have endured 125 years of organized effort to convert America from a land of peaceful coexistence, rule of law, economic opportunity and individualism to a land of imperial overreach, collectivism and government control from cradle to grave.

Hidden History and Lost Human Knowledge

Independent researcher Celeste Solum joins this episode as the conversation examines the growing evidence that humanity is being deliberately kept ignorant of both its true past and its present reality. Accepted historical, scientific, and political narratives increasingly fail to explain ancient structures, lost knowledge, and sudden gaps in human history that modern institutions insist are settled. 
The discussion explores suppressed history, advanced ancient civilizations, and architectural achievements that defy conventional timelines. Megalithic structures, precision stonework, and sites like Göbekli Tepe raise serious questions about what previous societies understood and why that knowledge no longer fits the official story.
Particular attention is given to the possibility that ancient architecture was not merely symbolic or religious, but functional, designed to harness natural forces such as electromagnetism and resonance in ways modern society no longer acknowledges.
The conversation also connects these historical blind spots to present-day systems of control. Expanding biosecurity frameworks, medical martial law infrastructure, and opaque government research operate with little transparency, while information overload and psychological operations keep the public distracted and dependent.
At its core, this episode addresses responsibility. A society cut off from truth becomes easy to manage. Ignorance is not accidental. It is cultivated. And the greatest danger is not what we know is false, but what we don’t realize we don’t know.
This episode is not about proving a single theory. It is about breaking the mental cage of certainty and recognizing that:
Much of what we “know” may be incomplete or false
Power structures depend on ignorance
History, science, and spirituality are deeply connected
Truth requires humility, courage, and discernment
https://danhappel.com/hidden-history-and-lost-human-knowledge/

Medical Overreach and Forced Treatment in Modern Healthcare

This episode of Connecting the Dots exposes how medical authority, government agencies, and courts are increasingly being used against families who refuse mandated treatments or challenge institutional protocols. Guest host Mark Sutherland leads a deeply personal and investigative discussion revealing what many families are now experiencing as modern-day medical kidnapping.
What appears on the surface as isolated abuse is shown to be a systemic pattern operating under the cover of law, medical ethics, and emergency powers.
Across the country, families are discovering that informed consent is no longer guaranteed. Under emergency powers, court orders, and institutional protocols, medical decisions are being removed from parents and patients and placed into the hands of hospitals, agencies, and judges.
This conversation exposes how consent is overridden, how families are separated under medical authority, and how systems designed to protect are increasingly being used to control. From real-world cases to firsthand advocacy experience, this episode connects the legal, medical, and spiritual layers behind a problem many still don’t realize exists.
Guest: Margaret is a medical advocate who helps define and explain medical kidnapping from a clinical and parental rights perspective. She discusses how doctors initiate CPS involvement and how consent is overridden inside hospitals.
Guest: Laura manages a hospital hostage hotline and works with families whose loved ones are being held under forced medical protocols. She helped develop the “Do Not Consent” medical forms and explains how hospital systems deny consent and isolate patients.

When Law Becomes the Weapon and Justice Becomes Theater

In this powerful episode of Connecting the Dots, guest host Mark Sutherland leads a deep, unfiltered conversation exposing how corruption is protected, accountability is blocked, and citizen action is deliberately suppressed across America’s institutions.
Joining Mark are J.J. Humphrey, an Oklahoma State Representative who has confronted state agencies head-on, Doc Pete Chambers, a Texas gubernatorial candidate running on transparency, public service, and restoring lawful oversight, and Lewis Herms, a political candidate and media strategist focused on election integrity and citizen-driven oversight.
Together, they break down how media consolidation, controlled opposition, lawfare, and bureaucratic secrecy work together to shield fraud, silence whistleblowers, and prevent citizens from using constitutional tools like grand juries. The discussion exposes how corruption is not confined to Washington, D.C., but deeply embedded at the state and local level, where agencies routinely block public records, evade prosecution, and operate without consequence.
This episode goes beyond exposing the problem. It lays out why accountability has collapsed, how courts and prosecutors are being weaponized, and what lawful, citizen-driven solutions still exist for those willing to act.
If you want to understand:
Why massive fraud is rarely prosecuted
How media narratives discourage real civic action
Why grand juries are obstructed
Why courts and agencies resist transparency
And what it will take to restore accountability from the ground up
This is an episode you need to hear.
GuestsJ.J. HumphreyOklahoma State Representative and candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Humphrey is known for challenging corruption inside state agencies, defending open-records transparency, and pursuing accountability through constitutional processes and citizen-led grand juries.Website: https://www.jj4ok.com/
Lewis HermsCalifornia gubernatorial candidate, filmmaker, and investigative commentator. Herms focuses on media suppression, controlled opposition, information warfare, and exposing institutional silence surrounding child trafficking and government corruption.Website: https://www.hermsforcali.com/
Doc Pete ChambersTexas gubernatorial candidate and former military officer. Chambers addresses border security, fifth-generation warfare, color-revolution tactics, and the role of state leadership in resisting federal overreach and destabilization.Website: https://docpetechambers.org/

A Peek Inside the World’s Largest Climate Conference That Shapes Global Policy

This episode of Connecting the Dots is a first-hand investigative discussion centered on what the guests describe as the global climate governance apparatus, specifically through the lens of COP 30, the United Nations climate process, and its real-world impacts on freedom, agriculture, property rights, energy, and political accountability.
Guest host Mark Sutherland is joined by Debbie Bacculuppi and Andrew Muller, both of whom attended COP 30 and related global summits firsthand. What they describe is not a debate over climate science, but a tightly controlled political environment where dissenting voices are almost entirely absent.
Debbie, a Northern California cattle rancher, explains how climate policy directly threatens land ownership, water access, and food production and why farmers and ranchers feel the impact long before the rest of society does.
Andrew shares what it was like being one of only a handful of independent journalists among tens of thousands of attendees, documenting how narrative control, symbolism, and institutional power operate behind the scenes.
This conversation pulls back the curtain on:
Why only a tiny number of dissenting journalists are allowed inside COP events
How climate policy is being used to reshape agriculture, energy, housing, and sovereignty
What a controversial anti-Trump sculpture at COP reveals about approved political messaging
Why rising energy costs, housing unaffordability, and loss of property rights are deeply connected
How global institutions bypass voters while shaping domestic policy
This episode isn’t about abstract theory, it’s about what the guests personally witnessed, filmed, and experienced.
What really happens inside the world’s largest climate conferences and why are so few journalists allowed to question it?

Where the Constitution Ends: Government Abuse and the Collapse of Justice

In this episode of Connecting the Dots, guest host Mark Sutherland leads a wide-ranging and unfiltered discussion examining the moral collapse behind America’s legal system, courts, and governing institutions. The conversation explores how law has shifted from a tool meant to protect citizens into a weapon used against them, particularly in family courts, administrative courts, and politically sensitive cases.
The panel breaks down how judicial activism, unchecked bureaucracy, and institutional corruption have eroded due process and equal protection under the law. They discuss real-world consequences for families, parents, and individuals caught in systems that operate with little transparency, accountability, or constitutional restraint.
Throughout the episode, the discussion connects historical precedents, constitutional principles, and present-day cases to show how abuse of authority has become normalized—and why many Americans no longer trust the institutions meant to serve them. This episode challenges listeners to confront uncomfortable truths about power, justice, and what happens when morality is removed from the rule of law.
If you’ve ever wondered how America reached a point where courts can destroy lives while claiming to uphold justice, this episode pulls back the curtain and connects the dots.
Richard Mack – Founder, Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers AssociationWebsite: https://cspoa.org
Lewis Herms – California gubernatorial candidate, founder of Screw Big Gov movementWebsite: https://www.hermsforcali.com
T and Peter – Child advocacy activists, Where Is Jonah RiefWebsite: https://whereisjonahrief.com
https://danhappel.com/control-media-lawfare-surveillance/

Exposing the Globalist Mind Trap and the Technocratic War on Western Civilization

This episode is fundamentally about how modern populations are controlled without realizing it, and why most people fail to recognize the systems shaping their beliefs, behavior, and compliance.
The world is not drifting into global control, it is being steered there with precision. Understanding the psychological and spiritual mechanisms behind mass compliance is essential for breaking it. If citizens don’t wake up and reclaim their role in self-governance, unaccountable technocrats will do the governing for them.
Filmmaker and commentator Mark Sutherland steps behind the microphone with co-host David Sumrall to examine the global forces reshaping Western civilization. Together they dismantle the narratives pushed by international institutions, captured media, and propaganda machines that keep citizens distracted while technocratic control structures tighten around them. 
Freedom dies first in the mind, then in the culture, and finally in the law.
Mark and David connect the dots between psychological conditioning, cultural erosion, global governance, and the spiritual battle underlying it all. They expose how mass compliance has become the ruling class’s greatest weapon and why reclaiming critical thought, moral conviction, and personal courage is essential if humanity hopes to push back against elite-driven transformation.
This episode is a direct challenge to passive spectatorship. It calls listeners to recognize the speed of the takeover, understand the mechanisms behind it, and step forward as engaged participants in the fight for truth, sovereignty, and genuine human freedom.
 

America at the Crossroads: Lawfare, Immigration, and the Fight for Sovereignty

In this hard-hitting episode, guest host Mark Sutherland brings together two frontline political fighters from Oklahoma and Texas to confront the accelerating crises reshaping the American landscape. The conversation pulls no punches, exposing the coordinated pressures being applied on our institutions, our communities, and even our food supply, all part of a broader struggle over sovereignty in the 21st century.
Mark bridges UK and US activism, bringing on two candidates, JJ (Oklahoma) and Doc/Michael (Texas), for a raw conversation about:
Weaponized lawfare
State-vs-federal sovereignty
Immigration and demographic warfare
Revival of accountability inside the U.S. military
mRNA in livestock
Corporate capture of the food supply
Globalist attacks on property rights, farming, and national identity
Islamization of American cities
The spiritual warfare layer behind all of this
This episode has three layers happening at once:
Political ground game (state-level warfare)
Deep-state vs. constitutional order (lawfare, DOD, borders)
Civilizational struggle (values, demographics, sovereignty)
The guests outline how lawfare has replaced legitimate governance, weaponizing indictments, selective prosecution, and bureaucratic intimidation to silence political opponents. Rather than accept this as the new normal, states like Oklahoma and Texas are beginning to build multi-state legal alliances, forming the backbone of a new constitutional resistance.
Beyond the courtroom, the episode dives into the demographic battles unfolding across America. The rapid transformation of cities through unmanaged migration is no longer a future concern, it’s visible now in formerly stable communities from Michigan to Texas. As Mark notes, these changes aren’t random; they follow well-established patterns seen in Europe and the UK, reflecting a global strategy rather than isolated local events.
The guests also expose the biomedical and agricultural front of this struggle: unlawful military vaccine mandates that caused widespread injury, mRNA technology quietly entering the livestock supply, and corporate cartels tightening their grip on beef, pork, and poultry. Food, like energy and medicine, is becoming another lever of control and independent farmers are being squeezed out to make room for global “sustainability” regimes.
Guest: JJ: Candidate from Oklahoma. Former law enforcement background; active in exposing public corruption. Leading efforts to coordinate multi-state legal pushback against lawfare, selective prosecution, and constitutional violations. Known for bold state sovereignty initiatives, including investigations into unlawful federal mandates.
Guest: Doc / Michael: Texas Candidate & Military Whistleblower. Former military officer and medical professional who publicly exposed unlawful vaccine mandates inside the U.S. military. Testified in the high-profile SEALs v. DOD case, which helped overturn mandate policies for religious exemptions. Provides firsthand data on neurological injuries linked to forced vaccination programs and ongoing military accountability efforts.
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WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT & WILD HORSES

Common sense doesn't seem to have much impact on modern wildfire policies, and even less when preordained, and sometimes radical, environmental agendas are imbedded in Federal Agency rulemaking. I saw that firsthand when serving as a County Commissioner and also as a member of the Southwest Montana BLM Resource Advisory Committee.
Our input was often limited to rubber stamping preordained federal policies or being entirely shut out of the process, which happened to me quite a bit when I spoke out. Local officials were there mostly for window dressing and to provide the perception of local input.
What passed as legitimate land use policies before the BLM and US Forest Service management staffing were coopted by radical environmental NGOs, have turned many of our national forests into bug infested, mono-culture, poorly managed, and underutilized tinder boxes, waiting for the next catastrophic fire event.
I was asked to do a podcast on the subject of wild horses a while back, but did not feel comfortable doing that because so much of the subject has been politicized by both sides of the aisle. I knew more than a few folks that would become nearly unhinged when the subject came up, and I did'nt feel personally knowledgable enough, or know anyone of sufficient scientific and historical expertise to properly address the subject.
That is until I had the opportunity to meet wild horse expert, William E. Simpson II. Bill has an amazing grasp of the whole arena, including forestry, land use, understory stewardship and historically accurate equine biology. And he's a real cowboy, not a tree hugger! After about 15 minutes on the topic of wild horses, I felt I had finally met somone that checked all the boxes needed to give a full and complete picture of what constitutes a truly wild horse, and why their future should matter to most Americans.
It turns out that wild horses are the best specie at understory grazing in extremely rugged, predator filled, back country, fire prone, wilderness areas.
Bill Simpson is committed to the survival of the North American wild horses that migrated across the Bering Strait long before the Spanish Conquistadors brought domesticated breeds to the Americas.
These wild horses are markedly different than domesticated species and are uniquely adapted to survival in the harshest climates, surrounded by predators, and thriving on forage that would starve a lesser species.
They represent a unique opportunity to reduce wildfire in remote back country areas where roads don't exist and where these tough little horses with hooves of flint thrive on limited resources in areas totally unsuited for domestic livestock grazing.
It's time to try something different and tell the 3 letter agencies to take their stewardship responsibilities seriously without selling out to environmental special interests promoting the flavor of the day on everything from alternative energy to natural resource development.
It's time to hear the wild horse story!
WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT & WILD HORSES | Connecting the Dots with Dan Happel
 
 

NIGERIAN GENOCIDE (FACTS vs FICTION)

Although there are some who question reports of Nigerian Christian genocide, we must hear first person eyewitness accounts to learn the truth.
Is Nigerian genocide fact or fiction? Join Dan and his guest Mike Arnold for a first person account of the events that led to Mike Arnold's cries to the civilized world to stop this persecutuion before it destroys millions of Nigerian and other African Christians that are sytematically being forced into accepting Islam by corrupt political leaders.
The Nigerian genocide against Christians is very real; affecting the lives of all those caught in the path of political forces intent on transforming all of Africa into a uniform Islamic theocracy. Without intervention, it is estimated some 2 million currently displaced (kidnapped?) Nigerian youth will be radicalized by 2030.
Africa Arise programs are reaching out to the afflicted populations, currently serving some 600 child survivors with a free, high-quality, loving education – and stand ready to reach many more given the opportunity.
The most resource rich continent in the world has a long history of subjugation and colonialization by the old European Powers, and more recently by the CCP attempting to gain natural resource dominance through their Belt and Road initiative. Erstwhile efforts by the radical green lobby to limit the development of affordable energy that would allow Africans to enjoy economic development have kept much of the continent desperately poor. Meanwhile, despotic political factions treat Black Christians as little more than cannon fodder in an autocratic system that relies on constant strife and war to maintain control.
It's time to stop this madness and end the tribalism and theocracy that continues to destabilize the entire continent.

The Rise of an AI-enabled Global Technocratic Dictatorship.

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a tool we use, it’s becoming the system we all live inside. In this explosive episode of Connecting the Dots, Dan Happel welcomes back media ecologist and technocracy expert James Martinez to break down how AI, quantum computing, surveillance, and global power structures are rapidly reshaping human life.
James explains in plain terms how governments and corporations are building digital profiles of every person, why quantum computers could end financial privacy, and how new technologies are being used to influence thought, behavior, and even culture itself. He exposes why world leaders are pushing massive AI data centers without the energy, water, or safeguards to support them and what that means for ordinary people everywhere.
This conversation goes far beyond technology. It uncovers the psychological, economic, legal, and spiritual implications of a world run by algorithms instead of accountable human beings. If you’ve ever wondered where AI is truly heading and what it could mean for your freedom, identity, and future, this episode delivers answers you won’t hear anywhere else.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
How AI and quantum computing are changing global power behind the scenes.
Why governments are building digital “avatars” of every citizen.
How surveillance, biometrics, and social data tie into a worldwide control grid.
Why many political leaders have no idea what they’re authorizing.
How technology is being used to shape human perception and behavior.
What individuals must understand to stay free in an AI-driven world.
This is not sci-fi, it’s happening now.