David T. Cloft

David T. Cloft is a competitive smallbore and long range rifle shooter from the United States, who has won seven National Championships and has set 11 US National Records. In 1999 he became the first American to be Knighted by the Princess of Buedingen, Germany after winning their annual Schutzenfest. He formerly served as a United States Army officer and retired at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Empire in Denial: How the United States Is Quietly Losing Its Strategic Edge

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Empires don’t collapse in a blaze of cinematic glory—they erode, quietly, while insisting everything is fine. The United States still fields the most powerful military on Earth, still prints the world’s reserve currency, still lectures the planet on order and stability. But beneath the polished surface, the math is getting ugly, the cohesion is cracking, and the strategic margin is shrinking. This is what decline actually looks like—not defeat, but drift. Not surrender, but overextension wrapped in denial. The dangerous part isn’t that America is weakening; it’s that it hasn’t fully realized it yet.

UFO Disclosure, the Father of Lies, and the Oldest Psyop in History

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For most people, unexplained aerial phenomena are a curiosity. For students of prophecy and biblical theology, they raise a more sobering question: what if the greatest deception in history arrives under the banner of enlightenment, scientific progress, and planetary unity?

America’s Quiet Military Draft Crisis: The Test That Won’t Lie

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For a century, the Department of Defense (now DoW) has asked a brutally simple question: can you read, can you reason, can you do basic math, can you learn a job without turning equipment into modern art? This isn’t about genius. It’s about baseline competence—the kind that keeps helicopters in the sky and generators from becoming bonfires.

Disclosure Season and the Oldest Lie in the Book

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Every few decades, humanity rediscovers wonder, dusts it off, and calls it progress. This summer, the marketing machine will do its part with The Day of Disclosure, courtesy of Steven Spielberg—and right on cue, we’ll all be invited to stare into the sky and ask if something smarter than us is finally ready to step in and fix the mess. It’s a great story. It’s also not a new one.

Michigan Needs a Mushroom License — And Deep Down, You Know It

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Every spring in Michigan, the forests erupt into a full-scale fungal gold rush. Pickup trucks jam two-tracks. Facebook groups trade morel coordinates like cartel smugglers swapping contraband routes. Grown adults crawl through the woods in camouflage carrying mesh bags full of mushrooms worth more per pound than some cuts of steak. And through all of it, the State of Michigan collects exactly zero dollars from one of the largest seasonal harvest activities on public land.

Michigan: A Peaceful Place Built by Geological Violence

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Stand on the bank of the Au Sable River at sunrise and it’s all mist, pine trees, and trout quietly minding their business. Feels like the kind of place that’s always been this way—stable, predictable, friendly. It hasn’t. Michigan is what happens when the earth tries to tear itself apart, fails, gets buried, frozen, crushed, flooded, and then—only after all that—decides to look nice about it.

Feeding the Fire: How the Outrage Industry Learned to Love Its Own Enemy

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America doesn’t just have problems anymore—it has subscription services for problems. Pick your flavor, swipe your card, and congratulations: you’re now funding a permanent crisis that will never quite get solved. Because solving it would be terrible for business.

The Lie We Tell Ourselves About Food—and the Chemical Trick Keeping Billions Alive

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We like to pretend food comes from virtue. Hard work, sunshine, maybe a red barn and a guy in overalls. Reality check: your dinner exists because of industrial chemistry, fossil fuels, and a process that forces atmospheric nitrogen to behave like it’s being interrogated in a back room. At the center of this quiet miracle—and quiet dependency—is the Haber-Bosch process. It doesn’t get headlines. It doesn’t trend. But it’s arguably one of the most important inventions in human history, because it broke the natural limits on how much food we can produce. Without it, the global population wouldn’t look anything like it does today.

The MAGA Trap: How Narrative Warfare Turns Fringe into a Political Weapon

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They’re not rolling tanks into MAGA headquarters. They don’t have to. This is 5th generation warfare—the kind where the battlefield is your head and the objective is reputation, not terrain. No explosions, no uniforms, just a steady drip of images and narratives that quietly decide who looks sane and who looks like they need adult supervision. And right now, one of the cleanest plays on the board is simple: take the fringe, staple it to the mainstream, and let human psychology do the rest.

The Occult Didn’t Die—It Got a Lab Coat

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There’s a comforting lie modern people like to tell themselves: we outgrew the occult. We traded candles and chants for peer review and lab reports. We’re rational now. Enlightened. Too sophisticated for ancient nonsense. Michael S. Heiser spent a good portion of his career politely—and then not so politely—blowing that idea to pieces. Heiser, who …

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When Cement Meets Jihad: How Lafarge Turned War Into a Business Model

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From roughly 2012 to 2014, as Syrian Civil War turned northern Syria into a live-fire apocalypse, Lafarge made a calculated decision: stay open, stay profitable, and if that meant paying off armed groups—including ISIS and al-Nusra Front—then so be it. Business is business. Even if your business partners occasionally crucify people for sport. The company didn’t just stumble into this. Courts later described it as an organized system. Money moved. Deals were made. Raw materials, checkpoints, safe passage—all greased with cash. The same way you’d negotiate trucking contracts in Ohio, just with more AK-47s and fewer HR policies.

Alpena’s Dirty Secret: When “Alternative Fuel” Starts Looking Like Alternative Reality

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Systech Environmental—pitched a brilliant idea: instead of burning traditional fuels, why not torch hazardous waste in the kiln? Tires, solvents, industrial byproducts—if it could burn, it could earn. Companies paid to get rid of their waste, Lafarge saved on fuel, and everyone shook hands like they’d just invented fire. The pitch was wrapped in the kind of language only a regulatory lawyer could love: “resource recovery,” “alternative fuels,” “energy efficiency.” What it meant in plain English was this: Alpena became a destination for waste that nobody else wanted, cooked at 2,500 degrees and released into the same air the locals were breathing.

The Vatican, Aliens, and the Coming Great Deception: A Biblical Analysis of End-Times Scenarios

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Imagine waking up to headlines proclaiming, “The Vatican Confirms the Existence of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life.” With one statement, the spiritual and scientific foundations of billions would be shaken. But what would such a declaration really mean? For those who take biblical prophecy seriously, it might not be the dawn of new enlightenment—but the beginning of a global deception foretold in Scripture.