POTUS TOLD US THE WALL MEANS MORE THAN WE KNOW
IS THIS BECAUSE HE IS BUILDING TESLA’S IMPENETRABLE WALL OF FORCE?
Trump has a strange connection to Nikola Tesla's deadly 'impenetrable wall of force'
Part of a fence that runs along the US-Mexico border. Reuters/Mike Blake
Building an impenetrable wall along the US-Mexican border, ostensibly to keep out foreigners, is a key item on President Donald Trump's campaign-promise checklist.
"I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words," Trump said during a campaign rally on June 16, 2015.
The president moved toward fulfilling that promise on Wednesday, January 25, 2017, when he signed a new executive order aimed at doing just that.
The order tasks the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, a role currently filled by John Kelly, to "immediately plan, design, and construct a physical wall along the southern border, using appropriate materials and technology to most effectively achieve complete operational control[.]"
If Secretary Kelly is seeking technological inspiration for the design of Trump's wall, however, we hope he doesn't go rifling through the FBI's recently released dossier on Nikola Tesla, a prolific Serbian-American inventor — an investigation that, in a remarkable but purely coincidental twist, has a direct connection to the Trump family.
Tesla is famous for coming up with alternating current, which remains the world standard for delivering electricity. He also devised the induction motor, electrical bolt-shooting Tesla coil, and long-distance radio transmission (though he had his thunder stolen by a rival).
But Tesla also spun his deep understanding and explorations of electricity and radiation to dream up more nefarious inventions, including a "death ray" he described to Time Magazine in 1934, yet kept relatively quiet about.
Artists perform a show in Moscow using Tesla coils and protective suits.Pavel L Photo and Video/Shutterstock
The government did not forget this and was "vitally interested" in Tesla's unpublished research during a time of war and Soviet espionage. So after Tesla died in the New Yorker Hotel the evening of January 7, 1943, "his papers […] were temporarily seized by the Department of Justice Alien Property Custodian Office ('alien' in this case means 'foreigner,' although Tesla was a US citizen)," according to the FBI.
Investigators and specialists examined the documents, recorded them on microfilm, wrote up reports, and added the material to their existing dossier on Tesla. The FBI waited decades to declassify the papers, releasing 250 pages of them as early as 2011.
But last September, the Bureau uploaded 64 new pages to its public file vault on Tesla, which we first heard about from Reddit user Pressrewind10.