derek@mailhiot.ca

As an independent investigative author, I deeply investigate topics that have been plagued by pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and fake news to discover the truth and shine a light on stories that are not always told. As a devout Christian who holds a modern scientific worldview, some of my books explore topics that intersect science and religion, such as creation and evolution. I studied economics at the University of Victoria, and religious studies at the University of British Columbia. I'm also very entrepreneurial, starting an internet company called InterWeb Connections in 1995, and a software development company called Wireheads Labs in 2002. In 2011, I invented an alternative energy device that is radically innovative and truly disruptive. I filed a Patent in 2011, and in my "spare time" I am working to develop a prototype in order to commercialize this exciting technology. I'm also a student of philosophy because I don't want to be fooled by the way things seem. Instead, I want to know what the world is really like, what's really going on in the world. This, it turns out, is a fundamental motivation for the philosopher: to discover the way the world really is. Philosophers do this by looking at the arguments and the evidence, evaluating them critically and carefully, making sure not to be led astray by the way things seem. Then, and only then, does the philosopher formulate a belief. Through careful reasoning, the philosopher can come to see the world as it really is, and break through the chains put on us by society that makes us see the world a certain way. As a teenager, I read The High Frontier by Gerard K. O'Neill and have been fascinated by space colonies and everything space related ever since. I'm also a huge fan of science fiction — especially Dune — and I've taken up writing a science fiction series called 12 Planets of the Intergalactic Map. Why do I write science fiction? One of the big misconceptions about science fiction is that it is escapism entertainment for kids that doesn't tackle any serious themes. However, science fiction brings philosophy to the masses and allows people to grapple with important issues like nothing else does. There are societal problems that are often emotionally loaded. However, if those issues are recast in a science fiction setting, then pre-conceived notions and biases can be left behind and they can be re-evaluated anew. Science fiction authors not only address such issues, they advocate for certain positions on them. That intrigues me to write science fiction. When I'm not writing or reading, I can be found hiking on one of the many beautiful trails on Vancouver Island. I also like to travel, and have visited 19 countries.

12 Planets of the Intergalactic Map: Travelers From Schyllus: Book One What happens when 12 civilizations from different planets meet for the very first time? Will their common origin unite them into a mighty Intergalactic Empire? Or will they destroy each other? The people of the planet Schyllus in the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy possess the "Intergalactic Map" which plots 12 planets in the Local Group of galaxies colonized by the children of the "Maker" called the "First Ones." Schyllus is one of the planets. Earth is another. There are 10 more. Scientists on Schyllus discover that the Maker has created a device in deep space — the Gryben Anomaly — that allows them to instantaneously travel between the 12 Planets. The first planet they travel to is Earth. All they know is that Earth was colonized by the First Ones thousands of years ago — just like Schyllus was — but otherwise they know nothing about it. What happens when 196,418 Travelers from Schyllus arrive on an unsuspecting and unprepared Earth? The Travelers are peaceful explorers, yet their arrival results in billions of human deaths from the chaos that ensues. Will their arrival on Earth be the demise of the human race? Or will mankind join the Travelers in expeditions to the other planets — Thijar, Hyperios, Kikrit, Freytus, Acfarr, Vaagon, Minyos, Ozkozania, Dagomere, and Pluvikerr. These planets were all colonized by the First Ones thousands of years ago, but have evolved into vastly different civilizations. And unbeknownst to the humanoids inhabiting the 12 Planets, a malevolent entity known as Torajii has vowed to exterminate all humanoids from the universe.

12 Planets of the Intergalactic Map: The Being, the Philosopher, and the Machine: Book Two Taking advantage of the worldwide Blackout, the Travelers from the planet Schyllus unite the nations of Earth into a single supernation called Pangaea, governed by the World Council. Travelers dominate the World Council, and have surreptitiously placed Travelers in strategic positions in the government, military, and society. But are the Traveler's intentions for Earth good or evil? Simultaneously, the world's elite have established themselves in 144 utopian cities scattered throughout the globe, declaring their independence from Pangaea in utter defiance of the World Council. Civil war breaks out. But the 144 are protected by private armies armed with sophisticated weapons, including nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapons and anti-nanobot defenses. Now on the planet Schyllus, Christiaan is deeply concerned about the Traveler's duplicitous actions on Earth. But before he can intervene, he is given a rare Eternity Orb by the Being, who sends him to distant planets on a mission to unite the 12 Planets into a mighty Intergalactic Empire. On his otherworldly journeys, Christiaan encounters the mysterious Philosopher, a civilization trapped in a virtual world controlled by a devious A.I., and a planet controlled by the godlike Machine. All the while, the malevolent Torajii — a sentient virus created when he was blasted with gamma-rays and other high-energy radiation in the aftermath of a supernova — continues to enact his plan to exterminate every humanoid in the universe. Can Christiaan stop him?

12 Planets of the Intergalactic Map: The Vanekirians: Book Three The adventures of Christiaan, Daniel, and Hannah continue on the planet Hyperios. It's the third planet among the 12 Planets the three Tellurians have visited. It doesn't go well. They endure crisis after crisis. When Christiaan mysteriously vanishes while trying to return to Schyllus, Daniel goes in search of him, leaving Hannah all alone on Hyperios — for decades — just as things go from bad to apocalyptic. Daniel eventually finds his dad in a strange solar system in the unknown part of the universe called Eternity, where phantasmal laws prevail. There, they encounter a mysterious race of humans called the Vandekirians who hold answers to the origin and true purpose of the 12 Planets. Meanwhile, in the absence of the three Tellurians, Earth faces unprecedented upheavals as the Travelers from Schyllus face opposition from the 144 — opposition that's really masterminded by the malevolent Torajii — with catastrophic consequences. And Torajii doesn't stop with Earth. He births new enemies more powerful than himself — enemies who lust to make the 12 Planets their playthings. Can the three Tellurians stop Torajii once and for all?

Buy Hypergrowth Stocks For Hyperprofits: 2023 Edition is for investors who are fed up with mediocre and pathetic returns! In the 2023 Edition, I've identified 12 Hypergrowth Stocks that are poised to be big winners — tenbaggers, even hundredbaggers — over the next decade. A hundredbagger is a stock that returns 100-to-1. That means a $10,000 investment grows to $1M. Investors have been thoroughly sold on the nonsensical idea of measuring performance quarter by quarter, or even day by day! Investors chase what's moving — just like a fish chasing a shiny lure — and quickly lose patience with a stock that isn't going anywhere or is moving against them. If a stock acts badly for a year or two, they dump it. This causes them to make a lot of trades, but never enjoy mega returns in the long run. The quest for tenbaggers or hundredbaggers isn't about trying to predict who the next Warrant Buffet or Jack Welch will be. It isn't trying to pick a genius CEO who will buy back lots of stock or make smart acquisitions. There is no amount of security analysis that is going to tell you a stock will be a multibagger. Conceptual power is much more important. It takes vision and imagination and a forward-looking view into what a business can achieve and how big it can get. That's what this book is about. Identifying megatrends and the companies that will profit from those megatrends. The current crash in growth stocks has created more opportunities than there have been for decades. With a well-diversified portfolio of Hypergrowth Stocks you are sure to earn Hyperprofits in the long run!

Current Affairs

The Secret Story of 9/11 The Secret Story of 9/11 investigates the chaos, conspiracies, and lies of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks upon the United States by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. The author carefully examines the 9/11 Tapes to reconstruct the chaotic history of that day, providing an accurate and comprehensive timeline of the events on that fateful morning. The 9/11 Tapes record FAA officials, air traffic controllers, airline and military pilots, airline and military personnel, a flight attendant using an airphone on one of the hijacked airliners, and threats made by two of the hijackers. The Secret Story of 9/11 provides a real-time, 360-degree view of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as multiple emergencies often unfolded at precisely the same moment, at high-speed. The Secret Story of 9/11 is a fascinating look into how personnel from the FAA, military, and airlines reacted and performed in the face of unprecedented, heart-stopping circumstances. In the aftermath of 9/11, however, senior government officials spun a story that resulted in President Bush's popularity rating soaring to 92 percent in the polls, the highest on record. In reality, the 9/11 Tapes expose how senior government officials at the Department of Defense and the White House shockingly lied about the events of those days. Indeed, the 9/11 Tapes directly contradict the official version of 9/11. Beyond a doubt, the 9/11 Tapes prove that the Pentagon tried to cover up the vastness of its confusion on 9/11. The Secret Story of 9/11 also scrutinizes the numerous pre-9/11 warnings that an unprecedented terrorist attack was imminent, which were unequivocally ignored by the Bush Administration. The vast array of conspiracy theories which ensued in the aftermath of 9/11 are also thoroughly investigated in The Secret Story of 9/11 — with surprising answers.

The End of Palestine: Why the Land Belongs to the Jews What would the Israeli-Palestinian conflict look like today if the Roman Emperor Hadrian hadn't changed the name of the Roman province of Judaea to Syria-Palaestina in 136 AD? The answer is indisputable: there would be no Israeli-Palestinian conflict because there wouldn't be a people group called Palestinians! The only reason why the Arabs who lived in the land started calling themselves Palestinians in the mid-1800s was because the land had been called Palestine since Roman times by the empires that occupied it. But prior to the Third Jewish-Roman War (132-136 AD), it was called Judea, where millions of Jews lived. Even in the 1st century AD — a millennia after the Israelites founded Israel — Jews were the majority, with estimates ranging from 1.5 million to 2.3 million. How many Palestinians lived in the land? None! There was no people group called Palestinians in the 1st century AD. That's why maps like the one on the front cover that circulate widely on social media are nothing less than pseudo-scholarly. There was no "Palestinian Loss of Land" because Palestine was never the country of the Palestinians. Simply because Hadrian renamed the Jewish nation of Judea to Palestine in 136 AD is irrelevant and meaningless. Since the Jews are the indigenous people of the land because they were there first, it means the land belongs to the Jews. Just because a people group — the Jews in this case — were a minority ever since the Romans expelled them from their country does not nullify their rights as the indigenous people of the land. The Palestinians will never understand this inherent truth.

Trump: America's First Zionist President In Trump: America's First Zionist President, the author investigates Trump's endgame with Israel — and Trump's deep relationship with Christian Zionists. During the redo 2019 election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed: "Soon, the plan of the century will be presented by my close friend President Trump and the negotiations with President Trump will shape the future of Israel for generations to come. And because of this, Israel needs a strong and stable and Zionist government. A government that is committed to Israel as a national state for the Jewish people." Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, converted to Judaism in 2009 in order to marry Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew from a prominent American Jewish family with close ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Kushner would become a senior advisor to President Trump, and influenced Trump's decisions to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem and to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal — two things Israel vehemently wanted. But does Kushner's influence alone explain Trump's all-out pro-Israeli policies? After all, Trump's foreign policy decisions pertaining to Israel upends a half-century of US policy. To really understand Zionism, one must understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Therefore, the author examines the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in order to understand what the root causes really are. Is Israel right when it insists the land belongs to the Jewish people? Or, do the Palestinians really have a rightful claim to a state? And why does the United Nations invariably support the Palestinians?

True Crime

The Secret Story of the Dark Web: The Illegal Internet Exposed! Ever hear of the "Dark Web"? If so, you may think it sounds rather mysterious, maybe even ominous. If that's what you think, your instincts are right — and the Dark Web now has tens of thousands of websites and many millions of daily users. What are all those people doing on the Dark Web? Well, some people just feel strongly about their privacy and prefer to hang out where they can't be tracked and watched by anyone. Even Facebook has a website on the Dark Web where they don't keep logs on user activity. That's what the Dark Web is all about — PRIVACY! Everyone from activists, whistleblowers, journalists, businesses, militaries, and everyday people use the Dark Web to block tracking and be anonymous. Naturally, cybercriminals have flocked to the Dark Web, too. Many of the Dark Web's most widely known websites have been criminal enterprises. At the top of the list are sites selling illegal drugs, including illegally obtained prescription medicines. Many other sites facilitate financial crime, such as money laundering, counterfeiting, or trade in stolen accounts or credit cards. But the Dark Web gets even darker than simple cybercrime. Hundreds of websites espouse extremist ideologies or support for terrorist violence, some with how-to guides or extremist community forums. Over 100 known sites peddle child pornography. Dozens of sites tout everything from hacking tools and malware to weapons and hitmen for hire. The Secret Story of the Dark Web exposes some of the more nefarious illegal activity that occurs on the Dark Web. Discover how the amorphous hacktivist collective called Anonymous has extirpated dozens of websites in its relentless mission to purge the Dark Web of child pornography. Learn how the "Kingpin of Child Porn" was caught because of a simple misstep. Find out how the 23-year old Canadian mastermind behind the largest illegal drug marketplace ever — AlphaBay Market — made $23 million in a few short years before his takedown by the FBI, only to be found dead in his jail cell in Thailand just days after his arrest.

Christian

God is a Scientist! [not a religious fanatic] The opening verse in the Bible says, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This is cosmology — the science of the origin and development of the universe. In creating the universe, God was the Original Scientist. Note the verse doesn't say when God created the universe or how God created the universe. This is significant! The verse doesn't say God created the universe 6,000 years ago, as millions of Young Earth Creationists assert. Could the "beginning" actually be 13.8 billion years ago like scientists claim? And why do so many Christians reject the Big Bang theory? God had to create the universe somehow. Why couldn't that somehow be the Big Bang? The Big Bang was such an awesome and enigmatic event, perhaps it was an omnipotent God who triggered the Big Bang? According to Old Earth Creationists, the scientific evidence for the great age of the earth (4.54 billion years) and the universe (13.8 billion years) is undeniable. But many Old Earth Creationists rejects evolution, opting instead for a theory of progressive creation, where God created new species during "creation events" like the Cambrian Explosion 540 million years ago. Evolutionary Creationists, on the other hand, also believe the Earth is millions or billions of years old, and also advocate that evolution best explains how God brought about the diversity of life on Earth. There are many notable Christians who believe that an evolutionary process is, in fact, how God created life. For example, BioLogos affirms Evolutionary Creation, and asserts God as Creator of all life over billions of years. BioLogos was founded by one of the top biologists in the world — Francis Collins, who led the Human Genome Project (1993-2008), and afterward led the National Institutes of Health. But severe defects in Darwinian evolution — such as the absence of bona fide transitional fossils and the mystery of biological information contained in DNA — decisively points to Intelligent Design, rather than a random, unguided, natural processes in evolution. Many Christians reject science — even when the scientific evidence is irrefutable — simply because the science conflicts with their theology. But do they realize that the originator of the Big Bang theory was a Catholic priest? Or that the pioneer of modern genetics was an Augustinian monk? Or that the decoder of the human genome converted from atheism to Christianity when he was in his 20s? Not only that, but there are also many notable Christians who believe that God possibly created life by an evolutionary process. Or that the earth is many millions of years old. "I don't think that there's any conflict at all between science today and the Scriptures. I think that we have misinterpreted the Scriptures many times and we've tried to make the Scriptures say things they weren't meant to say, I think that we have made a mistake by thinking the Bible is a scientific book. The Bible is not a book of science. The Bible is a book of Redemption, and of course I accept the Creation story. I believe that God did create the universe. I believe that God created man, and whether it came by an evolutionary process and at a certain point He took this person or being and made him a living soul or not, does not change the fact that God did create man." — Billy Graham "I believe that Christianity can still be believed, even if Evolution is true." — C.S. Lewis "We do not know how remote the period of the creation of this globe may be — certainly many millions of years before the time of Adam. Our planet has passed through various stages of existence, and different kinds of creatures have lived on its surface, all of which have been fashioned by God." — Charles Spurgeon Evidently, the conflict between religion and science is not as deep as some may think!

God's Endgame for Planet Earth The Second Coming of Jesus Christ will be the most spectacular event in human history! In God's Endgame for Planet Earth, the events which precede, accompany, and come after the Second Coming are thoroughly examined in easy to understand plain language. Learn what the Bible actually says about the end-time events. Who are the Antichrist, the False Prophet, and the Kings from the East? Who are the Two Witnesses and the 144,000? What happens during the Great Tribulation? When does the Rapture happen? In the aftermath of the Battle of Armageddon, Jesus returns as the "Warrior Messiah" to rule the nations for 1,000 years. Jesus finds a world which has been devastated by war, famine, and disease — in utter economic and environmental chaos. He literally returns to save mankind from extinction, and will rule by force to end war, injustice, and poverty. But the nations ultimately reject Christ's rule, and wage war against Him in the infamous Battle of Gog and Magog. So, is the Millennium really a time of peace and prosperity predicted by so many? What really happens during the Millennium? What is the purpose of the Millennium? And do God's people really spend eternity in Heaven, or do they spend eternity on earth in New Jerusalem as the book of Revelation predicts?

The Wise Wacky Wonderful Word of God Delve deep into the Bible and explore it in a fresh, new way! The Wise Wacky Wonderful Word of God provides meaningful and relevant answers for all those who cherish the Bible but are troubled by the ethical dilemmas, errors, and inconsistencies in Scripture. Derek also provides clarity and understanding if you are confused by the plethora of conflicting Christian doctrines about heaven, hell, fate, and the end-times. Why does a God who is good allow evil, pain, and suffering? Did God create Satan and demons? Which is true: free will or predestination? Does everyone have a guardian angel? Is Jesus really God? According to God's Word, what is the meaning of life? Can a Christian today who believes that the Bible is God's inspired Word and His special revelation to us, also hold a modern scientific worldview without being labelled a heretic? Can a Christian believe the Big Bang is the way in which God created the universe — and also believe it happened billions of years ago? Can a Christian believe "Evolutionary Creationism" — a doctrine that asserts the way in which God created life was by an evolutionary process? Do the Rapture, Armageddon, and Apocalypse really happen? Is the Antichrist a real person? What is the purpose of the Millennium when Christ returns to earth and rules all the nations from Jerusalem for 1,000 years? Why does the Bible say God's people live in "New Jerusalem" on earth after the Millennium for eternity; don't believers live in heaven? If hell is a literal place, then why is it called the "Second Death" (eternal death) twice in the Bible? And what do God's people do during eternity anyway? To get to the heart of the Bible's meaning, one must determine the plain meaning of the text, the meaning which the original author intended. When reading the Bible one must be very careful not to take verses out of context and apply them to one's own predetermined set of beliefs. We simply cannot make the Bible mean anything that pleases us, and then give the Holy Spirit the "credit" for it! So, get ready to take a comprehensive and fascinating journey through Scripture!