The seven countries that voted against this motion apparently see nothing wrong with genocides. I am ashamed of being Canadian today. Forgive us, our current government is out to lunch and self-destructing because of its pathetic leader. Hypocrites and warmongers.
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10 November 2023
(Cao et al., Cell, 2023)
Scientists in China have announced the birth of a primate like no other, with eyes that shined green and fingertips that glowed yellow – and those were just the observable features.
Beneath the skin and deep within its genes, this creature was apparently even more remarkable.
The lab-born male monkey was the product of an unprecedented experiment, which used the pluripotent stem cells of two genetically distinct fertilized eggs from the same monkey species to create one living and breathing long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis).
This is not the world’s first living monkey artificially formed from the fusion of multiple fertilized eggs, but it was the most mixed – or chimeric – of them all, according to researchers in China and the UK.
In science, an animal ‘chimera’ is a single organism made up of cells that derive from more than just two parents.
In this particular animal’s body, the cells and tissues created from two separate stem cell lines, one from a donor embryo and another from a host embryo, were apparent in the brain, heart, kidney, liver, gastrointestinal tract, testes, and the cells that turn into its sperm.
Of the 26 different tissue types that scientists measured in the live monkey, the contribution of extra donated stem cells ranged from a low of 21 percent all the way up to 92 percent. This highest percentage was seen in brain tissues.
Previous studies have resulted in liveborn and terminated monkey chimeric fetuses, with offspring containing low donor cell contributions to various tissues of between 0.1 and 4.5 percent.
The newest chimeric monkey blew those stats out of the water. It survived for just ten days, which means the ongoing health of chimeric monkeys is still a problem to be solved.
“This is a long-sought goal in the field,” says reproductive engineer and senior author Zhen Liu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
“Specifically, this work could help us to generate more precise monkey models for studying neurological diseases as well as for other biomedicine studies.”
In a media conference, the lead author of the paper, geneticist Jing Cao from CAS, said that this was a basic scientific advance because it proves for the first time that rich non-human primate chimeras are possible.
The field of chimeric animal research isn’t without a spectrum of ethical concerns, though proponents maintain the benefits of accurate models in testing diseases and therapies make their efforts worthwhile.
Since donor stem cells can be genetically edited, biomedical researchers could potentially test certain disease outcomes in monkey models in the future. While it depends on the research purpose, the higher the contribution of the donor stem cells in any target tissue, the more accurate the disease model can be.
In egg and sperm cells, a percentage of chimerism as low as 10 percent can be a useful model, according to immunologist Miguel Esteban from CAS and the Beijing Genomics Institute, as these germ lines can theoretically transfer to offspring.
In 2012, the first live chimeric monkeys were reported, but the donor cells in these creatures contributed to their tissues at very low percentages (only around 4 percent).
What’s more, these chimeric tissues were “limited to organs rich in blood”, like the liver, spleen, and placenta, which suggests “blood mixture could be involved rather than true chimerism in solid tissues.”
The glowing solid tissues of this new chimeric monkey are filling scientists with delight.
When the team in China injected a donor set of pluripotent stem cells (which can differentiate into all cell types) into week-old monkey blastocyst embryos, they made sure to label the donations with green fluorescent protein.
This way, any tissue or cell glowing green in the offspring could be clearly tied to the donated stem cell line.
When these carefully engineered embryos were implanted into female macaques, only six live births ensued, and only one of these live monkeys, a male, showed stem-cell-derived tissue in multiple regions of its body.
One of the aborted fetuses also showed some level of chimerism, albeit at a lower percentage than the live chimeric monkey, however, this fetus did not make it to birth.
Cao and colleagues admit that the overall efficiency of this process “remains low” (about half as successful as creating an embryo without chimerism from in vitro fertilization), but it’s a promising step in the right direction.
The low efficiency could be due to how the stem cells or the embryos are cultured in the lab. For instance, when donor stem cells are injected into a host embryo, many cells undergo programmed cell death, so improving the survival rate in both the embryo and fetus is an ongoing challenge the team hopes to refine in the future.
The research, Liu says, could help scientists better understand the early stages of stem cell differentiation in primates, which is not nearly as well studied as in mice.
“[W]e have provided strong evidence that naive monkey pluripotent stem cells possess the capability of differentiating in vivo into all the various tissues composing a monkey body,” says Esteban.
“This study deepens our understanding of the developmental potential of pluripotent stem cells in primate species.”
The study was published in Cell.
In encouraging news for people recovering from alcohol use disorder, new research demonstrates how quickly the brain can repair its structure once drinking ceases.
09 November 2023
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In encouraging news for people recovering from alcohol use disorder, new research demonstrates how quickly the brain can repair its structure once drinking ceases.
People with alcohol use disorder (AUD) tend to have thinning in regions of their cortex; the wrinkled outer layer to the brain critical to so many higher-order cognitive functions. The US study found those who quit drinking gain cortical thickness over time, faster in the first month and continuing over 7.3 months, at which point thickness is comparable to those without AUD.
Previous research has shown that some regions may recover when someone stops drinking, but it was unclear how much or how quickly recovery occurs.
“The few longitudinal studies investigating cortical thickness changes during abstinence are limited to the first month of sobriety,” writes the team, led by psychiatrist and behavioral scientist Timothy Durazzo from Stanford University.
“However, the extent of regional cortical thickness recovery over an extended period of abstinence (e.g., greater than 6 months) is unknown.”
An estimated 16 million people in the US suffer from AUD. It’s a major public health issue, and understanding this complex disorder is important for treatment, prevention, and reducing stigma.
Alterations to brain structure and function during chronic alcohol use can make it tough for people to stop drinking, despite their best intentions. For instance, the prefrontal cortex – an area involved in planning and decision-making – may become less active, making it harder for people with AUD to make healthy decisions.
Durazzo and colleagues also examined how some health conditions, smoking history, psychiatric conditions, and substance use disorders affect longer-term cortical thickness changes in people recovering from AUD.
Altogether, 88 people with AUD participated in the study, undergoing brain scans at approximately 1 week, 1 month, and 7.3 months of abstinence. Some participants joined at the 1-month mark, meaning 23 individuals didn’t have scans taken at 1 week, and only 40 of the total 88 continued to abstain from alcohol for the full period.
They also looked at 45 people who had never had AUD, measuring their cortical thickness at baseline and again about 9 months later to confirm the areas that were measured stayed the same.
A type of magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI) that’s particularly useful for getting clear pictures of the body’s internal structure was used to observe the participants’ brains. The researchers recorded cortical thickness for 34 regions, averaging the measurement across the brain’s left and right hemispheres.
Recovery of thickness in those with AUD after 7.3 months without alcohol was quite widespread. It was enough to be statistically significant in 25 of the 34 regions, and 24 of these were considered statistically equivalent in thickness to controls.
All 34 cortical regions that Durazzo and his team looked at saw a faster rate of thickness change in AUD participants from 1 week to 1 month after quitting than from 1 month to 7.3 months.
Cortical thickening happened more slowly in some parts of the brains of people with AUD who also had high blood pressure or high cholesterol. The same was true for people with AUD who were current smokers.
No significant relationships were found between cortical thickness changes and current substance abuse (including drugs other than alcohol), psychiatric disorders, or past cigarette smoking. So quitting smoking might also contribute to the recovery of cortical thickness.
These results provide encouragement and a new understanding of brain recovery after quitting alcohol, though due to the small sample size and lack of diversity, they may not be generalizable. Also, it’s important to note these findings don’t indicate whether the changes had any effect on brain function.
“Larger longitudinal studies are required to examine the neurocognitive and psychosocial correlates of cortical thickness recovery during sustained abstinence in AUD,” the team writes.
The authors also point out that variables they didn’t account for, such as genetics, physical activity, and people’s liver and lung health, could have affected their findings.
“This data provides clinically relevant information on the beneficial effects of sustained sobriety on human brain morphology,” the authors conclude, “and reinforces the adaptive effects of abstinence-based recovery in AUD.”
The study has been published in Alcohol.
John Mearsheimer – undoubtedly the most renowned International Relations scholar in the world today – on Gaza: Israel is “waging a punishment campaign in Gaza, they are punishing the civilian population… The Israelis are interested in causing a huge amount of destruction in Gaza and in the process they are going to kill huge numbers of civilians… It seems to me that when you do that you’re committing war crimes.
If the Israelis were going to great lengths to target just Hamas and avoid civilian casualties then you could make a coherent argument that this is not a case of them committing war crimes but they’re not doing that, they’re purposely tearing the place apart. This is a massive punishment campaign. Furthermore at the same time they’ve cut off all food, water and gas to Gaza and this means that in effect they’re going to end up starving out, or trying to starve out, the civilian population in Gaza. By my understanding of international law, this too is a war crime.”
He also says the U.S. is “definitely complicit” in those war crimes.
This cannot be understood without the findings of psychology
“…The barbarism during the worldwide colonization of the past centuries and the horrors of the two world wars and all other wars should have made it clear to us how we humans, without exception, react to the orders and commands of the “world leaders”, the so-called authorities, who are imbued with the spirit of violence, and what disaster develops from each of them. “
Global Research, November 07, 2023
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For many years, as a psychologist and educationalist, I have been trying to point out, in the spirit of my psychology teacher, in view of the unspeakable suffering that people inflict on their fellow human beings, that humanity must embrace the results of psychological research in order to create a life worthy of human beings and end the unspeakable suffering of people all over the world (1).
Only when we truly understand how we have become through the education of our parents and teachers in childhood, how we have learnt to obey them and all other authorities, and by realizing that we carry these experiences as ballast into adulthood, will we see ourselves, our fellow human beings and the entire social order in a different light and understand why people can do to their fellow human beings what they do every day without much scruple.
Actually, the barbarism during the worldwide colonization of the past centuries and the horrors of the two world wars and all other wars should have made it clear to us how we humans, without exception, react to the orders and commands of the “world leaders”, the so-called authorities, who are imbued with the spirit of violence, and what disaster develops from each of them.
As wide-awake and rational citizens who want to live in peace and freedom, we should not be at the mercy of this seemingly inevitable “fate”.
However, it is never too late to come to this fundamental realization that without psychology and our self-awareness, the respective disaster will continue to take its course and only end in the “unthinkable”.
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Dr Rudolf Lothar Hänsel is a school rector, educational scientist and qualified psychologist. After completing his university studies, he became an academic teacher in adult education. As a pensioner, he worked as a psychotherapist in his own practice. In his books and specialist articles, he calls for a conscious ethical and moral education of values as well as an education for public spirit and peace.
Note
(1) Hänsel, Rudolf (2023). Making the results of psychological research your own! Insights from an encounter with the psychologist Friedrich Liebling and his liberal psychotherapy. Gornji Milanovac; in German and English: http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=28579
Featured image: Syrian families suffering at Rukban Concentration Camp run by US occupation forces
The original source of this article is Global Research
Copyright © Dr. Rudolf Hänsel, Global Research, 2023
When Jewish extremists, fanatic Zionists, religious zealots, ultranationalists and crypto-fascists in the apartheid state of Israel say they want to wipe Gaza off the face of the earth, believe them.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-final-solution-palestinians-chris-hedges/5839428
By Chris Hedges
Global Research, November 09, 2023
ScheerPost 5 November 2023
I covered the birth of Jewish fascism in Israel. I reported on the extremist Meir Kahane, who was barred from running for office and whose Kach Party was outlawed in 1994 and declared a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States. I attended political rallies held by Benjamin Netanyahu, who received lavish funding from right-wing Americans when he ran against Yitzhak Rabin, who was negotiating a peace settlement with the Palestinians. Netanyahu’s supporters chanted “Death to Rabin.” They burned an effigy of Rabin dressed in a Nazi uniform. Netanyahu marched in front of a mock funeral for Rabin.
Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated on Nov. 4, 1995, by a Jewish fanatic. Rabin’s widow, Lehea, blamed Netanyahu and his supporters for her husband’s murder.
Netanyahu, who first became prime minister in 1996, has spent his political career nurturing Jewish extremists, including Avigdor Lieberman, Gideon Sa’ar, Naftali Bennett, and Ayelet Shaked. His father, Benzion — who worked as an assistant to the Zionist pioneer Vladimir Jabotinsky, whom Benito Mussolini referred to as “a good fascist” — was a leader in the Herut Party that called on the Jewish state to seize all the land of historic Palestine. Many of those who formed the Herut Party carried out terrorist attacks during the 1948 war that established the state of Israel.
Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook and other Jewish intellectuals, described the Herut Party in a statement published in The New York Times as a “political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to Nazi and Fascist parties.”
https://archive.org/embed/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948
There has always been a strain of Jewish fascism within the Zionist project. Now it has taken control of the Israeli state.
“The left is no longer capable of overcoming the toxic ultra-nationalism that has evolved here,” Zeev Sternhell, a Holocaust survivor and Israel’s foremost authority on fascism, warned in 2018, “the kind whose European strain almost wiped out a majority of the Jewish people.” Sternhell added, “[W]e see not just a growing Israeli fascism but racism akin to Nazism in its early stages.”
The decision to obliterate Gaza has long been the dream of Israel’s crypto-fascists, heirs of Kahane’s movement. These Jewish extremists, which make up the ruling coalition government, are orchestrating the genocide in Gaza, where hundreds of Palestinians are dying daily.
They champion the iconography and language of their homegrown fascism. Jewish identity and Jewish nationalism are the Zionist versions of blood and soil. Jewish supremacy is sanctified by God, as is the slaughter of the Palestinians, who Netanyahu compared to the Biblical Ammonites, massacred by the Israelites. Enemies — usually Muslims — slated for extinction are subhumans who embody evil. Violence and the threat of violence are the only forms of communication those outside the magical circle of Jewish nationalism understand. Millions of Muslims and Christians, including those with Israeli citizenship, are to be purged.
A leaked 10-page document from the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence dated Oct. 13, 2023, recommends the forcible and permanent transfer of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million Palestinian residents to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
It is a grave mistake not to take the blood-curdling calls for the wholesale eradication and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians seriously. This rhetoric is not hyperbolic. It is a literal prescription. Netanyahu in a tweet, later removed, described the battle with Hamas as a “struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle.”
These Jewish fanatics have begun their version of the final solution to the Palestinian problem. They dropped 12,000 tons of explosives on Gaza in the first two weeks of assault to obliterate at least 45 percent of Gaza’s housing units, according to the U.N.’s humanitarian office. They have no intention of being detoured, even by Washington.
“It became evident to U.S. officials that Israeli leaders believed mass civilian casualties were an acceptable price in the military campaign,” The New York Times reported.
“In private conversations with American counterparts, Israeli officials referred to how the United States and other allied powers resorted to devastating bombings in Germany and Japan during World War II — including the dropping of the two atomic warheads in Hiroshima and Nagasaki — to try to defeat those countries,” the paper continued.
The goal is a “pure” Israel, cleansed of Palestinian contaminants. Gaza is to become a wasteland. The Palestinians in Gaza will be killed or forced into refugee camps over the border in Egypt. Messianic redemption will take place once the Palestinians are expelled. Jewish extremists call for the Al-Aqsa mosque – the third holiest shrine for Muslims, built on the ruins of the Jewish Second Temple, which was destroyed in 70 CE by the Roman army – to be demolished. The mosque is to be replaced by a “Third” Jewish temple, a move that would set the Muslim world alight. The West Bank, which the zealots call “Judea and Samaria,” will be formally annexed by Israel. Israel, governed by the religious laws imposed by the ultra-orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism parties, will be a Jewish version of Iran.
It is a short step to total Israeli control over Palestinian land. Israel’s illegal Jewish settlements, restricted military zones, closed highways and army compounds have seized over 60 percent of the West Bank, turning Palestinian towns and villages into ringed ghettos. There are over 65 laws which discriminate directly or indirectly against Palestinian citizens of Israel and those living in the occupied territories. The campaign of indiscriminate killing of Palestinians in the West Bank, many by rogue Jewish militias, along with house and school demolitions and the seizure of remaining Palestinian land will explode. Over 133 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by the Israeli army and Jewish settlers since the Oct. 7 incursion by Hamas and thousands of Palestinians have been rounded up by the Israeli military, beaten, humiliated and imprisoned.
Israel, at the same time, is turning on “Jewish traitors” who refuse to embrace the demented vision of the ruling Jewish fascists and who denounce the horrific violence of the state. The familiar enemies of fascism — journalists, human rights advocates, intellectuals, artists, feminists, liberals, the left, homosexuals and pacifists — are already being targeted. The judiciary, according to plans put forward by Netanyahu, will be neutered. Public debate will wither. Civil society and the rule of law will cease to exist. Those branded as “disloyal” will be deported.
Fascists do not respect the sanctity of life. Human beings, even from their own tribe, are expendable to build their deranged utopia. The zealots in power in Israel could have exchanged the hostages held by Hamas for the thousands of Palestinian hostages held in Israeli prisons, which is why the Israeli hostages were seized. And there is evidence that in the chaotic fighting that took place once Hamas militants entered Israel, the Israeli military decided to target not only Hamas fighters but the Israeli captives with them.
“Several new testimonies by Israeli witnesses to the October 7 Hamas surprise attack on southern Israel adds to growing evidence that the Israeli military killed its own citizens as they fought to neutralize Palestinian gunmen,” Max Blumenthal writes in The Grayzone.
Tuval Escapa, a member of the security team for Kibbutz Be’eri, Blumenthal notes, set up a hotline to coordinate between kibbutz residents and the Israeli army.
Escapa told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that as desperation began to set in, “the commanders in the field made difficult decisions – including shelling houses on their occupants in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages.”
The newspaper reported that Israeli commanders were “compelled to request an aerial strike” against its own facility inside the Erez Crossing to Gaza “in order to repulse the terrorists” who had seized control. That base housed Israeli Civil Administration officers and soldiers.
Israel, in 1986, instituted a military policy called the Hannibal Directive, apparently named for the Carthaginian general who poisoned himself rather than be captured by the Romans, following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah. The directive is designed to prevent Israeli troops from falling into enemy hands through the maximum use of force, even at the cost of killing the captured soldiers and civilians.
The directive was executed during the 2014 Israeli assault on Gaza known as Operation Protective Edge. Hamas fighters on Aug. 1, 2014 captured an Israeli officer, Lt. Hadar Goldin. In response, Israel dropped more than 2,000 bombs, missiles and shells on the area where he was being held. Goldin was killed along with over 100 Palestinian civilians. The directive was supposedly rescinded in 2016.
Gaza is the start. The West Bank is next.
Israelis who cheer on the Palestinian nightmare will soon endure a nightmare of their own.
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report.
Featured image: Bad Moon Rising – by Mr. Fish
The original source of this article is ScheerPost
Copyright © Chris Hedges, ScheerPost, 2023
The French president has condemned Hamas but urged a ceasefire in Gaza
“It’s extremely important for all of us, because of our principles, because we are democracies, it’s important for the mid-to-long run, as well for the security of Israel itself, to recognise that all lives matter,” the French president said.
https://www.rt.com/news/587033-macron-israel-killing-babies/
Nov 10, 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech at the Paris Peace Forum, in Paris, November 10, 2023 © Stephanie Lecocq / Pool via AP
The bombing of civilians in Gaza needs to stop, French President Emmanuel Macron told the BBC in an interview on Friday.
He was speaking a day after Paris hosted a humanitarian aid conference about the Palestinian enclave.
France “clearly condemns” the Hamas attacks of October 7, Macron said, in reference to the incursion from Gaza by militants in which 1,400 Israelis were murdered. “We do share [Israel’s] pain. And we do share their willingness to get rid of terrorism. We know what terrorism means in France.”
However, he added, there was “no justification” for the ongoing bombing of civilians in Gaza.
“It’s extremely important for all of us, because of our principles, because we are democracies, it’s important for the mid-to-long run, as well for the security of Israel itself, to recognise that all lives matter,” the French president said.
De facto – today, civilians are bombed – de facto. These babies, these ladies, these old people are bombed and killed. So there is no reason for that and no legitimacy. So we do urge Israel to stop.
The “clear conclusion” of all the governments and agencies that took part in the conference, the French president said, was “that there is no other solution than first a humanitarian pause, going to a ceasefire, which will allow [us] to protect… all civilians having nothing to do with terrorists.”
READ MORE: Killing children in Gaza ‘makes Hamas’ – Elon Musk
Several NGOs, as well as the governments of Algeria and Colombia, have pushed for prosecuting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes in Gaza. When pressed about the issue, Macron dodged the question, saying it would not be appropriate for a head of state to criticize “a partner and a friend” just a month after a terrorist attack.
However, he argued that the best way for Israel to defend itself is not a “large bombing of Gaza,” which is only creating “resentment and bad feelings” in the region.
Visiting Israel last month, Macron proposed re-activating the US-led “global coalition against ISIS” – the terrorist group also known as Islamic State – to combat Hamas. Netanyahu did not seem interested, however.
READ MORE: US ally seeks to charge Israel with war crimes
The Israeli prime minister responded to Macron’s call on Friday by saying that Hamas was responsible for all the deaths in Gaza, because it was using “schools, mosques and hospitals as terror command centers” and civilians as human shields.
“These crimes that Hamas-ISIS is committing today in Gaza, will tomorrow be committed in Paris, New York and everywhere around the world. World leaders must condemn Hamas-ISIS and not Israel,” Netanyahu said.
Israel has said 1,200 of its citizens were killed and 240 abducted in the October 7 incursion by Hamas. As of Friday, more than 11,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed and 27,490 wounded in the month-long Israeli offensive. Another 1.5 million have been displaced, according to local authorities.
With the best-known contemporary UFO encounters occurring over the ocean, Kirkpatrick and Loeb’s suggestion that such “extraterrestrial technological probes” “would necessarily be looking for water” to refuel is noteworthy.
More importantly, Kirkpatrick stated in a recent presentation that U.S. government sensors and service members are observing “metallic orbs” that are “making very interesting apparent maneuvers” “all over the world.”
Marik von Rennenkampff
The Hill
Fri, 10 Nov 2023
This week, the director of the U.S. government’s UFO analysis office stated that there is “evidence” of concerning unidentified flying object activity “in our backyard.” According to physicist Seán Kirkpatrick, who heads the congressionally-mandated All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, this alarming UFO activity can be attributed to one of two extraordinary sources: either a foreign power or “aliens.”
To be sure, the ramifications of either would be significant. But Kirkpatrick’s comments, which come as he is about to retire after a 27-year defense and intelligence-focused career, are more intriguing because he also says that “none” of the hundreds of military UFO reports analyzed by his office recently “have been positively attributed to foreign activities.”
At the same time, Kirkpatrick and senior defense officials have ruled out the possibility that secret U.S. programs or experimental aircraft explain the phenomena.
While suspicious UFO cases will “continue to be investigated” for foreign links, the facts at hand appear to support Kirkpatrick’s more startling explanation for the UFO activity in America’s backyard: “aliens.”
Aside from this remarkable development, the mere suggestion by a top government official that “aliens” could explain some UFO activity is the latest example of a striking shift in tone regarding the UFO phenomenon.
For well over half a century, obfuscation, deflection and ridicule defined the government’s approach to what it officially refers to as “unidentified anomalous phenomena” or UAP. But in recent years, former presidents, senior defense and intelligence officials and members of Congress have speculated openly about extraordinary explanations for the most perplexing UFO incidents.
Kirkpatrick’s “aliens” comment fits a broader pattern. Earlier this year, Kirkpatrick raised eyebrows when he co-authored a draft scientific paper with Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb hypothesizing that extraterrestrial “parent craft” could release “many small probes” to explore Earth-like planets.
With the best-known contemporary UFO encounters occurring over the ocean, Kirkpatrick and Loeb’s suggestion that such “extraterrestrial technological probes” “would necessarily be looking for water” to refuel is noteworthy.
More importantly, Kirkpatrick stated in a recent presentation that U.S. government sensors and service members are observing “metallic orbs” that are “making very interesting apparent maneuvers” “all over the world.”
Speaking to the Daily Mail, an intelligence source stated that there are “dozens” of unreleased videos recorded by surveillance drones, some of which show “orbs” conducting “remarkable [maneuvers], like suddenly bolt[ing] off the screen.”
Moreover, multiple sensors have apparently observed “metallic orbs” and “translucent” spherical objects travelling at speeds ranging from “stationary to Mach 2,” or twice the speed of sound, with “no [detectable] thermal exhaust.” According to Kirkpatrick, the objects’ enigmatic flight characteristics amount to a unique UFO profile that his panel is “out hunting for.”
Could these seemingly highly advanced “metallic orbs” have inspired the director of the government’s UFO office to theorize that “extraterrestrial probes” might be exploring Earth?
“Metallic orbs” matching Kirkpatrick’s description have perplexed U.S. military aircrews for 80 years. During World War II, American aviators reported encounters with “large numbers of silver spheres.” The New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Stars and Stripes and the now-defunct International News Service all published stories in late 1944 describing military aircrews’ encounters with “mysterious silver balls which float in the air.”
According to the reporting, the “silver colored spheres” “hang in the air either singly or in clusters” and, with noteworthy parallels to Kirkpatrick’s contemporary UFO profile, occasionally appeared “semi-translucent.”
Newsweek followed up with a Christmas Day, 1944, article titled “The Silver Sphere Puzzle.” Echoing the enigmatic nature of the objects, the headline of a second Associated Pess dispatch read: “Balls of Silver Seen Over Reich Intrigue Science.”
American aviators’ encounters with mysterious “metallic orbs” did not stop after World War II. Intelligence assessments of the UFO phenomenon from the late 1940s and early 1950s describe “silver balls” and “spherical” objects “of bright metallic lustre” among the most commonly observed UFOs, alongside larger “metallic” discs.
Capt. Edward Ruppelt, the first director of the U.S. Air Force’s two-decade-long UFO analysis effort, Project Blue Book, describes several noteworthy military encounters with metallic spheres in the years just before the U.S. government adopted a policy of “debunking” all UFO sightings and discrediting witnesses, no matter how credible.
More recently, former U.S. Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves described how he and at least 50 to 60 of his fellow aviators frequently observed anomalous objects on their sensors while flying off the East Coast. At first, the craft proved elusive. But when aviators eventually observed them visually, including during a harrowing near-midair collision, the objects appeared to be translucent and spherical, matching World War II-era descriptions of encounters with “transparent spheres.”
Videos and images of three “metallic orbs” and a “semi-translucent” sphere, all recorded by U.S. servicemembers, have emerged in recent years.
In an apparent nod to the long history of U.S. military encounters with mysterious “metallic orbs,” the logo of the government’s UFO analysis office prominently features a silver sphere. A stock image titled “alien technology in a metallic ball” is hidden in a key document outlining the office’s mission.
Not to be outdone by the executive branch’s newfound appreciation for “alien” references, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) recently introduced extraordinary UFO-related legislation.
Among sweeping provisions intended to enhance government transparency on UFOs, the legislation addresses stunning allegations from many high-level current and former officials of the existence of surreptitious UFO retrieval and reverse-engineering programs.
If passed as drafted, the Schumer legislation would codify definitions for eyebrow-raising terms such as “non-human intelligence,” “legacy [UFO retrieval and reverse engineering] program” and “technologies of unknown origin” into federal law. Moreover, it would require private contractors currently in possession of recovered UFOs or “biological evidence of non-human intelligence” to turn over all such items to the U.S. government “in the interests of the public good.”
Marik von Rennenkampff served as an analyst with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, as well as an Obama administration appointee at the U.S. Department of Defense.
“Russophobia” has always been present among the “elite shackles in the West.” For him, it’s become normal for the U.S. media especially many corporate journalists in the United States to be basically stooges who share the same hatred. “The American corporate media circle are not only stupid and shysters, but they primarily are people with neocon inclinations and many of them are just downright Zionists. So many of them are like [U.S. Secretary of State Anthony] Blinken, for example, they bear with them their hatred of Russians. It’s extraordinary.”
Adams
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-11-10-western-economies-collapse-if-us-israel-escalate-war.html
Author and Russian military expert Andrei Martyanov and free-speech platform Brighteon founder Mike Adams agree that Western economies will be devastated if the United States and Israel continue pushing for the escalation of the conflict in Gaza, simply because their economies would not be able to handle it.
According to Adams, the U.S. may have the biggest military budget in the world however, 90 percent of the money goes to waste due to kickbacks, inefficiency and incompetence. Thus, the West would spend much money to continue the invasion in the Middle East.
“There is an economic asymmetry in the cost of producing systems. I saw research on 155 artillery rounds that says that the U.S. spends about $6,000 per round to produce. Those are not exotic rounds, just kind of standard normal explosive rounds,” the Health Ranger divulged. “Russia can produce the same round, for about 1/10 of that cost. Iran can produce military weapons at a fraction of the cost of the United States.”
Martyanov concurred and cited real economics in Russia’s operations. “Russia already operates six state-of-the-art strategic missiles and submarines. And each sub is around $1 billion. The Columbia class U.S. Navy strategic missile submarine is around $9 billion. Basically, nine for the cost of one American strategic missile submarine, Russia has basically renewed its naval strategic missile deterrent,” he explained.
Now, the Natural News founder pointed out Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen boasting that President Joe Biden’s administration can certainly afford military support to both Israel and Ukraine. “America can certainly afford to stand with Israel and to support Israel’s military needs and we also can and must support Ukraine in its struggle against Russia,” the national treasurer said, adding that the U.S. economy is doing “extremely well.” She also bragged how inflation has come down considerably and that the country has seen the strongest labor market in 50 years with 3.8 percent unemployment. She even disclosed that Biden’s regime passed legislation that is strengthening the economy for the medium term in the coming years.
(Related: MONEY PRINTING MADNESS: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says America can “absolutely” afford another war.)
“We stand with Israel. America has also made clear to Israel, we’re working very closely with the Israelis, that they have a right to defend themselves,” Yellen told Sky News’ Wilfred Frost.
In addition to this, Adams cited her saying, “We can just print money for a two-front war.” And the problem, he said is that people believe this. “And yet I would argue that we can’t afford even a single-front war, because we’re broke. We can’t even protect our border, much less Ukraine’s, Israel’s, or Taiwan’s border.”
“She doesn’t understand the real economy,” the geopolitics expert said. “That’s the problem is that the United States is the biggest exporter of inflation. But the moment countries begin to kind of limit their inflation in dollars, which is already happening as we speak, it is coming back to the United States.” Adams even cracked a joke that “if you put Yellen in charge of the Pentagon and Lloyd Austin in charge of the Treasury, there would be no difference in the outcome. None of them know what they’re doing anyway.”
Western MSM’s push for ethnic hatred has always been there
At one point in the show, Adams tackled how in America, the war is pushed to escalate further because the mainstream media pushes ethnic hatred. “It’s almost like a form of psychological terrorism against the American people,” he said and cited two examples. “One, right after the special military operation began in 2022, everyone was told to hate all Russian people. It wasn’t just to hate Russians in the Russian military or to hate [Russian President Vladimir] Putin himself, it was hatred directed at Russian artists, Russian racecar drivers and Russian sports figures,” he said. “The other example right now is the Palestinians. You’re supposed to hate all Palestinians. You are supposed to say that they’re all animals. They’re all dirty dogs and everything, which is incredible racism.”
The USSR-born writer agreed saying that “Russophobia” has always been present among the “elite shackles in the West.” For him, it’s become normal for the U.S. media especially many corporate journalists in the United States to be basically stooges who share the same hatred. “The American corporate media circle are not only stupid and shysters, but they primarily are people with neocon inclinations and many of them are just downright Zionists. So many of them are like [U.S. Secretary of State Anthony] Blinken, for example, they bear with them their hatred of Russians. It’s extraordinary.”
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More than 600,000 people were at least temporarily unhoused in the EU state last year, a report has said
A sharp rise in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Germany has contributed to a more than 50% rise in homelessness in the EU state in the past 12 months, according to a report by an emergency housing assistance organization.
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Tents belonging to the homeless are seen in the government quarter of the city during the snowstorm on January 11, 2017, in Berlin, Germany © Getty Images / Maja Hitij/Getty Images
A sharp rise in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Germany has contributed to a more than 50% rise in homelessness in the EU state in the past 12 months, according to a report by an emergency housing assistance organization.
Increased rents, a lack of social housing and soaring costs of living have limited accommodation options for about one million refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine, The Times newspaper reported, citing new data from the Federal Association for Aid to the Homeless (Bag W). Additionally, about 148,000 non-Ukrainians applied for asylum in the EU state in 2022, further compounding the country’s scarcity of available housing.
“Inflation, elevated costs and rising rents are bearing down heavily on households in Germany with weak incomes,” Bag W’s director Werena Rosenke told The Times. The most vulnerable, Rosenke added, are “low-income single-person households, single parents and couples with many children.”
Last year, about 607,000 people were at least temporarily homeless in Germany, Bag W said, compared to 383,000 in 2021. This was the highest count since 2018, with asylum seekers making up 411,000 of the figure (71%). While the homeless statistics were not broken down by nationality, January data from the country’s Federal Statistics Office said that Ukrainian nationals accounted for just under a third of the homeless population.
EU state seeks to slash €1.5 billion Ukrainian housing bill
About 50,000 of Germany’s homeless were forced to sleep on the streets, according to Bag W’s analysis. The rest were able to find temporary accommodation, such as shelters or at the residences of friends or acquaintances.
Last weekend, a poll conducted by Der Spiegel concluded that about 40% of 125 local authorities in the ‘safe haven towns’ alliance –sometimes known as ‘Sanctuary Cities’– are close to reaching their immigrant-reception limits. Another survey, this one by Hildesheim University, found that about 40% of the 600 districts polled were “overwhelmed” or “in emergency mode.”
Bag W’s report also noted that a large drop in the social housing sector has exacerbated Germany’s homelessness problems, particularly as the amount of publicly-funded accommodation has halved to just over one million in the past two decades.
“The lack of affordable accommodation remains the main cause for the housing shortage in Germany,” Rosenke said. “For this reason, German and non-German homeless people alike cannot be adequately provided with accommodation that is suited to their needs.”
The number of people expected to seek asylum in Germany in 2023 is expected to pass 300,000, The Times said.