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  • Unlocking the UK’s UFO Secrets: New Group Calls for Transparency

    5/17/2025, 11:57:22 AM · by Openurmind
    Anomalien ^ | May. 17, 2025 | Mark Christopher Lee
    A new documentary has uncovered that Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and Prince Charles received private briefings on the connection between UFOs and Crop Circles from leading researcher Colin Andrews. The revelation comes as a newly formed group, the UK Disclosure Group, calls on Labour leader Keir Starmer to declassify the UK’s hidden UFO files. The documentary, “The King of UFOs,” set to premiere on May 19th in Soho, London, during the UK Disclosure Group’s launch, presents evidence that the royal family took the UFO phenomenon seriously. According to the film, Prince Philip collected military UFO reports and invited experts...
  • So where are the Democrats who condemn James Comey's implicit call to kill the president?

    5/17/2025, 11:26:59 AM · by MtnClimber · 11 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 16 May, 2025 | Monica Showalter
    They've tut-tutted about violence for decades. They've smeared their political opponents as violent, setting up whole government units to investigate them in the military, as well as throw the book at those caught up in the crowds on Jan. 6, 2021 as violent. Now they're presented with James Comey, who's one of their own, issuing his own version of death threats against President Trump with his '86 47' post, cutesily spelled out in shells and stones on supposedly a beach, and I have not been able to find so much as one Democrat to express reservations about it. Where's Chuck...
  • Ex-Vikings player rips Minnesota AG as state sues Trump to keep trans athletes in girls sports

    5/17/2025, 11:15:52 AM · by Libloather · 8 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/16/25 | Jackson Thompson
    Former Minnesota Vikings and University of Minnesota football player Jack Brewer shared a grievance with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. The AG is waging a legal battle against President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice to ensure transgender athletes can continue participating in girls sports in the state. The state's ongoing defiance of Trump's executive order to keep girls sports female has resulted in a controversy involving a transgender pitcher who has dominated a girls softball season. "Clearly, Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, has never played any major sports," Brewer told Fox News Digital. "It’s like he’s...
  • Hidden Betrayal: Moderna and Pfizer Shots Hijack Immune Cells to Rewrite mRNA, Prolonging Spike Protein Production

    5/17/2025, 11:10:54 AM · by Adder · 7 replies
    Liberty Daily ^ | 05/16/2025 | Lance D. Johnson
    For years, health authorities assured the public that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were a temporary intervention — delivering a brief genetic message before harmlessly fading away. But a shocking new study published in Nature reveals a far darker reality: These shots don’t just deliver instructions — they reprogram the body to extend their lifespan, forcing cells to produce spike protein far longer than disclosed. The bombshell findings expose a hidden layer of genetic manipulation, raising urgent questions about long-term risks, informed consent, and the true cost of Big Pharma’s rushed “miracle” technology.
  • Judge on warpath presses Trump DOJ on Abrego Garcia deportation, answers leave courtroom in stunned silence

    5/17/2025, 10:57:25 AM · by Libloather · 23 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/16/25 | Breanne Deppisch
    U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis excoriated Trump administration lawyers Friday in a remarkable status hearing centered on Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Salvadorian migrant and alleged MS-13 member who was deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March in what administration officials have acknowledged was an administrative error. The heated back-and-forth was full of eye-popping exchanges between the judge and the Justice Department, as she took umbrage with their attempts to invoke the state secrets privilege to shield details concerning Abrego Garcia from the court. "What world are we living in," Xinis asked in disbelief after more than two hours...
  • Appeals court lifts block on Trump executive order targeting federal worker unions

    5/17/2025, 10:53:54 AM · by cgbg · 1 replies
    Politico ^ | May 16, 2025 | Josh Gerstein
    A federal appeals court has lifted a lower-court order that prevented the federal government from implementing President Donald Trump’s plan to end collective bargaining by workers at more than a dozen federal agencies. In a 2-1 ruling Friday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman appeared to have erred last month when he froze Trump’s executive order on the subject. The appeals court’s majority said there was insufficient evidence that the National Treasury Employees Union faced “irreparable harm” that would justify the preliminary injunction, Friedman said in his ruling.
  • Pontiac mother accused of leaving kids to live in squalor, bound over for trial

    5/17/2025, 10:47:32 AM · by equaviator · 8 replies
    Fox 2 Detroit ^ | May 16, 2025 | David Komer
    The Brief Kelli Bryant of Pontiac is headed to trial on charges of child abuse and welfare fraud. Bryant, 39, is accused of abandoning her three children inside a Pontiac condo for nearly five years. The children were found living in squalor during a welfare check requested by the landlord. FOX 2 - The Pontiac mother accused of leaving her three children to live in squalor is headed for trial. A preliminary exam was held for Kelli Bryant in Oakland County court Friday, where the judge bound over the case in the disturbing child abuse case. The backstory: Bryant, 34,...
  • Church Synod forbids Seventh day Sabbath Worship. Council of Laodicea 363 AD to 364 AD. Canon 29

    5/17/2025, 10:47:03 AM · by vespa300 · 11 replies
    Christian Classic Ethereal Library ^ | AD 363, 364 | Council of Laodicea
    Canon XXIX. Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord’s Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ. Notes. Ancient Epitome of Canon XXIX. A Christian shall not stop work on the Sabbath, but on the Lord’s Day. Balsamon. Here the Fathers order that no one of the faithful shall stop work on the Sabbath as do 149 the Jews, but that they should honour the Lord’s Day, on account of the Lord’s...
  • Court lifts block on Trump order to strip federal workers of union rights

    5/17/2025, 10:20:17 AM · by Salman · 6 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | May 17, 2025 | Frances Vinall
    A federal appeals court on Friday lifted a block on an executive order from President Donald Trump that seeks to strip union rights from federal workers at dozens of agencies and offices. Trump in March issued an executive order that said that parts of the United States Code that protect federal workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain would no longer apply to agencies including most or all of the Departments of Treasury, Defense, Veterans Affairs, State and Justice. The executive order covers about two-thirds of the federal workforce, according to the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), which filed a...
  • Putin’s peace talks negotiator claimed Russians have extra chromosome

    5/17/2025, 9:49:59 AM · by marcusmaximus · 18 replies
    Telegraph UK Yahoo News ^ | 5/16/2025 | Adrian Blomfield
    Vladimir Putin’s chief delegate at peace talks with Ukraine is a historian who once claimed that Russians have an extra chromosome due to their superiority. -snip- Mr Medinsky also earned widespread ridicule after arguing that Russians were particularly heroic and able to survive hardship because they “have one extra chromosome”. While it is likely that he was trying to speak figuratively, the assertion, made in 2012, prompted scorn even within Russia, with critics pointing out that having an extra chromosome is associated less with genetic superiority than with conditions such as Down’s syndrome.
  • Ohio’s property tax rebellion: a symptom of deeper voter anger

    5/17/2025, 9:15:41 AM · by EBH · 25 replies
    Cleveland.com ^ | 5/16/25 | Story by Today in Ohio, cleveland.com
    A radical proposal to eliminate all property taxes in Ohio is gaining momentum, and it’s revealing something profound about the state’s political climate: Ohioans are furious with their government. In a recent episode of Today in Ohio, the daily news podcast from cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, the hosts dissected this controversial ballot initiative and the public reaction it’s generating. “Citizens for Property Tax Reform can now start collecting 413,000 signatures for a ballot issue that would eliminate property taxes in the state of Ohio,” said Lisa Garvin. The Ohio Ballot Board unanimously agreed it was a single-subject issue, clearing...
  • Judge Confident She Will "Beat the Rap" [semi-satire]

    5/17/2025, 9:03:54 AM · by John Semmens · 11 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 18 May 2025 | John Semmens
    Though a federal grand jury has indicted Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan for obstructing the apprehension and arrest of illegal immigrant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel she says she is "confident I will beat the rap because the US Supreme Court has just ruled that judges have a universal right to block the enforcement of laws they don't like." "Trump thinks his election to the presidency is a mandate from the people to enforce the nation's immigration laws," Dugan said. "But I don't. Presidents come and go and are term limited. Judges are...
  • Largest antebellum mansion in the south — built in 1859 with 165 rooms — burns to the ground

    5/17/2025, 8:59:45 AM · by Libloather · 18 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/16/25 | Shane Galvin
    The largest pre-Civil War mansion in all of the American South burned to the ground as a devastating fire ripped through the historic wooden structure built nearly 200 years ago. Flames broke out at Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, Louisiana, just after 2 p.m. Thursday, drawing engines from 10 local fire departments who were helpless to stop the fire from burning up all 53,000 square feet of the iconic building. Officials reported no injuries, though one Louisiana fire marshal said it was “the biggest fire” they’d seen in their entire career, ABC reported. Local politicians in the Pelican State’s Iberville...
  • Local News Suspect steals Fountain Valley officer's gun before being shot to death

    5/17/2025, 6:40:08 AM · by xxqqzz · 15 replies
    cbs ^ | May 15, 2025 | Mathew Rodriguez
    ... Seconds later, he hears his partner shouting from a parking lot entrance at San Mateo Street and El Corazon Avenue intersection and sprints to help her. The female officer's bodycam shows McClintock running toward her open driver's side door. While there is no audio, the video shows her pulling out her handgun before McClintock wrestles it away from her. During the struggle, the officer is thrown to the ground but quickly gets up and runs for cover, right as her partner arrives. "He did grab the weapon from her but I know that my brother was not someone to...
  • Audio released of Biden interview with special counsel who described him as an ‘elderly man with a poor memory’

    5/17/2025, 5:38:34 AM · by NoLibZone · 25 replies
    Ms13->DNC->CNN ^ | Arlette Saenz
    CNN — Audio of then-President Joe Biden’s interview with former special counsel Robert Hur in the now-closed probe over Biden’s handling of classified documents was published by Axios on Friday. The interview became one of the most notable and politically controversial parts of Hur’s investigation, which concluded there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Biden with criminal mishandling of records after his vice presidency. In a final report, Hur called Biden, 81 at the time, “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” The audio comes as questions about Biden’s physical and mental capabilities have returned to the spotlight. A...
  • The Most Important Forecast Martin Armstrong Has Ever Made — Ukraine to Disappear

    5/17/2025, 4:32:40 AM · by delta7 · 37 replies
    You Tube ^ | 15 May 25 | Kerry Lutz
    In this shocking interview, Martin Armstrong delivers what may be the most important forecast of his career: Ukraine will disappear. This isn’t a guess. It’s based on decades of data from the Socrates AI forecasting system — and it’s never issued a warning like this before. We also cover: --Why Ukraine is finished, no matter what the West says --Why Europe needs war to stay afloat --How the next economic collapse will ripple from the periphery inward --And what you can do to prepare before the clock runs out Armstrong’s model has never been wrong about direction — and now...
  • Barbra Streisand Taps Paul McCartney for ‘Truly Special’ Duet of ‘My Valentine’

    5/17/2025, 4:25:30 AM · by nickcarraway · 20 replies
    Billboard ^ | 05/16/2025 | Glenn Rowley
    The cover will be featured on the Broadway legend's upcoming duets album The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2.Barbra Streisand has recruited Paul McCartney to join forces for a new version of his 2012 single “My Valentine,” which was released Friday (May 16) via Columbia Records. “What if it rained? We didn’t care/ He said that someday soon the sun was gonna shine/ And he was right, this love of mine/ My valentine,” Babs coos on the opening verse before Sir Paul, takes over to sing, “As days and nights would pass me by/ I’d tell myself that I was...
  • Dems are upset about DOGE's IRS hackathon, but the IRS says it never happened

    5/17/2025, 4:22:18 AM · by nickcarraway · 1 replies
    The Register ^ | Fri 16 May 2025 | Brandon Vigliarolo
    Tax bods characterize it more as a brainstorming session, says Elon's unit wasn't involvedCongressional Democrats are again demanding answers from a federal agency over whether DOGE's latest tech makeover could put taxpayer data at risk. The latest please-explain-this-DOGE-activity letter letter [PDF] landed yesterday on the desk of the Internal Revenue Service's acting inspector general, Heather Hill. It is from Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and perennial DOGE gadfly. This time, Connolly is demanding answers about a 30-day "hackathon" reportedly launched last month by DOGE staffers embedded at the IRS, in...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Ohio bishop: In an age of ‘uninspiring’ liturgies, silence and reverence are needed at Mass

    5/17/2025, 4:20:03 AM · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | May 16, 2025 | Emily Mangiaracina
    [Catholic Caucus] Ohio bishop: In an age of ‘uninspiring’ liturgies, silence and reverence are needed at MassBishop Earl Fernandes admitted that ‘many of our liturgies are — on the human level — uninspiring, hurried, pedestrian.’The bishop of Columbus, Ohio, has highlighted the need for silence and reverence at Mass in keeping with the need for “Christocentric” worship.Bishop Earl Fernandes, who has seen the number of seminarians in his diocese more than double under his watch, penned a commentary published by the National Catholic Register on Wednesday suggesting that many liturgies today aren’t fit for purpose.Fernandes told how he first encountered...
  • Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with us survive

    5/17/2025, 4:19:12 AM · by nickcarraway · 8 replies
    The Register ^ | Fri 16 May 2025 | iconSimon Sharwood
    Fears surrendering to GenAI makes humans less competitiveScience fiction author Neal Stephenson has suggested AIs should be allowed to fight other AIs, because evolution brings balance to ecosystems, but also thinks humans should stop using AI before it dumbs down our species. Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 classic “Snow Crash”, and his 1999 epic “Cryptonomicon” envisioned digital currencies and the encryption needed to make them possible. The prescience of those works, and the cracking yarns he spins, mean he is in demand as both a novelist and thinker. T. Rex had to worry about getting gored...