Skip to 4:23 to miss the Ad. Some of these stories I have heard before but others not so much.

Quote:Giants of Malta | Evidence the Ancient Builders are Hiding Underground Malta is an island rich with history and legends with mysterious megalithic structures that have puzzled archaeologists for centuries. These massive stone temples, some of the oldest in the world, seem almost impossible to have been built by prehistoric farmers. But there's more lurking beneath the surface. Legends say the Nephilim were the giant beings who constructed these incredible structures, and their descendants may still dwell underground today. We investigate the possibility of these giants, examining bones, elongated skulls, and mysterious hidden subterranean chambers called The Hypogeum.

Thought this was a pretty fascinating romp through the history of Silicon Valley and its Pentagon / alphabet agency connections - (D)ARPA's birthing of the internet is also covered.. as are the shady roots of 'popular' sites like Google and Facebook.





• The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn’t Want You to Know

Quote:Video Link


In fact, it would be more surprising to find a major Silicon Valley company that was not connected to the US military or to the US intelligence agencies one way or another. 

Quote:The Information Industrial Complex


But how many people know the flip side of this coin, the one that demonstrates the pervasive government influence in shaping and directing these companies’ rise to success, and the companies’ efforts to aid the government in collecting data on its own citizens?

How many know, for instance, that Google has a publicly acknowledged relationship with the NSA? Or that a federal judge has ruled that the public does not have the right to know the details of that relationship? Or that Google Earth was originally the brainchild of Keyhole Inc., a company that was set up by the CIA’s own venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, using satellite data harvested from government Keyhole-class reconnaissance satellites? Or that the former CEO of In-Q-Tel, Gilman Louie, sat on the board of the National Venture Capital Association with Jim Breyer, head of Accel Partners, who provided $12 million of seed money for Facebook? Or that, in 1999, a back door for NSA access was discovered in Microsoft’s Windows operating system source code? Or that Apple founder Steve Jobs was granted security clearance by the Department of Defense for still-undisclosed reasons while heading Pixar in 1988, as was the former head of AT&T and numerous others in the tech industry?

The connections between the IT world and the government’s military and intelligence apparatus run deep. In fact, the development of the IT industry is intimately intertwined with the US Air Force, the Department of Defense and its various branches (including, famously, DARPA), and, of course, the CIA.

A cursory glance at the history of the rise of companies like Mitre Corporation, Oracle, and other household electronics and software firms should suffice to expose the extent of these relations and the existence of what we might dub an “information-industrial complex.”

Link

The Eugenics Hierarchy



I think maybe Karl posted something that reminds me of this hierarchy I saw a while back. I'm sort of vague on it, but if I remember right it had something to do with Eugenics, and I found it somewhat interesting maybe even to the point of slightly amusing.

So, is this just some classification of Homo sapiens or is/was it some specific plan to create/engineer these specific types for specific kinds of work?

The image is interesting in and of itself.

Senior US military officer: ‘Zero doubt’ of alien life on earth | Reality Check

I started following UFOs back in the late 90s on ATS it's a main reason I joined.

If we had a former military officer much less a Colonel with Nell's connections say what he said publically, the board would have been swamped.

These last couple of years feels a lot like what soft disclosure was described as all these previous years. If Non Human Intelligence/Aliens are already interacting with humans, the likelihood is those humans are going to need some oversight. 

Publically the military seems to be in a don't ask don't tell mode. Have a hard time believing the military has no clue. They may be embarrassed or uncertain but they aren't clueless. Nor are certain aerospace and defense corporations. Corporations that Retired U.S. Army Colonel Karl Nell was intimately familiar with. It could be subterfuge could be misinformation, obviously but why? Even if it's that, why different tactics after 50 plus years...

Hard to argue his 6 basic points behind the last 50 plus years of denial, and continued reluctance and uncertainty.  

National Security
TPTB has no plan
The chance for societal disruption
or a non-public agreement
departmental misdeeds and a desire to cover up the misdeeds
other organizational priorities




 

Quote:Retired U.S. Army Colonel Karl Nell says not only do aliens exist, but they also interact with humans. Nell is the former director of the Pentagon's UAP task force. Ross Coulthart breaks down Nell’s public statements and responds to those who question why there is no evidence.

Hello everyone I see a lot of familiar faces here. Do you mind if I sit a spell?

LJ
 

I assume most of us have heard the story of the impact that created the Chicxulub crater and wiped out much of the life on earth. This is a Why Files video from almost 3 years ago...I knew already most of this stuff but found this video entertaining and thought provoking. I became a subscriber and have followed their videos ever since.

Quote:The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the planet 66 million years ago and brought a calamitous end to the reign of dinosaurs. Though dinosaur extinction probably took weeks or months, in just one day, 425 feet of material accumulated where the asteroid hit with the power of 10 billion atomic bombs. The blast ignited trees and plants for thousands of miles -- which were quickly extinguished by mega tsunamis with waves that may have reached as far inland as Illinois. And at the low-end estimate of 10.1 on the Richter scale, the subsequent earthquake would have been more powerful than anything ever measured or experienced by humans. And then things got worse. Let's find out why.

One of the islands is 6 miles off the coast of Red China. I hope the S.F.'s bunkers are deep and reinforced... Also 100s if not thousands of shoulder fired missiles would be nice IMO.. When or if China tries to invade Taiwan I hope sincerely they get beat back in a BIG and total way !

Quote:VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis apologized Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar and derogatory term about gay men to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests.

The ruckus that ensued underscored how the church’s official teaching about homosexuality often bumps up against the unacknowledged reality that there are plenty of gay men in the priesthood, and plenty of LGBTQ+ Catholics who want to be fully part of the life and sacraments of the church.

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni issued a statement acknowledging the media storm that erupted about Francis’ comments, which were delivered behind closed doors

This is a lengthy post that I hope you find thought provoking as it pertains to the UFO/UAP/ET phenomenon.

The ode to Astr0 is a slug of my current thoughts on how we got to current state with UFOs and how his story may in many ways check out.

Please read the Astr0 thread linked below if you have not already. At least read his opening few posts. At minimum, it’s some of the best sci-fi you’ll see.

For my post to make sense, you must be familiar with the thread.

The Astr0 Thread:

https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1023494/pg1

About your author: I have consumed a lot of material on The Phenomenon, personally witnessed a flying disk and have spent considerable time and resources on the UFO/UAP/ET phenomenon via active investigation. Enough to have moved away from the axis on the Dunning-Kruger chart, at least.

I in no way suggest that I have the purported knowledge that Astr0 conveyed. I very much live on-world, have zero “inside information” and despite my desires I have yet to be abducted and taken off planet :).

What I present is a “story” of sorts that takes us into history as a validator of Astr0’s commentary and touches on the UFO phenomenon, too.

With that we begin with WW1:

WW1 is spoken of less than WW2. I’ll get to WW2 but a point of curiosity from the WW1 era is the impact that it had on Adolf Hitler.

A link to WW1 Wiki:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

Hitler was an ambitious officer in the WW1 campaign who received commendations for his service. Despite his somewhat flailing start in life and his strained relationship with his parents - and a desire to be an artist - his time in school and politics around him made him become a “German Nationalist”. He had developed a hatred for the Austro-Hungarian Empire (which collapsed) and some believe this time period is also when he started to become anti-Semitic. That’s all important to consider because we all know what came later; The Third Reich. Hitler and others in German government were bent on forwarding Germanic society and people above others.

A wiki on Adolf Hitler:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

While Hitler was gaining popularity tied to his passionate beliefs and oratory skills, the Germans were up to other endeavors on the heels of negative WW1 outcome.

Specifically, they were on an archeological quest. They traveled the world in search or artifacts and proof that Germanic peoples were the cradle of civilization. They measured skulls, examined ruins and more under the guise of “science” but they had a material military agenda behind these explorations. There seems to have been a belief that a competitive advantage could be found via archeological activities.

I suspect part of what drove this is the idea of “Nazi Occultism”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occultism_in_Nazism

Said another way, the Nazi’s weren’t constrained by convention. They scoured the earth for artifacts, “Atlantis” and more.

Link to Nazi Archeology:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_archaeology

From my reading, I do think there absolutely was the purpose of trying to prove to the German people that they were “superior”. But, I don’t think that was the full purpose - it was the window dressing.

Along the archeological way the Germans must have become aware of something (or developed a belief) that is pretty hard for people to wrap their minds around even today: That we don’t represent the apex of technological advancement relative to everyone who has ever resided on Earth. I am extrapolating with this comment but I think it’s entirely possible that part of why the Germans of the time were so hung up on “racial superiority” was only part of the story - they had reason to believe that an advanced race was here, they were descendants of it and there were artifacts that existed which could help them in their quest to establish the 1000 year Reich.

Some of these expeditions may have been useful for them. I say that as German technology in WW2 was in many ways superior to just about everyone else’s. V1, V2, jet aircraft, etc. They were far ahead of the times - and oddly so - without even getting into the “Nazi Bell” discussion. It appears that their ability to not be constrained by convention helped them think and explore differently - perhaps more open-minded. What gives that statement some weight in my opinion is how they are referred to as using “pseudoscience” and “pseudoarcheology”. If they were so crazy, then why would we have engaged in Operation Paperclip?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

Astr0 points out that it was a “chance discovery” in 1947 - which is smack dab in the middle of operation Paperclip - that set off the rest of their story. The finding of a large, heavy, impervious black triangle.

The US absorbed many scientists and the remaining German technology via Operation Paperclip. Technology that may or may not have been very advanced, ancient or thought of very differently than how the US or allied forces had been developing or considering. Said differently, it was powerful information. So powerful that it created our space program and helped with the atomic bomb.

And this is where the Astr0 story connects to the idea of a breakaway civilization.

By absorbing the Nazi scientists, they would have shared lots of information. This likely includes the use of archeology for advancement - along with their studies of many topics akin to Teslas’s lines of thinking. A “relic from prehistory” that was “forgotten about” as Astr0 stated or paid little attention to would be the type of artifact the Germans would be curious about. Something unknown and unexplained. Something like a large, immensely heavy, impenetrable stone found in a “diamond mine” or rather found deep in the ground and set aside. This would have been fascinating to the Nazi Archeologists and scientists. It would have represented a potential advantage.

As we began deploying nuclear weapons, Astr0 alleges that the stone “switched on”. Given we had just absorbed the Nazi Scientists, we would have been in the “right place at the right time” as Astr0 put it. We had nuclear capability, over a thousand former Nazi scientists, all of their previous data and the generally right conditions to use the information. It’s also possible that the German’s were already in possession of this stone and by “finding it” we mean inheriting it from the Nazi’s following their WW2 defeat.

Once that stone “turned on” it was the start of the breakaway civilization.

We could now discuss Werner Von Braun endlessly, and that’s a worthwhile discussion, but recall the alleged “We had help” comment attributed to Von Braun that many suspected means “aliens helped us”. That may be a misguided interpretation. It’s entirely conceivable that help came from the archeological expeditions, findings, artifacts and more. No ETs required. And since we know that Germany and the Nazi’s were both supporters of “the occult” and “pseudoscience”, coupled with how advanced they were on a relative basis, I don’t think it’s reasonable to rule out the idea that their expeditions were in fact helpful to their efforts.

Astr0 suggests that once we found this stone we started taking instructions from it upon its “awakening”. and the rest is history. I think he may well be right.

Von Braun was had many quotes which I find very enlightening if you spend some time with them:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/1841-Wernher_von_Braun

What Astr0 described is a very human expedition into space - not “aliens”. Between the Nazi scientists, Nazi technology, US technology/resources and nuclear capability all we would need is a little “help”.

It was also about this time that we started to experience UFO sightings being reported at scale:

Kenneth Arnold - 1947 - “Flying Saucers”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_...O_sighting

Roswell
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident

“UFOs” drawn to nuclear sites
https://www.history.com/news/ufos-near-n...rendlesham

There are many more.

The splitting of the atom appears to be the hurdle to get over if you wish to attract attention from advanced visitors. I suspect it’s a price of admission, of sorts. We can blow ourselves up and theoretically can blow them up, too.

The period of 1947 to 1958 was an incredible period relative to enhancing technology. I use 1958 specifically as that was the time NASA was conceived as a “civilian agency”. Said differently, I hypothesis we needed NASA and their activities to conceal the efforts of our “black project” space engagements. As far as the public was concerned, we were going to the moon and that was the bleeding edge of our advancement. The moon shot was a perfect distraction and yes I do believe we went to the moon at least once.

NASA and its predecessor, NACA, for reference:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National...eronautics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA

And this is where Astr0, known history, UFOs, ETs and the “space program” intersect.

By 1957 we had a backdrop of the absorption of the Nazi scientists, nuclear capability, rocket technology and were about to embark on the Space Race publicly started with Sputnik. But, that’s what I think of as the “open-source lag”. The reality is we likely got started well before the public was aware, which is outlined in this piece. And this is where UFOs come in…

Kenneth Arnold’s encounter and Roswell shortly after brought UFOs to the front page. It also coincides with our nuclear capability and aligns with the long history of UFO sightings near nuclear facilities. For reasons I mentioned earlier, it appears we may have got “their” attention.

To that end, Eisenhower allegedly engaged ETs on several occasions.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...laims.html

The Eisenhower engagements have been widely discussed, debated, etc. Against the backdrop of the Astr0 story, i suspect these meetings very well may have happened. We went “out there”, got “their” attention and ended up having to make some deals (of sorts). We were barely a decade into leveraging our newfound capabilities and likely were not in a strong position to negotiate. Think of it like someone coming into a lot of money but never had money to speak of - they have an idea of to do with it but there’s also a lot they don’t understand about it. It’s new thinking. We were the poor bloke who won the lottery. So, Ike had to do some talking and make some concessions because our weaponry and space advancements forced us to the table - a table we might even have known existed. This is where abductions, cattle mutilations and the uptick in UFO sightings came from. While we were going “out there” on the Astr0 voyage in its infancy, “they” were here. And since it was determined we could not all go on the Astr0 voyage, the “deals” may well have been necessity.

This feeds my thoughts that some UFOs are “ours” and some are “theirs”. I suspect “they” have come and gone from Earth for a very long time but became decidedly more interested in us in the late 1940s and have been here ongoing since.

So, back to 1957 and the beginnings of public space exploration. This is the period where our “treaties” with “them” were probably necessary as we head out into space. If we’re space fairing, we’ll probably encounter “them”.

We could discuss The Space Race, Apollo, Russian space activity and more but instead I’ll pivot to something else: Mars.

While most were occupied with the moon, we began making strides towards mars in the 1960s. Interestingly, the US seemed to have a lot more success in terms of getting to Mars, including landers in 1971. But, why Mars? Why the moon?

A link to Mars exploration history:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars

I suspect we wanted to go to the moon and mars as an extension of what our absorbed Nazi scientists knew about “archeology”. This is also why I suspect we have been on Mars for a long time - longer than publicly acknowledged. Look at it like this… if the Nazis via their “occult” archeological expeditions did find something (like Astr0s stone), imagine what you might find on another planet? I suspect all of the recon wasn’t “science” based it was military based. We were searching for materials, relics, crashed vehicles - ancient and very advanced technology. This fits perfectly with what the US absorbed from the Nazi’s post WW2. Very likely the same goes for the moon.

Working through the 1970s up to the 1980s, we become aware of the Big Black Triangle phenomenon. These sightings persist today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_triangle_(UFO)

In the backdrop of the history I’m discussing there’s the ongoing progress made from the 1940s to now by what Astr0 calls the “RK’ers”. So while our well-known space race was advancing, RK’ers were, too, in the background. This is an immensely important point because somewhere between what appears to be the late 1950s and about 1980 the “breakaway” RK’ers probably did break away because the power of compounded experience and knowledge effectively created a new offshoot of humanity. Still very much human but with a very different perspective.

We’re all aware of the Space Shuttle era, mars rovers, advanced telescopes, probes that have been launched and a bunch more. Most all of that either obviously happened or almost certainly happened.

This makes it plausible to me that some humans have advanced materially beyond what’s thought to be possible (Astr0), some ET’s are here (starting in earnest with nuclear capability) and some of what is experienced is advanced military technology.

There are several points that didn’t make it into this piece like commentary on the moon, mars, Venus, “gravity”, what space is, Tesla, pyramids (including the black one that’s allegedly in Alaska that sounds oddly similar in composition to Astr0’s stone) and a whole bunch more.

My takeaway from my research is that Astr0’s story is at least plausible without doing a ton of mental gymnastics. It also confirms my experience that some of what’s witnessed is “ours” and some of it is “theirs”.

Lastly, as you decide as a reader whether you follow this line of thinking of not, I encourage you to at least consider the value in looking at things through a different lens. While I may not be perfectly over target here (which none of us can likely confirm or deny) there are certainly some nuggets that offer some interesting topics to consider such as “what kinds” of knowledge did Operation Paperclip provide us? Is archeology actually striving to gain an advantage for our future vs. studying the past?

Kind of like this whole story, perhaps many things can be true at once.

Thanks for reading.

Everyone should watch this video because it involves everyone.


Whether you are a dummy or not.

An F-35 departing Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque has crashed just outside the Albuquerque Sun Port. The pilot successfully ejected and was transported to the hospital. They were reported to be conscious during transport.

More as available.

Might be the wrong forum but thought the first comments in this video were pretty beautiful.

Definitely worth a watch on a Monday morning.

Workers on an oil platform filmed the strange light emanating from the seabed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/strange/comment...are_button


 

https://www.ovniologia.com.br/2024/05/po...r.html?m=1

Recently, workers on an oil platform in the Campos Basin, located between Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo, witnessed a curious phenomenon: a mysterious light emanating from the bottom of the sea. The video that captured this unusual glow quickly went viral on social media, sparking a wave of speculation and theories.


“Look at that light, look there. What is that dude? What light is that?” says the man recording the scene.


In the video, you can hear other people commenting on the situation in the background while the narrator points out that the Sun is setting in the opposite direction from where the mysterious light appears, highlighting that it is located in the middle of nowhere.

Following on from this interview concerning global technocratic dictatorships, impending digital caste systems and enforced cybernetic behavioural control grids thought there was a really relevant vid below concerning the existing state of affairs in China.

Genuinely disturbing stuff and hopefully not coming to a city near you in the near future (although looks like the infrastructure is being put in place).






• What’s Your Social Credit Score?

Quote:The Chinese government has instituted a high-tech, data vacuuming social credit score system to continuously monitor the “trustworthiness” and obedience of its 1.4 billion citizens.

Each citizen will be tracked, rated, and rewarded or punished by the government with the help of its high tech corporate partners.

The lesson imparted really isn’t about the value of being a decent person of high character and moral values… instead, it’s about living in constant fear under constant tyrannical surveillance, being afraid of public scrutiny and shame, while sucking up to authority and the government.

Quote:• "It certainly feels about as Orwellian as your nightmares would have it be,” Michael Fertik, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur told de Volkskrant. “It's exactly what any Command state would like to do with data.”

China To Use Big Data To Rate Citizens In New 'Social Credit System'





• Coming soon to a New World Order near you: social credit! Join me for Thought For The Day as we discuss China’s new Sesame Credit system and the gamification of your enslavement.

Mandatory Sesame Credits

It’s hard to believe that the iPhone was release way back in 2007!  When it came out, it truly was a revolution in terms of technology and a considerable gamble by Apple.  At the time, companies like Nokia, Blackberry and Motorola were the leaders and their devices were, first and foremost, mobile telephones.  What made them more than phones was the ability to send SMS messages and a few even had some rudimentary applications.

Along comes the iPhone.  From its inception, it was a handheld computer.  On top of that, it could make phone calls.  It came with a big (in comparison) screen.  It had a color screen and had a touch keyboard with all the letters, numbers and symbols available.  At last, it was possible to type words without having to tap the ‘1’ key three times just to generate the letter ‘C’.  What a concept!

17 years later, the iPhone and Android are virtually unchanged fundamentally.  Yes, they're much improved and the hardware has evolved by leaps and bounds but it's still basically the same thing.  It makes me wonder if we can expect another revolution and what would that would look like.  Will the smartphone, as we know it, continue for another 10 years or is there something fantastic on the horizon?  Maybe it will be AI at its core.  You won't have to consult your phone, it will advise you as you go through your day!

Here's a thought, I was in a very long TSA line last week where most people had their heads down looking at their phones as they shuffled along for 20 minutes just to finally end up in front of an agent and show their credentials – using their phone!  Imagine no lines at all and your device interacts with TSA as you enter the airport.  The device will let you know you've been cleared and you walk straight to the screening queue.  Scary concept but that’s usually what comes with revolutions.

I’d like to hear what you think could be the next “big thing”,

Those really were the good days. Thought you guys might find this as amusing as I did. Github link for the installer below. 
 

https://github.com/erfg12/AOL_4.0_Emu/releases

While I am not a fan on the war on terrorism, it does seem off that the US has not classified cartels who commit acts of terrorism against US citizens as terrorists organizations. This would give the military the power to go in and take out these extremely well armed cartels groups. While initially it would be chaotic, over the long run it would result in a much more peaceful Central(Mexico included)and South America.

Most of us speculate the CIA and company make too much money off the drug and arms trade South of the border, therefore have prevented this from happening. That said, if we only went after the violent drug cartels, perhaps they would learn that they can continue their trade if they do not resort to violence against civilians.

This is an excellent clip from retired DEA Agent Hector Berrellez explaining his thoughts and insights.

The Sierra Nevada Corporation was awarded the $13B contract to integrate the equipment and airframes for the E-4B replacement, known as the Survivable Airborne Operations Center after Boeing was disqualified. The contract requires them to provide airframes, and modifications for the required equipment. They currently have five Korean 747-8 airframes on contract, as Korean is divesting aircraft in their fleet modernization plan. The price of the airframes will be $675M, or about $135M per aircraft.  The last will be delivered by September 2025, with the first expected in the next few weeks.  

https://www.sncorp.com/news-archive/in-t...day-fleet/

It was announced this week that Rolls Royce will be a subcontractor for the program, suggesting that the aircraft will get new engines, possibly allowing for the use of SAFs going forward, certainly to increase the available electrical power for the mission systems required. The aircraft currently have GE GEnx-2B engines. With Rolls Royce being a subcontractor the aircraft could see those changed to RB211 variants, or even Trent 1000s.

https://simpleflying.com/rolls-royce-usa...-contract/

Hi All ! 

Found this posted on a recent ATS thread about if ATS is to be sold or not..personally..i'm tried of the drama it's received. (been a member of ATS since...2009?)

With THAT being said, I was shocked to see some ATS long time Members here! LOL...nice to be in good company even if we agree to disagree! I decided to use my old ATS username   going to spend the next few days to get to know this site better and whatnot. 

Well, I hope to make new friends and touch bases with some old ones. See you on the threads! 

~Komodo

Looks like Alabama and Florida are banning lab grown meat. https://gizadeathstar.com/2024/05/alabam...-meat-ban/

Quote:I also strongly suspect that the real goal of laboratory-cultured "meat" has been, from the beginning, about achieving several goals: (1) driving traditional livestock farmers and ranchers out of business, (2) gaining thereby a concentrated food supply in relatively few corporate hands that manufacture "meat-like products", and (3) using the latter like GMO crops as a means of remaking or engineering the human biosphere and body itself.  It is thus, on my view, decidedly not about "freedom" or "the environment." To that end I suspect that somewhere along the line we should expect subsidization of meat-growing laboratories to make their products "cheaper" than the standard livestock meat products in order to drive the latter out of business.  Interestingly, as the article itself admits, the University of California-Davis questions the whole environment-friendliness of laboratory-cultured meat.

Yesterdays' Roads


Went out for a drive earlier and on my way back I recognized the area as the place where I got this awesome black kitten back in 2003. The streets to the right were all named after trees and I saw Elm Street and Maple Street, but what I really was looking for was Oak Street, so as it happened, by the time I realized where I was I had already gone by Oak Street. I thought, should I turn around and go back? No, I'll be back this way again eventually and I can drive down Oak Street again and go home that way another time - no big deal.

So this kitten was listed in the classifieds to be ready in about three weeks I think it was, so I called and gave my information and said that I would really like to have this kitten when he's ready.

The Dodge Stratus that I mentioned in the other thread was the car that I drove there after the wait to collect the little fella - his belly was stuffed full of cat treats when I got him.

He was a wonderful cat with the best of temperament, and I had him for 13 years until one day he got bit on the face by another female I had. The bite got infected, and unlike my particular scenarios, it only got worse.

I did like that cat very much, and I tried to take him to the best vets to see if they could save him, but to no avail.

In the end he was very unwell and unstable on his feet and I spent as much time with him as I could. He was unable to jump on the bed as he often did, so I would help him up.

I could feel that he was dying so I laid him down beside me and at some point I heard him take his final breath.

Sadly, recovery wasn't meant to be for whatever reason, so I don't think it could have ended any better way.


Spida Chillin' on the Basement Stairs

piggy-backing off Putnam's glorious "what did you drive?" thread.

I'm sure most of us have brands that we would never buy, except for the obvious (Yugo, AMC (lol) etc)

Doesn't have to be current.
This is meant to be humorous in nature.  Have fun with it guys :-)

Mine would be (and no offense to brand-loyalists).

Nissan - I pay extra attention when around an Sentra, Altima or Versa.  Worst drivers hands-down in my area)
Infinity - see above + they come across as the most "entitled" drivers around my area.  They own the road (but not the car.  balls-deep in a lease)
Chevy - Impala/Malibu = inner-city drivers with no insurance
Jeep - I've been cut-off or nearly crashed by more than a few Grand Cherokees.   Wranglers and the like are okay by me (except for the ducks.  Grow up man...geesh)

After watching the WHO be the lap dog of China during the COVID scare they can pound sand without water for a few weeks for all I care https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/q2...fIGNoX9FpV

Quote:Governors from 24 states have joined together to speak out against treaty negotiations being conducted by the Biden administration, which “would purport to grant” the World Health Organisation (WHO) “unprecedented and unconstitutional powers over the United States and its people.”
In a March 22 letter, the governors stated that they “stand united in opposition to two proposed instruments” currently under negotiation.“The objective of these instruments is to empower the WHO, particularly its uncontrollable Director-General, with the authority to restrict the rights of U.S. citizens, including freedoms such as speech, privacy, travel, choice of medical care, and informed consent, thus violating our Constitution’s core principles,” the governors wrote. “If adopted, these agreements would seek to elevate the WHO from an advisory body to a global authority in public health.”
The documents they refer to are a new treaty called the WHO pandemic agreement and amendments to the existing International Health Regulations (IHRs), which together would centralize a significant amount of authority within this United Nations subsidiary if the WHO declares a state of “health emergency.”
Governors from the following states signed the letter: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Lab-grown Brains Show Rudimentary Eye DevelopmentYeah I know this is old, and we discussed a little bit about this on ATS, but it got buried under other news.

It would possibly be an answer to certain forms of blindness

https://www.reviewofoptometry.com/news/a...evelopment

 
 

Quote:Stem cell–derived organoids treated with vitamin A spontaneously grew little optic cups. 
Scientists have managed to nurture small clumps of the human brain, giving them the ability to grow their own eyes, or at least two functionally integrated optic vesicles that respond to light. These tiny brains, called brain organoids, are self-assembled aggregates resembling the embryonic human brain in both cytoarchitecture and cell type.[sup]1[/sup] They’re grown from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which can be differentiated into a variety of cell types in vitro.

 
The researchers reported that 72% of 314 brain organoids treated with 60nM of retinol acetate reproducibly attempted to assemble optic vesicles by around day 30, and visible eye structures developed within 60 days. The organoids’ development timeframe parallels that of human embryonic retinal development.
Analysis revealed that the optic vesicles contained primitive corneal epithelial and lens-like cells, retinal pigment epithelial cells, retinal progenitor cells, axon-like projections and electrically active neuronal networks, showing retinal connectivity to the brain. “In the mammalian brain, nerve fibers of retinal ganglion cells reach out to connect with their brain targets, an aspect that has never before been shown in an in vitro system,” said Dr. Gopalakrishnan.
=undefined,right[Image: https://www.reviewofoptometry.com/CMSIma...9thaug.jpg]The ambitious project may one day allow scientists to grow artificial retinas suitable for transplantation in blind and visually impaired patients. Image courtesy of Dr. Elke Gabriel, PhD. Click image to enlarge.Until now, brain organoids were thought to be “chaotic three-dimensional tissues” unable to follow the self-patterning rules of embryos. However, these brains spontaneously developed bilaterally symmetric optic vesicles in what would be the forebrain region.[sup]2[/sup] While the eye structures are rudimentary, they have both a lens and a retina and can send signals to the brain tissue.

If you have friends who 'believe' that conspiracy theories are just a silly nonsense and that governments (or rich cartels) don't conspire then there are some relevant videos below which deal with some real world examples.

Amongst other things false flags, CIA drug running, Operation Seaspray, MKUltra mind control, Atrazine effects and directed war deception are covered in this one.

Quote:• 5 Conspiracy “Theories” That Became Conspiracy Facts.


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We all know the old trope of the tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist who believes crazy things like "the government is spying on us" and "the military is spraying things in the sky" and "the CIA ships in the drugs." Except those things aren't so crazy after all. Here are five examples of things that were once derided as zany conspiracy paranoia and are now accepted as mundane historical fact.

Quote:Conspiracy Fun Facts.

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If a person needed proof to see how upside down the world has become, then look no further than the world's treatment of “conspiracy theorists”. Never has a group of people been so right, so often,

Quote:In a false flag operation, the government or another group stages an event to look like it was carried out by someone besides the real perpetrators. The deceivers use this tactic to discredit another group and start wars, enact severe laws, overthrow political opponents, gain alliances, or otherwise get an advantage.

As we will see, those carrying out the acts are all too willing to sacrifice lives or promote fear and violence to solidify their ruses. Some of these events are proven to be false flags, while others are simply suspected.


10 The Sinking Of The USS Maine


9 Operation Himmler


8 Operation Ajax


7 The Soviet Union Bombed Russia


6 The Reichstag Fire


5 Mukden Incident Of 1931


4 Macedonian Police Frame Terrorists


3 The FBI Creates Terrorist Plots


2 Italian Police Fake Evidence


1 Turkey Bombs Its Own Consulate


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