[ABC] The Pentagon said that they have has not yet been able to find any evidence that extraterrestrials may be responsible for the hundreds of UFO incidents they are reviewing or that any alien beings may have crashed on Earth.
Senior Pentagon officials relayed this to reporters Friday in a briefing to highlight the broad review headed by the new All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) working with other federal agencies to review unidentified aerial phenomena incidents. Unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAP's is the new term for UAP's and has itself gone a name change as it is no longer limited to aerial phenomena.
UFO enthusiasts have been waiting since Oct. 31 for a long delayed first annual update by the Director of National Intelligence to their 2020 report that could explain only one of the 144 incidents it reviewed.
The Pentagon's update on Friday gave a hint of what that upcoming report might reveal.
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Space aliens know better than to waste their time trying to talk to either of these guys.
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OK, sorry, but I made sure to put a width parameter on these images and then I previewed to make sure it worked.
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Thank you. That's much better. But now I know that I've made an ad hominem attack on these two fine public servants. So, sorry once again.
I think what should be clear is that human beings on planet Earth are not sufficiently evolved for participation in the galactic community. Give us another 10,000 years...if we can avoid going extinct by then.
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Project Blue Book, continued.
If it was a threat to national security, they would've already invaded and taken whatever they wanted.
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If the aliens wish to contact sentient beings on our planet, the Biden regime won’t be on the short list.
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What makes the five sided palace think the aliens make mistakes? Somebody who's mastered interstellar flight does not crash on planets. Little naked creatures hanging from their seatbelts in a jalopy of a saucer. Hubris. Classic hubris. Everybody but us has got to be naked, bumbling idiots with ugly faces and small puny bodies dependent on tech and hive minds and telepathy.
I say the day you meet the real aliens, you'll shit your pants and die.
[Hot Air] The other day I wrote a piece about how the Left can’t argue anymore. My thesis was pretty simple: because they have owned the cultural means of production so long they have lost the need for or ability to argue things logically.
I still believe that. Having rarely been exposed to a conservative argument that haven’t been able to dismiss merely through repeated ridicule the Left pretty much only engages in ad hominem attacks. Even very smart prominent Lefties like James Surowieki, Tom Nichols, or Malcolm Gladwell seem incapable of doing much more than insulting their opponents any more. It all boils down to Bad Orange Man or MAGA simps.
It’s sad, really. I kinda enjoyed reading those guys to get a different perspective. It’s not like living in a conservative bubble is any healthier than living in a liberal one.
But I ran into a slightly different perspective on the matter while cruising Twitter, and I think it deserves consideration: sometimes, at least, the person throwing out an absurd take isn’t actually hoping to convince you of anything. They are, rather, trying to discredit the source and do nothing more. The ad hominem attack is the only point—to destroy the credibility of their opponent, without actually convincing you of any particular argument.
My new Twitter friend laid the argument first in a series of tweets, and at my request on his Substack blog. I implore you to click the link and read his take because he could use the clicks.
#4
From my perspective this is new to the American political scene. Hobbs refused to debate and “won.” When your ideology trashes national education to the extent that you can not logically defend your position in a debate, this is new and not isolated. The J6 Committee eliminated all dissenting viewpoints, debates were minimized across the country. All sorts of deplatforming, shadowbanning, and blocking of dissent is new. Before the Constitution there were the Federalist and Antifederalist Papers. Lincoln debated Douglas. This need to control and suppress thought is new to us but was predicted by Orwell.
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Yes, gradeschool bathroom political theory proving they are what they've ever been - inbred sexual deviant families picking those who will help maintain their position.
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As traditionally educated citizens age and begin to become a literal part of the American landscape, the gooey, soft center of following generations of residents begin to show the results of an educational system and public culture that un-tethered them from civic, history, Judeo-Christian morality and critical thinking.
Short-attention span messaging and emotional-loading form opinions now. Incessant repetition of patently inaccurate themes become the lexicon of support for the thinly veiled Marxism they are being sold. Racism, climate-change and variants of gender/sexual orientation create a petri-dish of angry, shallow, disconnected tribes to be manipulated.
I used to think nothing could defeat the last, best hope of mankind, the American miracle, but...
[RFERL] THE KEY ISSUE
The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -Khorasan (IS-K) krazed killer group carried out a deadly gun and kaboom on a Chinese-owned hotel in central Kabul on December 12. The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... said it killed all three attackers, and that two foreign nationals were lightly maimed.
Beijing contradicted the Taliban by saying that at least five Chinese hotel guests were maimed in the assault. More than 30 Chinese citizens were in the hotel at the time of the attack, according to a leading Chinese businessman in Afghanistan. The Emergency Hospital in Kabul said it had received three dead bodies and 18 maimed.
Why It’s Important: The assault on the Kabul Longan Hotel was the first major attack on Chinese interests in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power last year.
The attack has helped shed light on Beijing’s growing business activities in Afghanistan, which have largely gone under the radar. China has been one of the few countries in the world willing to trade with the Taliban government, which has not been recognized by any country. Chinese nationals have become the largest expatriate community in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. It has become common to see representatives of Chinese state-owned companies visiting ministries and holding talks with Taliban officials.
IS-K’s attack on the Chinese-owned hotel in Kabul comes after assaults on the Russian and Pak embassies in recent months. China, Russia, and Pakistain are among the few countries that have maintained a diplomatic mission in Kabul. They are also among the Taliban’s key political and economic partners.
Observers have said that IS-K’s attacks could be an attempt to undermine the Taliban’s ties with Beijing, Moscow, and Islamabad and scuttle efforts by the Kabul authorities to attract international trade and investment. IS-K appears to have achieved its immediate goal. Following the hotel attack, Beijing advised its citizens to leave Afghanistan "as soon as possible." The move could see an exodus of Chinese expats.
What’s Next: IS-K turbans have posed a direct threat to the Taliban’s rule and legitimacy. In the past 16 months, IS-K has staged deadly, high-profile attacks that have undermined Afghanistan’s new rulers. The krazed killer group is likely to continue attacking the interests of the Taliban and its key foreign allies in Afghanistan.
THE WEEK’S BEST STORIES
Taliban Higher Education Minister Nida Mohammad Nadim has sparked a flurry of controversies since his appointment in October. The hard-line holy man has described female education as un-Islamic and against Afghan values. Observers told RFE/RL that Nadim’s appointment and rise within the Taliban suggest that the krazed killer group is planning to impose a blanket ban on female education.
Mohammad Sherzad keeps thousands of scorpions on his "farm" north of Kabul. Scorpion venom can be used in various medical products and is the most expensive liquid in the world. In this Radio Azadi video, Sherzad said tat the closure of Western embassies since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has made exporting more difficult.
WHAT TO KEEP AN EYE ON
Pak security forces and Taliban fighters clashed near the key Chaman-Spin Boldak border crossing on December 15. Islamabad said at least one Pak civilian was killed and over a dozen maimed.
Cross-border shelling and gunfire killed at least six Pak civilians and a Taliban fighter on December 11 near the same crossing, which connects Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar with Pakistain’s Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Province. In November, the border crossing was closed for a week after a Taliban fighter shot a Pak border guard.
Why It’s Important: The festivities reflect the growing tensions between the Taliban and Pakistain, who are longtime allies. The alliance, which dates back to the emergence of the Taliban in the mid-1990s, has come under increasing strain as their interests have diverged.
In recent months, Pakistain has accused the Taliban of harboring the leaders of the Pak Taliban, which has waged a 15-year insurgency against Islamabad. The Taliban has hit back by accusing Islamabad of permitting its air space to be used by U.S. drones to strike targets in Afghanistan.
Observers have said that the Taliban is also playing to a domestic audience by trying to show that they are not Pak proxies, an accusation that many Afghans have leveled against the krazed killers.
Analysts say that Pakistain and the Taliban have incentives to cooperate despite their differences, citing the large trade volume between Pakistain and Afghanistan. But, so far, that has failed to curb the constant border festivities and war of words.
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It will be an interesting battle between two foes who have no concern for losses among their low level operatives. Eventually, ISIS will probably discover that the Chicoms have an unlimited supply of gunnies.
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Jokes aside, does it bother you that both are buying whatever they're buying with your money?
As a matter of fact, it does. But I can still afford popcorn and enjoy the show.
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[KhaamaPress] With the reemergence of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... to power and the American force’s withdrawal from Afghanistan after two decades, one of the key promises was not to provide safe havens for the terror groups.
The growing instability, violence, bombing and attacks taking place across Afghanistan is of great concern to all stakeholders, including Pakistain and the US, in particular. The de facto regime in Kabul is yet to fulfill the initial promise and avoid providing sanctuaries to the terror groups.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... the Pak Taliban, Tehrike-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), the Afghan Taliban’s ideological twin, already broke down the shaky year-long ceasefire and apprehension is growing in Pakistain on whether the promise will hold, and TTP would not receive support from the Afghan Taliban.
Cross-border shelling between the Afghan and Pak forces took place at the Spin Boldak crossing point twice over the past week, taking the lives of scores of civilians and injuring more from both sides. Both sides blamed each other for the incidents with no guarantee of preventing similar attacks in the future.
This comes as the security situation in Afghanistan has de-escalated over the past month. Target attacks and bombings took place in a Chinese-run hotel and the Pak Diplomatic Mission in Kabul, which sparked further tensions over the foreign diplomat and entity’s security in the capital, and the terror groups’ sanctuaries in Afghanistan.
Like the Afghan Taliban, the Pak Taliban want to overthrow their country’s government and impose their own strict Islamic code. Mehsud, a Pak Taliban commander stated that they want support from the Afghan Taliban in the fight against the Pak government as they once did to their ideological twin in the fight against the Afghan government.
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We would have common ground with Pakistain regarding the Taliban and Afghan instability if the ISI hadn’t created both. I would condemn them more if I wasn’t unsure about how much the CIA helped.
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Afghanistan is only a problem for us if we let it be a problem. But if we don't go there and if we don't let them come here then it's not a problem at all. We cannot subjugate the entire Muslim world nor should we try. Trump's Muslim travel ban was the best approach. Just don't let them into our country and stay the fuck out of theirs.
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They sort of have a beach head In Minnesota and Michigan where they can brother marry their way into local majorities. See what develops over the next decade. Whack and destroy concentrations of bad people overseas. No more large scale invasions.
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great concern to all stakeholders, including Pakistain and the US, in particular.
[RIA] Encouraged by the legal victory achieved, the Chinese authorities struck a second blow this week: once again suing the US administration - more precisely, the WTO, the World Trade Organization, its dispute resolution body.
[Jerusalem Post] What a University of Haifa professor of biblical studies and ancient history has called "one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Israel of all time" — five monumental, new royal inscriptions of King Hezekiah of Judah, which together include dozens of lines and hundreds of letters have been deciphered.
Prof. Gershon Galil, a former chairman of the university’s department of Jewish history, said that the inscriptions mention the name of Hezekiah, and summarize his main actions during the first 17 years of his reign, including the water project (the cutting of the Siloam Tunnel and the pool), the ritual reform, the conquest of Philistia and the accumulation of property.
The inscriptions, he maintained, also indicate the exact date on which the water project was completed — 2 Tammuz in the 17th year Hezekiah = 709 BCE. "Now it is clear that the higher chronology that precedes the reign of Hezekiah in 726 BCE is to be preferred, as I emphasize in my book on chronology published in 1996. These are the most complete royal inscriptions we have, and they are further evidence that the kings of Israel and Judah wrote royal inscriptions that indicated their name and deeds," Galil said.
One of the inscriptions was carved into the rock to the right of the entrance to tunnel #4 in the round room of the Canaanite pool next to the Gihon Spring. Exactly 48 centimeters wide and 38 cm long, it is located 140 cm above the floor, the academic explained.
The frame of the inscription was discovered in 1909 by Louis-Hugues Vincent, but he believed that there was no inscription there, but only a frame and a leveled surface prepared for writing an unwritten text, said Galil.
"This is what all the other researchers have claimed for the past 113 years. But recently it turned out that there is an extremely impressive inscription there. Though eroded by time, the vast majority of the letters are legible," he explained.
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[PJ] Recently, though, we have grown alarmed at the high volume of injuries among the teams, rosters increasingly decimated, offensive and defensive lines spackled with substitutes, quarterbacks going down like proverbial ninepins, and outcomes determined to a large extent by who remained on the field. In a recent game between the New England Patriots and the Arizona Cardinals, five players were assisted off the field before the first quarter was half-done, including a potentially career-ending injury to Cardinal signal caller Kyler Murray.
Something was going on, but what? Our anecdotal impression was confirmed by a longitudinal analysis conducted by the National Library of Medicine, which concluded that "The rate of injury in NFL players during weeks 1-4 of the 2020-2021 regular seasons was significantly higher than during 3 recent past NFL preseasons and regular seasons." The first mRNA vaccine mandate came on the market in December 2020. The regular 2021 season began in early September, by which time most of the players would likely have been vaccinated. It was bad last year and clearly worse in 2022. Stamina and resilience, muscle and bone, have clearly been impacted.
Apart from mentioning the names of the injured and the nature of their injuries, none of the sportscasters and commenters seem willing to address the elephant in the locker room. It is known that practically all the players are vaxxed, with only rare exceptions like Aaron Rodgers. It is known that a soaring number of adverse effects have followed upon the introduction of the vaccines and booster shots, including the spiraling prominence of what is called SADS, or Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, people popping off in record numbers, with no prior warning, to heart attacks, brain clots, and cancer. No one in authority, not even families who have lost "loved ones," will mention this unprecedented medical anomaly, which is certainly not the result of COVID-19 — the "19" is long past. Autopsies have plainly shown that the vaccines are implicated, as does the timeline. Yet omerta prevails.
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Well. Shorter careers mean fewer big contract renewals and lower pension payouts.
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It's not science, but a postulate that bears further scientific examination. It won't get it, for some time, if ever.
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As players have gotten stronger and bigger, injuries have gotten more severe and frequent. Running backs have averaged 2 or 3 year pro careers for a long time with longer careers the exception
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I guess can see a potential argument as symptom of lockdown, maybe not getting the hits/conditioning in practice to prepare for games, but because of the jab?
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Possible they are reaching the limits of the human body given the size speed and srength? There are always problems with strength programs creating weakneses susceptible to injury. I wonder about the affects of long term use of some modern supplements on tendon and ligament integrity. Also, todays NFL player is not the same as a decade ago. The highest level HS's and colleges are putting athletes through body punishing regimens at the weight, speed and strength of modern athlete development and by the time they enter the NFL they are pretty banged up already.
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Not just size and speed of humans, but the craptastic game environment. Gotta have fake turf cuz it looks pretty on the teevee and we know how newer fans like teh shiny things. All of these things have been baked in over the last 3 decades so any recent spike in injuries is still outside the norm.
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Given the No Firearms League's woke take on almost everything, I hope they concuss themselves right out of business.
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Seems like a lot medical incidents/injuries/deaths are appearing in the media across other sports as well.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ABC] The Pentagon said that they have has not yet been able to find any evidence that extraterrestrials may be responsible for the hundreds of UFO incidents they are reviewing or that any alien beings may have crashed on Earth.
/\ But aliens are the "people in power now." 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[Jerusalem Post] What a University of Haifa professor of biblical studies and ancient history has called "one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Israel of all time" — five monumental, new royal inscriptions of King Hezekiah of Judah, which together include dozens of lines and hundreds of letters have been deciphered.
