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ARCHITECTS ARE DESIGNING A 100% FOOD AND ENERGY SELF SUFFICIENT “SMART FOREST CITY”

ARCHITECTS ARE DESIGNING A 100% FOOD AND ENERGY SELF SUFFICIENT “SMART FOREST CITY”

By John Vibes.

The Mind Unleashed, Natural Blaze.

Posted April 7, 2020 by Edward Morgan.

 
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In most of the world, the cities and their architecture were not designed with the environmental impact in mind. Until quite recently, humans were unaware of the effect that they had on the environment, but now that our capabilities to cause damage have become so great, the fact has become impossible to ignore.
Experts are finding that there are more efficient and sustainable ways to organize our cities, but there aren’t many real-life examples of these ideas in action. However, an architecture firm based in Milan called Stefano Boeri Architetti is hoping to change that. The firm is working on designs for what they are calling a “nature-infused smart city,” which they hope will provide an example for future sustainable designs.
Photos Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti
They are currently bidding for a 557-hectare site in Cancun, Mexico, with the property developer Grupo Karim. It is not certain that they will gain control of the site, as there are also other plans to turn the area into a shopping district. However, if the “Smart Forest City” is picked, it will become the home of up to 130,000 humans, along with 7,500,000 plants.
Photos Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti
“Thanks to the new public parks and private gardens, thanks to the green roofs and to the green facades, the areas actually occupied will be given back by nature through a perfect balance between the amount of green areas and building footprint,” a press release said.
Photos Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti
If it comes to fruition, the city will be surrounded by a ring of solar panels, which the German company Transsolar has already offered to help out with. There will also be an agricultural field belt that wraps around the center of the city, with a channel of water that will run along the crops to keep them watered.
“In particular, water is a key element in the project: it is gathered at the entrance of the City in a huge basin, where there is also a desalination tower, and it is distributed by a system of navigable canals in the whole settlement up to the agricultural fields belt that surrounds the urban area. A series of water gardens are designed to fight floods as a model for resilient landscapes,” the press release said.
These features are what will make it possible for the city to be entirely energy and food self-sufficient.
Photos Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti
About the Author
John Vibes is an author and journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture, and focuses solutions-oriented approaches to social problems. He is also a host of The Free Your Mind Conference and The Free Thought Project Podcast.
 
 
 
 
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Sexta-feira, 17 / 01 / 20

Bees Absolutely Love Cannabis and It Could Help Restore Their Populations THAT’S GREAT NEWS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT! By Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed

THAT’S GREAT NEWS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT!

By Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed.

Posted January 17, 2020 by Wes Annac.

 
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(TMU) — Bees are major fans of hemp and a recent study has found that the taller the hemp plants are the larger the number of bees that will flock to it.
The new research, spearheaded by researchers at Cornell University and publishedlast month in Environmental Entomology, shows that humans aren’t the only fans of weed. The findings also reinforce a study published last year at Colorado State University that discovered the same thing.
The study shows how bees are highly attracted to cannabis due to the plant’s plentiful stores of pollen, and it could pave the way for scientists to figure out new ways to support their struggling population as well as floral populations.
According to the study, the greater the area covered by the hemp plant the greater the chance that bees will swarm to the area. Additionally, those hemp plants that are taller have a much greater likelihood of attracting bees with the tallest plants attracting a stunning 17 times more bees than the shortest plants.
The study also found that as time went on greater amounts of bees visited the hemp plots on a more frequent basis. It sounds almost like the word-of-mouth effect among humans who hear about great deals at a dispensary, no?
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The researchers also discovered that hemp, a major cash crop with multiple applications, can support no less than 16 different varieties of bees in the northeastern United States.
The findings may seem strange considering that cannabis doesn’t produce the sweet, sugary nectar that your typical floral varieties produce to attract insects. Nor does hemp flower come in the dazzling array of bright colors that likewise attract bugs. However, the pollen produced by male flowers is highly attractive to the 16 bee subspecies in the study for reasons that remain unknown.
Female flowers—the kind that humans like to smoke for its intoxicating and soothing effects—are basically ignored by bees since they don’t produce any acutal flowers.
The study’s author’s wrote:
“The rapid expansion of hemp production in the United States… may have significant implications for agroecosystem-wide pollination dynamics.
As a late-season crop flowering during a period of seasonal floral dearth, hemp may have a particularly strong potential to enhance pollinator populations and subsequent pollination services for crops in the following year by filling gaps in late-season resource scarcity.”
What makes the findings so compelling is the crucial impact it could have on suffering bee populations across the United States.
Bee are perhaps one of the most important managed pollinators in U.S. agriculture. Spreading the male sex cells of flowers to their female counterparts in a natural process that is highly crucial to plant reproduction.
According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, pollinators are worth anywhere from $235 and $577 billion worldwide owing to their pivotal role in the production of global crops. In the U.S. alone this means that bees are responsible for $20 billion of domestic crop production. Without bees we can kiss almonds, blueberries, watermelon, and other crops goodbye.
The authors of the study made clear that the combination of bees plus hemp won’t mean that folks should worry about cannabinoid-rich pollen sneaking it into their diets nor will the bees start producing honey enriched with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)—as nice as that sounds.
Likewise, the presence of cannabinoids like THC in hemp pollen is “not likely to have an impact on bee development due to the loss of cannabinoid receptors in insects.”
So while we often like to focus on the recreational or medicinal use of marijuana—in its edible, smokeable, and vape-able forms—this new research shows that the plant can in fact help nature and agriculture in amazingly important ways.
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Quarta-feira, 20 / 11 / 19

Congress Will Vote This Week to Legalize Marijuana Nationwide and End Prohibition

THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY!

By Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed

Posted November 19, 2019 by Wes Annac.

 
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(TMU) — A bill that could see marijuana comprehensively legalized on a federal level has been scheduled for a vote on Wednesday or shortly thereafter, marking the first-ever vote to put an end to federal cannabis prohibition.
 
On Monday, the House Judiciary Committee posted a marked-up version of HR 3884—or the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act—reports Forbes.
 
The legislation, introduced by Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and sponsored by Rep. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as S.2227, enjoys bipartisan support and would lead to the removal of cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, ending prohibition on a federal level and allowing states to move forward with their own policies regulating the commerce and consumption of the plant.
 
The text of HR3884 lays out the purpose of the proposed law, which would be to “decriminalize and de-schedule cannabis, to provide for reinvestment in certain persons adversely impacted by the War on Drugs, to provide for expungement of certain cannabis offenses, and for other purposes.”
 
Cannabis legal reform advocates have hailed the scheduled vote as a key step toward advancing justice for those affected by the failed “War on Drugs,” which has for decades fueled over-policing and mass incarceration, ripping apart the social fabric for poor communities and people of color across the United States.
 
 
 
 
 
Committee on the Judiciary - DemocratsH.R. 5038, the “Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019”; H.R. 3884, the “Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2019” or the “MORE Act of 2019”; H.R. ___, the “Satellite Television Community Prot…
H.R. 5038, the “Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019”; H.R. 3884, the “Marijuana Opportunity...
 
 
 
In a blog post, Erik Altieri, the executive director of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws (NORML), wrote:
 
“This has never happened in the history of our country and it is thanks to all the time and effort folks have put in for DECADES. The MORE Act isn’t just some half measure either. It contains many of the important reforms we have always wanted to see at the federal level.
 
Not only will it remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act entirely, but it will also require federal courts to expunge prior marijuana-related convictions, provide grants and funding to communities most harmed by our failed war on cannabis consumers, and finally allow physicians affiliated with the Veterans Administration to recommend medical cannabis to veterans.”
 
The removal of cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act as a Schedule I narcotic would mean that the plant would no longer be defined by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as a drug “with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse” in league with LSD and heroin.
 
The act also includes a number of provisions that would seek to undo the historical damage wrought by the failed “War on Drugs,” including injecting grants and funding into those communities which faced the most damage from the prohibitionist campaign.
 
States would also be incentivized to expunge the criminal records of low-level cannabis offenders, removing a barrier that often bars access to employment and housing. The legislation would also provide for re-sentencing and block federal agencies from denying public benefits and security clearances over past cannabis convictions, while immigrants would no longer be denied citizenship over marijuana.
 
The Small Business Administration would also support entrepreneurs and businesses who are trying to gain a foothold in the fast-emerging and profitable legal cannabis industry.
 
In a press release, Rep. Nadler called on Congress to pass the bill. He said:
 
“Our marijuana laws disproportionately harm individuals and communities of color, leading to convictions that damage job prospects, access to housing, and the ability to vote.
 
Recognizing this, many states have legalized marijuana. It’s now time for us to remove the criminal prohibitions against marijuana at the federal level. That’s why I introduced the MORE Act, legislation which would assist communities disproportionately impacted by the enforcement of these laws.”
 
 
 
 
For too long, our marijuana laws have disproportionately harmed individuals and communities of color. As more states legalize marijuana, it is time for Congress to decriminalize it.
 
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Sexta-feira, 08 / 11 / 19

California Returns Sacred Island to the Tribe It Was Stolen From in 1860 Massacre

Native Americans.

By Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed

Posted November 7, 2019 by Wes Annac.

 
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“NOTHING WE SAY OR DO CAN MAKE UP FOR WHAT OCCURRED ON THAT NIGHT OF INFAMY. IT WILL FOREVER BE A SCAR ON OUR HISTORY,” A FORMER MAYOR SAID.


 

(TMU) — Like the rest of the United States, for thousands of years present-day California was home to the Native American peoples. And as was the case across the country, in California around 16,000 indigenous Natives were wiped out through a combination of discriminatory laws and attacks by federal authorities, state officials, and local militias that executed the genocide of the state’s original inhabitants.
 
However, an island off the coast of California is finally being returned to the small Wiyot Tribe after an unprecedented formal transfer of the land to the group by the City of Eureka in Northern California.
 
Known for decades as “Indian Island” and originally known as Duluwat Island, it was once the spiritual and physical center of the Wiyot nation before being purchased by a dairy farmer without their consent in 1860. Days later, Eureka residents massacred an untold number of Wiyot, including women and children.
 
The land, which included the sacred Tuluwat village, then became plagued by invasive species and contaminated by a ship yard.
 
But now, the island will belong to the Wiyot people in its entirety after the city transferred all city deeds to the tribe.
 
In an emotional ceremony late last month, Eureka Mayor Susan Seaman finalized the formal transfer to the Wiyot people of the largest island in Humboldt Bay.
 
Tribal chairman Ted Hernandez held back tears as he thanked friends and family for urging him not to give up on regaining the land, even when prospects of its return seemed slim. He commented:
 
“Today is a good day to be alive.”
 
Cutcha Risling Baldy, an assistant professor of Native American studies at Humboldt State University, explained:
 
“We never gave up on our land or where we came from.
 
And that’s the story I want people to know.
 
I know that the story of Tuluwat, which people often refer to as Indian Island, is one of a massacre for most people. But for me, it has always been a place of world renewal.”
 
 


For countless generations, Wiyot people had conducted the annual World Renewal Ceremony at Tuluway Village. That same ceremony was happening when the invading settlers at Eureka massacred innocent Wiyot families, and the next ritual ceremony was only held again in 2014 when elders revived the tradition, which symbolized the healing of the Earth.

 
Former mayor Frank Jäger signed a formal apology for the massacre at the time. An earlier and much stronger draft of the letter, which wasn’t approved by the council, was read aloud during the transfer.
 
In the apology, Jäger wrote:
 
“Nothing we say or do can make up for what occurred on that night of infamy. It will forever be a scar on our history.
 
We can, however, with our present and future actions of support for the Wiyot, work to remove the prejudice and bigotry that still exists in our society today.”
 
The attempt at offering some restitution to Native Californians comes months after Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order in June that apologized for the “violence, maltreatment and neglect” the state’s original peoples suffered at the hands of authorities and white settler-colonizers.

 
In 1851, California’s first executive, Governor Peter Burnett, urged lawmakers to prepare for “a war of extermination” that would continue “until the Indian race becomes extinct.”
 
Offering an apology at the site of the future California Indian Heritage Center in West Sacramento, Newsom said:
 
“California must reckon with our dark history.
 
We can never undo the wrongs inflicted on the peoples who have lived on this land that we now call California since time immemorial, but we can work together to build bridges, tell the truth about our past and begin to heal deep wounds.”
 
The governor also pledged to establish a “truth and healing council” to provide Native peoples’ perspectives on the historical record. Newsom added:
 
“It’s called a genocide. That’s what it was. A genocide. [There’s] no other way to describe it and that’s the way it needs to be described in the history books.
 
And so I’m here to say the following: I’m sorry on behalf of the state of California.”

 
A year ago, Hernandez hailed the expected transfer as “a step in the right 

” in an interview with the Times-Standard.
Hernandez added:
“It’s closure.
Our ancestors will be at rest and at peace, and the ceremonies will be able to continue.”
 


 


 


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Terça-feira, 05 / 11 / 19

California Bars Animals from Circuses, Becomes First State to Ban Fur Trade

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By Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed

Posted November 4, 2019 by Edward Morgan.

 
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California has become the third state to bar most animals from circus performances under a new bill signed over the weekend by Governor Gavin Newsom.
A separate bill signed by the governor is the first of its kind in the nation, banning the sale and manufacture of new fur products. The law, which will kick into effect in 2023, follows Newsom’s signing of legislation that outlaws fur trapping.
In a statement, Newsom said:
“California is a leader when it comes to animal welfare and today that leadership includes banning the sale of fur.
“But we are doing more than that. We are making a statement to the world that beautiful wild animals like bears and tigers have no place on trapeze wires or jumping through flames.
“Just YouTube the videos showing the cruel way these animals—often stripped from their mothers as babies—are trained to do dangerous tricks. It’s deeply disturbing.”
In December, New Jersey and Hawaii both became the first states in the U.S. to issue legislation banning the use of circus animals, which campaigners have denounced as a systematized form of animal cruelty. The new measures ban all wild animal species including elephants, bears, tigers, lions, bears, and primates from circuses and traveling shows.
The law will exempt domesticated dogs, cats and horses and does not apply to rodeos.
Circuses have faced a major decline in popularity in recent decades. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus permanently dismantled its tents in 2017 after touring the country for 146 years.
 
The bill was hailed by both animal rights activists and legislators. State senator Ben Hueso, a co-author of the circus bill, said:
“This is a historic day for California, as we join the growing number of states and localities stepping up to implement similar bans on cruel circuses.
“I’m very proud of the work we’ve accomplished to close the curtain on circuses in our state that exploit these beautiful creatures.”
Animal rights group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) thanked their 8,000 supporters for pressuring representatives to support the ban. In a statement quoted by Newsweek, the group said:
“This is a victory years in the making, one that wouldn’t have been possible without our supporters and activists everywhere.”
The fur ban will not apply to products used for religious or tribal purposes. The sale of leather, dog and cat fur, cowhides, deer, sheep and goat skin – as well as any other skin preserved through taxidermy – will also still be allowed.
Animal rights groups accuse the fashion industry and fur trade of subjecting animals to a range of inhumane actions to obtain the fur, including gassing and electrocuting animals.
Cassie King of the Berkeley-based animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere told Associated Press that it is confident that California’s law could set in motion similar bans in other states.
Over 40 countries around the world, with roughly half of them in Europe, have either totally banned or heavily restricted the use of wild animals for entertainment purposes in venues such a circuses or zoos.
Cassie King, an organizer with the group, said:
“Ordinary people want to see animals protected, not abused.”
The fur industry – which relies on products from chinchillas, rabbits, mink, and other animals – could face significant damage from the groundbreaking ban in the nation’s most populous state.


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Industry voices who oppose the law claim that a black market could be created by the ban, which they have also tried to depict as a slippery slope to banning other products.
Opponents of the legislation have said it could create a black market and be a slippery slope to bans on other products.
 
In a press release, Fur Information Council of America spokesman Keith Kaplan breathlessly accused the governor of backing a totalitarian so-called “vegan agenda.” Blasting the bill, the industry spokesman promised that the industry would sue the state and added:
“Chalk this up as a victory for a radical vegan agenda using fur as the first step to other bans on what we wear and eat.
“In the end, there will be no positive impact on animal welfare.
 

 

 


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Segunda-feira, 04 / 11 / 19

Freedom of Thought is Under Attack — Here’s How to Save Your Mind

By Simon McCarthy-Jones,

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Posted November 4th, 2019
 
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TO LOSE FREEDOM OF THOUGHT WOULD BE TO LOSE SOMETHING UNIQUELY HUMAN.
 
 
(CONVERSATION Opinion) — Freedom of thought stands at a critical crossroads. Technological and psychological advances could be used to promote free thought. They could shield our inner worlds, reduce our mental biases, and create new spaces for thought. Yet states and corporations are forging these advances into weapons that restrict what we think.
 
To lose freedom of thought would be to lose something uniquely human. We share our basic emotions with animals. But only we can step back and ask “do I want to be angry?”, “do I want to be that person?”, “couldn’t I be better?”.
 
We can reflect whether the thoughts, feelings and desires that bubble up within us are consistent with our own goals, values and ideals. If we agree they are, then this makes them more truly our own. We can then act authentically.
 
But we may also conclude that some thoughts that pop into our heads are a force other than our own. You sit down to do your work and “Check Facebook!” flashes through your mind. Did that thought come from you or from Mark Zuckerberg?
 
Freedom of thought demands dignity, enables democracy, and is part of what makes us a person. To safeguard it, we must first recognise its enemies.
 
Three Threats to Freedom of Thought
 
The first threat comes from advances in psychology. Research has created new understandings of what influences our thoughts, behaviours, and decision making.
 
States and corporations use this knowledge to make us think and act in a way that serves their goals. These may differ to ours. They use this knowledge to make us gamble more, buy more, and spend more time on social media. It may even be used to swing elections.
 
The second threat comes from the application of machine learning algorithms to “big data”. When we provide data to companies we allow them to see deep inside us. This makes us more vulnerable to manipulation, and when we realise our privacy is being compromised, this chills our ability to think freely.
 
The third threat comes from a growing ability to decode our thoughts from our brain activity. Facebook, Microsoft, and Neuralink are developing brain-computer interfaces. This could create machines that will read our thoughts. But creating unprecedented access to our thoughts creates unprecedented threats to our freedom.
 
These advances in technology and psychology are opening the doors for states and corporations to violate, manipulate, and punish our thoughts. So, what can we do about it?
 
 
The Law Can Save Us
 
International human rights law gives the right to freedom of thought. Yet, this right has been almost completely neglected. It is hardly ever invoked in the courtroom. We need to work out what we want this right to mean so we can use it to protect ourselves.
 
We should use it to defend mental privacy. Otherwise conformity pressures will impede our free play of ideas and search for truth. We should use it to prevent our thoughts being manipulated, either through psychological tricks or through threatened punishment.
 
And we should use it to protect thought in all of its forms. Thought isn’t just what happens in our heads. Sometimes we think by writing or by doing a Google search. If we recognise these activities as “thought” then they should qualify for absolute privacy under the right to freedom of thought.
 
Finally, we should use this right to demand that governments create societies that allow us to think freely. This is where psychology can help.
 
 
Preventing Manipulation
 
Better understanding our minds can help protect us from manipulation by others. For example, the psychologist Daniel Kahneman distinguishes between what we could call “rule-of-thumb” and “rule-of-reason” thinking.
 
Rule-of-thumb thinking involves effortless and ancient mental processes that allow us to make quick decisions. The price of this speed can be mistakes. In contrast, rule-of-reason thinking is a slow, consciously controlled process, often based in language. It takes longer, but can be more accurate.
 
This suggests that creating speed bumps in our thinking could help improve decision making. Clicking unthinkingly on content or adverts from corporations doesn’t allow us to exercise freedom of thought. We do not have time to work out if our desires are our own or those of a puppet master.
 
We must also change our environment into one that supports autonomy. Such an environment would allow us to create our own reasons for our actions, minimise external controls like rewards and punishments, and encourage choice, participation and shared decision making.
 
Technology can help create such an environment. But whose responsibility is it to implement this?
 
 
Taking Action
 
Governments must help citizens learn from a young age about how the mind works. They must structure society to facilitate free thought. And they have a duty to stop those, including corporations, who would violate the right to freedom of thought.
 
Corporations must play their part. They should state freedom of thought as a policy commitment. They should perform due diligence on how their activities may harm freedom of thought. They could be required to declare the psychological tricks they are using to try and shape our behaviour.
 
And we the people must educate ourselves. We must promote and support free-thought values. We must condemn those turning one of our species’ greatest strengths, our sociality, into one of our greatest weaknesses by using it as a means of data extraction. We must vote with our feet and wallets against those who violate our freedom of thought.
 
All this assumes that we want freedom of thought. But do we? Many of us would literally rather electrocute ourselves than sit quietly with our thoughts.
 
Would many of us also prefer governments and corporations do our thinking for us, serving up predictions and nudges for us to simply follow? Would many of us be happy for freedom of thought to be limited if it led to increased security? How much do we want freedom of thought and what are we prepared to sacrifice for it?
 
Simply put, do we still want to be human? Or has the pain, effort and responsibility of one of our signature abilities, free thought, become too much for us to bear? If it has, it is neither clear what will become of us nor clear what we will become.
 
 

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Terça-feira, 29 / 10 / 19

Edward Snowden Says He Used His Classified Access to Look for Proof of Aliens

 

By Jake Anderson


October 29, 2019

 

JOE ROGAN, WHOSE INTEREST IN UFOS IS WELL KNOWN, PRESSED SNOWDEN ON THE TOPIC OF ALIENS DURING A RECENT INTERVIEW.


(TMU) — Whistleblower Edward Snowden has remained in the headlines in recent years due to Oliver Stone’s biopic film as well as Snowden’s own recently released memoir, Permanent Record. He was also interviewed for Joe Rogan’s podcast, where he addressed some of the issues discussed in his book which surprisingly include a discussion of UFOs.
Snowden was an employee and contractor for both the CIA and the NSA before learning of and leaking highly classified information about several widespread government programs designed to surveil Americans without their knowledge. Widely viewed as unconstitutional, these surveillance programs would likely still be unknown without Snowden’s disclosures. 
In the process of accessing this information, it appears Snowden was curious about other controversial issues as well. In his memoir, Snowden wrote:
 
“For the record, as far as I could tell, aliens have never contacted Earth, or at least they haven’t contacted US intelligence…. In case you were wondering: Yes, man really did land on the moon. Climate change is real. Chemtrails are not a thing.” 
 
 
Joe Rogan, whose interest in UFOs and alien conspiracies is well known, pressed Snowden on the topic of aliens during the interview.

“I know, Joe, I know you want there to be aliens,” Snowden said jokingly to Rogan. “I know Neil deGrasse Tyson badly wants there to be aliens. And there probably are, right? But the idea that we’re hiding them—if we are hiding them—I had ridiculous access to the networks of the NSA, the CIA, the military, all these groups. I couldn’t find anything,” Snowden stated from somewhere in Moscow, where he lives in exile. “So if it’s hidden, and it could be hidden, it’s hidden really damn well, even from people who are on the inside.”
Speculating on the sociological and psychological obsessions with UFOs, he concluded: “Everybody wants to believe in conspiracy theories because it helps life make sense. It helps us believe that somebody is in control, that somebody is calling the shots.”
 
 
While Snowden most certainly had deep access to classified government files, some UFOlogists contend that information about extraterrestrial contact—which would undoubtedly constitute the 
 
biggest state secret in human history—would be so buried and compartmentalized it’s unlikely contractors at Snowden’s level would have the right level of clearance. Such conspiracists say there is probably a remarkably low number of people who know the full truth.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Recent disclosures have made clear that the U.S. government is absolutely interested in UFOs, despite years of stating otherwise, and actively fund efforts to research the phenomenon. Snowden’s assertion probably won’t push the needle on the issue, as believers and skeptics usually have their minds made up.
 
Let’s hope that if there is anyone out there who does know the truth (there are many who claim as much), he or she will follow in Snowden’s footsteps.
 


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Sexta-feira, 12 / 07 / 19

The US Just Seized a Ship Owned by JP Morgan That Had $1.3 Billion in Cocaine on It

The US Just Seized a Ship Owned by JP Morgan That Had $1.3 Billion in Cocaine on It.

 By S.M. Gibson, The Mind Unleashed

July 11, 2019





 (ANTIMEDIA) On Friday evening, U.S. President-elect Mike Pence attended the Broadway hit “Hamilton,” and corporate media has not shut up about it since. After actors in the play “humiliated” Pence by asking him to equally respect everyone’s rights, Trump responded on Twitter by saying the theater should be a “safe and special place” and demanded an apology.
Meanwhile, the world kept spinning, and as usual, the mainstream media conveniently overlooked actual news that affects the world because they were too busy distracting us all with their political TMZ-style “reporting.”
Here is a brief rundown of what they missed:

167 Protesters Injured by Police In Overnight Battle at Standing Rock:

Activists at the scene reported on Twitter that police were spraying protesters with water in sub-freezing temperatures and firing rubber bullets, injuring some in the crowd. A total of 167 demonstrators were injured, according to a medic on site, as cited by Indigenous Rising Media. The police were reportedly targeting demonstrators’ heads and legs.
Seven people have been hospitalized for severe head injuries. Three of those injured are reportedly elders of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe…(Read More Here)

Facebook and Google Ready to Kill Alternative Media for the Government:

[Last] week three media goliaths — Facebook, Google, and Twitter, who collectively act as information gatekeepers for the Internet — announced they would begin implementing censorship practices against news sites they deem misleading.
Websites that publish “fake,” misleading, or even satirical news will now be subject to a sliding scale of infractions that will target ad revenue and social media algorithms. Without ad revenue from monetization platforms like Google Adsense, many of these sites would not be able to continue publishing, and without Facebook’s distribution platform, even sites with good organic reach could find their traffic severely crippled…(Read More Here)

Trump Adviser Cited Japanese Internment for Muslim Policy: What You’re Not Being Told:

Former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie just learned what backlash means — even if what he’s defending is something President Barack Obama has been doing throughout his presidency.
During a conversation with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, the spokesman for the Great America PAC, a pro-President-elect Donald Trump organization, cited Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese Americans as a precedent for a possible registry of Muslim immigrants…(Read More Here)

Russian Warships Prepare For Large-Scale Assault Off Syrian Coast:

On Saturday, a flotilla of Russian warships arrived off the coast of Syria. The flotilla was reportedly deployed to prepare for a large-scale land and sea assault on the ravaged city of Aleppo.
The flotilla is eight ships strong and led by Moscow’s only aircraft carrier. It is also being accompanied by a nuclear-powered missile cruiser. According to the Syrian website al-Masdar News, which the Telegraph advises is a pro-government source, the battle group is to be deployed to the region for at least six months…(Read More Here)

U.S. Airstrike Kills At Least 10 Civilians In Syria:

In an embarrassing bit of timing, as US officials were railing against the Syrian military for targeting civilians at the UN, US warplanes were attacking a cotton mill in northeastern Syria, an attack that killed at least 10 civilians.
It is unclear why the cotton mill, in the village of Salhiyeh, was targeted in the first place, but it is north of the ISIS capital city of Raqqa, which Kurdish YPG forces are in the process of surrounding. The Kurdish forces are almost exclusively north of the city, which is also the direction civilians are fleeing Raqqa…(Read More Here)

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Sábado, 29 / 06 / 19

Burst of Energy 4 Billion Light Years Away May Indicate Advanced Life ~ Jake Anderson

Burst of Energy 4 Billion Light Years Away May Indicate Advanced Life.

By Jake Anderson


May 28, 2019

SOME SCIENTISTS SAY THE PHENOMENON COULD BE THE IDEAL WAY FOR ALIENS TO COMMUNICATE OVER VAST DISTANCES.
 
 
 
(TMU) — One of the hottest astronomical mysteries of the century is a phenomenon known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), which refers to the incomprehensibly powerful extragalactic energy emissions observed as milliseconds-long pulses of light. 
Because of their transient nature—as well as the vast distances involved—scientists have struggled to study FRBs and determine their true origin and meaning. A new landmark discovery may localize an FRB with such exactitude that scientists can finally determine whether the phenomenon is natural or a product of sentient communication.
Scientists have been actively cataloguing FRBs—which, incredibly, are believed to release approximately the same amount of energy in 1 millisecond as our sun does over the course of a century—since 2007. Since this time, they have identified 85 of the mysterious bursts, which are usually seen as “one-off” events but occasionally take the form of “repeaters” that duplicate the same signal in the same location. 
The new one-off discovery of FRB 121102—the light from which has traveled for nearly four billion years to reach us—constitutes only the second time a fast radio burst has been tracked to its home galaxy. The team has pinpointed not only the home galaxy, but the specific region within that galaxy, which happens to be near the center—and likely close to—a supermassive black hole. Bannister’s team has ruled out the black hole as the source of the emission.
Lead author of the team that made the discovery, Keith Bannister, from Australia’s national science agency, stated:
“If we were to stand on the Moon and look down at the Earth with this precision, we would be able to tell not only which city the burst came from, but which postcode and even which city block. This is the big breakthrough the field has been waiting for since astronomers discovered fast radio bursts in 2007.”

Bannister and his Australian-led international team used the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope, which constitutes a network of 36 individual radio telescopes linked together. But in order for the scientists to glean such precise information about the FRB’s specific location, the team used a new technique that triangulated their findings with the slightly different arrival time data collected from two other telescopes—the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile measured its distance with the Keck telescope in Hawaii and the Gemini South telescope in Chile.
The team’s article on the discovery also paves the way for further research. In addition to potentially revolutionizing the way scientists study FRBs, the characteristics of this particular FRB in this particular galaxy will afford scientists a new way to study the non-luminous gas of vast intergalactic mediums, a poorly understood concept.
“The next step,” says co-author Ryan Shannon, “is to see if other one-off bursts are like FRB 180924 (originating in massive galaxies) or if they are more like the first repeater. I think they will be like 180924, and we will be able to open up a new window on the nearly invisible cosmic web.”
FRB research has accelerated in recent years. In 2017, astronomers embarked on the Breakthrough Listen Project, a $100 million endeavor that marshalled state of the art artificial intelligence (AI) to search for signs of life in the universe. The effort produced the discovery of 21 FRBs in the dwarf galaxy FRB 121102 in only an hour. 
Most scientists take a moderately conservative approach to their speculation on the origin of FRBs, pointing at magnetars or magnetic oscillations of neutron stars as possible explanations. Other hypotheses include pulsar collapses and black hole collisions.

Other scientists say that FRBs could be the ideal way for advanced species to communicate or broadcast their existence over vast distances. Astrophysicists Avi Loeb and Manasvi Lingam have proposed the idea that FRBs may originate from alien solar sails, as such a propulsive source (widely viewed as a realistic form of interstellar travel) would require immense amounts of energy.
 
 


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