Pentagon Forms a Group to Examine UFO Incursions Into Military Airspace and, “Assess and Mitigate Any Associated Threats”
November 25th, 2021Mmm hmm.
Via: U.S. Department of Defense:
DoD Announces the Establishment of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG)
Nov. 23, 2021
Today, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, in close collaboration with the Director of National Intelligence, directed the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security to establish within the Office of the USD(I&S) the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) as the successor to the U.S. Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. The AOIMSG will synchronize efforts across the Department and the broader U.S. government to detect, identify and attribute objects of interests in Special Use Airspace (SUA), and to assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security. To provide oversight of the AOIMSG, the Deputy Secretary also directed the USD(I&S) to lead an Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Council (AOIMEXEC) to be comprised of DoD and Intelligence Community membership, and to offer a venue for U.S. government interagency representation.
Incursions by any airborne object into our SUA pose safety of flight and operations security concerns, and may pose national security challenges. DOD takes reports of incursions – by any airborne object, identified or unidentified – very seriously, and investigates each one. This decision is the result of planning efforts and collaboration conducted by OUSD(I&S) and other DoD elements at the direction of Deputy Secretary Hicks, to address the challenges associated with assessing UAP occurring on or near DOD training ranges and installations highlighted in the DNI preliminary assessment report submitted to Congress in June 2021. The report also identified the need to make improvements in processes, policies, technologies, and training to improve our ability to understand UAP.
In coming weeks, the Department will issue implementing guidance, which will contain further details on the AOIMSG Director, organizational structure, authorities, and resourcing.
COVID-19 Made Democracies More Authoritarian and Authoritarian Regimes Even Worse
November 24th, 2021Via: Reason:
The COVID-19 pandemic is contributing to a significant decline in democratic values across the globe as many countries have taken aggressive and authoritarian steps to attempt to curb the virus.
If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past two years, that’s probably not much of a surprise. Still, a new report from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, a global nonprofit based in Sweden, offers a comprehensive look at the worrying trend of democratic erosion—a trend that has been helped along by the pandemic even though its roots go deeper.
“The world is becoming more authoritarian as non-democratic regimes become even more brazen in their repression and many democratic governments suffer from backsliding by adopting their tactics of restricting free speech and weakening the rule of law, exacerbated by what threatens to become a ‘new normal’ of Covid-19 restrictions,” the IIDEA warns. The number of countries that are becoming “more authoritarian” by the group’s calculus is three times the number of countries that are moving toward democracy. This year is the fifth consecutive year in which the trend has been moving in that direction, the longest uninterrupted stretch of pro-authoritarian developments since the IIDEA started tracking these metrics in 1975.
That trend predates the COVID-19 pandemic, of course, but governmental responses to the virus have made things worse.
A number of democratic countries—the report specifically mentions the United States in this section—have implemented COVID measures “that were disproportionate, illegal, indefinite or unconnected to the nature of the emergency,” according to the IIDEA report. Those include travel restrictions and the use of “emergency powers that sometimes sidelined parliaments.”
Israeli Child Looks Through Virtual Reality Goggles as He Receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
November 24th, 2021First of all, this is an actual AP image, and not some hoax or meme. The story is called, Israel begins giving COVID shots to children age 5 to 11.
Look at the photo (3 of 4) with the following caption:
Israeli child Rafael Peled, 8, looks through a VR virtual reality goggles as he receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from medical staff at the Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital in Ramat Gan, Israel, Monday, Nov. 22, 2021. Israel has approved the coronavirus vaccine for children aged 5 to 11. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
I would like to know what the Israeli children are being shown during this… procedure.
While I was not able to find the answer, I did find this, which might be related: Virtual reality headsets significantly reduce children’s fear of needles.
Scottish Government’s Vax Passport Sending People’s Private Data To Amazon, Microsoft
November 24th, 2021Via: Summit News:
As if the liberty erasing connotations of vaccine passports were not enough on their own, it has been revealed that the Scottish government has allowed data from the scheme to be shared with private companies including Amazon.
The Daily Record reports, “We have learned the NHS mobile phone app which presents the personal medical information in the form of a QR Code shares data with companies including Amazon, Microsoft, ServiceNow, Royal Mail and an AI facial recognition firm.”
Users of the vaccine passport app were not informed their data would be shared, according to the report.
Commenting on the findings, Sam Grant of privacy advocate group Liberty warned “Vaccine passports create a two-tier society and already many people in Scotland have been coerced into getting a vaccine passport in order to attend events and access certain parts of society.”
Grant added, “It’s extremely concerning that, in doing so, data has been shared with third parties without people having the option to opt out or without even being made aware that this is happening. This only furthers the wide concerns people already have around vaccine passports.”
Dollar-25-Tree?
November 24th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge:
Dollar Tree Inc. has built an entire brand on every item priced under a buck across 16,000 US retail stores in 48 states and five Canadian provinces. But with logistical costs soaring, persistent labor shortages, and the cost of everything rising, the company announced Tuesday that its new price point would be $1.25.
Vaccinated English Adults Under 60 Are Dying at Twice the Rate of Unvaccinated People the Same Age
November 22nd, 2021Via: Alex Berenson:
This chart may seem unbelievable or impossible, but it’s correct, based on weekly data from the British government.
The brown line represents weekly deaths from all causes of vaccinated people aged 10-59, per 100,000 people.
The blue line represents weekly deaths from all causes of unvaccinated people per 100,000 in the same age range.
I have checked the underlying dataset myself and this graph is correct. Vaccinated people under 60 are twice as likely to die as unvaccinated people. And overall deaths in Britain are running well above normal.
I don’t know how to explain this other than vaccine-caused mortality.
Newport News Shipbuilding No Longer Requiring Vaccinations, Workers Who Left Due to Previous Requirement Can Request Return
November 22nd, 2021Via: 10 WAVY:
Newport News Shipbuilding is now no longer requiring vaccinations for employees, and former employees who chose to quit or retire due to the mandate have the option to request a return to work, officials say.
The shipyard had previously said all of its roughly 25,000 workers would need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a “condition of continued employment” due to the vaccine mandate for federal workers and contractors, but Newport News Shipbuilding President Jennifer Boykin said in an update on Thursday that Huntington Ingalls clarified their Navy contracts “don’t include a vaccine mandate at this time.”
Hunter Biden’s Private Equity Firm Facilitated $3.8 Billion Chinese Purchase Of American-Owned Cobalt Mine
November 22nd, 2021Not sure why the New York Times would report this, but…
Via: ZeroHedge:
An investment firm founded by Hunter Biden facilitated a $3.8 billion purchase of an American-owned cobalt mine by a Chinese conglomerate, placing a key resource used in the manufacture of electric car batteries under foreign control, according to the New York Times.
5 Killed and 40 Injured, Including Kids, When SUV Plows Into Wisconsin Christmas Parade
November 22nd, 2021The name of the suspect has not been officially announced by police, but New York Post reporter Karol Markowicz (and others) have identified the suspect as career criminal, Darrell E. Brooks:
Darrell E. Brooks, black male, late 30s is the suspect in custody in Waukesha.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) November 22, 2021
Via: New York Post:
A driver blew past police barricades and plowed into a group of people marching in a Christmas parade in Wisconsin on Sunday, killing five people and injuring dozens of others, including children, officials said.
The carnage unfolded at the annual celebration in the small city of Waukesha shortly after 4:40?p.m. local time and left more than 40 people injured, city officials said. At least 12 of the victims are children.
A person of interest was in custody and police have not ruled out terrorism as a motive, according to Police Chief Daniel Thompson.
The Pope, The Pedo and The Pimp: Beaming Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell blessed by the Pope
November 21st, 2021Via: The Sun:
BEAMING Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are blessed by the Pope — showing their all-powerful connections.
The snap sees the paedo billionaire and his alleged “madam” enjoy a private audience with the head of the Catholic Church at the Vatican.
They are understood to have flown to Rome by private jet for the blessing by John Paul II almost two decades ago.
A source told The Sun On Sunday: “Pictures like this show just how powerful Epstein’s connections were and his ability to open almost any door.
“He managed to manipulate his way into royal palaces, the White House and the Vatican, all with Maxwell by his side.”
Our picture shows Epstein, wearing a dark suit and red-patterned tie, kneeling at the Pope’s feet with his ex-lover Maxwell, who is in a striped suit jacket and open-collar blue shirt.
Hands clenched together, they are both smiling and gazing into the eyes of John Paul II, who led the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005.
