Quote:Thankfully, he reckons the aliens come in peace.

He continued: “It won’t be an invasion. Wherever they come from - I think maybe two or three species out there - if they wanted to destroy us they could."

In fact, the aliens are concerned with how we’re handling things, and are coming to visit in order to give us some pointers.

He said: “They’re concerned we might press the red buttons and nuclear bombs will fly. They won’t want our planet destroyed.”

What’s more, the aliens are actually planning to put on quite the show for us, a notable change of tack from the grainy footage of ‘UFOs’ we have so far.

Geller continued: “There will be a Steven Spielberg type landing. I hope they land somewhere like the White House lawn or the Eiffel Tower.

“It will be the biggest revelation in history - religiously, archaeologically, everything. It will be like finding the Arc of the Covenant.”

Apparently ‘a massive disinformation campaign’ will be mobilised to try and undermine any further ‘whistleblowers’ like the ones who recently testified before Congress.

Quite how the US government plans to cover up a UFO landing on the White House lawn or the Eiffel Tower remains to be seen.

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Quote:History of Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center (Originally known as Cetus of Madison, Inc.)

In 1984, Cetus Corp. sold half of its interest in Cetus of Madison, Inc. to the WR Grace Co. and subsequently the name of the company changed to Agracetus, Inc. (combining Grace/Cetus together). During this time Agracetus developed an electric “gene gun” and transformation methods that revolutionized the plant transformation process. Many plant species were subsequently transformed including; Tobacco, Peanut, Sunflower, Soybean, Maize, Cotton, Canola, Poplar, Wheat, Rice, among others. Research into cotton fiber quality, transformation process improvements, PCR method development, insect and disease resistance, and herbicide tolerance was ongoing in various labs in the facility. In 1990, WR Grace Co. acquired full ownership of Agracetus.

During the early 1990’s Agracetus ventured into research in DNA vaccines (using their improved “gene gun”) and contracted their plant transformation services to others within the industry, including the Monsanto Company.

Quote:Xi is particularly counting on Russia and North Korea. The Russian and Chinese navies at the turn of the month sent 11 ships toward the Aleutians in an extremely provocative exercise. The effort was almost certainly intended to show that Moscow would fight with China against America over Taiwan. During the joint drill, the Chinese and Russians demonstrated progress in achieving interoperability by, among other accomplishments, developing joint command-and-control.
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This week, the U.S. Navy's Carrier Strike Group 5, centered around the USS Ronald Reagan, has been steaming off the east coast of Taiwan.

Be glad it is there. China has been throwing a diplomatic tantrum — fiercer than usual — because the Biden administration allowed William Lai Ching-te, Taiwan's vice president, to make "transit" stops in New York and San Francisco on his way to and from Paraguay.

Beijing in response promised "resolute and forceful measures." There have been numerous Chinese air and naval provocations near the embattled island republic in the last few days. As soon as Lai arrived in New York, the Chinese foreign ministry called Taiwan "the core of the core interests of China."

So, will China go to war soon? And if war comes, will it embroil the world's great powers?

China's regime has already declared a "people's war" against America, and has been waging such a struggle with its "unrestricted warfare" tactics.

But what about a "hot war"? War between China and the U.S. over Taiwan, as Henry Kissinger said in early June to Bloomberg, is "probable." China can still be deterred — the presence of the USS Ronald Reagan is almost certainly giving the Chinese military second thoughts — but one thing looks increasingly likely: If there is a war, Russia and North Korea will fight alongside China. The world is dividing into camps.
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Perhaps of greatest concern is that all three regimes share a nuclear weapons doctrine of "escalate to de-escalate" or "escalate to win": threatening the use of nuclear weapons to keep others from defending their intended victims. Xi and Putin appear capable of actually using their most destructive weapons. Kim in this regard is an unknown, but both his father and grandfather believed in taking everyone down with them. "If we lose, I will destroy the world," said Kim Jong Il, father of the current North Korean leader.

Will China, Russia, and North Korea Launch Their Nukes?

Quote:November 1, 1987 By Gary Milhollin
Foreign Policy | Winter 1987-1988, p. 100-119

It now appears—for the first time in history–that a country has broken the peaceful-use pledge. It also appears that a second country may have broken it, that a third is threatening to break it, and that the civilian exports of a fourth—possibly made without the pledge—have gone freely into bombs. The culprits are, respectively, Israel, France, India, and Norway. Israel has been making plutonium with Norwegian heavy water for more than 20 years and, according to recent evidence, putting the plutonium into bombs; India has been making plutonium with U.S. heavy water for about the same period and is threatening to put that plutonium into bombs. Norway has exported heavy water that France has used to build a thermonuclear arsenal. If these countries can undermine the pledge and avoid the consequences, there is no reason why others will not do the same.


France built the reactor and extraction plant secretly in the Negev desert, at a site called Dimona. There is no doubt that France meant to allow Israel to make nuclear weapons. Francis Perrin, high commissioner of the French atomic energy agency from 1951 to 1970, so admitted in an interview published on October 12, 1986, in the Sunday Times of London. Perrin said that after World War II, the United States agreed to allow the French scientists who had worked on the Manhattan Project to apply their knowledge at home, provided they kept it secret. “We considered we could give the secrets to Israel provided they kept it to themselves,” Perrin recalled in the interview. He confirmed the construction of the reactor and the extraction plant, and the cooperation on weapons design. The transactions and their related documents are presented in detail in La deux bombes (1982), a book by the French journalist Pierre Pean.

To understand the transfer of heavy water to Israel, several points must be kept in mind:

    The reactor at Dimona is Israel’s only means of making plutonium, and plutonium is Israel’s primary nuclear weapon material. Dimona also is the only facility in Israel that uses heavy water in metric ton quantities. When Dimona opened in 1963, the world’s main heavy water suppliers were the United States and Norway. Israel was producing heavy water only in laboratory quantities. Therefore, it was physically impossible to start Dimona without U.S. or Norwegian heavy water.

    France and Canada also possessed heavy water in the early 1960s, but Canada has never exported any heavy water to Israel, and all of France’s heavy water had been imported previously from the United States and Norway. France pledged not to re-export it without permission. Thus even if Israel had received a secret shipment from France, the water would have been diverted illegally from U.S. or Norwegian stocks, giving Israel no right to use it.

    Therefore, all the heavy water Israel imported for Dimona must have come initially from the United States and Norway.

    Reactors like the one at Dimona lose only about .5 per cent of their heavy water each year. So if U.S. or Norwegian heavy water went to Dimona in 1963, more than 85 per cent of it is still there today.

France’s Stunning News

On May 22, 1980, the French national assembly received a remarkable document from the commission on national defense and the armed forces. The commission reported that France was making tritium in two reactors called Celestin I and Celestin II. According to the French government’s nuclear agency, Cogema, Celestin I went critical—that is, achieved a chain reaction—on May 15, 1967, and Celestin II on October 30, 1968. Cogema noted that the reactors were making tritium “used for thermonuclear armaments.” Tritium produces fusion in thermonuclear bombs and is bled into the core of fission bombs to boost or vary their yields. The report disclosed that the reactors were cooled and moderated by heavy water. That was stunning news because when they were started, France had no heavy water of its own to put into them.

Lengthy story continues: Heavy Water Cheaters

Quote:Moral Pieces, in Prose and Verse (1815) by Lydia Sigourney

THE CONFLAGRATION AT WASHINGTON.

WHAT sounds are these, that on the hollow blast
Of startled midnight reach the list'ning ear?
They seem like shouts of conquest, join'd with shrieks
Of mad despair, and the confusion wild
Of those that fear or fly. And see the flames
In spiry columns burst thro' wreaths of smoke
Redd'ning the brow of night. O scene of woe!
That pile superb, whose lofty dome arose

With pomp and pride, aspiring to the skies,
Whose spacious halls once shone, with all that art
Or wealth could give, to dazzle and adorn,
A blazing pyramid of fire is seen.
Now its last ray illumes the glowing heavens,
Darts, sickens, and expires. What ruthless hand
Could spread the flames of vengeance, thus to blast,
Destroy, and desolate. Embers conceal'd
Of hatred and disunion, cherish'd long
By treachery's secret breath, and madly fir'd
By the wild torch of rashness, sprung to life.

Eternal Justice saw, and was incens'd;

And suffer'd them to rage; and lo! the flame
Has caught our fairest domes; it burns—it spreads,
And who shall quench it? Or with pow'rless strain,
Or hand so weak as mine, shall dare to paint
The horrors of that scene? The costly pile
Sinking in sheets of fire, and clouds of smoke;
The haste of flight, the agony of fear;
Pale apprehension, shuddering regret,
And misery, and tears? Ah! who shall bear
These shameful tidings, to our distant foes,
Nor shrink with anguish at his Country's wound?
Who, to the nations of the earth, shall tell
Her infamy, who once with noble front
Rank'd high among them? Who of all her sons
Can bear to gaze upon her eye, and say,
"Thy beauty is destroy'd, thy strength is slain?"
And when in future days, with downcast eyes,

Around these blacken'd walls they lingering stray,
And trace the mouldering ruins, and exclaim,
With pausing wonder, "Tell us, why was this?"
The burning blush will dye the hearer's cheek,
Grief chain the tongue! Then let oblivion's veil
In deepest folds forever shroud the scene!
Snatch the recording pen, from him who seeks
To make memorial of his country's shame;
From her stain'd annals rend the page unblest;
Break off th' unfinished lay; bid memory sleep,
Or hide her tablet from a future age.

Yet Oh! my Country! Who can hide thy loss?
Forget thy wounds, or mitigate thy woe?
Around is darkness, and within is pain;
Then let us look above! There is a ray
That gleams from thence, an angel voice that cries,
"Lift up the eye of faith; there yet remains
"Hope for the righteous; for the weary, rest;
"For the oppressor, vengeance." Still there reigns
A Judge Supreme, whom nothing can elude.
And though his step is sometimes on the deeps,
Shrouded in darkness, all his ways are peace,
Are wisdom, truth, and mercy. Tho' his throne
Is canopied with clouds, yet the meek eye,
Now drown'd in tears, and dim with mists of time,
Shall see, at last, its base was ever fix'd
On righteousness, and everlasting love.

Quote:Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered a miniaturized high-energy laser source to the U.S. government. The laser is ruggedized for field use and miniaturizing it allows for rapid placement in tactical situations.

The 10kW class high-energy laser, known as Phantom, is about 12 cubic feet (nearly the size of a mini fridge). Weighing less than 200 pounds, it enables lift, carry and installation by as few as two personnel. The Phantom customer will integrate it with other subsystems for testing and delivery to military customers.

Robert Fleming, vice president and general manager, strategic space systems, Northrop Grumman said: “By miniaturizing this advanced capability, we are expanding the reach of our technology and continuing to lead the way in high-energy lasers. Northrop Grumman is using its expertise in directed energy to deliver an extremely compact, lightweight and efficient laser for the warfighter.”
High Energy Laser Weapon

Quote:Epstein's New Mexico ranch is sold for an undisclosed price to a newly registered company

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The roughly 8,000-acre Zorro Ranch in New Mexico connected to Jeffrey Epstein was listed for sale for $27.5 million; and according to the Santa Fe County Clerks’ office – it was sold this month to San Rafael Ranch, LLC. A new warranty deed was recorded on August 16 for an undisclosed amount.

KRQE Investigates obtained documents confirming the change of ownership from Cypress Inc. to San Rafael Ranch, LLC. Records show Epstein and the Zorro trust bought the ranch from the Gary King family, then built his 33,339 square foot mansion there in the ’90s.

Two years ago, KRQE Investigates uncovered a fake warranty deed connected to the Epstein property in New Mexico. The Florida man associated with the fake deed later faced a federal indictment for allegedly hiring a hitman.

On Tuesday, an attorney for the Epstein estate confirmed to KRQE the sale of the Zorro ranch property.

Quote:    On behalf of the Epstein Estate, we confirm sale by the Estate of the New Mexico property known as “Zorro Ranch,” with the proceeds to be used for Estate administration, including payment of creditors.  While details of that sale (including the purchase price and buyer) are confidential, the Estate will disclose the sale in its next quarterly accounting to be filed in the St. Thomas, USVI probate court.
    Daniel Weiner, attorney for Epstein estate

Quote:DTRA's history begins with the Manhattan Project, which then split into the Atomic Energy Commission and the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project after WWII. The AFSWP became the Defense Atomic Support Agency in 1959; DASA became the Defense Nuclear Agency in 1971; DNA became the Defense Special Weapons Agency in 1996, and was one of the four agencies/programs that combined in 1998 to form the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. This film is about Operation Argus, a series of three high-altitude nuclear tests conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission in the South Atlantic Ocean in August and September 1958. The results of Operation Argus proved the validity of the Christofilos theory.

This theory proposed that a radiation belt is created in the upper regions of the Earth’s atmosphere by high-altitude detonations. The radiation belt affects radio and radar transmissions, damages or destroys the arming and fuzing mechanisms of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile warheads, and endangers crews of orbiting space vehicles that might enter the belt.

The tests, conducted in complete secrecy, were not announced until the following year. Low-yield devices were carried to an altitude of approximately 300 miles by rockets before being detonated.

More than 4,500 military personnel and civilian scientists participated in the test operation.

The tests comprising 1958 Operation Argus were as follows:

• ARGUS I, August 27, South 38.5 degrees, West 11.5 degrees, South Atlantic, rocket, weapons effects, 1-2 kt
  
• ARGUS II, August 30, South 49.5 degrees, West 8.2 degrees, South Atlantic, rocket, weapons effects, 1-2 kt
  
• ARGUS III, September 6, South 48.5 degrees, West 9.7 degrees, South Atlantic, rocket, weapons effects, 1-2 kt
  

Quote:The U.S. conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962, with multiple cameras capturing each event at around 2,400 frames per second. But in the decades since, around 10,000 of these films sat idle, scattered across the country in high-security vaults. Not only were they gathering dust, the film material itself was slowly decomposing, bringing the data they contained to the brink of being lost forever.

For the past five years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) weapon physicist Greg Spriggs and a crack team of film experts, archivists and software developers have been on a mission to hunt down, scan, reanalyze and declassify these decomposing films. The goals are to preserve the films’ content before it’s lost forever, and provide better data to the post-testing-era scientists who use computer codes to help certify that the aging U.S. nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure and effective.

1. BOLTZMAN, May 28, tower, weapons related, 12 kilotons (kt)
   
2. FRANKLIN, June 2, tower, weapons related, 140 tons
   
3. LASSEN, June 5, balloon, weapons related, 0.5 tons
   
4. WILSON, June 18, balloon, weapons related, 10 kt
   
5. PRISCILLA, June 24, balloon, weapons related, 37 kt
   
6. COULOMB-A, July 1, surface, safety experiment, zero yield
   
7. HOOD, July 5, balloon, weapons related, 74 kt
   
8. DIABLO, July 15, tower, weapons related, 17 kt
   
9. JOHN, July 19, rocket, weapons effects, about 2 kt
   
10. KEPLER, July 24, tower, weapons related, 10 kt
    
11. OWENS, July 25, balloon, weapons related, 9.7 kt
    
12. PASCAL-A, July 26, shaft, safety experiment, slight yield
    
13. STOKES, August 7, balloon, weapons related, 19 kt
    
14. SATURN, August 10, tunnel, safety experiment, zero yield
    
15. SHASTA, August 18, tower, weapons related, 17 kt
    
16. DOPPLER, August 23, balloon, weapons related, 11 kt
    
17. PASCAL-B, August 27, shaft, safety experiment, slight yield
    
18. FRANKLIN PRIME, August 30, balloon, weapons related, 4.7 kt
    
19. SMOKY, August 31, tower, weapons related, 44 kt
    
20. GALILEO, September 2, tower, weapons related, 11 kt
    
21. WHEELER, September 6, balloon, weapons related, 197 tons
    
22. COULOMB-B, September 6, surface, safety experiment, 300 tons
    
23. LAPLACE, September 8, balloon, weapons related, 1 kt
    
24. FIZEAU, September 14, tower, weapons related, 11 kt
    
25. NEWTON, September 16, balloon, weapons related, 12 kt
    
26. RAINIER, September 19, tunnel, weapons related, 1.7 kt
    
27. WHITNEY, September 23, tower, weapons related, 19 kt
    
28. CHARLESTON, September 28, balloon, weapons related, 12 kt
    
29. MORGAN, October 7, balloon, weapons related, 8 kt
    

Quote:Ten Days Lost At Sea: The First Flight (and Voyage) to Hawaii

Threatened by thirst, hunger, and sharks, the PN-9 No.1’s courageous commander led his crew to shore and safety.

The few sand sharks that began trailing their plane had grown in a few days’ time into a large and unnerving school joined by barracuda. When two fierce-looking 14-foot tiger sharks joined the mob, Bowlin became nervous. The “big black fellows” were “always waiting,” said Bowlin, “I guess for a choice bit of human flesh.”

Quote:Parade, ’40s music and food. Go back in time at Richland’s Atomic Frontier Day

Events include a parade, with entries ranging from vintage military vehicles to Kadlec nurses and Girl Scouts wearing vintage uniforms. Then participants can head to Howard Amon Park to walk through the steps of getting a “security badge,” see historical exhibits, watch ‘40s-themed entertainment, eat a traditional Hanford mess hall dinner and then dance to a swing band.

Coleen Varvel, 95, of Richland was there for the first Richland Atomic Frontier Days in 1948, collecting the programs until the last one in about 1960, and may be back on Saturday, she said. “It was a big deal, because nothing else was a big deal,” she said laughing, about the event in the early days of Richland when it was a government-owned town. “It was fun. Everybody was involved.”

John Wayne came to Richland The 1948 event lasted three days and included visits from Hollywood stars John Wayne, Cisco Kid, Chil Wills, Roddy MacDowell, Monte Hale, Ella Raines and Ray Whitley, according to souvenir programs. People said that Wayne “drank the city of Richland out of alcohol,” said Jillian Gardner-Andrews, the Washington State University Tri-Cities Hanford History Project coordinator.

Quote:The Harris Ranch Tesla Supercharger has a couple of things going for it that have made it a part of Tesla enthusiasts’ lore: It’s one of the electric car giant’s first Supercharger stations, and with 98 charging bays, it’s also the biggest in the world.

The Central California charging station is such a big deal that Tesla clubs even make it an appointment destination. Yes, they’ll rally-style drive to it just to honor its lineage and size. 

But as with many Tesla-related things, there is a secret, thinly obscured by an Oz-like curtain, at the Harris Ranch Supercharger. Hidden in plain sight across the way from the Harris Ranch Supercharger’s main stations, behind a Shell station, is a small diesel plant that has helped power Tesla’s footprint.

‘A far darker reality’

The news was first broken by investigative journalist Edward Niedermeyer. In May 2015, Niedermeyer drove from his Oregon home to Harris Ranch to see whether “Musk’s latest bit of dream weaving could stand up to reality.”

What Niedermeyer reportedly found was a little different from the company’s clean energy claims.

“I discovered that Tesla’s battery swap station was not in fact being made available to owners who regularly drove between California’s two largest cities,” Niedermeyer wrote in a May 2022 exposé for Slate. “Instead, the company was running diesel generators to power additional Superchargers (the kind that take 30 to 60 minutes to recharge a battery) to handle the holiday rush, their exhaust mingling with the unmistakable smell of bulls—t.”

The fact that a small diesel plant was helping power the additional chargers kicked off a series of events that unraveled the myth of Elon Musk for Niedermeyer: “Once you stop taking Musk at his word,” he wrote, “his heroic popular image evaporates, and a far darker reality begins to reveal itself.”

It seems that tracking Musk’s unsubstantiated claims has become a hobby for some. There’s even a handy website dedicated to things Musk has proclaimed that haven’t come true, along with the number of days that have passed since specific claims have been made.

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The journalist, who wrote a in-depth investigation of Tesla, pointed to Tesla’s latest impact report, in which the company criticized current measurements of greenhouse gas emissions for failing to factor in “the impact of emissions that are avoided through the sale of zero-emission or clean-tech products.”

“But when you get all the way to the actual explanation for their emission reduction claims (page 204) you get only the vaguest explanation, based on a generous baseline comparison of 24 mpg,” Niedermeyer continued, noting that the national average is dragged down by trucks.

Quote:When Clarence Saunders opened the first Piggly Wiggly store in Memphis, Tennessee on September 6th, 1916, he revolutionized the grocery shopping experience. Prior to Piggly Wiggly, customers would provide store clerks with handwritten shopping lists, and clerks would gather the requested items.

Saunders introduced a novel concept - allowing customers to personally select their own products from the shelves. This self-service model empowered shoppers while reducing labor costs for stores. Piggly Wiggly also featured innovative designs like shopping baskets to aid customers.

Another key innovation was centralized checkout stands. Rather than paying for items at individual counters throughout the store, Saunders created a streamlined process where customers could pay for all purchases in one location.

Saunders promoted Piggly Wiggly extensively through eye-catching signage and advertising circulars, differentiating his stores from the competition. The success of Piggly Wiggly's supermarket prototype was immense, and similar self-service markets spread rapidly across the United States, transforming grocery shopping.

In 1922, Saunders established the Piggly Wiggly Corporation, becoming the first self-service grocery chain to issue public stock and solidifying its industry leadership. While financial struggles later caused Saunders to lose control of the company, he remained determined. He founded another chain called "Clarence Saunders Sole Owner Stores" with further advances like electric doors and frozen food sections.

Saunders received numerous patents related to retail innovations over his career. His concepts of self-service, centralized checkout, and promotional strategies remain fundamental to the modern supermarket experience today. Though Saunders faced personal challenges, his impact on the grocery industry through Piggly Wiggly is immense and long-lasting.