At 19:30 in this video, Yousef explains when he was a child his Father had showed him how the cracks between the blocks on the causeway could swallow sand all day long and never get full, and apparently that is still the case today, as he demonstrates

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I have watched Bien Foerster videos for several years now as his guide Yousef takes him a lot of interesting places off the beaten path and explains things about famous places not generally known.

In this video he explores the wondrous place called The Serepeum with amaing huge stone boxes.

In this episode he goes into detail about one particular box that displays different level of workmanship on the outside.

At the 10:00 minute mark he points out a clear liquid that has dried that apparently was used to polish the granite.




During one of Briens livestreams I asked him if they had ever had that clear liquid analyzed.

He replied 'it is Bitumen'.

I found that a bit odd because Bitumen is always found as a black viscous liquid. After pondering it for a while the only thing I could conclude was this has to be a very concentrated version of it.

Team member Sander provides us with some very interesting examples of what NASA said were 'Ice Crystals' -

Great short interview jam packed with information

Quote:U.S. to test nuclear-powered spacecraft by 2027

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - (This Jan. 24 story has been corrected to remove the reference to NASA officials and to amend attribution of Space Force information to a DARPA official, who is now being identified, in paragraph 7.)

The United States plans to test a spacecraft engine powered by nuclear fission by 2027 as part of a long-term NASA effort to demonstrate more efficient methods of propelling astronauts to Mars in the future, the space agency’s chief said on Tuesday.

NASA will partner with the U.S. military's research and development agency, DARPA, to develop a nuclear thermal propulsion engine and launch it to space "as soon as 2027," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said during a conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

The U.S. space agency has studied for decades the concept of nuclear thermal propulsion, which introduces heat from a nuclear fission reactor to a hydrogen propellant in order to provide a thrust believed to be far more efficient than traditional chemical-based rocket engines.

NASA officials view nuclear thermal propulsion as crucial for sending humans beyond the moon and deeper into space. A trip to Mars from Earth using the technology could take roughly four months instead of some nine months with a conventional, chemically powered engine, engineers say.

That would substantially reduce the time astronauts would be exposed to deep-space radiation and would also require fewer supplies, such as food and other cargo, during a trip to Mars.

"If we have swifter trips for humans, they are safer trips," NASA deputy administrator and former astronaut Pam Melroy said Tuesday.

Applications that spinoff from the planned 2027 demonstration – part of an existing DARPA research program that NASA is now joining – would also fit into the U.S. Space Force’s space mobility and logistics segment, said Tabitha Dodson, DARPA’s program manager for the test program.

DARPA in 2021 awarded funds to General Atomics, Lockheed Martin and Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin to study designs of nuclear reactors and spacecraft. By around March, the agency will pick a company to build the nuclear spacecraft for the 2027 demonstration, program's manager Dodson said in an interview.

The joint NASA-DARPA effort's budget is $110 million for fiscal year 2023 and is expected to be hundreds of millions of dollars more through 2027.

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A few days ago a book was released, something completely unprecedented in the history of the Catholic Church. No English speaking news outlets have discussed it, probably the usual mass media censorship. Benedict XVI published a posthumous book. The reason that it was so unexpected is because Benedict explicitly wished that the collection of writings would only be published after his death. Why?

Che cos'è il cristianesimo. Quasi un testamento spirituale
"What is Christianity" "Almost a spiritual testament"



Translated from Italian:

Quote:Benedetto XVI "What is Christianity" "Almost a spiritual testament"

In the years immediately following the Second Vatican Council, the volume Introduction to Christianity made a young German theologian known to the general public. Today, at the end of his life and as pope emeritus, Benedict XVI bequeaths this work to all men to share his latest reflections on some fundamental themes of the Christian religion.

At the center is God's mercy, which is born of a passion of love for every creature. Priests are at the service of God, called to be in his presence and to be witnesses of his love for him. Then there are the themes of dialogue with other religions, with the Jews, the people of the promise, with the Christian confessions, with the world. This dialogue, however, cannot ignore the central contents of the creed: the incarnation of the Son of God, faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Eucharistic presence, fraternal communion in the Church, the central themes of Christian morality.

As the subtitle states, the volume is almost a spiritual testament, dictated by the wisdom of the heart of a master who is always attentive to the expectations and hopes of the faithful. In the years spent in the Mater Ecclesiae monastery in the Vatican, his discreet presence and his prayers were an important support for the life of the Church. From there he benevolently observed nature, a mirror of the love of God the creator, from whom we come and towards whom we are directed. From there he looked to his country of origin, Germany, to Italy where he spent a good part of his life, to France which welcomed him into his Académie, to the whole of Europe. To these countries the pope emeritus entrusts, in a weak but passionate voice, his request not to renounce the Christian heritage, which is a precious patrimony for all humanity.

In life, Benedict XVI was not always understood. However, no one has been able to deny the lucidity of his thought and the strength of his arguments, which this last work admirably collects.

Quote:A posthumous book by Benedict XVI, the Pope Emeritus who died last December 31, has been released. The work is entitled "What is Christianity" and collects published and unpublished texts from the period after his resignation. He himself asked the editors, Elio Guerriero and Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, with a letter dated May 1, 2022: "This volume, which collects the writings I composed in the Mater Ecclesiae monastery, must be published after my death". In a letter, contained in the book, he explained his choice to Guerriero Ratzinger as follows: "For my part, in life, I no longer want to publish anything. The fury of the circles against me in Germany is so strong that the appearance of every my word immediately causes a murderous shouting from them. I want to spare myself and Christendom this."

Ratzinger: "Those who read my books as unsuitable priests are punished"

In the book, Benedict XVI confides: "There were individual bishops, and not only in the United States, who rejected the Catholic tradition as a whole, aiming in their dioceses to develop a kind of new, modern catholicity. Perhaps it is worth mentioning the fact that, in not a few seminaries, students caught reading my books were considered unfit for the priesthood. My books were concealed as harmful literature and were read only in secret, so to speak."

"Collapse in preparation for priestly ministry"

Benedict XVI also speaks of homosexuality and the fact that there are gay "clubs" in seminaries. Writing about the meeting that Pope Francis had convened with the presidents of all the episcopal conferences of the world on the subject of abuse, Ratzinger underlines: "In the context of the meeting of the presidents of the episcopal conferences of the whole world with Pope Francis, it is at heart above all the question of priestly life and also that of seminaries.As regards the problem of preparation for priestly ministry in seminaries, we note in fact a vast collapse of the existing form of this preparation".

Benedict XVI: "In several seminaries there are homosexual clubs"

Then Benedict XVI underlines: "In various seminaries homosexual 'clubs' were formed which acted more or less openly and which clearly transformed the climate in the seminaries. In a seminary in southern Germany, candidates for the priesthood and candidates for the lay office of pastoral referent lived together. During common meals, the seminarians were together with married pastoral representatives, partly accompanied by their wives and children and in some cases by their girlfriends. The atmosphere in the seminary could not help priestly formation". He then reports that "a bishop, who had previously been rector, had allowed pornographic films to be shown to seminarians, presumably with the intention of thereby enabling them to resist against behavior contrary to the faith".

Pope emeritus: "When I resigned I was too exhausted to make plans"

Benedict XVI also speaks of his resignation in 2013 and says he was "exhausted" at the time. The book reads: "When I announced my resignation from the ministry of Peter's successor on February 11, 2013, I had no plan for what I would do in the new situation. I was too exhausted - in his words - to be able to plan other jobs Furthermore, the publication of the Infancy of Jesus seemed like a logical conclusion to my theological writings." "After the election of Pope Francis I slowly resumed my theological work. Thus, over the years, a series of small and medium-sized contributions have taken shape, which are presented in this volume".

Ratzinger in the posthumous book: "Against me fury and shouting assassin"

Quote:Italian general: US official bragged Benedict would be ‘forced’ to resign weeks after 2005 election

Jan 5, 2023 - 6:11 pm EST

(LifeSiteNews) — On the eve of Pope Benedict XVI’s burial, Piero Laporta, a retired Italian brigadier general, published a stunning piece on his own blog.

This Catholic author, who previously lobbied to have Benedict participate (and influence) the controversial Synod on the Family some eight years ago, is now revealing that in the first weeks after the election of Joseph Ratzinger to the papal throne in 2005, an official of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) “was bragging about the resignation to which H.H. Benedict XVI of revered memory would soon be forced.”

If this story is true, however, “soon” would have to mean almost eight years, as that is the time it actually took for Benedict to resign.

Laporta is a retired brigadier general who worked for the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Italian Military, and since his retirement writes for multiple blogs and for different newspapers, collaborating with, among others, our colleague Marco Tosatti and his blog Stilum Curiae.

Laporta’s January 3 blog entry starts with the comment that he “shudders” at the publicly displayed “crocodile tears” by a representative of the community of San Egidio, in regards to Pope Benedict’s death.

In light of these tears, “memories pass before my eyes,” he added.

Laporta then revealed that there exists “a great Roman circle that is still active today,” that is more powerful than the so-called “Sankt Gallen group,” which has been historically opposed to Benedict.

Laporta further relayed that in 2005, “a leading delegate of the U.S. government, who had his hands in Italian finances (where he is still active) and in Italian politics,” and was “a figure in the highest ranks of the National Security Agency (NSA),” was “bragging about the resignation to which H.H. Benedict XVI of revered memory would soon be forced.”

This man, Laporta went on to say, spoke “with a nonchalance and with an arrogance” outside of his own circle about this matter.

This “Roman circle” was reportedly dedicated to the slogans “God is dead” and “Jesus is fake news,” and was in “panic” when Benedict was elected.

The “Sankt Gallen Mafia,” Laporta added, was “no joke,” but is a mere fig leaf compared to this “Roman circle” that Laporta refers to as a “dome of demons.”

According to the Italian general, it was this group who “isolated” Benedict, “leaving him alone while the nescionalsecuiritiagensi [NSA] goons scourged the truth, then crucified it.”

It is not known whether this man, who at the time reportedly worked for the U.S. government, actually played a role in the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. However, for the sake of discussing the fullest narrative of this historic resignation, it might be helpful to report on Laporta’s observations, making it a possible piece of the puzzle.

Another piece of this puzzle could be the fact that at the time of Benedict’s resignation in February of 2013, the Vatican Bank was unable to function, since it had been suddenly excluded from the SWIFT system and was thus incapable of performing necessary international transactions.

As Giuseppe Nardi of Katholisches.info reminds his readers today in his report on Laporta, Maurzio Blondet had discussed this matter in Italian, in 2015.

In light of Laporta’s blog post, Blondet, a Catholic journalist, quoted Laporta and said that it was wise that Laporta did “not disclose” the U.S. official’s name. He then re-posted his 2015 report titled “Ratzinger could neither buy nor sell,” which outlined the Vatican’s 2013 financial problems with the SWIFT system, thereby implying that he himself sees a link between Laporta’s report and this financial aspect of the history of Benedict’s resignation.

A third puzzle of the piece – which refers to the above-mentioned Sank Gallen Group – is that there might have been a conversation between Cardinal Carlo Martini and Benedict in 2012, in which the head of the Sankt Gallen group suggested to Benedict that it was time for him to resign. This story has been amply discussed by author Julia Meloni, which LifeSiteNews covered here.

Perhaps only future historians will be able to put together a fuller picture as to why a pope would resign, thus leaving the Church in the hands of modernists who are out to undermine the core of the Catholic Church’s doctrine and morals.

LifeSiteNews has reached out to Laporta to obtain further details, particularly as to why the NSA official would say that they would “soon” force him to resign, considering the alleged discussion took a place a full seven years before Benedict’s actual resignation.

Quote:The Saint Gallen Group, also called the Saint Gallen Mafia, was an informal group of high ranking like-minded liberal/reformist clerics in the Catholic Church, described by the Bishop of Saint Gallen, Ivo Fürer, who hosted the discussions, as a Freundeskreis ('circle of friends') – who met annually in or near St. Gallen, Switzerland, in January, to freely exchange ideas about issues in the church.

The notion of the military ever voluntarily releasing top secret information has always puzzled me.

As we know that is not in their nature, it does not fit their M.O.

So who would make the colossal blunder of releasing this information to the press?

A naive Col. Blanchard?

What, he thought the public had a right to know and didn't bother to check with his bosses first?

Not-very-likely.


How about we give a listen to the man who actually issued this press release to the media,

who in the end, gave us the answer as to whose bright idea it was to issue the press release stating that the Army had 'captured' a Flying Saucer.


Before his death in 2005, he signed a sealed affidavit confession to be opened only after his passing.

Before that time, all he had ever said publicly is that Col. Blanchard called him up one day and dictated the press release to him that he wanted given to all press media.

Which is indeed true, but not the whole truth as we were later to find out.

"On Tuesday morning, July 8, I would attend the regularly scheduled staff meeting at 7:30 a.m.

Besides

Blanchard,
Marcel;
CIC Capt. Sheridan Cavitt;
Col. James I. Hopkins, the operations officer;
Major Patrick Saunders, the base adjutant;
Major Isadore Brown, the personnel officer;
Lt. Col. Ulysses S. Nero, the supply officer; and from Carswell AAF in Fort Worth, Texas, Blanchard’s boss,
Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey and his chief of staff,
Col. Thomas J. DuBose were also in attendance.

...One of the main concerns discussed at the meeting was whether we should go public or not with the discovery.


Gen.Ramey proposed a plan, which I believe originated with his bosses at the Pentagon.

Attention needed to be diverted from the more important site north of town by acknowledging the other location.

Too many civilians were already involved and the press already was informed.

I was not completely informed how this would be accomplished."


So the origin of this idea was actually from the Pentagon.

And the primary motivation was -

"Attention needed to be diverted from the more important site north of town by acknowledging the other location.

Too many civilians were already involved and the press already was informed."


Now add to the equation some information that the military had, that not even the President knew -

Not only had we broken the German and Jap secret codes, but the Soviets as well.


The Venona project began in 1943, and through this project the military were well aware of how many Russian spies had infiltrated even the Manhattan project.

The very existence of this program was not revealed until a leak in 1995.


From Wiki -

"The decrypted messages gave important insights into Soviet behavior in the period during which duplicate one-time pads were used.

With the first break into the code, Venona revealed the existence of Soviet espionage at Los Alamos National Laboratories.

Identities soon emerged of American, Canadian, Australian, and British spies in service to the Soviet government, including Klaus Fuchs, Alan Nunn May, and Donald Maclean.

Others worked in Washington in the State Department, the Treasury, Office of Strategic Services,and even the White House.


For much of its history, knowledge of Venona was restricted even from the highest levels of government.

Senior army officers, in consultation with the FBI and CIA, made the decision to restrict knowledge of Venona within the government (even the CIA was not made an active partner until 1952).

Army Chief of Staff Omar Bradley, concerned about the White House's history of leaking sensitive information, decided to deny President Truman direct knowledge of the project.

The president received the substance of the material only through FBI, Justice Department, and CIA reports on counterintelligence and intelligence matters.

He was not told the material came from decoded Soviet ciphers."


The Pentagon was also well aware that New Mexico was lousy with civilian Russian spies interested in Los Alamos, White Sands and of course the 509th Atomic Air wing.

Those were undoubtedly the civilians the Pentagon was primarily concerned with 'diverting their attention' as stated.

So it was the old 'bait and switch ruse' used since the debris field was the only site known to the public at that point, and the military wanted to keep it that way while they recovered and cleaned up the crash site.

And the debris field was already cordoned off.

Once that was accomplished, the weather balloon story was... 'released'.

Walter Haut, who released this headline to the media, was also allowed to see the recovered Disc and alien bodies by his commander and old friend from WWII - Col Blanchard.

They were both Bomber pilots in the same squadron who flew missions over Japanese targets during WWII.

Very interesting 10 min vid:




"The "magic square of the sun," was one of the most important symbols used to represent the sun in antiquity. Gematria is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a name, word or phrase according to an alphanumerical cipher. Sacred Geometry is often referred to as the “architecture of the universe”, it ascribes symbolic and sacred meanings to certain geometric shapes and proportions and is found throughout the natural world."

Mushrooms... Friend or Foe?

Quote:Half Moon Bay: Seven dead in another California mass shooting

'The US state of California is reeling from its third mass shooting in eight days after a man shot dead
seven former co-workers south of San Francisco. The attacks took place in the coastal city of Half Moon
Bay. Some of the victims were Chinese-American.


Suspect Chunli Zhao, 66, was arrested after driving to a police station.

It comes as the state mourns the deaths of 11 people in Monterey Park - about six hours south-east of
Half Moon Bay - during Lunar New Year celebrations. And just over a week ago, six people including a
teenage mother and baby were killed at a property in Goshen, central California.

In emotional remarks at a news conference in Half Moon Bay on Tuesday afternoon, California Governor
Gavin Newsom said he's grown weary of having to "say the same things we hear again and again" in the
wake of mass shootings.

"What the hell is wrong with us that we allow these weapons of war and large capacity magazines out on
the streets and sidewalks?" he asked. "Why have we allowed this culture, this pattern, to continue?"
"Only in America do we see this kind of carnage," he added.

The latest bloodshed to hit the state took place at two farms around the Half Moon Bay community in what
officials have described as instances of workplace violence. Four victims were discovered at a mushroom farm,
while the other three were later found at a nearby trucking business. An eighth victim who was transported to
hospital is out of surgery and in a stable condition, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said at a
news conference on Tuesday.

The victims were five adult men and two women, Sheriff Corpus said. All of them were agricultural workers,
Half Moon Bay Mayor Deborah Penrose told CNN on Tuesday. The suspect was a resident of Half Moon Bay
and employed at the Mountain Mushroom Farm, Sheriff Corpus said.

"The only connection between the suspects and the victims is that they may have been co-workers," Sheriff
Corpus said. "All of the evidence we have points to this being an instance of workplace violence." The operator
of the farm - California Terra Garden - later confirmed that the suspect lived at one of the two locations where
people were killed.

The suspect is due to be arraigned on Wednesday in Redwood City, California, according to local US media
outlets. Alicia Ortega said her partner, Martin Martinez, a manager of the mushroom farm, was shot and killed
in the attack.

The last time she spoke to him was in "the morning, when he [went] to work", she told KPIX, a local affiliate o
CBS News, the BBC's US partner. A number of children who had recently been let out of school and lived on
the rural property saw the attack take place, Sheriff Corpus said.

"For children to witness this is unspeakable," the sheriff's office said.
After carrying out the killings, the suspect drove to a local police station where his arrest was caught on camera.
US news channels showed the suspect being pinned to the ground and arrested by police. He used a legally
purchased semi-automatic pistol, Sheriff Corpus said.

San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine told the Associated Press news agency that the
attacks were committed by a "disgruntled worker". In a statement, President Joe Biden said he was praying for
the victims and called on Congress to pass legislation reintroduced this week by Democratic senators that would
raise the minimum age to purchase assault weapons in the US to 21.

Just hours after the attack, seven people were injured and one person was killed in a shooting in Oakland - about
40 miles (64 km) north-east of Half Moon Bay. The Half Moon Bay attack is the 37th mass shooting in just 24 days,
according to Gun Violence Archive.

Even as details of the deadly attack in Half Moon Bay were coming in, detectives in the south of the state were
still hunting for a motive for the killings in Monterey Park. There, an elderly Asian immigrant murdered 11 people
in a suburban dance hall, before killing himself as police closed in...'