A group of senior American politicians have warned that UFOs pose “national security concerns” after getting a confidential briefing on a highly anticipated report on unidentified aerial phenomena that is set to be released later this month.
Some members of Congress were given advanced details about the contents of the Pentagon report, which is scheduled to be released before 25 June, and several said they are deeply worried about the findings.
“Clearly, something’s going on that we can’t handle,” Tim Burchett, a Republican congressman from Tennessee, told TMZ.
In recent years a series of government videos showing unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs – the ufology community’s preferred term – have been released, including footage from a navy F-18 fighter jet which showed an oblong object flying through the sky near San Diego in 2004.
This April photos and videos taken by navy personnel were leaked online, showing triangular-shaped objects buzzing in the sky, and in May leaked military footage showed an oval flying object near a navy ship in San Diego – an apparent UAP hotspot.
And David Bitton (Colorado Springs Gazette) reports on the upcoming report and notes:
Carol Cleland, a philosophy professor, director of CU Boulder’s Center for the Study of Origins and an affiliate of the SETI Institute — an organization with the mission to explore, understand and explain the origin and nature of life in the universe — was obsessed with UFOs in middle school. She remembers climbing on her roof in Phoenix to look through binoculars for signs of extraterrestrial life.
Cleland studies how scientific discovery throughout history has hinged on anomalies or phenomena that researchers can’t explain.
“The science tends to be, for good reason, conservative,” she said. “If every time you saw something that wasn’t easy to explain in terms of our current theories or understanding of chemistry and physics, you’d be rejecting theories right and left that are perfectly good theories. The problems have to do with other factors such as our understanding of how complex conditions interact.”
With modern instrumentation, Navy pilots have been able to record videos of unexplained flying objects.
“They have really good (visual) descriptions of the phenomena,” Cleland said. “They are behaving in ways that are just baffling: Stops cold, no exhaust, takes off at right angles, moves so fast you can’t track it.
“It’s behaving, whatever this phenomenon is, in ways that are just nothing like what we have. And the idea that China and Russia has been hiding this for what, 40 or 50 years, is silly. I think the fact that the military is releasing it is a subtle sign that they are no longer worried about it.”
So, what is out there?
Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Thursday, June 17, 2021. The WSWS continues its war against the Kurds and more.
Let's start with garbage. Specifically Ulaş Ateşçi piece of garbage for WSWS. Am I counting this correctly? An article about Turkey with 1,259 words and only once doe sthe word "Iraq" pop up? What a load of garbage.
If you missed it, Jon Stewart appeared Tuesday night on CBS' late night program (we don't promote that idiot) and made jokes about the COVID-19 virus. Since then, a huge number of idiots have popped up to condemn Jon. Including a man who apparently wants us to discuss him -- I'm not referring to anyone with a TV job -- but I'm surprised he wants us to discuss him because the woman who rightly accused him of harassment and assault had to sign an NDA.
Do you really want us to discuss you?
Back to Jon. Jon's a comedian. Jon has many pluses and many negatives. I like and know Jon. I've called him out for nonsense here from time to time over the years. But he has every right to make them and they are exactly the sort of j If he did something wrong, I'd call him out.
Expressing an opinion in a free society is not a crime. I hav e no dog in the fight. I don't honestly care where the virus started (how it started, I might care about, but I have too much on my plate to pursue that). WSWS and others are slamming him and saying his opinion is wrong.
And by wrong, they don't just mean that they disagree with it, they are insisting that Jon's claims in his jokes have been deubnked.
No.
That's the problem with today's 'fact checkers.' They're weighing in on fluid events. Information changes daily. The issues around the virus have not been pinned down.
Why does it matter Jon telling a joke shouldn't matater. And if these were pieces calling out the sitting president of the United States, they might be better. but let's pretend that Joe Biden hasn't promoted the very thing that Jon was telling jokes about -- is that what we've decided to do?
Connecting China to the virus could be part of a larger effort at war with China. I agree that's a possibility. But I'm not remembering this heated outrage over any efforts of Joe to connect the two.
So spare me your garbage about Jon Stewart. If you didn't like his jokes, you didn't like them. They are exactly the type of observational humor he did throughout hosting THE DAILY SHOW. And you loved that humor once. Now? You've apparently become addicted to Trevor Noah's prissing and preening in the place of actual humor, his mugging at the camera to let you know what he said is supposed to be seen as funny.
So WSWS ca step into the sewer to slime Jon. But they can't cover what's happening to the Kurds.
We've called them out for their xenophobia on this for some time. But I want it to be very clear to future generations that, in 2021, the bias against the Kurds that the WSWS had was noted. As Kurds were killed by Turkey, some of us did call out and a publication that pretends to be about the masses, WSWS, spent year after year looking the other way and year after year covering for Turkey's actions
What promted the coverage of Recep Erdogen by the WSWS? This:
Joe Biden making nice with the despot, grinning and joking.
Kurds in Iraq need to be worried. Joe betrayed them repeatedly as Vice President. He'll betray them again. (We were going to note a webinar in depth but I don't have time to describe nonsense and, sadly, a friend I know was pimping nonsense in the stream about how Joe is such a great friend to Iraq -- No, Peter, the actual record does not support that assertion.)
Recep is a thug who is terrorizing the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
As Karwan Faidhi Dri (RUDAW) notes, Turkey continues its assault on Turkey with what many observers have dubbed its ecocide of the KRG:
The Turkish army bombarded the vicinity of five populated villages in
Duhok province on Tuesday, causing a great fire which has led to the
scorching of thousands of dunams of land, a local official told Rudaw
English on Wednesday.
Sarbast Sabri, mayor of Kani Masi subdistrict, told Rudaw English that
the vicinity of Dergelka, Ribarke, Qumri, Dashish, and Baqulke villages
in the subdistrict were bombarded by Turkish forces Tuesday afternoon.
Most of the fire has burned out so far but small flames remain, he said,
adding that so far an estimated 3,000 dunams of land has been burned.
“It was done by Turkey. I saw it because I was near there.”
“When the villagers put out one part of the fire, another bomb would
land and spark even more fires,” said the mayor. Turkey has burned
13,000 dunams of land in Kani Masi since it launched two military
operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Duhok on April
23, according to Sabri.
Captain Fuad Ahmed, head of media for the Duhok’s Forest Police and
Environment Directorate, told Rudaw English in May that Turkey had
burned 4,181 dunams of land in the province in the first five months of
2021. He added Ankara has also burned 56,731 dunams of land in Duhok in
ten years.
I think we all know by now that Status Quo Joe doesn't give a damn about the climate emergency but, the next time you read another piece of sop passed off as a report on Turkey at WSWS, remember that they don't care about the climate crisis either -- or, at least, they care more about hating Kurdish people than they do about the climate crisis.
Yazidis displaced from Shingal in 2014 have now been forced to flee IDP camps in Zakho due to nearby Turkish bombardments.
More than 3,000 people have had to leave Bersive 1, Bersive 2 and Derkar camps due to Turkish operations in the area, according to Khalat Osman, the municipal manager of Zakho's camps.
"War happens every day, with constant airstrikes. We're very scared. Each of us has struggled with mental health issues at some point," said Amira Ilyas, who lives in Bersive 1 camp.
On the ecocide, AL-MONITOR TWEETS:
A group of activists seeking an end to the Turkish military presence in the Kurdistan Region held a press conference in Sulaimani city on Wednesday (June 16), urging the international community and local political actors to do more to stand up against aggression from Ankara.
“The invasion of the [Kurdistan Region by the] Turkish military is a blatant violation of international law and is without a doubt unacceptable,” said a representative of the group, which refers to itself as a “peace delegation.”
“We are sad to witness that the international community of states remains silent and inactive on this issue, taking no action to insist on Turkish compliance with international courts and human rights law,” she added.
The visiting delegation told reporters that they wanted to contribute to a dialogue between different Kurdish political actors and bear witness to the ongoing conflict.
In late April, Turkey renewed its military campaign in the Kurdistan Region, justifying its actions as necessary to combat the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Since then, at least four civilians have been killed in Turkish airstrikes and four others wounded.
Christian Peacemaker Teams recently reported that at least 1,500 villagers have been displaced in less than two months.
In Friday's snapshot, we attempted to cover some of the history of the Kurds in the KRG and Turkey. Attempted because there's so much to cover. Unless you are WSWS and, in that case, dismiss the whole issue with a single mention of Iraq.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) wants a war between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to move outside its borders because the conflict threatens to weaken its authority.
“PKK’s presence in the region serves as an excuse for the Turkish
military, and the main objective of it in our opinion is to weaken the
Kurdistan Region as an entity," KRG spokesperson Jotiar Adil said, Rudaw
reported on Wednesday.
“If the PKK leaves, there will be no excuse left for the Turkish military to come and set up bases here,” Adil said.
Turkey has more than 30 temporary military bases in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq and has advanced up to 40 kilometres into the territory, a senior Turkish official told Reuters last year. Turkey has conducted a latest series of cross-border incursions into Iraq since June 2020. Its military began operations into the Metina and Avashin areas near the region’s Dohuk governorate in May to target the PKK.
Turning to US politics, Iraq War vet Adam Kokesh hosts the program ADAM V. THE MAN. He is a Libertarian and he notes of his upcoming broadcast:
For tomorrow's ADAM VS THE MAN debate on the issue of removing
as chair of
, we've got
, National Secretary, and
, Los Angeles LP Chair, taking the position in favor of removal (being the "highest ranking" ...
So that will be on today's ADAM V. THE MAN.
We need to quickly note three things.
First up, a new video from Chase Rice's THE ALBUM.
That's "If I Didn't Have You."
Second, on the hideous Ana Kasparian, this is Jimmy Dore from his show last night.
As we noted yesterday, she is no feminist. She's suddenly discovered she's a woman. The way some accused Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods of suddenly discovering they were Black when they had legal issues and scandals emerge.
So to try to cover for her toxic masculinity, she attacks Jimmy Dore and attempts to pretend it's for the sisterhood. Ana's never done a damn thing for women.
Not a damn thing. And her sexualizing the work environment with her conduct and dress made it much more difficult for other women who worked with her. Don't fall for her nonsense. She's a proponent of Ana-ism, not feminism.
And Holly Near, in a five minute song, covered more issues having to do with women than Ana's done in her entire time at TYT.
Stepping out of the line of fire when people are rude
Cheap stuff made in China, someone calls it a sale
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
Beat down in the market, stoned to death in the plaza
Raped on the hillside under the gun from LA to Gaza
A house made of cardboard living close to the rail
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
And I feel the witch in my veins
I feel the mother in my shoe
I feel the scream in my soul
The blood as I sing the ancient blue
They burned in the millions
I still smell the fire in my grandma's hair
The war against women rages on
Beware of the fairytale
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
The noise of elections, the promise of change
A grabbing of power at the top, a day at the rifle range
Somebody's in danger, somebody's for sale
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
Again, Holly says more in one song -- says more about women and the conditions we live under -- than Ana's done in all of her years at TYT. I may respond to an e-mail in tomorrow's snapshot -- planned to today but there isn't time.
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