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According to Christopher Sharp of Liberation Times, new disclosures from Intelligence Community and Department of Defense (DoD) sources suggest the U.S. has conducted covert operations since World War II to recover Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) materials. Sources allege that the CIA, collaborating with the U.S. Navy and other agencies, has led missions to retrieve non-human materials from land, sea, and even foreign territories. These missions reportedly involve organizations such as the National Underwater Reconnaissance Office, and submergence vehicles provided by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, with recovered materials sent for analysis to defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin. Significant figures within the CIA, including former CIA Director of Science and Technology Glenn Gaffney, are implicated in blocking transfers of alleged non-human materials to outside entities. The CIA’s Weapons and Counterproliferation Mission Center (WCPMC) reportedly plays a key role in studying and categorizing UAP materials, leveraging space-based and technical intelligence from agencies like the National Reconnaissance Office, DIA, NSA, and NGA. The WCPMC’s operations, while primarily analytical, are linked to historical intelligence on non-human technology, stretching back to the OSS’s WWII-era involvement with the alleged crash of a non-human craft in Magenta, Italy. The CIA’s lineage of UAP research has evolved through several institutional changes, from the Office of Scientific Intelligence to today’s WCPMC. The ongoing revelations may intensify calls for greater government accountability, as U.S. officials grapple with potential decades-long coverups of non-human intelligence and technology. The post Inside the CIA’s Covert UAP Retrieval Missions and Non-Human Technology appeared first on Anomalien.com.

In recent weeks, the federal government has been criticized for allocating FEMA money to illegal aliens seeking shelter rather than saving it for Americans displaced by hurricanes. But Michiganders should know that their state government is doing the same thing.The Michigan “Newcomer Rental Subsidy” gives Michigan taxpayers’ money to aliens to help pay for housing while Michiganders — like many Americans — struggle to pay for basic necessities such as groceries, housing, and gas.Michigan should prioritize housing subsidies for US citizens first. Illegal aliens shouldn’t get housing subsidies at all.The subsidy offers rental assistance of up to $500 per month for up to a year to immigrants, including illegal aliens.The Office of Global Michigan defends this program, stating that “many refugees and other newcomers face critical housing challenges, and this program will increase access to better and more affordable housing opportunities.” While that may be true, thousands of Michiganders also face the same challenges. Who is helping them?The homeless population in Michigan in 2024 is over 8,000 people, approximately 500 of whom are veterans. Yet homeless Michigan residents are not eligible for this rental subsidy. Yes, Michigan does have a program that provides “short-term residential care and treatment to eligible veterans,” but that program could be improved and expanded if the Newcomer Rental Subsidy wasn’t pulling precious time and resources away from citizens of Michigan who desperately need them.It isn’t just the homeless who can’t find housing, either. The average cost of rent in Michigan has risen from $1,150 per month in 2020 to over $1,400 per month in 2024. The cost of homes has also increased exponentially over the last four years. In 2020, homes on average cost around $180,000 in Michigan, and in 2024 homes on average cost nearly $250,000. In a time of record inflation due to the devastating policies and spending of the Biden-Harris administration, Michigan is diverting its limited funds to provide relief for noncitizens before its own citizens.However, even those sympathetic to refugees should remember that aliens with far less lawful immigration status than foreign nationals granted refugee protection are eligible for the rental subsidy. For example, aliens with a pending asylum application may apply for a housing subsidy.Unfortunately, aliens frequently submit fraudulent asylum applications because they are free. Submitting provides them with other benefits, including a work authorization document and years living in the United States because of millions of backlogged cases in the immigration courts and at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Allowing mere asylum applicants, rather than requiring an alien to have been granted asylum beforehand, to receive this benefit is a clear waste of Michigan and U.S. taxpayer money.Michigan also provides the housing subsidy to aliens the Biden-Harris administration unlawfully and unconstitutionally mass-paroled into the U.S. through defrauded programs. For example, USCIS found in a recent internal report that the administration approved thousands of parole sponsors in the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan parole programs without adequate vetting. This resulted in thousands of applications having fake Social Security numbers and nearly 20,000 applications having the same 100 physical addresses listed, among many other problems.Michigan should prioritize housing subsidies for U.S. citizens first, then entirely lawful immigrants second. Illegal aliens shouldn’t be receiving housing subsidies at all.At a time when Americans face record inflation and struggle to pay for housing and put food on the table, it is time for Michigan to stop putting noncitizens first.

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After more than a month with the iPhone 16 Plus, I'm happy to report the upgrade from my iPhone 14 Pro was absolutely worthwhile. There's only one thing that I regret, and it's not what you might think. I don't mind losing the 120Hz display or the third zoom camera of the iPhone Pro. It's the size of the Plus that it takes getting used to, considering this is the first time I've used an iPhone with a 6.7-inch display. If you're unsure which iPhone 16 model to buy, I'll go over two things to try before you decide whether you need a new Pro or non-Pro iPhone in your life. Honestly, just one of them really matters, considering how powerful the iPhone is. Continue reading... The post How I survived upgrading from the iPhone 14 Pro to the iPhone 16 Plus appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $365+ free Today’s deals: $100 off iPad mini 7, $60 off Nintendo Switch OLED, $90 Ninja Air Fryer Pro XL, more Best deals: Tech, laptops, TVs, and more sales Today’s deals: $280 Acer Aspire 3 laptop, $23 TP-Link WiFi extender, $199 Shark vacuum, $60 Keurig, more

Home to one of the most spectacular global rock art traditions, the Serrania de la Lindosa rock paintings in Colombia, as old as 12,500 years, contains tens and thousands of paintings, including humans and animals morphing into each other. International archaeologists there have been working with Indigenous elders, leaders, and ritual specialists, to interpret what their ancestors left behind. Transcending the Metaphysical: Alternating Between Realms What they’ve learnt transcends the meta-physical, and further cements the loss of Indigenous wisdom, knowledge, and tradition, that have suffered at the hands of colonialism. These accounts, along with material research, has pointed to the art transcending spiritual realms, transformation of bodies, and a continuum in which human and non-human worlds collide. In fact, to imagine that it is some kind of a literal record of human engagement with the environment around is doing it great disservice. Published in the special issue of Advances in Rock Art Studies, archaeologists from the University of Exeter have been working in the region for the past six years, primarily through the European Research Council funded LASTJOURNEY project. Read moreSection: ArtifactsAncient WritingsNewsHistory & ArchaeologyAncient PlacesAmericasRead Later 

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