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A prominent Brazilian conservative who was a senior aide to former president Jair Bolsonaro has been imprisoned without trial in the South American country for four months, justified by what appears to have been an error on a U.S. government website. Lawyers for Filipe Martins, who considers himself a political prisoner of the left-wing Brazilian Supreme Court (STF), say the court is using the error on the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) website as proof to imprison him. Martins was arrested on February 8 at the order of STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes, who is using records showing travel to the United States — and the lack of corresponding Brazilian immigration records — as evidence that Martins defrauded the immigration system by leaving the country undetected. According to the incorrect CBP travel history records used to keep Martins imprisoned obtained by The Daily Wire, there was a log of Filipe entering the United States with inconsistencies. But representatives of Martins, who served as the special adviser for international affairs to Bolsonaro, say he never left his country on the day being alleged. There is evidence showing he made Uber and food purchases in Brazil, and also that he took a domestic flight.  The prolonged imprisonment comes as the STF faces widespread criticism for overstepping its authority to punish opponents. He has not yet been given a trial and remains imprisoned on the grounds that there is a risk he would flee the country, despite the correction. His lawyers say the government is holding him for political reasons. “It has been widely known that de Moraes has been fearing the growth of conservatives,”  Martins’ attorney, Ana Barbara Schaffert, told The Daily Wire. “This extended, unfounded imprisonment indicates that they are trying to torture him into confessing to anything that fits their narrative, because there is nothing legally that can detain him in jail.” A correction was made to the CBP I-94 website last week after Martins’ defense team submitted additional documentation to officials to prove Martins did not travel to the United States on December 30, 2022, on a presidential flight with Bolsonaro before the inauguration of the next president, as is alleged. New I-94 records show that Martins’ last entry to the U.S. was in September 2022, when he accompanied Bolsonaro to the U.N. General Assembly in New York. An incorrect travel history was used by the Brazilian Supreme Court to show that Filipe Martins traveled to the U.S. on December 30, 2022. Martins’ lawyers and an updated document from CBP dispute he ever left the country on that date. In a determination letter to Martins’ lawyers, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated it conducted a review of the situation and “made any corrections to records that our inquiries determined were necessary.” The lawyers say the update should lead to Filipe’s release. “We finally have an official document that can be used as a legal basis that Martins never entered the United States on December 30, 2022,” Schaffert said. “We hope de Moraes takes this into account and releases Filipe immediately.” An updated document from the CBP shows Filipe Martins’ last entry to the U.S. was in September 2022, despite accusations from the STF. Martins’ legal defense filed a petition for his release and is awaiting an official response. De Moraes also used as evidence an outdated Microsoft Word file with a list of passengers for the December 30 presidential flight that had been updated numerous times, as well as a blog post speculating he “evaporated” from Brazil, according to Schaffert.  “It was merely a draft of a supposed list, which would never be used as evidence for an arrest in any normal process,” Schaffert said. Martins was a popular powerhouse in the Bolsonaro administration due to his youth, large social media following, and conservative and pro-American ideology. He was nicknamed the “Jared Kushner” of the Bolsonaro administration while in his previous diplomatic position, which led to a meeting with former President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Martins is also being investigated by the STF for allegedly contributing to a document questioning the 2022 Brazilian presidential election that led to the return of socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to power after serving a jail term for corruption. This investigation was not cited as the official reason for Martins’ jailing, according to his lawyers. Bolsonaro, who was president from January 2019 to December 2022, has been under investigation by the STF for making accusations of voting fraud, and his involvement in orchestrating riots on government buildings in January 2022. He is currently barred from holding or running for office in Brazil until 2030 for casting doubt on its electronic voting system in a meeting with diplomats at the presidential palace, the New York Times reported.  By using the power of his position, de Moraes has been on a mission to crack down on conservatives and free speech in the country. The New York Times accused de Moraes of using “a broad interpretation of the court’s powers” to “investigate and prosecute, as well as to silence on social media, anyone he deems a menace to Brazil’s institutions.” De Moraes also signaled to deputies that he fears conservatives will make gains in the Brazilian Congress in 2026, reported CNN Brazil. Filipe Martins and his wife Anelise Hauagge. (Photo: Instagram) De Moraes’ crusade led to a feud with billionaire Elon Musk after demanding the censorship and suspension of users on X accused of “fake news.” “He demanded that X suspend accounts of people who raised corruption concerns while insisting that X pretend the suspension was for violating our terms of service!” Musk tweeted in April. “We obey the laws of countries even if we disagree with them, but this required violating the laws of Brazil.” De Moraes opened a probe into Musk for “disobedience” and waging a “disinformation campaign” against the court. “The flagrant conduct of obstruction of Brazilian justice, incitement of crime, the public threat of disobedience of court orders and future lack of cooperation from the platform are facts that disrespect the sovereignty of Brazil,” de Moraes said. Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan demanded answers last month after reports emerged suggesting the FBI assisted in cracking down on critics and journalists. “In Brazil, news outlets have recently reported that the FBI, on behalf of the Brazilian government, reached out to two U.S. residents, including a journalist targeted in some of the censorship orders by Brazilian courts,” said Jordan’s letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray. The STF did not respond to a request for comment.

Prepare for some seriously heartwarming content! When these parents met their child’s baby for the first time… their reaction couldn’t have been sweeter. Dad in particular had the most precious response to meeting his grandson ever. Bringing a little one in the world is an emotional experience for the entire family. While the kiddo’s mom and dad are first-time parents, their parents are becoming first-time grandparents! This new granddad just can’t hold it together — in the absolute cutest way. @theweenwrangler Mike and his tears #grandparentsoftiktok #tearsofjoy #viraltiktok #fyp #foryoupage #newbornbaby ♬ original sound – Windycity nation When the nurse brought the baby into the room, you can see Mom so excited to become a grandma. But the baby’s new grandfather is no where to be found! After a couple of seconds, though, the camera panned to Dad, getting choked up about meeting his grandson. He took a deep breath before sitting down to cry in happiness. This image is from TikTok. This video is beyond precious. It’s so special to watch family share their emotions vulnerably — especially when celebrating something as miraculous as a newborn baby! Dad must’ve felt so proud of his child in that moment and beyond excited to be meeting his grandson. It’s obvious that he’s going to be the best grandpa ever! This image is from TikTok. What people are saying Viewers of the clip were brought to tears by this new grandpa’s reaction. “Get it together Mike! You’re making me bawl over here!” said one fan. “His baby had a baby and life is beautiful!” posted another. Yes! What a perfect way to put it. “Based upon his reaction, I don’t need to know anything else about that man. He was definitely the father of the year every year running! Now he’s coming for the grandpa crown,” said another viewer. Couldn’t agree more. Congratulations to this precious family on their new addition! The featured image for this post is from TikTok. The post Dad Meeting His Grandson For The First Time Brings Us All To Tears appeared first on InspireMore.

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Earth is not an isolated system; our planet receives energy and particles from outer space. Some of those particles are what we refer to as cosmic rays, a source of radiation with celestial origin. In general, cosmic rays do not affect us humans. We have evolved under this shower of extraterrestrial particles. However, it does affect our technology, causing errors that can have very serious consequences. Cosmic rays come from the Sun or celestial events such as supernovae and the remnant objects they leave behind like pulsars or black holes. Particles need to be accelerated to tremendous speed to travel across the vast gulfs of space and reach Earth’s surface. Our planet is pretty good at keeping a lot of this radiation out. Earth's magnetic field both traps and deflects it. Sometimes it leads to aurorae, typically at the poles but when there’s a lot, like during last month’s cannibal coronal mass ejection, we can see them at lower latitudes. The effect can be funny, like your [smart] refrigerator telling you that you're missing bananas rather than oranges, or more annoying, like the windows of your domotic house opening when it's raining.Prof Paolo Rech“Our atmosphere protects from those cosmic rays, except that there’s a very light rain of particles here at ground level,” Dr Chris Frost told IFLScience. We visited Dr Frost at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source – based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council – where he took us on a tour of the ChipIr instrument, which investigates how microchips respond to cosmic radiation. We and all other living beings have evolved with the cosmic rays falling on us, but modern technology hasn’t. That’s what they study at this "comic ray factory".Protecting our modern world from cosmic rays                   Cosmic rays can cause radio blackouts and burn out devices like phones or GPS, partially damaging or even temporarily disabling them, but there are also more subtle effects. Cosmic rays hitting a silicon chip can cause different types of errors. A common one is bit flipping, a memory error where a computer bit goes from 0 to 1 or vice versa. Many systems have error correction algorithms to keep an eye on this.  “The effect can be funny, like your refrigerator telling you that you're missing bananas rather than oranges, or more annoying, like the windows of your domotic house opening when it's raining… It depends really on the situation,” Professor Paolo Rech, also at ChipIR, told IFLScience.But there are more serious concerns. The use of AI in systems like self-driving cars cannot afford this kind of error. It could lead to the vehicle misinterpreting signs, or not seeing pedestrians or other vehicles. Testing those systems within a cosmic ray factory becomes a safety-critical requirement.In the ChipIr instrument, a piece of tech is exposed to 1.5 billion neutrons. One hour inside the facility is equivalent to the shower of cosmic rays that a piece of tech would experience over 170,000 years. “We do that because we really make sure that things that are safety critical or commercial critical are very, very reliable,” Dr Frost explained. The largest solar storm ever seen, the Carrington Event, occurred in 1859 and took out telegraph lines the world over. While the cosmic ray background is modest, it does occasionally pick up, like it did last month, especially as we head towards the solar maximum. If a Carrington Event-sized geomagnetic storm hit Earth today, with our dependence on technology, it could affect radio communications, GPS, satellites, the electrical grid and much more. Making sure the technology that is employed in the tools, instruments, appliances, and vehicles we use every day is cosmo-proof is more important than ever.  

NASA has built its first two-way end-to-end relay system to send messages to and from the International Space Station (ISS). It used the 1.2 gigabits per second capacity (that's faster than your home internet) to send the astronauts currently aboard the station photos and videos of cats, dogs, and the occasional parrot.Space communication is slow, and not just because it is limited by the speed of light. Missions such as New Horizon (the first mission to Pluto) are so short on bandwidth it took over a year to transmit a few day’s observations. Future projects have the capacity to carry more instruments with higher resolution, but that’s of little value if we can’t get the information back to Earth.Lasers offer the capacity to greatly increase the speed with which data is transmitted. The Psyche mission to explore the metal-rich asteroid of the same name is equipped with an infrared laser system, known as Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC). Last year it was demonstrated from a distance of 16 million kilometers (10 million miles) away, 40 times the distance of the Moon.A month later, having traveled an extra 3 million kilometers, DSOC got to the important stuff. It had Psyche send a video of a cat, Taters, chasing a laser dot, naturally.This, however, was all one-way. The video was uploaded to Psyche before launch. There’s no current method to rapidly send anything like that much data to such a distant spacecraft.The ISS is a different matter, however. Starting with a set of ground staff's pet images and videos data was transmitted from the mission operations center at Las Cruces, New Mexico, to ground stations from Texas to Hawaii. At these, it was modulated into infrared laser signals and beamed into space.Godspeed the photos of NASA pets, many dressed up in their Sunday best.Image Credit: NASA/Molly KearnsInstead of being sent directly to the ISS, as you might expect, the signals went to satellites in geosynchronous orbits 36,000 kilometers (22,000 miles) up. From there everything was relayed to a receiver temporarily mounted on the outside of the ISS. All those precious bits were returned to Earth, confirming the two-way nature of the system.In an era when we are used to information zipping around the planet at light speed, this may not seem that impressive, but the technical challenges were immense. Infrared lasers can carry more information than radio waves, but over these distances – let alone the ones NASA hopes to use such systems for in the future – delays can cause crucial data to be lost. The demonstration tested out a novel “store-and-forward” process, where data quality can be assessed, and either forwarded immediately or stored for the future as needed.A High-Rate Delay Tolerant Networking (HDTN) system was developed to allow this to occur four times faster than existing capacities. Advances like these will be needed if Artemis Mission astronauts are to be able to use the Internet, rather than transmitting their footage via grainy black-and-white like Apollo.“Not only have they demonstrated how these technologies can play an essential role in enabling NASA’s future science and exploration missions, it also provided a fun opportunity for the teams to “picture” their pets assisting with this innovative demonstration,” NASA’s Kevin Coggins said in a statement. While we applaud NASA for the technology, and the material they chose to send, we can’t help thinking they missed an opportunity. The pets in question belonged to astronauts Randy Bresnik, Christina Koch, and Kjell Lindgren as well as NASA employees who have never been to space. We particularly approve of Astrid the Beagle, given the breed’s association with scientific discovery.Nevertheless, none of these astronauts are currently aboard. Surely, the current crew misses their own pets and would have enjoyed a video from whoever is minding them? Next step, astronauts face timing with their excited dogs (the cats won’t care).

42-year-old Kelly Tyler from London says that as a child, what some ufologists call “possession” happened to her – her previous soul left her body, and the soul of an alien creature entered in its place. Kelly was 8 years old when she became seriously ill with whooping cough. Her condition was very serious, she was losing weight quickly and the doctors had already said that they did not expect her to survive. And when she was already very close to death, that very “possession” or “exchange of souls” occurred, as Kelly herself calls it. After which Kelly turned into “Star Seed”. The term “Star Seed” originated in the 1970s during the New Age movement. According to the theory of current apologists, “star seeds” are the souls of extraterrestrial beings that arrive on Earth and inhabit people to help them move into the Golden Age. Starseeds spread goodness, love and knowledge as opposed to the base “vibrational forces” that control the earthly souls of people and prevent humanity from achieving prosperity. It is believed that most extraterrestrial souls come from the Pleiades and Sirius star systems, but they can also come from the Andromeda, Orion, Arcturus or Lyra systems. Recently, Kelly was invited to the This Morning program on the British television channel ITV. She says she calls herself a “star seed” because she doesn’t really like the name “alien soul.” “There is a fear of aliens, but the Starseed is here to help humanity… Our role is not to make you look beyond humanity, but to help you return to who you truly were, to nature, animals and themselves. Most Star Seeds enter a person’s body at birth, so their soul is already born as a Star Seed, but this was not the case with me.” Kelly says that shortly before the “exchange of souls” happened to her, her grandmother began to often notice how her granddaughter was talking with some creature named Tom, whom no one could see. “I was very sensitive as a child, even when I took a bath I would get blotchy and my lips would pout. I was quite a sick child. And the whole world was too tough for me. I would rather sit in the garden with bugs than interact with people. It was all too much for me. “And Tom was just someone who was here before, and now he’s gone. He looked like a real person, I felt like I could touch him, he seemed really ordinary to me. “So, I formed a friendship with this creature, I was 7 years old at the time. He appeared at the back of our garden. At first it looked like a stream of light, and then it began to show itself more, and we developed a telepathic relationship. I used to write about it and tell stories about it to my parents, and they thought, ‘What an active imagination this child has.'” Kelly says that after the “soul exchange” the soul from her body flew to the star Arcturus, which is the brightest star in the northern hemisphere. And that she later realized that she was a “star seed” when she had an “astral incident” in the deep meditative state. “When I look back at my childhood, it’s like looking at my life in photographs. I have no emotional connection to being there and I have no emotional memories of what I was like before I was eight.” For the doctors, the sudden recovery of a seriously ill girl was a miracle; of course, they did not know that there was now a different entity in this body. Kelly says her personality completely changed after the exchange. “When I went back to school I had to catch up because I was sick for about six months, but now my allergies are gone, I don’t have kidney failure and my intelligence has changed. I wouldn’t say that my parents thought I was stupid, but I went from a not very smart child to a very bright one. “I took the entrance exam to a private school, even though they thought I had no chance of getting in. My social skills have also improved, I’m less shy and less introverted than before. There were significant changes in me, and no one understood why.” Kelly explains that Starseed’s mission on Earth is to “help people understand what it means to be human.” “We want people to have more compassion for other living beings so that they can exist in harmony. It’s about helping people reconnect with themselves and raise the ‘frequency’ of the planet.” Kelly says she can still visit other planets (apparently astrally) and is connected to Earth by a “purple umbilical cord.” However, other entities persistently asked her not to do this, because it would distract her from her mission on Earth. The post Woman claims she ‘swapped souls’ with an alien as a child appeared first on Anomalien.com.