A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week. 

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A post shared on social media purportedly shows side by side images of George Soros and allegedly a young image of Soros in a Nazi uniform. Verdict: False The image shows Oskar Groening, a bookkeeper at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Fact Check: Soros was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden Saturday in a ceremony held at […]

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A single cave appears to host three very different styles of ancient art, two of them unlike anything else known from the last ice age.

The US Space Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane has been orbiting the Earth for over a year now, 379 days to be exact. What it’s doing there remains a mystery, but there are some clues that shed light on its secret mission. The uncrewed X-37B space plane was launched into orbit by SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket on December 28, 2023. This is the seventh mission of the mysterious US military space plane, which was created by Boeing, reports IFLScience. The plane has been in orbit for 379 days now and it is unknown when it will return. If the X-37B needs a launch vehicle to reach orbit, it lands like a regular plane on a runway, which has already been demonstrated 6 times. The U.S. Space Force first launched the X-37B into orbit in 2010. That first mission for the secretive aircraft lasted 224 days. The longest the X-37B spent in orbit was during its sixth mission, which ended in 2022. It lasted 908 days. Not much information has emerged about the space plane itself over the years to know exactly what it is doing in orbit. It is also unknown how long it will spend in space during its seventh mission. It is likely that the end of this mission will be known when the plane returns to Earth, as it has in the past. Experts believe that the Pentagon is testing reusable space plane technology, but whether this is true is unknown. Most of the X-37B missions have always been shrouded in secrecy, and the seventh mission is no exception. Officially, the Pentagon has repeatedly stated that the X-37B is testing various space technologies, without going into detail. It is known that last year the X-37B space plane demonstrated for the first time the technology of aerobraking, when atmospheric friction is used to lower the orbit with minimal fuel consumption. It is also known that during this maneuver the X-37B utilized some devices in the Earth’s atmosphere, but it is not known which ones. As for the X-37B’s current mission, NASA said the aircraft is carrying out an experiment that should provide more information about how space radiation affects plant seeds and their survival in space. NASA is also testing new protective thermal coatings for spacecraft. What is known about the X-37B space plane itself? It is almost 9 meters long and has a wingspan of 4.5 meters. The plane can fly at an altitude of 240 to 800 km above the Earth. But the Pentagon is hiding information about the altitude of the X-37B during the seventh mission. Although there is nothing surprising, because such information was not disclosed during previous missions. The X-37B space plane can fly above the Earth at a speed of more than 28,000 km / h. Some experts suggest that the seventh mission may end in 2026, but this is only an assumption and there is no confirmation of this. It is worth noting that each new X-37B mission has been longer than the previous one. Therefore, there is a possibility that the seventh mission will last longer than the sixth and, perhaps, the secret US space plane will stay in orbit for even 1,000 days. The post Secret US Space Plane Has Been in Orbit for Over a Year appeared first on Anomalien.com.

It's impossible to turn on the news or log in online without seeing hellish images and videos of the fires consuming Los Angeles. Behind the obvious and immediate human tragedy is also an American one: The parts of the city most impacted represent old California — 1920s-Hollywood-American-dream California. The grand, sunny optimism that built this California is as dead as the builders themselves. But it wasn’t old age that killed the spirit. It was politicians. California has effectively been looted by Democrats. Sure, California’s climate has changed over the century since the grand buildings and mansions of the Palisades were erected, but we all knew that. We knew the risks and had the money to contain and mitigate them, but certain players made conscious decisions to spend it elsewhere, including on the city’s dangerous and growing homeless population and on illegal immigrants. It’s true that Americans have an incredibly short political memory, but the political repercussions really haven’t even begun. State and city politicians are always quick to blame distant forces for their misdeeds and misfortunes, but the real problems are clearly visible. Dry brush that could easily have been cleared provides easy kindling, but Democrats didn’t clear it. Landowners were restricted by Democrats from cutting down dead, dried-out trees that serve as habitats for local critters and food for fires. Millions of dollars were diverted by Democrats from firefighting toward programs for the perennially homeless and for illegal immigrants. Democrats overseeing the fire department stressed “diversity, equity, and inclusion” over skill and qualifications. Rigid restrictions against watering lawns were still enforced by Democrats despite years having passed since the last major drought. Even if — even if — you begin with the assumption that climate change contributed to the blaze, there’s no shortage of reports on the subject, knowledge of fire-prevention methods, and money to have prepared for the danger. Los Angeles has the third-largest budget of any city in the country behind New York City and Chicago. You can say “global warming ate my homework” all day, but that’s not why the city’s water pressure couldn’t keep up and the fire hoses stopped working. The sad reality is a mob of incompetent local politicians and environmental activists plundered the Los Angeles budget and in the process turned the Palisades into a tinderbox. And now no one wants to talk about it. Democratic Mayor Karen Bass was literally on a taxpayer-funded trip to Ghana. She wasn’t taking any questions. She could not have more perfectly encapsulated the looting of Los Angeles if she’d been a character in a Hollywood movie. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was next, passing questions about the incredible inefficiencies of California Democrats on to “local folks.” A local mother chased him down in the street to demand answers for the lack of relief. Joe Biden, who is actually still president, did a press conference in Santa Barbara, during which he happily bragged to reporters about his first great-grandchild — a wonderful accomplishment far removed from the desperate needs of those Americans just 90 miles to his south. Remember when George W. Bush toured the ravages of Hurricane Katrina from the air to avoid diverting on-the-ground resources toward presidential security? He was crucified for his thoughtfulness. Thoughts of resource diversion, or even the fires, do not appear to have crossed Biden’s mind. It’s true that Americans have an incredibly short political memory, but the political repercussions really haven’t even begun. It will take weeks to count the damage and years to rebuild — if that’s even possible. Rebuilding itself may be more politically hazardous than the flames, given the incredible control nature-first environmentalists and their lawyers have over California law. If the burning of Notre Dame taught us anything, it’s that we can rebuild beautiful things — if we will it. The Sunshine State does not will it. Specifically, she doesn’t even allow it. The permitting alone will be a disaster. Basic projects take years and costs needlessly balloon under bureaucratic pressure. Look no farther than the high-speed rail fiasco. The mayor is already done here. If Newsom doesn’t waive these restrictions nearly completely, his own ambitions will suffer dearly. Then there’s insurance. Private companies largely pulled out of insuring homes in fire-prone areas (including those affected) after Democrats restricted rising rates. As a result, some residents dropped insurance altogether while others bought on the state’s market — an insurer that warned in early 2024 that it was financially unstable and would be unable to meet needs should a major disaster strike. “Global warming” and “Donald Trump” have served as useful boogeymen for years now. A sad reality is that society only wakes to the weakness, political lies, and looting when a disaster or enemy is at the gates and we see just how atrophied we’ve become. It’s why disasters like COVID may have been worth the pain. You can’t treat the disease until you know what caused it — or who is poisoning you. When lockdowns lifted, Americans, like a drunk leaving his barstool for the first time in the night to wobble toward the restroom, were suddenly aware of the state we're in. The fires are the moment after, when we lean on the counter staring at our reflection in the bathroom mirror. Do you like what you see? Pride: Amid Palisades fire, Los Angeles' first LGBTQ+ fire chief is proving lesbians get it done Blaze News exclusive: Eaton fire ravages small town north of Pasadena as firefighters save what they can Blaze News exclusive: Blaze Align editor flees LA home as wildfires ravage the city, sheds light on what went wrong Blaze News: City sues California over sanctuary law fueling violent crime spike: 'Clear and present danger' Breitbart: Los Angeles mayor tells desperate residents to visit 'URL' for help Blaze News: Steve Guttenberg helps with hometown evacuations as Los Angeles wildfire rages Sign up for Bedford’s newsletter Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford's newsletter. The fire rises Pillar: How Sharia law saved a child British hospitals condemned to death British decline is in full view. Few stories encapsulate the dystopian death panels ruling the country better than the awful cases of Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans — infant children condemned to die by the government over the strident objection of tortured parents and despite pledges by outside countries to fly them to (and pay for) continued treatment abroad. But then a strange thing just happened: A Muslim child was allowed to leave, flown by the Vatican, to receive continued treatment in Italian hospitals, where she’s already shown small but important improvements. How did this happen? Edward Condon reports: One of the stories that caught my attention over Christmas, and which I would have given a full analytical treatment had I not sworn firm that I wouldn’t work over the holiday, was a new twist in the case of Tafida Raqeeb, a seven-year-old girl who has spent years on life support following a traumatic brain injury when she was four. In 2019, Tafida’s doctors in the U.K. went to court to have her treatment withdrawn, deeming her a hopeless case and asking the court to “let her die,” over the strenuous objections of her parents. Similar petitions have been famously lodged by U.K. doctors in recent years, as was the case for Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans, both of whose parents were ordered by the courts to watch their children die. As was also the case for Charlie and Alfie, the Vatican offered Tafida an airlift to an Italian hospital, where her treatment could continue. But, unlike with Charlie and Alfie, she was allowed to go, with a judge ruling her parents were to be allowed to take their own child to seek life-sustaining medical care elsewhere, and avoiding an effective death sentence in the U.K. She has been there for some three years, in a Vatican-owned hospital in Genoa, and is apparently breathing on her own — something her U.K. doctors insisted could never happen. Anyway, at the time it was all a bit of a mystery to me what made her case different — other than the vagueries of judicial discretion — though the judge did cite the “sanctity of life” in his ruling, a consideration notably absent from the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases. Over Christmas, however, I read that the judge in Tafida’s case apparently weighed a ruling from a U.K. Islamic sharia court in his thinking ...