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Kanye West was kicked off Twitter for posting symbol of UFO-worship cult
Kanye West was kicked off Twitter on December 2 for posting a swastika inside a Star of David — but it turns out the image is actually the insignia for a UFO-worshiping cult and not necessarily the anti-Semitic symbol that it was widely read to be.
The group is the offbeat Raël Movement, which claims to have 50,000 members in 85 countries and is often described as a cult.
Raëlians, as they call themselves, maintain that “all life was created by the Elohim, who were extraterrestrials visiting earth from another planet,” Glen Carter, president of the British Raelian group, told Vice.
Members of the sect maintain that their symbol — offensive for obvious reasons — means no disrespect to Jewish people. As a Raëlian named Houari told Newsweek in 2020, “Don’t worry, it has nothing to do with Jews and Nazis.”
What it does have to do with, Houari insisted, is infinity — represented by the star both pointing upward and downward — and time. The swastika, which did not have negative connotations before being adopted by Adolf Hitler for the Nazi Party in 1920, is said to represent the never-ending cycle of time.
Spokespeople for the Raël Movement insist that the group’s symbol is what their founder, the French auto-racing journalist Claude Vorhilon, saw on the front of a spaceship during his first UFO encounter in 1973. He founded the movement a year later.
Among Raël’s beliefs: Cutting-edge technologies that will save the human race can only be created with enhanced intelligence that exists right after sexual activity. So members are extremely pro-intercourse, and do it as often as possible, for the sake of humanity. Playboy even ran a story in 2004 that featured titillating photos of Raël’s so-called Pink Angels — “chosen ones” who are expected to reserve their sexual energy for the extraterrestrials.
The group’s appreciation of the swastika was made clear in 2014, when, as reported in The Post, Raëlians spent $2,000 to have a plane flying a banner calling for people to reconsider the hateful symbol. It was part of the group’s International Swastika Rehabilitation Week. Thomas Kaenzig, a Raëlian spokesperson, told The Post, “It’s very important to reclaim [the swastika] and explain to the public that this symbol has a beautiful origin.”
In 2000, Raël expressed ambitions to clone a human, a distraught couple’s 10-month-old girl who died from a “medical accident.” The group claimed to have been paid $500,000 to pull off the human duplication in a Third World laboratory. Raëlian teachings maintain that the human race came about through the cloning of alien beings and that cloning is key to eternal life.
The outcome of this effort, or if it was even attempted, is unclear.
The movement’s current goals include establishing what members call an “embassy” on Earth, preferably in Jerusalem. The embassy is necessary so that, as the belief system maintains, when scientists from the planet Elohim return here, they will have a place to live.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/05/kanye-west-kicked-off-twitter-over-symbol-of-ufo-cult-rael/
Building lasting partnerships with ally Australia
CAMPBELL, Australia – Director of Staff Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno recently traveled to Australia to meet with members of the Australia Space Operations to further discuss the unity of our forces with the common goal to expand defenses in the space domain.
During their trip, the Space Force delegation was invited to attend the Last Post Ceremony of Australian Corporal Clarence Rupert Roberts at the Australian War Memorial. Both Armagno and U.S. Space Force Lt. Gen John Shaw, U.S. Space Command deputy commander, participated in the ceremony themselves by laying wreaths besides the Pool of Reflection, a custom done in every ceremony.
“It was a humbling experience and an important honor to be allowed to lay a wreath during the ceremony,” Armagno said. “I hope this shows the strength of the bond between our two countries.”
While in Australia, Armagno was invited to speak at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute Space Masterclass and National Security Space Dinner at the Sydney Opera House. She would speak in front of representatives from Australia, Japan, the United States and United Kingdom about defense perspectives on the importance of space.
“It’s important for societies to understand the relevance of space,” Armagno said. “It’s not space for the sake of space, it really is for likeminded countries to ensure that space is free for spacefaring nations. We all share those values.”
One of the keys to a successful partnership between the U.S. and Australia is the Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) Program. The telescope achieved “first light”, when images can first be seen, after it was moved from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico to Harold E. Holt Naval Communications Station in Western Australia.
Our partnership continues to build on long history of close defense and space cooperation and has been a cornerstone of our continued alliance between the U.S. and Australia.
https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article/3236074/building-lasting-partnerships-with-ally-australia/
Senators urge investigation into alleged trafficking of underage border crossers
Following whistleblower testimony, three Republican U.S. Senators sent a letter to the chairman of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee calling on him to investigate claims that migrant children are being put in the hands of human traffickers.
Last week, the investigative journalism outlet Project Veritas spoke with Tara Lee Rodas of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity & Efficiency (CIGIE), an agency set up to address integrity, economic, and effectiveness issues within the federal government.
In 2021, Rodas volunteered to assist the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with the processing of unaccompanied minors caught trying to enter the U.S. and was deployed to an emergency intake center in Pomona, California.
“We’re looking at taxpayer-funded child trafficking,” Rodas told The National Desk (TND) in a separate, sit-down interview. “If I hadn’t seen it myself, I couldn’t believe it.”
Rodas told TND sex trafficking, labor trafficking and even organ harvesting are all points of concern for migrant children put in the custody of criminal actors.
Rodas said she can’t independently verify whether organ trafficking was indeed taking place through the U.S.’s sponsorship program for unaccompanied minors, but she concluded “we don’t know what’s happening to these children.”
U.S. Senators Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., Rick Scott, R-Fla. and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., penned a letter sent to Rep. Gary Peters, D-Mich., on Monday, calling on him to conduct a hearing looking into the allegations put forth by Rodas.
“The most reprehensible claim by Ms. Rodas occurred when she raised concerns to command center executives about placing another unaccompanied child in a questionable home,” the senators noted in their letter to the Homeland Security Committee chairman. “According to Ms. Rodas, someone told her, ‘I think you need to understand we only get sued if we keep kids in care too long. We don’t get sued by traffickers.’”
The senators said that after Ms. Rodas’s whistleblowing, the Senate Homeland Security Committee cannot let the Biden administration continue to “dodge scrutiny over its inhumane border crisis.”
According to Rodas, “all of the evidence exists” for HHS to look into these suspicious sponsors.
“HHS has all of the evidence of where all of the sponsors are, what they’re addresses are,” Rodas told TND.
Rodas added that data can help indicate where this trafficking might be taking place.
“[W]e sent many children to Houston, Texas – I believe it was more than 600 children to Houston alone – and we had a very high-level suspected trafficking case, where we sent many children to Gulf Freeway,” Rodas said. “And that’s where they went and looked, and we know for sure based on the data in the UAC portal, which is their database, that there are over 300 children in a few square miles and that’s where the one child said, ‘I’m getting pimped out by my aunt.’”
“When we have the child safely in our care, it is our responsibility to whom we give this child,” Rodas insisted.
https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/senators-urge-investigation-into-alleged-trafficking-of-underage-border-crossers-project-veritas-tara-lee-rodas
https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1600198574590947328?
The moon as it looked 50 years ago: Newly-remastered images from humanity's last lunar landing in December 1972 reveal the incredible view of Apollo 17 astronauts
-Newly-remastered images have been released to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 17 moon landing
-They capture in amazing detail what astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt saw during their mission
-Remastered by Cheshire-based bestselling author Andy Saunders, who went through over 35,000 photos
-Coincides with a new era in space exploration that has seen NASA's Artemis I mission fly to moon and back
It has been 50 years since man last set foot on the moon and to mark the occasion a series of newly-remastered images have been released.
They capture in amazing detail what Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt saw during their mission on December 7, 1972.
It coincides with a new era in space exploration that has seen NASA blast its Artemis I mission around the moon and back again, with the Orion spacecraft currently returning to Earth following a so far successful journey.
The photographs include the discovery by Cernan and Schmitt that the moon is not just grey, but also orangey in parts.
They were remastered by Cheshire-based bestselling author Andy Saunders, who gave up his day job as a property developer to go through over 35,000 photographs taken of the Apollo missions.
The project took him 10,000 hours, 400 of these photographs are feature in his book, Apollo Remastered.
'I've been obsession with the Apollo missions since childhood,' Saunders said.
'I always craved more and more information about the people who made the journey, the rockets, the spacecraft and I wanted to see more, to imagine what it would be like to make the journey myself.
'When looking at old photographs of the Apollo missions, I used to become frustrated; the quality of images we usually see is very low resolution, because for half-a-century, every image we've seen in the media has been based on duplicate film (or copies of copies of the duplicates) and low-quality scans.
'There are no photographs in existence that are more deserving of this level of care and attention.'
During the Apollo 17 mission, which blasted off 50 years today, Cernan and Schmitt spent 22 hours on the moon's surface in the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead.
The team carried out a series of experiments including seismic profiling, atmospheric composition analysis and lunar sampling, and brought a few souvenirs home with them including a rock now showcased in the Oval Office.
Saunders added: 'Only recently, the "holy grail" of Apollo photography - the original flight film (rather than duplicate film), finally made it out of its frozen vault in Houston and has been digitally scanned at an incredibly high resolution.
'As I've developed techniques to remaster the film, I decided to put my life on hold, and take on this project.
'I've assessed every image on film from the entire Apollo programme. That's 35,000 photographs and every frame of the 10 hours of "movie" footage that the astronauts captured on small format movie cameras.'
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He said remastering the photographs and film had taken around 10,000 hours.
'Only then could I begin to research what we can see in the images by studying the transcripts and tapes of air-to-ground communications during the missions e.g. who took them or what the astronauts were saying at the time,' Saunders said.
'I then chose 400 of these remastered and restored images for my book Apollo Remastered.
'It may be surprising to learn that the moon is not entirely grey. It has colour; ranging from greeny-blues through to a tan colour.
'But on Apollo 17, they found and photographed something completely unexpected.
'Orange; I mean full-on orange soil! This was later discovered to be tiny spheres of volcanic glass, created as lava erupted from the moon's interior, 3.64 billion years ago.'
He added: 'I guess to see humankind's greatest endeavour in a whole new light, 50 years later, in photographs that look like they were taken yesterday just brings this history to life.
'Space is huge right now and people have an interest in the history of spaceflight and of course the ultimate achievement - that time we sent a select few representatives on those amazing journeys from the Earth to the moon.'
NASA's Orion spacecraft arrived at the moon on November 21 after travelling some 230,000 miles in five days.
It flew farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever done - around 40,000 miles beyond the far side of the moon.
The capsule will stay in space the longest without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than any other craft before it on December 11.
It will have to withstand temperatures of 5,000F as it travels at speeds of 24,500 mph before splashing down.
If the mission is successful, the uncrewed Artemis I will be followed by a human trip around the moon in 2024 and could lead to the first woman and first person of colour following in Neil Armstrong's footsteps the year after.
The plan is to return human boots to the moon on Artemis III in 2025 and ultimately build a permanent lunar outpost to explore deeper into the cosmos so people can travel to Mars.
It would be the first time people have stepped on the moon since 1972.
Apollo Remastered is published by Penguin in the UK.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11508029/The-moon-looked-50-years-ago-newly-remastered-images.html?
https://http//www.penguin.co.uk/books/443162/apollo-remastered-by-saunders-andy/9780241508695
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