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[ad_1] Date of sighting: July 4, 2026Location of sighting: Syracuse, Utah, USANow ring UFOs have been recorded throughout thousands of years of recorded history. For instance on July 31, 593 BC, a wheel like ring UFO was seen in the sky, recorded in the Bible called Ezekiel’s Wheel. But more recently the Condon Report (p.168) devoted 11 pages to this case. One morning in September, 1957 an Arm private at Fort Belvoir, Va. was called from his barracks by his buddies to witness what appeared to be a black, ring-shaped UFO approaching. The private grabbed his Brownie camera and snapped 6…

[ad_1] Our Prideful Idiocracy This country wasn’t exactly classy in 2015, when Donald Trump came down the escalator to announce his candidacy for president. Casual Fridays had already taken the culture by storm. People of Walmart was already a website. I think twerking was already popular, and Kim Kardashian’s huge ass was in the middle of everything. They stopped teaching Civics in high school before I entered high school. So you know that was a long time ago. Civics taught students the rights and obligations of citizens in a society. Now, it wasn’t needed as much back in the 1940s…

[ad_1] As Joe Rogan told it, President Donald Trump jumped at the chance to facilitate regulatory approval of ibogaine and other psychedelics that have shown promise as psychotherapeutic catalysts. After the hugely popular, politically eclectic podcaster texted the president information about ibogaine, Rogan recalled, Trump replied: “Sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let’s do it.” Rogan, who endorsed Trump in the 2024 election, told that story on April 18 as Trump signed an executive order instructing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to accelerate the review process for “appropriate psychedelic drugs,” including ibogaine, and provide “at least $50 million from existing funds”…

[ad_1] When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The…

[ad_1] It makes sense that I would meet Gaku Tsutaja at a protest against the War on Iran in front of Hiroshima’s Atomic Bomb Dome, the preserved relic of total obliteration. It was June 2025 and the world was witnessing Israel’s surprise attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities in the Twelve-Day War. Tsutaja was in town for […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. Rebecca…

[ad_1] Alan Greenspan was the first celebrity Federal Reserve chair. Everyone knows “Tall” Paul Volcker for the macroeconomic (and literal) giant he was, but Greenspan was the first true celebrity chair. He served in various roles under six presidents, Bob Woodward wrote a book about him in 2000, He was hailed as a “rock star,” and everyone knew him as “the maestro.” Just before the financial crisis he helped to bring about, 6 in 10 Americans expressed confidence in Greenspan’s leadership of the economy, more than both George Bush and John Kerry. That would change sharply when, by 2009, he…

[ad_1] Culture The 84 Club  RIP George Rowlett. For two superstitious reasons, I believe that I shall die at the age of 84. The first is that 84 is the mean age of my parents at death. Such a mean is only a rough guide to one’s longevity, of course; if it were more exact, the life expectancy of populations could not change, but history demonstrates that it does change. Moreover, if it were anything other than a rough guide, siblings would all die at the same age, which experience again shows is false. Habitués of cemeteries, however, will have…

[ad_1] Amid record-high public hostility toward Israel and the wars taxpayers are financing on its behalf, the Israel lobby has mobilized to pass a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2027 which includes language designed to sustain the yearslong wealth transfer from Americans to Israelis and cement that relationship in ways that would be less transparent and more difficult to challenge through democratic processes.  At the same time, a coalition led by outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has launched a counteroffensive to block a separate track of funding for Israel’s wars, targeting the transfer of $3.3 billion to Israel embedded…

[ad_1] The decision is expected to significantly reduce Bayer’s exposure to thousands of pending lawsuits tied to Roundup, the glyphosate-based herbicide originally developed by Monsanto, acquired by Bayer in 2018. The case arrived after litigation that included multibillion-dollar verdicts against the global agrochemical manufacturer. The U.S. Supreme Court today handed Bayer a major legal victory, ruling that federal pesticide law bars state-law cases from claiming the company failed to warn consumers that its Roundup weedkiller could cause cancer. The 7-2 decision is expected to significantly reduce Bayer’s exposure to thousands of pending lawsuits tied to Roundup, the glyphosate-based herbicide originally developed by Monsanto, which Bayer acquired in…