Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life Could Account for Some UFO Sightings: Russian Space Chief

Dmitry Rogozin, the director-general of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, said that some sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), colloquially referred to as UFOs, could be attributable to extraterrestrial intelligent life.

Rogozin said in a Russian televised interview, aired on June 11, that the Russian Academy of Sciences had been investigating and gathering information about UFO sightings. About 99.9 percent of the sightings were determined to be atmospheric or other physical phenomena and were unrelated to any kind of potentially intelligent life, he said.

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Man is blown up yards from mine-filled Odesa beach

A man swimming in the sea off an Odesa beach in Ukraine has been blown up in front of his family by an apparent mine.

Footage shared by Odesa Region Police shows the sudden blast yards from the shore, scattering the 50-year-old’s body parts across the beach as his distressed wife, son and friend watched on.

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Runaway energy prices require a green energy rethink

The chits for years of inflationary green energy policies are coming due to record-high energy prices and unreliable electrical grids.

Average national gasoline prices have soared to a record high of $5 a gallon. The price of natural gas, which heats many homes in America, has roughly tripled over the last year. And electric grid monitors nationwide are warning of blackouts and brownouts this summer. These effects on ordinary residents’ living standards require an immediate national environmental policy rethink, reflecting a new appreciation of cheap, reliable energy.

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San Francisco of course… Lutheran church’s first openly transgender bishop resigns after racism allegations

A transgender Lutheran bishop in California resigned over allegations of racism from the congregation.

San Francisco bishop Megan Rohrer became the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America’s first openly transgender bishop last year. Rohrer faced backlash following a December vote to oust Rev. Nelson Rabell-Gonzalez as pastor over his mostly-Latino congregation following an investigation into verbal harassment allegations, NBC News reported.

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Nuclear Strategy: The War on Expertise

The book Guide To Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of Great Power Competition, edited by Adam Lowther, belongs on the shelves of every policymaker and citizen who wants to be well informed about U.S. nuclear strategy and deterrence; rising nuclear threats from Russia and China; and what the U.S. must do to survive. The book includes chapters from 22 national security experts, many of whom served in senior Defense Department positions, and made significant contributions to deterring a nuclear World War III and ultimate victory in the Cold War.

Lowther himself serves in the Army Management Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, which teaches military officers how to think strategically.

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Taxpayers To Foot Bill for Terrorist’s Sex Change

A transgender inmate who goes by the name Cristina Iglesias has not spent a day outside of federal prison as an adult. Iglesias was locked up in 1994 for sending death threats to federal judges and then pleaded guilty in 2005 to mailing fake anthrax to U.S. allies in the earliest days of the War on Terror. Now, thanks to a judge’s ruling, Iglesias is set to become the first transgender inmate to undergo sex-reassignment surgery—on the taxpayer dime.

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UK ramps up gas and oil exports to EU amid Russia’s war in Ukraine

The UK has drastically increased the volume of natural gas being pumped to the EU amid Russia’s war in Ukraine, powering a record monthly rise in goods exports to the continent despite Brexit.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show EU goods exports rose for the third consecutive month to £16.4bn in April, the highest monthly level in current prices since comparable records began in 1997.

In Canada … Oil prices are rising, but Canada is getting comparatively less for every barrel — here’s why

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Bogus Parliament Hill bomb tip targeted organizers of Sikh demonstration: sources

Evidence suggests these two have internalized the white man’s racism.

The bogus Parliament Hill bomb threat targeted organizers of a Sikh rally planned for Saturday, with four law enforcement sources telling Global News the tip was related to “Sikh extremism.”

Manveer Singh and Parminder Singh, two organizers of an event to commemorate the 1984 massacre of Sikhs in India, were the two suspects detained after police received what they believed to be “credible” information of explosives in vehicles near the parliamentary precinct.

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Proud Boys storm drag queen story hour for kindergarteners at a San Francisco library

A group of men allegedly part of Proud Boys have stormed a Drag Queen story time at a San Francisco library shouting homophobic and transphobic threats.

Several of the men wore shirts emblazoned with assault rifles as they barged into the library around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.

They hurled insults at the act Panda Dulce as he read to kids who were only in preschool and kindergarten during the controversial event.

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Another pregnancy center is set on fire

Last week, someone set fire to a Christian pregnancy center in Eggertsville, New York. Graffiti was sprayed on the building and the motives of the arsonists didn’t require any help from Sherlock Holmes to figure out. Now, not even a week later, another pregnancy center in Gresham, Oregon was set ablaze. The Gresham Pregnancy Resource Center had its fire and smoke detection alarms triggered at approximately 3:00 am on Friday. 

They’re getting nuttier.

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