‘When you talk about UFOs, you’re no longer the elephant in the room’

The woman with the cornflower-blue highlights and crocheted shawl didn’t look as if she might have had an alien implant stuck inside her since 2007.

But then, I suppose that’s exactly what the aliens would want us to believe. And as I will be told more than once during my weekend at Awakening UFO & Conscious Life Expo: to outmanoeuvre the aliens, we need to think like the aliens.

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CBC refers to mutilation of children’s sex organs as “medical interventions” implies Poilievre should endorse this depravity

Poilievre not saying whether he’ll support ban on medical interventions for trans minors

Conservative Party members may have voted clearly in favour of banning medical interventions for transgender youth, but party leader Pierre Poilievre still isn’t saying whether he thinks the policy should become law.

While visiting Nanaimo, B.C. on Tuesday, Poilievre made his first public comments on the proposal since this past weekend’s Conservative Party policy convention.

He was asked specifically whether he supports the ban.


In a normal country the police would be investigating the diddlers at CBC.

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Pirates are stealing ships in California — and cops are doing little to stop it

Literal pirates are stealing boats out of marinas in the Bay Area, reported The Messenger on Monday — taking advantage of slow response times from police.

CBS News Bay Area reports that thieves stole a 40-foot Sea Ray yacht from the Embarcadero Cove Marina. Steven Young, the ship’s owner, says that he spotted his stolen yacht a few days later, with the pirates still on board,” reported Zachary Rogers. “Young tells CBS News that he immediately called the police but was told that without a police report, authorities couldn’t do anything. Police reportedly never showed and it wasn’t until the insurance company called them that the boat was recovered.”

And by that point, the boat had been stripped of all its valuable items and instruments. It was so thoroughly trashed that the insurance company wrote it off as a loss.

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Wildfire smoke makes rural residents kill themselves say usual experts

Air pollution caused by wildfire smoke linked to elevated suicide risk in rural counties: U.S. research

Exposure to wildfire smoke could have a detrimental impact on not only physical health, but also mental health, according to new research from the U.S. which found that air pollution may elevate the risk of suicide among some demographics.

Researchers combined data on wildfire smoke exposure levels, air pollution concentrations and deaths by suicide in the U.S., and found that a 10 per cent increase in airborne particles in rural counties could cause monthly suicide rates to rise by 1.5 per cent.

The phenomenon was strongest among groups already at risk for suicide who also had a high exposure to outdoor air by living in rural regions. No association was observed between air pollution and suicide risk among urban populations.

h/t Mauser

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Oh Crap!

Pigeons cause £15,000 of damage to East London flat after patio door is accidentally left open

This is the horrendous £15,000 worth of damage wreaked by pigeons on an East London flat after tenants accidentally left a patio door ajar.

The messy birds managed to flutter their way into the two-bed house and proceeded to take over every room in the house.

Over the course of the next four weeks, the birds splattered every room with poop, with the worst hit being the living room and kitchen.

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Two million litres of red wine flood the streets of a village

It is enough to make a connoisseur weep – the sight of millions of litres of red wine flooding down the streets of a Portuguese village.

The freak occurrence took place when two huge wine tanks burst at a distillery in Sao Lourenco do Bairro in central Portugal.

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Ruby Franke and 8 passengers: The rise and fall of a parenting influencer

A woman who sprang to fame giving controversial parenting advice has been charged with six counts of child abuse. What happened to Ruby Franke and her family?

On a late August morning in Utah, a 12-year-old boy covered in open wounds knocked at the door of a neighbour’s house asking for food and water.

He had escaped a nearby home moments before, by climbing out a window and running away with duct tape still on his ankles, police say.

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RCMP boosts contract scrutiny following review of dealings with China-linked firm

RCMP boosts contract scrutiny following review of dealings with China-linked firm

OTTAWA – The RCMP says it is updating its procurement practices after an internal review of dealings with a company that has ties to China.

A standing offer with Sinclair Technologies to provide the RCMP with radio-frequency filtering equipment was suspended in December after media coverage focusing on national security implications.

Sinclair’s parent company, Norsat International, has been owned by Chinese telecommunications firm Hytera since 2017, and the Chinese government has a 10 per cent stake in Hytera through an investment fund.

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Was it an air guitar solo or a charade of public urination?

So ran the debate in the Belgian parliament last Thursday over the alleged bad party behaviour of Belgium’s Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne and his friends, the BBC reports.

Part of the ongoing political fallout saga known in Belgian media as ‘Pipigate,’ Quickenborne, of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats party, had to answer to his country’s parliament over the events at his 50th birthday party on August 14th. 

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