Making your own plant pots is both inexpensive and environmentally sustainable.
Materials:
After the seedlings sprout, transfer the biodegradable seed-starter to your garden and let nature take care of the rest!
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Remember this from 2011?
That was Denver The Guilty Dog. This video now has over 55 million views!
Denver passed away in 2018 at the age of 14. Yet his video – and memory – lives on YouTube forever.
Such a good boi!
DCG
Something strange is happening concerning UFOs (unidentified flying object).
Niall McCarthy reports for Statista, May 20, 2021, that according to the National UFO Reporting Center in the United States, which documents sightings of UFOs all over the world, sightings have become more numerous.
While there was a dip in reported sightings in 2018, there were more than 6,000 in 2019 and over 7,000 in 2020. So far in 2021, there have been close to a thousand up to the middle of May. While such numbers might have previously been ignored, encounters with UFOs involving radar tracking and advanced sensor imagery from experienced and trustworthy pilots are lending them more credibility.
Footage captured by the U.S. Navy in 2019 of an UFO is an example.
Mindy Weisberger reports for Live Science that on May 14, 2021, Jeremy Corbell, a filmmaker who produces documentaries about UFOs, posted the footage on his website, Instagram and YouTube, of a spherical object hovering in midair, moving side to side, then diving into the ocean.
In the clip, which appears to have been shot off a monitor and has several edits, a dark, round blob sits above the horizon. Male voices are audible in the footage; one says “took off, bookin’ it,” as the object moves horizontally in the screen’s crosshairs. When the UFO appears to dive into the water, one of the off-screen voices says, “Whoa, it splashed!” as the UFO disappears.
According to Corbell, “the US Navy photographed and filmed ‘spherical’ shaped UFOs and advanced transmedium vehicles” — craft that can travel through air and water.
The footage of the spherical UFO was filmed on July 15, 2019, at approximately 11 p.m. PDT, from within the USS Omaha’s Combat Information Center, near the coast of San Diego, CA. Radar images of the UFO show a solid ball, measuring about 6 feet (2 meters) in diameter, flying at speeds of 46 to 158 mph (74 to 254 km/h) for over an hour, culminating with the sphere vanishing beneath the waves. No wreckage was found at the location where the object went down.
Corbell wrote: “A submarine was used in the search and recovered nothing. We do not know what, if anything, the Navy or Pentagon might be willing to say about the USS Omaha incident, but we are confident the incident is a legitimate mystery and look forward to whatever information might be forthcoming.”
The Debrief reported on May 14 that Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough confirmed that U.S. Navy personnel did capture the footage that Corbell posted, but would not disclose where and when it was filmed. She said the footage was included in “ongoing examinations” by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), a U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence program that investigates reports of unexplained aerial vehicles.
Corbell wrote that the footage is not classified, and stills of the spherical UFO were previously included in a UAPTF intelligence briefing from May 1.
The release of U.S. Navy footage of the spherical UFO is just the beginning of what appears to be the long-awaited “disclosure” of UFOs by the U.S. government.
On The Black Vault website, John Greenwald Jr. has archived more than 2,700 pages of the CIA’s once-secret UFO records since the 1980s, now declassified and obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Sometime this month U.S. intelligence services are set to deliver a groundbreaking report on “unidentified aerial phenomena” to Congress, at a time when close encounters between UFOs and U.S. Navy fighter jets are sending chills through America. Compiled by the secretary of defense and the director of national intelligence, the report is set to declassify Pentagon knowledge about unexplained aerial objects.
Nick Pope, a former UFO investigator for the UK’s Ministry of Defense, told The Sun Online the world may never know why the Pentagon has done a U-turn after decades of denial on unidentified phenomena.
The Sun reports:
US intelligence services officially closed the book on the controversial issue in 1969 at the conclusion Project Blue Book – which stated there was nothing to see regarding UFOs.
However, in the last three years there has been an abrupt turnaround as the Pentagon took the unprecedented steps of releasing three stunning UFO videos filmed by the US Navy.
And it also confirmed the existence of its secretive UFO investigation unit, before the Senate then commissioned a report on the issue from US intelligence which is due for release [in June]….
British defence officials continue to deny everything about any existence of investigations into the UFO issue or that they are sitting on any unreleased files.
So why are the Americans suddenly opening up this highly controversial and historically stigmatising topic?
Pope told The Sun Online he believes hidden forces are at work behind closed doors: “That is the $64,000 question – for years the US government had been like the UK is now on this issue, very defensive with a policy usually of denial, debunking and commenting as little as possible. And now in the last three and a half years, that policy has been flipped 180 degrees…. Something is playing out right now, powerful forces are at work behind the scenes, pulling the strings on this.”
Prominent Democrat politicians like former President Barack Obama, former Nevada Senator Harry Reid, have publicly spoken on UFOs, and director of Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign John Podesta is a believer:
Harry Reid’s mysterious “sports” injuries
The Telegraph (UK) reports that senior White House officials have been briefed on the findings of the Pentagon UFO report that is due to be released to Congress later this month. According to these officials, the report will say that:
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This is incredible. Yet not surprising.
“Momma Bears” of all species will do anything to protect their babies.
Watch as a woman in California pushes a brown bear (who has cubs with her) off her fence to save her pups:
More details about this incident from Fox News:
“In the video, a bear can be seen climbing over a fence into the house’s garden. Several cubs also appear to be with the larger animal, suggesting that it’s a mother bear. Multiple dogs appear and start barking at the bear. One of the larger dogs runs up to the bear and is struck in the face several times by the larger animal.
According to a comment by Brenda, the dog was fine although it did suffer from some scratches.
Then, Hailey comes running into the frame and pushes the bear off the fence. While the bear quickly climbed back onto the fence, this gave Hailey enough time to gather the dogs and get them out of the area.
In a later video, Hailey explains that she lives in the mountains and since it is summer, bears aren’t an uncommon sight. According to Hailey, she suffered a sprained finger from the encounter.”
Great job Hailey!
DCG
The word “sheeple” is a combination of the words “sheep” and “people” — a derogatory term that likens people to sheep, a herd animal that is easily led about. Like sheep, such people are docile, compliant, unthinking, and easily influenced and controlled by a governing power, the media, or market fads.
But there’s a remarkable sheep who simply refuses to be a sheeple.
On April 21, 2021, in Roermond, Netherlands, this sheep stood up to a sheep dog and refused to be herded.
H/t PawMyGosh
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One place I’ve always wanted to visit is the Grand Canyon. I’ve only seen the Grand Canyon from an airplane and it is so stunning from that view! I can’t imagine what it is like to be on the ground and witness the true beauty of it all.
Located in Arizona, the Canyon was carved by the Colorado River and is 277 miles long and the carvings began millions of years ago. Here’s some fun facts about the Grand Canyon, from The National Park Foundation:
Supai Village
Here’s a bit of history about the Canyon and how it came to be a national park:
Here’s a video that explains the formation of the Canyon:
Have you ever visited the Grand Canyon? And if you have been, did you walk the Skywalk Bridge (see below)?
DCG
Darwinian evolutionists maintain that human beings (homo sapiens) evolved from simians millions of years ago. It is said that humans diverged from apes — specifically, the chimpanzee lineage — at some point between about 9.3 million and 6.5 million years ago, towards the end of the Miocene epoch.
The persistent problem is scientists, specifically archeologists, have not discovered fossils of the “missing link” — a hypothetical extinct ape-man or man-ape creature halfway in the evolutionary line between modern human beings and their anthropoid progenitors. That creature is believed to be the last common ancestor of humans and chimps.
Since Darwin, archeologists have discovered many ape fossils. But American Museum of Natural History writes in SciTechDaily, May 9, 2021, that “In the 150 years since Charles Darwin speculated that humans originated in Africa, the number of species in the human family tree has exploded.” Despite the “explosion” of ape fossils, “most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils,” resulting in an increase in “the level of dispute concerning early human evolution.”
Sergio Almécija, a senior research scientist in the American Museum of Natural History’s Division of Anthropology, the lead author of “Fossil apes and human evolution,” a new review out on May 7, 2021 in the journal Science, said: “When you look at the narrative for hominin origins, it’s just a big mess — there’s no consensus whatsoever. People are working under completely different paradigms, and that’s something that I don’t see happening in other fields of science.”
Almécija said: “In The Descent of Man in 1871, Darwin speculated that humans originated in Africa from an ancestor different from any living species. However, he remained cautious given the scarcity of fossils at the time. One hundred fifty years later, possible hominins — approaching the time of the human-chimpanzee divergence — have been found in eastern and central Africa, and some claim even in Europe. In addition, more than 50 fossil ape genera are now documented across Africa and Eurasia. However, many of these fossils show mosaic combinations of features that do not match expectations for ancient representatives of the modern ape and human lineages. As a consequence, there is no scientific consensus on the evolutionary role played by these fossil apes.”
Almécija explains that there are two major approaches to resolving the human origins problem: A “top-down” approach that relies on analysis of living apes, especially chimpanzees, and a “bottom-up” approach that puts importance on the larger tree of mostly extinct apes. For example, some scientists assume that hominins originated from a chimp-like knuckle-walking ancestor. Others argue that the human lineage originated from an ancestor more closely resembling, in some features, some of the strange Miocene apes.
In reviewing the studies surrounding these diverging approaches, Almécija et al. discuss the limitations of relying exclusively on one of these opposing approaches to the hominin origins problem. “Top-down” studies sometimes ignore the reality that living apes (humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and hylobatids) are just the survivors of a much larger, and now mostly extinct, group. On the other hand, studies based on the “bottom-up”approach are prone to giving individual fossil apes an important evolutionary role that fits a preexisting narrative.
Overall, the researchers found that most stories of human origins are not compatible with the fossils that we have today.
Despite that, hope springs eternal among evolutionists that the ever elusive “missing link” will be found. Almécija et al. insist that “fossil apes remain essential to reconstruct the ‘starting point’ from which humans and chimpanzees evolved.”
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