The North American Aerospace Defense Command located the object Sunday morning and tracked it visually and with radar until an F-16 fighter fired an AIM9x missile to blow it out of the sky about 20,000 feet over Lake Huron at 2:42 pm, Ryder said. “We did not assess it to be a kinetic military threat to anything on the ground, but assessed it was a safety flight hazard and a threat due to its potential surveillance capabilities,” Ryder said.

Ryder said it was shot down over water “to avoid impact to people on the ground while improving chances for debris recovery. The object looked octagonal in shape and had strings hanging off it but carried no perceptible payload, an anonymous US official told Reuters.

The pilots were also mystified as to what kind of aircraft they were actually dealing with. According to Bertrand, the pilots “were saying that they did not see anything on the object that appeared able to propel it, that it seemed like there was no way that this was actually able to stay in the air”.

One controversial issue revolving around the Zeitenwende, however, is defense spending: Germany is currently on track to miss NATO’s 2 percent defense spending goal this year and likely also in 2024, despite the massive €100 billion special fund. Berlin’s new Defense Minister Boris Pistorius is pushing behind the scenes to increase defense spending by €10 billion to around €60 billion as of next year in order to finance new investments such as ammunition purchases, and to adhere to the 2 percent spending goal, one official said.

The chancellor is expected to highlight the achievements of the first year of his foreign policy shift and claim a new German leadership role as a security provider in Europe.

The German parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces, Eva Högl of the centre-left SPD, on Wednesday urged the government to ask itself whether some form of obligatory civic service was required to address staff shortages in the German army’s ranks. “We definitely need more personnel in the Bundeswehr,” Högl told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper.

The chief of the German navy, Jan Christian Kaack, also recently proposed a return of mandatory military service along the Norwegian model, whereby men and women are called in for an examination upon turning 19, but only a small, motivated percentage of each year group is drafted into the army. “I believe that a nation that needs to become more resilient in times like these will have a higher level of awareness if it is mixed through with soldiers,” said Kaack.

According to British ministers, diplomats and officials, who all spoke on condition of anonymity, the rapprochement is being prepared in order to compensate for the fallout of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, in which London positions itself among the prime backers of the Kiev authorities.

Bloomberg pointed out that the PM risks angering anti-EU lawmakers from his ruling Conservative Party. He also faces an uphill battle to overcome skepticism in Brussels, where leaders resent British politicians who used the bloc as a "punch bag for their domestic audience" since the Brexit vote in 2016, it added. One of the sources assured Bloomberg that the alleged turn towards Europe didn’t mean that Brexit was a mistake but was merely a reflection of the changing geopolitical situation.

Achieving this would require Britain to give up on its "madman strategy" of resisting the EU, in favor of a stable relationship with the bloc as critical friends, he said. By standing together, London and Brussels would be able to withstand economic turbulence and threats posed by Russia and China more effectively, the source explained.

What Can We Learn? The hailstorm of lies surrounding the covid pandemic teach us a number of things – We now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that future crisis events will be used as an excuse for the erasure of our freedoms. We have seen it first hand. The insidious measures we witnessed in western countries in response to people who refused to comply with mandates or vaccination on scientific and moral grounds showed us how precarious our civil stability truly is.

Here is, at least, a partial list:
Earthquakes, Fire, Tsunami, Severe Weather and Flooding, Extreme Heat, Extreme Cold, Landslides, Hurricane, Tornado, Terrorism, Cybercrime, Public health threats, Chemical Emergencies and Air Quality.

On the video, Father Charron says: “I am sure you heard today, as many people have, that Pope Francis again has called for the decriminalizing of homosexual acts among other things on his return flight from his African visit home to the Vatican.”

“And it struck me that a lot of the Pope’s public comments, you know, revolve around this issue of homosexuality as though that were the center piece of his ministry,” said Father Charron. “You don’t hear a whole lot of comments from him calling for the defense of persecuted Christians in places like, oh, I don’t know, China.”

“This is the great shame - that he has abandoned his first love and instead of preaching the Gospel, emboldening the saints and calling sinners to repentance, he’s using his platform to embolden sinners and to shame the saints into silence in conformity with the world.”

Now former clinicians at the service have revealed how 'incredibly complex' children were handed the life-altering drugs after just one assessment - despite having a multitude of mental health or background issues. GIDS was formerly the sole provider of gender dysphoria and gender identity services for children and young people across the whole of the UK.

The controversial clinic treated at least 9,000 children for gender dysphoria from when it opened in 1989, but a review led by senior paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass warned that 'it has become increasingly clear that a single specialist provider model is not a safe or viable long-term option'. It came amid reports the service had become overwhelmed with a waiting list of up to two years. It came despite concerns there was 'scarce and inconclusive evidence to support clinical decision making'.

The confirmed closure of the service for young people at Tavistock later his year has been hailed as a victory by campaigners. The NHS has confirmed that the clinic will be replaced by local hubs at existing children's hospitals, which will provide more holistic care with 'strong links to mental health services'.

1. Disney has decided to tell approximately 7,000 employees to hit the bricks


2. Yahoo has announced that it will be laying off “more than 20% of its workforce”


3. Ebay was doing quite well, but now they have decided that 4 percent of their workers are no longer needed


4. Affirm announced it’s cutting 19% of its workforce


5. As the US housing crash deepens, JPMorgan Chase has concluded that now is the time to “cut hundreds of mortgage employees”


6. GoDaddy just let their workers know that they plan to “reduce the size of our global team by about 8%”


7. Micron is one of the biggest private employers in Idaho, but now it intends to “reduce its global headcount by about 10% over the next year”


8. GitHub has become yet another victim of the downsizing trend in the tech industry


9. Nomad Health just laid off approximately 20 percent of their entire corporate workforce


10. Zoom is giving the axe to approximately 1,300 workers


11. Boeing was supposedly going to be hiring more workers, but instead the company just announced that thousands of positions in finance and human resources will be eliminated - “We expect about 2,000 reductions this year”


12. Do you remember when Dell computers were still popular? Unfortunately, the tide has turned and now Dell has been forced to get rid of 6,650 workers

I could go on and on if you would like. There are countless other firms that have also just announced significant layoffs. We truly have not faced economic conditions like this since the Great Recession… Unfortunately, we are still only in the very early chapters of this new crisis. As I have been warning for years, things will eventually get much worse.

Our leaders have been making incredibly bad decisions for decades, and now we are going to get to suffer the consequences of those bad decisions. This generation was handed the keys to the greatest economic machine that the world has ever seen, but we wrecked it. Now the chickens are coming home to roost, and most Americans are completely unprepared for what is coming next.

For almost four years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases with teens and young adults who were HIV positive. Many of them were trans or otherwise gender nonconforming, and I could relate: Through childhood and adolescence, I did a lot of gender questioning myself. I’m now married to a transman, and together we are raising my two biological children from a previous marriage and three foster children we hope to adopt.

I left the clinic in November of last year because I could no longer participate in what was happening there. By the time I departed, I was certain that the way the American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the promise we make to “do no harm.” Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.

All that led me to a job in 2018 as a case manager at The Washington University Transgender Center at St Louis Children's Hospital, which had been established a year earlier. Today I am speaking out. I am doing so knowing how toxic the public conversation is around this highly contentious issue — and the ways that my testimony might be misused. I am doing so knowing that I am putting myself at serious personal and professional risk.

Almost everyone in my life advised me to keep my head down. But I cannot in good conscience do so. Because what is happening to scores of children is far more important than my comfort. And what is happening to them is morally and medically appalling.

Climate change cultists have their version of the Garden of Eden as the planet before humans invaded it and turned it into something dirty. They also have their “original sin,” in their case the Industrial Revolution. Their “end times” event is climate catastrophe. Yes, it is a religion and the cultists are as fervent as the most extreme members of any other faith-based group.

“Nobody cares about data anymore; we saw that with COVID as well. Wear a cloth mask, said Fauci even as he privately admitted that cloth masks are useless to prevent the transmission of COVID,” Carlson said. “Take the COVID shot, Kathy Hochul told us, standing at a pulpit, because, and were quoting, ‘That’s what god wants.’ So once again, whatever this is, it is not science by definition, it’s religion. But despite the fact the Constitution prohibits the US government from having a state religion, that now is our state religion.”The climate change cult has more cheerleaders in media than even the Democrat Party.

“We worship God as a trinity, Father Son and Holy Spirit. That’s how he’s revealed himself… To say, ‘we don’t really worship Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, but we worship Mother, sister and Holy Spirit’, well I’m sorry that’s now a different God. That’s something else. You’re now creating a different religion. You’re making God how you want him to be, not how God has revealed himself...

“I think this shows just how far from even attempting, pretending to be Orthodox, when you’re messing with the Trinity and messing with how we address God and how Christians have always traditionally addressed God as Father.”

The move is a landmark moment, confirming the CofE’s departure from its own Biblical teaching on human sexuality which states that marriage is “in its nature a union permanent and lifelong, for better for worse, till death them do part, of one man with one woman.”

Andrea Williams, member of general synod for ten years and chief executive of Christian Concern, said: “The comments from the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, on the BBC embody the compromised position of the Church of England on human sexuality. The church and Christians are called to be distinct from the world around them and yet the Archbishop has shown he is ashamed of the clear teachings of Jesus Christ.”