So ends another week of silliness and depressing news….hopefully this news dump will help you get through the weekend.
Local–Tall ships made it to NOLA on their way to the 250th celebration….
https://www.sail250neworleans.com/
We are suffering through the Jeepin’ The Coast….do I really need to explain it? You know what JEEP stands for? Junk Each and Every Part….then there are those damn ducks.
Monday starts the hurricane season so most of us down here will be keeping an eye on the tropics and hoping for the best.
Personal–Last week was filled with doctors and tests so this news dump will be a bit thin once again….
Let us see what is what (I always loved that saying)….
Disturbing news….hunger is on the rise….
Americans may be back at work, but more of them are skipping meals than when COVID-19 shut the country down. A new Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey finds that food insecurity this year is higher than at any point since 2020—despite a solid overall economy. “We find a remarkable increase in food insecurity, particularly among lower-educated and lower-income households and households with young children,” the Fed researchers wrote. In February, 10% of households reported missing meals because they couldn’t afford food, compared with 4% in the summer of 2020, reports NPR. Nearly 16% relied on food donations. For families earning under $50,000, the picture is starker: close to 1 in 5 reported going without meals.
Food banks say they’re seeing that strain up close. In Augusta, Ga., Golden Harvest Food Bank CEO Amy Breitmann says, “We have some distributions where people are sitting in a 2-to-3-mile line the night before a distribution starts. They’re sleeping in their cars.” In Alabama, a regional food bank is expanding to keep up with demand. Economists point to a “K-shaped” recovery, where the gap between the haves and the have-nots widens. Reliance on SNAP has grown as well: about 18% of families reported using benefits this year, up from roughly 11% in 2020, even as eligibility rules have tightened. “The greater financial strain due to the high cost of living, combined with the expiration of pandemic-era aid (such as expanded SNAP benefits), have led to renewed concerns about food insecurity among those at the bottom of the K-shape,” the Fed researchers wrote, per CNN.
That is not the image that Donny wants to portray.
Since Donny has released those ‘telling’ reports on UFOs there have been all sorts of breaking news on that front….
Dr. Hal Puthoff has claimed people who have recovered crashed UFOs encountered “at least four separate types of life.”
“There are at least four types. Four separate types,” Dr. Puthoff, a physicist and electrical engineer who worked on the intelligence community’s psychic spy and UFO research programs back in the 1970s and 1980s, said on Steve Bartlett’s The Diary of a CEO podcast.
He continued, “Now, I have not had direct access to that, but I believe the people I talked to. Four different types of life, at least.”
Dr. Puthoff is not the only notable figure who has claimed this, as physicist Dr. Eric Davis previously testified in Congress that “Grays, Nordics, Insectoids, and Reptilians” are the four species. Dr. Davis has worked on top-secret Pentagon projects in the past.
https://radaronline.com/p/cia-scientist-us-government-four-species-of-aliens-trump-ufo-files/
You want to see ‘aliens’ then go to a MAGA rally some time….you will not be disappointed.
If you have ever ventured into the paranormal then you will know of the third eye….well there is news on that front….
Scientists studying the mysterious ‘third eye’ buried in the middle of the human head say it plays a key role after millions of years of evolution and know how it formed.
Researchers from the UK and Sweden called this ancient organ the composite ancestral median eye, and they now believe the species humans evolved from relied on this after losing their two side orbs roughly 500 million years ago.
According to their study, these ancient non-vertebrate species, meaning creatures without a backbone, burrowed underground and lost the use of their normal eyes, leaving them to depend on this central organ for sensing light.
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15846711/scientists-discover-human-eye.html
The news about this Summer is not good….
Summer hasn’t even started in the Northern Hemisphere, and thermometers around the globe are already fit to burst.
In India, at least 16 people have died during a pre-monsoon season heatwave as temperatures reach a scorching 116 degrees Fahrenheit, with conditions expected to worsen over the coming days.
Meanwhile, the European continent is currently experiencing one of the worst heat waves on record, the Associated Press reports, with gauges in the United Kingdom recording all-time highs of 94.6 degrees Fahrenheit and 95.1 over a 24-hour period. Seven have already died in France during the hottest day in May in the country’s recorded history, while health officials in Italy have moved to restrict outdoor activity.
While these temperatures might not sound extreme by American standards — the US is a world leader in air conditioning usage, with some 90 percent of households covered — the heat is pushing people and infrastructure to their limits elsewhere in the world.
https://futurism.com/science-energy/summer-kill-people-heatwave
There is some possible good news on the health front….
Testing levels of two different biomarkers in blood plasma can be as accurate as a costly and complex scan when determining the stage of Alzheimer’s disease. This is not so much about knowing who has Alzheimer’s and who doesn’t – it’s about figuring out how far it has progressed, and crucially who might therefore be a good candidate for treatments and clinical trials.
There are four broad stages of Alzheimer’s disease, according to the latest criteria published by the Alzheimer’s Association Workgroup in 2024. These initial, early, intermediate, and advanced stages are identified by testing for different combinations of altered proteins that are known to be present in the disease.
This process may involve testing cerebrospinal fluid, which is collected in a procedure known as a lumbar puncture, as well as scanning the brain using a radiotracer that binds to specific proteins: a positron emission tomography (PET) scan.
While both are considered safe, lumbar punctures can be painful and may cause side effects like headaches. PET scans are expensive and time-consuming, and some patients may struggle with having to spend long periods of time in a scanner due to things like claustrophobia.
Blood tests, on the other hand, may be an easier option for many people, as well as being more affordable and easily scalable to reach as many patients as possible.
For these reasons, lots of research has gone into the development of diagnostic blood tests for Alzheimer’s.
That is all I had time for….I apologize…..please enjoy your weekend and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….
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Always a great way to ease into the weekend – your updates give us cause for concern and cause for optimism…both are needed today
Thanx John I appreciate the kind words. chuq
Roman emperors used a successful “bread and circuses” strategy to distract and appease the population because of its inclination towards self-gratification. Trump’s callously moronic “circuses without bread” strategy is doomed to fail because hungry people can’t be distracted from starvation.
Grays, Nordics, Insectoids, Reptilians, and MAGAoids… we all know which of those alien species is the least evolved. What bothers me though is the other four. If they are anything like us, then they probably don’t get along with each other very well; and, what happens to us should they decide to fight?
I wish my third eye worked because the other two surely don’t anymore.
Up here in the pacific northwest, most buildings weren’t equipped with air conditioning because it wasn’t needed. Now, just about all have it. But, Trump keeps telling us that climate change is a figment of our imagination.
I went grocery shopping the other day with a list of needed items. At the check-stand, I realized I had forgotten to get the milk. The clerk said I had Alzheimer’s.
Robert I am sure that all sports is the Roman model….down here you need AC at least 8 months a year or more….grocery shopping has become a thing that is avoidable unnecessary have a good Saturday chuq
Personally, I don’t mind the “shorter” weekend posts. In fact, for me, this week’s is just right. But that’s me.
That “third eye” story? There’s weird … and then there’s WEIRD!
In the 70s I went in search of that third eye thingy….chuq
I can vouch for temperatures climbing, we have been sweltering in Beetley.
Third eye? I have enough trouble with my two eyes.
Aliens in four different types of species? They have been watching ALL of the sci-fi films this week.
Candidates for Alzheimer’s sufferers in clinical trials? I read ‘guinea pigs’ for big pharma.
DT is one person who will not be going hungry, I’ll bet my house on that
Thanks for the roundup, chuq.
Best wishes, Pete.
These people and their conspiracies of aliens….there are no aliens hiding….glad you liked the news dump…..chuq
Our food pantries here have been struggling to keep up with the demand. And it’s going to get worse. Estimates we’re getting from “people who know these things” are telling us that the new SNAP regulations could throw 50,000 – 90,000 off the food assistance program here in Wisconsin. Here in the rural areas we’ve been managing to keep up but in the urban areas it’s getting bad. And a lot of people tend to forget that we provide hygiene products like soap, dish washing liquid, laundry detergent, tampons, diapers, tooth paste, tooth brushes, etc. Once or twice a year we run a hygiene drive and set up collection points at local businesses. While those are pretty successful they generally only bring in enough products to carry us over for a few months.
Another problem we have is people in need not being able to even get to a pantry. Bus routes are being cut in the urban areas, a lot of people don’t have cars because they can’t afford to keep one, so they just can get to a pantry. At one inter agency meeting a few months ago one woman told us that they had clients who had to walk an hour or more one way to get to the pantry. They’re experimenting with getting volunteers to do a delivery service to clients who live too far away to be able to get to the distribution site. One agency got their hands on a big panel truck that they converted into a sort of grocery store on wheels to drive out to communities where there is the greatest need.
WE have lots of food drives but like you said the people have no way to get to the bank….it is sad that it co,mes to this. chuq
Oh lord, this whole UFO thing is like a Loony Toons cartoon on acid when you start drilling down into some of the utter nonsense being spouted by some of these so-called “experts”. A lot of these people are in serious need of mental health care.
Yep….some really believe the manure they spread….chuq