From Brett Tingley's 5-29-23 SPACE.COM article entitled "NASA's UFO Task Force Meets on May 31 and You Can Watch It Online with This Free Livestream":
NASA will hold a historic public meeting on UFOs this week and you can watch it all live online in a free webcast.
The agency will hold a meeting of the "independent study group" itformed nearly a year agoin June 2022 in order to study data related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), a new term that encompasses objects or occurrences in the sky, underwater or in space thatcan't be immediately identified. The meeting will mark the first time the group has discussed the results of its UAP investigation in public. The four-hour meeting will be available to watch online courtesy of a free livestream onNASA TVbeginning at 10:30 a.m. ET (1430 GMT) on Wednesday (May 31).
From Lauren Sforza's 5-25-23 THE HILL article entitled "DeSantis Says He’ll Consider Pardoning Jan. 6 Defendants, Including Trump":
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Thursday that if elected president, he will consider pardoning all the Jan. 6 defendants — including former President Trump — on his first day in office.
“On day one, I will have folks that will get together and look at all these cases, who people are victims of weaponization or political targeting, and we will be aggressive in issuing pardons,” DeSantis said on “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show” podcast when asked about whether he will consider pardoning Jan. 6 defendants, including Trump, who is currently facing a federal investigation over his role on Jan. 6.
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FromZeeshan Aleem's 5-26-23 MSNBC article entitled "Ron DeSantis’ Openness to Pardoning Jan. 6 Defendants Is a Dark Sign":
DeSantis’ posture rests upon the unfounded assumption that federal prosecutors are part of a political conspiracy rather than agents of the law. And naturally he tossed in his obsession with "wokeness" into his reasoning. “Some of these cases, some people may have a technical violation of the law. But if there are three other people who did the same thing, but just in a context like Black Lives Matter, and they don’t get prosecuted at all, that is uneven application of justice,” DeSantis said, referring to Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. “And so we’re going to find ways where that did not happen and then we will use the pardon power, and I will do that at the front end.”
DeSantis was trotting out a common right-wing narrative that Jan. 6 protesters faced an unfair double standard compared with people who broke the law during BLM protests the summer after police killed George Floyd. But as U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan pointed out during a sentencing hearing in 2021, the BLM demonstrators were protesting for civil rights while the latter group was “trying to overthrow the government. … That is no mere protest.” Black Lives Matter advocates have also collected data showing that federal prosecutors were far from gentle in their approach to charging Black Lives Matter protesters, and an Associated Press analysis in 2021 showed scores of BLM defendants getting serious prison sentences, shattering the myth that prosecutors were exceptionally lenient with them.
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From Andrew Pulver's 5-24-23 GUARDIAN obit entitled "Kenneth Anger, underground film-maker and Hollywood Babylon author, dies aged 96":
Kenneth Anger, the artist and film-maker whose work offered a distinctively radical mix of paganism and homoeroticism, has died aged 96. Art gallery Sprüth Magers confirmed his death, saying: “Through his kaleidoscopic films, which combine sumptuous visuals, popular music soundtracks, and a focus on queer themes and narratives, Anger laid the groundwork for the avant garde art scenes of the later 20th century, as well as for the visual languages of contemporary queer and youth culture.”
Anger’s films, which included Fireworks (1947), Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), Scorpio Rising (1963) and Lucifer Rising (1972), made him a key figure in the counterculture over four decades, and later a hero to subsequent generations of film-makers grappling with similar themes. While he never found commercial success through his films, his book Hollywood Babylon – a compendium of often sleazy and largely unverifiable gossip about the film industry – became famous after first being published in 1959; it was followed by a sequel in 1984.
From Peter Bradshaw's 5-24-23 GUARDIAN article entitled "Kenneth Anger: Tinseltown’s Outrageous Magus of Occult Desire":
Kenneth Anger was the dark and brilliant magus of Hollywood lore; a reclusive figure who had in his own lifetime assumed the status of myth or pop-culture rumour. He was virtually the Aleister Crowley of movie legend. He was the master of underground cinema and creator of avant-gardist short films treasured by connoisseurs as equivalent in importance to those of Maya Deren and Jonas Mekas.
But unusually for a film-maker, his masterpiece was in the medium of the written word: his outrageous, scabrous and scurrilous supposed history of Tinseltown scandals: Hollywood Babylon, first published in French in 1959 as Hollywood Babylone, banned for years and only fully available in English in 1975. The book was virtually radioactive in its sheer lack of respectability: a livre maudit to go with the films maudits. Anger’s genius was to present his delirious work, with all its horrendous squalor and grainy black-and-white tabloid-style photos, and whose content he later claimed to have intuited through telepathy, as a nonfictional history of scandals about legendary stars, the sort of thing withheld by the Hollywood PR machine which everyone knew had long been ruthlessly suppressing scandal and creating bowdlerised biographical accounts of actors and actresses rolling off the star machine production line.
With a straight face, Anger presented what was effectively a satanic version of a theologian’s Lives of the Saints: all the horribly juicy gossip about Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, Mary Astor, Frances Farmer, Marilyn Monroe and many more, with all the abortions, drug addictions and sexual indulgences. This book was the foundation stone of the gossip industry, a subversive, black-comic slapstick sketch in Anger’s very own theatre of cruelty, taking aim at the solemn way the movie industry demanded its audience believe in that piety of supposed family values which had been imposed on the business after the Hays Code was brought in in the wake of the Roscoe Arbuckle scandal.
Actually, Anger’s book should be seen as a brilliant satirical fiction, a séance of horror, communing with the spirits of unhappiness and excess floating unacknowledged around Los Angeles. Alternatively it is a kind of reference book slash pulp novel which does in fact have something to say about the toll being taken on the ordinary human beings chewed up and spat out by Hollywood.
From Natalie Neysa Alund's 5-23-23 USA TODAY article entitled "30-ton Shipment of Explosive Chemicals Missing from Railroad Car After Trip Across West":
A 30-ton shipment of a chemical that can be used
as fertilizer or an explosive is missing from a California-bound
railroad car after rail officials confirmed it disappeared during a trip
across the West last month.
The railcar,
loaded with more than 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, left Cheyenne,
Wyoming on April 12, a Union Pacific spokesperson told USA TODAY
Tuesday. Two weeks later it was found empty at a rail stop in the
California Mojave Desert, according to a report filed with the federal
National Response Center on May 10.
Dyno Nobel
said the material, transported in pellet form in a covered hopper car
similar to those used to ship coal, likely fell from a rail car on the
way to a rail siding (a short track connecting with the main track),
about 30 miles from Mojave in Kern County, just east of Bakersfield.
From Kathianne Boniello's 5-20-23 NEW YORK POST article entitled "60,000 Pounds of Explosive Chemical Ammonium Nitrate Lost in Shipping":
Explosives company Dyno Nobel reported the vanishing ammonium nitrate —
the main ingredient in Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 bomb in Oklahoma City — to
the federal National Response Center on May 10, KQED reported.
From the Iowa Standard's 5-25-23 article entitled "CPAC Asks Target to Stop Facilitating ‘Demonic Messaging,’ End Partnership with ‘Satanist Designer’":
CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp sent a letter to Target leadership urging the retailer to end its relationship with a “satanist designer.”
Schlapp said Target has become a “beloved merchant” by families across America, but conservatives and religious Americans have recently become “deeply troubled” by its partnership with an “individual who practices satanism, along with (Target’s) apparent embrace of radical gender ideology, which seeks to sterilize and brutalize the bodies of the youth.”
“It is disturbing to the many families of shoppers from religious backgrounds that Target Corporation partnered with Erik Carnell, a self-declared ‘satanist’ to design the new ‘Pride Month’ collection of items,” the letter said. “Carnell openly flaunts his anti-Christian agenda posting that ‘Satan respects pronouns,’ selling items with phrases like, ‘Trans Witches for Abortion,’ and participating in a ‘satanic flea market’ in London called an ‘anti-Christmas fayre.’
“Someone like this should never be promoted by a company which purports to support families, especially not to create items geared toward children.”
From Matthew Impelli's 5-23-23 NEWSWEEK article entitled "'Satanist' Designer at Center of Target Boycott Speaks Out":
A designer at the center of the calls to boycott Target who has been accused of being a "satanist" recently spoke out about the ongoing controversy.
U.K.-based designer, Erik Carnell, who owns the company Abprallen, announced on Instagram this month that he helped design several new items to promote the 2023 Pride season at Target, the popular retail store company.
Since his announcement, some conservative voices have accused Carnell of being a "satanist" since a small portion of his collection features a reference to Satan (like a pin that states, "Satan respects pronouns"), which he says was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, according to the Daily Dot. But none of these items were sold as a part of Target's Pride Month collection [...].
Despite the claims made by some, Carnell told the Daily Dot that he does not believe in satan.
"I don't believe in the Bible.... It's a metaphor," Carnell told the Daily Dot.
