The US Relies Heavily On Rare Earth Imports From China

 

I have not commented on all this before ,but there is nothing the Canadian mineral industry loves more than any element supply crisis. You can hear billions of old assay reports been dug up and digitalized. and the hunt is on!

We have been doing spectral analysis for decades as a matter of course.  All those elements have been background noise.Want to bet that INCO nickel ores pack an exceelent rare earth mix that can be addressed?  just saying.

My point is that we can expect a cascade of discoveries near term and rapid exploitation as well.

The US Relies Heavily On Rare Earth Imports From China

by Tyler Durden

Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025 - 02:45 AM

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-relies-heavily-rare-earth-imports-china

As part of the retaliation against Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, China has imposed new export controls on seven additional rare earth elements, temporarily suspending any exports of the valuable minerals.

The newly affected elements, namely samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium and yttrium, are critical components of a wide range of products, ranging from electric cars and semiconductors to military equipment such as missiles and drones.

While the new rules stop short of a full export ban, the affected metals will require a special export license going forward – granting Chinese authorities an extra layer of control over who is granted export rights.

Once the system is implemented, certain companies, for example U.S. defense contractors, could be banned from importing the crucial supplies, which are very hard to substitute or source elsewhere.

As Statista's Felix Richter shows in the chart below, the U.S. is heavily reliant on rare earth imports from China, which accounted for 70 percent of U.S. rare earth imports between 2020 and 2023, with Malaysia, Japan and Estonia the other three main suppliers of the United States.

You will find more infographics at Statista

Yttrium, one of the elements covered by the new rules, is almost exclusively sourced in China, with 93 percent of Yttrium compounds brought into the U.S. between 2020 and 2023 coming from China.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. is 100 percent import reliant for Yttrium, which is primarily used in catalysts, ceramics, electronics, lasers, metallurgy and phosphors.

Looking at rare earth minerals in general, the U.S. was 80 percent net import reliant in 2024, meaning that net imports (imports minus exports) accounted for 80 percent of apparent consumption in the U.S. last year.

That’s down from 100 percent in 2020 and more than 95 percent between 2021 and 2023, as the U.S. ramped up domestic production of rare earth compounds and metals in 2024.14,679

CT Scans Projected to Result in 100,000 New Cancers in The US

Well maybe and maybe not.  this is working the data hard and just how do we ever adjust for a day in the sun?

What leaps out at me is that what is decades of medical exposure has never produced a data signal.  for xrays even, and that is because our biology is able to handle low levels of radiation as has long been clear.

We know how to be safe and workers know how to not be reckless or stupid.

CT Scans Projected to Result in 100,000 New Cancers in The US

Health

15 April 2025

ByCarly Cassella

https://www.sciencealert.com/ct-scans-projected-to-result-in-100000-new-cancers-in-the-us

More Americans are receiving computed tomography (CT) scans than ever before, and while this technology can save lives, some scientists are concerned about the potential for low doses of ionizing radiation to increase cancer risks.

At an individual level, the theoretical chance of developing cancer from a CT scan is thought to be very minimal, if it exists at all, and patients should not be scared of undergoing these tests if they are deemed medically necessary.

However, the number of CT examinations performed each year in the US has increased by more than 30 percent since 2007, and researchers suggest that unwarranted tests are exposing the population to unnecessary radiation.

A team in the US and the UK now predicts that low levels of ionizing radiation from CT scans could theoretically account for 5 percent of all new cancer diagnoses in the US. CT scans conducted in 2023 could be responsible for an estimated 103,000 future cases of cancer.

That's based on some assumptions and historical data from high radiation events, but if right, it would put CT scans on par with other significant risk factors for cancer, like alcohol consumption, at least at a population level.

"CT is frequently lifesaving, yet its potential harms are often overlooked, and even very small cancer risks will lead to a significant number of future cancers given the tremendous volume of CT use in the United States," write the international team of analysts, led by epidemiologist Rebecca Smith-Bindman from the University of California, San Francisco.

As of now, these are just theoretical risks, but that doesn't mean they aren't worth considering. While scientists know that high doses of radiation cause cancer, conclusive evidence to link low-level radiation to cancer is lacking.

The potential association is mostly based on long-term studies of atomic bomb survivors and those exposed to nuclear power plant meltdowns. For instance, in a group of 25,000 Hiroshima survivors, who received a dose of ionizing radiation on par with three or more CT scans, there was a slight but significant increase in cancer risk across a lifetime.

Whether those results extend to CT scans remains hotly debated, and the theoretical risks must be weighed against the myriad benefits of this technology, which can now alert patients and doctors to a whole variety of hidden diseases and injuries with very low doses of radiation (about the same amount you absorb from your environment over three years).

"Any risk from a CT scan of a sick patient is likely much less than the risk of the underlying disease," says Cynthia McCollough, CT imaging expert and past president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

In a large national trial, for instance, there was a 20 percent decrease in lung cancer deaths among smokers and ex-smokers who received low-dose CT scans compared to those who only had a chest X-ray.

The new predictions on cancer risk are again based on historical tragedies, but compared to previous analyses, they consider more detail on the actual radiation exposure, which can depend on the type of CT device, the scanning duration, the size of the patient, and the sensitivity of their targeted body part.

The anonymous data comes from 143 hospitals and outpatient facilities across the US, catalogued in the UCSF International CT Dose Registry. Using statistics from 2016 to 2022, researchers predicted 93 million CT examinations were carried out in 2023, on roughly 62 million patients.

Based on the associated radiation risks, the team estimates that CT scans in 2023 may be tied to 103,000 future cancers.

"To empirically quantify lifetime risk would require decades-long follow-up studies of very large populations," the authors admit.

However, their results suggest that some people may be more susceptible to cancer from low-dose ionizing radiation than others. Adults receive the vast majority of CT scans, but estimated radiation-induced cancer risks were higher in children and adolescents.

The projected number of future cancers (left axis; dark blue and orange circles) against a conservative estimate of cancer incidence (right axis; light blue circles and triangles). (Smith-Bindman et al., JAMA Internal Medicine, 2025)

Those receiving CT scans at under one year of age, for instance, seem to have a higher potential lifetime risk for thyroid cancers, and this appears more common among female patients.

Far more research is needed to confirm if low-dose ionizing radiation actually impacts a person's cancer risk, and how.

"Estimated overall cancer risks from CT radiation doses are similarly high in Australian studies," says medical radiation specialist Pradip Deb from RMIT University. She argues it is important to avoid unnecessary CT scans if radiation-free procedures can do the same job.

Radiographer Naomi Gibson, President of the Australian Society of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy, agrees.

"Although the findings highlight the need for vigilance around long-term radiation exposure, this should not discourage the use of CT imaging when clinically justified," Gibson explains.

"In appropriately selected cases, the diagnostic and therapeutic value of CT scans significantly outweighs the potential radiation-associated risks."

What’s the Skinny on Raw Milk

It appears that the fight is back on.  AS it should.  No farmer milks a sick cow to sell milk.  He works to keep them healthy and this was true before anyone knew about germs.

It has also worked for 10,000 years which is a pretty good field test.  Perhaps pasteurized milk needs a 10,000 year field test as well?

We have on farm refrigeration and we have uber density delivery available.  We can actually restore home delivery or better yet,  corner store service delivery which allows you to pick up going home.  such a model uses in place store refrigeration to hold product delivered daily fresh from the morning milking.

This can be done.

What’s the Skinny on Raw Milk?

Emilie Hagen

Apr 14, 2025

https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/whats-the-skinny-on-raw-milk?

By Emilie Hagen, Contributor, The Kennedy Beacon

High on a mountaintop off one of Southern Vermont’s most treacherous roads stands a white farmhouse from 1780 and a charming barn, a place two Jersey cows, Jupiter and Rain, call home.

Every morning at 8 a.m., a farmer greets the pair to begin their daily milking routine, producing raw milk—a subject as polarizing as last year’s election.

Influencers are calling raw milk “liquid gold,” while the FDA continues to label it “dangerous.”

Where’s the truth?

Is raw milk the same as pasteurized milk? Why are people going out of their way to buy raw milk on the black market? It’s not exactly a psychedelic trip, so why the fuss?

Ironically, the controversy seems to be fueling the craze. The more the media bashes raw milk as a potential health hazard, the more coveted it becomes. It’s the best unintentional dairy PR since the iconic Got Milk? campaign that began running in the 1990s featuring Jennifer Aniston.

In a world where so many people are following FDA rules religiously yet still feeling sick, tired, and depressed, raw milk has become a tantalizing promise.

But the mainstream media isn’t having any of it. Legacy journalists have been on a raw milk smear campaign since President Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for HHS secretary, amplifying the FDA’s warnings with fear-inducing headlines: “Please Do Not Drink Raw Milk,” “Raw Milk Can Cause Influenza,” and “Bird Flu Detected in Raw Milk.” Many articles express alarm that, if appointed, Kennedy might push to legalize raw milk nationwide, raising concerns about potential exposure to harmful viruses.

Other countries around the world have strict regulations for raw milk. In Japan and Canada, raw milk is illegal to sell because milk is required to be pasteurized before sale. But in France, Germany and Italy, raw milk is legal, regulated by strict health and safety standards.

This debate is nothing new. Raw milk has been a heated topic in healthcare since 1987, when the FDA required all milk sold across state lines to be pasteurized, effectively banning the interstate sale of raw milk. At the time, it was left-leaning liberals who rallied behind raw milk as a catalyst to healing. Nearly 40 years later, the movement has shifted, with right-leaning voices now at the forefront.

The question remains: is raw milk actually dangerous?

For an answer to this age-old question, look no further than farmer and educator Leigh Merinoff, who serves on the board of Children’s Health Defense and is an advisor at the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to advocating for nutrient-dense foods in modern diets. [Merinoff is also on the finance committee of American Values PAC which funds The Kennedy Beacon.]

Once a sculptor thriving in the big city, Merinoff swapped her fast-paced urban lifestyle for the slower rhythms of a sustainable homestead. She’s currently living in an underground house berm surrounded by 200 fruit trees, colorful peacocks, a blacksmith shop and cozy sugar shanty – which sounds like the setting of a 1800s fiction novel, but in reality is a place people can go to get their gut bacteria in order. Farm to table isn’t a trend there – it’s a ritual woven into every meal.

These days, Merinoff takes her morning coffee with a splash of raw milk – a luxury not everyone has access to. In Vermont, the only way to get raw milk is by purchasing it directly from the farm or through a cow-share program where people can obtain raw milk by “owning” a share of the cow. This inaccessibility is why some wellness influencers are calling farmers like Merinoff their “milk dealer.”

During a phone call last November, Merinoff explained how raw milk is in high demand, even as the media continues its coordinated efforts to tarnish its reputation.

”Pasteurized and homogenized milk – their sales have been going down, but if you have a dairy cow and you sell raw milk, you have a waiting list because Americans are not really listening to the news anymore,” Merinoff told me. “They're doing their own research. And if you do your own research, you'll see that raw milk is a way to absorb nutrients and be extremely, extremely healthy.”

Merinoff believes raw milk is one of the best things humans can put in their bodies for healing, claiming it contains beneficial enzymes, probiotics and vitamins that are inactivated by pasteurization.

Added Merinoff, “One of the extraordinary opportunities of our time is to continue to get food that nourishes every cell in our body and that is raw milk. Raw milk is filled with all these vitamins and nutrients and anti inflammatories.”

Merinoff recalls a time that she did the unthinkable: accidentally left a glass of raw milk out in her closet for four months.

“I left a glass of raw milk in my closet and I was like, oh, I'll get to it... And then I became afraid of it and then I thought it was going to explode,” she said.

“I finally opened it with a cloth and it was clabbered cheese and I ate it…and it was delicious!”

According to Merinoff, if raw milk is left out, the bacteria will turn it into a cheese.

“Because you're not killing the bacteria, the bacteria stays balanced,” Merinoff said. “This is why raw milk is safe because it's balanced bacteria and they don't allow the bad bacteria to grow and take control.”

Sally Fallon, the president of Weston A. Price, has been spreading the raw milk gospel for years, holding workshops that educate people on its alleged health benefits.

“Our government has spent the last 50 years demonizing this food and insisting that if you drink raw milk you're playing Russian roulette with your health and that you need to pasteurize the milk to get rid of all the bacteria,” Fallon said during a sit-down interview.

“One of the things our government says is people who are immune compromised should never touch raw milk,” Fallon said during a workshop “But raw milk is the perfect food for the immune compromised because it will put their immune system back in order.”

Gwyneth Paltrow, no stranger to headlines about her “unconventional wellness habits,” confessed to being a raw milk drinker on The Skinny Confidential podcast back in July. During the chat, the host joked with Paltrow about having a raw milk “dealer” herself and raved about how the beverage had changed her life.

But in an article published by Harvard Health Publishing, a publication of Harvard Medical School, the author cites multiple studies that have found no concrete evidence that raw milk is more nutritious than pasteurized milk.

Still, advocates like Merinoff are convinced by what they see. “We’re at a point where people are really sick,” Merinoff says. “Raw milk as a whole food will build your immune system and balance your microbiome. Why would we not want that?”

If this so-called forbidden drink truly holds the key to better health, it might only be a matter of time before more people embrace the raw milk revolution.

While the allure of the homesteading lifestyle is undeniable, most of us won’t be relocating to Vermont and tending our own cows anytime soon. Fortunately, raw milk isn’t entirely out of reach – you can source it through a local farmer or join a buying club that delivers it to your community. For first-timers, Merinoff advises starting slow — just a few sips — to let your body adjust to its unfiltered,  nutrient-rich goodness.

One Of The Largest Malls In The U.S. Just Defaulted On Its $300 Million Mortgage

A strong reminder of just how sick the whole mall business has become.  This equally applies to our whole commercial real estate sector.  everything is suddenly overbuilt.  The truly flexible operators typically found a way to alter their foot print to remain profitiable.

I come from a world in which all this was triple A rated and that meant no think investment for institional money.

Yet it has happened in slow motion as electronic commerce became bigger and better.  that is still not mature as well.  All those retail margins need to shift downstream and all retail becomes presentation oriented without staffing.

One Of The Largest Malls In The U.S. Just Defaulted On Its $300 Million Mortgage

by Tyler Durden

Thursday, Apr 10, 2025 - 03:55 AM

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/one-largest-malls-us-just-defaulted-its-300-million-mortgage?

Destiny USA, New York’s largest mall and one of the biggest in the U.S., has defaulted on a $300 million mortgage, according to Syracuse.com.

Its owner, Carousel Center Co., failed to secure an extension when the loan matured on June 6 of last year, according to recent financial filings.

The Syracuse.com report says that after failing to extend its loan maturity, Destiny USA’s $300 million mortgage is now in default, with the full balance of $325.2 million—including $25.2 million in deferred interest—immediately due, according to an independent audit.

The lender terminated its forbearance agreement, raising the threat of foreclosure, as seen with two other Pyramid-owned malls last year.

Pyramid is negotiating a deal to extend the loan to Dec. 6, 2025, in exchange for a $1.1 million “consent fee,” but auditors warn there’s no guarantee of success. As they put it: “These conditions raise substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.”

Pyramid took out the loan from JPMorgan Chase in 2014 to finance Destiny USA’s expansion. It has only made interest payments and failed to refinance or repay the principal as required, due in part to the mall’s declining value amid retail closures and e-commerce growth.

Recall about a month and a half ago we highlighted that at the end of Q4 2024, commercial real estate continued to exhibit severe weakness, with commercial real estate bonds hitting record distress levels, surpassing the previous records reached in Q3 2024.

Commercial real estate bonds are just commercial real estate loans packaged into securities and sold to investors. One category of bonds, commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”), saw their distress rate increase to 10.6 percent, a fourth consecutive monthly record.

Most notably, in the CMBS category—which comprises approximately $625 billion in outstanding commercial real estate debt—loans on office properties now exhibit a distress rate above 17 percent while apartment loan distress accelerated to 12.5 percent.

While loans underlying CMBS bonds—which are generally longer-term and fixed-rate—appear woefully insolvent, another group of bonds comprising short-term floating-rate commercial real estate loans are even worse.

Keto diet's high cholesterol not a factor in heart disease, says study

The cholesterol meme has been a convenient marketing tool whose science has been a lot of hand waving.

So set it aside and eat keto which mimics millions of years of human history.  Then ask if it is working?

Truth is that we have a culture of bad diet science been sequestered for the marketing pitch of the day.  what could go right?

We have evolved away from powerful chompers able to crush and chew bone like any dog.

We need to rethink all that because fine ground bone should be digestable in our stomachs.  Fermentation may be vauable here and we have plenty of beef bones.

Keto diet's high cholesterol not a factor in heart disease, says study

By Michael Franco

April 13, 2025

The keto diet emphasizes fats and proteins while keeping carbohydrates to a minimum

https://newatlas.com/diet-nutrition/keto-diet-cholesterol

One of the ketogenic diet's major perceived drawbacks is an increase in LDL, or so-called bad cholesterol. A new study, though, says that this cholesterol spike doesn't fit the conventional science in terms of its disease-causing ability.

The ketogenic diet – an eating plan that emphasizes fat and protein over carbs – has certainly had its fair share of pluses and minuses added to its balance sheet over the years.

For example, a 2020 study showed that the diet could positively impact our gut microbiome, with a follow-up study in 2023 demonstrating that the gut changes it induces could protect against epileptic seizures. Also, a study last year suggested that the diet might ward off the cognitive decline seen in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Keto diets have also shown the potential to enhance chemotherapy; improve memory; and even fight the flu in mouse models.

On the negative side, in 2023 the keto diet was called to task because of its impact on the environment, with a study showing that a typical keto diet generates nearly four times the amount of carbon dioxide for every 1,000 calories as a vegan diet. Last year, another study showed that a low-carb diet like keto could spike the risk of developing type II diabetes by 20%. But perhaps the biggest checkmark the keto diet gets in its "cons" column is the fact that it causes an increase in LDL cholesterol, a protein and fat molecule that can lead to the buildup of plaque in arteries, increasing heart attack and stroke risk.

But a new study from a range of institutes including The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center has shown that the spike in LDL seen in adherents of the keto diet does not necessarily lead to heart disease, especially if they have otherwise healthy biomarkers.

The team followed 100 metabolically healthy people who stuck to the keto diet for a year. The people they used in the study were all considered Lean Mass Hyper-Responders (LMHRs), meaning that they saw elevated levels of LDL cholesterol in their blood, as well as elevated levels of a high-cholesterol marker known as apolipoprotein B (ApoB). However, these individuals also had low triglycerides, low blood pressure, low body mass index, low insulin resistance, and high levels of HDL, often called "good" cholesterol.

So in other words, even though they had high levels of "bad" cholesterol in their blood, they were, in fact, quite healthy after a year of following a keto plan. The study also could not establish any risk of increased heart disease in the patients despite their LMHR status.

They did, however, find that patients who already had plaque in their arteries were those most likely to have more plaque build-up. This led them to conclude that pre-existing plaque, rather than diet, was a stronger predictor of future plaque-related cardiovascular issues and they say that this factor, more than levels of LDL or ApoB, should be used to assess heart disease risk in the future for patients who are otherwise healthy.

Striking Evidence of Water Imbalance on The Moon Hints at a Collision

So why is the moon dry, and why is mars dry and why is Venus dry and why is Mercury dry?  Actually why are they all dry at all?

My own Cloud cosmology suggests water is produced inside a hollow shell where it accumulates.  Water needs to be released in order to come to surface.  In our case it appears possible that the moon machine is a gravity machine which peeled back half the crustal layer to provide space for water coming up from the holo0w earth.

A substancial body of conforming evidence suports this curious model.  It is difficult to imagne or accept but our current models are solving little and are likely wrong.

Striking Evidence of Water Imbalance on The Moon Hints at a Collision

14 April 2025

ByMichelle Starr

There are way less basalt maria on the lunar far side. 

The water distribution inside the Moon appears to be somewhat lopsided.

According to an analysis of lunar materials collected from the far side of the Moon and delivered into the waiting hands of scientists, our natural satellite has less water on the side that permanently faces away from Earth.

This information is pretty interesting. The surfaces of the two hemispheres of the Moon are markedly different from each other. The far side is heavily crater-scarred; the near side is punctuated with large, flat, basaltic maria, or plains, created by widespread volcanic activity long ago.

This difference is a strange puzzle. A hemispherical difference in the interior composition of the Moon could help explain its piebald exterior.

"Water abundance in the lunar mantle provides insights into the giant impact formation models for the Moon and plays a crucial role in the crystallization of the lunar magma ocean and subsequent magmatism and long-lived volcanism," writes a team led by planetary physicists Huicun He and Linxi Li of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

"The new estimate for the lunar farside mantle represents a landmark for estimating the water abundance of the bulk silicate Moon, providing critical constraints on the giant impact origin hypothesis and the subsequent evolution of the Moon for which the role of water is central."

The current best model for the formation of the Moon starts with a giant collision sometime more than 4.5 billion years ago. A planetesimal around the size of Mars named 'Theia' smacked into a baby Earth during the Solar System's earliest epoch, sending debris flying that coalesced in Earth orbit to form the Moon.

For a while, the Moon was squishy on the inside. It oozed out a huge volume of magma on the side nearest Earth to form the lunar maria, a process that took place between around 3.9 and 3.1 billion years ago. The relative absence of maria on the Moon's far side is a striking contrast.

We've got some ideas about why this may be. The crust on the facing hemisphere is thinner, a trait associated with uneven cooling as heat from Earth kept the near side warmer as the two bodies cooled from the heat of formation.

A map showing where lunar samples were collected, and the water abundance estimates based on them. (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

There could be more to it, and when China's Chang'e-6 mission became the first to bring samples of the far side of the Moon to Earth, humanity finally had the material it needed to study the Moon's patchy chemical composition.

Previous studies have shown that the distribution of water in the interior of the Moon is quite heterogenous, varying from 1 to 200 micrograms per gram, mostly derived from materials collected from the Procellarum KREEP Terrane on the lunar nearside, a region rich in potassium, phosphorus, and rare-earth minerals.

Previous analysis has proposed that the giant impact formation mechanism may have resulted in the observed asymmetries on the Moon. One possible marker for this is chemical abundances, with less water expected on the far side.

There isn't a lot of basalt on the far side to compare to near-side basalts, but the giant South Pole-Aitken Basin on the lunar far side from which Chang'e-6 collected its minerals is one exception.

He, Li, and their colleagues performed scanning electron microscopy and electron probe microanalysis of a sample of the Chang'e-6 material. In particular, they looked for signs of hydration in minerals such as olivine and ilmenite trapped inside the basalt.

Their results showed that the source of the magma that produced the South Pole-Aitken Basin basalt didn't have much water in it at all – around just 1 to 1.5 micrograms per gram of rock.

Now, it's possible that there's another reason for this relative dryness compared to the near side. The basin covers a quarter of the Moon's surface; the impact that produced it would have been pretty shocking. Maybe, the scientists propose, the impact pushed a bunch of material over towards the near side.

It's also possible that other parts of the far side interior are a bit wetter; after all, this is just one sample.

But, so far at least, the findings are consistent with the evidence we'd expect to find for a giant impact formation.

Now we just need to nip up there and grab a few more handfuls of Moon dirt. For science.

The research has been published in Nature.

'Hidden Galaxies' Exposed by Deep Sky Map Could Solve Energy Mystery

are galxies randomly distributed and can we tell?  I do think that what we see generates natural assumptions that can be plain wrong.  To start with we see galxies conforming in size and this implies a process of material creation which is sublight and it is this which produces near uniformity in terms of scale.

So just when and where does a fundamental particle get created in the context of the universe?

All this while generating a narritive is so far beyond testing.

'Hidden Galaxies' Exposed by Deep Sky Map Could Solve Energy Mystery

Space14 April 2025

ByMark Thompson, Universe Today

The final SPIRE Dark Field image map. (Chris Pearson et al., em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025)

https://www.sciencealert.com/hidden-galaxies-exposed-by-deep-sky-map-could-solve-energy-mystery?

A team of astronomers has discovered what appears to be a previously undetected population of "hidden" galaxies that could challenge existing models of galactic evolution.

If confirmed, these galaxies would not only contradict current scientific understanding about the development and distribution of galaxies, but they would also potentially solve an energy mystery by accounting for the missing infrared radiation in the Universe's so-called energy budget, effectively completing our understanding of energy emission at longer wavelengths.

The researchers, led by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and Imperial College London, have created the deepest image ever of the Universe at far infrared wavelengths.

They used the Herschel Space Telescope to reveal possible evidence of hidden galaxies among nearly 2,000 distant ones detected.

The lead author, Dr. Chris Pearson, explained that this work pushed Herschel Space Observatory science to its limit, potentially uncovering a new population of galaxies contributing to the faintest observable light in the Universe.

"This work has pushed the science with Herschel to its absolute limit, probing far below what we can normally discernibly see and potentially revealing a completely new population of galaxies that are contributing to the very faintest light we can observe in the universe." - Dr. Chris Pearson from STFC RAL Space

The team achieved this breakthrough by stacking 141 images from the SPIRE instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory, which operated from 2009 to 2013.

The resultant image was the deepest far-infrared sky image ever produced (five times deeper than any previous single Herschel observation and at least twice as deep as any other area observed by the telescope).

The final SPIRE Dark Field image map created by combining the Blue (250 micrometers), Green (350 micrometers) and Red (500 micrometers) SPIRE camera channels together, each channel stacking a total of 141 individual images on top of each other. The blobs on the image are all individual galaxies or groups of galaxies. However, the image is so crowded that there is almost no empty space with the faintest galaxies merging into the background light in the map. (Chris Pearson et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025)

This technique allowed astronomers to identify the dustiest galaxies where star formation predominantly occurs, while also enabling them to analyze how galaxy numbers vary with brightness.

Doing this allowed them to calculate each galaxy's contribution to the Universe's total energy budget.

The incredible depth of the image caused galaxies to merge and become indistinguishable, prompting MIT PhD student Thomas Varnish to apply statistical analysis techniques to the areas that were most blurry.

He discovered possible evidence of previously unknown faint galaxies hidden in the image blur that conventional analysis couldn't detect. If confirmed, these galaxies would fundamentally challenge all existing models of galactic numbers and evolution.

The Herschel Space Observatory (Pline)

Further research is now required to confirm the new galaxy group using other wavelength-based telescopes to understand more about these faint objects. Dr. Pearson noted that conventional telescopes reveal only half the Universe's story, as much starlight is absorbed by dust and re-emitted as infrared radiation.

Herschel Space Observatory's archived data remains valuable a decade after its mission ended.

Dr. Clements emphasised that further investigation with the PRIMA mission (a 1.8-meter infrared telescope being considered by NASA with UK consortium support) would bridge observational gaps between existing instruments and bring clarity to the debate.

Cobwebs and Chemtrails: Prophecy, Policy, and the Battle for Our Skies

What we see is surely water vaor. anything else will be completely invisable.  Yet even with steadily increasing traffic, combining all those contrails will make a very small cloud at best.  sort of like a small forest fire which is vastly more tovxic.

We also used to suck cigarettees.  whose chemistry would scare anyone.  Recall pyroligneous acid.  Actually approved for cosmetics surely because exposure was once common.

I would like to see some science of those aerial schemes promoted about by fear mongers.  And just what is truly feasible.  silver iodine is viable and used for decades were possible.  And someone will pay for it.

my point is that actual practise entals costly volumes and huge airtime.  We have contrails because we fly and no other reason,

Cobwebs and Chemtrails: Prophecy, Policy, and the Battle for Our Skies

What if the wisdom of Indigenous traditions held clues for solving some of today’s most urgent social and political challenges?

Sayer Ji

Apr 14

"Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky."

~ Hopi Prophecy referenced in the 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi

There’s a growing unease that no longer hides in silence. It spreads through social feeds, in photos of streaked skies, and in questions that refuse to go away. What once seemed like distant whispers has become a collective awakening—visible, vocal, and urgent.

It often begins with a glance upward: a sun muted by haze, a sky crisscrossed in patterns that don’t belong to nature. The blue has dulled. The light has changed. And with it, the question arises: is this just weather—or is it something else?

In this article, I explore the convergence of Indigenous prophecy and modern science around what the Hopi once called “cobwebs in the sky.” We’ll dive into the history and implications of geoengineering, weather modification, and the increasingly clear evidence of atmospheric manipulation—technologies now emerging as instruments of covert warfare and control.

But this isn’t only about the sky. It’s about sovereignty, truth, health, and the future of Earth itself.

What Are the “Cobwebs” in the Sky?

You may have noticed them:

Long trails left by planes that don’t behave like normal contrails

Wispy, artificial-looking clouds that fan out in geometric grids

A silver glare that dims the warmth and blueness of the sun

Rapid weather shifts that feel unnatural, erratic, or even weaponized

These phenomena are not figments of imagination—they are the visible aftermath of aerosol spraying operations. While some fall under publicly acknowledged programs like 'Solar Radiation Management' (SRM) or 'Stratospheric Aerosol Injection' (SAI), others operate in the shadows. These clandestine activities are believed to include the dispersal of biological agents, experimental pharmacological compounds, and potentially lethal toxic vectors—released into the atmosphere without the awareness, let alone the consent, of civilian populations.

The method? Aerosolize and disperse fine particulates into the upper atmosphere—including aluminum, barium, calcium carbonate, sulfur dioxide, and even diamond dust—to form an artificial sun shield.

But that’s not the full picture.

Alongside these deliberate geoengineering experiments, our skies are increasingly blanketed by aviation-induced artificial cloud systems, generated by both commercial and military high-altitude flights. These are not harmless, ‘water vapor’ contrails as you have been told. They carry fuel-derived toxicants, heavy metals, and combustion byproducts that alter weather patterns, trap heat, and distort the natural hydrological cycle.

The cumulative effect is what researchers now refer to as “global dimming”—a planetary atmospheric veil that interferes with light quality (including increased harmful UVC and decreased beneficial UVB), weather systems, crop resilience, circadian rhythms, and mental and emotional health, including adversely affecting the quality of our consciousness, individually and collectively. Make sure to watch Dane Wigginton’s documentary by that name — the Dimming — to learn more about the topic.

Here lies the profound irony: In the name of protecting the planet, we are deploying experimental, untested interventions that may be far more dangerous than the condition (often misdiagnosed as solely the cause of ‘excess C02’) they claim to treat. It is a planetary-scale mirror of the allopathic medical model—where symptoms are aggressively suppressed without addressing root causes, and where the “cure” often comes with devastating side effects, threatening to irreversibly harm and even kill the patient, which in this case is Mother Earth herself.

Just as iatrogenic illness—that is, illness caused by medical treatment—has become arguably the leading preventable cause of death worldwide (especially when factoring in the underreported harms of mRNA injections), geoengineering threatens to become an environmental parallel: a cure far more dangerous than the disease.

And yet, despite overwhelming visual, environmental, and data-based indicators, no government agency has taken full public accountability. The skies have changed. And still, silence. Or, worse, active attacks and gaslighting of those who care enough to speak up to try to make a positive difference.

Grounding This in Science

Let’s speak plainly.

In 2015, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences issued a report calling for expanded research into climate intervention technologies, including SAI.

David Keith, a prominent figure at Harvard, has publicly discussed deploying stratospheric aerosol programs on a global scale—without the need for international approval.

A 2021 study published in Nature Climate Change warned that even a brief interruption of such programs (a “termination shock”) could trigger climate instability, which has lead some to predict agricultural collapse as a possible result.

View the Weather Modification History website for more research on the topic, as well as Jim Lee’s recent presentation to the 2nd International Panel on Environmental Modification: Separating Facts from Fiction.

Moreover, independent environmental testing has revealed elevated levels of aluminum, barium, and strontium in air, water, and soil samples following intensive sky spraying events—correlated with spikes in respiratory illness, asthma, fatigue, and neurological symptoms.

Even President Donald Trump recently voiced concern over the possibility that “something being sprayed” in the atmosphere may be contributing to the dramatic rise in autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders—a statement that, while controversial, echoes the questions many scientists and citizens are now daring to ask.

This is no longer speculation.

This is unfolding, in real time.

The skies have changed. And we are being conditioned not to notice.

The Prophecy of the Cobweb Sky

The image of a veiled sky, obscured by unnatural webs or silvery haze, appears—either directly or symbolically—in the oral traditions and prophecies of numerous Indigenous cultures, including the Hopi, Cree, Lakota, and Andean peoples.

While interpretations differ across lineages and elders, many of these traditions speak of a time of great unraveling—a future marked by spiritual disconnection, technological overreach, and ecological imbalance. A time when humanity, having severed its relationship with the Earth, would gaze upward to find the sky itself transformed—a mirror reflecting the rupture.

These “cobwebs in the sky,” as referenced in the Hopi Prophecy, are not only visible in the form of aerosol trails and artificial cloud systems. They may also represent invisible networks of non-native electromagnetic fields—a growing mesh of radiofrequency and microwave radiation, crisscrossing the atmosphere through 5G, satellite constellations, and ionospheric heaters.

These electromagnetic interventions do not merely saturate the airspace. They may actively disrupt the Earth’s energetic architecture—its leylines, Telluric currents, and geomagnetic balance. In Indigenous cosmologies, these energy lines are not metaphor; they are living conduits that nourish ecosystems, consciousness, and spiritual communication.

In this context, the “cobwebs” may symbolize a deeper entanglement of Earth and sky in artificial frequencies, signaling a tipping point where the planetary body—and the collective human psyche—struggles to remain grounded in coherence.

This is not just a story of environmental manipulation. It is a story about interference with the subtle structures of life itself.

These stories were never meant to frighten.

They were calls to remember.

Trump Orders Military To Seal Southern Border As US Accelerates Hemispheric Defense

 

With the collapse of border crossing ,this could be a case of showing visuals ,but low numbers.  After all a helicoptor running along the border gets heads down.

Yet a gunship in the air is minutes away and cross border penetration is now apparentl yon the table.  

Thus an airborne chopper or gunship is minutes away deep into Mexico.  andvdrones can surveil targets at will.  My point is that a hundred mile band of mexico can become hot anywhere.

Trump Orders Military To Seal Southern Border As US Accelerates Hemispheric Defense

by Tyler Durden

Saturday, Apr 12, 2025 - 09:15 AM

Days after NBC reported that the Trump administration had considered launching drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico, President Trump issued a memorandum Friday night to the heads of four federal departments, expanding the U.S. military's role in securing the southern border in accordance with Executive Order 14167 (Clarifying the Military's Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States) and Proclamation 10886 (Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border of the United States). The move aligns with a broader strategic theme known as hemispheric defense.

The memo, titled "Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions," was sent to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.

It states, "Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats. The complexity of the current situation requires that our military take a more direct role in securing our southern border than in the recent past."

Here's a breakdown of the memo:

Key Objectives:

Repel border invasion and seal the U.S.–Mexico border from unlawful entry.

Empower the Department of Defense (DoD) to use federal lands (excluding Indian Reservations) for:Military operations,

Border barrier construction,

Surveillance infrastructure,

Designation of National Defense Areas.

Agency Coordination:

Secretaries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture, and Homeland Security must coordinate to:Transfer jurisdiction of necessary lands to DoD.

Allow military installations and operations on designated federal land (e.g., Roosevelt Reservation).

Expedite land withdrawals under 43 U.S.C. 155 to bypass Engle Act restrictions.

Rules of Engagement:

Armed Forces to operate under DoD-prescribed rules of force.

Installation commanders maintain authority to exclude individuals under 10 U.S.C. § 2672 and 50 U.S.C. § 797.

Implementation Timeline:Initial Phase: Conducted on a limited sector of federal land.

Within 45 Days: DoD to assess and potentially expand operations to more sectors.

Trump mandated that the U.S. military beef up its presence along the southern border days after NBC reported that Trump administration officials mulled over kinetically dismantling the command and control structures of Mexican drug cartels now designated as terrorists. As previously noted, two months of signals intelligence have been conducted across the region via U.S. military spy planes.

Border apprehensions hit a record low in February -- which, ironically, could make it harder to justify invoking the Insurrection Act to deal with a border "invasion" (chart via Axios)

The broader theme readers should understand is that securing the border plays into a much larger theme of national and hemispheric defense across the Americas. Hence, a push for stronger economic integration between the United States and Canada, coupled with a hardened defense perimeter stretching from the Arctic to the Panama Canal.

Boosting hemispheric defense doesn't stop with the southern border, Panama, Canada, or Greenland, but also the American financial system. The number one mission has been ridding the system of Chinese Triads and cartel terrorists, hence the TD Bank AML penalty. All of this is preparing the Americas for 2030 to challenge China.

Vaccines Cause Autism: The Burden of Proof Has Been Met

BS and outright lies are starkly impossible now.  We just went from knowing to KNOWING.  As in the science.

Industry apologists can now F**K OFF and D*E.  Great racket for decades.

now just imagine is all autism happens to be vaccine driven.  That happens to be possible but merely less likely.

Vaccines Cause Autism: The Burden of Proof Has Been Met

They said the autism science was settled. It isn’t. In fact, it now shows what many have long suspected—and others have tried desperately to suppress.

Sayer Ji

Apr 08, 2025

https://sayerji.substack.com/p/vaccines-cause-autism-the-burden

A recent peer-reviewed article by Finnish physician and researcher Dr. Nina Bjelogrlić, published in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research, presents one of the most decisive and courageous statements to date: childhood vaccines—particularly those containing aluminum adjuvants and mercury-based preservatives—are causally linked to autism and intellectual disabilities.

This is not a theory. It is a forensic analysis grounded in decades of toxicological research, epidemiological evidence, clinical observation, and biological plausibility. Her conclusions are not speculative; they are systematically aligned with every benchmark used in medicine to determine whether an exposure causes harm—including the famed Bradford Hill criteria for causality, translated into plain evidence anyone can see.

The result? The burden of proof is no longer on parents, whistleblowers, or independent researchers. It now lies squarely on those who mandated, manufactured, and monetized these interventions while dismissing the growing chorus of concern—and ignoring signals of harm hiding in plain sight.