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Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Oh, what a beautiful day here in my green space, a warm, pleasant breeze, and the warm early sunrise upon my face. 🌅 Partner was up, and we chatted over a coffee ☕ about all the rotten stuff going on in the civilised world. It's been reduced to a refuse bin world. 🪐

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I_lWGG9Uas

I then changed the subject to how nice it was to have this extended August-type weather, ☀️🌸🌼, which was supposed to last all the way into next week, I believe. Shhhhhh! Nobody has found the stick 🥢 I used to prop up the jetstream 🌌 with yet. 🤣

One thing I love about retirement is that I still get up early, but it's so lovely to know you don't have to rush off somewhere to punch someone else's clock. Now the world can go by my clock. Well, now it's on with the show!

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

OUR ANCESTORS RETURN?

_*I came across a posted article this morning with a similar topic on another social network. After doing a little research, I came up with the latest report from the Webb Space Telescope Team about any recent unusual discovery *_

**The James Webb Just Found Something Extremely Bizarre About the Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Inner Solar System**

Our solar system's latest and only third known interstellar visitor is becoming more fascinating by the week.

Spotted in early July, the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, is widely believed to be a comet. It's traveling so fast that one look at its speed was enough to let astronomers know that it came from untold thousands of light-years away. And it may even be older than our entire solar system.

Now, the James Webb Space Telescope has turned its mighty eye — specifically, its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument — towards the object, furnishing us with more details about its size and composition to back up what other observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope, had found previously.

These findings were published in a new study by researchers at NASA and a host of universities, currently awaiting peer review. And one detail in it is especially tantalizing, as highlighted by Space.com: 3I/ATLAS has among the highest ever ratio of carbon dioxide to water ever observed in a comet. And it also appears that the ice entombed within the comet may have been exposed to higher levels of radiation than comes from our solar system, the authors found...

_3I/ATLAS is expected to reach perihelion, its closest distance to the Sun, around October 30 this year, coming within Mars' orbit. Along the way, it'll travel behind the Sun from our perspective — meaning for a while, it'll be impossible to observe._

*IMAGE INCLUDED by NASA / James Webb Space Telescope*

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August 28, 9:17 AM EDT

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My personal belief is that I do not doubt the existence of life out there, or at least a symbiotic being with human-like qualities, or any being with self-identity, whether it be in a physical form or an energy form. I believe it depends on the level of evolution. Where in the universe? Ahead or back? Maybe they have been here before, and they will return. Or maybe never left, you know. Perhaps these advanced species, like every dutiful scientist, need to go back to check on that petri dish in sector 22 parsec 6 in the Alpha Quadrent, third rocky planet of the Sol sector in Vector 26 region, MAM!.

This is just one of many possible scenarios in the Infinite Potentialities. I like this one, and I would love actually to see CONTACT DAY! I believe that will change the entire course of humanity's evolutionary progress.

We need to be ready to receive the enlightenment, not fight it.

Define alien.

And that is about it for me for today; It would more than greatly please me if I had a taker on a conversation about ARE OUR ANCESTORS REALLY RETURNING? Never ask is there's life out there? I can't help but feel more convinced over time that there is more life out there than there is here on Earth, and they have been observing us for a very long time, possibly even living among us, watching us like a specimen in a petri dish. I believe that is all part of the way the entire universal system is meant to evolve in—the evolution of the Universal Cerebral Cortex.

BREAKING NEWS:

**Trump welcomed by royals at Windsor Castle as protesters gather in central London**

*What We're Covering:*

• US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have been spending the day at Windsor Castle on their historic second state visit to Britain.

• The pomp and splendor of a royal occasion was on full display as King Charles III and Queen Camilla welcomed the Trumps and joined them for a carriage ride before lunch. Trump also laid a wreath at the tomb of Queen Elizabeth II.

• While Trump is at Windsor, protesters are being kept far away. However, hundreds of people are gathering about 20 miles away in central London for a demonstration that is now underway.

VIDEO INCLUDED:

8 min ago

**Trump is being kept at an arm’s length from the British public**

A striking split-screen is playing out in Britain. In the safe haven of the English countryside, Donald Trump is being showered with all the pageantry the British state can marshal. Meanwhile, in London, the British public is making plain its feelings about the US president...

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Updated 11:05 AM EDT, Wed September 17, 2025

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**Ex-CDC director tells senators that RFK Jr. required political sign-off on decisions, called for firings without cause

Dr. Susan Monarez, former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday that US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put politics before public health when he required that all CDC policy and personnel decisions be cleared by political staff.

She was ousted last month, just 29 days into her tenure as CDC director, amid clashes with Kennedy over vaccine policies. Dr. Debra Houry, who stepped down from her role as the CDC’s chief medical officer in protest after Monarez’s ouster, also testified in Wednesday’s hearing. “I was fired for holding the line on scientific integrity,” Monarez told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in the hearing. “I had refused to commit to approving vaccine recommendations without evidence, fire career officials without cause, or resign.” ...

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Updated Sep 17, 2025, 10:45 AM ET - Updated 32 min ago

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Bank of Canada lowers interest rate to 2.5% in first cut since March

Most economists felt cut was a done deal, especially after low-drama inflation report*

The Bank of Canada lowered its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.5 per cent on Wednesday, marking its first cut since March, as the central bank moves to stimulate a weakened economy. The job market has softened, inflation excluding gas has eased, and the federal government's removal of retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. has reduced some "upside risk" to future inflation, governor Tiff Macklem noted in his opening remarks during a news conference in Ottawa.

"Considerable uncertainty remains. But with a weaker economy and less upside risk to inflation, Governing Council judged that a reduction in the policy rate was appropriate to better balance the risks going forward," he said.

*Bank of Canada Interest Rate, CHART:*

*A snapshot of the Canadian economy:*

*Inflation pressures 'more contained,' says Macklem:*

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Posted: Sep 17, 2025 9:47 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

- CBC -

I study climate change. This summer, it got too hot for me to do my field work**

*I feel conflicted about sharing my fear and panic when my job is to report facts without bias*

The sun was beating down mercilessly on my back as I bent over my work, making it impossible to ignore the cloying heat. I was in rubber boots and grungy clothes, standing in a Gaspésie salt marsh in eastern Quebec to conduct my master's research. I gave up on my measurements and slowly sat down on my haunches, placing my arms in the putrid marsh up to my elbows.

The water should have felt cooling. But our phones showed the air temperature was 32 C, 43 with humidity; on par with the hottest temperature ever recorded in the region. I wiped the sweat off my forehead with my mucky palm but there was nowhere in the shadeless marsh to hide from the oppressive heat.

*This red retardant is crucial in the fight against wildfires. But is it also harming the environment?*

_I was aware that we were in an unprecedented wildfire season, but it's human nature to compartmentalize individual, discrete events into anomalies, and that's exactly what happened to me._

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Posted: Sep 17, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

- CBC -

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