News Star Trek: Section 31 A New Trailer for Star Trek: Section 31 Prepares Us to “Get Messy” Wacky fun spy times, ahoy! By Molly Templeton | Published on December 9, 2024 Photo Credit: Jan Thijs/Paramount+ Comment 0 Share New Share Photo Credit: Jan Thijs/Paramount+ Perhaps it wasn’t the wisest choice of a line to feature in a baffling sort of trailer. “Let’s get messy,” Michelle Yeoh’s once-emperor Philippa Georgiou says to her new team of minions. And messy is what we get in the second Section 31 trailer to be just perplexing in its tone. Section 31 is spies, black ops, probably murders (no matter what the Starfleet representative says). This is so counter to most Star Trek action (not to mention philosophy) that giving it a wacky punchy sexy tone just seems off. And it doesn’t help that the trailer gives its excellent cast little to do but spout cliches. “We’re facing a threat unlike anything Starfleet’s ever seen.” (Are you serous? Even after five seasons of Discovery?) “Whatever you believed your mission was, it’s worse than you thought.” “You have no idea what you’ve started.” Etc. One can certainly hope that they’re saving all the good dialogue for the actual movie. Yeoh is always a delight (though I’m not sure about what appear to be flashback scenes; please, no?); it’s great to see the perpetually underused Kacey Rohl (Hannibal, Arrow); and we’ve also got Omari Hardwick (Power), Sam Richardson (Ted Lasso), and Robert Kazinsky, who was cheerfully annoying in Pacific Rim. And there is an unexpected appearance by a black-and-white-faced person, which hearkens back to the original series! And changelings! What’s more, the film is directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, who is certainly on familiar ground; he was a producer and director for Star Trek: Discovery. (The screenplay comes from Craig Sweeny, with story by Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt.) All in all it remains hard to know what to make of this. But we don’t have long to go before we can get the whole picture: Section 31 premieres January 24th on Paramount Plus.[end-mark] The post A New Trailer for <i>Star Trek: Section 31</i> Prepares Us to “Get Messy” appeared first on Reactor.

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Archaeologists in Zambia have unearthed wooden artifacts dating back approximately 476,000 years, challenging the long-standing view that early humans primarily relied on stone tools. These well-crafted objects showcase the intelligence, imagination, and skills of our ancient ancestors. The artifacts, discovered near Kalambo Falls, include a wedge, a digging stick, a cut log, and a notched branch. Their careful assembly suggests they were used to create platforms or foundations for dwellings, demonstrating advanced woodworking abilities far beyond what was previously attributed to early hominids. Preserved in swampy terrain, these items predate the emergence of Homo sapiens. Researchers believe their creators were likely Homo heidelbergensis or a related species. Unlike stone tools, wooden objects typically decompose over time, leaving little evidence of their use. This makes the Kalambo Falls find particularly significant, offering rare insight into early hominid ingenuity. “Forget the Stone Age label and look at what these people were doing: it’s something new and big, made of wood. It involves intelligence, imagination, and skill,” said Professor Larry Barham of the University of Liverpool, who led the study. To determine the age of the artifacts, scientists used luminescence dating, a cutting-edge method not available during earlier excavations in the 1960s. Professor Geoff Dallier of Aberystwyth University explained that this technique allowed researchers to finally establish the timeline of these remarkable discoveries. The findings suggest that early hominids understood how to manipulate wood to meet their needs, potentially revolutionizing their methods for obtaining food and building shelters. As Barham noted, this level of innovation highlights the sophistication of ancient humans and their ability to adapt their environment to suit their purposes. The post 500,000-Year-Old Man-Made Wooden Objects Found in Zambia appeared first on Anomalien.com.

MSNBC host Ali Velshi, after begrudgingly acknowledging the stunning collapse of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies at Walmart, could not keep himself from lauding another major retailer as a stalwart of the racist ideology.  During the Dec. 1 edition of his eponymous MSNBC show, Velshi praised Meijer, a giant Midwest retailer for earning a “perfect score” from the radical LGBTQ+ pressure group, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and for their commitment to possibly discriminatory “supplier diversity”. “Meijer, for example, is another large company that launched specific diversity programs in 2020,” Velshi told his audience. MRC researchers investigated both of these claims. Although Meijer ignored requests for comment, MRC researchers found disconcerting corporate statements on supply diversity by Meijer, while discovering that HRC claims that Meijer adheres to their horrifying criteria for a perfect score. Additionally, Meijer appears to have removed a controversial definition following requests for comment. During the MSNBC segment, Velshi went on to say that Meijer had massively improved their score on the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) between 2008 and the present. He specifically said, “[Meijer] amended its company policies and has fully rebounded. HRC now gives it a perfect score. It also committed to supplier diversity, one of the many policies that Walmart has backed away from this week. Buying goods from companies that are majority owned by women, minorities or disabled people or members of the LGBTQ community.” As acknowledged by Velshi, podcast host Robby Starbuck has repeatedly and successfully called out corporate DEI programs. Since June 27, several companies have stepped away from DEI and the HRC, including Walmart, Ford, Toyota, Molson-Coors, Tractor Supply, Harley-Davidson, Jack Daniel’s parent company Brown-Furman, Stanley Black & Decker, Caterpillar and Lowe’s.  Meijer has yet to do so. MRC researchers reached out to Meijer six times for a response about its relationship with the HRC and commitment to supplier diversity. With no response from Meijer, here are the facts.  Meijer has repeatedly boasted of its perfect CEI scores on its website in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. In turn, the radical HRC has validated Meijer’s alignment with their requirements for this score. According to the HRC, Meijer “Provides Gender Transition Guidelines and at least one additional transgender inclusive policy or practice for its employees” and has “Equal health coverage for transgender individuals without exclusion for medically necessary care.” Meijer also failed to answer questions about whether it discriminates based on race and gender to achieve DEI goals. The company frequently touts efforts at supplier diversity, hosting events in September 2020, February 2021, January 2022, and August 2022. Three out of the four events specifically invited applications from “Certified minority-, LGBTQ-, woman-, veteran- and disability-owned businesses,” to apply, seemingly restricted participation to these groups. Meijer also showed their support for supplier diversity by donating $300,000 to the National Minority Supplier Development Council. On Dec. 2, MRC researchers found that Meijer’s supplier diversity FAQ included the question, “What is a diverse supplier.” The list identified women, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Native Alaskans, LGBT People, veterans, disabled veterans and people with disabilities. It notably excluded men, white people and groups like Italian Americans or Irish Americans. Following questions from the MRC, Meijer removed this question from the page entirely.  Despite these apparently exclusionary lists for supplier diversity events and their definition, Meijer has claimed elsewhere that “Meijer Supplier Inclusion programs are open to all diverse, non-diverse and local vendors.” Conservatives are under attack! Contact MSNBC at (800) 952-5210 and demand they report on the dangers of leftist DEI ideology infecting American companies.

After months of insisting he would not pardon his son Hunter, President Joe Biden did just that -- as almost anyone other than left-wing cable news legal analysts and Trump-hating late-night comics expected. In doing so, Biden effectively confirmed the Trump “conspiracy theory” of a two-tiered justice system. The pardon covers not only Hunter Biden’s convictions on tax and gun charges but also any crimes he may have committed since 2014, the year he joined the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Biden’s pardon statement said: “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son -- and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter -- who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution.” Biden added: “Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.” Left-wing pundits, with some exceptions, offered various excuses to defend the pardon Biden vowed not to grant: Well, hey, this was his son; Hunter was unfairly targeted; President-elect Donald Trump vowed to go after political enemies; and Trump was a greater abuser of the pardon power. MSNBC’s legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said: “Prosecuting someone for unpaid taxes that are then repaid with interest and penalties is something that is typically resolved civilly instead of through criminal charges. So, I do believe that Hunter Biden was treated differently than any other person would have been treated, even if it did not arise to the level of legal selective or legal vindictive prosecution.” Special prosecutor David Weiss said in a court filing after the pardon, “There was none and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case.” Fox News legal analyst and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andy McCarthy said, “So if I rob a bank, but I bring the money back, that’s OK? It’s idiotic. As far as the gun case is concerned, that was not what they call a lie-and-try case where you fill out the form, but you don’t get the gun because they find out there’s a problem. [Hunter] actually got the gun. Those cases get brought up all the time. And as for a tax violation, it’s just like the bank robbery ... Paying back the money you owe doesn’t mean you didn’t commit the crime. It’s not a defense ... those are just silly arguments and in point of fact, he got cut break after break because he was Hunter Biden, because he was the president’s son ... they actually tried to make the case against him go away, which is a break that no American would get.” As for breaks “no American would get,” IRS whistleblowers said the IRS and the DOJ stymied their investigation by dragging it out so the statute of limitations would allow Hunter to skate on the nonpayment of taxes in his highest-earning years. The whistleblowers also say they were prevented from interviewing other Biden family members. About the pardon, House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said, “The charges Hunter faced were just the tip of the iceberg in the blatant corruption that President Biden and the Biden Crime Family have lied about to the American people. Last June, Comer’s committee, along with the House Judiciary and Ways and Means committees, said, “The Committees are investigating the President’s role in and knowledge of his family’s international influence peddling schemes that have generated over $18 million for Biden family members and their related companies, and over $27 million when including the payments to their business associates, who often were used to transfer funds to Biden family members.” This raises a question. When will Biden pardon the rest of his family members and himself? Stay tuned. Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an “Elderado,” visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on X @larryelder.!

Lara Trump announced that she will step down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee amid a speculated Senate run in the state of Florida. Lara was first elected to serve as RNC co-chair alongside Michael Whatley in March of this year, replacing former chair Ronna McDaniel. Lara is now reportedly eyeing the Florida Senate seat following President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Republican Sen. Marco Rubio to serve as secretary of state in the incoming administration. Lara is among the potential candidates to replace Rubio, confirming to the Associated Press on Sunday that she would 'seriously consider' the Senate bid. Since stepping into her role at the RNC, Lara set her sights on surpassing fundraising records, ramping up election integrity measures, and increasing turnout of low-propensity voters."We accomplished all three," Lara said in a Sunday post on X. "The job I came to do is now complete and I intend to formally step down from the RNC at our next meeting."This announcement came less than a month after Rubio's appointment sparked rumors about potential successors. Given Rubio's likely confirmation, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will have to appoint a successor who will serve in the Senate through 2026 before holding a special election to fill the seat through 2028. Lara is among the potential candidates to replace Rubio, confirming to the Associated Press on Sunday that she would "seriously consider" the Senate bid. “If I’m being completely transparent, I don’t know exactly what that would look like," Lara said of the potential Senate appointment. "And I certainly want to get all of the information possible if that is something that’s real for me. But yeah, I would 100% consider it."Florida is now facing a total of three congressional vacancies. In addition to Rubio, Florida Republican Rep. Mike Waltz and former Rep. Matt Gaetz were both tapped to serve in the upcoming administration. Gaetz, who was recruited for attorney general, resigned from the House after his nomination and later withdrew his bid altogether. Waltz was nominated to serve as national security adviser and has stated that he will resign on January 20, the day of Trump's inauguration. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!