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By Jorge Martín MirandaA truly anomalous and little-known aspect related to the abilities and behavior of the creatures known as 'chupacabras' is how they levitate in the air and fly.Those who have not investigated this angle related to them will say that such a thing is impossible and that the allegations are a product of people's imagination. Now, when one has exhaustively investigated the vast amount of case studies linked to these events and has collected scores of testimonies about them offered by serious and honest witnesses of all kinds (men, women, children and the elderly, police, etc.), who repeat the same details over and over again without knowing each other and whose experiences of encounters with the creatures have occurred in different areas of the country, one has to conclude that what they report must have a real basis.Having said this, let us look at a series of testimonies from people in Puerto Rico who experienced encounters with chupacabra-type creatures in which the creatures manifested their ability to levitate in the air and to fly, and the unusual way in which they did so. Here are the testimonies:1. On Sunday, April 2, 1995, a group of about fifteen people, including adults and young people, were having a day trip on top of an embankment in a mountain belonging to Mr. Fín Colón, just behind the town of Orocovis, when at about 6:00 P.M. they had an encounter with another strange creature.While the young people were playing, Mrs. Ana Torres and a friend, sitting next to a slope in the mountain, noticed something next to a tree. Ana threw some pebbles at it and it moved.Upon observing, they saw a gray thing about three feet tall with a humanoid physical conformation. Alarmed, they screamed and called their husbands and the young people, who also saw the unusual being. At that moment, a series of events occurred that alarmed everyone. Mr. Ramón Colón, one of the couple, saw the creature behind the tree: “It was a grey thing,” he told us, “about three feet tall. At first, we didn't see what it looked like. I only saw a grey lump behind the stick.“Then it stuck its head out from behind the trunk and made a hissing noise. I think it was making fun of us.“The boys dropped the ball there, and when they went to look for it, they found themselves face to face with it. It was a small, thin, grey thing. One of the boys, José Angel Cruz, grabbed a stick to hit it, but he was paralyzed and couldn't move.“Then, the strange thing was that two of the boys could see the creature and they told him, “Get out of there, it's right next to you!”, but he couldn't see it. He only saw a bright light that blinded him. It hissed again and he fainted.“Another of the boys got dizzy too, and almost fainted, and then it ran between the sticks and we ran and got the boys up. My wife, my daughters, and my neighbors, we all saw that thing.“We took the boy to the hospital and after a while, he was able to wake up. Then we went to the police station, and at about 9:00 at night, we returned with several policemen to the site. That thing was still there. Where it was running you could see the bushes moving. We approached the site and managed to see it.”When asked, Colón described the creature: “Its eyes are cone-shaped or drop-shaped [large, almond-shaped and oriental-type], luminous, white, and they go from bigger to smaller and elongated towards the sides of its head.“It was something dark grey, and it was crouching, in a hunched position, with its arms and hands hunched and its hands hanging down, but it moved from side to side, from right to left and vice versa.“BUT THAT WASN’T WALKING, IT WAS FLOATING, LEVITATING IN THE AIR. THAT MOVEMENT FROM SIDE TO SIDE WAS LIKE FLOATING. It moved quickly and hid from us.“It came out again and moved and hid from us. Suddenly it made a strange sound, like a quick murmur.”Mr. Colón, nervous, wanted one of the police officers to give him his gun to shoot the creature, but the police officer told him that they couldn’t shoot it, that they should capture it alive, if possible, and that the next day a search would be carried out in the area.One of the police officers, Officer Jorge Cruz, tried to go down to the area where the creature was, but just like in his first encounter at Mr. Barreto's farm, he felt a strong headache and a strange malaise and gave up his attempt.While we were investigating the area with the witnesses, we were able to see and photograph a series of strange three-toed footprints in the ground that seemed to have large claws.“I was deceived,” Colón told us, “I believed that what was seen or what was killing the animals were dogs, as they said, or snakes, but what I saw here is nothing of this world. Now I do believe in everything.”"I am religious, but I cannot close my eyes to the idea that there is life in other worlds, because that would only be putting limits on God's creative work. For me, these creatures are something non-terrestrial."Although I do not deny that I was shocked to see one of them, I was not terrified by its presence. I would say that I found it funny because it was a little fat, kind of chubby. Maybe it was a female, and it was pregnant... but that would imply that they are reproducing here, and that does make me think."When we showed Mr. Pérez the sketch that we had prepared thanks to the details offered by numerous witnesses of his presence on the island, he indicated that what he saw was more or less similar, but that the creature he saw was "...a little fatter, fuller in its belly. I think it was a female," he told us.For their part, Mrs. Lourdes Pérez and her son, residents of 11th Street in the Malpica neighborhood, in Rio Grande, also saw one of the enigmatic creatures two days later, when it flew from the top of a tree behind their residence.On that occasion she could see two fleshy membranes similar to the wings of a bat that joined the arms of the creature with its torso, and that the creature apparently used to facilitate its flight, not by flapping, but more or less by gliding.We added to the sketch the detail of the membranes under the arms of the creatures since other people had previously told us something similar. When we presented the sketch to Mrs. Perez, she was very surprised and said that it was exactly the same as what she and her son had seen.7. At the end of February 1996, members of a family that owned a well-known farm in the municipality of Dorado witnessed, late at night, some incredible events.The information about this case was offered to us confidentially, because the witnesses of the event were afraid to identify themselves due to their professional and economic position, which, they believed, could be affected if what they had seen became known, and they could be ridiculed.According to them, they heard a commotion coming from some pens with animals on their farm, and they felt their dogs, three Dobermans, “...barking frantically and fighting with something.”Looking out the windows of their home, they saw, terrified, several chupacabra-type creatures fighting with their Doberman dogs, while other creatures that levitated in the air entered their pens and attacked several pigs.After killing the pigs, they rose again, floating in the air, carrying the pigs one by one and taking them out of the pens, after which they slowly placed them one by one on the ground, one next to the other, placing them in a perfect line.The terrified owners of the animals could not believe what they saw. Those things (the creatures) flew and behaved intelligently!After killing all the animals and arranging them on the ground in an orderly manner, the creatures left. After spending some time there, and being sure that the creatures were not there, the family members went out and found all the pigs dead and bleeding, with the now classic clean puncture wounds and circular wounds, and also two of their Doberman dogs. One female Doberman had survived the attack but was badly hurt and weak, and died later.8. Police detective and evangelical reverend Eliezer Rivera, who also has a bachelor's degree in sociology and a degree in social work, told us about his experience, which occurred one night in December 1995, when he was confronted by one of the strange creatures.On the night in question, Rivera, after officiating at his church, transported several parishioners to their homes in a van. It was about 9:00 P.M. And they just had to take one of them, called Carlos, home, when they came across something unexpected. They were going down a road in the Cambalache neighborhood, in Canóvanas, when suddenly they saw the incredible creature standing on the left side of the road.“Carlitos was the first to see it,” Rivera told us, “and he shouted to me: ‘Look, look, look... What is that?!’ It was an incredible thing, Martín, it was like an animal. A very ugly thing... Strange, very strange. It must have been about four feet tall, and it was standing like this, half-hunched over, with its arms, which were short and thinner, in this position [bent, raised, and with its hands hanging down].“Under the arms, you could see some fleshy membranes that joined the arms to the torso of the animal, and it had hands with three fingers, and between the fingers you could see some membranes. Do you know what ducks look like? Something like that. The fingers had long, sharp claws.“The head was like an oval, and it had large, elongated eyes on the sides, like slanted [oblique and oriental-type] eyes of an intense red-orange color, bright. The nose was barely noticeable, and the mouth was small. It was a hairy thing, dark, almost black, and its legs were strong below, thinner below. I couldn't see its feet well, but I noticed that it had like three toes too, with claws, and it also had membranes between them.”The detective and minister continued to tell us about the encounter: “That was a fantastic thing, very ugly, very ugly... and it was standing there, looking at us. I wanted to get out to see it better, and Carlitos shouted at me ‘No, let's get out of here! Let's go, let's go!’ But I said to him ‘No, wait, let's see what this is,’ and I opened the door of the vehicle to see if I could get a little closer to it.“I got out and when I moved closer I noticed that it had very slow, strange, almost mechanical movements. I asked myself: ‘Goodbye, is this a robot? ’ Because that’s what it looked like, with slow movements. And it made the same movements that I made. When I got out, I moved my head to the sides, to observe it better, it made the same movements with its head, but slow, as if looking for me or something, as if examining me.“I decided to get closer to it, and then it pulled something long and sharp out of its mouth three times. Really fast! It pulled it out and put it back in its mouth really fast. That thing was more than a foot and a half long. That’s when I thought ‘Hmm, this isn’t me,’ and I went back to the vehicle, closed the door, and rolled up the window. But I kept looking.“Carlitos was really scared, and he kept yelling at me to leave, but I wanted to look at it carefully. THAT WAS WHEN I NOTICED THAT THAT THING HAD SOMETHING COMING DOWN BACKWARDS FROM THE TOP OF ITS HEAD. IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE A CREST MADE UP OF SOME THINGS... I COULD NOT SEE WELL WHAT THEY WERE BECAUSE I SAW THE CREATURE ONLY FROM THE FRONT THE WHOLE TIME. I DIDN'T SEE IT FROM THE SIDE OR FROM THE BACK, AND THOSE THINGS THAT IT HAD ON ITS HEAD LOOKED LIT UP AND CHANGED COLORS ALTERNATELY. THEY LOOKED YELLOW, RED, LIKE GREEN... A VERY STRANGE THING.“AT THE MOMENT, WHEN THOSE THINGS ON ITS HEAD SHINED, THE COLORS BEGAN TO ALTER MORE, THAT WAS THAT AT THE MOMENT, SUDDENLY, THAT THING SHOT UPWARDS AND DISAPPEARED.“THAT WAS FLYING! BUT IT DIDN’T FLAP LIKE A BIRD WOULD. NO SIR, IT JUST FLEW OUT LIKE A BULLET AND SHOT UPWARDS. IN FACT, IT FELT LIKE THE BRANCHES OF THE STICKS ABOVE US WAVED WHEN IT PASSED NEAR THEM.”He continued explaining: “When that thing left, we left right away, and I won’t deny it, I was a little scared because that was really ugly, really weird.”Final CommentsBased on the testimonies presented here (and more of the same type) it can be seen that the mysterious chupacabra-type creatures do have the ability to levitate in the air and fly, but they do it in an anomalous way, not like a bird or a terrestrial bat, which would move its wings to move in the sky. Instead, these creatures have elongated appendages coming out of their bodies on their backs that light up and move rapidly, crisscrossing, and when they do that they produce some kind of unknown energy that forms something like a force field around them resembling a whirlpool that propels them and allows them to fly and/or levitate in the air.This seems to indicate that the chupacabra-type creatures are some kind of biological creatures with both organic and cybernetic characteristics. In other words, they are half biological and half machine creatures that have extremely advanced technology.We have given you the details here, which are FACTS. Now it is up to you to examine them and come to your own conclusions regarding what we have discussed here.There are other data related to these creatures that indicate the same possibility that we are dealing with biological-cybernetic organisms, but we will discuss them another time.NOTE: If you have experienced encounters with these types of creatures, please report it here or call us at (787) 363-5247. You can also write to us in our private message inbox on Facebook Messenger on our Jorge Martin Miranda page or on Whatsapp, under the same phone number.*Thanks to Jorge Martin Miranda for permission to post. Lon**********TERRIFYING ENCOUNTERS! INTENSE, RAW FEAR! | LIVE Chat | Q & A | Join Us! (REAL EXPERIENCER REPORTS)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? 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As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! 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An extremely dangerous creature that lives in the water, has horns like a deer and is covered with iridescent, crystalline scales and a single, large crystal in its forehead.The following account was forwarded to me:"I am native and I’ve lived at an Arizona reservation my whole life, we’re Tohono O’odham. The creature I am talking about is the Estakwvnayv, it’s extremely dangerous and actively hunts people because it usually lives in areas with prey items that aren’t large enough to sustain it.My grandfather took a search party to find it after a child went missing and was later found washed up at the mouth of a river cave system. Apparently, these things are still around but they’re a lot smaller than their descendants which is why they stick to eating deer and large fish now. This explains why no more people are being reported missing at the reservation after they’ve gone fishing or swimming.When I was about 9, my father took me fishing at one of the Tohono Nation rivers and he pointed out this huge black silhouette moving through the lake, once we got closer to it I could definitely tell that it was a snake, it looked like a fully grown Burmese python but it’s girth was huge, around 4 feet in girth and about 30 ft long according to my dad. My dad explained that it was the Estakwvnayv (Horned Serpent) and that I shouldn’t talk about it or it’d come for me at night. Later on, my grandfather told me about his search party story from the 70s.Today, I’m a grad student and Apprentice Biologist for the University Of West Virginia. I’ve been trying to find someone who knows about the creature for years, I’ve even asked several professors if it’s a known species and nobody could ever identify it. My best guess is that it is a large amphibious python (Like an anaconda but way larger) that hasn’t been recognized by modern science yet.My second guess is that it’s an “extinct” cousin of modern pythons that didn’t die out and somehow survived and evolved around native reserves due to almost every reserve being very remote, and river cave systems are the perfect place for a large predator so it makes sense. Lastly, The horns on its head were more like bony protrusions like a Rhino Viper, which is most likely used for defense." G**********TERRIFYING ENCOUNTERS! INTENSE, RAW FEAR! | LIVE Chat | Q & A | Join Us! (REAL EXPERIENCER REPORTS)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? 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As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

Recently, there have been strange sightings and sounds in the southeast Ohio Appalachians, especially odd 'clicking' sounds in the trees in the early morning, and human whispers at night!I received the following account:"We live in the Appalachians, in the Southeastern Ohio Valley, part of the Wayne National Forest. Recently, I have felt and heard unexplained things. Odd eerie clicking sounds in the trees, particularly in the morning, mimicking human whispers at night, along with that heavy feeling of an evil presence. I think some who aren't usually susceptible to feeling such things couldn't possibly ignore this, it is so thick and heavy!Whatever this is, my husband knows and has seen some things, but is always in denial. His son saw something recently that scared him so bad that he came back in the house so quickly, I had never seen him move like that, repeatedly saying, "Oh, Lord Jesus, help me!" He would be hugging himself in bed under the covers. He's a 30-year-old too! Reacting like that is unlike him! I've never known the boy to pray at all, let alone so fervently.Our dogs don't like being around whatever this was either! Their hairs also stand on end. Our youngest dog wants to bury himself under the covers of our bed. I listen to our dogs, because they know, sense, hear, and even see things we cannot. Also, the crows I usually feed during the morning have been behaving unusually as well. Cawing like there's something wrong happening. They're coming around less and less too. That is concerning.One night last month, we woke up to find that a huge tree limb from an older tree crashed down at some point, and had taken out some parts of its neighboring Black Walnut tree, and impaled the ground coming down. There wasn't a storm that night at all. So what caused this huge branch to fall like this? And the tree it came from is so huge and has got to be ancient!I came across a post looking for what animal makes odd alien-like sounds with some clicking early in the morning, up in the trees of the Appalachian Ohio Valley area. I haven't found anything yet. And there hasn't been any show of the alleged billions of Cicada broods mentioned to come. So that's not it. No birds we know of make these sounds during the day. So what is that?I don't have an explanation for the other crap we've experienced. So I can't find the source of the sound either. I do know there's more to this world than meets the eye, and nothing is as it seems (most of the time than not). We may all find out sooner than we think, whether we want to or not. Do we even want to know? Maybe not at all! Who knows? All I can say is PRAY like you've never prayed before. My stepson did. He hasn't acted the same since. This was all just last month too." O**********TERRIFYING ENCOUNTERS! INTENSE, RAW FEAR! | LIVE Chat | Q & A | Join Us! (REAL EXPERIENCER REPORTS)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonOUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

News God of War It’s Game Over for Current God of War TV Adaptation; Studios Promise Project Still Alive By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 17, 2024 Screenshot: PlayStation Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: PlayStation Back in December 2022, we found out Wheel of Time showrunner Rafe Judkins, along with The Expanse alums Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, had signed up for a TV adaptation of the 2018 version of the Sony PlayStation game, God of War. Today, however, Deadline broke the news that Judkins, Fergus, and Osby are no longer involved in the project, despite completing numerous scripts. According to the trade, Sony and Amazon MGM Studios both praised the writing but wanted the series to take “a different creative direction.” Despite the mass exodus of the creative team, Prime Video and Sony are still bullish on getting an adaptation into production, with Amazon and Sony planning to hire new writers to tackle the material. When the series was first announced, it was described as follows: Kratos, aka the God of War, who after exiling himself from his blood-soaked past in ancient Greece, hangs up his weapons forever in the Norse realm of Midgard. When his beloved wife dies, Kratos sets off on a dangerous journey with his estranged son to spread her ashes from the highest peak—his wife’s final wish. Kratos soon realizes the journey is an epic quest in disguise, one which will test the bonds between father and son, and force Kratos to battle new Gods and monsters for the fate of the world.  No news on when this adaptation will move forward. But given the project has to start from scratch, it will likely be a year or two before we see anything on-screen. [end-mark] The post It’s Game Over for Current <i>God of War</i> TV Adaptation; Studios Promise Project Still Alive appeared first on Reactor.

The Israel Defense Forces have killed the Hamas leader responsible for the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that left 1,200 dead and instigated the Israel-Hamas war, according to reports on Thursday. “The master murderer, Yahya Sinwar, who is responsible for the massacre and atrocities of Oct. 7, was killed today by IDF soldiers,” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz confirmed in a statement to Fox News. Israel’s military said that during operations in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday night, it had killed three Hamas militants, and it was investigating whether one of them was Sinwar. “Initial report: During IDF operations in the Gaza Strip, three terrorists were eliminated. The IDF and [the Israel Security Agency] are checking the possibility that one of the terrorists was Yahya Sinwar. At this stage, the identity of the terrorists cannot be confirmed,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a previous statement. There were no signs of hostages taken in the Oct. 7 attack in the area where the terrorists were eliminated, the statement added. “The forces that are operating in the area are continuing to operate with the required caution,” according to the Israel Defense Forces. The body was taken to a laboratory to assess whether its DNA matched that of Sinwar. Killing Sinwar has been a key objective for Israel, and it may now be more willing to scale back its military operations in Gaza. Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Gilad Erdan holds up a sign with the contact information of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar while speaking at the U.N. General Assembly emergency special session on the Israel-Hamas war last Dec. 12 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) After Oct. 7, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht said Israeli troops would not rest until Sinwar was killed, calling him a “dead man walking.” Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant posted on X on Thursday morning that Israel’s “enemies cannot hide.” “You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.” – Leviticus 26Our enemies cannot hide. We will pursue and eliminate them. pic.twitter.com/FDJ7obPIM7— ???? ???? – Yoav Gallant (@yoavgallant) October 17, 2024 The post Israel Eliminates Hamas Leader Behind Oct. 7 Massacre appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. A recent exposé by James O’Keefe of the O’Keefe Media Group has brought to light more accusations after a Meta engineer admitted the company suppresses certain political content on Facebook. The senior engineer was covertly filmed during a discussion where he acknowledged that Facebook potentially demotes posts criticizing Kamala Harris and engages in shadowbanning. During the undercover recording, the engineer alleged that criticisms of Kamala Harris based on her personal life are likely downgraded automatically. He explained, “Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris is unfit to be a president because she doesn’t have a child, that kind of shit is automatically demoted.” Further, he noted that such actions occur without informing the user, effectively reducing the visibility and interaction with the posts—a tactic he equated with shadowbanning. Display "BREAKING: Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are "Automatically Demoted”" from rumble.com Click here to display content from rumble.com Always display content from rumble.com Open "BREAKING: Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are “Automatically Demoted”" directly Further details emerged as the engineer discussed Meta’s internal strategies to control content. He spoke of the “Integrity Team” at Meta, which uses what he described as “civic classifiers” to manage posts. These classifiers are specifically designed to identify and demote political content. “That means if anything is related to political content, it’s automatically not shown,” he clarified. Moreover, the engineer touched on measures Meta has implemented to prevent misuse of its platform, including a “SWAT team” that has been active since April to consider various scenarios in which the platform could be exploited. He suggested these efforts are part of a broader strategy to maintain control over the dissemination of civic content. The implications of such disclosures are profound, especially as Gyawali hinted that Meta could influence the 2024 election, indicating support from Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. In response to the stir caused by these revelations, Meta executive Andy Stone addressed the issue on the social media platform X, minimizing the situation. He described it as an “undercover sting” that simply uncovered what has been Meta’s long-standing policy, acknowledged publicly, of reducing the amount of political content shown to users based on their feedback. “This is something Meta has been public about for years: we show less political content of ??? kinds and ??? viewpoints because users have told us they want to see less of it,” Stone wrote, in an attempt to dismiss the claims that Meta was biased. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Meta Defends Political Content Controls, Brushes Off Engineer’s Censorship Claims appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Věra Jourová is not a psychologist but she decided to play one during an interview, by “diagnosing” X owner Elon Musk as a person unable to “recognize” good and evil. But then, he apparently can, after all – because Jourová in the same breath accused him of being “a promoter of evil.” Jourová is an EU bureaucrat on her way out, after serving as Vice President of the Commission for Values and Transparency for the past five years. “Good riddance. If she wants to see evil, I suggest she use a mirror,” Musk shot back in a post on X, adding that Jourová is the “epitome of banal, bureaucratic evil.” Jourová is known for pushing anti-free speech legislation such as enabling mass surveillance of private messages (which she claims is “privacy-preserving” and “not breaking encryption”), combating “disinformation and hate speech,” and even going after whoever the EU decides is a conspiracy theorist by using law enforcement. Musk, on the other hand, has been in the cross-hairs of many governments ever since he bought former Twitter and by and large allowed free speech on the platform, while also releasing the damning Twitter Files. But Jourová sees “hate speech” in free speech – and made sure to cite instances of antisemitism to give legitimacy to her pro-censorship stance, and to the insulting language she used at the expense of Musk and X (she referred to the platform as “the main hub of antisemitism”). However, most of what the soon-to-be former EU commissioner brands as “hate speech” are opinions and criticism she dislikes. Speaking for Politico, Jourová made a distinction between Musk (who she admitted she has never met) and “other tech bosses” who she said “recognize” good and evil. And, the politician revealed she is well aware of the massive power that Big Tech has – but as long as that power is in what she considers the right hands, that doesn’t seem to worry her. However – “I’m really scared by digital platforms in bad hands,” said Jourová . Another thing Jourová appears scared of is innovation, at least, the kind that is not fully controlled by the bloc’s restrictive legislation. “We have to be sure that the innovations are developed to do good to people,” she said, rejecting accusations that some EU’s new laws – such as the Artificial Intelligence Act – are stifling innovation. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post EU’s Věra Jourová Labels Elon Musk a “Promoter of Evil” for Permitting “Hate Speech” on X appeared first on Reclaim The Net.