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On September 29, 2024, a video (see below) from the town of Axutla in the Mixteca Poblana region of Puebla, Mexico, went viral, showing a strange object, believed to be a UFO, in broad daylight. Captured on camera by locals, the footage, which lasts around 30 seconds, shows a mysterious circular object with spiked edges hovering in the clear sky. The video first surfaced on the Facebook page “Axutla Agua que Brilla,” and quickly spread across social media worldwide. Despite the viral nature of the video, local authorities have yet to issue an official statement regarding the incident. For now, the UFO remains unidentified, and as more viewers speculate, the mystery deepens. Could this be another case of mistaken identity, or is there something more to this unexplained sighting? The post UFO Sighting in Axutla, Puebla: Spiked Object Captured in Broad Daylight appeared first on Anomalien.com.

Tonight’s VP debate, between GOP nominee J.D. Vance and Democratic nominee Tim Walz comes on the heels of a months-long media assault on Vance contrasted with a friendly sales-pitch of Walz.  The contrast couldn’t be more stark in how the two were greeted into the 2024 race. Walz has been sold to the American public as a “moderate” “folksy” “football coach” with “rural roots.”  On the other hand, Vance has been depicted as a “weird” and “dangerous” anti-women candidate who “believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity.” The media even judo-flipped Vance’s criticism of Walz’s “stolen valor” story by actually questioning his service, instead.  The following are the most egregious examples of leftist journalists and celebrities eviscerating Vance while whipping up excitement for Walz since the two VP candidates were nominated:     TIM WALZ   Selling Leftist Walz as “Folksy” “Football Coach” “Moderate” with “Rural Roots”     Correspondent Selina Wang: “He [Tim Walz] really has that perfect backstory. He also has those rural roots….He’s the one….who labeled J.D. Vance and his Republican allies as ‘weird,’ which gained a lot of steam with the Harris campaign. He has this folksy, personal, informal vibe that has really appealed to a lot of Democrats….Rural backstory….former member of the NRA….He was a football coach.”...Chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl: “His district is a district that Donald Trump carried quite handedly, a pretty conservative district. And as a member of Congress, he was viewed as a moderate Democrat.”— Correspondent Selina Wang on ABC News Special Report, August 6. Walz’s lifetime ACU rating is 8.   Don’t Believe the Hype! Harris-Walz are the Jordan and Pippen of Politics?     “I’m Hallie Jackson, live at the home of the Chicago Bulls! And if Vice President Harris hopes to be the new political Michael Jordan for Democrats, tonight we’re gonna hear from the guy you could call her Scottie Pippen.”— Correspondent Hallie Jackson on NBC News Now’s live coverage of the night three of the Democratic National Convention, August 21.   Tim Walz “Knocked It Out of the Park,” “Electric,” Like a “Friday Night Lights” Episode Co-host Gayle King: “I have a friend of mine, a grown ass man who said to me, I haven’t put on my jersey in years, but this guy made me want to put on my football jersey and suit up and get out there and do something. I thought that was very funny. Talk about the importance of Tim Walz to this campaign, because he knocked it out of the park, according to the people in this room last night.”Chief campaign and election correspondent Robert Costa: “Oh, it was electric in here for Democrats, and they believe that Tim Walz makes this about something bigger than politics. It’s almost like an episode of Friday Night Lights.”— CBS Mornings, August 22.   Walz Is “Attack Dog” But Somehow Still “Joyful and Jolly” “He [Tim Walz] can be an attack dog and do it with a smile on his face….When Walz took the stage, he said ‘We have a heck of a lot more energy than they did at their convention. And there’s one guy who’s going to be sad, sad, sad about it.’ So he has a way of attacking. But, doing it so, you know, coming across as joyful and jolly.”— Correspondent Weijia Jiang on CBS News live coverage of night three of the Democratic National Convention, August 21.   This is the Sales Pitch? Walz Is “Normal As Can Be”     “Tim Walz is the opposite of weird. Like in a dictionary, if you had ‘weird’ and ‘ant-weird,’ you’d have Tim Walz’s picture there as a high school coach and its history teacher, and a guy that seems as normal as can be.”— USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, August 6.    Did Walz’s PR Staff Write This Headline?  “Walzing on Sunshine: How Tim Walz’s Upbeat Demeanor Got Him on The Kamala Harris Ticket”— Headline for August 11 USA Today article.   Condemning “Swift-Boating” of Walz “Republicans are talking about swift-boating Walz because he left the National Guard back in 2005 rather than stay and deploy to Iraq….Republicans are going to find out, I think, that framing a gun-owning Midwest nice guy as a radical far-left commie ends up painting you into some really weird corners.”— Host Chris Hayes on MSNBC’s All In, August 6.   J.D. VANCE   CNN’s Keilar Questions J.D. Vance’s Military Service     “I also think that J.D. Vance, as a messenger on this, may be an imperfect messenger because we have, as you introduced him as a combat correspondent, which was what his title was. But when you dig a little deeper into that, he was a public affairs specialist, someone who did not see combat, which certainly the title ‘combat correspondent’ kind of gives you a different impression. So, he may be the imperfect messenger on that.”— Host Brianna Keilar on CNN’s Inside Politics, August 8.   J.D. Vance Only Wants White People to Have More Children   “This is this natalism that comes from an authoritarian playbook right?...There need to be more white children....This is about great replacement theory racism, right? This is what this is. So don’t misunderstand it for him wanting more children. He wants a certain kind of — you know racist thing.”— Vanity Fair special correspondent Molly Jong-Fast on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, July 30.   Alex Wagner Peers Into J.D. Vance’s Speech, Finds White Supremacy     “It reveals someone who believes that the history that the family should inherit, and indeed, the history that should be determinative in the story of the Vance family, is the history of the eastern Kentucky Vances, and not the Vances from San Diego, which is where his wife is from and from where her Indian parents are from….And I just think the construction of this notion reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity, and it’s couched in a sort of halcyon re-visitation of his roots, but it is actually really revealing about what he thinks matters, and who America is, and that America is a place for people with a shared Western background.”— MSNBC host Alex Wagner on night three of MSNBC’s live coverage of the Republican National Convention, July 17.   J.D. Vance a “More Dangerous Virus” Than Trump     “He’s [Donald Trump] an instinctive, impulsive, intuitive nationalist. J.D. Vance is an ideological nationalist. That’s a much more dangerous virus because he can….polish this stuff and make it seem palatable to people. He can sell this stuff to Silicon Valley. He can sell this stuff to other places….It locks the Republican Party on a pathway that I think is dangerous for the world….This pick is a horror on the world stage.” — Contributor Van Jones on night one of the CNN’s live coverage of the Republican National Convention, July 15.   Vance’s “Cat Lady Comment” Continues to Be “Major Story” in Presidential Race     Host Jonathan Lemire: “JD Vance’s childless cat lady comment continues to be a major story line in the presidential race. And his cleanup attempts, well, they don’t seem to be working….We have children, we love our children, we wouldn’t do anything different in our lives. But to suggest that those childless Americans don’t have high-quality lives….continues to be, on a more serious note, deeply offensive to people….This one [story] is really staying, and particularly for someone like JD Vance, trying to really introduce himself nationally, this is not a good first impression.”...MSNBC contributor Katty Kay: “People with kids don’t like it. People, of course, without kids don’t like it. And then there’s this weird policy proposal that people who have kids should get more votes in the United States….Of course, the Democrats are making hey out of it.”— MSNBC’s Morning Joe, July 31.    Joy Behar: If You Asked J.D. Vance for Directions, He’d Send You Into Traffic     “I went to an event with Tim Walz out in Long Island this summer. And he was the kind of guy….if you were lost, you would ask him for directions. Because he seems safe and he seems sane. J.D. Vance; you ask him for directions, he’d probably put you in traffic.” — Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, September 3.   Variety Slams Ron Howard Movie for Creating “Monster” J.D. Vance “Hillbilly Elegy wasn’t written for readers of [J.D.] Vance’s political persuasion. Rather, it served to explain to liberals why Trump would get elected that fall, inspiring waves of parachute journalism as reporters rushed to such communities to make sense of the strange turn national politics was taking.…It was that dimension of Vance’s narrative that clearly attracted director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer — both self-avowed liberals, who may have created a monster by legitimizing his origin story, much as The Apprentice producer Mark Burnett did by giving Trump a reality TV spotlight back in 2004.”— Variety chief film critic Peter Debruge in a July 17 article.   “Deeply Weird” Vance “Can’t Connect” With “Ordinary Americans”      “[Trump] and Vance are lots of things: they’re misogynists, narcissists, men who cum dead silent, plausible Masked Singer contestants. But they are also deeply weird. And each day seems to bring new evidence of Vance failing to connect with ordinary Americans from being booed by firefighters, whom he referred to as ‘haters,’ to the viral clip of him utterly failing to make small talk in a donut shop.”— Host John Oliver on HBO’s Last Week Tonight, September 9.    Colbert Knowingly Spreads Fake Couch Story for Laughs      “So, all of us, all of us, please, have a responsibility to stop the spread of vicious rumors like JD Vance had sex with a couch. Because it’s simply not true. Which is why we have to refuse to use the hashtag #CushionPushinJDVance. And that’s why I certainly won't ever perform the juvenile chant, ‘JD Vance is sittin’ on a couch. His pee-pee hit the zipper and ouch!’...The AP had removed their fact check, which can only mean one of two things. Either the original story does not meet the AP’s rigorous standards or JD Vance had sex with a couch.”— Host Stephen Colbert on CBS’s The Late Show, July 25.

With only one week to go until the first anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart thought it would be a good idea to welcome far-left author Ta-Nehisi Coates to Monday’s taping of The Daily Show to promote his new book and compare the besieged nation to slave owners and traders. Stewart set the table, “There's a certain aspect of your career that has really tried to reconcile, not with things in the present, but their vestiges, the structures, racial politics, slavery, economic injustices, where it may not be the active virus, but it is these vestiges of it that still, you know, leach into the groundwater and make it toxic and polluted. This book felt a little different in that you were also going into the present. And bringing those lessons with you. And I thought that was a really moving part of the book.”     Coates then claimed the part of today’s world where one can see the horrors of the past is Israel, “Yeah, that’s true, and I guess I'm going to be they want to broach this, but it was obviously most active when I was in Jerusalem, when I was in Haifa, when I was on the West Bank. I mean, it was the history, but the history was active and that was tough, that was tough.  I'm used to, you know, going to some, you know, slave plantation and saying, ‘Yeah, this did happen 150 years ago, but here's how you feel the impact,” and you’re like ‘no, it is right now, it is right now.’” Instead of pushing back, Stewart recalled how Coates also traveled to Senegal, where there is a memorial to victims of the slave trade, “And it comes on the heels—so, in the book you’re also, you take a trip to Senegal. Is that in relation to your trip to Israel and the West Bank, in that same time frame or was that split up?” After recalling the timeline of his trips, Coates doubled down on his comparison, “They are in conversation with each other. I can't say I intended that.” Stewart agreed, “Right. That’s why I was curious, because there is a music there between the two.” Coates tripled down: Yeah, yeah. No, there is. I mean, Senegal is very much about me, frankly, investigating the very stories that gave me my name, you know, and gave me my identity. And trying to work through that and frankly, not completely working through it by the time I got over there, and then, you know, I take this trip with this wonderful organization, the Palestine Festival of Literature, and I get over there, you know, for five days, and I spent another five days with these ex-IDF guys, you know, who, I mean, had their own political evolution.  And this is very weird to say, but as much sympathy as I had for the Palestinians, watching Zionism in the world, even feeling like, this is wrong, what I'm saying is wrong, I was like, ‘My god, I know how you get here. I know how it happens’ and I don't mean I approve of it. But I see, I see how it happens. I totally see how it happens. Zionism is simply the belief Israel should exist, so if Coates feels that “is wrong,” then he has much more to answer for. When Hamas attacked Israel nearly one year ago, they disproportionately murdered and kidnapped peace activists on the left side of the political spectrum because for Israel’s enemies there is no distinction. None of this or any of the other relevant historical events were discussed in this segment except to say that Israel is trying to compensate for feeling humiliated by the Holocaust. Here is a transcript for the September 30 show: Comedy Central The Daily Show 9/30/2024 11:27 PM ET JON STEWART: I want to ask you, there's a certain aspect of your career that has really tried to reconcile, not with things in the present, but their vestiges, the structures, racial politics, slavery, economic injustices, where it may not be the active virus, but it is these vestiges of it that still, you know, leach into the groundwater and make it toxic and polluted. This book felt a little different in that you were also going into the present.  TA-NEHISI COATES: Yeah. Yeah. STEWART: And bringing those lessons with you. And I thought that was a really moving part of the book. COATES: Yeah, that’s true, and I guess I'm going to be they want to broach this, but it was obviously most active when I was in Jerusalem, when I was in Haifa, when I was on the West Bank. STEWART: Right. COATES: I mean, it was the history, but the history was active— STEWART: Right. COATES: -- and that was tough, that was tough.  I'm used to, you know, going to some, you know, slave plantation and saying, “Yeah, this did happen 150 years ago, but here's how you feel the impact,” and you’re like “no, it is right now, it is right now.” STEWART: Right. COATES: It’s right now. STEWART: And it comes on the heels—so, in the book you’re also, you take a trip to Senegal. COATES: I do, yes. STEWART: Is that in relation to your trip to Israel and the West Bank, in that same time frame or was that split up? COATES: It was about, so, I think I went in, this would have been September of 2022 to Senegal, then, May of '23 to the West Bank and to Israel and weirdly enough, they are in conversation with each other. I can't say I intended that. STEWART: Right. That’s why I was curious, because there is a music there between the two. COATES: Yeah, yeah. No, there is. I mean, Senegal is very much about me, frankly, investigating the very stories that gave me my name, you know, and gave me my identity. And trying to work through that and frankly, not completely working through it by the time I got over there, and then, you know, I take this trip with this wonderful organization, the Palestine Festival of Literature, and I get over there, you know, for five days, and I spent another five days with these ex-IDF guys, you know, who, I mean, had their own political evolution.  And this is very weird to say, but as much sympathy as I had for the Palestinians, watching Zionism in the world, even feeling like, this is wrong, what I'm saying is wrong, I was like, "My god, I know how you get here. I know how it happens" and I don't mean I approve of it. But I see, I see how it happens. I totally see how it happens.