Prices start at $2,000 and go up to $6,300, all under $10,000!
The cheapest car in the U.S. today (was the discontinued Mercedes' Smart car at $24,000 then the Nissan Versa at $18,000) is now the Nissan Sentra at $23,000.
Average new car in U.S. costs $50,000.
The model shown here, the Bestune Pony, is only $4,800 (the Playful Pony), the Petite Pony ($6,300)
Discovered: Top Secret Alien Bases | Ancient Aliens
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Did ET space aliens really visit this small American town in 1974? (WVIA) April 2, 2025: CARBONDALE, PA. Was it a UFO? A meteor? A Russian satellite? The Carbondale UFO incident of Nov. 9, 1974, remains one of Pennsylvania’s most debated paranormal mysteries. Witnesses recall a glowing object streaking across the sky before plunging into a pond near Russell Park. Police tried to dismiss it as a prank involving a lantern, but thousands of spectators, federal agents, and even a scuba diver were involved in the investigation.
0:00 - The Carbondale UFO incident
1:15 - Witnesses describe the object
2:00 - The UFO splashes into Russell Park Pond
2:45 - Police and public reaction
3:30 - Authorities arrive and investigation [cover up operation] begins
4:10 - The official "Lantern Hoax" Story
5:00 - Claims of a government cover-up
6:15 - The mystery of the flatbed truck
7:30 - Eyewitnesses recall key details
8:10 - Photographer's hidden evidence
9:05 - Speculations: UFO, satellite, hoax?
10:00 - The lasting mystery of Carbondale
👀 Eyewitness Testimonies:
🔹 Locals describe seeing a bright, tube-like craft with flashing green and red lights.
🔹 A flatbed truck was reportedly seen transporting a mysterious, tarp-covered object.
🔹 Photographs from that night may reveal classified details after 50 years of secrecy.
📌 Was this a government cover-up or hoax? From conspiracy theories to hidden evidence, this episode of VIA Short Takes revisits the night Carbondale stood still.
💬 What do YOU believe? Drop a comment and let’s reopen the case of the Carbondale UFO cover up.
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Jimmy Dore (jimmydore.com) is LIVE at the Democratic National Convention, giving his irreverent take on the democratic proceedings. A young Bernie Sanders, if such a thing were possible, long before he was a sellout trying to get the approval of the Democratic Party, used to interview punks at Burlingame Mall up in the Northeast. Phil Donahue just passed away (our condolences, Marlo), but Bernie marches on, having missed his calling to be a full-time interviewer. He was almost president, but he chose the slogan, "Follow me to Hillary" and sold all of us out to regular party politics with no alternative, no third party, no second option, just the two wings of our one-party system, the Money Party. Thanks, Bernie, we feel the burn.
Real Reporter, Oct. 5, 2023; Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Rural Russia attracts Westerners. But why THIS place?
(Real Reporter) Western nations have been urging their citizens to leave Russia ever since the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine began, and Moscow has been hit with unprecedented sanctions.
Nadya left Mother Russia for the feminist West.
[Even Pussy Riot (the feminist collective and punk rock project led by Nadya Tolokonnikova now no longer married to Russian-Canadian Pyotr Verzilov) left and came to Los Angeles.]
Yet, there are Americans, French, and Germans who not only visit Russia but also make it their home. What's even more intriguing is that there is a town tucked away in rural Russia that's been drawing in Westerners like a magnet. Curious? Let's find out why.
K. Nizamis and Ven. Thanissaro (trans.) via accesstoinsight.org, Apara Lakuntaka Bhaddiya Sutra: "Another Discourse About Bhaddiya the Dwarf" (Ud 7.5 PTS: Ud 76) edited by Wisdom Quarterly
Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One [the Buddha] was dwelling in Sāvatthi, in Jeta Forest, in Anāthapiṇḍika's park.
At that time Venerable Bhaddiya the Dwarf approached walking close behind a large number of monks. The Blessed One saw him from afar, walking close behind many other monks -- of bad complexion, bad appearance, dwarfish, of a form that would be despised by most monks [1].
Seeing Ven. Bhaddiya the Dwarf, the Blessed One addressed the monks: "Meditators, do you see that monk from afar, walking close behind those many other monks, the one with the bad complexion, bad appearance, dwarfish, of a form that would be despised by most monks?"
"Yes, it is just so, venerable sir."
"Meditators, that monk is of great power, great eminence. There is no well-gained meditative attainment that has not already been attained by that monk. For the benefit for which persons of good lineage rightly go forth from home into the left-home life, the ultimate culmination of the supreme life [of a wandering ascetic], in this very life, he himself, having seen with his own eyes and realized the higher knowledge, having personally attained it, he abides."
Then, having understood the significance of this moment, the Blessed One breathed an inspired utterance:
Faultless, adorned in white,
the one-way chariot rolls on:
See it coming, undisturbed,
with oozing flow cut off, nirvanered [2].
NOTES
1. The Commentary (of Dhammapāla, post 5th Century CE) says yebhuyyena bhikkhūnaṃ paribhūtarūpan'ti puthujjanabhikkhūhi ohīḷitarūpaṃ (PTS Ud-A 369). "'For most of the monks, having a despised kind of form': having a kind of form scorned or viewed with disgust [ohīliṭa] by the monks who are just ordinary people [puthujjanas]." See also SN 21.6.
2. See also SN 41.5, in which Ven. Kāmabhū recites this stanza to a lay devotee named Citta, and asks him how its meaning should be understood. Citta then proceeds to offer his interpretation of its meaning.
The Dwarf Ven. Thanissaro (trans.), Lakuṇṭha Sutra: "The Dwarf" (Ud 7.5, PTS: Ud 76) edited by W.Q.
Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, in Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery. On that occasion Ven. Bhaddiya the Dwarf, following behind a large number of monks, was coming to see the Blessed One.
From afar the Blessed One saw Ven. Bhaddiya the Dwarf coming, following behind a large number of monks -- ugly, unsightly, stunted, treated with condescension [1] by many of the monks. Seeing him, the Blessed One addressed the monks:
"Meditators, do you see that monk coming from afar, following behind that large number of monks, the ugly, unsightly, stunted one treated with condescension by many of the monks?"
"Yes, venerable sir."
"That, meditators, is a monk of great power and great might. The attainment already attained by that monk is not of the sort easily attained by anyone. And by means of it he has reached and abides in the supreme goal of the supreme life for which persons of good lineage rightly go forth from home into the left-home life, directly knowing and seeing it for himself right in here and now."
Then, realizing the significance of this, the Blessed One on that occasion exclaimed:
Faultless,
canopied in white,
the single-spoked chariot rolls along.
See him coming, untroubled:
one whose stream is cut,
free from all bonds [2].
NOTES 1. The Commentary notes that misbehaving monks liked to stroke his hands and catch hold of his ears. 2. In SN 41.5, Citta the householder explains this verse as follows:
Faultless stands for virtues. Canopied in white stands for release. Single-spoked stands for mindfulness. Rolls along stands for coming and going. Chariot stands for this body composed of the four elements...
Passion [greed] is a trouble; aversion [hatred] is a trouble; delusion [ignorance, confusion, wrong view] is a trouble. These have been abandoned by a meditator whose defilements (asavas, kilesas, samyojanas) have been cut off — their roots destroyed, made [barren] like a palmyra stump, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for any future rebirth. That's why the meditator whose defilements have ended is said to be untroubled.
Him coming stands for the arahant.
Stream stands for craving. That has been abandoned by a meditator whose defilements have been cut off — its roots destroyed, made [barren] like a palmyra stump, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for any future rebirth. That's why a meditator whose defilements have been cut off is said to be one whose stream is cut.
Passion is a bond; aversion is a bond; delusion is a bond. These have been abandoned by a meditator whose defilements have been cut off — their roots destroyed, made like a palmyra stump, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for any future rebirth. That is why a meditator whose defilements have been cut off is said to be free of bonds.
(NOVA with Robert Krulwich) "The Little People of Flores" - The best thing about the "Hobbits" [Buddhist kumbandhas, Spanish duendes] of Indonesia is that they still exist! Guest: Dr. Jared Diamond (UCLA).
Kumbhandās are a class of beings (gnomes) in Buddhist cosmology classified with yakkhas (ogres, yetis), rakkhasas (demons, killer yetis), asuras (titans, giants), and others. Virūlha is the regent sky-king overseeing them. They have large bellies (kumbhanda=gourd), and their genitals are also large like pots (kumbho viya), which is how they get their name (D.iii.198; DA.iii.964).
Fossils suggest that island life shrank our "Hobbit" relatives
Among the hominin fossils found at the Mata Menge site on the Indonesian island of Flores was part of a lower jaw (Kinez Riza/Nature).
Modern ape C. Joyce
It's easy to think that evolution led inevitably to modern humans, the cleverest of apes. But there were some strange excursions along the way. Take, for example, the Hobbits.
That's the nickname for a 3-foot-tall human relative that once lived in what is now Indonesia. A new discovery suggests that it was island life that created this dainty creature.
Hobbit: human or ape? (Kinaz Riza/Nature)
[But this is a ridiculous excuse that hides the truth of super ancient human roots and diversity. Forbidden archeology is a name for ignored and hidden evidence for human antiquity, the existence of many offshoots, some of them giants others robust and our presence as Homo sapien sapiens, said to be 30K years old when we go back perhaps 300M years, as Michael Cremo explains to the consternation of gatekeepers promoting Darwinian evolution that is demonstrably mistaken. Because the physical evidence cannot possibly be explained by the favored theory, it cannot possibly exist, but it does, so it is forbidden.]
Assuming Hobbits are not human but apes, a reconstruction of Homo floresiensis by Atelier Elisabeth Daynes will add hair and ape features to a human body (Kinaz Riza/Nature).
Anthropologists first found the bones of the Hobbits in 2004 on the Indonesian island of Flores. Their scientific name is Homo floresiensis.
They were chimp-size, with tiny brains and long arms, but they had stone tools and teeth much like ours. They lived about 60,000 years ago [but new mainstream science evidence pushes back that date to 700,000 years]. Who were they?
One idea had it that larger human ancestors from Africa -- likely Homo erectus -- ended up on this island. Then they shrank [a ridiculous explanation but scientists are desperate explain away the evidence], because on islands, animals sometimes evolve to become smaller.
But up to that point, there was no evidence that this "island dwarfism" applied to human ancestors, and people had a hard time accepting it.
"For some reason," says Aida Gomez-Robles, an anthropologist at George Washington University, "when we saw that the same thing can happen to us, to humans, this is when people started to think, 'Oh, my God, this is not possible.'" In fact, some scientists believed Hobbits were just modern humans with some abnormality, like microcephaly, that changed their head shape and made them smaller.
Scientists have now found more tiny, Hobbit-like bones on Flores. Some teeth and part of a lower jaw. Shockingly, the bones date back 700,000 years -- way older than the first Hobbits and predating [accepted dates for] modern humans by hundreds of thousands of years.
Tiny Humans: Finding Hobbits in Flores (Tohari Achmad) The answer might lie at the end of a trail of bones going back nearly 2 million years. Homo erectus, an ancestor described as...
Here is a short video on the Homo Floresiensis, a small hobbit like creature that is more like a human being than originally thought...
Gerrit van den Bergh from Wollongong University in Australia says clearly, this was a long-standing population of very different human relatives.
"Human diversity could have been far greater than we have ever realized," he says. Writing in the journal Nature, van den Bergh suggests that ancient human ancestors, probably Homo erectus, traveled from Africa to Asia. They reached this island, perhaps carried by a tsunami. He notes that the tsunami in Indonesia in 2004 did something like that.
"A week after that event," he says, "several people were picked up out from the sea, some floating 60 kilometers from the coast, and they were just clinging to a tree."
Once the Hobbits got to Flores, van den Bergh surmises, island dwarfism set in -- they slowly got smaller. Scientists found fossil elephants on the island that also did that over time.
This aerial image taken in October 2015 shows the Mata Menge site on Flores where bones dating back 700,000 years were found (Kinez Riza/Nature).
Despite their small brains, the Hobbits were smart enough to make stone tools. But Adam Brumm from Griffith University in Australia says they didn't seem to get any smarter.
"This technology, whatever it was used for, essentially stayed the same for hundreds and hundreds of thousands of years on this island," he says, "which is intriguing to say the least."
Clearly, their kind lived long, but ultimately did not prosper. More + AUDIO
There are a few things a cell phone can do in an emergency. Mostly it just causes brain cancer (tumors corresponding to use showing up years later), weakens one's protective aura, distracts, and consumes one, as well as dooming migratory birds. But a mobile can actually be a survival tool on top of being a cute fashion accessory. Here are four unknown things plus an ATM tip:
1. Hidden Battery Power Imagine your battery gets very low from over use. There's an an emergency. To reactivate, press the keys *3370# and your phone will restart using reserve power. It will show a 50% battery increase. This reserve will get charged when the phone is recharged.
2. Worldwide Emergency Number The emergency number worldwide for mobile phones is 112. If you find yourself out of your coverage area network and there is an emergency, dial 112. The phone will search any existing network and establish the emergency number. Interestingly, this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked.
3. Locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? Your phone might come in handy if you do. If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone. Then hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock.
4. Disable a Stolen Phone To check your mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #
A 15 digit code will show on the screen. This number is unique to your phone. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. If your phone gets stolen, call your service provider; give them this code. They will then be able to block your phone so that even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You may not get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can neither use nor sell it. If everybody did this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
ATM-PIN Number Reversal If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your PIN # in reverse. For example, if your pin number is 1234, then you would put in 4321. The ATM system recognizes that your PIN number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine. The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to the location.
This information was recently broadcast on CTV by Crime Stoppers. However, it is seldom used because people just don't know about it. Pass it along.
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