A pilot flying a Cessna 206 plane was forced to make a daring emergency landing on a Long Island highway Wednesday, dodging traffic among other obstacles. Drivers on the motorway managed to capture amazing footage of the extraordinary moment on camera.

Pilot Jim O’Donnell had just taken off from Brookhaven Calabro Airport in Shirley when his plane experienced a sudden mechanical failure.

Luckily nobody was injured in the incident.

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“It wasn’t good, but here I am,” O’Donnell told ABC7. “No bent metal.”

O’Donnell knew he was unlikely to reach his destination of Eagles Nest Airport in New Jersey, and was forced to take matters into his own hands to avoid disaster.

O’Donnell’s Cessna touched down on Sunrise Highway at approximately 1 pm local time but only after successfully navigating the traffic already on the road, dodging a highway sign and flying under an overpass without even a scratch on the plane, which rolled to a stop on the hard shoulder.

“From what we understand, from the preliminary information, is he came in over the street sign that stretches across the westbound Sunrise Highway and was able to land in between that and the overpass,” Suffolk County police Chief of Department Stuart Cameron said, as cited by ABC.

“And he came in under the overpass. He kind of threaded the needle there, and it looks like he did a pretty nice job under the circumstances. He didn’t hit any cars, and no one got hurt,” Cameron added.

Just hours before, a helicopter reportedly carrying Shane McMahon, the son of WWE CEO Vince McMahon, was forced to make an emergency landing in the Atlantic ocean offshore of Gilgo Beach, New Jersey. There were no injuries reported in that incident either.

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If this scientist can do what he claims he can do, then it may very well be possible to reverse what was once thought as irreversible brain damage.

Dr. Sergei Paylian also says that this may very well lead to age-reversal treatment.

But…is it worth the possible consequences?

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You really have to wonder if we are getting close to a cataclysmic event that will cause major changes on a global scale when mainstream financial sites are sounding the doomsday alarm.

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A bear in Wyoming decided to give a man a bit of a startle on when it wandered into the home he was renting, pooped on the floor twice, and abruptly left.

Leaving only its excrement behind, the bear made its way back into the woods after his short tour of the Jackson, Wyoming house. Max Breiter said he woke up from his nap to discover a bear inside his home, and the animal “took two poops” before wandering away.

Breiter said he was sleeping when the bear first entered his home on Upper Cache Creek Drive in Jackson. But he didn’t wake up to the sound of the bear defecating in his house – he woke to the sound of his 10-pound dog, Rocky, yelping. Breiter said he got up to take the dog outside, but he spotted a large animal in the kitchen that he initially mistook for a large dog. “At first I thought it was a dog,” Breiter told the Jackson Hole News & Guide, “but I started to wake up and realize it was a bear.”

The bear left a paw print on Breiter’s window as evidence of its breaking and entering.

Rocky, Breiter’s dog, was enclosed in a nearby room when he began his barking. The confinement turned out to be fortuitous. Breiter didn’t let Rocky out right away either. Instead, he and the bear began an eight- to 10-second staring match followed by the realization that he was face to face with one of the earth’s most feared animals. Once Breiter woke up fully to realize what was happening, he made a mad dash away from the bear that had taken over the kitchen to the safety of a locked bathroom. A flurry of calls went out to seven people who were also in the house at the time as a warning. They also locked themselves inside rooms.

“The bear walked into the living room and took two poops on the floor,” Breiter said, “and then it broke out of a screen window and proceeded to run down the hill.” Homeowner Sandy Hessler was in Montreal at the time of the incident but was updated on the curious bear’s tour of the house by her daughter and roommates. “I’m not sure what to do because we have the windows open all the time,” Hessler said. “The whole idea that we could be sleeping and a bear walks in, I’ve never thought about it.”

Wyoming Fish and Game have said they will take action against the bear unless it returns to the home again.

I suppose we now have the answer to the question, “Does a bear poop in the woods?” Answer: not always.

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An altercation on an Upper West Side street took a bizarre turn on Wednesday morning – and a witness caught most of it on video.

Police say the street fight started when one of the men was walking along the street looking at his phone and another man – identified as Luis Roman – made a comment about him not paying attention and threatened him by flashing a gun clip.

From the New York Post:

Witness Paul Tena, who tweeted out footage of the fight, told the West Side Rag blog he turned on his camera when he saw the pedestrian respond by throwing a garbage can at Roman’s car — and the driver emerged with a machete and chased the trash thrower back to the median.

The clip starts with the pedestrian dragging another garbage pail across the busy street as Roman waggles the blade on the sidewalk — while his female companion tries to put herself between the two.

Here is Tena’s footage:

Roman – who is an Metropolitan Transportation Authority security guard – was arrested by the NYPD. He reportedly had a gun and the machete. Roman faces charges of assault, criminal mischief, criminal possession of a weapon, and menacing.

In the video, the Roman appears to have blood on his shirt as he leaves the scene. Police said the man in red (who has not been named, and apparently was not arrested for some reason) hurt his hand, but that no serious injuries were reported.

The MTA had no comment on the incident, reports NBC.

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A former NASA engineer at the Ames Research Center claims aliens are in our solar system and they are creating the beautiful rings around the planet Saturn. Dr. Norman Bergrun claims UFO’s and alien spacecraft are hiding among the rings of not only Saturn but other ringed planets as well.

Dr. Bergrun is not joking or trolling either. He’s serious, and according to the mainstream media described “conspiracy theory channel,” SecureTeam10, which obtained Bergrun’s comments, the alien ships have been here for some time. “Alien spacecraft are proliferating in our solar system and around these ringed planets,” Bergrun is quoted as saying on the video. Bergrun also noted the alien aircraft are circling other ringed-planets in the solar system, including Jupiter and Uranus.

SecureTeam 10, which has nearly 900,000 YouTube subscribers, often runs similar alien conspiracy theory-based videos. The organization describes itself as the “source for reporting the best in new UFO sighting news, info on the space cover-up, and the strange activity happening on and off of our planet.”

The below video is 17 minutes long and can be viewed in its entirety.

This is not a new stance for Dr. Bergrun either. In 1986, the doctor wrote the book titled Ringmakers of Saturn. The book highlights that there are massive alien ships around Saturn (which Bergrun dubs “ring makers”), including alien spacecraft which have actually created some of the rings around the gas giant.

Bergrun’s stance has not faltered in the thirty years since writing his book. Could he be onto something? Or is he just another crazy conspiracy theorist?

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Victims and family of the 9/11 terror attacks are petitioning Prime Minister Theresa May to release details of a recent report that some members of parliament claim includes references to Saudi Arabia’s support for Islamic extremism throughout Europe. Though the government published a brief summary of the findings last week, it declined to make the entire report public.

The Independentreports:

“Last week, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the report was not being published ‘because of the volume of personal information it contains and for national security reasons.’”

However:

“Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas suggested the refusal to make public the report was linked to a reluctance to criticise the kingdom, with which Britain has long had close strategic and economic ties.”

Lucas also criticized the government’s brief summary:

“The statement gives absolutely no clue as to which countries foreign funding for extremism originates from – leaving the government open to further allegations of refusing to expose the role of Saudi Arabian money in terrorism in the UK.”

The British government, along with the United States, has long sold weapons of war to the Saudi kingdom despite full knowledge that those weapons are being used to kill civilians in Yemen’s civil war. U.S. and U.K. officials are also involved in those operations.

This week, fifteen victims and family members of victims of the 9/11 attacks sent a letter to May urging her to release the full report detailing funding of radical mosques across Europe. The investigation was authorized by the country’s previous prime minister, David Cameron. The letter reads:

“The UK now has the unique historic opportunity to stop the killing spree of Wahhabism-inspired terrorists by releasing the UK government’s report on terrorism financing in the UK which, according to media reports, places Saudi Arabia at its centre of culpability.

“The longer Saudi Arabia’s complicity is hidden from sunlight, the longer terrorism will continue. They must be stopped; but who will stop them? We submit that you are uniquely situated to shine the cleansing light of public consciousness.”

The fifteen signatories further said:

“We respectfully urge you to release the report now, finished or unfinished. We ask you to consider all the victims of state-sponsored, Saudi-financed terrorism, their families and their survivors in the UK and all over the world.”

Sharon Premoli, who rushed to safety after one of the planes hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center, signed the letter and has been pursuing legal accountability for years. She says she and others have long followed the money trail and that they “are always led to the source – Saudi Arabia.”

Though the United Kingdom has been hit with a slew of ISIS-inspired terror attacks in recent months, May’s solution has been to clamp down on internet freedom, advocate ramping up military operations in the Middle East, and ignore Saudi Arabia’s possible role in promoting extremism (further, last year May ironically claimed selling weapons to Saudi Arabia was vital to keeping Britain safe). In this context, the recent decision to keep the recent report under wraps is unsurprising.

The analysis is far from the first to suggest Saudi Arabian officials promote terrorism. Twenty-eight previously secret pages of the U.S. Congress’ 9/11 report, released last year, suggested there was some level of complicity from Saudi officials, who might have lent support to the hijackers, 15 of whom were also Saudi.

As Foreign Policyhighlighted:

“The pages are devastating:

“Page 415: “While in the United States, some of the September 11 hijackers were in contact with, and received support and assistance from, individuals who may be connected to the Saudi Government.… [A]t least two of those individuals were alleged by some to be Saudi intelligence officers.”

“Page 417: ‘One of the individuals identified in the pages as a financial supporter of two of the 9/11 hijackers, Osama Bassnan, later received a ‘significant amount of cash’ from “a member of the Saudi Royal Family”

The outlet also listed a number of other Saudi connections from the 28 pages, and though the article stopped short of conclusively blaming Saudi Arabia, author Simon Henderson observed:

“I have never suggested that the Saudi government or members of the royal family directly supported or financed the 9/11 attacks. But official Saudi money ended up in the pockets of the attackers, without a doubt. I once asked a British official: ‘How do we know?’ He replied that we know what account the money came out of and where it ended up.”

Though Saudi Arabia has vehemently denied any support or complicity, American lawmakers have pushed forward in pursuit of accountability.

However, this has not kept many politicians in Congress from supporting Donald Trump’s multi-billion dollar arms deal with the country. A majority of lawmakers outright refused to support legislation banning the U.S. government from supporting terror groups.

President Trump, who alluded to the Saudi role in 9/11 on the campaign trail, not only inked an arms deal with the kingdom but has also partnered with the Saudis with the alleged goal of stopping extremism.

However, this is difficult to do when the Saudi government has spent billions of dollars exporting its radical Wahhabist ideology — which is markedly similar to ISIS’ — throughout the world (the Saudis’ role in 9/11 may not be confirmed, but taken with other evidence of their support for radicalism, the possibility is difficult to dismiss). Their reach spans from the Middle East to Asia to Europe, according to British lawmakers who have protested the government’s refusal to release the latest report.

Though it is doubtful May will take the letter from the 9/11 victims seriously, their opposition to the secrecy surrounding the document highlights continued resistance to the problem of Saudi hegemony and radicalism and the West’s ongoing ties to the monarchy.

As Premoli told the Independent:

“This has been a long time coming. If you think, we’re 16 years on from the murder of 3,000 people and the injuring of another 6,000 and the deaths and illnesses from countless others.”

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According to new research, open-minded people don’t just see the world differently in an ideological sense, but in a new study entitled, ‘Seeing it both ways: Openness to experience and binocular rivalry suppression‘, psychologists have found that being high in openness can actually change visual perception.

What Is Openness?

Openness to experience is considered one of the ‘Big Five’ dimensions of personality which umbrella all other descriptive aspects of personality. It is characterized by a proclivity towards creativity and an interest in aesthetics and ideological thinking. Artists, musicians, and writers would all be considered high in trait Openness. The big five also includes Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, and Extroversion. A common way of remembering them is to spell out OCEAN, or CANOE. If you want to learn more about the big five, a good place to start would be to watch this lecture by Jordan Peterson on the subject.

Openness reflects the tendency to actively explore information and engages with complex possibilities. People high in openness may also be more likely to experience creative solutions to the incompatible rivalry stimuli. ~Anna Antinori, Melbourne School of Psychological Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

How Openness Changes Perception

After the team of psychologists gave the participants of the study a personality test, they gave them another test called “binocular rivalry.” This test showed each participant one image in each eye; one being a red patch and the other a green patch. While most people react by reducing focus to only one of the two images, people who were high in trait Openness showed the tendency to view both images as one red-green image, which may suggest a higher level of communication between the right and left hemispheres of the brain.

Overall, the results showed that openness is linked to differences in low-level visual perceptual experience. [Source]

Openness Decreases “Inattentional Blindness”

Another very interesting study from 2015 shows that personality traits can affect a person’s ability to perceive unexpected objects while attention is focused on something else, called “inattentional blindness.”

We tested the contribution of a variety of personality traits, yet found only openness to be linked to noticing an unexpected object…susceptibility to inattentional blindness was associated with a low-level of openness to experience and marginally with a low-level of achievement motivation…This suggests that the general tendency to be open to experience extends to the domain of perception.

A famous example of this would be the ‘Gorilla Experiment.’

Personality Is Not An Entirely Fixed Attribute

A study entitled, Can an old dog learn (and want to experience) new tricks?, Shows that although everyone is born with a particular personality type, it is actually possible to expand our range of cognition with any of the big five traits. Think of it as a box-and-whisker graph that can expand in either direction depending on which way you train yourself to be.

Conclusion

Openness to Experience is considered to be one of the least understood aspects of personality, but research is already showing that it may be more important to understanding human perception than previously thought. These new findings show us that our personality has a large effect on our perception of the world around us and with further studies we may begin to unlock the secrets of what makes each person truly unique.

Phillip Schneider is a student and a staff writer for Waking Times.

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Hacking the human brain to enhance performance seems to be the ultimate dream of technocrats and their military counterparts.

We have reported extensively about the various methods that the military is studying to design a future soldier that is able to carry more weight, run faster, need less sleep, and even become a super sniper without training. These designs range from technical engineering to pharmacological, genetic, and to outright mind control via brain implant.

In a previous article I speculated that without proper ethical parameters these developments very well could herald a new type of global arms race of developing super humans, which naturally would begin to emerge on the battlefield.

China has made several announcements that show a clear attempt to become a leader in a race toward human superiority. Studies with animals like the super beagle have certainly raised eyebrows in the area of genetic engineering, as well as the potential for replicating humans at clone factories.

A new announcement is being reported from ARS Technica which shows that China is now studying brain stimulation techniques that sound very similar to what we have covered from DARPA’s work with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. In this case, the scientists are using a combination of genetic engineering and light stimulation called “optogenetics,” but with the same goal to alter cognition by artificially switching brain circuitry.

The Chinese study is particularly worrying as it is claiming to have enhanced aggression in normally docile mice.

Mice are typical of most mammals in that they have a hierarchy based on various forms of physical and social dominance. Researchers in Shanghai are claiming to have found a trigger whereby the lower-ranking mice can be made into super aggressive alphas:

Using a brain stimulation technique called “optogenetics” that triggers neural activity with proteins and light, they stimulated the dmPFC region of a low-ranking mouse’s brain. Then the low-ranking mouse took the tube test with a high-ranking mouse. Immediately, the loser mouse began to shove the winner mouse vigorously, winning almost every contest.

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Perhaps more interesting is how researchers found they could permanently transform loser mice into winners, just by stimulating their brains six or more times in tube tests. “We observed that not all the mice returned to their original rank,” Zhejiang University neuroscientist Hu Hailan told the Guardian. “Some mice [did], but some of them had this newly dominant position.” Hu and the other researchers refer to this as the “winner effect,” in which one triumph can lead to more victories, due to a change in outlook.

Of course it remains speculation about how this type of stimulation will work on a more complex human brain, but The Guardian reports that U.S. researchers believe that there is the potential to bridge the gap:

Ivan de Araujo, a psychiatry researcher at the Yale University School of Medicine, agreed that the findings could be relevant in people.

“Social behaviours in rodents arguably operate under very different conditions when compared to human social behaviours,” he said. “However, history of winning is one characteristic of social dominance that is relevant for almost every social species studied, from insects to primates. Because each brain region investigated has its direct primate homologue, the present study opens new opportunities for understanding the involvement of brain regions linked to planning and decision-making in establishing social hierarchies.”

If the “winner effect” translates to humans, it would suggest that experience of success in one area of life could help build confidence in another. “And you can imagine for athletes before a really serious game they could maybe play a video game to have the winner experience to build up confidence,” said Hu.

Regardless of where this particular study leads, there is a clear pattern of research that indicates a desire to rewire human brain function. There is also no doubt that the militaries of world are keeping a very close eye on the opportunities that will be presented.

While it might seem easy to dismiss what has so far only appeared in science fiction, we still need to spread awareness. As the Chinese scientist who was working on human cloning stated: “The technology is already there,” telling AFP that his company is “only holding off for fear of the public reaction.”

You can see the “test tube” demonstration in the video below:

Nicholas West writes for ActivistPost.com. He also writes for Counter Markets agorist newsletter. Follow us at Twitter and Steemit.

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An investigation has been launched by Baltimore prosecutors and police after body camera footage came to light that shows an officer planting drugs at a crime scene, according to the Baltimore public defender’s office.

The footage, captured in January after a drug arrest, depicts officer Richard Pinheiro of the Baltimore Police Department along with at least two other officers. At the beginning of the video, Pinheiro is seen placing a plastic bag inside of an aluminum can, which he tosses into a heap of trash. The officer then walks to the street and activates his body camera.

Police body cameras have a function that saves 30 seconds of footage without audio before the camera is activated, making it harder for police to obfuscate what they do on the job by purposely turning body cameras off or on at particular opportune moments.

Pinheiro, about 30 seconds into the footage, is then heard saying “I’m gonna go check here,” after which he returns to the trash heap and briefly pretends to be looking for something. He quickly “finds” what he was looking for, the can, removing the bag that contains what is reported to be heroin capsules:

“We take allegations like this very seriously and that’s why we launched an internal investigation into the accusations,” Baltimore Police Department spokesman T.J. Smith told the Baltimore Sun. “We are fortunate to have body-worn cameras which provide a perspective of the event.”

The public defender’s office brought the video to the attention of prosecutors, who dropped all charges against the suspect arrested for the drugs, which included possession with intent to distribute. The man, Tyrone Jones, 27, had sat in jail since his January arrest, unable to pay his $50,000 bail, according to assistant public defender and police accountability activist Deborah Levi.

Jones turned down a plea deal that could have put him in prison for up to 12 years, according to a Jones family member, but he remains in jail waiting for a parole violation hearing.

Just days after they were shown the body cam footage, Levi said prosecutors called Pinheiro as a witness for another case without informing the defense attorneys on the case of the allegations against the officer.

“You can’t try a case with that guy and not tell anyone about it,” Levi said.

The public defender’s office, in a statement issued Wednesday, said the state’s attorney’s office hasn’t done enough in response to the video, citing the fact that Pinheiro is a witness in 53 other active cases.

While it isn’t clear if Pinheiro was planting evidence or simply re-creating a drug find, it highlights problems with police body cameras, which are intended to make officers more accountable. The cameras don’t quite serve that function if they can be turned off at will.

Baltimore public defender Louis Curran speculates that Pinheiro was attempting to wait out the 30 seconds before activating his camera, but miscounted and accidentally filmed himself planting evidence. “I guess that he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer,” Curran said.

The Baltimore Police Department last year conducted over 250 reviews of body cam videos depicting traffic stops, arrests and field interviews to assess officer compliance with rules established for the technology, according to records obtained by the Baltimore Sun.

The reviews found that, while many used the cameras correctly, a significant number of officers were in violation of those rules, often failing to record police encounters with suspects or citizens. Forty-seven videos which may depict police misconduct were forwarded by the inspectors for further review.

According to the rules governing the use of body cams, officers are supposed to begin recording “at the initiation of a call for service or other activity or encounter that is investigative or enforcement-related in nature.” Officers are, however, permitted to stop recording at the request of a citizen during a voluntary encounter, or during interviews with confidential informants.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis confirmed that at least one BPD officer has been suspended and stripped of police powers until the investigation concludes. Two other officers were placed on administrative duty.

According to the Baltimore state’s attorney’s office, prosecutors are looking into the video.

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