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August 31, 2022

Nichelle Nichols' remains will go explore strange new worlds

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/29/1119824784/star-trek-nichelle-nichols-dead-space-memorial-flight

More than five decades after the original Star Trek series ended, its beloved communications officer will venture into the unknown for real when Nichelle Nichols' ashes are launched into deep space later this year.

Nichols, the trailblazing actress who played Lt. Nyota Uhura in the original Star Trek series in the 1960s and in several of the franchise's feature films, died at age 89 in July. She is remembered as one of the first Black women featured in a major television series, as well as credited with inspiring women and people of color to join NASA.

And now her symbolic journey beyond the stratosphere continues. United Launch Alliance — an American spacecraft launch provider — announced last week that a portion of Nichols' ashes will travel to deep space aboard a Vulcan rocket with Celestis, a private company that sends peoples' cremated remains and DNA into space for memorial flights.

The first Celestis Voyager Service is set to launch later this year and will bear the name Enterprise Flight in honor of its passengers.

It will also carry the remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and his wife, actor Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, as well as those of James Doohan, who played Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the series and films.






August 31, 2022

Alex Jones claims 'Deep State' will stage mass shootings to steal midterms

Alex Jones claims ‘Deep State’ will stage mass shootings to steal midterms - weeks after admitting Sandy Hook lies

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alex-jones-sandy-hook-deep-state-b2155850.html

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has absurdly warned that leftist “Deep State” globalists are plotting to stage false flag violent events to win the midterm elections for Democrats - just weeks after he publicly admitted to making false claims about the Sandy Hook massacre being a hoax.

Speaking on his Infowars show, Mr Jones asserted that the “Deep State” would blame staged violence on far-right groups in an effort to take over the country in the run-up to the midterm elections.

“Racially-motivated mass shootings, bombings, poisonings… attacks on the power supply being blamed on the right wing... They intend to bring in a full dictatorship in the next 71 days,” he said on his Infowars show, adding that globalists want “a civil war that brings down America, and you’ll be the fall guy”.

Mr Jones made the statement just weeks after he admitted in court that his claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting being a staged hoax were not true.

At a trial earlier this month in Austin, Texas, Mr Jones was ordered to pay $4.11m in compensatory damages and $45.2m in punitive damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of six-year-old son Jesse Lewis, who was among the 20 children and six staff members murdered in the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

August 31, 2022

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