National Security

Sara Carter: US govt puts evidence of UFO’s ‘front and center’

Published

2 years ago

May 21, 2021

Sara Carter invited a British expert on all things unidentified and flying to discuss the latest revelations about UFO’s in her latest episode of the Sara Carter Show. Her guest Nick Pope worked for the British Ministry of Defense for 21 years. During his career, he researched and investigated UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles and other strange phenomena for the British government from 1991-1994. After Sixty Minutes interviewed a government employee who’s job it is to study unknown aerial phenomena, Carter and Pope sat down to discuss.

In the interview, Luis Elizondo, employee of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, admits that UAP are discovered on a regular basis. While he’s studied the phenomena since 2008, he’s only now going on the record.

But, according to Pope, a delayed response to questions surrounding UFO’s is “quite understandable.” Because “I think we would far rather a report that is properly done, then something just rushed out to try and meet a fairly arbitrary deadline,” Pope said.

Carter mentioned that much of the discovery of UFO’s came because these encounters tended to interfere with U.S. government technology. To her, these reports seemed “really concerning.”

“Well, I was certainly privy to some fairly extraordinary reports at the UK Ministry of Defense,” Pope said. “But I must say, the sorts of things being reported recently in the United States do seem to take it to another level altogether . . . this should be the absolute top of the list of strategic priorities.”

Previously, the U.S. stratagem for confronting UAP “conspiracies” was to deny, debunk and downplay. “And now it’s like the U.S. government is itself putting this out front and center,” Pope said. So, what changed?

Pope suggested that the nation might be trying to get ahead of a much bigger story. “Perhaps the assessment in government and even if they say it’s still unidentified, they will have a best current assessment. And maybe that best current assessment is a little bit scary. Maybe it says something is coming.”

And if something really is coming, “We’d have to rethink almost every aspect of our lives,” Pope said. “And let’s face it, the world would be more interesting with aliens in it than not.”

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International

Mental health crisis spikes among Afghan women after Taliban regained control two years ago

Published

1 day ago

September 21, 2023

Sara Carter Staff

The women of Afghanistan are suffering a mental health crisis since the Taliban regained power two years ago. According to a joint report from three U.N. agencies released Tuesday, approximately 70% of women experience feelings of anxiety, isolation and depression.

The numbers continue to rise, as there has already been a significant jump between April and June of this year alone, with an increase from 57% the preceding quarter.

The report, conducted by U.N. Women, the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, interviewed women online, in-person and in group consultations as well as individual telesurveys.

592 Afghan women in 22 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces took part in the study. The Associated Press reports:

They have barred women from most areas of public life and work and banned girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade. They have prohibited Afghan women from working at local and non-governmental organizations. The ban was extended to employees of the United Nations in April.

Opportunities to study continued to shrink as community-based education by international organizations was banned and home-based schooling initiatives were regularly shut down by the de facto authorities — a term use by the U.N. for the Taliban government.

Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education and the rights of Afghan women and children are on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The report also served as a vessel for Afghan women to send a message to the rest of the world: do not validate the Taliban government. Forty-six percent of women said international recognition of the Taliban government should not happen under any circumstances, while 50% warned that recognition should only occur under specific conditions contingent on improving women’s rights.

The report notes that the women expressed concern that recognition would only encourage the Taliban government to continue becoming stricter in their policies and practices against women and girls.

Afghan women had specific ideas and suggestions: they “urged the international community to continue political and economic sanctions against the Taliban, including by not granting exemptions to a travel ban. They urged an increase in engagement with the Taliban on gender equality and women’s rights, including by engaging community and religious leaders in awareness and advocacy efforts” writes the Associated Press.