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- An odd object caught on Mastcam, onboard NASA’s Mars rover, on 13 February 2022 outwardly appears to resemble a bowling pin shape. Many wondered what the shape might be, as NASA refrained from confirming what it really was. Some of the more exotic suggestions ranged from Martian bowling pin to an alien’s shoe horn, or even the discarded side-mirror from a Tesla car.
- Scott C. Waring, who runs the site UFO Sightings Daily, claimed that alien objects can be seen in photos taken by rovers from Mars. In one of the shots, he saw “an old boot,” which proves “NASA is hiding facts.” Scott C. Waring said that he “came across some ancient alien artifacts” while looking at the photos. “One was an old boot, heavy, military grade. Another item was a statue of a person in a sitting position, with her hair up. And there was a face half buried in the dirt not far from another piece of machinery,” he wrote in his blog. He claimed that “its 100 percent proof that NASA is hiding the facts from the public,” as the agency worries that people might begin “to doubt everything that NASA has said since its creation 50 years ago.”
- Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida attacked Joe Biden during his CPAC speech on Thursday night, ahead of former President Donald Trump’s address expected on Saturday. “There’s one fellow that just hates Florida and his name is Joe Biden,” DeSantis stressed in a rather energetic 20-minute speech, adding that “the Brandon administration,” which is what he called the White House in a reference to the popular anti-Biden chant, hates the state because it is led by Republicans.
- In 2008, Zimbabwe was at a turning point. President Robert Mugabe and, his cash-starved regime received a surprise US$100 million, which it allegedly funnelled into a violent campaign that enforced the status quo, and kept Zimbabwe on the road to an economic disaster from which it is yet to recover. Now, leaked data from Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse has shed new light on the role the bank played in the deal that saved Mugabe from potential defeat, and blocked an opportunity for political and economic reform. The US$100 million came from the sale of platinum mining rights that Mugabe’s government had quickly appropriated, then given to a company owned by Muller Conrad ‘Billy’ Rautenbach, a long-time friend of the regime. Mugabe’s regime used the proceeds of the deal to pay for the president’s campaign of violence, according to multiple reports. Rautenbach’s accounts at Credit Suisse were open for several months after both the US and EU sanctioned him for his role in subverting Zimbabwe’s democracy. It’s not clear if Rautenbach closed them or if the bank acted. “It beggars belief that Credit Suisse continued to provide Rautenbach with banking facilities given the furor created by Camec gifting US$100 million to Mugabe,” said Anneke van Woudenberg, executive director of UK-based corporate watchdog RAID.
- The Namibian Marine Phosphate rig is located offshore, approximately 120km southwest of Walvis Bay. Community members at Walvis Bay have questioned why scientific information on phosphate mining is not readily available to the public. This question was raised during a public consultation meeting to provide interested and affected parties a background to the proposed project and invite them to register as part of the Environmental Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) process. The mining licence comprises an area of 2 233 square kilometres and is located offshore, approximately 120km southwest of Walvis Bay.
- Five tiny robots developed by researchers at the National Autonomous University (UNAM) will depart for the moon in June to carry out a range of unprecedented lunar measurements. Weighing less than 60 grams each and with a diameter of just 12 centimeters, the two-wheeled, disc-shaped nano robots will travel more than 380,000 kilometers to the moon on a rocket supplied by Astrobotic Technology of the United States. The United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket would be the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in almost half a century. During their month-long mission, the Mexican made and designed robots will take unprecedented lunar plasma temperature, electromagnetic and regolith particle size measurements, according to an article published in the UNAM gazette in early February.
News Burst 27 February 2022
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