Cabaret Apocalypto

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2011-01-01T09:24:00.000-08:00

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This blog has a barely used (and most likely barely legal) twitter feed. Will most likely get used more in the future. For site updates, quick links, and tiny drunken ramblings.

So you, that is my ever faithful readership, should "follow" it.

The fog of depression is lifting and I have three different articles percolating, so who wants to read what?

Don't all comment at once now.

Something to do with some unusual aspects of the WikiLeaks saga? Nothing terribly new to people who read this blog Im sure, more of an excuse for me to rant about it. Both pro and con to some degree. I like to piss off as many people as I can with as few written words as possible. I'm antagonistic, but also somewhat lazy.

Another wordy historical article? Most likely finally addressing the oft promised but never delivered upon Roswell article.

Maybe a historical article about Marilyn Monroe? My ex-wife kept promising to write one, but never delivered. I will refrain from making any additional comments derived from that sentence and instead say its a subject that is interesting. The fact that her death (briefly) shed some light into the darkest corners of a few notable peoples lives, including the Kennedy family and Frank Sinatra.

Perhaps another series of relatively unpopular debunking articles. After all, there are still plenty of bullshit cherished beliefs in the conspiracy community I have yet to properly take a giant shit on.

Do tell.

And follow on Twitter. I demand it.

Back from the Cursed Earth and ready to party.

2010-12-13T17:22:00.000-08:00

How is this news exactly?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/12holocaust.html?_r=4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_paperclip

New York Times headline "Declassified Papers Show U.S. Recruited Ex-Nazis". How the fuck is this news exactly? The New York Times is a little behind on this story, by 70 years or so.

Operation Overcast was initiated in May of 1945, and was renamed Operation paperclip in March of 1946 after the OSS realized that the caveat about not bringing any active or ardent Nazi's to the US had to be abandoned. Turned out that everyone they wanted were pretty enthusiastic about the whole Nazi thing.

This is a pretty good historical example of a conspiracy that is actually true, and easily verifiable. Hell, its been easily verifiable for decades.

Something that never sat well with Israel in our relations was the fact that NASA was composed largely of Nazi war criminals in the early days. By early days I mean until the mid-to-late 1970's.

One of the reasons I have yet to do an Operation Paperclip article is that I thought everyone knew about it. Its not so much a conspiracy theory, as an easily provable and admitted to conspiracy fact.

When Bullshit Theories Collide: The Nibiru/Planet X Question
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_collision
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_x
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian%E2%80%93Ordovician_extinction_events

I have been really amazingly depressed the last two years, with the worst coming in the last four months. So pardon me for the lack of updating.

Now, this unfortunately means that my inclination is to shit on other peoples parades rather than tossing beads to see titties. Therefor it looks like another debunking article for my return to electronic print conspiracy mongering.

This one will no doubt get some dander up as it is a hot-ticket item in the weirdness circles right now. With the Mayan long calender supposedly coming to an end in 2012 everyone is thinking the end must surely be upon us. What form will it take? A winged serpent adorned with colorful plumage (lovely plumage at that)? Sunspots crippling the global power grid and leading to a new Dark Ages? Zombies? Alien invasion? My ex wife finding a way to somehow leave me again, thus causing a black hole to form from my intense depression that would tear apart the planet? The last one is to be expected when someone who has the complete discographies of Bauhaus and Joy Division gets a divorce, well a second divorce. Done purely for spite.

No no, none of that. The current prevailing apocalyptic wind among my tin foil hat loving brethren is...

PLANET X!

Or Nibiru, or Nemesis, depending on who you listen to. Well, Nemesis is used less often now, due I suspect to the generally bad reviews of the Star Trek film bearing that name. Which is sad, as it was not an entirely awful film. Loads better than Star Trek V.

The story goes something like this. Planet X has a seriously wide elliptical orbit waaaaay the fuck past Pluto. Somewhere in the area of 300 to 30,000 AU from the Sun. Which as any first year astronomy student can tell you is a really fucking long way away. 1 AU is about 93 million miles, the rough distance between the Earth and the sun. Which takes you 8 minutes or so to traverse if you are doing the speed of light. So for fun you do the math and see where I am going with this.

The two schools of thought on how Planet X (I just love calling it that, makes me feel like a character in an old Sci-Fi movie) is going to ruin our collective shit are either by crashing into the Earth Rudolph Mate style, or by swinging through the Oort Cloud and hurling comets at us.

Either one would suck, and one of them is actually a bit more likely than the other. The second one. The first has the problem is the largest of the gas giants in our solar system would have absorbed or ejected something that size with an orbital path that would bring it near Earth. Jupiter is not to be fucked with. In this set of circumstances it would be like a cosmic bouncer, throwing out chumps before they ever got close enough to the inner system/VIP Room (where we are) to do much damage. This also would have happened millions of years ago. We have about two years before 2012, and for an object of sufficient size to shoulder past Jupiter (basically something about the same size) it would have to travel at galactic escape velocity. Which means it would not have been held by the suns gravity for this long, it would instead be careening through intergalactic space. Likely on its way to fuck up someones day in the Andromeda galaxy.

This theory has its own modern day prophet even. Nancy Lieder, a woman who claims to have received the information via a brain implant given to her by aliens from the Zeta Reticuli system. An advanced alien species with the ability to traverse the distance between here (Earth) and there (Zeta Reticuli, a lovely system with a dual main-sequence binary star arrangement), which is 39 light years (12 parsecs for those pretentious first year astronomy students and/or Star Wars nerds). They traveled 39 fucking light years (12 parsecs, or 741 quadrillion miles, give-or-take) to Earth to abduct a woman from Wisconsin, implant a brain transmitter through her rectum (I'm guessing), and then gave only her this information vital to our species survival through this advanced brain/rectum/radio interface.

While we are on the subject, her rectal/brain communicator would need to involve quantum entanglement in order to be able to pass messages to her without worse call lag than Sprint. Maybe the Zeta's have something better, so entangled q-bits are the sort of nonsense they use for internet access in their knock-off iPhones. Either way, they stuck seriously advanced technology in this woman's brain to communicate a message they could have more effectively given in person. Which would have made sense, seeing as they already spent the gas money to get here.

If they feared us as hostile little monkeys (we are) and thought we might try to saucer-jack them on the White House lawn (we would) they could have simply beamed it to us from orbit around the moon. Pointed their antennae (or whatever) at our radio telescopes or communications satellites and told us that way. We would be able to see them with the Hubble and other serious telescopes to verify them. They could have spoken to people in the position to actually maybe do something about it (or negotiate to get them to help).

The second one, an object with a non-dramatically colliding stable orbit that occasionally sends a comet stampede our way may have a bit of truth to it. Well, a possible grain of totally unverified truth. Really more of a theory that fits the currently available facts, but those facts are kind of anorexic.

Essentially if there was a planet out there past Pluto and Eris (another dwarf planet around the same size as Pluto) screwing up orbits in the Kuiper Belt/Oort Cloud it would be pretty hard to find. Even if it was very, very big. The problems with the orbits of a few outer planets were more-or-less figured out with the discovery of Eris and some other trans-Neptunian objects. Or maybe just Eris.

Further evidence suggests that Earth suffers mass extinctions on a somewhat regular basis. The suggested schedule is somewhat less than clockwork (according to the time-line suggested by proponents of the Nibiru theory). Every 26-34 million years, which leaves a margin of error of, oh, 8 million years or so. Not a big gap by geological standards but its still there. One must consider that not every extinction event on this planet was caused by a space rock (or comet, a space snowball packed with rocks) slamming into us. Hell, there were several during the Cambrian period alone, with not a single massive space rock in sight.

"On a long enough time-line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." - Narrator/Jack, Fight Club

I do love a good doom and gloom scenario don't get me wrong. Like most conspiracy nuts I have all the supplies I need to set myself up pretty well in a barren post-apocalyptic wasteland. However if death comes from above its not going to come from Planet X. The possibility exists for a large object to be floating out past the Kuiper Belt, but before the Oort Cloud. It, if it exists, might even be big. Mars big. Or even bigger. However bigger means orders of magnitude less likely. It is possible however.

Jumping from there to the conclusion of it being responsible for most or all of Earths mass extinctions is a bit of a stretch. Even for me.

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So that is that. A new update. Not the best but I am a bit rusty. An emotionally crippling divorce preceded by months of relationship turmoil and family illness managed to suck all of my enthusiasm for, well, everything away pretty thoroughly. Im getting it back. Slowly. No promises of regular updates again but stay tuned. It could happen.

Tell your friends. I'm fucking back.

Also, comments are even more encouraged now. I like feedback, need a self-esteem boost (if they are positive, or at least of the constructively critical type), and am curious to see who still follows this blog.

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From the Persian Gulf to Outer Space: Yet another blog post to enjoy

2010-04-18T14:07:00.000-07:00

Kepler Telescope team allowed to selectively edit data
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100414/full/news.2010.182.html

What. The. Fuck.

I am all for allowing scientists a "propriatary grace period" of sorts with discoveries. That is fine. Some time to mull over the data and figure out what exactly they have. To secure their discoveries and prevent career-ending retractions later.

That said, being able to "censor 500 objects" until the end of the mission, or longer, is totally and completely out of bounds. Its the sort of policy that inspires cries of conspiracy, and for good reason. Makes you wonder what exactly is being censored and why, doesn't it?

The best way to not look like idiots if they are unsure of something is to just release all the data, mark the questionable stuff with a post-it note saying "Seems interesting, but the budget didn't allow time for more detailed analysis" and let someone else stake their reputation on it.

The reasons are either greed, not wanting someone else to claim a find first. Or hiding something inconvenient to the party line, like say inhabitable (or inhabited) exo-planets or unexplainable objects. Either way its not in the best interests of science or humanity.

And speaking of outer space weirdness...

RAF Chase a UFO in broad daylight, and its caught on film
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1264965/Is-REALLY-UFO-chased-M5-RAF-fighter-jets-Video-footage-captured-service-station.html#ixzz0krFWkl82

First off lets remember kids that "UFO" does not always mean "Alien Spacecraft".

The object was moving pretty fast, and it was the classic saucer shape associated with little green men. It was being tailed by two RAF fighter jets, but did not (in the video) accelerate faster than the jets could keep pace, nor did it turn/maneuver in any unorthodox/seemingly impossible ways.

Could be little green men, could be a new type of UAV being tested, or a disinformation campaign. Impossible to determine. If it is a UAV test however that explains why the jets kept perfect pace with it, they would have been the escort.

A saucer shaped UAV would be awesome for black ops. Scares people in rural parts of the world (Pakistan, Afghanistan anyone?), confuses people in the industrialized world, and offers a great bit of deniability to the government.

After all, are you saying the government is using flaying saucers to bomb terrorists? That's absurd!

Speaking of bombs in the Middle East...

Your after supper smoke is not kosher/halal: pig blood is contained in cigarette filters
http://www.news.com.au/national/cigarettes-may-contain-pigs-blood/story-e6frfkvr-1225847653290
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_in_cigarettes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cigarette_smoke_constituents

Apparently pig hemoglobin is a vital component of cigarette filters. This news is sure to go over well with Muslim and Jewish smokers the world over.

Seriously, pig blood? For fucks sake, can cigarette additives get any weirder? Why exactly do we need pig blood in cigarette filters?

With the popularity of smokes in the Arab world/Middle East in general I bet you can expect a poorly made video exclaiming the impending deaths of Big Tobacco executives any second now.

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Kind of a short post, compared to recent efforts. The revision of the JFK article will be posted in the not to distant future, for those of you who enjoy the long wordy ones.

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Micro-Update: Eastern European current events edition

2010-04-10T10:59:00.000-07:00

Either a tragic accident or one of the largest kill numbers for a single assassin: Polish president and a ton of other government types die in mysterious plane crash.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/10/poland.president.plane.crash/index.html?hpt=T1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100410/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_plane_crash
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/world/europe/15iht-missile.3.15333406.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4543744.ece
http://www.thenews.pl/international/artykul128973_poland--russia-and-katyns-bitter-truth-.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7562258.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Kaczy%C5%84ski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko

So far it seems that all of the (Russian) witnesses to the crash are saying the plane circled the airport four times trying to land in the thick fog bank.

It is a bit weird that the Polish president, other heads of state, top banking officials, and even ranking clergy, should die in a plane crash in Russia on the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre, in the Katyn forest no less.

This after several years of Poland's President telling Vladimir Putin to go fuck himself over everything from missile defense deals with the United States, and oddly enough Russia accepting responsibility for war crimes they committed against Poland. Like, for example, the Katyn Massacre.

Back in 2008 Putin even leveled a not-very thinly veiled threat of a nuclear strike against Poland for signing up with George Jr.'s Eastern European missile defense program.

It could be a horrible and strangely timed tragedy, but coincidence is not a vocabulary word in the world of deep politics and espionage. Plane crashes are a popular type of accidental death, and this one is most fortunate for Russian interests in Eastern Europe. Maybe there wasn't enough polonium to go around?

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Just a quick update, special thanks to Dr. Wife for poking me into it.

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Texas is the reason that the presidents dead: A short examination of the mother of all conspiracy theories

2010-04-03T00:12:00.001-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Clay_Shaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Case_Nagell
http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Richard_Case_Nagell_-_The_Man_Who_Knew_Too_Much
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Kellerman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Greer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenmetrazine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ferrie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Bertrand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shaw
http://www.beyondweird.com/conspiracies/jfkkill.html
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/deaths.html
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/wit.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKshermanM.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permindex
http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/fbi-files.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_King_Harvey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S%C3%A1nchez_Morales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_Meyer

*Editors Note: Links and citations are presented as plain text this time because blogger is giving me no end of grief. Thank you.

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“Good evening, ignorant pigs. Put down your crack pipes and your beer bongs and pay attention!” – Pres. Richard M. Nixon’s Head, Futurama

Here it is, another long historical article. This time tackling a subject in the conspiracy world more done-to-death than the Roswell crash of 1947 (later, I promise).

The murder of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. This is one of my all-time favorites. Not only for its impact on American culture and the events of the late 20th century, but because it is fairly easy to prove.

In court? Not so much, those responsible have seen to that. Missing evidence, mysterious fires, and a body count to rival some South American revolutions. All the product of a haphazard clean up effort initiated by several different groups to sanitize any involvement they or their members had, real or perceived, in the events of November 22nd, 1963.

None of it would hold up in court, its all hearsay and speculation. None of the guilty parties are still alive. Their fellow conspirators and the ravages of time have dealt out as much justice as there ever will be.

If one peels away 40+ years of lies, faulty memories, disinformation, wild speculation, self-aggrandizement, and utter nonsense you get to the heart of it. The core of the thing, which is JFK was murdered, and more than one person was responsible.

Just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.

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"I remember a time when things were good. I remember steak dinners, and baked potatoes, and martini lunches, and comical drunks, and a cigarette after every course 'to aide digestion'. And the heart attacks, and the alcohol poisoning, and the lung cancer, well those were acceptable losses.

Once it seemed like we could live forever and nobody would mind." - Steve Darnall & Alex Ross , Uncle Sam

September 20th, 1963, nearly 3 months exactly before the death of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy a man named Richard Case Nagell robbed a bank. Or rather, he wanted very much to be arrested for robbing one.

Nagell, a former Army intelligence officer, non-paid confidential informant for the CIA, and decorated Korean War veteran walked into a bank branch in El Paso, Texas and fired a pistol twice into the ceiling. He then walked calmly outside and sat in his car waiting for the police.

When they arrived he said to them he was unhappy with the American judicial system. He also informed the police he wanted to be in federal custody because the President was about to be murdered, it was being orchestrated by a conspiracy within the CIA, and he didn't want to be the patsy.

Nagell was indeed the perfect patsy. He was unhappy with the state of the nation, his wife had left him and won sole custody of their children. He was emotionally disturbed after a plane crash during the war that he was the only survivor of. He had seen horror, and misery, and experienced loss and heartbreak in the course of his service to the country. He was repaid with brain damage, a 64% disability pension, and an empty home. The Army trained him to kill, and he was by all accounts good at it.

You could not ask for a better fall guy.

Except of course, for his conscience. Nagell claims he sent a registered letter to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover before his non-robbery of the bank, the same J. Edgar Hoover who later stressed the importance of presenting Oswald as a “Lone Gunman” to President Johnson. Having no response from the FBI and the day of the assassination drawing near he took desperate measures to be in federal custody when the event took place.

He spent 5 years in prison for armed robbery, despite having never attempted to rob the bank. The only words he spoke to the bank employees were to ask them to call the police.

In 1995 the Assassination Records Review Board decided to ask him to speak on the record about what he knew, to finally have his story officially looked at. They sent him a registered letter, not unlike the one he said was mailed to the FBI detailing what he knew of the plot. Richard Case Nagell was found dead in his apartment the next morning, an apparent heart attack.

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"Do you believe in magic? Do you believe that two men could be wounded seven times by two bullets? Do you believe that 18 witnesses could just magically up and die over the next three years?" - Steve Darnall & Alex Ross, Uncle Sam

In 1963 the country which we call the United States of America ceased in some small way to be what it once was. One sunny fall afternoon in Dallas, Texas a small group of people changed America with a hail of gunfire and a flimsy cover story. This group of people which we will be exploring shortly killed the President of the United States and got away with it.

Their reasons were varied, their objectives equally so. Some were involved for reasons of personal spite, a few for political or economic interests, some just because they were paid, and a few participated because they thought, morally, justifiably, it was the right thing to do.

In 1963 the country was wading deeper and deeper into the Vietnam War. The Cuban Missile crisis showed suburban America just how quickly our way of life could end, and be replaced by a vast radioactive wasteland and unimaginable death toll. There were race riots, civil unrest, and Russian cosmonauts in orbit. Despite all of that a sort of nervous optimism was the norm in much of the country. It was perceived as the Golden Age of the American Dream.

On November 22nd that changed. Everyone who was around on that day remembers where they were and what they were doing. Everyone, regardless of race or political affiliation remembers that day. Something changed in the national character on that day, the nervous optimism was gone, replaced with a resignation to events, a quiet sort of cynicism about things to come.

After all, if they could shoot the president in broad daylight and get away with it, then what can you do?

“I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie.” – Lee Harvey Oswald, while being arrested at the Texas Theater for the shooting of police officer J. D. Tippit.

Lee Harvey Oswald was a complicated man. If his childhood and military psychological evaluations are to be believed he was a somewhat disturbed man. Lee was prone to fantasizing and delusions of self-importance. He seemed all his life to want to be special, to need it.

We all know the sort, eager for attention or notoriety regardless of its slant. So the official story goes that this man who was generally not very noteworthy, but wanted desperately to be so, woke up one day and decided to kill the President.

He bummed a ride to work with a rifle he bought via mail order, with a damaged scope that was never sighted in with that gun. The scope actually required modification by a gunsmith to be used properly with that rifle, but had not received such. He brought the rifle, a .38 caliber pistol, no extra ammunition for either weapon, a brown-bag lunch, and enough money for a bus ride home and a soda pop.

There, from a store-room window at extreme distance, through a large tree with full foliage, he managed to hit a small moving target with two out of three shots. He wounded two men a total of seven times with those two shots.

Not bad for a man who alternately qualified two points above or below the bare minimum for Sharpshooter status in the marines, according to his official record. That’s the official story at least.

Nelson Delgado, a marine in Oswald’s unit testified to the Warren Commission that he (Oswald) most often missed, and did not care about his rifle scores as he was training to be a radar operator. Oswald did not want to be a ground soldier. Which sounds about right for a sharpshooting super-assassin, does it not?

“Those individuals [Lee Harvey Oswald & mass murderer Charles Whitman] showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do. And before you ladies leave my Island, you will all be able to do the same thing.” – Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Full Metal Jacket

Oswald had left the marines and defected to the Soviet Union in 1959. He married the niece of a Lt. Colonel in the NKVD. He then renounced his US citizenship. Then managed to regain his citizenship and return to the United States after “getting bored” with life behind the Iron Curtain, citing a lack of bowling alleys and nightclubs in his letters. All of this he managed during the height of the Cold War. A time when being accused of communist sympathies was enough to get you blacklisted, or reading a socialist newspaper on your lunch break could get you fired (this allegedly happened to Oswald once).

He spent some time in New Orleans after that, hanging out with mafia hitmen, Cuban exiles & veterans of the disastrous Bay of Pigs campaign, CIA agents, and other assorted colorful characters. Oswald served in the New Orleans branch of the Civil Air Patrol, worked at a diner, and as a paid informant for the FBI. He even applied for a visa to take a trip to Cuba, from the Cuban embassy in Mexico and the State Department. He never took that trip.

This is why Oswald was perfect. He had more fingerprints on his ass than a hooker at the annual Printer and Typesetters Union dance. His background was a quagmire of conflicting interests, organizations, and intelligence. Between his lackluster intellect, mediocre to poor shooting, history of problems with authority, arrogant attitude, abusive disposition (he was accused of beating his pretty young Russian wife on occasion) and uncertain national sympathies (he had a subscription to ‘The Worker’, a Marxist newspaper, while serving in the US marines, but his friends say all he ever read was paperback science-fiction “trash”) he was the perfect fall guy.

“Lesson number one: trust no one. The minute God crapped out the third caveman, a conspiracy was hatched against one of them.” – Col. Hunter Gathers, The Venture Brothers.

The conspiracy to kill Kennedy was larger than a single man, but not so large as others have postulated. Those who favor the lone gunman often state that if a large number of people were in on the plan to murder the President someone would have talked. But nobody talked, so there must have just been Oswald. Case closed. This is incorrect, several people did talk. All of whom did so died in fairly unnatural and suspect ways shortly there after.

No, this conspiracy at its core was fairly small, it only appears larger thanks to its members overlap with various organizations of sometimes conflicting ideologies. Lyndon Banes Johnson, Kennedy’s Vice President is often cited as the top man. From there he commanded the CIA to rub out his chief political rival. This is one of the more popular theories. Others say it was Jimmy Hoffa and the Mafia, or pro-communist agents of Cuban President Fidel Castro, or anti-communist agents of right-wing extremist groups like The John Birch Society, still others point to big business such as Permindex or Clay Shaw as the culprit, or even the Federal Reserve Bank.

In a weird sort of way it was all of them. Except, I think, the Federal Reserve. Those guys are pretty evil, but I don't think they killed the President.

The people involved were men on the fringes of society--not that most people would see it that way. Men and women whose lives were immersed to varying degrees in the worlds of espionage, organized crime, anti-government activities (ours and others), and other assorted weirdness. No one group contributed any more than another for the most part, but all of them were associated to some degree with that most rascally and unpredictable of entities, the CIA.

“With my mouth I speak slander, day and night. I spy on the houses of others - I am such a wretched low-life! Unfulfilled sexual desire and unresolved anger dwell in my body, like the outcasts who cremate the dead. I live as a wild hunter, O Creator!” - Guru Arjan Dev, from the Adi Granth, the final guru of the Sikhs

Am I saying then that the CIA killed Kennedy? Not so much, at least not the way you might think I am. It’s highly doubtful that a memo ever came down from Director James Jesus Angleton’s desk which included a budget and timetable for the murder of the President. I doubt it was ever a topic of discussion for the typing pool around the water coolers in Langley. CIA operatives did play a part, under no official orders I suspect. There may have been some unofficial orders from the top however.

"You can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you, Mr. President!” – Nellie Connally, wife of then-Texas Governor John B. Connally, believed to be the last words JFK heard before he was shot.

By 1962 John F. Kennedy and his little brother Robert had made a lot of enemies. The Russians hated JFK because they lost face during the Cuban missile crisis. Castro hated JFK for the CIA’s attempts on his life and the botched Bay of Pigs invasion attempt. The CIA hated JFK for the Bay of Pigs failure (for not authorizing US air support for the rebels), as well as his threats to “splinter the agency into a thousand pieces” over Allan Dulles’ attempts to dictate foreign policy. The mafia hated JFK and his brother Robert, then the Attorney General, for their crusade to break the mobs’ power (the only people who hated Teddy at this time were the waitresses at his favorite Capitol Hill bars). The failed Bay of Pigs invasion and a return to democracy or a friendly dictatorship in Cuba meant a re-opening of that market for La Cosa Nostra.

Depending upon who you talked to Kennedy was either a communist sympathizing liberal, or a fascist dictator. The man had enemies. As for who had the idea to kill him first, that’s really anyone’s guess.

At least one well-placed CIA agent, Cord Meyer, had a personal beef with the President. You see JFK, the handsome devil of a President that he was, was fucking Cord’s wife. Well, ex-wife, but he was still in love with her (she divorced him after the death of one of their children, citing emotional problems). Mary Pinochet Meyer was an artist living in DC who enjoyed dancing, nights on the town, painting, and doing powerful hallucinogenic drugs while screwing the President of the United States.

This did not sit well with Agent Meyer, or I suspect CIA Director James Jesus Angleton. Angleton had Mary's phone tapped after she and Cord Meyer divorced. He came around her home often to chat and would take her sons with him on fishing trips and other outings. She was divorced from one highly placed CIA agent, friend-zoned the agencies Director, and was keeping notes of conversations she had while doing the nasty with the President. She was on the wrong side of all the right people.

Cord Meyer may have had a hand in selecting the field operatives to get the Presidential assassination ball rolling. He was well connected, one of the agencies top spooks. He had a personal interest in seeing it go through. Though I doubt he would have if he had known the personal cost.

"They couldn't control him any more. He was changing too fast...They've covered everything up. I gotta come see you. I'm afraid. Be careful." - Phone call from Mary Pinochet Meyer to her friend, confidant, and LSD supplier Dr. Timothy Leary shortly after the news of JFK's death broke.

When a CIA agent moves into an area to start an operation they quickly recruit locals to act as their agents on the ground. The CIA case officer gives them material support for their operations and they do the agencies bidding and provide intel back. This is more or less what happened here. Someone, maybe Cord Meyer or maybe David Morales (CIA Chief of Operations, possibly, he was sort of “disavowed” and is not claimed officially by the agency for the most part) or someone else, was told to find some people who could find some people that might be up for killing the President.

While LBJ wanted Kennedy dead, I doubt he gave the go-ahead directly on this. His feelings were known, and he was not afraid to tell anyone how he felt (about wanting the entire Kennedy family dead). Not his wife, not Alan Dulles, not his mistress Madeleine Duncan Brown, nobody. He might have gotten wind of things. Some quotes from his mistress suggest that, as well as candid photos from that day both before and after the assassination. However I doubt he was told directly. After all, he was about to become the President. He needed “plausible deniability” on the subject.

That point, LBJ knowing directly, is disputed by E. Howard Hunt and Madeleine Duncan Brown. Hunt was a CIA agent who claimed shortly before his death in 2007 that Meyer, Morales, and William King Harvey (Americas answer to James Bond, apparently) were tasked directly by LBJ to have Kennedy killed. However he was approached by one or all of the above three men, and was not asked by LBJ directly. He was only told that Johnson wanted it done, and they needed men who would get things done, who didn’t mind getting their hands dirty.

As an aside, E. Howard Hunt would later do some time for breaking into the Watergate Hotel for President Richard Nixon. He was in Nixon's so-called "White House Plumbers Union" (they fixed leaks, clever CIA humor) along with then-CIA agent, current-conservative talk radio host and FOX News contributor G. Gordon Liddy. Liddy and Hunt did a few years for the break-in and illegal wire tapping, they were supposed to do 20, but their sentences were commuted by President Jimmy Carter.

Ms. Brown stated that LBJ hatched the plan with Texas oilman H.L. Hunt in 1960, after Kennedy was picked for the top slot on the democratic ticket and Johnson was relegated to being 2nd banana to a younger man. This however must be considered along with the fact that Brown was his mistress, and LBJ never left his wife. He also never publicly, or privately, accepted responsibility for the son she claimed was his. So she either made these statements because they were true, or because she was pissed about being treated like a whore. Hell hath no fury…

Either way it sounds like he wanted it to happen, but its unclear if he actually gave the word. Others most likely “took the hint”, based on LBJ wanting it done and their own interests in seeing Jackie Kennedy become a widow.

"I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarrassment that I think we have experienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so far removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue, and a symbol for Cold War enemy propaganda.

We have grown up as a nation respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position, and I feel that we need to correct it." – Former Pres. Harry S. Truman, one month after JFK was killed, from an article in the Washington Post.

Clay Shaw was a business man with the ways and means to get things done. His means were lots of money and a small cadre of loyal and capable associates. Shaw was in his own way a sort of 1960’s Lex Luthor. He cultivated an air of respectability by spearheading the campaign to restore and preserve the French Quarter of New Orleans, but instead of trying to kill Superman in his spare time, he set his sights on overthrowing communist governments in small island nations and murdering Presidents.

Shaw served on the board of directors of a Canadian company called Permindex. Permindex was, and is to this day, a CIA front. In March of 1962 his company sent one of his personal associates from New Orleans, Guy Banister, and a suitcase full of untraceable American money to a meet a group of French generals. These generals had an itch to murder French President Charles DeGualle and set up a fascist government, with them at the reigns.

Of course the plot failed, and the would-be assassin’s mysterious benefactors were discovered. No arrests of course, but the attention from the press lead to the company being barred from doing business in Italy. The Italians also threw them out because their investigation discovered they were a CIA front company, and did not deal so much in investments but in espionage and murder.

After one near miss it seems that someone from the CIA thought Clay Shaw deserved another shot at playing in the major leagues, so he got the Kennedy sanction.

So, cash in hand and henchmen at his beck and call he set about his terrible task. It needed to be public, Shaw didn’t have any means of getting someone to the President privately. So whomever pulled the trigger would be exposed to return fire from the authorities or arrest. Since nobody wants to go to jail for their friends or associates unless they have to they needed a fall guy. Someone who would unknowingly take the blame, and could then be eliminated.

They needed a patsy.

At this time Lee Harvey Oswald was in New Orleans, having recently returned to the United states under peculiar circumstances. He defected from the US several years earlier after getting a hardship (a sick mother, whom he stayed with two days. she outlived him) discharge from the marines. He split for Europe with his life savings and falsified college applications and made a break for the Soviet Union. He defected officially and renounced his US citizenship. There he got a job, grew bored with it, discovered that soviet Russia had little in the way of nightlife. He complained in letters of the lack of Bowling Alleys and Nightclubs.

However he still managed to score a hot young Russian wife. A pretty girl whose uncle happened to be highly placed in the NKVD. The young couple eventually fled back to the United States where Oswald had no trouble at all reclaiming his citizenship. During the cold war at that. A marine who defects to the USSR, then returns, and all is well. Sounds perfectly normal to me so far.

"You never know whats hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way." - Pres. John F. Kennedy, responding to a question about how he would choose to die.

While serving in the Civil Air Patrol (a perfect volunteer activity for a young communist, don't you think?) and occasionally passing out literature for the "Fair Play for Cuba" organization Lee Harvey Oswald met a man named David Ferrie. Ferrie was in charge of the Civil Air Patrol unit he was in, he owned the diner where Oswald would get a job, and Ferrie was on Clay Shaws permanent payroll.

Assuming the CIA didn't suggest Oswald on a short list of guys that you could blame a murder on (but were too crazy or stupid to screw up your actual plan) then Ferrie was the connection. Oswald liked to talk to anyone about his bizarre life thus far. After a little checking to confirm the facts Ferrie brought him into his little circle of friends.

Oswald was a go-getter with military training, intelligence contacts, and enough arrogance and swagger to ensure people were paying attention to him and not the real operatives.

Oswald was supposed to go to Cuba eventually, with a vial of experimental cancer cells to inject (somehow) into Fidel Castro. He was (supposedly) a communist, had defected to Russia, and was (apparently) sympathetic to the Cuban revolution. While this plan was far from perfect it was better than some of the CIA's other attempts to kill Castro. Exploding cigars comes to mind. However when Richard Case Nagell got himself arrested and Oswalds visa to Cuba got delayed he got moved to another project, that of murdering the President.

“I love talking about the Warren Commission, I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that's interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy. Sarcasm - come on in. People say "Bill, quit talking about Kennedy man. It was a long time ago, just let it go, alright? It's a long time ago, just forget it." I'm like, alright, then don't bring up Jesus to me. As long as we're talking shelf life here...” - Bill Hicks

When the smoke and dust cleared in Dealey Plaza the government, typically slow to act, knew that something had to be done. FBI Director Hoover insisted that his agency could handle any and all investigations into the assassination. That no special congressional committee's were required. No additional oversight was needed. He felt it was of the utmost importance to convince the public that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and that commies had nothing to do with it. Politics are a funny thing.

Newly anointed President Lyndon Banes Johnson, bowing to a tidal wave of pressure from congress, established the Warren Commission on November 29th. So named because at the head of this investigatory body was Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. The members of this veritable congressional Justice League are as follows.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren
Senator Richard Russell Jr. (D-GA)
Senator John Sherman Cooper (R-KY)
Senator Hale Boggs (D-LA)
Senator (and later President) Gerald Ford (R-MI)
Allen Welsh Dulles, former Director of the CIA
John C. McCloy, former President of the World Bank
and special Jr. Attorney gopher (Assistant) Arlen Spector, now Senator Spector (D-PA)

Mr. McCloy was an odd choice to say the least. With a resume that included the inexplicable pardoning of Nazi War Criminals while serving as US High Commissioner of Germany, being President of the World Bank, serving as chairman for Chase Manhattan Bank, a trustee for the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serving as a foreign policy consultant to then-President Lyndon Johnson.

According to the record he actually disagreed with the Lone Gunman theory, until he took a trip to Dallas with his old friend Allen Dulles. There, without anyone else present, Dulles apparently convinced him of the validity of the theory with a single trip to Dealey Plaza. I suppose you don't get to be head of the Central Intelligence Agency without being persuasive.

A more vocal dissenter in the group was Hale Boggs. He thought the CIA was pulling the commissions strings, and was of the opinion that both the "Lone Gunman" and "Magic Bullet" theories were total shit. Boggs advocated reopening the investigation right up until his death in 1974, when his plane disappeared somewhere in Alaska.

It was later said by members of the commission that the CIA withheld and outright destroyed evidence during the investigation. They claimed that certain classified operations would be compromised by revealing everything, so they gave up nothing. Even Gerald Ford complained about it, and he was responsible for altering the wording of the autopsy reports to better reflect the "Lone Gunman" and "Magic Bullet" theories.

“I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.” – Jack Ruby, while being interrogated by federal agents.

On November 24th, 1963 an obscure strip club owner, gun runner, whoremaster, closet homosexual, and drug trafficker entered into the history books by being the most patriotic man in America. Jack Ruby walked downstairs into the basement of Dallas police HQ with a loaded revolver. Inside a secure area, available only to the police and select screened (and searched) members of the press. There, while the most high profile prisoner in Texas history was about to be transferred, surrounded by policemen, Jack Ruby pulled his pistol and gunned down Lee Harvey Oswald.

According to police this was a premeditated act, though one he was nervous about. This they said explained why he left his dog in his locked car outside. What it did not explain was why the people who spoke to him that day said he was not nervous or anxious at all. Notably there was Karren Bennet Carlin, who spoke on the phone with Ruby a few minutes before the shooting. He called her to discuss her work schedule and she asked him to advance her some cash to buy food and help pay her rent. He called her to confirm a wire transfer of $25 from a drug store Western Union office down the street from Dallas police HQ. She said he seemed like his typical self.

In his pockets at the time of his arrest for Oswalds murder was a “Get into the titty bar free for life” card for one E.R. "Buddy" Walthers. Walthers was a Dallas deputy sheriff and known associate of Jack Ruby’s. This seems like an odd thing to bring to a premeditated murder.

Jack Ruby was there to arrange for death by cop for Oswald, but he could not make it happen for one reason or another. Lack of funds, lack of connections, lack of a good opportunity (Oswald was being watched 24/7 by the local cops and feds). He could not manage to convince any of his police contacts to murder the most high profile criminal of the times right there in a police station.

He knew it had to happen, before Oswald talked. He maintained his innocence concerning JFK from the first moment it was brought up. When he was formally charged with the murder it was only a matter of time before Oswald gave up his fellow conspirators to avoid the electric chair.

“Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.” – John W. Hinckley, would-be assassin of Pres. Ronald Reagan.

Ruby panicked. Here was the only chance he saw to eliminate Oswald. The sleazy strip club owner stepped up to seemingly play Captain America in a fit of amphetamine-fueled confidence. Knowing that should he fail, his contacts in the CIA (David Ferrie, Guy Bannister, Clay Shaw) were going to kill him.

Panic, bravado, phenmetrazine and a low IQ combined to propel Jack Ruby from historical obscurity into immortality.

Ruby was introduced to Oswald by David Ferrie most likely. Jack Ruby supplied guns to Shaws people, as well as muscle from time to time. He was like most of the mafia, decidedly anti-communist and supported the CIA’s efforts to overthrow the Cuban government. He was the perfect contact in Texas.

He must have assumed that his contacts would take care of him. His friends in the police, combined with the high authority his friends with the CIA seemed to have convinced him it would be all right. He came from a mafia background, where people are taken care of if they do time for the organization. Minimum sentences, minimum security prisons, no death penalty. All of these things were standard. He thought he would be taken care of.

Despite their close ties at the time, the CIA was not the mafia.

After his conviction and sentence to death via the Texas correctional systems infamous electric chair “Old Sparky”, Ruby had a change of heart. He offered to spill the beans as it were to the federal authorities. He had asked several times before his conviction for federal protection and to speak with the Warren Commission, but was denied. Jack Ruby told them he wanted protection, a new trial, and in exchange for laying it all out he wanted to avoid the death penalty.

The Warren Commission did eventually speak with him, but told him they were unable to provide him with federal protection.

He won a new trial, his lawyers argued that he could not receive a fair trial by jury in Dallas. His conviction and death sentence were overturned. While awaiting a new trial Ruby was taken to the prison infirmary for a cold. A doctor informed him he had pneumonia and gave him an injection to “clear it right up”. Shortly after this he was diagnosed with cancer. Cancer of the lungs, liver, and brain. No medical examinations before the unexplained injections showed any sign of any cancer, but there it was. Eating him alive at a rapid pace.

Ruby told the policeman who had been his guards to keep their eyes and ears open, and they would learn what was going on. He told the prison psychiatrist it was indeed a conspiracy, and he knew who was involved. He told his family and what few friends he had left that what was given to him was an injection of cancer cells.

This story would seem implausible, if not for the fact that David Ferrie was overseeing a lab in New Orleans doing clandestine cancer research for the CIA. Dr. Mary Sherman was attempting to reverse the effects of cancer caused by faulty polio vaccinations. As well as weaponize it as a tool of assassination (one of many attempts to kill Fidel Castro) for the CIA.

“Communism was just a red herring!” – Wadsworth the Butler, Clue

Going back to Oswald for a moment... One thing about him that strikes me as especially interesting is the amount of credible law-enforcement types that came forward to say he was a paid informant for the FBI, or even the CIA. Oswald had several dealings with the FBI on the official record before the assassination. Agents came to his house a few times to interview his wife Maria concerning an allegation of domestic violence. It seemed friends (the Paine family) reported (allegedly) to the FBI (!!!) that Lee Harvey was beating his pretty Russian bride.

So they of course investigated. Seems reasonable, except that beating your wife is not a federal crime nor does it interfere with interstate commerce. So why the FBI got involved is anyone’s guess.

When he was arrested he had the name, phone number, and home address of FBI Special Agent James Hosty in his wallet. Agent Hosty was also present when Oswald was interrogated by the police. Years later Agent Hosty would comment that the entire story of Oswald being an informant was made up by the press.

Oswald was not amused by what he considered the FBI harassing his wife, and is alleged to have delivered a note to the Dallas FBI building threatening to blow the place up if they didn’t leave his wife alone. He told them if they needed to know something about him, they could ask. However it is standard procedure to check out confidential informants and those given access to sensitive material. Its possible that what Oswald was mad about was the FBI asking his wife about his past, indicating they did not take him at his word. He was a rather intemperate man, and did not like being labeled a liar.

Oswald was allowed back into the country after his defection for one reason, he never really defected. His close friends from middle and high school never bought into the story about him being a commie traitor because he wasn’t. He was allowed back in because he was asked to go in the first place. Despite no intelligence training his defection plan was right out of the CIA playbook, get into the USSR on bogus student papers. There he married the daughter of a Lt. Colonel in the NKVD (later known as the KGB), and then returned to the states free and clear. It was said during his defection and then his un-defection that Oswald had been “coached” on what to say. That he was clearly using terms and words he did not understand the meaning of, but were never the less what he needed to say.

He was then shuffled off to New Orleans where he fell in with the Clay Shaw group, whipping up secret plans to off Castro. At that time he was photographed handing out papers for “Fair Play for Cuba” while attending barbecues with anti-communist activists and Cuban exiles. Yeah, that makes sense.

“I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.” – Charles Manson

So there it is, the meat and potatoes of it from the best and most provable angles I know of. I could write more about this, and might, but this has eaten up a great deal of my time already. The blog is something I do for fun, and the deeper one goes down this particular rabbit hole the less fun it becomes.

The break down of the thing is pretty simple. The government in a sense did kill Kennedy, though not in the sense that everyone from the Postmaster General to the Secretary of Agriculture knew about it. A small group of CIA agents, acting outside of official channels, initiated an overthrow of a government, our government. Just like they do on a semi-annual basis in banana republics and other small countries around the world. A leader, in this case JFK, became too inconvenient to interests beyond his control and had to be silenced.

The operation bears so many hallmarks of CIA operations that one can use their manuals as a Kennedy Assassination Facts scorecard. Confused assassins? Check. Using proxies to recruit proxies to recruit proxies to do the dirty work? Check. Eliminate any lose ends after the fact? Check. Use agents of conflicting and contradictory allegiances to obfuscate the true motives at work? Check.

Over 80% of the American public, regardless of political or cultural leanings, believes we have been lied to about the murder of President Kennedy. That the government has hid the real facts, and may have even played a part.

“The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of millions is just a statistic. - Kurt Tucholsky, a German journalist, commonly mis-attributed to Joseph Stalin

The Death List: A reckoning of the casualties of JFK's murder. Some were in on it. Some knew about it. Some talked. Some just knew too much. Some just knew the wrong people. With so many dead one can only assume that the murders were initiated by different groups acting independently. Each one trying to cover their involvement, or someone else's, or even to eliminate any imagined involvement. Nobody wanted to be left holding the bag, so a lot of people had to die.

11/63 Karyn Kupcinet: Daughter of Irv Kupcinet, a sportswriter for the Chicago Daily Times. She overheard someone at a party telling of JFK's death prior to 11/22/63.
[Murdered, broken hyoid bone/crushed neck]

12/63 Jack Zangretti: Told friends "A man named Ruby will murder Oswald before his trial" and "Three men, not Oswald, killed the President".
[Murdered, shot in the chest and dumped in a lake, unsolved]

2/64 Eddy Benavides: Look-alike brother of Tippit shooting witness, Domingo Benavides. Likely a botched attempt on his brothers life.
[Murdered, shot in the head, unsolved]

2/64 Nancy Mooney aka Betty Mcdonald: Former Jack Ruby employee, arrested by Dallas police after providing an alibi to Warren Reynolds shooting suspect.
[Suicide, hanged in her cell a few hours after arrest]

3/64 Bill Chesher: Suspected of having information proving Oswald and Ruby knew each other.
[Heart Attack, before he could be officially questioned]

3/64 Thomas Henry "Hank" Killam: Husband of Jack Ruby employee Wanda Joyce Killam, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald, worked as a painter with a neighbor of Oswalds.
[Murdered, throat cut, unsolved]

4/64 Bill Hunter: Journalist who was in Jack Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63 meeting George Senator, Attorney Tom Howard, Jim Koethe, Attorney C. A. Droby, and Jim Martin.
[Accidental gunshot to the head, by Creighton Wiggins a Dallas police officer, inside the Dallas Public Safety building]

5/64 Gary Underhill: OSS agent during WW2, later a civilian contractor for the CIA. Claimed to friends while preparing to flee to Spain that the CIA was behind the assassination and he had evidence or at least knew who was directly responsible.
[Suicide, shot behind the left ear, Underhill was right handed]

5/64 Hugh Ward: Private investigator working with Guy Bannister and David Ferrie, did odd jobs for the Mafia and Clay Shaw.
[Plane Crash in Mexico, attributed to fog but witnesses described the engines as sputtering as if out of fuel, ruled accidental]

5/64 Delesseps Morrison: Former Democratic Mayor of New Orleans.
[Passenger in Hugh Wards plane, along with his son and others]

6/64 Guy Bannister: Ex-FBI agent working as a P.I. in New Orleans with Hugh Ward and David Ferrie. Had connections to the CIA, Mafia, and Clay Shaw, as well as Anti-Castro groups. He served in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol with Lee Harvey Oswald. When police arrived at his office responding to news of his death, his files had been ransacked and all information pertaining to his Anti-Communist activities was missing.
[Heart Attack]

7/64 Dr. Mary Sherman: Acclaimed doctor and scientist working on cancer research, a vaccine for soft tissue cancers caused by faulty batches of the Polio vaccine. She was also allegedly contracted by the CIA to develop a drug that would insure a target (Castro, they said) developed fast-acting cancer. She met David Ferrie (and allegedly Lee Harvey Oswald) through this clandestine project. He owned property being used for one of the labs. She was found dead on the day Warren Commission investigators arrived in New Orleans to speak with some potential witnesses.
[Murdered, stabbed multiple times and set on fire, unsolved]

8/64 Karren Bennet Carlin aka Teresa Norton aka Little Lynn: An employee of Jack Ruby's. They spoke on the phone and he Western Union wired a $25 advance to her to buy food and make rent. He did so from a drug store down the street from Dallas police headquarters.
[Shot to death in a hotel room, though it could have been another woman, which would then make Karren Carlin a missing person, either way her death/fate is unsolved]

9/64 Jim Koethe: Journalist who was in Jack Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63 with Bill Hunter and others. He decided to write a book about the assassination detailing their findings on a conspiracy being responsible.
[Murdered, strangled to death in his apartment, unsolved]

9/64 Charles Douglas Jackson: Life Magazine Senior Vice President who purchased the Zapruder Film and locked away/destroyed the original, not-doctored version. OSS psychological warfare specialist in WW2, continued as a paid agent after it was re-branded the CIA. Documents prove he was an active agent at least as far back as 1948, and until his death. He was a participant in Operation Mockingbird.
[Cause of death unknown, never publicly revealed]

10/64 Mary Pinchot Meyer: Ex-Wife of CIA agent Cord Meyer, and mistress of JFK. She spent many nights at the White House dropping acid with JFK, screwing like bunnies, and talking about the horror of nuclear war. The affair was known to her husband, who hated Kennedy both personally and professionally. Her diary was stolen from her home and burned by CIA Director James Angleton after her death.
[Raped and Murdered, a career felon Roy Crump was accused then acquitted of the crime. Six weeks before his death of cancer in 2001 Cord Meyer said his wife was murdered by "the same son's of bitches who killed John F. Kennedy"]

1/65 Paul Mandal: Life Magazine writer who penned an article which suggested the copy of the Zapruder Film they had was different from the one released to the public. He cited for example images that could only appear in the missing frames of the film.
[Cancer]

2/23/65 Paul Dyer: Police lieutenant in New Orleans. He was the first person to question David Ferrie about his connection to Oswald. Got sick a few days later and died shortly there after.
[Cancer, at the ripe old age of 33]

3/65 Tom Howard: Jack Ruby's friend and lawyer for ten years, was in Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63 meeting with others.
[Heart Attack]

5/65 Maurice Brooks Gatlin: Pilot and Attorney for Guy Banister, associate of Clay Shaw. Hand delivered the budget ($200,000) on behalf of Permindex to a group of fascist French generals for the 1962 assassination attempt on French President Charles DeGaulle. He was also a member of the steering committee for the World Anti-Communist League, and legal council for the Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean.
[Murdered, pushed from the 6th floor of a hotel in San Juan, Puerto Ricco, unsolved. His son claimed in his obituary his father had a heart attack and fell, but the autopsy made no mention of coronary distress]

8/65 Mona B. Saenz*: Texas employment clerk who interviewed Oswald.
[Accident, Hit by a bus]

?/65 David Goldstein: Owner of "Dave's House of Guns" in Dallas. Helped the FBI trace Oswald's pistol to a gun store (George Rose & Co.) in Los Angeles.
[Reported as Natural Causes]

9/65 Melba Christine Marcades aka Rose Cheramie: Taken to the hospital in Louisiana on November 20th, 1963 claiming to have been thrown from a moving car by two mob leg breakers working for her employer, Jack Ruby. She told the police and hospital staff that Jack Ruby, a friend (according to her a possible homosexual lover) of his named Lee Harvey Oswald, and two men of Cuban heritage (among others) were involved in a plot to murder JFK. She was re-questioned 3 days later after the assassination but the police again dismissed her story.
[Murdered, shot in the head then her head was run over multiple times with a car tire to disguise the wound, unsolved]

11/65 Dorothy Kilgallen: The only journalist who managed a one-on-one interview with Jack Ruby after he murdered Lee Harvey Oswald. She was writing a book/article that she promised was going to "break the JFK case wide-open." She was also known for breaking the story that the CIA used mafia hitmen in an attempt to kill Fidel Castro a few years earlier. As well as leaking classified British intelligence data concerning the nature of UFOs.
[Usually attributed to drug overdose, her death certificate lists the cause as "undetermined" however, her autopsy took eight days to perform]

11/65 Mrs. Earl T Smith (Florence Pritchett): A close friend and confidante to Dorothy Kilgallen. Also the wife of Earl Smith, former US ambassador to Cuba. She was suspected of having back up copies of Kilgallens notes. She and her husband were friends with the Kennedy family, and vacationed with them often.
[Cerebral Hemorrhage at the age of 45]

12/65 William Whaley: Cab driver who picked up Oswald after the assassination. Asserted until his death that Oswald said nothing in the cab, and tipped a meager 5 cents. He was the only Dallas cab driver to die while on duty until that time.
[Car accident, while driving Navy Lt. Cmdr. Maurice R. Barnes, Jr. along the Hampton Road Viaduct. A car driven by an 83 year old man crossed the median and collided head-on with Whaley, the man allegedly had a heart attack]

2/66 Albert Bogard: A Dallas car salesman who said Oswald test drove new car on November 9th, 1963 and was "imminently expecting funds with which to purchase a new car." The Warren Commission ruled that he must have been mistaken, and that it must have been another man who looked exactly like Lee Harvey Oswald (using the name "Lee Oswald" as well) that he took for a test drive.
[Suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in his parked car, in a cemetery in Louisiana. His parents indicate he had borrowed the hose he used from them a few days before, but also that he thought "people were out to get him"]

6/66 Capt. Frank Martin: Dallas police captain who witnessed Oswald's murder. He stated to the Warren Commission "there's alot to be said but it would probably be better if I don't say it.". They accepted that, but would not accept any off the record testimony.
[Cancer, age 56]

8/66 Lee Bowers, Jr.: Witnessed several suspicious and as-yet unidentified men milling around the infamous Grassy Knoll area.
[Car accident on a deserted road, run off the road into a concrete bridge embankment]

9/66 Marilyn April Walle aka "Delilah": Employee of Jack Ruby's. She was planning to write a book about the JFK assassination, Jack Ruby, and what she knew of his association with Lee Harvey Oswald.
[Shot to death by her husband after less than a month of marriage, Leonard Walle was convicted of 2nd Degree Murder despite the crime being in cold blood, he spent 20 years in prison]

10/66 William Bruce Pitzer: Autopsy photographer at the National Naval Medical Center who documented JFK's autopsy. He described what he witnessed as "horrific", and was said to have a copy of the original, unaltered photographs from the autopsy and forensic examination of the President.
[Gunshot, ruled a suicide. He died the same day the Kennedy family decided to release materials relating to the investigation to the public]

11/66 James Worrell: Testified that he saw a man that was not Oswald fleeing the rear of the Texas schoolbook depository.
[Motorcycle accident involving no other cars or adverse road conditions]

1966 Clarence Oliver: Dallas District Attorney investigator who worked the Jack Ruby case. Considered one of the few honest men in the office at the time.
[Unknown causes, attributed to either a heart attack or cancer. Surprise, surprise]

1967 Leonard Pullin: Civilian Navy employee who worked on "The Last Two Days", one of the earliest in-depth documentaries about the assassination.
[Car Accident, involving just his car on a deserted road in good weather]

Right about here in the time line is where New Orleans DA Jim Garrison starts seriously probing the events of the assassination and the possible connections to organized crime/big business interests in Louisiana. The focus of his investigation was a man named Clay Shaw, his associates, a company called Permindex, and all of their ties to the CIA.

Also at this time Jack Ruby's lawyers argue successfully that he could not be given a fair trial in the city of Dallas. His conviction is overturned and a new trial was set. During this time he changes his story from "I killed Oswald to redeem Texas, the country, and to spare Jackie Kennedy from having to testify at his trial" to "I was set up to kill him, I was told by my paymasters I had no choice, either kill him or have him killed".

After he changes his story he is treated for possible pneumonia in the jail infirmary with an undocumented injection, and found shortly there after to have advanced cancer of the liver, lungs, and brain.

1/67 Jack Ruby: Mafioso, strip club owner, and Oswald’s murderer. Detailed above. He had his conviction and death sentence overturned and had won a new trial. He told the police he had been put up to killing Oswald and had information about who might have killed Kennedy. He told his family "they" had injected him with cancer cells.
[Complications relating to Lung cancer, a pulmonary embolism]

2/22/67 David Ferrie: Friend of Lee Harvey Oswald, associate of Guy Bannister, Dr. Mary Sherman, Clay Shaw, and Hugh Ward. Anti-Castro activist who smuggled weapons into Cuba for anti-communist groups. Jim Garrison listed him as a person of interest in the assassination and wanted him for questioning. He was found dead a week later. Died the same day as Eladio Del Valle.
[Cerebral Hemorrhage, though he had two neatly typed but unsigned suicide notes on his desk]

2/22/67 Eladio Del Valle: Cuban Anti-Communist and associate of David Ferrie. Participated in guerrilla activities in Cuba, and was a trained and highly proficient marksman. FBI undercover operative (not an agent however) Harry Dean claimed that while he was infiltrating right-wing political group The John Birch Society he learned that Del Valle was one of the snipers that shot Kennedy. Died the same day as David Ferrie.
[Murdered, shot in the heart and then possibly struck in the head with an axe, unsolved]

1/68 Assistant District Attorney Jim Bowie: One of the prosecution team during Jack Ruby's first trial.
[Cancer]

4/68 Hiram Ingram: Dallas deputy sheriff, close friend to Roger Craig. Craig witnessed Oswald leaving the depository and getting into a green rambler station wagon (not a Taxi) as well as the recovery of the Carcano rifle (the empty shells he testified were laying perfectly together, spaced an inch apart on the floor next to the window).
[Cancer]

5/68 Dr. Nicholas Chetta: Coroner in New Orleans who autopsied some of Jim Garrisons perspective witnesses including David Ferrie, Dr. Mary Sherman, and Robert Perrin (a gunrunner who worked for Ruby, committed suicide by poisoning in August of 1962). He was preparing to testify at Clay Shaw's trial that David Ferrie had been murdered.
[Murdered/Heart Attack, the House Select Committee on Assassinations noted
that it was artificially induced and thus murder, but it was never
investigated beyond that, so unsolved]

8/68 Philip Geraci: Knew Oswald from interactions with Cuban exiles in
New Orleans.
[Accidental death, electrocuted]

1/69 Henry Delaune: Dr. Nicholas Chetta's brother-in-law and co-worker at the coroners office. He assisted on some of the Jim Garrison autopsies.
[Murdered, unsolved]

1/69 E.R. "Buddy" Walthers: A Dallas deputy sheriff who was photographed picking up and handing off a small object to unidentified men in suits. Speculation is that it was a .45 bullet that was fired at the President. Walters testified that he found no bullet (though he claimed he had before he was called to testify to the Warren Commission), and that presumably the photos of him picking it up and handing it off were also mistaken. He was a friend of Jack Ruby, and even had a personally signed lifetime pass to one
of Ruby's titty bars (The Carousel Club), which was found in Ruby's pocket when he was arrested.
[Murdered, shot by escaping felon James Walter Cherry]

4/69 Mary Bledsoe: Lee Harvey Oswald's former landlady. Her son served in the Civil Air Patrol with David Ferrie. She claimed that she rode the bus with him after the assassination and that he "looked like a maniac". This was after he left the depository and was described by his employer and a police officer as completely calm, drinking a soda, and otherwise not nervous.
[Natural Causes]

4/69 John Crawford: Friend and alleged gay lover of Jack Ruby, also a close friend of Wesley Frazier (the friend of Lee Harvey Oswald's who gave him a ride to work on 11/22/63).
[Private airplane crash]

1970 George Mcmann: Organized crime figure connected to Jack Ruby. His wife shot film of the assassination in Dealey Plaza.
[Murdered]

8/70 Bill Decker: A Dallas sheriff riding in the lead car of the Presidential motorcade. He gave a mid-interrogation briefing to Wil Fritz (the officer questioning Oswald) that required Fritz to leave for city hall to meet Decker in his office. What was discussed and who else was there has never been revealed. In 1969 he sent Buddy Walthers and his partner to a hotel room to question an escaped convict named William Cherry about a double murder. This was after Jim Garrison had contacted Buddy about testifying in the Clay Shaw trial.
[Natural Causes]

12/70 Salvatore Granello: Mobster linked to CIA/Mafia murder-for-hire
shenanigans. Linked to James Plumeri, Jack Ruby, Jimmy Hoffa, etc.
[Murdered]

1971 James Plumeri: Organized crime figure involved in several CIA/Mafia murder-for-hire plots. Associate of Jack Ruby, and Jimmy Hoffa, among others. Had owned a racetrack in Havana, and was deeply anti-communist.
[Murdered, strangled in his car, unsolved]

3/71 Clayton Fowler: Jack Ruby's chief defense attorney, for his first trial.
[Unknown Causes]

4/71 Gen. Charles Cabell: Former CIA deputy director connected to anti-Castro Cuban groups and activities. He was fired from the agency by JFK personally.
[Collapsed and died after a physical exam]

1972 Sen. Hale Boggs: House majority leader, member of the Warren Commission who began to publicly express doubts about its official findings.
[Vanished in a small plane, somewhere over Alaska, after he started going public with his doubts and calling for a new investigation]

9/73 Thomas Davis: Another of Jack Ruby’s gun runners. He was connected to several CIA plots involving the mob.
[Electrocuted, claimed to have happened while he was stealing wire, ruled accidental]

1974 Dave Yaras: Close friend to Jimmy Hoffa and Jack Ruby.
[Murdered]

8/74 Clay Shaw: Jim Garrisons prime suspect in his assassination probe. A member of the Permindex board of directors. He was involved in the failed assassination of French President Charles DeGaulle. Shaw was a known civilian subcontractor for the CIA. Associate of David Ferrie, Guy Bannister, Jack Ruby, E. Howard Hunt, Lee Harvey Oswald, Hugh Ward, etc.. Clay Shaw was likely the man who organized the Kennedy assassination, though not the originator of the plan/idea.
[Cancer]

6/75 Sam Giancana: Chicago mafia boss set to testify to a Senate committee about CIA-Mob connections. Specifically times when the Agency contracted the mafia to murder people.
[Murdered before he could testify]

7/75 Allan Sweatt: Chief of the Dallas Sheriffs Office that stated Oswald was an FBI informant being paid $200 a week as part of an investigation into subversive activities. He was never called to testify by the Warren Commission.
[Heart attack]

Here in the time line starts the House Select Committee on assassinations. Again a special team of congressional freedom fighters hunker down on Capitol Hill and attempt to assess if the government had any involvement in the murder and/or cover-up. After many a power lunch, lots of missing evidence, dying witnesses, and a complete failure on the part of the CIA and FBI to fully co-operate the Committee came to the ground-breaking view of “Maybe there was a conspiracy”.

They still concluded that Oswald did it.

1976 Ralph Paul: Jack Rubys business partner.
[Heart attack]

6/76 William King Harvey: CIA legend. He was the coordinator for CIA-Mob operations, anti-Castro projects, and more. Known as “Americas James Bond”.
[Complications from heart surgery]

7/76 John Roselli: Mobster who worked with CIA Agent Bill King Harvey in Florida, on anti-Castro projects. He was alleged to have flown into Dallas on the morning of the assassination by CIA pilot William Robert Plumee (who continued to fly for the Agency until the Iran-Contra affair) to abort the plan. Testified to a Senate committee on what he knew of the assassination plot, but was murdered before he could be called for additional testimony.
[Murdered, shot in the head, legs removed, and stuffed in a steel drum, unsolved]

3/77 George De Mohrenschildt: Close friend to both Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bouvier family (including Jackie Kennedy as a young woman). CIA contract agent. Was concerned about being friends with Oswald, and contacted the CIA about it. He received a personal response about his concerns post Warren Commission from CIA director George HW Bush (which also plainly stated that he could not tell him everything that was going on concerning the Oswald matter).
[Suicide/Murder, shotgun to the face while home alone, though according to witnesses and a tape recording the maid and gardener were present as well, unsolved]

5/77 Lou Staples: A popular Dallas radio talk show host who did a lot of shows about the assassination. He claimed he was about to “break the case wide open” and had a very large audience. He was planning to buy some property and build a house when he died.
[Suicide/Murder, ruled a suicide, he drove to an empty wheat field that he was considering to buy and shot himself in the right temple, he was left handed, unsolved]

1/77 William Pawley: Former Brazilian ambassador. Connections to anti-Castro groups and the mafia.
[Gunshot, ruled a suicide]

3/77 Carlos Prio Soccaras: Former Cuban President, money man for a lot of anti-Castro groups.
[Gunshot, ruled a suicide]

6/77 Louis Nichols: Former high ranking agent in the FBI. Worked on the assassination and may have known Lee Harvey Oswald.
[Heart Attack]

8/77 Alan Belmont: FBI Deputy Director who stated in a memo bullet locations inconsistent with what the Warren Commision reported. He issued this memo while the autopsy was still taking place. He also persuaded the Commision of the authenticity of a palm print taken from the rifle, which was disputed as being a genuine latent print of Lee Harvey Oswalds.
[Succumbed to a "long illness", likely cancer]

8/77 James Cadigan: FBI document expert who testified to Warren Commission.
[Accident, fell down and died in his home]

78 David Sanchez Morales: The CIAs top assassin in Latin America. Contact of David Ferrie and Clay Shaw. Possibly one of the other gunmen in Dealey Plaza.
[Heart attack, shortly before has was to testify to the House Select Committee on Assassinations]

8/82 Will Griffin: FBI agent who said Oswald was "definitely an informant".
[Cancer]

1995 Richard Case Nagell: Expressed detailed foreknowledge of the assassination, and claimed he was the first choice for patsy (with Lee Harvey Oswald being first alternate). CIA contract worker and Korean war veteran. Passed away the same day he was asked to finally go on the record about what he knew.
[Heart attack]

Honorable Mention - Warren Reynolds: Witnessed the shooting of officer J.D. Tippit, and gave a statement that he witnessed another man who was not Lee Harvey Oswald fleeing the scene. He was shot in the head and the man accused was released thanks to an alibi from Betty Mcdonald. His shooter was never found. When he was later questioned by the Warren Commission he changed his story and said he witnessed Oswald fleeing the scene. Perhaps the only recorded instance of being shot in the head and having it aide your memory.

Editors Note: *Mona B. Saenz is usually included in the list of "mysterious deaths" and she is included here for posterity, but I personally do not think the CIA pushed her in front of a bus because she had spoken to Oswald about finding a job. Unless of course he put down "Presidential Assassin" or "Fall guy for CIA conspiracies" under the category of employment he was looking for.

The victims of time, bad diets, and not-suspicious accidents: Here are some other people connected to this tangled mess whose deaths are often considered "suspicious" but I consider "not suspicious" or at least "less suspicious".

?/66 Judge Joe Brown: Presided over Jack Ruby's first trial.
[Heart Attack]

1/66 Earline Roberts: Oswald's landlady.
[Heart Attack]

11/66 Jimmy Levens: Fort Worth nightclub owner who hired a lot of Jack
Ruby's girls.
[Natural Causes]

12/66 Hank Suydam: Life Magazine editor in charge of all JFK stories.
[Heart Attack]

2/67 Harold Russell: Witnessed the escape of Officer Tippits killer (Oswald).
[Beaten to death by an off-duty Dallas police officer in a barroom brawl]

1969 Charles Mantesana: Filmed what is thought to be a rifle other than the mannlicher-carcano being taken from the depository. However a cursory examination of the film and still frames from it shows that it is a policeman holding a shotgun, likely a Remington 870. Very popular with the
police, not so popular with assassins at long distances.
[Heart Attack]

7/69 Rev. Clyde Johnson: Scheduled to testify about Clay Shaw/David Ferrie/Oswald connection in Garrisons probe, but was never called. Likely due to his extreme unreliability as a witness. Johnson would make false claims about his candidacy for public office or status as a police officer, union representative, etc.. on an almost daily basis.
[Murdered, shotgun blast to the back from his wife's cousin, Ralph McMillan]

1/70 Darrel Garner: Arrested for shooting Warren Reynolds, he was released
after Betty Mcdonald provided an alibi.
[Drug Overdose]

8/70 Abraham Zapruder: Shot the infamous film the assassination.
[Natural Causes]

5/72 J Edgar Hoover: Legendary FBI director who pushed the "lone assassin"
theory".
[Heart attack, but no autopsy was performed]

2/74 J.A. Milteer: Wealthy right-wing activist and unapologetic racist who some say predicted JFK's death. He speculated on Kennedy being shot while visiting Miami. From an office building with a high-powered rifle during a speech. No mention of any sort of conspiracy or multiple gunmen or any connection to anything else, except maybe the John Birch Society tenuously.
[Accidental Death, heater explosion]

1974 Earle Cabell: Mayor of Dallas on 11/22/63 natural causes. His brother was Gen. Charles Cabell, whom was fired by JFK from his position.
[Natural causes]

7/74 Chief Justice Earl Warren: Chief Justice who reluctantly chaired the Warren Commission.
[Heart Failure]

1975 Clyde Tolson: J. Edgar Hoovers assistant and, *ahem* roommate.
[Natural causes]

12/75 Gen. Earle Wheeler: Army Chief of Staff for JFK.
[Heart attack]

4/76 Dr. Charles Gregory: Gov. John Connally's physician.
[Heart attack]

3/77 Paul Raigorodsky: Business associate and friend of George De Mohrenschildt. Wealthy oilman.
[Natural causes]

8/77 Joseph Ayres: Chief Steward on JFK's Air Force One, may have kept JFK’s bible after it was used to swear in LBJ.
[Shooting accident]

8/77 Francis Powers: U-2 pilot from the 1960 Russia/U-2 incident.
[Helicopter crash, while fighting forest fires in California he ran out of fuel]

77 Kenneth O’Donnel: JFK’s closest aide.
[Natural causes]

10/77 Donald Kaylor: FBI fingerprint chemist.
[Heart attack]

11/77 William Sullivan: Former head of the FBI’s counter-intelligence division.
[Hunting accident]

1978 C. L. "Lummie" Lewis: Dallas deputy sheriff who arrested mafia man Braden in
Dealey Plaza, while his wife was filming the motorcade.
[Heart attack]

10/77 J. M. English: Former head of the FBI forensic sciences laboratory.
[Heart Attack]

9/78 Garland Slack: A man who said Oswald fired at his target at a rifle range.
[Unknown]

1/79 Bill Lovelady: Depository employee said to be the man in the doorway in AP newswire photo.
[Heart attack]

6/80 Dr. John Holbrook: Psychiatrist who testified Ruby was not insane.
[Heart attack]

6/80 Jesse Curry: Dallas Police Chief at time of the assassination.
[Heart attack]

1/81 Marguerite Oswald: Lee Harvey Oswalds mother.
[Cancer]

1/82 Peter Gregory: Original Russian translator for Marina Oswald and the Secret Service.
[Natural causes]

5/82 Dr. James Weston: Pathologist who reviewed JFK autopsy material for HSCA.
[Died while jogging, ruled natural causes]

10/82 W. Marvin Gheesling: FBI official who helped supervise the JFK investigation.
[Natural causes]

3/84 Roy Kellerman: Secret Service agent in charge of JFK’s limousine.
[Unknown]

Picture Parade: Forensic Edition!

Here is an example of a 7.62 round penetrating about 12 inches of standard ballistic gelatin. This round is similar to the 6.5 mm round that Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano (would have) fired. Please note the mangling of the bullet, without it having hit any bone or metal.

This is the "Magic Bullet", as it appeared after falling out of the Governor of Texas onto his stretcher at the hospital. Sure looks like its passed through the bodies of two men, striking bone several times, and enter/exiting multiple times.

Here is an illustration of the path the "Magic Bullet" had to take in order for the Warren Commissions findings on a "Lone Gunman" to make sense. Please note how many times it had to strike bone, and exit/enter the bodies of JFK and Gov. Connally.

Here is LBJ, moments before his swearing in as President getting a wink and a smile from Texas Senator Albert Thomas. Seems like they both were overwhelmed by the gravity of the situation, don't you think?

Here are LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson making Jackie Kennedy feel loved by insisting she stand there for the swearing in. She refused to change out of her soiled pink dress, so LBJ became President next to JFK's brain-smeared-weeping-hysterical widow.

JFK and LBJ a short while before what was to be the last leg of the Dallas parade. Seems like LBJ has something on his mind, don't you think?

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Well, that is that. Maybe next time something more fun and/or contemporary. Nobody seems to like these long historical articles, but I like working on them, so suffer my dear readers. Suffer.

Here is the Twitter feed again: https://twitter.com/oswaldwasapatsy

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Debunking from the Bunker: Addendum

2010-03-17T10:25:00.000-07:00

Fascist Bells & Anti-Gravity Whistles: Nazi UFO part 2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Bell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Witkowski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kecksburg_UFO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flying_wing_aircraft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho_229
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Schauberger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter

The battle against the Nazi saucers rages on! After watching some entertaining and earnestly made but still mostly bullshit documentaries on Nazi UFOs I feel the need to give a little update.

I totally missed the boat to South America it seems on the most popular of these, the Nazi Bell. A device said to have been tested near the close of the war at an underground laboratory in the mountains of Poland.

The Bell was supposedly an engine that produced thrust from two drums spinning around an axis. The device was powered by allegedly exotic matter Xerium 525, which is suspected to maybe possibly be Red Mercury (which I might ad, is fictional), if it existed at all. This allowed for the device to "master gravity" and possibly be a time machine as well, according to some.

In 1944 the Nazi's had trouble keeping the coal for electricity coming out of the ground and keeping the troops supplied with luxury items like bullets and boots. It seems far fetched at best to assume they had time to refine any material that could be called exotic.

As an aside, and to be fair, it has been shown that they had at least one breeder reactor going at this time and were able to produce weapons grade uranium in sufficient amounts to build an atomic bomb. So there is something to be said for the persistence of the German people.

But I digress. The Bell as the story goes was successful, at least in the prototype stages. Conflicting theories say the Nazi's slapped it inside a few of their disc-shaped aircraft prototypes and BAM, Nazi UFO. Other theories suggest that the prototype was smuggled out of Germany to South America, where testing of the Bell continued. Here it remained until 1965 when it crash landed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.

The Kecksburg UFO is an odd thing indeed, at least it's shape is odd. The story is very similar to other crashed UFO accounts. Judging from the amount of witnesses and paperwork from the government that managed to escape the shredder I think something did crash there (most likely a disinformation exorcise to cover for something else, more on that in a future post).

At any rate all the Kecksburg witnesses who observed the craft described it more or less the same way. Bell shaped, with weird lights coming from the bottom, and strange hieroglyphic writing around the edges. They said also that it was covered in ceramic plating of some sort. This is the exact description of the Nazi Bell, missing only a big swastika emblazoned on the side.

There is of course a problem with that.

All the information available on the Bell is based on the accounts of Igor Witkowski, credited as an aeronautical researcher he probably knows more about the Nazi secret bunkers and abandoned research labs that dot the Polish landscape than anyone alive.

He wrote a book in which he detailed his experiences being giving access to secret Polish government files from the war which included diagrams of the Bell, and eyewitness accounts from some of the captured scientists who worked on it and SS personal responsible for its safety.

All of this would seem pretty amazing, if Igor had not written his book in 2000, 35 years after the Kecksburg incident. To date he is the only person who has been shown these files for reasons unknown. Nobody in the Polish government seems to have any idea about it (though to be fair, they wouldn't tell the public shit if they did) and the only place that mentioned Nazi and Bell in a sentence about experimental aircraft was Igor's book. After he published in 2000 is a different story.

Another example of experimental aircraft that the Nazi's did have is the Horton Ho 229, a "flying wing" design that can be seen used today in the US. The F117 stealth fighter and B2 stealth bomber for example. Yes, that is right, the Nazi's had a jet aircraft that looked like a big black flying triangle that was nearly invisible to radar.

Like I said earlier its no wonder so many UFO reports came out at the end of the war. Hell, the allied nickname for them was "Foo Fighters" came from a popular comic book of the time. This tech was right out of a comic book, nobody had seen it before, especially not draftee's from middle-of-nowhere Arkansas and the like. They were faster, more maneuverable, unidentifiable, some of them were almost invisible to radar, and the were rare. Its not that big a stretch to assume it was men from outer space.

This was the future, the unknown, and it was shooting at them.

So yes, a little misidentification is understandable.

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JFK article is coming along nicely. It should if everything goes well enough to allow me to finish it soon be the next post. Its long, with pictures, and according to my wife totally insane. Not that she thinks its wrong (so she says) just that it sounds completely crazy. I can accept that.

After all, that is what you come here for, isn't it?

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Debunking from the bunker: A guide to some total horseshit on the fringe.

2010-02-28T22:25:00.000-08:00

The Mothman of West Virginia
http://metaphortean.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/mothman.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_owl
http://www.qsl.net/w5www/mothman.html

West Virginia. A state noted elsewhere in this blog and the world in general for the abnormal concentration of Fortean events and high weirdness it contains. A large, sparsely populated woodland of undocumented ancient Indian burial sites, mines that snake endlessly under the mountains, of odd beasts and apparitions most plentiful.

Not that the tourism bureau would ever put that on a pamphlet.

The most famous resident of the state is of course the Mothman. First reported outside of Point Pleasant on December 12th of 1966, in the area of an abandoned WW2 munitions plant.

The creature chased two married couples in a car at high speed while emitting an ear-splitting screech. It was said to stand taller than a man and had a rather impressive wingspan. The thing also sported large, round eyes that glowed an eerie red.

So to avoid rehashing the entire case again, you can read about it in other places in considerable detail, lets just lay all our cards on the table.

It was a bird. Specifically, judging by the witness drawings, it was a Barn Owl. It was a large, dark, mamma Barn Owl defending her nest. Most likely in one of the old TNT storage bunkers.

Aside from its appearance (looks like an owl), wings, flight, reflective eyes (flashlights or camera flash can induce an effect known as 'red eye'), ear-splitting screech, high speed in flght, nocturnal behavior, what does that leave? Alien? Creature from another dimension? I love crazy shit as much as the next person. Seriously, do you read this blog? But really now.

Yes, there was a lot of odd shit going down around the time. Reports of UFO's, run-ins with Men in Black, mysterious phone calls, and the collapse of the Silver Bridge. Just before the collapse stranded motorists reported seeing the Mothman fly out from under the bridge, moments before it all came down.

Usually eyewitnesses are the weak link in a police investigation, due to the inherent unreliability of human memory. Normally I am a bit more forgiving in cases like this but these people observed something dark flying at high speed and considerable distance moments before they were swimming in the frozen Ohio river. Not the best circumstances to get a good look at anything.

Combine those factors with the general Mothman hysteria brewing at the time and you have a recipe for some down-home-country-fried confirmation bias.

As for the UFO reports? Hell, I dunno. Could have been Martians or Meteorologists. Or mine surveyors. Or the government. Which leads me to the next point.

Men in Black. Mysterious government agents were reported all over town. Acting weird and intimidating witnesses unsuccessfully into silence. Most times I think MiB's are indeed government agents, just not of the super-secret alien kind. Overworked and frustrated FBI agents sent out to the middle of nowhere to interview hysterical eyewitnesses to a UFO or something (remember, this was during the Cold War) could probably be a bit gruff. Maybe even come off as threatening to a small West Virginia community not used to having Uncle Sam in the backyard poking around. Now in cases where UFO witnesses need to be both interviewed and discredited on the spot (because they actually saw something inconvenient) the agents probably act in a bizarre and atypical manner, so that when they tell their story later it sounds insane. But I digress.

Of course their are official records. The initial witnesses, before all of this got out of hand or the name Mothman was invented, went to the police and told their story. About a menacing spectral creature. The police felt they were telling the truth as they had experienced it. What the Point Pleasant police department will also tell you if you ask nicely and don't come off like a nut is that they received other reports from the same area at the same time.

About a big fucking bird that was screeching and chasing cars.

The Tale of the Nazi UFOs, or, Why don't we all speak German?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_UFO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_163
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_invention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zielger%C3%A4t_1229
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peenem%C3%BCnde
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/vonation.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Rocketeers-Dreams-Space-Crimes/dp/0275952177
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/album/data/595/nazi13_1_.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_paperclip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-80_Shooting_Star

Long a staple of conspiracy theories, the Nazi party. After all, who makes a better bad guy than a Nazi? Maybe an evil robot. Or a Nazi robot...

Anyways, the Nazis were up to all kinds of weird shit during WW2. Especially at the end when Der Fuhrer was getting desperate (and crazier) for a fantastic new weapon to repel the Allied forces and secure the future of his thousand year Reich.

They had guys in Tibet seeking lost cities of white people and their fantastic mystical secrets. Himmler had agents plundering everything in Europe and the Middle East that even smelled like a holy relic. There were expeditions to both frozen poles to seek everything from natural resources to (maybe) the entrance to the hollow earth. That was just the weird mystical stuff.

His scientists did have a bit more luck however. An uncanny combo of genius and frenzy to survive at all costs gave Nazi Germany a technological edge on the rest of the world. A conservative estimate would put their level of tech at the close of the war at about 50 years ahead of everyone else.

Night vision optics on tanks, and even on rifles. Ballistic missiles. Jet and rocket powered aircraft. Very nearly the atomic bomb. Fortunately most of these innovations came far too late in the game for them to do Hitler any good. A lack of natural resources and production facilities meant most of these marvels never made it past a few prototype units before the fall of the Reich.

Which brings us to UFOs.

It is often said that Hitlers brain trust was attempting to reverse engineer alien tech. Either received as part of a trade or recovered from a derelict ship. Of all the innovations that could have turned the tide, it would have been this.

Despite the advanced level of technology the Germans had at the close of the war it was never centralized. Which it would have had to be to even attempt to decode the technology of a space faring race in 1945. I doubt we could do it successfully today. Hitler kept all of his secret labs scattered about and teams that were working on the same projects had no idea what anyone else was doing. This was the fact that undermined their nuclear weapons program and space programs. Each team had a bit of the puzzle, but they were not allowed to compare notes.

So, assuming you could get past the technological and bureaucratic roadblocks in the way, and you have some Nazi Saucers. Where were they? There were enough loyalists even at the end to ensure that despite the Nazis losing the war London, New York, and Washington D.C. would have burned under the ray guns of the remnant Nazi space fleet.

What we have here is some fanciful thinking, mixed with some very real and very scary technological innovation. The same men who built the V-2 (first man-made object to achieve sub-orbital flight, which is what Virgin Galactic plans to do in about 5 years or so) and the ME-262 (first jet airplane) are the same men who helped put Neil Armstrong on the moon. NASA was started by Nazis, true story.

Anyways, the level of tech they were displaying in the waning days of the war was straight out of comic books for everyone else. Of course UFO stories came out of that, nobody seeing these things had any idea this shit was even supposed to be real. Add to that some embellishment, post-war disinformation, fuzzy memories, mis-identification (when they engaged the allies they were reported as UFOs) and wishful thinking and there you go. Nazi UFOs on the moon and shit.

As an aside, my grandfather served in WW2 as many did. His company aided in taking a Nazi airfield near the close of the war. Among the planes they seized (and later blew up if I recall correctly) was a ME-262. The airfield was practically abandoned and their was no fuel in any of the tanks. Most of the tires were flat. The Nazis retreated because they had no resources to fly the aircraft any longer.

Anyways they had at least one ME-262 and my grandfather said he and the rest of the men were laughing at the Nazi's because they didn't know how to make an airplane. Because it had no propeller. How was it supposed to fly?

It was not until the US Army unveiled the P-80 that my grandfather realized what he had seen. A Nazi jet fighter.

Chemical Warfare: Chemtrails and you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_theory
http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation
http://www.wateradditives.com/

Short one this time.

Chemtrails is a popular name in the tin foil hat community (of which I am a proud, button wearing member) for aircraft exhaust plumes. The theory goes that the government is seeding chemicals and/or biological agents into the air/clouds. To test bio-warfare agents or mind control the population.

This is crap.

The reason this is crap is simple, money and efficiency.

Take a look at what state and local governments put into tap water sometime. Go ahead, I'll wait. Your tap water, and by extension 90% of bottled water, contains all kinds of deliberate additives and contaminates. Fluoride is a great example. Its an industrial byproduct so its easy to find, its added to all but a handful of counties in the US, everyone tells you its good for you because that is what the dentists and the FDA say. Everyone accepts it. Hell, only 2 or 3 bottled water companies filter their product in such a way as to remove fluoride. Everyone gets it on a daily basis.

Why not just do that with whatever mind control drugs are in the airplanes? Jet fuel is expensive, very expensive. Planes require constant expensive maintenance and upkeep. Pilots like to drink and tell stories. Gassing people with military aircraft for years and years does not make good sense. Hell, if you needed to keep a population docile with drugs and suddenly there was a war and you needed those planes to fight well then you sir are fucked.

However if those drugs are added regularly to the water its a lot easier to maintain the dose.

I am not saying that people within the government would never experiment on the citizens. Hell, its happened a number of times as a mater of historic record. Though I am sure we will go over some of those soon. All I am saying is chemtrails would be the least efficient way to deliver anything other than maybe cloud seeding chemicals. You know, for making it rain. Too much dissipation in the air, doses would be wildly inconsistent, virtually impossible to track the success of any sort of experiment.

It would be pissing money away on a scale even our government would object to.

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That is all for this exciting issue. There will be more updates, I promise. Last year was a bad year.

Special thanks to all three of my readers who responded to the poll! pat yourselves on the back for making me feel loved!

I should before I go come clean about the Mothman. I think the popular image of the winged, cuddly bug man is awesome. The whole lore around the creature is a wonderful bit of modern folklore. Someday my wife and I hope to attend the Mothman festival in Point Pleasant actually, and we will no doubt spend far too much money on booze and silly souvenirs.

However, I still think it was a mother Barn Owl defending her nest against boozed-up teenagers and their noisy sedans. So instead of hating on rural WV for being full of easily duped rednecks, victims of their own hysteria and imaginations, just accept the events that happened for what they were. Mass hysteria with a very real origin point, that quickly snowballed into something bizarre.

It's not just the hicks who find themselves the victims of mass hysteria. Back in the 1930's a young radio director named Orson Wells put on an adaptation of a Victorian science-fiction novel that panicked most of the Eastern Coast of the united states into thinking Martians were invading, including New York City.

So I say, embrace the Mothman! To that end I implore all of my readers in even semi-rural areas to build an owl box or two. For fun you can even paint images of the Mothman on the sides, or shape the entrance like the iconic eye-witness drawings! Arts and crafts are fun!

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Americas Next Top Conspiracy Theory

2010-02-28T15:49:00.000-08:00

Here is a poll for you my dear readers.

I have a few different topics brewing, and half a bottle of Wild Turkey 101, so what would people like to see more of?

Current events type posts (in the news now sort of things)?

Or...

Matters of historical record (Roswell, JFK, WW2 weirdness)?

Or...

A post about conspiracy theories/high weirdness that I personally think are total bullshit (wait and see)?.

Alternately feel free to suggest something. Leave a comment on this post or e-mail me if you have it.

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Return of the Son of the Update!

2009-06-17T15:31:00.000-07:00

Return of the Plague!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8105144.stm

Looks like the survivors of that Algerian Al-Qaeda training camp were making for the border, the Egyptian border that is. The Black Death has sprung up in a small town in Libya not far from Egypt's Northern border.

Could be a coincidence, could not be. Never can tell. What I do know is all the dead from that camp were buried in a mass grave before they were found. Someone had to dig the hole and then fill it in, either survivors or the people who released the disease.

Could also have been spread from the initial infection site by unknowing nomads, or travelers. Nice thought isn't it? Innocent bystanders unknowingly spreading a Medieval plague all over North Africa.

The town that just got hit is near the ocean. So was the training camp in Algeria. Its also a pretty straight path between the two.

We can't go on together, with Suspicious Deaths (Suspicious Deeeeaaaaaths!)
http://austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2009-10-21/17423/British_nuclear_expert_dies_in_40-metre_plunge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Hampton

Choked and thrown down a 120 foot stairwell at the U.N. building in Austria. Sounds about right for a well liked family man and all around boring academic.

I wonder what he might have been doing that pissed someone off enough to tear a page right out of the CIA assassination handbook?

Oh yes, here it is. He was a nuclear scientist with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization working on the ongoing talks with Iran over their nuclear program. Good thing his work wasn't sensitive or anything.

Obviously a spur-of-the-moment suicide or tragic accident. I can't even tell you how many times I have been walking along at work at the top of the stairs choking the shit out of myself and nearly fell to my untimely death. Happens all the time.

Russians shut down a Meteorite smuggling ring. I guess even Ivan loves Superman.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.d3dcb3a9cefaa8a6eae404319f07b804.591&show_article=1

Not a lot to this one, so far. Some Russians and Czechs were attempting to smuggle 200 grams worth of meteorites out of the Russian Federation. Along with lots of books, and scientific equipment. Customs agents nabbed them after the became suspicious of the "granite office decorations" the men were shipping.

It is a bit odd that they managed to nail them on the spot, when it apparently took 3 months to ID the rocks as extraterrestrial in origin.

Somewhere out there is a very angry supervillain.

CIA Drug Smuggling operations are easy-peasy in Afghanistan, seeing as Afghan President Ahmed Karzi's brother is on their payroll.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33500863/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Drugs.html

He's involved in the opium trade, and on the CIA payroll. The headlines just write themselves, don't they? Yet still, people wonder why foreign troops in Afghanistan are not allowed to touch the poppy fields.

As much as this stinks of nefarious Vietnam and Reagan-era CIA shenanigans there is another side to it. Namely that opium is Afghanistans only export of note. Without the drug trade they would be entirely reliant on foreign aide to rebuild their infrastructure and fight the Taliban. That means we, the American taxpayer, would be on the hook for a fuck-ton (metric) more money for that little war.

Of course you could amend the intentional drug treaties that restrict opium production for medical uses to a few countries to allow the Afgans a chunk of the trade. Of course that means the money would be flowing to the Government proper in terms of taxes and tariffs, and to Big Pharma for the juicy pain-killing profits. Which of course cuts the CIA and the narco-empires they have spent 30+ years supporting out of the loop.

Make it legal and Uncle Sam, the UN, and Big Pharma get it.

Keep it on the down-low and the CIA, Taliban, and drug cartels get it.

The question there is which one of those would see the most benefit for the average Afgan citizen?

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...and we're back! My head is finally screwed back on tightly enough to update this crazy little blog. Family illness, work, and lots of other smaller issues have occupied my attention for many months. However I think we are back. Yes, yes it seems like we are.

Also I will be disabling ANON comments. Too much traffic from Chinese Gold Farmers, Nigerian Princes, and South American Pharmacies of dubious reputations. If you want to respond, you have to sign in now.

Also, we have a Twitter feed now! Enjoy bit-sized bits of high weirdness on your mobile platform of choice! https://twitter.com/oswaldwasapatsy

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Space! I love it! NASA, they frustrate the shit out of me!

2009-06-16T10:50:00.000-07:00

The Great Martian Life Conspiracy
http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2009/06/is-there-a-mars-conspiracy.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Report
http://www.enterprisemission.com/brooking.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/19/mars-methane-media-mess/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7829315.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16620-first-liquid-water-may-have-been-spotted-on-mars.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090218-water-mars-phoenix.html
http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/viking_life_010728-1.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061023-mars-life.html
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-life-00g.html
http://richarddawkins.net/articleComments,3526,Methane-discovery-suggests-presence-of-life-on-Mars-say-Nasa-scientists,Newscomau,page2
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080731-phoenix-update.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/27/science/sci-phoenix27
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080060938
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_biological_experiments
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/viking_labeledrelease_010905-1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars#Methane
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1116766/There-IS-life-Mars--know-say-Nasa-scientists.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jan/15/mars-life-methane-nasa
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMAK21XDYD_Life_0.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchlorate#Environmental_presence
BONUS: The sky, it is blue. On Mars too.
http://www.enterprisemission.com/_articles/04-13-2004_Methane_on_Mars/mars-bluesky.jpg
http://mars-news.de/color/12B069.jpg
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Mars [NASA and JPL don't like to release color pictures anymore. Probably because their tampering can be corrected with Photoshop. Also, they keep cropping out the color bars.]

A subject near and dear to my heart for many reasons, though one I usually only mention in passing. Life on Mars. Our colder, smaller, less atmospherically endowed sister planet in the Terran System. Does she harbor life? The age old question.

Yes, she does. Am I going to make a compelling case for it? Nope. Not really. Other, smarter, better academically endowed men and women have already done that.

So here it is!

Back in the late 1970's NASA sent our first brave robot friends to Mars, Viking 1 & 2. These pioneering automatons had the goal of snapping pictures and digging in the dirt for signs of life. They carried four different experiments on board for those purposes. Some of those experiments produced results indicating life.

You can look the details up yourself but the experiments involved soaking soil samples with a soup of different chemicals and measuring if any gas was released (to show microbes metabolizing nutrients). Then any gas released would be analyzed and if it looked like life then it would be baked in an oven at amazingly high temperature (1200 F). You know, to see if they kept going. Not surprisingly the activity measured (oh yeah, they got a positive result with the chemical soup free lunch experiment) leveled off and disappeared when they turned the autoclave on (the goal was to sterilize the soil, for control purposes).

Most microbes don't do well around 40 degree's or so outside their normal range. There are exceptions of course, but that seems to be a decent rule of thumb. So then, what was the average temperatures where the Viking Lander's landed? Plus or minus 1 F to negative 178 F. Poor little guys never had a chance.

Then in 2003 NASA picked up on something very interesting, methane in the Martian atmosphere. Why is that important? Methane is an unstable gas and Mars has a very thin atmosphere. Far to thin to retain methane in any measurable quantity for any great length of time. So it was an occasional kinda methane content. How occasional?

Seasonal. Specifically in the Summer time.

It gets better however. That is also when the Martian atmosphere has the highest concentrations of water vapor (hell, clouds even form sometimes). The plumes of methane are most dense in a few regions of Mars (Arabia Terra, Elysium Planitia, and Arcadia Memnonia), all of them equatorial.

NASA didn't want to make a fuss about this but a few months later the European Space Agency landed the Mars Express lander on the surface and confirmed it, effectively shaming NASA into talking about their own discovery.

Those rascally Europeans went a step further a few months later discovering ammonia in the atmosphere. Ammonia also breaks down very rapidly in Mars thin atmosphere, as such like the methane it needs to be replenished from some source.

There are two possibilities.

Geological processes such as vulcanism, plate shifting, etc.. deep within Mars releasing these gasses into the atmosphere. Or life.

The geological theory goes out the window into heavy traffic when you consider that all geological data from the lack of active volcanoes to the not shifting land masses to the extremely weak magnetic field of the planet indicate that Mars is, geologically speaking, dead.

It is possible that there is some hot magma action going on underneath Mars that we just have not observed yet. Fair enough, I will concede that point. It is odd however that this geological activity is on a very specific yearly cycle coinciding with the Martian summer and appearance of water vapor in the atmosphere from melting permafrost.

That leaves life.

There is the issue of water of course, oh wait, even NASA admitted to finding ice under the soil, and then even liquid water when a reporter noticed that the Phoenix lander had some splashed on its visible leg. Which didn't refreeze in the air, it evaporated. NASA then said there could be nothing alive in the soil because we found perchlorate tied up with the oxygen in the water.

Point one. Martian life may not thrive on or exclusively on oxygen. This is Alien life we are talking about. Even if it is microbes. Hell, it might eat that shit up like goth kids eat Count Chocula.

Point two. Perchlorate is found in the soil on Earth. For one in the Gobi desert, which is pretty inhospitable but still supports life. Its also found in 35 US states in the soil and ground water. So far, life continues to exist in most of the continental US.

Most scientists won't point any of this out for fear of ridicule and career suicide. Since I didn't pursue my degree in physics but went into a different field altogether I can sit back and poke fun at the inanity of the cover up all I like.

There is life on Mars ladies and germs. The only two reasons so far I can find for keeping that so poorly under wraps are thus. Fear of society collapsing in a panic, and fear of the Christians not feeling special anymore.

The first one won't happen. Maybe if we were talking about an Alien armada coming to cleanse the world of human life. Sure, I'd panic then. But microbes? I doubt it.

The second I could care less about. Frankly, science has no business holding the hand of any religion and caring about its feelings. Either they will adapt their beliefs, they will pretend it didn't happen, or they will lose their faith. Perhaps that is a little harsh. Perhaps. But isn't more harsh to withhold something of such monumental importance?

Not only would life on mars say, officially from NASA and thus a Western government (India already confirmed exolife last year, after it rained down on them from a comet), that we are not alone, it would say that life is common in the universe.

Why?

Because that means that life originated independently on two different planets in the same solar system. The odds against that are pretty steep, but if it happened twice here, then life must be more common in the universe than we think. It means we are not special anymore, but it also means we are not alone.

And now, Pictures!

Wow, look at that red sky! You see it? Its red! Oh wait, I forgot to alter the color settings on your monitor, gimme a sec... Oh, when I'm done, ignore the color plate. Forgot to crop that out...

So they are telling us the truth 'eh? They aren't hiding anything about Mars? Well, that being the case I was pledging allegiance to the wrong flag. All this time and I didn't know Old Glory was fucking purple.

Ah, bask in the hazy red sky of Mars. Quaid paid all that money for memories of this? It looks like Arizona.

All these pictures came from NASA websites by the way. Some of them are much harder to find now. Go figure. But they have hundreds of thousands. Some slip through.

Incoming objects from space now CLASSIFIED
http://www.space.com/news/090610-military-fireballs.html

Just a quickie at the end, because everyone loves a good quickie. The military & intel groups are no longer sharing data gathered on incoming objects from space with astrophysicists or astronomers. Up until now if their classified satellites picked up meteors hitting the atmosphere they would share whatever they could tell. Trajectory, area of impact, composition, size, etc.. Now, for no given reason, they have stopped. Weird.

The spooks and the military don't want to play nice with the nerds anymore, and science loses out.

High Weirdness of the Day: Radioactive Wasps. No, really.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/06/hanfords-new-headache---radioa.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090612/ap_on_re_us/us_radioactive_wasp_nests_1

Cleaning out an old Manhatten Project site is frought with the sort of peril one see's in 50's science fiction movies, radioactive bugs. This time, its wasps.

While they aren't gigantic, they are full of cessium and cobalt, and of course are wasps so they love to sting.It seems when the site was landscapped they moved in and used mud from an old nuclear fuel storage tank to build their nests.

If you live in Washington state, pray for winter... Well, actually they say most of the wasps are gone. Not dead, just gone. But they don't tend to re-use nests so each successive generation of wasps should be less radioactive than the last, if at all.

Unless of course, they mutate...

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Another real update, how about that!

Work and other obligations keep me occupied and away from meaningful time wasteing like my blog, I try. Just for you, my tens of dozens of loyal readers. Maybe I should start a Twitter feed? Nah, I am far to long winded for that.

Enjoy!

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A shocking event, another update!

2009-05-19T15:16:00.000-07:00

Now take him to be tortured! Oh, wait...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Shaykh_al-Libi
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/politics/09intel.html
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/05/10/ibn-al-shaykh-al-libi-has-died-in-a-libyan-prison/
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/ibn-al-shaykh-al-libi-whose-false-claim

So, remember how Bush & Co. kept saying that Saddam and Bin Ladin were BFF? Well as it turned out they got that from a Libyan who worked as a trainer for Al-Qaeda. Who confessed this fact after months of torture. Even the CIA, NSA, and military intel thought it was bullshit. Never the less BushCo steamrolled us into Iraq based on this fact. Oh, and the WMD's that were apparently dripping from the palm fronds.

Well, anyways, you know that guy I was just talking about? He's dead. He apparently committed suicide in a secret CIA jail in Libya.

I guess he isn't going to be called to testify to the DOJ about crimes committed under the Bush administration, is he?

Everybody wants to rule the world...
http://theamapati.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/bilderberglist/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act

So Bilderburg is coming up. Lots of important people on the list as usual. However for ease of space lets look at who is meeting to determine the fate of the world from the USA. The list includes other tycoons, heads of state, financial giants, from other countries. Mostly from Europe. With a few from other, um, darker parts of the world thrown in for spice. It is however mostly an Anglo fest.

Keep in mind, what they are doing (and do every year) is a violation of a little known law, The Logan Act. Which is a federal law. Which means violating it is a felony. Just so you know.

My guess is this will be a big year for Afghanistan and Financial news. Why? Oh, no reason....

Deputy Secretary of State, James Steinberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Steinberg

Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), Keith B. Alexander
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_B._Alexander

Investment Banker (aka private citizen), Roger Altman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Altman

Harvard History Professor (specializes in financial history), Niall Ferguson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_Ferguson

Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geithner

Washington Post Company (media & education) CEO, Donald E. Graham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_E._Graham

US Special Envoy to Afghanistan & Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Holbrooke

National Security Adviser, James L. Jones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Jones

Investment banker, lawyer, Iraq Study Group Member, Vernon Jordan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Jordan

Neo-Conservative Foreign policy commentator, Robert Kagan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kagan

Investor & Republican Party backer, Henry Kravis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kravis

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jessica Matthews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Mathews

Microsoft, Craig Mundie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Mundie

Project for a New American Century (Neocon), Richard Perle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Perle

US Central Command, David Petraeus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus

Banker, NWO supporter, David Rockefeller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller

Special Adviser to the Secretary of State, Dennis Ross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ross

Author, Afghanistan Know-It-All, Barnett Rubin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Rubin

Director of the National Economic Council to the White House, Lawrence Summers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers

Futurist, Entrepreneur, Hedge Fund Manager, Facebook investor, Peter Thiel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

President of the World Bank, former President of Goldman Sachs, Robert Zoellick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoellick

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That is all for now kids. Things are more or less back on track here, so expect more noise from the paranoid corner. Keep your tinfoil hat tightly secured and your guns close by. They could be listening...

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Tales of High Weirdness, Cold War Paranoia, and Nuclear Espionage.

2009-02-16T15:25:00.000-08:00

"Audiences know what they expect and that is all they are prepared to believe in." - The Player, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

The Sodder Children: Because West Virginia is just that weird, that's why.
http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_358182913.html
http://www.sodderchildren.com/
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=139901334
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5067563

In the pre-dawn hours of Christmas, 1945, five children went missing from a small town in rural West Virginia. Their disappearance is unsolved to this day. The details of the case are bizarre and more than a little creepy. They are in fact a lot creepy. So settle in for a Christmas story you will not soon forget.

By all accounts George and Jennie Sodder were salt of the Earth people. Prodigious breeders (10 children in total), hard workers, church going, and generally well liked by their neighbors in Fayetteville. Aside from an argument with a man about insurance some weeks prior to Christmas George had, nobody recalls them having difficulties with anyone in town.

That is why it was so shocking that someone set their house on fire shortly after midnight Christmas morning. A house that contained a kindly old couple, all their worldly goods, and nine of their ten children (the oldest son was in the Army).

For ease of evidence collection and to spare you, my dear readers, from paragraph after paragraph of my snide speculating here is a time line of events and evidence. Note that the precise times are remarkably hard to establish in the case so its more a sequence of events than a precise time line.

-Late night, some hours before midnight, Christmas Eve: The five youngest Sodder children (Betty, Jennie, Louis, Martha Lee, and Maurice) plead with their mother to stay up late playing with their new toys. Their mother says OK as long as they do their chores bright and early. They agree and mother heads off to bed.

-Jennie (the mother) is awakened by the phone ringing in the den. The person on the other end is a woman with a strange voice and laugh, unfamiliar to Jennie. The woman asks for someone by name that does not live there (Jennie could not recall the name), laughs when she is told they do not live there, and hangs up. Jennie heads back to bed, but notices the children left the lights on and the front door unlocked.

-Around midnight Jennie & George were disturbed by a sound they likened to "A rubber ball bouncing on the roof". After a few moments they dismissed it and went back to sleep.

-Shortly after they both awake to the smell of smoke. They race downstairs to find the office/den area ablaze, with the fire quickly spreading over the downstairs. They head upstairs for the children. The two oldest join them but not the other five.

-The fire cutting them off from the kids room they head outside for the ladder they keep beside the house for a fire escape. Its not there (the ladder is found the next day, hidden down a hill behind the house). They call out for the children but their cries go unanswered.

-George and the oldest boys run to the neighbors house to call the fire dept. but discover the neighbors phone is dead. Their phone line was cut at the pole, as was the Sodders, 40ft. up. In case you are wondering, yes, the fire escape ladder was tall enough.

-They attempt to drive to town, but both of the families vehicles fail to start. The primary vehicle had been used the day before and ran perfectly. They attempt to use the next door neighbors truck, but it also fails to start. The next day it is discovered that essential parts of all three vehicles engines were removed.

-A bus driver on the highway reported seeing "balls of fire" being thrown at the roof of the house, around midnight.

-The fire Chief is eventually alerted by motorists passing on the highway who see the blaze in the distance, but is unable to rouse the crew or truck until the next day (he did not know how to drive the fire truck).

-After about 45 minutes the house in totally consumed by fire.

-State police and the fire dept. arrive sometime after dawn and begin their investigation.

-The Sodders are told no remains are recovered initially, however that was not entirely true. The investigators found some bones and what appeared to be an organ in the ashes. The fire chief informs the family of the finding after he has buried the organ (he thought it was a heart) on the site of the fire in a box.

-Analysis of the bones shows them to be adult male vertebra, long dead, exhumed from a local cemetery. They had however not been through the fire and were found in a location corresponding to the children's bedroom. The organ turned out to be a beef liver after the Sodders demanded it be exhumed for testing.

-Despite no remains being found the children were declared dead. Their cause of death determined to be immolation/asphyxiation due to fire.

-Further investigation by the Sodders uncovers a half burned rubberized container with a twist off cap near the house. The object is identified by an Army soldier as an incendiary device used by the armed forces at that time.

-A few days later the owner of a motel halfway between the Sodder's house and Charleston, WV swears a statement that Christmas morning he witnessed children that matched the Sodder children's description sharing a room at his hotel with four Italian speaking adults.

-A week after Christmas four of the children and the same four Italian speaking men were identified by a Charleston motel owner as guests of his.

-Sometime later George Sodder saw a girl in a class photo from New York (in a magazine collage) that looked like one of his daughters. He drove to Manhattan only to be turned away from the school without ever seeing the girl. Not surprisingly they had a policy about turning over young girls to hysterical hillbillies.

-In 1968, 20 years after the fire an envelope arrived addressed to Mrs. Sodder. In it was a photograph of a young man bearing a striking resemblance to her son Louis. On the back of the photo were the words "Louis Sodder" "I love brother Frankie." "ilil Boys" "A90132 or 35". After appealing to the WV Attorney general to no avail they hired a PI to search for Louis in the town the letter was postmarked from. They paid him in advance and he went searching. He disappeared. At that point the Sodder Family admitted defeat.

So there you have it. A missing persons case that crosses into high weirdness. From the looks of it the children were not abducted, but were willing accomplices. Personally I think a religious cult of some variety (maybe the Catholics) was involved, to say nothing of the potential connections to La Cosa Nostra (with New York of the day being a haven for Italian immigrants and the Mafia).

The man Mr. Sodder argued with also sat on the medical examiners board that ruled the children dead despite all evidence to the contrary. He yelled publicly that he would ruin George Sodders life. All of this, brainwashing five children, arson, attempted murder, kidnapping, etc, seems a bit much. A little far to go because of some insurance.

Maybe.

Minot Nuke's is Good Nuke's I always say!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/05/loose.nukes/index.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=175306&mesg_id=175306
http://www.legitgov.org/minot_afb_nukes_oddities.html
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/nuke-s14.shtml
http://www.kxmc.com/News/161562.asp
http://www.kxmc.com/getArticle.asp?ArticleId=140988
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2007/07/20/news/state/136489.txt
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/9679367.html
http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/523887.html?nav=5010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/91st_Missile_Wing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuteman_III#Minuteman-III_.28LGM-30G.29
http://www.missilethreat.com/missilesoftheworld/id.77/missile_detail.asp
http://cryptogon.com/?p=1299

During the waning days of the Bush Administration in '07 a pants-shittingly serious error was made by the U.S. Air Force. Six armed nuclear weapons were flown from Minot AFB in North Dakota to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. This is the sort of error that people get nervous about, hell, they even woke the President for it.

People were reprimanded for it, there was lots of shuffling of papers and yelling, but the concern blew over quickly as the event already happened. Everyone wanted to know how it happened (security and procedures dealing with nukes are as tight as a virgin nun after all). Nobody seemed to know it had even happened until the bomber was safely secured in Barksdale.

There was just a single lingering problem with the whole affair. One of the nukes appears to be missing.

While this might be a simple clerical error, despite the virgin nun-like security I just mentioned, that possibility seems to be discounted by a few details. Those details being a string of suspicious deaths.

Whose deaths you ask? Why, pilots and loaders from Minot Air Force Base, that's who! How many you say? At least seven at last count.

Seven. Mostly from car accidents and a few "undisclosed" causes of death thrown in for spice. The best part? All within a week of one another.

The story as seen on CNN was first leaked to the Military Times by some Anonymous Air Force personnel. Now Air Force personnel are having a string of tragic car crashes on isolated roads in different parts of the country. Or in the case of a certain Brigadier General Thomas L. Tinsley whose death I have covered before, shooting yourself in the head at an awkward angle after going to sleep.

Now, here is the tricky part. There may or may not be a missing nuke. It seems that the Air Force, the Pentagon, the flight crew, and bases ground crews/loaders, and weapons inspectors cannot agree on how many nuclear-tipped cruise missiles the B52-Stratofortress was carrying. The number keeps fluctuating between five and six depending on who is telling the story at what time. The Air Force does admit that some of those Airmen who are now dead from tragic accidents had stolen some equipment related to these vary weapons. Launch control/trigger modules. Yes, that is right, at least three (set to be replaced) control modules were stolen rather than destroyed.

So to recap we have a transportation gaffe that possibly leads to a lose nuclear weapon, three missing (stolen, admittedly) control mechanisms, a pile of dead Air Force personnel (not a natural or un-suspicious death among them). Am I missing anything?

As an aside, those missiles were set to be re-purposed by their manufacturer (Raytheon) as bunker buster nukes.

This could very well be a preview of a 'Jericho'-esqe fascist takeover/false flag situation. It could be that scenario is planned for the future, or its a plan that got scrapped and the nuke is sitting under a storage building somewhere quietly rotting. Its nefarious purpose to never be fulfilled. It might have been intended for sale on the black market. Maybe it was stolen by a foreign power, bent on using U.S. atomic weapons to start a war (the old frame-up). Maybe it is a clerical error, and the string of thefts, cover-ups, and apparent murders is just a horrid black comedy. A macabre coincidence.

It could be almost anything, but I don't believe in coincidence.

The Doomsday Device, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love creepy numbers stations.
http://www.slate.com/id/2173108/pagenum/all/
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/09/soviet-doomsday.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Station_UVB-76
http://www.brogers.dsl.pipex.com/page5.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

One of the pivotal plot points of Stanley Kubrick's Cold War comedy "Dr. Strangelove" was a Doomsday Device. A Russian fail-safe system that automated their nuclear arsenal in the event of a launch by the U.S. This way even if their chain of command was broken beyond repair, the Soviet Union could still live up to their part of "Mutually Assured Destruction".

Rumors have for decades said that the Russians did indeed build, or attempt to build, such a system. Or maybe even a single device, capable of wiping out all life on Earth. If Mother Russia cannot have it, nobody can, 'eh comrade?

Let me introduce you to Radio Station UVB-76. More commonly known as "The Buzzer". It is similar to a numbers station (automated radio transmissions used to communicate with spies to this day) in that its transmission is continues and bizarre.

Located in a remote area of Russia, about forty miles north of Moscow (Povarovo) The Buzzer broadcasts its message 23 hours and 10 minutes a day (with 50 minutes of downtime at the same time each day presumably for station maintenance). Its message is, not surprisingly, a buzzer. A continuous buzzer. Just before the hour there is another tone for one minute, then the buzzer resumes. This repeats all day, except for maintenance time, every day.

Since it was first noticed by the public there have been three instances of speech being broadcast. Each time it was just a series of letters, names, or numbers for a little while, then right back to the buzzer.

The buzzer is being manually operated, 24 hours a day. The buzz itself is a device sitting in front of an open microphone. You can tell because sometimes you can faintly hear people talking or moving around the room. So whatever purpose it serves it requires a living person to be there to turn it on and off.

My guess is that its a dead mans switch for that very same doomsday device mentioned above. If UVB-76 goes offline for a certain amount of time, someone (or an ancient 1970's computer) somewhere presses "The Button". Possibly a sort of master on switch for the Russian nuclear arsenal, and bang. Maybe its not for their missiles, maybe its for a network of Czar-Bombs (the worlds largest hydrogen bombs, Russia never does anything small) designed to wipe out its cities in the event of invasion.

So it continues to broadcast. Some thirty years later Russian technicians man a lonely post in the wilderness. Repeating an endless buzzer and maintaining an entire radio station for it. They know that should they fail, should the buzzer not buzz, should the voice confirmations not go out at there set times years apart, that they might very well end the world. These lonely drunk Russians stand vigilantly at the gates of hell, maning an infernal machine set in motion for winning a Cold War long over by the most final of means.

When next you drink vodka, raise a shot to these men. Because when you call in sick or hung over your paymasters lose a bit off the bottom line, or your co-workers do a double. If these men falter at their job, we might just see a nuclear hell, a hell where the lucky ones are dead.

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Real life continues to kick my ass like I owe it money, but things are a little better. As such, you get more of my ramblings. I hope that my tens of dozens of readers enjoy it.

If you do enjoy it, please feel free to comment. I get more responses from 'bots asking me to buy WOW gold from Chinese gold farmers. I don't even play WOW.

The next few posts might deal with the topic of Marilyn Monroe's not-suicide, Project: Stargate (no really, the CIA called something that), how the Monsanto Corp is extorting the Iraqi government to outlaw all crops but theirs, and some of NASA's worst photoshop jobs.

Coming Soon!

/End Transmission.

Return of the Paranoia

2009-01-19T08:42:00.000-08:00

The Plague? In Algeria? Killing Al-Qaeda? Its more likely than you think.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2146286.ece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1121842/Al-Qaeda-hit-Black-Death-fear-medieval-plague-kills-40-terrorists-training-camp.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/algeria/4287469/Black-Death-kills-al-Qaeda-operatives-in-Algeria.html
http://mcnorman.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-plague-al-qaeda/
How could that happen you say. The plague? Preposterous.
Here's an idea...
http://www.physorg.com/news6533.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002498338_plague16.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1128953

A terrorist training camp in Northern Africa has been vacated of occupants. Not by the military, or rival cells, or even by unpaid sub-prime mortgage debt. The terrorists-in-training (terrorlings? terrorkittens?) have been wiped out by the Black Death.

Bubonic plague has struck down an Al-Qaeda facility in Algeria (in-between Morocco and Libya, South of Spain via the Mediterranean, Islamic rule, member of OPEC) leaving at least 40 dead and an unknown number running for hospitals as fast as they can get there.

This is the first major outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Algeria since 2003, before that it had been 50 years. The WHO has no idea what the hell is going on. The last time it hit in the city of Oran (a port city) all 18 patients survived thanks to modern medicine.

Flash forward to now and some caves 150 klicks outside the largest city (Algiers) that contain a large Al-Queda cell get struck with plague.

Its not the location that gets me really, its the who and the how. Plague is certainly plausible in this situation. Outbreaks (well, 1) have occured sort of near there (350 miles away or so) so its certainly not impossible. To be honest though, I don't entirely buy it.

Its just too good a coincidence, and coincidence is not something I tend to put much stock in. Plus some plague carrying mice are missing from an infectious disease lab in New Jersey.

Back in '05 three mice infected with Bubonic Plague were stolen from 3 seperate cages at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey. The lab which is funded by the Public Health Research Institute reported that the mice die "very fast" and the risk to the public was "slim to none".

That may be. It will be interesting to see however if anyone bothers to check the bacterium that killed the Al-Qaeda cell to see what strain it was. Though it may be easier to get cultures of the active Plague from the survivors, as the 40 who died were found in mass graves. Someone had to bury them.

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More later, I promise.

Also my attorney says the previous post is invalid because he is pretty sure that the Goode amendment was scraped from the final version of the bill. I have yet to have the time to properly look it up, so if anyone out there knows the answer feel free to chime in via comments.

/End Transmission.

Posse Comitatus, 1878-2007

2008-12-31T09:47:00.000-08:00

...and goodnight [Homeland Deployment UPDATE].
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-5122
http://www.house.gov/goode/ [The fascist asshole responsible]

Tucked into the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act of 2007 was a provision to end the long standing Federal law (The Posse Comitatus Act) Preventing active duty US Military from being used for domestic law enforcement.

Slipped it right in there, along with provisions for security clearances, being nice to Iraqi kids, developing new radios and non-line-of-sight based artillery, and military personal having to pay for their own abortions at military hospitals overseas.

Here is the amendment in its entirety. Follow the link above to read the whole bill if your interested. The amendment was proposed before and rejected, so it got tacked onto something that had to be passed otherwise you look like a terrorist who does not support the troops.

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(12) H.Amdt. 814 by Rep. Goode [R-VA]

Amendment authorizes the Secretary of Defense to assign members of the Armed Forces, under certain circumstances and subject to certain conditions, to assist the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection and the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security with preventing the entry of terrorists, drug traffickers, and illegal aliens into the United States.

Proposed: May 11, 2006. Accepted: May 11, 2006.

An amendment numbered 8 printed in House Report 109-461 to authorize the Secretary of Defense to assign members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, under certain circumstances and subject to certain conditions, to assist the Department of Homeland Security (upon its request) in the performance of border protection functions.

May 11, 2006. On agreeing to the Goode amendment (A012) Agreed to by recorded vote: 252 - 171 (Roll no. 141). [View Details]
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Also remember kids that our "boarders" now extend one hundred miles back from the actual boarders/coasts.

People wonder why I drink.

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Yeah, another small one. Sorry about that. Again real life is hitting me with more than I can reasonably deal with and still maintain the balance of righteous indignation, extreme paranoia, and careful research it takes to write this blog. Back on track soon, I promise.

/End Transmission.

Its that time of year again... for political assasinations.

2008-12-20T16:04:00.001-08:00

Mike Connell, A GOP "IT Guru" working for Karl Rove died in a plane crash. He was set to testify about vote tampering in Ohio. Testify against Karl Rove and the Bush Administration.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Karl_Roves_IT_guru_Mike_Connell_1220.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-derrick/mike-connell-key-figure-i_b_152582.html
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_Connell

He crashed his single prop plane 3 miles short of the runway. Which could very well be an accident. Lots of experienced pilots make errors that cost them their lives. Its a tragic time of year to lose your life.

Of course if you are set to testify against your former bosses in a trial concerning a giant pile of felonies including vote tampering, your sudden and unusual death needs to be looked at more closely. Mr. Connell was claiming, and the state prosecution was taking him at his word, that Karl Rove (acting on orders from the GOP higher ups and El Presidente) instructed him to rig the election results in Ohio for the GOP.

Oh my! Votes being tampered with in a key state? Who knew?

At any rate the government of Ohio thought he was important enough to warrant Federal witness protection, though I guess Mukasey does not have to worry about that now.

Marine MP's to be used by the California Highway Patrol to man DUI checkpoints. Active Duty Marines. Isn't that a felony?
http://bbvm.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/domestic-militarization-comes-to-san-bernardino-county/

Hey, I am all for keeping drunks off the highway. However this sort of thing is illegal. Has been since the end of the Civil War. I'm just saying...

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Just a short update for now. Rest in peace Mr. Connell, you join a long tradition of witnesses against the government who died mysteriously in plane crashes shortly before testifing.

/End Transmission.

The Mainstream plays catch-up to the fringe yet again: Homeland Deployment finally being covered.

2008-12-01T12:31:00.001-08:00

Homeland Deployment UPDATE!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217_pf.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27989275/

Well how about that, they even mention Posse Comitatus, I am shocked. Of course this is nothing to worry about. In fact, we should be happy! Yay the troops are coming home! Yay!

After being hardened in the desert, they bring them home to "Restore Order" in case of "Civil Unrest". I wonder what could cause that?

US Officially in a Recession.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/01/news/economy/recession/index.htm?postversion=2008120112
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7759470.stm

Well, maybe the ongoing financial crisis? Maybe...

More later...

More...

The Iraq War Troop Surge of 2007 that everyone was so opinionated about was 20,000 troops. NORTHCOM is deploying 20,000 active duty (I cannot stress that point enough) soldiers on US soil. Why is the Homeland getting a surge? Whats more, where is the outcry about this surge? Hmm? Anyone?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

The Washington Post article refers to Posse Comitatus in passing, in a sort of snide hipster way. "Oh that, yeah, that's like, a federal law, but its like, 120 years old or something man. Live in the now!"

When active duty military start being used for domestic law enforcement, is that undeclared martial law? Remember kids, "domestic counter-terrorism" is law enforement, its the mandate of the FBI.

More reading material...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law#United_States_of_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNORTHCOM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_clause#Section_9:_Limits_on_Congress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006

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Mini-Update: Alien life? You fucking bet!

2008-11-29T17:51:00.000-08:00

News of the AWESOME from India: Indian "Red Rain" verified as extraterrestrial life.
http://sites.google.com/site/godfreylouis/files/spiepaper709712.pdf?attredirects=0 [PDF Download of the paper]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/02/red.rain/index.html [Older CNN article]

Well, this is pretty fucking awesome. Its a shame this so far is being met by the international press and American scientific community with much putting of fingers in ears and humming loudly.

Maybe because its life Jim, but not as we know it. "Weird Life" as NASA calls it, non-oxygen-breathing-carbon-

based-water-drinking life. Maybe because its any sort of life from space. Personally, I cannot think of a single valid reason not to be screaming this to the four winds night and day. Fuck the potential social or religious problems predicted to come with the revelation of life elsewhere in the universe. Most religions will adapt, they always do. If they can not, well that's life for you.

Look to the skies ladies and gentleman. Go out tonight and look at the stars with the same childlike wonder you had before adults told you there was no such thing as little green men. No UFO's, no life on other worlds, no green Orion slave girls to bang. Look up and smile.

We are not alone in the universe.

BONUS: The best UFO photographs ever taken.
http://www.ufocasebook.com/bestufopictures.html

Steve Fossett UPDATE: ...still dead.

2008-11-25T10:36:00.000-08:00

"We don't really understand what causes events to happen. History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices." - Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Watterson

Bush thinks the EPA guidelines relating to radioactive material levels in drinking water are a bit too tough, relaxes them for the freedom and liberty of big business. Hope you don't mind flipper babies.
http://current.com/items/89477491_bush_epa_plans_to_dramatically_relax_radiation_exposure_in_drinking_water
http://fe5.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com/news/us/story/nm/20081103/pl_nm/us_bush

Typically an outgoing Administratum does all kinds of things that they always wanted to do but could not before for one reason or another. Staying up late playing spirited games of "Out the deep cover CIA Agent", "Pin-the-Military on another country full of brown people and oil", or "Turn the paranoid eye of the intelligence community almost entirely on the American public illegally-A-Boo" are old hat for the White House's outgoing residents.

No no, not this time. Nothing as simple as that. These are the last days of executive privilege, of signing statements, of Presidential pardons. No concern for opinion polls or permanent Republican majorities. No consequences. This is where the real party begins.

So before the flurry of pre-emptive pardons for war crimes begin (true story, more later) lets look at other area's where the walls are coming down.

The EPA.

I feel bad for the EPA, I really do. There are only two reasons I can think of to pursue a career in the Enviromental Protection Agency. The first being you aspire to pay for your house and mistress's condo with money illegally placed in your offshore bank account by the military-industrial complex for looking the other way, the second because you actually want to protect the damn enviroment. The later seem to be outnumbered by three to one and fight an uphill battle against an oponent with unlimted money, lobbying power far above the agencies head, and their own corrupt beuracracy.

Then the President comes along and makes it harder.

Bush & Co. think that the EPA guidelines are hurting the free market by constraining big business with needless and excessively left-wing liberal communist environmental protections. What do those godless socialist anti-free market restrictions cover?

Radioactive material. Apparently we need more radioactive isotopes in our drinking water. Mmmm dergulation. I can practicly taste the cancer now .

The RAND corporation is actively lobbying the Pentagon and Congress to start a war with a major superpower (China or Russia) to stimulate the US ecconomy. That is what we like to call extreme measures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND
http://www.rand.org/
http://www.infowars.com/?p=5654
http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2008/10/30/chinese-news-exposes-the-rand-corporations-plans-to-start-world-war/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/what-will-obamas-international-crisis-be.html
http://www.infowars.net/articles/october2008/281008crisis.htm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/27/pentagon-panel-joe-biden_n_138192.html?page=5
http://blog.indecision2008.com/2008/10/27/joe-bidens-international-crisis-gaffe-not-so-gaffey-after-all/

The problem with think-tanks is sometimes smart people don't look at all possible implications of an idea. They see numbers, they see effects of whatever system the seek to influence, they don't see numbers as people. They don't see the potential cost on a personal level.

Of course this is worse when the think tank involved is a CIA puppet/co-conspirator. At that point the obliviousness to human misery is replaced by criminal indifference to anything but the continued economic superiority of a handful of American business interests.. woo, deep breath.

The RAND Corporation is actively, though quietly, lobbying the Pentagon, Congress, and the Bush White House (Obama's as well I presume) on the merits of picking a fight with China or Russia in order to stimulate the ecconomy. Yes, that is right, another war. On a third front. Against the two nations who could actually stand against us (or U.S. depending on how you want to say it).

While true during WW2 that nothing gets the country going like a good war, that paradigm is no longer applicable. When we were a manufacturing giant, sure. However times are tough for the fly-over states and the old US of A does not produce nearly as much anymore. What are we going to do? Try to keep buying gear from China while waging war on them? Have our soldiers go into combat in jeans and worn out NASCAR shirts?

Well, we could solve that problem by going to war with Russia, right? Wrong! China and Russia have something called a mutual defense pact. A treaty that says if we attack one of them, we attack both. So we would be fighting on four fronts I suppose.

Maybe Mike "Brownie" Brown got hired by RAND after his tenure with FEMA came to an abrupt end.

For the ~~Fatherland~~ Homeland: More illegal home front active duty troop deployment news.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10683
http://www.northcom.mil/news/2008/091508.html
http://www.northcom.mil/
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/37274prs20081021.html
http://coloradoindependent.com/13321/elite-combat-brigade-for-homeland-security-missions-raises-ire-of-aclu

The ACLU is now requesting all sorts of information about NORTHCOM's deployment of active duty troops on U.S. soil (which happened back on October 1st, and continues...). It seems that NORTHCOM is laughing at their puny little Freedom of Information Act request.

The incoming administration so far has no comment about the homeland deployment, and its upcoming enlargement.

We said "bring home the troops", they said "OK, we'll bring home the troops"... Protestors need to be more specific I suppose.

*sigh*

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Real life has been occupying my attention of late. Not so much that I don't sit around worrying about this sort of thing, just enough that I never seem to have the time to write. I suppose thats the game though. If you spend all your time trying to survive, you don't have the chance to think about your situation.

/End Transmission.

The Gnomes of Argentina, Missing Playboy Adventurers, Homeland Fascism: Things are back to normal.

2008-11-08T10:42:00.000-08:00

Steve Fossett Watch UPDATE: Perhaps Steve reached the 8th Dimension in spirit, or, Why you should never trust people from parallel universes.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/03/fossett.bones/index.html

So Steve Fossett did depart our dimension after all, only in a depressingly conventional way. While it seems he did survive an impossible crash, he did not survive his injuries, or exposure, or wild animals.

Rest in peace, Steve. May your adventuring spirit inspire others to not just live life on the edge, but shoot past it as fast as possible. Also, may your example prove to people once and for all that aliens regardless of their origin are probably not benevolent.

Argentina vs. The Little People
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/weird/article1817406.ece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0fPoH2gWzc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EQO0VfBpt4
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336750,00.html
http://guanabee.com/2008/03/gnome-frightens-teens-in-argen-1.php

A strange creature is stalking remote areas in Argentina's urban sprawl. The residents are frightened, the authorities are concerned, and there is even alleged video tape of them. What has everyone so worried? Gnomes.

It might all be a case of mass hysteria. Then again, film footage of hallucinations is in short supply.

Hoax? Probably, but a weird one. Gnomes? Of all the things to fake in Argentina for attention.

The witnesses who shot the footage in both cases are apparently refusing to leave their homes, for fear of the creatures. In each case the camera gets dropped after a scream is heard off camera. If the videos were not faked by the same people then its an odd coincidence.

It could be a midget, running around the slums at night with a pointy hat and a hand gun. That would make you scream like a girl.

100 Miles from the border and you are still not in America. Welcome to the "Constitution Free Zone" that includes more than 190 Million Americans, or 2/3rds of the population.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/aclu-assails-10.html
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/37320res20081022.html
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/37293res20081022.html
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/areyoulivinginaconstitutionfreezone.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202843.html
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ACLU_highlights_ConstitutionFree_Zone_100_miles_1022.html
http://www.infowars.com/?p=5491
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004364797_ferrypatrol22m.html
http://smargus.com/2008/10/customs-and-border-patrol-operating-constitution-free-zone-checkpoints/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPOuj-WzAoA
http://www.ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=36&SubSectionID=55&ArticleID=22021&TM=3252.315
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/378333_borderpatrol09.html?source=rss

These days The Ministry of Homeland Security has a lot on its plate. Between getting in on drug busts (Narco-Terrorism), nabbing hackers (Cyber-Terrorism), and hanging out in airports stealing peoples laptops (Business Commuter-Terrorism) they have a great many fingers in America's pies. Whats next for this well funded and poorly chartered agency? Border security!

Well, they already do that to. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is their shiny new border patrol arm, which handles most of their anti-drug efforts. That sounds fair, right? Drug dealers are like terrorists I guess. I mean, they had all those ads that showed kids buying weed were actually funding Osama's efforts to rule the world or something. So thats good, right?

Well it might be, if not for the fact that the border they are defending is one hundred miles deep. See? I got to the point eventually.

One hundred miles. Sort of like saying the Pittsburgh city cops have jurisdiction from downtown Pittsburgh to Fairmont, West Virginia. Homeland Security is claiming this tiny stretch of area from the borders, including the coastlines as its "Constitution-Free Zone" as traditionally border guards could get away with more-or-less what they wanted in searching your vehicle and person for contraband. The borders are kind of a gray area where your rights too privacy, search-n-seizure, and such are concerned.

DHS liked this idea so much, they wanted to share it with everyone who lives within 100 miles of a border or coastline. Which means about 190 million people. The US population is about 300 million. Nice, eh? Already agents have been testing the waters of their new jurisdiction with alarming regularity and success. The best example so far is a bathroom tile salesman who had his car interior torn out by DHS while he sat in handcuffs next to the road. His crime? They wanted to search his car, since he was at "the border" and he would not consent. The "border" was on the interstate a mile south of San Diego.

The ACLU has a handy map showing the new border area's where you can be subject to whatever DHS feels like. I am still trying to get over the name they are calling it... Constitution-Free Zone. I am sure that will change soon, I can't imagine that will prove to be a popular name.

Iranian cargo ship full of harmless building supplies and minerals (weapons grade refined uranium from China) UPDATE! The UN asks US to clean up the mess.
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2880.htm#002

So that Iranian ship carrying radioactive material from China back to Iran that was hijacked by Somali pirates that nobody wants to talk about? Yeah it seems the United Nations is asking the US Navy (strictly on the down low) to quietly dispose of it, as most of the pirates are now dead from radiation poisoning and the ship is hotter that my wife in a black mini skirt.

Yeah, I can see how nobody is talking about this. Nothing newsworthy really. Nothing at all. Pirates. Illegal shipments of uranium for nuclear weapons from China to Iran. China, our good buddies whom we owe so much money to, shipping nuke supplies to Iran, our new enemy of the week in the Middle East.

The Chinese are giving the Iranians enough rope to hang themselves with. How long do you think they will sit on nukes before they get antsy enough to use them? Or dumb enough to sell them to someone? Then we go to war again. War costs money. We have no money. Where do we get money? China.

Man, do they have a good racket going or what?

Nothing to see here people, move along.

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Back to normal.

/End Transmission.

In the Grim Future of Blogging, There is Only Dr. Wife

2008-11-04T12:07:00.000-08:00

It is that time again, Ladies and Non-Ladies. Not since the 2006 Congressional Elections have I been compelled to crawl (red-eyed and ill-smelling) from my coffin before noon to cast a vote, then monitor the newsfeeds. But I've got a pot of coffee on and some whiskey to spike it with, so I give you...

Dr. Wife's Live 2008 Election Night Extravaganza!

3:12 PM: This blog's usual Commandant and I just returned from our local polling place. It only took us 25 minutes to find it, as it actually seemed to be attempting to obscure itself from the eyes of prying voters.

Despite what I'd been promised by the AP Newswire, there were no lines at all, really. A few helpful old women aided us in casting our ballots on those wretched machines. I spent at least 30-45 seconds attempting to glare it into submission before actually voting. It wasn't Diebold, but that doesn't mean much as far as I can tell. I haven't taken my mediation yet today, so the lack of a paper trail is still worrying me.

3:29 PM: BBC News has constructed an extremely useful article concerning both the changing political landscape of the United States and also the Electoral College. They are also listing early (very, very early) predictions from various sources as to which way those Electors will vote. Those predictions are as follows:

CQ POLITICS: Obama 311/ McCain 157
REAL CLEAR POLITICS: Obama 291/ McCain 132
POLLSTER.COM: Obama 311/ McCain 142
NEW YORK TIMES: Obama 291/ McCain 163

Granted, these predictions are coming early enough so as to be almost useless, but it's been a bleak 8 years, so I'll take my comfort wherever I can get it. Onward!

5:15 PM: Some exit polls have just been released, and DrudgeReport is calling 7 new seats in Congress for democrats, bringing them up to 58. This is a simple majority, of course, but still 2 seats short of the three-fifths majority required to invoke cloture.

6:15 PM: MSNBC is reporting fairly sweeping voting machine malfunction in Virginia and Pennsylvania--both swing states, of course. HOWEVER, DrudgeReport is reporting a 15 point lead for Obama in PA regardless, although, as always, they site no sources. Sigh.

7:35 PM: RESULTS ARE ROLLING IN! CNN has called Kentucky for McCain and Vermont for Obama, making the score thus far:

OBAMA 3 / McCAIN 8

The 8 o'clock hour is a big one, with polls closing in: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas, so everyone take a sedative, and hunker down for the wait...

8:00 PM: Curse you CNN! They are calling South Carolina for McCain, despite the fact that a) Obama is winning 55% to 45%, and, b) only 1% of precincts are reporting. How the crap does that work?

Still haven't heard anything about California's Proposition 8 success or failure, but polls in CA don't close until 11PM Eastern Standard.

8:05 PM: Results are pouring in from the states in which polls closed at 7PM and 7:30PM. Obama is projected to take New Jersey, Illinois, and Connecticut, whilst McCain takes South Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee, bringing our Electoral College votes to:

OBAMA 77 / McCAIN 34

It takes 270 to win.

8:19 PM: MSNBC is calling Pennsylvania for Obama, bringing the total to:

OBAMA 103 / McCAIN 34

8:37 PM: The American south's results are pouring in. McCain predictably takes Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. New score:

OBAMA 103 / McCAIN 49

9:24 PM Damn near everyone (including FOX news TV) is calling Ohio for Obama, with 91% of precincts reporting in! Hot holy damn! The last man to win the Presidency without taking Ohio was, of course, JFK in 1960.

OBAMA 123/ McCAIN 49

9:55 PM Dr. Wife is too drunk right now to post, so it is I your regular narrator back at the wheel. The BBC (Aunty Beeb) is saying the count sits at...

OBAMA 200/ McCAIN 130

It is looking more and more like a Regan-Style blowout that some have cautiously predicted for Sen. Obama. Of course its still an open game. Anything can happen. Fortunately the Wild Turkey supply is holding out.

More than anything its nice to see voter turnout of epic magnitude. An estimated 130 Million voters will cast their ballots in this election. Holy shit. Really. Something like 85% of the eligible and registered voters in this nation. That is an amazing thing in and of itself. So many people giving a shit about the direction of their nation, of their government, and their own damn lives. Electoral college or not, people care, at least for tonight.

10:11 PM ...and?

OBAMA 207/ McCAIN 135

I do hope that of all the pre-mature coverage I hope The Onion is the least accurate.

HOLY SHIT, BATMAN! PM

OBAMA VICTORY!

McCain is giving a concession speech as I (an inebriated Dr. Wife) type this. It's actually quite heartfelt and I'm a little teary (but being drunk helps).

Well, that's it, I suppose. I wish I could think of some profound statement to end what was an exciting but exhausting night. All that I can say is this: we wake up tomorrow to a new country. Optimism is in short supply, but I can feel a glimmer of it deep within my crusty black soul.

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This is a hell of a thing really. The cries of "Boo" and other less appealing things from the McCain crowd was a bit disheartening. It was however nice to see and hear John McCain sounding more like he did before the end of his 2000 run for the Republican nomination. He transformed himself into a candidate that every Republican could vote for, and in doing so became someone only half the country could vote for. In the end, it did not even give him that. A career of speaking his mind, no matter how unpopular his opinion or how crazy his view and the integrity that came with it was traded away for votes from the Moral Majority and support from Big Business.

I hope the coming four years will see McCain go back to his old sometimes incomprehensible but authentic ways. I also hope to see in Obama a President that offers hope and change for the better to the American people. Not just "Hope (tm)" and "Change (tm)" the branded campaign slogans, not just the marketed commodities but actual advancement for the nation in a positive direction.

This is still a very paranoid house, that will never change, but it's nice to look to the future and see the possibility of leaving a little of our hard-bitten cynicism at the door.

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A regular post of links and weirdness will be in the post tomorrow most likely. Now that the political season is over its time to crawl back into the bunker, furiously clean my guns, and run at the sight of unmarked black UN helicopters.

It was nice to do another joint effort with the wife. With any luck Dr. Wife will be able to stretch her writing muscles again and join in on this station in the future. Maybe with her promised article on the West Memphis Three, or maybe some other well-researched paranoid delusion.

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Election 2008: Preamble

2008-11-03T15:48:00.000-08:00

"We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic." - Hunter S. Thompson in 2000

Election day tomorrow. Tonight and tomorrow night will make up for a lack of Halloween post. I promise.

I have been asked to vote for either big ticket candidate so many times over the last 3 days. Very few actual people on the other end, mostly computers. Of what interest is the election to the machines?

John McCain had one real person on the line, and dozens of robots. Barack Obama had two real people, and a few less robots than McCain. Either way its fairly annoying. By this point I know for whom I cast my meaningless ballot. I know which front social issues I will be voting for. I am not a single issue voter by any means, but I do know that the same overarching agendas will be advanced either way. Major change will not come from an election in this country, not anymore.

I vote to sooth my conscience, I vote tomorrow in the hope that I am just paranoid and cynical and maybe mentally ill. Maybe the candidates are not in the pocket of the same corporate interests they have been since Marine Major General Smedley Butler was asked to help overthrow President Roosevelt and institute a fascist corporate state ruled by the rich and powerful of the day. Maybe its all just a weird coincidence. Maybe my vote counts.

Be careful at the polls kids. NORTHCOM is on high alert and every police force in the country seems to be expecting "Civil Unrest".

More later.

Conspiracy, Clowns, and High Weirdness in Outer Space. Saturday afternoon done right at Cabaret Apocalypto.

2008-10-18T12:06:00.000-07:00

The NSA, Phone Sex, and the Palestine Hotel.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5987804&page=1
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/nation/epaper/2008/10/09/a1a_intel_1010.html?cxntlid=inform_sr
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/13/fmr_military_intelligence_officer_reveals_us
http://www.thought-criminal.org/2007/07/03/spying-on-americans-new-nsa-whistleblower-speaks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Hotel
http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2003/palestine_hotel/palestine_hotel.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-lied-about-deaths-of-journalists-in-the-palestine-hotel-573354.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3145965.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2928153.stm

Adrienne Kinne is one of "Them". She is, or was, an agent for "Military Intelligence" (which from what I can tell translates as "The NSA" in this instance). She is however making a name for herself by whistle blowing about the NSA's warrentless wiretapping program. Concerning, among other things, their tendency to zero in not on terrorist related transmissions, but on phone sex.

According to Ms. Kinne No Such Agency was using Carnivore & Echelon for tracking down lurid bits of communications. Phone calls, e-mails, texts, etc.. and spreading them around the office for entertainment/spanking material. Needless to say, this is a tad embarrassing for the intelligence community. Usually when someone "blows the lid off" something in the deep black world of espionage it relates to murder. Murder, while illegal and immoral, is cool. Well, it's a lot cooler than being the nerd in the tree watching his neighbor undress in the bedroom or scamming free phone sex with a fake credit card. Being James Bond and shooting the bad guy off of a radio telescope is cool, being the old guy jerking off under a raincoat behind two young lovers on the bus is not.

Of course thats not the only impropriety Agent Kinne is talking about, its just the only one the mainstream media will discuss.

The CIA and NSA added the Palestine Hotel to a list of viable targets for the US Military in 2003 during the invasion of Baghdad. The hotel, while outside what would come to be the "Green Zone", was the staging point for a majority of the international press corp (and the unembedded American journalists).

Now its a big building, with a big sign that says "Palestine Hotel", and its in Baghdad to boot. So its easy to see why when the target list came down the pipe a tank crew driving along a bridge nearby fired a few shells into the building. Target of Opportunity they call it.

Several journalists were killed, everyone was both shaken and stirred, and as soon as the hotel was confirmed as shelled the CIA removed it from the list of "kill this as quick as you can" targets. Ms. Kinne says that was entirely deliberate.

The facts seem to support that story. Go ahead and find pictures from that day of the tank crew, take a look at how they feel after firing on unarmed civilians (some of which were American citizens). They did not know. They were told it was a viable military target. They were used to murder innocent people at random. Maybe there was a specific target in mind and it was a clumsy assassination attempt, or maybe it was just malice that lead to the deaths of Taras Protsyuk (Reuters) and Jose Couso (Telecinco) and the wounding of three others.

The US Military has been accused of everything from criminal negligence to murder in this case. If Agent Kinne is telling the truth then they are no more guilty than a gun or knife in a murder. I am not normally what you would call an apologist for the military, but those kids in that tank killed innocent people, and it was not their faults. They get to live with that for the rest of their lives while the nameless suit that is responsible will sleep soundly on a pillow of taxpayer money tonight.

Phantom Clowns 2: Chicago South Side Super Creepy Pony Ride
http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/clown.sightings.kids.2.842883.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,438228,00.html
http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1221492,clown-abduction-children-101408.article

The Phantom Clowns, one of Americas creepiest historical oddities/urban legends is back. This time a silver sedan and your standard issue child molestation family van are on the prowl on the South Side of Chicago. The very same area Barack Obama started his political career as a community organizer.

Two per vehicle they come, bearing candy, balloons, and wicked grins. Trying to entice children into their vehicles just like in the 1980's. Also just like the 1980's they have yet to actually abduct a child. Well, so far no child abductions can be reliable attributed to them, thats not to say they have not done it.

The last time the clowns stalked the streets of Americas cities we had Satanic Ritual Abuse Syndrome dominating the news cycle. This time its the Presidential election and the collapse of Wall Street. The clowns are showing up in an area with a connection to the Obama campaign, in an area rife with the dealings of Tony Rezco. A man the Obama campaign would certainly like to forget, as Barack's ill-advised land deal with him has been a stick which his rivals have beat him with non-stop for almost two years. Not that there is a connection at all mind you, I just think its weird that out of all the places for this to crop up its right there. Little weird.

Copy Cats? The same clowns? Distraction from something else? Supernatural weirdness? Who knows. It will be interesting to see if it spreads again, like last time.

Dark Flow: Not a new Jam Band, not a PS3 game, not what happens to your girlfriend once a month. No, it is both cooler and scarier than those.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080923-dark-flows.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080923104410.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/25/universe-dark-flow.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427082,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26857495/
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/dark_flow.html

How big is the universe? Big. Really, really big. Is it infinite? Well, no. Probably not. For as large as it is it might as well be, but its not. What is outside of the universe? Until a few months ago most scientists would shrug and say "probably nothing". Recently however "probably nothing" became "most likely something so fucking weird and scary that your human brain cannot properly conceive of it without going mad".

No, this is not a ham-fisted intro to a Lovecraft story. Rather its a ham-fisted introduction to high weirdness on a universal scale. Dark Flow.

Assume the Big Bang happened. OK. So we have ALL matter and energy in the Universe (even that which is contained inside Steven Seagal) traveling outward from the zero point at impossible speeds. So we have an ever expanding sphere of matter and energy which Al Gore likes to call "The Universe".

Everything inside this "The Universe" is moving at more or less the same speed in predictable directions as its a spherical model. So flash forward about 15 or so billion years and you have everything where it is now. Some things slowed down a bit, some sped up, but aside from various crashes and explosions shaking up the model its all pretty predictable. Right Science? Science says well, um, no. Not entirely.

A few Galactic Clusters (which are not hair metal bands or Little Debbie cakes but rather are giant cloud-like clusters of galaxies) are moving in the wrong directions. In the wrong direction at about 2 million kilometers per hour (our galaxy takes about 200 million years to make a complete orbit around galactic central point). They are not moving how they should be moving, but are moving in a straight line outwards, towards the edge of the observable universe. Once they get there they will then exit reality as we know it.

Thats pretty weird right? It gets better, in the way that Lovecraft's stories get more "hopeful" and "optimistic" at the end. This is being caused by "Dark Flow". A name scientists made up because the only cause for this problem that fits the math is gigantic structures of impossible geometry and material alien to our universe sitting outside normal space and time warping the very fabric of reality. The gravity well of these structures is affecting a certain region of our universe and pulling material (in this case galactic clusters) outside of observable space and time into another, weirder something (its not another dimension, or universe, its just something sitting outside of our universe).

So there you have it. Sleep tight.

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I promised a full post and here it is. I guess my article about the Battle of Las Angeles was not as popular as my paranoid ranting about the government and martial law. I had to take a little break from writing about it for a week, I was about to pop a blood vessel deep in my brain. We are back this week however with a little of column A and B. Look closely at the first article, you can see my potential aneurysm throbbing...

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Rage Against the UFO: Weird Tales of WW2

2008-10-08T15:04:00.000-07:00

Another small post this week, but at least it has pictures. There will be more later, I promise. In the meanwhile enjoy this bit of weird history.

The Battle of Los Angeles is not just a Rage Against the Machine album.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles
http://www.presidentialufo.com/west_coast_air_raid.htm
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist9/aaf2.html
http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/losangeles1942.htm
http://www.rense.com/ufo/battleofla.htm
http://www.rense.com/general27/battle.htm
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=649
http://brumac.8k.com/BATTLEOFLA/BOLA1.html

In the wee hours of the morning on February 25th, 1942 searchlights lit the sky above LA. The city was plunged into emergency black out and anti-aircraft guns exploded shells into a target above the city for over an hour. Several civilians died as a result of friendly fire, a few buildings burned down, and at least 3 people had heart attacks during the attack.

What the fuck was going on?

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was less than three months earlier and the West Coast was considerably edgier than it usually is. Not your average over-caffeinated twitch response mind you. It was full on paranoia that at any moment the sky would fill with Zero fighters raining high caliber machine gun death on the quirky but generally peace loving people of Southern California.

The whole country stood at a definite "War Footing" as we readied what remained of our Navy to take the fight all the way to Tokyo like a red, white, and blue flag waving, cigar chomping, radioactive death dealing giant lizard. The government was wondering out loud about putting everyone of Asian ancestry, regardless of citizenship status, into internment camps. The Nazi threat loomed in Europe as Hitler gave the free world the finger and essentially told everyone to brush up their German and learn to love his brand of hot sausage. Things were scary and weird.

So into this equation you have a mystery object, traveling slowly down the coast from Santa Monica heading to Long Beach. It is almost invisible to radar (it was detected intermittently, and was possibly one of as many as five objects), silent, makes no attempt to identify itself, and looks a bit too much like an upside down silver pie plate for comfort. All of these factors contributed to one of the loudest and most hostile welcomes in LA history.

Over 1400 12.8lb anti-aircraft shells were fired at the object over the course of an hour. Many of those shells, according to the artillery crews and civilians, impacted on the object or exploded in close proximity. No debris was found, no damage observed, after an hour of sustained firing the thing simply vanished. Of course nobody had a clue as to who the fight was with, what the other side wanted, or if there would be more fight to come.

The US Army and the Government have offered a few explanations over the years for the incident and object, all of which must be true until a new official report is published that contradicts the last one. Here are a few of the explanations...

False Alarm: Attributed to "War Nerves". Fair enough. People were crazy with worry over a possible additional Japanese sneak-attack. That is actually perfectly plausible. However an object was shot at, and hit to no effect, and this is known because newspaper men and the Army photographed it as it happened. So unless the citizens of LA were so nervous as to psychically imprint their worry in the shape of a flying saucer on tons of film, "Move along, nothing to see here" may not be the best explanation.

Japanese "Fire Balloon": A good theory, except that a balloon filled with flammable hydrogen (the Japanese did not have access to non-explosive lighter than air gasses like helium) and carrying a payload of flammable liquids and dynamite is doubtful to withstand sustained artillery fire for more than an hour. Also, the Japanese did not start unleashing their wildly ineffective balloon assault until 1944.

Birds: Birds are silent, at high altiude can appear to be slow moving, and are often covered by a reflective metal surface. However those points conceded, it can be assumed that most birds will not hover stationary in the face of powerful search lights and giant explosions for longer than an episode of The Lawrence Welk Show.

Weather Balloon: I will accept this explanation if you can explain to me how 1400+ 12.8lb anti-aircraft shells could not even move one, while in another five years one crashed on its own in Roswell, New Mexico and left a debris field around 300 feet long and with several burned and broken crash test dummies in its wake. It can be assumed from this that our earlier weather balloons were invulnerable titans of modern engineering while models produced less than a decade later folded like a house of cards at the slightest provocation.

Japanese/Nazi (Japanazi) Secret Weapon: Also a good speculation. However since this article is not written in German, Kanji, or a crude Germanese/Spanglish dialect I will assume that this was not a forgotten Wunderweapon of the 3rd Reich.

What we have here is one of the best examples of a UFO sighting in recorded history. Both Military and civilian sources observed it, fired at it, and were scared shitless of it. Photographic evidence still exists even, probably because it was not assumed to be anything other than birds or lost Japanese fighter planes with no guns searching for Sushi Bar and rest room. Despite it being such a good example, with a pretty good pile of evidence, one rarely hears about it. Why? Probably because its a good example of something unknown with a pretty good pile of evidence.

Bonus! Pictures! [Click on them for full size]

The most common image of the battle.

A photo taken directly from the microfilm copies.

Here is the negative of the first photo. Isn't that something?

The Negative of the image shows the object in the center of the searchlights in pretty good detail. I am not saying that its full of little green men, but it is interesting.

What is also interesting is despite all that attention, the photographs, media reports, shells fired, and civilian deaths there was no Congressional investigation into the mater. Not a one. The Army concluded at the time it must have been civilian planes operated by unauthorized pilots engaged in a psychological warfare operation of some kind. They theorize that the planes were being flown at low speed and high altitude so as to avoid the shelling from below. Which would work out as an explanation, except the object and the exploding shells can be seen in the photo's, and with even more clarity in the negative.

Another interesting factor is that in addition to the Motion Picture studios, Southern California at that time was a powerhouse of industrial production. Of what you may ask? Why, weapons of course. Ships, guns, bombs, bullets, you name it. Industrial production for the backbone of Americas war effort. All being churned out by cute little California beach bunnies. All kinds of weapons, even nukes.

Robert Oppenheimer was hard at work at the University of California (Berkley) at this time, finishing his calculations concerning critical mass and detonation. If there is a connection I have no idea what it is. Probably just a coincidence, just an interesting one.

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More later.

/End Transmission.

Pirates! Mad Cow! The Collapse of Wall Street! Do I know how to party or what?

2008-10-01T12:17:00.000-07:00

Calvin: I know more about the private lives of celebrities than I do about any governmental policy that will actually affect me. I'm interested in things that are none of my business, and I'm bored by things that are important to know.
Hobbes: The media aim to please.
Calvin: Maybe the economy should be discussed in cheap motel rooms.
-Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Waterson

US Soldiers exposed to cancer causing agent while guarding an Iraqi water treatment plant.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/military_watertreatment_cancer_iraq_092908w/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_dichromate
http://msds.chem.ox.ac.uk/SO/sodium_dichromate.html
http://www.osha.gov/dts/chemicalsampling/data/CH_228697.html
http://www.elementischromium.com/products/dichromate.htm

Sodium Dichromate is scary shit. The OSHA permissible exposure limits are really very tiny (in the 0.005 micrograms range, think of that as 0.005% of the average tab of acid) due to its extreme toxicity and carcinogenic effects.. It would seem that a giant vat of it was sitting open outside with the wind blowing through it (powder form) and at least 600 National Guardsmen were exposed to it. Yikes.

While I am not pointing fingers that the Amry was dumping known carcinogens into the Iraqi water supply, I am pointing a finger at someone for not being smarter and probably killing a whole bunch of people. It seems that the contractors we keep giving no-bid contracts to are determined to kill more of our troops than the Iraqi's are.

At least you know where you stand facing an angry man with an AK. Companies like Halliburton who are supposed to be taking care of our guys are killing them in worse ways, all while singing songs about how much we need their help. I can think of many more things one needs in life ahead of cancer, or drinking diesel fuel, or bathing in waste water, or having corporate thugs pull guns on you in public because they caused a traffic accident, or...

Somali Pirates die after taking an Iranian merchant ship. Die mysteriously. Symptoms of the mysterious illness include skin burns, hair loss, collapse of immune response, loss of teeth, cancer, cancer, cancer... I wonder what was poorly stored on that ship?
http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintArticle.aspx?ID=851953
http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/entities/en/247211.html
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Pirates-stolen--your-supertanker.3881777.jp

So it goes that the mainstream media again misses the boat. So to speak. One would think FOX News would be all over this. Not a peep, not a whisper.

Iran is importing nuclear materials from China by the look of it. Not just reactor parts, but actual uranium by the look of it. Also given how quickly these men are succumbing to radiation poisoning I would venture to guess its already been refined. Isn't that something.

Maybe the media black out is because, like Darfur, acknowledging the problem means directly saying that China is working against us. Which means we would have to do more than occasionally maybe kinda talk tough about them.

Why is that such an issue? Well ignore their military for a moment. Ignore all the products we import from them that are used on a daily basis for a moment. Ignore their yummy food for a moment. What does China do for us that is so important that they can shit in our hands like this and we will pretend its cake? Easy, money. Where do you think all the money for the Iraq war is coming from? All that debt we are in, who do you think is holding the fucking marker on that? Mostly China.

Sure America, go to war with another Arab nation! Go on, spend yourselves into debt so deep the only sunshine you see will belong to China, go ahead! China wants to own our ecconomy, and they are pretty much almost there.

Back to the article for a moment... The ship is an Iranian ship, which set sail from China, according to the company that owns it (the Iranian government, its a state owned company) it was heading for Rotterdam and was purchased by a German client. Of course they also say the cargo is "Minerals" and "Industrial Materials", so who knows. They are threatening to sue the man who is trying to help them get their ship back for saying the cargo is radioactive.

My theory? I know you are dying to hear it, so here goes. The cargo is indeed refined uranium 235, or enough raw ore (mined in Africa, hmmmm) to choke a camel. The crew, Iranian sailors, knew that the Somali pirates would kill all of them due to them all being poor sailors and not important folks. So they decided to get the pirates from beyond the grave, they cracked open the seals on the uranium canisters in the shipping boxes and closed the boxes back up. The pirates shot the crew, but the crew killed them via radiation poisoning. I applaud the crew of the ship. That is what I would have done.

Of course now there is a boat sitting at sea full of cancerous pirates and exposed uranium that's getting hotter by the minute. That sucks. That ladies and gentlemen is what I call "A Problem".

Mad Cow human variant (CJD) kills two in Spain, from the same family.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/09/25/mad.cow.spain/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Not a lot to say on this one except that the problem is not going away. Despite increased safety precautions around the world the number of identified victims steadily increases.

*sigh*

And I do so love a good cheeseburger.

Why are Obama & McCain both HOT HOT HOT for the $700 Billion Bailout Plan? Just take a look at their top campaign contributors silly!
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=n00006424
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/bundlers.php?id=N00006424
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?id=N00009638&cycle2=2008&goButt2.x=0&goButt2.y=4&goButt2=Submit
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/bundlers.php?id=N00009638&cycle2=2008&goButt2.x=8&goButt2.y=9&goButt2=Submit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_money

Contributors in BOLD are financial/credit/banking institutions. Most of the ones whose names are not readily recognizable are law firms. On both lists, not just Obama.

John Mccain's Puppet Masters
Merrill Lynch $298,413
Citigroup Inc $269,251
Morgan Stanley $233,272
Goldman Sachs $208,395
JPMorgan Chase & Co $179,975
AT&T Inc $174,487
Blank Rome LLP $150,426
Credit Suisse Group $150,025
Greenberg Traurig LLP $146,787
UBS AG $140,165
PricewaterhouseCoopers $140,120
US Government $137,617
Bank of America $129,475
Wachovia Corp $122,846
Lehman Brothers $117,500
FedEx Corp $113,453
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $104,250
US Army $103,613
Bear Stearns $99,300
Pinnacle West Capital $97,700
Non-Disclosure of funding sources: 11.1%

Top Industries of McCain Bundlers
Securities & Investment $11,350,000
Real Estate $9,500,000
Lobbyists $6,250,000
Lawyers/Law Firms $4,900,000
Misc Finance $4,500,000

Barack Obama's Puppet Masters
Goldman Sachs $691,930
University of California $611,207
Citigroup Inc $448,599
JPMorgan Chase & Co $442,919
Harvard University $435,769
Google Inc $420,174
UBS AG $404,750
National Amusements Inc $389,140
Microsoft Corp $377,235
Lehman Brothers $370,524
Sidley Austin LLP $350,302
Moveon.org $347,463
Skadden, Arps et al $340,264
Time Warner $338,527
Wilmerhale Llp $335,398
Morgan Stanley $318,070
Latham & Watkins $297,400
Jones Day $289,476
University of Chicago $278,885
Stanford University $276,038
Non-Disclosure of funding sources: 5.8%

Top Industries of Obama Bundlers
Lawyers/Law Firms $11,700,000
Securities & Investment $8,900,000
TV/Movies/Music $3,150,000
Computers/Internet $2,150,000
Business Services $2,100,000

Sorta puts it all in perspective, don't it?

Steve Fosset Watch Update! Who needs money or ID in the 5th Dimension?
http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/F/FOSSETT_SEARCH?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/01/fossett.discovery/index.html

Some hikers found his wallet, maybe his jacket, ID's, and a big pile of money in the mountains... of California. An odd story that just gets more so with every turn...

Steve Fosset Watch EXTRA UPDATE! 1 light aircraft + a sheer mountain side = no body...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/02/steve.fossett.search/index.html
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/belongings-of-m.html

It seems that Steve's plane crashed into a mountain head first. The investigators say there is no possible way someone could have survived that crash. Yet there was no body in the wreck, and some of Steve's belongings were found some distance away.

Steve Fosset: 5th Dimensional explorer or senile aging adventurer? Stay tuned!

***

Today is the day Active Duty troops are being deployed in the US. Keep an eye out for where kids! Its like a scavenger hunt, only more depressing.

/End Transmission.

EXTRA POST!: Holy shit... just... holy shit. Breaking News!

2008-09-24T14:25:00.000-07:00

Active-Duty Army Units are being assigned to patrols in North America starting on October 1st. Anyone ever hear of Posse Comitatus? Yeah, well neither have They, apparently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-troops-in-homeland-crowd-control-patrols-from-october-1st.html

"3rd Infantry's 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping 'people at home' may become a permanent part of the active Army." - Full quote from the header to the article, from the Army Times.

This is the most worrying shit I have seen in a long time. A month before the elections are supposed to happen. Seriously. Active duty uniformed soldiers being drafted into stateside service without any say-so other than the Pentagon? Something is stirring my friends, something is stirring. It is not a good thing, whatever it is.

Maybe it has something to do with these clips from C-Span...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3dAnSMzUlo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ByoqZqDGaA&feature=related

Look, I'm not trying to say anything except keep your eyes peeled. Something is happening. Right out in public, and nobody is paying attention. We are concerned with the price of oil, and food costs rising, the threat of recession, the election, the mortgage crisis, the credit crisis, the bank crisis, the stock market, but we are not concerned with this.

Maybe I am just being paranoid. I will certainly own up to a heightened sense of paranoia, no argument there. However, is it paranoia if you are right? If I am wrong, no problem, I'm nuts, I can live with that. Just another crazy person on the internet jumping at shadows and barking at the moon.

If I am right, even partially, then we are standing on the edge of the sort of scenario that George Orwell was called paranoid for envisioning. Its all been falling into place for years folks. You think the Patriot Act is something new? Almost all of the measures it enacted were from other separate bits of legislation that have been making the rounds for years. Most authored under the supervision of Bush 1 and Bill Clinton.

More video, for those who don't like to read.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a9Syi12RJo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7i0wCFf8g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISEt60XlpU

More later...

...and we're back.

What the fuck is going on? Well here are more paranoid ideas. First, a little background.

[The Patriot Act]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act
[The Military Commissions Act]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act
[S. 1959 (Codenamed by the Department of Homeland Security as "ENDGAME", you just can't make this stuff up)]
http://justanothercoverup.com/?p=343
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1959
http://justanothercoverup.com/?p=356
[Security and Prosperity Paternership of North America Security Agenda]
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/03/20050323-3.html

What seems to be going on is something big. Something very big. The October Surprise the world will never forget, or at least those of us in the good old U.S. of A.

A major thing is being prepared for, and it looks like it will require the military in full combat readiness on the home front, a generous helping of martial law, a big body count, and maybe a suspension of elections even.

FEMA bought a half million airtight, Biological and Chemical rated coffins last year. You know, just in case.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeqjykY5wPk

Halliburton has been given taxpayer money to upgrade those vacant FEMA detention camps. You know, just in case.
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2006/Halliburton-Detention-Camps31jan06.htm
http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm
http://www.oilempire.us/redalert.html

Camps and coffins are old news, hell, one of the first conspiracy theories I read about on the internet back in the day was about the FEMA detention camps. They have them, they don't deny it, they say they keep'em around in case we ever have a flood of illegals (refugee's) that need quarantined.

Its more a question of that plus this equals what? Is it all related? Are the active duty military units deploying right here in the states on October 1st just in case? That is what They say. In case of civil unrest. That term comes up a lot, civil unrest. Or an NBC (not the broadcasting company, Nuclear, Biological, or Chemical) attack on US soil? Maybe, as the units deploying have been getting a ton of extra training for just that emergency since at least the middle of this month. Maybe it is all a big coincidence. Of course, anyone who has spent any amount of time working in the deep black will tell you there is no such thing.

John McCain has suspended his campaign. To work on the growing (ha! growing is such a small word) economic crisis.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/campaign.wrap/index.html

A bit more than a month to go until our elections. The new President gets sworn in come January. I wonder if that's going to happen. It seems to me that the expectation of something happening is already in the halls of power, if not an actual plan of action. Plans are good things to have, especially in an emergency.

FEMA has their coffins in Georgia, the military units being deployed stateside are training in the New England area. Keep an eye on the East Coast, and FEMA. After all, they are seemingly psychic in terms of emergency response. Just look at 9/11.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fematape.html
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/june2004/062904longdebunked.htm

This article still not finished... More to come. Special thanks to Senior Research Editor Dr. Wife.

Money, Hookers, & The Media: A Non-Illustrated Guide to Media Deceptions and the Mortgage Crisis

2008-09-24T11:10:00.000-07:00

Elliot Spitzer got outed (mmm hookers) for whistle-blowing about the sub-prime mortgage crisis too early. No, really.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783.html
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/25-bushs-real-problem-with-eliot-spitzer/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer_prostitution_scandal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Fork_Bank
http://www.northforkbank.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ashleydupre
http://www.occ.treas.gov/

His editorial "Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime: How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers" was submitted to the Washington Post at the beginning of the week. The day before its published an investigation begins (the FBI, IRS, and DHS were all in on the fun) to see if he is spending lavish sums of money on hookers from New York while in Washington DC.

The tip off to authorities allegedly came from North Fork Bank. North Fork has been consumed by Capitol One Bank, thanks to them going down in flames in the on-going sub-prime mortgage crisis.

So Spitzer writes an op-ed in a CIA run newspaper criticizing the Bush Administration and certain financial giants of conspiring to use the sub-prime situation to the advantage of the government and Wall Street. Then a bank which folds (but all the top men come away with millions of the customers hard-earned money thanks to "Golden Parachutes". Rewarding for failure, the new American Way) in the same situation calls the feds and tells them Elliot Spitzer is spending money on hookers. Spitzer gets outed the same day the bank that was supposed to have phoned in the tip gets re-branded Capitol One (March 10th).

If you are going "So, what?" about how this was handled both in Washington and the media, just take a look at another prostitution story that broke a year before. It involved a high profile escort service (The infamous DC Madam, Deborah Jean Palfrey) and a US Senator (David Vitter, Republican from Louisiana). It had juicier elements, including the ensnarement of other high profile political figures, a pro-family-pro-jesus-anti-gay family values type paying for hookers with taxpayer money, but it went nowhere. He apologized to his wife and Jesus, resigned, no charges filed, the end. Spitzer gets practicly crucified.

Why is this important? Simple. Spitzers public hanging was a smoke screen, ment to distract from the investigation and erode his credibility. The entire crisis has been orchestrated for years. No, really. You mean to tell me nobody thought giving mortgages and credit cards to people who have no way of paying for them then selling their debts to someone else that they still can't pay would be a good idea? Really? What has happened as a result? The market has a few hiccups, financial analysts start throwing blame and committing ritual suicide, all the while financial power is quietly consolidated by a few businesses, the Federal Reserve, and the government "for the good of the market and ecconomy".

"Oh boo hoo, now we have to extend our influence over the world financial markets and the everyday lives of American citizens even further, and we have to do it at the expense of the American taxpayers, oh life is such shit." Every time I hear about the Fed moaning about having to buy another bank/financial institution with taxpayer money I want to punch the source of the news. The only time they complained and it seemed legit, read: they tried to squirm out of it, was when they discovered they had to pay back over a trillion dollars in outstanding bonds.

Spitzer launched an investigation into this very idea before the shit hit the fan, and the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) filed a lawsuit against Spitzer and the City of New York to stop the investigation. Really. A lawsuit to stop them from investigating potential wrongdoing in the banking and credit industry. So he tries to write about it in the national media, and suddenly all of his dirty laundry gets hung out to dry.

Life is full of coincidences, ain't it?

UPDATE!
http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/23/news/companies/fbi_finance/index.htm?cnn=yes
Looks like the FBI was paying attention to the shenanagins after all, lets see how high up the food chain they get before things stall. Oh sure, a few Vice Presidents or Senior Executives will get thrown under the bus and do 18 months in a minimum security white collar resort, and it will make for some strangely boring television. After all, its what happens all the time. Except when Ken Lay got convicted. Then he died. Then he got pardoned (conviction overturned). Then his wife fucked off to parts unknown with all of his assets, which were stolen, but will never go to the people he stole them from because the judge overturned the conviction after he died.

I am not saying Ken Lay faked his death and his wife followed him into hiding with millions in stolen money and a federal judge appointed by Enron's good friends in the Bush administration was complicit in the act by overturning a guilty verdict after he was declared legally dead. I am not saying that at all. Just saying it seems the amount of time you are punished is related to the amount of money you have, political favors you hold, and just how bad your crimes are. Its like algebra, only more depressing because its usually your money that someones wife is fucking off to the Caribbean with.

UPDATE for my own Ego.
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3895701

Someone posted a UK article on this very thing on FARK today, at 5:41pm. Mine was 11:10am or so. HAHA!

Have you heard of Operation: Mockingbird? How about the phrase "The Liberal Media"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/ciadisinfoinaction28mar05.shtml
http://nationalexpositor.com/News/215.html
http://community.freespeech.org/cia_media_project_operation_mockingbird_is_government_propaganda
http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/cia_press.html
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Antenna-Bruce-Herschensohn/dp/0595149359/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200959448&sr=1-5
http://www.namebase.org/news16.html
http://www.nixonera.com/etexts/silentcoup/contents.asp
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN2856634620071128
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1748
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=6385
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/how-the-spooks-took-over-the-news-780672.html
http://www.blackopforum.info/index.php?action=printpage;topic=19.0

So, the CIA, everyone's favorite bogymen are at it again. Or rather, they have been at it since 1947 (the year they were created by Truman from the remains of the OSS). What is it this time?

The Media. The Liberal Media.

Operation Mockingbird was the name for the program to infiltrate and own the media originally headed by Cord Meyer (Yale Bonesman, LBJ buddy, one of the alleged JFK assassination ringleaders, CIA agent, and unwilling cuckold thanks to JFK*). Mockingbird did all sorts of things from influence the presentation of television news broadcasts to shape the style of newsprint. In addition to planting false stories, omitting facts, killing stories outright, blackballing journalists who didn't play ball, beating the drums to war (until some veteran newsmen grew spines again during Vietnam), and even for good measure brought down a president (Nixon, more on that in a second).

So we have today a liberal media that everyone will tell you is the result of liberal college professors teaching students seduced by left-wing communist ideas and spurred on by the dubious examples of leftist news organizations of yesteryear.

Thats fine, it makes perfect sense when you consider (this small and very incompleate list) who was/is drawing a government paycheck in the media...

Stewert Aslop [Writer: New York Herald-Tribune]
Bob Woodward [of Woodward & Bernstein fame, he was a Navy Intelligence officer before becoming one of the journalists that brought down Nixon. Nobody gets info from a "Deep Throat" type without a damn good reason. The reason was the CIA wanted Nixon gone]
Anderson Cooper [CNN Anchor, 2 years interning at CIA headquarters for a job in intelligence during college at Yale]
Ben Bradlee [VP: Washington Times, former editor-in-cheif, Writer: Newsweek]
James Reston [New York Times, one of the most widely read journalists ever]
Charles Douglas Jackson [Writer: Time Magazine, former psychological warfare expert for OSS]
Jamie McIntyre [CNN, Pentagon Corespondent]
Walter Haskill Pincus [Writer: Washington Post, outed out-of-favor CIA agent Valerie Plame to the media on orders from Karl Rove]
William C. Baggs [Editor: Miami News, was publicly anti-vietnam, as a result got to meet with North Vietnamese officials during the war]
Herb Gold [Writer: Miami News]
Charles L. Bartlett [Writer: Chattanooga Times, wrote articles with classified info from the CIA leading to the resignation of Harold E. Talbot as Secretary of the Air Force]
William S. Paley [CEO & Founder: CBS, he built CBS into the giant it is, hired his friend Edward R. Murrow, and was a psychological warfare operative for OSS]
Henry Luce [CEO & Founder: Time Magazine]
Arthuir Hays Sulzberger [Publisher: The New York Times]
Alfred Friendly [Writer & Managing Editor: Washington Post]
Barry Bingham Sr. [Owner: WHAS Radio & TV, Couior Journal, Louiseville Times]
Various cable news contributors including G Gorgon Liddy [Watergate "Plumber"], Oliver North [Iran/Contra fall guy, cocaine importer], Karl Rove ["Bush's Brain"], Joseph Wilson [Diplomat, CIA front man, Valerie Plames husband], Monica Crowley [Nixon aide], John Podhoretz [Former Reagan speechwriter]. Other news outlets were involved, this is a small list. During the Church Committee investigation ABC News refused to account for any reporters with CIA ties, they didn't say they had none, just that they wouldn't stop covering for them. Also on the list is The Associated Press, Reuters, Hearst Publications, United Press International... you get the idea.

FOX News is owned by ultra-right-wing media magnate Rupert Murdoch, its run day-to-day by Republican strategy man Roger Ailes (political mastermind behind the Regan & Bush 1 presidencies), its point of view is well known. NBC is owned by GE, which is among other things one of the largest defense contractors in America. CNN was founded and formerly owned by Ted Turner, his wife's Vietnam antics aside Teddy Boy was the go-to guy for all your disinformation needs. He sold his soul to the FCC for the first shot across the bow of media ownership deregulation. These are only a few examples.

Then you have the reverse of planted stories, you have what happens to guys like Gary Webb when they actually report on dirty dealings. Webb wrote some articles on how the CIA used Contra cocaine to introduce crack to the American inner city, and before long some of the big media outlets figured that the story wouldn't die. So they did what any respectable news source would do, they attempted to pick apart Gary Webb (not his story, but him), black people (claiming that blacks are more susceptible to paranoia and conspiracy theories), and his paper the San Jose Mercury News. Reporters from The Washington Times, The New York Times, The LA Times, just to name a few, were all over him like shit on a blanket.

This was in 1996. Operation Mockingbird was officially ended by CIA director George HW Bush in 1976 with the Church Committee investigations.

It still goes on to this day, all you need to do to see it is look at how often the official story is reported as the only story. Oklahoma City is a good example. The police bomb squad reported removing additional explosive devices both during and after. The FBI agents on the ground confirmed additional unexploded bombs. The local media reported it. The something amazing happened, the story changed! More men in suits arrived, phone calls were made, and there was no more mention of the bombs the police explosives experts removed from the building. It was a single truck full of cow shit and diesel fuel that leveled half of an office block. Amazing. No more manhunt for additional men seen on security tapes with Timmy-Boy that the FBI still won't release to the public. No more bombs the OCPD removed from the building, that was an error. That never happened. Anyone who thinks that is crazy.

There is no liberal media. There are liberals in the media, sure, but not at the top. Where it matters. When something big about a major company or the government gets through its because someone gave it the OK to do so, not because some crusading Lois Lane escaped the bad guys clutches and rushed her story to press despite the best efforts of the military-industrial complex. Not because some communist nutjob has an ax to grind with the decadent imperialist west or some hippy with a grudge against The Man.

Sure there has been a leftist or even communist influence occasionally, but that has never been the prevailing voice in national media. The CIA let McCarthy hang himself in public because they and Army Intelligence had already done what he set out to do a few years before his hearings. He rattled some cages, and put a lot of Americans who might have already been disenfranchised with the American Dream out of work, but did nothing to thwart communist influence in the government or media. The real spooks already had that job pretty much wrapped up. Deep Throat handed Bob Woodward everything he needed to crucify Richard Nixon because the CIA wanted him out of the White House. He was a dangerous megalomaniac who drank too much and liked to threaten Russian diplomats (in private meetings, away from cameras) with nuclear war to make his cock feel big.

I use those examples to illustrate two points. One, again, there really is no "liberal media establishment", everything that hits the national page is there to serve a specific sociological, economic, or political end. Two, that while most of the shit we get force-fed is bad for us, sometimes it works for our benefit. I don't advocate government or corporate control of the media by any means, but it is nice to see some things happen for the public good occasionally.

...and finally, something I did not write. Enjoy this short reprieve.

Excerpt from "How they Slant TV" by Bruce Herschensohn (Former CIA agent)
U.S. Information Agency Video Expert's 'How They Slant TV - A to Z' list

A. Story placement:
The first story on a network newscast is largely perceived by the audience as being the most important news of the day; the second story, the second most important; and so on through the first group of stories.
If a network would like to give particular significance to a story or less significance to a story, their placement within the newscast establishes an immediate priority of importance within the viewer's mind.

B. The hold frame:
This is an old motion picture technique, which now has wider use in television than in historical films. Since November 1963 it has often been referred to as the "Jack Ruby Frame."
(When Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the technique was used on replays of the video tape to visually stop the action at the moment the bullet hit Oswald.)
The technique is used to "catch" something the audience might otherwise have missed. It interrupts the motion to hold on one still picture from the moving action so that a particular frozen image can be examined by the viewer. In sporting events such as football or the finish line of a close horse race, the hold frame is particularly useful.
It can also be used to give the impression of "catching" an event it did not "catch" or "catching" a person it did not "catch."

C. Selective Segmentation:
What was once a primitive or at least sloppy technique has become what is almost impossible to distinguish as it comes across the screen. The network's objective is to cut out portions of a speaker's comment and, by use of tied-together excerpts in false continuity, make the total effect different from his original in-context remarks. The primitive method was simply to physically cut out the film of the undesired area and splice and splice the two remaining wanted ends together. This results in a jump-cut, which can be seen by the audience and leaves room for suspicion and looks crude. The professional device is to use a cut-away of an interviewer or a cut-away of a chart, or whatever seems appropriate, and then cut back to the speaker. Both the visual and the audio cut can be accomplished while the cut-a-way is on screen. This can be used, and is most often used quite ethically to excerpt, cut down, or give certain segments of a speaker's performance without jarring visual effects, as would be evident without a cut-a-way. But it can and has been used unethically to change emphasis and meaning of what someone has said. It is difficult to recognize an excerpt. At times, but not always, it can be ascertained by an inconsistency in audio quality behind the cut-a-way or as the shot changes.

D. Commentator speculations that appear to be factual:
Although the words are couched and the periods are in the right places separating information from speculation, the end effect of this technique is to give the listener the impression that only facts are being reported. The transient character of television airways reporting permits this to be effective whereas, if the report were printed in a newspaper or magazine for examination, there would be risk of discovery. "There's reason to believe..." and "could be" are often used.

E. The truth but not the whole truth:
Although the whole truth is known to the reporter or commentator, only a portion is told, which casts an invalid impression by intent.

F. Catch phrases:
With unnoticed and unattributed bias, an editorialized catch-phrase is added to the nation's vocabulary, by force of habit. Catch phrasing is a printed-word and audio technique that has been streamlined by television with the use of "Anti-War Movement," "Peace Movement," "The Saturday Night Massacre," "The Mysterious Alert," "Operation Candor," "The White House Germans," and "The Christmas Bombing" (and, as previously mentioned, the word "Watergate" itself, used to house all charges of the period). The streamlining was applied by using catch phrases as matter-of-fact routine and by repetition as "fact phrases," making them appear to be non-biased actualities.

G. Utilizing the chemistry of combined audio and visuals:
Often a visual image gives one impression, the audio another, and the combination of the two used simultaneously creates a distortion. (Most significantly, as mentioned, this technique was used to inject "Watergate," without the use of the word, by the projection of the Watergate Complex on the rear screen behind the commentator while he talked of an unrelated story.) The modifications of this technique are endless.

H. Visual emphasis to audio by selection of phrases for audience to read:
Charles Guggenheim used this technique of printed words upon the screen in the television commercials for Senator McGovern's race for the Presidency.
Examples: 1. The technique was steadily applied by the networks as a method to emphasize out-of-context areas of the transcripts of President Nixon's tape recordings.

I. Pretense balancing:
The motive is to show that the presentation is showing all sides of a particular story when, in fact, the balance is tilted.

J. Selectivity of interviewees:
The meaning of a news event can be given a decided tilt by those selected to be interviewed.

K. Treatment and respect given an interviewee:
The audience is immediately given an impression about the person being interviewed by the questions he is asked and by the manner in which he is addressed by the reporter conducting the interview.

L. Prompting an interviewee:
Words can easily be put into an interviewee's mouth by the interviewer. It is most effective if the interviewer's question is phrased so that it can be cut out, while the answer is retained as a complete statement. Obviously, if the manner in which the interviewee answers is not a complete statement, the question cannot be omitted. The objective is to coach the interviewee.

M. Methods of reading:
Reading slow or reading fast or an accent on a particular word or a faint smile or a shake of the head give editorialization that cannot be found by rereading the text of the report or interview, but can be found only by viewing and listening to the newscast.

N. Set design for visual authority:
Every executive knows that a desk can give a visual sense of importance to the man who sits behind it. When in the company of a visitor, most executives follow the rule of rising from the chair behind the desk and walking to another chair without the separation of the desk as a barrier importance between the host and guest. The very visual posture of a commentator gives him a look of authority.

O. Narration rather than visuals - when it suits the purpose:
Often a new event will occur in which visuals will create a negative effect when the producer hopes to achieve a positive impression, or a positive effect when the producer hopes to achieve a negative impression. In this case, visuals defeat the purpose, and only narrative is used.
Example: When President Nixon worked in his Executive Office Building Suite, Dan Rather would refer to it as "his small, hideaway office" to CBS viewers. There were stills of the office, but stills would have defeated the purpose of Dan Rather's line, since the office was a very large one, used as his working quarters. The term "hideaway" was also inaccurate. Dan Rather was informed when the President went to work within his Executive Office Building suite, as were all the members of the White House Press Corps. It was, in fact, a more public suite than the Oval Office as it was the one place the public could see him enter and exit as they watched from the street. Dan Rather's continual referral to it as "the President's small, hideaway office" had a sinister ring of secrecy and isolation, and it could have raised suspicions in the minds of some viewers: "What is he doing in there?" "Why does he go to a small hideaway?"

P. Recap of past news to relate to the present:
While telling a real news event, a re-cap is given to something that happened days, even weeks ago, as though it had direct relation to the current event. In that way audience interest may be revived in a non-news story.

Q. Crediting and discrediting:
This newswriting technique is designed to give credit to an editorial factor of the writer's choosing.

R. Creation of news:
Sometimes there is no event during the day relating to a continuing story that the network wants to sustain. Creating a related event is no real problem. One method is for the network to send a newsman and a camera crew over to the Capitol to talk to a senator or congressman about "the story." If the senator or congressman is willing, he or she can make news in an instant. Many are willing, since it is an opportunity to be seen and heard by millions. Networks generally recognize a particular senator's or congressman's point of view before an interview is filmed. If it doesn't turn out as they want, it can be discarded. Other methods of creating news are to give an unimportant item an extended story length, to have reporters quote other reporters, or to emphasize the fact that there is no news regarding a "continuing story."

S. Inclusion or omission of crowd reaction:
When reporting a speech of a public figure, it is up to the film editor to decide whether to include the audience reaction of those witnessing the speech. Most often, reaction will be cut in the interest of time, but this is an option that can change the entire character of the address. The character can be retained without the loss of time by leaving in the applause, fading it to a low level, and bringing in the reporter's voice above the applause. During an election campaign report showing two candidates, this technique of inclusion or omission can be used to tilt the character of public reaction to one candidate against another.

T. Focal length:
Different lenses give separate impressions of the size of a crowd. Every photographer or cinematographer knows that a large crowd can look small, and a small crowd can look large simply by changing from a long lens to a short one, which changes the focal length. Television viewers who want to know the size of a crowd should look for the margins of crowd-ends, as it is the only sure manner in which to make an accurate judgment.

U. Tragedy and comedy style reporting:
There is no hiding of passions within this type of reporting. The commentator comes right out with it.
Examples: 1. John Chancellor, usually one of the most responsible commentators, gave a chilling example of dramatic tragedy reporting on the night of Archibald Cox's discharge and resignations of Elliot Richardson and William Ruckelhaus. When televised passion exceeds the immediate magnitude of the event, such excess can sometimes create its ultimate importance.
The following are excerpts from John Chancellor's report:
"The country, tonight, is in the midst of what may be the most serious constitutional crisis in its history...That is a stunning development, and nothing even remotely like it has happened in all of our history...You are watching a special NBC Report of another event this year that we never believed would have happened in the history of this Republic...A constitutional situation that is without precedent in the history of this Republic...In my career as a correspondent, I never thought I would be announcing these things..."

V. Oblique emphasis reporting:
This is the most important and most often used technique of network news. Seemingly straight reports are very often subtle editorializations. The use of words and phrases gives transient and subliminal points of view to the audience, most often without audience knowledge.

W. Ignoring follow-up stories:
Follow-up stories are often ignored when their usage would be beneficial to those the networks oppose or harmful to those the networks endorse. This technique is similiar to, but not quite the same as, a total disregard of an important story, to which we devote a later chapter.
Example: Howard Hunt testified before the Senate Select Committee about spy work that was conducted against Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964. The story died the next day.

X. Story association and grouping:
Telling one story and without pause going into another story can imply association between the two. This can be achieved either with or without narrative bridges by grouping stories in succession.

Y. Acceptance of TV editorials:
It has become an accepted fact that network news will have an editorial. But why? Why should an editorial view be placed in a news program? Why is it not possible for the audience to find out the news without hearing an editorial?
Example: NBC and CBS incorporated their editorials within the context of the news programming, which made it most impractical for a viewer to turn the television audio down and then up again just in time to catch the next piece of news. ABC uses a better method of placing its editorials at the end of the program, much like a newspaper editorial, which can be read or simply left unread.

Z. Repetition:
This is the simplest and oldest technique of any medium that wishes to propagandize a point of view. It was inherited from ages past and has never been used more strikingly or more effectively than it has in television newscasts. When a story appears night after night with little added to the account, or if a continuing story is repeatedly given precedence over other news items that are obviously more urgent in the context of the day's events, it is a safe bet that the network is setting up its own emphasis to maintain an objective, which is usually met. The creation of the most important story today, with repetition tomorrow, can truly make it important the day after tomorrow.

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/End Transmission.

Picture Parade

2008-09-19T22:12:00.000-07:00

"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill

For Chad, with love.

A collection of images that you, my dear readers, may find interesting/entertaining.

Note: Blogger cuts them off a bit for formatting, so you have to click on the picture for the full image.

The Haunted Painting aka "The Hands Resist Him"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hands_Resist_Him
http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/unexplained/2002/haunted_painting/ebay_haunted_painting_01.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stoneham
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/1158/

The story of the painting can be found in more detail elsewhere, but I shall summarize for my ADD afflicted audience. The painting above, "The Hands Resist Him", was discovered in an abandoned building and taken home by a lovely couple with two precocious children. These children reported strange things in the night with the painting, such as the figures coming to life and playing with them. A little weird. Eventually the parents managed to get infrared photographs of the painting appearing to do just that.

So the story goes.

The artist, Bill Stoneham, says he sold it to John Marley (Jack Woltz in The Godfather) who held it until his death. So far nobody knows for sure how it ended up in the old brewery where the couple who sold it on eBay found it.

Haunted or not, it makes a great story, which drove up the price on eBay, and gained some fame for the artist. Haunting? Maybe. Good marketing? Absolutely.

Every job is getting outsourced these days, even law enforcement.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/04/18522878.php
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Does_tshirt_show_Blackwater_along_on_0804.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-me-marijuana1-2008aug01,0,4363397.story

Blackwater private security contractors working with the DEA to bust medical marijuana dispensaries in California. That's nice. I love the idea of corporate operatives acting as law enforcement officers. Sort of like if you go to Best Buy and smell like weed, then the Geek Squad guys come out and tase you to the ground and haul you off to jail in a big orange SUV.

I would have included a link to the story that had more photos from this raid, but they (The LA Times) took them down. Just like they did the photo above, an hour after it was put up. I guess they didn't feel it was newsworthy after all, so they removed it from the set of pics from the raid. What can you expect from a liberal media, right? Right?

JFK: Fuck the Zapruder Film, the real money shots are in the before and after.

JFK and his then Vice President LBJ (far right, in the white coat) the morning of November 22nd. One of these men knows that day will go down in history, which one would you say?

LBJ and "Lady Bird" Johnson having a moment of levity with Jackie Kennedy just before LBJ is sworn in on Air Force One. Note how uncomfortable everyone else looks.

LBJ smiling at Texas Congressman Albert Thomas, and good old Al winking right back! There must have been such a lively mood on that jet, what with JFK decomposing quietly 40 feet away and his widow sobbing hysterically still soaked in her husbands blood.

LBJ swearing the oath of office, clearly a somber moment. Congressman Thomas is left in the snappy bow tie, and the short seedy fellow left of Al is Jack Valenti, the man you have to thank for essentially creating the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).

Excerpt:

Death of a President, by William Manchester, is the authorized version of the Kennedy assassination. Jackie Kennedy gave ten hours of interview; both Look magazine and the German publication Stern serialized it. Jackie asked that certain passages which were "too personal" be removed. According to the Paul Krassner's periodical The Realist, this is one of the passages:

"That man was crouching over the corpse, no longer chuckling but breathing hard and moving his body rhythmically. At first I thought he must be performing some mysterious symbolic rite he'd learned from Mexicans or Indians as a boy. And then I realized -- there is only one way to say this -- he was literally fucking my husband in the throat. In the bullet wound in the front of his throat. He reached a climax and dismounted. I froze. The next thing I remember, he was being sworn in as the new President".

/Excerpt.

When the plane landed in DC and Jackie was asked by a reporter why she had not changed clothes, her response was she wished she had not washed her hands or face, and she kept on the outfit because "I want those sons of bitches to see what they did to Jack.".

Jackie Kennedy was not one to mince words.

The Whitechapel Fiend revealed!

The (wonderful, and intensely funny) film 'Amazon Women on the Moon' reveals in a shocking 'Bullshit, or Not?' segment that Jack the Ripper was in fact... The Loch Ness Monster. Scary stuff. I love the giant kilt on Nessie. Scotch pride indeed!

I changed the name of the blog, twice actually. Both were taken by other blogs, as was Conspiracy Corner aparently. So it has a new name. One not taken by someone else. The URL will stay the same however, since its not the name of the blog there is no need to change that.

Stay tuned for a special guest blogger! My wife is coming out of journalistic retirement and she is coming out fighting. Stay tuned for her article on the West Memphis 3.

In other news, my article on the Biscardi Bigfoot got mentioned/linked in a few other blogs. Also my brief bit on the new DHS Weather Control program got a shout-out elsewhere. I did not even know. How about that, my 15 minutes came and went and I was probably working or asleep. Typical.

http://veryrecent.com/topic/Searchingforbigfoot.com/
http://news-buzz.com/news/cloud-seeding-australia

/End Transmission.

Do androids eat electric beef?

2008-09-05T13:19:00.000-07:00

North America's getting soft, *patron*, and the rest of the world is getting tough. Very, very tough. We're entering savage new times, and we're going to have to be pure and direct and strong, if we're going to survive them. Now, you and this cesspool you call a television station and your people who wallow around in it, your viewers who watch you do it, they're rotting us away from the inside. We intend to stop that rot. - Harlon, Videodrome

KBR/Halliburton Accused of human trafficking. Kitchen slaves. All the way from Nepal.
http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080828/ap_on_re_us/trafficking_lawsuit
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Halliburton_contractor_sued_for_human_trafficking_0828.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/28/us-contractor-kbr-sued-fo_n_122045.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0601190052jan19,0,1567028.story

So I guess the American farmland isn't the only place where illegal foreign workers are an issue. It seems those damned illegals are at it again. This time however, they are taking high paying jobs in the private sector, and doing so in a very insidious way.

Just recently 12 to 14 (the need to finish putting the bodies back together) illegal migrant workers decided to stow away in KBR vehicles heading over the border from Jordan into Iraq. They carefully surrendered their passports to KBR employee's after they arrived in Jordan with the promise of taking American jobs in the civilian contractor food service industry. THEN they stowed away in KBR cars going to Iraq to a military base were they would take jobs from the Americans there. Assholes!

OK, enough of that. These men were promised jobs cooking in Jordan, had their passports and identities seized, and where then shipped by KBR (a subsidiary of Halliburton) to Iraq to work for only the promise of eventually going home in areas deemed "to dangerous to risk American cooks". The plan was discovered when the convoy was attacked by Iraqi's and most of the Nepalese slaves were killed along with their captors.

Is it just me, or does this seem like a lot of trouble to go to for free kitchen labor?

Seriously. Men from Nepal abducted in Jordan and sent to Iraq to work in kitchens for Halliburton contractors? It just does not make a lot of sense. The facts are there, these men were Nepalese, they did have their passports confiscated, and they were being taken to Halliburton facilities in Iraq. Maybe a really amazingly long road trip back home to Nepal?

What the fuck?

Either way, with all the money our government keeps borrowing in our name from foreign powers to pay for The War in Iraq, you would think we don't need to abduct a bakers dozen plus one of Nepalese men for slave labor.

The Adventures of Steve Fossett Across the 8th Dimension
http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10717765
http://www.aviation.com/flying/080903-ap-steve-fossett-search.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fossett
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/fosset_claims/
http://knudsennews.blogspot.com/2008/03/steve-fossett-is-alive.html
http://www.hemuz.org/People/Millionaire-Steve-Fossett-Found-a-Path-to-the-4th-Dimension

Steve Fossett's dead. Undead, undead, undead. Well, legally dead. But probably not dead.

You see, Steve was a test pilot, adventurer, millionaire, world record setter (116, 60 of which still stand, in 5 sports no less), and all around death-defying sort of guy. He lived large, and ate life with shining teeth as the vikings would say.

So on September 3rd, 2007 he takes off from the ranch of Barron Hilton (Paris Hiltons cranky grandfather) and goes flying out in the Nevada desert in a small two seater airplane, and is never seen again. To date no plane wreckage or corpse have been found in the search. No transponder signal from the plane, no nothing. Not even Google (via Google Earth), the Government, or the connections of Billionaire Playboy Richard Branson have found anything. Well , they found eight other airplane crash sites in the desert, but not Fossett.

Did he fake his death? Not likely. None of his accounts or assets have been accessed since his "death". His wife had him declared legally dead so she could access his half of the fortune. Several investigators remained alert to the possibility, but he had no outstanding debts or creditors hounding him. Is he dead then? Maybe, but unlikely.

What is a little weird about this is the claims he made before his death, as well as certain facts leading up to the disappearance.

In the days before his "fateful flight" he claimed to his wife and a few friends that he found some sort of passageway into another dimension in the dessert. Steve claimed it was white, and circular, and visible from the air but could move. Inside it he observed blue colored humanoids who told him strange things. He landed his plane near the opening and spoke to the blue men at length about time, space, and showed him all sorts of things that only make sense after a heavy dose of LSD and a balloon full of nitrous oxide.

So Steve goes home at 2am, tells his wife and a friend or two about this experience, they figure he's working too hard (adventurer or not, he was 63), and try to hope it doesn't happen again. A few days later he saddles up to the Hilton Ranch and has the hanger flunkies do the pre-flight on Barron's little plane that he had never flown. Which is odd, since he was paranoid and very safety conscious. He never let anyone else monkey with a plane before he flew, he also didn't bother to wear an emergency transponder watch he had. Also, he left at about 8:30 in the AM for an unspecified location in the Nevada desert, with his only explanation for going as "reconnaissance".

Steve Fossett was declared legally dead on February 15th, 2008. No body, no wreckage, no hint of what happened despite the most extensive and expensive search-and-rescue operation in history.

USDA bars beef companies from testing for Mad Cow disease, claims its unfair to other meat companies... more headlines from Bizzaro World.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-03-our-view_x.htm
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C0CE4DD103BF93BA25757C0A9629C8B63
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles_2004/usda_slaughters_creekstone.html
http://www.creekstonefarms.com/news.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encephalopathy
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E2D61E3FF937A15751C1A9659C8B63
http://www.awitness.org/journal/american_mad_cow_coverup.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/Greger122403.cfm
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/01/23/carcass.piles/index.html
http://www.mad-cow.org/
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=mad-cows-human-toll
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/madcow.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/Ncidod/EID/vol12no10/06-0019.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1306563.stm

Creekstone Farms wants to give the government money, but Uncle Sam is having none of it. Creekstone Farms also wants to protect its customers from the horror that is Mad Cow disease, but Uncle Sam is having none of that either.

The USDA is preventing, in court, Creekstone Farms from buying (from the USDA) laboratory kits that test for Mad Cow and its human counter part Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The USDA is the only legal supplier of these tests, and they will not let Creekstone have them for fear that it will affect the price of beef.

Essentially the meat processing/packing/farming lobby (aka Big Meat) and the USDA are afraid that consumers will start flocking to Creekstone products (premium, specialty, and organic beef) due to their scientifically verified assurance of being Mad Cow free. So then they , Big Meat, also will have to start testing every cow for the disease, the expense of which will be passed on to the consumer. Which might result in less beef being sold.

So the logical choice of course is to bar anyone from testing any American beef's until they are foaming at the mouth with crazy and biting people.

The USDA and Big Meat don't want the US to experience the panic that hit Great Briton a few years ago when they discovered that damn near all their cows had the disease. Most of Western Europe smelled like east Texas while England dealt with its little fuck up. The lost revenue if cows were infected here on that scale would be staggering. Since losing money is not the American way, it gets swept under the rug, and hopefully all those cases that pop up in a few years will just be mistaken for early onset Alzheimer's disease, organic brain dementia, epilepsy, or some other disease thats not transmitted by USDA certified meat.

Cows infected with BSE have already been found in the US. Several hunters have contracted CJD from eating deer they killed. The USDA admits that CJD/BSE/CWD and other variants have been found in sheep, deer, and elk in the US, but not cows. Which is good, since the government and big business would never lie about something like this. Why would they?

Hungry?

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Only 3 topics this time. What do you want from me? I am a busy man dammit.

Enjoy, and of course feel free to comment.

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Conspiracy Corner: Because "Conspiracy Times" and "I WOULD HAVE SEX WITH ALL THIS WHITE GIRLS" were taken.

2008-08-29T18:03:00.000-07:00

"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.

We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.

You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" - Howard Beale, Network

Canadian Bus Beheading, could it be... the Wendigo?
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Features/2008/08/11/6413481-sun.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/05/canada.bus.stabbing.ap/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25966835/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo

A normal, hard working Chinese immigrant with no priors (certainly not for cannibalism) suddenly kills and eats a man in the middle of the Canadian wilderness? A little strange. On a crowded bus no less, seemingly at random in the dead of night while the man slept.

So far the only statements he has made to the police was to tell them "I have to stay on this bus forever." and he asked the judge at his hearing "Please kill me.". He also seemed to have in his possession a plastic bag containing a human ear, nose, and part of a mouth, presumably from another victim.

He just left his wife and job one day, got on a bus, and started eating his way through the backwoods of Canada. Out on lonely roads. In Wendigo country.

Little weird.

Israeli doctors caught experimenting on non-consenting elderly patients confined to old folks homes. One word, two syllables, sounds like...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/experiments-on-elderly-echo-nazis/2006/10/24/1161455724091.htmlsmh.com.auTelegraph2006-10-25Experiments
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772450.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/778407.html
http://www.australasianbioethics.org/Newsletters/159-2005-05-17.html
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7573/823-a?rss=1

So it would seem that illegal medical experiments on unwitting victims is not an exclusive evil to shadowy parts of the US government, the pharmaceutical industry, or Nazi Germany. A group of Israeli doctors decided that old people only had value as subjects of laboratory study. Nice guys.

This case, which started with four doctors and has at last count included at least twelve also brought to light some interesting points about Israeli law. They have (had at the time, a few years ago) no laws concerning what is and is not ethical or permissible in regards to human testing. That's right, can you feel it? Right there in the back of your head. That feeling of "What the fuck?!". Yep, that's it.

After all that was done to their people during the holocaust, the government of Israel did not think it was important to set down guidelines that say you have to get someones permission before preforming medical experiments on them. How fucking odd is that? Wanna hear a better one?

Israel has detailed guidelines in place for medical, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic testing... on animals.

Oklahoma City Bombing Judge vs. The Volcano
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/oklahoma/stories/judge.htm
http://www.stewwebb.com/FRAUDS%20ARE%20US%20AT%20MDC.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E0D91F30F93AA35752C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg60896.html
http://extras.denverpost.com/bomb/report2.htm
http://www.trytolive.com/c0931.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDC_Holdings

Is it not odd that the cowboy judge in the McVeigh trial was in such a hurry to get things over with that he refused to allow key witness testimony and disallowed substantial amounts of evidence? Evidence that suggested Timmy-Boy did not act alone, and that there might have been explosive devices planted in the building (as initially reported by the police bomb squad, FBI, news media, etc..).

It is odd. Especially when you consider his daughter was killed when she slipped into a crack in a steam vent in a volcano. While her dad was overseeing a case against a company owned by the Bush Family (MDC Holdings, one of the largest home builders in America) she was being wined and dined by a CIA agent. True story. MDC was accused of improper financial dealings with a political campaign (guess) and things looked grim.

Then the judges daughter and her boyfriend she had since shortly before the case went to trial go to Hawaii and she falls in a fucking volcano. He is removed from the case due to being stricken with grief (go figure) and one Sherman Finesilver is appointed to the bench in his place. Finesilver, known for his friendliness with the CIA, overseeing a case against a company owned by a former CIA director (George HW Bush), promptly dismisses all charges against MDC. Justice is served!

A few years later Judge Matsch is sitting in on a case relating to one of the largest acts of domestic terrorism in the nations history (perhaps the worst since Canadians burned down the White House in 1814, those fucking Canadians). The case involves all sorts of shady dealings and deep politics. White supremacists getting material aide from Iranian agents working for the FBI and so on. Does any of this make it in? Nope. Does the judge have a clear consciousness about it? Nope. Did he lose any more children to bizarre accidents? Nope.

Its funny how things like that work out.

What the fuck is W's damage?
http://mindprod.com/politics/bushismsgay.html
http://gawker.com/5035885/bush-looking-drunk-at-the-olympics
http://wonkette.com/401833/was-bush-falling-down-drunk-at-olympics
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/fraud/gw_bush_ghw_bush/news.php?q=1218479857
http://allhatnocattle.net/bush_drinking_lite.jpg
http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/00272/g8_bush_beim_bier_k_272762g.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_substance_abuse_controversy
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7936.shtml
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=65&contentid=2123
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gannon
http://blog.democrats.com/gayrepublicans
http://wonkette.com/400015/karl-rove-calls-scott-mcclellan-gay-woodsman
http://capitolstreet.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/another-gay-republican-scott-mcclellan-seen-in-texas-gay-bars/
http://www.abovepolitics.com/forum/thread169464/pg1
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2983771.ece
http://www.pridedepot.com/modules/wordpress/?p=1324

So what is W's damage? Is he a closet cokehead? A relapsed alcoholic? Or maybe he's just "fecking queer*"? Who knows.

I do know this however...

At a G8 summit a few years ago Bush committed something of an odd gaff, he groped German Chancellor Angela Merkel without permission... while in session... on his way to the bathroom. According to time stamped pictures from that session he was in the bathroom every ten minutes or so. Each time he emerged more red in the face (nose, upper cheeks), more giddy/happy looking, and more unsteady while walking. Hmm. Or the fact that more than one doctor has said he displays all the classic symptoms of someone with an amphetamine problem.

THEN you have all those pictures of him drinking, despite saying he has not touched the bottle since he was 40. My favorites are from G8 (again! what a party group they must be) with him having dinner with Valdamir Putin (then President of Russia). He had several empty bottles of Bud Light sitting in front of him, a dopey expression, and Putin looking at him like he was having a surprise state dinner with a shit-smeared spastic.

AND you have folks like Karl Rove (son of a famous gay/bondage porn star, no, really, and he was "so wild" in college, so wild he never graduated), Jeff Gannon (high-priced gay rent boy, good friend of Karl Rove, fake journalist), Condi Rice (owns a house with a woman whose last name is Bean of all things, shares bank accounts with her, cars, licks her box, etc..), and Scott Mcclellan (famous face in Austin gay clubs and bars, really chumy with Karl Rove until his tell-most book came out) occuping top positions in the White House. Or in the case of Gannon just staying over a whole bunch. Then there are the sworn testimonies of over 70 former classmates of George Jr. who paint him as a no-shit for real pole smoker. Then there is the church he was "Born Again" at... that just happens to be one of those ministries that specializes in "straightening out" gay people (they even have a summer camp to re-educate gay youth!).

Look, I'm not trying to say anything, but maybe W has some problems he needs to address. It is funny though, with every single gay Republican scandal it usually involves someone "focused on the family" that wants to protect our Christian society from the evils of homo's and child predators. So it wouldn't shock me to learn that the man who supported a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage might have a few pink skeletons in his closet.

I say come on out, out of the closet George, you wouldn't be the first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan#Personal_relationships
http://lindholm.jp/chinf_buc.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt (first female president, I don't care what anyone says. FDR was not fit to run the country in his last 2 terms. she was the lady in charge)
http://lesbianlife.about.com/cs/herstory/a/Eleanor.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9f05e5d61439f93aa35752c0a9639c8b63
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_of_Abraham_Lincoln

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I bet that's a phrase you never expected to see "Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln". Well, me either.

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* I don't hate gay people, I just like saying that. Blame him => [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPvVnrV1tow]

ahem

2008-08-29T14:48:00.000-07:00

New issue/post will be along shortly. In the meanwhile you can busy yourself with the old stuff.

-R

Back Issue "High Weirdness by E-Mail [vol. 2 #1]"

2008-08-29T14:44:00.000-07:00

Here it is. Issue 1. Enjoy.

A run down of some of the worst gangs in the world.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4310

Cold blooded folks. Its amazing to me how people like to divide themselves up along different lines. Usually by race and ethnicity first, then religion, etc.. Like cells in the body. Howard Bloom's book The Lucifer Principle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucifer_Principle] takes a very interesting look into that very basic behavior. Good reading.

Alleged question and answer session with a member of one of the ruling Illuminati bloodlines. [PDF download]
http://rs102.rapidshare.com/files/66635518/The_Revelations_of_an_Elite_Family_Insider__2005_.pdf

Total rambling bullshit really, but still an interesting read. If nothing else then for how many people who consider themselves enlightened keep asking the same questions over and over.

A FOIA request copy of Nikola Tesla's FBI file. [PDF]
http://www.lostartsmedia.com/images/teslafbifile.pdf

Interesting stuff. Over the years Uncle Sam has admitted to holding back some of his more juicy notes and designs, stuff that was never patented. Its fun to speculate but consider that some of the stuff he invented was totally in the realm of science fiction when he made it, and in some cases for years after. One of the great intellects of the 20th or really any century.

War profiteer/Illuminatus playing cards (like the Iraq's Most Wanted cards issued to soldiers)
http://www.ruckus.org/warprofiteers/cards/

Just plain fun.

Guide to how 9/11 was not an inside job, just an unfortunate set of coincidences.. [PDF]
http://home.comcast.net/~stevelundell/RIDocuments/The_Coincidence_Theorist2.pdf

"Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on the living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free to do what well tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!" - Bill Hicks

Ritual animal killings on Prince Charles property... Sounds like a plot from 'The Invisibles'..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-401380/Occultists-slaughter-sheep-Prince-Charless-estate.html

Of course it seems totally outside the realm of possibility that it was the Prince or his family ritually killing his sheep on his land. Must have been some kids. Having a bit of sport. Move along, nothing to see here.

Alien Rain, not just a possible direct to video sci-fi movie title anymore.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/02/red.rain/index.html

Really a very interesting story, verified by several different international news agencies and scientific organizations. With awesome implications if you subscribe to the panspermia theory. A horrible possibility if you take a view of alien contact being kinda like "The Thing" or "The Andromeda Strain".

Futurama's Head Museum is retro tech, apparently.
http://io9.com/5019632/proof-that-soviet-scientists-kept-dog-head-alive-on-an-autojector
BONUS Head Transplant Goodness!
http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/stranger-than-fiction/head-transplant.html

Speaks for itself. Although I have a strange urge to listen to "The Head on the Door" right now.

Panspermia: Not just a geeky porno name anymore.
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20080515225806data_trunc_sys.shtml

If we came from meteors, then what else might come from them? These are the questions of our day.

BONUS Life from Space Goodness!
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14216-ancient-impact-may-have-created-deep-niche-for-life.html

Starting a cult, made easy!
http://forgetomori.com/2008/skepticism/how-to-create-a-cult-the-asch-conformity

Apparently all you do need is big aviator sunglasses, a bible, and vats of generic Flavor-Aide.

Robert Lansberry & the documentary about him (Don't Call Me Crazy on the 4th of July)
http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~pellr/lansberry/index.html

A Pittsburgh staple for many years. Mr. Lansberry claimed that he was the victim of government mind control experiments and that the FBI was stealing his mail. Turns out he was crazy. However he also was the victim of government mind control experiments, and the FBI was stealing his mail.

The Men Who Stare At Goats (website for the book, with excerpts)
http://www.jonronson.com/goats_04.html
Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats

An awesome book covering some of the high weirdness your tax dollars pay for. First Earth Battalion strangeness, unusual interrogation techniques, and psychic warfare. Soon to be discredited in the public eye by a fictionalized major motion picture staring George Clooney.

Adolf Hitlers surviving family, strangely enough live on an island best described as a Jewish Reservation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/24/nyregion/24patchogue.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

William "Bill" Hitler. Weird. Apparently his (Hitlers brother) surviving children have a pact to not have children, so that old Adolf's DNA will die with them.

Speaking of Hitler, the Irish are amazing about trying to see the good in people, apparently..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/dec/31/secondworldwar.ireland

That, plus being openly sympathetic to the Nazi cause until the Blitz is something Im sure the Irish government is happy to let slip down the memory hole. Hey, everyone makes mistakes. I used to wear a t-shirt that said "I <3 Pol Pot". Who knew?

BONUS Octopus & Squid finally being seen for the intelligent creatures they are! Sadly, still yummy.
http://www.slate.com/id/2192211

That is all for now. Enjoy!

/End Transmission.

Back Issue "High Weirdness by E-Mail [vol. 2, #2]"

2008-08-29T14:39:00.000-07:00

Its all deep politics, black ops, and religious weirdo's this time. Sounds like a decent weekend to me.

Do you "Love the Cocaine"? The CIA sure does.
http://www.narconews.com/Issue48/article2919.html
http://www.pimpinturtle.com/2007/09/26/cia-plane-crashes-in-yucatan-carrying-32-tons-of-cocaine.aspx
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20070924-0
http://www.narconews.com/Issue48/article2941.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-09-27-mexico-drug-plane_N.htm
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/12/19210/608/933/420107
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/20060.html

A lot of links on this one, but its a fun one. So it goes the web of obfuscation inherit to the world of "deep black" intelligence operations. What picture is painted seems to be a plane (Gulfstream II, a very nice and rather large sort of private jet) packed with a Mexican pilot (with a history of drug running and assorted shady dealings), 3-4 possible CIA agents (possible ICE agents, but the initial reports said CIA, due I think to the plane being rather easily traced back to them), and nearly 4 tons of high grade pure Colombian party favors crashed in Mexico. The pilot and agents survived and scattered quickly, leaving the coke and a ton of questions behind.
The plane was being used for the "Extraordinary Rendition" program before this, so why is it running drugs to the US instead of terrorism suspects to secret prisons? With only a small bit of the puzzle its impossible to say, but one can speculate...

CIA Cocaine? In my inner cities? Its more likely than you think.
http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9712/ch01p1.htm
http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/9712/epilogue.htm
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/blacks-targeted.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/october96/crack_contra_11-1.html

One possible use for it. Back in the day (read: the 1980's) one very industrious CIA backed dealer managed to move 4 tons of cocaine (and crack made from said cocaine) over a 5 year period. The company was however importing into some areas 4 tons a month. So... where was all of that extra coke going? I am wondering if their isn't some grand CIA coke depository somewhere. The Strategic National Cocaine Reserve. I imagine it to be in some undisclosed location, rising high into the air like Uncle Scrooge's Money Bin. A giant tower of pure South American powder operated like a private swimming pool for select government officials and persons of significant influence. Staffed at all times by a cadre of the finest products of sex slave mental conditioning (Project MONARCH, an offshoot of MKULTRA, fyi) and entertained by watching that video of Sly Stallone having ritual sex with the dolphin while his nubile underage sex toy looked on with a combination of drugged bewilderment and utter boredom.
Nobody parties like the CIA.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/02/missing.vermont.girl/index.html

Dispatch from The Bush Ranch...on the Moon (or, rather, next to The Moonies)!
http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/2004/10/paraguayans-accuse-moon-of-carving-out.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/oct/23/mainsection.tomphillips

So here is an odd pair. There are more links, but after the last two I figured my dear readers needed a break. Anyways, The Bush Family and the Rev. Moon have both purchased giant pieces of land in Paraguay (600,000 for the Moonies, 100,000 for the Bush family). Of all the places in the world to buy giant parcels of land. It should be noted that the land sits right on top of the Guarani Aquifer, one of the largest sources of fresh drinking water on the planet. Its also a key area for both drug transportation routes and arms traffic, something the government of Paraguay has been trying to stamp out in the area unsuccessfully for over two decades. Good news though, we are now sending troops to the area, so everything should be fine soon.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3447
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/2479/1/140/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4289224.stm

The moonies say its for an ecological preserve area, Bush rep's say theirs is for a ranch. Of course. A Conneticut Yankee playing at Texas Cowboy in South America, right next to a cult leaders perfect green space preserve. You can't write weirder shit than that.
What is especially weird is how long the Moon and Bush interests have been intertwined...

http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_child_sex_coverup/franklin.htm

Now you ask what an ancient (1989) story about child sex parties in the White House that got promptly buried (by the very next issue no less, despite witnesses, victims, credit card receipts, you know... evidence) has to do with the Bush Family/Rev. Moon thing. WELL.
The story and its evidence was exclusive to The Washington Times, a newspaper owned and overseen by the Rev. Moon. The White House of 1989 was the stomping grounds of President Reagan and Vice President George HW Bush. Former director of the CIA, oil magnate, and all around shady guy.
Nothing like the threat of going to prison for the rest of their life for fucking little kids to make someone your BFF. To say nothing of Rev. Moon toppling a large portion of the US government as well. Most people would have been killed for less than that, but its a testament to how sneaky and connected the Rev. Moon is that he managed to lay his hands on such a giant pile of dirty laundry.
In the mid 1990's Rev. Moon and George Bush the Elder toured all over South America together as part of a "Bring Jesus to the Heathen Indians and Idolater Catholics Campaign", a favor Bush was paid around a hundred grand for. Another speaking engagement at a Moon event in London netted him 1.5 million British pounds. BFF.
They do have a lot in common other than business matters, at least in terms of how their kids turned out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyo_Jin_Moon

Now days Neil Bush, another son, is the point of contact with Rev. Moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Bush

As an aside, when Hurricane Katrina struck Barbara Bush , Neil's mommy, made her usual round of cold, nearly sociopathic remarks. Called to task for it she hastily donated some money to the Bush-Clinton relief fund. Though all the money was marked specifically to be used to buy software from Neil Bush's company. Because if anyone needs money for Katrina relief its a Bush kids company based in Austin, Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bush_%28First_Lady%29#Controversies
http://www.truthout.org/article/barbara-bushs-katrina-donation-enrich-her-son

Pregnant Man gives birth.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5302756&page=1

Awww... how.. weird. Granted, the father/mother in question is a transgendered woman with her/his original plumbing. Still though. Its sweet in a weird sort of way. Still though, Arnold did it first.

The 2004 Presidential Election: A boxing match between two fighters that both work for Don King.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtml
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/johnkerry2004concession.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election_controversy_and_irregularities
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2004/archive.html
http://contrapositive.blogspot.com/2004/10/election-night-cheat-sheet-as-promised.html

Not much to say really. Kerry promised to "fight and fight and fight some more" but threw in the towel pretty quick. What do you expect when both men get their marching orders from the same people.

Well, that is all for today. Enjoy the 4th! Its all political, except for the she male, but it is the 4th of July.

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Back Issue "High Weirdness by E-Mail [vol. 2, #3]"

2008-08-29T14:36:00.000-07:00

Here it is, the long awaited next installment of my riveting little e-zine. Its like a poorly xeroxed socialist newsletter you just can not seem to stop reading.

Well stop trying to resist, eh comrade? Read on! Read on!

Y: The Last Eskimo
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=08-P13-00030&segmentID=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyls#History

Gender imbalance is not a major issue usually. Historically there are usually more women than men. A not entirely bad situation that has positive effects both on moral as well as the continuation of our species. However it does become something of an issue when there are no men whatsoever. Also, when all those girls are being born due to mutations caused by toxic waste seeping into the food chain.
PCB's found their way for many decades into the water, and now through the miracle of the food chain have found their way into whales and other large sea going predators in large quantities. Those animals are then eaten by, well, Eskimo's. Or in this case the Inuit's and Dane's who live in Greenland. The chemicals are having an odd effect on women, causing a 2 to 1 birth rate of dolls to guys as well as lower than average birth weights.
The good news is it seems to be mainly indigenous peoples in Greenland, Canada, and Alaska that typical subsist on a diet of marine life that are experiencing this. Which is fine really, I mean, its not like those cultures have any real use for men. Traditionally at least.
While its unlikely that this would ever be a general population issue, in 50 years or so these people may have to abandon their entire way of life. PCB's stick around for a good while. Most countries stopped using them in the 70's and this is just now becoming an issue.

Homeland Security has run out of idea's, now mining comic books for new initiatives.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/08/02/scihurricane102.xml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

The article is sparse on hard facts, but it essentially goes like this... The Dept. of Homeland security wants scientists (possibly of the "Mad" variety) to BUILD A WEATHER CONTROL MACHINE! Seriously. They want a device to either sprinkle chemicals into hurricanes (a form of cloud seeding, weather manipulation used here in the US occasionally and recently in China to clear the air for the Olympics) or to cool ocean temperatures where hurricanes form. They would like to be able to at least reduce a storm by 1 full category, an impressive feat. No mention is made of directed weather as a weapon to stop terrorists, but its only a matter of time.
Lex Luthor would be proud.

Karadzic learns the hard way, nobody fucks with the CIA.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/karadzic-lived-under-protectionof-cia-agents-until-he-broke-deal-884247.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7062288.stm

A rare thing indeed, a conspiracy getting blown wide open in public. Radovan Karadžić (AKA Dragan David Dabić, we will call him Raddy for short) the former Bosnian Serb President accused of CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (Five counts of crimes against humanity (Article 5 of the Statute - extermination, murder, persecutions on political, racial and religious grounds, persecutions, inhumane acts (forcible transfer); Three counts of violations of the laws of war (Article 3 of the Statute - murder, unlawfully inflicting terror upon civilians, taking hostages); One count of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions (Article 2 of the Statute - willful killing).^[14] Unlawful transfer of civilians because of religious or national identity. From Wikipedia) has been found, captured, and put on trial. Yay! The good guys win!
The problem here is we have known where he was all along. By "we" I mean "The CIA" (and NATO, and the UN, and MI6 it seems). He cut a deal which seems to be "stay out of politics, live as a simple country psychiatrist named 'Dragon' and treat people who have sexual disorders with 'Quantum Energy Treatments', and we won't arrest your sorry genocidal ass and put you on trial at the Hague." Well it seems he put in some calls to his old political party and even chaired a meeting or two for them... and the CIA found out. Big surprise seeing as they had his phone tapped the entire time.
It will be interesting to find out what he gave them in exchange for such an amazing deal.
Makes you wonder, don't it?

More crazy people claim that NASA/"Big Government" is covering up alien contact evidence. By "crazy" I mean "NASA Employee's", and by "NASA Employee's" I mean "Astronauts".
http://www.australia.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=317:ufo&catid=41:rotator-news
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=87905&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=TopNews&rpc=23&videoChannel=1&sp=true
http://www.wpbf.com/technology/16990637/detail.html
http://www.space.com/news/spaceagencies/gordon_ufos_000728.html
http://www.syti.net/UFOSightings.html
http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/us_astronauts_see_ufos.htm
BONUS! http://www.disclosureproject.org/

There are few more credible witnesses' you could ask for than astronauts. NASA, especially in the days of the Apollo Program, tested their people more rigorously than anyone. Then consider that almost all of their space boys were picked from the military, so you have all of their mental competency and stress tests. THEN consider that almost all of them have scientific backgrounds as well, doctorates and the like. These men were supposed to be scientist-conquerors of the space-age. King Conan piloting a soup can wearing a tin foil suit and reading the collected works of Nietzsche and Thomas Jefferson. Bringing peace, freedom, and (American) human superiority to the stars.
So now, in their twilight years, more and more of these brave post-Atomic Age supermen are coming forward to say we are not alone. That they and others have seen these things. That elements within the military-intelligence-

industrial complex have knowledge of this, and it is being actively withheld from public view.
Why is anyone's guess. Because people might panic? Because "they" are using alien technology for "their" own benefit? Because "they" have deals with "them"? Because "they" have real idea what "they" are? Because nobody knows if "they" are hostile or not? Who knows.
Between this, some of the witness/evidence combo's from the Disclosure Project, and the recent testimonies of officials involved in the Roswell Incident (more on that later), the case for little green men is looking pretty good.

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Back Issue "High Weirdness by E-Mail [vol. 2, #4]

2008-08-29T14:30:00.000-07:00

The Little Green Men and the Golden Calf. [Part 1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_1947
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=8534
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/roswell.html
http://roswellproof.homestead.com/
http://www.nicap.org/roswell-list.htm
http://ufos.about.com/od/ufohistory/a/wp1.htm
http://ufos.about.com/od/ufohistory/p/wrightfield.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_accounts_of_the_Roswell_UFO_incident

On July 26th, 1947 President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act. On board a military C-54 transport plan, code named "Sacred Cow", Truman signed with his magic pen a piece of law that would reshape the United States intelligence and military apparatus forever.

This particular bit of legislation put an end to a congressional debate concerning the merger of the US Navy with the Army. It also created the CIA from the remains of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), created the National Security Council, created the US Air Force (formerly a branch of the Army), and allowed for all sorts of juicy intelligence related matters. Curiously enough it allows for classified information under certain conditions, deemed to important for public dissemination to be kept from anyone. The public, Congress, even the President himself (for reasons of, you guessed it, plausible deniability).

While a broad bit of policy making and a shot across the bow of lovers of small government, it does not seem overly weird. Oh sure, the president just created a new intelligence agency with broad powers including the ability to keep secrets even from him, but still, government has done weirder stuff. What is important here is the timing of the thing.

The alleged UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico was exactly 19 days before that.

Suicide Dot Gov
Nothing really to write about here. Just a collection of recent suicides and unexplained deaths. Sad stuff really.

Victim: Perry Kucinich, youngest brother of Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio, former Presidential candidate).
Cause of death: Unknown.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22329006/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich (no entry for Perry)

Victim(s): Philp Schneider & Ron Rummel, engineers and government contractors (had high level clearance, they built large underground facilities).
Cause of death(s): Suicide (Phil choked himself with a rubber hose, Ron shot himself in the face in a public park).
Weirdness: Phil's autopsy revealed his wounds were self inflicted, also that he managed to grow back several fingers he was missing and heal various surgical scars on his penis. Ron's suicide note was written right handed, he was a south paw.
http://www.rense.com/general/phil.htm
http://educate-yourself.org/products/pslastlecturedescrip.shtml
http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2008/02/21/opinions/suspicious-deaths-of-former-government-employees

Victim: Fred Hutchins, Aide to Senator Jim Webb (D-Virginia)
Cause of Death: Gunshot to the head, not ruled a suicide yet.
Weirdness: 26 years old, loved his job, deeply loyal to Webb, genuine optimism about politics, deeply religious.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/171148

Victim: Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Tinsley, commander at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage
Cause of Death: Suicide, gunshot to the chest (shot himself after going to sleep)
Weirdness: Formerly he worked in Washington under then current Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mosley. Mosley got shitcanned by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for allowing bombers to transport armed nuclear warheads over the continental US. Tinsley was Executive Officer to Mosley, but was under no investigation for anything.
http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=10412
http://www.truthring.org/2008/08/us-air-force-general-thomas-l-tinsley-dead-from-gunshot-wound-to-chest/

Victim: Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, military scientist and "Anthrax Mailer" suspect.
Cause of Death: Suicide (eating a ton of "Tylenol with Codeine")
Weirdness: Too numerous to mention. Really. No part of the official story makes any sense.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-suspect1-2008aug01,0,1343109.story?track=rss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_E._Ivins
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/922879/bruce_e_ivins_anthrax_scientist_from.html
http://topics.cnn.com/topics/bruce_ivins

Phantom Clowns and the Devil's Preschools.
http://forteancritic.blogspot.com/2007/08/those-elusive-phantom-clowns.html
http://www.amazon.com/Mysterious-America-Revised-Loren-Coleman/dp/1931044058
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=bC-fUDuxihoC&dq=mysterious+america&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=MIsO5c7LWQ&sig=dMDvAGd5x0ziptx6tWj2jX7zuvQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse
http://members.aol.com/smartnews/index2.html
http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume7/j7_2_1.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satanic_ritual_abuse_allegations

In May of 1981 Investigative Counselor for the Boston School Board alerted the police and FBI to be on the look out for two men dressed as clowns, attempting to lure children into a van.

By that August there were around 250 reports of "Phantom Clowns" trying to lure children into vans. The reports trickled in not just from Boston but also Kansas City Missouri, Omaha Nebraska, Colorado, and even Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Not a single successful abduction was reported in any state. They happened almost always in daylight, near schools, and to groups of children. Rarely individuals.

The clowns alternated between offering candy to the children to get in the van or threatening them from the van with knives. No verified reports feature them chasing any children, just trying to intimidate or coerce them into the van. One of the earliest reports stated that the clown driving the van did so sans pants.

The clowns were never found.

What is fascinating is that these mysterious clowns appeared at the same time as another bizarre trend. What would come to be called Satanic Ritual Abuse Syndrome was also emerging in 1980-1981. Though it was not called such then, allegations of dark rituals, forced abortions, midnight abductions, cannibalism, and general bad-touching was being reported by a growing number of children and teenagers.

What was also reported is that the abuse was not being perpetrated by the usual black wearing, metal music listening, tattoo loving Satanist stereotype (or even for that matter by famous Satanists like Anton LeVey or Sammy Davis jr.). These foul deeds were being committed by parents, family friends, government officials, and religious leaders.

While much was written about the SRA problem into the 90's (when it fell out of favor quicker than Ted Haggard), what is often overlooked is that out of all those cases a fair number in the US and elsewhere were found to have been true. The Satanic elements however were harder to verify. A lot of the "evidence" was extracted by hypnosis and memory regression techniques which have a dubious track record, at best. What is strange is how many of the allegations came out around the same time. One can attribute the "explosion" of the phenomenon to mass hysteria and greedy psychotherapists wanting to get a bit of national attention or a book deal. However not all of it can be explained away so easily.

Telephone Telepathy confirmed. Next up "Vaginokinesis".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake
http://www.sheldrake.org/papers/Telepathy/exptests_abs.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article630539.ece
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/05/telephone_telepathy/
http://www.sheldrake.org/D&C/controversies/Dawkins.html
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/science/index.html#episode9
http://www.imprint.co.uk/Editorial12_6.pdf

Rupert Sheldrake is something of an oddity. A respected biologist who has spent years investigating if humans have the potential for psychic abilities. This is not unheard of in the scientific community. Every now and then someone delves into the crock pot of quackery, weirdness, and new age fruitiness to show the uneducated masses that its a load of shit.

Sheldrake however is getting all kinds of heat because using the scientific method in two different sets of studies he came to the conclusion that yes, it was possible. He then had the nerve to publish in peer reviewed journals and invite others to duplicate his experiments to see what their findings were. So far, it seems at least some of the brave souls who did have come up with strikingly similar results.

He even got interviewed by Richard Dawkins for a special! Of course Dawkins didn't bother to read ANY of his (peer reviewed) papers or results before the interview. He also refused to even look at them (or the folders containing them) during the interview. According to Dawkins he was there to debunk psychic phenomena, evidence be damned. Way to go, Dick.

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Sometime in the future, when I have a bottle of Wild Turkey all to myself and enough time to sit and compile everything properly I will be putting out a special edition of the newsletter. There will be one topic only. Its well researched by smarter men than myself, but that didn't stop me from going over every bit of evidence I could dig up anyway. The sort of obsessive dirt-digging that makes me almost wish I would have gone to college (film studies major with a minor in journalism, would you like fries with that?).

The topic concerns high crimes and misdemeanors comited here and abroad by people whose names you might know. Crimes that nobody will ever be brought to trial for, despite piles of evidence. No one guilty at least.

Its something that nearly gave me a nervous break down researching some weeks ago. I stopped because my loving wife asked me to, as she could see the ruinous effect it was having on me. It had this effect because it became very clear very quickly that it was all true. It was all true and not one fucking thing can be done about it. You can see the guilty parties on TV and hear them on the radio, you might even run into them on the streets of major American cities or on vacation in exotic places, but you cannot touch them. In the literal or figurative sense, they are both untouchable and guilty as hell.

This newsletter is something I do for fun, to pass away a few spare minutes here and there and to amuse (and maybe inform) my friends and associates. This particular topic however is not fun. Its weird sure, but not fun.

/End Transmission.

Back Issue "High Weirdness by E-Mail [vol. 2, # 5]"

2008-08-29T14:15:00.000-07:00

"Our Impulses are being re-directed.
"We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent.
They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices ...their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness.
We have been lulled into a trance.
They have made us indifferent, to ourselves, to others, we are focused only on our own gain. They are safe as long as they are not discovered ...that is their primary method of survival. Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated...they are dismantling the sleeping middle class.
More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery." - Television Hacker, They Live

The Biscardi Bigfoot
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5583488&page=1
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/14/bigfoot.body/index.html
http://www.searchingforbigfoot.com/Tom_Biscardi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShsjDa-2u9I [in 5 parts, watch'em all, good show]
http://www.wherelightmeetsdark.com/index.php?module=wiki&page=GeorgiaRickmattBigfoot
http://thehorrordome.com/HDSHOPPINGPROPS/SasquatchLARGE.htm

ITS A FUCKING HOAX! The hicks put an expensive Bigfoot costume (Sasquatch: The Costume, seriously) in a freezer, draped some very clean looking entrails on its stomach, and called it a day. My god if I see this in the news one more time I am going to shit in a NASCAR hat and mail it to these redneck scumfucks. People like you are why legitimate fringe shit gets laughed at despite evidence. Seriously now, the History Channel managed to get an 18" bloody footprint from a sasquatch after it stepped on a board filled with screws (accidentally placed where the creature had ransacked a cabin a few times before), and got DNA evidence from the blood and tissue left behind. Findings? The DNA was tested by two different labs and found to be "Almost great ape DNA< but not exactly". Great ape's have (I could be wrong, either my memory or knowledge of monkey DNA, please forgive) 2 base pair deviations from humans, the sasquatch DNA had one of the two deviations. So whatever left the blood, footprint, and flesh behind on the screws and wood was CLOSER TO HUMANS THAN APES, BUT NOT STILL NOT HUMAN. Did that make the news? Nope. Accredited scientists analyzing the most concrete evidence yet produced that an unknown species of great ape exists in North America gets no press, but two dipshits from the deep south with a Halloween costume in their freezer is front page on CNN/ABC News/MSNBC/FOX News/etc... several times while RUSSIA GOES TO WAR WITH A U.S. ALLY and Pakistan is set to fucking implode over Mussarafs impending impeachment. *sigh*

Unknown underground city discovered in Kansas.
http://www.kctv5.com/news/17126244/detail.html#-

So it was probably constructed in the early to mid 1800's, and abandoned sometime in the early 1900's. Beyond that nobody seems to have any idea about it. There were streets, shops, possibly homes, all constructed underground. Like the Seattle underground, only secret and weird. Even the old timers don't seem to have any idea about it. Those who say they have heard of it claim no information as to who used it or for what.

Weird.

Truth in Advertising [Thanks Amanda!]
http://www.psywar.org/index.php
http://www.cracked.com/article_16434_5-creepiest-advertising-techniques-near-future.html
http://www.foothilltech.org/rgeib/english/media_literacy/advertising_techniques.htm
http://www.ukhh.com/features/articles/sonic_branding/index.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/08/opinion/main628291.shtml
http://brandautopsy.typepad.com/brandautopsy/meaningless_marketing/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_message#Allegations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blipvert

Psychological Warfare operations against the United States were in full swing by the late 1850's, and they continue to this day. Not from an aggressive foreign power attempting to undermine our sovereignty or way of life, no it originates instead from right here at home.

Advertising.

Our Corporate Masters (Sorry, did that sound too crazy? I can never tell) have over the years employed some fairly dastardly tactics ranging from cute kittens, to casual name dropping in generic hip-hop songs, to outright attempts at mind control (subliminal messages, blipverts*, low frequency audio messages).

Where am I going with this? Nowhere really. Just that its kinda fucked up that the same tactics that have been designed for either psychological warfare or mind control are also used to sell us cars and shoes and breast implants.

Also on this subject, its pretty fucked up when for years some crazy people have said the government was broadcasting messages that only they could hear. Nobody of course believes anyone who says that. Why would you? Its insane.

http://www.impactlab.com/2007/12/16/hypersonic-sound-advertising-is-coming/
http://gawker.com/news/the-future/schizophrenia-is-the-new-ad-gimmick-329133.php

New Freedom Mental Health [or Take your damn Prozium. With contributions by my lovely wife, again!]
http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/11-universal-mental-screening-program-usurps-parental-rights/
http://www.infowars.com/articles/brave_new_world/new_freedom_paul_amendment.htm
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020429-2.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132397,00.html
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2003pres/20030722.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_new_world#Background

This is the sort of nonsense that would make Orwell turn angry with rage. Big Government, not content to let the masses find their own means of diversion from the crushing banality of the modern world has decided the next generation is going to get a head start. Instead of discovering things like anti-anxiety pills, mood stabilizers, uppers, downers, screamers, laughers all on their own after a phase of difficult teenage angst, they want children on the shit. Ready made customers for the pharmaceutical industry, a nations of pill-popping go-getters before their sneakers hit the carpet of kindergarten.

The best part of all, is its federal standards that will determine if your children need hoped up on government issue happy pills. If you refuse to medicate junior, no problem, he becomes a ward of the state as you are obviously unfit parents. Thats it. You lose your kids, hell, you might even get to do a little time for your trouble. Won't that be nice. Your kid rots his brain in a minimum security federal orphanarium, while you do a nickel in the joint for child abuse. Fantastic!

On the plus side, your kids will be taken care of. I mean sure they will be doped up on anti-psychotics and whatever anti-depressants are in vogue, but at least the will be safe and cared for...

Government allows Big Pharmacy to use UNDERAGE ORPHAN CHILDREN in AIDS drug trials.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2005/may/11/20050511-103959-2907r/
http://www.rense.com/general36/history.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/experiment.htm
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/311/7011/970/a
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE5DD1F31F93AA25752C0A963958260
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA
http://books.google.com/books?id=vB2G-9lgvCEC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=Kaczynski+project+artichoke&source=web&ots=pSCCr5C0yS&sig=oPDXUomFvUxdxqaQFtkgRpS1qag&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result

That is seriously fucked up. Of course its also nothing new. Experiments were conducted by such nefarious and clandestine groups as the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, the Food and Drug Administration, oh, and the CIA (just throw them in for good measure) on unsuspecting civilians for years. Decades even. We all know about the Tuskegee experiments, but how many of us hear about the experiments that filled mental patients with uranium and radium just to see how long it takes to kill you from the late 1940's till the late 1970's? Or the CIA and their pet mind control experiments (MKULTRA, Project: Artichoke, to name a few) that filled unknowing soldiers with LSD, or broke peoples minds with continuous brain washing techniques to see how effectively they could rewire a persons brain (Ted Kaczynski was a product of such experiments, he sadly volunteered for the extra cash while in college, I wonder if he was considered a success).

The difference these days is outsourcing.

I said a lot about past experiments up there but little about the subject. The actual subject is one of those things that gets my blood boiling. I guess too many comic books have left me with a warped sense of civic responsibility, but picking on defenseless people always pisses me off.

They subjected healthy wards of the state, as well as infected wards of the state, with experimental AIDS treatments. No numbers are being released, so there is no way of knowing how many kids were used or how many of them died. No way of knowing how many healthy kids might have been infected by faulty vaccines. I am all for science, but for christs sake how about a little informed consent? Is that too much to ask?

FIN.

*Blipverts are a reference to 'Max Headroom'. Although a subliminal ad technique bearing the same name does exist. Funny thing.

"They use their tongues to deceive,
The venom of snakes is under their lips,
Their mouths are full of bitterness and curses,
And in their paths nothing but ruin and misery,

The fear of God is not before their eyes,
They have taken the hearts and minds of our leaders,
They have recruited the rich and the powerful,
And they have blinded us to the truth,

Our human spirit is corrupted,
Why do we worship greed?
Because, outside the limit of our sight, feeding of us,
Perched on top us from birth to death,

Are our owners, our owners,
They have us,
They control us,
They are our masters,

WAKE UP!

They are all about you, all around you." - Street Preacher, They Live

Back Issue "High Weirdness by E-Mail [vol. 2 #6]"

2008-08-29T13:50:00.000-07:00

I will post the rest after I get them cleaned up a bit. My spelling is terrible.

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"The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena: the Videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television." - Prof. Brian O'Blivion, Videodrome

Private For-Profit Prisons are pretty fucked up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wackenhut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison#Attempts_to_limit_privatization_and_increase_oversight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEO_Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Companies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_4_Falck#Critical_Observations

No conspiracy here per se, only something that is rather more than a little fucked up. The state (read: gov'ment) is paying private companies to house and take care of criminals. Private Prisons. Just let that concept simmer in your brain. Private. Prisons. Private companies having custodial rights over American citizens for the duration of their incarceration. Its a little weird.

Is there anything we won't outsource anymore? I suppose they should thank their lucky stars we don't outsource this particular job to India as well.

Of course, there are some elements that might make most people a little bit anxious about this prospect, beyond that there are private prisons. Like offering cash incentives for local law enforcement to round up more perps. Or the fact that like publicly funded jails these have work shops where prisoners are required to put in 40 hours a week. Making things. Things these companies are contracted to make for other companies. Things they sell. For money. While the prisoners get the state minimum pay for prison work, about $15 a month seems like the average.

Does this whole prison angle sound like a publicly acceptable veneer for slavery? It would certainly lean in that direction.

Working while paying your debt to society is one thing. Public works is fine by me. Making license plates, clearing roads of litter, substitute teaching, whatever. However these prisoners are working manufacturing jobs for the private sector, for slave wages.

If you are generally unsympathetic to the plight of criminals, that is fine, look at it this way. The illegal immigrant workforce everyone is so against this election cycle steals jobs nobody wants (the ass-end of the aggro biz)*, but these prisoners are being forced to work what would otherwise be honest, high paying manufacturing jobs. The sorts of jobs that "left for overseas" and ruined most of middle America's economy. Midwestern ghost towns dot the land in places where "the factory closed" and took the population and economy with it. Now those jobs are coming back. These prisons open in depressed areas and offer a temporary boon to the local population with construction and support jobs. Once its built maybe a few hundred jobs at best for guards and admin staff. Then 20,000 manufacturing jobs staffed exclusively by slave labor, making money that nobody but the company owning the prison will see.

You want a good job Middle America? One of those well-paying, medically insured, retirement package having, unionized factory jobs that damned company gave to those dirty Chinamen? It’s easy, just go to jail.

Behind door number 3 is.... The Partnership for a Drug Free America!
http://www.drugfree.org/
http://www.druglibrary.org/SCHAFFER/library/pdfa1.htm
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Partnership_for_a_Drug_Free_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership_for_a_Drug-Free_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wood_Johnson_Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_%26_Johnson
http://www.healthandsocietyscholars.org/
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1DC1430F937A3575BC0A961948260&sec=&spon=
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/

When you send your kids to school, theoretically, you meet their teachers at some point. After all, its nice to know who is going to be the major force in shaping their young, impressionable minds (other than you, and the teevee). Get to know the teacher, sit'em down for a friendly chat, discuss grades, juniors ability to relate to other kids, etc... Good policy I say.

Here's the problem. There are some people that aim to educate your children, and you, about all kinds of things and you generally have no clue whatsoever who they are. This is a bad thing.

Have no fear loyal reader; Old Saucy James has done the work for you this time! Well, for this one topic and one group, but it is kind of a big one.

You see my intrepid friends there is a group known as much by its name as its idiotic public service announcements. The Partnership for a Drug Free America.

This non-profit group was started in 1986 (2 years after the "Crack Epidemic" started, and then quickly spread out from, LA) by Richard O'Rielly of the AAAA (American Association of Advertising Agencies) as well as being the marketing genius behind Reagan's media campaign. Mr. O'Rielly, seeing opportunity and having the government contacts to do something with it, formed TPFADFA post-haste.

Soon the airwaves were filled with Nancy Reagan telling you about the dangers of trench-coated thugs on playgrounds pushing dope to your young (fortunately just saying No seems to get them off your back), while George HW Bush gave America a detailed description of the effects of Crack (as well as its cost, where to find it, and showing us what it looked like). All of this thanks to TPFADFA.

But you ask, James, how did TPFADFA America get to do all this? Surely Nancy Reagan and the fucking VICE President don't come cheap? That is true, they did it with money! Some of it was even your tax dollars! That however was a fairly small percentage of the funding.

The rest came from drugs.

You see, the partnership that is spoken of is one between legal purveyors of drugs, advertisers and the government. The money (always, always follow the money) came from alcohol (Anheuser-Busch), tobacco (American Brands, RJ Reynolds, Philip-Morris), pharmaceuticals (Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, Hoffmann-LaRoche, Johnson & Johnson, CIBA-GEIGY/Pharmaceuticals Division, Dow Chemical), private prison builders/government contractors (Bechtel Group, Halliburton), banking giants (Citibank, Bear-Sterns, The Fuji Bank and Trust Company) and advertising agencies (Proctor & Gamble, beyond them it was founded by the chair of the AAAA and had its backing from day one).

As an aside the PFADFA is funded by pharmacutical giant Johnson & Johnson from three different sources. From corporate HQ (Johnson & Johnson), from the founders personal charitable organization (J. Seward Johnson Sr. Charitable Trusts), and from a former CEO's charitable trust (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).

So, with all of that, I wonder how objective and altruistic their goals of turning the children against the horrors of illegal drugs really are.

It should be noted that currently no tobacco or alcohol firms directly fund the group, but charities that they fund in turn give to TPFADFA. Also it should be noted for Ken's information that among the food and drink interests that provide funding RJ Nabisco is on the list. I wonder what their interest in drugs is...**

Danny Casolaro, PROMIS, and The Octopus [Part 1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNdW2V5V8W4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3O7u9JYVgs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Casolaro
http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id901/pg1/
http://www.constitution.org/col/octocaso.htm
http://www.projectcensored.org/static/1991/1991-story11.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inslaw
http://www.rense.com/general17/maf.htm

Before we delve into the life of this man, lets look at how he died, shall we?

He was found in a bathtub full of blood in a hotel, his wrists and arms were slashed 6 times each (a grand total of 12), the cuts were deep enough on most to hit bone, his room was empty of personal items save some clothes and a suicide note saying he was sorry for something terrible he did (not specified, just that it was terrible) and that god would forgive him.

This sounds tragic indeed, but not overly weird. However...

He was afraid of blood, especially his own. He often refused simple medical procedures if they involved any kind of blood draw. His wrists were slashed to the bone and twelve times at that, also the wounds indicated the razor was pulled away from his body, not in the direction of it. He always carried a large accordion file and several notebooks containing information for a book he was writing, those were never found. His suicide note wasn't in his handwriting, it wasn't signed, it mentioned no family by name, and it mentioned looking forward to forgiveness from god (he was a staunch atheist).

So yeah, apart from that it seems like a pretty open and shut suicide, right?

The subject of his book? Something he called "The Octopus". A conspiracy involving a handful of top government and military officials up to some very bad shit. Books like this are written all the time, no biggie.

Danny's problem came when he actually started getting close to this group, which apparently does or at least did exist. He found the best, quickest, most provable way to track their dirty deeds back to them; the IRS. Danny found a contact highly placed in the Internal Revenue Service who had hard information of the dealings of this group via their financial records, personal and work-related, and this guy wanted to talk. He talked alright, he talked and then Danny went to meet another contact in West Virginia, a mysterious fellow whom he had never met before. Some of his shadowy military and intelligence contacts put him onto. Some of the same men who had gone from feeding Danny information to warning him he was too close to something really big, and his life was in danger.

One of the last things he said to his brother was "If something happens to me in West Virginia, it will not be an accident.". A journey that started out with an investigation into the Pentagon stealing software from a small company ended with a mans death. If he wasn't onto something else, then that is a lot of trouble to go to just to avoid paying to renew your software license.

CIA Drug Connection 2, or, How I learned to stop worrying about poor inner city minorities and love Crack Cocaine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2RpNkeu1YA [Part 1 of "Dark Alliance", the rest is there too]
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/race_relations/july-dec96/cia_11-18.html
http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9712/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Ross_(drug_trafficker)
http://freewayenterprise.blogspot.com/
http://www.streetgangs.com/magazine/freewayrick.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic

Did some of that unaccounted for cocaine that the CIA pumped into America in the early to mid-eighties start the crack epidemic? Survey says, yeah, probably. At least according to this crazy, left-wing, non-mainstream conspiracy group called the Department of Justice (with their crazed, uninformed, barking at the moon appointed leader, the Attorney General).

Guys like "Freeway" Ricky Ross made hundreds of millions of dollars in the crack biz, with Ricky arguably one of the most successful. He set up crack houses (for distribution, not for random crackheads to crash at) in poor neighborhoods so people didn't have to drive or bus to get their crack, they could just walk down the street. These houses had little windows on the side where you walked up, handed a man some money, and he handed you some quality rock (made only from the finest imported powder), you walk away a happy customer.

I wonder where Ricky got his business model. Hey man, it works.

Anyways, it seems that Ricky and those like him got the idea for pure, smokable, cheap, and highly addictive cocaine from some guys who did business in Florida and the Caribbean. These guys turned out to be South-American Contras, who turned out to be running the drugs into the states with the approval and help of some guys from the CIA.

The question is, who invented Crack and then unleashed it knowingly on the public. Good question, but it wasn't Ricky like some people like to say. Ricky was a drop out with no knowledge of chemistry. Also, Ricky has never been to "da islands" which is where crack was first discovered by local cops in late 1979. Not in LA, where the media and government will tell you the drug was first cooked and sold. It was in the Bahamas, one of the two routes which the CIA/Contra Cocaine Express was rocking its way into the US by. Funny that.

Finally something not in the Your Government and Big Business are Fucking You genre... Israeli Exoskeleton (that looks amazingly like a Japanese one...) allows a paralyzed man to walk.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1049215/Paralysed-man-walks-thanks-Robocop-style-exoskeleton.html
http://www.argomedtec.com/products.asp
http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/robotsuithal/index.html
http://gizmodo.com/381024/rent-your-own-hal-exoskeleton-for-the-low-low-price-of-1000
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=1430762

One step closer to powered armor... one step closer. An exciting time to be, um, paralyzed. Well yeah, I guess its never a good time to be paralyzed. Still though, this is pretty cool. I can't wait until the HAL unit goes up for sale. That will be the DIY hobby project for the next decade. Fuck customizing your motorcycle (that I dislike motorcycles), why do that when you can ad-on and improve your POWERED EXOSKELETON.

Sign me up.

Just wait till Cyberdyne (yeah, they have a real evil robot fixation. The Japanese are so weird) and Argo Tech start feuding over patents, exclusivity contracts, and international distribution rights to their products. In the grim future of biomedical technology there is only war!

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I was going to do a bit about TV mind control rays, but I figured that would shoot my credibility in the dick on this other stuff. Not that I have much credibility, but still, best to save the really crazy stuff for later.

Next time I may include that gem, as well as a collection of weird, work safe, photographs since Chad H asked me to ever so nicely. He likes pictures. He likes... to watch.

/End Transmission.

* Yes, I have friends who have worked those jobs several seasons in a row. White friends. White friends who reported that they saw less than a dozen other white hands picking berries and other assorted produce, in total, the entire time. Its not that they weren't welcome, farms like that never have a "hiring freeze" during the summer, its that the white kids would wuss out after an hour or two in the sun. Seriously. The illegals would work it all day because they needed the money. The whites would give up in disgust, deciding to go back home and find a real job. Yes, illegals have those jobs, but there are still more! There always have been! This whole damned thing is a giant smoke-screen issue! A straw man argument so you won't notice what is actually going on around you! Don't worry about the poison in the water that your government pays companies to put there for your own good, no no! Don't look at how we are openly torturing POW's or arbitrarily declaring who gets what rights and where and oh my god the Geneva conventions are so quaint aren't they? Pay no attention to how corporate America pumps millions of dollars into education so that marketing and advertising students can be instructed on the best ways to keep you asleep and force-feed you and your children mediocrity and fast food, until we are a nation of homogenized, identically dressed, borderline obese, obedient wage-slaves punching a clock instead of griping a slave collar, oh no! The real problem we face is gay people getting married! My god! Panic! The gays are choosing to partner with someone for life out of love, the Mexicans are picking our lettuce! Lettuce that Citizens (Code for: WHITE PEOPLE) should be picking! Panic in the streets!

** I don't think the Nabisco factory was used for the mass manufacture of crack. Ricky Ross alone had dozens of houses that were used exclusively for cooking the crack, so it was an industrial operation, albeit a very decentralized one. Which is the smart way to do it.

It seems to work...

2008-08-29T13:38:00.000-07:00

Alright then.

Who so ever would still like to get the newsletter via email let me know. Otherwise, its all going on here from now on.

Its so simple!

-R

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2008-08-29T13:18:00.000-07:00

Does it die in a microwave?