Gautier man shares story of 1973 alien abduction
“They appeared to me that they had something like elephant skin, it was very wrinkled. These things came to us and took a hold of me, and one took a hold of Calvin. We went into that beam of light and they carried me aboard that craft.
”He said the aliens held them for about 30 minutes.
“Something came out of that wall, like a big eye. It came up in front of me, it went under me, and it came back up my back side. The next time I saw it, it came over my head in front of me. They turned me around and carried me right back out where they pick me up.”
Friday, February 29, 2008
PRISON PLANET
More than 1pc of American adults now in jail: study
The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, a report says.
The report, by the Pew Centre on the States, says the American penal system held more than 2.3 million adults at the start of the year.
The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, a report says.
The report, by the Pew Centre on the States, says the American penal system held more than 2.3 million adults at the start of the year.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
BUNCH OF BANKERS
NAB chief suggests merging big banks
Chief executive of the National Australia Bank (NAB), John Stewart, has told a business luncheon in Sydney the four pillars policy, which prevents Australia's major banks from merging, needs to be relaxed.
He says at the moment none of the four would be strong enough to stave off a takeover bid from a much larger foreign bank.
Chief executive of the National Australia Bank (NAB), John Stewart, has told a business luncheon in Sydney the four pillars policy, which prevents Australia's major banks from merging, needs to be relaxed.
He says at the moment none of the four would be strong enough to stave off a takeover bid from a much larger foreign bank.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
TRUTH BE TOLD
Australian Oscar winner brands US Government 'war criminals'
AUSTRALIAN Oscar winner Eva Orner has described the US government as a "bunch of war criminals" that had to be "stopped".The Australian filmmaker won the Academy Award for best feature documentary as co-producer of Taxi to the Dark Side, a film about the US government's use of torture in its war against terror.
AUSTRALIAN Oscar winner Eva Orner has described the US government as a "bunch of war criminals" that had to be "stopped".The Australian filmmaker won the Academy Award for best feature documentary as co-producer of Taxi to the Dark Side, a film about the US government's use of torture in its war against terror.
FUNDA MENTAL
The Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women
Women Living Under Muslim Laws is coordinating this Global Campaign to address the persistent misuse of religion and culture to justify killing women as punishment for violating the ‘norms’ of sexual behaviour as defined and imposed by vested interests.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws is coordinating this Global Campaign to address the persistent misuse of religion and culture to justify killing women as punishment for violating the ‘norms’ of sexual behaviour as defined and imposed by vested interests.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
THE QUICKENING
Antarctic glaciers surge to ocean
New evidence from a group of Antarctic glaciers covering an area the size of Texas, in a remote and seldom visited part of West Antarctica, shows "rivers of ice" surging sharply in speed towards the ocean.
Satellite measurements have shown that three huge glaciers here have been speeding up for more than a decade. The Pine Island Glacier is causing the most concern as it puts more ice into the sea than any other glacier in Antarctica.
If the glacier does continue to surge and discharge most of it ice into the sea, say the researchers, the Pine Island Glacier alone could raise global sea level by 25cm. But neighbouring glaciers are accelerating too and if the entire region were to lose its ice, the sea would rise by 1.5m worldwide.
New evidence from a group of Antarctic glaciers covering an area the size of Texas, in a remote and seldom visited part of West Antarctica, shows "rivers of ice" surging sharply in speed towards the ocean.
Satellite measurements have shown that three huge glaciers here have been speeding up for more than a decade. The Pine Island Glacier is causing the most concern as it puts more ice into the sea than any other glacier in Antarctica.
If the glacier does continue to surge and discharge most of it ice into the sea, say the researchers, the Pine Island Glacier alone could raise global sea level by 25cm. But neighbouring glaciers are accelerating too and if the entire region were to lose its ice, the sea would rise by 1.5m worldwide.
HOT IDEA
Chips turn more heat to power
The technology to cleanly and quietly turn heat into electricity without the use of a turbine or generator has existed for nearly a century. The trouble is, it has never been efficient enough for widespread practical use.
A pair of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Eneco Inc. have made a device that nearly doubles the amount of electricity that can be extracted from heat. The researchers' thermal diode converts about 18 percent of thermal energy to electricity, while current thermoelectric generators convert about 10 percent.
The technology could be used to generate additional electricity from power plants, which throw off enormous amounts of waste heat, and to generate electricity using the heat from automobile engines. The technology could also produce electricity in conjunction with devices that concentrate sunlight.
The technology to cleanly and quietly turn heat into electricity without the use of a turbine or generator has existed for nearly a century. The trouble is, it has never been efficient enough for widespread practical use.
A pair of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Eneco Inc. have made a device that nearly doubles the amount of electricity that can be extracted from heat. The researchers' thermal diode converts about 18 percent of thermal energy to electricity, while current thermoelectric generators convert about 10 percent.
The technology could be used to generate additional electricity from power plants, which throw off enormous amounts of waste heat, and to generate electricity using the heat from automobile engines. The technology could also produce electricity in conjunction with devices that concentrate sunlight.
Friday, February 22, 2008
IDENTITY HOLOCAUST
UK's families put on fraud alert
Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing.
The Child Benefit data on them includes name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and, where relevant, bank details of 25 million people.
Chancellor Alistair Darling urged people to monitor bank accounts "for unusual activity".
More personal data lost in the UK
THE records of hundreds of thousands of adults and children in the UK have gone missing - the third loss of data about the public by a government service this year.
US cases
Consumer Data Losses: Tapes, Disks and Sticks
In 2004 the Bank of America lost unencrypted tapes with account information on 1.2 million US federal employee credit cards, including US senators.
Also in the US, a Veterans Administration computer containing information on 26 million veterans was stolen. (more)
A University of California, Berkeley laptop that contained information on more than 98,000 graduate students and others also went missing.
Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing.
The Child Benefit data on them includes name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and, where relevant, bank details of 25 million people.
Chancellor Alistair Darling urged people to monitor bank accounts "for unusual activity".
More personal data lost in the UK
THE records of hundreds of thousands of adults and children in the UK have gone missing - the third loss of data about the public by a government service this year.
US cases
Consumer Data Losses: Tapes, Disks and Sticks
In 2004 the Bank of America lost unencrypted tapes with account information on 1.2 million US federal employee credit cards, including US senators.
Also in the US, a Veterans Administration computer containing information on 26 million veterans was stolen. (more)
A University of California, Berkeley laptop that contained information on more than 98,000 graduate students and others also went missing.
TORTURED STATEMENTS
Stunners on Waterboarding and Guantanamo
Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence:
“I know one thing. I’m a water-safety instructor, but I cannot swim without covering my nose. I don’t know if it’s some deviated septum or mucus membrane, but water just rushes in.” For him, he said, “waterboarding would be excruciating. If I had water draining into my nose, oh God, I just can’t imagine how painful!”
Later, he admited his refusal to broaden his statement past a personal revelation was inspired by fear of legal consequences — the concern that was at the heart of the C.I.A. tape affair.
The debate over the interrogation technique recently intensified when the C.I.A. acknowledged destroying videotapes showing the waterboarding of two Al Qaeda detainees, centers on a very succinct question: is it torture?
Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence:
“I know one thing. I’m a water-safety instructor, but I cannot swim without covering my nose. I don’t know if it’s some deviated septum or mucus membrane, but water just rushes in.” For him, he said, “waterboarding would be excruciating. If I had water draining into my nose, oh God, I just can’t imagine how painful!”
Later, he admited his refusal to broaden his statement past a personal revelation was inspired by fear of legal consequences — the concern that was at the heart of the C.I.A. tape affair.
The debate over the interrogation technique recently intensified when the C.I.A. acknowledged destroying videotapes showing the waterboarding of two Al Qaeda detainees, centers on a very succinct question: is it torture?
DEFINE: FRONESIS
Fronesis-the third dimension of knowledge, learning, and evaluation
Fronesis, is the "political knowledge", that is the ability to understand and interpret the situation at hand and decide about appropriate actions.
What is new in our time is that the general situation is very different from what the teacher has experienced, and from what previous generations have met.
Fronesis today is the most important dimension of knowledge
Traditional examination can check the Episteme capability and Techne can be checked by practical demonstration: playing the piano, building an electronic device, etc.
Examination of Fronesis needs special consideration.
Fronesis, is the "political knowledge", that is the ability to understand and interpret the situation at hand and decide about appropriate actions.
What is new in our time is that the general situation is very different from what the teacher has experienced, and from what previous generations have met.
Fronesis today is the most important dimension of knowledge
Traditional examination can check the Episteme capability and Techne can be checked by practical demonstration: playing the piano, building an electronic device, etc.
Examination of Fronesis needs special consideration.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
FIRST DROPS
Meteor shocks Pacific Northwest
A bright, flaming fireball streaked across the pre-dawn sky in the Pacific Northwest near Portland, Ore., and exploded with a large blast that lit up the horizon, witnesses say. Security cameras at a Portland hospital captured the fireball’s arrival on film, and dozens of reports of eyewitness sightings came in from across Washington and Oregon and even as far away as Idaho and British Columbia.
A bright, flaming fireball streaked across the pre-dawn sky in the Pacific Northwest near Portland, Ore., and exploded with a large blast that lit up the horizon, witnesses say. Security cameras at a Portland hospital captured the fireball’s arrival on film, and dozens of reports of eyewitness sightings came in from across Washington and Oregon and even as far away as Idaho and British Columbia.
TIT FOR TAT
US military prepares to shoot down errant satellite
In an operation that could last just minutes from launch to intercept, US Navy officials hope a missile fired from a ship and traveling at six times the speed of sound will hit a bus-sized satellite about 220km above Earth with a nonexplosive "kinetic kill vehicle."
The Navy plans to launch a missile from a cruiser near Hawaii to destroy the satellite carrying fuel that defence officials believe could be hazardous to humans.
The Aegis ballistic-missile defense system has successfully intercepted incoming missiles in 12 of 14 test flights, according to a Navy document.
US missile hits 'toxic satellite'
Russia suspects the operation was a cover to test anti-satellite technology under the US missile defence programme.
The US denies the operation was a response to an anti-satellite test carried out by China last year, which prompted fears of a space arms race.
In an operation that could last just minutes from launch to intercept, US Navy officials hope a missile fired from a ship and traveling at six times the speed of sound will hit a bus-sized satellite about 220km above Earth with a nonexplosive "kinetic kill vehicle."
The Navy plans to launch a missile from a cruiser near Hawaii to destroy the satellite carrying fuel that defence officials believe could be hazardous to humans.
The Aegis ballistic-missile defense system has successfully intercepted incoming missiles in 12 of 14 test flights, according to a Navy document.
US missile hits 'toxic satellite'
Russia suspects the operation was a cover to test anti-satellite technology under the US missile defence programme.
The US denies the operation was a response to an anti-satellite test carried out by China last year, which prompted fears of a space arms race.
OUR GALAXY
Milky Way: Bigger than we thought
The Milky Way - our home galaxy - is twice as thick as we thought it was, Australian astrophysicists say.
Professor Bryan Gaensler from the University of Sydney and his team have found that the enormous spiral-shaped collection of gas and stars is 12,000 light years thick when seen edge-on, not 6,000 as scientists previously thought.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
CYBORGS ATTACK
Tiny machines could roam the body curing diseases
Machines 'to match man by 2029'
Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.
Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil.
The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health.
BUSH WHACKER
Bush defends US record on Darfur
US President George W Bush has defended his decision not to send troops to the Sudanese region of Darfur, despite what he calls a genocide taking place there.
He called it a "seminal decision" not to intervene with force, taken partly out of the desire not to send US troops into another Muslim country.
Bushwhacker - Wikipedia
Bushwhacking was a form of guerrilla warfare during the American Civil War that was particularly prevalent in rural areas where there were sharp divisions between those favoring the Union and Confederacy in the conflict. The perpetrators of the attacks were called bushwhackers.
Bushwhackers conducted a few well-organized raids in which they burned cities and ambushed families in rural areas.
Since the attacks were non-uniformed, the government response was complicated by trying to decide whether they were legitimate military attacks or criminal actions.
US President George W Bush has defended his decision not to send troops to the Sudanese region of Darfur, despite what he calls a genocide taking place there.
He called it a "seminal decision" not to intervene with force, taken partly out of the desire not to send US troops into another Muslim country.
Bushwhacker - Wikipedia
Bushwhacking was a form of guerrilla warfare during the American Civil War that was particularly prevalent in rural areas where there were sharp divisions between those favoring the Union and Confederacy in the conflict. The perpetrators of the attacks were called bushwhackers.
Bushwhackers conducted a few well-organized raids in which they burned cities and ambushed families in rural areas.
Since the attacks were non-uniformed, the government response was complicated by trying to decide whether they were legitimate military attacks or criminal actions.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
THOUGHT CRIME
Five students win terror appeal
The convictions of five young Muslim men jailed over extremist literature have been quashed by the Appeal Court.
Freeing the men, the Lord Chief Justice said there was no proof of terrorist intent. The lawyer for one said they had been jailed for a "thought crime".
A jury convicted them in 2007 after hearing the men, of Bradford University and Ilford, London, became obsessed with jihadi websites and literature.
The convictions of five young Muslim men jailed over extremist literature have been quashed by the Appeal Court.
Freeing the men, the Lord Chief Justice said there was no proof of terrorist intent. The lawyer for one said they had been jailed for a "thought crime".
A jury convicted them in 2007 after hearing the men, of Bradford University and Ilford, London, became obsessed with jihadi websites and literature.
The Home Office said it would study the judgement carefully.
It said it understood the Crown Prosecution Service was considering whether to appeal against the ruling, which it must do within seven days.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
GREATER LOVE
Dogs Give Up Their Lives to Save Family
Bella, a 3-year-old golden retriever/collie mix who was once rescued as an abused puppy, returned the favor to her owners by alerting them to a house fire. With help from Maddie, a 6-month-old golden retriever, Bella helped get Sue Feuling and her 9-year-old daughter, Mckenzie, out of the house last week. The dogs didn't make it.
Bella, a 3-year-old golden retriever/collie mix who was once rescued as an abused puppy, returned the favor to her owners by alerting them to a house fire. With help from Maddie, a 6-month-old golden retriever, Bella helped get Sue Feuling and her 9-year-old daughter, Mckenzie, out of the house last week. The dogs didn't make it.
AMERICAN PSYCHO
The Meaning of Mitt Romney's Exit Speech
In reality, the American elite -- or the Establishment, or the power structure, call it what you will (as long as you don't call it what it really is: the ruling class) -- is like an iceberg: most of its vast bulk exists unseen, it plows on beneath the surface, unperturbed by the media
storms that rage around the small bit of exposed material at the summit.
Mitt Romney is an immensely wealthy, well-connected man, a former governor of the state of Massachusetts, born and bred in an extensive web of privilege and power.
His words ... show the barbarism, hatemongering and bloodlust that are considered perfectly acceptable in the polite company of our rulers and their sycophants.
In the midst of a long diatribe about liberal "attacks" on "American culture," Romney pauses for a glance across the Atlantic, to evoke a hideous nightmare that could soon be America's future:
"Europe -- Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That's the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life, and eroded morality."
The climax of Romney's peroration: a frantic blithering about "evil and radical jihad" and "the inevitable military ambitions of China" and the burning need to "raise military spending to 4 percent of our GDP" and overriding imperative to keep the Terror War raging, particularly its central front in Iraq. None of this is remotely connected to the actual wellbeing, security and prosperity of the American people; quite the opposite. It is, however, absolutely vital to the preservation of the elite's power, privilege, self-image and status. And as they demonstrate day after day, they don't care how many people must die or suffer for this.
In reality, the American elite -- or the Establishment, or the power structure, call it what you will (as long as you don't call it what it really is: the ruling class) -- is like an iceberg: most of its vast bulk exists unseen, it plows on beneath the surface, unperturbed by the media
storms that rage around the small bit of exposed material at the summit.
Mitt Romney is an immensely wealthy, well-connected man, a former governor of the state of Massachusetts, born and bred in an extensive web of privilege and power.
His words ... show the barbarism, hatemongering and bloodlust that are considered perfectly acceptable in the polite company of our rulers and their sycophants.
In the midst of a long diatribe about liberal "attacks" on "American culture," Romney pauses for a glance across the Atlantic, to evoke a hideous nightmare that could soon be America's future:
"Europe -- Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That's the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life, and eroded morality."
The climax of Romney's peroration: a frantic blithering about "evil and radical jihad" and "the inevitable military ambitions of China" and the burning need to "raise military spending to 4 percent of our GDP" and overriding imperative to keep the Terror War raging, particularly its central front in Iraq. None of this is remotely connected to the actual wellbeing, security and prosperity of the American people; quite the opposite. It is, however, absolutely vital to the preservation of the elite's power, privilege, self-image and status. And as they demonstrate day after day, they don't care how many people must die or suffer for this.
This is moral psychosis on a monumental scale. It is the complete and utter repudiation of every civilized ideal, of every fragment of enlightenment wrenched from the blood-drenched slagheap of human history. Yet it passes for normality in our political discourse.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Danes arrest terror plotters
DANISH police have arrested several people in a terror plot to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Mohammed drawings that sparked an uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.
The arrests were made in pre-dawn raids in Aarhus, western Denmark, "to prevent a terror-related murder," the police intelligence agency said. It did not say how many people were arrested nor did it mention which cartoonist was targeted.
[Since when has the definition of a terrorist act included the murder of one person. That used to be called a crime.]
DANISH police have arrested several people in a terror plot to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Mohammed drawings that sparked an uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.
The arrests were made in pre-dawn raids in Aarhus, western Denmark, "to prevent a terror-related murder," the police intelligence agency said. It did not say how many people were arrested nor did it mention which cartoonist was targeted.
[Since when has the definition of a terrorist act included the murder of one person. That used to be called a crime.]
HUMAN RIGHT
Spielberg boycotts Olympic role
US film director Steven Spielberg has withdrawn as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
In a statement, he accused China of not doing enough to pressure its ally Sudan to end the "continuing human suffering" in the troubled western Darfur region.
Sudan, with its vast oil reserves, sells some two-thirds of its oil to Beijing. In turn, Beijing sells weapons to the Sudanese government and has defended Khartoum in the UN Security Council.
US film director Steven Spielberg has withdrawn as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
In a statement, he accused China of not doing enough to pressure its ally Sudan to end the "continuing human suffering" in the troubled western Darfur region.
Sudan, with its vast oil reserves, sells some two-thirds of its oil to Beijing. In turn, Beijing sells weapons to the Sudanese government and has defended Khartoum in the UN Security Council.
Monday, February 11, 2008
SKINFLINT SUCCESS
Scotland becomes toll-road free
Tolls have been officially abolished on the Forth and Tay road bridges after years of campaigning by drivers. The final fee-paying motorists crossed the bridges at midnight before the charges, of £1 on the Forth Bridge and 80p on the Tay Bridge, were lifted.
Tolls have been officially abolished on the Forth and Tay road bridges after years of campaigning by drivers. The final fee-paying motorists crossed the bridges at midnight before the charges, of £1 on the Forth Bridge and 80p on the Tay Bridge, were lifted.
Scrapping of the tolls was a major manifesto commitment by the SNP during the 2007 Scottish elections. Legislation to remove the fee means Scotland now has no chargeable roads.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
WORM HOLES
A User's Guide to Time Travel
When Carl Sagan was writing his 1985 novel Contact, he asked Caltech physicist Kip Thorne how to abbreviate the lengthy flight time required for a trip to a distant star. Thorne suggested a wormhole, a shortcut through space-time that almost certainly exists as a consequence of Einsteinian principles, although one has yet to be detected. A few years later, Thorne suggested that a wormhole's entrances could be positioned in space and time as desired.
Unlike some other time machines, this Thorne-inspired design allows round trips. However, it can't take you back to a time before the machine was built.
When Carl Sagan was writing his 1985 novel Contact, he asked Caltech physicist Kip Thorne how to abbreviate the lengthy flight time required for a trip to a distant star. Thorne suggested a wormhole, a shortcut through space-time that almost certainly exists as a consequence of Einsteinian principles, although one has yet to be detected. A few years later, Thorne suggested that a wormhole's entrances could be positioned in space and time as desired.
Unlike some other time machines, this Thorne-inspired design allows round trips. However, it can't take you back to a time before the machine was built.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
BRAVE NEW WORLD
Evil Empire: U.S. says no one too young for Guantanamo court
Canadian defendant Omar Khadr, who was shot and captured at age 15 in a firefight at a suspected al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan in 2002.
Navy Lt. William Kuebler argued that U.S. and international law assume that children involved in an armed conflict are not there voluntarily, because they lack the experience and judgment to understand the risk of joining armed forces.
Defense attorneys contend that any charges against Khadr should be pursued in a civilian court in a juvenile system where the goal is rehabilitation rather than punishment.
If the U.S. Congress intended to try children as war criminals, it would have explicitly authorized that in the 2006 law that serves as a framework for the Guantanamo court, Kuebler said.
Canadian defendant Omar Khadr, who was shot and captured at age 15 in a firefight at a suspected al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan in 2002.
Navy Lt. William Kuebler argued that U.S. and international law assume that children involved in an armed conflict are not there voluntarily, because they lack the experience and judgment to understand the risk of joining armed forces.
Defense attorneys contend that any charges against Khadr should be pursued in a civilian court in a juvenile system where the goal is rehabilitation rather than punishment.
If the U.S. Congress intended to try children as war criminals, it would have explicitly authorized that in the 2006 law that serves as a framework for the Guantanamo court, Kuebler said.
But a U.S. Department of Justice attorney, arguing for the prosecution, said that if Congress intended to exclude juveniles from the Guantanamo war court, it would have explicitly written that, because lawmakers knew Khadr could face charges
Instead, Congress wrote the law using the term "person," which legally refers to "anyone born alive," Justice Department attorney Andy Oldham said.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
HIGH TIME
Call for US to re-open UFO file
A group of former pilots and government officials has called on the US government to re-open an investigation into claims of UFO sightings.
The group, which includes former military officers from seven countries, all say they have seen a UFO or have conducted research into the phenomenon.
The group say the apparent sightings of hovering orbs, glowing lights and high-speed spacecraft are a national security concern and should no longer be dismissed.
New details on UFO case released
April 1977 and Rosa Granville, who runs the Haven Fort Hotel in Little Haven, was in bed at around 2.30am when she was awoken by strange noise and lights.
Looking out of her window, she described seeing an object which looked like an "upside-down saucer" in the field next to the hotel and two 'faceless humanoid' creatures with pointed heads.
The incident, she said in a subsequent letter she wrote to her MP Nicholas Edwards, left her "agitated and disturbed and not the least bit desirous of another encounter".
"I would be pleased to hear of an explanation, it would greatly help to relieve the sense of shock I feel since my encounter," she added. "There was so much heat - I was by the window - my face felt burned. There was light coming from it and flames of all colours. Then [the creatures] came out of these flames, that's what I don't understand.
When she visited the site of the alleged landing in the morning, she added there were "two inches of burned ground there".
In his report to MoD chiefs, Flt Lt Cowan wrote: "[Mrs Granville] told me that one night in April of this year she saw a round object 'like the moon falling down' land in a field at the back of her property. Two very tall, faceless 'humanoids' got out of this object (about the size of a mini bus) and appeared to 'take measurements or gather things'."
He added finally that, "should a UFO arrive at RAF Brawdy we will charge normal landing fees and inform you immediately".
CLOAK AND DAGGER
Military acts on Texas UFO sighting
Some 50 people claim to have spotted UFOs flying over Stephenville, a town of about 16,000 people in dairy country 110km southwest of Fort Worth.
After two weeks of denials and media focus US military officials finally admitted to having 10 F-16 fighter jets training in the area on January 8 – the night the claims were made, according to Associated Press.
“What we do down there falls under operational procedures that cannot be released because of operations security for our mission,” Major Karl Lewis told the paper.
Witnesses included pilot Steve Allen who earlier told Fox News:
Some 50 people claim to have spotted UFOs flying over Stephenville, a town of about 16,000 people in dairy country 110km southwest of Fort Worth.
After two weeks of denials and media focus US military officials finally admitted to having 10 F-16 fighter jets training in the area on January 8 – the night the claims were made, according to Associated Press.
“What we do down there falls under operational procedures that cannot be released because of operations security for our mission,” Major Karl Lewis told the paper.
Witnesses included pilot Steve Allen who earlier told Fox News:
“Quite a few people saw the UFO itself and then many more people saw the jets come past in pursuit.
“It already came by us and did a little flame-job over Stephenville and disappeared, it came back by. And that's when it had the military craft in pursuit, probably four or five seconds behind."
Another witness James Hughes told Fox: “There was two very large, glowing - I'd call them glowing, burning kind of looking objects, globe-like-looking objects that were just barely moving in the sky and hovering in the sky over my house. And it was pretty startling.”
DEEP SECRETS
Oh, You Mean Those UFOs!'
Fighter jets were training nearby the night dozens of Stephenville-area residents reported seeing a UFO this month, Air Force Reserve officials said Jan. 23, backtracking on earlier statements.
The announcement did little to satisfy residents of Texas dairy country who swear that what they saw in the sky Jan. 8 was no airplane. Some said it even bolstered their claims, because several people reported seeing at least two fighter jets chasing an object.
Fighter jets were training nearby the night dozens of Stephenville-area residents reported seeing a UFO this month, Air Force Reserve officials said Jan. 23, backtracking on earlier statements.
The announcement did little to satisfy residents of Texas dairy country who swear that what they saw in the sky Jan. 8 was no airplane. Some said it even bolstered their claims, because several people reported seeing at least two fighter jets chasing an object.
Monday, February 04, 2008
VOICE OF REASON
David Hicks 'no terrorism supporter', says businessman Dick Smith
"I was going to Adelaide so I rang David and said, `Can I come talk to you because you're looking for a job and I'm happy to help with that but I'd want to get some answers to some questions'," Australian businessman and entrepreneur Dick Smith said.
"I believe he is basically a decent Australian like his father, that we know well, and I don't believe he's ever been a supporter of terrorism.
"I asked him why he was in Afghanistan and it was quite different to what we've heard about ... (it was) all about trying to help independence movements.
Mr Smith said he had changed his view on Mr Hicks earning money from his ordeal.
"I've changed my view completely now because he's said he's never supported terrorism and most journalists I talk to and all lawyers say that the particular plea bargain is just terrible because he would have agreed to anything to get out of there (Guantanamo)."
Mr Hicks is reportedly fielding offers from about 30 media organisations worldwide to tell the story of his capture in Afghanistan and his more than five years in Guantanamo Bay.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
ROSWELL ALIENS
Roswell coverup exposed (again) by deathbed confession
Lieutenant Walter Haut was the public relations officer at the Roswell Airbase in 1947.
Now, following his detah, a sworn affidavit was released which asserts that the weather balloon claim was a cover story and that the real object had been recovered by the military and stored in a hangar.
He described seeing not just a metallic egg-shaped object (around 4m long and 2m wide) but alien bodies. They are described in his statement as about 1.2m tall, with disproportionately large heads.
Haut concludes: "I am convinced that what I personally observed was some kind of craft and its crew from outer space".
Haut's affidavit talks about a high-level meeting he attended with base commander Col William Blanchard and the Commander of the Eighth Army Air Force, General Roger Ramey. Haut states that at this meeting, pieces of wreckage were handed around for participants to touch, with nobody able to identify the material.
Haut also spoke about a clean-up operation, where for months afterwards military personnel scoured both crash sites searching for all remaining pieces of debris, removing them and erasing all signs that anything unusual had occurred.
A US Air Force report concluded claims that bodies were recovered were generated by people having seen crash test dummies that were dropped from the balloons.
Lieutenant Walter Haut was the public relations officer at the Roswell Airbase in 1947.
Now, following his detah, a sworn affidavit was released which asserts that the weather balloon claim was a cover story and that the real object had been recovered by the military and stored in a hangar.
He described seeing not just a metallic egg-shaped object (around 4m long and 2m wide) but alien bodies. They are described in his statement as about 1.2m tall, with disproportionately large heads.
Haut concludes: "I am convinced that what I personally observed was some kind of craft and its crew from outer space".
Haut's affidavit talks about a high-level meeting he attended with base commander Col William Blanchard and the Commander of the Eighth Army Air Force, General Roger Ramey. Haut states that at this meeting, pieces of wreckage were handed around for participants to touch, with nobody able to identify the material.
Haut also spoke about a clean-up operation, where for months afterwards military personnel scoured both crash sites searching for all remaining pieces of debris, removing them and erasing all signs that anything unusual had occurred.
A US Air Force report concluded claims that bodies were recovered were generated by people having seen crash test dummies that were dropped from the balloons.
WEIRD SCIENCE
Could Our Universe Be A Virtual Reality
A professor in Auckland, New Zealand, published a paper in December that seriously raises the question: could we be in a virtual reality world and universe where the “computer” behind-the-scenes has a processing speed of 186,282.397 miles per second - the maximum speed of light? The professor is Brian Whitworth, Ph.D., in Information Systems and now Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Information and Mathematical Sciences at Massey University in Auckland.
"People assume that objective reality is a proven theory, but it is not. It’s an axiom just as unproven as virtual reality theory.
"So from a scientific perspective, neither objective reality nor virtual reality is proven. And what is happening is that modern physics with things like time dilation and space contraction, teleportation, multi-existence and so on, seem actually more supportive of a virtual reality universe than an objective reality one."
In his paper, Brian Whitworth, Ph.D. Information Systems (Massey University, Auckland NZ), quotes from a 2005 book entitled, The World’s 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems edited by John Vacca:
“Quantum physicists who work with quantum theory every day don’t really know quite what to make of it. They fill blackboards with quantum calculations and acknowledge that it is probably the most powerful, accurate and predictive scientific theory ever developed, but the very suggestion that it might be literally true as a description of Nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension and even anger.”
A professor in Auckland, New Zealand, published a paper in December that seriously raises the question: could we be in a virtual reality world and universe where the “computer” behind-the-scenes has a processing speed of 186,282.397 miles per second - the maximum speed of light? The professor is Brian Whitworth, Ph.D., in Information Systems and now Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Information and Mathematical Sciences at Massey University in Auckland.
"People assume that objective reality is a proven theory, but it is not. It’s an axiom just as unproven as virtual reality theory.
"So from a scientific perspective, neither objective reality nor virtual reality is proven. And what is happening is that modern physics with things like time dilation and space contraction, teleportation, multi-existence and so on, seem actually more supportive of a virtual reality universe than an objective reality one."
In his paper, Brian Whitworth, Ph.D. Information Systems (Massey University, Auckland NZ), quotes from a 2005 book entitled, The World’s 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems edited by John Vacca:
“Quantum physicists who work with quantum theory every day don’t really know quite what to make of it. They fill blackboards with quantum calculations and acknowledge that it is probably the most powerful, accurate and predictive scientific theory ever developed, but the very suggestion that it might be literally true as a description of Nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension and even anger.”
Friday, February 01, 2008
CLOAK AND DAGGER
ASIO officer denies Habib beating claims
Today an ASIO officer, using the pseudonym Paul Stokes, told the court he interviewed Mr Habib in Islamabad three times, twice in the company of a federal police officer and two US officials.He says Mr Habib required help to walk at one of the meetings, but says he did not believe then, and does not believe now, that he was beaten by Pakistani officials.
Today an ASIO officer, using the pseudonym Paul Stokes, told the court he interviewed Mr Habib in Islamabad three times, twice in the company of a federal police officer and two US officials.He says Mr Habib required help to walk at one of the meetings, but says he did not believe then, and does not believe now, that he was beaten by Pakistani officials.
VOICE OF REASON
Rudd shuts down Keelty on media gags
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the Federal Government does not support Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty's call for a media blackout in terrorism cases.
Earlier this week Mr Keelty said he believed the media should be prevented from reporting on terrorism cases until all judicial avenues have been exhausted.
But Mr Rudd has told Fairfax radio that while he has full confidence in the Commissioner, the Government will not be acting on the call.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the Federal Government does not support Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty's call for a media blackout in terrorism cases.
Earlier this week Mr Keelty said he believed the media should be prevented from reporting on terrorism cases until all judicial avenues have been exhausted.
But Mr Rudd has told Fairfax radio that while he has full confidence in the Commissioner, the Government will not be acting on the call.
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