UFOs - Jaime Maussan
Some of the best UFO footage I've ever seen was shot south of the border in Mexico, presented here from what looks like a presentation at a ufo conference. I'm fairly impressed with the UFO footage, but like everything in the UFO world, take this with a grain of salt and make your own determination. There's a lot of material on here.
Organize, strategize, look forward!
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Vote For Kerry!
Unless you like voter suppression, intimidation, government secrecy and corporate enslavement. If you think Democracy's goose is cooked and we're better off in the Orwell model, then vote Bush. Otherwise, I think our only chance to continue being the country we're world famous for being is to elect Kerry. Good luck to all of us!
Top 25 Censored Stories of 2003
It was a very tough contest this year, with the leash on the media growing ever tighter, and identities and corporate parents ever murkier. But the reliable folks at Project Censored have done it again. I will list the bottom 5 (what they lack in rank they more than make up for in potency), but by any means necessary you should check out the full list in all its glory at Project Censored. So, without further ado, here are the bottom five most media censored stories of the year!
#20: Pentagon Increases Private Military Contracts
#21: Third World Austerity Policies: Coming Soon to a City Near You
#22: Welfare Reform Up For Reauthorization, but Still No Safety Net
#23: Argentina Crisis Sparks Cooperative Growth
#24: Aid to Israel Fuels Repressive Occupation in Palestine
#25: Convicted Corporations Receive Perks Instead of Punishment
UFO Conventions Can Be Fun
The last time I went to a UFO convention was many, many years ago (I wrote about it here and even managed to interview a Russian UFO expert here), but now the denizens of Southern California have another chance to check in with the world of legit and not so legit ufology when the National UFO Conferference descends on the Beverly Garland Hotel in North Hollywood (home of the monthly ex-celeb autograph show) September 6th and 7th, 2003. I'll be there. Will you? Thanks to Saucer Smear.As a resident of the state of California, I will be casting a vote against the Governator. It does appear to send a bizarre message when an action hero most famous for "terminating" good and bad guys alike is believed to be the last best chance for this state to get its act together. Are we going to be staging some kind of mini invasion of Tijuana for their reserve of Maquilladora pollutants?
MAY UFO FLAP
There's something great about UFO stories making it into mainstream news sources, although I suspect this one only registered due to the amusing town name and anomalous sighting type. In any event, it sounds like quite an adventure was had in "Booger Bottom," Georgia...Spooky UFO Encounter In Rural Georgia
UFO investigators are checking out what may someday be called the Mystery at Booger Bottom. That's the unlikely name of a town in Georgia where there was a close encounter of the second kind.
Read the rest here.
WHAT IS THERE TO SAY, REALLY
... well? I don't have a clue. Other than, I am wondering who fills out all these polls since I don't know a single person who thinks of our invasion of Iraq as anything but an oil grab. John Le Carre had it right when he pointed out that Dubya & Co.'s insertion of Hussein into America's ire at Bin Laden is truly a bait and switch for the history books. In the meantime, a) plutonium bunker busters are a very bad idea, and b) anyone had any good ufo sightings lately? Where are the makers of Alien Autopsy when you need them. See? I've lost it.
SSSS (SAME STAR WARS SH*T) DD
Gee, think the research behind this black budget op mighta been falsified? MIT does. Seriously, I don't like paying taxes any more than Pappy Bush does, but I pay them gladly knowing that at least some of the chedda goes to important stuff like education (OK, a small fraction). What kills me is that the majority of it goes to bloated defense contract black budget payola crap like what this could turn out to be. Thanks to Drudge, here's the Times Online story about it:
World News
January 03, 2003
Physicist blows whistle on US missile defence
THE credibility of President Bush�s multibillion-dollar missile defence plans are being questioned by leading scientists after claims that the results of key tests were falsified.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is considering an investigation into accusations that fundamental flaws in the proposed �Son of Star Wars� system have been covered up.
The criticism is led by Theodore Postol, a physicist and missile defence critic at MIT, who has said that the institute is sitting on what is potentially �the most serious fraud that we�ve seen at a great American university�.
After months of demanding an inquiry into the affair, Ed Crawley, the chairman of MIT�s aeronautics and astronautics department, has reversed previous refusals and recommended an investigation.
The issue in question goes to the heart of missile defence technology, an article of faith among right-wing Republicans and a key plank in Mr Bush�s 2000 presidential manifesto. The United States unilaterally withdrew last year from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia in order to pursue the controversial proposed system, which is designed to intercept enemy warheads in flight, a feat likened to hitting a bullet with a bullet.
Dr Postol and fellow critics say the ability of an interceptor missile to distinguish between an incoming warhead and the decoys likely to accompany it is deeply suspect. Any such doubts would cripple the credibility of the system.
Such questions date back to mid-1997 when the military contractor TWR Inc was accused by one of its employees, Nira Schwartz, of faking test results on a prototype anti-missile sensor meant to tell hostile warheads from decoys.
The company and its system was given the all-clear by the Lincoln Laboratory, a federally funded research centre at MIT. But subsequently the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, accused TWR of exaggerating the sensors� performance, saying its conclusions had been �highly misleading�.
Dr Postol has written to 20 members of Congress saying that MIT�s reluctance to investigate the role of its own research centre �may indicate an attempt to conceal evidence of criminal violations�.
Critics say that MIT�s independence is compromised by its interest in maintaining hundreds of millions of dollars in annual government contracts.
The missile defence system, the first steps of which Mr Bush announced in December with the aim of having ten missile interceptors in Alaska by 2004, is being built by Raytheon, which beat TWR to the contract. But Dr Postol said the TWR test, which offers a rare glimpse into the highly secretive world of missile testing and is based on the same infra-red technology used by Raytheon, suggests some flaws that challenge the overall feasibility of the entire project.
Dr Postol, a persistent missile defence critic who is accusing MIT of a �serious case of scientific fraud�, cannot be lightly dismissed. After the Gulf War he challenged the Pentagon�s claims for the success of its defensive Patriot missiles, saying they had intercepted few if any Iraqi Scuds. Despite initial ridicule, his assertion is now accepted.
Since 1999 three of the eight tests of �hit to kill� interceptors have failed. Critics say that wrapping a nuclear warhead in radar-absorbing rubber foam or releasing thousands of small pieces of metal would be enough to fool an interceptor.
Separately the State Department yesterday charged two US aerospace companies with illegally supplying China with satellite and rocket technology that could be used for intercontinental missiles.
Hughes Electronics Corp and its parent company, Boeing Satellite Systems, stand accused of 123 arms control violations by helping China with technical data after failed rocket launches in 1995 and 1996. Hughes said that it had done nothing wrong.
From Roland Watson in Washington
Not sure if this means anything but...
The Brits have always seemed more open in terms of official UFO files anyway, but now, according to the latest reports, they're going to release a bevy of new files, encompassing, among other things, the Rendelsham Forest incident. I'm printing the Reuters story in toto, keeping in mind that it's copywrited to Reuters and came from here. But, since I've been doing this so long, those who have stumbled on this site may have noticed the profusion of dead links, and I didn't want this to be yet another one. Well, enough of my yakkin', here's the story:
Until now, only about 20 members of the public have seen the file, which relates to a sighting in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, eastern England, in 1980.
According to some UFO enthusiasts, eyewitnesses including U.S. officers at a nearby military base saw a brilliantly lit spaceship land in the forest on two consecutive nights.
Skeptics say the witnesses were fooled by the beam from a lighthouse on the nearby coast.
The Rendlesham file has been available to the public for some time but only at the discretion of the Ministry of Defense.
Now, the government says it will publish it on the Internet before the end of this week, along with other files on reported UFO sightings.
"These first steps mark important progress toward changing the culture of government and extending the public's right to know what is being done in their name," Freedom of Information Minister Yvette Cooper said in a statement.
The government says it intends to repeal or amend up to 100 pieces of legislation which currently prohibit disclosure of information. It aims to replace them with provisions of a new Freedom of Information Act, passed in 2000.
Britain to Publish Files on UFO Sightings
Thu November 28, 2002 10:59 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government will publish files on reported UFO sightings as part of a shake-up of its laws on freedom of information.
Among the documents to be published is the "Rendlesham File," which deals with one of the country's best known sightings of an unidentified flying object.
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