‘Not just a spud, this is likely to prove a very hot political potato indeed. It is living, knobbly proof of the determination of Brussels bureaucrats to spread GM crops throughout Europe, against the will of most of its people.
In a little-noticed move last week, the European Commission defied most of the governments to which it is supposed to answer to give the green light to growing a modified potato across the continent. It was the first time a GM crop had been authorised for cultivation in 13 years. But, now the long moratorium has been broken, similar approvals for others are expected rapidly to follow.
The decision has its origins in a couple of secret, top-level meetings called by Jose Manuel Barroso, the Commission’s strongly pro-GM president. He invited the prime ministers of each of the 27 EU member states to send a personal representative along to discuss how to “speed up” the spread of the technology and “deal with” public opposition.’
‘In 1991, while monitoring a space shuttle mission, in the secret Mission Control Center, at the Kennedy Space Center, I was flabbergasted to observe an entity that was eight to nine feet in height in the open Space Shuttle Pay Load Bay while it was in earth orbit.
The entity was very tall, much taller than the two NASA astronauts floating near it. I could estimate the height due to being familiar with the sizes of the interior of the Pay Load Bay of the shuttle. I was not able to view all facial features, other than thinking I recognized two eyes, a nose and since it had a large helmet on, nothing else was evident.
It was in a body tight type uniform space suit. I saw it at a distance on a 27 inch TV monitor. It appeared that the NASA astronauts were familiar with the entity. The entity appeared to be communicating with the two NASA astronauts. There was some NASA commentary, from the Houston Space Center, but there was no mention of the entity. Following a few statements, the audio discontinued, and I cannot recall if I heard any other comments.’
‘A doctor accused of faking research for a dozen years in published studies that suggested after-surgery benefits from painkillers including Vioxx and Celebrex pleaded guilty Monday to one count of federal health care fraud.
An attorney for Dr. Scott Reuben said the anesthesiologist will have to repay $361,932 in research grants and forfeit assets worth at least $50,000 as penalty for his conduct following a plea hearing in U.S. District Court.
Prosecutors alleged the former chief of acute pain at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield sought and received research grants from pharmaceutical companies but never performed the studies. They said he fabricated patient data and submitted information to anesthesiology journals that unwittingly published it.’
‘House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank caused a bit of an uproar Friday when he suggested the U.S. government does not guarantee the debts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Rep. Frank later recanted and backed a Treasury Department statement reassuring investors that, yes, Fannie and Freddie Mae debt is guaranteed by the U.S. government. “Going forward,” he said in a statement, we “will make sure that there are no implicit guarantees, hints, suggestions, or winks and nods…we will be explicit about what is and is not an obligation of the federal government.”
But after years of winks and nods, there’s no doubt that Fannie and Freddie now enjoy an explicit guarantee, according to most observers. The U.S. government placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in conservatorship in September 2008: “This means that the U.S. Taxpayer now stands behind $5 trillion of GSE debt,” according to the Congressional Research Service.’
‘Madrid has warned that, if continued at the current rate, the Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian lands would bring about the annexation of the entire occupied territories.
Spain’s Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos cautioned that the advancement would claim the entire Palestinian territories in the West Bank, should the current rate of acquisition survive for another two years, AFP reported on Saturday.
“Until now, it’s not too late, but if we wait for more than two years it will be too late,” he said.’
VATICAN CITY —Germany’s sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese acknowledged it transferred a suspected pedophile priest while Benedict was in charge and criticism is mounting over a 2001 Vatican directive he penned instructing bishops to keep abuse cases secret.
The revelations have put the spotlight on Benedict’s handling of abuse claims both when he was archbishop of Munich from 1977–1982 and then the prefect of the Vatican office that deals with such crimes — a position he held until his 2005 election as pope.
Benedict got a firsthand readout of the scope of the scandal Friday in his native land from the head of the German Bishop’s Conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, who reported that the pontiff had expressed “great dismay and deep shock” over the scandal, but encouraged bishops to continue searching for the truth.
Hours later, the Munich archdiocese admitted that it had allowed a priest suspected of having abused a child to return to pastoral work in the 1980s, while Benedict was archbishop. It stressed that the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger didn’t know about the transfer and that it had been decided by a lower-ranking official.
In a giant auction, the federal government has agreed to sell for pennies on the dollar most of the 120,000 formaldehyde-tainted trailers it bought nearly five years ago for Hurricane Katrina victims. But the sale of the units, perhaps the most visible symbol of the government’s bungled response to the hurricane, has triggered a new round of charges that it is endangering future buyers for years to come.
Consumer advocates and environmentalists are outraged that the government resold products it deemed unsafe to live in, saying warning stickers attached to the units will not keep people from misusing them.
Besides formaldehyde, units might be plagued by mold, mildew and propane gas leaks, FEMA acknowledged.
“Proceed with caution, extreme caution, if you are tempted to respond to what appears to be an attractive offer for a travel trailer or manufactured home,” Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel wrote in a consumer alert. He and others cautioned that the FEMA units could be resold many times, including over the Internet, and that unscrupulous sellers could remove warning labels or withhold information about the dangers.
NOTE: I received this interesting account from a new reader, Shelley:
Hi Lon, I’m new to this site but have found it not only fascinating but educational, so I decided to find out if anyone on the site has had a similar incident(s).
As I was growing up there was a joke in my family that I was adopted as it seemed as if I had nothing in common with the rest of them. It was all said in fun and jest, but to be honest, I felt like an outsider in a multitude of ways and that I just didn’t belong here: meaning as on this planet. Silly, I know but true none-the-less.
From a young age I knew I had a specific mission in life and was continually fascinated by all things having to do with Egypt and Greece. Specifically, the gods and goddesses and their religions. When I was a young child I remember pulling out Time Life books dedicated solely to Egypt and Greece, pouring over their contents and even today, one of my fondest dreams is to someday visit Egypt and its pyramids.
When I was 7 years old I had several experiences which I cannot explain. One of which was getting out of bed in the middle of the night to go look for my parents. Looking back now, I can’t help but wonder why a 7 year old would get out of bed and go outside in the dead of night looking for their parents. I have no recollection of returning to my bed, but woke up confused and disoriented and wondering how I ended up sleeping at the opposite end of my bed. I was very sick for days afterward and do not remember much other than I got an ear infection which bled and since then I have had problems with that ear. Another time I woke up with little monsters around my bed and I took them downstairs with me and for some odd reason opened up the freezer and offered them frozen french fries. In the morning I told my mom what I dreamed about the monsters under the bed and the whole french fry story. It could very well have been a dream. The third time I awoke to my bed shaking and shuddering. I do not remember leaving the room but I was in my parents room trying to wake my mom who told me it was just a dream.
When I was about 13 or 14 years old I was sleeping in the top bunk of a bunk bed. My twin sister shared the room with me and slept on the bottom. I woke up for some reason and then I heard something that sounded like a person pounding down the attic stairs. The attic door was directly opposite my bed. It was thunderous! Then all of a sudden the attic door slammed open and hit the wall. I was completely awake now. Before that I think I was in between sleeping and being awake, kind of what I like to call twilight. My heart was beating wildly and I was breathing rapidly, I was petrified. All I could think was that if I stay here they’ll get me, and if I move they’ll get me! Then, I became aware that I was standing beside my parents bed trying to wake my mother to tell her what had happened. She told me I dreamed it (I sure do dream a lot of odd stuff, don’t I) but the next day when I looked there was a hole in the wall from where the door knob had crashed against it. The other strange thing was that I accounted for the fact that my twin sister wasn’t in the room (at least I assume she wasn’t because she didn’t wake up) by saying to myself that she was at work. My sister did not get a job until she was 15 and it certainly did not go late into the night! At the time it seemed a perfectly logical solution to her absence and I didn’t question it or her.
There were several other incidents that occurred and some included my siblings as well. My brother woke up screaming (he was 16 years old and roused the entire household) that there was something in his room. Again, my memories on these things are hazy as it seems as if I can only recall bits and pieces while others elude me all together. I once woke up to find something moving around in my room (I was 17 or 18) I called out, thinking it was my brother looking for his pants. Where I got that notion is a mystery, it wasn’t even his room anymore and he didn’t live at home. I then fell asleep which is odd as I was really frightened and frightened people don’t normally just go back to sleep. Again, I didn’t question it until many years later.
Let me go back a bit, I was raised Catholic and for many years I wanted to become a nun and serve God in whatever capacity I could. It was a goal I aspired to right up until my 18th or 19th birthday. I took a year or two off as a break so to speak because there was much about the Catholic religion that did not appeal to me. For instance: I did not believe in hell, I did not believe in a God who would torture, kill or have others do those things to his children (mankind); I believed in a benevolent, loving God. I strongly opposed confession as I felt that priests were ordinary men in robes and had no special power to offer me absolution and that I could go to God in prayer with the knowledge that He would forgive my sins if I was truly contrite. I also abhorred the fact that money seemed to be the main aim and that they had lots of it. The children of God were starving and they walked around trying to fill their coffers with more and lived in luxury while doing so. Then, of course, there was the idea that to me, Jesus was a very enlightened man and teacher of the people but not the ONLY son of God. I believed that we all had the ability to become a ‘Master’ and that we are all sparks of the divine being and as such are as god-like as Jesus if only we would put in a concerted effort. A philosophy Jesus appeared to have encouraged when he said, “All these things I do you too can do… and more.” I believed Mary, Jesus’ mother, had other children as well. As you can see I wouldn’t have made it very far in my studies for becoming a nun, so I gladly gave up on the idea.
In my early to mid 20’s I discovered the New Age movement. Much of it followed many of my already established beliefs: reincarnation, a higher being that all men worshiped but called by different names, the search for Oneness, Unity and Identity. I became very interested in the phenomenon known as astral projection (OBE) and remote viewing. I found them utterly fascinating. I decided I would work on trying to consciously astral project but I told no one because I didn’t want them to think I was some crazy nutball. It was around then that I picked up the book ‘Communion’ by Whitley Strieber. I found the cover of the book interesting, it drew me in. I bought it, took it home and started reading it. It scared the bejesus out of me! Part of the reason it did was because I could relate to some of his experiences. I found myself looking in shadowed corners, checking the closets before going to bed and sleeping with the lights on. I was living out on my own and by myself at this time and I’m normally not a weenie about it, I like my solitude but I was really frightened and one could say almost paranoid.
I began to have vivid dreams of looking out the back kitchen window of my parents house and then walking outside and seeing an object come down from the sky. I had numerous dreams of a similar nature. Always I was drawn outside sometimes during the day and sometimes at night. There was one dream where I was living in the house I do now, I walked out the back and into the back yard. I have a large yard with a wooded area and trees off to the side. I looked in the sky and above the tree line was this massive orb and I wondered how in the world the sun was out at night?! The entire area was lit up. I could see other people in the yard with me. Some I knew but most I didn’t. I heard someone say, “We better get ready. They’re coming.”
Back to astral projection. I apologize for digressing so often but it just feels so good to get this out. I used a subliminal message tape to help me master the art of astral projection. The first time I consciously managed to leave my body it didn’t register. I sat up in bed, put my legs over the side and sat up and thought, why am I awake? I looked over and saw my body lying there and got scared and was immediately pulled back to my body. I was above myself literally nose to nose. Then, I turned and lowered into my physical body. It took some time of walking through walls and waking down roads to reach my destination (parents house, brother and friends houses) before it hit me that all I had to do was think about where I wanted to go and I’d be there instantaneously. That was fun! I went all over the place, it was quite the adventure. Then, other things started to happen.
I was sleeping at my parents house. I have a younger sister who I am very close too. She is 17 years younger than me and we would often spend the night together. She would come to my house to stay or I would go to my parents to stay. My sister was about 11 or 12 years old at the time. She was sleeping in her bed and I was sleeping on a mattress on the floor. Coincidentally this was the same room where my brother had screamed and ran from and where I thought I’d seen someone moving around in the dark. Anyway, I became aware that I was no longer asleep. And when I say that, I mean my body was still slumbering but I was completely aware of my surroundings. It was a prelude to astral projection. While in this state I can see all directions in the room without moving my head. It’s like you have eyes everywhere at once, the perspective is totally alien to our so-called every day, normal living. There are no limitations while in this state, none that I have found so far at least. I was excited and was thinking about where I wanted to go when I realized I was no longer alone. A huge, black mass was standing in the bedroom doorway. It was amazingly tall taking up the entire space from top to bottom of the doorway although it did not fill the entire space horizontally. It came across as menacing and I felt quite threatened. Nothing like this had ever happened while astrally projecting before. Suddenly, he rushed toward the mattress on the floor and was looming over me and bending down. I sat straight up screaming. My sister woke up and asked me what was wrong and apparently my reply was, “Nothing, it was just a bug.” I don’t remember that. When she told me what I’d said the next morning I was flummoxed. I remember being frightened out of my wits, sitting up and screaming and then calmly lying back down and going back to sleep. Now tell me, who does that?
The next incident happened while at my house. My sister was sleeping over and was sharing my bed with me. It was early morning when I woke up. I couldn’t get back to sleep because she was smack up against me and I was on the edge of the bed. I decided to go downstairs and sleep on the couch. It wasn’t long before I heard the familiar rushing/roaring sound in my ears that indicated that astral projection was imminent. Again, I could see all angles of the room and standing next to the couch were three short figures dressed in brown monk-like attire complete with rope wrapped around their waists and cowls which covered their heads and faces. I decided I didn’t want to astral project anymore but one of the monk-like figures lifted his arm and pointed it at me and I could feel myself being pulled out of my body through the top of my head. I did not like this and started to pull back. In essence, we began a game of tug of war. In my mind I shouted, “I don’t want to go.” He lowered his arm and telepathically answered back, “We don’t make anyone do anything that they are not ready to do.” They let go and I pulled myself back in my body and sat up and looked around, but they were gone.
In hindsight I kick myself for not just going with them. I wonder what I would have seen, what they would have shown me and most of all I wonder if it might not have been something that could have been used to make this place a better place to live in. So, I was just wondering if anyone out there has seen or experienced what I’m talking about.
Despite medical marijuana being legal in Michigan, WalMart has fired a cancer patient and former employee of the year who tested positive for the drug, which was recommended by his doctor.
“I was terminated because I failed a drug screening,” ex-WalMart employee Joseph Casias told WZZM-13.
In 2008, Casias was Associate of the Year at the WalMart store in Battle Creek, Mich., despite suffering from sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor. At his doctor’s recommendation, Casias legally uses medical marijuana to ease his pain.
“It helps tremendously,” Casias said. “I only use it to stop the pain. To make me feel more comfortable and active as a person.”
Casias said he went to work every day during his five years at WalMart. “I gave them everything,” he said. “One hundred and ten percent every day. Anything they asked me to do, I did. More than they asked me to do. Twelve to 14 hours a day.”
Then Casias sprained his knee at work last November. During the routine drug screening that follows all workplace injuries, marijuana was detected in his system. Casias showed WalMart managers his Michigan medical marijuana card, but was fired anyway.
On the night of October 10, 1973, fifteen different people witnessed a UFO over a housing project in St. Tammany Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana. Two of the witnesses were policeman. This sighting was only the beginning of what was to occur the next night on the nearby Pascagoula River. Two fishermen, nineteen-year-old Calvin Parker, and forty-two-year-old Charles Hickson were about to have an experience that would forever change their lives.
Parker and Hickson were good friends, and often fished together. They were both living in the town of Gautier, Mississippi. On one particular night, they were fishing the waters of the Pascagoula River, when suddenly they heard a strange buzzing sound. The two men immediately turned to see what the source of the strange noise was. They were shocked to see an egg-shaped object with bluish front lighting. The object was only a few feet above the water, and about ten yards from the two frightened fishermen.
While they sat stunned, a door opened in the UFO and three beings of unknown origin began to float toward the two. The beings did have legs, but did not use them. They literally floated across the water toward Hickson and Parker. The two fishermen would later attempt to describe what the beings looked like, saying “…about five feet tall, had bullet-shaped heads without necks, slits for mouths, and where their noses or ears would be, they had thin, conical objects sticking out, like carrots from a snowman’s head.”
Hickson sat frozen on the river bank. Suddenly, two of the odd-looking beings grabbed him, while the third being snatched Parker, who immediately fainted from fear. The beings supported Hickson by literally holding up his body. As they did, he felt numbness over his entire body. By some power he could not see, he floated into the bowels of the object to a brightly-lit room. The room had no gravity. He floated while a strange eye-like device moved over his entire body as if it was scanning him.
After the eye-like device was finished with Hickson, he was left floating in the room alone. The beings had probably left to examine Parker. Approximately 20 minutes after the ordeal had begun, it was over. Hickson was now floated back out of the craft. Back on the river bank, he could see Parker, who was crying and praying on the ground. Shortly, the strange flying object rose straight into the night sky, and flew away.
After collecting their senses and strength, they began to talk about what action they should take. At first they were afraid to report their experience, but they felt obligated to tell someone. What if these beings were taking other people in the area? Fighting fears of public ridicule, they called Kessler Air Force Base in Biloxi. They were instructed to report their incident to the local sheriff’s department.
Sheriff Fred Diamond thought their story was a hoax or trick. Trying to get to the bottom of their account, the two fishermen were placed in a room wired for sound. It was thought that they would discuss the joke between themselves, and their story would be found out. Instead, they continued to talk about the incident and seemed terribly distressed. Soon law enforcement personnel knew that something had certainly frightened Hickson and Parker, and that this was no joke.
Very quickly, details of the alleged abduction began to leak out to the public. First, the account of the incident was published in local newspapers, soon followed by the wire services. In a matter of a couple of days, the Pascagoula, Mississippi, abduction was a big news item over the entire United States. Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) sent University of California professor James Harder to investigate the story. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who represented the U.S. Air Force also would research the case.
Harder and Hynek did a lot of the investigative work together. The two well-known researchers first interviewed the two fishermen together. Harder tried to do regressive hypnosis on Hickson, but the abductee was so frightened, that the hypnosis was stopped. To get things off on solid ground, both of the witnesses took polygraph tests, and both passed without a problem. Harder and Hynek both believed that the two tormented men were telling the truth.
Esteemed UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek would proclaim that “… there was definitely something here that was not terrestrial.”
Even after thirty-plus years, both Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson still testify to the same story, and have never wavered in their account of what happened that October night on the Pascagoula River.
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THE ‘SECRET TAPE’
Sheriff Fred Diamond interviewed the men, who related their story. After repeated questioning, Diamond left the two men alone in a room that was, unknown to Hickson or Parker, rigged with a hidden microphone.
Sheriff Diamond assumed that if they were lying, that fact would become immediately apparent when the two spoke privately. Instead, they continued to talk about the incident and seemed terribly distressed. This so-called “secret tape” was held on file at the Jackson County Sheriff’s department, and has since earned wider circulation amongst UFO researchers and enthusiasts. Parker, who seemed particularly shaken, spoke repeatedly of his wish to see a doctor. A partial transcript of their interrogation and of the “secret tape” is available; immediately below is part of the conversation on the “secret tape”, as transcribed by NICAP:
CALVIN: I got to get home and get to bed or get some nerve pills or see the doctor or something. I can’t stand it. I’m about to go half crazy.
CHARLIE: I tell you, when we through, I’ll get you something to settle you down so you can get some damn sleep.
CALVIN: I can’t sleep yet like it is. I’m just damn near crazy.
CHARLIE: Well, Calvin, when they brought you out-when they brought me out of that thing, goddamn it I like to never in hell got you straightened out.
His voice rising, Calvin said, “My damn arms, my arms, I remember they just froze up and I couldn’t move. Just like I stepped on a damn rattlesnake.” [sic]
“They didn’t do me that way”, sighed Charlie.
Now both men were talking as if to themselves.
CALVIN: I passed out. I expect I never passed out in my whole life.
CHARLIE: I’ve never seen nothin’ like that before in my life. You can’t make people believe-
CALVIN: I don’t want to keep sittin’ here. I want to see a doctor-
CHARLIE: They better wake up and start believin’… they better start believin’.
CALVIN: You see how that damn door come right up?
CHARLIE: I don’t know how it opened, son. I don’t know.
CALVIN: It just laid up and just like that those son’ bitches-just like that they come out.
CHARLIE: I know. You can’t believe it. You can’t make people believe it-
CALVIN: I paralyzed right then. I couldn’t move-
CHARLIE: They won’t believe it. They gonna believe it one of these days. Might be too late. I knew all along they was people from other worlds up there. I knew all along. I never thought it would happen to me.
CALVIN: You know yourself I don’t drink
CHARLIE: I know that, son. When I get to the house I’m gonna get me another drink, make me sleep. Look, what we sittin’ around for. I gotta go tell Blanche… what we waitin’ for?
CALVIN (panicky): I gotta go to the house. I’m gettin’ sick. I gotta get out of here.
Then Charlie got up and left the room, and Calvin was alone.
CALVIN: It’s hard to believe . . . Oh God, it’s awful… I know there’s a God up there…
Seeing that the police were skeptical of their story, Hickson and Parker insisted that they take lie detector tests to prove their honesty.
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From 2/28/08
Mississippi Man Recalls 1973 Alien Abduction
wlox – Flying saucers and aliens abductions sound bizarre to some people in South Mississippi, but 76-year-old Charles Hickson of Gautier claims he actually lived that nightmare.
“I was terribly frightened,” Hickson told WLOX News.
Late one October night in 1973, Charles Hickson decided to go fishing on the Pascagoula River with his buddy, 19-year-old Calvin Parker. But something happened that night that would change their lives forever.
“It look to me like air, or steam, or something escaping from a pipe,” Hickson said.
A piercing sound made Hickson and Parker stop what they were doing. That’s when Hickson says he spotted a large UFO hovering behind them.
“It was some kind of craft, it was probably 30 or 40 feet. There were three things, they weren’t human beings. I know now they were robots. ”
The sight of the aliens is burned into Hickson’s memory.
“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 says 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 turn me around and carried me right back out where they pick me up.”
The Hickson says, within the blink of an eye, it was all over. The UFO was gone, and the men were left wondering what happened.
“I thought it might be a threat to the country, some type of threat to the country. We talked it over again, and decided we would go the sheriff’s department,” Hickson said.
After the mysterious abduction, Hickson and Parker both passed lie detector tests and were even questioned under hypnosis. Investigators are on record saying the pair’s story never wavered.
“I am not trying to force anybody to believe anything. I just simply tell them what happen to Calvin and me, and they make up their own minds if they want to believe it or not.”
Now, 35 years later, Hickson says he still can’t get the ordeal out of his mind.
“They’re just simply unidentified flying objects that come from other worlds out there, and those worlds are, [pause] I have no idea. ”
Hickson and Parker’s alleged abduction played a crucial role in the creation of the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle. The center is a centralized place for people to call and report strange and mysterious things they see.
inexplicata – Ana Luisa Cid presents a new development in the Mexican State of Hidalgo that is likely unrelated to the “Hidalgo Crash” of February 2010, but it no less compelling. Some readers may remember that the 1948 Paricutín Volcano first manifested itself as three holes in the ground, discovered by a peasant as he tilled the fields:
Source: Ana Luisa Cid and Bisemanario Ruta
Date: 9 March 2010
Hidalgo, Mexico: Air Being Expelled from Holes in the Ground
Locals reported the phenomenon to the authorities, who in turn advised journalist Fernando Pérez of the NQ News Broadcast. The air is cold and is expelled with great force.
Residents of the Achatempa District, attached to the community of Santa Ana Hueytlalpan, advised the Fire and Civil Protection Department (PC) that three holes — from which cold air is expelled with considerable pressure — were found on their arable land.
Elements of the brigade reported promptly to the scene of the events and cordoned it off under the supervision of the first deputy inspector, Jesus Garcia Avila, who explained that after confirming the report, the Servicio Geologico Mexicano (Mexican Geological Service, SGM) was advised to send personnel to determine the cause of this air flow.
According to the answer received from the SGM, a team of specialists will reach the site today (Tuesday, 03.10.10) to make the corresponding investigation.
Alicia Rodriguez, deputy delegate of the community, led reporters from Bisemanario Ruta to the site where the three holes are located. She pointed out that while they are located on cultivated land, it is a trail used by those who live nearby. She explained that Mrs. Fortuna Romero became aware of the phenomenon on January 23rd, but just as she was getting ready to report it, the holes stopped producing air and it wasn’t until yesterday that exhalations were reported.
Elderly residents of Achatempa recall that approximately 27 years ago, a water well was dug in one of the highest areas of the community in the hopes of supplying the surrounding region. However, the well only functioned for half a year and then began to expel air.
Alicia Rodriguez mentioned that the phenomenon caused such a sensation that over 70 people had come to the site from Tulancingo, Metepec and Agua Blanca. She advised that local residents shall be alert to the progress of the investigations and expert inquiries for the community’s own peace of mind.
An interview with Fernando Pérez – Journalist and Producer of the NQ Broadcast
“We found out because some elements of Public Safety were kind enough to advise us of the discovery. Commander Raul Vega told me that in a community of Tulancingo known as Santa Ana Hueytlalpan, there were some holes in the ground that were releasing cold air. We went there and detected the phenomenon. In my opinion, this is not related to the February phenomenon, involving the alleged crash of an object or meteorite on the border between Hidalgo and Puebla.
“I’m inclined toward the possibility that the air is entering through a cave and emerging through the holes, as there are some caves in the area. Of course, the explanation will be provided by experts, especially since the Mexican Geological Service has been advised.
“The air is cold and comes out with some force, as though propelled by a fan. Sometimes there is noise. I recorded it with my cellphone and played it on my newscast. The phenomenon is very intriguing. I’d never heard of such a thing.”
Comment by Ana Luisa Cid: While this news item appears to be foreign to the main subject of this blog, I think its important to make it known. What is going on in Hidalgo? Is it true that there is no link to the explosion heard last month? Many thanks to Lic. Fernando Pérez Rodríguez for his attention and courtesy in allowing us to present this exclusive video on Mexican television.
NOTE: here is the link to the previous incident in Hidalgo which is unrelated. In my opinion, the ‘crash’ was not Russian space junk…something significant happened there. As far as this new revelation, it anybody’s guess right now…Lon
spinner – Well, this is potentially super-bad news: James Brown’s body has reportedly gone missing. According to the Daily Mirror, LaRhonda Pettit, a daughter of the late Godfather of Soul, claims that his body no longer rests in the crypt that he’d been kept in since 2006. Since his death, Brown’s body has resided at his daughter Deanna’s South Carolina house while the family has worked on mausoleum.
And Pettit thinks foul play’s involved. “My daddy’s body has disappeared. I have no clue where it was taken but I need to know where it is,” she told the Daily Mirror. Brown died on Christmas Day 2006, due to complications stemming from pneumonia and heart failure. But Pettit thinks people were out for Brown’s money and that his death was no accident.
“I’m convinced his death was suspicious and I want those responsible brought to justice,” she said. “The only way to do that is to exhume his body and have an autopsy. It was common knowledge daddy took illegal drugs until his death. He was also hooked on painkillers. At the very least there were enablers who helped cause his death.”
While Pettit’s elaborations end there as to whom the grave robbers could be, it’s not to say that she’s totally out of left field. In 2007, she came forth claiming to be an illegitimate daughter of the Godfather, and DNA tests proved her assertion to be 99.9% accurate. Should Pettit’s claims turn out to be right again, it’s safe to say we hope there’s some payback to whoever did this.
Alex welcomes back to the show former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura. Jesse’s latest book is American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us, now available from the Infowars store.
Former Minnesota governor and one-time professional wrestler Jesse Ventura has run afoul of the Huffington Post’s no-conspiracy-theory policy, and he’s not happy about it.
“I can’t believe the Huffington Post today will practice censorship,” Ventura says in astonishment. “I’ve got news for them. … I won’t ever write for ‘em again.”
Ventura had posted an item on Tuesday which took note of a recent conference at which “more than one thousand architects and engineers signed a petition demanding that Congress begin a new investigation into the destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11.” He also quoted a few paragraphs from his new book, American Conspiracies, to explain why some of those experts see signs of controlled demolition.
The item was featured on the front page of Huffington Post when it first went up, but after a few hours it vanished. All that appears now at its original location is an editor’s note saying, “The Huffington Post’s editorial policy, laid out in our blogger guidelines, prohibits the promotion and promulgation of conspiracy theories — including those about 9/11. As such, we have removed this post.”
The note is followed by three pages of comments, enthusiastically arguing the pros and cons of controlled demolition and other 9/11 theories, that were posted during the couple of hours before the entry was deleted and comments were closed.
Huffington Post’s own guidelines for its bloggers state, “We must — and do — reserve the right to remove objectionable, inaccurate, or inflammatory material and, if necessary, suspend or revoke blogging privileges. This also includes propagating conspiracy theories and blogging about behind-the-scenes housekeeping issues that are not of interest to the general public.”
Anastasia Churkina, a correspondent for RT, interviewed Ventura about the controversy. “He’s a man who doesn’t mince his words too much,” she reported on Thursday. “He was pretty blunt.”
“I can’t believe the Huffington Post today will practice censorship,” Ventura told her angrily. “They asked me to be a contributing editor and they said, ‘Write about anything you want.’ So it was the second time I did something — and they removed it?”
“Well, I’ve got news for them,” he continued. “I won’t ever write for ‘em again. … I won’t do a thing for the Huffington Post because I don’t like it when people censor what I have to say.”
“All I do is ask questions!” he exploded. “That’s what bugs me about 9/11. 9/11 is an event you’re not allowed to ask a question about. … Clearly they don’t want any questions on it.”
Ironically, Ventura had to go to RT, the English-language version of a Russian news channel, to tell his story. Although polls show that large numbers of Americans believe in a broad range of conspiracy theories, and a majority entertain doubts about the official story of 9/11, few of those questions ever appear in the mainstream media.
As Raw Story recently reported , “In November of 2007, an online article noted, ‘Nearly two-thirds of Americans think it is possible that some federal officials had specific warnings of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, but chose to ignore those warnings, according to a Scripps Howard News Service/Ohio University poll.’ A national survey of 811 adult residents of the United States conducted by Scripps and Ohio University found that more than a third believe in a broad smorgasbord of conspiracy theories including the attacks, international plots to rig oil prices, the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the government’s knowledge of intelligent life from other worlds. The high percentage is a manifestation, some say, of an American public that increasingly distrusts the federal government.”
Even liberal websites, however, discourage questions about 9/11, to the point where BooMan of the Booman Tribune had to preface a post at Daily Kos in 2005 by writing “I know this touches on verboten conspiracy theories, but this is a front-page NYT article.”
“It’s kind of hard to tell whether or not a new investigation will be launched,” Churkina concluded. “Many people don’t think this is going to be happening any time soon, even with such public figures, like Jesse Venture and other, calling for it.”
‘Those hoping to have a 50-year secrecy order overturned believe the government is embarrassed by details within that may prove German and Vatican officials colluded in his escape and freedom.
The secrecy order is being challenged in a benchmark court case against the BND, Germany’s domestic intelligence service, which wants the 4,500 pages of documents on Adolf Eichmann to remain out of the public domain. The service claims that intelligence agencies in other countries will be “frightened off” in future data-sharing if they are disclosed, Der Spiegel reported.
Critics believe this is a smokescreen designed to avoid official embarrassment both in Berlin and the Vatican. It is well documented that German Bishop Alois Hudal in Rome operated postwar “Ratlines,” getting passports for wanted Nazis to allow them to escape justice.’
‘The World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides hosted a no-adults-welcome panel at the United Nations this week where Planned Parenthood was allowed to distribute a brochure entitled “Healthy, Happy and Hot.” The event was part of the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) which concludes this week.
The brochure, aimed at young people living with HIV, contains explicit and graphic details on sex, as well as the promotion of casual sex in many forms. The brochure claims, “Many people think sex is just about vaginal or anal intercourse… But, there are lots of different ways to have sex and lots of different types of sex. There is no right or wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore and be yourself!” The brochure goes on to encourage young people to “Improve your sex life by getting to know your own body. Play with yourself! Masturbation is a great way to find out more about your body and what you find sexually stimulating. Mix things up by using different kinds of touch from very soft to hard. Talk about or act out your fantasies. Talk dirty to them.”
The New York Times recently reported that UN Population Fund had co-sponsored a very controversial curriculum with UNESCO, that included teaching children as young as five to be sexually active and training adolescents to advocate for abortion.’
‘Simultaneous introduction of biometric, smart ID cards around the world is not just a coincidence, it is not merely due to nations copying effective schemes in other nations, and is not just a phenomenon related to the sudden maturity of technology. Implementation of these ID card schemes was pushed. It is being driven in a coordinated programme, via international organisations and conferences, led by the US and the European Union (EU).
To make such claims, it is necessary to back them with hard evidence. Discussing this evidence can be slow and interrupt the flow of the narrative, so we shall go through this twice: – first, the short version; then go through documents, for those who want the back-story.’
‘In 2001, while he was a cardinal, he issued a secret Vatican edict to Catholic bishops all over the world, instructing them to put the Church’s interests ahead of child safety.
The document recommended that rather than reporting sexual abuse to the relevant legal authorities, bishops should encourage the victim, witnesses and perpetrator not to talk about it. And, to keep victims quiet, it threatened that if they repeat the allegations they would be excommunicated.’
VATICAN CITY — 
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