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  • Wife of pilot who crashed into building expected to talk

    The wife of the pilot in a fiery plane crash in Northwest Austin was expected to speak out Friday.

  • Attack in Austin: Outraged “Lone Wolf” or False Flag Op?

    It is relatively easy to dismiss the Obama supporters over at Daily Kos for their immediate declarations that Joe Stack, the alleged Austin kamikaze IRS bomber, was a Tea Party fanatic. Daily Kos, after all, is operated by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the former Reagan youth with connections to the CIA.

  • Video: UFO Encounter in North Carolina – 2/18/10

    Click for videoMUFON witness statement – February 18, 2010 (unedited): I was outside smoking a cig, because we dont smoke inside the house, messing around with a laser i have for my rifle, hi powered green laser.decided i was going to get my rifle out …

  • Women Being Conned About Breast Cancer Screening

    Ethan A. Huff for Natural News:

    Western medicine relies heavily on convincing people that they need some sort of drug or surgery to remedy their ills and gain health. Studies often contain manipulated facts and skewed statistics that paint a favorable picture of some new procedure or treatment while shrouding the truth about the risks involved. The alleged benefits of breast cancer screenings are no exception as women are continually tricked into believing that mammograms will greatly benefit them when the facts show that they are largely ineffective.

    Using an approach called mismatched framing, cancer studies will present side effects in absolute terms while exaggerating benefits in relative terms. When two different metric systems are used to present one set of findings, the results are deceptive albeit technically true.

    One statistic says…

  • High School Spied On Students At Home Via Their Laptops

    Is Your Computer Spying on You?Wow, can this be true? Truly a situation in which “Big Brother” comparisons are no exaggeration. It’s being reported that the Lower Merion School District, in a wealthy suburb of Philadelphia, is being sued for spying on its students at home, after issuing the students laptops with webcams that could be covertly activated by school administrators for surveillance, writes Boing Boing:

    The issue came to light when the Robbins’s child was disciplined for “improper behavior in his home” and the Vice Principal used a photo taken by the webcam as evidence. The suit is a class action, brought on behalf of all students issued with these machines.

    Update: The school district admits that student laptops were shipped with software for covertly activating their webcams, but denies wrongdoing.

  • Campbell Soup’s Neuromarketing

    Who knew neuromarketing even existed? I won’t be buying any Campbell’s soup for a while, that’s for sure. From the Wall Street Journal:

    The bowls are getting bigger and steamier, but the soup spoons are going away.

    Those are among the biggest changes Campbell Soup Co. is making in decades to the iconic labels and shelf displays of its condensed soups—the company’s biggest single business, with more than $1 billion in sales.

    The changes—expected to be announced Wednesday—will culminate a two-year effort by Campbell to figure out how to get consumers to buy more soup. Condensed soup has been a slow-growing category in which budget-conscious consumers have little tolerance for price increases.

    In the hunt for a better connection with consumers, Campbell Soup Co. is relying on new neuromarketing studies to guide the redesign of its condensed-soup packaging. The research looks at psysiological responses — such as perspiration and increased heart rate — to marketing…

  • America’s Most Miserable Cities

    Cleveland photo by Lisa Chamberlain (CC)

    Cleveland photo by Lisa Chamberlain (CC)

    Cleveland leads a slew of Midwestern towns on Forbes’ annual list, but thanks to high taxes New York and Chicago make it too:

    The city of Cleveland has had a colorful history. The Cuyahoga River, which runs through the city, famously caught fire in 1969 thanks to rampant pollution, and it wasn’t the first time. In 1978 it became the first U.S. city to default on its debts since the Great Depression. Cleveland sports fans have had to endure more anguish than those in any other city. The city has been dubbed with a less than endearing nickname: the Mistake by the Lake.

    This year Cleveland takes the top spot in our third annual ranking of America’s Most Miserable Cities. Cleveland secured the position thanks to its high…

  • Archbishop Tutu’s DNA Helps Show African Diversity

    Archbishop-TutuBy Malcolm Ritter for AP via comcast.net News:

    Scientists who decoded the DNA of some southern Africans have found striking new evidence of the genetic diversity on that continent, and uncovered a surprise about the ancestry of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

    They found, for example, that any two Bushmen in their study who spoke different languages were more different genetically than a European compared to an Asian. That was true even if the Bushmen lived within walking distance of each other.

    “If we really want to understand human diversity, we need to go to (southern) Africa and we need to study those people,” said Stephan Schuster of Pennsylvania State University. He’s an author of the study, which appears in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature.

    The study also found 1.3 million tiny variations that hadn’t…

  • How a Spider Robot Leads a Student to Intel

    Intel is now discussing a dancing humanoid robot project with the Arizona college student who built the famous dancing hexapod “spider” robot!

    It got him an “A” in his cognitive robotics class — and 100,000 hits on YouTube — but in a new interview, Matt Bunting explains how he’s culminating a lifelong fascination with robots…

  • TV Air Force, Real Air Force

    Jack Webb’s televised weekly homage (with assistance from former USAF officer William Coleman) to Project Blue Book, “Project UFO,” lasted a little longer than one season on NBC-TV in the late seventies, somehow. Every week, things were much the same. An Air Force captain and his faithful staff sergeant sidekick investigated “real” UFO reports, and the case would be solved within a TV hour. However, even while TV Air Force personnel were solving everything in sight, events taking place far away from bright living room screens seemed another matter.
    Australian TV news reporter Quentin Fogarty’s book, Let’s Hope They’re Friendly, was published in 1982 and I wrote a brief review for the journal, Pursuit in 1983. While flying over New Zealand in 1978, Fogarty and his news crew filmed a very peculiar blob-like UFO (see photo) over Kaikoura, and radar confirmation was touted as the story became the talk of international news media. Further information may be found about this complex incident elsewhere (check out my links), and I would certainly refer one and all to Fogarty’s excellent book, chronicling an event which actually encompassed a series of events. But my reason for bringing the case up now is because New Zealand, like other nations which decided to come clean — we hope, reasonably — about formerly secret UFO files is on the move, currently readying files minus personal information.
    Though I’ve forgotten so much about the 1978 incidents, my intrigue was renewed when reading an article in The Press (New Zealand) dated January 23, 2010, written by reporter Charlie Gates. Discussing the pending file release, Gates writes:
    Lights were seen in the sky over Kaikoura in December 1978 and filmed by an Australian news crew. Aircraft tracked the lights, also seen on radar. A man who worked for the Transport Ministry’s civil aviation division when the Kaikoura lights were seen said he would like to see the government files. The man, who wanted to remain anonymous, said he was working at Christchurch International Airport at the time. He saw United States Air Force planes with unusual call signs touring the area and believes the full story about the lights has not been disclosed. “For the US Air Force to come all that way and spend three days here, there must have been something going on,” he said.
    Whatever the purpose of U.S. Air Force involvement, I think we can all agree that anything potentially insightful or jaw-dropping will not appear in the files. Still — if the witness’s account is correct, what would be the role of the USAF? Some might be inclined to say, aha! — there was a military project and UFO activity was not involved at all. Others might be suspicious that the U.S. was very concerned about the Kaikoura incident, thus a, perhaps, enhanced U.S. Air Force presence.
    I’ll opt to speculate a bit further. Barely two months before the New Zealand film received widespread TV airings around the globe, 20-year-old Australian pilot Frederick Valentich disappeared over the Bass Strait, 130 miles south of Melbourne, following what seemed, by all accounts, pursuit by an unidentified object with four green lights and a metallic appearance. Chilling radio transmissions between the young pilot and distant control tower personnel paint a picture of a dangerous and, ultimately, deadly encounter. No trace of Valentich or his Cessna was ever found, though an oil slick discovered during search operations the day following final radio contact gave authorities a glimmer of hope — until they determined the substance was unrelated to the Cessna.
    If the Kaikoura occurrences presented to military officials as something special and glitzy — strategically informative — then concentrated official interest is exactly what one would expect. However, what of the raw nerve created by the Valentich incident just weeks before off the Australian coast? And there were other UFO sightings and witnesses wishing to be believed.
    My pointless point: Said interested observer who worked for the Transport Ministry’s civil aviation division in New Zealand likely won’t learn much about U.S. Air Force involvement. Concealing the juicy stuff under national security labels is just too easy, even necessary now and then. My question is, why merely stew over Fogarty’s news crew film when a young pilot conversing with a tower about a dramatic UFO encounter disappeared mysteriously? That was big stuff. If the USAF was on site in force in that general area, there had to be more going on, much more. It was all too coincidental. If critics suggest that the Kaikoura UFO event was somehow engineered by covert military, then I suppose they would assume that Valentich was also intentionally taken out by the same military operation, amidst some vast war game conducted for reasons unknown.
    The New Zealand film, plus the Valentich disappearance, plus who knows? If the USAF really had flown into that part of the world on some UFO-related mission, the reason wasn’t simply a film.
    So, Quentin Fogarty authored a book to tell the world his story, and research scientist Dr. Richard F. Haines published in 1987 his thoughtful and heartbreaking account of young Frederick’s apparent disappearance (Melbourne Episode: Case Study of a Missing Pilot) due to a bizarre encounter which, perhaps, rivaled the strangest of them all. Haines offered up several possible scenarios, not the least of which conjured an early “Star Wars” military experiment, during which the pilot and his craft might literally have been vaporized in error by “friendly” forces. Oops.
    Aside from mysteries aplenty, there remained the often forgotten and tragic figure of GuidoValentich, a father mourning the presumed loss of his son, never able to gain closure through official channels. Too bad the Valentich affair and a dramatic episode high in the skies above Kaikoura couldn’t have been featured on NBC-TV’s “Project UFO.” Capt. Ben Ryan and Staff Sergeant Harry Fitz would have nailed down all the loose ends in an hour, with a little help from Joe Friday behind the camera.

  • News That Joe Stack Was Not A Tea Party Member Disappoints Obamanoids

    Even before many of the details were confirmed surrounding yesterday’s tragic events in Austin, political operatives were callously exploiting the incident to advance their agenda in demonizing opponents of big government as terrorists who crash planes into buildings – unfortunately for them it has since emerged that Joe Stack was not a “fringe extremist” and he was not a member of any Tea Party organization.

  • NYT, NYMag, WaPo, TIME Agree: Joe Stack Was One Crazy Teabagger!

    Responding to this post, a reader e-mails with a handy round-up of MSM attempts to tie Joe Stack to the tea-party movement.

  • Plane Crash Kills Federal Employee

    A federal employee died when a plane crashed into a building in North Austin Thursday, police say.

  • Expert: Attack on IRS possibly an act of ‘domestic terrorism’

    Was the destruction of an Austin, Texas IRS office a criminal action, or a terrorist attack? While federal authorities are treating the plane crash as the first, the local congressman has termed it the later.

  • Population Control Advocate Wanted To Sterilize Food, Water

    A 1972 article about “The Population Bomb” biologist Paul Ehrlich reveals a nascent environmental movement grappling with mass sterilization, climate fears, “international policy planning” and redistribution of wealth. The article reveals dramatic parallels to today’s modern environmental movement.

  • Glenn Beck barks like a mad dog to protest Obama stimulus

    Fox News’ Glenn Beck became a rabid critic of President Barack Obama Wednesday after the president said that there had been relatively little stimulus money wasted.

  • War in Iraq to Be Given New Name

    ABC News has learned that the Obama administration has decided to give the war in Iraq — currently known as Operation Iraqi Freedom — a new name.

  • Yvo de Boer’s resignation compounds sense of gathering climate crisis

    “These are dark times” for the climate change agenda, The London Guardian’s Mark Lynas complains.

  • Former KNMI director and skeptic Henk Tennekes gets vindication from Netherlands De Telegraaf

    Here’s a bit of interesting news from a Dutch newspaper.

  • Did Britain know about Mossad hit? Israeli agent claims MI6 was tipped off

    MI6 was tipped off that Israeli agents were going to carry out an ‘overseas operation’ using fake British passports, it was claimed last night.