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UFOLOGY

DESPERATELY

NEEDS A

“REALITY CHECK”

By

ROB McCONNELL

Hamilton, Ontario: Since 1992, I have had my

fingertips on the pulse of the UFO community,

sky watchers, UFO experts, contactees,

abductees, implanted human specimens,

unwilling alien subjects who have been given

horrid physical examinations by

extraterrestrials, those who have been sexually

assaulted and abused by ET, and those who

claim to have their children removed from their

wombs.

I have spoken to those who claim that

they were whisked from their bedrooms while

they slept and taken to “Mother ships” 100’s of

miles in diameter that hover this very planet.

Those interviewed also have included

sky watchers over the Great Lakes on North

America - all of whom have stories to share

with any one who will listen - especially if they

have access to a radio microphone, television

camera or newspaper column.

The photographs that they produce are

anything less then compelling.

The physical evidence non-existent.

With global access to the largest septic

receptacle ever invented by mankind, the

internet, and computer graphic and CGI

software, anyone can now turn their fantasy into

a virtual reality for which there is no lack of

eager believers found throughout the matrix of

the internet.

Believers of extraterrestrial visitors

would have you believe that even after all the

years of their tireless self-styled research,

which, to this time has not produced any

evidence whatsoever that this planet is being

visited by "intelligent" beings from another

world - in this dimension or another.

They point to lights in the night sky,

which ultimately turn out to be conventional

terrestrial aircraft (the type that are from a

planet in our solar system called "Earth") or to

photographs which have been taken with

cameras being operated by inexperienced

photographers and videographers that clearly

show pixellated unidentified unrecognizable

that UFO buffs claim to be "flying saucers."

When believers in UFOs are asked why

the aliens just do not land on the front lawn of

the White House in Washington, DC... the

Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Ontario,

Canada... Buckingham Palace in London,

England or the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia,

they use the reality escape clause: the aliens, not

unlike the Prime Directive in StarTrek, does not

allow them (the alien occupants of the UFOs) to

interfere with the development of this planet.

Right.

Then you have the UFO enthusiasts who

claim that the governments of the world are

suppressing and covering up the fact that the

aliens have landed and that the governments of

the world - the US Government in particular -

have been working with them and allowing

aliens to "abduct" citizens of this planet for

experimentation purposes in exchange for alien

technology.

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MARCH 2010 - 44 Pages

These are just some of the stories

and articles in this edition of

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01 - UFOlogy Desperately Needs A “Reality Check”

03 - I’ve Seen A Ghost - Tim Burton

03 - Heaven’s Gate, A Religious Group?

03 - Mysterious Hole In Moon Discovered

04 - Phew! UFO’s Aren’t A Military Threat

04 - Truth About MOD’s UFO Files

04 - UFO Dominates Farrakhan Speech

04 - UFO’s Are Just Sky Lanterns

05 - Alien Abduction Day

05 - UFO Sighting Believed To Be Meteor

05 - Revealed: Limerick UFO

06 - UK’s UFO Unit To Shred It’s UFO Files

06 - Elin Needs Therapy, Not Tiger Says Rael

07 - Act Naturally - Dr Nance MacLeod PhD DNM

09 - Why Avatar Did Not Win The Oscar

11 - PETA Upset at Mike Tyson

11 - Prototype ‘Invisibility Cloak” Created

11 - Chinese UFOs Turn Out To Be Kites

11 - CIA Concludes Study Of UFO’s Futile

12 - Russian Flying Saucer Set For Production

12 - Russian “Flying Saucer” Program Approved

14 - Mystery Of The Silent Aliens

15 - End Of The World Not Coming In 2012

16 - Why 2012 Is A Hoax

17 - Wake Up And Smell The Science Hollywood

17 - Sean David Morton Charged With Fraud

18 - 2012: The Nonsense Of It All

21 - New Jersey Woman Sues Psychic

24 - Where Have All The Werewolves Gone?

26 - Gorilla On Mars ?!?

27 - Psychic Apologizes For Critical Comments

28 - ‘X’ Zone FACT-oids

29 - Religious Struggle Over Cryptozoology

31 - Shirley Gale Butts Wilson

32 - Battle Of The Sex Cults

33 - Is Nibiru Really Hurtling Towards Earth?

36 - Have Conspiracy Theories Gone Too Far?

40 - Is This A Cure For Cancer?

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Give me a break!

You see, I have my very own UFO

conspiracy theory, which I have formulated

over the past 20 years writing, publishing and

broadcasting on the paranormal based on all of

the people I have interviewed on the subject of

UFOs from Stanton Friedman (who has never

seen a UFO) to a lady in New Jersey who say a

150 mile diameter UFO over the Empire State

Building.

The UFO Conspiracy / Cover-up IS

REAL.

However, it is not being perpetrated by

any government or the Vatican. It is being

manipulated and perpetrated by the believers

and members of the UFO community itself. As

long as the UFO community keeps pointing the

finger at the governments of the world and

claiming that they have evidence which they are

suppressing, they (the UFO community) do not

have to provide any evidence to support their

claims - which they never do.

After all the years of research into the

alleged UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico

in July 1947, is there yet any evidence...

physical evidence, not hearsay evidence, that as

millions believe, a UFO or even two UFOs

crashed on that day nearly 63 years ago?

The answer is "NO".

Theories abound, books are sold,

lectures are given, TV shows are shot, people

dress up in a carnival atmosphere and fill the

streets of Roswell, which is the Mecca of

UFOlogy, to pay tribute to an event that never

happened.

Now, I am not saying that something did

not happen near Roswell, New Mexico in July

1947, but whatever it was, it had nothing to do

with a craft from another planet and

extraterrestrial entities.

If so, where is the physical evidence?

Oh wait, the UFOlogists are yelling and

I can hear them loudly, that the government has

the proof and it is being suppressed, and the

bodies of the aliens are at Area 51, which were

shown to the world in 1996 by Dr. Brackish

Okun (chief scientist at Area 51 a.k.a. Brent

Spiner also known for his role as Data on "Star

Trek: The Next Generation) in the film

Independence Day.

And wait!

Then there is E.T., who, in 1982 called

home for his rescue mission after being stranded

on this planet.

Richard Dreyfuss and his movie family

saw UFOs which ultimately had him making

mashed potatoes and other monuments to

Devils Tower National Monument and

ultimately a spaceship ride in a massive UFO in

1977 at the end of Close Encounters of the

Third Kind.

And all the people who suffered at the

hands of the invading forces that killed

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UFOlogy Needs A Reality Check 3I have seen ghosts says

Tim BurtonFrom IANS

Hollywood filmmaker Tim Burton

doesn't believe it is rare to have experiences

with ghosts and says he finds cemeteries

"positive" places.

The 51-year-old claims to have had

experiences with the supernatural, which he

insists is not uncommon, reports Contact music.

"I've seen things and felt things. I think

most people do. I think it's just how much you

suppress it. I don't go out and say, 'Oh, my god,

I was abducted by a UFO,' or, 'I've seen these

ghosts'. You feel an energy," he said.

The "Alice in Wonderland" filmmaker

also claims to find cemeteries "positive" places.

"Most people say about graveyards, 'Oh,

it's just a bunch of dead people; it's creepy.' But

for me, there's an energy to it that is not creepy

or dark. It has a positive sense to it," he said.

However, the eccentric filmmaker

doesn't believe anyone can force a spirit to

reveal themselves.

"I think anytime you try, it ain't gonna

happen. It always seems to occur when you're

sort of open but not thinking about it. I've never

held a seance," he said. []

Heaven’s Gate, A

Religious Group?

Heaven’s Gate – - Founded by the

Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles duo

Heaven’s Gate was a religious group in

America that came under the UFO Religion

category.

The group believed that a certain gate

would open at a specific time when the Hale-

Bop comet would come at its brightest position

around the Earth. A mass of thirty-nine people

were discovered dead after committing suicide

on the twenty-sixth day of March in the year

1997, this was the time that the group

acknowledged as the exact date for their

mission.

Heaven’s Gate believed that the world

was about to go through a major catastrophe in

the coming years and that it would be destroyed

and “recycled.” They believed that it would be

better for them to leave this world before that

catastrophe came claiming that the body was

only an instrument that was there to aide them

with their journey.

The Heaven’s Gate groups started off in

the seventies taking its inspiration from the near

death or out of body experience that Marshall

Applewhite went through when he suffered

from a heart attack. White and his nurse at the

time Nettles started to claim that they were the

witnesses mentioned in the Holy Bible in its

book of revelation.

The Heaven’s Gate group believed that

there were a couple of ways in which a human

could come to leaving this body without being

certain at all of the next levels existence. One of

the ways that they taught was to hate with

extremity. They thought that if someone hated

this world enough or even their human bodies

to the extent that they do not care about what

happens then they can leave this world.[]

Mysterious Hole in the Moon

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Researchers going over images of the

Moon captured by the Kaguya probe have

discovered a mysterious hole that is thought to

be approximately 300 feet deep and in excess of

200 feet across.

Based on the surrounding geology it

may connect to a lava tube 1,200 feet across.

The existence of lava tubes on the moon has

been posited by scientists but a surface entrance

has never been found. The hole may be able to

house a future lunar colony.

"This is a fascinating discovery. It

shows that our nearest neighbour in space can

still spring surprises on us," said Astronomy

Now magazine´s lunar expert Dr Emily

Baldwin.

UFOLOGY

DESPERATELY

NEEDS A

“REALITY CHECK”Continued from Page 2

thousands, destroyed cities in 1938 and when

the invaders once again tried to take over our

planet in 2005 in what we call War of the

Worlds.

What about the UFO believers who

gather on the shores of Lake Ontario on summer

evenings, with coffee and donuts in hand, and

watch the lights from the sky disappear into

what they believe to be an underwater UFO

base in Lake Ontario?

They can't be wrong!

I mean, just because the lights that seem

to vanish into Lake Ontario have been matched

with landing conventional aircraft at Pearson

International and Toronto Island Airport doesn't

mean that there is no underwater UFO base in

Lake Ontario, does it?

The similarities between the quest

throughout the centuries for the truth and

understanding of the established theologies is

reflected today by the UFO community.

Is it possible that UFOlogy is another off

shoot of theology?

I mean, religion, Greek Mythology and

UFOlogy have mortal human's from planet

Earth searching the skies for their deities to

descent, to help guide their lives, give mortals

hope of a continuation of life and many other

similarities.

So to all the UFOlogists who scan the

skies... look for UFO bases in mountains,

beneath government bases, beneath the waters

of the Great Lakes and search for non-existent

crashed extraterrestrial vehicles, do yourself a

favour. Get a Reality Check.[]

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Phew! UFOs aren't a military threat4

of the time discussing a vision.

He recounted how in 1985 he was in

Mexico when he believes a UFO he calls "the

wheel" invited him aboard where he was spoken

to by Elijah Muhammad, the late Nation of

Islam leader. He says it turned him into an

excellent predictor of future events.

A vigorous long-time Obama supporter,

he said his organization, which for decades has

helped black inmates reform, needs his support.

He said Obama is being manipulated to disavow

him. When asked if he´s met with Obama he

said: "I ain´t going there."

UFOs are just

sky laterns

A UFOLOGIST has admitted that mysterious

orange lights repeatedly seen in the night sky

could be nothing more than Chinese lanterns.

Roy Lake, 71, of the London UFO

Studies group, said the "glows" spotted in

Dagenham since October could be cheap sky

lanterns let off in groups before suddenly

"vanishing" when their candles go out.

In the latest sighting, in the early hours

of February 14, Karen Gray was shocked to see

several orange orbs over the Heathway that

disappeared after three minutes.

On Boxing Day, Linda Hunt, 60, saw

four orange lights going along the same

trajectory within minutes, supporting the theory

they may have been lanterns blown off by winds

after being let off, perhaps as a prank.

But Mr Lake, of Tudor Road, Barking,

urged witnesses to contact researchers and

criticised the Ministry of Defence for pulling

the plug on its UFO reporting service in

December.

The Government said no report had

revealed evidence of a potential UK threat for

more than 50 years.

Mr Lake, who has researched UFOs for

55 years, said: "The likes of myself, and any

ufologist is going to take this subject very

seriously."

He also lent credibility to the triangle

UFO sighting near Asda in Merrielands

Crescent, Dagenham, on November 30.

Mr Lake said he saw a noisy triangle

craft flying very low in Ripple Road, Barking,

before it headed off down the River Thames

towards central London around six years ago.

He added that increasing numbers of

UFOs were set to be captured on camera thanks

to the versatility of digital technology. []

Phew! UFOs aren't a

military threatFrom TG Daily

We can all breathe easy: the British

Ministry of Defence has decided that UFOs

aren't dangerous.

That's the reason that it's decided to shut

down its UFO hotline - it's not pressure from the

little grays after all.

Professor David Clarke at Sheffield

Hallam University says that he received the

explanation from the MoD after putting in a

Freedom of Information request - only to

discover that the MoD is now destroying all

UFO reports it receives after 30 days, just so

that it doesn't have to respond to such requests

in future.

"Reported sightings...should be

answered by a standard letter and, on the advice

of Corporate Memory and The National

Archives, should be retained for 30 days and

then destroyed, largely removing any future

FOI liability and negating the need to release

future files post 30 November 2009," says the

MoD document.

It seems the MoD was getting a bit tired

of being besieged by UFOlogists convinced it

was hiding something. Apparently, they're all a

bit busy in Iraq at the moment or something.

"The level of resources devoted to this

task is increasing in response to a recent

upsurge in reported sightings, diverting staff

from more valuable Defence-related activities,"

says the document.

Clarke isn't impressed. "If MoD have

learned anything from 50 years experience it

should be that UFOs will simply not go away,"

he says on his blog.

"I suspect that the next time a near-miss

incident involving civil or military aircraft

occurs, they will be forced to rethink this

somewhat short-sighted policy. Only time will

tell." []

Secret documents: The

Truth about MoD's UFO

filesAlert Print Post comment'Soon

they will have no paperwork at

all'

By Lewis Page

Following an announcement by the

Ministry of Defence (MoD) that it will no

longer keep files of reported UFO sightings, it

has emerged after painstaking detective work

that - in fact - it is no longer doing so.

The shock move by the MoD was

revealed at the weekend by Blighty's foremost

UFO expert and talking head, Dr David Clarke

of Sheffield Hallam uni, after he obtained "a

formerly secret MoD document" using the

Freedom of Information Act.

This document was drafted at the time of

the MoD decision last November to close its

UFO desk - manned by a single case officer -

and to cease keeping files of reported UFOs.

Amazingly (to Dr Clarke at least) it

appears that indeed this is being done: all UFO

reports received by the MoD are nowadays

answered with a form letter and then thrown in

the bin after thirty days. The "Hotline" phone

number no longer exists.

Meanwhile there has been a policy of

transferring the existing, vast piles of filed

reports to the National Archives, which then

makes them public. Thus the MoD has managed

to rid itself of a tiresome chore and some minor

expense at a time when it has little cash to spare.

But Dr Clarke is understandably cross:

As I suspected all along, the closure of

the UFO desk and the decision to transfer all

remaining MoD files to The National Archives

are linked ... by the end of the disclosure

programme MoD will retain no further

paperwork on UFOs.

The disclosure of this document makes

it evident this is the endgame as far as the

MoD are concerned.

But if MoD have learned anything

from 50 years experience it should be that

UFOs will simply not go away. I suspect that

the next time a near-miss incident involving

civil or military aircraft occurs, they will be

forced to rethink this somewhat short-sighted

policy.

Although he belongs to the "sceptic"

wing of the UFO community, Dr Clarke plainly

loves UFO files for their own sake and

considers taxpayers' money well spent on

collecting and filing them.

But there may be a tiny crumb of

comfort for the doc and other frustrated UFO

fanciers. They can no longer expect to while

away pleasant hours trawling through vast MoD

files and pestering hapless civil servants with

FoI requests: but there will still be UFO files of

a sort. The fabulous soaraway Sun, as everyone

knows, has pledged to take on the task of

running the nation's UFO files from the MoD. []

Vision of Boarding UFO

Dominates Farrakhan

SpeechShortNews.com

Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam

spoke Sunday in Chicago for four hours, urging

help from Obama for the downtrodden and

blacks, and that Obama is being conspired

against by the "white right." But he spent most


From The ‘X’ Zone NewsDesk 5Alien Abduction Day

Arrives, But Will Little

Green Men?FOXNews.com

Clamp on your foil hat and cower under

your bed, Alien Abduction Day is here!

March 20 was Alien Abduction Day,

when "the skies are carefully watched by those

expecting / wishing to be abducted by an alien

life form," states eHow.com.

The strange holiday's origins are

unclear, though it was clearly popularized by

the 2008 Alien Abduction Day festival in

Toronto. That means no "Free UFO Rides,"

"Random Abduction Incidents" or "getting in

touch with your inner-extraterrestrial," which

were highlighted on a flyer for a past festival.

The festival was an all around sci-fi

street party in Toronto, sponsored by a comic

book shop and several local businesses. But

references online exist to the even from years

earlier -- and watch for Twitter to heat up

Saturday with the #AlienAbductionDay tag.

For UFO fans in Toronto and beyond,

hoping to celebrate this year, eHow.com offers

the following tips for enjoying your own Alien

Abduction Day.

For starters, you can keep track of all

your alien and UFO sightings. If you are new at

this sort of extraterrestrial stuff, UFOcenter.com

can help. You will find "The Web's most

comprehensive and up-to-date UFO

information source; provided by America's

foremost UFO Reporting Agency; in continuous

operation since 1974." The site even features a

UFO sighting report form.

Another idea, thanks to eHow.com, is to

visit a Web site devoted to alien abduction

experiences at Abduct.com. This site describes

itself as "the world's oldest and largest research

Web site into the alien abduction and UFO

experience." It features several computer

screens worth of helpful UFO/alien links, along

with an Alien Abduction Survey, discussion

group, questions and answers, research, photos,

drawings, personal encounters, and more.

If this is all a little too far out, go more

mainstream and simply enjoy an alien abduction

movie on March 20. Here are a few suggestions:

"Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Fire in

the Sky," "Men in Black," "The Astronaut's

Wife," "Taken" and "Signs."

Still too much? There's always "Ghost

Busters." []

UFO sighting believed to

be meteorBy ROBIN FITZGERALD

Reports of possible UFO sightings in

South Mississippi this week appear to have been

a fireball from a Gamma Normids meteor

shower, according to the Mississippi

Emergency Management Agency.

MEMA received calls on Sunday

afternoon from Stone, Jackson and Carroll

counties reporting a fireball that fell from the

sky.

MEMA spokesman Jeff Rent said the

annual meteor shower is expected to continue

through Tuesday.

“People see shooting stars at night and

they’re not too surprised, but when they see it in

the daytime, it can catch people off guard,” Rent

said.

There were no reports of the meteor

touching ground. Sightings also were reported

in Louisiana, Rent said. []

Revealed: the strange

mystery of a Limerick

UFO - and how it was

solved20 March 2010

By Staff Reporter

EMERGENCY services, including a

rescue helicopter, rushed out to Caherconlish

following a report to the Gardai from a man

there on Sunday, March 7, that a small plane

appeared to have crashed.

Strangely, as the Limerick Leader

reported the following day, the emergency

services, including ambulance, fire brigade and

a rescue helicopter "found no evidence of a

plane crash".

I was initially hoping that the man who

reported the downed plane saw what I saw from

the back garden of my home in Fedamore only

a couple of hours afterwards. If so, he had seen

a UFO and would probably have thought that he

was going mad.

I was going to put him out of his misery

until I got more details from the gardai about the

Caherconlish incident.

"The man who reported it to us – and to

Shannon Rescue Service – saw smoke coming

from a plane, it flew low and he didn't see it

coming back up," said a Garda spokesperson

from Roxboro. "We've since learned that there's

a local fellow out there who performs stunts

with a plane using smoke. It was a false report."

One mystery solved.

So what did I see then?

At 7.40pm that same evening, I saw a

bright, round light travelling through the sky at

the same speed, trajectory and direction as an

airplane. There was no sound, it lasted for just

over a minute, moving northwestwards, until

suddenly it vanished.

"Where'd it go, daddy?" my two-and-a-

half year old son, Oisin, asked.

I didn't know.

"What was it, daddy?" he asked.

I was stumped.

But I'd been quick enough to take a snap

with my camera-phone, shoot 30 seconds of

crappy video with the same phone, and I even

phoned a friend who used to work in Shannon

Airport while it was still visible.

He didn't know either, but by Tuesday he

was able to tell me that the international space

station was visible over Ireland that week and

for four minutes that very evening, at 8.35pm

(GMT). Sounded plausible, except the timing

was out. I saw what I saw at 7.40pm (GMT). We

double-checked the times. They were correct.

In the meantime, I'd put the word out

through Live 95FM asking had anyone else in

south Limerick seen strange lights in the sky. I

begged them not to give out my name, one's

reputation being rather important to a journalist.

Later, I promised – if I can solve this.

But they got no reply from listeners.

So our orange light in the sky and its

silent passing remained a puzzle until I Googled

around and, lo and behold, there are dozens of

people all around Ireland who've seen exactly

the same thing at different times. Most gave

their names in full and locations. Check out

www.myufo.com

For instance, Fred Johnston from

Galway city reported seeing something on

January 1 that was "bright red or orange",

"round" in shape and "large, fading into the

distance and silent."

At least I wasn't the only one.

You can see for yourself what appears to

be a close-up of what we witnessed if you log

onto YouTube and watch a video posted by a

woman from Kilnamona, Clare, called, UFO

over County Clare Ireland Dec 2008.

Over 5,000 people have viewed the

video. The shimmering effect of the UFO is

supposedly caused by atmospheric diffraction,

according to one comment.

However, the most helpful website I

found was one that tracks satellites that just

happen to reflect light from the sun on to earth:

www.heavens-above.com

In particular, it tracks Iradium

Corporation satellites, they're used for

communications and each features three highly

reflective mission antennae. There are at least

80 such satellites overhead and they have a

magnitude of -8, which is brighter than the

space station or Venus.

So what were the chances of one

happening to reflect light our way that evening?

Very slim indeed, but not beyond possibility. As

it happens, the website provides an option to log

in your latitude, longtitude and height above

sea-level to plot where the nearest one to you is

at any given time. It also crucially allows you to

backtrack the satellites' movements over the

previous 48 hours.

And that's where the breakthrough

came.

I typed in my co-ordinates and found

that Iradium Satellite 49 just happened to pass

over our house at 7.50pm (my co-ordinates

were approximate, not absolutely precise which

might explain the 10 minute gap in timing).

Eureka! We didn't see an alien craft. We'd

witnessed an Iradium flare.

"An Iridium flare looks like a star that

moves slowly and quickly brightens, then

slowly fades away and it travels silently,"

reports the website.

It would only have been visible within a

two-mile or more radius and only for a matter of

minutes. The narrow focus of the sun's relection

on earth and the short timeframe explained why

Live 95FM was not inundated with UFO

sightings. You had to be standing where we

were, or nearby.

When Oisin grows up, I'll fill him in and

at least if we see another strange light in the sky,

or a reader does, they can keep going without

losing their minds.[]

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From The ‘X’ Zone NewsDesk6UK's UFO unit says it will

shred ex-X files(AP) – Feb 28, 2010

LONDON — Britain's defense ministry

says it will shred records of UFO sightings after

a huge rise in the number of reports submitted

by the public.

The Ministry of Defense said Sunday

that new reports will be thrown out after 30

days, rather than kept on file.

It means details of the sightings will be

exempt from freedom of information laws that

have allowed campaigners to force Britain's

government to disclose details of apparent UFO

encounters.

The ministry had 634 reports of UFO

sightings in 2009, the highest total since 1978

when the public submitted 750.

In December, Britain scrapped a phone

line and e-mail account for the public to report

details of UFO activity.

Britain's government said the service

was a waste of defense resources. []

Elin needs therapy, not

Tiger, says guru Rael

FRENCH UFO guru Claude Vorilhon, alias

Rael, advised golf superstar Tiger Woods in an

open letter to divorce his wife and embrace

multiple sexual partners.

"Adultery is not mental disease but a

very normal behavior among both humans and

animals," said the leader of the atheist Raelian

Movement, whose followers believe life on

earth was created by extra-terrestrials.

"I encourage you to explore what more

and more people are calling 'polyamory', which

means loving many people simultaneously and

with no jealousy," he said.

Alluding to Woods's televised apology

last week for his extramarital dalliances, Mr

Vorilhon urged the golfer to "stop making his

life a model of guilt, sadness and conformism to

antiquated Judeo-Christian values".

This, he said, sets a bad example for the

younger generation.

Woods's remarks last Friday, in which

he said he was undergoing therapy, were his

first public comments in nearly three months,

since a sex scandal spiralled into a global media

storm and pushed him into self-imposed

seclusion.

"The only person close to you who

needs therapy is your wife," Mr Vorilhon said,

saying the golfer's spouse Elin Nordegren

welcomed Woods's partying ways so long as he

didn't engage in extramarital affairs.

"If she doesn't get therapy, you will be

better off divorcing such a jealous partner to

freely enjoy your sexual partners," he added,

inviting Woods to an upcoming Raelian seminar

in Las Vegas.[]

Deeside UFO 'sighting'

explainedDeeSide Piper

THE Ministry of Defence's response to reported

sightings of a UFO over the Royal Estate at

Balmoral has been published.

The incident was amongst hundreds of

close encounters described in previously top

secret files that were made public by the MoD

last week.

The response followed newspaper

reports that an unidentified flying object was

spotted being pursued by RAF jets over the

Balmoral Royal Estate on February 28, 1996.

The MoD explained the alleged sighting

by saying a night-time exercise by Harrier jump

jets was taking place at the time.

A letter from the MoD read: "I was able

to establish that two Harrier aircraft from No 4

Squadron, which were on detachment at RAF

Leuchars from RAF Laarbruch in Germany,

were conducting routine night vision goggle

training in the Balmoral area at the time the

sighting was reported. There is no question that

they were sent up to intercept 'UFO/flying

saucers'."

The response to the alleged sighting is

part of more than 6,000 pages of previously

unseen material detailing hundreds of close

encounters that took place from 1994 to 2000.

The sightings include a testimony from a

senior air traffic controller from Prestwick

Airport saying he had tracked a fast moving

UFO on the airport radar in February 1999.

The crew of a trawler in the North Sea

19 miles north-east of Fraserburgh reported

seeing a flat, shiny, round object hovering on

August 18, 1997. []

UFOs were Chinese

lanterns say familyRhiannon McDowall

Macclesfield's case of the mysterious Valentine

UFOs has been solved – and in the truth lies a

poignant tale of love and loss.

When the Express reported how

Margaret Frain, of Ullswater Mansions, saw a

series of lights hovering over town on February

14, Theresa Bowers realised she and her family

were the unwitting culprits.

Mum-of-seven Theresa, of Wilton

Crescent, had arranged for her whole family to

release 14 Chinese lanterns into the air in

celebration of what would have been son Jack

William Mellor’s 18th birthday, who died when

he was five years old.

Theresa said: "We thought it would be a

fitting tribute to him for the whole family to

release these lanterns on what would have been

his 18th birthday.

"When we were letting them off I did

joke at the time someone might report them as

UFOs.

"We were in Tesco and I saw the words

‘UFO’ and ‘spotted’ in the Macc Express, I

thought ‘oh no, it can’t be us?’ Then of course I

saw the date and realised it had to be.

"We felt terrible about it but we did

laugh about it too."

Jack, who suffered from spastic

quadriplegia, went to Park Royal Special school

and died peacefully in hospital where he was

preparing for a gastronomy to help him eat.

Theresa, who drives children with

special needs, added: "With it being his 18th we

wanted to do something special. It was a very

beautiful occasion, we all wrote messages on

the lanterns wishing him a happy birthday.

"It was very peaceful and calm and we

stood and watched them float into the sky until

they disappeared."

Theresa, whose son Adam sadly died of

cot death 24 years ago, added: "We are going to

be letting some more off on April 20, which is

the anniversary of Adam’s death so if you look

out and see them it’s us up to our old tricks

again!" []

Bob Irwin reveals: I hear

Steve from the graveWoman’s Day

For the first time since Steve Irwin’s tragic

death, his father, Bob, has finally managed to

find peace and contentment – after an

extraordinary beyond-the-grave encounter with

his son.

Although Bob says he has long sensed

Steve’s presence around him, he reveals it

wasn’t until he received Steve’s message of

love and support from the other side that he was

convinced his son’s spirit truly lives on – and

wants him to be happy.

“He has told me everything is OK, not

to be sad and to keep up the fight, to continue

looking after the animals,” Bob, 69, tells

Woman’s Day.

A former psychic cynic, Bob describes

his first true spiritual experience with Steve –

who was killed three years ago by a stingray

barb while diving in north Queensland – as both

“powerful and moving”.

“Steve told me things only he and I

knew about,” he reveals. “I still get goose

bumps just thinking about it.”

Deb Webber put Bob in touch with

Steve during a reading at his remote bush

property, Camp Chilli, near Bundaberg in

Queensland. Bob had requested the reading

with Deb after she was recommended by a

friend.

“I told Deb how I had felt Steve around

me, how I would often wander into the bush, sit

on a rock and open my heart to Steve,” Bob

says. “I just desperately wanted to talk to him,

and Deb thankfully made that possible. “Steve

was so much more than a son to me, he was my

best mate.” []

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ACT NATURALLY

Natural medicine specialist Dr. Nance

MacLeod is changing the face of

health care one patient at a time!

Originally published in the Health, Wellness

& Safety Magazine

Vol 1 Issue 2

by Scott Leslie

Everyone dreams of leading healthier,

more energetic lives. But Dr. Nance MacLeod

PhD, DNM is working hard to make that dream

a reality—by going back to nature. As the

owner and operator of the Niagara-on-the Lake

Natural Health Clinic on 1410 Niagara Stone

Road in Virgil, Nance is a Natural Medicine

Doctor, offering several health solutions like

natural medicine physicals, pain and stress

relief, super foods and nutritional supplements

for any age group.

Natural Therapies and Their Benefits

With nearly three decades of experience

in the field of natural medicine, Nance offers the

latest in non-invasive medical technology at her

Niagara-on-the-Lake clinic. One of Nance’s

biggest specialties is her Complete Young

Forever™ Natural Medicine Physicals which

includes an Iridology reading, a tongue analysis,

a blood pressure check, a complete health

history interview, a nutritional consulting

session, and an EIS full body health scan.

Through her comprehensive EIS Scan,

Nance is able to look at every internal organ and

take measurements of brain chemicals, bone

density, hormones, vitamins and trace minerals.

She can also identify areas of the body that are

affected by issues such as toxins, parasites and

stress—and recommend additional tests that can

be done by your physician.

“There are only a few clinics in the GTA

that offer an EIS Scan,” Nance says. “But no

one else is doing natural medicine physicals—

and most of them are charging three times more

than I am for the EIS Scan alone.” C l i e n t s

will often seek Nance’s services when they’ve

tried everything else. Others just want to make

sure they’re on the right track with their health.

“My physicals don’t replace medical

physicals,” she explains. “But they do help

patients educate themselves and make the right

decisions. It also helps them know what to ask

when they’re dealing with their doctor.”

In terms of pain and stress relief, Nance

provides a wide variety of medical devices and

therapies. These include five different types of

SCENARs, Low Intensity Lasers, Vibro-

acoustic Sound Therapy, RIFE Medical

Frequencies, Ion Cleanse foot detoxification, a

Chi Machine, Oxygen, Reflexology, Egyptian

Head and Neck Massage, and Medical

Hypnotherapy.According to Nance, her

treatments are focused on helping her patients

increase their range of motion and relieve their

pain quickly.

“One of our patients sees us every other week

for maintenance pain relief,” she explains.

“He’s been a patient with us since 2006, and it’s

Dr. Nance MacLeod, PhD, DNM/NMD 7

really had a beneficial effect. He was able to

play golf six days in a row pain-free while on

vacation recently.”

Nance has also been called the Canadian

expert when it comes to super foods like Salvia

Hispanica, Shatavari, Raw Cacao, Incan

Berries, Maca and Kapikacchu seeds. By

introducing the right super foods to your diet,

people can treat issues like cholesterol, blood

pressure, obesity and depression. Super foods

can also help people increase their energy,

vitality, brain function, immunity and memory.

“When I recommend any super food,

cleanse or supplement, I always test my patients

first to make sure they’ll get the complete

benefit of the product,” Nance says. “Most of

these products can be purchased from my clinic

and I’m adding new ones all the time.”

A Passion for Healing

Nance has spent years building up her

clinic—and it’s been a long and fulfilling

journey. Her passion for the natural therapy

field all started back in 1979 when she was

working as an accounting clerk for a large

corporation.

“It was year end and I was getting very

stressed,” she explains. “My friend dragged me

to a Chinese breathing course called Ki Kou—a

type of Chinese yoga. The first couple of classes

were really silly. But I soon realized I was

sleeping and dealing with my stress much

better—and that really opened my eyes to the

benefits of natural medicine.”

As the years progressed, Nance began

training with some of the world’s leading

specialists in areas such as integrative medicine

physicals, medical hypnotherapy and super

foods, and launched her own full-time practice.

She’s also graduated from several institutions

including the University of Bridgeport, Pan

American School of Natural Medicine, the

Canadian School of Nutrition, and the

University of Integrated Medicine.

But Nance has never been one to rest on

her laurels. She works one week each month at

the Southampton Centre For Wellness—a full

service wellness centre in Southampton,

Ontario that provides the latest in healing

medical technology and natural treatments. In

addition, she’s published over 100 books and

articles, and spoken around the world on the

subject of natural medicine.

In terms of the future, Nance is hoping

to spread the word about natural medicine by

training other like-minded practitioners. In

1995, she founded the Ancient Journeys School

of New Medicine Association based on ancient

traditional medicines and new technologies.

Nance’s school—and the field of natural

medicine—has seen a lot of growth in recent

years. And according to Nance, that’s becoming

more and more important as time goes on.

“Our medical doctors and professionals

are simply overworked these days,” she says.

“But with the help of doctors in the natural

medicine community, we can lighten the load

on our medical professions and work together to

create a patient-focused health care system.

That’s what makes natural medicine so

necessary.” HWS

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Why Avatar Didn’t Win the Oscar 9Why Avatar Didn’t Win

the Oscar:

Psychologist, Dr. Jeffrey Fine

Asserts: The Corporate World

is Bulldozing America

When Katherine Bigelow’s The Hurt

Locker won for “Best Picture,” many believed

that James Cameron’s Avatar had been robbed.

Speculation focused on Oscar politics and the

directors’ ill-fated marriage. But noted

psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Fine says the reason is

simpler: Avatar didn’t win because the

Academy missed the movie’s deeper meaning

and chose a “real-life” film instead.

Those who’ve argued that Avatar

mimics Dances With Wolves or Pocahontas

prove Dr. Fine’s point. “The message in Avatar

is not a simplistic return to nature or to a

previous evolutionary stage,” he argues, adding,

“It may be the next leap in the evolution of

consciousness, and the only one that may hold

the promise of survival.”

Pointing to the greed and cynicism that

not only mark much of American culture, but

have hardened American hearts, he says that

unless we wake up to Avatar’s message,

humanity will be lost. “This film should be seen

by every man, woman and child” he says,

suggesting that parents should take their teens

and tweens to see it and discuss hidden

meanings. “I see you," for example, comes from

the Sanskrit Namaste, which translates to: "The

God in me sees the God in you" or “I see myself

in your eyes.”

Like Star Wars, Avatar also appeals to

our collective unconscious, or world soul. The

Na’vi experience of unity of consciousness with

other beings, all of which (themselves included)

are really just manifestations of One Awa, or

Yahweh -- echoing our ancestors’ belief in an

interconnected, ever changing intelligent web of

life, symbolized by the World Tree.

Unfortunately, says Dr. Fine; Avatar’s

“everything is connected” message lies in

glaring contrast with the culture of separation

most Americans experience. Focusing on a rise

of the feminine, and the importance of bonding,

this movie offers a blissful alternative to a world

where mothers are devalued, and babies sent to

day care at the ripe old age of six weeks.

In the end, Dr. Fine concludes; this film

is about standing at a crossroads: What do we

choose for our children; commercial

materialism or reconnection with all life?

“Sadly,” says Dr Fine, “the bulldozers in Avatar

represent what corporate, modern life have done

to us -- steamrolling our soul and

consciousness.”

A former student of the famed Joseph

Chilton Pearce, and a member of the

Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology

and Health, Dr. Fine says we can help combat

this separation by engaging in conscious child-

centered parenting. He suggests that new

mother’s breastfeed, sleep with their babies,

connect with nature, and engage in simple low-

tech creative play.

His book, THE ART OF CONCIOUS

PARENTING: The Natural Way to Give Birth,

Bond With, And Raise Healthy Children (which

he wrote with his wife, Dalit Fine, M.S.) has

been praised by child development experts

worldwide. For information:

www.thenewparenting.com Contact:

[email protected]

A new approach to creating,

rediscovering, and renewing the intimate

bonds between parents and children

• Explains the importance of bonding

with your child in utero and the physical and

mental preparation needed even before

conception

• Shows how “green parenting”--

breast-feeding, contact with nature, and low-

tech creativity--can enhance your child’s life

Our first days and months of life are critical in

forming the attitudes we bring into adulthood and in structuring the very roots of our

personality. Simple bonding techniques--long forgotten in our modern world but stemming

from the age-old customs of indigenous peoples--are at the core of a new model of

conscious parenting that can produce happy and well-adjusted children. These practices

also help parents experience an increased joy and intimacy both with their child and with

each other.

Based on obstetric and psychological evidence, Jeffrey and Dalit Fine reveal how

bonding begins in utero and that the physical and mental preparation of both the father and

mother, even before conception, sets the tone for the future well-being of the child. They

show how sustained physical contact and simple ways of consciously interacting with your

infant--eye contact with the newborn, baby-wearing instead of stroller use, and co-

sleeping--have an observable positive effect. They also show that the “green parenting”

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provide a more hands-on and intimate approach to parenting but also are more economical

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From The ‘X’ Zone Newsroom 11Man arrested after

claiming to be federal

bounty hunter, police sayBy ANNE JUNGEN

A La Crosse man with dreams of being a federal

agent now faces charges that accuse him of

impersonating a bounty hunter.

Kevin Shirel forfeited his leather-cased

fugitive recovery agent identification card,

badge and squad car lights after his arrest for

claiming to work also as a federal agent and

undercover drug investigator, according to a La

Crosse police report.

"You know where I live. I will abide by

what you say. I just wanted some meaning in my

life," he told investigators.

Shirel, 47, flashed his badge and

holstered handgun in February and March at

Payday Loan Store, 4009 Mormon Coulee

Road, where employees believed he worked in

law enforcement, according to the report.

Surveillance video showed him pointing

the gun at two employees Feb. 27.

In mid-January, Shirel used his white

sport utility vehicle equipped with squad lights

and a K-9 sticker to stop a vehicle near Losey

Boulevard and Crowley Place, according to

reports. He asked the occupants for

identification after claiming to be a federal

agent.

When arrested March 12 for

impersonating a peace officer, Shirel told police

he paid $400 for a recovery agent training kit

that included a DVD, badge and book that

stated he could hold fugitives for law

enforcement.

He admitted to stopping the vehicle in

January but denied claiming to be a federal

agent "because that would be illegal," reports

stated. Shirel also said he used his badge only

once to calm a dispute between a manager and

customer at Pawn America.

Shirel explained in a typed letter to the

FBI after his arrest that he didn't remember the

incidents because prescription drugs affected

his memory. He apologized for what he called

"stupid" actions, the letter stated.

Shirel, of 515 N. Losey Blvd., is free on

a signature bond. A court date has not been set.

Torture Television: The

Game of Death

In an experiment reminiscent of a 1960s

Yale University study, French researchers have

used a fake game show pilot to test how far

people could be pushed by television. Parallels

with historical atrocities have been made by

some.

Contestants were told to zap a fellow

contestant, really an actor, with increasing

amounts of electricity for getting questions

wrong until it apparently kills him. Only 16 of

80 people refused to use the maximum voltage,

despite pleas from the ´victim´.

"They are not equipped to disobey. They

don´t want to do it, they try to convince the

authority figure that they should stop, but they

don´t manage to," said Christophe Nick, who

recorded the experiment as a documentary.

PETA Upset at Mike

Tyson for Racing Pigeons

People for the Ethical Treatment of

Animals (PETA) in NYC have appealed to city

prosecutors to investigate boxing star Mike

Tyson, claiming that his practice of pigeon

racing is cruel to animals.

Tyson´s hobby is the subject of a new

Brooklyn-based reality TV show. PETA argues

that the races could also encourage or involve

illegal gambling. Tyson has raised pigeons all

his life, but never raced them before.

A spokeswoman for Animal Planet,

where the show will be aired, says that the birds

are "cherished and respected by their owners",

including Tyson, and that there will be no

wagers set down at the races.

Prototype ´Invisibility

Cloak´ Created

Researchers from Germany and the UK

have created a prototype ´invisibility cloak´

using photonic crystals. Previous technology

allowed cloaking in two dimensions. This is the

first one to work on three dimensions.

To date, the technique has been

demonstrated by hiding a bump on a surface.

Years of further work will be required before

anything of note can be shielded.

"This is very exciting, because mankind

has always thought about being invisible or

having invisibility cloaks. This is the first proof

of principle. It shows that the technique works,"

said lead researcher Tolga Ergin.

CIA concludes study of

UFOs futile — who'd trust

findings?By Erik Lacitis

Seattle Times staff reporter

It's a 17-page report available on the

CIA's Web site that acknowledges the futility of

investigating UFOs by the government agency.

It concludes, "Like the JFK

assassination conspiracy theories, the UFO

issue probably will not go away soon, no matter

what the Agency does or says.

"The belief that we are not alone in the

universe is too emotionally appealing and the

distrust of our government is too pervasive to

make the issue amenable to traditional scientific

studies of rational explanation and evidence."

Still, "CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs,

1947-90," makes for fascinating reading.

It was published in 2007 by Gerald K.

Hines, the historian for the National

Reconnaissance Office.

If you haven't heard of the NRO, it says

it "designs, builds and operates the nation's

reconnaissance satellites" and is staffed by

Department of Defense and CIA employees. It

lists its "vision" as "Vigilance from Above."

In the 17 pages, Hines has put together

what reads as an objective, thorough history of

the CIA and UFOs.

Not that anything the CIA says — well

researched as it may be by a historian — will

change many minds.

As Hines says in his report, "an

extraordinary 95 percent of all Americans" have

heard of UFOs, and "57 percent believe they are

real. Former U.S. Presidents Carter and Reagan

claim to have seen a UFO."

Chinese UFO’s Turn Out

To Be Kites!

Two pyramid shaped UFOs reported

over Xi'an, China on January 28, 2010 have

turned out to be kites!

Another example of why no one is

taking UFO researchers seriously.

Cult Act To Attempt To

Link Up With Aliens

Cult band SAINT MOTEL have teamed

up with alien hunters at the International Flying

Saucer Bureau in a bid to track down space

beings at an upcoming Los Angeles concert.

The group will mark World Contact Day

on 10 April (10) by staging a show at the

Echoplex in Los Angeles - and star watchers

will beam their live music into space.

Band frontman AJ Jackson says, "We

will be trying to finish what Albert Bender from

the International Flying Saucer Bureau

attempted to do in 1953. The goal was to make

contact with extraterrestrials via telepathic

communication.

"However, days before the 1953 World

Contact Day, Albert Bender had a mysterious

visit from some officials who scared him so

badly he disbanded the IFSB and receded into

the wilderness.

"Nobody knows exactly what happened

but it is rumoured that he was onto something -

something that Saint Motel plans to discover."

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From The ‘X’ Zone Newsroom12Stars foretell more

teaching of nonsenseDarwin and climate change

aren't the only "debates."By Leonard Boasberg

Darwin's detractors have devised what they

consider an intelligent design joining their

doubts about evolution and global warming,

according to the New York Times.

In Kentucky, for instance, a bill in the

state legislature would encourage teachers to

discuss "the advantages and disadvantages of

scientific theories," including "evolution, the

origins of life, global warming, and human

cloning."

In Louisiana, a 2008 law says the state

board of education may help teachers promote

"critical thinking" on all those subjects. The

Texas state school board requires teachers to

present all sides on evolution and global

warming.

All well and good, but not good enough.

I am in favor of critical thinking, but let's go

further. Our young people are entitled to think

about the advantages and disadvantages of other

controversial matters.

Astrology, for example. According to a

recent Pew Research Center survey, 25 percent

of Americans believe in astrology.

Being an Aries, I am open-minded on

the subject. I do not know whether the stars can

predict the future, reveal my personality, or

advise me on my love life and whether I ought

to buy or sell securities. And I do not know if

the zodiac can explain why I burst into maniacal

laughter when I read that one out of four

Americans believes in astrology.

In any case, though, the fact that one out

of four Americans believes in anything surely

means it's important enough that our young

people should be taught about its advantages

and disadvantages. Right?

Which brings me to a related subject: the

controversy over whether men really landed on

the moon. I know, I know. We have seen

pictures of men allegedly walking around on the

moon. But how do we really know they are real?

I think they are real, but what I think doesn't

matter. What's important is that there is a

controversy, and our young people's minds

should be open to the pros and cons.

And what really happened on July 2,

1947, in Roswell, N.M.? According to

eyewitnesses, a flying saucer crashed on the

Foster ranch. An Air Force general, however,

declared that the wreckage was actually that of

a weather balloon, and the government has

stuck to that story all these years.

But there is considerable literature

claiming that it was in fact a flying saucer, and

that the U.S. government engaged in a massive

cover-up.

And there is the related question of

whether aliens from outer space have been

visiting our planet, abducting people, and

carrying them off to their spaceships, where

they have done unspeakable things to their

bodies before returning them.

Don't scoff. Quite a number of people

have testified to experiences like these - enough

that we must keep an open mind and have the

subject taught, pros and cons, in our classrooms.

I will not go into the matter of the

Kennedy assassination, except to suggest that

Oliver Stone's conspiratorial film about it be

shown in our classrooms, in the interest of being

as fair and balanced as Fox News.

Finally, there is this matter of Einstein's

theory of relativity. Do you understand the

meaning of "E = mc2"? I thought not. Neither

do I. The scientists claim it's true, but why

should we believe scientists? Most of them

believe in stuff like global warming. []

Russia's Flying Saucer

Aerostat Set For

Production

The government of the Ulianovsk

Region in the Volga area has approved a five-

year program to produce so-called "flying

saucers" - a bizarre hybrid of a helicopter and an

aerostat.

The first such aircraft, officially named

"aerostatic thermoballasted vehicle" or simply

"Locomoskayner" after its manufacturer

LocomoSky, was presented MAKS-2009 air

show. The prototype flying saucer was seven

meters (23 feet) in diameter and was able to

transport 20 kg (44.4 lbs) of cargo.

The company, however, plans to

produce aircraft with a cargo-carrying capacity

of up to 600 metric tons or a passenger capacity

of up to 11,000 people.

It will be able to hover, perform a

vertical landing, move in a straight line with

speeds close to 100 kmph, turn around and will

need no special ground-based facilities to land.

The flying saucer will have low fuel

consumption as compared to ordinary aircraft

due to its aerodynamic form and will be able to

transport outsized cargoes to remote and

inaccessible areas.

According to the regional government's

estimates, the project will attract over $90

billion in investments. It will also create about

800 jobs in the region and bring some $4

million to the budget in tax payments.

LocomoSky has already started to build

a production facility site in an industrial zone in

the area. []

“Flying Saucer”

Programme Approved

Government of Ulianovsk region

recently approved the long-term project of

flying saucer construction.

The project is aimed at developing and

building a revolutionary transportation device –

aerostatic thermoballasted aerial vehicle. This

new vehicle doesn’t depend on time of the

season and provides high lifting capacity, low

fuel consumption, almost unlimited flying range

and flight duration. The vehicle doesn’t need

airdromes and complex terrestrial

infrastructure.

This project was approved by Russian

government last November. New aerial vehicle

is useful for military men, medics, rescuers, and

etc. []

It’s a bird! It’s a plane!

No, it’s Russia’s “flying

saucer”

Russia has launched a program to build

a powerful, multi-purpose airship that will

certainly cause many people on the ground to

take notice.

The “Locomoskayner” airship takes to

the air with nothing more than helium, but will

also have special outfitted hot air cells to

regulate its buoyancy, RIA Novosti news

agency reported.

Propulsion of the craft is provided by

several electric motors, and small wings on the

periphery of its disc-shaped hull give the

vehicle extra lift in flight. The aircrafts unusual

shape, which strikingly resembles an

unidentified flying object (UFO) also gives it

extra stability, and ability to resist wind currents

to hover for extended periods above targets on

the ground.

Varying models of the Locomoskayners

are expected to be used for the transportation of

people and cargo, as well as surveillance and

monitoring. The largest version in the works

will be able to airlift 600 tons.

The five-year project is based in the city

of Ulyanovsk, some 900 km east from Moscow.

The project’s developer, LocomoSky, plans to

generate $90 million worth of investment.[]

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The mystery of the silent

aliensMichael Hanlon, contributor

Sixty years ago, space aliens were the

preserve of lunatics and eccentrics, thanks to

decades of sci-fi schlock, flying-saucer

nonsense and Lowellian fantasies of Martian

canals. Then, in 1950, came Enrico Fermi and

his paradox - "Where the hell is everyone?" -

and, 10 years later, the first attempts to put the

search for ET on a scientific footing, courtesy of

Frank Drake, who pointed a radio telescope at

Tau Ceti and heard... silence.

Since then, a modestly funded

programme to detect alien radio transmissions

has stepped up a gear, and we have made

significant astronomical discoveries pertinent to

the question of alien life. Despite this, Fermi's

paradox has deepened, as the sheer size and

antiquity of the universe has become

increasingly apparent.

Today it is rare to meet an astronomer

who doesn't believe that the universe is teeming

with life. There is a feeling in the air that light

will soon be shed on some of science's most

fundamental questions: is Earth's biosphere

unique? Do other minds ponder the universe?

In April, the world will celebrate the

quinquagenary of SETI, the search for

extraterrestrial intelligence, so it seems a good

time to take stock of the silence. Three new

books tackle the issue in three different ways.

One, an immensely readable investigation of the

SETI enterprise (with a surprising conclusion);

the second, a technical guide to what we should

be looking for and how; and the third, a left-

field argument that the alien question has

already been answered.

In The Eerie Silence, Paul Davies - who

makes a living tackling the biggest questions of

life, the universe and everything - begins with

the assumption that the universe should be full

of life. There are more stars out there than there

are grains of sand on all the Earth's beaches, and

now that more than 400 planets have been found

orbiting other stars, we can be almost certain

that most stars have planets. Surely our Earth is

not unique.

But while the odds against life seem to

be shortening, thanks to those exoplanets, it is

now pretty clear that our part of the galaxy, at

least, is not a hive of obvious alien activity. The

cosmos may be buzzing with life, or even with

intelligence, but it is not Star Trek out there.

Perhaps we are looking in the wrong

way, muses Davies. At the core of his rather

wonderful book is a list of imaginative

alternatives to the current focus on radio signals

from nearby stars - a search that is, he claims,

shackled by anthropocentric assumptions and

innate conservatism, and ripe for a shake-up.

Rather than expecting to stumble upon a

high-power radio transmission aimed directly at

Earth, we might look for ghostly neutrino

signals or messages encoded in the otherwise

clockwork light flashes from pulsars. We should

also be on the lookout for alien life forms - or

their probes - closer to home, and search for

circumstantial evidence that aliens are here, or

at least were here, perhaps millions of years

ago. Beacons in the asteroid belt, perhaps, bits

of ancient machinery left on the moon, or

suspicious polygonal craters. Maybe ET will

tune into the internet: the ieti.org website has

been set up to allow them to do exactly that.

Not all the arguments here totally

convince. Davies assumes aliens will be, well,

alien: slithery tentacled things with seven eyes,

and so forth. Actually there may be good

reasons, espoused by the University of

Cambridge biologist Simon Conway-Morris,

why ET may be more like us than many

imagine. And I disagree with Davies that the

physical appearance of our putative neighbours

is of no interest. Humans are visual creatures.

It would help if we knew just how life

got started on Earth, and where. We know

genesis happened early, when Earth was a very

different place to what it is today, and this marks

the starting point for James Kasting's rather

technical account of what makes a habitable

planet and how we should go about finding such

bodies. Kasting too often eschews everyday

language and resorts to scientific shorthand,

even if no accuracy is gained and some clarity is

lost. But, this gripe aside, there are nuggets

here.

For one, Kasting dismisses some of the

"rare Earth" arguments put forward by Peter

Ward and Don Brownlee a decade ago. He

argues persuasively that Earth's large moon and

strong magnetic field are red herrings; neither is

a prerequisite for life. The second part of his

book is a detailed account of the search for

Earth-like exoplanets, and prospects for future

success.

For a few scientists, the alien question

has already been answered. Not by the UFO

loonies but by the Viking landers which, 34

years ago, produced startling results when they

baked and wetted samples of Martian soil.

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End of the World NOT Coming 15The mystery of the silent

aliensMichael Hanlon, contributor

Continued from age 14

In We Are Not Alone, Dirk Schulze-

Makuch and David Darling flesh out the

argument that the landers, which touched down

in 1976, probably did find life. The mainstream

explanation for the initial apparently positive

findings - some unusual abiotic Martian soil

chemistry - does not, the book claims, hold up.

And the Vikings' gas chromatograph-mass

spectrometer, which found no organics in the

heated soil, leading scientists to rule out the

discovery of life, may have malfunctioned and

never tested any soil at all.

Their case for Martian life is fairly

compelling; less so, their cases for life on Titan

and other moons of the gas giants. Perhaps the

most convincing case is for a biosphere 50

kilometres above the scorching surface of

Venus. The title is perhaps misleading: "not

alone" implies intelligent company, not

microbes.

However many places there are out there

where life could survive, a habitable planet is

not the same as an inhabited one, as Kasting

points out. And, as Davies writes, we should no

more assume that evolution tends towards

intelligence than it does towards the elephant's

trunk. There were likely dinosaurs as clever as

cats, yet in all those millions of years not one

reptile learned how to farm or make fire.

When drawing conclusions about the

probability of alien life, we must always

remember that when it comes to hard data we

have a sample size of precisely one. We have to

date seen no signals and no messages, and

found no microbes: nothing, as Davies says,

looks fishy at all. Furthermore, we see no sign

of a galactic conquest by self-reproducing von

Neumann machines - proof alone, say some,

that ET does not exist. Finally, we have

absolutely no idea how or where life on Earth

got started and whether this was a fluke or a

near-inevitability. If the latter, it prompts the

question of why only one genesis, something

Davies tackles in some depth.

Three books, three takes on the silence

from space. Kasting tends towards the

mainstream view: a few hundred civilisations in

our galaxy, separated by vast gulfs of space. The

title of Schulze-Makuch and Darling's well-

written and provocative book is self-

explanatory. Paul Davies confesses his desire to

conclude that they are out there - but admits that

they may not be.

Earth is odd, life odder and intelligent

life the oddest of all. There is great mystery

here, and it is not clear we are any nearer to

solving it than we were 50 years ago. Believing

in aliens is fashionable these days, but that does

not mean it is justified. It is the result, as Davies

says, of sentiment as much as discovery. We

may yet be alone. But this, the most awe-

inspiring of all possible solutions of the Fermi

paradox, is surely the one we will never be able

to prove. []

End of the World's Not

Coming in 2012, Local

Professor SaysBy KATIE HELLER

It's not the end of the world as we know

it, says a local professor taking aim at the

doomsday theory.

The Mayan doomsday prophecy is a

prediction by the ancient Mayans that the world

will end in 2012. But Kristine Larsen, an

astronomy professor at Central Connecticut

State University, is debunking that theory,

according to the Bristol Press.

Larsen is giving talks and writing

articles about how prophecies make sense only

to people wholly ignorant of science and the

Mayan calendar.

"The Mayan calendar ran in cycles. One

of their cycles is "Bak-tun," called the 'long

year' or 'great year,' which is 144,000 days

long," Larsen tells the Press. "Think of it like a

decade or century ending for us. It's much

bigger than the end of the year."

According to Larsen, the current Long

Year ends in 2012, but the end of one year

predicts nothing more than the beginning of a

new one. The equivalent, she says, to looking at

our calendar ending on Dec. 31 and believing

the world will end too.

The Mayan doomsday idea is all over

the place and Larsen has a theory on where it

began. She believes it started with a man named

Jose Arguelles, a believer in the Harmonic

Convergence, which was supposed to end the

world in August 1987 after other planets in our

solar system lined up in a certain way, the Press

reports.

She also has a there an idea of the kind

of reaction doomsday believers will have when

they wake up on either New Year's Day 2013 or

Dec. 22, 2012, the day after the winter solstice.

"Some people will take credit for it, like

they always do -- 'it was because I prayed, it was

because I made a sacrifice,' In 1910, Halley's

Comet came astronomically close to earth.

People committed suicide. One man in

California somehow managed to nail himself to

a wooden cross -- don't ask me how -- and

offered himself as a sacrifice for the planet.

Fortunately, someone found him in time, and

took him to get medical care," Larsen tells the

Press.

"My biggest fear is someone will be

hurt, either by their own hand or someone's

else's," Larsen said. []

California company

cashes in on end of the

world fear

To survive the predicted Mayan calendar

end – Vivos is offering underground shelters

around the U.S. for about 3,000 people who can

then run the rest of the planet.

Vivos is running a countdown on their

website – 1,000 days remaining – yet, it claims

the shelters are not just for the so-called end of

time in 2012. Well, if the world doesn’t end

then, you can always use the shelter later.

“Millions of people believe that we are

living in the “end times”. Many are looking for

a solution to survive future Earth devastating

events,” the company says on its web site.

“Eventually, our planet will realize another

devastating catastrophe, whether man-made, or

a cyclical force of nature. Disasters are rare and

unexpected, but on any sort of long timeline,

they’re inevitable.”

“The accepted solution to most of the

threat scenarios is to find underground shelter,”

it says.

Now, the company says it is building a

$200 million shelter known as Vivos – the Latin

word for to ‘live.’

“The Vivos complexes are deep-

underground, airtight, fully self-contained blast

proof shelters, designed to survive virtually any

catastrophe or threat scenario including: natural

disasters, a nuclear blast, chemical and

biological weapons, or even widespread social

anarchy,” it says.

Each facility costs more than $10

million. Each shelter will house 172 to 200

people for up to a year.

Members who are also co-owners, will

reside in furnished living quarters, with semi-

private bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens.

Don’t worry if you’re one of those living below

about getting bored with the menu abundant

supply of gourmet foods for 1 year. That

includes gourmet coffee.

Unlike Noah’s Ark, animals aren’t the

main focus, but there is a DNA depository

available for every living species on Earth in

Vivos refrigerated vaults.

The shelters should be finished by mid-

2011 giving plenty of time for the Mayan

deadline of life in 2012. []


Why 2012 is a hoax!16Why 2012 is a hoax!

By Himmat Singh

YOU must have heard rumours that on

Dec 21, 2012, the world will end. Some call it

the apocalypse, while others call it doomsday.

But how is it possible for somebody, or

even a community, to pinpoint the exact date,

month and year, of the world’s expiration date?

Theorists fuel their claims from two separate

sources.

The first theory is based on the ancient

Mayan calendar, which comes to an abrupt end

on the above stated date.

The next claim is based on the

controversial prophecy of Nostradamus, a 16th

Century philosopher. This theory has been

gaining so much steam that it has become a part

of pop culture.

A plethora of books - fiction and non-

fiction have been written on this topic.

A film has even been created in its

“honour”.

Here are reasons why the 2012 end-of-

the-world theory is just a hoax.

Mesoamerican Calendar

This calendar stipulates that its present

cycle will conclude in December 2012.

But that doesn’t mean that the world will

come to an end as the cycle will restart.

Although many scholars believed in the

theory initially, in-depth studies suggested that

there is no reason to believe in it.

Nostradamus’ predictions

Nostradamus was a 16th Century philosopher

who wrote a collection of prophecies.

Written in rhyming quatrains, his

prophecies are very vague.

People say that he predicted the 9/11

attacks, but there isn’t proof to suggest that any

of his prophecies have come true.

Planetary collision

It is not possible that the world would end in

such a way, not on Dec 21, 2012 at least.

If there were to be an inter-planetary or

asteroid collision, scientists would have alerted

us as they track objects in outer space.

By using their deep-space probing

devices, they can calculate the trajectories of

planets and asteroids. God God works in ways

we humans know not of.

When will we die? When will our

dreams be realised? These are but a few

questions that we have no answers to. Likewise,

only God knows the answer to the question:

When will the world end? In short, I would say

that it is foolish for someone to be a believer of

the 2012 doomsday theory based on a couple of

ideologies.

Yes, the world will someday come to an

end, but that is the prerogative of the Almighty

himself. []

2012 disaster flick flooded

with flawsJerold LeBlanc

Staff writer

Wetaskiwin Times

Jumbo shrimp.

Military intelligence.

Best disaster movie ever.

Nothing like an oxymoron to catch your

attention, especially when it's on the front of the

DVD case for the overhyped 2012, now out on

DVD.

For those few of the uninformed, 2012 is

about the end of the Mayan long count calendar,

which actually exists, which some say foretells

the end of the world.

Leave it up to Hollywood to come up

with a disaster movie loaded with more special

effects that would make high-tech guru James

Cameron (he of Avatar fame) a tad jealous.

Don't get me wrong, the jaw-dropping

special effects are the real star of the movie.

While John Cusack has the leading role

of Jackson Curtis, I firmly believe that you

could have put Madonna – yes, Madonna – in

the starring role, and still provide enough kick

at the box office to make even the most grizzled

board member laugh all the way to the bank.

The other major flaw was casting '70s

Hollywood star George Segal (Fun With Dick

and Jane), who is 76 years old.

I kept expecting to see Steve McQueen

as a firefighter, a la 1974s Towering Inferno, or

any other cheesy disaster flick from that era.

There are, however, some outstanding

roles by the supporting cast, specifically Woody

Harrelson as Charlie Frost, a Doomsday radio

host prophet, who gets the last laugh for all

those years people have called him crazy.

Oh wait, I'm talking about Harrelson's

career as Woody the bartender on that '80s

sitcom Cheers.

While a big budget movie demands big

budget stars, people like Danny Glover are

wasted in there supporting cast roles.

Glover, a black U.S. president, does

what every politician should do in time of crisis

– step aside and adhere to the mantra every

woman and child first.

At least that' what should have

happened.

Special effects aside, 2012 gives

viewers a chance to play a Hollywood version

of Where's Waldo as some of the brightest

minds of our time are gathered up – sort of like

preserving the human race.

And including the entire world –which

means every creed, class and race on this planet

–was a nice touch.

Yet, leave it up to the U.S. government

to treat most of the Earth's population like

unicorns, or those who scoffed at Noah for

building his ark.

Yet, 2012 flies in the face of the Bible

itself when God told Noah that He would never

again destroy the world with a flood.

Apparently, those Hollywood types

either don't read their hotel Bibles as they travel

from city to city, or they are, in fact, a bunch of

heathens. []

Will Earth pass through

the galactic plane in 2012?

According to the computational wizard

Jean Meeus (page 301-303 of Mathematical

Astronomy Morsels), the solstice points were in

alignment with the galactic equator as recently

as the year 1998.

In other words, the 2012 alignment isn’t

unique. Consider the view from our local star,

the sun. As seen from the sun, Earth crosses the

Milky Way’s galactic plane (also called the

galactic equator) twice a year, every year.

Or consider the view from Earth. As

seen from Earth, the sun crosses the galactic

plane – also called the galactic equator on our

sky – twice a year, every year. All of this is just

part of Earth’s normal motion, as projected on

our sky’s dome, as we travel around the sun.

Quite by coincidence, the ecliptic – the

projection of the Earth’s orbital plane onto the

stellar sphere – intersects the galactic plane near

the solstice points. That’s why these points are

so near each other on our sky’s dome.

However, it’s true that the sun on the

December solstice doesn’t return to the same

exact spot in front of the backdrop stars every

year. The solstice point slowly but surely moves

westward through the stars at about one degree

per every 72 years. (For reference, the sun’s

diameter equals about 1/2 degree.)

Therefore, the solstice point moves

about 30 degrees westward every 2,160 years.

By the year 2269, the December solstice point

will cross into the constellation Ophiuchus.

Then the solstices won’t happen so near the

location of the galactic plane in our sky.

Take a look at our sky chart. If you could

see the stars during the daytime, you’d see the

sun in front of the constellation Sagittarius on

each December 21 solstice. We show Sagittarius

as a Teapot on this sky chart, because many

people are able to see that pattern. On or near

each December solstice, the sun crosses the

plane of the Milky Way galaxy above the spout

of the Teapot, a bit north of the galactic center.

Can you see that intersection? Also look for the

various M-objects along the galactic equator, as

shown on our chart. Those are star clusters in

the star-crowded plane of the galaxy. []

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Wake Up and Smell the Science, Hollywood! 17Wake Up and Smell the

Science, Hollywood!by Ian O'Neill

Neutrinos? You're going to kill the Earth

using... neutrinos?!

That was the thought echoing through

my brain during the November 2009 screening

of Roland Emmerich's disaster orgy, 2012.

However, I was in the minority.

At the end of that painful 158 minutes,

the filled-to-capacity midnight movie screening

erupted with applause.

What?! Everyone else enjoyed it? Did I

miss something?

Unfortunately, that's the problem, I

didn't miss anything. In my mind, I knew

neutrinos couldn't cause the Earth's interior to

boil, turning our planet into a sphere of Jello; I

knew the much fabled "galactic alignment" and

"killer solar flare" doomsday theories are bunk;

I knew the polar shift as depicted by Emmerich

was completely flawed. Don't get me started on

the tsunamis, Arks and silly plot twists.

After writing a review on the science

failings of 2012, I received a mixed bag of

comments, but the overriding sentiment was

that I needed to "suspend disbelief" and that I

shouldn't take movies so seriously.

At the American Association for the

Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in

San Diego, at a session chaired by The Science

and Entertainment Exchange director (and

Discovery News blogger) Jennifer Ouellette, a

professor from Emory University in Atlanta

shared his frustration about the science failings

in movies.

Prof. Sidney Perkowitz (also a member

of the Exchange) suggested that movies should

be allowed just one major suspension of belief

for the sake of the storyline.

Often movies that contain more than

their fair share of science failings (such as The

Core, as singled out by Perkowitz as the worst

offender), will be the least memorable movies,

whereas more accurate movies (such as Contact

and Apollo 13) will often go down in movie

history.

"Contact has one of the best depictions

of an actual scientist, and a woman to boot, ably

played by Jodie Foster. Perkowitz is also a fan

of last year's indie film Sleep Dealer, District 9,

and Moon, and Gattaca. As for the bad: The

Core takes top honors, about drilling to the

Earth's core, in order to detonate a nuclear

device that will kick-start the core's rotation.

And the giant insect aliens in Starship Troopers

would collapse under their own weight were

real insects scaled up to that size." -- The

Science and Entertainment Exchange blog.

Although "bad science" doesn't

necessarily translate into a failed movie (for

example, 2012 pulled in almost $800 million

worldwide), in my opinion it does miss an

opportunity to prove just how exciting real

science can be without having to make stuff up.

Movies can be an educational tool, why not

depict science accurately?

"That's the true power of science fiction:

not only can it entertain and inspire the next

generation of scientists, but it provides a

compelling framework in which to explore how

science fits into our culture at large, and the

inevitable ethical/philosophical questions that

accompany major breakthroughs in research." -

- The Science and Entertainment Exchange

blog.

There is the requirement for sci-fi

movies to create fictional worlds, futuristic

technologies and bizarre alien creatures, but

sticking with believable science shouldn't be

just an option. Granted, some disbelief

suspension should be expected at the movies,

but it would be nice if The Core was the

exception rather than the rule.

As one commenter said in reply to my

2012 review: "Knocking science in science

fiction movies is like shooting fish in itty-bitty

barrels with a very big gun. It's fun and can

make a big splash, but isn't very hard."

But when the movie is really bad, it

becomes a really, really small barrel. []

Stock Market 'Psychic'

Charged With Fraud by

SECCNBC / Reuters

Sean David Morton, a psychic who calls

himself "America's Prophet," apparently did not

see investigators coming when he touted

investments.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange

Commission sued Morton, 51, on Thursday on

civil fraud charges, accusing him of

fraudulently raising more than $6 million from

more than 100 investors for Delphi Investment

Group in 2006 and 2007.

"In soliciting these individuals, Morton

claimed that he would use his psychic expertise

to provide investment guidance to his

investment team, and falsely touted his

historical success in psychically predicting the

various rises and falls of the market," the

complaint filed in Manhattan federal court said.

The U.S. market regulator's lawsuit said

Morton and his wife Melissa Morton, 42,

diverted investor money, including at least

$240,000 to their own nonprofit religious

organization, Prophecy Research Institute

(PRI).

It said Morton enticed investors through

a monthly Delphi Associates Newsletter, a web

site and public appearances in New York City

and elsewhere. He also broadcasts on a

nationally syndicated radio show with an

average audience of nearly 3 million listeners,

the SEC said.

It quoted from a July 20, 2006

newsletter, which said: "I have called ALL the

highs and lows of the market, giving EXACT

DATES for rises and crashes over the last 14

years."

Morton is representing himself and

could not immediately be reached for comment

by phone or email at his Hermosa Beach,

California, organization Heaven & Earth.

Morton hosted "financial survival"

workshops at the Mount Shasta Resort in

California in September 2007, where he told

prospectives investors he could make them

"piles of money," according to the complaint.

Morton placed investor's money in shell

companies Vajra, 27 Investments and Magic

Eight Ball, controlled by him and his wife. She

was also named as a defendant in the complaint.

"While Morton promised investors that

all of their funds would be used to trade foreign

currencies, in fact, he invested only about half

with foreign currency trading firms," the SEC

said.

The Mortons are defendants in two

pending private civil actions, the SEC said. The

market regulator is asking the court to order

disgorgement of any illgotten gains and fines

under securities laws.

The case is SEC v Sean David Morton et

al, U.S. District Court for the Southern District

of New York, No. 101720. []


2012: The Nonsense of It All 182012: The Nonsense of It

AllWritten by David P. Kuhlman

In the world in which we live, money

and the power of the almighty dollar have

always been at the forefront. It seems the more

money a person makes the more socially

attractive a person becomes. This has led people

from all walks of life in search of the quickest

and simplest ways to make their fortune. In

2009 the United States suffered one of the most

crippling economic crises since Black Monday

in 1929. The country went from a free spending

economic giant, to a frugal and meek money

hoarding nation reeling on its heels from the

devastating blow of a society that was

uncontrollably over-spending. I must say that

there have been numerous institutions and

products that folded under the strain, which I

never thought would. People stopped buying the

products they all were so use to, and

unnecessary buying was halted immediately.

The things we think of in the sense of

buying are usually material and tangible goods.

We saw a major decline in this area of spending.

Most every market that sold these items were

shaken hard, and if they did not collapse they

had to seriously rework their agendas to bypass

the near inevitable crash. One thing selling

however was unaffected by the turmoil of

economics, a product that has been selling for

years to people all over the world. In times of

hardship this product gains in momentum in

sales rather than falls, and the seller continues to

rake in money at other peoples expense. The

item for sell is fear itself.

In our society it seems most are suckers

for the extreme of speculation and raw

propaganda. Aren’t we? We are never content

with just life, which already holds its own set of

mind-blowing moments and problems that we

all must deal with everyday. No, we need more!

Most humans are not happy unless they have

placed more confusion and extreme uncertainty

upon their lives in daily doses. Why? Do we

thrive on gloom and doom? This type of

behavior has been going on since man has been

in existence. The need for extreme concern or

worry in practically trivial situations during

otherwise calm times ushers in fear in people all

over the world and has been the norm; today it

is no different by far. Why do people

continuously indulge and worry about such

irrational events even though we have no proof

of their legitimacy? This is the million-dollar

question and it makes no sense at all. Humans

live their lives not looking for the good life has

to offer now, but what may or may not lie ahead

to cause a complete catastrophe for all the

inhabitants of planet Earth…a global

awakening.

Throughout time, in many of our recent

past, there have been those who rise out of the

ashes to predict irrational and destructive

scenarios that mankind will unavoidably have to

face. The apocalypse. A time of complete chaos

and unspeakable cataclysm, that will leave all of

earths civilizations either extinct or on the brink

of complete demise, an event of global

proportions. I will not argue the fact that these

type scenarios have happened at times in the

earth’s long existence. There have been proven

eradication of many civilizations in history,

such as the ancient Druids and the Mayans, as

well as complete destruction of certain life

forms on earth other than humans, which paved

the way for new beginnings of life on this

planet. One of the most recognized of these is

the demise of the giant lizards or dinosaurs that

inhabited this planet for millions of years. It is

clear that man existed sometime after this age

and that the time of man was a new era in the

earth’s timeline. Could have man existed

without the destruction of the dinosaur?

Possibly, but it was not in the great plan of

earths development, at least it isn’t a part of our

current knowledge. Possibly one day we may

find that man did indeed exist with these great

lizards of prehistoric times, but for now we have

no evidence. We know there have been many

changes over time, this is very evident, but is it

possible for one to predict such events for our

future, the demise and eradication of all

mankind? We speculate that the dinosaurs’ reign

was cut short on earth by a giant asteroid that

impacted the earth’s surface, which forced an

ice age and the immediate cessation of life, or

was it something else? The worries of this

happening again still exist today, and they are

used as a hypothetical end of life scenario for all

mankind. The dinosaurs’ extinction however

was not a predicted event due to the evident

absence of any form of written communication.

There is one event that was predicted however,

and it has been proven to have taken place just

as accounted. This event was the great flood, as

reported in the Bible. God used water to level

the earth, to cleanse it from the wickedness that

had found its way into mans life, to start a new

beginning. Could there be another ending in

store for us all?

We can use history to look back at many

people throughout time that could ‘see the

future’, and make ‘historic predictions’ of

calamity and chaos that would befall humans in

the coming ages. One of the most recognized of

these people is Nostradamus, 1503 to 1566, the

great so-called prophet, who supposedly

predicted many of the futures great catastrophes

and uprisings. Included in Nostradamus

predictions was the rise of Adolf Hitler and the

Third Reich as well as the modern day events of

the twin towers destruction of September 11,

2001 in New York by terrorist attacks. Many,

upon many claim that the writings by

Nostradamus clearly show his gift of predicting

future events, however a closer look at his

writings show that many of his writings can be

linked in a loose way to many events and not to

any one in particular. In fact, his writings or

visions were so openly written that you could

relate just about any disaster or change of

significance throughout history with his memos.

It is my belief as it is others too, that

Nostradamus was more a false prophet than

anything else. There were many upon many

predictions made by him that you rarely hear of

that were never related to anything or came to

pass in any shape or form. People can read into

any situation or prediction what they want, no

matter what the situation may be. At this point

let me comment on another area that I think is of

importance. Every time a prediction is made it

seems to always involve gloom, doom,

destruction and evil. Why not at least predict

good things that have or will happened

throughout this world’s history? It is because

sadly, man himself lives and thrives on fear

itself, a waiting for the evil end to come. This

trait seems to be as much part of the humans’

make-up as is the red blood that flows through

his veins. Lets take a look at the past regarding

speculation of the end of the world, as we know

it, and the selling of utter worldly nonsense,

which led to fear and chaos.

The year was 2800 B.C. and the oldest

surviving prediction of the end of the world was

found inscribed on an Assyrian clay tablet. It

read, “Our Earth is degenerate in these latter

days. There are signs that the world as we know

it is speedily coming to an abrupt end. Bribery

and corruption are very common.” In 1284,

Pope Innocent III predicted the second coming

of Christ was at hand in this year. He based this

on the date of the inception of the Muslim faith,

then he added 666 years to that, what is known

as the ‘Mark of the Beast’ in the Bible.




AllContinued from Page 18

In 1524, some 20,000 people panicked

by predictions made by a group of London

astrologers abandoned their homes and fled to

high ground in anticipation of a second great

flood that was predicted to overflow from the

Thames River. In 1648 a close study of the

kabbalah, the Turkish rabbi Sabbatai Zevi

predicted that the Messiah would make a

miraculous return, and that his name would be

Sabbatai Zevi. The year 1666 brought much

anxiety and false predictions due mainly

because of the evident number 666 in the date.

In 1792, the Shakers predicted the end of the

world, as they knew it. Throughout history

many individual groups and faiths have

speculated about the end of days. The Jehovah’s

Witness group have predicted this many times.

Predictions were made in 1914, 1915, 1918,

1919, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975, and as recent as

1994. In 1844 Baptist preacher William Miller

predicted the return of Christ and the rapture in

upstate New York on October 22 of that year.

This has become known as the “Great

Disappointment” in history.

Some of the most memorable

predictions of the end of the world made within

my lifetime, and that I can recall from

experience began in the year 1988. In this year

there were many predictions made by many

separate groups and individuals as to why the

world would end in this year. A major book that

was written was titled “ 88 Reasons Why Christ

Will Return in 1988”, by Edgar Whisenant. In

1994, Harold Camping wrote a book titled “ Are

You Ready?” It predicted Christ would return

in September 1994. Oddly enough, this same

man has set a new date for apocalypse since his

first one missed its mark. The date for the doom

of man has been rescheduled for October 21,

2011!

The year 1997 will be remembered well

by many because of the extremes that were gone

to regarding the possible end of the world. This

was the year of the comet ‘Hale-Bopp’ and it

gave rise to many end-of-the-world theories. All

of these scenarios were based on a mistaken

observation by amateur astronomer Chuck

Shramek. A cult group known as the ‘Heavens

Gate’ seized on these combined rumors and

speculations as the their signal to commit mass

suicide in March of that year. The belief was

that a UFO was trailing the comet within its tail,

and after these brainwashed people committed

their own deaths, they would be taken aboard

this craft and be transformed immortally. This

year was also said to be the 6000th anniversary

of creation, which was supposedly calculated by

Bishop Ussher who lived from 1581 to 1656.

This led to mass panic near the end of this year.

In 2000, many church fathers believed

that the earth would only last 6000 years. They

made this speculation with the six days of

creation combined with the reading in 2 Peter

3:8 in the Bible. In September 2008 based on

certain feast days and “blood moons”, many

predicted the apocalypse and rapture; this was

the birth of the Y2K panic.

As we have just seen, there have been

numerous predictions and loosely constructed

speculations regarding the end of the world, as

we know it. We also know that all of these

predictions were pure fantasy, and the

brainchild of some very questionable people

and groups all over the world. Why were these

predictions made? Where did it in history, help

our civilization as a whole? The answer is

nowhere. This brings us to today. I wish I could

say that today is different. A place where all

humans as a whole have learned from off the

wall speculations and weak assumptions, but

nothing is farther from the truth sadly to say.

Today we are approaching one of the most

monumental and radical predictions for us in

history. As I write this paper, there are many

millions of people all over this globe that are

preparing for the final day of human existence.

The day that man was supposedly destined to

meet face to face with one day, a day that has

been inscribed in the very DNA of our existence

in this cosmos, the unavoidable end of the world

December 21, 2012, the certain day of the

apocalypse and the cessation of life as we know

it on this earth.

The date December 21, 2012 is now

recognized as a date of some significance by all

who see it, whether they buy into the

predictions made or not. This day, other than

being just four days prior to Christmas, has a

huge following for other reasons. It has been

postulated that this very day will be the

unavoidable last day of all things that we have

come to know on earth, and very possibly the

last day of all mankind itself. I really can’t

remember the first time I heard about this

prediction myself, but it hasn’t been too long

ago. As the reader knows I write articles mainly

regarding the UFO phenomenon. During my

research into this phenomenon I was inevitably

going to run into this event sooner or later.

Many tie UFOs with the coming predictions of

2012, a tie I do not support in any shape form or

fashion. To be honest, when I first saw the

reports on 2012 I was not moved greatly at all,

neither did I have a willingness or secret desire

to join in on the festivities regarding this issue.

Like many other times as stated before, people

are making these predictions hand over fists,

and I am not someone who jumps on the

‘bandwagon’ to satisfy others. However, as

more time passed, more and more information

has been brought to light on the situation, so I

decided to take a cautious, yet educated and

level headed look at these predictions that have

so many in an unsettled state.

It seems the notion that the world would

end on or about December 21, 2012, only some

twenty-four months from now, has been

predicted by an ancient civilization, one whose

existence has been long gone. The ancient

Mayans known as a people of great intellect and

technology for their time was a civilization of

meticulous calculations. They were a cosmic

educated society to say the least. They were

fluent with the understanding of the universe

regardless of the absence of modern day

technology that we have today. They used the

stars and all heavenly bodies as their guide in

the early days of mankind. They were near

perfect on the calculation of an earth year as

well as moon phases and seasonal changes. I

think one of the things that has catapulted the

Mayan knowledge into our mainstream world,

is their near perfect discoveries about our world

in the light of present day. Today, we are still

puzzled as to how these ancient people could

have known so much, with such little to work

with. I will be the first to say that it is

fascinating to me on just how much these

people knew to be fact about our planet and

universe as a whole.

The Mayans were timekeepers. This was

their expertise and this is what they based their

lives upon day by day and year by year. They

used the heavens as their clocks, and gazed

towards them routinely. Based on cycles the

Mayans kept written record of events. They

used the stars to map out timelines and

important dates in time that had significance to

them and their survival on earth. To know so

much, these ancient star dwellers had to spend

countless hours studying the skies above, and

that is mainly all they did. They created

calendars of events. Throughout the years only

a portion of the Mayan written materials have

survived the thousands of years. The books

known as the Dresden Codex, the Madrid

Codex, the Paris Codex, and the Grolier Codex

have made it into modern day times. The

Dresden Codex also known as the Codex

Dresdenis contains a multitude of astronomical

calculations and eclipse-prediction tables, plus

twenty different calendars. It is this book or

codex that many say has pinpointed the end of

the world.

The galactic alignment of the sun and

the earth with the center of our galaxy, the

Milky Way, takes place on December 21, 2012,

as does the end of the 5000-year cycle of the

Mayan long count calendar. This specific

calendar was used to record cycles, which

repeat over and over throughout time. There are

five cycles within this timeframe and four of

these have already expired. On 12-21-12, the

fifth one ends. These events were recorded in

ancient Mayan writings, and we know this

because we have them in our possession today.

The Mayans kept no more writings or records

after this date. Why? Does this represent the

end? Will this cause a great catastrophe and the

loss of nearly ninety percent of all life on earth

that day? Many believe it will. If the Mayans

were able to record what is happening today in

our world over two thousand years ago, why

would they be wrong about the apocalypse

taking place on the recorded date? The fact is

that man has no idea what the alignment will

hold. It has been six thousand years since the

last one, so no one in recorded history has a

definite answer, but there are many who have

taken this information to the edge of our

existence. There are many theories of what

might happen, such as a polar shift of the earth

causing floods and destruction of everything, to

huge solar flares from the Sun that will leave the

earth and all that exists or dwells here to nothing

but a smoldering cinder. Another hypothesis is

that the rapture will take place on this date. As

the time of 2012 draws closer, I am sure more

tales of unimaginable carnage will surface, no

doubt.


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The fact is that society has bought

another piece of pure and random speculation,

which has brought fear and anxiety to many.

Yes, the Mayans were a brilliant group of

people. But could they predict the future?

Hardly, I think. In perspective, yes the Mayans

knew a great deal about our physical world,

quite possibly more than we actually do today,

but they have not predicted the apocalypse. The

apocalypse is quite simply unpredictable, why?

One must read the Bible to find these answers.

Gods’ words regarding the end of the world is

the only words that will hold true in the end.

God clearly stated that no man knows the time

or the day for the end, no man. This includes

everyone that has ever existed on this planet

then and now. So, why do these people come

forward and make such bold statements

regarding our end? Simply because they are

unaware that the most important questions

about the end times have already been written

down right in front of them, in the Bible.

It is true that we have found ancient

writings and art from a long vanished

civilization, these writings show much about

our present day world, but the fact that they

show us our doomsday has been misconstrued

by our society, a society that thrives on

manipulation, money, and fear. People will sell

you anything if you show an interest to buy it.

They may not even stand behind what their

selling as long as it benefits them at some point,

and totally forsaking what harm it could do in

the end to others and eventually their selves.

People are making money hand over fist

regarding this 2012 farce at your expense. Yes,

I think many do actually believe that 2012 holds

the apocalypse, but others have just jumped on

the bandwagon to make a buck. Regardless of

the intent of these people, whether it is because

they truly believe and fear the coming future, or

they just want what they can get out of society,

the fact is they are both wrong. As 2012

approaches more and more speculation and lies

will surface. More stories of great cataclysm

that will befall the human race will make their

way out of the depths of people’s troubled

minds, and many more people will make their

preparations for the coming of the apocalypse.

No doubt there will be many fooled as well as

many fools that will wake up to a normal day on

December 22, 2012.

I have written this article in hopes that

many will read and take to heart just how fast

news can be altered and misconstrued. People

all over the world are at least pondering the date

of December 21, 2012 whether they feel

strongly about it or not. I hope all of you will

take the time to read a little about the real

coming of the apocalypse that is written in the

Bible. The Bible is Gods word, and it is the

same now as it was then. There are many real

prophecies written in the Bible, for God is the

only true prophesier. I also hope that people will

not go to unnecessary extremes regarding these

false claims about 2012. Do not put your lives in

the hands of man, let God guide you.

The End

N.J. woman sues her

former psychic for fraudBY PEGGY WRIGHT • GANNETT / THE

DAILY RECORD

A Randolph woman has sued her former

psychic for fraud, alleging the woman took

$160,000 of her money, including borrowing

her credit card to buy jewelry, by exploiting her

depression and making her believe she might

die without her assistance.

Filed by attorney Noel C. Crowley on

behalf of Randolph resident Karen Brown, the

lawsuit accuses psychic Paula Lee, also known

as Pauline Lee, of fraud and deceit and seeks

return of $160,000.

Lee could not immediately be reached,

as an Internet website listing her as a psychic in

Randolph was not working.

"My client was preyed upon by this

person with her superstitious tales and scary

warnings," Crowley said. He said he believes

that Lee may be in the process of moving her

psychic office.

Before she filed the suit — made public

Tuesday in Superior Court, Morristown —

Brown filed a complaint for fraud with

Randolph police in November 2008 but was

advised it was a civil matter.

The suit states that Brown in December

2004 saw a sign for Lee's business, advertising

help in marriage and relationships, and went to

her because she was feeling sad and vulnerable

about her marriage and on medication for

depression.

Brown became convinced that Lee "had

genuine psychic abilities, powers and the ability

to influence future events," the suit said. She

claimed she could communicate with departed

souls and convinced Brown she was under a

curse and "dark forces were obstructing her

efforts to find happiness," the suit said.

Lee, allegedly, also claimed her psychic

powers had medicinal value "by saying the

cancer which plaintiff contracted, and which

had necessitated radical surgery, would have

been fatal without" Lee's efforts, the suit said.

Lee allegedly convinced Brown to give

her money that she promised to return, and

borrowed her credit card to buy an $11,000 ring,

the suit said.

She also used Brown's credit card to buy

a miniature scale model of a church that cost

$12,000, persuaded her to turn over a charm

bracelet and pearl necklace valued at $3,000

together, and got her to co-sign a loan for a

Chevrolet Suburban vehicle, the suit said.

Monies were turned over from Brown to

Lee between December 2004 and April 2008,

the lawsuit said.

Brown became disillusioned when none

of Lee's specific predictions came true so she

began demanding back the extra money she had

extended.

Brown was refunded $19,000 of the

$160,000 she believes she is owed, but she also

received an e-mail from a person writing on

Lee's behalf that warned Brown might die if the

psychic returned money because she would stop

her ministrations, the lawsuit said. []

Woman Arrested Over

Psychic Scams, Strange

Rituals, & False ProtectionPublished: Mar 17, 2010

Florida police say a professed psychic

not only allegedly bilked a female client, but

also convinced her to coat her body in gel and

cellophane before jogging.

The Broward County Sheriff's Office

alleges Gina Marie Marks bilked the client of

nearly $300,000 in cash and other items.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel said

Tuesday among the allegations made against

Marks is that she convinced the client to give

her thousands of dollars in gift cards to help

prevent the client's father from having a heart

attack.

Marks, 37, is also accused of convincing

the client, whose identity was not released, to

perform a series of strange rituals, including

coating her body in gel and cellophane before

going for a six-mile jog.

The alleged events took place during a

19-month period that ended in February.

The Sun-Sentinel said Marks is charged

with illegally obtaining property worth more

than $50,000, grand theft and probation

violations.

Randolph woman sues her

psychic, claiming $160,000

fraud

RANDOLPH — A Randolph woman

has sued her former psychic for fraud, alleging

the woman took $160,000 of her money —

including borrowing her credit card to buy

jewelry — by exploiting her depression and

making her believe she might die without her

assistance.

Filed by attorney Noel C. Crowley on

behalf of Randolph resident Karen Brown, the

lawsuit accuses psychic Paula Lee, also known

as Pauline Lee, of fraud and deceit and seeks

return of $160,000.

Lee could not immediately be reached,

as an Internet website listing her as a psychic in

Randolph was not in working order.

''My client was preyed upon by this

person with her superstitious tales and scary

warnings,'' Crowley said. He said he believes

that Lee may be in the process of moving her

psychic office.

The suit, filed in state Superior Court,

Morristown, states that Brown in December

2004 saw a sign for Lee's business, advertising

help in marriage and relationships, and went to

her because she was feeling sad and vulnerable

about her marriage and on medication for

depression.

Brown became convinced that Lee ''had

genuine psychic abilities powers and the ability

to influence future events,'' the suit said. She

claimed she could communicate with departed

souls and convinced Brown she was under a

curse and ''dark forces were obstructing her

efforts to find happiness,'' the suit said.

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Werewolves Gone?Did the arrival of Darwin's

theory of evolution put paid to a

widespread belief in half-human

creatures?

By Brian Regal

For most of recorded history, the half-

man, half-wolf lycanthrope reigned supreme as

the creature travellers most feared encountering

in the woods and along dark roads at night.

Numerous legends concerned werewolves – the

awful deeds they committed, how to protect

against them, how to kill them – and belief in

their reality can be found in many cultures from

ancient times to the present. But while the

werewolf still holds a place in fiction and films,

few people today actually fear meeting one in

reality. Many individuals and groups actively

search for cryptids, but there are no werewolf-

hunting organisations. So – where have all the

werewolves gone?

From the late 19th century on, anomal -

ous primates like the Yeti, Sasquatch and

Bigfoot nudged aside the wolfmen of old and

stepped forward to occupy the niche of this

fearsome man-like monster. But what accounts

for this curious transformation?

A mythology as potent as that of the

werewolf doesn’t disappear because of any

single cause – if it ever does. Superstitions die

hard, and a complex of ideas, cultural changes

and other social elements helped put an end to

the werewolf’s biological reality. One of those

elements, the appearance of Darwinian

evolution theory – centred on the idea of natural

selection and descent through modification – in

the mid-19th century, played a key role in

pushing the werewolf out of the realm of the

real. Paradoxically, while evolution helped do

away with belief in one kind of monster, it

helped give a form of scientific legitimacy to

another. The evolution from werewolf to

Bigfoot, though, did not happen quickly, but by

transitional forms.

THE SLOW DEATH OF THE WOLFMAN

The werewolf can trace its lineage back

at least to 2,000 BC. In the later Roman period,

Pliny the Elder gave it a cousin amongst the

monstrous races. The Cynocephali, or dog-

headed men, didn’t have the supernatural

accoutrements of the more fearsome werewolf.

They weren’t shape-shifters, and could be both

enemies and friends. In some versions of his

story, St Christopher was a cynocephalus.

Despite the widespread cultural acceptance of

werewolves as a reality, by the late 1500s some

European writers were questioning the concept.

While belief in witches flourished with

murderous abandon, views on werewolves had

little consistency in learned circles, and though

werewolves often found themselves associated

with witches, no werewolf ‘craze’ ever

developed. In fact, there are only a few

werewolf trials on record. As the Enlightenment

dawned, a debate ensued over whether demons

could transmute a human into a werewolf.

Philosophers and theologians wondered

whether the human soul was capable of

becoming genuinely bestial, and such

theological reservations posed the same

problems for werewolfery as evolution did two

and a half centuries later. [1] It was during this

period of scient ific revolution that

psychological, rather than physical,

explanations for lycanthropy gained currency.

The slide towards oblivion already

being experienced by werewolves took on

added momentum in 1859 with the publication

of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Evol ution

science played a complex role in the discussion

of monsters, and monsters played a complex

role in early discourse on evolution. Some who

objected to evolution pointed to mermaids and

other similar composite creatures and chuckled

that belief in evolution meant belief in the poss -

ibility of such childish and superstit ious

phantasms. Others argued that mermaids, the

Minotaur and sea serpents were purely

imaginary, so, in order to prove evol ution,

Darwin and his supp orters would have to

produce examples of such beasts; if none were

forthcoming, then evolution must be a sham.

Anti-transmutationists argued that the world

should teem with such creatures if Darwin and

his followers’ ideas had any merit. Some

naturalists countered that evolution actually

supp orted the notion of mythical creatures like

satyrs and sea serpents, offering plausible

scientific explanations for legends from the

past.

Others, though unwilling to accept

mermaids, argued that even more wond rous

creatures existed as a result of evolution.

Archaeopteryx, for example, no less fan tastic

than a hippogriff, existed in the fossil record.

The dinosaurs and long-necked plesiosaurs

bestrode the land and swam the seas just as

majestically as anything from Greek mythology.

[2] Most evolutionists, however, dismissed

monsters as charming creatures of folklore and

superstition, which Darwin had helped do away

with. In 1865, Francis Buckland expressed the

opinion that to “anyone with the slightest

pretence to knowledge of natural history [a

mermaid is] a decided make-up”. [3]

Evolutionary biologists felt proud that

their work brought a deeper and more profound

understanding of the workings of nature so that

people would be less likely to believe in the

existence of werewolves and other wonders.

Charles Darwin himself made little mention of

monsters in his work. When he did, he referred

to hereditary mutations in plants rather than

long-toothed, hairy killers. While he didn’t

address the werewolf issue directly,

circumstantially he dismissed the idea. In 1843,

some years before the publication of the Origin,

he wrote to fellow naturalist GR Waterhouse

(1810–1888), who had just published an article

on biological links. “I never understood,”

Darwin wrote, “a half-way link, but merely one

in a long series. I think you have done good

service in pointing out how rare half-way-links

are, if indeed they exist… one cannot have a

simple species intermediate between two great

families.” [4] In general, such attitudes, along

with the view that dogs and primates followed

two very different lines of descent, suggested

they could in no way join together or one turn

into the other. Natural historians had also shown

that while various living organisms could

change their shape or colour temporarily, when

threatening or being threatened, for example,

none could shape-shift in the manner attributed

to werewolves.

The scientific method and evolutionary

theory put such a stain on monsters that by the

end of the century any attempt by naturalists to

engage with them could be seen as an

intellectual step backward – a problem which

still haunts crypto zoology today. In 1886,

Cornell University physio logist Simon Henry

Gage believed monsters and mythical creatures

had finally been put down. “Fairies are fled,” he

wrote, “the genii banished the mermaid and the

remora are captured.” [5] However, this heroic

narrative of science triumphing over darkness

and superstition is not quite as straightforward

as it appears. Science caused one monster to

whither, but another to flourish.


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Werewolves Gone?Continued from Page 24

MISSING LINKS

The first in a line of contenders for the

werewolf’s position was the ‘ape’. Classical

authors knew a number of monkeys, such as

macaques and baboons, but presented them as

physically ugly tricksters rather than monsters.

The numerous wild men of monstrous race lore

held similar positions, but had yet to be equated

with apes. The problem with the primates arose

from their physical appearance. A debate raged

about whether apes could be counted human,

part-human or not human at all. Enlightenment

philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, for

example, thought the orang-utan of Asia an

early form of human as yet uncorrupted by

modern civilisation.

Europeans at first did not understand the

various species of primates and tended to lump

them together. The term ‘Orang-Outang’

covered any primate found in the tropical zones

of the world. The Dutch anatomist Nicholas

Tulp (1593–1674) first used the term in print in

an article called “Homo Sylvestris, or Man of

the Woods” as part of his larger Observationes

Medicæ (1641). Tulp – subject of the famous

Rembrandt painting – was able to see one of the

first live primates brought to Europe, an

‘Orang-Outang’ (probably a chimpanzee) in a

local menagerie. The first thorough scientific

description of primate anatomy appeared in

British anatomist Edward Tyson’s Anatomy of a

Pygmie (1699). Working from a creature

brought from Angola (probably a bonobo), but

which had died before he acquired it, Tyson

(1650–1708) included a number of exactingly

rendered illustrations of the creat ure’s

musculature and skeleton in his book.

Part of Tyson’s reason for producing his

work focused on his desire to dispel various

mythical beliefs about creatures he felt were

misidentifications of existing, non-monstrous,

species. In this way, Tulp and Tyson’s work can

be seen as an early cryptozoological enterprise:

they strove to replace fictive creatures with

genuine ones, to take the mythical and make it

rational and scientific. Paradoxically, however,

Tyson undermined his own efforts with the life

rendering he included of his ‘Pygmie’ – never

having seen the creature alive, he depicted it in

a bipedal stance supporting itself on what is

clearly a man’s walking stick. As a result, the

image strikes the viewer as a hairy, beast-like

human.

As the debate over the extent of the

relationship between humans and apes

continued, ‘apes’ in a generic form took on a

sinister appearance as the dark and brutal other.

Europeans and Americans equated them with

people of colour rather than themselves.

Monsters – in any culture that believes in them

– take on analogous roles, usually depicting

something felt to be unsavoury. In Euro-

American culture, the ape became the focus for

fears about race, gender, empire and all the

malignant things lurking in the human psyche.

Tyson’s use of the name Pygmie and his

discuss ion of mythical animals made a temporal

connection between the Satyrs of class ical

myth, the Asian orang-utan, and the European

Wild Man; all of them had been accused of

assaulting humans, especially women, just as

werewolves once had. The orang-utan in its

Enlightenment era guise already had a long

history amongst local people as The Man of the

Woods – they saw it not as an ape or monster,

but rather as another form of human. When

Europeans encountered the animal they too,

Rousseau and caricatures aside, saw it as neither

human nor monster, but wholly ape.

Tyson also helped inaugurate the idea of

the missing link by arguing that his Pygmie fell

somewhere between apes and humans on the

Great Chain of Being. He concluded that while

humans and apes had super ficial similarities

they ultimately fell into different groups

anatomically and metaphysic ally. He did not

want to upset Christ ian sensibilities and so

strove to separ ate the two groups. Later,

contemporaries like Swedish systematist

Carolus Linnaeus tried to push the two back

together again with varying levels of success.

Naturalists of the 18th century, in their efforts to

work out the relationship between apes and

humans, still acted within a Christian

worldview and not an evolutionary one, tending

to believe in the fixity of species. This meant

that not only the non-human primates, but also

people of colour, occupied lower rungs on the

ladder leading to God, with Europeans at the

top, closest to the deity. Evolution assaulted this

notion by making all men equal regardless of

superficial differences, and by making them

relatives, if not descendants, of the apes.

FROM APES TO APE MEN

Eventually, more authentic knowledge

of foreign lands and people did away with belief

in the monstrous races. Greater scientific

knowledge of primate anatomy made the

monkeys less threatening as well, turning them

back into their clownish image, resurrected

from antiquity. These factors, along with a

general move to ‘modernity’ in the broadest

sense, saw a drop off in reports of werewolves.

The werewolf’s position was threatened but not

eliminated. It took a special new breed to unseat

the lycanthrope. In the mid-19th century the

formerly separate wild men and apes merged

into a unified whole more potent than either

separately: ‘Men-of-the-Woods’ from around

the world took on the morphology of hairy,

bipedal Ape-Men, who in turn joined with the

next challenger to the werewolf’s old position:

the caveman.

Unlike the werewolf, the ape man/cave

man arose in part from the fossil record. When

first found in Germany in 1856, Neanderthal

Man caused a sensation and a debate as to how

it should be classified – man, ape or other?

Opposition, borne out of racial concerns, arose

immediately to the idea of it as a human

ancestor. As a result, in 1908 when French

anthropologist Marcellin Boule (1861–1942)

made the first major reconstruction of a

Neanderthal based on the La Chapelle-aux-

Saints skeleton, he configured it as the classic

cave man: a stoop-shouldered brute. A 1909

illustration based on Boule’s work appeared in

the Illustrated London News showing the

Neanderthal as a malignant ape-like monster as

ferocious as, and looking disturbingly like, a

werewolf. In 1866, German evolutionist Ernst

Haeckel (1834–1919) suggested the word

Pithec anthropus (Ape man) for the as yet

undiscovered ‘missing link’ between humans

and primates; in 1894 the Dutch anatomist

Eugene Dubois used Haeckel’s term for the

fossils he discovered in Java, which he felt

fitted the part.

Starting off as bestial, dim-witted brutes,

the Neanderthals experienced a reversal of

fortune. No longer fiends to be feared, they

transformed into 1960s-style flower children, in

tune with their environment, to be admired and

even emulated. Like the monstrous races and

apes before them, the ape-man’s initial

fearsomeness began to evaporate.

Human nature still needed a monster,

though, and luckily one was available in the

form of the anomalous primate. By the mid-

20th century, the stage for Bigfoot, from a

natural history point of view, was set. Stories of

wild men did appear prior to the publication of

Darwin’s Origin of Spec ies, but with a notable

lack of ape-related accounts. Monster

enthusiasts routinely point to Native American

folklore as evid ence of sasquatch prior to the

arrival of Europeans, but these stories are

consistent with wild man stories and don’t

specific ally mention anything expressly simian

in nature as later Sasquatch and Bigfoot stor ies

do. Early European-American explorer tales of

encounters also speak of strange creatures and

wild men rather than apes. Indeed, researchers

find themselves hard pressed to find any

legends or myths with a linkage to ape-human

hybrids or composites prior to the middle of the

19th century. Yeti stories can be traced back in

Tibetan and Nepalese folklore to the 4th century

BC, but again, they are wild man stories that do

not necessarily speak of apes or monkeys. It’s

not until the debate about the primate ancestry

of humans that monstrous ape-men begin to

roam the landscape.

Because of its supposed ability to shape-

shift, the werewolf holds a unique place in

monster lore and presents problems of

classification for historians of science as well as

cryptozoologists. The werewolf’s condition

separates it from traditional composite monsters

like sea serpents or mermaids, or even Bigfoot,

who inhabit their forms permanently. The

werewolf falls into the category of part-time,

hybrid composite. It undergoes change through

a vaguely supernatural process, discounting it as

a genuine cryptid. Werewolves and anomalous

primates do share characteristics beyond the

superficial. Although Bigfoot is normally

thought to be a pastoral animal, encounter stor -

ies include some violent episodes. The Windigo

of Canada, for example, has a reputation to give

the loup-garou a run for its money, while some

monster enthusiasts argue that Sasquatch is a

shape-shifter.



A Gorilla on Mars!26Where Have All The

Werewolves Gone?Continued from Page 25

While evolution theory does not prove a

priori that Bigfoot exists — the majority of

palæoanthropologists and primatologists

discount the possibility – it does give tacit

approval to the possibility that it could exist. All

the academics who supported the existence of

the Yeti, and later Sasquatch, beginning in the

1950s, specialised in these fields. Their

approval was based less on any physical

evidence, of which none acceptable to

mainstream science existed, than on an

evolutionary theoret ical model. With Bigfoot

and its kindred the story comes full circle.

Science helped disprove the existence of

monsters such as mermaids, hippogriffs and

werewolves, but simultaneously allowed for the

appearance of monsters like Bigfoot.

Admittedly, this thesis about the demise

of the werewolf has its flaws. Darwin and

evolution did not banish belief in werewolves

completely. There are still places in the world

that harbour werewolf and were-predator

beliefs. Even in the US, sightings of the ‘Beast

of Bray Road’ in Wisconsin have continued to

be reported since the 1990s, with local people

claiming that the creature behaves like a

werewolf. On the other hand, not all believers in

Bigfoot take evolutionary models into account:

a surprising number of Sasquatch enthusiasts in

North America self-identify as creationists.

What is certain, though, is that when it

comes to creatures of supposed biological

reality, the werewolf has been replaced by

Bigfoot and his ilk, and that Darwinian

evolutionary theory helped make the change

possible.

Notes

1 Nicole Jacques-Lefèvre: “Such an Impure,

Cruel and Savage Beast”, in Katheryn A

Edwards, ed: Werewolves, Witches and

Wandering Spirits: Traditional Belief and

Folklore in Early Modern Europe, Trueman

State University Press, Kirksville, 2002; and

Brian J Frost: The Essential Guide to Werewolf

Literature, University of Wisconsin Press,

Madison, 2003.

2 For an excellent study of sea-serpents in

discuss ions of evolution see H Brink-Roby:

“Siren canora: the mermaid and the mythical in

late nineteenth-century science”, Archive of

Natural History 35, April 2008, pp1–14.

3 Francis T Buckland: Curiosities of Natural

History, Macmillan & Co., 1865, p134.

4 Charles Darwin to GR Waterhouse, 3 or 17

Dec 1843. Darwin Online, correspondence.

5 SH Gage: “Zoology as a Factor in Mental

Culture,” Science 4, 1896, p209.

Photo of the alleged “Bigfoot” from a

Russian Tabloid News Service

First the Face on Mars and Now - a Gorilla !?!

Written by Nancy Atkinson

Classify this one under the same

nonsense as the "Bigfoot on Mars" the wooden

plank on Mars, or perhaps even the "Face on

Mars." Just an optical illusions, folks from a

very, very zoomed in image from the Mars

rovers. The Sun newspaper seemingly started

this foolishness on what must have been a slow

news day.

The original image has been around

awhile. It was taken by the Opportunity rover

back on sol 87 in 2004. Can you see any

gorillas? I'm sure if you look really close and

zoom in and distort any of the rocks you can see

whatever you fancy.

Let’s see! Face on Mars.... Bigfoot on

Mars... Plank on Mars.... Pyramid on Mars....

and now Gorilla on Mars!

However, there have never been reports

of Aliens on Mars. []

The so called, “Gorilla” is just another

example of those who want to believe will

believe anything at any time in order to fulfill

their fantasy.

Canadian Researcher

Snaps Sasquatch in

Vancouver

A Canadian researcher managed to take

a picture of the face of the legendary hairy giant

– the mascot of the Winter Olympic Games

2010.

Randy Brisson, a well-known Canadian

cryptozoologist, shared hot information with his

Russian colleagues. The researcher sent a

photograph of the North American Bigfoot to

Igor Burtsev and Dmitry Bayanov, the directors

of the International Center for Hominology. The

Canadian took the picture of the creature in

Vancouver, the capital of Winter Games 2010.

Brisson assured his Russian colleagues

that it was a photo of the legendary Bigfoot, or

Sasquatch. The popularity of the mythical

creature has won it the honor to become a

symbol and a mascot of Winter Olympics in

Vancouver. Mr. Brisson’s photo may mean that

the mascots ramble somewhere in the woods of

the Olympic city.

The Canadian cryptozoologist said that

he had seen a Sasquatch peeking out from

behind a huge stub in the woods near Pitt Lake.

The spot, where the creature was supposedly

photographed, is quite far from sports objects.

Randy and his son Ray found big tracks

on the snow along a hauling road. The footprints

were quite big – it was obvious that they had

been left by an adult creature. There were

smaller footprints found nearby too.

The toes on the feet of both the adult and

the youngster were pathologically angled to one

side. The researcher claimed that the creatures

were breeding since he had found the footprints

of both a parent and a baby.

Mr. Brisson also said in his message to

the Russian researchers that he and his son

decided not to trace the couple because the

creatures, when trying to escape, were throwing

rocks at them.

The story may sound very strange, but

Burtsev and Bayanov said that they had never

exposed the Canadian of any falsifications in

their studies of the unknown. []


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Psychic apologizes for

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A self-styled psychic criminal profiler

has apologized for critical comments he made

about the sister of Karen Caughlin amid

withering criticism from the slain Sarnia teen's

family.

Robbie Thomas, who also lives in

Sarnia, said this week on an Internet radio show

that one of Caughlin's sisters -- who's made

numerous appeals for help solving the 1974

homicide -- has "forgotten" about the case's

importance.

Those comments came days after a

Thomas show at Sarnia's Imperial Theatre,

where he says he steered clear of mentioning the

Caughlin case at the family's urging.

"Karen's not a statistic, she's not a case

number, she's a person and people have

forgotten that," Thomas told the All Souls

Paranormal Radio Network in an interview e-

mailed out by his management company.

"Even her family member has forgotten

that and still insinuates that certain things

shouldn't be said."

Contacted Friday, Thomas -- who says

he regrets making the comment -- said he was

referring to Kathy Caughlin, a sister of the

victim who has criticized Thomas for

mentioning the case in promoting his live

shows.

His apology, however, got little traction

with her Friday.

"I think that is the lowest thing

somebody can say," Kathy Caughlin, reached at

her Alberta home, said. "This is disrespect in the

highest form. It just gets me so angry."

The unsolved slaying of 14-year-old

Karen Caughlin will reach its 36th anniversary

on Tuesday. Its receiving increased public

interest amid a renewed effort by OPP

investigators.

Though Thomas's websites make no

mention of Caughlin, a cached version of a site

linked to his management company says shows

on his tour that starts this month will discuss

"his involvement with such high-profile cases

as . . . Karen Caughlin" and several others. It's

unclear when the references were taken down.

The Caughlin sisters say they met with

Thomas once, in 2005, but Kathy and her sister,

MaryLou Schwemler, both say they didn't speak

with him again. []

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Religious Struggle Over Cryptozoology 29The Religious Struggle

Over CryptozoologyFrom Joe Laycock, a doctoral

candidate studying religion and

society at Boston University

In 2003, Loren Coleman started the

world’s first cryptozoology museum in

Portland, Maine. Coleman’s International

Cryptozoology Museum opened publicly in

November 2009, and I recently made the trek

north to see it. Cryptozoology—the search for

animals not yet verified by Western science—is

either a useful and legitimate zoological

endeavor or a pseudoscience, depending on

whom you ask. The media has focused intensely

on the most legendary subjects of

cryptozoology: the Loch Ness Monster,

Bigfoot, and the Yeti. But aside from “the big

three,” cryptozoologists claim a number of

recent discoveries, including the woodland

bison, the giant panda, the okapi (an African

mammal related to the giraffe), and the

coelacanth—a fish once believed to have been

extinct since the Cretaceous period.

You cannot get a degree in

cryptozoology. It is not a scientific discipline

but rather a network of investigators (often

using their own funds) with training in zoology,

anthropology, or marine biology.

Cryptozoology often resembles scientific

research before the advent of

professionalization, when discoveries were

made not by research institutions but by “men

of science” epitomized by individuals like

Benjamin Franklin.

Like the first museums of the

Enlightenment, Coleman’s museum evolved

from his private “cabinet of curiosities.” The

collection features a variety of plaster casts

made from possible Bigfoot prints, primate

skulls, and unusual pieces of taxidermy. Prizes

include an 8-foot statue of Bigfoot covered in

musk oxen fur and the rather hideous “Feejee

mermaid” prop from the film P.T. Barnum.

However, the real attraction of the

museum is Coleman himself, who gives

personal guided tours of the collection.

Coleman has training in both anthropology and

zoology, as well as a master’s degree in social

work and uncompleted doctoral work in both

social anthropology and sociology. He began

doing field investigations in 1960. Since then,

he has published 30 books as well as countless

articles and is one of the foremost experts on

cryptozoology in the world.

Having written on the religious

dimension of a West Virginian cryptid known as

the Mothman, I wanted to talk to Coleman

about the strange relationship between

cryptozoology and religion. As it turns out, the

search for hidden animals attracts two very

different religious elements: the New Age and

creationism. Cryptozoology has long been

associated in the public consciousness with

UFOs, ghosts, and the paranormal. Meanwhile,

some creationists see cryptozoology as a way to

gain scientific support for their claims. For

example, textbooks created for private schools

by the Accelerated Christian Education program

claim that the Loch Ness Monster disproves

evolution.

Coleman seemed mildly annoyed that

his work has gained these associations. When

the term “cryptozoology” was coined by Ivan

Sanderson in the 1930s, and then extended in

the 1950s by Bernard Heuvelmans, the field

built on a history of “romantic zoology,” a way

for explorers and animal collectors to find new

species. Often, this work included the study of

folklore, hypothesizing that legends of monsters

could have a basis in fact. Since the 1970s, the

discipline has struggled to distinguish itself

from paranormal research and other studies

involving the anomalous, especially as media

interest began to focus on cryptozoology at the

close of the 20th century. However, the search

for funding often compels cryptozoologists to

work with television shows that juxtapose the

hunt for cryptids alongside psychics, hauntings,

and alien abduction. This has occasionally led to

confusion as to what cryptozoologists actually

do.

“I’m just not interested in ghosts and

aliens,” said Coleman. Coleman’s approach is

empirical, and he remains agnostic as to the

existence of Bigfoot. “Belief in Bigfoot”, he

argues, “is the providence of religion.” Many

sociologists of religion agree; in fact, the Baylor

Religion Survey has been monitoring belief in

Bigfoot for some time.

But why would New Agers and

creationists both be drawn to the hunt for

Bigfoot? For many in the West, Darwin’s On the

Origin of the Species (1859), as well as The

Descent of Man (1871), seemed to confirm that

religion and science had become incompatible.

This perceived split inspired two very different

responses.

In 1875, the Theosophical Society was

established. Founders like Madame Helena

Blavtasky sought to reconcile religion and

science into an esoteric doctrine greater than

both. Blavatsky’s writings describe enlightened

beings from other planes of existence, the

inhabitants of other planets, and a process of

spiritual evolution that is largely at odds with

Darwin’s ideas. Most of the features of the

modern New Age milieu are derived from

Theosophy.

In 1876, the first annual Niagara Bible

Conference was held. This conference set the

stage for the interdenominational

fundamentalist movement. While early

fundamentalists sought to reconcile religion and

science, by the 1920s, a movement had begun to

openly discredit evolution. This gave rise to

several varieties of creationism and finally to

what has been called “creation science.”

Both movements can be read as a

religious response to the cultural authority of

science. Within this struggle, the search for “the

unexplained” becomes a powerful asset.

Because cryptozoology has positioned

itself on the periphery of the scientific

establishment, it offers these groups hope of

undoing scientific paradigms and creating room

for new sources of meaning and cultural

authority. “Creation science” groups like

Accelerated Christian Education and Answers

in Genesis seek scientific credibility despite the

overwhelming opposition of the scientific

establishment. As such, they must rely heavily

on fringe theories, sometimes distorting them to

suit their own ends. The claim that Nessie

disproves evolution is a case in point.

The periphery of science may also be a

source of religious meaning unto itself.

If science “disenchanted” the world as

Max Weber famously claimed, deviant fields of

study like parapsychology and Ufology can

offer a type of “re-enchantment” by introducing

new mysterious forces into the world. A

sighting of a cryptid is sometimes akin to what

Rudolph Otto called “the wholly other,” an

experience of both wonder and dread that takes

on religious significance. In some cases, quasi-

religious rites have formed around specific

cryptids. Numerous rituals have been devised to

summon Bigfoot and Nessie, often involving

drums and chanting.

So what are we to make of

cryptozoology? Perhaps we would do well to

take Coleman’s advice to keep “an open but

critical mind”—but it’s tough when spiritual

seekers and polemicists are using it as

ammunition against the scientific establishment.


Navigating the Healthcare Maze30

The primary purpose of this book is to

empower readers and encourage them to

become proactive consumer-patients. This

book isn't an attempt to be politically

correct, but is dedicated to providing tools

that readers can put to use when they

encounter challenges when making their

best efforts to navigate their way into,

through and out of the maze that has

become our healthcare system. Americans

are concerned more about healthcare than

the mortgage crisis, credit card debt, rising

food prices, or losing money in the stock

market. Now is the time to get educated,

find out what the future might hold, and get

active in the decision-making that

surrounds your healthcare. With physicians

making misdiagnoses between fifteen and

twenty percent of the time, the examination

room treadmill speeding up, and

emergency rooms stressed out and

overcrowded, here is a wakeup call that

encourages the adoption of a more

responsible, proactive, energetic, and

consumer oriented attitude when it comes

to personal and family health - before it is

too late.

Educated in England, the U.S. and Switzerland, Jeff Knott has wide

experience in healthcare serving as International Marketing

Director for Johnson & Johnson worldwide. He has lectured as a

visiting professor at a number of universities, spoken on

international subjects and appeared on TV. He is co-chairman of

Healthy Together and is a trustee of the University of Tampa

ABOUT JEFF KNOTT

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NAVIGATING

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Shirley Gale Butts Wilson 3131SHIRLEY GALE BUTTS

WILSON

Shirley Gale Butts Wilson is the CEO

of a commercial and residential cleaning

service in Los Angeles, CA; she is also a

mother of a murdered 7 year old son. This

horrifying reality in Ms. Wilson’s life has

channeled her career to that of activism. Ms.

Wilson has now written her first book to help

all adults realize their role as lovers and

protectors of children, moving her to start

Heavensgate Publishing House, a company

with a mission to bring wisdom and

information to the public about the plight of

parents, families and friends of murdered

children. As owner/manager of Heavensgate,

Shirley is searching for other talented

writers, speakers and professionals who

desire to share their stories and earned

knowledge to direct the focus of a

complacent world to the plight of

endangered children. Shirley works closely

with VPC (Violence Prevention Coalition),

Project Cry No More, and other affiliated

agencies that fight for the safety and well

being of children and adults throughout

America.

Prior to losing her child, Shirley was

a career woman, raising 3 children. She

worked with the Atlanta Georgia police

department as a police officer for 5 years and

developed an affinity for women and

children who are abused or mistreated, since

she herself had suffered through an abusive

marriage. Leaving the police department to

start a cleaning service, life seemed as if it

was heading toward stability but still had a

few major roadblocks. Fighting through the

normal challenges of a single parent, victory

seemed fleeting, but foreseeable when during

a home invasion, Ms. Wilson’s 7 year old son

was brutally murdered, destroying any dream

of stability and catapulted her to have to

battle for her sanity. She won that battle.

Shirley has experience in the

following areas of expertise: Author of

“Light In The Darkest Hours”,

Owner/Manager of an A+ rated company for

the past 15 years, Mother of two lovely 40+

year old daughters, Grandmother of 7

grandchildren and Great Grandmother of two

great grandchildren, She has specialization in

recovery from grief after losing a child to

murder and has designed a social network

community that honors murdered children

with a large online shopping mall attached,

where a percentage from proceeds will

purchase safety devices to protect vulnerable

children. []

Shirley Gale Butts Wilson, born and reared in Southern United States,

Bessemer, Alabama. Endured an abusive marriage, a murdered seven year old son, a

challenging life without family support, to rise above it all. Shirley is now hosting her

first Online radio talk show mixed and mingled with Spoken Word, Poetry, Hot topics,

Surprise Guests and so on.

The main purpose in Ms. Wilson's life is to fight for her son's right to life and

the rights of millions of children who have fallen victim to violent crime. She has

researched to find solutions to the problems that ripple through single parent families

and other challenged families that causes so much fear and anxietiy for mothers of all

cultures who may have to leave children alone for brief to long hours while they work

and care for their children, and she will bring those solutions to families and listeners

with music, comedy and other warm activities that will encourage the hearts of

burdened victims who have lost their babies to violent crime.

She will call out victims to become voices to stop the violence against all

children everywhere. The show will be therapeutic for this mother and is intended to

inspire other victims to rise up in their pain to heal, both through wholesome laughter

and passionate voices that speak out against adult complacency while our children are

being viciously murdered. Stay tuned

www.latalkradio.com

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Over the past 18 years

being the host and

executive producer of

The ‘X’ Zone Radio &

TV Show and publisher

of The ‘X’ Chronicles

Newspaper, I thought that I had heard

and seen it all..that was until the day that

I interviewed Shirley Gale Butts

Wilson.

Her story is one of bravery, a

fight against all odds, and the never end

search for the killer(s) of her 7 year old

son during a home invasion 23 years

ago.

Where others would have failed,

Shirley was successful in turning her

life around, and is now helping those

through the many organizations that she

belongs to and her new publishing

company, Heavensgate Publishing.

Shirley is a great lady and a great guest.

Rob McConnell, Host, The ‘X’ Zone

The Shirley Wilson Show


Battle of the Sex Cults32Battle of the sex cults

Article By: Rebekah Kendal

Repeat after me: Rebekah is awesome.

Rebekah deserves my adoration. I live to meet

Rebekah's every need.

Nothing? Damn! I need to work on those

brainwashing techniques. Perhaps if we

introduced a little sleep deprivation...

Seriously, after a guy in Papua New

Guinea managed to convince an entire village

(bar one) that public sex would lead to better

banana crops and a chap in Indonesia (claiming

to be God) led his followers into wild sex

orgies, you would think that I could manage a

bit of adoration.

Apparently not. Perhaps you're just not

good cult material. You know — those

susceptible to yarns about aliens, creepy-

looking self-professed messiahs, and a penchant

for communal living. In a word: suckers.

In light of the recent arrest of Israeli 'sex

cult' leader Goel Ratzon, we've put together a

list of famous cults that are just as infamous for

their sexual deviance as they are for their end-

of-days prophecies.

The Family

Think hippies and free love (lots of it),

not the offspring of Don Vito Corleone.

Formerly known as the Children of God and

The Family of Love, The Family was founded

by David Berg in 1968. Its beliefs are basically

Evangelical Christian, with two major

deviations: (1) Berg is a prophet who has been

sent by God to spread the end-of-days message,

and (2) the Law of Love is the supreme tenet on

which all behaviour should be based. Somehow,

this boils down to lots and lots of free sex. A fair

amount of it involving David Berg.

When Berg died, his prophetic powers

were transferred to his wife Karen. Apparently

this happens. She is also pretty into the whole

loving Jesus literally vibe. In fact, it was she

who introduced the group's famous Flirty

Fishing policy during the 1970s.

FFing — Flirty Fishing — was a

recruitment method. The bait: women. Yip, the

family's ladies would head out to bars and

nightclubs — those dens of iniquity — and

recruit new members using (yip, you guessed it)

sex.

Because of the threat of HIV/AIDS and

a bit of bad publicity, FFing was banned in

1987; sexual contact between adults and

children (commonly known as paedophilia) in

1986; and incest... well... there's no exact date

for that one.

The new and improved Family, boasting

a membership of approximately 10 000, is still

all for encouraging young teens to develop a

sexual relationship with Jesus, but adults are

only allowed to shag those within The Family.

The Raelian Movement

Okay, okay, I admit it: the sex is pretty

thin in this one. But the cult's mythology is just

too good to resist. It has aliens (human aliens!),

a cabaret-singer-cum-racing-car-driver-cum-

prophet, and sex-crazy angels.

So, here's the gist of it: on 13 December

1973, Rael (previously Claude Vorilhon) was

visited by a human alien (don't worry, it'll be

explained later) from the planet of the Elohim.

The alien was short, had long dark hair, almond

shaped eyes, and olive skin. You get where this

is going (hint: if not, grab a map and check out

Asia).

The alien told Rael that his race — also

human, but much more advanced — created

earth humans using DNA. Rael was to be a

prophet who would tell the world about the

Elohim and prepare an embassy for their arrival

on earth. Apparently they'll be landing

sometime between now and 2030 (but, and

here's the catch, only if earth humans are

welcoming enough).

In October 1975, Rael got another extra-

terrestrial visitor. This time, they took him up to

the spaceship and to their own planet, which is

not in our solar system, but is in our galaxy.

Convenient that. Apparently they have big

computers that observe everything we do. Uh-

oh.

So, on to the juicy bits: an important

teaching of the Raelian Movement is sensual

meditation. The ultimate experience is the

Cosmic Orgasm… which may or may not

involve little green fellows. Because sex is a

pretty important part of the philosophy, there is

a group of women called the Raelian Order of

Angels, who devote their sexuality solely to our

creators (the aliens) and their prophets.

Hmm... no aliens; one prophet. That's

one lucky former cabaret singer.

Adidam

Who wouldn't want to join a cult with a

spiritual leader who looks like Yoda with a

mullet? I, for one, am quivering with

excitement. Did I mention that he is holiest man

to have ever graced the earth? No, seriously, he

claimed that his spiritual stature exceeds that of

Jesus, Buddha, or any of the great spiritual

leaders from human history.

Who is this vessel of all things good and

holy? Adi Da Samraj aka Da Free John aka

Bubba Free John aka Franklin Jones who

founded the Adidam movement (aka the Crazy

Wisdom Fellowship aka Free Primitive Church

of Divine Communion aka the Johannine Daist

Community) in the 1970s.

With a following of approximately

2000, Adi Da Samraj is spiritual small fry

(despite his self-proclaimed greatness), but he

does trump Jesus and Buddha in the sex-scandal

stakes.

In the 1970s and 80s, numerous

accusations of sexual abuse were levelled

against Jones and his movement. He was

accused of having sex with large numbers of his

devotees, abusing drugs, and forcing members

to undergo humiliating sexual activities in front

of other followers.

His defence was that his behaviour was

selfless service designed to quicken the spiritual

development of the devotees. All part of that

Crazy Wisdom.

The moral of the story: never trust a man

who feels the need to change his name four

times. For that matter, never trust a man who

looks like Yoda on welfare.

David Koresh

Because the world can always do with

another self-proclaimed prophet of doom,

David Koresh (born Vernon Wayne Howell)

carved out a nice little niche for himself in

Waco, Texas. With a following of over 80

people, Koresh set himself up as the father of

the Brach Davidian religious sect (a splinter of

the Seventh Day Adventist Church). Literally.

Opting for a polygamous lifestyle when

he felt the urge to marry his second (14-year-

old) wife, Koresh was soon preaching that he

was allowed 140 wives à la King Solomon. He

annulled the marriages of all couples who

joined the cult and then had exclusive sexual

access to the women (to spread his holy seed).

He had sex with various young girls, some as

young as 12, including his first wife's younger

sister and fathered at least 15 children on the

compound.

Koresh's reign came to an end when the

FBI laid siege to the compound in April 1993,

following a botched raid by the Bureau of

Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The siege lasted for 51 days before the majority

of the cult was burnt to death in the church

building where they were holed up. The burnt

remains of 54 adults and 21 children were found

alongside Koresh. Nine members of the

movement managed to escape.

Charles Manson

Famous for the role he played in the

gruesome Tate and LaBianca murders, Charles

Manson has become a notorious icon of evil.

The fact that he used young women to commit

the murders has made him that much more

fascinating.

Manson set himself up as something of a

hippie guru in San Francisco in the 1960s.

Having spent most of his adult life in and out of

prison, Manson was an aspiring, but not very

successful, musician. He was obviously also a

bit of a womaniser.

He moved in with the 23-year-old Mary

Brenner, but soon they were sharing their home

with 18 other women. At a later stage, when

Manson moved his followers to the Spahn

Ranch, they numbered over 100, mostly young

women between the ages of 15 and 25. The

ranch was allegedly the setting for countless

drug-fuelled sex orgies which helped Manson to

maintain his hold over the women.

Claiming to be a reincarnation of Jesus

Christ, Manson prophesised a massive race war

between blacks and whites, that would result in

the destruction of America. The gruesome

murders — ordered by Manson and carried out

by his followers — were, in part, an attempt to

spark this race war. Needless to say, they failed

to do so. Manson and his accomplices are all

currently serving life sentences. []

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Is Nibiru really hurtling towards Earth? 33Is Nibiru really hurtling

towards Earth? by D VOGT

Almost certainly, it is not. According to

one theory, based upon a tenuous analysis of

obscure ancient Sumerian texts, the ancient

peoples of the Near East were aware of a planet

which follows a drawn-out 3600 year orbit,

passing near Earth once during that time period.

Moreover, according to the theory, we're due for

one of those passes very soon now. Fortunately,

there is no physical evidence whatsoever to

support this theory.

- The Theory of Nibiru -

The idea of Nibiru originated with

Nancy Lieder, who claimed during the mid-

1990s she was passed information by Zeta

Reticuli aliens that excitement about the Hale-

Bopp comet was a deliberate misdirection to lull

people into a false sense of security while a

much greater threat, Nibiru, approached the

inner solar system. Lieder predicted that Nibiru

would arrive in 2003; this date, obviously,

proved incorrect. However, information is still

available from her website, ZetaTalk.

A more sophisticated theory of Nibiru

has been provided by Zecharia Sitchin, a

Middle Eastern-born journalist who believes

that the ancient Sumerians were aware of a

planet today's scientists have not yet found (or

are suppressing evidence of), which they called

Nibiru. Sumerian astronomers, Sitchin claims,

knew that Nibiru, Nibiru's moons, and another

planet, Tiamat, had been involved in a collision,

which destroyed Tiamat. Part of Tiamat became

the Earth; the remaining debris broke apart to

create the Asteroid Belt.

Sitchin goes further. He claims that

Nibiru is home to another intelligent species,

which has been plundering Earth's resources for

a half-million years and were known to the

Sumerians as Anunnaki. The Anunnaki created

the early humans from lower primate species for

use as slaves, but left after an interstellar war

occurred around 2000 BC (when the ancient

Sumerian city of Ur was destroyed, possibly

during a skirmish in this greater war). Details of

his theory have been published in a variety of

books between the 1970s and the present, the

latest of which is "The End of Days:

Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return."

- A Lack of Evidence -

One thing is clear: Those who say that

Nibiru exists have been unable to point to any

meaningful published debate on this subject

within the scientific community, nor have they

submitted any physical evidence which has

stood up to careful scientific scrutiny. If Nibiru

really were poised to begin its once-in-a-few-

millennia traverse of the inner solar system, it

ought to be easily visible to the naked eye either

now, or at least very soon - and certainly it

should be possible to locate Nibiru in a

telescope.

In addition, there have been devastating

critiques of Sitchin's analysis of Sumerian

astronomy; Michael Heiser, for instance, points

out that the single document on which Sitchin

bases his claims actually says nothing explicit

about astronomy (nor does it correspond to

other astronomical texts left by the Sumerians),

and, most importantly, all of the other evidence

about Sumerian astronomy suggests that they

were aware of just five planets. None of these

were Nibiru. One would assume that, if the

Sumerian civilization really were the product of

systematic alien intervention, there would be far

more references to this fact.

More to the point, however, it's worth

looking at why it's safe to assume that a roughly

Earth-sized planet like Nibiru can't plausibly be

found in a 6000-year orbit around our own Sun

- Nibiru and the Solar System -

The current form of Earth and of the

solar system simply does not support Sitchin's

theories about ancient astronomy. It seems

extraordinarily implausible that any collision so

devastating that it separated one large planet

into remnants in the form of Earth and the

Asteroid Belt would not have left anything large

enough and stable enough to support life (i.e.

the Earth). Moreover, such a theory does not

explain why some of the debris ended up in

Earth's orbit, and the rest ended up in the

Asteroid Belt, with a space in between that is

essentially empty except for the planet Mars.

Second, it is hard to imagine a large

planet having an orbit as great as the one

attributed to Nibiru. The outer solar system is

mostly empty, but beyond the gas giants

themselves (with orbits that take less than a

century), all of the dwarf planets of the Kuiper

Belt and the scattered disk regions, like Pluto

and Eris, can't even rival our own Moon in

terms of size. There are objects beyond this, but

it is doubtful they would be any larger - get out

too far, and the Sun's gravity simply isn't strong

enough to hold a very large object to a regular

orbit.

Finally, our solar system, from what we

can guess based on current observations, is a

pretty stable place nowadays. That wasn't so

billions of years ago, when the planets were

forming (and still molten, in most cases), and

there were hundreds of large objects zipping

around in irregular orbits. Things have settled

down since then, however. Jupiter's massive

gravity tends to keep the system in line:

Asteroids and comets that get too close are

either pulled in, to crash into that planet, or have

their orbits disrupted so that they are flung out

of the solar system.

If a giant planet named Nibiru were

pushing through the solar system every several

thousand years, however, it would disrupt all of

the orbits of the planets as it went. More comets

and asteroids would be pushed around the

system, resulting in large impacts on Earth -

which do happen, but nothing like every 3600

years, which they would if they were caused by

Nibiru. (Major impacts tend to happen every

few tens of millions of years, not every few

thousand years.) Moons might be pushed out of

orbit, and planets' orbits would be altered,

resulting in enormous and possibly devastating

climate changes on Earth. We have no evidence

in the archaeological or fossil record to support

sudden, occasionally drastic changes every few

thousand years.

Of course, Nibiru's orbit would have to

be altered just as drastically as it altered all of

the other planets' orbits, too. So it wouldn't have

a 3600 year orbit on anything like a regular

basis. Sooner or later, such a planet would either

be pushed too far in one direction (so that it

crashed into the Sun, or perhaps Jupiter), or too

far in the other direction, so that it moved into

an even longer orbit.

The Nibiru theory does bear certain

similarities to another scientific theory, that of

Nemesis - a brown dwarf star which might pass

by the solar system in a multi-million-year

orbit. Advocates of Nemesis, too, have

suggested that the implicit evidence for the

existence of this star lies in the periodic

cometary devastations of Earth's orbit, which

might occur whenever Nemesis disrupts the

Oort cloud or even the Kuiper Belt. As with

Nibiru, there is no evidence to suggest that

Nemesis exists. Of course, that evidence could

be discovered tomorrow - and would then

require a complete reassessment of existing

theories. (Continued on Page 36)


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Have Conspiracy Theories Gone Too Far?36Have conspiracy theories

really gone too far? by Todd Daigneault

Conspiracy theories abound from talk

radio to cable to the Internet...and beyond. We

hear everything from President Obama not

being constitutionally-qualified to be president,

to a waiting space fleet to deal with the possible

pending demise of humanity from the 3,600

year orbit of a passing brown star that will pass

near the Earth, wreaking mind-numbing

amounts of devastation. The only problem with

such theories is that little evidence and proof is

offered. In the case of President Obama not

being constitutionally-qualified, as some

conspiracy-theorists have pointed out, a

mountain of evidence is offered to support

President Obama. But some of the conspiracy

theorists never hear it, propagating wildly

exaggerated claims, backed up by shreds of

flimsy evidence-and a hidden-agenda..

Sadly enough, the Internet seems to

have become a wasteland for such claims and

theories. With a global platform that can easily

reach billions, many can come on and write wild

claims, backed up by little or no scientific

evidence. Sure enough, scientists can, at times,

be an arrogant lot, with closed minds and non-

yielding belief structures. Scientific-

"humanism" has almost become a religion in

itself-humanism being the belief that humanity

is the center of its known sphere of influence.

There is nothing else that can't be explained

away by conventional scientific doctrine.

Some of the scientists and their doctrine

are to blame for this flood of conspiracy

theories. Science has to yield more in its beliefs,

doing real investigations into some of these

claims. With many scientists refusing to hear

anything, and even actively debunking,

conspiracy theories will grow and multiply,

spreading a wave of paranoia, from everything

like the 'New World Order' to UFO space fleets

waiting to rescue humanity from its possible

demise from the passing brown star...

In the case of the passing brown star,

some evidence is offered through ancient

records and accounts of ancient global

catastrophes, such as the Biblical flood. The

brown star theory has been interchanged with

the ancient Sumerian account of the passing of

the god's primal home, planer Nibiru. It has

been equated to the return of Nibiru...or the

brown star. There may be some truth to it. We

just don't know for certain. With the Mayan

calendar ending in 2012, many have jumped on

that to mean that Nibiru, or the passing brown

star is about to wield its arc of death onto a

largely unsuspecting global population, with

only the elite-cabals knowing what's about to

happen.

There is no doubt that conspiracy

theories have gone way too far, at times

seemingly verging on deluded and paranoid

belief structures. But there has to be a more

active look into these things by science, or else

paranoia and delusion reign the day. There also

is no doubt that many things like UFOs and

other things do have validity. But unless there is

either disclosure or a more active and thorough

investigation that brings it more to the

mainstream, such things get swept under the

rug, and the theories of the waiting space fleets

to save a doomed humanity from the effects of

the passing brown star reign the day. []

Do you believe that

humanity was created by

extraterrestrials?by Frank L Parket

At a time long before the human race

was born, immense comets crashed into our

young and impressionable planet, as some

current theories describe, and deposited the

essential building blocks and main ingredients

for life itself. If you are one who accepts this

theory, then every living thing that has ever

existed on Earth, from trilobites to a dozen

fragrant red roses with thorny stems, is

extraterrestrial in nature.

Extraterrestrial meaning that all of the

particles necessary for life to originate and then

flourish here on Earth, came from space to

begin with. I believe this theory and find it

plausible.

On the other hand, asking, "do you

believe that humanity was created by

extraterrestrials," is a different question entirely.

The inherent implication of this query is that

Earth was visited by sentient beings who

originated elsewhere, migrated here, and that

we are their descendants. I do not believe that,

but am aware that many people do.

Science states that every species of

insect, fish or mammal that has ever been

discovered, observed or cataloged, is

indigenous. Why not us? We are animals too,

though we have evolved independently and

differently than our mammalian cousins in

certain respects and have acquired things like

self-awareness, structured language,

civilization, immense cities, and space

technology. In these ways we are set apart from

other animals, but there is nothing to suggest

that we are alien in origin. In all the ways that

truly matter we are the same. We have no

special claim to longevity, we are susceptible to

disease, we need air to breathe, and we need

food and water to live. We are all are part of the

same eco-system, and the DNA that makes the

animal kingdom what it is, is part of our genetic

makeup as well.

While the seeds of life might have come

from space in the form of comets crashing into

our planet-sized egg, there is no evidence in our

collective human heritage to suggest that we, as

a race, were born anywhere other than here. We

can trace our line all the way back to our cave

dwelling ancestors, who didn't have starships,

and left behind plenty of artifacts for us to adorn

museum displays with. From those common

ancestors to "Mitochondrial Eve," we can

follow our footsteps forward in time to the more

"evolved" humans whose genius and ingenuity

invented the atomic bomb and the MTV Music

Awards. The human race through countless

years and many evolutionary changes has

struggled and grown into who and what we are

now, and despite the numerous flaws in our

society, our ability to learn and grow and change

makes us unique, but not of extraterrestrial

origin.

Is Nibiru really hurtling

towards Earth? Continued from Page 33

- But What If...? -

The pro-Nibiru community has probably

got one thing bang on: If there really was a

planet poised to unleash astronomical and

biological devastation by swinging through the

inner solar system, and we had just learned

about this in the past few years, then very likely

governments would not be in a rush to tell their

citizens about it. They would want to come up

with a plan first - and it would be difficult to

have a plan for something as celestially huge as

that.

The problem is, however, that the vast

majority of astronomers have either no or very

little connection to the central structures of

government that would be responsible for

keeping this secret. Most of them are either

amateurs or at least academics. The conspiracy

required to suppress such knowledge would be

breathtakingly huge. Which, I imagine, is very

little comfort, for those readers who already

believe that the moon landings were faked or

that the government is already suppressing

widespread evidence of contact with

extraterrestrial space travellers. If it was doing

that, I suppose it just might be able to suppress

evidence of Nibiru as well.[]

Why then are so many enthralled by

belief in an extraterrestrial grandparent?

Perhaps it is because stargazing is something

that we alone of all the mammals enjoy doing,

as we look up at the night sky and gaze into a

galaxy filled with dark matter, quasars, black

holes, suns, moons, and planets. It forces us to

wonder what else is out there, and fires the

imagination with thoughts of other worlds

conceivably populated by intelligent beings

with varying levels of evolutional development.

Do I believe there is life on other worlds? Yes I

do, or else the galaxy is a colossal waste of real

estate.

Do I believe that humanity was created

by extraterrestrials? No I don't. The thought that

we are descended from a race of beings that

originated on "Planet-X," visited Earth at the

dawn of time and created humanity, effected our

evolution, or combined their DNA with ours, I

do not believe for a second. We are all children

of Earth, the mother of us all, and that alone is

something to be proud of, and a reason to care

for her as best as we can. []


Mike M Joseph - www.mikemjoseph.com 37

www.mikemjoseph.com

Conspiracy

Against

Divine Sexuality

It All Started in Eden

by MORAN M JUDSON

Whether you believe in a Creator or not, human sexuality affects every layer of your spirit and life. You

are either ‘tickled’ to your heart’s delights by the streams of fiery passions of your sexuality, or are aimlessly

drifting through the doldrums of the monotonous waves of life -as a shipwreck.

In this graphic and honest discussion on the complexity and history of human sexuality and its purpose

and impact on us all, the author is boldly delving into this stormy topic with these aims in mind: How did it all

start and where to find the answers? Was there an original pure teaching of this dynamic human phenomenon?

Who was interested in ‘fouling the atmosphere’ of human sexuality? How and by whom was it perpetuated on

innocent lives throughout history? What were the results of this “conspiracy” on you personally? How to

reverse it? What is “The Song of Solomon” the master lover all about, and how to achieve the ideal spiritual

and sexual intercourse?

In this work, the Biblical and historic narratives concerning human sexuality will enlighten us, one step

at a time, until we reach the sparkling and inviting lights at the end of our sexual journey.

www.mikemjoseph.com

MIDDLE EAST:

Blueprint For the Final Solution

The Coming Fall and Rise of Western Democracy

The Middle East conflict originated, literally, in the womb of a beautiful woman –Rebekah, Isaac’s

wife. Her ‘struggling’ twins, from their mother’s womb, have often engaged in a love/hate embrace, scorching

their lands with periodic eruptions of bloody conflicts. Their descendants, though gradually lost their identity,

have spread their struggle for ‘the global inheritance’ into Europe, the Americas, and elsewhere.

The march of Islam, of Muhammad,“the man of the sword”; the present Jew/arab conflict; the Persian

Gulf menace; fanatic Islamic world terrorism and their main target – the West – are a direct result of the twins’

struggle, which begun while in their mother’s womb.

Human history and its future can’t be fully comprehended without correct understanding of the roots

and turbulent history of the struggling twins. You, the reader, are destined, regardless of your ethnic

background and religion, to soon experience the final consequences and glorious triumph of this age-long

bloody conflict.

Through the pages of this work the author takes you on a fascinating journey of the Biblical and

historic records, which faithfully traced the stormy blazing trails of ‘the struggling twins,’from the inception of

the conflict to its glorious ‘final solution.’

www.mikemjoseph.com

SORRY...! THERE IS NO AFTERLIFE:

NONE GOES TO HEAVEN OR HELL

All religions believe in an afterlife existence – immediately after death. All believe in the immortality of

the soul. Some believe in reincarnation. Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe that good people will go to

Heaven, evil ones will go to Hell. Many devout Jews pray to their Saints in Heaven. Catholics pray to their

Saints, especially to Mary -- “The Queen of Heaven.” Protestants pray to their loved ones in Heaven. Devout

Muslims believe that their Prophet Muhammad ascended up to Heaven from Jerusalem. They regard this city as

the third holiest place to Islam. As a consequence, much of the Jew/Arab conflict centers over the holiness of the

City to both Jews and Muslims -- and the alleged “Temple Mount” true location. Fanatic Muslim terrorists

believe the road to Paradise as Shahids, immediately after death, must be paved over the body parts of their

indiscriminate victims.

According to Iran’s president, Ahmadinejad, the purpose of the revolution and nuclear Iran is to prepare

for the imminent return of the Mahdi, the twelfth Imam. Hence Israel must be destroyed, the West must be

subjugated, and the rest of the world must submit to the coming Mahdi’s “reign of peace on earth.”

If the belief in an afterlife -- immediately after death -- is true, then both the Bible and the Qur’an should

fully confirm it in plain words. But what if they, instead, contradict it? What if God, Jesus, and Muhammad are

not the source of this doctrine? What if the doctrine of an afterlife immediately after death is a hoax? What if

man has no immortal soul?

In the pages of this book, the unbiased reader will discover the real story about the afterlife, the true

destiny of humanity, the true location of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and its link to the afterlife.

www.mikemjoseph.com


When Technology Fails38

WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE?

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!"When the grid goes down having this book with you could be the

difference between life and death."

—Matt Savinar, author of Life After the Oil Crash

"A fascinating collection of concepts and skills that will satisfy

everyone from the casual do-it-yourself enthusiast to someone who

wants to attempt self-reliance and the ultimate emergency

preparedness."

—Howard Backer, MD, author of Wilderness First Aid: Emergency

Care for Wilderness Locations and past president of the Wilderness

Medical Society

"A marvelous guidebook for helping us through the worst of times, and

even improving on the best of times."

—Thom Hartmann, syndicated radio host and author of The Last

Hours of Ancient Sunlight

"Matthew Stein has written a clear, concise book on the subject of

survival that, while educating, also does what few others have managed

to do--entertain and engage the reader."

—John Egan, proprietor of SurvivalistBooks.com

"Matthew Stein gives us a readable, updated wake-up call for

sustainability practices in the best tradition of Paul Ehrlich, Lester

Brown, and Jared Diamond."

—Stephen Schneider, PhD, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for

Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University and

coordinating lead author in IPCC summary papers on climate change

[NOTE: Stephen accepted the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Al Gore on

behalf of the IPCC]

Knowledge is power, and When Technology Fails is the “Bible” for disaster prep, self-reliance and survival

combined with sustainable and healthy living. When things fall apart, whether it is a temporary glitch, or a

longer term melt-down, this is the single most valuable “how-to” reference you could have on hand. Very

cheap insurance for uncertain times!

About Matthew Stein:

Matthew Stein is an author, engineer, and licensed building contractor. As the

owner of Stein Design & Construction, he has built hurricane resistant, energy efficient and

environmentally friendly homes. The mechanical engineering side of his firm specializes

in product design and development. Matthew Stein is a graduate of the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology (MIT) where he majored in Mechanical Engineering.

In recognition of his expertise, Matthew Stein has appeared on numerous radio and

television programs and has been a repeat guest on many shows, including the Thom

Hartmann Show, Lionel, Fox News, MSNBC and Coast-to-Coast AM. He has also written

several articles on the subject of sustainable living and is a guest columnist for the

Huffington Post.

Matthew Stein has been an active outdoorsman since he was a small child, an

extreme skier and climber (over a hundred Yosemite Valley ascents including several El

Capitan and Half Dome big walls), and serves as a guide and instructor for blind skiers

with the Ski for Light cross-country program. Stein currently resides with his wife Josie in

the High Sierra Mountains near Lake Tahoe, California.

WWW.WHENTECHFAILS.COM


39When Technology Fails

SECRETS OF AN IMMORTAL

by Ben Abba

www.secrets-of-an-immortal.com

"What if you met a man who was

2,800 years old? What questions

would you ask him about History?

Religion? Would you want to learn his

secrets of immortality?

Ben Abba went looking for the oldest

person alive on earth today. Ben

wanted to find out from them what

they eat and what did they do, to

accomplish such a long and healthy

life. to his absolute shock he located

and made contact with a man whose

real physical age is nearly 2,800 years

old.

Would you like to know more about

the story on how Ben Abba found such

a remarkable man and what stories he

had to tell about the unwritten history

of our Western Civilization?

Ben is writing a series of books to

detail this man's life, his experiences,

and his secrets of immortality; starting

with Book 1 titled:

"Secrets of an Immortal - An

Eyewitness Account of 2,800

Years of History"

"Throughout my life, I have seen and experienced things that far overshadowed the science fiction I read growing up in America's Midwest.

Still nothing really prepared me for the day I successfully located and made contact with a man who's real age is nearly 2,800 years old. As crazy

as this sounds, I now have to believe that there are people living among us who are 500 years of age, and older. They have blended themselves

within our civilization so well, it is nearly impossible to distinguish them from a typical senior citizen. The gentleman that I have made friends

with has spent most of his life in the various countries that surround the Mediterranean Sea. And yes, he was living near Jerusalem around 2,000

years ago. How I found this amazing man is a long story that would take a book just to describe all of the details. For now, let me just say that I

used my unique researching skills to find this even more unique man. I do not know if it is even possible to prove he is older than 150 years.

Certainly this has helped him fit in with the rest of us. However, as I spoke with him, the eyewitness accounts of 2,800 years of history make it

difficult to believe he is anything but an immortal. The stories he has to tell are too incredible to ignore. So I am writing them down and am

planning to release them in a book someday soon. In the meantime, I will try to figure out what evidence I can find that would prove this man is

a real immortal. Obviously there is no such thing as a Roman Empire Chariot Driver's License or an Israeli Passport signed by King David to rely

on for absolute proof. He has a few trinkets older than 2,000 year. And I know, if the opportunity presents itself, I could try to get a blood or saliva

sample to perform a DNA test on. However, I could use some advise as to what other forms of evidence I could use to prove someone really is

over 150 years old.I am also asking everyone for questions that I should ask this incredible man about his past. Even if I cannot prove his true age,

I certainly can present his eyewitness observations of the birth of our western civilization. And the stories he has told me so far are all priceless.

"Secrets of an Immortal - An Eyewitness Account of 2,800 Years of History" - Ben Abba


40 Is This A Cure For Cancer?

IS THIS A CURE FOR

CANCER ?

By Dr. Nance MacLeod, PhD., DNM / NMD

I just returned home from assisting at a

Mastery of Self Expression workshop in

Kitchener Waterloo. This workshop is an

intensive workshop that helps you release

emotional blocks that can hold you back in life.

The leader of the workshop made a comment, “I

believe this work is the cure for cancer”.

I thought to myself wow that is quite a

big thing to say, and then I realized that she has

made a good point. Many of us already know

that disease begins in the emotional body or you

can say energy field. Louise Hay has several

books on the subject. The theory is that when

you are holding on to anger, frustrations, hate,

and resentments these negative emotions will

manifest into a disease in the physical body. So

is the cure for cancer just getting rid of these

negative emotions that plague our lives?

Louise Hay was diagnosed with cancer,

which she claims to have healed through her

ideologies. She went on to be an author, teacher,

lecturer, and founder of Hay House Publishing.

She contends that disease is caused by mental

thought patterns, especially patterns of

criticism, anger, resentment, and guilt. Festering

resentments eat away at the self and can

ultimately lead to tumors and cancers. Anger

turns into things that burn, boil, or infect the

body. A pattern of criticism can turn into

diseases like arthritis, and guilt seeks

punishment and leads to pain.

Psychologists and neurologists now

agree mind and body, aren't that different. The

brain is just another organ, even though more

intricate than the rest.

More and more doctors—and patients—

recognize that mental states and physical well-

being are intimately connected. An unhealthy

mind can lead to an unhealthy body, and an

illness of the mind can trigger or worsen

diseases in the body.

Way back in 1952, the Department of

Medicine at New York Hospital-Cornell

Medical Center found that diseases and

conditions ranging from eczema and cold hands

to migraine and hypertension were correlated to

particular attitudes and emotions.

Visit Dr. MacLeods Website at:

www.

thewellnessdiva.

org

Liquor Heiresses

Reportedly Blew $100M

on 'Cult'NYPost.com

Billionaire mogul Edgar Bronfman Sr. is

“considering legal action” to restrict the trust

funds of daughters Clare, 30, and Sara, 33, after

they lost $65 million in a commodities-trading

scheme, according to one insider.

Two Seagram’s liquor heiresses have

blown nearly $100 million on an upstate group

headed by a shady svengali — and their furious

father now may cut his girls off to keep the

group — which he describes as a “cult” — from

getting any more of the family fortune, sources

said yesterday.

Billionaire mogul Edgar Bronfman Sr. is

“considering legal action” to restrict the trust

funds of daughters Clare, 30, and Sara, 33, after

they lost $65 million in a commodities-trading

scheme, according to one insider.

Among Edgar Bronfman’s options, said

a source, is to have his girls declared

“financially incompetent.”

The failed investment plan and the

Bronfman sisters’ staggering financial loss were

revealed in court papers filed in Los Angeles

and first reported by the Albany Times Union.

The scheme was engineered by Keith

Raniere, a Brooklyn-born smooth talker who

has been investigated for fraud in several states

and is described in legal documents as a

“compulsive gambler.”

Raniere, 49, now heads a controversial

Albany-based group, NXIVM (pronounced

nex-eeum), that conducts “group awareness

seminars.”

The Bronfman girls are among his most

devoted acolytes. Their dad has called the group

a “cult.”

Over the years, Clare and Sara have

pumped millions into Raniere’s group, buying

him more than a dozen upstate properties and

even letting him fly around in their private

plane.

The Los Angeles lawsuit says that

starting in 2006, the sisters pumped $65 million

into the commodities scheme, which, along with

a $26 million real-estate deal, quickly went

south.

Raniere — who was trading the

commodities using a mathematical plan he had

concocted — blamed the financial losses on

Edgar Bronfman. Raniere said there was a

“conspiracy” and the “market was rigged”

against him because the mogul didn’t want his

girls involved with NXIVM, court papers

allege.

Mexican Catholic order's

founder abused boys, sect

admits

Rome, Italy (CNN) -- The founder of a

Mexican Catholic order sexually abused minor-

age seminarians and fathered three children

with two women, the religious sect has

revealed.

The Legionnaires of Christ and its lay

Regnum Christi Movement asked for

forgiveness Thursday for "the reprehensible

actions of our founder," the Rev. Marcial

Maciel.

"We express our sorrow and grief to

each and every person damaged by our

founder's actions," said a communique signed

by the Rev. Alvaro Corcuera and 15 other

Legionnaires of Christ leaders.

The Vatican started an investigation into

Maciel's actions in 2004 and concluded in May

2006 that he was guilty of sexual abuse, the

group said. Law enforcement officials

apparently were not informed.

"We had thought and hoped that the

accusations brought against our founder were

false and unfounded, since they conflicted with

our experience of him personally and his work.

However, on May 19, 2006, the Holy See's

Press Office issued a communique as the

conclusion of a canonical investigation that the

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

(CDF) had begun in 2004. At that time, the CDF

reached sufficient moral certainty to impose

serious canonical sanctions related to the

accusations made against Fr Maciel, which

included the sexual abuse of minor seminarians.

Therefore, though it causes us consternation, we

have to say that these acts did take place," the

group said.

The Vatican, "mindful of Father Maciel's

advanced age and his delicate health, decided to

forgo a canonical hearing and ask him to retire

to a private life of penance and prayer, giving up

any form of public ministry," the letter says.

Pope Benedict XVI approved the decision.

Maciel died January 30, 2008.

The announcement comes against a

deepening crisis in the Catholic church, which

is investigating complaints of abuse in Ireland,

Germany, Britain and several other countries. []

The ‘X’ Zone FACT-oidsHAPPY HOLIDAYS

- Colouring Easter eggs dates back to the

ancient Egyptians and Persians, who

practiced the custom during their spring

festivals.

- Juneteenth, a multiday celebration of the

emancipation of slaves, originated in

Galveston, Texas.

- Traditional Christmas dish in medieval

England: swan.

- The average adult American male recieves

six Christmas presents.

- Americans buy approximately 165 million

Easter cards every year.

- President Wodorow Wilson made Mother’s

Day a national holiday in 1914.

- The Easter Egg Roll, held on Easter

Monday, has been a White House tradition

since 1878.

- Americans generate an extra 5 million tons

of trash between Thanksgiving and New

Year’s.


41Damned & Natalie Locke

"Fascinating and simultaneously disturbing,"

Father Paul Keenan, author of Elisha's Jars

"If you're worried about the evil eye, think you have bad karma or that

someone has put the hoodoo on you... this book is worth more than a big

mojo bag filled with good luck charms anyday!"

Timothy Beckley, ConspiracyJournal.com

"By far, Shelley's best work ever!!!

Simple in approach, chilling in delivery, the true life spine tingling tales in

"Damned" are down right disturbing yet eerily enlightening. After reading,

be prepared to spend a sleepless night with only your thoughts and

goosebumps to keep you company."

Keith Sniadach, screenwriter, The Gatekeeper

Are You Blessed, Cursed or Just Lucky?

That’s the question Dr Kaehr asked her mailing list several years ago,

assuming they would all feel like she does – incredibly blessed.

Unbelievably, the answer she received turned out entirely different. 80%

of respondents said they were cursed beyond repair and the stories they

told were so fascinating, she included them in her latest book, Damned:

True Tales of the Cursed, Hexed and Bewitched.

She believes we get what we think about, so the book also discusses the

counseling work she did to assist these cursed souls in creating happier

lives. For more information and insight visit her website at....

www.shelleykaehr.com

NATALIE LOCKE

& THE

SHAPESHIFTER

On her way to a weekend ski vacation, Natalie Locke is involved ina head-on collision on a snowy highway and finds herself traveling through

the space between life and death, where she sees a Native American man

who visited her rock shop earlier that day.

Lone Eagle went to Locke’s Rocks in Albuquerque to find an

important tribal artifact and return it to his father, Chief Looking Elk.

Before the elderly chief passes away, he makes Lone Eagle promise one

thing – to teach Natalie the ways of their tribe.

There’s only one problem – Natalie suffered a coma from her

injuries. Now, Lone Eagle must use his medicine as a Native American

Shapeshifter to travel between worlds and help the girl get home. In the

process, he learns a dark secret, and the painful past he shares with the

Locke family threatens to destroy his tribal legacy.

Will Natalie wake up and return to the world of the living? And if

so, can she forgive Lone Eagle's father for the past they share, and

ultimately accept the gifts of healing and prophecy that await her?

For more information on Leah Leonard and her other books visit...

www.leahleonard.com


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Dr Nader Pourhassan, PhD 43

www.ChristianMuslim.org

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The Corruption of Moslem Minds

and

God's Scripture: A Faithful Comparisonby DR. NADER POURHASSAN

GOD’S SCRIPTURE :

The author, Dr. Nader Pourhassan, has researched the

Koran and the Bible in depth for the last twenty years. God's

Scripture is the result of his personal disillusionment with Islam

as it is manifested in the modern world. The message of the

Koran is resoundingly simple. We should believe in God, which

would encourage us to love our neighbor. If we do, we will go

to Heaven: "Those who do good to men or women and have

faith (in God), we will give them life, a pure life, and their

reward will be greater than their actions." This message, which

is stated clearly over sixty times in the Koran, has been

perverted by those who seek to promote themselves as spiritual

leaders, with appalling results, most shockingly the attacks on

America on September 11, 2001. His disillusionment grew as

he learned about the disparity between the holy book and Islam

as it is practiced today. Now, more than ever, there is an urgent

need for Muslims and non Muslims alike to understand the

truth about Islam, and to return to the original message of the

Prophet Muhammad, and that of Jesus, that humankind should

strive to be good, to love God and one another.

THE CORRUPTION OF MUSLIM MINDS :

This book is the result of Dr. Nader Pourhassan’s personal

disillusionment with Islam as it is manifested in the modern

world. The message of the Koran is resoundingly simple. We

should believe in God, which of itself would encourage us to be

good, and love our neighbor. If we do, we will go to Heaven:

"Those who do good to men or women and have faith [in God],

we will give them life, a pure life, and their reward will be

greater than their actions." This message, which is stated over

sixty times in the Koran, has been perverted by those who seek

to promote themselves as spiritual leaders, with appalling

results - most shockingly, the attacks on America on September

11th, 2001. Whether you are a Moslem, or non-Moslem, a

Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, or indeed of any faith, Dr. Pourhassan

hopes that you will find his comments enlightening and be

inspired to read the Koran for yourself. The only way we can

break the current impasse between the Moslem and non-

Moslem peoples is by fostering mutual understanding of the

many historical, cultural, and religious ties that bind us.


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