A Different Perspective
Robert O. Dean, the retired Army Command Sergeant-Major, and the man
behind the tale of “The Assessment,” has died. Dean burst onto the UFO
stage after his retirement from the Army. He told the tale, in several
versions, as to how, as a senior NCO in NATO, he had been handed a copy
of a document labeled “Cosmic Top Secret.” According to him, while on
duty l A somewhat pensive Robert Dean. ate one
Here’s something that is a little frightening for those of us who
accept the idea that some UFO sightings represent alien spacecraft
visiting Earth. We have a list of cases, even if we don’t mention it,
that seem, on their face, to be inexplicable. They have some form of
instrumentality involved which means we are not relying on the
observations of the witnesses. Ed Ruppelt One of these cases is
I have complained in the past that I am becoming less than thrilled
with the UFO community. The reasons for this are varied but come down to
a couple of basic ideas. One of those is that no matter how often a
case is proven to be a hoax, a misidentification, a misinterpretation,
or an inability to recognize the mundane, there are those who will argue
the point forever. A recent post was partially
It has taken awhile, but I have now been able to follow up on the tale
originally told to us by Kevin Ashley, as told by someone he knew. To
briefly recap, Ashley said that he was talking about the Socorro UFO
landing when another man entered the conversation, suggesting that this
was an experiment by either staff or students at the New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology. They had launched
As you all know, I have been looking at the Socorro UFO landing case
and in the last couple of weeks published an article about it. In that
article, I mentioned that a fellow, Kevin Ashley, had heard a solution
for the case from an engineer who had attended school at the New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology in 1964. His story, though a bit hard
to believe was that he and a pal had been r
I now know more about the barrel launching Bruno R (name left out of
the original post that Dave Thomas put on his website at:
http://www.nmsr.org/socorro.htm ). Tony Bragalia, working with a little
information that I supplied and searching through other sources, was
able to speak with Bruno in an attempt to corroborate Kevin Ashley’s
story at Thomas’s site. Bruno said that he did not remember re
A Very Public Sociologist
Can anything more be said about the so-called People's Vote march in
London that hasn't already been noted elsewhere? According to the
organisers, there was anywhere between half a million and 750,000 on the
streets. Not content with nicking A to B marches off the left, they've
half-inched the revolutionary inflation as well. And what's more, some
of Britain's wealthiest reached into their pocket
The post on the class politics of the People's Vote march has elicited a
good response, but also some confusion as well. So to clear some
matters up ... 1. A bourgeois social movement doesn't mean everyone who
participates in it is bourgeois. That shouldn't really need saying, but
it does. Take it from someone hailing from a Tory working class
background. My parents and grandparents were manual w
They call it the fish hook theory of politics. Imagine if you will a
line. On the left is, well, the left. Travel in an easterly direction,
going past the centre, at some point on the right the line bends and
curves back to the point where the so-called far right hangs poised back
above the centre. Self-indulgent nonsense by lefties taking jabs at
their centrist rivals? Well, it would be if the e
History does a fine line in irony. When Francis Fukuyama suggested in
his famous 1989 article , followed by The End of History and the Last
Man in 1992 that history is coming to an end was always going to be a
foolish boast, a proper hostage to fortune. And viewed from the
perspective of the close of 2018 it sounds faintly absurd, a historical
curio, one for the professional historians of ideas a
Want cheese? I have it.
If you're a hard remainer, it's been a good couple of days. Labour's
stance on Brexit has tilted a bit more toward a second vote, though
without explicitly committing itself to such. And a number of polls are
suggesting more are moving toward remain than leave, which is
understandable. If the incompetence by which the Tories have gone about
negotiating Britain's exit from the EU doesn't give you
because a steady diet of the antics of the commie/marxist/libtards is
depressing and not healthy. I haven't even watched the interview yet.
First I must get a start on my Friday laundry and a few other tasks. I
do know that at one point Rush says something about the polls being
mostly bogus which is something I believe from the bottom of my little
militant normal heart. Remember the election of 2
support it - see it. And take 5 friends with you to the movie. We saw
it on Monday and at the end no one moved until the credits were finished
scrolling. There was not a peep in the audience. The movie is that
compelling. Nancy Pelosi I saw this meme on Facecrap. While it's cute
and somewhat funny, let's clear something up right now. Nancy Pelosi is a
public sinner by advocating for abortion and
it sounds like something I should like. Because anything that upsets
the commie/marxist/libtards is A-okay in my play book. NPV = non player
characters This morning after reading the wonderful post about NPC's at
our beloved MOTUS, Meme of the Century , I was driven to explore this
phenomena. Exploring something, investigating as it were, is polar
opposite to how the lefties who live among us do
with nothing to gain from their accusations? The most often touted
reason for having to set aside all logic when examining the claims of
these women is "they have nothing to gain." Keep in mind both of these
women are hard core leftists. Their lawyers are hard core leftists. The
politicians driving this insanity are hard core leftists . These are
people who are nothing more than communists while
this "hearing" was the most shamefully vile disgrace I have ever
witnessed. I watched every painful moment. Any decent person should be
outraged at that circus our elected leaders called a "hearing." It was a
mob hit on Brett Kavanaugh instigated by the commie/marxist/libtards
who sit on the left side of the aisle. It is time for conservatives to
wise up to the people we are dealing with. These a
until I read the Epistle for today. It is my habit on Sunday to study
the readings for today's Mass before attending. We have all experienced a
most horrific week in the history of our great country. We are
understandably angry and at the same time sad. To witness grown men and
women act in such a despicable manner was shocking to many of us.
Forcing a man of integrity to discuss his virginity an
ArmsControlWonk
Quote
of the week: “Wake the damn Bambino. I’ll drill him in the ass.” —
Attributed to Pedro Martinez, 2004, the year when the Red Sox broke the
curse of not winning a World Series after trading Babe Ruth to the New
York Yankees 86 years earlier. Donald Trump announced at a campaign
rally on …
Thailand
has ratified the CTBT, while Tuvalu has signed it. It’s hardly front
page news, but Jenny Nielsen, a VCDNP alum and now an information
officer at the CTBTO, makes the case what we should care. This won’t
make headlines—but it should. Thailand ratifies and Tuvalu signs the
CTBT! Jenny Nielsen As an Information Officer for …
My
colleague Olivia Vassalotti is back with another guest post, this time
with an update on the recent activities of Glocom, a North Korean
intelligence-linked company selling military communications technology
overseas. It’s a must-read for anyone interested in North Korea’s
contemporary efforts to access the global defence market, or for those
curious about the limits …
Quotes
of the week: “We are come to make a choice between the quick and the
dead.” — Bernard Baruch before the United Nations Atomic Energy
Commission, June 14, 1946. “To be quick in pulling the nuclear trigger
is to be dead.” — MK Archival research by Michael Beschloss has revealed
that in 1968, General …
Quote
of the week: “Deterrence now means something as a strategic policy only
when we are fairly confident that the retaliatory instrument upon which
it relies will not be called upon to function at all… In short, we
expect the system to be always ready to spring while going permanently
unused. Surely there is something …
US
Ambassador to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, made some news. And not in a
good way. She was trying to say that the US would develop
countervailing capabilities — something that started under the Obama
Administration and that almost no one disagrees with. But she mangled
the quote and, in doing so, reinforced Russian paranoia …
CENSORED NEWS
Breaking
News By Brenda Norrell Censored News Standing Rock Water Protectors
filed a class action civil rights lawsuit against Morton County, North
Dakota Governors, TigerSwan, and others, demanding a jury trial. In the
lawsuit filed by Cissy Thunderhawk, Waste Win Young, and Rev. John
Floberg, on behalf of water protectors, Morton County Sheriff Kyle
Kirchmeier, who led the attack
JEAN
ROACH, LAKOTA, IN PARIS, TALKS ABOUT THE ROLE OF WOMEN, LEONARD PELTIER
AND WATER PROTECTION By Christine Prat Censored News Recorded on
October 13, 2018 Published on October 22, 2018 The 38th Annual Day of
Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples, organized in Paris by the French
Committee for Solidarity with Indians of the Americas, CSIA, celebrated
over five centuries
WATER
PROTECTORS' 'RESILIENCE TOUR' IN EUROPE: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST PIPELINES
GOES ON By Christine Prat in Paris Censored News In French at:
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=4713 Two Water Protectors, who
have been fighting and suffering a lot in Standing Rock, Nataanii Means
and Tufawon, are now back to Europe for a "Resilience Tour". In Paris,
they took part
Livestream update https://www.facebook.com/nat.cole.750/videos/1559845390828209/
Contact:
Floyd Looks For Buffalo Hand; Naca Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty
Council Ivan Looking Horse Canupa Gluha Mani. Itacan and Spokesman
Strong Heart Warrior Society Historic Lakota Treaty Meeting in Green
Grass, SD This Weekend WHO: Lakota Treaty Representatives, Headsmen, and
other Traditional Representatives of the Oceti Sakowin WHAT: Oceti
Sakowin and Allies
.
Video link UzpfSTEwMDAwNDAzMDQ4MzgyNjoxNDUwODIyMjA1MDYyMTE1 Mashpee
Wampanoag Tribe This Indigenous Peoples Day we ask you to
#StandWithMashpee and help us Protect the Mashpee Reservation and pass
HR 5244 THE MASHPEE WAMPANOAG TRIBE RESERVATION REAFFIRMATION ACT.
Congress has the ability to stop this now, and with our voices we can
join together to stop this injustice. It
Centauri Dreams
Long-time Centauri Dreams readers know that I love things that
challenge our sense of scale, the kind of comparison that, for example,
tells us that if we traveled the distance from the Earth to the Sun, we
would have to repeat that distance 268,770 times just to reach the
nearest star. It’s much simpler, of course, to say that Proxima Centauri
is 4.25 light years from us, but it’s the relating o
Earlier in the week I talked about Astronomy Rewind , an ambitious
citizen science project dedicated to recovering old astronomical imagery
and digitizing it for comparison with new data. Now I’ve learned that
another citizen science effort, Planet Finders, is working with
simulated data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS),
planning to transition into real TESS data as soon as t
Given their ubiquity in the Milky Way, red dwarfs would seem to offer
abundant opportunities for life to emerge. But we’re a long way from
knowing how habitable the planets that orbit them might be. While
mechanisms for moderating the climate on tidally locked worlds in tight
habitable zones continue to be discussed, the issue of flares looms
large. That makes a new survey of 12 young red dwarfs,
We’ve never found a ‘hot Jupiter’ around a star as young as CI Tau.
This well studied system, some 2 million years old, has drawn attention
for its massive disk of dust and gas, one that extends hundreds of AU
from the star. But radial velocity examination recently revealed CI Tau
b, a hot Jupiter that in and of itself raises questions. Couple that to
the likelihood of three other gas giant plane
As we continue to track the Voyagers into interstellar space, the
spacecraft have become the subject of a new documentary. Associate
editor Larry Klaes, a long-time Centauri Dreams essayist and
commentator, here looks at The Farthest: Voyager in Space, a compelling
film released last year. Larry’s deep knowledge of the Voyager mission
helps him spot the occasional omission (why no mention of seri
8,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, the star
designated Kepler 1625 may be harboring a planet with a moon. The
planet, Kepler 1625b, is a gas giant several times the mass of Jupiter.
What David Kipping (Columbia University) and graduate student Alex
Teachey have found is compelling though not definitive evidence of a
moon orbiting the confirmed planet. If we do indeed have a
Craig Murray
I expect you are all familiar with the maps showing the radical
shrinking of Palestinian land over 70 years due to the expansion of
colonial Israeli settlement. Startling and appalling, yes, but to me
they bring back strong memories of other maps, in a precisely analogous
situation, which goes to the heart of why Israel is an apartheid state.
The original apartheid state of South Africa created “
A fringe venue at the Labour conference was evacuated last night after
the screening of a film about my friend Jackie Walker was cancelled by a
terrorist bomb threat. Jackie, a black Jewish prominent critic of
Israel, is currently among those suspended from the Labour Party over
accusations of anti-semitism which are, in her case, nonsense. What is
astonishing is that the state and corporate medi
I am just back from a family funeral – one of a succession – and a
combination of circumstances had left me feeling pretty down lately, and
not blogging much. But I have to drag myself to the keyboard to
denounce a quite extraordinary set of deliberate lies published in the
Guardian about a Russian plot to spring Julian Assange last December. I
was closely involved with Julian and with Fidel Narv
The draconian sentencing to jail of anti-fracking activists for
non-violent direct action has received insufficient attention. It is a
confident state that can undertake to bring back a level of repression
not seen for decades – eight decades, in fact, since environmental
activists received this kind of lengthy jail sentence, despite
generations of tree climbing and road blocking. Non violent dir
The evidence mounts that Russia is not telling the truth about
“Boshirov” and “Petrov”. If those were real identities, they would have
been substantiated in depth by now. As we know of Yulia Skripal’s
boyfriend, cat, cousin and grandmother, real depth on the lives and
milieu of “Boshirov” and “Petrov” would be got out. It is plainly in the
interests of Russia’s state and its oligarchy to establis
If Osama Bin Laden was not sufficient warning that decades of money,
arms and other support from the Western security services does not
render a jihadi a friend of the West, then the Manchester bomber, Salman
Abedi, should have opened British eyes forever to the danger. In
collaboration with MI5, Abedi had been fighting in the ongoing proxy war
for Western oil interests in Libya, before being res
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
Two well-heeled older men who never wanted for anything during their
upbringings and now live comfortable, privileged lives will be getting
together in Calgary this evening to talk about just how very, very angry
they are. The idea of a $15-per-hour minimum wage makes them very, very
angry. The idea that someone would remove a statue to a 19th Century
colonial-era politician in belated acknowledg
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Opposition was in furious damage
control mode yesterday after Edmonton Public Schools’ release of
“hypothetical” estimates of four budget scenarios for what anticipated
UCP cuts could mean for students, parents and teachers. The scenarios
were based on past hints UCP Leader Jason Kenney has dropped about the
size of cuts he would like to impose on Alberta gover
They crashed the party, did they? But I wonder why they picked a United
Conservative Party affair to crash? I speak, of course, of the
“Soldiers of Odin,” the unsavoury anti-immigrant group founded by a
Finnish white supremacist whose Edmonton chapter’s members dress like
bikers and have been making a nuisance of themselves by claiming to be
the Edmonton Police Service’s little helpers. On Friday
In a blistering broadside on social media yesterday, prominent B.C.
environmentalist Tzeporah Berman fired back at Opposition Leader Jason
Kenney for his continuing effort to reduce her to a figure of hatred,
ridicule and contempt as a way to undermine Alberta’s NDP government.
“You keep simplifying what I am saying to foment fear and anger in
Alberta that paralyzes us from progress,” Ms. Berman
Give Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party their due: They got
a large and enthusiastic crowd out last night to their rally in Calgary
against taking action on climate change. Leastways, I’d say 1,500 warm
bodies at a rally on any topic should concern the government they came
out to yell at, no matter what the issue, which in this case was
technically the Trudeau Government’s policy of p
Jason Kenney’s mid-September sojourn to India with a couple of his
United Conservative Party sidekicks was pure political theatre, likely
aimed as much at the Alberta Opposition leader’s real main enemy, Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau, as at Alberta’s NDP premier, Rachel Notley.
Still, lots of Albertans were wondering last week how three Opposition
stooges from a Canadian provincial government cou
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin Sibel Edmonds Investigating Khashoggi Affair "Old
Trees Cause Forest Fires" ...which the bastards themselves have
withstood for thousands of years. FBI Acknowledges Using Multiple
Informants in Investigation of [Carter Page] Mexican Town Practically
Eliminated Crime by Throwing Out Politicians and the Police Sperm Counts
Continue to Fall How An Amateur Rap Crew Stole Surveillance
From Jenna Orkin Khashoggi Interviewed Bin Laden "Big-Ass Fight On The
Horizon": Nearly Half Of All U.S. Troops Think Major War Is Coming “I am
afraid that there is no more time for words,” Mladenov said. “Now is
the time for action. And we must see very clear actions on all sides
that de-escalate the situation. Otherwise, the consequences will be
terrible for everyone.” He said all parties must
From Jenna Orkin Russia Liquidates Nearly All Holdings of US Debt (RT)
Even more than in July, when they divested themselves of 84%
Transpiration SCUPLS Khaled Saffuri Possible Source for Khashoggi
Narrative Via Daniel Klaidman Facebook has hired Britain's former deputy
prime minister as its global comms chief Putin Hints At New
Russia-Saudi Axis: "No Reason To Spoil Saudi Ties Over Khashoggi Kil
From Jenna Orkin FBI Looking at DA Cyrus Vance US Knew of Saudi Plan to
Seize Missing Journalist Top US commander in Afghanistan survives
deadly insider attack that left senior Afghan officials dead and two
Americans wounded Why Is WaPo Suddenly Promoting Trump As "Most Honest
President Ever" Ahead Of Midterms? Saudi Arabia paid the US $100 million
on the same day Mike Pompeo visited Riyadh to di
From Jenna Orkin WaPo, As It Shames Others, Continues to Pay and
Publish Undisclosed Saudi Lobbyists and Other Propagandists - Greenwald
Rules for Assange to Have Freedom from Isolation Restored NYT Identifies
Four Suspected Saudi Hit Squad Members As 'Close Associates' Of Crown
Prince Turkish officials keep blowing the lid off Trump and Saudi
Arabia's Khashoggi story After UAE 'Murder Squad' Rev
From Jenna Orkin Boehner on "Nazis in Congress" "Hyperalarming" Study
Shows Massive Insect Loss Turkey's Erdogan drops bombshell twist in the
Khashoggi case as Trump appears to side with Saudis World's "Worst
Famine In 100 Years" Will Hit Yemen, U.N. Warns BuzzFeed News is teaming
up with Amazon to launch a book club as part of a push to create new
revenue streams Facebook Purged Pages Based On '
GlobaLove Think Tank
Like a character out of a Bourne novel a so called journalist is hacked
to bits inside the foreign embassy and the world asks a collective why
and who dunnit The belated oft changed official story is that Kashoggi
got into a fist fight at the embassy and the choke hold of deescalation
terminated him and we still have not heard what officially happened to
the body This story will work well for the
How many ways is Facebook giving humanity marching orders, let me count
the ways. What if Facebook was evil? I am very paranoid about such
devices. As the boss said ” All men want to be rich (how sexist boss).
rich man want to be king, and the king is never satisfied until he rules
everything” Lord Acton said ” Power tends to corrupt and absolute power
corrupts absolutely” The power of Facebook t
Government and Taxes
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last October 18, 2018. The
government recently announced that it will suspend part 2 of the oil
excise tax hike this coming January 2019. So another increase of
P2/liter for both diesel and gasoline will be temporarily suspended but
the tax hikes in 2018 of P2.50/liter for diesel and P2.65/liter for
gasoline (from P4.35 to P7.00/liter) will remain. The reason
One reader of my BWorld article on MMDA towing last December 2017,
Lextanne Pantoja Tan, sent me a fb pm but since we are not friends, his
pm went to the 'message request' folder, which I hardly open, usually
after many months. Below is his pm, blogging this with his permission.
The photo here I got from the web, not from him or from my camera.
-------------- JUN 20TH, 2018 Hi sir Nonoy, Good eve
I took these photos today of my treehouse in the farm in Bugallon,
Pangasinan. It's now 14 years old. And view from the 2nd floor of my
treehouse overlooking a field of gold, mature rice ready to be
harvested. The farm caretaker Nong Endring and his partner-farmer
planted the rice. Closer view of the treehouse. It is perched on a big,
live mahogany tree. The trees around it except the front view
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last October 15, 2018. The Duterte
economic team aka “Dutertenomists” composed of the DBCC, the
Secretaries of DoF, DBM and NEDA and Governor of BSP have been peddling
the “6.7% inflation rate will be the peak” statement after the September
inflation was announced. They are daydreaming, of course. Not included
in their calculations and projections is the grant
Last month, BMAP wanted a speaker from BusinessWorld for one of their
monthly membership meetings. A BWorld staff they know, Mark Cunanan,
gave my name. So I was the guest speaker in their meeting last September
21. My 24-slides ppt is here,
https://www.slideshare.net/Noysky/debriefing-dutertenomics-inflation-train-peso-depreciation-gdp-slowdown
. Then when I went to Gonzaga, Cagayan early this w
I forgot to post this earlier but these two screen shots were fb posts
by a DILG UnderSecretary last September 07, 2018. These are words of
defensive minds, perhaps bright in politics and local government but a
3rd-rate mind in economics. 1. "If the anti-inflation efforts will be
put in place..." The pro-inflation efforts of the administration were
the various tax hikes under TRAIN law. High worl
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