Empire of the Odd

• Reporter: Larry Barker

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – It’s a mysterious vampire beast of mythical proportions right up there with the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman.

It’s the chupacabra. Everyone knows the name, but no one knows where they live or what they look like. You see the legend of this vicious monster is as elusive as the beast itself.

“Among the monsters said to roam the world’s desolate deserts and dense jungles, perhaps is none is more feared than the blood-thirsty chupacabra,” Ben Radford said. “For some people it’s a joke. To many people it’s a very real creature.”

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After reading Lawrence Wright’s incredible profile of Paul Haggis and his dramatic departure from Scientology in the last issue of the New Yorker, I couldn’t help but wonder how Scientologists ended up coining so many awesome terms and phrases. Everything is something else. You’re not just a good guy, you’re “clear.” How come we can’t be clear like them?

Here’s the trick: You can be. And you don’t have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on auditing to get there. Or work in a labor camp. Or refinish a motorcycle for Tom Cruise. You just need to use their language, which is mostly pretty fun to say.

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Crescent City, CA. A resident of this remote part of California claims that a Bigfoot trampled over his fence, ripped open a peacock pen and took some of his birds. Why a Bigfoot you say? Kirk Stewart found several long hairs clinging on to the fence, where the supposed creature trampled it down. Oh, and not to mention the way the pen was opened up:

“I was thinking it was a bear, up until I had seen how it opened the pen,” said Stewart.

As he assessed the damage, Stewart said he happened upon a clump of about 16 hairs attached to one of the barbs on his fence. They were about 7 inches long with a fine texture and a slight curl.

“The hairs are the smoking gun,” he said.

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Westboro Baptists Stage Fake Anonymous Threat
Tom Goldman | 21 Feb 2011 11:16 am
Filed under: tom goldman, anonymous, church, hackers, hacking, hoax, threat, westboro baptist church
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The Westboro Baptist Church evidently created a fake threat from Anonymous as a publicity stunt.

The controversial Westboro Baptist Church isn’t exactly a beloved organization. However, when it claimed that ethereal hacking group Anonymous had threatened to take the WBC down, it was apparently just a bold-faced lie to garner publicity.

Anonymous is known for taking on targets big and small that range from the U.S. government to Gene Simmons. One common thread through Anonymous’ attacks is that they all seem to go along with the group’s ideals of open government or freedom of speech.

The WBC has some pretty insane views, in my humble opinion, the least terrible of which calls Batman and Superman false idols. At the worst, the WBC praises terrorism for, well, some crazy reason probably not even worth discussing. The organization claims it received an open letter from Anonymous that said: “We will target your public websites, and the propaganda and detestable doctrine that you promote will be eradicated; the damage incurred will be irreversible, and neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover.”

Anonymous put out a press release denying it had written the letter, believing it to be a trap to “harvest IPs to sue.” The press release reads: “When Anonymous says we support free speech, we mean it. We count Beatrice Hall among our Anonymous forebears: ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'”

While it might be nice to see Anonymous take on the WBC, it unfortunately just doesn’t make sense. It’d be like taking down the website of the crazy guy that yells at you when you walk down the street, on a slightly larger scale.

Source: Silicon Republic
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Hacker group Anonymous appears to have singled out its next target – the controvesial anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church in the US.

An open letter, purporting to be from Anonymous, accused the church of bigotry and fanaticism.

It warned that Westboro’s websites would be attacked if the congregation did not stop its public protests.

In a defiant response, the church said it would not be silenced, and urged Anonymous to “bring it”.

Westboro Baptist Church has been widely condemned for its aggressive anti-gay campaigning.

A number of US states have passed legislation, banning Westboro’s members from protesting close to military funerals.

The church’s leader, pastor Fred Phelps, was banned from entering the UK by the Home Office in 2009.

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A young woman, selling advertising for the magazine I edited some decades ago, asked one morning for a private meeting. It developed that she was a Scientologist, aiming to recruit me.

She explained that working with a Scientology practitioner had greatly enhanced her self-esteem. Moreover, she would later learn how to cure the common cold. She acknowledged that Scientology had critics, but they could be dismissed. One journalist had written an attack but Scientology had exposed him as a former member, spiteful over rejection.

Ever since then I’ve followed the relationship between the media and this famously loony cult (which at certain times has included friends or colleagues of mine). I thought about my would-be recruiter when reading The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology, a 25,000-word article by Lawrence Wright in the current New Yorker .

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More and more in the continuing drama over at SciFake. I don’t know if its art, but I do like it!

Personally I have no problem with the Klinge brothers and really my only wish for Christmas (LMAO) before this impulsive interview is for the die-hard and unsound fans to stop making this gridlock between the Klinge brothers and I personal! Seriously, there are some debilitated backscratching fans with ruptured minds posting freaky comments on Facebook and I’m sure Brad and Barry are adept (to an aloft level) to see right through the bullshit.

False claims by business owners

Furthermore, both Brad and Barry (and other paranormal teams) should clearly comprehend that there are bootlicking hospitality business owners/operators (e.g., restaurants, museums, hotels) falsifying haunted claims only to hitch their box car to the figurative paranormal money train to help fund operational expense! Like a deer in headlights, the confirmation is clear and these businesses should (and will ) be exposed for this deception.

Some have gone as far to grandstand an erroneous friendship with various paranormal TV celebrities (e.g., Ghost Hunters, Ghost Lab) hoping to attract a new crowd of napping customers by dishonorably advertising this askew claim. Scifake will entertain another article soon about this growing problem.

In closing, I look forward to a professional discussion with Brad and Barry. In regards to this article, look for a video soon and I will be shaking the untruth tree.

Report a business

To report a business owner falsifying paranormal claims, please send email to fakers@scifake.com. Include ALL evidence and contact information.

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This is serious! Brad Klinge from Discovery Channel’s “Ghost lab” threatens us (scifake) with physical violence for exercising our fundamental right to free speech(see photos below).

What would Discovery think?

You too should be outraged! This man represents a professional (I say this with caution in fear of getting my ass kicked) entity and he has the gall to make personal threats against me just because I do not agree to all his comments said about Ghost Hunters on a his mortified radio show. Sure, he made some valid points during the broadcast; however, his threats are unjustified and they should not be taken lightly! Below is his comments about the writers at scifake! Be prepared to be nauseous and when making comments …please use caution because you do not want Brad to get pissed and threaten you too!

Looking for a huge collection of idiots in one place? Apparently scifake.com is the place to be. They are the lastest to attempt to bash us. We LOVE it! I wish the Mutiny could have a segment where we beat the shit out of these people. Apparently they didn’t get enough ass beatings when they sat dateless throughout highschool. Good ol’ Texas justice! Keep it coming fellas. Yall are only digging your own graves.

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The half-witted team “Ghost Bashers” are Bats in the belfry!

Editor’s Note: I will have more in regards to this team very soon! Pathetic!!!

Ok, as I am writing this article I would like you to picture in your mind my vomiting uncontrollably into my Southwest barf bag! Besides ferociously barfing, I am laughing hysterically from the stupidity and foolishness of what you are about to read!

This is so beyond ???comical, I am having a difficult time putting my words in order without fracturing a rib from laughing! This is outside the limits of stupidity and maybe borderline actionable!

To give medical advice should be arranged by a trained professional (e.g., doctor) and if you are in medicine then I’d advise you to please refrain from reading this article because it may test your patience and goodwill. This is beyond instantaneously bizarre. Please click on the photo for your reading enjoyment.

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Posted in Enterprise Security, 7th February 2011 10:15 GMT

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The Anonymous hacking collective took revenge on a security firm that had investigated its membership on Sunday.

HBGary Federal has been seeking to uncloak the identities of senior members of Anonymous involved in attacks against financial services firms, such as PayPal and Mastercard, that had suspended accounts run by WikiLeaks. The security consultancy had infiltrated IRC chat sessions and Facebook groups used by core members of the Anonymous collective. HBGary Federal wanted to present its research at an upcoming security conference.

In response, Anonymous did a number on HBGary by hacking into its email system and uploading 60,000 emails onto file-sharing networks. Anonymous also defaced HBGary’s website with an image explaining their motives as well as taking over the Twitter feed of HBGary’s chief exec, Aaron Barr, to tweet abuse as well as supposed details of his home address and social security number. LinkedIn accounts of other senior HBGary execs were also targeted for attack.

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