Empire of the Odd

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Once and awhile I run across something so absurd, so stupid that I simply must comment on it.

http://www.ufodigest.com/article/ufoet-activism-now
In the early 1990’s Operation Right To Know (ORTK) http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/2008/03/ortk-ufo-demonstration.html began a series of UFO/ET demonstrations and other forms of activism. We started with a demonstration in front of the White House in Washington DC that stimulated demonstrations and other forms of activism across America, even to Argentina and the UK. The idea was to try to kick start a global UFO/ET activist movement that would stimulate mainstream media to take the subject seriously and not only report on UFOs, but to seriously investigate the issue. Even though we are in the mist of UFO/ET disclosure as Richard Hoagland aptly points out, most informedpeople realize that mainstream press attention is still key to the final unraveling of the 60 year old cover-up.

You know? For the life of me I cannot think of a more useless thing than UFO activism. Demonstrating in front of the White House? I’ve been to many a protest and I can tell you, what they are talking about sounds a little like masturbation. It might feel good, but it really won’t get you anywhere and as Robert Heinland so succinctly points out, “it’s lonely!”

You could also demonstrate practicably anywhere in DC and get far more attention than in front of the US President’s palace, the mainstream media is not in front of the White House most of the important ones are inside the White House with the President who’s wrestling with, you know! World politics and domestic tranquility, that sort of stuff. You yahoos and your flying saucers are really not part of that are you?

Well on second though, perhaps in front of the White House is the best place for you.

Unfortunately in the abAs Richard Hoagland in a recent interview with George Noory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sfjEkYX5Ek pointed out, government’s create boundaries that the mainstream press will not cross and it’s not real unless its on CNN. It is now my contention that a ground swell of sustained citizen activism is growing to a point that will allow the press to push the boundaries of serious reporting and investigation to eventually bust up the UFO/ET cover-up. We can’t hold the mainstream press entirely responsible for abdicating it’s watchdog status beginning in the 1950’s in the face of a government propaganda blitz of denial and ridicule and public apathy.sence of vigorous citizen activism on a variety of issues including UFOs the mainstream press becomes the lapdog of government and special interests, rather than a watchdog for the citizenry. In the 1990’s the overall conditions for a sustained vigorous UFO/ET activism movement to end UFO secrecy was not favorable and our effort failed in its main goal to end the UFO/ET cover-up once and for all.

I love this hero worship of Richard Hoagland. Has anyone but me noticed that he’s been wrong about nearly everything he’s said, including his own credentials? That should be a red flag if nothing else but Noooooooooo! He’s some kind of authority! Perhaps it’s this that creates boundaries that the press won’t cross. People for the most part know when they are being lied to, most people that is. In UFOlogy it’s ‘whomever can tell the biggest whopper gets the prize.” Whatever that is. Book deals and panel discussions I guess. He did get an Ig-Nobel prize! That has to account for something!

Some secondary goals succeeded like the focusing of major press attention onto the subject. I believe this succeeded in sparked many mainstream UFO shows. We also made inroads in stimulating an awareness in the UFO community that good science can’t succeed if it being suppressed, and its data being manipulated for political reasons. A political problem deserves political solutions, something some very savvy propagandists and intelligence people in the UFO community realize very well.

Propagandists? Those who deliberately lie to create false beliefs in people? I’d say you got that spot on. And I hate to break it to you partner, the mainstream media is not interested in covering UFOs or much of anything else. They are primarily interested in selling stuff and capturing an audience to sell stuff to.  UFO and ghost shows are just pieces of cheese (literally) to bring in the suckers and get them to buy overly expensive cars to somehow prove their manhood.

kYX5Ek pointed out, government’s create boundaries has a that the mainstream press will not cross and it’s not real unless its on CNN. It is now my contention that a ground swell of sustained citizen activism is growing to a point that will allow the press to push the boundaries of serious reporting and investigation to eventually bust up the UFO/ET cover-up. We can’t hold the mainstream press entirely responsible for abdicating it’s watchdog status beginning in the 1950’s in the face of a government propaganda blitz of denial and ridicule and public apathy.

I’ve got a MUCH better idea. You yahoos running around flapping your gums about gooberment cover-ups might want to actually do a bit of research on the subject. The US Government doesn’t bother to cover up UFOs because there is no need.  UFOs might be an interesting phenomena that warrants further *scientific* study (I think so,) but the don’t seem to exist in the “real world” of paychecks and airplanes. UFOs seem to reside in the never-never land of belief and faith. Once these so-called UFOligests stop protesting and waving their hands about cover-ups, they might actually find out that .

It’s very old, there are reports of UFOs in antiquity which are identical to UFO reports today.

Most people really don’t give a flapping damn about them because they have little to do with the ordinary things in life, you know! Jobs, families and that sort of thing.

Most UFOs are seen by people who are prone to see them. People who are not prone to see them don’t (strange that.)

UFO’s hardly ever leave no physical traces. They seem to be more like projections.

The projections are *subjective* to the person witnessing them.

The projections reflect the technical bias of the witness. As craft they seem to be just ahead of whatever human technology is known to the witness.

There is a tiny smidgen of evidence that these projections * occasionally * have some effect on physical reality.  There are almost no photographs of UFOs that do not have a mundane explanation.

UFOs do not interact with mainstream thought. In fact the phenomena seems to avoid direct interaction and changes whenever scientific processes are brought to bare.

Well, this is just if you have yourself at least a little grounded in reality and not buried into some stupid “space brother” nonsense. UFOs are an interesting phenomena, one that I believe warrants further study. What really draws people away is this business of * proclaiming* what UFOs really are as apposed to rendering an opinion of what they *look like.* (Which is what I was doing above.) Not that I didn’t claim they were the result aliens, why? Because there is absolutely no evidence that UFOs have anything to do with *anything* off of planet Earth. Heck there is no evidence the durn things fly into space at all.

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I’m in dire straights, almost out of coffee!

I’d say, bad science writiing comes from ignorence.

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A nice little Internet  melodrama has erupted over 19 year old David Montalvo and Scientology. David was a tee age member of the Sea Org, that part of Scientology which signs a lifetime service contract,…. so  sorry; A BILLION YEAR SERVICE CONTRACT!!!! In other words, this young man like many others signed his entire life into servitude when he was a child.

Apparently David came to his senses and realized that the rest of the civilized world does not endure100 hour work weeks at pennies per hour, screaming management, bad food,horrible lodging, mental and physical abuse (if one believes nearly everyone coming out of the Sea Org.)

Well, according to the tale now weaving its way across the Internet, David got out, hooked up with some folks who helped him out, he parents and some lawyer convinced  tricked  him into coming back and sighing some papers, they had him arrested for swiping some hard disks, he’s now sitting in jail.

I can’t make this stuff up funnseekers!

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Daniel Montalvo, 19, Leaves Scientology, Which Convinces LA Sheriff to Jail Him For It.

An amazing story is hitting the Internet today of 19-year-old Daniel Montalvo, a lifelong Scientologist who decided to leave the wacky cabal, only to find himself arrested by LA sheriff’s deputies and facing prison time for it.

The tale comes courtesy of Marty Rathbun, formerly one of the highest officials in Scientology who defected and has kept up a withering takedown of the “church” on his blog.

Rathbun writes for fellow ex-Scientologists, so there’s a lot of jargon and coded references in his writing. But here are the basics of what Rathbun reported.

Montalvo had grown up in Scientology and its most fanatical wing, the “Sea Org,” which requires members to sign billion-year contracts and promise to serve L. Ron Hubbard’s sci-fi cult, lifetime after lifetime.

As we’ve written many times before, life in the Sea Org is incredibly regimented and ascetic, with extremely low pay, long hours, and even meager food. Members tend to be tenaciously loyal to the organization, but many eventually have flameouts, some spectacularly so.

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One of the few Yahoo sites I still look at is published by  my good friends at http://ghostweb.com, “Dr’s” Dave and Sharon Oester. Most of it is typical hyperbolic nonsense. “Dr.s'” Dave and Sharon really love to tell people how they discovered ghost hunting. Or like who would have thought back in 1996 that those newfangled digital cameras would BE the cameras of the future. Most of us technologically inept boobs thought that they would never NEVER catch on! Whew; I’m so glad the Osters are around to enlighten us on these … er FACTS!

“This is not the first time we have led the field in promoting new technology that evolved into a new paradigm. This new paradigm shift occurred when the IGHS started teaching that digital cameras were the cameras of the future, while the holdouts of the old paradigm still promoted film chemistry cameras. Other ghost groups bashed us as we promoted digital cameras in ghost investigations, but the new paradigm became the standard for ghost photography. Today all of these ghost groups have shifted to using digital technology for ghost investigations and claiming they were the first to promote digital technology as they step on others to be king of the hill.”

What really knocked me for a loop (other than the wacky time of the week this was posted. Normally “Dr’s” Dave and Sharon post on Saturday, here it is Monday and a new post!) This paragraph by “Dr” Sharon really caught my eye. It looks like they are failing out with someone and never being a couple to try and reduce drama, they published this –

We were recently involved with a person who claimed she’d been psychic all of her life. When we went out into the field she would tell us what she allegedly felt and tried to guide us to where she felt we needed to be. I found myself doing the same thing that I’ve always done; I listened to myself, my feelings. I followed those feelings rather than depending on someone else because of past experience. We learned that the person with us was a fraud on every front. Her claims of being a super psychic were as phony as she was in every aspect of her life. I tend to stay with what I know and what has worked best for me in the past. In this case, I was correct to listen to my gut feelings and not depend on the alleged impressions of someone else.

Now fun-seekers; I don’t know exactly who “Dr” Sharon is talking about but I DO know that if it is you-know-who she’s going to completely nuts, than blame yours truly. From that “super-psychic” reference, I’d guess “Dr’s” Sharon and Dave are trying to kill two birds with one roc so to speak. I mean, it’s not like they were not trying to rebut some of the things on the wiki entry about them. It is also true that somebody has been trying to thrust  “her” and us  together for the past year or so. I’ll pretend not to have noticed and I will pretend this didn’t happen coz after all, I am the nice one!

As Lord Rick said once,” she is stupid enough to fall for this.”

We shall have to see, I tend to go with my gut feelings too, just like “Dr” Sharon. My gut says we are due for a lolcano eruption very soon, courtesy of the Osters. If so, exactly who were you going to throw under the bus for it….hmmm?

Thanks guys, we will get back to you later!

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RETIRED US air officers will today sensationally claim aliens tampered with nuclear weapons on British soil.

They are set to lift the lid on the “ongoing and disturbing” intervention of UFOs at nuclear weapon sites.

Their claims include how several missiles inexplicably malfunctioned while an unidentified disc-shaped object hovered nearby.

One alleged incident they say was covered up is the Rendlesham Forest UFO sighting in Suffolk ? known as the UK’s Roswell by the alien watchers community.

It was claimed that 30 years ago a UFO directed beams of light into RAF Bentwaters, close to the forest ? one of the few US military bases in Britain to hold nuclear weapons at the time.

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Found lying around The Register.

By Lester Haines • Get more from this author

Posted in Space, 27th September 2010 14:13 GMT

The head of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs is poised to become first point of contact for extraterrestrials.

Astrophysicist Mazlan Othman, 58, is concerned that we simply don’t have a proper welcome mat ready to unroll when ET finally gets in touch – something she feels is ever more likely as we scour the skies for signs of non-human life.
she recently told fellow scientists: “The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities, sustains the hope that some day humankind will receive signals from extraterrestrials. When we do, we should have in place a co-ordinated response that takes into account all the sensitivities related to the subject. The UN is a ready-made mechanism for such co-ordination.”

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