Empire of the Odd

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By Tony Ortega, Friday, May. 21 2010 @ 9:33AM

?Mark Bunker (Wise Beard Man) has been tipping us to several embarrassing developments for Scientology overseas lately.

The newest was yesterday’s raid of a Scientology center in Turin, Italy, where investigators uncovered a basement stash of records containing “sensitive personal data” about local officials and journalists that Scientology apparently considered enemies.

The archive of documents “had files on magistrates, policemen, journalists and relatives of former members,” which is consistent with Scientology’s long, sad history of going after defectors and critics by any means possible. The documents “were ‘chock full’ of sensitive information dealing with sexual habits, health and political inclinations.”

According to the report by an Italian news service, ANSA.it, the raid was part of a probe by local officials looking into accusations that Scientology uses personal information in questionable ways.

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I just had to do that!

A UFO expert claims aliens have hijacked a Nasa spacecraft and are using it to try to contact Earth.

Voyager 2, an unmanned probe that has been in space since 1977, is sending strange messages that are confusing scientists.

German academic Hartwig Hausdorf believes it is because it has been taken over by extraterrestrial life.

Since its launch, Voyager 2 has been sending streams of data back to Earth for study by scientists, but on April 22, 2010, that stream of information suddenly changed.

Nasa claimed that a software problem with the flight data system was the cause but Hausdorf believes it could be the work of aliens.

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OK, this is something the Odd Emperor can get behind 100%. You humans have some funny beliefs but the very idea that one single religion can dictate the behavior of anyone under threat of violence goes beyond the pale. So fine, you think that the image of Mohamed is  sacred and should never be displayed? Great! Stand by your beliefs and don’t display the image of Mahmoud.

BUT! I am not a member of Islam so your beliefs don’t apply.

And my drawing sucks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ok4njJXI8&playnext_from=TL&videos=HlgCiPgJ9CM&feature=sub

ABC’s Alexander Marquardt reports from Moscow:

The aliens came for him on September 18, 1997.  Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was at home in his Moscow apartment when they came in and abducted him, taking him to their space ship where they communicated with him telepathically.

That’s the tale Ilyumzhinov told a popular Russian television host in a program that aired last week. 

But Ilyumzhinov isn’t simply one of the thousands who claim to have been abducted by aliens, he’s also the governor of the Russian republic of Kalmykia and a former president of the World Chess Federation.

Now a Russian parliamentarian wants Ilyumzhinov questioned, fearing he may have given the aliens “secret information,” according to the Echo of Moscow radio station.

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I suppose this is a good time to announce this.  The Odd Empire has been going through  a few changes in the last couple of months. We are reorganizing with the goal of expanding out coverage of the strange and bizarre webpage as well as the people who put them up.  GP has stepped down as managing editor and HC has replaced him. Along with the usual cast of losers who make up the the Odd Empire bullpen.  We will continue to bring sporadic and irreverent news of kooks and nutballs from around the world.  How do we know they are kooks? Well we know and they reveal themselves to us in their own special way. We define crackpots on the Odd Empire. Don’t belive me? Keep reading, you’ll see!

Oh yes, last month we had some very good stats. People from all over are beginning to notice the Odd Empire. Remember we have a Wiki at http://oddempire.org that anyone can edit. Don’t be shy! If you know of a strange web page, oddball blog, unusual forum or the personalities who run them? Create your own article. It’s fun! You will see!

Planet Earth has not (yet) been destroyed by today’s terrifying Boobquake experiment – one Indiana student’s response to Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi’s insistence that immodestly dressed women provoke earthquakes.

Sedighi recently declared: “Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupting their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes.”

Well, Jennifer McCreight decided to put this to the test, and attempt a critical mass of immodesty primarily involving a load of women flashing a Richter-tempting amount of jub.

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We have been giving the Mormons a hammering over the last few days. Although I find their beliefs highly improbable, it is hard not to admire their loyalty to them and their willingness to defend them. They say adversity makes us stronger, and this sect has had enough of that to become very strong.

For me, what is far more concerning are the pseudo religious cults that abuse their members and challenge us all through their defiance of our laws and societal values. Prime amongst these must be the fast-growing Scientologists whose depravity is becoming increasingly better understood.

For some strange reason we have given this cult the status of being a religion even though it has no gods, and is antithetic to everything we understand by the term “religion”, (except on the fund raising side) even when taking into account the full broad sweep of religious beliefs and practices across the entire world.

This false status greatly assists this cult by giving it force of law in spreading its influence and in enriching itself through the misappropriation of the wealth of all who come under its influence.

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ere’s what I don’t understand about the alien civilizations that send spacecraft to Earth and abduct people in their sleep to subject them to mysterious experiments back on board the Mothership: Why don’t they just read about it on the Internet? We’re posting genomic data about human beings and other organisms right there on the Web. Isn’t the abduction thing a lot of fuss and bother? I know what you’re going to say: The aliens aren’t just interested in our DNA, they also want to map our aura, our chakra and the source of our chi energy. That’s right: They’re technological, but they’re also really into yoga.

From a purely scientific standpoint, the great mystery of aliens is why we haven’t found any yet. You know: the Fermi Paradox. “Where are they?” Fermi suddenly blurted out in a conversation in 1950.

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is 50 years old this month. It was April 8, 1960, that Frank Drake used a telescope at Green Bank, W. Va., for the first search for radio signals from other worlds. It’s the subject of a new book, “The Eerie Silence,” by Paul Davies, who is one of my favorites — imaginative, smart, lucid. He’s sort of a throwback natural philosopher who takes on cutting-edge ideas about time, space, life, God, the whole ball of wax.

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