A sweet photo of Leo Tolstoy with his grand kids (1909)

By Jack Brummet, ATIT head image archivist 

The site on which I originally found this photo had a caption about Tolstoy telling the kids a story.  In the course of clearing the photo (for copyright issues), I discovered it's a public domain image from TinEye, Wikipedia Commons, and other sources.  The photographer is unknown.

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Alien Lore No. 250 - The big reveal: former Canadian Minister of Defense acknowledges alien presence on earth

By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.

A conference took place last month, convened with the hope and intention of calling for change on current governmental disclosure policy to the public.  Paul Hellyer, former Minister of Defense of Canada revealed at The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure that:

• ET Species have visited and still visit Earth: (Zeta Reticuli, Pleiadians, Orions), or, in short, The Greys

• Tall Whites (a species of Greys) are living on US Airforce Property

• A Cabal existed consisting of the Military Industrial Complex, Builderbergs, and various Cartels

• There were shadow governments controlling much of this information--the ruling elite, Rockerfellers, President George H.W. Bush, and others. I don't know if they mentioned the Trilateral Commission, but they did name the Rockefellers, a name usually associated with that possibly mythical organization.

   

The hearing committee panel was not some conglomeration of Wackos and UFOlogists, but included   Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (Rep., MD); Congressmen Merrill Cook (Rep., UT); Congresswoman Darlene Hooley (Dem., OR); Senator Mike Gravel (Dem/Lib., AK); Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick (Dem., MI); and Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (Dem., CA).

Among the 30+ people who presented eyewitness testimony, documentation and expertise were respected scientists as well as UFOlogists: Dr. Edgar Mitchell (NASA, Capt. USN, Ret.); Nick Pope (Former Ministry of Defense, UK); Dr. Sun Shili (People's Republic of China); Oscar Santa-Maria (Col. Ret., Peru); Dr. Steven Greer; Daniel Sheehan JD; Linda Moulton Howe; Capt. Robert Salas (USAF, Ret.); and the notorious Stanton Friedman (Canada).
 Paul Hellyer, the former Minister of Defense of Canada is the first cabinet member of a major G8 country to state publicly he believed and had seen proof of alien visitations to earth.

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One hero sings about another: Waylon Jennings' song "Bob Wills Is Still The King."

By Jack Brummet, CW Ed.

Waylon Jennings' tribute to the Kings of Western Swing, Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys.   Interestingly, the Rolling Stones covered this song a few years ago...and did a bang-up job. He is beloved in Texas, and the other 49 states.   I saw Asleep At The Wheel perform a Bob Wills tribute show--at a beautiful auditorium at the University of Texas when I was in Austin a few years ago. It was heartbreakingly good, and so is this...one hero singing about another hero.

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LBJ shows his gall bladder surgery scars at an impromptu press conference

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

In 1965, LBJ was released from the hospital after gall bladder and kidney stone surgery.  LBJ being LBJ, he stopped for the press, and instead of answering questions, pulled his shirt up and gave one of the strangest presidential photo ops of all time.  I can almost hear him narrating this...

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Poem: Takebacks

By Jack Brummet

1
You can withdraw it
Marginalize it
Forget it

Hide it
Lie about it
And deny it three times before the cock crows.

2
You can snigger about it
Weep about it
Shout about it

Hide it under a bush (oh no)
Sing the blues about it
And  sweep it under the rug.

3
You can get an ulcer over it
Jump off the Aurora Bridge over it
Lose your family over it

Lose your shorts or mind over it
And pretend

It never happened.

4
You can dream about it
Run away from it
Rationalize it

Psychoanalyze it
And drink it away
But you can't take back love.
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Down in the Dumps by Mark Roberts a/k/a Markrobla

Down in the Dumps is a public art series by UK-based artist Mark Roberts, aka Markrobla, that features figurative sculptures that look like people stuck in trash cans. Appearing to have dived head first into the public waste bins, the disembodied pair of legs lifelessly dangle in an awkward position leaving one to wonder whether a person has actually wedged themselves…

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Rock music + frozen vegetables=marketing synergy

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Poem: [the dragon stays below the surface]

By Jack Brummet

1
The dragon stays below the surface
Because the time to act is not now.

Water pours down from heaven
And fire rises up

From the center of the earth.
Earth sucks in lightning

To electrify itself
Like Frankenstein's monster.

2
Let the blue turtle go.
Train your eyes
Like a bobcat.

3
Leave the knife beneath your cloak—
Let things pass
Because all things must pass.

4
Awareness of danger
Brings good fortune
As you cross the great water.
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Drawing: Faces No. 509 - camouflage

by Jack Brummet

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Poem: Escape

By Jack Brummet

illustration by Jack Brummet

Some of us try astral projection.
The rest of us leave in dinghies, bikes, and cars,

And race down highways, expressways,
Streets and boulevards.

A continent of smoking skull orchard
Recedes in the rear view mirror.                    
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Poem: Autopsy of a President

By Jack Brummet

Weak character coupled with an honored place,
Half-baked knowledge with big plans,

And limited reason with heavy responsibility
Will not escape disaster.

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Drawing: The Grid

By Jack Brummet

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