President Bush Says We're Winning The Iraqi War

President Bush, in a speech from the Oval Office Sunday night, told us we are winning the war. Click here for details on the speech.

None of us are getting any younger, I'll admit. The President has been relentlesly hammered by the public, Democrats, Allies, and Press for a long time now and seems to have aged ten years overnight. We've seen this happen often before. It happens to every President, except maybe Gerald Ford, who didn't seem to age a day in his short term in office. And, of course, William Henry Harrison, who only lasted a month in office.
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Alien Lore 55 - Bob Dylan And The Greys

"The 60s was like a UFO landing. A lot of people heard about it, but very few actually saw it."

- Bob Dylan

Where do Bob Dylan's elliptical, prophetic, and lyrical songs come from? Sean Casteel published an article: "Bob Dylan And A Possible UFO Connection." He speculates that Bob's lyrics have a connection to The Greys through his contact with aliens, or because Dylan was actually abducted. Click on the links to read the short article.

Casteel's web site offers a couple of his (interesting looking) books for sale.
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One Hundred And Forty Years Ago Today, Slavery Was Abolished (More Or Less)

On December 18, 1865, after three-quarters of the states had finally ratified it, the 13th Amendment was adopted into the U.S. Constitution, saying that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

President Lincolin and other members of the anti-slavery Republican Party did not even try to abolish slavery--they just wanted to stop its extension into new states in the West.

Even this was unacceptable to Southern politicians, who believed the free states would turn against them. After Lincoln's election in November1860, many souther states seceded from the U.S., and just after Lincoln's inauguration in, the Civil War began.
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Poem: [It's the Lee Harvey Oswald smile]

It's the Lee Harvey Oswald smile
With a touch of Mona Lisa
That makes my neckhairs stand up

His eyes sweep like searchlights
He glares with a mixture of sorrow and rage
And sundered dreams

It's there in his eyes
The last sanctuary evaporates
He can't take it in his head anymore

His fingers clutch the ancient pistol
He fires and again again
Again again again

When I hear the sixth shot
I know I'm God's boy tonight.
Amen.
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Bush: Eavesdropping Saves U.S. Lives

President Bush delivers his live radio address in the Roosevelt
Room at the White House, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005, in Washington.
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Facing angry criticism, challenges to his authority in Congress, and national outrage, President Bush defended his right to conduct secret spying in the United States as "saving American lives."

"Often appearing angry in an eight-minute address, the president made clear he has no intention of halting his authorizations of the monitoring activities and said public disclosure of the program by the news media had endangered Americans." [Associated Press]

How many lives had been saved since this domestic spying operation was deployed? So far, no one is saying.

All This Is That came up with a short (and by no means comprehensive) list of other possibilities for saving American lives.

- Revoke the Seond Amendment.
- Ban gasoline-based cars. Allow hybrids temporarily.
- Bolster Medicaid for the poor and aging.
- Require cars that sustain impacts greater than five MPH.
- Put another liberal on the Supreme Court.
- Mandate more rigorous drug testing standards by the F.D.A.
- Ban capital punishment.
- Increase medical research into AIDS.
- Increase enforcement of existing seat-belt laws.
- Withdraw all American troops from Iraq.
- Eliminate the sales of tobacco.
- Revoking the licenses of all D.U.I. drivers permanently.
- Crank up the E.P.A.'s act.
- Increase entitlements for needy children.
- Mandate national health care.
- Enact a national speed limit of fifty miles per hour.
- Ban skydiving, mountain climbing, hang-gliding, and car races.
- Eliminate motorcycles from public highways.
- Rebuild the levee system in New Orleans.
- Eliminate building in flood zones.
- More closely monitor the activities of hate groups.
- Disband the Republican party.
- Enact compulsory national conscription with no deferments.
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Taracotra - Del Brummet's Latest Movie Script

Del Brummet has completed another movie script. This one will be filmed during a film production class.

For details on Taracotra, visit Del's blog. You can download or stream the trailer he put together here.

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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight Is Back: Patriot Act Filibustered To Death; New Spying Revelations by the NYT; Frist Under The Gun Once Again

It's been a good week at The White House. . .for the Democrats.

The President, after his aggressive round of speechmaking, got a bump in the approval polls...back up to near 40%. But then, the wheels came off the Patriot Act renewal; it was revealed that since October 2001, the National Security Agency has eavesdropped on phone calls and e-mails inside the United States without the normally required court approved warrants (All with the President's approval); Four Republicans sided with the Democrats in the filibuster; and yesterday, it was revealed Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's AIDS charity paid nearly a half-million dollars in consulting fees to members of his political inner circle, a revelation that does not bode well for his Presidenial bid.

As for spying on thousands of Americans, the voters don't seem to cotton to this much. A few citizens expressed their approval ratings for The President to our roving photographer.

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Presidents to appear on dollar coins

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In 2007, the U.S. Mint will begin minting new dollar coins featuring the pictures of dead presidents for the first time in decades. It's been a little short on Presidential dollars, with only Ike and JFk starring so far. . .

Four coins will be issued each year, beginning with The Father Of Our Country.

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President Bush's Recent Physical

Dec. 16, 2005 Washington, D.C. - All This Is That News Wire - The President and a White House physician chuckle over the results of his annual physical's rectal examination.
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Alien Lore 54 - The Story Of Paul Bennewitz, The Pulsing Rays, The Grey-Government Deal, Underground Alien Bases, And UFO Technology

An Albuquerque businessman named Paul Bennewitz began to notice monitor strange electro-magnetic pulses from what he thought were UFOs flying above the a nearby nuclear weapons site near the Kirtland Air Force Base. He came to believe the pulses controlled abductees/throwbacks that had been implanted.

He tried to decode the pulses and contacted various people and groups about his theories. He eventually reached a Richard Doty and sent in tapes he had filmed of UFOs over the Nuclear Storage Facility. There were signals there, Bennewitz was right about that, according to several sources, there is no reason to think they had anything to do with UFOs.

Sergeant Richard Doty of the Office of Special Investigations met with Bennewitz several times over a period of months, looked at his evidence, and listened to his beliefs. And then, the Air Force began applying psychological-warfare techniques "which one observer and one participant claimed were intended to trigger an emotional collapse. " Bennewitz was already on shaky ground--he was paranoid, and believed fantastic stories about the UFOs, government, The Greys, and their intentions. Operatives from the Air Force OSI passed on disinformation along the lines of the tales you've read here before--pacts between the U.S. and The Greys; stories about alien bases in various places around the world; millions of aliens living underground in Dulce, New Mexico; and of course, stories of experiments creating human-Grey hybrids. Bennewitz believed all of it.

Doty had William Moore pass on more believable disinformation. Bennewitz became more and more frantic and more and more paranoid. He eventually lost his grip to the extent that he was checked into a laughing academy. Dr. Bennewitz told John Lear what he had heard and Lear took this into account when he wrote his Dark Side Hypothesis.

Bennewitz was convinced the aliens had underground bases near Albuquerque, and others near Dulce, New Mexico. As Doty knew, Bennewitz had accidentally tapped into a supposedly secure communications system at Kirtland. The coded messages he was receiving were genuine, but he was grossly misinterpreting them. It was just military and defense traffic. And, whatever it was, it was highly classified. Doty's job was to misdirect Bennewitz into believing the messages were actually from aliens! Doty has admitted this. William Moore and Doty are also believed to have colluded to manufacture the original group of MJ-12 documents which Moore claimed to have received mysteriously in 1987. These docuemtns have become a fulcrum of UFO belief. The Majestic documents have caused a gigantic rift in the UFO community of accusations, fraud, countercharges, the Majestic story has led to increased factionalism in that already wack and divided world.

One other thing drove Dr. Bennewitz batty: he would see "energy balls" within his home, supposedly sent by the aliens. Doty thought this was all in Bennewitz's fevered imagination, but soon learned that the NSA (National Security Agency) was working independently to bedevil Bennewitz. They were working on several fronts to destroy his sanity.

Christa Tilton, an alleged abductee (who says she has an alien hybrid daughter), wrote a book about the Bennewitz case, The Bennewitz Papers. It contains many pages from an unpublished manuscript in which Dr. Paul Bennewitz details his UFO belief system.

Sgt. Doty does not believe in UFO abductions or in Paul Bennewitz's flying saucer theories; but he does believe strongly that the U.S. government has captured hardware from outer space. He tells us that he has visited the mysterious top-secret "Area 51" in Nevada, where he did not actually see alien technology, but he was told it was there. His clearance was not high enough to be shown the actual hardware, he says. Was the disinformation specialist himself being scammed by another government agency? Who knows? Doty is now a state trooper.

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Alien Lore 53 - The Moon Dust File

James Klotz obtained the following document a couple years ago, under the Freedom Of Information Act. The document was declassified. Clearly, they weren't just thinking about moon dust!

CONFIDENTIAL 1452738


DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.


AFCIN-1A 25 Apri1 1961

INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION GUIDANCE LETTER NO. 4

SUBJECT: (U) MOON DUST Reporting

TO: All Air Force Collection Activities

1. PURPOSE - This letter provides instructions and guidance for reporting information in response to MOON DUST Alerts.

2. APPLICABILITY - This letter is applicable world-wide for initiative reporting.


3. REFERENCE - Priority Air Intelligence Requirement (PAIR-1F).


4. BACKGROUND - Based on estimates of the time and place of foreign earth satellite vehicle (ESV) atmospheric re-entries, Headquarters USAF (AFCIN) initiates MOON DUST Alerts. They are issued as far in advance as practicable (normally 10 days) and are automatically cancelled three (3) days after the re-entry prediction date stated in the alert message. It is necessary that the alerts be issued on a world-wide basis until such time as techniques are developed that will make possible the prediction of the precise time and place of impact.


5. INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDANCE - During the periods when MOON DUST Alert is in effect, it is important that interested personnel receive, as rapidly as possible, accurate sighting data on the final (estimated) orbits from as many different sources as possible. The following guidance may assist in reporting observations of space vehicle re-entry. The re-entry of a space vehicle can be seen over great distances, and even the qualified observer cannot estimate the distance from point of observation to the sighted object with any great degree of certainty. At these distances, the re-entry would appear to resemble a meteor travelling in a near horizontal or descending path and, as the distance decreased, would appear as a brilliant object or cluster of objects visible during daylight conditions. In addition, an audible rumbling sound like thunder, arid possibly sharp explosion-like sounds might be correlated with the sighting.


a. What to Report. (1) Position of observer. (2) Time of sighting in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) to nearest minute. (3) Duration of sighting. (4) Azimuth and elevation of object when first sighted. (5) Azimuth and elevation of object when last sighted (6) Apparent size of object as compared to the size of a coin or other familiar item held at arm's length. (7) Color and description of object and changes, if any, during sighting. (8) Unusual or other than normal sounds heard during the sighting. (9) Weather conditions prevailing at time of sighting. (10) Any other data associated with the sighting.


b. Other Action to be Taken. In the event a decayed space object is suspected as having descended, the following actions are required:


(1) Verify location of reported object. (2) Ascertain identity as accurately as possible. (3) Make every effort to obtain object for U.S. if it appears to be a portion of Soviet space vehicle or other material deemed to be of air technical intelligence interest. (4) Arrange expeditious delivery of recovered object to Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center (AFCIN-4A), Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Ohio. (5) Obtain permission for U.S. examination of object in the event it cannot be recovered for U.S. retention.

c. Where to Send Reports - Reports in response to paragraph 5a. or b. above should cite the unclassified nickname MOON DUST and be addressed to the following: (1) Headquarters USAF (AFCIN) Washington 25, D.C. (for action) (2) ATIC (AFCIN-4A) Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Ohio (info) (3) Space Track R & D Activity Hanscom Field, Massachusetts (info) (4) NORAD Ent A.F.B., Colorado (info)


6. CLASSIFICATION ASPECTS


Because of the intelligence connotations of MOON DUST regarding retrieval and examination by ATIC of a descended Soviet space vehicle, the overall project is classified Confidential, and MOON DUST Alerts are normally on a Confidential basis because of the intelligence association with decay estimates. The basic decay estimates (identification of the- object and estimated date and hour of decay) are in themselves normally unclassified. Thus, decay estimates, as such, can be released to observers or observatories cooperating with U.S. collectors purely on the basis of international cooperation in the scientific aspects of space knowledge. Reports of sightings transmitted by U.S. personnel should be classified according to source or content in accordance with normal reporting and transmitting procedures, and in the case of reports on visual sightings, will normally be unclassified.


FOR THE CHIEF OF STAFF:


/s/ Lowell E May
LOWELL E. MAY
Colonel, USAF
Directorate of Collection
ACS/Intelligence

CONFIDENTIAL