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- SEE NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL DEPARTMENT -

Media Whites Out Vote Fraud
By David Swanson
International Labor Communications Association

There is strong evidence of vote theft in Ohio. That will be news to anyone who gets their news from a television or from most print media.

When forced to talk about ethics, media big shots often insist that they draw no conclusions. They endlessly reported Dick Cheney's claims that Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, but it would not have been their place to label that a "conspiracy theory." When it comes to election fraud in Ohio and other U.S. states, on the other hand, the media has jumped straight to reporting that it's all a "conspiracy theory" before ever reporting any of the facts. The Bush Administration has recently presented the media with a nutty theory that our Social Security system is broken, which the media in turn has presented to us as established fact. But to anyone who reads more than just the news that's fit to print, it's our election system that has broken down.

Some voices in the media, including the New York Times' editorial page, admit that the election system is badly broken. But they insist that it also functioned quite acceptably in November. It's broken in the abstract, as it were, but not in any concrete time or place.

As the ILCA reported on November 8th, the U.S. media has reversed its usual position on the value of exit polls. The media has always relied on exit polls to predict election outcomes and to question the accuracy of official vote counts, such as in the Venezuelan recall attempt or the Ukrainian presidential election. Exit polls in November predicted victories for Kerry in a number of swing states that swung, in the official results, dramatically for Bush. The U.S. media immediately declared the exit polls inaccurate. How they could be so far off has not been explained, and the networks' refusal to turn the raw data of the exit polls over to Congress doesn't help.

I did some searching in the Nexis database on New Year's Eve. I searched for "election fraud" in articles and transcripts from the past 60 days. It came back saying there were more than 1,000 articles, too many to display. Of course, most of these were bound to be about the Ukraine and other countries where the U.S. media likes to discuss election fraud. So I searched for "election fraud" AND Ohio. This time I found only 177 articles, many of them letters to the editor complaining about the lack of coverage. One article from the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported on a protest at its offices over the lack of coverage (but no coverage appeared from that paper). Several of the 177 were editorials, all of them dismissive of claims of election fraud, which in most cases the papers hadn't reported on. And Ukraine was here, too, showing up in Ohio newspapers. The Columbus Dispatch ran an editorial demanding a new election in Ukraine. The Plain Dealer reported in oddly respectful tones (considering its usual coverage of activists) on Ohioans involved in the Ukrainian election. And there were quite a few columns and "analyses" dismissing "conspiracy theories."

What about actual coverage of what the "theories" are about and what in them is solidly proven, what's speculative, what's disproved? Any of that? Wouldn't a conspiracy theory go away more quickly if you refuted it than if you avoided it and called it names? Hasn't over half the country stopped believing in the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after only minimal discussion of the evidence and acknowledgment by the media that there weren't any weapons there?

Well, quite a few articles reported on protests and hearings and legal filings, but most of them didn't delve into the actual charges of fraud. Only about 10 articles contained any substance, even on a single minor allegation. One of these was from the Madison (Wis.) Capital Times, two were from Salon.com, one from Morning Star, one from a California chain of papers including the Oakland Tribune, Fremont Argus, and Tri-Valley Herald, one from the Village Voice, and three from the AP. The AP article that went into the most depth as a 492-word piece on an Ohio couple who had voted twice. Most AP articles have been short and dismissive, but the AP has provided more coverage than anybody else, judging by Nexis.

The high points in what was turned up in this Nexis search were, sadly, sound bites on Fox News. Although on December 3rd, Fox brought on a guest to attack Jesse Jackson in absentia, on the ninth, Hannity and Colmes allowed Hillary Shelton of the NAACP to make a few points and did not attempt to dispute them. And on the 29th, Sheila Parks of the Coalition Against Election Fraud made several points, refusing to allow the interviewer to cut her off. He did not attempt to discuss the points she'd made. And, although it didn't turn up in this search, on the 23rd, Hannity and Colmes had on David Lytel of ReDefeatBush.com who began to make a case for election fraud before the hosts cut him off and changed the subject.

The other place where this story has squeezed into the corporate media is on MSNBC and the MSNBC website, through the reporting of Keith Olbermann - and the Newsweek website which posted an interview of Jesse Jackson Sr. Olbermann has been to the media the closest thing to what John Conyers has been to the Congress: a clear indication that there's life there without having to feel for a pulse. Olbermann has given credence to some claims and rejected others, and explained why. On December 27, for example, his blog post treated with all the seriousness that it seems to merit the Green Party's contention - backed up by many other observers - that the Ohio recount has been an illegally conducted farce making virtually no attempt to actually recount anything. (But, with typically bizarre media smugness, he then questioned the motivations of those protesting, as if concern for democracy could have nothing to do with it.) And in the same post, he continued an argument against giving credence to the claims by a Florida programmer that he had been asked to write a vote-switching program.

The New York Times, to its credit, on December 15, did print a short article on a particular allegation of fraud in the Ohio recount made by Congressman Conyers. But the Times has avoided most of the story.

Sadly, so has most of the labor media and other progressive media. You'd think that labor, after spending more than $200 million on the election, would want to make sure it got its money's worth on the vote count. Unfortunately, like its candidate, John Kerry, most of the labor movement has so far dropped the ball on this one. A handful of established outlets and newly minted organizations have carried the ball. A collection of much of this coverage can be found here.

Not a one of the "alternative" media outlets named above has published anything as inexcusably self-certain and wildly false as the "mainstream" media's reports that Iraq had vast stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and plans to use them on the United States. The corporate media was wrong to cheerlead for the War on Iraq by uncritically parroting Bush Administration lies. The New York Times admitted some of its mistakes in this regard. Most media outlets did not. The same media outlets are behaving as poorly on the election fraud issue, and someday one or more of them may even acknowledge as much, but should the rest of us wait for that before speaking and acting? Or do we have a duty to fill in where the corporate news has become too corporate and not enough news?

Well Documented Fraud and Areas for Further Investigation:

    1. The manufacturers of voting machines who have made them easy to hack and impossible to verify by a meaningful recount, as well as making clear their loyalty to Bush.

    2. The U.S. Congress and President, who have failed to make obvious corrections to our election system following the 2000 election, including requiring paper trails and non-partisan officials.

    3. The television networks that have refused to release the exit poll data and refused to cover the story, all companies with a clear - and in several cases, clearly stated - interest in having Bush, rather than Kerry, control the FCC.

    4. Bush-Cheney Ohio Campaign Co-Chair / Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, whose undisputed public actions before, during, and since the election have served to disenfranchise thousands of citizens.

    5. A group of Republicans, claiming to be from Texas, who made illegal calls in Ohio to scare off potential voters. (This, I think, offers a fun, human interest story should an editor be in search of one).

    6. Ohio judges who have refused to require that evidence be preserved and have refused to admit challenges to the election, including a judge whose own election could be affected but who refused to recuse himself.

    7. Election workers in various counties, hired by Blackwell, who failed to open polling places on time, failed to equitably distribute machines and workers, directed voters to the wrong lines, resulting in the elimination of their votes, wrongly required identification, wrongly denied voters provisional ballots, shut observers out on grounds of "homeland security," failed to randomly select precincts for the recount, etc.

    8. Activists who sought to intimidate voters outside of polls or distributed flyers sending people to the wrong polling place or telling them the election was on the wrong day.

    9. Triad, a company that has admitted it tried to rig the Ohio recount.

Source: Truthout
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010405Y.shtml

- SECRET WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION DEPARTMENT -

Secretary of Defense Reveals Earthquake and Volcano Weapons

This one might seem beyond belief, but we have it from none other than a sitting Secretary of Defense. In April 1997, then-Defense Secretary William Cohen was speaking at a terrorism conference at the University of Georgia. After some introductory remarks about the conference, Cohen takes questions from the media in attendance. A reporter asks a question based on the fake anthrax letters that had recently been sent to B'nai Brith. Cohen gives a strange answer, using the occasion to mention the exotic weapons being developed by terrorists (as well as--one would assume--governments).

Here's the exchange, taken verbatim from the transcript posted on the Defense Department's Website: http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/1997/t042897_t0428coh.html
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DoD News Briefing
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen

Monday, April 28, 1997 - 8:45 a.m. EDT

Cohen's keynote address at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy at the Georgia Center, Mahler Auditorium, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. The event is part of the Sam Nunn Policy Forum being hosted by the University of Georgia. Secretary Cohen is joined by Sen. Sam Nunn and Sen. Richard G. Lugar.]
Secretary Cohen: Senator Nunn, thank you very much. As Senator Nunn has indicated, he and I have worked for many years together, along with Senator Lugar. The two of these gentlemen I feel are perhaps the most courageous and visionary to have served in the Senate. They were largely responsible, of course, for adopting the so-called Nunn/Lugar legislation.

I'll comment on that later during the course of the morning, but I've had occasion to meet with a number of Russian counterparts, and as we go through various translations of the communications that we're having, the two words they are able to articulate very clearly, they say 'Nunn/Lugar, Nunn/Lugar. So they know exactly what that means, and that means the Cooperative Thre'at Reduction Act that these two gentlemen were indispensable in shepherding through the United States Congress.

It was Nunn/Lugar I that dealt with the reduction of nuclear weapons between the United States and the Soviet Union in terms of trying to come to grips with how we helped the Russians dismantle hundreds of their nuclear weapons, and also helped them with their destruction of chemical weapons. But they, of course, have looked beyond simply that particular relationship, which is very important, but also looking to the future that we face as far as the rise of terrorism -- both international and domestic; and finding ways in which the Department of Defense can become involved in helping local states and local agencies to deal with the threat of terrorism which is quite likely to increase in the coming years.

It's a pleasure for me to be here. Both Senator Nunn and Senator Lugar are close friends and I look forward to, I think, a very productive seminar. Once again demonstrating that although Senator Nunn has left public service in the Senate, he has not left public service as far as the nation is concerned.

It's a pleasure for me to be here, Sam.

Senator Nunn: Thank you very much, Bill.

. ..Let me ask if there are any questions for Secretary of Defense Cohen.

Q: The dual containment policy in Iran and Iraq, do you think that's conducive to regional stability in that region? And do you think can cause further terrorism in the United States? That type of containment policy in the Middle East.

A: I think Secretary Albright articulated our policy as far as dealing with Iraq, that it's clear that we have been unable to strike any kind of a productive relationship with Saddam Hussein, and as soon as Saddam Hussein is no longer the head of that government, that there's new regime that follows him, that we will look forward to finding ways in which we could engage them in a much more productive fashion, particularly after they comply with all of the UN sanctions. There's an eagerness on our part to do that. But I think as long as he remains in office as the head of that state, it's unlikely that we could have anything but the current policy in place, with very little prospects for relief.

With respect to Iran, I think Iran continues to present a long term threat to the region. They are acquiring and have acquired weapons of mass destruction, substantial levels of chemicals and we believe biological weapons as well. They have made an effort to acquire nuclear capability. So I think that our policy of dual containment is the right one, and we are going to encourage our allies to support that one.

Q: What does it mean that Clinton (inaudible) proliferation?

A: To the extent that we see the level of communication available today, the Internet and other types of interwoven communicative skills and abilities, we're going to see information continue to spread as to how these weapons can be, in fact, manufactured in a home-grown laboratory, as such. So it's a serious problem as far as living in the information age that people who are acquiring this kind of information will not act responsibly, but rather act in a terrorist type of fashion.

We've seen by way of example of the World Trade Center the international aspects of international terrorism coming to our home territory. We've also seen domestic terrorism with the Oklahoma bombing. So it's a real threat that's here today. It's likely to intensify in the years to come as more and more groups have access to this kind of information and the ability to produce them.

Q: How prepared is the U.S. Government to deal with (inaudible)?

A: I think we have to really intensify our efforts. That's the reason for the Nunn/Lugar II program. That's the reason why it's a local responsibility, as such, but the Department of Defense is going to be taking the lead as far as supervising the interagency working groups, and to make the assessments as to what needs to be done. So we're going to identify those 120 cities and work with them very closely to make sure that they can prepare themselves for what is likely to be a threat well into the future.

Q: Let me ask you specifically about last week's scare here in Washington, and what we might have learned from how prepared we are to deal with that (inaudible), at B'nai Brith.

A: Well, it points out the nature of the threat. It turned out to be a false threat under the circumstances. But as we've learned in the intelligence community, we had something called -- and we have James Woolsey here to perhaps even address this question about phantom moles. The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search. The same thing is true about just the false scare of a threat of using some kind of a chemical weapon or a biological one. There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.

So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.

Q: What is response to (inaudible)?

A: We hope we will have access to the defector. In fact I was recently in South Korea and talked with various officials in South Korea. As soon as they complete their own interrogation of this defector, we will have access to that individual. But much of what he has said to date is reflected in the writings that he prepared last year. This is prior to his defection. One would not expect a potential defector to be writing about anything other than what the official doctrine or dogma is of the North Korean government at that time. He is saying essentially what we have known for a long, long time. Namely, that North Korea poses a very serious threat against South Korea, and potentially even Japan, by virtue of having the fourth largest army in the world, by having 600,000 or more troops poised within 100 kilometers of Seoul, of possessing many SCUD missiles, also the potential of chemically armed warheads, the attempt to acquire nuclear weapons. So we know they have this potential, and the question really is going to be what's in their hearts and minds at this point? Do they intend to try to launch such an attack in the immediate, foreseeable future? That we can only speculate about, but that's the reason why we are so well prepared to defend against such an attack to deter it; and to send a message that it would be absolutely an act of suicide for the North Koreans to launch an attack. They could do great damage in the short run, but they would be devastated in response. So we're hoping we can find ways to bring them to the bargaining table -- the Party of Four Talks -- and see if we can't put them on a path toward peace instead of threatening any kind of devastating attack upon the South.

Q: . ..a little bit about the situation in (inaudible)?

A: I really don't have much more information than has been in the press at this point. The Department has not been called upon to act in this regard just yet, so I'm not at liberty to give you any more information than you already have.

Q: . ..the Administration's plans to expand NATO to more European countries. Is there a terrorism element? Or will expanding NATO help you in any way in terms of (inaudible)? Or is it really unrelated?

A: I think the two are unrelated. There is a legitimate debate that will take place in terms of the pace of enlargement or whether there should be enlargement. Secretary Albright and I testified last week before the Senate Armed Services Committee, and it was a very, I think, productive debate. It's something that Senator Nunn, I think, feels very strongly about as well. The two of us, I think, found ourselves on the Senate Floor last year saying it was time for the American people to start debating this issue. So it's very important and there will be legitimate differences of opinion, but it's important that we bring this to the Senate for full debate and disclosure, and bring it to the American people. But I doubt if it's related to the spread of terrorism whatsoever.

Senator Nunn: Thank you very much.

Source: The Memory Hole
http://thememoryhole.org/mil/cohen-ecoweapons.htm

- VOICES FROM BEYOND DEPARTMENT -

Ghosts In The Machine

We're sitting in a small Dundee flat, waiting to converse with the dead. No Victorian-style seances with table rappings or hovering blobs of ectoplasm; just sporadic (human) conversation and the silent spooling of a microcassette recorder.

"Basically, I just ask for anybody on their side of the fence, on the spirit side, to draw near and leave anything on the tape," says Linda Williamson, as we both switch on our recorders. She raises her voice slightly: "Anything for Mr Gilchrist here and his family members? Anyone like to say a name that we might recognise?"

Williamson, a 47-year-old former cleaner, is a dedicated collector of "electronic voice phenomena", commonly known as EVP - the mysterious voices or voice-like sounds, often distorted amid other extraneous noise, which can crop up on tape recordings, broadcasts, even telephone answering machines. Some believe these are communications from the afterlife, others that they are simply random noise from electromagnetic or other earthly sources, in which believers simply hear whatever they want to hear.

However you may interpret it, and even if you haven??�t heard of it up until now, EVP will have a much higher - and scarier - profile from 7 January when the film White Noise is released, starring Michael Keaton as an architect who becomes obsessed with EVP following the disappearance of his wife.

So far as Williamson is concerned, however, there is nothing scary about EVP, although her introduction to the phenomena was unsettling enough. In 1998, she and her friend, Irene MacIntyre, were working as early-morning contract cleaners in a factory on Dundee??�s dockside, when a rash of odd occurrences - such as things being moved about and doors being slammed in their faces - prompted Williamson to bring in a cassette recorder, which she left running while she was working. She plays me an extract from that first tape, now stored along with hundreds of other EVP on her computer: there is a noise of what sounds like furniture being banged about, and of women laughing.

It wasn??�t her and MacIntyre laughing in that otherwise empty factory at five o??�clock in the morning, she insists. "We weren??�t near the recorder at that point." On first listening to the tape, she was initially "petrified," then fascinated. She didn??�t know anything about EVP at the time, but after watching a TV documentary, contacted the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP). "They told me not to worry, that people round the world were getting things like this."

Williamson has recorded many snatches of disembodied speech, which she believes come from the afterlife - including deceased members of her family. She plays me some extracts - many of which I find unintelligible, including a brief snippet of a woman??�s voice she says is her mother and, at one point, a snatch of singing from a man she believes to be a friend??�s father who died some years ago. She thinks he??�s singing "Remember your dad," but it doesn??�t sound like anything to me.

Elsewhere, a breathy snatch of a woman??�s voice appears to utter "Help!;" another appears to say "I??�m impressed," but that??�s my interpretation. One she made in the ruins of the Priory of St Andrews Cathedral certainly sounds, as she suggests, like distant monkish chanting. Too often, however, the EVPs sound like random gobbledygook, fleeting murmurs or harsh interjections couched amid industrial-sounding clangs and rumbles. Sometimes she has to reverse the tapes to make any sense of them.

You get the impression her relationship with the paranormal is at least partly tongue-in-cheek, going by the imitation skulls which leer from among the Christmas cards, her haunted-house screensaver and the cuddly little ghost clutching the word Boo!, stuck to the mirror. A recurring black-and- white cow motif marks her as a fan of the cartoonist, Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side.

On this occasion, though, the far side is declining to get in touch. Williamson, playing back the tape we make, thinks she may have heard some extraneous whispering over our conversation, but says she??�d have to listen to the tape for a long time to get anything out of it. She is sincere, but I??�m left with the feeling that, apart from what certainly sounds like distant chanting on the St Andrews tape, it??�s all too easy to read anything into these distorted "soundbytes".

EVPs are sometimes referred to as "Rorschach audio," after the psychological test in which subjects read their own interpretation of inkblot images.

Professor Chris French, who heads the anomalistic psychology research unit at Goldsmith??�s College, London, agrees on the ambiguity of the phenomena: "According to modern experimental psychology, and not just with the paranormal, you??�ve got two different sources [of stimulus] coming in. You??�ve got the raw sensory input, referred to as ???bottom-up??� processing, but because that comes in at a hell of a rate and a lot of it is very ambiguous and hard to make sense of, you are also influenced by what are known as ???top-down??� processes - your general knowledge and beliefs and expectations.

"The ???top-down??� processing tends to have much greater influence if you??�ve got degraded or ambiguous stimuli. In those situations, your own beliefs and expectations will tend to determine how you perceive them."

He often uses examples of so-called EVP to illustrate this, and stresses that it??�s important to listen to it first without knowing what it is supposed to say: "You??�ll find it??�s open to all sorts of interpretations, but once you??�ve read or been told the message, when you listen to it again, you can hear it quite clearly."

Dr Caroline Watt of Edinburgh University??�s Koestler parapsychology institute, also comments on the ambiguous nature of the few EVPs she has heard. "It was essentially random hisses and pops and other noises but sometimes these might resemble a word. We??�re programmed, almost, to impute language and meaning into something that??�s quite random, and I think that??�s what??�s going on.

"We??�re immersed in various forms of electronic noise, electromagnetic activity from the Earth, from power cables and television and radio. I suspect these apparatus are just picking up fluctuations."

Certainly, the phenomenon is only as old as the technology which seems to receive it. An early proponent was the artist and opera singer, Friedrich Jurgenson, who was recording birdsong near Stockholm in 1959 when he picked up what he believed was a greeting from his dead mother.

In 1971 Jurgenson??�s protégé, the Latvian psychologist Konstantin Raudive, published his researches into EVPs in a widely-read book, The Inaudible Made Audible, although he made no particular claims for the phenomenon. Much earlier, Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, wrote: "If we can evolve an instrument so delicate as to be affected by our personality as it survives in the next life, such an instrument, when made available, ought to record something."

Tom and Lisa Butler, co-directors of the AA-EVP, have no doubt these "messages" are more than stray electromagnetic radiation or random noise. "We have a high degree of confidence that the voices and other forms of these phenomena are not able to be explained using currently understood physical principles," says Tom, an electronic engineer based in Reno, Nevada (his wife, Lisa, is a psychologist). "The one hypothesis that answers all of the evidence coming from EVP is the Survival Hypothesis - that is, that the personality of a person survives the death of the physical body."

Whatever the nature of the phenomenon, it continues to take people by surprise. A recent BBC Radio 4 programme, Speak Spirit, Speak, recalled how, last February, listeners reported hearing a "ghostly voice" 23 minutes into a live broadcast of the travel show Excess Baggage from Leap Castle - reputedly the most haunted castle in Ireland. Presenter Sandi Toksvig and company were unaware of the interloper until they played recordings later. "Lie down," the unsettling, sinister-sounding whisperer seemed to say - at least according to some listeners, "You liar," suggested others, while to this writer it sounded more like "hide out" or perhaps "wipe out".

Ian Ashbury, senior investigation engineer with BBC radio, opined on Speak Spirit, Speak that, so far as EVP on radio was concerned, he would always look for a rational explanation, and that microphones can pick up radio transmissions. Others, not necessarily believers, are intrigued nonetheless. Gordon McPherson, composer and head of composition at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, is currently working on a Creative Scotland Award project to create a multi-media piece incorporating recordings of EVP. White Noise, he jokes, has stolen his thunder: "I think at the moment there??�s a huge interest in this kind of thing and it was just a matter of time before a film came out.

"My whole approach to writing this has been one of abstraction rather than involvement. I think what interests me most are the belief systems of the people involved. I have a very sceptical approach to it."

For his part, Niall Johnson, scriptwriter of White Noise, sees in EVP what he calls "a complex two-way relationship between the spiritual and the technological. I??�m specifically interested in the effect which these messages have on an average person, who one day loses a loved one and suddenly wants to believe. White Noise is all about Michael Keaton??�s character wanting to believe."

Many of us might also want to believe, but we are haunted by ambiguity rather than by restless spirits. Listening to what Williamson believes are voices from the afterlife, it is very hard not to conclude that if the dead are indeed talking to us, they don??�t have a lot to say.

Source: The Scotsman
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=4082005

Just 11 days after Asia??�s tsunami catastrophe, conspiracy theorists are out in force, accusing governments of a cover-up, blaming the military for testing top-secret eco-weapons or aliens trying to correct the Earth??�s ???wobbly??? rotation.

In bars and Internet chatrooms around the world questions are being asked, with knowing nods and winks, about who caused the submarine earthquake off Sumatra on December 26, and why governments were so slow to act in the minutes and hours before tsunamis slammed into their shores, killing almost 150,000.

???There??�s a lot more to this. Why is the US sending a warship? Why is a senior commander who was in Iraq going there???? whispered designer Mark Tyler, drinking a pint of beer at a bar in Hong Kong??�s Wan Chai district.

???This happened exactly a year after Bam,??? said Tyler, referring to the earthquake in Iran that killed 30,000 on December 26 last year. ???Is that a coincidence? And there was no previous seismic activity recorded in Sumatra before the quake, which is very strange,??? he said, nodding somberly.

After every globally shocking event??�from the bombing of Pearl Harbor to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the death of Princess Diana and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States ??�conspiracy theorists emerge with their own sinister take on events.

This time the Indian and US military are in the frame, while the governments of countries from Australia to Thailand stand accused of deliberately failing to act on warnings of the impending earthquake or the tsunamis it unleashed around Asia.

Among the more common suggestions is that eco-weapons, which can trigger earthquakes and volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves were being tested. More outlandish theories include one that aliens caused the earthquake to try and correct the ???wobbly rotation of the Earth.???

Scientists give such theories short shrift.

???This was a natural disaster,??? said Dr. Bart Bautista, chief science research specialist at the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, debunking the idea that an ???eco-weapon??? could be used to cause an earthquake or such large-scale tsunamis.

???You would need a very huge amount of energy. It??�s impossible. A billion tons could not do it,??? Bautista said.

He said wave activity might be triggered very close to the scene of a giant explosion, but the effect would be a tiny fraction of the tsunamis, which traveled thousands of kilometers at the speed of a jet after tectonic plates shifted off Sumatra.

???It??�s possible to cause vibration, but not enough to cause disruption,??? he said.

???We can tell the difference between an artificial explosion and an earthquake. The mechanisms are different.???

Scientific evidence, however, cuts little ice with many conspiracy theorists.

The Internet??�which has proved invaluable in dealing with the disaster by aiding rescues, providing witness accounts from bloggers and allowing grieving relatives to comfort each other through chatrooms??�is abuzz with more sinister explanations.

The Free Internet Press, which claims to offer ???uncensored news for real people,??? has an article saying the US military and the State Department received advanced warning of the tsunami, but did little to warn Asian countries.

America??�s Navy base on the Indian Ocean jungle atoll of Diego Garcia was notified and escaped unscathed, it said, asking, ???Why were fishermen in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand not provided with the same warnings????

???Why did the US State Department remain mum about the existence of an impending catastrophe???? the author Michel Chossudovsky pondered.

???Probably because fishermen in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand don??�t have multimillion-dollar communications equipment handy,??? said one respondent as readers posted angry replies.

???Maybe rescuers will find Elvis and the gunman form the grassy knoll,??? jibed another, referring to those who believe Elvis Presley is still alive and that former US President Kennedy was shot by someone other than Lee Harvey Oswald.

The India Daily??�s Web site joined the conspiracy theorists, noting, ???It seems the whole world decided to fail to do anything together at the same time. Are we missing something????

???Can it be that all the government agencies knew what was happening but were told not to do anything? Who told them? Or is this just a tragic coincidence???? wrote Sudhir Chadda, a correspondent.

???Recent alien contacts have been reported with the South Asian governments especially India. UFO sightings have been rampant over the region affected,??? Chadda wrote.

???Some on Nicobar Island say that it was an experiment conducted by the alien extraterrestrial entities to correct the wobbly rotation of the Earth. And some of the Indian scientists are actually seeing that wobbly rotation of the Earth has been corrected since the massive underwater earthquake and tsunami.???

In Hong Kong, Tyler laughed at the alien idea, but remained convinced humans had a hand in this disaster. ???Wait and see. There will be a lot more to come out,??? he said.

When members of the Meyers family saw a figure in the window of the Jasmine Road house they wanted to buy, they should have known something was up.

But they didn't, and now they may be living with something paranormal.

"His name is Dexter," said 8-year-old Ozzie Meyers V. "And he kept asking me to read to him."

Ozzie's parents, Jennifer, an apparently down-to-Earth woman who works for Johns Hopkins University, and Ozzie IV, a stay-at-home dad, thought it might have been an imaginary friend. Then something happened that sent a chill through their West Inverness household.

"Ozzie [V] came to us about two years ago and told us that the little boy in the attic wanted him to play with his train tracks," said Jennifer Meyers, who bought the house in 1998. "My husband went to the attic to check it out. He found old toy train tracks under the insulation. We were convinced after that."

The house, in the 2000 block of Jasmine Road, was built in 1957 on a plot of land that used to be part of the Lynch family farm, according to Baltimore County land records.

The Meyers family moved in after a series of renters had lived in the home, Jennifer Meyers said.

Though the renters had no problems with anything out of the ordinary, they had an interesting occurrence at a party they hosted at the house, according to a neighbor.

"Just before the Meyerses moved in, there was a party at the house," said the neighbor, who asked that her name not be used. "And they had invited a psychic. During the party, the psychic was at the [dining room] table and told [the guests] that someone had brought a spirit into the house."

The neighbor has lived in her home for 30 years and believes that something is not quite right about the Meyerses' house.

"I believe them," the neighbor said. "I hear something running up and down the stairs when no one is at home. There are thumps on the wall and other noises when the house is empty."

In December, Jennifer and her husband appeared on The Montel Williams Show when celebrity psychic Sylvia Brown was the guest and the topic was "the unknown."

The opening to the attic where the family hears strange sounds.

"We weren't too happy with [Brown's] answer," Jennifer Meyers said. "She was contradictory and didn't make any sense."

Part of the show was filmed at the Meyerses' home and featured a clip - recorded by one of the show's cameramen- of the lights above the dining room table rapidly going on and off.

"That seems to happen when we're at dinner and arguing about something," Jennifer Meyers said.

Everyone in the house has had strange experiences they can't explain.

"I hate doing laundry in the basement alone," Jennifer Meyers said. "I have seen the figure of a man downstairs."

Ozzie IV., who was always skeptical, has seen a shadow that moved up the steps from the first floor.

"That's what made a believer out of me," he said. "I also woke up and there was a man in front of our bed. My wife saw it too."

Beside the banging sounds against the wall and noises in the basement, the family has several questionable photographs that include a dark anomaly around the children, especially their 17-month-old daughter, Genevieve.

"This black shape appears in a number of pictures of our daughter," Jennifer Meyers said. "We have one of an orb above her head at the christening."

Orbs are photographic anomalies that some believe indicate the presence of a ghost and like any other "proof" of the unknown are highly debatable.

One type of evidence that's harder to explain away is electronic voice phenomena (EVP).

EVP are picked up on video and audio tape but are unheard and unseen while the original recorded interview is taking place, according to the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena's Web site.

Strange sounds were picked up on an audio tape even though they weren't heard while the family's interview with The Eagle was taking place at the house. The sounds crop up over both Jennifer Meyers' and her son's voices throughout the recording.

Though not especially religious, the Meyerses have had everyone from a Catholic priest to a practitioner of Wicca come through and bless the house.

"Nothing seems to work," Jennifer Meyers said. "We've even yelled 'In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, go back where you came from,' but it didn't work."

"I try to keep a sense of humor about it all," she said. "But I want whatever it is to stop scaring my children."

Source: Dundalk Eagle
http://dundalkeagle.com/articles/2005/01/06/news/news03.txt

- BEAM ME UP SCOTTY DEPARTMENT -
Indian Scientists Move Closer To Teleportation

Indian scientists and technocrats are working on quantum and linear transportation for along time in various parts of the country. According to sources a team of engineers and physicists have made a leap forward towards achieving real world teleportation.

The technology exists in the science fiction books and was highlighted by the Star Trek series to transport astronauts from planets to space chip and vice versa.

The technology has a lot of implications. Teleportation can instantaneously transport matter and human beings from physical place to another.

Some scientists in the world have developed methods for computational quantum teleportation. What that means is to transfer data on quantum characteristic of matter and then recreating the atoms and molecules on the other end. This kind of technology cannot be used in teleporting humans because the original has to be destroyed and recreating billions of atom and molecules of human bodies is a very complex task.

But based on information obtained, the group of engineers and scientists in India used laser beams to disintegrate matter at one place, analyze the matter through complex computational algorithms, transport the quantum characteristics to the other side and finally recreate the object on the other side based computational models of quantum characteristics.

According to some experts when teleporting is established in coming years, these methods will be characterized as primitive methods but every one has to start somewhere.

The biggest challenge, says Dr. Satish Mishra, was to create the computational algorithm generator that can model the quantum physics of a matter. The algorithm itself is super complex. Now imagine the algorithm that generates the complex algorithm ??� how complex can that be?

Source: India Daily
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-07b-05.asp

- SEEING DOUBLE DEPARTMENT -
Russian City of Twins Continues to Puzzle Scientists

In 2004 there"s been a real "twin boom" in the Russian town of Kirov and scientists still have no idea as to how to approach the matter.

Nowadays, the department's laboratory is conducting various experiments to study the effects on bio and electromagnetic fields on the natural process of cell division during meiosis. Scientists use lab rats in their experiments due to some of their similarities to the human organism. Although this is still an ongoing research, one thing has already been determined: the lower the mammalian class, the higher is the chance for twins to be born.

In 2004 there's been a real "twin boom" in the Russian town of Kirov and scientists still have no idea as to how to approach the matter. In the meantime, the entire array of twins and triplets in the region is considered to be mere coincidence. However, according to medical statistics, one out of 100 people is a twin couple. As for triplets, they are born in every 7 000-10 000 couple.

After taking a stroll through one of the town"s districts, one can easily begin doubting the statistics. The city"s population barely reaches 500 000 and identical couples (or even triplets seem to be everywhere).

Scientific explanation

"It is possible that some kind of electric field had its affect on such high multiple birth rate in the town," presumes chair of biology and genetics at Kirov"s medical academy Alexander Kosykh. "Any biological cell has its own electric charge and its own polarity. That is why, it is quite possible that strong electromagnetic field in this particular district somehow affects genetic processes. However, we cannot make any definite claims yet."

Nowadays, the department"s laboratory is conducting various experiments to study the effects on bio and electromagnetic fields on the natural process of cell division during meiosis. Scientists use lab rats in their experiments due to some of their similarities to the human organism. Although this is still an ongoing research, one thing has already been determined: the lower the mammalian class, the higher is the chance for twins to be born.

For instance, cats, dogs, rats almost always produce identical litter. African armadillo is an absolute champion in producing its "clones". This creature gives birth to absolutely identical babies. Horses, whales, elephants and more so human beings are not quite as fertile. This is exactly the Kirov"s phenomenon appears so mystical.

"It is also noteworthy to mention that in southern countries twins are born more often than in northern countries," notes Alexander Kosykh.

Long-term scientific observations have revealed that multiple births are more likely to occur in dark-skinned mothers over 35. However, there are no dark-skinned women in the "Krasnaya Gorka" district.

World statistics has determined several other factors that can supposedly account for such high multiple birth rate. However, not only do they find themselves helpless to explain the Kyrov"s phenomenon, they make it even more mysterious. In this regard, scientists noticed frequent cases of multiple births in some countries of Northern hemisphere (Finland or northern part of Japan for instance), where summer days are longer. It has also been noticed that the day"s length somehow stimulates secretion of a certain type of hormone. A woman could also give multiple births as a result of undergoing infertility treatments.

Kirov is not the only town with such strange occurrences. Another "factory of twins" exists in Nigeria in a small town Igbo-Ora situated not far from Ibadan.

By the way, twins do not simply look alike on the outside. They also possess so-called twin-DNA. The molecules are absolutely identical; even their electromagnetic characteristics are identical. This factor alone could easily allow them to function as "antennas" transmitting and receiving information. More so, their similar heredity forms identical informational RNA as well as identical proteins and twin-cells. Therefore, total capacity and amount of the so-called "transmitters" tuned in to the same "frequency" will increase considerably. Should this hypothesis prove to be correct, it will account for the uncontrollable telepathy between twins. It will also be able to explain those similarities in behavioral patterns in the lives of twins.

Source: Pravda
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/14784_twins.html

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