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- SEDUCED BY THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE DEPARTMENT -

Air Force Seeks Bush's Approval for Space Weapons Programs

The Air Force, saying it must secure space to protect the nation from attack, is seeking President Bush's approval of a national-security directive that could move the United States closer to fielding offensive and defensive space weapons, according to White House and Air Force officials.

The proposed change would be a substantial shift in American policy. It would almost certainly be opposed by many American allies and potential enemies, who have said it may create an arms race in space.

A senior administration official said that a new presidential directive would replace a 1996 Clinton administration policy that emphasized a more pacific use of space, including spy satellites' support for military operations, arms control and nonproliferation pacts.

Any deployment of space weapons would face financial, technological, political and diplomatic hurdles, although no treaty or law bans Washington from putting weapons in space, barring weapons of mass destruction.

A presidential directive is expected within weeks, said the senior administration official, who is involved with space policy and insisted that he not be identified because the directive is still under final review and the White House has not disclosed its details.

Air Force officials said yesterday that the directive, which is still in draft form, did not call for militarizing space. "The focus of the process is not putting weapons in space," said Maj. Karen Finn, an Air Force spokeswoman, who said that the White House, not the Air Force, makes national policy. "The focus is having free access in space."

With little public debate, the Pentagon has already spent billions of dollars developing space weapons and preparing plans to deploy them.

"We haven't reached the point of strafing and bombing from space," Pete Teets, who stepped down last month as the acting secretary of the Air Force, told a space warfare symposium last year. "Nonetheless, we are thinking about those possibilities."

In January 2001, a commission led by Donald H. Rumsfeld, then the newly nominated defense secretary, recommended that the military should "ensure that the president will have the option to deploy weapons in space."

It said that "explicit national security guidance and defense policy is needed to direct development of doctrine, concepts of operations and capabilities for space, including weapons systems that operate in space."

The effort to develop a new policy directive reflects three years of work prompted by the report. The White House would not say if all the report's recommendations would be adopted.

In 2002, after weighing the report of the Rumsfeld space commission, President Bush withdrew from the 30-year-old Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which banned space-based weapons.

Ever since then, the Air Force has sought a new presidential policy officially ratifying the concept of seeking American space superiority.

The Air Force believes "we must establish and maintain space superiority," Gen. Lance Lord, who leads the Air Force Space Command, told Congress recently. "Simply put, it's the American way of fighting." Air Force doctrine defines space superiority as "freedom to attack as well as freedom from attack" in space.

The mission will require new weapons, new space satellites, new ways of doing battle and, by some estimates, hundreds of billions of dollars. It faces enormous technological obstacles. And many of the nation's allies object to the idea that space is an American frontier.

Yet "there seems little doubt that space-basing of weapons is an accepted aspect of the Air Force" and its plans for the future, Capt. David C. Hardesty of the Naval War College faculty says in a new study.

A new Air Force strategy, Global Strike, calls for a military space plane carrying precision-guided weapons armed with a half-ton of munitions. General Lord told Congress last month that Global Strike would be "an incredible capability" to destroy command centers or missile bases "anywhere in the world."

Pentagon documents say the weapon, called the common aero vehicle, could strike from halfway around the world in 45 minutes. "This is the type of prompt Global Strike I have identified as a top priority for our space and missile force," General Lord said.

The Air Force's drive into space has been accelerated by the Pentagon's failure to build a missile defense on earth. After spending 22 years and nearly $100 billion, Pentagon officials say they cannot reliably detect and destroy a threat today.

"Are we out of the woods? No," Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, who directs the Missile Defense Agency, said in an interview. "We've got a long way to go, a lot of testing to do."

While the Missile Defense Agency struggles with new technology for a space-based laser, the Air Force already has a potential weapon in space.

In April, the Air Force launched the XSS-11, an experimental microsatellite with the technical ability to disrupt other nations' military reconnaissance and communications satellites.

Another Air Force space program, nicknamed Rods From God, aims to hurl cylinders of tungsten, titanium or uranium from the edge of space to destroy targets on the ground, striking at speeds of about 7,200 miles an hour with the force of a small nuclear weapon.

A third program would bounce laser beams off mirrors hung from space satellites or huge high-altitude blimps, redirecting the lethal rays down to targets around the world. A fourth seeks to turn radio waves into weapons whose powers could range "from tap on the shoulder to toast," in the words of an Air Force plan.

Captain Hardesty, in the new issue of the Naval War College Review, calls for "a thorough military analysis" of these plans, followed by "a larger public debate."

"To proceed with space-based weapons on any other foundation would be the height of folly," he concludes, warning that other nations not necessarily allies would follow America's lead into space.

Despite objections from members of Congress who thought "space should be sanctified and no weapons ever put in space," Mr. Teets, then the Air Force under secretary, told the space-warfare symposium last June that "that policy needs to be pushed forward."

Last month, Gen. James E. Cartwright, who leads the United States Strategic Command, told the Senate Armed Services nuclear forces subcommittee that the goal of developing space weaponry was to allow the nation to deliver an attack "very quickly, with very short time lines on the planning and delivery, any place on the face of the earth."

Senator Jeff Sessions, a Republican from Alabama who is chairman of the subcommittee, worried that the common aero vehicle might be used in ways that would "be mistaken as some sort of attack on, for example, Russia."

"They might think it would be a launch against them of maybe a nuclear warhead," Senator Sessions said. "We want to be sure that there could be no misunderstanding in that before we authorize going forward with this vehicle."

General Cartwright said that the military would "provide every opportunity to ensure that it's not misunderstood" and that Global Strike simply aimed to "expand the choices that we might be able to offer to the president in crisis."

Senior military and space officials of the European Union, Canada, China and Russia have objected publicly to the notion of American space superiority.

They think that "the United States doesn't own space - nobody owns space," said Teresa Hitchens, vice president of the Center for Defense Information, a policy analysis group in Washington that tends to be critical of the Pentagon. "Space is a global commons under international treaty and international law."

No nation will "accept the U.S. developing something they see as the death star," Ms. Hitchens told a Council on Foreign Relations meeting last month. "I don't think the United States would find it very comforting if China were to develop a death star, a 24/7 on-orbit weapon that could strike at targets on the ground anywhere in 90 minutes."

International objections aside, Randy Correll, an Air Force veteran and military consultant, told the council, "the big problem now is it's too expensive."

The Air Force does not put a price tag on space superiority. Published studies by leading weapons scientists, physicists and engineers say the cost of a space-based system that could defend the nation against an attack by a handful of missiles could be anywhere from $220 billion to $1 trillion.

Richard Garwin, widely regarded as a dean of American weapons science, and three colleagues wrote in the March issue of IEEE Spectrum, the professional journal of electric engineering, that "a space-based laser would cost $100 million per target, compared with $600,000 for a Tomahawk missile."

"The psychological impact of such a blow might rival that of such devastating attacks as Hiroshima," they wrote. "But just as the unleashing of nuclear weapons had unforeseen consequences, so, too, would the weaponization of space."

Surveillance and reconnaissance satellites are a crucial component of space superiority. But the biggest new spy satellite program, Future Imagery Architecture, has tripled in price to about $25 billion while producing less than promised, military contractors say. A new space technology for detecting enemy launchings has risen to more than $10 billion from a promised $4 billion, Mr. Teets told Congress last month.

But General Lord said such problems should not stand in the way of the Air Force's plans to move into space.

"Space superiority is not our birthright, but it is our destiny," he told an Air Force conference in September. "Space superiority is our day-to-day mission. Space supremacy is our vision for the future."

Source: NY Times
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- THE DOMINO EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING DEPARTMENT -

Britain Faces Big Chill as Ocean Current Slows

Climate change researchers have detected the first signs of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream ??� the mighty ocean current that keeps Britain and Europe from freezing.

They have found that one of the ???engines??? driving the Gulf Stream ??� the sinking of supercooled water in the Greenland Sea ??� has weakened to less than a quarter of its former strength.

The weakening, apparently caused by global warming, could herald big changes in the current over the next few years or decades. Paradoxically, it could lead to Britain and northwestern and Europe undergoing a sharp drop in temperatures.

Such a change has long been predicted by scientists but the new research is among the first to show clear experimental evidence of the phenomenon.

Peter Wadhams, professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, hitched rides under the Arctic ice cap in Royal Navy submarines and used ships to take measurements across the Greenland Sea.

???Until recently we would find giant ???chimneys??� in the sea where columns of cold, dense water were sinking from the surface to the seabed 3,000 metres below, but now they have almost disappeared,??? he said.

???As the water sank it was replaced by warm water flowing in from the south, which kept the circulation going. If that mechanism is slowing, it will mean less heat reaching Europe.???

Such a change could have a severe impact on Britain, which lies on the same latitude as Siberia and ought to be much colder. The Gulf Stream transports 27,000 times more heat to British shores than all the nation??�s power supplies could provide, warming Britain by 5-8C.

Wadhams and his colleagues believe, however, that just such changes could be well under way. They predict that the slowing of the Gulf Stream is likely to be accompanied by other effects, such as the complete summer melting of the Arctic ice cap by as early as 2020 and almost certainly by 2080. This would spell disaster for Arctic wildlife such as the polar bear, which could face extinction.

Wadhams??�s submarine journeys took him under the North Polar ice cap, using sonar to survey the ice from underneath. He has measured how the ice has become 46% thinner over the past 20 years. The results from these surveys prompted him to focus on a feature called the Odden ice shelf, which should grow out into the Greenland Sea every winter and recede in summer.

The growth of this shelf should trigger the annual formation of the sinking water columns. As sea water freezes to form the shelf, the ice crystals expel their salt into the surrounding water, making it heavier than the water below.

However, the Odden ice shelf has stopped forming. It last appeared in full in 1997. ???In the past we could see nine to 12 giant columns forming under the shelf each year. In our latest cruise, we found only two and they were so weak that the sinking water could not reach the seabed,??? said Wadhams, who disclosed the findings at a meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna.

The exact effect of such changes is hard to predict because currents and weather systems take years to respond and because there are two other areas around the north Atlantic where water sinks, helping to maintain circulation. Less is known about how climate change is affecting these.

However, Wadhams suggests the effect could be dramatic. ???One of the frightening things in the film The Day After Tomorrow showed how the circulation in the Atlantic Ocean is upset because the sinking of cold water in the north Atlantic suddenly stops,??? he said.

???The sinking is stopping, albeit much more slowly than in the film ??� over years rather than a few days. If it continues, the effect will be to cool the climate of northern Europe.???

One possibility is that Europe will freeze; another is that the slowing of the Gulf Stream may keep Europe cool as global warming heats the rest of the world ??� but with more extremes of weather.

Source: The Sunday Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2087-1602579%2C00.html

- OBITUARY DEPARTMENT -

Nessie Seeker Frank Searle Dies
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Depending on your point of view, one of the Loch Ness Monsters' greatest searchers, promoters, or hoaxsters, Frank Searle, 83, passed away earlier this spring, according to Nessie researcher Andrew Tullis, who along with me, had actively been trying to relocate Searle for an interview, since the beginning of the year. Searle apparently was quietly and strongly independent to his final moments.

In June 1969, Frank Searle, an ex-soldier, showed up at Loch Ness to conduct his own search for Nessie, and lived out of a tent with his cats at lochside near Dores, for three years. He then moved to the field behind Boleskine House (the former home of occultist Aleister Crowley, 1899-1913, and purchased in 1970 by Crowley admirer, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page). Searle finally established himself, for most of his remaining lochside years, at Lower Foyers, in a trailer (or caravan in the UK). He reported minor sightings, and tirelessly promoted the worth of straightforward observations of the loch, continuously.

In the early days, Searle seemed to be a typical monster-hunter, talking of the search and speculating on what the Monster might be. He was mildly cryptozoologically-educated, such as using the coelacanth to support the example that prehistoric animals might be found alive today. But Searle would also state incorrectly that since 1938, "many [coelacanths] have been caught or found in the South Atlantic," instead of the reality that coelacanths were being captured in the Indian Ocean, off the east coast of southern Africa. Still, Searle was a sincere and likable young man in the
early 1970s.

Perhaps frustrated in his looking for the ultimate proof, after scanning the loch for a reportedly 20,000 hours, Frank Searle snapped his first alleged image of Nessie on July 27, 1972, near Balachladoich Farm. The supposedly two-humped monster shown was published to international acclaim in the September 1, 1972, issue of London's Daily Mail. Searle became an instant celebrity, and immediately sought out by fans, tourists, and the media, for the "facts" on Nessie. He popularized the Loch Ness Monster pursuit, and was generally wholeheartedly accepted by the monster-hunter community. Soon he erected signs to his location that read "The Frank Searle Loch Ness Investigation," at Lower Foyers, Scotland. Without an admission fee, Searle's caravan exhibition existed solely on donations. Visitors were soon to discover, however, that the exhibit was mostly of displays of newspaper clippings about Searle and copies of Searle's photographs.

Despite the fact the July 1972 photograph appeared to only show a tree trunk, Searle got many media people to come visit, and for a time was the Loch Ness spokesperson most often seen on television. But then, with increasing regularity, Searle produced more and more photographs of the "Monster." It soon became clear his images were crude hoaxes. Searle was only taken seriously for about a year, and then his celebrity status declined rapidly.

Nevertheless, between October 21, 1972, and February 26, 1976, Searle took many photographs of what he alleged were Loch Ness Monsters. He produced one book, Nessie: Seven Years in Search of the Monster (1976). In February 1977, sincere admirer, Belgian Lieve Peten joined Searle at Loch Ness as his "assistant monster huntress," helping him greatly organize and publish his materials. Peten left the Loch in 1979, but remained supportive of Searle through 1983. It appears mainly due to Peten's efforts that from April 1977 to December 1983, Searle was able to produce a regular quarterly newsletter.The publication contained Searle authored passages, which were often critical of Tim Dinsdale, Robert Rines, and the other well-known monster-hunters in Loch Ness research. In 1985, Searle abruptly left Loch Ness. He seemed to vanish from the face of earth, and he reportedly had gone treasure hunting, or by other rumors, to have died.

Searle's move from fame to infamy began perhaps most in earnest with the attack on Searle's pictures by Nicholas Witchell (The Loch Ness Story, 1975). Witchell identified Searle as one of the fakers in the history of Nessie searchers. Roy Mackal (The Monsters of Loch Ness, 1976) identified the 1972 first Searle photo as a "log," and likewise found Searle's additional photographs as having "no connection with large animals in the loch." Roland Binns (The Loch Ness Mystery Solved, 1983) remarked that Searle's 1973 photos of "Nessie" are "unmistakably parts of floating tree trunks." Michael Newton (Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology, 2005) speculated that some of the Searle photographs were cut-and-paste creations of dinosaurs from postcards. The favorable opinion of Searle as an "honest searcher" had shifted.

Henry Bauer (The Enigma of Loch Ness, 1986), under "Hoaxes and Frauds," is the only author to critically review and publish nineteen of Searle's photographs. Bauer calls them "fraudulent," and for the tourists seeking info on Nessie, "misleading."

Frank Searle, born 1921, 83 or 84 years old, passed away, on March 26, 2005, in his furnished sitting room/bedroom, his bedsit, Searle lived alone there in Fleetwood, Lancashire, United Kingdom, perhaps with some cats, since 1986. He suffered a stroke seven years earlier that left his right side paralyzed. He required the aid of a prosthetic left foot. Despite being confined to a wheelchair for his last years, Searle had refused the option of an assisted care facility or a nursing home, and instead chose to look after himself. As researcher Roland Watson notes: "That sounds very much like Frank Searle to me."

Searle never married and leaves no known heir or relative. What he has left, instead, is a confused commentary on his search.

We have to concur with both Paul Harrison and Henry Bauer on their concluding observations in their separate books on Frank Searle.

Harrison wrote of the legacy of hoaxes, but then goes on to observe: "Searle did make a contribution to Loch Ness investigation, though, because the publicity his photographs and stories attracted drew the world's media to the Loch."

Bauer pondered Searle's lasting contribution: "One can only wonder how much harm has been done to the quest by the likes of Frank Searle."

Frank Searle, a good monster-hunter, made a statement about the worth of on-site investigations, but then, pushed the envelope a bit too far after he became a misguided true-believer.

He will be remembered, favorably as a man, unfavorably as a phenomenon.

Source: The Cryptozoologist
http://www.lorencoleman.com/searle.html

- RADIO ROUND-UP DEPARTMENT -

It's been busy, busy, busy for Tim Swartz, your beloved editor of Conspiracy Journal, as he is the guest this week on the Martian Revelation Radio Show with host Gary Leggiere. You can listen to this fascinating program online at: http://www.martianrevelation.com/radio63.html
Tim and Gary talk about life on Mars, Nikola Tesla and secret space programs. This is a show not to be missed!

And coming up this Saturday, May 21, Tim Swartz will be the guest on the Speaking of Strange radio show on AM 570 WWNC, Asheville, NC, Saturday Nights from 7-9pm EST - with host Joshua P. Warren. Tim and Joshua will be talking about time travel and teleportation -- this will be a fascinating program so don't miss it!
http://www.speakingofstrange.com/ (Live Streaming for Internet listeners)

- DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT DEPARTMENT -

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Witches have returned to the German forests, dancing naked in groups under the full moon and calling to their gods.

The covens vary in size and in how seriously they take their calling, but the numbers are rising, particularly amongst the young.

Their religious ideas are described as "pagan" rather than Satanist, and many of the older practitioners have a history in the environmental movement, where they learnt a passionate love of nature.

In some cases this has led on to a belief in the natural powers of the forests. The women are convinced they can work magic.

"The witches' scene is experiencing a powerful revival," says Lutheran theologian Hansjoerg Hemminger. He says the covens range from "girlie witches" to the so-called "Wicca" covens. Wicca is an old Anglo-Saxon term for a group of witches.

Christian theologians are inclined to see the latter as a manifestation of a new heathen movement. The women tend to be members of associations like the Pagan Federation or the Stone Circle.

Maddalina, a 44-year-old witch, is high priestess of a witches' coven in Berlin, who became interested in Wicca about 15 years ago.

The former doctor's assistant, who declines to provide her real name, says she began looking around for women with similar interests.

"Today you are just a mouse-click away from making contact," she says, and she estimates that the number of witches has quadrupled in her time as a witch.

Conceding she is uncertain, she guesses there are several hundred Wiccans in Germany.

Maddalina is scornful of the teenagers interested in the witch cults. She gets e-mails daily from 13- and 14-year-olds, almost all of which she rebuffs.

Her own coven numbers just eight and the youngest trainee witch is 25 years old.

Most of the teenagers interested in witchcraft gain their information from the media, the internet or from books. Television series on witchcraft are currently popular in Germany.

These sources offer love potions aimed at curing shyness, or magical formulas spoken in the light of the moon to help with schoolwork.

Hemminger insists that these methods are never solutions to real problems. But Maddalina is true to her beliefs. "We are heathens and believe in the power of magic," she says.

She and her coven go into the woods around Berlin several times a year to stand naked in a circle and call to Baldur, the god of light. Their requests are of a banal sort; wishes for a better job, a new flat with a balcony, for good health.

By contrast with the teenage witches, the Wicca covens tend to be older women with a background in the women's movement. Most commentators do not believe the groups have any links to Satanism and black magic. But Hemminger sounds a note of warning.

"Some of these circles operate in complete secrecy. We really don't know what they are up to," he says.

In general he regards the Wicca covens as a means to overcome personal crises that only cause concern once the cult begins to take over a person's life.

Maddalina insists her coven's activities are harmless. "We are not hurting anyone," she says.

And the Berlin forest authorities are taking a similar view, allowing the witches to dance under the moon.

Source: The Mail & Guardian
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=237954&area=/breaking_
news/breaking_news__international_news/

- SILENCE OF THE MUTES DEPARTMENT -

Cow Mutilation Investigator Says Truth Is Out There

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Human researchers, not Martians, likely mysteriously mutilated cattle in the Southwest during the 1970s and 1980s.

That's what a retired police officer tells Action 7 News.

He would like to say more, but he says the topic is too "sensitive."

"It's solved. I know who did it," said Gabe Valdez, a retired New Mexico State Police officer. "I don't want to go on too much, because it's so sensitive ??� the research that we're doing."

"It's humans," he said, "not UFOs or Satanic groups or people from Mars ??� it was humans," Valdez said.

"It's taken me 30 years to figure it out," Valdez said. "It has been solved as far as I'm concerned,"

Valdez said he believes researchers carried out the acts ??� using helicopters. He won't offer any clues as to who specifically killed the cattle.

In past interviews, witnesses described finding dead and mutilated cows in pastures, often with missing tongues, lips and ears.

In one case, a witness described how a surgical passage had been cut through a cow's rectum to remove all its insides.

In another case, a bull was found to have had all its reproductive organs removed.

In all the cases, there were no signs of gunshots, or of animals tracking down and killing the cows. That's what led some conspiracy theorists to promote the idea that perhaps a Satanic cult or even mysterious space visitors.

The owners of the ranch where the bull was found also said they received threatening phone calls. Their dog also disappeared. By 1985, the rancher sold all his cattle and got out of the business.

Source: TheNewMexicoChannel
http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/news/4492469/detail.html?rss=alb&psp=news

- STRANGE TALES DEPARTMENT -

Ghosts, Lake Monster and Haunted Cemetery in Southeastern Idaho

CHESTERFIELD -- What's more extreme than ghosts, a monster and a spooky cemetery?

The small town of Chesterfield, Idaho is listed in at least a dozen books as a ghost town. It attracts thousands of visitors each year.

"There??�s something about this place. I??�m not going to say it's eerie, but it's wonderful because there's a spirit here that you don't get in most ghost towns," said Shirley Simons.

Chesterfield, Idaho - for ghost town enthusiasts it's a gold mine. In the 1880s this was a lively Mormon village with about 500 residents.

Shirley Simons' ancestors were among those pioneers.

"It was the hardest place in the world to survive. It was so dry and it was so cold," said Simons.

In less than a century the village thrived and then died.

"Chesterfield just slowly dissolved and people just went away," said Simons.

But, the spirits according to Shirley, did not go away, nor did many of the buildings. Thirty still remain today and attract thousands of visitors each year.
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"We are listed in about 12 ghost town books, that's why we get people from all over the world," said Simons.

In the tiny town of Samaria, we searched for and found a buried treasure.

It's a tale of two tombstones.

As legend has it, in the late 1800s Benjamin Waldron lost his leg in a farming accident, the 25-year-old decided to have the leg buried and give it its own tombstone, October 30, 1878. When old Benjamin finally kicked the bucket 36 years later, he apparently didn't want to have anything to do with that old leg. It was buried on the opposite end of the cemetery in April of 1914 - one man, one cemetery, two tombstones.

In the very most southeastern corner of the state, Bear Lake straddles the Idaho-Utah border. Its water is such a stunning blue it's called the "Caribbean of the Rockies."

But what would a big, mysterious lake be without a mythical monster!

"It has quite a bit of history and dozens and dozens of people have seen it. It dates back into the middle of the 1800s when the first settlers came here. It??�s a dinosaur type monster or animal. The long neck, big body," said Brian Hirschi.

Brian Hirschi is one of those who claims to have seen the Bear Lake monster.

"It was late at night when I was anchoring this boat out for the night, and I definitely can say I saw something unexplainable that was very large, larger than anything that's in Bear Lake as far as fish. It did come up surface to the side of the boat and then went back down and gave me quite a scare," said Hirschi.

It may have scared up some business for Brian, as well.

"We do tours in the summer and they come on for a 45-minute cruise and we tell them the legend of the Bear Lake monster and how it started, and we always tell them to keep their eyes open because they might spot it also," Hirschi.

Whether fact or fish tale, legend or lore, these are the stories that create mystery and intrigue in some of the tucked away spots in rural Idaho, stories that are best told by locals who claim to be in the know.

Source: KTVB.com
http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-may1705-spooky_stories.
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- THE SPIRIT WITHIN DEPARTMENT -

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The most violent outbreaks of poltergeist were reported in England during 1977 to 1978.

A shower of stones or pieces of bricks falls over the house all of a sudden. The windows are broken and things fly into the house. The doors bang as by themselves and strange noises come out of the walls and furniture. Things seem to be carried around by somebody invisible. Sometimes a strange shape seems to appear out of nothingness. You can even see water, blood, burning oil or other liquid gushing from walls or ceilings. Invisible creatures can leave marks on your clothing and inflict injuries on your body. If you happen to witness any of the above, please be advised that poltergeist is in the house. Vladislav Bukreev, a physicist from the Russian city of Voronezh, never doubted the existence of poltergeist. He says he spent all his life studying the unknown and mysterious including poltergeist, UFOs, ball lightning, magnetic fields, earth's internal energy etc.

Mr. Bukreev says the people should look after the earth's physical and spiritual state. He asserts that numerous natural disasters are directly related to the poltergeist activity. He says the first poltergeist stories date back to the 16th century (poltergeist stands for "a noisy spirit" in German). The most violent outbreaks of poltergeist were reported in England during 1977 to 1978. A family in Enfield, a northern neighborhood of London, was driven to despair by the angry spirits. The bulky pieces of furniture were moved about the house.

The teenage girls were lifted up and carried around in midair by some strange force. The Enfield phenomenon gave rise to another round of speculation about the link between the presence of children, especially girls, in a state of puberty, and the manifest signs of poltergeist. Researchers began to interpret poltergeist as an unusual display of sexually-charged mental tension. It was regarded as a safety valve for venting off energy. "However, at times poltergeist behaves quite well, I would say it develops a greater attachment to the people than to a place, and it should follow the people wherever they go," says Mr. Bukreev.

The basis of a "noisy spirit" can be built of energy, physical, chemical, biological, and mental components, according to Mr. Bukreev. He believes that nature programmed the poltergeist into every human being. He also says that common nervous breakdowns and explosive mental states are also the poltergeist manifestations of a soul that is deeply distressed by grievous events of the outside world. Mr. Bukreev says we should take into account that the rules of poltergeist and rules of our world are opposites.

Vladislav Bukreev is confident there is always a way to try and get rid of poltergeist or at least to keep it in check. He admits that it is hard to give any kind of advice since no human being can be aware of a particular occasion or circumstances leading to another energy resonance of things and events. "Using one's high spirits and benevolent attitude seems to be the only way to soften the effects of poltergeist," says Mr. Bukreev. Sometimes an exorcism or a prayer can help dispel the acts of poltergeist. And pets normally scare off the noisy spirits from the house. No cases of poltergeist were reported in the households with a cat or a dog.

According to Mr. Bukreev, poltergeist is an active display of mental energy of those who are prone to showing strong emotion, and pets can effectively give comfort to such people and relieve the nerve strain. "Falling into despondency is said to be a deadly sin so you had better keep smiling and enjoy life," concludes his story Vladislav Bukreev.

Source: Pravda
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- UNNATURAL LOVE FROM BEYOND DEPARTMENT -

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CHAKE CHAKE, Tanzania - Mohammed Juma starts to sweat and fidget as he recalls his rape by Popo Bawa, the most feared spirit-monster of the Zanzibar spice islands.

"We believe reading the Koran is our only defence, nothing else," says the 41-year-old driver and father of four. "But Popo Bawa is real, and well prepared."

Holidaymakers on the Indian Ocean islands tend to smile dismissively at accounts in guidebooks of the bat-like ogre said to prey on men, women and children. But for superstitious Zanzibaris a visit from the sodomising gremlin is no joke.

Although no one ever has seen it, belief in the monster and his unnatural lust is so strong that entire villages will sleep out of doors for protection: Popo Bawa (Swahili for Bat's Wing) prefers to attack behind closed doors at night.

In huts set amid rustling groves of jackfruit and mangoes on Zanzibar's Pemba island, victims said in interviews that they detected a bad smell, became cold and went into a trance in the moments before they felt the creature's inhuman strength.

Some attacks were heralded by the sound of giant wings and claws rattling and scraping on huts' tin roofs. Others cringed in terror at what sounded like a car engine ticking over.

"We heard a rustling on the roof," recalls Asha Saleh, in her late 50s, in Machomanne village near Pemba's main town of Chake Chake. "I felt someone fondling me. I felt very cold. I felt weak," she said, recalling the attack some 35 years ago.

"I couldn't call out for help to my husband who was lying asleep beside me. Popo Bawa is strong: He really presses down on you. And it took such a long time: One hour! Eventually I lost consciousness. And I was one of many who were attacked."

Successive waves of colonisers and traders -- Arabs, Portuguese, Hindus, Chinese, Britons, Persians and Africans -- left behind a multinational array of legends on Zanzibar.

Accordingly, many dismiss Popo Bawa as another of the satanic stories swapped over the centuries by migratory Indian Ocean peoples as they moved back and forth on the tides from Indonesia to the Comoros, from Madagascar to the Maldives.

Zanzibar's distinctive past as an Arab-run slave market prompted some academics to speculate that the story of Popo Bawa emerged from a collective race memory of the horrors of slavery.

But Popo Bawa is unlike the many goblins believed by the islanders to populate the tall grasses that ring their huts.

Many on the islands are adept at exorcisms, placing charms at the base of fig trees or sacrificing goats to avert evil or draw favour from the spirit world.

So experienced are the isles' traditional healers that they draw visitors from the Gulf and east Africa, with the successful amassing riches and prestige.

But no placatory offering or witch doctor can deflect Popo Bawa when he has made his mind up to strike, islanders say.

The monster favours Pemba, the poorer and more backward of the archipelago's twin islands despite being home to the clove plantations that provide the mainstay of Zanzibar's economy.

He also becomes active at election time: a habit that is testing nerves ahead of polls due in October.

His last major visitation was during elections in 1995, when Juma says he endured his terrifying ordeal, although some reported his presence again in 2000 and in 2001.

Pemba's population are staunch opposition supporters. Many accuse the ruling party of Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa of neglecting the island since 1964, when Zanzibar merged with mainland Tanganyika to form the United Republic of Tanzania.

But Juma says Popo Bawa is apolitical even though electoral emotions seem to summon him from the beyond. "He can strike even if the opposition wins the elections," he said.

The driver vows to do his utmost to avoid what happened to him back in 1995 as he sat alone late one evening.

"Many were afraid and were sleeping outside. But I was confident and was alone in my room. I was reading the Koran for protection. After about 20 minutes I started feeling sleepy. I heard something falling on the roof. I continued reciting. I started feeling something in the room.

"I felt my mouth becoming bigger and bigger. I started losing my ability to form words. My feeling was that my lower lip had stretched to my lap. I felt weak in my body. I became very sweaty. My experience was like that of a neighbour of mine who said his head seemed to grow to an enormous size."

Popo Bawa gets annoyed if villagers deny his existence -- a fact to which Khamis Juma Hamad says he can testify.

Hamad, a retired village chief now aged 75, said that in 1971 Popo Bawa spoke to terrified villagers on Pemba through a girl possessed by the monster.

"I am Popo Bawa," said the girl, called Fatuma, speaking in the unnaturally deep voice of a man. "You have challenged my existence so I have come to prove I am here."

Seconds later, he says, the villagers heard the sound of a car revving and a rustle on a nearby roof -- signs of Popo Bawa. "The people felt cold, almost paralysed. They were terrified."

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