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Saturday, 30 April 2011

Was JFK killed because of his interest in aliens?

Secret memo shows president demanded UFO files 10 days before death

Assassination: Was JFK shot to stop him discovering the truth about UFOs?

An uncovered letter written by John F. Kennedy to the head of the CIA shows that the president demanded to be shown highly confidential documents about UFOs 10 days before his assassination.

The secret memo is one of two letters written by JFK asking for information about the paranormal on November 12 1963, which have been released by the CIA for the first time.

Author William Lester said the CIA released the documents to him under the Freedom of Information Act after he made a request while researching his new book 'A Celebration of Freedom: JFK and the New Frontier.'

The president’s interest in UFOs shortly before his death is likely to fuel conspiracy theories about his assassination. UFO researchers say the latest documents, released to Mr Lester by the CIA, add weight to the suggestion that the president could have been shot to stop him discovering the truth about UFOs.

In one of the secret documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, JFK writes to the director asking for the UFO files.

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Released: Letter from JFK to CIA director asking for access to UFO files, which has been released to an author under the Freedom of Information Act

In the second memo, sent to the NASA administrator, the president expresses a desire for cooperation with the former Soviet Union on mutual outer space activities.

The previously classified documents were released under the Freedom of Information Act to teacher William Lester as part of research for a new book about JFK.

He said that JFK’s interest in UFOs could have been fuelled by concerns about relations with the former Soviet Union.

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Unclassified: A second memo written by JFK on November 12 1963, 10 days before his assassination, which has been released by the CIA

‘One of his concerns was that a lot of these UFOs were being seen over the Soviet Union and he was very concerned that the Soviets might misinterpret these UFOs as U.S. aggression, believing that it was some of our technology,’ Mr Lester told AOL News.

‘I think this is one of the reasons why he wanted to get his hands on this information and get it away from the jurisdiction of NASA so he could say to the Soviets, “Look, that's not us, we're not doing it, we're not being provocative.”

But conspiracy theorists said the documents add interest to a disputed file, nicknamed the ‘burned memo’, which a UFO investigator claims he received in the 1990s.

The document, which has scorch marks, is claimed to have been posted to UFO hunter Timothy Cooper in 1999 by an unknown CIA leak, but has never been verified.

Disputed: In the 'burned memo' the CIA director allegedly wrote: 'Lancer [JFK] has made some inquiries regarding our activities, which we cannot allow'

In a note sent with the document, the apparent leaker said he worked for CIA between 1960 and 1974 and pulled the memo from a fire when the agency was burning some of its most sensitive files.

The undated memo contains a reference to ‘Lancer’, which was JFK's Secret Service code name.

On the first page, the director of Central Intelligence wrote: ‘As you must know, Lancer has made some inquiries regarding our activities, which we cannot allow.

‘Please submit your views no later than October. Your action to this matter is critical to the continuance of the group.’

The current owner of the ‘burned memo’, who bought it from Timothy Cooper in 2001 told AOL News that it shows that when JFK asked questions about UFOs that the CIA ‘bumped him off’.

UFO investigator Robert Wood said he has tested the paper it was printed on, the ink age, watermarks, font types and other markings.

He said: ‘I hired a forensics company to check the age of the ink and check several other things that you can date, using the same techniques you’d use in a court of law.’

From http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378284/Secret-memo-shows-JFK-demanded-UFO-files-10-days-assassination.html#ixzz1JyCpXoSo

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Sunday, 8 November 2009

Illusory Freedom: Reclaiming Liberty

Illusory Freedom

Reclaiming Liberty

All modern societies on planet Earth follow patterns laid down long before the time of the Roman Empire. These top-down authoritarian pyramid structures were originally based on the ancient necessity for a vast horde of people working continually, to provide food and goods for the idle few who dwelt at society’s narrow summit.

The world is still a collection of feudal tribes, nations and empires. Only the accoutrements, costumes, technologies and furnishings have changed since ancient times; our lives are still constrained within the same old basic structures as the peoples of Sumer and Babylon. No matter how democratic or outwardly free, even the most liberal of nations is still fundamentally rigid and hidebound, following the ubiquitous hierarchical template of the pyramid builders.

Freedoms exist at the surfaces of things, different colours, fashions and veneers applied to cultures that provide no real choice to their constituents. Censorship and control of mass media are commonplace everywhere, and most freedom of information legislation is a beurocratic nightmare and a deliberate joke on every fair minded or idealistic citizen.

Everyone is expected to follow the same route, paying their way with the lifeblood of their precious time to provide imaginary numbers that flicker across ever-shifting screens. Feudal societies and racist dynasties have masked their ongoing existence with an updated shadow play of newly flavoured bread and freshly painted electronic circuses, grafting their power-mongering nonsense onto the age-old primate pack strategies of dominance and submission.

Rigid post-matriarchal societies can only exist if everyone ignores simple codes of ethics and ‘golden rules’ - the only legalisms any society really needs to survive and thrive – and follows arbitrary statutes and slave-making laws instead. Beurocratic institutions are all based on the superannuated fantasies of clerical dogmatists and most still ensure that true freedom is curtailed via the creation of myriad regulations and victimless criminals, whose punishments serve as warnings to any who would take a step out of line or reach for a tasty morsel of summarily forbidden fruit.

Through the lens of contemporary and recent events, it’s easy to see how modern humans have been bred to maintain servile stances, mirthlessly trudging along daily treadmills beneath the watchful stares of unimaginative overseers. At the top of all social pyramids murderous predators lurk, controlling all that occurs within the idiosyncratic tribalistic communities and states they arrogantly assume that they own, lock, stock and barrel.

Racism - whipping up fear of those outside one’s immediate bloodline - has always lain at the roots of all caste structures, class systems, the regional lies of religions, eternal vengeful feuding and endless bloody wars. The basis of racism is the natural urge to love one’s family more than everyone else’s. This innate survival trait is easily exploited by those to whom any arbitrary difference from their own narrow range of ‘norms’ means life or death for the unwary.

Keeping the populace ignorant and stupid was always easy in the days of near-universal illiteracy; age-old methods have always sufficed to ensure that individualistic non-compliers, outright superior mutants and tall poppies are bred out of the domesticated primate stock.

For the last few millennia, the more intelligent humans have been regularly rounded up, culled or exterminated. In most times and places, any behaviour other than complete submission to the dominant regime or superstition has been greeted with dismemberment or beheading. Inquisitions, pogroms and witch hunting expeditions have ensured anyone living beyond societal norms has been prevented from contributing to the gene pool.

The ruthless beheading of the Soviet intelligentsia under Stalin is but one obvious example of the deliberate dumbing down of an entire nation. The most totalitarian regimes reduce human potential to the lowest common denominator very swiftly, and ensure that mediocrity soon becomes the norm. Yet the same rapid decline can be found in any society or social grouping based on any exclusivist religion, ideology or dogmatic belief. Every human culture deviates only very slightly from all others in terms of the hierarchical structure which underlies all day to day interactions.

The top-down nature of all these simulacra of truly free civilizations is a clue to their true origins. You know them by their fruits. Everyone and everything is numbered and collated and genetic typecasting is still a sure ticket to a fixed place in the caste system, just as it was in ancient India or antediluvian Atlantis.

Warrior castes dominate the roost, and the most egregious of all are oft warlords supreme, living high on the hog at the summit of various satrapies and notional nations. All countries are but imaginary lines in an age-old game of divide and conquer, no more valid or eternal than transitory teams of ball game players. Everyone is deliberately set against everyone else and any differences are ruthlessly exploited in a system that’s fundamentally based on racist prerogatives.

The rulers in the nations of each great racial family consider themselves a race apart, born to rule over all others on Earth – starting with their own extended families.

True freedom is not a matter of ‘freedom to’ or ‘freedom from’, but a state of being uninvolved with habitual attachments. The enlightened see through perpetually recurring emotional cycles that thrive on mundane melodrama and evolve beyond the need for an addiction to ongoing tragedies or the adrenaline rush provided by self-induced fear.

The way out of the system is always inward. Knowing your true self is the only path to liberation. Judging and forgiving yourself is the only way to evolve beyond the currently dominating paradigm. Applying ideas and ideals like ‘justice’ or ‘mercy’ to others is as self-defeating as blindly obeying the whims of this week’s dictator or president. The rulership of all our leaders is illusory and their freedom is non-existent. Your consciousness is the only reality in the universe and their orders and regulations are momentary aberrations that will soon pass away.

We all suffer or rejoice in a world of our own creation. The external world is a malleable template that responds to every deep instinct and feeling we experience and project. Which emotion would you prefer to experience? That’s a far more important question than ‘what do you want to do’, or buy, or be; emotions are the fuel that drives you.

What do you want to feel – and why?

- R. Ayana

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Friday, 26 June 2009

The Price of Freedom is a Contradiction in Terms: Who Watches the Watchers

Who Watches the Watchers 2

The Price of Freedom is a Contradiction in Terms

Let’s look on the bright side; advanced democracies are the worst systems for balancing human needs against rights and freedoms tried thus far - except for all the rest. It’s an old joke, so old now that it’s high time we created a new system befitting a new millennium, one closer to our most glorious visions of artistic, wise, playful and sustainable civilizations.

We must arise from the unfair fantasy feudal system that pits entrepreneurs against wage slaves and pits them all against a horde of disenfranchised and impoverished outsiders. We must awake from the age-old inchoate warrior worshipping chaos of this superstition-driven shambles we call the post-modern world.

The new millennium is well past being at hand. We live on a globe where vile and violent barbarians have built the gates and walls that constrain the freedoms of a surprisingly peaceable multitude. The rule of law is still slowly being transformed as the iron fist of endless wartime is gradually cloaked in the velvet glove of peace. Informed and educated (if not indoctrinated) populations are more than ready to hear the truth and determine their own fates in this new aeon, when we’ve finally wrested control from the grasping talons of primitive kings, kaisers, emperors, generals and other egocentric despots and dictators.

Citizens no longer have to be helpless servile pawns and paeons in the feudal fiefdoms and notional nations of dynastic control freaks and petty tyrants. We can decide for ourselves – if we have access to accurate and unbiased sources of information amidst a vast range of diverging views; if we have broadly based free education systems; if we have real freedom of information and truly free and unconstrained media. Freedom of information is a prerequisite for a free press, an informed population and is essential if we’re to have honest politicians and corporations.

If we are to be subjected to intrusions of privacy at all levels because the level of today’s technologies have reached the point where any individual can endanger an entire city, then complete openness of government is the only acceptable quid pro quo (see part 1)– for a start. The first generation of Freedom of Information laws were easily circumvented by governments and corporations schooled in the old wartime paradigm. The lousy excuses that have been foisted on any who attempt to divine the truth from our public servants must all be swept away while we have the breathing space of relatively peaceful times.

Our supposedly modern versions of democracy have all grown as outdated as our apparently quaint notions of privacy, and have always been based around systemically sustained inequities. When the elected representative of the people of a region, state or nation are beholden to a party line formulated in an utterly undemocratic manner by a coterie of conspirators behind closed doors, they have no chance of truly representing their community and constituency. Many so-called ‘local representatives’ are parachuted into safe seats or constituencies and have no links whatsoever with the people they claim to represent.

The party system hamstrings democracy and gives the power to make any worthwhile changes to the very people who profit from maintaining the status quo. Parties are groups of conspirators with hidden agendas and well spun and crafted personas. Parties are the tools of oligarchs, plutocrats, ideologues and shadow governments who puppeteer proceedings from the wings of theatrical parliaments, congresses, diets and senates. Parties, presidents, prime ministers and potentates are distractions to occupy the attention of perpetually overworked, tired and shell-shocked wage serfs on endlessly repetitive treadmills.

Changing the Paradigm

Short of outright (and probably self-defeating) revolution, political parties are far too entrenched to simply disappear. The structures that surround them cannot be discarded without untenable disruption to human societies. But parties can be slowly replaced with healthier institutions and options, political tweakings that induce weedy old politics to wither on the vine, and ultimately fade into irrelevancy.

Democracy has one great inherent failing; it can all too easily become a tyranny of a slender majority, or even of a slimmer minority. The existence of formal parties only exacerbates this basic dilemma - particularly in nations where politics is perennially split into two opposing but fundamentally similar camps. In this all too prevalent situation, freedom of choice can be an irrelevancy. Yet parties are already far less relevant than we are led to believe.

The reality is that most nations on Earth have already agreed to, signed and ratified the articles of a universal International Bill of Rights. This fact is rarely addressed. Many of the most benign legislative decisions governments purport to have made on behalf of citizens have been made as a result of these largely unacknowledged documents. This is the reason people in countries that are not protected by a US-style Bill of Rights have guaranteed access to a phone call and legal representation if arrested, for instance. This is the reason women’s rights have been enshrined in law in most developed nations, and why children cannot be forced to work. If everyone was aware of their real rights as enshrined in these readily available and easily digested documents, it would soon become obvious that governments are merely tinkering at the edges.

A commonly suggested counter to the power of self-perpetuating antiquated political institutions is citizens’ initiated referenda. Some nations already have systems whereby citizens can raise issues and vote on them directly in referendums or plebiscites. If a certain threshold of signatures can be obtained via petitions, for instance, then the issue must be voted upon concurrent with the next general or regional election.

If people can vote on issues directly, rather than for faces or factions, direct democracy can become a reality and the old political institutions will swiftly lose much of their power. As referenda must usually be passed with at least a two-thirds majority, the tyranny of minority viewpoints can be more easily avoided than is the case with general elections.

But it must be remembered that direct democracy will only work in conjunction with a free media (including a free internet), freedom of information and a broadly educated and fair-minded population. When obvious problems with electronic voting can finally be ironed out, we can finally progress to real-time direct democracy, and dispense with most politicians entirely. These changes won’t happen tomorrow, but are already on the horizon and approaching faster than you may think.

Our superannuated party-based democracies have become the major barrier to a truer democracy whose light is dawning - if we only seize the day and recognise our chance while we retain the luxuries of relative peace and prosperity. If we must have unified world governance and total surveillance, let’s make it happen on our terms, not those of the old Illuminati.

Let’s have enclaves of diversity in a peace-loving world, where everyone has enough to eat and drink, and where weapons have all been banned, or turned into ploughshares. Let’s share the bounty of Mother Nature fairly and sustainably in a new, well-informed and well-intentioned world government of equals. We can do it quite easily if we take the chance on a great future for all in a paradise on Earth.

There’s a lot of work to do. We have an entire planetary ecosystem to repair. We can do it. After all - what are our other options?