Official disclosure of extraterrestrial life is imminent
An official announcement by the Obama administration disclosing the reality of extraterrestrial life is imminent. For several months, senior administration officials have been quietly deliberating behind closed doors how much to disclose to the world about extraterrestrial life. Dissatisfaction among powerful institutions such as the U.S. Navy over the decades-long secrecy policy has given a boost to efforts to disclose the reality of extraterrestrial life and technology.
The impending disclosure announcement follows upon the secret implementation of a year long openness policy on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Over the period February 12-14, 2008, the United Nations held closed doors discussions where approximately 30 nations secretly agreed on a new openness policy on UFOs and extraterrestrial life in 2009. The openness policy was implemented but never publicly announced due to threats against UN diplomats not to disclose details of the secret agreement. h The secret UN agreement was based on two conditions. First, UFOs would continue to appear around the world; and second, the openness policy would not lead to social unrest in liberal democracies. Both conditions have been satisfied making it possible for the next stage to begin – official disclosure of extraterrestrial life.
Full story at the Examiner.com (Thanks James)
Former Teen idol Kirk Cameron is attempting to debunk evolution
Kirk Cameron is attempting to warn everyone that an entire generation is being brainwashed by “atheistic evolution”. In a crude attempt to put their message across the Living Waters group, headed up by Ray Comfort, have produced a copy of Darwin’s Origin of the Species with a 50 page intro of their own. In it they claim Darwin was racist, hated women and claim of Hitlers undeniable connection to evolutionary theory.
See Kirk and Ray in action here
The Cumbria Foundation – helping the flood victims of Cockermouth
We’ve had plenty of requests to help the people of Cockermouth – please help in any way you can even if it’s just to tweet @doorman911 to give well wishing thoughts. A charity donation page has been set up by The Cumbria Foundation for donations – Alternatively you can send a cheque made out to Cumbria Community Foundation to: Cumbria Community Foundation, Dovenby Hall, Cockermouth CA13 0PN. Please write on the back ‘Cumbria Flood Recovery Fund’.
We’re keeping an eye on the BBC News.
Mussolini’s brain ‘stolen for sale on eBay’
Benito Mussolini’s granddaughter demanded a police investigation on Friday after the late Italian dictator’s blood and brain were reportedly offered for sale on eBay, the online auction website.
Alessandra Mussolini, a right-wing MP, said she was outraged and upset when she heard reports that the remains of her grandfather were being sold online. The initial asking price was 15,000 euros, or £13,000, but nobody had had a chance to bid, eBay said.
The online auctioneer does not permit the sale of body parts on its website and removed the listing hours after it was posted. Miss Mussolini said the remains, which were reportedly contained in three glass vials, could have been stolen from a hospital in Milan where an autopsy was carried out on the dictator’s body after he was killed and strung up by partisans at the end of the Second World War.
“I was advised this morning that pieces of my grandfather’s brain and some of his blood were being sold on eBay for 15,000 euros. ”This is very serious, these are the kinds of things we have to guard against,” the Right-wing politician and former showgirl said. But the Policlinico hospital said the samples it took from Mussolini’s body were destroyed in 1947, two years after his death.
Gang ‘killed victims to extract their fat’
Peruvian police arrest suspects who allegedly drained their victims and sold liquid as an anti-wrinkle treatment.
A Peruvian gang that allegedly killed people and drained fat from their corpses for use in cosmetics may have been inspired by a grisly Andean legend.
Hilarió Cudeña Simon, the alleged ringleader, linked the crimes to tales of demonic assassins, known as Pishtacos, who purportedly waylaid victims in pre-Columbian times, police said.
Peru reacted with revulsion and horror to reports that scores of peasants may have been butchered by the gang, which was said to have operated in Huánuco, a rural province dotted with Inca temples between the jungle and Andean peaks.
Colonel Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru’s anti-kidnapping police, said Cudeña and three other suspects were in custody and that another seven gang members were being hunted.
The jailed men have confessed to killing five people, but police suspect the number of victims is far higher, with 60 people reported missing in Huánuco this year alone. Two of the suspects were arrested at a bus station in the capital, Lima, carrying bottles of liquid fat which they claimed were worth up to £36,000 a gallon.
Full story at Guardian
No crosses in school
In a legal landmark that sparked a storm in Italy, the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled that crucifixes in Italian classrooms were a violation of parents’ rights to educate their kids according to their principles.
Upholding a plea from a Finnish immigrant to Italy, the Strasbourg-based court also said the crosses ran counter to a child’s own rights to freedom of religious choice. The Finnish woman, Soile Lautsi, had vainly sued in various Italian courts to have crosses removed from her children’s classroom near Padua before she turned to the European court.
The Italian government was ordered to pay Lautsi, an Italian citizen, 5,000 euros in ”moral damages”.
The ruling sparked an immediate outcry from conservative Catholic politicians, with Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia of the Northern League calling it ”shameful” and a member of Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Freedom Party, Antonio Mazzocchi, saying that Europe was forgetting its Christian heritage.
ANSA (Thanks Tammy)
Woman Diagnosed With Fear Of Vegetables
Vicki Larrieux, a 22-year-old student from Portsmouth, claims she is unable to keep to a healthy diet because she is frightened of vegetables. She suffers from a fear known as lachanophobia, which leaves her sweating and stricken with panic attacks at the merest sight of a sprout or a pea.
Miss Larrieux survives on a diet of meat, potatoes, cereals and an occasional apple but refuses even a single slice of carrot on her dinner plate. ”I have always had an irrational fear of vegetables even as a child I used to properly freak out if some carrots or a few peas were on my plate,” she said. ”But as it continued into adult life I started to think it might not just be a dislike for vegetables but an actual phobia.
“Every time I would see vegetables not just on my plate, but anywhere I would get feelings of panic, start sweating and my heart rate would shoot up. ”People might think it is a bit of a laughable affliction but I have a genuine fear of greens it’s not just that I dislike the taste of sprouts or broccoli, but the actual sight of them fills me with dread and I could never touch them.”
Telegraph (thanks, Tammy)
Competitions galore: Win a pretty awesome Magic Book
Derren recently got a pretty big book of MAGIC from TASCHEN (MAGIC 1400s-1950s). The guys over at WhyDoWeRead heard and supplied us with a copy to give away to you lucky lot – oh and just to top if off we got Mr Brown to sign it too – imagine that in your xmas stocking. Enter here.
Don’t forget you can also enter the Polly Wants A Cracker competition at the Parrot Zoo. Entry numbers are low and theres 15 chances to win.
Friday Fun: Clever use of cables
Instead of squirreling them away, artist Maisie Maud Broadhead cleverly decorates with them in plain sight.
This is one of the many clever little ideas over at Lifehacker.com
Mind-Blowing Sex: American Woman Suffers Amnesia After Intercourse
An American woman suffered a sudden attack of amnesia after having sex with her husband.
The sudden loss of memory, called “transient global amnesia” or TGA, is caused by pressure in blood vessels in the brain, and can be triggered by strenuous activities, bowel movements, or – commonly – sex.
The 59-year-old woman, known only as Alice, had the worrying experience after she and her husband Scott had sex last August. She suddenly, albeit temporarily, lost all memory of the last several years and the ability to form new memories.
Telegraph (thanks, Tammy)
