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News Briefs 31-03-2011

By red pill junkieon

‘Sup bros & bras sis?

Big props to my peeps Rick, Kat & Greg –RPJ out.

Quote of the Day:

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

Albert Einstein.

red pill junkie
Agnostic gnostic, walking conundrum & metaphysical oxymoron (with emphasis in the 'moron' part), the mysterious RPJ leaves a double life: By day he serves as Grand Master of the International Sacred Order of Lucha Libre, but at night he pursues his life-long study of everything considered mysterious and/or 'paranormal' --a term he personally detests... When he's not exploring the web looking for his daily fix of Forteana, he can be found blogging, doodling, fooling around and offering his services as news administrator and writer at The Daily Grail. He also regularly participates in other websites and podcasts like Radio Misterioso and Where Did the Road Go? He impatiently awaits for the return of the mothership in Mexico City. absurdbydesign.com
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  2. When The Lights Went Out In 1965:)
    Red Pill,

    I remember the blackout in the northeast in 1965. As unromantic as it sounds, the power grid was over loaded and it crashed. They had not sufficiently maintained and up-dated the power grid. On the romantic side, there was a short lived baby boom in the northeast 9 months later!:) There was a movie made about this called “Where Were You When The Lights Went Out?”.

    1. The Day The Earth’s Biggest City Stood Still
      Well, obviously there is nothing conclusive, but I’ve read several articles and books that report the sightings of unusual lights prior to the mysterious blackout. We know UFOs are very commonly sighted near sensitive installations, and although nobody is suggesting this was a warning from our intergalactic overlords, the event is not as clear-cut as the way the official explanation seems to show it.

      Evidence looking at the possible UFO – New York City blackout connection was even brought in front of congress. Dr. James E. McDonald, a top Ufologist of the day and University of Arizona professor, testified on the possible UFO connection to the northeast blackout in front of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics at July 29, 1968, Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Rayburn Bldg., Washington, D.C. Among the congressmen who listened in was the former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

      The congressmen were impressed enough with the evidence that they questioned Dr. McDonald on his theory of UFO electromagnetic effects being able to black out huge sections of the country. One exchange occurred with Representative William F. Ryan, a Democrat from New York City.

      McDonald was a top-notch scientist, one of the unsung heroes of scientific Ufologic research.

      Anyway, this last paragraph struck me as very interesting:

      Only a couple days after the blackout a book called “Strike From Space” appeared in the bookstores. Conservative activists Phyllis Schlafly and Rear Admiral Chester Ward (Ret) authored the book. Although it dealt mostly with the growing threat of Soviet space weapons and the Johnson White House’s inability to deal with the problem, the book did describe some serious events that were never really made public.

      That’s the kind of trickster-like behavior which is typical of the phenomenon. So maybe it wasn’t ET, but it’s fun to think the blackout was caused by Mothman –after all, only a year later would the strange sightings begin in Point Pleasant… and John Keel was a New Yorker 😉

      1. UFO Sightings
        Red Pill,

        I remember the UFO sightings and I don’t debate them. But, I think that they are here to observe us and our reactions to different situations. It should be noted that these UFO’s are from civilizations that are atleast a 1000 years ahead of us and that their technology allows them to do things that would seem like magic to us. I think that their technology allowed them to know when the blackout would occure. And, I think they wanted to see how we would react to it.

        By the standards of more advanced civilizations, we are rather primative and violent. As such, I think that they want to be very careful with us. But, I don’t think that they are tricksters that would cause something like the northeast blackout of 1965.

  3. I’m a member of the O.P.R.A.H Book Club
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  4. The 13 best dystopian novels. Is there any other kind?[/quote]

    Having read 5 of the 13 books on that list I would say that’s a pretty good one. Specifically, the mention of The Road by Cormac McCarthy is tempting me to pick this book up.

    O.P.R.A.H Oppressed People Reading Antagonizing Hubris

    1. Theres Dystopias and there’s dystopias
      Right now I’m finishing The Feast of the Goat, by Vargas Llosa, which it could certainly be consider a dystopian novel, because it tells the tale of how the people in the Dominican Republic were oppressed by a cold-hearted fascist called Trujillo.

      Worst part of the book? knowing that all this REALLY happened 🙁

      1. One man’s heaven is another man’s hell
        Truth be told, as a collective we are all living in a dystopian world already. That twisted reflection of comedy that is political satire is just that, a reflection to our discourse. Twisted more so is the amount of attention that “style” of comedy recieves. As with the recent tsunami, the out cries of entire nations to come and aid Japan is profound. But what of the genocides that continue daily or child labor or slave labor? God forbid human cruelty over inevitable natural events.

        When I was a kid there was a game we played called “opposite day” in which my friends and I would do random actions opposite. Instead of saying you like someone you would say you hated them and so on so forth. I’m beginning to believe that some people may have taken that game too seriously.

        There’s a saying I can’t remember fully but it went something like “truth is more disturbing than any fiction”

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