Post by swamprat on Jan 13, 2011 17:15:39 GMT -6
The Sarasota Herald Tribune
Devoid
Speculation trumps news, as usual
by Billy Cox
January 13th, 2011 12:42pm
From the moment in early December that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a coy passing remark about how he’d also snagged some UFO documents, Internet speculation lit the room like coast-to-coast Christmas trees. De Void suspected if Assange had any decent UFO dish he would’ve dropped the bomb out of the gate. But what the hell — the clamor was kinda fun to monitor, and who knew, maybe the guy had an ace up his sleeve after all.
But the beer wagon clipped the fire hydrant last week when Tallahassee’s Paul Robinson discovered Wiki’s skimpy UFO stuff on a Norwegian news page. The results, which he posted Friday at Grant Cameron’s Presidents UFO Website, were hopelessly pedestrian.
One intercepted cable from 20 02 recounted claims by the Raelian UFO sect that it had successfully cloned a 7-pound baby girl.
Another summarized the short-lived Japanese cabinet debate on UFOs in 2007.
A third mentioned that a UFO abductee predicted in 2006 how a tsunami would swamp Casablanca.
The final dispatch was a five-sentence statement from the Belarus KGB chairman about its lack of involvement with paranormal phenomena (in toto):
“Unlike during the USSR, the department is not engaged in studying paranormal phenomena. [Back then] we had greater means and opportunities which we could spend on anything and everything. Today the situation is different. Then, when society was excited by something, it entered our sphere of interest. But when it comes to healers, UFOs and such, we just can´t deal with them any more.”
Given the month-long hype, Cameron figured the reality check might rate at least a fraction of the pre-release publicity. Instead, the only next-day coverage he could find on this lusterless revelation came from “exopolitician” Michael Salla. When it comes to UFOs, Salla’s glass is always half full. “Wikileaks cable,” he announced in a headline, “confirms extensive Soviet UFO investigations.”
But Salla’s good vibes went up the same day U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was gunned down in Arizona, and of course by then, the collective attention span had swiveled elsewhere. By Sunday, clinical hypnotherapist Dr. Richard Boylan had conducted an “energy signature reading” on the Tucson tragedy, which afforded him the sort of clarity currently eluding everyone else.
“Was this assassination event,” he wondered in an e-mail blast, “a desperate attempt by the Cabal to distract the U.S. Administration from its plan to begin formal consultations with Star Nations and begin a series of Public Acknowledgements of UFO reality.” Well, we all know the answer to that. “Efforts have been quietly going on to move the U.S. Administration to begin such Public Acknowledgements,” Boylan went on. “There were some subtle signs of progress in this matter. Then the Tucson massacre took place and put such efforts on hold while this assassination crisis gets sorted out.”
Boylan’s resume lists him as past president of the Sacramento Valley Psychological Association and the founder of the Star Seeds Project to work with human-alien hybrid children. He described 9-year-old shooting victim Christina Taylor Green as “our Star Kid martyr.”
So yeah, between viral speculation about UFOs slaughtering birds and the MSM linking Tucson shooter Jared Loughner to UFOs, the new year is off to a bangup start. Grant Cameron could’ve screamed his brains out on the phone and it would’ve been OK with De Void. Instead, the Canadian researcher who spilled the Wiki beans in North America sounded like a guy who’s worn out from trying to get mules to climb trees.
“I was shocked that there was no reaction to the article at all. Nobody picked up on it,” Cameron says from his home in Winnipeg. “People seem to be interested, but it doesn’t have any impact. A lot of people in ufology really don’t care about anything but the midway act, the freak show.”
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/11493/speculation-trumps-news-as-usual/?pa=all&tc=pgall
Devoid
Speculation trumps news, as usual
by Billy Cox
January 13th, 2011 12:42pm
From the moment in early December that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a coy passing remark about how he’d also snagged some UFO documents, Internet speculation lit the room like coast-to-coast Christmas trees. De Void suspected if Assange had any decent UFO dish he would’ve dropped the bomb out of the gate. But what the hell — the clamor was kinda fun to monitor, and who knew, maybe the guy had an ace up his sleeve after all.
But the beer wagon clipped the fire hydrant last week when Tallahassee’s Paul Robinson discovered Wiki’s skimpy UFO stuff on a Norwegian news page. The results, which he posted Friday at Grant Cameron’s Presidents UFO Website, were hopelessly pedestrian.
One intercepted cable from 20 02 recounted claims by the Raelian UFO sect that it had successfully cloned a 7-pound baby girl.
Another summarized the short-lived Japanese cabinet debate on UFOs in 2007.
A third mentioned that a UFO abductee predicted in 2006 how a tsunami would swamp Casablanca.
The final dispatch was a five-sentence statement from the Belarus KGB chairman about its lack of involvement with paranormal phenomena (in toto):
“Unlike during the USSR, the department is not engaged in studying paranormal phenomena. [Back then] we had greater means and opportunities which we could spend on anything and everything. Today the situation is different. Then, when society was excited by something, it entered our sphere of interest. But when it comes to healers, UFOs and such, we just can´t deal with them any more.”
Given the month-long hype, Cameron figured the reality check might rate at least a fraction of the pre-release publicity. Instead, the only next-day coverage he could find on this lusterless revelation came from “exopolitician” Michael Salla. When it comes to UFOs, Salla’s glass is always half full. “Wikileaks cable,” he announced in a headline, “confirms extensive Soviet UFO investigations.”
But Salla’s good vibes went up the same day U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was gunned down in Arizona, and of course by then, the collective attention span had swiveled elsewhere. By Sunday, clinical hypnotherapist Dr. Richard Boylan had conducted an “energy signature reading” on the Tucson tragedy, which afforded him the sort of clarity currently eluding everyone else.
“Was this assassination event,” he wondered in an e-mail blast, “a desperate attempt by the Cabal to distract the U.S. Administration from its plan to begin formal consultations with Star Nations and begin a series of Public Acknowledgements of UFO reality.” Well, we all know the answer to that. “Efforts have been quietly going on to move the U.S. Administration to begin such Public Acknowledgements,” Boylan went on. “There were some subtle signs of progress in this matter. Then the Tucson massacre took place and put such efforts on hold while this assassination crisis gets sorted out.”
Boylan’s resume lists him as past president of the Sacramento Valley Psychological Association and the founder of the Star Seeds Project to work with human-alien hybrid children. He described 9-year-old shooting victim Christina Taylor Green as “our Star Kid martyr.”
So yeah, between viral speculation about UFOs slaughtering birds and the MSM linking Tucson shooter Jared Loughner to UFOs, the new year is off to a bangup start. Grant Cameron could’ve screamed his brains out on the phone and it would’ve been OK with De Void. Instead, the Canadian researcher who spilled the Wiki beans in North America sounded like a guy who’s worn out from trying to get mules to climb trees.
“I was shocked that there was no reaction to the article at all. Nobody picked up on it,” Cameron says from his home in Winnipeg. “People seem to be interested, but it doesn’t have any impact. A lot of people in ufology really don’t care about anything but the midway act, the freak show.”
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