Saturday, April 30, 2011

Every intersection on Broadway in 45 seconds: Adam Abada's "NYC Arithmetic"

Adam Abada is an NYC filmmaker and artist.  He shot this 45 second video of every intersection from The Battery up to 220th on Broadway, using a skateboard and Flipcam.  Check out his website here.

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Friday, April 29, 2011

Technical Difficulties: Endeavor shuttle launch postponed. With space music by Lou Reed and David Bowie

 

By Jack Brummet,
Extraterrestrial Affairs Editor

NASA this morning delayed the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour for at least two days because of a technical problem.
 

This is a bit of a sad launch, since it is our last scheduled one.  For the foreseeable future, any astronauts we send up will be hitching a ride with the Russians, or on one of the several private space vehicles soon to be deployed.

In honor of this final launch, a video of my favorite astronaut song -- David Bowie's Space Oddity.


And then, there's Lou Reed's great tune Satellite Of Love:


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Alien Lore No. 203 - UFO lightships around Delaware PA, October, 2010

By Mona Goldwater, Visitors Editor


This is a video clip of a massive UFO sighting near Delaware, PA on October 23, 2010.  The video mentions these sightings may be linked the the large wave of sightings around the world in the last year, including Manhattan, El Paso Texas, Washington D.C., Moscow, and Cincinnati, Ohio. . .


Thanks to Jeff Clinton for passing this along.





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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Faces No. 205 - Sixteen sketches by Jack Brummet

Sixteen sketches by Jack Brummet - click individual images to enlarge; right click to save or set as your background.


















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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Donald Trump takes credit for Obama birth certificate release and immediately demands his college grades

By Jack Brummet,
Unexplained Phenomena Editor

This is a quick follow up to Pablo Fanque's post this morning on the birth certificate release and Obama press conference (read it here:  "We do not have time for this kind of silliness": President Obama releases long form birth certificate, Donald Trump takes credit).

Trump, on the stump in New Hampshire, told reporters this morning--after taking credit for the release of President Obama's birth certificate (“Today, I’m very proud of myself because I accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish")--that BHO should now also release his college transcripts!

“The word is, according to what I’ve read, that he was a terrible student when he went to Occidental,” Trump told reporters covering him. “He then gets to Columbia; he then gets to Harvard. … How do you get into Harvard if you're not a good student? Now, maybe that’s right, or maybe it’s wrong. But I don’t know why he doesn’t release his records.”

“Everyone says he was this great student. Well, if he was, that’s great, and if he wasn’t, that’s great,” he said.
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"We do not have time for this kind of silliness": President Obama releases long form birth certificate, Donald Trump takes credit

By Pablo Fanque
National Affairs Editor


The White House released President Obama's long-form birth certificate to the press this morning, and a somewhat pissed-off/frustrated/exasperated President took some time to speak to the assembled pack of reporters.

This may well cool the jets of the press who have joyfully kept fanning the flames of this story.  But, alas, I don't think it will slow down the Birther-Republican-Tea Party.  Yes, most elected officials will drop it now, but the wingnuts will never be happy until BHO is out of office, one way or the other.

It will be interesting to see how Donald Trump handles this new evidence, and whether or not he will keep beating the dead horse (see illustration at the end of this article).  Our money is on The Donald not standing down, and in fact, we think this will lead to him cranking up his flimsy act.  For the moment, he is taking the high road, telling reporters:

“I am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role in hopefully getting rid of this issue.” - Donald Trump in New Hampshire this morning



Transcipt of Obama Press Conference:

Hello, everybody. Now let me just comment, first of all, on the fact that I can't get the networks to break in on all kinds of other discussions. I was just back there listening to Chuck. He was saying, "It's amazing that he's not going to be talking about national security."

I would not have the networks breaking in if I was talking about that, Chuck, and you know it.

As many of you have been briefed, we provided additional information today about the site of my birth.

Now, this issue has been going on for two, two and a half years now. I think it started during the campaign. And I have to say that over the last two and a half years I have watched with bemusement, I have been puzzled at the degree to which this thing just kept on going.

We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii August 4th, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital. We've posted the certification that is given by the state of Hawaii on the Internet for everybody to see. People have provided affidavits that they, in fact, have seen this birth certificate.

And yet this thing just keeps on going.

Now, normally, I would not comment on something like this, because, obviously, there's a lot of stuff swirling in the press at any given day and I've got other things to do.

But two weeks ago, when the Republican House had put forward a budget that will have huge consequences potentially to the country, and when I gave a speech about my budget and how I felt that we needed to invest in education and infrastructure and making sure that we had a strong safety net for our seniors even as we were closing the deficit, during that entire week, the dominant news story wasn't about these huge, monumental choices that we're going to have to make as a nation, it was about my birth certificate. And that was true on most of the news outlets that were represented here.

And so I just want to make a larger point here. We've got some enormous challenges out there. There are a lot of folks out there who are still looking for work. Everybody is still suffering under high gas prices. We're going to have to make a series of very difficult decisions about how we invest in our future, but also get a hold of our deficit and our debt -- how do we do that in a balanced way.

And this is going to generate huge and serious debates, important debates. And there are going to be some fierce disagreements. And that's good; that's how democracy is supposed to work.

And I'm confident that the American people and America's political leaders can come together in a bipartisan way and solve these problems. We always have.

But we're not going to be able to do it if we are distracted. We're not going to be able to do it if we spend time vilifying each other.

We're not going to be able to do it if we just make stuff up and pretend that facts are not facts. We're not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers.

We live in a serious time right now, and we have the potential to deal with the issues that we confront in a way that will make our kids and our grandkids and our great grandkids proud. And I have every confidence that America in the 21st century is going to be able to come out on top just like we always have. But we're going to have to get serious to do it.

Now, I know that there's going to be a segment of people for which, no matter what we put out, this issue will not be put to rest. But I'm speaking to the vast majority of the American people, as well as to the press.

We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We've got better stuff to do. I've got better stuff to do. We got big problems to solve, and I'm confident we can solve them, but we're going to have to focus on them, not on this.

Thanks very much, everybody.


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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Kids Don't Stand a Chance: a new blog from Wisconsin you should check out



This is a note from my friend Jason Hack in Wisconsin, who is rolling out a new blog with a fellow (ex) teacher.  Check it out here.  He wrote:

"Many teachers (including myself) have been laid-off by our school district. A friend and I have recently decided to chronicle what it is like for a school, its teachers, and its students moving into an unknown future.


"It is meant to inform and entertain. We're going to keep it as lighthearted as is possible. No trashing the district we work for or the union. Rather, we are bringing awareness and insight into what it is to be a teacher during such times and what the effects of the systematic privatization of education will mean for Wisconsin, and the United States.


"Please, pass on the link to this blog to your friends, coworkers, family, strangers or whoever you'd like. We greatly appreciate it."


All the best,


Jason George
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Faces No. 204: Six Sketches






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Poem: The Stink-eye

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Monday, April 25, 2011

Alien Lore No. 202 - Dolan & Zabel on UFO Disclosure: "There is going to be blowback beyond belief:"

By Jack Brummet Alien Lore and Unexplained Phenomena Editor



"A.D. After Disclosure: The People's Guide to Life After Contact" is a new book about what happens after the powers-that-be acknowledge ET/UFO reality after sixty years of concealing and obscuring the truth. 

The book is written by Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel.  A.D. is a work of "speculative non-fiction," published by Keyhole Publishing.  In the video clip below, Dolan and Zabel discuss many of the concepts they touch on in their book.  Zabel was also a creator of the prescient show Dark Skies that we have written about on All This Is That numerous times.

This is a fascinating video of speculation on the long-standing question--not "what if?" but "when."



See also:

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

John Berryman's Dream Song 64


Dream Song 64
by John Berryman


Supreme my holdings, greater yet my need,
thoughtless I go out. Dawn. Have I my cig's,
my flaskie O,
O crystal cock,—my kneel has gone to seed,—
and anybody's blessing? (Blast the MIGs
for making funble so

my tardy readying.) Yes, utter' that.
Anybody's blessing? —Mr Bones,
you makes too much
démand. I might be 'fording you a hat:
it gonna rain. —I knew a one of groans
& greed & spite, of a crutch,

who thought he had, a vile night, been-well-blest.
He see someone run off. Why not Henry,
with his grasp of desire?
—Hear matters hard to manage at de best,
Mr Bones. Tween what we see, what be,
is blinds. Them blinds' on fire.
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Photos from Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. 4/22-4/25 2011

Photos from a quick trip with Claire and Keelin to Harrison Hot Springs and Chilliwack, British Columbia.  Alas, we didn't see any Sasquatch, but had a great time soaking in the hot springs, hiking, and dining out and drinking wine. 

We also watched one of the worst movies I have ever seen:  Trapped in Paradise (1994).  Interestingly, it doesn't even appear on several of the ten worst Nicholas Cage movie pages; it was No. 6 on a Dana Carvey list.  It was really bad, but it was there in the cabin, and for some reason, Claire and I watched the whole thing...






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Saturday, April 23, 2011

The best customer service reply, ever: "Hammertime lovemaking session"

I lost track of where I found this, but it has to be one of the best customer service letters ever.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Friday, April 22, 2011

Alien Lore No. 201 - Was JFK killed because of his interest in aliens?


By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore & Unexplained Phenomena Editor


thanks to Jeff Clinton for the news tip...

Was JFK assassinated because of his interest in aliens? [1] A recently released memo shows that The President asked to see UFO files 10 days before death.   This very scenario was a central part and key plot element of one of my favorite TV shows of all time, the great series Dark Skies by Bryce Zabel.  In Dark Skies, JFK was assassinated after demanding to see Majestic's files on the Roswell "incident."

A letter written by President Kennedy to the head of the CIA shows that the president demanded to be shown confidential documents a week before before his assassination.  The memo is one of two letters written by JFK asking for information about the paranormal on November 12, 1963.[2]  These letters have been released by the CIA for the first time.   Of course, the CIA may have its own reasons for this.  Many of the JFK conspiracy people have pointed a finger at the Central Intelligence Agency ever since the day he was assassinated.


Author William Lester said the CIA released the documents to him under a Freedom of Information Act request he made as he researched his new book 'A Celebration of Freedom: JFK and the New Frontier.'   Alien researchers say the latest documents add weight to earlier suggestions that JFK was shot to prevent him discovering the truth about UFOs, and an alien invasion that may have already been underway.

As a sidenote, after he became President, Bill Clinton asked his Assistant Attorney General, Webster Hubbell, to investigate two things. “One, who killed JFK? And two, are there UFOs?” Bryce Zabel writes on the website After Disclosure about Bill Clinton's request:  "Clinton may not have realized how closely the two questions may have been connected." [3]

Zabel also said "The Kennedy assassination is something like Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Everyone had a motive: the Mafia, the CIA, the Cubans, the Pentagon, the Soviets, and the Federal Reserve, for starters. Could that list also include Majestic Twelve, the name often ascribed to the powerful insiders who control the UFO secret?


"My answer to that question is, why not?
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[1] As many JFK conspiracy theorists have pointed out--although they admittedly generally have their one pet theory--everyone had a motive.  


[2] JFK researcher Professor Lawrence Merrick, author of an upcoming blockbuster book Killing the Messenger: The Death of JFK, writes that JFK planned to give a speech that began "Citizens of this Earth, we are not alone."  John F. Kennedy planned to inform the American public and the world at large that the U.S. government had made contact with aliens from deep space.

[3]  This is not new information.  One website wrote about a JFK-UFO link as early as 2003 (there are probably other earlier references in books and on the web).  Conspiracies That Parallax: JFK’s Assassination & UFO Alien Abductions
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John Berryman's Dream Song 29





















Dream Song 29
by John Berryman

There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart
só heavy, if he had a hundred years
& more, & weeping, sleepless, in all them time
Henry could not make good.
Starts again always in Henry’s ears
the little cough somewhere, an odour, a chime.

And there is another thing he has in mind
like a grave Sienese face a thousand years
would fail to blur the still profiled reproach of. Ghastly,
with open eyes, he attends, blind.
All the bells say: too late. This is not for tears;
thinking.


But never did Henry, as he thought he did,
end anyone and hacks her body up
and hide the pieces, where they may be found.
He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody’s missing.
Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up.
Nobody is ever missing.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Faces No. 203 - Vocational School Faculty

Drawing  by Jack Brummet

[Pen and ink on 24x24" raw muslin surplus hospital drawcloth...I bought 300 of these from Archie McPhee in Seattle.  They acquired many palette loads of these that had been sitting, folded, five to a wrapped pack, in a warehouse for decades]



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Alien Lore No. 200 - Dead alien found in Russian UFO hotspot (with video)

By Jack Brummet, Paranormal and Unexplained Phenomena Editor

Thanks to Jeff Clinton, as always, for another great UFO/Grey tip.

This clip was posted recently on YouTube by All News Web "The World's Only Inter-Galactic Daily News Service."  The video shows two Russian men walking up to, and videotaping, what seems to be the body of a Grey.  They say they discovered the decomposed  body  near Irkutsk,  north of the Mongolian border. This clip has become a mega-hit on YouTube, with more than 1.7 million views in a couple of days.

 







All News Web's Michael Cohen wrote that Irkutsk residents witnessed a UFO crashing into the forest, but--natch--though the event was "deliberately kept from public view" in the West. 

"An enormous team of government officials, including military personal, secret service agents and science ministry officials made their way to the UFO crash site within hours of the event occurring," Cohen wrote.



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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The horses are becoming spooked: Donald Trump is no longer a joke to pundits and serious Republicans.

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor


It's clear from what the Republicans and various analysts and pundits are saying that they are becoming spooked. The Donald has the potential to be at the least a Nader-style spoiler or even a snag the nomination from someone with at least a remote change of competing. 

The thing about Trump is that he believes his own shtick so deeply that he may be able to convince himself to toss in a few hundred million and actually run. He could be a serious threat....what blows people out of the water is when their cash dries up. And then, he's been making plenty of overtures to the tea party and birthers who are very capable of ignoring reason, logic, and the rule of law, and actually buying into his misguided stands, twisted economics, and ethical gibberish. 
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Alien Lore No. 199 - The FBI/Air Force/National Archive Project Bluebook Files and Freedom of Information Act requests

By Jack Brummet, Paranormal and Unexplained Phenomena Editor


In 1969, The United States Air Force closed down its research into unidentified flying objects (Code named Project Bluebook).  The National Archives now handles the Freedom of Information Act requests that come from UFOlogists.  The National Archives has a standard line for the many requests they receive for information related to the Roswell UFO crash: 

"The National Archives has been unable to locate any documentation among the Project BLUE BOOK records which discuss the 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico."

The official line is that the Air Force research did not locate or at least disclose any information that the "Roswell Incident," as they like to call it,  was a UFO event nor was there any indication of a "cover-up" by the Government. Information obtained through exhaustive records searches and interviews indicated that the materials recovered near Roswell was consistent with a balloon devise of the type used in a then classified project. No records indicated or even hinted that the recovery of "alien" bodies or extraterrestrial materials. 



The National Archives has little to offer UFO researchers other than official reports, a few documents, and the studies by the University of Colorado that led to the abandonment of the Bluebook project. Since the FOIA became law, researchers have prodded and poked, and come up with bupkus.  The following documents show a researcher trying to get William S. Sessions, director of the FBI, to dig a little deeper.  The researchers well-realized--as the letters show--that they surmise that anything of real substance about Roswell, UFOs, or Aliens probably never actually got to Project Bluebook, and instead went to other government agencies that have managed to keep any substantial information out of the public eye.




The following US Air Force Fact Sheet was distributed by Wright-Patterson AFB in January 1985.

United States Air Force
Public Affairs Division,
Wright-Patterson AFB,
Ohio 45433

UFOs & PROJECT BLUE BOOK

"On December 17, 1969, the Secretary of the Air Force announced the termination of Project BLUE BOOK, the Air Force program for the investigation of UFOS.


"From 1947 to 1969, a total of 12, 618 sightings were reported to Project BLUE BOOK. Of these 701 remain "Unidentified." The project was headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, whose personnel no longer receive, document or investigate UFO reports.


"The decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based on an evaluation of a report prepared by the University of Colorado entitled, "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;" a review of the University of Colorado's report by the National Academy of Sciences; past UFO studies and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during the 40s, '50s, and '60s.


"As a result of these investigations and studies and experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions of Project BLUE BOOK are:(1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security;(2) there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and(3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles.


"With the termination of Project BLUE BOOK, the Air Force regulations establishing and controlling the program for investigating and analyzing UFOs were rescinded. Documentation regarding the former BLUE BOOK investigation has been permanently transferred to the Military Reference Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC 20408, and is available for public review and analysis.


"Since Project BLUE BOOK was closed, nothing has happened to indicate that the Air Force ought to resume investigating UFOS. Because of the considerable cost to the Air Force in the past, and the tight funding of Air Force needs today, there is no likelihood the Air Force will become involved with UFO investigation again.


"There are a number of universities and professional scientific organizations, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which have considered UFO phenomena during periodic meetings and seminars. In addition, a list of private organizations interested in aerial phenomena my be found in Gayle's Encyclopedia of Associations (edition 8, vol-. 1, pp. 432-433). Such timely review of the situation by private groups ensures that sound evidence will not be overlooked by the scientific community.


"A person calling the base to report a UFO is advised to contact a private or professional organization (as mentioned above) or to contact a local law enforcement agency if the caller feels his or public safety is endangered.


"Periodically, it is erroneously stated that the remains of extraterrestrial visitors are or have been stored at Wright-Patterson AFB. There are not now nor ever have been, any extraterrestrial visitors or equipment on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base."








































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