-Caveat Lector- DISPATCH # 108 -- the weekly newsletter of ParaScope S O M E T H I N G S T R A N G E I S H A P P E N I N G 5/18/99 "Something Strange Is Happening...Or Is It?" That was the subject header of an email we received recently from a faithful reader, who expressed his unhappiness over the absence of ParaScope's weekly email newsletter. We apologize for the ParaScope Dispatch gap, but rest assured we'll be back on a solid weekly schedule starting... now! ----------------------- Quotes of the Week "Fear will keep the local systems in line." --Grand Moff Tarkin "May the Force be with us." --Admiral Ackbar ----------------------- The ParaStore Is Open for Business: NOW 100% Star Wars Free!! You'll find not a single fake wookie turd, no Princess Leia panty liners, a total lack of Jar Jar Binks denture adhesive and absolutely no Mace Windu medicated boil cream in our ParaStore. In fact, the entire store is 100% free of Star Wars merchandise. (Unless you count that Lando Calrissian Commemorative Colt 45 Beer Cozy, which we're still fighting with the LucasFilm lawyers over.) But what you will find is an unbeatable mix of original ParaScope merchandise including our InTERRORgation reprint of the CIA's torture manual to our very own Chupacabra T-shirt! Beyond that, we also feature the best collection of books, videos and other brain-feeding media online anywhere. With a mouse and a major credit card, you're just minutes away from owning the ParaGoods you've always wanted, and that's no Jedi mind trick! ----------------------- Rant of the Week: “Ain't Got Time For Pokemon Mind Control” Every week we pick the wackiest, scariest, nastiest or funniest rant from the deluge of letters received by us here at ParaScope headquarters, and present it to you as our Rant of the Week. This week, “Jana Janus” provides a compelling argument, including quoting the Talking Heads, in an effort to convince us all that Pokemon is mind control. Enjoy. "The Reptile Report #0003-051499 Pokeman Is Mind Control "Please forward to all psychiatrists and psychologists. Thank you. "It took me LESS THAN TWO HOURS OF MY LIFE to discover that the AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION and the AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ARE TOTAL, COMPLETE AND ABSOLUTE FRAUDS! All I had to do was LISTEN TO AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD TALKING ABOUT POKEMAN FOR LESS THAN THIRTY MINUTES and WATCH ONE HOUR’S WORTH OF THE PROGRAM! THAT’S IT! "Two nights ago I GUARDED two children while their mother went to an AA meeting. Among other things the little boy shared his collection of “Pokeman” cards with me. I had never heard of “Pokeman” before so I ASKED him to tell me about it. What he had to say was SO COMPLICATED, SO FOREIGN, SO BIZARRE that I made an appointment with him to watch the show with him the following day which was yesterday. I went to his house at 3:30 and watched my first episode. The boy provided a running interpretation of what was going on. Even then I could hardly keep track of the cast of characters which totals over ONE THOUSAND! In addition, some characters EVOLVE through as many as THREE STAGES. "The pace is SUPERSONIC. The dialogue at times sounds EXACTLY LIKE JAPANESE! When the young boy talked about it at times I thought he was SPEAKING JAPANESE! "In answer to one question I asked about what was going on he replied, “They miss their owners.” I DID NOT SEE OR HEAR ANYTHING THAT WOULD HAVE MADE ME THINK THAT. When I asked him a further question about “owners” he clarified that they were “trainers”. TRAINERS! "Between the two episodes a “humanoid” announcer was talking and between him and the camera a “fan” kept the image of him FLASHING! "In the second episode the greatest achievement is to become a POKEMAN BREEDER! "Some time before the young boy apparently RECEIVED HIS PASSWORD and went to the store and bought his “ball” with some things in it. HE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO TELL HIS PASSWORD. "I do not need to look any farther to know what this program is all about. IT IS MIND CONTROL. THIS IS HOW THE REPTILES ARE ATTACKING OUR CHILDREN. "I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION AND THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ARE IN THIS. How do I know? It’s so SIMPLE! If I were the head of either one of these organizations I would be as a HUMAN HURRICANE demanding that this be STOPPED IMMEDIATELY. It is DESTROYING OUR CHILDREN. IT IS RAPING THEIR MINDS AND TURNING THEM INTO REMOTE CONTROLLED UNITS. Since neither of the APA’s, as powerful as they are, have LIFTED ONE FINGER TO PUT A STOP TO THIS THEY ARE IN CAHOOTS WITH THE COLD-BLOODED REPTILES THAT ARE BEHIND THIS. I would say they have HELPED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN AND THEY ARE GETTING RICH FROM THE SUFFERING OF THESE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES. "THERE IS NOTHING MORE REPULSIVE THAN THIS. EVEN AN OLD AIRPORT OUTHOUSE IN SIBERIA IS CLEANER THAN THE MEMBERS OF THE APA’S. "CHILDREN ARE BEING TAKEN OVER WHILE THEIR BODY SITS IN FRONT OF THE TELEVISION SET. "I have told you many times in the past. YOUR TELEVISION SET IS YOUR OWN PRIVATE SATANIC ALTAR RIGHT IN YOUR OWN HOME. YOU ARE FORCING YOUR CHILDREN TO WORSHIP SATAN. THE NEW WORLD ORDER IS SATANIC. "The NWO PLAN WAS TO STEAL EVERY CHILD’S MIND AND TURN THEM INTO MIND CONTROLLED SLAVES OF EVERY KIND. For example, the Columbine high school black trenchcoat murderers and the JonBenet Ramsey snuff film (remember she was MURDERED on CHRISTMAS). This is their SPECIAL BRAND OF ENTERTAINMENT. It's called THE SACRIFICE OF THE INNOCENT ONES. READ LEVITICUS. IT'S ALL THERE. "THIS IS REPTILE ACTIVITY ON THE MEAN PLANET. "WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP! “This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around No time for dancing, or lovey dovey, I ain't got time for that now...” --Talking Heads “Life During Wartime” Stop Making Sense "YES, STOP TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OUT OF ALL THIS. “YOU AINT’ GOT TIME FOR THAT NOW...” "Jana Janus Omnipresent On The Mean Planet" ------ All rants are printed “as is,” with spelling and grammar goofs left uncorrected. Some rants may be edited for brevity or clarity, to the extent such a thing is possible. If you’ve got a rant you’d like to share, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with “possible rant” in the subject line of your letter. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Coming Up Soon on ParaScope! Catch a number of great stories this week on the ParaScope web site, including regular updates to our Conspiracy Newsline, UFO Roundup and Daily Dose features. Among the articles you'll want to check out: ParaScope Newsline http://www.parascope.com/articles/cnews/index.htm We've been rethinking various aspects of our site lately, trying to find better ways of delivering information to our readers and to the Internet at large. For that reason, you'll be seeing a lot of changes around the site in the coming weeks, as we redesign our site features, articles and index pages. One of the biggest changes has been the morphing of two popular ParaScope features into one: "Today in ParaHistory" and "Conspiracy Newsline" have been incorporated into a little thing we call the "ParaScope Newsline." You can also check out the Weblink of the Day, read the Quote of the Day and help effect change through positive action with the Newsline Action Alerts. Check it out, and let us know what you think! Also in the Newsline, we are currently posting letters written by Serbian cartoonist Sasa Rakezic, also known as Aleksander Zograf, the underground comic artist who created "Alas!", "Life Under Sanctions" and "Psychonaut." Sasa has witnessed the NATO assaults on Yugoslavia first-hand in his hometown, Pancevo. Sasa is staying in contact with the international alternative comics community via email, posting his reports posted here to the Comix Discussion List, a forum linking alternative comics creators, fans, scholars and publishers worldwide. Amidst the propagandistic babble of non-facts and the glorification of mechanized death which spews unabated from the U.S. media, Sasa's reports present a much more human view of the war, with more actual hard facts than you'll find in most mainstream news reports. Check it out to find out how NATO's relentless bombings are affecting the lives of the ordinary people of Yugoslavia. -------------- InTERRORgation: The CIA's Secret Manual on Coercive Questioning Second Printing Hot Off the Press When we originally obtained a copy of the CIA's 1963 "Counterintelligence Interrogation" manual, we knew it was a document that needed to be disseminated far and wide. Having no idea whether there would even be any demand for such a publication, we printed up a verbatim transcript of the entire document in magazine format, crossed our fingers, and sent out a few flyers to bookstores and distributors. The response was unexpectedly strong, and we moved the entire first print run within two years. The second printing is now available at $5.95 per copy plus $1.50 shipping and handling. To order a copy with using your credit card, go to <http://www.parascope.com/interrorgation/index.htm>. You can also order via check or money order payable to ParaScope; send it to our editorial operations office at 1430 Willamette #329, Eugene, OR 97401. -------------- ParaScope Magazine: Coming Soon! That's right, ParaScope is going to press with a real-life, paper-and-ink print magazine. "ParaScope Dispatch One: The Special Weapons Issue" will be a 96-page compendium of some of our best work, presented in an eye-popping 10" x 13" tabloid format. Our press date was pushed back a few weeks, but June 1 is a likely candidate now, so stay tuned for more news as we monitor the development of this heathen foetus. If you'd like to take advantage of our special introductory subscription and sample copy rates, go to <http://www.parascope.com/magazine/subscribe.htm>. But do it soon, because after the magazine comes off the press, we will no longer be able to offer these special low rates. -------------- Psywar on Cuba: The Declassified History of U.S. Anti-Castro Propaganda A round of applause, please, for Dossier editor Jon Elliston, author of the recently published Ocean Press document reader "Psywar on Cuba." For the past three years, many ParaScope readers have been reading Jon's documented reports on U.S. psywar and propaganda actions directed against Cuba as part of the overall campaign to destabilize and undermine the Cuban government. "Psywar on Cuba" compiles newly declassified CIA, Pentagon and White House documents, exposing a 40-year campaign targeting the Cuban people with a barrage of overt and covert propaganda operations. The "most intensive psychological warfare campaign ever conducted" included rumor campaigns, posters, newspapers, books, comics, newsreels, leaflet drops, and radio and TV broadcasts from airplanes, blimps, boats, submarines, secluded islands and the U.S. mainland. "Psywar on Cuba" includes hundreds of pages of previously secret documents, making it a unique and stunning contribution to our understanding of U.S. foreign policy and anti-Castro covert operations. For more information, see: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1876175095/parascopeincA/ -------------- The CIA's UFO Secret http://www.parascope.com/ds/articles/ufoSecret.htm Secrets on the ground, secrets in the skies. The Central Intelligence Agency has had plenty of both. Now a declassified CIA report adds detail to the recent revelation that the government lied about early UFO reports in order to conceal overhead reconnaissance operations. Was the U-2 spy plane the CIA's real UFO secret? -------------- AURORA Photographs: Secret USAF Plane Caught in the Act? http://www.parascope.com/nb/articles/auroraPixB.htm ParaScope correspondent Alfredo Garcia recently snapped some amazing photographs of the USAF's top-secret "AURORA" aircraft. This mysterious military vehicle is purportedly propelled by a Pulse-Wave Detonation Engine, which produces loopy contrails such as those shown in Alfredo's detailed photographs. Don't miss this chance to catch a rare glimpse of the USAF's secret military hardware in action. -------------- Inside the Miami Circle (Coming Soon!) The strange saga of Florida's Native American version of Stonehenge. Enigma editor D. Trull presents an in-depth report on this fascinating Native American artifact discovered recently at a development site. Will efforts to preserve this historic site be successful? And what, indeed, is the "Miami Circle" -- a star calendar? A mystical artifact? Or just a fancy latrine? -------------- UFO Roundup http://www.parascope.com/nb/uforoundup/index.htm Get the latest UFOlogy news, sighting reports, and strange scoops on Fortean phenomena, courtesy of Joseph Trainor's UFO Roundup. Online now: Strange "Tree Circles" studied in Canada; green fireballs dazzle viewers in Ireland; UFO flap continues in southern Brazil; cops capture coyote in New York City during Blue Moon; unexplained mass animal deaths reported in the Sudan; lots more. ...All this, and much, much more! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Today in ParaScope Newsline http://www.parascope.com/articles/cnews/index.htm NATO Bombings Leading to Environmental Catastrophe in Europe The International Action Center, part of a coalition of U.S. anti-war groups, is heading a documentary mission to retrieve first-hand evidence of NATO's use of depleted uranium weapons against Yugoslavia. The group will also study the environmental impact of air strikes against chemical and pharmaceutical plants, plastics factories, refineries and other industrial targets. Depleted uranium (DU), a by-product of manufacturing America's vast nuclear arsenal, is an extremely dense metal used to reinforce large-caliber bullets and shells. The DU coating allows projectiles to penetrate armor. However, the impact produces toxic particles laden with radioactive uranium oxide. When ingested or inhaled, these particles cause a wide-range of dangerous health effects, and some researchers have linked DU to Gulf War Illness, which has plagued tens of thousands of U.S. veterans. (A-10 "Warthog" gunships fired nearly one million DU rounds during the Gulf War, and DU munitions were widely used by U.S. forces during that conflict.) The IAC delegation will be led by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and Jeremy Scahill of Pacifica Radio's program "Democracy Now" will provide daily coverage on NATO bombing targets, focusing on the long-term environmental disaster that is unfolding in Yugoslavia. NATO's industrial targets have included: -- The pharmaceutical complex in Galenika, which is the largest medicine factory in Yugoslavia, a vital civilian target. The bombing released highly toxic fumes immediately, and has severely undermined Yugoslavia's ability to provide medicine for its people. -- The petrochemical complex in Pancevo, including the Vinyl Chloride Monomer plant and the Ethylene plant. Huge quantities of chlorine, ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride monomer flowed out. "Workers at Pancevo, fearing further bombing attacks that would blow up dangerous materials, released tons of ethylene dichloride, a carcinogen, into the Danube," said IAC co-director Sara Flounders. -- HIP-AZOTARA Fertilizer Company's Ammonia and Power Supply divisions. A May 7 news release from the Worldwide Fund for Nature warned that an environmental crisis is looming in the lower Danube river and the Black Sea due to oil slicks. Ten million people get their drinking water from the Danube. "Of course NATO bombing is also the cause of immediate human suffering in Yugoslavia," Flounders said, "but we don't want to neglect its long-term criminal impact on the environment." In an open letter from Belgrade, the Yugoslav minister of agriculture, Nedelijko Sipovac, wrote in early May that these bombings have caused ecological catastrophe "not only on the territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia but on the territories of all Balkan, Danube basin, Mediterranean and European countries as well." Sipovac noted an increase in radioactivity, which he attributed to the use of depleted uranium bullets. The IAC is helping to organize a national demonstration against the war on Saturday, June 5, at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The protest is expected to draw tens of thousands of people. For more information on this upcoming event, contact: International Action Center 39 West 14 St., #206, New York, NY 10011 (212) 633-6646 fax: (212) 633-2889 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iacenter.org For more information on the hazards of DU, read the book "Metal of Dishonor--Depleted Uranium": http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0965691608/parascopeincA/ See also the ParaScope report "Nukes of the Gulf War," by John Shirley, at: http://www.parascope.com/articles/0197/gulfnuke.htm -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ UFO Roundup Edited by Joseph Trainor, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.parascope.com/nb/uforoundup/index.htm UFOs Sighted in Unionville and Fairgrove, Michigan Two small towns in "the Thumb" of Michigan were the focus of UFO activity Tuesday night, March 16, 1999. "Adiel DeBoever said he was the first to call Tuscola County Central Dispatch around 8:30 p.m. March 16 just after he spotted the lights in the sky hovering over his home." "DeBoever said this is the first time he's seen lights like this. He said they were bright orange in color and looked to be shining from the inside of an object." "'The lights weren't like a spotlight shining down from the sky, but they were very noticeable,' he said." The sightings took place in Unionville, Michigan (population 590), a town on Highway 138 about 113 miles (181 kilometers) north of Detroit. "The sighting by DeBoever was just one of five reports that night by area residents who say they saw an unidentified flying object." "DeBoever, who lives on Cottage Drive near Unionville, said the lights all blinked out of sight and then came back on." "DeBoever thinks as far as distance, the lights probably were over half a mile away to the east, just above a Department of Natural Resources (DNR) wetland when he saw them." "'They spread out the entire length of a football field. There were two sets of lights which were bright orange. The large one could be seen further away,' he said. 'When my nephew came out of the house. I said, 'Eddie, there's a UFO in the sky.' just joking and then the lights blinked out, but came on again later.'" "Officials at Tuscola County Central Dispatch say they have no explanation for what the lights were that night... Shortly after DeBoever's call, Central Dispatch received a call at 8:57 p.m. from a Juanita township resident who reported seeing orange lights in the sky." "Just two minutes later, a Novesta township man called with another sighting. Callers from Fremont township and the Fairgrove area" (population 592), another town on Highway 138 approximately 13 miles (21 kilometers) southwest of Unionville, "followed. The callers described seeing orange lights in the shape of a football field, while the Fairgrove residents reported seeing a Z-shaped formation in the sky." "Officials from the Selfridge (Michigan) Air National Guard base said they couldn't offer any explanation about the lights in the sky and no sightings were reported to the base." However, Michigan UFOlogist Jeffrey S. Westover interviewed news reporter Jay Brandow of WNEM-TV, Channel 5, a CBS affiliate in Saginaw, Michigan. Westover wrote, "Brandow told me that Selfridge had sent two F-16s into the area" the night of the UFO sightings. (See the newspapers Marlette Leader and the Huron Daily Tribune of Bad Axe, Mich. for March 31, 1999, "Unusual sightings in the sky peak interest in The Thumb." Many thanks to Jeffrey S. Westover for forwarding the newspaper article.) Y2K: Marines, Navy Hold Martial Law Exercise in Florida Middle School On Thursday morning, March 25, 1999, platoons of U.S. Marines, Navy and Coast Guard personnel occupied the Hobbs Middle School in Pensacola, Florida (population 58,165). According to the Pensacola, Florida News-Journal, "The sleepy atmosphere that pervades the grounds was broken at Hobbs Middle School on Thursday morning by the sound of Marines, Navy and Coast Guard pilots marching through the school's halls." "While sixth graders in Lynnette Whitfield's geography class were watching CNN reports of a NATO airstrike against Yugoslavia, they heard a voice bark over the intercom, 'Military personnel, take your classrooms.'" "The mock takeover of Hobbs Middle School by pilots and flight students from Whiting Field was a way to illustrate what martial law is all about, said Lt. Troy Beshears, a Coast Guard pilot assigned to Whiting Field Naval Air Station" in Pensacola. "But once the sailors and Marines were in the classroom, their mission was to teach for a day subjects such as math, science, history and geography and give teachers a break." "'We're going for the shock value initially,' said Navy Lt. Dan Deutermann, 29, but in the classroom, we're showing the students practical applications for what they're learning.'" "Several students brought up questions about the Kosovo situation." "Seventh grader Corey Keenlan selected Yugoslavia when a Navy ensign teaching geography asked students to name their favorite European country." "One of Whitfield's students, Julie McCool, said the presence of the military personnel in her school made the news she'd been watching from Yugoslavia seem a little more real." "'I just don't want it to get much worse,' said Julie, (age) 12." "The visit is part of Whiting Field's Adopt-A-School program controlled by Breshears." All personnel participating in the "visit" were reportedly volunteers. (See the Pensacola, Florida News-Journal for March 26, 1999, story by Jenny LaCoste.) Bandleader Disappearance Solved After Fifty Years For years the famous bandleader Glenn Miller, whose plane disappeared on December 15, 1944, has been part and parcel of UFO lore. Miller, whose hit tunes of the 1940s included "In The Mood" and "Chattanooga Choo-Choo," was the subject of many unusual theories. The truth, however, is much more mundane. Miller's plane crashed as a result of a horrifying military mishap over the Channel. The night of December 15, 1944, Miller boarded a single-propellor-engine Norseman D-64, which was to fly him to Paris for a band concert. Meanwhile, a four-engine Royal Air Force Lancaster bomber -- one of the hundreds sent to Germany that night by RAF Bomber Command -- developed engine trouble over France and was granted permission to return to their base in East Anglia, UK. Aboard "M Mother" was airman/navigator Fred Shaw. Once the Lancaster was over the Channel, the pilot told the bombardier to jettison their load of 4,000-pound bombs. The bombardier hit the toggle, adding, "Bombs gone!" Shaw watched as the "stick" of bombs began their 22,000-foot drop into the sea. Then he spotted the Norseman approaching from the northwest. "I watched the plane flying south," Shaw wrote, "Around it, the sea bubbled and blustered with the exploding bombs. As each bomb burst, I could see the blast wave from it radiating outward. It was obvious the airplane was in trouble, so I watched intently." "Just before it went out of sight, I saw it flip over in what looked like a spin. Eventually I saw it disappear into the Channel." "'Dad was an aviation buff, and he knew what Miller's plane looked like,' Shaw's daughter Cheryl Fillmore tells Globe. 'He told me he saw the Norseman at exactly the same time Miller went missing.'" "The (M Mother's RAF) logbook, along with letters and photos of Shaw and his bomber crew are being auctioned this month by Sotheby's." (See the Globe for April 5, 1999, "Solved! Mystery of Glenn Miller's Death," by John Bell.) For more UFOlogy news and sighting reports from around the world, see ParaScope's edition of Joseph Trainor's UFO Roundup at: http://www.parascope.com/nb/uforoundup/index.htm Or drop by UFO Roundup's parent site at: http://ufoinfo.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Jane, Stop This Crazy Thing! Thought you were tough enough to handle the Dispatch and now you realize you're not? Starting to think you've made a wrong turn off the info highway? Well, we're only going to go over this once, so listen up! To unsubscribe yourself from Dispatch: 1) Send e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) In the body of your mail, type: unsubscribe dispatch That's all there is to it! 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