My wife and I made the trip to the National Museum of Nuclear Science and Industry on a lovely Sunday morning in late October, 2012. The new facility was already a noticeable improvement from our last visit to the museum many years ago. That was pre-911 days, when it was still located in a musty […]
Bring up the subject of UFOs in mixed company and you’re likely to get one of the following reactions: sarcastic eye-rolling or a silent, vacant stare. The reality of unidentified flying objects is universally derided in the mainstream media as unworthy of serious consideration. Very little news coverage regarding UFOs is rational, intelligent or balanced, […]
Wright-Patterson AFB is known among UFO researchers as the home of the infamous Project Blue Book, and because of its connection with the Roswell UFO incident. Some believe that the enigmatic Hangar 18, assigned to the Air Force’s Foreign Technology Division located at Wright-Patterson contains, or once contained, wreckage of a crashed UFO. In March […]
Introduction At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazi war criminals and collaborators from Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Belgium, Holland and France fled Europe and escaped prosecution for crimes against humanity, including genocide. Many high-ranking Nazi leaders such as Adolf Eichmann, Vice-Chancellor of Germany Martin Bormann, Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death” Josef Mengele, Heinrich […]
At the end of hostilities in Europe, the continent was in complete disarray. Critical infrastructure had been totally destroyed and millions of displaced people roamed the streets. Tens of thousands of prisoners of war had to be processed. Cracks in the tentative alliance between the allies and the Soviet Union were already beginning to show. […]
Rock music has always inspired a certain outlaw mentality, along with a healthy disrespect for authority and social norms. Since its beginnings in the mid- 1950’s, rock and roll music in particular has become synonymous with terms like ‘rebellion’ and ‘revolution‘. Rock music has been a powerful force behind actual social change as well, and […]
“Culture jamming” is the process through which a familiar media image or concept is co-opted, deconstructed, demystified and turned against itself. I recently read four articles dealing with various aspects of supposedly “fake news” shows such as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TDS) and The Colbert Report. Both are hugely popular satirical TV news […]
Over the Winter I read an excellent book by Charles Derber called Sociopathic Society. Derber is a well-known professor of sociology at Boston College and the author of several books. He is recognized as one of the most astute social critics of our time. In his book, Derber warns readers that an empire based on […]
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