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Video: Triangular Shaped UFO - La Vega, Dominican Republic
Photos: Possible Alien Being? - Stephens County, Texas
Is FEMA Trying To Cover Up NLE 10?
Human Sacrifice Suspected In West Bengal Temple

Video: Triangular Shaped UFO - La Vega, Dominican Republic

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 03:10 PM PDT

Statement: One of the best UFO sightings ever in Dominican Republic...a triangular shaped ship stayed still over a house at night for about 10 mins everybody saw it...100s of witnesses

NOTE: Thanks to Yimmy Characoto Smolarsky for sending me the heads up on this sighting. Yimmy states: "Lon, I just got this from a friend in FB... a triangular-shape UFO over DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (a place called La Vega). This is a video recording from a TV screen. UFO was seen for almost 10 min over a house..."

Video: Triangular Shaped UFO - La Vega, Dominican Republic

Photos: Possible Alien Being? - Stephens County, Texas

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 11:30 AM PDT

My friend 'SW' got the surprise of her life while looking over images in her camera. The following is what she wrote on her blog at Phantom Universe: Spooked by a Peeping Tom. What do you think? Lon

Recently I took a photo of a summer weight bread spread my daughter had given me this past Christmas and I wanted her to see how it looked. I snapped off a couple of photos and quickly left the room, suddenly feeling 'spooked'.

For some unknown reason, I deleted one of the photos, which I rarely do. I always save my original photos and then copy to other folders for use. The one I deleted was at an angle more towards the window, the first photo I had taken. It might have shown more of what I found.

I was going through my photos several days later and my eyes were immediately drawn to the window in the photo. I did some highlighting of the whole window area and that is when what I was seeing really showed up.

The rectangular screen pull tab can be clearly seen but it is the "object" above the tab that has my attention. There were no lights outside, no moon and completely dark, except for a few lights in the distance. I live on a farm.

Now if that doesn't creep someone out, I don't know what will!

Note: I live in a rural area on a farm. There have been numerous sightings of unidentified flying objects in our area. I am also an 'experiencer' and an 'intuitive'. All my life I have been able to see, hear and/or sense things that others don't want to. We all have the ability but some of us are more willing to accept our gifts and not bury them in fear and skepticism.

I've always accepted my gifts but being chosen as a lab rat for aliens is not something I'd wish on anyone! And I certainly don't appreciate being spied upon.
-SW

Photos: Possible Alien Being? - Stephens County, Texas

Is FEMA Trying To Cover Up NLE 10?

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 08:35 AM PDT

Public Intelligence has received a request from FEMA to remove a "For Official Use Only" document regarding the National Level Exercise 2010 (NLE 10), which was scheduled for this coming May. The exercise was to be based on National Planning Scenario 1 which simulates a nuclear detonation in a U.S. city. However, recent political pressure has led to the exercise being "scaled back" according to the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor and a variety of other publications. At the behest of Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), the exercise's Nevada events have reportedly been canceled and the FEMA website now shows no mention of NLE 10.

On top of this, the Obama administration has recently been emphasizing the threat of a domestic nuclear attack. President Obama's remarks at the Nuclear Security Summit on April 13, 2010 emphasize that the threat of terrorists using nuclear weapons inside of major metropolitan cities is one of the "greatest threats" that the world faces:

Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history — the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.

Nuclear materials that could be sold or stolen and fashioned into a nuclear weapon exist in dozens of nations. Just the smallest amount of plutonium — about the size of an apple — could kill and injure hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Terrorist networks such as al Qaeda have tried to acquire the material for a nuclear weapon, and if they ever succeeded, they would surely use it. Were they to do so, it would be a catastrophe for the world — causing extraordinary loss of life, and striking a major blow to global peace and stability.

In short, it is increasingly clear that the danger of nuclear terrorism is one of the greatest threats to global security — to our collective security.

NLE 10 concerned itself with exactly this scenario: the detonation of a nuclear device inside of a U.S. city. Las Vegas was to be the epicenter of this hypothetical attack and, if the exercise utilized the same circumstances as National Planning Scenario 1, it would have involved "hundreds of thousands" of casualties, more than 300,000 refugees and ultimately more than 1 million displaced persons.

The unpopularity of such a scenario, regardless of its security benefits, is obvious. What is strange is the attempt that is now being made by FEMA to eliminate references to the exercises and remove from circulation a document that has played an important role in drawing attention to the exercise. As the state of NLE 10 is unclear at the moment, it is difficult to say whether the request is truly motivated by security or whether there is a more dubious intention.

Is FEMA Trying To Cover Up NLE 10?

Human Sacrifice Suspected In West Bengal Temple

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 07:27 AM PDT

bbc - The severed head and torso of a man has been found in a temple in the Indian state of West Bengal in what the police say is a case of "human sacrifice".

The head and the body were found at the local temple to the goddess Kali near Chotomakdampur village in the western district of Birbhum.

Police say they have detained a tribal villager for questioning.

Human sacrifice is illegal in India. But a few cases do occur in remote and underdeveloped regions.

"This man has been sacrificed to propitiate the gods," said local official Kalyan Mukherjee.

"This is a shame for Bengal where the ruling Left coalition claim they have eradicated social evils and combated superstition," an opposition leader Samir Kumar Ray said.

Though human sacrifice has long been banned in India, some people, mostly the poor and illiterate, fall under the influence of "witch doctors" in the hope of reversing their fortunes.

NOTE: where's Indiana Jones when you need him?
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Bodies Piling Up...Tibetan Sky Burials Abandoned

telegraph - The corpses are piled three-deep at Jiegu's Tibetan Buddhist monastery, perched on the mountain above the earthquake-ravaged town.

"More than a thousand bodies were brought here," said Ge Laidanzeng, a 20-year-old Tibetan lama at the monastery.

By the side of the monastery, a bright yellow hall open to the air on one side and painted with pink lotuses, was filled with corpses.

Normally used for mass rituals, this hall was the only place large enough to hold so many dead.

"Three hundred have been claimed by relatives, the others we will take care of," said the young monk.

As he spoke, a family clambered over the pile of bodies, each shrouded in cotton or tarpaulin, eventually claiming their dead mother and loading her body into a minivan.

To one side, thirty lamas chanted sutras, as they have constantly since the bodies began to arrive. More monks swathed the bodies in Tan Cheng prayer flags.

Traditionally, the dead would be given sky burials, their bodies dismembered and then scattered on the top of the mountain for vultures to eat.

"We cannot do this for them," said Ge. "There are too many for the vultures to eat."

Instead, the dead will be cremated on Saturday after a prayer service by the head of the Aka monastery, a Living Buddha.

The number of bodies at the Jiegu monastery contradicts the official death toll from Wednesday's quakes, the largest of which measured 7.1 magnitude, according to the China Earthquake bureau.

On Friday, the official death toll climbed to 760, with a further 243 people missing and 1,174 severely injured.

"I believe at least 10,000 were killed," said Ge. "There are four other monasteries collecting the dead and they are the same as us," he said. "Then there are all the people still buried. The government is playing down the figures."

In residential parts of Jiegu, some survivors were being pulled out of the rubble on Friday, three days after the quake struck.

But they were hugely outnumbered by corpses.

Rescue teams have struggled to reach Jiegu, which lies 12 hours from the nearest major airport and 10,000ft up on the Tibetan plateau.

On Friday, the first teams with sniffer dogs, heartbeat detectors and fibre-optic cameras began scouring the wreckage.

Li Xiaojun, 22, a firefighter and Alsatian handler, said that his team from the north-western province of Shandong, and their dogs, were struggling to adapt to the altitude after arriving overnight.

"First we scan the debris with the heartbeat detectors, then we send in the dogs," he said. "However our spirits are low. The dogs' tails are down. The hopes of finding survivors are pretty slim now."

At the Saikang monastery, on the fringes of Jieshu, teams of purple- robed monks were working with camouflaged soldiers to search for the hundred monks buried underneath.

"We got here today and immediately started digging," said Zhayierjilang, a monk from Gansi. "So far, all we have found are bodies though."

Behind him, Chinese soldiers held up a deer's head and a belt of bullets they had unearthed. In another ruined house nearby, a small portrait of the young Dalai Lama had been concealed among the beams.

An exodus has begun in Jiegu, with many families travelling on motorbikes, lorries and buses to stay with relatives elsewhere. "All our possessions were destroyed, we will be back, but it is too cold to stay here without food and warm clothes," said Jiang Junning, 30, who was on his way to the provincial capital of Xining.

For those left behind, the situation is grim. Despite the huge convoys of aid from the Chinese government, many families said they lacked food, water and medicine.

Ten thousand survivors, 90 per cent of whom were Tibetan, had set up camp on the race track outside Jiegu. However, only 16 doctors were on hand from the Red Cross to treat them.

"We are seeing 1,500 people a day, but we don't have the resources or medicine to travel around the tents," said one doctor. "When we clean their wounds, they get re-infected by the dust and the unsanitary conditions," he said, warning that the chance of infections and disease was severe.

In one tent, Yan Zhibing, 26, was sheltering with his wife and six month-old son. "When the earthquake struck, my first thought was to grab my baby son and run. Only later did I realise my wife had been buried."

His wife lay still in the corner of the tent, a swollen and infected foot visible on the earth and straw floor. "We don't have medicine for her, and we don't have enough food. She has not produced any milk to feed the baby for two days, we are desperate," he said.

Outside, aid convoys were slowly rolling in, but too late for some.

Hundreds of monks at the camp were already chanting the first burial rites for ten more dead, wrapped in cloth and loaded onto vans for the trip up to the Jiegu monastery.

Human Sacrifice Suspected In West Bengal Temple

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