The Ministry of Defence went to extraordinary lengths to cover up its true involvement in investigating UFOs, according to secret documents revealed under the Freedom of Information Act.

In particular, the ministry wanted to cover up the operation of a secret unit dedicated to UFO investigations within the Defence Intelligence Staff. UFO conspiracy theorists have likened the unit, called DI55, to a sort of “Men in Black” agency for defending the Earth against invasion but the released documents show this is far from the truth. One 1995 memo from DI55 to the MoD’s public “UFO desk” said: “I have several books at home that describe our supposed role of ‘defender of the Earth against the alien menace’ - it is light years from the truth!”

Bush is incapable of recognizing his mistake. He can only escalate. Plans have long been made to attack Iran. The problem is that Iran can respond in effective ways to a conventional attack. Moreover, an American attack on another Muslim country could result in turmoil and rebellion throughout the Middle East. This is why the neocons have changed U.S. war doctrine to permit a nuclear strike on Iran.

Continue with Paul Craig Roberts.

Influential guitarist Etta Baker dies

MORGANTON, N.C. - Etta Baker, an influential blues guitarist who recorded with Taj Mahal and was awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, has died, her family said. She was 93.

No cause of death was given, but her health had been failing for years, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported on its Web site.

Baker was raised in a musical family in western North Carolina. She made her first mark in music in 1956, when she appeared on a compilation album called “Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians.” The recording influenced the growing folk revival, especially her versions of “Railroad Bill” and “One-Dime Blues.”

If you like old time blues, she was one of the best. She’ll be missed.

Indian woman locked in a room for 20 years by family
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New Delhi- A 36-year-old woman in the eastern Indian state of Orissa was locked in a cramped, windowless room by her family for over two decades, a newspaper reported Monday. Swarnaprava Pandava, has been confined at her family residence in eastern Kendrapara district by her parents who said she was mentally-deranged and had assaulted villagers on earlier occasions, the Times of India daily reported.

“We took her for treatment to a government hospital and some other hospitals. Some black-magicians also treated her, but with no success after which we locked her,” her father Harekrushna Pandya was quoted by the Times as saying.

Yikes!

Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat
By MARK MAZZETTI

09/24/06 “New York Times’ — – WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

To anyone who relies on more than Fox News for their information knew this two years ago- but the timing of the release of this report (it was completed in April) says “Get re-elected with this, you incompetent liars”.

Kudos, I say.

Refreshing to find that someone is still actually playing jazz these days. No surprise, its Miles Davis/Weather Report mainstay, Wayne Shorter. Great stuff…

“Our findings may be a step toward understanding the mechanisms behind psychiatric manifestations such as paranoia, persecution and alien control,” said Olaf Blanke, of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in the journal Nature.

Quick, read this, before “they” get to you.

Restraining order against Bush denied

CONCORD - A federal judge on Wednesday denied a former Republican congressional candidate’s request for a restraining order barring President Bush or Vice President Richard Cheney from bombing Iran or Syria.

Maxwell’s suit seeks a ruling that the administration lacks legal authority to pre-emptively attack either Iran or Syria without a Congressional declaration of war, and that radioactive fallout from the use of nuclear weapons in any such attack would endanger people around the world, including herself.

Gotta say, thats a novel approach…

Teens drive stolen car onto anti-terrorism base

MIAMI (Reuters) - Two teenage car thieves drove a stolen car on Wednesday without being stopped onto the U.S. military base that commands much of the war on terror, triggering an investigation into the security breach, police and military officials said.

Police in Tampa, Florida, said the joyriders were only stopped and arrested after ramming two police cruisers that had entered MacDill Air Force Base in pursuit.