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Hey, Dude, Where’s My Brown Dwarf? Man, don’t you just hate it? Just when there’s proof of something eXtradordinary – BANG! – the Trickster yanks the evidence away. A while ago I was talking about Tolec, a man who claims to be in contact with the alien races of the Andromeda Council. Tolec has made all sorts of claims about our world shifting into a fourth-dimensional reality. One sign or proof of this approaching shift, claimed Tolec, was that a brown dwarf star would appear in our solar system. At some point this brown dwarf would ignite into a second sun. Hmmm, I wonder if he ever read the book or had seen the movie, “2010: The Year We Make Contact?” Obviously a brown dwarf drifting into our neighborhood would be notable. Especially among astronomers. It was supposed to arrive by now so why nothing in the news? Are “They” (shadow government types) suppressing the info? Not really, according to Tolec. The Andromeda Council had cloaked the brown dwarf. It’s still there, waiti...
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Today’s Personal eXpression The real reason for the season: So how much loot did you score? Did you buy enough to keep the economy going, thus enabling the elite 1% to grow even richer?
What's Red And White, Red And White? There’s an interesting display in one part of town. Throughout the year a homeowner displays a large Confederate flag in his front window, an object usually associated with racism. But when the happy holiday season rolls around the homeowner adds an eXmas display with his flag. Besides the traditional lights he adds stuffed almost-life-sized dummies of Santa and Mrs. Claus sitting in chairs on his front porch. Isn’t Santa egalitarian, delivering gifts and love to all of mankind? That apparently depends upon one’s POV. In the case of the local display under consideration Kris Kringle is the ultimate symbol of so-called racial purity. Talk about a white eXmas.
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Tall Whites No, I’m not talking about elongated people of Nordic bloodlines but instead aliens, as in extra-terrestrials. Since there seems to be a “white” theme popping up with my latest posts, I might as well wrap up with this topic. Back in 1965-1967 Airman Charles Hall served at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada near Area 51. He was trained as a weather observer but ended up observing more than the weather: he encountered ETs who had the general appearance of the archetypical gray but were tall and white. Hall claims that he saw the ETs and humans, both military and business types, intermingling. The aliens would give humans rides to the Earth’s moon in their scout ships. One time the tall whites offered to give some US Generals a ride to Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s moons, to prove it was unsuitable as a military base. The tall whites sometimes communicated by making loud sounds like the whinnying of horses. Of course, all of this was supposed to be Top Secret but Hall decided to ...
Quick! Activate A Three-Name H-Bomb Beware, New World Order. Al Parker has figured it out. During the last meeting of the Liberty Net he connected all the dots. He stated that the conspirators decided that the public had to be distracted from any more bad news about politician-businessman Jon Corzine and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. A former New Jersey governor, Jon Corzine was CEO of the investment company MF Global until he resigned on November 4, 2011. He retained the services of a lawyer as federal regulators probed into the matter of missing customer funds amounting to millions of dollars. Meanwhile AG Holder has his own problems, dealing with investigations into Operation Fast and Furious, a sting operation under the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in which the sale of illegal weapons were facilitated and tracked by the ATF. Most of the weapons were sold to criminal organizations in Mexico to build a case against those groups. In December 2010 there was a gun...
Liberty Net: Genocide There are various ways to describe genocide and the forms it may take. Leave it to the Liberty Net to provide an unique twist on the concept. Below is an audio excerpt of the last Saturday-night-into-Sunday-morning get-together by the ultra-right-wing ham radio operators. The complete file can be found archived at http://3950.net/ as "Liberty Net - 2011-1203." I heard these statements early Sunday morning (12/4/11) while listening via the Web. This part of the discussion can be found around the 2:58 marker of the original file. Can't you feel the love? And don't forget: God doesn't change.
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Take That, You Dirty Rats! The Andromeda Council has been killing “the rats under the wood pile.” Or so claims Tolec, human representative of the AC on earth. In a YouTube interview dated Sept. 30, 2011 ( http://youtu.be/mRpCV3pK6jY ) Tolec spoke off-camera with Alfred Webre, exopolitics writer/researcher, about the DUMBs (deep underground military bases) where evil reptilian and gray aliens have been feeding off the intense emotions of unsuspecting humans. Those emotions have been generated by beam weapons that stoke hate and fear, causing more conflict and violence, especially in places like the Mid-East. Tolec claims the aliens feed on these emotions like psychic vampires. Smacks a bit of sci fi, huh? The hidden underground bases sound like they’re straight out of a Richard Shaver story. His tales appeared in the old pulp magazine, “Amazing Stories,” but he claimed they were based on truth. Beneath the earth lurked the Deros who preyed on mankind above. One reader wrote to the...
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Jim Moseley Is On The Case: The Cash-Landrum Incident Image: www.nicap.org/cashlan.htm Was the Cash-Landrum UFO really a secret military project that screwed up? December 29th, 1980. Two women and a boy are in a car traveling on a road through thick woodland, on their way to Dayton, Texas. Their journey is interrupted by a strange diamond-shaped craft floating over the road being escorted or pursued by military helicopters. The bottom of the UFO is open, emitting light and heat. The UFO leaves with the helicopters. Later, the three people in the car suffer health problems after the incident, apparently related to radiation exposure. In his zine, “Saucer Smear,” Jim Moseley has been taking another look at the case. He mentioned it to me in a recent phone conversation to see if I could dig up any info online about the case like others have done for him. Well, my investigation as such is preliminary. I took a wild chance with the search words like “atomic hot air balloon” and found ...
New Links And to make it easier to find me on the Web... www.x-rayer.com -- Takes you straight to this blog. www.x-rayer.info -- Access to my newer Website. With each one, don't forget the hyphen. And my old Website, www.rayxr.webs.com , still features an archive of my print zines.
Note With the eXception of creating my zine, today was a lot of nothing. Very quiet here in the one-man “monastery.” My personal reaction to it all: ThanX for nothing. And people wonder why I hate the holidays. At least I enjoyed the traditional microwaved lasagna.
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Reality Anchor Anchor babies? That sounded nasty. I wasn't familiar with the term until its ugly head reared on the Liberty Net Stickam site ( http://www.stickam.com/libertynet ) early Sunday morning (9/20/11). Besides broadcasting over shortwave radio, the ultra-right-wing amateur radio operators also communicate with each other online through both audio and text. When the site is live it has a comments section for typing in reactions to the audio discussion. The comments just keep scrolling up, the newest on the bottom. Unfortunately they disappear when the site shuts down. I spotted this statement: dhauer: All anchor babies should be dumped.. dhauer: overboard dhauer: there, I said it With a quick Google search (e.g., "anchor baby myth") I learned that the pejorative "anchor baby" refers to a child born in the United States whose parents are immigrants. That child is automatically granted US citizenship under the 14th Amendment, supposedly "an...
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Paragliding Spam During the dawn of the American space program astronauts didn't have it easy. Sometimes they called themselves "spam in the can," referring to the tight quarters inside the early capsules and also the lack of control they had over the vehicles. This was way before the days of the space shuttle. Instead of gliding to a landing like a plane after a mission, the astronauts just fell into the ocean, the fall slowed down by parachutes. A whole Navy fleet would search for the floating capsule and then it would be fished out. Predicting where the capsule would land wasn't an exact science with the early missions. Until I picked up an old book the other day, I didn't know that there was a plan to return the Gemini astronauts hang-glider style. Flipping through the slightly musty pages of America's Race For The Moon: The New York Times Story of Project Apollo (1962) I spotted an illustration for a proposed capsule design that would allow it to re...
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V Is For Victory – For The Vatican It’s all over. On April 16, 2008 – a day that will live in infamy – Pope Benedict declared military victory over the United States of America. Or so says Tom Friess, host of the program Inquisition Update heard on domestic shortwave radio station WWCR. I was dialing around when I encountered his program. Tom warned that millions of Catholics were ready to obey any command from the Pope, a fifth column within our midst. I’m an ex-Catholic. Fortunately, I was never molested by a priest or a nun. But when I was an impressionable boy, the Roman Cultic Church did lay on the fear and guilt. In one catechism class a nun told us that when nuclear war erupted, an atomic bomb would open up a pit into hell. And unless we young sheep confessed our sins, we would fall into that pit, burning for eternity. A burn from a hot stove, she explained in vivid detail, was nothing like the ever-frying flames of hell. And people wonder why I’m a devout atheist. So wh...
Psychic Children: Reality Or Just Reality TV? I’m a 360 skeptic: I’m skeptical about everything, including professional skeptics. So I don’t rule out the possibility that on rare occasions a few people might experience some sort of psychic phenomena. Recently I watched a documentary series that purported to show actual psychic kids dealing with their powers. While I’m never had any special metaphysical powers, I can understand how these kids feel like outsiders due to the talents they have – or think they have. The problem with “reality” TV is that it has to be entertaining. Sometimes the psychic kids series went over the line for me, using special editing techniques like quick cuts to heighten the suspense. And if the producers could goose certain scenes through such effects, what else did they goose? I’m not saying the producers were deceptive but I’ve heard about others whose psychic talents were wanting at times: they couldn’t consistently produce the startling results and so s...
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Charles Hickson And The Nutzoid Charles Hickson passed away on September 9th; he was 80 years old. If you're not familiar with the name, way back in 1973 (October 11, 1973 to be eXact) he claimed to be abducted by weird robotic aliens. The story was that Hickson and a friend from work (Calvin Parker) were fishing from a pier near Pascagoula Mississippi when an UFO suddenly appeared and strange floating creatures exited from the craft. Each one was roughly humanoid in shape but with wrinkled elephantine skin, pointy nose and ears, and clawed-hands. The strange beings grabbed the two men and levitated them inside the alien vessel for examination. Then the aliens floated the two men back to the pier, releasing them, and then the otherwordly visitors left as quickly as they had arrived. In a state of shock the men went to the local sheriff's office and told their incredible story. The word got out and soon Hickson and his friend were the focus of media attention. I remember s...
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Men And The Monsters They (Allegedly) Made Man, the Freemasons can't catch a break. Almost every conspiracy theory smears the Masons with some sort of shadowy evil. In the book, Man-Made Monsters by Dr. Bob Curran (2011), that apparently harmless fraternal order is tied in with the artifical creation of life. What kind of life? Take a look at the book's sub-title: A Field Guide to Golems, Patchwork Soldiers, Homunculi, and Other Created Creatures . So we're not talking about cute little beings like Smurfs or Teletubbies. The author doesn't buy in to all the negative stories told about the Freemasons, especially the one that says the Masons inherited the secret of artificial life from the Knights Templar. Dr. Curran only describes the tales, questionable records and urban legends he encountered when researching his work. The book is categorized as Paranormal/Mythology which the emphasis on the mythology part. Back in year 1119 the Templars were founded in the Holy ...
Another Adventure With The Computer Printer From Hell Envelopes. That should be easy. Just call up your address list on the computer and then have the laser printer do the rest. I follow the directions in the user's manual, opening the front feed panel and adjusting the guides to the width of an envelope. I also made sure to open the back panel where the envelope will pop out, addressed. OK, the envelope goes through but it comes out crinkled. Check the manual. Gee, I forgot to release the two green tabs in the back panel opening, dropping down a long piece of plastic into a new position that supposedly will stop the wrinkling. So I release the green tabs, one on each side. No go. The error button comes on. Printer won't print. Hit the magic green Go button seven times. No go. Invoke the eldritch name of Cthulhu seven times. No go. Tap the ruby slippers together seven times? Forget it. I flip the plastic piece inside the rear opening back into place and the error ...
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Texe Marrs: Space Cowboy Calls Out The Illuminati Is Satan Jewish? That's the impression I get after listening to a recent shortwave radio broadcast by Texe Marrs, the host of Power of Prophecy . I remember Texe (that's his name; Google it) from years ago when I started my zine, back when I covered the SW conspiracy beat. But after a while Texe and the others on WWCR started to repeat themselves. I happened to come across the Power of Prophecy program when Texe announced that this was the most important broadcast he has ever made. He mentioned the Illuminati. OK, it was a quiet Sunday night, nothing on the boob tube to watch, so I decided to spend an hour with Texe so see if he had another new angle on the Mega-Conspiracy. And since it was September 11th -- well, I don't have to explain that to you, unless you've been in a coma under a rock for the last ten years. From his HQ in Austin, Texas, Texe sends out his warnings through his Power of Prophecy Ministries ab...
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Zine Zap: Grunted Warning "No jail for ham attack" "Banana fear put straight" "Penis taken in evidence" Actual headlines from actual articles collected by zine editor Stuart Stratu in Down, Under AKA Australia. Grunted Warning is a gritty digest-sized pub (8 1/2 by 11 inch pages folded lengthways and stapled into a booklet) with a quirky quickly-pasted lay out, photos and news clippings chopped and then thrown together. The rough design adds to the rough quality of the subject matter. For example, "With S&M a scar is born," an article about two Czech porn producers who put a few actors in the hospital with their sado-masochistic production. (Ouch.) But don't get the impression that GW is all about sexual perversion and scandal. Check out "Giant rats kill babies" and "Rats ground Qantas flight." Or the clipping about the Russian scientist who thinks ET contact will occur in a couple of decades. (Based on what? ...
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Budd Hopkins: An Era Ends? My only regret at this point in my life are that there is not a larger pool of qualified people willing to continue this challenging work, despite the many lives that have been helped along the way, and despite the massive amount of intriguing data that have already been accumulated. -- Budd Hopkins, New York February, 2011 [Photo of Budd Hopkins: www.intrudersfoundation.org/inside.html ] Does the death of Budd Hopkins signal a turning point in alien abduction research? Without any formal degree in counseling -- he was first known as an artist -- Hopkins helped people who thought they have been abducted by aliens. He always faced criticism for his abduction research. One critic was his ex-wife Carol Rainey who wrote a revealing article in Paratopia magazine (January 2011). In "The Priests of High Strangeness" she portrayed her ex-husband as someone both gullible and also willing to overlook certain facts to make his case. In turn Hopkins wrot...
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Secret Of The Green Go Button They love to screw you for money. Especially with computer printers. I gave up wasting time with inkjet printers. I don't print that much that often which means the cartridge openings dry out and plug up. To clean them to have to use more ink (meaning more money). And sometimes no matter what you do, a cartridge stays plugged. The color inkjet cartridges are usually the ones that dry out. Print out a color photo and find it ruined with a purple overtone; the yellow ain't working. I gave up on the whole rip off when I couldn't get a cartridge to work, one half-full of overpriced ink. I decided that I would save money by printing my color images at a digital photo kiosk found at department or drug stores. For black and white printing I decided to go with a laser printer which is nothing more than a photocopier hooked up to a computer. I bought a low-price home unit made by the Brother Corporation. The cost per page was supposed to be much...
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Notes Of A Distraught Woman [Blue woman image based upon photo by Peter Delory. From the cover of Living With Your Husband's Secret Wars by Marsha Means.] I'm a single male atheist. So why did I pick up a self-help book intended for Christian wives with marital problems? The notes. I found the book in a cardboard box on the sidewalk, buried in a jumble of other titles. The FREE BOX sometimes offers intriguing works that the used book store tosses out, not seeing any value. Apparently the woman who purchased the self-help book didn't want it either, even though she marked it up with her handwritten notes, personal reactions to points raised by the author. It was an opportunity to glimpse into the mind of a devout Christian seeking answers through her faith. From what I gathered the note-writer was upset that her husband was cheating on her -- mentally, not physically. He enjoyed pornography. Yes, even thinking about sin is a sin. That...
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Enslave The World The High Tech Antichrist Way Greetings, my friend. Have you ever thought about conquering the world? ThanX to my research that goal is closer than you think. Part of the answer lies in the "non-fiction" book, 2000 A.D. -- Are You Ready? , by the propheteers Peter and Paul Lalonde. Even though it was published in 1997 and the world didn't end in the year 2000, this work provides clues to how to establish yourself as world dictator. The book is subtitled How New Technologies and Lightning-Fast Changes are Opening the Door for Satan and His Plan for the End of the World . Yes, this is a born-again Christian book involving the Rapture, the rise of the Antichrist, and the return of the Messiah, but one with a high tech angle. Oh, you don't believe in either God or Satan? A minor detail. Despite their Christian intentions, the Lalonde brothers have unintentionally sketched a plan that can you make you the secular king of the world. ...
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High Klass Speculation Sometimes my creative mind looks for new challenges and I start speculating, engaging in higher thought eXperiments. So what happens after you die? Let's say your individuality still exists, moving on to The Other Side, after you shed your meat suit. OK, then what happens? For those into reincarnation, karma is the belief that what happens during your lifetime will influence your existence when you return to this world. But what if karma does exist but there's no reincarnation back into the physical plane, that your choices while alive affect your existence on The Other Side? Your karma shapes the form you take after you pass on. In most cases such a spirit would have a humanlike appearance unless that person did something requiring atonement. At this point the name of the late Philip Klass popped into my head. He was a journalist, editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine and also a controversial UFO researcher. I...
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Liberty Net Versus Jamming Jamming We're jamming I wanna jam it with you, We're jamming, jamming And I hope you like jamming too --Bob Marley Early Sunday morning. August 7, 2011. Tonight the weekly get-together of the ultra-right-ring Ham radio forum Liberty Forum was interrupted, according to one participant, by "a subhuman jammer." One quickly picks up on "code words" when listening in to the Liberty Net forum. For years the superpatriots have been meeting in the 75 meter band on shortwave radio, starting their discussions around 10 PM Saturday Eastern Standard Time and running over into the next day. Their commentaries are also rebroadcast on the Web via streaming audio at http://www.stickam.com/thelibertynet . How far to the right are these amateur radio operators? They think Rush Limbaugh is a puppet, a stooge. Some listeners disagree with LibNet viewpoints and they try to jam the net's frequency with strong Morse code signals, loud music, ...
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Planet Earth: Weapon Of War To self-proclaimed independent scientist Lauren Moret it's all a conspiracy. Hurricane Katrina (2005), the Haiti Earthquake (2010) and the earthquake-tsunami-nuclear meltdown triple disaster in Japan back in March -- not random events caused by impersonal natural forces. All were planned and executed by an international war crimes network involving the CIA, DOE, and BP for City of London bankers. So how did evil agents within the Central Intelligence Agency, the (US) Department of Energy, and British Petroleum pull it off? According to Moret they simply moved heaven and earth with another initialized entity: HAARP. The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program located near Gakona, Alaska is described at its Website as "A Premier Facility for the Study of Ionospheric Physics and Radio Science." Its purpose is to improve military and civilian communication and navigation systems by learning more about the Earth's ionosphere. There ar...
A Pose By Any Other Name Hugh Mungus? I supposed to believe an article by Hugh Mungus? I came across this writer's name over at ufodigest.com . Sorry, that name sounds too much like a joke. Even if it's his real name, I can't take anything written by him seriously. It requires a humongous leap of faith. What's next? A flying saucer report from Biggus Dickus? There's the fringe newspaper, The Sovereign , that reads like The Onion on a bad hit of LSD. Check out its line-up of dubious bylines: Donald "Pogo" Meserlin, PE; Socrcha Faal; T. Weed; Putty; and even Death Dentist. And let's not overlook Sarah Conner, Human Resistance Leader, and Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. Fiction comes to life? I don't think so. Trust is important when it comes to appearances. And you can trust me or my name isn't Ray X.
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80 Years Old And Still Saucering He's been there from the beginning, back in the days when the buzzword was flying saucers, not UFOs. He's been involved both in ufology -- documenting strange cases but also exposing hoaxers -- and ufoology -- perpetrating a few hoaxes of his own. A combination of believer, skeptic and trickster all rolled into one. Jim Moseley will be 80 years old on August 4th. Note to UFO researchers: better interview Jim now or before you know it, time will fly by and the opportunity will be lost. Best wishes, cards, money can be sent to him at PO Box 1709, Key West, Florida 33041. You can email him at saucer_smear@yahoo.com -- indirectly, that is. He has an associate editor that will pass along your messages. Jim eschews the digital revolution, especially what he calls the Dreaded Net. I suspect he doesn't trust all the alien tech given to us from the Roswell Crash. That's why he still puts together each issue of his non-scheduled zine, Sau...
Publish Or Privish Privish. A word formed from "privately published." In a negative sense it means a strategy by a book publisher to sabotage the release of a controversial book. For example, the book "DuPont: Behind the Nylon Curtain" by Gerard Colby was privished after a DuPont family member raised a stink after seeing an advanced copy of the book. Due to pressure, the publisher Prentice-Hall cut the number of copies for distribution and slashed the advertising budget. In a neutral or positive sense privish can also mean a choice by a writer to limit distribution of printed works to very few people. The advantage of this type of privishing is that is only shared with readers who are really interested in the work, not its format or status. Some people consider this type of privishing in a negative light because it implies that the members of the writer's inner circle won't criticize the writing. I don't mind criticism if it's ...
Zine Or Blog: Why The Great Divide? There was another issue I wanted to discuss in my last post but decided that it warranted its own entry. My bastard hybrid zine. I started as a paper zinester and over the years I find myself a blogger first, then a zinester. I think some people are upset that my zine has become a collection of my blog posts. Why do I think that? Well, when a zinester says that paper should never reproduce photons, that online and offline writing must be separate, I kinda notice. I also notice when a zinester states that he will never put email and web addresses in his paper publication; he only deals with snail mail. Each to his own but... Why does it have to be one or the other? It seems a creator has to declare his allegiance to either the paper brigade or the digital legion, nothing in-between. In fact, some of the paper types act as if the Web is evil incarnate, destroying their dead tree way of life. Years ago there was one zinester who warned to stay away ...
Ray X Violates Key Zinester Commandment! I have broken one of the sacred commandments of print zinesterdom: THOU SHALL NOT CHARGE MORE THAN ONE DOLLAR FOR A ZINE THAT RUNS EIGHT PAGES OR LESS I became aware of this vile transgression through Randy Robbins of Narcolepsy Press Review . He wrote a review of my zine, Ray X X-Rayer (#80), mentioning that it comes out "pretty regularly" and that the last issue feature images of crucified Santas on the cover, a layout he thought was "cool." Then he goes on why he has a problem with the latest issue. At this point I thought he would write about the contents of #80, why he didn't care for my articles. After all, a review should at least give the reader a brief lowdown on what subjects the writor covers, his POV and style. If I was reviewing Narco I would summarize what is included besides short zine takes. But I'm here to review a review. Most of Randy's words regarding XR #80 isn't the contents and my ...
Monotony, Uncertainty and Eschatology With all of this talk of doomsday -- Harold Camping resetting the date to October 21st and there's also the buzz about 2012 -- I wonder what drives some people to embrace the End Times whether they be Christian or New Age. I think a few individuals want release from the monotony of daily living, the constant grind of working and making ends meet. They want some excitement, an escape from the deadly boredom. Stuck on a treadmill they question the purpose of life. And while there's monotony, there also lurks uncertainty. Something bad could happen at any moment -- a car accident, a murder, a natural catastrophe. Some people want to jump to the end of the book and know how it all wraps up, no surprises. Especially when it comes to the big question: Is there life after death? And more importantly, will I be rewarded for my struggles? That's why when someone comes along and says, "Here's the date and good things will come your ...
Camping It Up Again It's the "I was almost right" argument. May 21st, 2011 -- Judgment Day. A good person would be raptured up to heaven, eternal salvation, but an unsaved one would simply perish, his consciousness wiped away forever. Instead of the whole world falling apart at the same time, May 21st would be a methodical doomsday, step by step. Starting at the international dateline, each time zone would experience great earthquakes at 6 PM local time. Or so claimed Family Radio President Harold Camping who sat at home on that fateful day, waiting for news from the other side of the world about God's judgment marching along the globe, each time zone a falling domino. Then nothing happened. So Camping went into seclusion while some of his followers were pissed off, including the ones that spent their own money to spread the world about doomsday through such outlets as billboards, books, and even a lit sign on top of a car. But Camping is back. He says he was wrong...