Ray's X-Blog

The Camping Trip: The End Is Near (Again ) As a hippie would say, Harold Camping is on a wild trip, man. I was surfing the shortwave radio band when I came upon his show, Open Forum. Camping stated that the world would end in a couple of years: 2011. (Bummer.) Camping is the president of Family Stations Inc. (AKA Family Radio). I did an online search and found out more about his works. Born in 1942, Camping created over his lifetime a media network to spread his word: radio (AM, FM and SW), the Internet and cable TV. When he hosts his Open Forum program, he invites callers to ask questions about a particular Biblical passage. He’s ready with what he purports to be his true interpretation of the Good Book, offering an independent Christian POV. Camping claims that the church age is over, i.e., all organized churches are not teaching the truth and one must find the truth on his own –- such as by listening to Open Forum. During his show I noticed that some listeners didn’t buy his

Fugo And Cymbals Of Fear (A continuation of my fugo series. Links to previous posts: Part 1 . Part 2 .) Fugo balloons. JFK assassination. UFOs. What’s the connection? Over at www.project1947.com there’s an article by Joel Carpenter that shows the threads between these apparently diverse topics. In the article, Paper Threat - The first intercontinental weapon system: Japanese Fu-Go balloons , Carpenter provides an interesting take on the World War II Japanese bomb-balloons. (He prefers the spelling fu-go. For consistency in my posts I’ll use “fugo” instead.) The US government was worried that the Japanese might start sending balloons laden with germs, causing crippling outbreaks. A newspaper article dated February 9, 1946 that appeared in the Seattle Times revealed that during WW II the government feared the balloons might be used to wage bacteriological warfare, delivering anthrax and other such diseases. In some cases when a fugo was found, government agents showed up wearing