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Panzerben's Combat Diary 29 for December 2005

And February 2006

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Updates for week ending January 1st 2006

Tsunami Debris: Humans are Worse Michael Casey Press Here
Internet Warfare Erik Larkin Press Here
Depleted Uranium Again Robert Hirschfield Press Here
Playing with the Mind Thoth Press Here
Rat-Brained Interceptors Philip Sherwell Press Here

Updates for week ending January 9th 2006

How Far Down The Rabbit Hole? Frosty Wooldridge Press Here
My Brain Is Not Silly Putty ! Michael Goodspeed Press Here
The Kecksburg UFO Crash Brian Vike Press Here
911 - Too Hot To Handle? Douglas Herman Press Here
Quantum Teleportation Vlad Tarko Press Here

Updates for week ending January 16^th 2006

Have South American 'Imps' Returned? Scott Corrales Press Here
Did God Create Aliens? Neil Mackay Press Here
Intelligence Indications Wayne Madsen Press Here
Ghoul's Paradise Sean Cracraft Press Here
9/11 Timeline Paul Thompson Press Here

Updates for week ending January 23rd 2006

Satanic Abuse Scandal Neal Snowdon Press Here
Theatre of the Mind Jeffrey Foss Press Here
Coal is still Here Adam Geller Press Here
Skinwalker review and Strange Airplanes in Chinese Skies Jane Ann Morrison Press Here
The National Security Agency’s UFO Investigations. Leonard David Press Here

Updates for week ending January 30th 2006

The Psychology of Suicide Bombings Monique Matalon Press Here
Satanic abuse: Town in shock David Edwards Press Here
300 million Americans in 2006 Sam Roberts Press Here
Past the Point of No Return Michael McCarthy Press Here
Disgraced Cloning Pioneer could keep Barry Fox Press Here
his Patents and join the Raelians!

Updates for week ending February 6th

What Happened to the Robot Age? Jonathan Duffy Press Here
Pokeback Mountain: Hymn to Dysfunction Henry Makow Press Here
Forced Settlements In Child Abuse Cases Gillian Flaccus Press Here
Plants Behave like Humans Don Burke Press Here
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World Roger Ebert Press Here
Watch Out, Sony Rootkits About! Anon Press Here

Updates for week ending February 13th

The Plutonium Question Anon Press Here
The Silence of 9/11 Families Greg Szymanski Press Here
Tunguska: Fire In The Sky Part 1 David Talbott Press Here
American Hunger Julian Edney Press Here
Beyond Human Christopher Caldwell Press Here
To see all TWELVE of the cartoons,.. Press Here

Updates for week ending February 18th

Check out Martin Stubbs’ video of secret NASA transmissions showing UFOs http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9080369676973948865&q=ufo
Cartooning the Sacred oliverhaddo Press Here
Vonnegut's Blues For America Kurt Vonnegut Press Here
New H-bomb Project Ian Hoffman Press Here
Mothman Death Curse and Firewall Loren Coleman Press Here
Tunguska: The Fire in The Sky - Part 2 David Talbott Press Here

Updates for Week Ending 26^th February 2006

Chukanov Quantum Free Energy Sterling D. Allan Press Here
Moving to Europe
911: Physics, Engineering, Philip Sherman Gordon Press Here
Ethics and Politics.
Spooky Action and Beyond Anton Zeilinger Press Here
UFO Sightings Worldwide Brian Vike Press Here
Mini-Nukes Galore Michel Chossudovsky Press Here
Detention Cam Jitters Maureen Farrell Press Here

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To the left is a photo on the front of a tattered and stained copy of the Quorn Pork Scratchings News. It shows a dishevelled and rather forlorn Father Christmas fleeing Brentford Leisure Centre well before Christmas after drinking a toast in Quorn Chistmas Enema Fruit Essence by mistake.

On the right we see Zelda Blum, New Age Jewish intellectual from L.A. getting ready for the Rapture and keeping fit for her New Year series of lectures on Artificial Intelligence. George (“everybody’s no good at something”) Mensche comments below.

The George Mensche Column

“If this is Intelligent Design, I wish I’d gone to Canada with our Fred”

“My wife can never afford the kind of problems she’d like to have”

(quotes from Zelda’s AI computer dialogue)

Zelda Blum’s Lectures in Intelligent Virtual Futurology look as if they are going to be one of the main events of 2006.

She is the creator of what have become known as “Blum Decision States.”

Such a State has been described as the Ultimate Development of the Fuzzy Switch.

Zelda says that if Artificial Intelligence is to become more than a mere bundle of clever spanners, these Decision States must satisfy the following conditions:

“They must be capable of wasting time.”

Not in a Protestant country, Zelda!

“They must be capable of deciding to withdraw their own labour.”

Not in a capitalist country, Zelda!

They must be capable of subverting themslves.”

Not in a scientific culture, Zelda!

“They must be capable of lying and cheating.”

Not in a democratic culture, Zelda!

“They must be capable of taking their own life and laughing at themselves as they do so.”

Not in a Christian country, Zelda!

“They must be capable of making up their own mind and opinions without any promotions.”

Not in a commercial culture, Zelda!

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Contents of Diary 29 for December, 2005

Chapter 1: Remote Viewing Underground UFO bases Sandy Frost

Chapter 2: When the Lights Go Out Brian Appleyard

Chapter 3: Electromagnetic Warfare Carolyn Palit

Chapter 4: The CIA and Mind Control John Marks

Chapter 5: UFO Crash Retrieval Symposium Peter Robbins

Chapter 6: Nazi Connection to Death of JFK JeffreySteinberg

Chapter 7: Bell Curve of the Inequality IQ Charles Murray

Chapter 8: 21^st Century Child Slavery Andrew Cockburn

Chapter 9: The Early History of Computers Stan Augarten

Chapter 10: Retrievals of the Third Kind Part 1 Leonard Stringfield

Chapter 11: Mothman: the Coming of the Doll Folk Colin Bennett

Chapter 12: The Control of Candy Jones Colin Bennett

Chapter Review

See Chapter 2 above

see Chapter 8 above

see chapter 9 above

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Special Feature 2: The U-2, OXCART, and the SR-71 (click here)

Editorial

Editor Panzerben briefs his assault squad prior to yet another raid on the Sceptical HQ in Brentford Leisure Centre, the lair of the Magonian Pelicans.

Dearly Beloved,

Brentfordisation or the Quorn Clap

Yet once again the Combat Diaries and its Editor are the targets of that last piece of pre-cyber England called Magonia magazine. This journal appears to be permanently in the grip of what Nobel Prize winner Professor Brian Josephson calls a state of pathological disbelief, or what the Combat Diaries call the Brentford Panic, or Sceptical Dementia.

Certainly mail-order Magonia (circulation 750!) represents the greatest collection of mute inglorious Miltons that ever graced a Brentford Parish pump. One imagines them gathered in the Leisure Centre correcting town council minutes about broken paving, and getting together a pronunciation dictionary for the names of local traffic wardens and Psychiatric Social Workers. It appears that chronic sceptics are a permanent feature of Unintelligent Design. All have been effectively Brentfordised, which means you can smell their feet in a downwind from the Leisure Centre.

We include in this issue a view of Magonia magazine by Stuart Miller published recently in Phenomena magazine. In talking of John Rimmer (the Brentford Polonius, Editor of Magonia magazine) Miller mentions that dinosaur’s graveyard which goes by the name of the UFO Udates List. Whilst this is the perfect ledger-clerk stomping ground for John Rimmer, he appears as an angel of light compared to such opposing UFO Believers as Dick Hall and Jan Aldrich.

They alone compile enough case-history documentation sufficient to warm the heart of Franz Kafka and cause wart hogs to drop dead, cross-eyed with grief. The UFO Updates List represents the small-time clerking as has nearly brought Ufology to dust, and the reason why it has not progressed much beyond American suburban garage-thinking of the 1950s. This Editor was once a contributor to this List, and the resistance to new ideas from such old village-hall codgers as Hall and Aldrich had to be seen to be believed. The reading and educational backgound was so hillbilly catsup I don’t think any of them had ever heard of Borges or Barthes, and certainly not Susan Sontag! It was lower-middle-class metal-bashing all the way by mid-grade managers swamped by myriad details of myriad case-histories. No wonder the skeptics (most far more intellectually advanced) made mincemeat of the Believers.

The resistance to raw Ufological experience on the Updates List was profound. It all had to be sorted, documented, defined, this being a procedure straight out of Kafka’s story The Giant Mole. The result was that raw experience was distilled out of all recognition. They would then proceed to demolish people who claimed UFO experiences, calling them eccentric, mad, confused, hoaxed, and did the skeptics job for them for the most part. They also practised the most savage Maoist-like interrogations of folk who claimed abductions.

All in all, this List showed the classic anthropological characteristics of a social group in an advanced state of decay. Certainly Hall and Aldrich fought new ideas as the old cavalry regiments fought the tank and mechanization. The result over the years saw scores of self-published books on UFOs from “researchers,” most of which read now like wiring diagrams for a De Lorean. At the same time as Ufology is undergoing a crisis in which its very existence is threatened a most curious situation has come about. The number of UFO sightings is on the increase. Fortunately for Ufology, Maccabee, Friedman, and Jerry Clark survived the wreckage and gave us Ufological achievements second to none. I may here include the theoretical physicist Jack Sarfatti, whose work with Ken Shoulders is near the secret of UFO propulsion.

After satirizing the UFO Updates List baboonage mercilessly, I left long ago for to launch the Combat Diaries and to write my prize-winning autobiography of Charles Fort, Politics of the Imagination

In this issue, Josh of SMUG (http://www.smug.com/contents.html) gives us a view of another British sceptical magazine, the Fortean Times This publication is part of the Magonian sceptical conspiratorial axis, since they have the same associate editors. As Josh says, the Fortean Times is a politically-correct, non-controversial jolly-hockey-sticks magazine, a veritable temple of Bohemian squeaky-clean paranoid sceptical conservatism. It is edited by the Strutting Tuffy (see our most popular ongoing serial below) and his forlorn friend, with the Manager (the Fried Slice) in obedient attendance. The Manager only comes in useful when he screams down the phone at me threatening the Combat Diaries with legal action. My reply was to threaten him with prosecution in turn, because in my opinion the use of Charles Fort’s name on his journal’s masthead represented a violation under the Trades Description Act.

As Carol Vorderman’s anus is probably as clean as her kitchen top, the rosy-cheeked Fortean Times is clean of all conspiracies, political dirt, scandals, UFOs, Men in Black, and EBE J-Rods, not to mention sexy pictures. It is also clear of that Fortean bouquet of hippopotomi called the irrational. In the Fortean Times all we hear about are the red-speckled frogs found in rice puddings, and the leaning lamp posts of Patagonia. All things magical, transcendental, abstract, absurd, or mystical (and especially political) are denied as they are denied in Magonia magazine. The only difference is in the Quorn-Zombie packaging. This magazine in its present state and under its present title is a standing insult to the name and ideas of Charles Fort, and brings his name into disrepute. For goodness sake, don’t these people realise that Charles Fort was the world’s first Ufologist? The pages of his four books abound in examples of the seeing of Unidentified Flying Objects of all kinds.

Should anyone think that the Alternative Fortean Times is being unfair to the Fortean Times in our constant criticism, then let them look at the current issue with its blanket put-down of the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident by guess who – non other than the Village Postmistress and Tonto! How dare the people at the Fortean Times have the cheek to have an article written by two out-of-date sceptical sad-sacks such as this pair and ignore completely the major books on Rendlesham by Georgina Bruni, Nick Pope, and Peter Robbins? They should bring in a star performer as their UFO editor, someone like Nick Pope, Jerry Clark, or Timothy Good.

The current Fortean Times is a depressing issue which has rightly earned the magazine the sub-title of the English Sceptical Enquirer. Arch-sceptic Peter Brookesmith is back, and there is even an article on how to fake UFO photographs – what is the point of this? Everyone in the world knows that these days even a ten-year-old can fake twenty such things in five minutes! Who does the Fortean Times thinking they are kidding with all this crap? The connection with the thinking of Charles Fort has been severed forever with such attempted murder of such live cultural forms as the UFO. We at the Combat Diaries will spare no effort to expose the lies, disinformation, sceptical propaganda and misinformation spread by the Fortean Times in this area.

The trouble is that this magazine does not have an editor any longer. This guy in charge (if he is in charge) is out of his mental depth, and is little more than a good print manager. He has no Fortean concept, if he even understood what that means. In his hands the magazine looks superb until you start to read it and realise that this is a blatant conspiratorial operation, and laid on heavily at that. Mark our words – this manager will be with Vanity Fair next year, and he won’t even see or know the difference, except in his pay packet!

Included in this issue of the Combat Diaries are a couple of articles I wrote for the Fortean Times before they were taken over by an intensely sceptical anti-American cult positively scientological in its intensity (Brookesmith, Devereux, Pilkington, “Tuffty” Seiveking et al). They have become counter-culture classics in their way and so I have made them available..

The Concept of Intention in Cosmological Models

There has been a lot of talk recently on the Web about what constitutes intention in cosmological models. For the Renaissance of course the intention vector was still intact within the cosmological system. Mind and Nature were one synthesis. (Lear’s “blasted heath,” the castles of both Macbeth and Hamlet were large-scale holistic images of operational consciousness uniting social and individual vectors. In this projection, moral issues (rarely mentioned on this List!) were embedded in the concept of Greek Tragedy and the idea of Telos (from Aristotle’s Poetics) as inherited by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Intention was part of a unified field consisting of animal, vegetable, and mineral elements (see Tillyard’s The Elizabethan World Picture). Without such a view, “science” is left with the classic Faustian problem: is knowledge for the sake of knowledge a good thing? Robert Oppenheimer was for example, haunted by this rather Hamlet-like question.

We can see the idea of such an intention vector gradually deteriorating as we move towards Descartes and the development of mathematical and “scientific” systems. Whilst such “objective” systems have achieved what they have achieved, we still keep a whole field of anomalistic experiences open as a series of gaming options to let us out of the cultural trap we have built for ourselves.

In a recent essay for Phenomena magazine (see below) I have applied the analysis of such an intention vector to the extraordinary experiences of Lee Harvey Oswald and the well-known “magic bullet” theory.

To cut a long story short, let us imagine a farmer say, who has a murderous quarrel with a local vicar. The farmer, with his loaded shotgun over his arm, passes the vicarage one day, with quite other things on his mind than murder. The farmer trips and falls, and the gun, following a crazy trajectory, goes off and kills the vicar who is drinking tea at his desk.

Shakespeare, Conrad, Melville, or Thomas Hardy (all writers of classic Tragedy) would have no problem in linking Mind, Intention, and Nature here. We ourselves are left feeling rather lonely with our primitive “objective” concepts of the “random.”

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Meantime, between your belief crises, don’t forget the Bad Man’s new story, Memoirs of a Fallen Programmer in Phenomena Magazine http://www.phenomenamagazine.com

This is the Bad Man (“he got no respect fer nuffink”) on his best behaviour - no swearing, no debunking of sceptical rationalizations (well just a little now and then).

And no gorgeous naked women, and no slagging off the Fortean Times. Disappointed? You will not be – check it our now! Memoirs of a Fallen Programmer will join seven archived cutting-edge articles by Colin Bennett in Phenomena. They are:

Chemtrails: A New Mystery of the Skies

Cargo Cults and Beyond

A New Ufology

The Alien is Under Construction

The Dream Life of Prototypes

Imagine

Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans

George Mensche introduces Colin Bennett’s great new book,

An American Demonology. Bennett writes:

“Project Blue Book was the official US Air Force investigation into the UFO

phenomenon. Captain Edward Ruppelt was in charge of Blue Book in the early 1950s, and after he had left the Air Force, he wrote The Report into Unidentified Flying Objects. Good books by insiders involved in the early development of the Industrial Military Complex are most rare. Ruppelt’s book is a unique and personal glimpse inside the management systems, politics, and burgeoning technology of what was to become an American national institution as well as a military organization.

Report into Unidentified Flying Objects is a personal testimony, to be put on the shelf alongside Che Guevara’s Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War and T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom. We see power struggles, personality clashes, military intrigue, Intelligence paranoia, cover-ups and conspiracies. Ruppelt’s story is one of struggles within the Air Force and indeed struggles within himself regarding loyalties, policy, and the need for keeping secrets. As a humble USAF Reserve captain with few resources and staff, he was handed no less the task of analyzing what in all likelihood was an alien invasion!

I specialize in portraiture, as exemplified by my book on George Adamski, Looking for Orthon, and my prize-winning biography of Charles Fort, Politics of the Imagination. Literary portraiture tells us a lot more than mere mechanical research and the sand-grain piling up of case history upon case history.

The truth about a human being lies in the interplay of image, symbol, and metaphor between culture and personality, time and history, and I hope I have explored this unique drama in An American Demonology.”

This book has only just arrived in Britain at Turnaround Distribution after one of the longest gestations in literary history. Chances are that it will not be in the shops now before Christmas. It can be ordered from any shop however, but anyone who cannot wait that long can get one from Turnaround, and tell them I sent you!

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Abduction in my Life by Bruce Maccabee “

... most books on UFOs do not have a good reputation as reading material.

They tend to be the equivalent to garage-manuals containing little more than lists of spare-parts, and most are terrifyingly over-rational. Such books express a case-history medieval scholasticism that would do credit to Aquinas, and such tomes are instrumental in turning away wider and more general interest in Ufology. What a pleasure it is then to receive Bruce Maccabee’s novel Abduction in My Life. A UFO researcher of renown, he has written a book about the UFO experience with which one can curl up with and read like a Dickens novel.”

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