Seasonable Sayings of Calvin Coolidge

August 26, 2008 In the 1920s, Calvin Coolidge met more frequently with reporters than has any other president. He also shook hands with long lines of White House tourists regularly. The policy of our foreign relations, casting aside any suggestion of force, rests soley on the foundation of peace, good will, and good works.                         --Calvin Coolidge     Our country has definitely relinquished the old standard of dealing with other countries by terror and force, and is definitely committed to the new standard of dealing with them through friendship and understanding.  I believe this new policy holds a promise of great benefit to humanity.. » read more

Royal Raymond Rife Biography

Posted 8/14/08 The following was found on the Science Fair Projects and Papers website which also includes outdated copies of the CAFL and NCFL as well as the Introduction to the Frequency Lists, which are not reprinted below. Imagine, for a moment, that you have spent more than two decades in painfully laborious research - that you have discovered a simple, electronic approach to curing literally every disease on the planet caused by viruses and bacteria. Indeed, it is a discovery that would end the pain and suffering of countless millions and change life on Earth forever. Certainly, the medical world would rush to embrace you with every imaginable accolade and financial reward imaginable. You would think so, wouldn't you? Unfortunately, arguably the greatest medical genius in all recorded history suffered a fate literally the opposite of the foregoing logical scenario.. » read more

Not Worth a Continental

August 1, 2008 During the Revolutionary War, a Continental Congress bereft of hard money was reduced to buying supplies for Washington’s army by issuing fiat paper money, notes that became known as “Continentals.” Because these pieces of paper could not be redeemed for gold or silver, their value eroded quickly. By war’s end hardly anyone would accept them, and the phrase “not worth a Continental” was widespread in the land. It was widely reported Washington’s men found the only use of the paper money (other than, um … sanitary purposes) was to line well-worn boot to keep out the rain and snow: for decades thereafter a worthless piece of fiat paper money not redeemable in silver or gold was called a “shin plaster.” If this part of our history was as well known as it used to be, would Americans have been as complacent when FDR seized Americans’ gold and substituted paper money not redeemable in gold in 1934; when Lyndon Johnson finished this insidious process by switching America from silver coinage to nearly worthless cupro-nickel and Federal Reserve ‘“notes” no longer “redeemable in silver” in the mid-1960s? If the reasons the founding generation were so adamant about having Congress “set the value of the dollar” in gold or silver were well remembered, would we find it as hard to believe, today, that the prices of oil and gasoline and milk and eggs are not really up, if priced in 1908 20-dollar gold pieces of 1928 silver dollars – what’s really changed is that today’s paper “dollar” has the buying power of the “nickel” of yesteryear? The SEC just barred speculative trading in oil futures that tend to push the price of oil or gasoline “too high.. » read more

The Death of James Forrestal

Posted 7/24/08 [Note: this article is adapted and expanded from Richard Dolan’s UFOs and the National Security State: An Unclassified History. Volume One, 1941 to 1973, Keyhole Publishing, 2000. It appears in the December 2001/January 2002 issue of UFO Magazine.] ***** At around 2 a.m.. » read more

A Brief and Shining Moment

July 19, 2008 It has been said that the light that shines brightest, shines but for a short time. This was said about Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendricks, Jim Morrison, and a few other musicians. Before a conspiracy starts to assemble in your mind about the letter "J", hop back on my train of thought. Let's discuss something a bit more important than the world of entertainment and the possible evils that befall folks that have names that begin with "J". There was a light that shone for a brief period in the mid- 1900's that has slipped from memory.. » read more

Surviving the Biggest Wave Ever

July 8, 2008 50 Years Ago, 1,700 Foot Wave Devastated Lituya Bay By DAVE KIFFER   July 08, 2008 Tuesday Ketchikan, Alaska - Alaska is a land of geological superlatives: Big mountains, vast spaces, huge earthquakes. So it would stand to reason that an event that happened exactly 50 years ago on July 9th is also the largest of its kind ever recorded. On July 9, 1958, the largest wave in modern history occurred in Lituya Bay, on the northern Southeast Alaska coast about halfway between Cape Spencer and Yakutat. Southeast Alaska Earthquake. Scar at the head of Lituya Bay and wave damage on the north shore, from southwest of Gilbert Inlet to La Chaussee spit.. » read more

Biography: John Kaminski

July 18, 2008 Wednesday, 7/23/08, 8 p.m., Freedom Fighter Radio, http://freedomfighterradio.net/ (download available)   John Kaminski is a longtime editor of small town newspapers who rose to prominence in cyberspace as one of the first writers to point out that the official story about 9/11/2001 was full of holes, and that thousands of U.S.. » read more

Rosa Parks Memorabilia to be Auctioned

July 3, 2008 Oralandar Brand-Williams / The Detroit News DETROIT -- The hat she wore Dec. 1, 1955, when she touched off the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott. The Medal of Freedom given to her by President Bill Clinton. Hundreds of hand-written notes documenting her life as a young girl growing up in the racially segregated South. A postcard sent to her from civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.. » read more

The Whitehouse Coup

June 29, 2008 Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen  View a picture gallery of images related to this edition.     The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy. www.. » read more

Similarities Between 1929 and 2008 Terrifying

July 5, 2008 Watching Wall Street and the American real-estate market crumble over the past 10 months has not inspired great confidence in our wonderful free-market economy or the land pirates who run it. As someone who recently wrestled with the causes and consequences of the Great Depression, I find the current economic shipwreck not merely spooky but downright terrifying.     Working as a historian is a discouraging business. No one seems to learn anything from history - that's pretty much a given - but we keep hoping. As a chronicler of the 19th century American West, I had my work cut out when a family friend asked me to write a biography of her father, Judge Wilson McCarthy.. » read more

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