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This past March, 42 years into his life prison sentence for assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan stood in front of a parole board and repeated the same thing he had been saying at parole hearings for decades: that he had no memory of the shooting or his subsequent trial and confession of guilt. For the 14th time, his application was denied. Two weeks ago, Sirhan's attorneys filed the latest in a series of appeals that aim to get Sirhan back in front of a judge to correct what they call "an egregious miscarriage of justice." Sirhan, they argued,...

<p>Oath Keepers has learned that federal agents recently visited a Later Day Saints (Mormon) Church food storage cannery in Tennessee, demanding customer lists, wanting to know the identity of Americans who are purchasing food storage from the Mormons.</p> <p>“A fellow veteran contacted me concerning a new and disturbing development. He had been utilizing a Mormon cannery near his home to purchase bulk food supplies. The man that manages the facility related to him that federal agents had visited the facility and demanded a list of individuals that had been purchasing bulk food. The manager informed the agents that the facility kept no such records and that all transactions were conducted on a cash-and-carry basis. The agents pressed for any record of personal checks, credit card transactions, etc., but the manager could provide no such record. The agents appeared to become very agitated and after several minutes of questioning finally left with no information. I contacted the manager and personally confirmed this information.</p>

The term psi denotes anomalous processes of information or energy transfer that are currently unexplained in terms of known physical or biological mechanisms. Two variants of psi are precognition (conscious cognitive awareness) and premonition (affective apprehension) of a future event that could not otherwise be anticipated through any known inferential process. Precognition and premonition are themselves special cases of a more general phenomenon: the anomalous retroactive influence of some future event on an individual’s current responses, whether those responses are conscious or nonconscious, cognitive or affective. This article reports 9 experiments, involving more than 1,000 participants, that test for retroactive...

Jaycee Dugard, the woman who was abducted at the age of 11 in 1991, was recently discovered living in a virtual prison in the back yard of a couple's come in Antioch, Calif., as has been widely reported. She had been there for 18 years, confined and horrifically abused, even giving birth to her rapist's children. They were kept prisoner and isolated, never having attended school or seen a doctor. Amazingly, a Reno psychic is now claiming the case proves the accuracy of her abilities. Dayle Schear, who was paid by Jaycee's parents to help locate their daughter, says she...

The sight was not that unusual, at least not for Mosul, Iraq, on a summer morning: a car parked on the sidewalk, facing opposite traffic, its windows rolled up tight. Two young boys stared out the back window, kindergarten age maybe, their faces leaning together as if to share a whisper. The soldier patrolling closest to the car stopped. It had to be hot in there; it was 120 degrees outside. “Permission to approach, sir, to give them some water,” the soldier said to Sgt. First Class Edward Tierney, who led the nine-man patrol that morning. “I said no —...

Ok, maybe it's not official, but they are all fake, read on... Birmingham and the world seems to have gone UFO mental recently, there have been sightings everywhere, all of the sightings have reported the usual 'triangle of lights', 'cigar shaped glowing crafts', Flying saucers with flashing lights and beams. Well it's all rubbish, ok that's a not a totally surprising standpoint, but I do actually have an open-mind one these things. Let me ask you a question... if all these aliens have been visiting our skies, recently and for years, they must be pretty advanced to get to our...

For years, David Shayler has been a thorn in the flesh of Britain's intelligence establishment. An MI5 officer for six years, he went to jail after leaking secret documents to the press. In the last ten years he's been a novelist, a writer on security matters, and a political activist. But his latest role may be the most talked about yet - that of mystic. Sally Gould went to meet him. In his first broadcast interview on his spirituality, David Shayler has told More4 News: "What I'd say to people is: Do I look mentally ill? Do I sound mentally...

Do some of us avoid tragedy by foreseeing it? Some scientists nowbelieve that the brain really CAN predict events before they happen Professor Dick Bierman sits hunched over his computer in a darkened room. The gentle whirring of machinery can be heard faintly in the background. He smiles and presses a grubby-looking red button. In the next room, a patient slips slowly inside a hospital brain scanner. If it wasn't for the strange smiles and grimaces that flicker across the woman's face, you could be forgiven for thinking this was just a normal health check. But this scanner is engaged...

The extrasensory perception lab at Princeton University will be shuttered at the end of the month. Maybe you already knew that. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory will close after 28 years of studying ESP and telekinesis, research that embarrassed university officials and outraged the scientific community. PEAR's founder, Robert G. Jahn, said the lab, with its aging equipment and dwindling finances, has done what it needed to do. "If people don't believe us after all the results we've produced, then they never will," Jahn, 76, former dean of Princeton's engineering school and an emeritus professor, told The New York...

A MASSIVE road four football fields wide and running from Mexico to Canada through the heartland of the United States is being proposed amid controversy over security and the damage to the environment. The "nation's most modern roadway", proposed between Laredo in Texas and Duluth, Minnesota, along Interstate 35, would allow the US to bypass the west coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to import goods from China and the Far East into the heart of middle America via Mexico, saving both cost and time. However, critics argue that the ten-lane road would lay a swathe of concrete...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco mother who lost her son to foster care because of the family's pit bulls will have to wait until next week to see if she will get her child back. During a closed hearing Tuesday, a commissioner in the juvenile division of San Francisco Superior Court put off making a ruling on whether 7-year-old Andrew Louie will be allowed to return home. The boy was taken from his mother, Valerie Louie, in December because social workers feared the family's pit bulls posed a threat to the child. At the time, authorities had decided that...

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Ok, I can understand the restlessness I've been feeling since yesterday. There's a lot riding on this election, and passions are running high on both sides, so naturally eceryone and their naked brother who has an ounce of Power and no clue about Shielding is leaking energy like a hair dryer in a bathtub. So it's Shields Up for me, but I'm still getting enough bleedover to make me jittery and a little manic if I don't concentrate. That's all to be expected. What wasn't expected was that once I filtered out all that background noise, I started hearing a...

UNC-CH survey finds that nonreligious teens more likely to believe in psychics, astrology - RALEIGH- A national ongoing study on teenagers and their religious practices found that Mormon youths are least likely to believe in psychics and fortune tellers, while Catholic or nonreligious teens are most willing to believe in them. According to the National Study on Youth and Religion, Catholic and nonreligious teens also show higher rates of belief in astrology and communication with the dead than do other religious denominations. The data were culled from a survey of 3,000 Americans between ages 13 and 17, and is part...

Today, while browsing the In-Tar-Net, a friend pointed out to me the website of a young lady who offered up what is quite possibly the oddest explanation for the Kerry defeat that I’ve read so far. She writes:Magical Election Tampering: SHUT IT DOWN! Ok, I can understand the restlessness I've been feeling since yesterday. There's a lot riding on this election, and passions are running high on both sides, so naturally eceryone and their naked brother who has an ounce of Power and no clue about Shielding is leaking energy like a hair dryer in a bathtub. So it's Shields...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A proposal to regulate psychics in San Francisco is catching the attention of law enforcement nationwide. That's because fortune-telling fraud is one of the hardest crimes to prosecute. Fraudulent psychics and palm readers are rampant in California according to police. They've taken consumers for millions of dollars. The problem is that perpetrators use fake names and are constantly on the move and victims are too scared or embarrassed to come forward. "I can see that you have a long-standing disagreement with someone in your family," says Detective Jan Cater from the Sacramento Sheriff's Department. She's giving...

I guess in one way, one might argue that the Islamic terrorist, the politicized Islamist movement, isn’t a religious organization as much as it is a racial one. Let me explain. I mean, there seems to be pretty clear evidence that Iraq and other Baath based regimes are working indirectly with various Islamic extremist organizations, and visa versa for that matter -- and yet, if you think about it, what does the Iraqi regime have in common with the Islamists? Saddam is a Socialist, that is what the Baath Party is. Sure, he’s a dictator, what does that have to...

Happy Halloween! Please tell us any scary, creepy, spooky encounters you have had with paranormal phenomena. Let's see which freeper has the freakiest story to tell on this Halloween night.

(The following excerpt was taken from an article pulished in The Delphi Associates Newsletter, Issue #74, September 2001 ©) SEASON OF HORRORBY SEAN DAVID MORTON (Compilation and Editor's notes by Melissa Thomson)   ~The Millennium Factor~ September 17, 1992" In July of 1999, New York will be attacked unsuccessfully...The Anti-Christ will be behind this. We will intercept the nukes in time, but large scale damage is still sustained by the East Coast." "A neutron-like bomb will be successfully exploded over the Pentagon in Washington, DC. It will turn Washington into a ghost town, but the monuments will all be...