Insight (Page 18)

I have recently had the thrill of having my “letter to the editor” published in one of my favorite magazines, the July 12- 19 edition of the New Yorker. But it also gave me an insight into how the media distorts and modifies all sorts of information.

One thing I didn’t realize is that magazines and newspapers have the right to alter and shorten letters before they print them, but they have to get your permission in order to do so, so I had an exchange of emails with the editor of “The Mail” section before my letter was printed.
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More and more, I’m being asked the question, why don’t the visitors intervene in one or another catastrophe? Most recently, the question has taken on much greater intensity: why don’t they help us clean up the BP spill?

These are fair questions, and they have clear answers. First, the visitors do not have a relationship with the human species, except on an individual basis. The US and British governments, working in concert, have, time and again, presented a hostile face to them by sending up armed aircraft at every opportunity, and in some cases actually firing weapons at them.
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An Unknowncountry.com reader, Alan Lamers, working on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia reports that many people are disappearing in the jungle, apparently due to a very unusual form of abduction that takes place if they wear certain colors. Some are returned, but generally with no memory of what happened to them.

His report follows:

I am on an island called Sulawesi in Indonesia. To be exact, I a writing this from the city of Makassar also known as Ujung Pandang Sulawesi Selatan (South Sulawesi).
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What has been going on at Giza? Are there clandestine excavations taking place? Are artifacts being spirited away from newly uncovered “treasure chambers” or “record chambers” situated deep beneath the Sphinx? And how do these claims relate to the discovery in 2008 of a previously unrecorded cave complex on the opposite side of the plateau?

These are the pressing questions that are being debated daily now on conspiracy sites and forums. One story or rumour fuels another, which fuels another, and another, until they all swirl around in a burning cauldron of unfathomable paranoia.
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