-Greetings one and all! Welcome to the first …

-Greetings one and all!

Welcome to the first ever weekly Elfis eLetter from SMiles Lewis, aka ELFIS. “We” are going to be trying to actually pull off a weekly electronic newsletter featuring all the wonderful news that catches the jaundiced eye of your host, Fortean Anomalist Informationalist … Elfis. What kinds of things hook the eye of Elfis? The strange, the synchronistic, the ParaPolitical (aka Conspiracy, Corruption, Deep Politics), frontier science, anomalous phenomena, mind, parapsychology, dreams, lucidity and much much more. This eLetter will feature news and views on all these arenas and more. Also, news and updates related to the Elfis Network and its brethren.

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In fact, let’s just get on with the…

Elfis Network News

Anomaly News RoundUp

AnomalyNews.com and ParaPolitics.info are the two main places I post the news articles I find most important within the Paranormal and Conspiracy Research venues.

At Anomaly News you will see posts covering the paranormal gamut of Anomaly Television projects, Anomalous Humans, Anomaly Science, Conspiracy, Cryptozoology, Entities, Haunted Places and Sacred Spaces and UFOs & Related Phenomena.

This week’s headlines…

–Martian rock ‘does contain life’ BBC News Online

–Venus may have bugs, say scientists BBC News

–Does the Sun have a doomsday twin? Daily Telegraph (UK)

–Your Brain May Soon Be Used Against You Philadelphia Inquirer / SiliconValley.com

–Computer program to send data back in time UPI Science News

–International SETI launches new detection scale (Houston) South African Broadcasting Corporation

Podesta / Rothschild / SciFi Channel / Spielberg Alliance

–Outing UFO Clues Good for Ratings WIRED magazine

–UFOs: Seeking the Truth Through Savvy Marketing Space.com

–Greer vs Spielberg:The Politics of Disclosure Disclosure Project

–Charlie Smith on John Podesta and his connection to scandalous use of his own brother for exporting high tech computer secrets to China and more… VirtuallyStrange.net UFO UpDates

ParaPolitical UpDate

–Lawyer Defends White House Information Freeze Editor and Publisher

–UFO Cult Resurfaces Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy

UFO CULT RESURFACES

The UFO cult that is fixated on the notion that “secret government documents” contain “the truth” about otherwise “unexplained aerial phenomena” is, on balance, no friend of freedom of information or government accountability.

Neverending requests for documentation on UFOs, the remains of Noah’s Ark, and similar obsessions clog up the narrow channels of public access to government information and make a mockery of the Freedom of Information Act.

Their latest publicity stunt, featuring no less than former White House chief of staff John Podesta, is reported in “Clinton Aide Slams Pentagon’s UFO Secrecy” here:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/10/22/ufo.records/index.html

Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation of American Scientists.

And the apology…

–A Word On UFOs Secrecy News

A WORD ON UFOS

The item entitled “UFO Cult Resurfaces” in the previous edition of Secrecy News included regrettable errors of commission and omission, such as these:

Proponents of UFO-related declassification are not literally a “cult,” and it was gratuitously insulting to use that term; there are at least some historically or otherwise significant documents that remain classified (e.g. records on Project Moondust) that could be considered UFO-related; there is nothing intrinsically disreputable in the investigation of peripheral phenomena; and under the Freedom of Information Act, anyone is free to ask for anything, as they should be.

But the fact remains that the interests of those focused on UFOs are not the same as those concerned with the larger problem of public access to government information. Though UFO disclosure advocates have acquired the internet domain name “freedomofinfo.org,” it does not accurately represent their narrow goals. (For a more faithful match between domain name and content, see http://www.freedominfo.org, the online network of freedom of information advocates.)

The latest UFO declassification campaign is again reported in “UFOs: Seeking the Truth Through Savvy Marketing,” by Leonard David in Space.com, October 25:

http://space.com/news/ufo_poll_021025.html

Since that story repeats the unfortunate “UFO cult” remark, let this serve as an apology for that as well.

–Robert Kennedy Skeptical on UFOs PresidentialUFO.com

–Chlidren Stolen by Franco Family Finally Learn the Truth The Guardian

–Kim Jung Il’s Abduction of South Korean and Japanese Entertainers

“This regime not only abducted thousands of South Korean citizens during the Korean War (3) but it continued to abduct South Korean fishermen and Japanese citizens up until the 1980’s. (4) Many South Koreans and Japanese have been personally devastated by missing family members and live with the agony of not knowing their fate.”

Congressional Human Rights Caucus

–U.S. Ambassador praises Russian handling of hostage crisisYahoo / Associated Press

–Troubled soldiers keep quiet Fort Bragg killings probe cites stigma USA Today

–The United States of the World

–Officer Makes Fatal Error, Shoots Suspect The Fresno Bee