News You Can’t Really Use…But it’s Interesting (Links Purge)

Books & Articles:

• A new book implies that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his Spiritual cronies arranged the death of Houdini.

• Two well-educated gentlemen in the aerospace industry have issued “An Introduction to Planetary Defense”, telling the public how to prepare for alien invasion.

• The first full biography of “anti-gravity pioneer” T. Townsend Brown clears up some of the mysteries of his life. (No, I don’t know who he is either.)

• In his article “PKD, The Unicorn and Operation Mind Control” Adam Gorightly sets forth a theory that Ira Einhorn was framed for the murder of Holly Maddox because he was about to unveil some Tesla technology. This ties in to Philip Dick. (Einhorn-framing theories don’t wash with me, ’cause his girlfriend’s putrid corpse was right in his own bedroom, leaking fluids into the apartment below. Even the smelliest hippie on the planet – and Einhorn was a contender for that title – must have noticed the funny smell coming from the closet…)

Weirdness

• The Washington Post weighs in on victims of mind control
• If you’ve never read up on the bizarre saga of “real-life Thelma and Lousie” Joyce Stevens and Rose Turford, do so. A real head-scratcher. A mentally unstable nurse somehow convinced an upper-middle-class Texas housewife to take her into her home, become her lover, and rob men… all supposedly at the behest of a mystery man she called Avery.
• As in the Marc Dutroux affair in Belgium, pedophile/murderer Thomas Hamilton has some people convinced he was part of an elite (Masonic) pedo ring that hasn’t been brought to justice.
• “Canadian Coins Bugged, U.S. Security Agency Says” (CBC article, January ’07)
• Benjamin Creme and/or Maitreya says the Saddam Hussein they executed was a fake.
• Rumor has it that a mystery millionaire will pay fat rewards for giant owls. Or is that just a CIA cover story?
• Even imaginary time travelers get their own Wikipedia entries.
• All you need to know about Reptilian Space People at Answers.com!
• Too strange not to be true: A Whitley Strieber/Daniel Pinchbeck smackdown! (via The Orange Orb). And speaking of Whitley Strieber, he’s seeing signs that life is getting weirder. I think we can all agree with that.
• Another UFO crash documentary. If Pravda says it, then it must be real.
• Crazy anti-Catholic ranting
• Iron Butterfly bassist Philip Taylor Kramer’s disappearance and suicide are still steeped in mystery; Wikipedia has details of the rumors and claims.
• Plants recognize their siblings! No word yet on sibling rivalry.

General

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