I joined a Facebook group called “Who is Ellie Light?” This morning I was invited to join a new group: “Who is Mark Spivey?”Who is Mark Spivey? I know only this: that he is the author of this pro-Obama letter that has appeared in numerous publications:
A recent Associated Press article stated that President Barack Obama’s hesitancy on the Afghan war buildup implies weakness. I wish world leaders had more of that kind of weakness.
Clearly, Obama does not want to send soldiers into harm’s way without a clear goal, a solid plan and an exit strategy, three aspects sorely missing from former President George W. Bush’s military ventures. I know that we Americans are used to presidents who play cowboy, who say things like “bring ’em on” and “mission accomplished” without a second thought; presidents who send Americans into battle on falsified weapons reports.
But it seems our current president understands that you don’t send soldiers into battle without first nailing down what they’re supposed to be doing, and why. So hats off to Obama’s “hesitation.” Soldiers are human beings, not chess pieces. It’s about time we get a president who understands that.
— Mark SpiveyThe letter has appeared — at a minimum! — at The Minnesota Daily, at the Baltimore Chronicle (on the same page as Ellie Light’s letter!), at the San Diego Union-Tribune (where he claims to be from San Diego), at the Naples News (where he claims to be from Naples, Florida), and at Buzzflash.com. And there are more. You know what to do.
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Also: Ed Morrissey forwarded me an e-mail he received from Ellie Light several days ago. The mail appears to have been routed through the IP address 212.24.236.50, which comes back to Saudi Arabia.Saudi Arabia??
Archive for the ‘Spooky’ Category
Is a foreign intelligence agency astroturfin g for Obama??
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Genie harassment accusations in Saudi Arabia
Monday, July 13th, 2009Saudi family take a genie to court over theft and harassment allegations
A family in Saudi Arabia is taking a genie to court for theft and harassment.The genie is accused of leaving them threatening voicemails, stealing their mobile phones and hurling rocks at them when they leave their house at night, according to the Al-Watan newspaper.
An investigation was under way, officials at the Shariah court said.
‘We have to verify the truthfulness of this case despite the difficulty of doing so,’ Sheikh Amr Al Salmi, the head of the court, told Al-Watan. ‘What makes this case and complaint more interesting is that it wasn’t filed by just one person. Every member of the family is part of this case.’
Wealth and Power Update
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Capital markets face shift to opaque investors
Global financial markets face a permanent shift in power from traditional money managers to opaque groups such as petro-dollar investors, Asian central banks, hedge funds and private equity groups, according to a study out Thursday.
These power brokers had amassed $8,400bn in assets by the end of 2006, three times what they held in 2000 when they were “little more than fringe players” in the capital markets, says the report, published by McKinsey Global Institute.
Their holdings now represent 5 per cent of the world’s $167,000bn of financial assets. If current trends continue, they could control assets worth $20,700bn, or nearly three-quarters of the size of global pension funds, by 2012.
More proof you should never build over Indian graveyards
Saturday, July 14th, 2007Indian kids at graveyard school face nightmares
Scores of Indian children attending a school located in a graveyard were having recurring nightmares about ghosts and have appealed to authorities to shift them from the site, officials and residents said.
“I have stopped going to school after many dead people walked out of their graves and came into my dreams, ordering me to reach school on time,” said six-year-old Raqib Ansari.
This week, hundreds of children at the school in the eastern state of Bihar, accompanied by their parents, marched to the office of a senior district official, asking for the school to be shifted away from the Muslim graveyard.
Using voodoo to get rid of the boss
Friday, March 2nd, 2007Voodoo hex at the fire station
A Middleton fire marshal has been on paid leave since July while officials investigate allegations he used a department computer to consult with an online psychic and conspired with others to buy an Internet voodoo hex against the chief.The consultations by Tom Weber sought to divine whether he and others would be successful in removing Fire Chief Aaron Harris, Harris said.
Searches of department computers also found Weber had exchanged e-mails seeking to discredit and disparage the chief, Harris said.
“It was all legally obtained in our district-owned computers,” Harris said of the investigation. “This is really creepy stuff.”
Remote Viewing in the UK
Friday, February 23rd, 2007How UK attempted bizarre X-Files tests on soldiers:
The Ministry of Defence funded a secret study to ascertain whether people with psychic powers could help protect the nation, it emerged last night.The MoD arranged the tests to discover whether volunteers were able to use psychic powers to “remotely view” hidden objects. The studyinvolved blindfolding test subjects and asking them to “see” the contents of sealed brown envelopes containing pictures of random objects and public figures.
ESP Lab shutting down
Saturday, February 10th, 2007A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its Doors
Over almost three decades, a small laboratory at Princeton University managed to embarrass university administrators, outrage Nobel laureates, entice the support of philanthropists and make headlines around the world with its efforts to prove that thoughts can alter the course of events. But at the end of the month, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory, or PEAR, will close, not because of controversy but because, its founder says, it is time.
Why you should always keep your psychic powers quiet in wartime!
Saturday, January 13th, 2007Campaign to pardon the last witch, jailed as a threat to Britain at war
Mrs Duncan, a Scotswoman who travelled the country holding seances, was one of Britain’s best-known mediums, reputedly numbering Winston Churchill and George VI among her clients, when she was arrested in January 1944 by two naval officers at a seance in Portsmouth.The military authorities, secretly preparing for the D-day landings and then in a heightened state of paranoia, were alarmed by reports that she had disclosed – allegedly via contacts with the spirit world – the sinking of two British battleships long before they became public.
She was not the only person caught up in the very understandable Pre D-Day paranoia. A Daily Telegraph crossword puzzle editor and school headmaster, Leonard Dawe, nearly suffered the same fate because several invasion code words (e.g. “Mulberry”, “Neptune”, “Utah”, “Omaha”, and most damningly “Overlord”) appeared in his puzzles in the weeks leading up to the invasion. The poor man suffered lengthy interrogations, completely confused as to what he had done. 40 years later, it was revealed that he routinely asked his young pupils to suggest clues; unsurprisingly, they made suggestions based on conversations of American military personnel that they had overheard.
