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Two Articles On the Stalin-Mengele-Roswell Conspiracy Theory

Roswell ‘was Soviet plot to create US panic’

Devotees of science fiction have been convinced for decades that an alien spacecraft crashed in the desert of New Mexico – and that the American government covered up the recovery of extraterrestrial bodies.

9:00PM BST 13 May 2011

The so-called Roswell Incident of 1947 spawned conspiracy theories by the score.

But now, sadly for UFO spotters, a new book offers an entirely man-made – and some would say even more bizarre – explanation, featuring two of the greatest villains of 20th century history: the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and the infamous Nazi “Angel of Death” Dr Joseph Mengele.

During a powerful storm in July, 1947, an object crashed near a rancher’s home in Roswell, New Mexico.

Roswell army air base initially said that a “flying disc” had come down, but hours later, as government scientists arrived in the area, it was stated instead that a weather balloon had crashed.

The incident went largely unreported until books and documentaries in the 1970s made allegations of alien life forms.

Area 51, the new book by Annie Jacobsen, is based on interviews with scientists and engineers who worked in Area 51, the top secret test base in the Nevada desert.

It dismisses the alien story and puts forward the theory that Stalin was inspired by Orson Wells’s famous radio adaptation of the HG Wells novel War of the Worlds, which provoked hysteria across America when broadcast in 1938. According to the book, the plot started after the Soviet Union seized from Germany at the end of the war the jet-propelled, single wing Horton Ho 229 – a fighter said to be the forerunner of the modern B2 stealth bomber.

This is where Mengele enters the story. The Nazi doctor, who experimented on prisoners in Auschwitz and fled to South America after the war, was supposedly enlisted to create a crew of “grotesque, child-size aviators” in return for a eugenics laboratory.

The book says that the plane was filled with “alien-like” children, aged 12 or 13, who Stalin wanted to land in America and cause hysteria similar to the 1938 broadcast. But, the plane, remotely piloted by another aircraft, crashed and the Americans hushed up the incident.

Jacobsen’s source, a retired engineer from the former defence company EG&G, which handled the US government’s most sensitive projects, said he was put on to the Roswell project in Area 51 in 1978.

Miss Jacobsen writes: “They found bodies alongside the crashed craft. These were not aliens. Nor were they consenting airmen. They were human guinea pigs. Unusually petite for pilots, they appeared to be children. Each was under five feet tall.

“They were grotesquely deformed, but each in the same manner as the others. They had unusually large heads and abnormally shaped oversize eyes.”

Two were supposedly found “comatose but still alive”.

The EG&G engineers were told “that seeing the bodies would be a shocking and disturbing experience”.

Perhaps not surprisingly, a spokesman for the US Air Force said: “We have not yet read this book so we are not able to make a comment on it.”

From the Telegraph, here.

Identity of Annie Jacobsen’s Source with a Q Clearance for Chapter 21 of her book about Area 51

 WILLIAM P. VELAZQUEZ

TL;DR: It is Ed Wescott. Read on for how I reached this conclusion.

In Joe Rogan Experience Episode 1299, Annie Jacobsen, an American investigative journalist, author (and 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist in history), mentions at 9:05 (Youtube timestamp) that her Source with a Q Clearance, was and I paraphrase:

A major player in the Manhattan Project. He went on and worked in the atomic energy commission. There’s a wing of a museum named after him. His accolades his awards were so extraordinary. He recently died, and gave me permission to write about him after his death.

The Source told her that the Roswell incident was Stalin sending surgically modified children in experimental Nazi hovering discs into American territory to create a War of the Worlds type panic inside USA. Stalin did it also to demonstrate that USSR was ahead of USA in aerospace technologies, although USSR did not have the Atom Bomb, while having better Black Propaganda capabilities.

The Source also confessed that US Government (i.e. DOE a.k.a Atomic Energy Commission a.k.a NNSS) also had done surgical/genetic experimentation on mentally challenged children to see if they can replicate what Stalin did.

Annie Jacobsen does not reveal the name of her Source, and saves it for her next book (maybe). But given the information above I was able to mine WikiData and come up with an answer. Here is how I did it:

First I wrote a SPARQL Query for Wikidata Query Service (WDQS)

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SELECT ?person ?personLabel ?death
WHERE
{
  ?person wdt:P1344 wd:Q127050.
  ?person wdt:P570 ?death
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
ORDER BY DESC(?death)

What it does is it finds people involved in the Manhattan project and sorts them by how recently they died (because Annie said the Source died recently). The result set is quite large but I limited the number of results below:

personpersonLabeldeath
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q376617Geoffrey Chew2019-04-11T00:00:00Z
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q666681Ed Westcott2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q64188Roy J. Glauber2018-12-26T00:00:00Z

Now all I needed to find was someone in the above list who worked for the Atomic Energy Comission. Ed Wescott’s Wikipedia page says he worked for the Atomic Energy Comission. There is also an museum which opened in 1949 about the Manhattan Project, now called the American Museum for Science and Energy which is very fond of Ed Wescott. Ed Westcott’s wikipedia page also talks about museum sections dedicated to his work:

The first museum exhibition devoted to Westcott’s work was organized by the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge in 1981, entitled “Oak Ridge Seen 1943–1947: 20 Photographs by Edward Westcott”. In 2005, the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville mounted an exhibition of his photos, entitled “Through the Lens of Ed Westcott: A Photographic History of World War II’s Secret City”. The American Museum of Science and Energyand the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge both have exhibits devoted to Westcott and his work,[9][15] in addition to displaying his photos as part of exhibits on the city’s history. A selection of works from the Ewing Gallery exhibit is now a touring museum exhibit.[16]

https://archive.is/Tzdfw

So I conclude that Ed Wescott was person who knew about American experiments on mutating/mutilating mentally challenged childen.

I hope my blog will not get taken down for exposing the identity of a person with an Above Top Secret, Q Clearance who knew about the crimes that USA/DOE/AEC did by experimenting on children. I will take a backup of the blog just in case, after I publish this post. Please don’t dox me. I am just a loser on the Internet. Please don’t drone me either. I hope I am just being paranoid.

From Me In Words, here.

Introducing the Wonderful KosherBooks.org Site

The KosherBooks.org resource was created by observant Jews and offers detailed (!) ratings for over 4,500 children’s books. Here are the ratings criteria.

Some excerpts from a recent Mishpacha profile:

I started kosherbooks.org with my good friend, Sharon Schwartz, 23 years ago, when our kids were becoming readers.

We both loved reading and wanted our kids to have that outlet, but we were each trying to pre-read our books, since we were careful about what came into our homes. We found ourselves rereading the same books over and over again when we couldn’t remember if they were appropriate.

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About three years ago, website developer Margalit Brown tracked us down. She told us our list needed to be a searchable website, and offered to create it for us. Now you can search by title, author, or grade range.

We’d love to add a plug-in that will allow users to print their search results, or download them to a spreadsheet, and we’re looking for a volunteer programmer or donations to fund the process.

Finger on the Pulse

Some people don’t believe in the concept of censorship — of course, they’re not our intended audience. On the other end of the spectrum, there are very frum people who never thought of censoring their kids’ books, who’ll look at the title and book flap and say, “Oh, this is cute.”

Sometimes there are the books you read as kids, but when you reread them you start realizing, “Do I want my kids reading about Christmas parties or boyfriends?”

Parents need to have their finger on the pulse to chap what’s going on. Modern books can look fine but be really dangerous, and insidiously so. It’s a new thing — you’ll have a totally normal book and smack in the middle, a problematic character crops up.

Increasingly, young adults and children’s books heavily promote alternative lifestyles. These elements are often totally gratuitous to the plot, which is what scares me. Literature is trying to normalize what shouldn’t ever be normal, and they’re doing it to younger and younger children, with definitions and explanations.

(Excerpted from Family First, Issue 673)

Again, find the useful site here.

Note: The reviews do not address the pictures and illustrations, presumably because they are subject to change.

Talmud Mentions the ‘Lindy Effect’ – EXTRA, EXTRA, Read All About It!

Gittin 28a:

משנה: המביא גט והניחו זקן או חולה נותן לה בחזקת שהוא קיים בת ישראל הנשואה לכהן והלך בעלה למדינת הים אוכלת בתרומה בחזקת שהוא קיים השולח חטאתו ממדינת הים מקריבין אותה בחזקת שהוא קיים.

גמרא אמר רבא לא שנו אלא זקן שלא הגיע לגבורות וחולה שרוב חולים לחיים אבל זקן שהגיע לגבורות וגוסס שרוב גוססין למיתה לא איתיביה אביי המביא גט והניחו זקן אפילו בן מאה שנה נותן לה בחזקת שהוא קיים תיובתא ואי בעית אימא כיון דאיפליג איפליג.

Rashi:

כיון דאיפליג, משאר דרך כל הארץ שהאריך ימים עד מאה שנה.

איפליג, ואינו כשאר האדם להיות קרוב למות אבל בן שמונים ואחת או יותר עד תשעים קרוב למות הוא.

Soncino’s passable translation:

MISHNAH. If, when the bearer of a get left, the husband was an old man or sick, he should yet deliver it to the wife on the presumption that he is still alive. If the daughter of an ordinary Israelite is married to a priest and her husband goes abroad, she goes on eating of the Terumah on the presumption that he is still alive. If a man sends a Sin-offering from abroad it is sacrificed on the altar on the presumption that he is still alive.

GEMARA. Raba said: [This Mishnah] speaks only of an old man who has not reached the years of ‘strength’ and of a man who is just ill, because most invalids recover, but not if he has attained ‘years of strength’ or was in a dying condition, because most persons in a dying condition die. Against this [opinion] Abaye raised the following objection: ‘If when the bearer left the husband was old, even a hundred years old, he yet gives it to the wife on the presumption that he is alive.’ This is a refutation. I might, however, still answer that if a man reaches such an age he is altogether exceptional.

Here’s Wikipedia on the Lindy Effect:

The Lindy effect is a theory that the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things like a technology or an idea is proportional to their current age so that every additional period of survival implies a longer remaining life expectancy. Where the Lindy effect applies, the mortality rate decreases with time. In contrast, living creatures and mechanical things follow a bathtub curve where, after “childhood”, the mortality rate increases with time. Because life expectancy is probabilistically derived, a thing may become extinct before its “expected” survival. In other words, one needs to gauge both the age and “health” of the thing to determine continued survival.

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In Taleb’s 2012 book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder he for the first time explicitly referred to his idea as the Lindy Effect, removed the bounds of the life of the producer to include anything which doesn’t have a natural upper bound, and incorporated it into his broader theory of the Antifragile.

If a book has been in print for forty years, I can expect it to be in print for another forty years. But, and that is the main difference, if it survives another decade, then it will be expected to be in print another fifty years. This, simply, as a rule, tells you why things that have been around for a long time are not “aging” like persons, but “aging” in reverse. Every year that passes without extinction doubles the additional life expectancy. This is an indicator of some robustness. The robustness of an item is proportional to its life!

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Find the rest of Wikipedia here.

Wait, why does it say “even a hundred years old”?

Maybe that’s what bothered Ramban (we lack the Tosafos quoted initially, but it’s close to Rashi):

הא דתנן והניחו זקן או חולה נותן לה בחזקת שהוא קיים. איכא דקשיא לי’ הא דאמרי’ בפ’ המפקיד דילמא מתה סבתא ומתה ברתה דאלמא חיישינן, ובתוספות מתרצין כשהגיעו האם והבת לגבורות וא”כ האם מיפלג פליגא לה ומפרשים דלא אמרינן פליג אלא בבן מאה, ולאו מילתא היא, וי”ל שאני שבי דכולהו איתנהו ביה אבל בעלמא לא חיישינן, וי”ל שאני התם דכיון דאפשר והדין מוטל על ב”ד אין נזקקין לו לתקנו אלא לגמרי וחוששין לכל דבר שלא יצא דבר שאינו מתוקן מתחת ידיהם, אבל הכא מוקמינן לי’ בחזקתיה משום דלא אפשר לתקן לגמרי ולחוש, וזה עיקר.

Rashash on Rashi:

שהאריך ימים עד מאה שנה, משמע דוקא מאה אבל מן פ’ עד ק’ לא. והא דתני אפי’ בן ק’ ר”ל לא מיבעי’ עד פ’. או יותר מק’. ובדבור הסמוך פי’ עד תשעים קרוב למות משמע דיותר על צ’ קרוי ג”כ איפליג והאי דהרחיק ההפלגה עד למעלה מצ’ הוא משום דבאבות פ”ה מכ”א לא חשיב חילופי טבע חיי האדם אלא בעשרה שנים. וגם אמר שם בן תשעים לשוח. ועי’ בהגר”א סי’ קמ”א ס”ק קל”ז.

(And סוף גבורות קאמר.)

Even if we strike the word, like the version present before Masores Hashas, Rid and the Rashba ז”ל, the Yerushalmi, at any rate, does write “Afilu”, as the Rashba notes after quoting it. So, for this and other reasons, the Poskim deem this answer a “Shinuya Be’alma”.

Rashba explains:

אמר רבה לא שנו אלא זקן שלא הגיע לגבורות וחולה שרוב חולים לחיים, אבל זקן שהגיע לגבורות וגוסס שרוב גוססין למיתה לא. ואותביה אביי מברייתא דקתני המביא גט והניחו זקן בן מאה שנה נותן לה בחזקת שהוא קיים, וקיימא לן כאביי וכסתמא דמתני’ ומתניתא, ואע”ג דאמרינן אי בעית אימא כיון דפלג פלג, שנויא ולא סמכינן עלה. וכן נראה מדברי הרב אלפאסי שלא הביא מדברי רבה אלא לא שאנו אלא חולה אבל גוסס לא, ושייריה להגיע בגבורות. ומצאתי בירושלמי (ה”ג) אפילו הניחו בן מאה שנה ועשה שליח בדרך עוד מאה שנה נותנו לה בחזקת שהוא קיים, משמע דטעמא לאו משום דפלג, דאם כן מאי אפילו, אדרבה כשהגיע למאה טפי עדיף.

But this isn’t to say the natural principle doesn’t stand; this is not a “Machlokes Bametzi’us”.