UFO film promises proof of pint-size aliens

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  YouTube screen capture shows a doctor "operating" on an "alien."

An upcoming documentary film about UFOs claims it will offer evidence of aliens, including cutting-edge scientific analysis of a recovered body.

The film, which premieres April 22, is titled Sirius and showcases the claims of Steven Greer, a prominent UFO researcher who has dedicated years of his life — and a small fortune — to proving that the U.S. government is actively covering up hard evidence of extraterrestrial life.

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The project has taken several years, and money to fund it was raised from donors and UFO buffs. In an urgent, breaking news update to the crowdfunding project, Greer asked his donors for more money because:

There is a chance that we may be able to include in the film “Sirius” the scientific testing of a possible Extraterrestrial Biological Entity (EBE) that has been recovered and is deceased. This EBE is in the possession of a cooperative institute desiring further scientific evaluation of the possible ET. We cannot reveal at this time the location of this being or the name of the person or persons who possess it….I have actually visited the group that possesses this EBE and have personally and professionally examined the being. It is indeed an actual deceased body, and most certainly is not plastic or man-made. 

It has a head, 2 arms and 2 legs and is humanoid. We have seen and examined X-Rays of the being. Its anatomy however is not homo sapien (modern human) or any known hominid (predecessors to humans). As you can imagine, the security and scientific issues surrounding the further testing of this potentially explosive and world-changing evidence are mind-boggling. However, we feel we simply must proceed expeditiously but cautiously. The cost of doing proper MRI testing, full and dispositive forensic-level DNA testing and carbon dating with other isotope testing are considerable and certainly not currently funded.

The cute little EBE alien-thing is about half a foot long. It looks like something you might stir your coffee with if you broke off one of its bony little arms. It was recovered not from Area 51 nor a hidden base near Roswell, N.M, but instead, supposedly, from Chile’s Atacama Desert several years ago.

This revelation raises all sorts of questions: If ETs aren’t much larger than your cell phone then why are their spacecraft so big? If the thing really is an alien body found in a South American desert years ago, why are we only finding out about it now? Why didn’t it make international news at the time, and why weren’t the scientific tests that will supposedly prove its extraterrestrial origins done years ago? What would a single alien body — without a spaceship, other occupants or even any G.I. Joe-scale helmet or ray gun — be doing alone in the desert? And why is all this suddenly being brought up when Greer is trying to raise money and publicity to complete a movie?

Actually I think I know the answer to that last question.

This is of course not the first time that a “documentary” has surfaced promising definitive proof of extraterrestrial life. If the whole alien autopsy theme seems familiar, it should be. It was done back in 1995 and broadcast on the Fox network as Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction.

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The show centered around 17 minutes of supposedly top-secret grainy black and white footage filmed by the military and showing a post-mortem dissection of an alien body. To much of the public it looked credible, though skeptics pointed out many signs that it was a hoax. Those suspicions were soon verified, and the filmmakers admitted the footage had been staged.

So what is the Latin American, alien-leprechaun thing that Greer found? It looks a lot like a sculpted model, and fairly realistic faked aliens, animals and other creatures are widely available, including on eBay. Maybe all the questions will be answered when the film premieres, and scientists will finally have the “potentially explosive and world-changing evidence” they need to confirm extraterrestrial life.

Or not.

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Rewarding hate, intolerance, and broken promises – with taxpayer dollars

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  March 21, 2013: President Barack Obama waves as he leaves the stage after speaking at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem.AP

Just days after President Obama left Israel, we learned that his administration quietly gave the green light to giving  nearly $500 million in taxpayer-funded aid to the Palestinian Authority.

The administration’s memory must be short.

Roughly four months ago, the Palestinian Authority defied the Oslo Accords – and the U.S.  – by seeking and gaining non-member observer state status at the United Nations.

Just weeks ago – right before President Obama’s visit – the Palestinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party met with representatives from Hamas to implement the long-promised Palestinian “unity government” that would render the Palestinian people formally and officially terrorist-led.

It’s past time for America to call the Palestinian’s bluff.  There should be only one path to American aid – the path to peace. 

Taken together with President Obama’s recent gift of $250 million to Muslim Brotherhood-led Egypt, America’s taxpayers are now on the hook for three-quarters of a billion dollars in sequester-era stimulus for radical foreign governments with recent records of defying America and breaking treaties.

It is difficult to overstate the absurdity of these gifts.  The Palestinian Authority’s hostility to Israel stretches back to its founding – and before.  In fact, the PA’s founding father, Yasser Arafat, had a record of terrorism and bloodshed unmatched until Usama bin Laden burst onto the scene in the late 1990s. 

Among his many transgressions, Arafat was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre and the 1973 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sudan, where the U.S. Ambassador was murdered.  His reign of terror against Israel killed more Israeli civilians – on a per capita basis – than were killed during Bin Laden’s 9/11 terrorist attack against the U.S.

Yet President Obama spoke to Palestinians while standing under a banner featuring Arafat’s portrait.

The modern Palestinian Authority certainly became less violent once Israel erected the West Bank fence and militarily crushed its worst terrorist elements during the Second Intifada, but it still celebrates suicide bombers and draws its own maps and monuments without reference to Israel.  Palestinian textbooks are famous for their anti-Semitism, and entire generations of children are brought up to hate Jews.

In other words, they still haven’t given up the dream of destroying Israel.

The pattern of American foreign aid now becoming clear:  We borrow billions from China to subsidize and even prop up regimes that defy us at every turn. 

Egypt and the Palestinian Authority defy the U.S., beg for money (with the implicit threat that conditions will grow even worse if aid is withheld), then defy the U.S. again.  That’s not an alliance; that’s a protection racket.

Defy, beg, and defy some more – all while Americans tighten their belts here at home, and we’re led to believe that there’s not enough money even for tours of the White House.

Two weeks ago, Senator Marco Rubio introduced an Amendment requiring that explicit conditions be placed on aid to Muslim Brotherhood-led Egypt, and – critically – these conditions required that the government of Egypt take concrete actions, not merely make promises. 

Similar conditions should be placed on all U.S. aid, not just aid to Egypt. Let’s sequester terrorists before we sequester Americans.  It makes no sense to continue funding hostile governments.

And, it’s past time for America to call the Palestinian’s bluff.  There should be only one path to American aid – the path to peace. 

Twice in the last twenty years the Israeli government has offered to establish a Palestinian homeland with a capital in East Jerusalem, and twice the Palestinians have rejected that deal – once with guns, rockets, and suicide bombs. 

Before the Palestinian Authority gets a single dime from American taxpayers, it must give up its dream of destroying Israel – in words and deeds, to the world and – crucially – to its own people.  Stop teaching hate.  Sever all ties with the terrorist thugs of Hamas.  Come to the peace table without preconditions and without even a thought of destroying the nation of Israel.

In other words, act like an ally.  Then, we’ll think about aid.

Jay Sekulow is Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). Follow him on Twitter@JaySekulow.

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Facebook promises big update to one of its biggest products

Facebook certainly isn’t spending any time sitting around.

After starting a rollout of its new search engine on Facebook, Graph Search, the company is now teasing an event next Thursday that looks like a big update to the News Feed.

Hard to argue that it’s anything less than a design update to what is essentially Facebook’s home page. “Come see a new look for News Feed,” the invitation says.

News Feed ads have turned into a significant business for Facebook. On Facebook’s last earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the addition of advertising had barely affected user engagement. “The numbers turned out better than we expected,” he said.

So it seems only natural that Facebook would want to find a way to better monetize its users in its News Feed. What isn’t clear is how much of the update will focus on the mobile news feed and how much will focus on the desktop feed. Mobile will likely be a big focus given how big it is for Facebook: Mobile revenue was about 23% of ad revenue for fourth quarter 2012.

One new experiment Facebook is running is app install advertisements, a business that also appears to be doing very well. Since mobile App Install ads launched, 20% of the top-grossing iOS apps are using it, Zuckerberg said on the call.

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