Background On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a mass shooting inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. Orlando Police Department officers shot and killed him after a three-hour standoff. Originally, the Department of Justice released the 911 call of Omar Mateen edited, and omitted the reference to “Islamic State” and the name of ISIS leader “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.” Amid controversy and pressure, they later released the full transcript, and issued a statement on June 20, 2016: Joint Statement From Justice Department and FBI Regarding Transcript…
Author: John Greenewald
Background A major objective of the study was to develop procedures by which a dog handler can control the direction of off-leash movement of his dog by remote means in an unrestricted environment. Several dogs were successfully conditioned to respond to a tone signal to change direction and to make excursions of one-half mile or more under the control of terrain stimuli and of tone signals transmitted by radio. Automated procedures to train dogs to change direction in response to a tone were developed; in these procedures the learning contingencies of reinforcement were arranged by a computer control system. The…
Background The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress. Often called the “congressional watchdog,” GAO examines how taxpayer dollars are spent and provides Congress and federal agencies with objective, reliable information to help the government save money and work more efficiently. In April of 2015, I requested all cover pages, for all classified reports, dated 1972 through 1990. I requested ONLY the cover pages, to see what may (or may not) be of interest to pursue. The GAO is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 USC 552). However, GAO’s…
Background Document excerpt: The basic outline of our standard remote-viewing protocol is as given in our tutorial paper, “A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances: Historical Perspective and Recent Research,” H. Puthoff and R. Targ, Proc. IEEE, pp. 329- 354, March 1976. The elements of the protocol, each of which is addressed below, consist of (1) target pool selection; (2) subject orientation; (3) outbound experimenter behavior; (4) inbound experimenter behavior; (5) postexperiment feedback; (6) judging procedure. Document Archive Standard Remote-Viewing Protocol (Local Targets) by Dr. Harold E. Puthoff and Russell Targ, November 1978 [16 Pages, 1.5MB]
Background Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, MC, commonly known as Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary who lived most of her life in India. She was born in today’s Macedonia, with her family being of Albanian descent originating in Kosovo. She was a worldwide figure that will be remembered for her amazing work on a global scale. She was the recipient of numerous honors including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2003, she was beatified as “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta”. A second miracle credited to her intercession is required before she can…