NEWS OF THE WORLD - Current Events (May Be Disturbing, No Politics Please)

[Sean]

Submitted without comment . . . maybe a whimper . . .

Woman kills man by squeezing his testicles over parking dispute

Woman kills man by squeezing his testicles over parking dispute April 19, a female scooter rider killed a man by squeezing his testicles for the packing dispute, in Haikou City, Hainan Province. It was learned, the woman, 41 years old, rode on her scooter to an elementary school in Meilan District, Haikou City to pick up her child that day. When she wanted to pack her scooter in front of a shop, she was rejected by the shop owner, a 42-year-old male. The two parties soon fell into a quarrel, and then the physical confrontation. The furious woman called up her husband and brother to come help her, which resulted in a more violent fist fight. During the fight, the middle aged woman manged to grab the man's testicles, and squeezed them till he finally collapsed on the ground. The man was immediately rushed to hospital, but unfortunately died there despite of efforts.


Story with photos:
http://chinanews24.net/2012/04/woman-kills-man-by-squeezing-his-testicles-over-parking-dispute/

'Mommy, why were you late picking me up from school?'

'Well... you see... there were these nuts...' 

[Haunted hearse]

You can't blame her for being upset.  She was anxious to get to the school auditorium, where her child would be performing in a presentation of "The Nutcracker Suite".

[Toy Ranch]

Wow, I had no idea you could die from squeezed nuts.  What a way to go.....  That is sure to land in a future episode of 1000 Ways To Die.

[Sean]

Man Claims To Have Proof He Traveled Back In Time


Seattle-attorney Andrew Basiago claims he was a participant in a time travel program when he was a kid and when he was 11 visited Gettysburg and appears in the center-left foreground of this picture.
A lot of people have a hard time trusting lawyers as it is, but what about one who claims he was part of a secret government time travel program when he was a kid?

Since 2004, Seattle attorney Andrew Basiago has been publicly claiming that from the time he was 7 to when he was 12, he participated in "Project Pegasus," a secret U.S. government program that he says worked on teleportation and time travel under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

"They trained children along with adults so they could test the mental and physical effects of time travel on kids," Basiago told The Huffington Post. "Also, children had an advantage over adults in terms of adapting to the strains of moving between past, present and future."

Skeptical? You're not alone. Hong Kong physicist Shengwang Du issued a paper last year saying time travel is impossible, because nothing moves faster than the speed of light, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Nevertheless, Basiago's claim gets support from Alfred Webre, a lawyer specializing in "exopolitics," or the political implications surrounding an extraterrestrial presence on Earth. Webre said teleportation and time travel have been around for 40 years, but are hoarded by the Defense Department instead of being used to transfer goods and services faraway distances.

"It's an inexpensive, environmentally friendly means of transportation," Webre told The Huffington Post. "The Defense Department has had it for 40 years and [former Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld used it to transport troops to battle."

Basiago said he experienced eight different time travel technologies during his stint in the program. Mostly, he said, his travel involved a teleporter based on technical papers supposedly found in pioneering mechanical engineer Nikola Tesla's New York City apartment after his death in January 1943.




"The machine consisted of two gray elliptical booms about eight feet tall, separated by about 10 feet, between which a shimmering curtain of what Tesla called 'radiant energy' was broadcast," Basiago said. "Radiant energy is a form of energy that Tesla discovered that is latent and pervasive in the universe and has among its properties the capacity to bend time-space."

Basiago said project participants would jump through this field of radiant energy into a vortal tunnel and "when the tunnel closed, we found ourselves at our destination."

"One felt either as if one was moving at a great rate of speed or moving not at all, as the universe was wrapped around one's location," Basiago said.

Basiago claimed he can be seen in a photograph of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg in 1863, which he said he visited in 1972 via a plasma confinement chamber located in East Hanover, N.J.

"I had been dressed in period clothing, as a Union bugle boy," he said. "I attracted so much attention at the Lincoln speech site at Gettysburg -- wearing over-sized men's street shoes -- that I left the area around the dais and walked about 100 paces over to where I was photographed in the Josephine Cogg image of Lincoln at Gettysburg." (The boy on the left in the photo below).



In addition, Basiago said he traveled to Ford's Theatre the night of Lincoln's assassination on five or six occasions. "I did not, however, witness the assassination," he said. "Once, I was on the theater level when he was shot and I heard the shot followed by a great commotion that arose from the crowd. It was terrible to hear."

Basiago said each of his visits to the past was different, "like they were sending us to slightly different alternative realities on adjacent timelines. As these visits began to accumulate, I twice ran into myself during two different visits."

Being sent back in time to the same place and moment, but from different starting points in the present, allowed two of himselves to be in Ford's Theatre at the same time in 1865.

"After the first of these two encounters with myself occurred, I was concerned that my cover might be blown," he recalled. "Unlike the jump to Gettysburg, in which I was clutching a letter to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles to offer me aid and assistance in the event I was arrested, I didn't have any explanatory materials when I was sent to Ford's Theatre."

And how did these alleged time travelers return to the present day or their point of origin? According to Basiago, some sort of holographic technology allowed them to travel both physically and virtually.

"If we were in the hologram for 15 minutes or fewer," he explained, "the hologram would collapse, and after about 60 seconds of standing in a field of super-charged particles ... we would find ourselves back on the stage ... in the present."

Basiago said the technology should only be used for real-time teleportation, not time travel, because, "It would be chaos."

Basiago and Webre recently held a seminar in Vancouver, B.C., focusing on the need to disclose, deploy and declassify the technology, as well as the public policy decisions that would be needed to use it.

Webre, for one, said he wants teleports installed in every major city where people and products would be transported through the time-space continuum. "This would free up a lot of urban space that is currently being used by train yards or airports," Webre said.

Of course, there are risks. Basiago remembered feeling extreme turbulence while going through the vortal time tunnel. Webre said one tragedy occurred in the early days of the technology in which a child in Project Pegasus arrived a few seconds before his legs.

"He was writhing in pain with just stumps where his legs had been," Webre said.

Webre said problems like that have since been solved. Still, he said teleportation needs strict legal controls to prevent it being used for "for political control, economic control or illegal surveillance."

All of this is fascinating stuff -- if true. But experts who include retired Army Col. John Alexander, former director for the Advanced System Concepts Office, U.S. Army Laboratory Command, are, to put it mildly, skeptical.

"If this could be done, if anyone could go even one second into the future, we'd own the world," Alexander told The Huffington Post. "There are computer programs on Wall Street that are hundredths of a second faster and provide a tremendous advantage."

Basiago said that as many as 100 people worked on Project Pegasus. Alexander said he doubts that many people could keep the secret for 40 minutes, much less 40 years.

"There's a saying in Washington: If two people know something, it's not a secret," said Alexander, author of "UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities." "If this was used by the Department of Defense, how did we miss the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or the fall of the Shah of Iran?"

Basiago said Alexander's rhetorical questions can be explained by the paradoxes of the time-space continuum.

"I only know about how the time travel technology was used during my involvement with Project Pegasus, so this is only speculation," he said. "But it's possible that 'forward intelligence' showed [Iraq leader Saddam] Hussein using the weapons of mass destruction, but our military went in and toppled him before he could use them."

[Unknown Primate]

That dude's lying!  When I went back into time, he was NOT at Gettysburg!

[BlackLagoon]

That was a pretty intresting read, for me anything that involves time travel usually is. Here is what could be going on

1. He's completely out of his mind.

2. He's not crazy at all, just looking for attention.

3. He actually did go back in time and didnt have the courtesy to stop by my grandmother's house in the early 80's and grab my Mego Spider-Man? SONUVAB***!!!!!!

[BlackLagoon]

Pt 1/14 Andrew D. Basiago - Project Pegasus, teleportation and time travel

[Fester]

This is the same nutcase that claimed to have been teleported to Mars where he met Martians wearing blue bodysuits.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/06/anomalous-martian-anomalies/

He has also claimed that Hilary Clinton was a CIA operative, and that Barack Obama has been teleported to Mars.  He ha also claimed that aspertame (Nutrasweet) is a mind control drug used to create slaves for the New World Order.

White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars
By Spencer Ackerman
Email Author
January 3, 2012 

Forget Kenya. Never mind the secret madrassas. The sinister, shocking truth about Barack Obama's past lies not in east Africa, but in outer space. As a young man in the early 1980s, Obama was part of a secret CIA project to explore Mars. The future president teleported there, along with the future head of Darpa.
That's the assertion, at least, of a pair of self-proclaimed time-traveling, universe-exploring government agents. Andrew D. Basiago and William Stillings insist that they once served as "chrononauts" at Darpa's behest, traversing the boundaries of time and space. They swear: A youthful Barack Obama was one of them.
Perhaps this all sounds fantastical, absurd, and more than a little nuts. We couldn't agree more. That's one of the reasons we love conspiracy theories  — the more awesomely insane, the better. Each week during 2012, when the Mayans tell us to expect the apocalypse, Danger Room will peel back a new layer of crazy to expose those oh-so-cleverly hidden machinations powering this doomed plane of existence. Welcome — back — to Tinfoil Tuesday.
According to Basiago and Stillings, Obama isn't just lying about his identity. He's lying about his military service record, too. While his political opponents in 2008 attacked him for never serving, in truth, he was concealing his participation in a hidden CIA intergalactic program hosted at a California community college in 1980.
Officially, the White House says Obama never went to Mars. "Only if you count watching Marvin the Martian," Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the National Security Council, tells Danger Room. But that's exactly what a secret chrononaut wants you to believe.
Obama wasn't the only one making the otherworldly voyage. As "Barry Soetero," the 19-year-old Obama was one of 10 youths selected to secretly teleport to and from Mars, forming a band of interplanetary Teen Titans. Regina Dugan, the director of Darpa, was another member.
Between 1981 and 1983, Obama is supposed to have visited Mars twice, by way of a teleportation chamber called a "jump room." Basiago, a fellow chrononaut, told the website Exopolitics that he saw Obama "walk back to the jump room from across the Martian terrain." To acknowledge his comrade, Obama is said to have told Basiago, "We're here" — apparently, "with some sense of fatalism."
It is not known what exactly Obama did on Mars. (Socializing Martian health care, perhaps? Building a birth-certificate printing press?) His mission was a perilous one, according to Basiago and Stillings. The CIA wished to "establish a defense regime protecting the Earth from threats from space" as well as a legal claim to "territorial sovereignty," making Obama something of a Martian conquistador. Presumably, Obama's CIA handlers needed him to "acclimate Martian humanoids and animals to their presence" in order to secure the U.S.-Martian alliance. (We'll bet you weren't even aware of Martian animals.)
"Simply put, your task is to be seen and not eaten," an elder chrononaut, retired Army Maj. Ed Dames, is alleged to have told a young Obama.
You can scoff at the idea of Obama on Mars. But it explains a lot. Obviously the birth-certificate controversy is a side effect of Obama forgetting to sufficiently establish his fake identity as he learned to manipulate time and space. (Dugan has a demonstrated record of supporting space travel; the "jump room" must be broken.) And who else but a man accustomed to keeping the country's most explosive secret would be comfortable waging so many undeclared wars? Ignore Basiago and Stillings at your own peril. If Obama's reelected, the U.S. is finally colonizing Mars.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/obama-mars/

Of Course, if the White House denies it, that is proof of the conspiracy!

[Fester]

OUCH!
http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2012/04/30/man-sues-bmw-after-motorcycle-seat-allegedly-causes-2-year-erection/

[MDG]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/01/pizza-slice-evil_n_1467455.html?ref=food&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

[Sean]

Obiwan Kenobi is accused of hit and run in California.
The police force is strong with this one.

A man named Obiwan Kenobi -- like the Jedi knight who trained Luke Skywalker -- was allegedly involved in a California hit and run last month, according to the Auburn Journal.

Police arrested Kenobi, 37, over the weekend, because he allegedly caused a 5-car collision in Rosevill and fled the scene in his Toyota, reported KSSW.

The wreck caused several injuries, according to media reports.

In 1999, Kenobi legally changed his name to win a prize, the Lincoln News Messenger said.

During the release of the "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" in 1999, a radio station offered a $1,000 prize to the first moviegoer who showed up proving that his name was Obiwan Kenobi.

Kenobi's given name was Benjamin Cale Feit, but after spending $12 at a state office he emerged with the name of Sir Alec Guinness's legendary character, though in "Star Wars" lore, "Obi-Wan" is spelled with a dash.

[Sean]

OUCH!
http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2012/04/30/man-sues-bmw-after-motorcycle-seat-allegedly-causes-2-year-erection/

Wolf "has been experiencing continuing problems since his motorcycle ride," his attorney, Vernon Bradley of Sausalito wrote in the lawsuit. "He is now unable to engage in sexual activity, which is causing him substantial emotional and mental anguish."

The motorcycle seat gave him an erection and he CAN'T have sex?!!?  That's like having the remote that works and being unable to change the channel... is the guy a MORON?

[Fester]

Wolf "has been experiencing continuing problems since his motorcycle ride," his attorney, Vernon Bradley of Sausalito wrote in the lawsuit. "He is now unable to engage in sexual activity, which is causing him substantial emotional and mental anguish."

The motorcycle seat gave him an erection and he CAN'T have sex?!!?  That's like having the remote that work and being unable to change the channel... is the guy a MORON?

Great analogy!   

[Haunted hearse]

Maybe we could take up a collection so he can legally change his name once again, but this time to Jar-Jar-Binks.

[Moonshadow]

The time-travelling lawyer must have been reading Marvel Comics in the 80s. There was a whole series of stories in the Thing's book, Marvel Two In One, set in a secret government base called..wait for it...Project Pegasus.