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Until now, I didn't even know quite a few other nations have a freedom of info act or something near identical...Here was I thinking America's law was a one-off...Freedom of information laws by country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...
UK: Freedom of Information Act 2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...
India: Right to Information Act, 2005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_t...
Germany: In Germany, the federal government passed a freedom of information law on September 5, 2005; it was last updated on August 7, 2013.[64] The law grants each person an unconditional right to access official federal information. No legal, commercial, or any other kind of justification is necessary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...
China: "Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Open Government Information" (中华人民共和国政府信息公开条例) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...
Japan: "Law Concerning Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs" (行政機関の保有する情報の公開に関する法律) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...
Australia: Freedom of Information Act 1982 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...
Canada: Access to Information Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_...
p.s. It appears Russia doesn't have one.
UFOs, warp drives, stargates: Freedom of Information query reveals secret list of Pentagon research projects https://www.news.com.au/technology/in...These bizarre experiments and programs are the stuff of conspiracy theory. But now it’s been revealed it was true the entire time.
FOIA REQUEST REVEALS BIZARRE SECRET PROJECTS WORLD https://gizadeathstar.com/2019/01/foi...
A glance at some of the paper titles - and remember, these are the unclassified papers - is quite a read:
Intertial electrostatic Confinement Fusion, Dr. George Miley, Univ. of Illinois.
(Philo Farnsworth's plasmators and fusors, anyone?)
Pulsed High-Power Microwave Technology, Dr. James Wells, JW Enterprises.
(I'll bet that's useful if you want to burn down a few houses but leave the surrounding shrubbery untouched.)
Advanced space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric)
Engineering, Dr. Hal Puthoff, EarthTech International
(Engineering the fabric of spacetime... sounds a bit like Gabriel Kron, and other conCERNS. But here's one of my favorites:)
Invisibility Cloaking, Dr. Ulf Leonhardt, Univ. of St. Andrews
(But no, the US Navy still denies it was ever trying to make ships invisible to radar during WWII.)
Traversable wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy. Dr Eric Davis, Earthtech International
High Frequency Gravitational Wave Communications, Dr. Robert Baker, GravWave.
(Didn't Thomas Townsend Brown propose something similar in the 1950s? Well, he did, and "whew!" thank goodness they're still looking into it, even though they told us they never snatched up Brown's project.)
Antigravity for Aerospace Applications Dr. Eric Davis, EarthTech International.
Field Effects one Biological Tissues Dr. Kit Green, Wayne State Univ.
Metamaterials for Aerospace Applications, Dr. G. Shvets, Univ of Texas at Austin
Warp Drive, dark energy, and the Manipulation of Extra
Dimensions, Dr. R. Obousy, Obousy Consultants
Materials for Advanced Aerospace Platforms Dr J. Williams, Ohio State Univ.
Aerospace Applications of Programmable Matter, Dr. W. McCarthy, Programmable Matter Corporation
Space Communication Implications of Quantum Entanglement and Nonlocality, Dr. J Cramer, Univ. of Washington
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Air Breathing Propulsion and Power for Aerospace Applicaions, Dr. S. Macheret, Lockheed Martin
Negative Mass Propulsion, Dr. F., Winterburg, Univ of Nevada.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
But what emerges from this bizarre list? What's the common theme? For one thing, space, and its manipulation at all levels, from "higher dimensionalities" to "nonlocality", quantum entanglement for communications, traversible wormholes and programmable metamaterials (useful for long distance space ships able to make instant repairs against micro-meteoric bombardment). There's even a bow to the late 1950s Brookings Report, with the mention of "magnetohydrodynamics", a term that, to my knowledge, first appears in the Brookings report. And invisibility? We all know the story of the Philadelphia Experiment. Engineering the fabric of space-time? That's another nifty way to accomplish invisibility, traverse wormholes, and manipulate higher dimensionalities. (Reading this list makes one wonder if British hacker Gary McKinnon, who claims to have uncovered evidence of a secret American "space fleet", might have uncovered something whose mere existence pointed in the direction of these types of papers.)
In other words, if one views these papers from a wide and long view, one discovers that their subject matter extends back some decades to the Brookings Report, to the work of T.T. Brown, Gabriel Kron, and others, and that that work never stopped.
And there's something else that emerges, besides the obvious determination to dominate space in every way and at every level, from materials science to the ability to manipulate the fabric of spacetime itself. This list of papers, if one thinks about them in a certain way, seems oddly to corroborate the concerns of the alternative research field: UFOs, 5G and its biological effects, microwave weapons, California fires and pulverized trade center buildings on 9/11... it all seems to be here...
And there's one more thing... Developing this type of technology, assuming the papers represent something more than just mere "brainstorming", will require a lot of money over several decades. Something, say, on the order of $21,000,000,000,000? If money is missing, this may be one very strong reason why...
DIA Secret Programs https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2...Retired U.K. Ministry of Defense official Nick Pope recently obtained and published a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) letter to Congress about the Pentagon's UFO program, AATIP. In the first half, he addressed these bombshell revelations and their implications. He was sent the letter and documents from the DIA at the same time a number of other researchers received the materials via the FOIA. In addition to their investigation of UFOs, the Pentagon program was looking at such sci-fi sounding subjects as traversable wormholes, warp drives, alternate dimensions, stargates, and invisibility cloaking.
Now that these documents are in the public domain, it seems that the US government is showing more openness on topics that go beyond AATIP's stated goal of evaluating aerospace threats, Pope indicated. Through acclimatization from movies and media, as well as widespread coverage over stories like AATIP, the public has grown accustomed to the idea that we may co-exist with aliens or non-human intelligences, he noted, though the forms of the visitors may be more akin to AI than biological beings. He also talked about how USOs (unidentified submersible objects) have been hugely underreported as Air Force cases have tended to dominate over Navy water sightings.
:(PENTAGON SAYS ALL OF GOOGLE’S WORK ON DRONES IS EXEMPT FROM THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT https://theintercept.com/2019/03/25/g...
https://foia.state.gov/Learn/FOIA.aspx
The FOIA in my opinion has allowed a lot of dark government secrets to come to light - secrets that otherwise would have remained buried for much longer, or even forever.
What follows below is an article on the procedure everyday citizens need to go through to submit FOIA requests...
The thanks to my buddy Dave in New Mexico (at last sighting) for sending me this article...
FOIA Tips http://ufotrail.blogspot.com.au/2018/...
In this post we'll take a look at some resources and tips for submitting Freedom of Information Act requests. You may send requests to virtually any type of government body or agency, and submissions are typically accepted via websites, email, fax or standard mail.
First we'll consider where to send an FOIA request, then we'll explore how you might choose to compose your submission. Below are just a few potential sources.
FOIA Sources
FOIA requests may be emailed to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at FOIA@dodiis.mil. This is where you submit requests about the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. A current Pentagon spokesperson verified the existence of the former project and DIA was identified as responsible for it. You might therefore choose to cite such statements. Calls for proposals, project reports and budgets are all fair game. So are details of the modified buildings for storing alloys recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena, as well as physical examinations of UFO witnesses reported by the NYT. Learn more about the Agency's FOIA procedures at the DIA website.
Requests to the National Security Agency (NSA) may be submitted online. While it is a simple and user-friendly set up, you might want to have the body of your request already composed on a word processing program for easy copy and paste to the NSA website form.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offers a similar FOIA procedure as NSA. Most requests can be submitted online.
Learn about FOIA requests to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at the Bureau website. Requests may be sent online.
You might choose to inquire to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) when seeking some older files. Read about the Admin's FOIA process at the NARA website and email your requests to foia@nara.gov. You can check out my pending FOIA appeal to NARA about circumstances surrounding historical context of 1946-47 UFO reports and inspired by the work of James Carrion.
Composing a Request
Many government websites provide sample requests. Below is an outline of a somewhat typical request, followed by some brief explanations:
[Title and mailing address of agency]
[Your name, address, and contact info]
[Date]
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
[Description of files and documents sought]
A fee waiver is requested on the grounds I am a freelance writer, the requested information will be published in ways that are not primarily commercial, and the requested information stands to assist the public in understanding government operations. If fees are deemed applicable, please notify me before processing if costs are estimated to exceed $30.
I prefer the requested files be delivered electronically, but agree to other delivery means if considered more practical or efficient.
Thank you for your attention to my request.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
Most of it is pretty self-explanatory, such as you'll want to be as clear as possible about files requested. More on that shortly.
If you desire to request a fee waiver, you might want to familiarize yourself with the related protocols and explain some grounds for the requested waiver. One way or the other, be sure to provide an amount you are willing to pay, specifying you want to be notified prior to processing if costs are estimated to exceed the amount. You might also choose to clarify how you prefer the files be delivered, such as emailed or saved on a disc and shipped.
FOIA Tips
While you may compose your request around virtually any topic, you definitely want to form your query in a way that seeks documents. There are a number of ways to do this effectively. One is to cite an already public document that establishes the existence of another document, the file you seek.
For instance, I obtained a previously unreleased 1978 NSA memo on events occurring at the annual MUFON Symposium of the same year. This was achieved by citing the statements of NSA man Eugene F. Yeates, who, in a document known as the Yeates affidavit, referenced a document authored by an NSA assignee pertaining to a UFO symposium. Following an FOIA request to NSA for the specific doc mentioned by Yeates, NSA released the majority of the memo. You may view the memo and read more in a related blog post. Such documents as the Yeates affidavit may be excellent sources for FOIA topics.
You might want to spend some time browsing the online reading rooms of such agencies as listed above. Then, when you find something that peaks your interest, file some FOIA requests around it, citing the related document. I include a web link to the cited doc in the request, along with identifiers such as its title and date, as well as the page number quoted.
Another option is to request what is known as a Mandatory Declassification Review, or MDR, of a fully or partially withheld document. A bit of success was achieved when I filed an FOIA request to NSA, asking it to conduct a declassification review of a partially withheld doc titled UFOs and the Intelligence Community Blind Spot to Surprise and Deceptive Data. NSA subsequently released the item in full, and you can read more about it in my blog post on the topic. An MDR may be an effective way to get more information released.
As you compose requests and obtain files, let the community and other researchers know what's effective. You might blog about your work and upload files for public viewing to websites such as keepandshare.com, among others. Read more about my efforts by clicking on the FOIA blog label.
We must wade in and start filing to gain some experience, and, as is the case with anything, skills improve over time. Good luck. Post about how it goes, and, remember, we can't succeed if we don't try.
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