Washington, DC - Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Paradigm Research Group, announced today "the most important initiative PRG has launched in its twelve-year history."

The "Million Fax on Washington" will motivate the American people to send, between November 5, 2008 and January 20, 2009, one million letters, faxes and emails to the President Elect calling for the new president to: 1) demand and receive a full briefing by his military services and intelligence agencies regarding the extraterrestrial presence and related phenomena, 2) support convening congressional hearings to take testimony from scores of former military and agency employees regarding extraterrestrial phenomena, and 3) formally acknowledge to the American people the extraterrestrial presence - Disclosure.

Straightforward instructions and additional information are available at the initiative website:  www.faxonwashington.org

This effort will be international in scope and citizens of other countries are also being encouraged to contact the new American president.   The decision by the United States government, formalized in 1952, to embargo the truth regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race has impacted all peoples and nations.

PRG has also created a Facebook Group Page - Million Fax on Washington.  Facebook is the most powerful networking community on the Internet, and PRG expects this community to contribute a significant portion of the letters, faxes and emails to the President Elect.

PRG executive director Stephen Bassett is already scheduled for two dozen media interviews and expects to do 100+ media segments over the next 90 days.

"Formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race - Disclosure - is close at hand and possibly already under consideration by elements within the United States Government.   But it is not a fait accompli.   It could be withheld due to events or loss of political will.   It is critical the American people act now to help close the deal.   There has never been a more profound opportunity for the people in concert to make a difference and change the course of history."

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Apollo Astronaut Again Confirms an Extraterrestrial Presence Engaging the Human Race

Washington, DC - Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell (PhD MIT) has once again stated clearly that high ranking civilian and military officials have over the years confirmed to him the UFO phenomenon in part is the consequence of a non-human intelligence engaging the planet earth and the human race.  Further, he confirmed an extraterrestrial vehicle crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 placing in the hands of the U. S. government potentially transformative technology.

These reassertions were made on a July 4, 2008 CNN Larry King Live program.   As usual the American media did not find this newsworthy and there was little follow-up coverage.

However, when he repeated and expanded his remarks on a London radio station on July 23 the result was an explosion of international coverage which will almost certainly spill back into the United States.

PRG executive director, Stephen Bassett, stated, "Dr. Mitchell is only the tip of the iceberg.  There are scores of military and civilian agency witnesses ready to testify under oath before a congressional hearing and reveal the most important information in human history to a public that no longer believes anything the U. S. Government has to say on this matter."  

"But to be quite blunt, the very fact that a man of Dr. Mitchell's stature and accomplishments, has repeatedly asserted the reality of an extraterrestrial presence is in and of itself sufficient basis for full hearings, and furthermore, every political and science reporter from every paper of record in this nation should be on the phone to this man today."

"When will American journalism make up its mind whose side it's on - the American people or the agencies of government propaganda."

    Mitchell Articles, Video & Audio:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/main.html

                                                              www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/newsitems2008.html

           Mitchell Biography/Website:  www.edmitchellapollo14.com

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Washington, DC – A second instance of censorship has taken place related to matters exopolitical.

First Google deletes or blocks listings from the top of search returns; now after three years an Administrator at Wikipedia has removed the "Exopolitics" article from the online "people's" encyclopedia.   This from a publication with huge articles on Britney Spears, the Incredible Hulk and Mr. Ed (the talking horse).   Efforts to get the article reinstated were rebuffed, and essentially impossible, given the absurd complexity of Wikiprocedures.

Wikipedia is a powerful concept.   Six percent of all web users access it.  It draws upon the collective intellectual resource to create something with huge potential.  Sadly, in order to deal with attendant issues such as inaccuracy, vandalism and malicious intent, operationally it has become an impenetrable, incomprehensible labyrinth populated by obsessive-compulsive geeks who rule over imaginary fiefdoms while hiding behind screen names.

The Administrator/OCG in this instance who deleted the "Exopolitics" article goes by the screen name "Sandstein."  He has no knowledge of exopolitics, its history or the attendant issues and his "decision" was derived from a mock consensus of a few other OCG's who know even less - a rationale based upon the premise that collective ignorance is somehow smarter than individual ignorance - a case of the arrogant leading the blind.

First Google deletes the Open Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton listings at or near the top of the search returns going into the key Indiana and North Carolina primary elections, which miraculously reappear a few days after the elections are over.   Now Wikipedia has deleted the "Exopolitics" article which had been in place for over three years.  

PRG executive director Stephen Bassett commented, “It is important to understand that given the manner in which Wikipedia operates, it is very vulnerable to direct government interference.  A “consensus” of a few “users” is all that is needed to remove an article which is not to the liking of some element within government.   ‘Administrators’ can be planted and affect content, block users and who knows what else.”  

“In any event, every time censorship of exopolitical issues by non-governmental entities takes place PRG is going to point it out and name names.  Truth embargos remain in place because people and organizations not only believe government propaganda, they step up to help enforce it.” 

“Neither government suppression nor censorship by the likes of Google or Wikipedia will prevent the inculcation of exopolitics into the mainstream or the end to the truth embargo regarding a non-human intelligence engaging the human race."

The press may contact WikiAdministrator “Sandstein” via his Wiki page (and in no other fashion) at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sandstein#Exopolitics

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Washington, DC – PRG has published a new webpage on its site dedicated to the reporting of journalist Billy Cox.   No reporter at any newspaper in any nation has written more competently or comprehensively on the many issues surrounding extraterrestrial-related phenomena.   He received the PRG Courage in Journalism Award in 2005.  See:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/PRG_Awards.htm

A partial linked listing of his relevant articles and blogs is now archived at:

www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Billyl_Cox_Reportage.htm

As the most significant news story in history begins to unfold at an ever increasing pace, Pulitzer Prize possibilities abound.   But any reporter or editor who wants a piece of that action will have to pedal very hard if they want to get out in front of Billy Cox.

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The PRG web page is located at:  www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/Open_Letter_Clinton-Hillary.htm

PRG watched carefully as the pages holding this Open Letter moved quickly up the search engine results at Google and Yahoo based on these search criteria:

open letter to Senator Hillary Clinton
open letter to Senator Clinton
open letter to Hillary Clinton      

Within 36 hours the PRG and American Chronicle Open Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton pages were at or near the top of both the Google and Yahoo search results.

At that time the Google search listings for the Open Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton published by PRG were stripped (or blocked) from the Google search returns.   Fortunately, this did not take place with the Yahoo search returns.

Efforts by PRG to reach Google to determine why this had happened have been fruitless.

Blocking the Google search engine from listing the web pages which contain the PRG Open Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton is a pure act of political censorship.

Given Google's behavior as regards its presence in the People's Republic of China - compliance with severe content restrictions - this act of censorship raises deeply serious questions. 

First and foremost it raises the question of what other pages containing political speech not acceptable to Google are being blocked from Google search listings within the United States?

PRG is seeking pro bono legal assistance from 1st Amendment specialist attorneys in order to open a dialogue with Google to resolve this matter.

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Washington, DC - Fifteen months into the presidential election campaign a question remains for the questioners: when will the political press corps ask Senator Hillary Clinton about the Rockefeller Initiative?

RI Documents referencing Senator Clinton:  http://tinyurl.com/5r6usg,  http://tinyurl.com/5zqogn

Key RI Documents:  http://tinyurl.com/2o526u 

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The X-Conference focuses on the political, governmental and social aspects relating to extraterrestrial-related phenomena – exopolitics.   It is produced by PRG as part of an ongoing advocacy effort seeking to end the government imposed truth embargo on formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race - Disclosure.

Three of these documentaries deal with the two most significant and challenging exopolitical issues which government must address sooner or later: 1) the continuing intrusion into the nation's airspace by craft of unknown origin for which the government offers no appropriate explanation, and 2) tens of thousands of detailed reports from citizens who claim direct interaction with non-human entities, assumed to be extraterrestrial, both welcome and unwelcome.  The number of citizens in this circumstance is not known, but has been estimated to be large.

Relating to the first issue is the documentary The Phoenix Lights which recounts the historic and still unexplained Arizona mass sighting of 1997 with riveting new data and personal interviews in an updated version of the internationally acclaimed and award winning film.   The documentary is a collaborative effort between Lynne D. Kitei, M.D. (executive producer/director, author & a key witness) and Steve Lantz (producer, director of photography, editor & composer).   It is based on the bestselling book, The Phoenix Lights...A Skeptic's Discovery That We Are Not Alone, in which 30 credible eyewitnesses, children, scientists, military, pilots and experts give compelling testimony to the reality of these mysterious global visitations.

Two documentaries address the second issue.   Springing from the work of Dr. John Mack Touched is the personal exploration by Laurel Chiten into the lives and minds of alleged abductees, or experiencers, around the world, and of her path through skepticism, fear, insomnia, fascination, confusion that led to many questions.  What happens when the unexplained intrudes into our lives, and how do lives and relationships respond when credulity is strained to a breaking point?  This is the leading question she set out to explore. This is a film about the human experience — about longing for connection and fear of separation.

Odyssey chronicles the intense personal journey of Santa Fean Joyce Libutti, an "ordinary" wife and mother whose profound and startling encounters with benevolent alien beings have transformed her life and motivated her to risk telling her story -- and theirs -- to the world.

The fourth documentary, Staya Erusa, is a challenging tour around the outer perimeter of human understanding.  It is a road map to the territory outside the box of consensus thinking where the leaders of nations will have to go if they wish to understand the basis for the new realities that lie on the other side of Disclosure.

The list of speakers and keynoters includes:  Dr. Edgar Mitchell (Apollo Astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences); Paul Hellyer (former Defence and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada); George Noory (host of Coast to Coast AM); Drs. John Alexander, Bruce Maccabee and C. B. Scott Jones (members of the legendary Aviary), Dr. Thomas Valone (founder of Integrity Research Institute); Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr. (the most important living Roswell witness); Angelia Joiner (lead reporter of the Stephenville, Texas sightings); researcher Grant Cameron; political activists Stephen Bassett, Victor Viggiani and Mike Bird; historian Richard Dolan; and authors Robert Emenegger, Rob Simone and Terry Hansen.   Stephen Bassett and former CNN News anchor Cheryll Jones will co-host the event.

Media passes are available for reporters and documentarists.  Two media rooms have been reserved.

There will be a post-event press conference on Monday, April 21 at 10 am in the Lisagor Room at the National Press Club, 13th Floor, 14th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC.  Stephen Bassett along with other conference speakers will make a number of announcements.  It is open to the public.  

The Phoenix Lights - www.thephoenixlights.net
Touched - www.blinddogfilms.com
Odyssey - http://joycelibutti.com
Staya Erusa - www.stayaerusa.org

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The X-Conference focuses on the political, governmental and social aspects relating to extraterrestrial-related phenomena – exopolitics.   It is produced by PRG as part of an ongoing advocacy effort seeking to end the government imposed truth embargo on formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.   The ending of this truth embargo would be the Disclosure event.

The list of speakers and keynoters includes:  Dr. Edgar Mitchell (Apollo Astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences); Paul Hellyer (former Defence and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada); George Noory (host of Coast to Coast AM); Drs. John Alexander, Bruce Maccabee and C. B. Scott Jones (members of the legendary Aviary), Dr. Thomas Valone (founder of Integrity Research Institute); Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr. (the most important living Roswell witness); Angelia Joiner (lead reporter of the Stephenville, Texas sightings); researcher Grant Cameron; political activists Stephen Bassett, Victor Viggiani and Mike Bird; historian Richard Dolan; and authors Robert Emenegger, Rob Simone and Terry Hansen.   Stephen Bassett and former CNN News anchor Cheryll Jones will co-host the event.

George Noory, host of the #1 late night talk show in America, Coast to Coast AM, will make a rare appearance in the Washington, DC area and spend two hours talking and signing autographs with his many fans.  This is a special fund raising event for Paradigm Research Group.

Featured documentaries include: Touched (Laurel Chiten), Odyssey (Joyce Libutti), The Phoenix Lights (Lynne Kitei, MD) and Staya Erusa (Harry Beckers, Ronald Jan Heijn and Uri Geller.).  Chiten, Libutti and Kitei will present their films.

The Saturday banquet will include keynotes by Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Paul Hellyer and George Noory followed by the PRG Awards for: Disclosure, Political Courage, Courage in Journalism, Intellectual Courage (new) and Lifetime Achievement.

All of this year’s principal presidential candidates and members of Congress have been sent invitations to attend or send a representative to speak to the issues.  

Media passes are available for reporters and documentarists.  Two media rooms have been reserved.

There will be a post-event press conference on Monday, April 21 at 10 am in the Lisagor Room at the National Press Club, 13th Floor, 14th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC.  Stephen Bassett along with other conference speakers will make a number of announcements.  It is open to the public.  

Another major document release by the Ministry of Defence is pending in the United Kingdom,  a mass sighting similar to the 1997 Phoenix lights events has taken place in San Diego, Dennis Kucinich has acknowledged a significant sighting which has been confirmed and written up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.   Other candidates have been queried, including VP hopeful, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson,  Follow-up and investigative journalism is called for. 

If you are a political journalist, spend thirty minutes at each of these two websites and you will learn why.

PRG Main Website
www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/main.html

The Presidents UFO Website
www.presidentialufo.com