George Herbert wrote:

On 9/24/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:

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http://www.cassiopedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

What on earth is this?

Quantum-physics-fringeists mixed with 9/11 conspiracists. Jacques Vallee.

*shrug*.

Heh. I came across these guys recently and ended up with the same notion. It's hard to actually find where they explain what they're up to, but I eventually found it. One of their principles:

starting nodes that come from the core competencies of the current team (Gurdjieff, history, Zionism studies, psychopathology, comparative religions, Mouravieff, Fourth Way studies...)

(from http://www.cassiopedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cassiopedia )

Generally when I see a list ending with "..." it's a sign that the things before it form an obvious pattern. I'm having trouble naming the next item in that sequence. :-)

They also talk about creating articles on topics from the "SOTT Glossary", which appears to be a reference to a magazine/webzine called "Signs of the Times". One of the recent SOTT articles examines the theory that the WTC 9/11 collapse wasn't due to jetliners, but rather space-based death rays. Their conclusion? Allow me to share the priceless closing paragraphs:

One thing is clear: the UFOs themselves are not under the control of the military - or anybody else. But that the Consortium continues to debunk and cover it up - in the face of its violations of their own airspace - suggests to us again the analogy of arrogant and powerful Masters of Reality, aided and abetted by their military and intelligence organization servants who, all the while they are obeying the powerful overlords, which very well may include the 9/11 Attacks and war with Iraq, Iran, and God knows who else, seek to keep everything quiet while they try desperately to discover the secrets of power so as to arrogate it to themselves. And it seems evident that, in the present time, the game is afoot in the citadels of Power and Secrets.

We don't know - and cannot know at present - whether some super secret beam weapon was used to take down the Twin Towers on 9/11; but it is possible. And frankly, it is the one explanation that seems to cover all the anomalies. Bottom line is: Something is happening, there is a schedule, and the servants of the alien masters are pushing an agenda that few of us understand. They are trying to cement controls, to solidify their power base, because /Something Wicked This Way Comes/.

(from http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/139903-Ultra-terrestrials+an...)

For connoisseurs of kook literature, I also recommend the comments on that article.

Anyhow, they appear to have imported only the final history entry for each article, which bothers me a little from the licensing perspective. But I imagine it's not a huge issue.

William

I think they previously used our logos or pages without attribution and they still use "Wikipedia:" as their project namespace I think. But, the take-down notice was all in the past, I dont' think we're planning on doing it again now.

On 9/24/07, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:

On 9/25/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:

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I coulda sworn we sent them a take-down notice or something of the like. Actually, I think there used to be worse things on there that made it

seem

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like they were Wikipedia, but we *did* send them an e-mail and they took

it

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down.

They are reasonably within limits (they license under the GFDL and they provide a link at the bottom of each article to the original wikipedia page) so even though we might have grounds for it and we really want to, lets not. Free Culture is free because we don't sue people over tiny legalese details in the GFDL.

Being free sometimes has downsides, and this is one of them.

--Oskar

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