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The biggest illusion is not ‘Matrix’, a virtual world of experiences that only happen inside your mind. No, the biggest illusion is your own mind, specifically your consciousness and something called free will. You have lived this illusion your whole life, even now, as you read these lines.

After discovering it, there’s no going back. You take the red pill by knowing how science has been uncovering this illusion for decades, but the ‘Matrix’ do not seems to want you to discover the truth. And it’s accessible to anyone, really.

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Watch above a stabilized version of the (very graphic) Zapruder film. Viewing it this way, one can notice something seemingly bizarre.

Shortly after passing the sign, John Kennedy is hit from behind by the first shot, and he moves his arms. It’s looks as if he was stung on the neck — in fact the bullet went through his body and ended up hitting the governor in the front seat.

Kennedy does some more movements, and then, what looks bizarre, stays completely still and neatly seated. Has he been replaced by a robot? Or, as some people actually claim, is this evidence that the Zapruder film has been heavily doctored?

There is actually an explanation for Kennedy’s strange reactions while being shot. A few years ago, it has been revealed that the good-looking, seemingly healthy commander-in-chief was in fact severely ill and needed to take several drugs, mostly to be able to deal with the pain. JFK had terrible back problems and one of his biggest secrets was that he had to use a cumbersome steel back brace that supported his upper body.

On the day that he was killed, Kennedy was using the corset, as one of the doctors who assisted him testified. And this is the cruel irony of the situation, because had he not been using the supporting corset to hide his illness from the public, he would have been probably thrown ahead after being hit by the first shot. A shot which, as we noticed, went straight through his body — and didn’t hit any vital organ.

The doctors speculated that Kennedy would probably survive the wounds inflicted by this first shot. He would be agonizing or perhaps, as the film suggest, would have passed out, but the important thing is that he would be lying down or sideways after the first shot while the car continued to run.

But with the back brace, the president stood straight even after the first shot from the back, even after passing out and stopping to move. This helped Lee Harvey Oswald, who would then hit him an instantly fatal shot on the head.

So, if it was Oswald who actually shot Kennedy, it was his back brace that made him an almost literal sitting duck. If he didn’t use it, he would have probably survived from the assassination attempt.

More about Kennedy’s secret illness can be seen on “The World’s Most Photographed“.

Incidentally, F.D. Roosevelt was paraplegic, and like Kennedy, used a series of steel braces in public to be able to hide his condition. Curiously, Roosevelt and Kennedy are among the most popular US presidents of the twentieth century.

The Mowing Devil pamphlet is often quoted as evidence that the crop circle phenomenon may have been going on for centuries.

Swirled News has an informative article by Andy Thomas, The ‘Mowing Devil’ Investigated, where he tracks the many versions and confirms the existence of the original.

But perhaps even more revealing is the transcription of the full story of the pamphlet quoted on an article by Francesco Grassi. It can be read on the end of this Italian page on CICAP, and if that is indeed the full original story, then it obviously has very little to do with crop circles, and a lot with religious and moral anecdotes.

Incidentally, why there are no actually mowed crop circles? That could be a little harder to do, but it would certainly be something new, as over two decades of crop circles pretty much exhausted most of what you can do pictorially stamping crop around.

The image above is not some Photoshop job or a perspective trick. It’s the photograph of one of the Nile’s flood taken on October 1937 — check the full-size original here, from Tufts University.

Though everyone may have learnt on high school (or even elementary) that the floods of the river Nile were a fundamental element of the Ancient Egypt civilization, the real meaning of this doesn’t quite get to many, probably for a very simple reason. They no longer happen as before.

In 1970, with help from Soviet Union, the Egyptians completed the ambitious high Aswan dam, one of the biggest in the world which tamed the second largest river in the planet. It was on this occasion that many ancient temples were moved, as their original locations were flooded, like the famous Abu Simbel, reconstructed some 65 meters higher, or Dendur, 800 tons moved to New York.

After the dam was completed, the floods were controlled and near the pyramids, where there were periodical floods before, flourished a densely populated city.

“Coincidentally“, the Nile’s water periodically neared the Gizeh plateau and the pyramids were built on its margins. One cannot help but think that that may have greatly helped moving stones from the quarries, as Herodotus had alreay said.

This is one coincidence that many mystery sellers like to ignore. Other images from the Nile’s floods before the Aswan dam can be seen here and here.

The story that Francisco Henrique de Souza, nicknamed “Januncio”, told late ufologist Bob Pratt is somewhat unique. One night of January 1979, he was walking home alone on Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

Around the middle of his way, he decided to lit a cigarette. That was his mistake, as that apparently caught the attention of an overhead flying saucer that started to follow him very closely. He was terrorized.

“Januncio” described the object as cylindrical, around 6-7 meters in height and 3-4 meters in diameter. It was extremely close to him, only a couple of meters over his head, and he described seeing two people inside, a man and a woman, seated. “The woman looked like she was wearing a dress”.

The object emitted a light that somehow sucked Januncio. To avoid being captured by the light, he grabbed a palm tree as best as he could — in the photo above, Januncio shows the bizarre situation.

“The light was very hot and I was scared”, he said. The suction from the light was very strong and despite firmly grasping the tree, Januncio was being lifted from the ground. “This happened some five times. Up and down, up and down… My chest was all scratched”. He started to cry and thought he was going to die.

“Then, when the man and woman saw that I was not leaving the tree, they threw something like boiling oil on me, to release me from the tree. I felt I was between the fire and the frying pan. I couldn’t move. The thing burned my arms and hurt me a lot, but I was afraid of leaving the tree”.

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