Background The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress. Often called the “congressional watchdog,” GAO examines how taxpayer dollars are spent and provides Congress and federal agencies with objective, reliable information to help the government save money and work more efficiently. In April of 2015, I requested all cover pages, for all classified reports, dated 1972 through 1990. I requested ONLY the cover pages, to see what may (or may not) be of interest to pursue. The GAO is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 USC 552). However, GAO’s…
Author: John Greenewald
Background Document excerpt: The basic outline of our standard remote-viewing protocol is as given in our tutorial paper, “A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances: Historical Perspective and Recent Research,” H. Puthoff and R. Targ, Proc. IEEE, pp. 329- 354, March 1976. The elements of the protocol, each of which is addressed below, consist of (1) target pool selection; (2) subject orientation; (3) outbound experimenter behavior; (4) inbound experimenter behavior; (5) postexperiment feedback; (6) judging procedure. Document Archive Standard Remote-Viewing Protocol (Local Targets) by Dr. Harold E. Puthoff and Russell Targ, November 1978 [16 Pages, 1.5MB]
Background Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, MC, commonly known as Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary who lived most of her life in India. She was born in today’s Macedonia, with her family being of Albanian descent originating in Kosovo. She was a worldwide figure that will be remembered for her amazing work on a global scale. She was the recipient of numerous honors including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2003, she was beatified as “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta”. A second miracle credited to her intercession is required before she can…
Background In 2017, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) produced a report called Federal Fumbles Vol. 3: 100 Ways The Government Dropped The Ball. The report lists lists $473.6 billion in wasteful and inefficient federal spending. In this report, Senator Lankford outlined $30,000 by the NEA to grant a production of “Doggie Hamlet.” According to Senator Lankford: “As evidenced in previous editions of Federal Fumbles, the American public’s love for William Shakespeare has sometimes translated into unusual and unnecessary federal expenditures. For instance, tens of thousands were spent to support a production of Silent Shakespeare in 2015.18 However, the strangeness of those…
Background An SF-326 form is a Semiannual Report of Payments Accepted from a Non-Federal Sources. In other words, when agency personnel, or their spouses, receive compensation from non-federal sources, it must be reported. The below are documents obtained via the FOIA, from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Document Archive SF-326 Forms, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 2010-2015 [101 Pages, 54MB]