Psychic Severely Beaten In Greenwich, Connecticut

My hometown has just gotten a little less nice...

The following was just posted at the Phantoms & Monsters blog. Not good. Looks like the sick stupidity of the "cracker" mentality knows no geographic boundaries... threatening a kid is heinous, disgusting and intolerable, these bottom-feeding bastards need to locked up... go, cops, go!

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Connecticut Psychic Threatened, Severely Beaten

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 05:04 AM PDT

After receiving threatening phone calls and being injured by a man during a midnight attack in Greenwich over the weekend, a local psychic says someone is trying to drive her out of business.

Janet Lee said she was taken to the hospital after being beaten by a man outside her office at 16 Greenwich Ave., in Greenwich, late Friday night. She also has an office at 565 Westport Ave., in Norwalk.

Four days before the attack, which left her with a black eye and a cut on her face, Lee reported to Norwalk police that a woman left several threatening phone messages focusing on her business and her son.

Norwalk and Greenwich police said they are investigating Lee's complaints.

In one of the messages the woman said, "This town is not big enough for the two of us. We want you to take down your sign," said Lee, who lives in Norwalk.

In another call, the woman described her son, the car he was driving and even the fact that he was going to a summer program at his Westport school, said Lee, who would not give her age.

"They never said they were going to hurt me, they kept saying, get out of town or else," Lee said. "It is difficult for me to comment on what is going on. I do not know what is going on."

Lee said she walked out of her Greenwich office at about midnight Friday when a man attacked her with his fists. The man told her that he was going to kill her, she said.

Greenwich police Lt. Daniel Allen would not confirm Lee's name, but said police were called to Greenwich Hospital at 1:13 a.m. Saturday to interview a woman who said she was attacked outside of 16 Greenwich Ave.

"I can't give any further information. It is still under investigation," Allen said.

Norwalk police Sgt. Andre Velez said police are investigating Lee's complaint of harassing phone calls and are aware of the Greenwich investigation. He would not discuss the case further.

Lee said she has been a psychic in Norwalk for eight years and told people's futures in Greenwich for 10. Until 2004, she even had a two-year stint as a "promotional" psychic at Saks Fifth Avenue in Greenwich.

Lee, who says she has a large clientele and describes herself as a "life coach," said it is not unusual for her to receive crank calls. But these calls were different, she said.

Late last week, Lee said someone was tampering with the sign at her Norwalk office.

Lee said she has heard that another psychic is coming into the area, but has no idea who it is.

Her psychic gifts are no help to her in this investigation, Lee said.

"I am not able to read for myself or my children. I can only see things for other people," Lee said.

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The big boom in Stamford remains a mystery - Greenwich Time

This just in from my hometown newspaper, such as it is, but that's another thing... anyway... an unusual Fortean-tinged piece has appeared. I met Mr Nowinski once at a psychic fair. I don't remember this incident... seems like I should as I'm only 4 miles or so away... hmmm. Well, read on:

The big boom in Stamford remains a mystery
By Angela Carella
Assistant City Editor
Posted: 03/26/2009 07:46:06 PM EDT

Jon Nowinski heads the Smoking Gun Research Agency in Westport, which investigates paranormal phenomena in this area. (Paul Desmarais/Staff Photographer)

STAMFORD ­-- When the boom hit shortly before 10 p.m. on an autumn night a decade ago, a security guard at First Union Bank on Main Street thought robbers were breaking in.

The desk sergeant thought something exploded at police headquarters on Bedford Street.

Stamford Emergency Medical Service workers thought someone drove into their Strawberry Hill Avenue building.

At Curley's Diner downtown, the manager thought someone fell in the bathroom.

A woman who lived near Stamford Hospital thought her child pulled over a dresser.

They were all wrong. But to this day no one knows what caused the "Stamford Boom" of Oct. 3, 1999.

In fact, the mystery has grown.

The boom shook houses near Stamford Hospital, in Hubbard Heights and downtown -- and nowhere else.

Authorities ruled out earthquake, thunder, sonic boom, a gas, sewer or transformer explosion, construction blasting and meteors.

In the days that followed, it got weirder.

A man reported that he was walking on Compo Beach in Westport that afternoon when he saw a "spinning wheel in the sky" over Long Island Sound. A man on a boat off Compo Beach reported seeing a shiny object that looked like "two wheels seemingly connected, each going in the opposite direction" about the same time.

Later, about 4 p.m., a woman in Darien reported seeing "a strange spinning object" with lights before it disappeared over trees. Shortly afterward, two witnesses in Stamford reported seeing a UFO.

From Stamford, Darien and Norwalk came reports of flashing lights in the sky about 9:45 p.m. At 9:50 p.m., houses rattled in central Stamford, sending residents into the streets to ask each other, "What was that?"

Lillian Lampros of Holcomb Avenue remembers opening her door and looking into the yard.

"There was no light, no smoke, nothing," Lampros said. "It was such a big boom. I called my neighbor."

They thought a transformer exploded. They didn't think UFO.

Jon Nowinski, director of Smoking Gun Research Agency, a Westport nonprofit that investigates paranormal phenomena, said at the time that the sound could have been caused by an aircraft -- military or extraterrestrial -- that could accelerate straight up or at a steep angle fast enough to break the sound barrier. Otherwise, the sonic boom would be heard over a larger area.

"That's what struck us the most. This was isolated to a small area of Stamford," Nowinski said this week. "Another thing is that a sonic boom sounds almost like a rumble of thunder. People wouldn't think twice about it. But these people were reporting something that shocked them."

Smoking Gun researchers turned up reports of other mysterious booms elsewhere, also about a decade ago -- December 1997 near Springfield, Mo.; May 1998 near Los Angeles; August 1998 near Narragansett Bay, R.I.; and January 1999 near Denver.

Another occurred this month. Residents of Staten Island, N.Y., heard a large boom that shook buildings at 7:55 p.m. March 16. It was isolated to six neighborhoods. Authorities ruled out explosions, fireworks, sonic booms, weather and earthquake.

People often think earthquakes are the cause of rumbles, but that's unlikely in the Stamford area, where they occur once every few years and register 2.5 magnitude at the strongest, said Won-Young Kim, a seismologist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y.

"People do feel it -- the house shakes -- but, unless the quake is very shallow, you don't hear anything," Kim said.

Meteors are another common explanation. But you'd see those, said Andrew Ackerman, an atmospheric scientist with NASA at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan.

"It looks like a missile with smoke behind it. A meteor will light up a daytime sky," Ackerman said.

It's possible UFOs exist, but aircraft that can break the sound barrier are "entirely military now that we no longer have the Concord," Ackerman said. The question is "whether you can expect to get a straight answer on the comings and goings of military aircraft. This is why UFOlogy can be such a rich vein -- you don't know what is known because the military can't tell you."

Nowinski said he is "a skeptic with UFOs" and he thinks "most of the things we see can be traced to the military. They are far more advanced than they are willing to let on."

Lampros said it's possible a UFO hovered over her home a decade ago.

"I don't disbelieve it. You just never know," she said. "But 'ET' hasn't come to my house yet."

-- Angela Carella is an assistant city editor at the Advocate.

POE: The case file report on the "Stamford Boom" can be viewed at www.sgra.org beginning in April. All are welcome to a Smoking Gun Research Agency monthly meeting at noon Saturday, March 28 at Fairfield Public Library, 1080 Old Post Road, Fairfield. The topic is the agency's findings about a growing UFO hoax in the tri-state area involving floating paper lanterns. Philip Imbrogno will speak about his investigation into the "Hudson Valley Sightings," a rash of UFO reports in Connecticut and New York in the 1980s and '90s.

A Fairy Living Near The Igular Entity?!

Appears as if I have a small trip to schedule this spring or summer. I saw this at Phantoms and Monsters the other day... and it's another Connecticut anomaly. Although there's always the increasingly popular process of pareidolia to consider, as it is after all an image; it's been noted elsewhere and in these eyeballs that there certainly is a surprising amount of detail to the tiny little guy. Pixels can surely confuse, but enough of them in the right configuration can also be a reinforcing thing... at any rate, I'll try to set 10 million of them to task and see what we get. I am hopeful that the little dude will a) be there; and b) see my friendly aura and pose nicely just as he did for the person that took this shot. We shall see!

Photo of a pyramidal monument in the Cedarwood Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut. Photographer spotted what he believes to be a spirit or a fairy sitting beneath it.

Political Debate: Crimes Against Us: Greenwich, Connecticut

Just posting this bit of American criminality and repulsion generating favoritism as it's from one of my hometown newspapers. I must say that our roster of treasonous pols in Connecticut is more than just embarrassing, it's nauseating to be within their sphere of poison. I'm hoping the revolution comes soon...

Greenwich Post on Green Party Duffee's exclusion from Debates
Posted by: "Remy Chevalier" remyc@ prodigy.net aka cleannewworld
Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:50 am (PDT)
From: "David Bedell"
dbedellgreen@ hotmail.com

http://www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/index.php?option=com_content&id=12093:minor-parties-cry-foul-over-debate-exclusion&Itemid=68

Minor parties cry foul over debate exclusion

Incumbent Congressman Christopher Shays (R-4) and his Democratic challenger, Cos Cob resident Jim Himes, have finished up their debate schedule and are looking ahead to Nov. 4, but two major third-party candidates were on the outside looking in.

Neither Richard Duffee, nominee for the Green Party, nor Michael Carrano, nominee for the Libertarian Party, were invited to participate in the debates. Organizers said they didn’t meet the criteria for inclusion and Mr. Duffee is crying foul.

“I’m convinced these debate organizers reached a decision before considering any of the evidence,” Mr. Duffee said in an interview with the Post on Tuesday. “They had the decision made before we even applied to be in a debate. They made that decision based on party and not on the individual. They decided that only Republicans and Democrats should be able to debate.”

The third-party candidates were not invited to appear in the series of League of Women Voters’ debates in the district. State league president Jara Burnett, a Riverside resident, said that while Mr. Duffee and Mr. Carrano did meet the requirement that the candidate be on the ballot, they did not meet the other criteria for inclusion, including broad voter support, sufficient money, and evidence of a campaign being waged, such as having a headquarters, volunteers, position papers, and participation in candidate forums.

“We wanted to provide as much information to the voters from the candidates who are running a really vigorous campaign because we have a limited time format,” Ms. Burnett told the Post.

Ms. Burnett said fund raising was also a factor, citing the league’s decision in 2006 to allow Libertarian Party nominee Phil Maymin to participate after he raised $40,000, but said it wasn’t the most important part of what led to the decision.

“It’s not just a matter of money,” Ms. Burnett said. “It’s a matter of how active your campaign is. Sometimes it’s as simple as seeing whether someone answers the phone at the number we’re given [as] ‘Duffee for Congress’ or ‘Hello.’ In 2006 you saw a very active campaign from Mr. Maymin. You saw Maymin for Congress signs and he sent out mailings. I’ve yet to see anything for Mr. Duffee.”

Mr. Duffee called the league’s stance “totally arbitrary.” Mr. Duffee said he does have office space, which he claims the league found unsatisfactory, as well as a cellular phone representing the main line for the campaign that costs him $100 a month. He said he has raised more than $9,000 for the campaign, more, he claims, than Mr. Maymin had raised before the debate applications were due in 2006, and that he has actually written more position papers than Mr. Himes and the four Republican congressional challengers in the state’s other districts.

“People don’t know I’m running because I’m not in the debates,” Mr. Duffee said. “When you get in the debates then you can raise money. It’s a chicken-and-egg situation. When I tell people I’m running they want to know why I’m not in the debates. The league is influencing voters and how people perceive the race, and they should lose their 501(c) status as an educational group because they are acting in a partisan manner favoring Republicans and Democrats.”

Mr. Carrano could not be reached for comment. Richard Lion, chairman of the Connecticut Libertarian Party, told the Post he thinks the standards for third parties are unreasonably high.

“I think it hurts the voting public,” Mr. Lion said. “We go through so much getting the signatures on petitions to actually get on the ballot and then we get shut out of the debates. It’s like you’re running a race and they tell you the established runners have to run a mile and everyone else has to run 10.”

There were no third-party candidates in the Business Council of Fairfield County’s debate Monday morning in Stamford. Joseph McGee, vice president of public policy for the business council, said it was an easy decision to just focus on Mr. Shays and Mr. Himes as candidates.

“In the past we’ve had third-party candidates, but this year we wanted to focus on one of the two who will win,” Mr. McGee told the Post. “Since we only had a 60-minute format for this debate, we wanted to give them as much time as possible to debate each other and make their positions clear.”

Mr. McGee said Mr. Duffee and Mr. Carrano don’t have much of a chance of influencing the race, unlike in 2006, when Mr. Maymin had the opportunity to upset the vote. Mr. McGee said he doesn’t think the third-party candidates will do that this year.

Mr. Duffee did attend the Monday debate, sitting in the audience and then passing out his literature after it was over. Mr. McGee said he understands why Mr. Duffee is disappointed in the council’s decision, but he feels it is best for voters.

“While he’s got a constitutional right to be on the ballot, this is a private organization and we wanted to focus on the two candidates,” Mr. McGee said.

Ms. Burnett said there will be participation from Mr. Duffee in other league efforts, including an electronic voter’s guide and a printed guide distributed a week before the election.

kborsuk@ greenwich-post.com

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