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U.S. Denies Spectacular Ruins in Antarctica Captured on Video

AMP LA 03-18-02 0925GMT ^ | Monday, March 18, 2002 - Web posted at 5:25 a.m. EDT (0925 GMT) | WASHINGTON, D.C. (AMP)

Posted on by vannrox

U.S. Denies Spectacular Ruins

in Antarctica Captured on Video

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AMP)  The U.S. government said it will seek to block the airing of a video found by Navy rescuers in Antarctica that purportedly reveals that a massive archeological dig is underway two miles beneath the ice. The @lantisTV production crew that shot the video is still missing.







Attorneys for Beverly Hills-based @lantisTV stressed that the companys primary concern is for the safety and welfare of its crew. But they stated they will vigorously oppose any attempts to censor material that is clearly in the public interest and public domain. The ice continent of Antarctica, they point out, belongs to no nation. The U.S. has no jurisdiction there.







That video is the property of @lantisTV, said a company spokeswoman. We shot it. Its ours. And as soon as its rightfully returned to us, were going to air it. End of story.





Two Navy officers who saw the tape described its contents to civilian National Science Foundation (NSF) researchers upon their return to Amundson-Scott Station at the South Pole, according to sources at McMurdo Station, the main American base in Antarctica. They said it showed spectacular ruins and other things they couldnt go into, an NSF scientist reported. We chalked it up to some sort of subzero-induced delusion until a chopper full Navy SEALS landed and picked them up and took off. Now were scratching our heads





Officials of the U.S. Naval Support Task Force, Antarctica, deny the story or possession of any video shot by the missing @lantisTV crew.





News of the video, which Navy rescuers said they found in an abandoned supply dump one hundred miles west of Vostok Station, comes on the heels of U.S. attempts to strike passages from RAISING ATLANTIS, the upcoming novel by Thomas Greanias that is the basis for @lantisTV's popular online Atlantis Mapping Project channel.





Federal officials agreed to allow an uncensored version of RAISING ATLANTIS to go on sale in April at Amazon.com as an e-book. But they won court approval to block certain portions that might compromise national security from the hardcover edition due in bookstores by years end.







The government feels fairly confident that few people are going to read a 400-page novel on their computers, said a U.S. attorney familiar with the negotiations. And @lantisTV has agreed to remove the uncensored e-book when the hardcover comes out.





The problem for the feds, he said, is going to come when people buy the e-book and keep it to compare it with the hardcover. At that point the disputed passages might as well be lit up in neon.







The novel focuses on a secret U.S. military expedition that discovers ancient ruins two miles beneath the ice in Antarctica. Recent events in Antarctica have raised questions about whether the story is fiction or a novelization of actual events. But sources say the current federal review is focusing on the novels depiction of Federal Emergency Plan D, which officially doesnt exist, although parts of the plan have become public in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America.







Specifically, Stage One of Plan D went into effect on Sept. 11 and calls for the activation of a shadow government to operate in secret bunkers outside the nations capital to ensure the survival of the United States of America and the continuity of its government in the event of a natural global catastrophe or nuclear Armageddon.





Its the specifics of Stage Two and Three, detailed in RAISING ATLANTIS, that concern federal officials. Hell, I didnt even know about Stage One and the shadow government until 9-11, let alone Stage Two or Stage Three, said one CIA source on condition of anonymity.





Last week President Bush, in a veiled reference to Stage One of Plan D, said his administration has "all options on the table" as the Pentagon reworks its nuclear weapons policy to deter any attack on America  including from non-nuclear states such as Iraq and Iran.





The U.S. nuclear arsenal is "a way to say to people who would harm America: 'Don't do it,'" Bush said. "We've got all options on the table because we want to make it very clear to nations that you will not threaten the United States or use weapons of mass destruction against us or our allies or friends."





AMP LA 03-18-02 0925GMT





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To: vannrox

Cool.

Very.



To: vannrox

Interesting...



To: Travis McGee

Would you dive with a rebreather in a drysuit or helmet?



To: vannrox

This reads like a slick marketing promotion.



To: vannrox

??????????????????



To: Fred Mertz

I heard the legend of a "Blair Witch" that lives in the ruins. Someone must be buying their tinfoil in bulk.



To: nunya bidness

Neither. The proper attire for this story is a foil lined hat.



To: vannrox

They must have found the second StarGate.



To: vannrox

Fascinating. The Polar-shift theory holds that the earth's crust shifts periodically, resulting in world-wide cataclysm. Antarticta was supposedly much higher in latitude before the last shift....Atlantis?



To: ppaul







The following two books discuss the basis of reasoning why they believe that Atlantis is located in Antarctica.

To: vannrox

"The @lantisTV production crew that shot the video is still missing."



Amazing how these types of people can, mysteriously, never be found when you need them. I expect this story to show up on snopes2 in the very near future.



To: Orual; aculeus; BlueLancer; all

To: vannrox

We are doomed. I give up



To: Fred Mertz

This reads like a not too slick marketing promotion.



To: vannrox





In the under-reported world of alien sightings and abductions there is a link between Antarctica and reptile-like creatures. According to the Omega Files, compiled by "Branton," "Some 'contactees' such as Maurice Doreal claim that the reptiloids [human-like reptile creatures] in prehistoric times lived in the Antarctic region, when it was a subtropical zone, and that they were subsequently driven underground and off the planet by a race of pre-Nordic humans whose lost and long-forgotten civilization now lies buried deep beneath the sands of the Gobi Desert."

More...

What the f..udge?

To: vannrox

Damn, I'm running out of tinfoil. Good thing SuperWalMart is open 24 hours. Methinks some publicist will be getting a huge bonus soon. Too bad Art Bell isn't on the air on weekends--he'd be all over this like a cheap suit! But hey, it's a great story!



To: vannrox

"..Federal officials......won court approval to block certain portions that might compromise national security ..." I'm not a tin-foiler, but it sounds like there may be something to this story....



To: ppaul

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