There is a peculiar thing in my own experience that is not Déjà Vu, but nor does it seem to be any other phenomenon that I have ever heard of. I guess it might qualify for an odd version of a Precognition. I am open to any assistance to locate what should be really easy to find evidence! George W. Bush became President in January 2001. I didn't think he seemed especially smart but otherwise I had no opinion of him good or bad. But then on June 14, 2001 I was with a couple friends visiting while a TV was on. There was a TV interview of George W Bush, in itself a rather rare incident. In THAT conversation with Göran Persson, the Prime Minister of Sweden, on a National Network, we all heard Bush say regarding Saddam "He tried to kill my daddy!" I immediately said "My God! We are going to go to war and attack Iraq!" And then all three of us laughed about a President referring to his "daddy" as really a strange thing to say in that way. Notice that this was THREE MONTHS BEFORE the 9/11 attacks. Within a few days of 9/11, Cheney and Bush were already referring to invading Iraq, and reporters would ask, "Did Iraq even have anything to do with the 9/11 attacks?" Of course, they didn't. OK. None of this should seem strange, right? But the three of us SAW BUSH SAY IT TO PERSSON ON LIVE TV! EXCEPT for the fact that news reports of more than a year later (Sept 26, 2002) are the first ones that seem to be findable on the Internet, which refer to a slightly different wording of the "daddy" comment, and they were given by Bush while standing behind a Podium at a Press Conference. SO! Did my friends and I see some event on LIVE TV that never actually happened on June 14, 2001? It seems inconceivable that the Internet would not have both a transcript and the actual Network video of something as rare as a televised News Interview of President Bush. Don't Networks keep Archives of everything they air? They CLAIM to! I don't see how such an important videotape could have gotten DELETED from all records! I am not a Sociologist, but if it can be seen that Bush had that terrifying expression (6/14/01) as he mentioned the daddy comment and other amazing personal hatred for Saddam, and then less than three months later (9/11/01), he and Cheney were publicly talking about invading Iraq to get rid of Saddam, it sure seems TO ME to be a direct causal connection! I could easily imagine that the Bush people would have wanted to cause all records of that comment to be deleted, but it seems kind of but I cannot imagine any of the News Networks agreeing to do that. How could Bush 'delete important history' which was centrally about the important Kyōto Protocol (regarding global warming, which Bush denied was actually occurring), and also an important Kyōto Conference for the legacy of Göran Persson? Is ANYBODY so powerful such that they could 'revise history' just to keep the world from learning about a truly stupid comment he had made on LIVE TV? It seems fairly certain that the interview we watched was aired, LIVE, on either ABC News, NBC News, CBS News or FOX, as I don't think I watched any other networks at the time. (I later added the BBC News to my interest.) (I admit that someone else might have turned on that TV and it may have been some other network.) Now, I KNOW that interview occurred, and so do my friends! But IF that interview occurred, how could it be possible that no one else (in the world?) seems to be aware of it? There couldn't have been ten Presidential Interviews in all of 2001! But, IF such an interview had not really ever happened, how could the three of us have discussed it? And how could I/we have already known when the comment was repeated more than a year later, on Sep 26, 2002? How could I even know that Bush was to the right on the screen and Prime Minister Persson was to the left of him, and that they were both sitting next to each other? (For the record, in the years that these comments have been on the Internet, at least thirty different people have e-mailed to inform me that they also had seen the chilling comment we three had watched on live TV. Several of them have expressed even more impressive reactions than I had upon seeing it, and all added their own comments regarding the terrifying look on Bush's face as he said it.) In late 2013, I learned that a Reporter for the New York Times, a Frank Bruni, did a story regarding that event, where he referred to Bush continuing to talk after he thought the cameras were turned off. But Bruni's article does not mention the 'daddy' comment but mentions some other personal comments he made to Persson. There is a special reason why that scene was so momentous. The expression on Bush's face and the matter-of-factly way he made the statement was bone-chilling! I have only ever once before seen that expression on any person. It was a Syndicate Mobster who had just been caught by the Police. He clearly knew that he was going to soon be released, and was unconcerned. But he made a statement to a Reporter that was virtually identical to Bush's comment. The Mobster very calmly mentioned to that Reporter that a Gangster from a different Family had recently killed his sister. HIS EXPRESSION was like Bush's! In seeing the Mobster make that cold and definitive statement, there was NO doubt that the offending Mobster would very soon be killed, which was in the news a few days later. That was the ONLY time I have ever seen ANY person have that expression that Bush had when he made the (June 14, 2001) Daddy comment. It was almost as though he was stating that he was going to murder Saddam, exactly like the Mobster who made the similar statement. People really need to SEE that videotape!!! And, concurrently, they need to HEAR Bush implicitly make clear that he was going to use the Presidency to murder Saddam Hussein! I realize that you do not believe my impression, and it is CRITICAL that you see and hear it yourself. It wasn't that Bush could have been convicted of murder for that statement, but it sure seemed very close! I guess I might have also seen Charles Bronson have that expression when delivering similar news about his dead wife or son in some movie, but I cannot say for sure. It is such a definitive expression and way of making a statement, that there is NO possible doubt as to what the speaker means. Does that mean that Bush was already planning pre-meditated murder? I am not sure we could go that far, but when you see that videotape, I assure you that you will certainly consider that thought! I suppose this is not a world-shaking problem! However, IF that interview actually took place, the implications are incredible. The fact that comment was made BEFORE 9/11 really made extremely clear to me that Bush really was hoping for some excuse to invade Iraq, and 9/11 then just happened to provide it. However, if my memory was totally wrong (which, for a research Nuclear Physicist would be rather unusual!), and the findable references were correct, then Bush (in late 2002) seemed to just be adding to an existing (alleged) WMD issue with his personal feelings a year afterward. That is incredibly different! So, if there is anyone who can figure out how to find any record of a rather rare Presidential Interview on June 14, 2001 on a major Network, I feel that I can guarantee that that interview contains the exact sentence, rather casually said: "He tried to kill my daddy." The comment was NOT made toward the camera, but only after having leaned over to apparently make a personal comment to Prime Minister Persson. I also remember that the other person had a rather surprised expression, while Bush had essentially none, except that strange smile he usually has. It was terrifying to watch, somewhat resembling the interviews with caught mass murderers who seem to have a very strange expression on their faces. I would really appreciate if anyone can confirm this either way! If it can be confirmed that Bush gave NO interviews on June 14, 2001, I guess I would have to accept it. Except I and others SAW it! (Oct 2007). A wonderful person in Ireland apparently saw the same televised interview, and he did extensive research in actually identifying it! It HAPPENED! It occurred on the afternoon of June 14, 2001, in Gothenburg, Sweden. A mutual Press Conference of Mr. Bush and the Prime Minister of Sweden, Göran Persson had just concluded, and it had been aired on live TV, apparently world-wide. Prime Minister Persson was then the President of the European Union. The Press Conference was about a number of subjects, centrally including the Kyōto Protocol (which Bush would not agree to and was violently against.) When the Press Conference was done, Mr. Bush apparently thought that the cameras had been turned off, but they were still running and their signal was still being sent around the world in real-time. Bush then leaned over and made that amazing personal comment to Mr. Persson regarding Saddam Hussein: "But he tried to kill my daddy", which therefore went out on live TV and US network feeds (which is what we saw). As a scientist, this now brings up all sorts of NEW issues! First, the Official White House Transcript of that day does NOT contain that statement by the President! (Isn't an Official Transcript supposed to include ALL events that happened? Most even refer to coughs, sneezes and pauses!) Second, clearly, such an amazing, and strange, statement by the President of the United States, was certainly immediately shared with countless television Networks around the world, and so they should NOW all have copies of it in their Archives. However, it appears that there is NO videotape copy now in existence! Or even any REFERENCE to the event even having happened! How is that possible? I cannot even discover what Network's camera was still rolling when Mr. Bush made that comment! There are virtually NO records or references to that comment anywhere! A search on the Internet certainly has MANY references to nearly the same comment made on Sept 26, 2002, but the implications of him having said it BEFORE 9/11 seem to suggest the possibility that Bush was even then already looking for some excuse to attack and kill Saddam, and that 9/11 was simply seen by Bush and his administration as the perfect excuse for invading Iraq. Doesn't that essentially qualify as premeditated murder? Even though Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with the events of 9/11, Bush and his group insisted that it was URGENT that they attack Iraq! Now, with that video, it makes more sense WHY they did that! It was personal! We had over 4,000 Servicemen die and we spent over a trillion dollars, apparently because a kid wanted revenge on someone who had threatened his father. And when you are President of the United States, it appears that you can obtain your vengeance. EIN News (apparently of Sweden) might have been responsible for the cameras that day, as they seem to have kept daily coverage of Mr. Persson, but I have been unable to find if they have any Archives of videotapes. I have seen references where EIN News carefully amasses every bit of media content which is related to Göran Persson, as they intend to some day publish an Official Memoir of his time as Prime Minister of Sweden. So, a LOT of media archives SHOULD contain copies of the events of June 14, 2001 in Gothenburg, Sweden, but EIN News seems certain to have saved it. This is all VERY weird, especially since it has now been confirmed that we DID see the President make that strange comment THREE MONTHS BEFORE the 9/11 attacks! Now, I want even more to actually see some Transcript of that portion of that meeting, and also actually see the videotape. As I noted above, the expression on Mr. Bush's face was incredibly chilling, as THAT was the reason I realized at that moment that he intended to attack Iraq. HEY! Someone located a copy of a video! I received this e-mail late in Sept 2009: Mr. Johnson, I found that clip. My buddy bet me a $1000.00 it was never said. He lost! I KNEW I saw that speech, it bothered me deeply. I saw the whole speech, and it was pretty clear he had it out for him. Regardless of 911. Shortly afterwards I quit the Republican Party and became an Independent. Richard They have 3 0r 4 different players to see watch it on. http://archive.org/details/Bush-ThisIsTheGuyThatTriedToKillMyDad We also have this (Sept 26, 2002) videotape here. Unfortunately, this videotape that he found was the one which occurred on Sept 26, 2002, in Texas, where Bush was standing alone at a Podium, long AFTER the 9/11/01 attacks. Also, in this tape, which is of a (standing) speech, Bush is in a high-spirited mood, somewhat smiling and light-hearted about the matter. That is in incredible contrast with the 6/14/01 comment, where he had been seated and his expression was the most spectacular aspect of the comment. Deadly serious appearing, with the full impression that he intended to somehow wreak personal revenge, which the 9/11/01 attacks provided for him as an excuse. (This man's comments, regarding being extremely emotionally affected by seeing the comment, indicates that he may have also actually saw the same one I saw, the one on 6/14/01 and not the light-hearted one of this videotape.) So it still appears that there may be NO EXISTING COPY of the live telecast which I personally saw on 6/14/01! The mystery continues. And IF some viewer happened to have had a VCR going to capture a copy of it on that day, that will then center a focus on all the TV Networks that certainly USED TO HAVE a copy of that video but now they would need to explain why their Archives seem to no longer contain that video. Maybe if ONE Network would lose a video, but when ABC-Chicago and ABC-New York and ABC-Los Angeles and all the others each aired it, along with the other networks, how could they ALL have lost such an important videotape? Even Networks that did not air it that day, would have received a satellite-feed of that videotape, such that they might consider airing it or excerpting it for their News broadcasts. Logically, there should be at least 50 Archives in the US that should have recorded and saved that video, as they do ALL news segments! There is NO logical explanation for how ALL of them could now not have it, except for an intentional action on the part of the Bush government to force them all to delete it. I can imagine that the reasoning might have been that the President looked really bad, but can the (US) government actually force all the TV networks to dispose of what would now be an immensely important videotape? Isn't America supposed to be different from that? It might be appropriate to note that the Bush government later DECIDED to destroy more than 90 videotapes of waterboarding (torture) when they realized that they would look very bad if anyone ever saw those tapes. So ethics and principles seem not to have had much importance. I still do not see how supposedly INDEPENDENT businesses, television networks, would have ever agreed to dispose of an important videotape, just because it made the President look like a jerk. Would they all have done that? If so, it is terrifying for a Fourth Estate reason! I guess while I am on this sort of thing, there is another thing I saw that I guarantee that I actually saw! Nothing weird here, just a little bothersome. And it has absolutely NOTHING to do with Déjà vu! There is a product that started being advertised for men to grow hair, called Rogaine, in the early 1990s. It achieved some success (and is still being sold). Late in April, 1996, Upjohn (the manufacturer) decided to start advertising to women, to try to sell even more products. Here's the interesting part. They started broadcasting DIFFERENT commercials for men and for women. For maybe a little over a month (May 1996), the new TV ads to women included a statement where women were losing hair BECAUSE OF THE STRENGTH OF MODERN SHAMPOOS. I remember thinking, wow, the shampoo industry can NOT be pleased with that! But I think they were actually noting that long ago, virtually no woman lost her hair, that virtually all women still had their hair in extremely old age. It was even CALLED "male pattern baldness" because it only happened to men! Well, now, that concept was quite interesting! Clearly, Upjohn would only have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to MAKE such commercials and more hundreds of thousands of dollars to air the new advertising toward women, if they KNEW that there was a large enough market, that is, that millions of women were now losing their hair! One would think that Upjohn would have had experts make very certain that every statement in a NEW commercial was solidly truthful and accurate. We can probably figure that the shampoo manufacturers must have immediately contacted Upjohn with severe legal threats and those ads quickly disappeared from all TV advertising, and a different reason was put in its place, that of a genetic disposition because a woman's mother had been susceptible to losing her hair. However, this new reason seemed rather silly, as virtually no older women had ever lost much hair, until fairly recently. Those replacement commercials also soon disappeared and a variation of the male pattern baldness reasoning then took over, still used to this day. SOOOO! Does this mean that their initial ads were correct? That women are now losing hair because the modern hair care products they buy are so strong? Or was Upjohn so incompetent as to spend millions to create a commercial that was not true? If so, shouldn't women be provided with this information? However, we note that the sales of billions of dollars of hair care products would plummet! Are the ethics of modern business so profit-centered that they are willing to cause millions of women to lose their hair just to get greater profits in hair care products? Boy, I hope not, but I wonder! Specifically, I discovered that there seems to be no record of those early women's TV ads of May 1996 that exist anywhere, nor even any reference to any such thing. There are references to the fact that Upjohn was ABOUT to start such advertising to women at the end of April 1996, but then no references whatever afterwards! There is little doubt that the hair care / shampoo corporations would have tried to delete that from history. Did they succeed? As far as I can tell, they did! As a side note on this matter, HUNDREDS of people have viciously attacked ME regarding this! They go on and on about ME improperly blaming shampoos and the rest. They apparently do not carefully read the foregoing text, as I personally have absolutely NO opinion either way about the matter! I merely SAW a dozen TV commercials that stated those things that struck me as pretty amazing! Kill the messenger??? An interesting recent addition is that in early 2009, a company is presenting something on TV in infomercials called Wen. These new infomercials keep repeating all the damage that modern shampoos do to hair, to promote their claim of not being a shampoo. It sure sounds a LOT like the claims I heard in those May 1996 Rogaine for Women commercials regarding about how strong and destructive to hair that modern shampoos are! The new Wen infomercials do not directly say that shampoos cause hair to fall out, but they IMPLY the same thing! They refer to the fact that women accept that strong modern detergents cause clothing fibers to disintegrate, and then make a reference to a similar effect of strong modern shampoos. I guess that is not actually saying that shampoos cause hair to fall out, but it sure sounds close! As near as I can tell, that product Wen and its company quickly disappeared! Don't mess with the giant hair care corporations! A related matter is that in January 2015, a company called Keranique is running TV commercials that say that there are thirty million American women who are losing their hair! And the implication in those commercials is that a prime culprit are powerful cleaning chemicals in women's shampoos! In 2015, a LOT of Wen TV commercials have started filling the air, and they are pretty aggressive about criticizing all women's shampoos. It is remarkably similar to the commercials I saw twenty years earlier that initiated my comments above. It seems that it took twenty years before the women's shampoo industry finally accepted the outrageous things I saw in 1996 in that brief spat of TV commercials.



The implications of both these things, the Bush Daddy comment before 9/11/01 and the Rogaine for Women commercials of May 1996, are really terrifying. Can our government or a giant corporation really totally delete all references to some undesirable incident from the entire world's memory and knowledge? And apparently all video archives as well? If so, we should all really be very, very scared!



So, if someone with far better Internet search skills than me can locate Transcripts and videotapes of the Bush Daddy comment of June 2001, or Transcripts and videotapes of the Rogaine for Women TV commercials of May 1996, I would be greatly comforted! Just to know that SOME records of undesirable events CAN be preserved! That history cannot simply be re-written by those with enough power.



Now, some people seem to read this as though I am some sort of "conspiracy theorist". That is NOT the case! I really have no personal reason for thinking about such things one way or another. But as a good scientific researcher, I do NOT EVER rely on speculations or silly concepts, but instead always attempt to pursue whatever is the actual truth in any situation. When things "don't seem to add up right", I tend to notice such lack of logic and I try to investigate. If somebody would get reliable evidence that gravity sometimes did not work right, I would be similarly interested in investigating!



OK. One MORE subject to bring up, one that actually might be closer to the nerve signal passage delay of this Déjà vu presentation!



For many years, I have noticed that if I VERY carefully watch any standard TV, I definitely HEAR the words of a "talking head" a fraction of a second BEFORE I see the images of the mouth moving. Not very long, only around 1/10 second.



Logically, it should be the other way around, because the light should get to my eyes virtually instantly while the sound can only travel at the far slower speed of sound.



For most of these years, I had attributed that to some INTENTIONAL plan on the part of broadcasters, although I never could figure out WHY they might do that! IF I was around a hundred feet from the TV set, the (earlier) sound would take around 1/10 second to propagate through the air to get to me, and the picture and sound would then appear to exactly match up. But I have never watched a TV from 100 feet away!



It has recently occurred to me that this experience might instead be due to some flaw IN MY BRAIN. (Other than that one!) What if it is ONLY ME who notices this situation? What if everyone else sees the picture and sound exactly match up, as they clearly should? THAT might suggest an entirely NEW field of research to study! IF it is true that IN ME my "optical path and processing" somehow has a 1/10 second delay over my "aural path and processing", I believe this would be a phenomenon that no one has ever seen before! IF that is the case, then what if other people had different sensory paths and processing that have noticeable delays in them? Could something like that have anything to do with something like epilepsy? Or the fact that some people seem "keyed-up" while others are "low-key"?



Please realize that this effect is pretty subtle, only around 1/10 second. If I was not so fanatical about strict observational skills regarding scientific events, I probably would never even have noticed this very minor effect. If the screen is not a full-face talking head, it seems impossible to notice at all. And it is most obvious when the talking head makes a sudden sound, where it is weird to HEAR the sound BEFORE the image of the mouth moves!



At the moment, I really do not know whether that experience I have noticed for at least 20 years is just something inside me, or whether it is some designed aspect of television broadcasting. So I guess I am interested to learn if others might "very carefully watch TV" to see if they do or do not notice the same thing I have described here. EITHER would be wonderful for me to learn!



WELL, now I know this one! It turns out that it IS a result of the way that TV signal transmission occurs! Some very new and very advanced TVs have a capability of correcting for this problem! It is called an Audio Sync problem! Some new TVs call their correcting software Lip Sync. I still cannot find any information on just how many milliseconds this problem is, so I am still interested in that. But it IS nice to know that I am not entirely crazy! The new TV Lip Sync software has an ADJUSTMENT where I can set the TV for any amount of time delay in the audio, so a TV owner can CORRECT for this effect, to see lips moving at the correct time as the words are heard!



