{"id":1261,"date":"2017-05-27T04:10:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T04:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2017-05-27T04:10:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T04:10:33","slug":"going-postal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/going-postal\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Postal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/expandedperspectiveselite\/Going_Postal.mp3\"><strong>Going Postal<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>This week on Expanded Perspectives Elite the guys start the show off talking about how thousand year old trees have become the new Ivory trade.\u00a0Global timber theft has grown into a \u201crapidly escalating environmental crime wave\u201d according to a 2012 report by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and Interpol, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/grid.cld.bz\/Green-Carbon-Black-Trade\"><em>Green Carbon, Black Trade<\/em><\/a>. The report estimates that somewhere between 15 to 30 per cent of the global timber trade is conducted through the black market and linked to organized crime\u00a0outfits that wouldn\u2019t balk at trading weapons or humans. Now with armed \u201ctimber cartels\u201d as part of their operation,\u00a0these groups\u00a0have identified profit in the immense value of ancient nature. Then,\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a bag that was used by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/a\/neil_a_armstrong\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neil Armstrong<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to collect rocks from the surface of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/science\/topics\/moon\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">moon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 1969 will go up for public auction in New York on July 20. It is expected to fetch $4 million or more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then, Lon Strickler over at Phantoms and Monsters posted a story that was sent to him recently about a guy, who&#8217;s grandfather was killed by a dogman on their family farm back in 1977. Then,\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">50 years of collected UFO data and activity held by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) is being published after the June election next month. The secret dossier will reveal 18 documents held back after the information needed to be re-examined by the MoD. After the break, Kyle brings up the horrifying story of\u00a0Patrick Henry Sherrill. The postman that went crazy and killed several co-workers. Since that day the term &#8220;Going Postal&#8221; has made it&#8217;s was into the mainstream vernacular. All of this and more on Expanded Perspectives Elite!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Show Notes:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How Thousand-Year-Old Trees Became the New Ivory\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/how-thousand-year-old-trees-became-new-ivory-180963365\/<\/li>\n<li><strong>Neil Armstrong\u2019s Moon Bag Could Fetch $4 Million at Auction\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/24\/us\/neil-armstrong-moon-bag.html?_r=0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dogman Kills West Virginia Farmer\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/www.phantomsandmonsters.com\/2017\/05\/dogman-kills-west-virginia-farmer.html<\/li>\n<li><strong>British Government Will Release It&#8217;s Secret UFO Files\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com.au\/science\/british-government-will-release-its-secret-ufo-files.aspx<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patrick Henry Sherrill\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,144859,00.html<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"name post-title entry-title\"><strong>Music:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>All music for Expanded Perspectives Elite is provided by \u00a0<strong>The Black Angels<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/theblackangels.com,\u00a0<strong>Pretty Lights<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/prettylightsmusic.com<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Songs Used:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Young Men Dead (Black Angels)<\/li>\n<li>World of Illusion<\/li>\n<li>Always All Ways<\/li>\n<li>Prophet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going Postal This week on Expanded Perspectives Elite the guys start the show off talking about how thousand year old trees have become the new Ivory trade.\u00a0Global timber theft has grown into a \u201crapidly escalating environmental crime wave\u201d according to a 2012 report by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and Interpol, titled Green Carbon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elite-podcast"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/9084.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/expandedperspectives.com\/elite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}