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From: campbell@ufomind.com (Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas) Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:35:31 -0800 |
Via: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Source: Metro ("Silicon Valley's Weekly newspaper").
http://www.metroactive.com:80/metro/cover/joefirmage1-9849.html
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From the December 10-16, 1998 issue of Metro.
Truth and Consequences
Truth Sayer: Silicon Valley Wunderkind Joe Firmage says the moment has
arrived for the world to embrace the truth, and President Clinton
should tell it: space aliens have visited the earth.
Photo: Christopher Gardner
When USWeb replaced company founder Joe Firmage as CEO, two things
became clear. One, in the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, you don't get
to believe in space aliens. And two, the world isn't ready for anything
billed as The Truth, whether it's true or not.
By *Michael Learmonth
NOTHING about Joseph P. Firmage seems the slightest bit ethereal, a
hard thing to reconcile considering the events of recent weeks.
Forty-five minutes after our meeting was scheduled to start, I am
ushered down a busy hall in a Santa Clara office building and shown
into his corner office at USWeb, where the young executive sits busily
tapping his keyboard. Without turning away from his computer, Firmage
asks me to take a seat. At 28, he's a decamillionaire with two wildly
successful high-tech startups under his belt.
Having founded USWeb in 1995 and in three years built it into a public
company worth about $1 billion, Firmage has made himself and a lot of
other people very rich, very fast. Firmage founded his first company,
Serius Corp, when he was just 18. Those who know him seem to fall into
two camps: those who think he's brilliant, and those who think he's a
genius.
Firmage is a prodigy in a valley full of sharpies, but I've come to his
office today to be pitched on a rather fantastic proposition, even by
Silicon Valley standards. Firmage spins around in his leather chair.
"I am directly challenging the scientific presumption against the
viability of visitation by extraterrestrials. And I have the evidence
to show for it that will be published tomorrow," Firmage tells me as
matter-of-factly and confidently as if he were pitching a business plan.
Firmage wears a dark shirt and slacks; precisely trimmed facial hair
frames his squarish jaw. Over the past year he has worked nonstop on a
work he has titled The Truth, a 600-page hypothesis appearing on the
Web site www.thewordistruth.org, all the while running USWeb, a company
which now has more than 1000 employees in more than 50 offices on three
continents.
(A subsidiary of Metro's parent company owned one of those offices
until earlier this year and remains a stockholder of USWeb Corporation.)
Firmage has granted scant interviews, and indeed this meeting is
squeezed between pressing engagements and several days spent in
seclusion where he worked on the completion of the final chapters of
his book. He speaks slowly and precisely like a seasoned orator,
repeating the words "wondrous" and "astonishing." His intonations and
gestures convey a CEO's unwavering confidence in his ideas, as they
should. ....
Continued at: http://www.metroactive.com:80/metro/cover/joefirmage1-9849.html
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From: Glenn Campbell
The rest of the article says that Firmage is a believer in the Roswell
crash and the MJ-12 documents. He also supports the Zero Point Energy
theories of Harold Puthoff (www.ufomind.com/people/p/puthoff)
Firmage's book, "The Truth," was apparently published within the
past few days (I have no info.) and is supposed to contain some
"new" MJ-12 documents obtained from ufologist Robert Wood, of
Redwood City, California. The documents are said to be available
on Firmage's website, www.thewordistruth.com, but I have been
unable to access that site in the past 24 hours. --GC
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