Dear Antares, could you please explain your perspective on the war between Russia and Ukraine?
Put simply, it's the Khazarian Mafia's last stand on Earth. In case you never heard of the KM, it's also known as the NWO Cabal or the Corporate Globalist-Transhumanist Agenda which uses covert agencies like Mossad, the CIA, M16 to stir up shit and promote perpetual war (profitable bizniz) and hides behind political institutions like NATO and the EU or the Anglo-American Axis of Evil.
At least since the end of WW2 the Khazarian-Zionist shill media have waged a propaganda war making people believe there are Good Guys & Bad Guys on the world stage when it's really a psycho-spiritual war between Archontic Intelligence (devoid of empathy and incapable of evolving beyond the 4th Density) and Divine Humans (with unlimited potential to evolve beyond the 4th Density, attain Buddha & Christ consciousness, and reintegrate with Source).
Unbeknownst to the majority of humans (who have been for countless generations brainwashed through religion, academia, entertainment and news media) the Khazarian Mafia are linked to the Sabbatean-Frankists, latter-day incarnation of an ancient black magic cult practising demon-appeasing blood rites, human sacrifice, BDSM, torture and adrenochrome rituals. They are behind the largely unreported phenomenon of child abduction, human trafficking, sexual enslavement and organ harvesting - and Ukraine, since the CIA-sponsored coup of 2014, has become the biggest house of horrors on earth. Ruling elites with blood ties to the Khazarian Mafia (e.g., the Rothschilds & Rockefellers) have a vested interest in maintaining their stranglehold on the mass psyche via propaganda - and they have thus far succeeded in manipulating the narrative to make Russia and Vladimir Putin (and for that matter, Donald Trump) look like the Bad Guys while the Deep State comprising crime families like the Bush, Clinton, Obama and Biden nexus supposedly stand for democracy! 😃
You asked politely, that's why I am making an effort to explain (though the situation is way too complex and murky to convey in the context of a Facebook comment). Russia, in this instance, is the only hope we have to ensure that Divine Humans do not become extinct under the soulless juggernaut of "progress" funded by Big Tech and the NWO Cabal - who are loosely labeled "Satanists" (especially by Christians) but that's not a term I personally choose to employ. Anyway, the proxy war between Putin and NATO (which in no way benefits Ukraine, indeed which has destroyed and disrupted the lives of countless innocents) is already at an end.
NATO is kaput and so is the corporate state known as the USA, Inc (established in 1871).
I've been trying to find out who this authority on the Middle East who signs off as "KN Al-Sabah" actually is, but the only possible lead so far is that he may be a member of the Kuwaiti elite living in London. If the real "KN Al-Sabah" happens to stumble on this post, kindly introduce yourself and take a bow, sir.
I dub you the Master of Succinctness!
Here's blogger The Big Pharaoh's contribution to the confusion:
"Not-Seeism: A dangerous state of denial where, despite all of the evidence, people insist on not seeing the obvious truth."
-- Swami Beyondananda's Political Dictionary
The
upwising continues, and the "irony curtain" is becoming more
transparent than ever. The veils are being lifted on the "security
state", the cancerous growth that Dwight Eisenhower warned us about more than half a century ago that has all but taken over our government and governance.
This
viral photo says it all. Bush or Obama, whoever is at the helm of the
American empire, is ultimately answerable to the same dark lords. Swami
put it a bit more bluntly four years ago when it became apparent that
Barack Obama's allegiance was with the banking industry: "The empire has
a new face, but it still has the same big fat ass."
So
... America is waking up left and right, even as the mainstream media
continues to distract and divert, willfully ignorant that we stand at a
most significant moment in modern American history.
Edward Snowden stepping forward to expose the NSA's comprehensive surveillance measures is America's Tiananmen Square moment.
He has had the courage to put himself in front of the biggest tank in the world -- America's military industrial complex.
Naturally
-- or unnaturally -- most of the pimps in the so-called "press" have
either focused on Snowden's pole-dancer girlfriend or dismissed him as
one of those tinfoil-wearing Ron Paul supporters. The dismissal attacks
have begun, and this is how violence is done in the "soft totalitarian
state" we live in now. If character assassination works, it's less messy
than the other kind, right? (Of course, the other kind is still an
option, just in case.)
That's
why the likes of Jon Stewart , Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher are so
important today. By "pumping ironies" and speaking truth through humor,
they are shining light on the endarkened corridors of power, and are
using laughter to awaken a body politic that has hit the snooze button
way too often.
Interesting
to remember that one of the first things Hitler did when he came to
power was round up and imprison the cabaret comedians. Humor is the
ultimate weapon of mass-deconstruction with the power to break any
totalitarian trance.
From Nazism to Not-Seeism
So let's fast-forward 80 years, as the dark forces that embodied as Nazism have a new enabler ally -- "Not-seeism."
My
wife Trudy was born in Germany, and came to the United States at the
age of three. She returned there in her late teens for a year to live
and work. As she began to reacquaint herself with family members, she
felt bold and comfortable enough to ask them the difficult questions:
How was it that the Holocaust could happen? What had they known? What
had they done?
Most
of them replied, "We heard rumors. We were told it was American
propaganda, and frankly to believe anything else would have been
unthinkable."
I
recall a conversation several years ago where a woman was being told
about some nefarious doings on the part of our government. She got very
huffy and defensive and actually said, "Well ... it may be true, but I
don't believe it."
And there we have it, folks.
That is what is holding our current political "reality" together. It's hanging by a thread. Or actually, hanging by a "threat."
Because after all, if we are on a fast-track toward totalitarianism, who wants to stand in front of a tank, right? Better to focus on the guy's pole-dancer girlfriend ...
This
is a tough gulp to swallow, but if you look at the direction the
corporate state has been taking us -- less visibly prior to 911, more
obviously since then -- it's totalitarianism.
Yep
... that's the word I have purposely chosen. The powers in power
(whether you consider it a nefarious conspiracy or simply an unchecked
and unbalanced sociopath's playground) are determined to control every
aspect of our lives and the world: Food ... energy ... health care ...
the very information we receive. Evidence abounds if we look past our
own "not see" tendencies:
Monsanto
wants to own the patent to every seed on the planet. Should their plan
go forward, organic farming will still exist -- in an organic farming
museum somewhere where people can marvel about how quaint and
old-fashioned being in harmony with the web of life was.
The
oil companies have made their own plans for the future, and alternative
fuels will be developed only when they are good and ready. They don't
care if the general public is opposed to fracking. They've already fixed
the game, so ... frack you, public.
The
medical industrial complex will continue to fight holistic alternatives
as "quackery" or buy natural vitamin companies up. Herbal remedies have
already been banned in the EU.
The media will continue to marginalize everything that stands in the way of the corporate state. How
long will it be before those who oppose GMO food or fracking will be
assigned the same tinfoil hats that have been given to those who have
reported election stealing or who question the official 911 story? You know ... first they came for the 911 debunkers ... etc.
The
surveillance state will be the tip of the iceberg. The governance that
was established 225 years ago to serve we the people will serve us up on
a silver platter as consumer-slaves in one big Company Store. (It
reminds me of the classic Twilight Zone episode I saw as a kid where
ET's land and declare their purpose is to "serve mankind." Too late,
earthlings realize that "To Serve Mankind" is a cookbook.)
The Twilight Zone reference calls forth a moment of awakening from the same era, "Stranded In the Jungle" by the Cadets:
"I smelled something cooking and I looked to see ... that's when I
found out they was a-cooking me ... GREAT GOOGA-MOOGA LEMME OUTTA
HERE!"
It
is now time for a critical mass of the heretofore-uncritical masses to
shout in unison ... " GREAT GOOGA-MOOGA LEMME OUTTA HERE!"
And Now For the Good News
The
good news is that every bit of bad news being revealed about the
"legalized lawlessness" that has become the norm is ultimately good
news. It puts an otherwise anesthetized public into the more awakened
state of cognitive dissonance. To quote Swami, "The truth shall upset
you free."
Part
of the awakening is to step out of the usual left-right political
conversation and take a meta-view of what is happening now. Daniel Ellsberg, who knows a thing or two about blowing the whistle on nefarious doings says it quite eloquently here:
The NSA, FBI and CIA have, with the
new digital technology, surveillance powers over our own citizens that
the Stasi - the secret police in the former "democratic republic" of
East Germany - could scarcely have dreamed of. Snowden reveals that the
so-called intelligence community has become the United Stasi of
America.
Back
when Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, he too was faced with
prosecution. What saved him ultimately was that the press -- yes, we had
a real one at the time -- decided to back him up and simultaneously
published the papers.
In recent weeks, the press has expressed concern -- outrage, even -- over those who've been spying on THEM, and now we the people must encourage their courage.
How? Through three realizations.
First,
we must understand that the power behind the power is hell-bent on
totalitarianism ... and the rest of us must be heaven-bent on freedom.
Bucky Fuller anticipated this moment of choice in his book title, Utopia or Oblivion.
Because there is the technological ability to try to control
everything, unchecked and unbalanced power can seek to establish
totalitarian control. The evolutionary alternative is to trust
ourselves to govern ourselves, and recognize that our "security issues"
are really "insecurity issues."
Second,
we must recognize that totalitarianism is anti-life, anti-nature and
ultimately impossible. Of course, they will defend to our death their
right to try! Knowing these insane and misguided forces CANNOT WIN will
sustain our faith through times when it does indeed look like they are
winning.
Finally,
we have the ultimate antidote -- the virtues and values that 90% of us
hold in common, that the corporate state and corporate media have been
trying to program out of us. As they now seek to discredit Edward
Snowden, the last thing they want is for us to recognize Edward
Snowden's act for what it is -- an act of profound courage.
In school, we Americans learned to celebrate Patrick Henry's fabled quote, "Give me liberty or give me death."
Snowden
has put his ass on the line saying essentially the same thing. We must
stand up with him and behind him at this key moment, and encourage the
bravest members of the press and establishment to take a stand as well.
Finally,
the issue of the surveillance state is the perfect opportunity for
awakening progressives and aware conservative libertarians to find
common cause around the one issue that stands above all others -- who's
in charge of who's in charge?
If
enough of us take this one bold step toward political maturity, the
media will have no choice but to follow as WE BECOME the news.
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There is a great deal we in Malaysia can learn from monitoring the economic and political flux in America - and no one better qualified to inspire us in the right direction than the magnificent Swami Beyondananda aka Steve Bhaerman...
By Steve Bhaerman With Obama AWOL, the Evolutionary Up-Wising Must Proceed Without Him
“For the past generation, the Republicans have been playing hardball … and the Democrats have been playing hardly-have-balls.” ~ Swami Beyondananda
Well, what do you know? It’s happened again. The hopium has worn off, and in the sober light of morning we see that the white knight we hoped would save us (albeit a slightly darker white knight) has left us bereft. And our wallet is missing.
Progressives are bewailing the betrayal of progressive principles, but it’s worse than that. From the very first appointments – or should we say, disappointments – the Obama Administration installed more of the usual suspects instead of the unusual ones we had hoped for. The economic elites in power simply switched uniforms from red to blue. Bottom line, Obama bailed out Wall Street and bailed on Main Street.
True, the bail out was put in place by the Bush Administration. But it was given legitimacy by Obama, and in that one move Obama lost the independent voters who saw a glimmer of hope, a possibility that the unmitigated rule by the power of money could be counterbalanced, if not overcome.
He coulda been a contender. Instead, Obama took an apparent dive – and a bought us all a one-way ticket to palookaville. As to the “why,” take your choice. There is a really excellent article in the September, 2010 Vanity Fair that attributes Obama’s plight to a “broken Washington.” It’s a pretty inside-the-matrix analysis, but it’s valuable in showing the relationship between the American Devolution and the influence of money. In 2009, the article says, lobbyists spent $3.5 billion to leverage legislation. As an indication of how things have changed in just one “degeneration,” here is a quote from the article: “In the 1974 congressional elections, total spending on Senate and House races came to only $77 million. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, by 2008 the figure was $1.36 billion, with lobbyists providing a significant amount.”
In other words, Congressional campaigns cost seventeen times as much as they did 35 years ago. No wonder the Democrats have devolved into “Republican Lite.” They have felt obliged to follow the money instead of lead the conversation. As Ralph Nader wrote recently, “… the Democrats do not have a progressive philosophy.”
Other analyses are less forgiving, and portray Barack Obama as a Manchurian candidate riding the Trojan horse of “change” into the White House. A fact sheet distributed by St. Pete for Peace offers as much evidence as anyone needs to indicate that Obama’s prime allegiance is not to we the people but to the corporate state.
So … who or what is the real Obama? Is he an Aquarian visionary hamstrung by a dysfunctional system, or an inside player whose purpose all along was to low-jack progressivism on behalf of the corporate state?
And the answer is … it doesn’t matter.
It doesn’t matter because nothing could, would or will change without an independent political movement of “we the people.” Even Obama hinted at that during his campaign, telling the American people, “It’s about you.”
And now, nearly two years after the election, and more than a year-and-a-half since the inauguration, there is no independent citizens movement. We have the same third and fourth parties limping along, and the truth is we don’t need a new third party in America.
We need a new first party.
To have that, we must give up hopium, and end the dope addiction (i.e., our addiction to electing dopes who don’t really represent our true interests) that has so severely weakened the body politic that we the people have become a non-factor in governance, diverted from the real issues by bipolar politics and a media side-show.
Here is my declaration, prayer and intention:
May the 2010 mid-term election be the last bullshit election held in America.
May it be the last election, where “mosque-debating” obfuscates the real issues of who’s in charge, and who’s in charge of who’s in charge.
May it be the last election where people’s hard-earned money – not to mention the hardly-earned money spent by the economic elites – is used to perpetrate lies, distortions and manipulative misinformation.
May it be the last election where the mainstream corporate media calls the shots of what gets covered.
May it be the last election where only money talks, and where “free speech” is free – unless of course, you want it to be broadcast widely, in which case it costs lots and lots of money.
And the Good News Is…?
There is good news, folks … but only if WE make it.
Now this is what I call a speech! Obama is a natural-born orator, no doubt about that. The lucidity of his mind and maturity of his soul lend a luminosity to his words and a deeply therapeutic dimension to his presidency.
Only in two instances did I feel prompted to interrupt the man and interject my dissenting view - and that's when he refers to 9/11 as an atrocity committed by Al-Qaeda (in accordance with the Official Conspiracy Theory), thereby glossing over the glaring discrepancies (too many to list here, but those interested may read this powerful essay by Steve Bhaerman); and also when he attempts to justify the military occupation of Afghanistan without admitting that the entire adventure was originally prompted by the Americam oil lobby's determination to control the oil reserves in the region via the Unocal oil pipeline now being built across Afghanistan.
This suggests to me that Barack Obama is acutely aware of the destructive power of the Zionist-Illuminati Cabal and is carefully choosing his words so as not to arouse its animosity and antagonism. Presidents before Obama - like Lincoln and Kennedy - were unceremoniously removed from office for taking a firm stance against the secret government and its evil plan to hijack human evolution. I feel that Obama's mission is to build a bridge that will take humanity beyond the deathgrip of the Illuminati Cabal which has secretly ruled for thousands of generations.
At least Anwar Ibrahim doesn't make me cringe whenever he opens his mouth.
WASHINGTON, DC - April 19, 2009 - Retired navy captain and Apollo XIV astronaut Edgar Mitchell today called for the U.S. government to disclose to its citizens and other Earthlings what he asserts are the realities of long-standing extraterrestrial visitations and interactions with our planet.
Speaking this morning at "X-Conference 2009" in Gaithersburg, MD, a suburb of the nation's capital, Mitchell (left) told several hundred attendees and a phalanx of video cameras that, with our planet confronting population pressures and critical questions of environmental and energy sustainability, the need for disclosure about ET involvement with Earth is critical.
Mitchell contends that the dispersal of knowledge about what he believes to be the end of Earth's apparent quarantine from other civilizations, and advancement of planetary culture beyond its present fragmentation and incoherence, are desirable results of the widest public release of information about the extraterrestrial presence he believes is real.
The conference, organized by long-time "UFO Disclosure" activist and one-time Maryland congressional candidate Stephen Bassett (right), centers on an emergent field of cultural reconsideration its advocates term "Exopolitics." Bassett's nonprofit Paradigm Research Group has mounted a decade-long broad spectrum campaign advocating disclosure of what he says are unwarranted secrets about "UFOs" and "ETs" held over as unnecessary "Cold War paranoia."
Questions of "What do we do and say after we say 'Hello!' to ET?" remain distant from wider public consideration, let alone consensus about their implications for national sovereignty, religious traditions and global policy formulation, discussions about which conference organizers and presenters are intent on provoking.
Front page, Roswell Daily Record, 8 July 1947
Mitchell, Bassett and other "ET disclosure" activists are banking on President Barack Obama's repeated assurances that government agencies withholding information from US citizens are "on notice," in the President's words, that an era of unnecessary secrecy is over.
Obama has said his administration's tendency will be to unlock what he and senior officials consider information rightfully belonging to the public, while recognizing constraints required for national security, a presidential promise replayed on video at the conference to sustained applause by hopeful disclosure advocates.
"We live in challenging, magnificent times," Mitchell said, emphasizing that, in his opinion, information that we are not alone in the universe - and indeed, he said, that we here on Earth are having ongoing interactions with nonterrestrial beings - may provide a key to consciousness changes he and his colleagues believe are necessary.
Mitchell said he believes such changes are essential for Earth to make progress through problems confronting humanity's competing needs, religious imperatives and cultural fragmentation. His efforts since leaving NASA and the space program have been focused on exploring frontiers "of the mind, body and spirit," he said.
Mitchell acknowledged that, before humanity can travel with practicality much beyond our own solar system, solutions to Einsteinian limitations to faster-than-light propulsion of our spacecraft must still be solved, a frontier the aging astronaut said he believes science eventually will do.
But he stressed that our own limitations have not limited the extraterrestials he asserts are present on Earth.
"The aliens have done it!" Mitchell said of an apparent ability to traverse what to us are insurmountable distances.
He contends that as a result of wider public awareness of the ET presence, revisitation of much phenomenology catalogued in human history should precipitate revision of how we understand planetary history in light of what he believes are long-standing extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.
The astronaut, who told Cape Cod Today he was raised in a strict Baptist household, said reevaluations of source phenomena that led to Earth's major faiths, and which he said foster divisions among humans, might be another of the beneficial results of wider awareness of what Mitchell believes is the historical and ongoing "ET" presence and their asserted involvements in human development.
Mitchell and his fellow explorers of what he has called the "Frontiers of Consciousness" have long contended that broader public awareness of the extraterrestrial presence and interactions the astronaut-scientist believes are reality could help promote a "global mind change."
Mitchell and colleagues assert this could point us toward "planetary transformation," helping Earth's culture to mature sufficiently to gain entry into a wider community of civilizations for which they believe abundant evidence exists, now and throughout history, when viewed through a filter in which the claimed extraterrestrial presence is considered.
Taking questions following his presentation, Mitchell told Cape Cod Today that his beliefs as expressed this morning about extraterrestrial involvements with humanity on Earth are drawn from information generally available to those who study the field of alleged "ET-UFO" events and experiences, citing no "secret information" to which he has been privy.
He also contradicted some other presenters at X-Conference 2009, who claimed that Mitchell and the other NASA astronauts were briefed before their space flights about potential encounters with UFOs of an extraterrestrial nature and how to handle or disguise them from the public. He said unequivocally that this did not occur.
In a previous private interview with Cape Cod Today, Mitchell also expressed skepticism about some of the more popular "UFO conspiracy lore," i.e., stories that NASA astronauts did not really visit the moon or that the space agency has been covering up satellite photographs of Mars purportedly showing evidence of past civilizations.
"We had no briefings on UFOs during our astronaut training," Mitchell told the conference, suggesting that "human nature" tends to embellish and distort things about which there is insufficient information or which embody concepts disruptive of our respective world views.
Mitchell said decades of "UFO disclosure" revelations, drawn principally from elderly military and nonmilitary folks claiming bits and pieces of the larger puzzle about what they believe really happened at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947
He also acknowledged that the UFO field has often been the target of disinformation and intentional misinformation seedings throughout the years, some perhaps for legitimate national security reasons having to do with terrestrial aerospace research and development.
But Mitchell's stance on NASA-centered conspiracy theories about "ET UFO" remained firm in the face of questions.
"It was not mentioned during my career," he said, adding that he and his fellow spacefarers saw no evidence of space visitors on the back side of the Moon, another long-standing tale among the more cult-like cohorts of UFO faithful.
Mitchell said decades of "UFO disclosure" revelations, drawn principally from elderly military and nonmilitary folks claiming bits and pieces of the larger puzzle about what they believe really happened at Roswell, NM in 1947, helped shape his belief that the event actually took place and was not, as the US Air Force claimed, a crash-test balloon.
He cited what he described as the credibility of the witnesses and the coherence of their stories as influencing his belief in the reality of the ET scenario attendant to the Roswell event, which stems from a 1947 cover-story released in July of that year after a crash of some unspecified aircraft not far from Roswell Army Airfield (RAAF).
The next day the initial "recovered flying saucer" cover story issued by Roswell AAF public affairs staffers was countermanded by a senior Army Air Force commander, who said a "weather balloon" was what had crashed, pieces of which had been recovered.
The story died for three decades until being resurrected in the early 1980s, eventually prompting a 1994 U.S. Air Force revision of their "official story," contending that the Roswell crash was of a "Mogul" project balloon of the type used for atmospheric monitoring to detect possible Soviet nuclear weapons tests.
A subsequent version of the Air Force story was that the alleged "recovered alien bodies" endemic to some Roswell crashed saucer tales were, in reality, "crash test dummies" used for testing experimental high-altitude equipment for the U.S.'s growing strategic bomber forces.
As is well known to worldwide "UFO" enthusiasts, the Air Force's efforts to defuse the Roswell story were in vain, and a host of alternative scenarios have persisted.
These range from "ET crashed saucer recovery" to speculations that the event being camouflaged was human experimentation on unwitting subjects, in contravention of the then-recently adopted Nuremberg Protocols governing medical experimentation on humans following disclosure of Nazi concentration camp Holocaust horrors.
Mitchell is among many former military officials and large numbers of US and world citizens who scoff at the Air Force "clarifications," citing what he says are the credibility of the witnesses and the coherence and consistency of their recollections, in his opinion, that an extraterrestrial craft indeed crashed and the event covered up for six decades.
"What more do you need?" Mitchell declared, asserting that the Air Force's balloon stories are transparently false.
Roswell, New Mexico, in the 1940s
Ironically, the future astronaut grew up in Roswell, NM, where his family had a ranch not far from the alleged crashed saucer site, although Mitchell said that at the time it happened, he had no firsthand experience or knowledge about it.
But other space related research was going on at Roswell during Mitchell's youth, as rocket pioneer Robert Goddard had moved his research and testing program to Roswell in the 1930s and launched numerous experimental rockets. The youthful future astronaut was captivated by Goddard's efforts, which captured his imagination about possible travel away from Earth and to the stars.
Roswell UFO crash site, now a tourist attraction
Mitchell also related that in 1945 he and his family's neighbors witnessed the bright, white flash over the horizon which signaled the advent of the atomic age with testing of the first nuclear weapon at the Trinity site. Mitchell said the bomb influenced him significantly when he later learned what it was and, much later, better understood its implications.
Mitchell said he believes the nuclear explosion also may have attracted the extraterrestrial presence he believes resulted in the alleged ET aircraft collision which UFO researchers have claimed for three decades happened near Roswell, which is situated not far from where the nation's first nuclear weapon was detonated.
"I have a sneaking suspicion that the reason for Roswell (as the alleged ET aircraft crash is euphemistically termed) was that the UFO phenomenon was drawn to our nuclear sites," Mitchell told the gathering. He said he is concerned about the tendencies of terrestrial governments and their militaries to stake claims and perhaps fly weapons in space, a concern Mitchell believes may be shared by the intervening extraterrestrials.
Mitchell said that many years ago, after leaving NASA, he authored a manuscript advocating against militarization of space attendant to nationalistic colonization of the high frontier for military advantage or benefits other than for all of humankind.
"I submitted it to thirty-four publishers, and all refused to publish it," Mitchell said.
He told the X-Conference that his coming forward so unequivocally at this time reflects his concerns about the direction our planet is heading and his belief that wider public awareness that "we are not alone" will precipitate a healthier consideration of Earth's future.
Mitchell is slated to appear at the National Press Club tomorrow morning (Monday, April 20, 10 a.m.) to amplify his encouragement of the Obama administration to compel disclosure of what the U.S. government may know about the extraterrestrial interactions with humanity the astronaut said he believes have been happening and remain ongoing.
And as for the Cape Cod connection? The late Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John E. Mack (left) , a former summer Cape dweller who studied and wrote about purported "ET alien abductions" in the early 1990s, and long-standing "ET abduction" researcher (and Provincetown resident) Budd Hopkins, a New York modern artist who has studied the phenomenon since his own "UFO" sighting in 1964, met each other at the Cape. They were introduced by a mutual friend, Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, the acclaimed psychiatrist and author, also at Harvard, who lives on the Cape.
Flower of Life crop circle: sacred geometry revealed
Let us compare the politics of two nations - the United States and Malaysia. We are often told that we should not import "foreign influences" into our politics - but globalization renders this moot.
With his historic candidacy and extraordinary personal narrative, Senator Barack Obama - the son of a Kenyan civil servant and an anthropologist from Kansas with (in his own words) "a funny-sounding name" has upturned the Washington establishment.
Now, this mixed-race, elite-educated lawyer and first-time senator appears poised to bring renewal and hope to a country wracked by eight years of Republican misrule epitomized by George W. Bush's disastrous White House.
For all the talk of racism, Obama appears to have secured much of the support of "middle America." At the same time he's also managed to engage both America's minorities and youth- most of whom have felt marginalized from the political debate.
However, this fact appears to have escaped McCain and his strategists. They have run a campaign largely fuelled by fear: fear of the unknown and the foreign. Rather than debate on the issues and America's a rapidly imploding economy, the Republicans have run a sleazy, scare-mongering campaign, highlighting Obama's 'foreign-ness' at every opportunity.
Furthermore, McCain's selection of Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska as his running mate has been polarizing. Her limited personal achievements matched by her insular world views have undermined confidence in McCain's judgement. Whilst Palin has energized the Republican base, polls suggest that her selection has backfired amongst the broader voting public who are less ideological and extreme in their views.
Obama has risen with class and fortitude above the ugly attacks. His election would not only be a victory for African-Americans, but for the United States as a whole as it restores and renews its battered integrity. Still, the final decision is in the hands of ordinary Americans as the world holds its breath.
The situation in Malaysia is sadly very different. Unlike Obama, our politicians are not seeking to inject hope or even competence into public life. This is no more evident than in Umno. The ruling party (much like the Republicans) has evidently chosen to respond to electoral defeat by becoming more conservative and fearful.
Umno appears not to have realized how much corruption, inefficiency and racism have turned off Malaysian voters of all races, including the Malays. Money politics remains endemic, as the head of the Umno's Disciplinary Board; Tengku Ahmad Rithaudeen has been forced to admit.
The party's ongoing rejection of genuine talent in favour of those with money and family connections is driving away young Malay professionals. This has meant that those who could do so much to revitalize Umno, are throwing their support to the more meritocratic Opposition. Even a cursory watch of the Parliamentary broadcasts will tell you that the party is suffering because of it.
Amazingly, Umno seems to feel that the mere removal of Abdullah Badawi and a return to the authoritarianism of the Mahathir years will repair the party's fortunes. In the face of calls for new politics and fresh faces it has put forward veritable political dinosaurs - men such as Rais Yatim, Rahim Thamby Chik, Syed Hamid Albar and Muhammad Taib – leaders past their prime who should really be happily retired.
At the same time I cannot understand how Mohd Khir Toyo can be a serious candidate for the Head of Umno Youth. Surely, it is inconceivable that a leader who had lost his state to the Opposition should not only be allowed to contest for a top post but even receive popular support at that.
In this respect, Umno's all-powerful divisional leaders may be the source of its problems. Their influence is disproportionate to their contributions to the nation. The fact that they can throw their support behind such low-calibre personalities suggests that they do not have our best interests at heart.
Many of the leaders who they are flocking to are also very similar to Sarah Palin in that they lack verve or experience. They may be well-regarded in the party, but what of the nation as a whole? As Malaysia seeks developed status, we shouldn't compromise with the second-rate in our politics.
In this respect, I'm afraid the current slate of candidates does not inspire confidence. Whilst leaders like Mohd Ali Rustam need to be popular with the Umno faithful, Malaysians of all races need to be comfortable with them and the sad fact is that very few are. One is not sure if these are the men and women that can revive the flagging Barisan Nasional coalition either.
The fact that Najib Tun Razak, who has now secured the Presidency of Umno was forced to backtrack from his remarks about liberalizing the NEP shows that Umno's top leadership is not all-powerful. If Umno is serious about changing itself, then the momentum must come from its grassroots.
At a campaign rally, Obama was quoted as saying "Change happens because the people demand it". Umno can only be saved if its members realize this and move past from the bad faith and blunders that have blighted it thus far.
Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair.
In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea. The racists were present throughout the campaign and in the voting booth. But they are no longer the majority, and we will see their flame of hate fizzle out in our lifetime.
There was another important "first" last night. Never before in our history has an avowed anti-war candidate been elected president during a time of war. I hope President-elect Obama remembers that as he considers expanding the war in Afghanistan.
The faith we now have will be lost if he forgets the main issue on which he beat his fellow Dems in the primaries and then a great war hero in the general election: The people of America are tired of war. Sick and tired. And their voice was loud and clear yesterday.
It's been an inexcusable 44 years since a Democrat running for president has received even just 51% of the vote. That's because most Americans haven't really liked the Democrats. They see them as rarely having the guts to get the job done or stand up for the working people they say they support. Well, here's their chance. It has been handed to them, via the voting public, in the form of a man who is not a party hack, not a set-for-life Beltway bureaucrat. Will he now become one of them, or will he force them to be more like him? We pray for the latter.
But today we celebrate this triumph of decency over personal attack, of peace over war, of intelligence over a belief that Adam and Eve rode around on dinosaurs just 6,000 years ago. What will it be like to have a smart president? Science, banished for eight years, will return. Imagine supporting our country's greatest minds as they seek to cure illness, discover new forms of energy, and work to save the planet. I know, pinch me.
We may, just possibly, also see a time of refreshing openness, enlightenment and creativity. The arts and the artists will not be seen as the enemy. Perhaps art will be explored in order to discover the greater truths. When FDR was ushered in with his landslide in 1932, what followed was Frank Capra and Preston Sturgis, Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck, Dorothea Lange and Orson Welles. All week long I have been inundated with media asking me, "gee, Mike, what will you do now that Bush is gone?"
Are they kidding? What will it be like to work and create in an environment that nurtures and supports film and the arts, science and invention, and the freedom to be whatever you want to be? Watch a thousand flowers bloom! We've entered a new era, and if I could sum up our collective first thought of this new era, it is this:
Anything Is Possible.
An African American has been elected President of the United States! Anything is possible! We can wrestle our economy out of the hands of the reckless rich and return it to the people. Anything is possible! Every citizen can be guaranteed health care. Anything is possible! We can stop melting the polar ice caps. Anything is possible! Those who have committed war crimes will be brought to justice. Anything is possible.
We really don't have much time. There is big work to do. But this is the week for all of us to revel in this great moment. Be humble about it. Do not treat the Republicans in your life the way they have treated you the past eight years. Show them the grace and goodness that Barack Obama exuded throughout the campaign. Though called every name in the book, he refused to lower himself to the gutter and sling the mud back. Can we follow his example? I know, it will be hard.
I want to thank everyone who gave of their time and resources to make this victory happen. It's been a long road, and huge damage has been done to this great country, not to mention to many of you who have lost your jobs, gone bankrupt from medical bills, or suffered through a loved one being shipped off to Iraq. We will now work to repair this damage, and it won't be easy.
But what a way to start! Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States. Wow. Seriously, wow.
An historic occasion. It’s President Obama. Let’s hope he fulfils his promises and works in the interests of the ordinary people, the working class, rather than Big Business. [anilnetto.com]
IF THERE IS ANYONE out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference.
It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled - Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America.
It’s the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.
I just received a very gracious call from Senator McCain. He fought long and hard in this campaign, and he’s fought even longer and harder for the country he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine, and we are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader. I congratulate him and Governor Palin for all they have achieved, and I look forward to working with them to renew this nation’s promise in the months ahead.
I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on that train home to Delaware, the Vice President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.
I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last sixteen years, the rock of our family and the love of my life, our nation’s next First Lady, Michelle Obama. Sasha and Malia, I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that’s coming with us to the White House. And while she’s no longer with us, I know my grandmother is watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight, and know that my debt to them is beyond measure.
To my campaign manager David Plouffe, my chief strategist David Axelrod, and the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics - you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you’ve sacrificed to get it done.
But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to - it belongs to you.
I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn’t start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington - it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston.
It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give five dollars and ten dollars and twenty dollars to this cause. It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation’s apathy; who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep; from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on the doors of perfect strangers; from the millions of Americans who volunteered, and organized, and proved that more than two centuries later, a government of the people, by the people and for the people has not perished from this Earth. This is your victory.
I know you didn’t do this just to win an election and I know you didn’t do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime - two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they’ll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor’s bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America - I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you - we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it’s been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years - block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
What began twenty-one months ago in the depths of winter must not end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek - it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you.
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers - in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.
Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House - a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity. Those are values we all share, and while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, “We are not enemies, but friends…though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.” And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn - I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.
And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world - our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To those who would tear this world down - we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security - we support you. And to all those who have wondered if America’s beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope.
For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that’s on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She’s a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing - Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn’t vote for two reasons - because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.
And tonight, I think about all that she’s seen throughout her century in America - the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can’t, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.
At a time when women’s voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.
When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.
She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that “We Shall Overcome.” Yes we can.
A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes we can.
America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves - if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?
This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time - to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth - that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes We Can. Thank you, God bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.
