strategic-culture | In her 2012 book Area 51 Uncensored,
journalist Annie Jacobson provided lengthy detail of the Cold War
experiments, aerospace technology and nuclear bomb testing that took
place at Area 51 during this period which largely put the earlier social
engineer experiment of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds emergency broadcast
read aloud in 1938. The mass panic that ensued the broadcast provided
an insight into the levers of mass psychology that certain social
engineers drooled over.
What could account for observed UFO phenomena?
In an interview with NPR Radio, Jacobson stated: “The
UFO craze began in the summer of 1947. Several months later, the G2
intelligence, which was the Army intelligence corps at the time, spent
an enormous amount of time and treasure seeking out two former Third
Reich aerospace designers named Walter and Reimar Horten who had
allegedly created [a] flying disc. … American intelligence agents fanned
out across Europe seeking the Horton brothers to find out if, in fact,
they had made this flying disc.”
During WWII, the Horten brothers were associated with the Austrian scientist Viktor Shauberger whose innovative designs
for implosion (vs explosion) flying technology utilized water currents,
and electromagnetism to generate flying machines that by all surviving
accounts flew faster than the speed of sound. While much of his research
was confiscated and classified by victor nations after WWII,
Schauberger was promised government sponsorship in America which induced
the inventor to move across the ccean where Canada’s Avro Arrow program
sought his designs for supersonic nuclear missile delivery aircraft.
When he discovered that his work would only be used for military
purposes, Schauberger pushed back and over the course of several months,
his patents were essentially stolen, and he returned to Austria to die
broke and depressed in 1958.
The Strategic Importance of Space
It was never a secret that the post-1971 globalized world order
championed by the likes of Sir Henry Kissinger, David and Laurence
Rockefeller and other Malthusians throughout the 20th century
was always designed to collapse. With the mass shock therapy that such a
collapse would impose upon the world, it was believed that a
deconstruction of the Abrahamic traditions that governed western society
for 2000 years could be accomplished and a new society could be
socially engineered in the image of the Brave New (depopulated) World
that would live like happy sheep forever under the grip of a hereditary
alpha class and their technocratic managers. The story of the
Tavistock-led attack on scientific progress is told brilliantly in the
2010 Lpac film The Destruction of NASA.
The only problem these social engineers have encountered in recent
years is the re-emergence of actual statesmen who are unwilling to
sacrifice their people and traditions on the altar of a new global Gaia
cult. Such defenders of humanity’s better traditions have launched the
multipolar alliance and have driven a policy of long-term growth and
advance scientific and technological progress which is embodied
brilliantly by the New Silk Road, and its extensions to the Arctic. The
most exciting aspect of this New Silk Road/Multipolar Paradigm is the
leap into space exploration as the new frontier of human
self-development which has not been seen since the days of President
Kennedy.
With China and Russia signing a pact to jointly develop lunar bases and the NASA Artemis Accords
calling for international cooperation on Lunar and Mars resource
development/industrialization, the age of unlimited growth that was lost
with the LSD-driven mass psychosis of 1968’s “live in the now” paradigm
shift may finally be recaptured. Programs designed to put humanity’s
focus on real objective threats like Asteroid collisions, and solar-induced new ice ages are seriously being discussed by leaders of Russia, China and the USA.
There are billions of suns and potentially billions of galaxies, and
chances are there is indeed life on many of the planets orbiting some of
the stars within our growing, creative universe… and there is also a
fair chance that cognitive life has also emerged on some of those
planets. The best way to find out is not to sit at home while the world
economic system collapses under a controlled disintegration thinking
about Rockefeller-funded conspiracy theories, but rather to fight to
revive humanity’s open system destiny starting with a cooperative space
program to extend human culture and economy to the Moon and Mars, and
then onto other planetary bodies followed by missions to deep space.
If other civilizations exist, maybe it is our duty to take up the torch left to us by JFK and go find them.
space | A newly unveiled company with some high-profile backers — including
filmmaker James Cameron and Google co-founder Larry Page — is set to
announce plans to mine near-Earth asteroids for resources such as
precious metals and water.
Planetary Resources, Inc. intends
to sell these materials, generating a healthy profit for itself. But it
also aims to advance humanity's exploration and exploitation of space,
with resource extraction serving as an anchor industry that helps our
species spread throughout the solar system.
"If you look at space resources, the logical next step is to go to the near-Earth asteroids,"
Planetary Resources co-founder and co-chairman Eric Anderson told
SPACE.com. "They're just so valuable, and so easy to reach
energetically. Near-Earth asteroids really are the low-hanging fruit of the solar system."
Planetary Resources is officially unveiling its asteroid-mining plans at
1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT) Tuesday (April 24) during a news conference at
Seattle's Museum of Flight.
Platinum-group
metals — ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum —
are found in low concentrations on Earth and can be tough to access,
which is why they're so expensive. In fact, Anderson said, they don't
occur naturally in Earth's crust, having been deposited on our planet
over the eons by asteroid impacts.
"We're
going to go to the source," Anderson said. "The platinum-group metals
are many orders of magnitude easier to access in the high-concentration
platinum asteroids than they are in the Earth's crust."
And there are a lot of precious metals up
there waiting to be mined. A single platinum-rich space rock 1,650 feet
(500 meters) wide contains the equivalent of all the platinum-group
metals ever mined throughout human history, company officials said.
"When
the availability of these metals increase[s], the cost will reduce on
everything including defibrillators, hand-held devices, TV and computer
monitors, catalysts," Planetary Resources co-founder and co-chairman
Peter Diamandis said in a statement. "And with the abundance of these
metals, we’ll be able to use them in mass production, like in automotive
fuel cells."
Asteroid water could help astronauts stay hydrated
and grow food, provide radiation shielding for spaceships and be broken
into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen, the chief components of rocket
fuel, Anderson said.
Planetary Resources hopes its mining efforts lead to the establishment of in-space "gas stations" that could help many spacecraft refuel, from Earth-orbiting satellites to Mars-bound vessels.
"We're really talking about enabling the exploration of deep space," Anderson said. "That's what really gets me excited." [Future Visions of Human Spaceflight]
In
addition to Page, Planetary Resources counts among its investors Ross
Perot Jr., chairman of The Perot Group and son of the former
presidential candidate; Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google; K.
Ram Shriram, Google board of directors founding member; and Charles
Simonyi, chairman of Intentional Software Corp., who has taken two
tourist flights to the International Space Station.
Cameron serves the company as an adviser, as does former NASA space shuttle astronaut Tom Jones.
greyfalcon | There is another, less appreciated, dimension to UFO secrecy. These objects, we know, have demonstrated amazing manoeuvring capabilities. Some of them, at least, can accelerate instantly in all directions, turn on a dime, stop and hover motionlessly, and remain silent the whole while.
Our military aircraft have been unable to compete. In 1975, UFOs that could hover like silent helicopters and move like silent jets were unmolested by U.S. aircraft. In a well-known incident over Belgium in 1990, a triangular UFO thoroughly outclassed F-16 interceptors. During the summer of 2002, just outside Washington, D.C., a UFO easily outpaced and outmanoeuvred pursuing F-16s.
A common question that arises is, what kind of propulsion system do these objects use. But I wonder, what makes them go?
This question is more than academic. There are legitimate reasons to expect that we are about to experience a petroleum crisis of epic proportions, much sooner than we expect. Once a fringe belief, there are now many oil analysts who believe this.
The problem is basic supply and demand. The supply is finite; the demand shows no signs of limit. In fact, global oil demand is now increasing at the fantastic rate of 4 percent annually, which translates into a doubling rate of every 17 years. I don’t care what your supply is, you cannot double demand of anything indefinitely, and certainly not at the rate the petroleum demand is moving.
Recall the ancient Chinese story about the peasant who performed a good deed for the Emperor. "I will grant you any wish you ask," said the grateful Emperor. The peasant took a chess board and said, "I don’t ask for much. Simply place a grain of rice on the first square, then double the amount for each successive square on the board, and I will be content." "Silly peasant," thought the Emperor. "I would have given him something of value." For much of the board, the amount of rice was small enough. By the last few squares, however, the Emperor went broke. By the final square, the amount of rice would have exceeded all the rice in the world.
Experts argue about when the petroleum crisis will hit, but it is the height of folly to pretend it won’t arrive. Whether it will be 50 years, 20 years, or 5 years, our civilization needs to find a way to replace petroleum. UFO technology very likely holds part of the answer, maybe all of the answer.
Some people agree with this assessment, and believe that the "powers that be" are simply holding out on us until the oil truly runs out, just to maximize their profit. Then it’s free energy time – although we assume someone will find a way to make money from it.
You had better hope that such blind trust turns out to be accurate. I’m less confident that a benevolent elite will bail my ass out at the eleventh hour. For all I know, they may have decided that there are too many of us on this planet, anyway. "Time to clean house. I’ve got my bunker. How about you?"
Freedom and Self-Governance
For a democratically-based political system to function, there must be a reasonable amount of congruence between what people believe and what is actually the case. You elect a member of congress with the idea that he or she will represent your interests within the nation’s primary instrument of political power: the Congress. Except that Congress has been made irrelevant by other centres of power, or been taken over by them.
You get your news from television or your newspaper with the idea that the journalist on the other end is a kind of watchdog, looking out for the public interest. Except that the journalist is working for a corporation which is itself antithetical to the public interest.
Unseen structures of power have evolved over the previous generations, advancing sometimes slowly, sometimes with a dramatic suddenness. But most people lack the conceptual means by which to understand what is happening.
As I have suggested, I believe that a significant part of that power structure involves the possession and exploitation of UFO-related technology. And I certainly believe that the secrecy has gone on for so long that it has become integral to keeping the whole system together.
Once you start lying, how can you un-do the lie? Today, UFO secrecy has been with the U.S. – and by extension the world – for about sixty years. That’s nearly as long as the Soviet Union existed on the basis of its own labyrinthine web of lies.
The comparison is apt. I still recall holding in my hands a commemorative oversized Soviet book celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. The book was published in 1937, during the depths of Stalin’s rule. There was a colorized version of a famous photograph showing Lenin at a podium speaking to a crowd, and I noticed that Leon Trotsky – Stalin’s great political enemy – had been airbrushed out of the picture. That’s simply how the Soviet system worked. The government lied constantly, and everyone knew it, and everyone in the country pretended that the government didn’t lie.
Constant lying in the Soviet Union meant that the official powers had to systematically think about how to organize and manipulate public information to keep people in line. I remember trying to read through The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia, an impossibly organized mess of propaganda and fact so that you couldn’t learn anything about anything that truly mattered. That’s just how it was.
Looking back, we can see how it would have been impossible for such a society to continue indefinitely, ruled as it was on the basis of a series of lies. When Gorbachev took power in 1985, he wanted to reform that society. His catchphrases were glasnost and perestroika: openness and restructuring. I was a young student of Soviet history at that time, and remember the excitement well. I also recall the scepticism of some of my professors who continued to believe for some time that this was yet another communist plot.
No matter. Within six years, there was no more Soviet Union. What happened? Well, one thing that happened, a big thing, was that the process of reform spiralled out of control. You make a big change here, and the next guy wants change over there. It becomes hard to put on the brakes. You start with openness, for example, and you open the books on Stalin’s gulag. You open the books on the particulars of the Bolshevik coup. Or the reconquest of the Ukraine in the 1920s, or the capture of the Baltic States in 1940, and on and on. Before long, entire subject peoples want to bolt, and many openly question the legitimacy of the Party’s rule. Then it is over.
Disclosure Scenarios
It’s no different today in America, and the UFO secret is at the core. Imagine if the President of the United States were to decide to end UFO secrecy. How would he do it?
I can see him now. President George W. Bush steps up to the podium. Beloved Vice President Dick Cheney stands behind him. Trusted lieutenants Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice are there, too. The cameras of all the world’s media are upon him.
"Good evening," he begins. "Through a series of meetings with certain senior scientific and defence officials, it has come to my attention that the UFO phenomenon apparently is real, and is of extraterrestrial origin."
Hokey dokey, that’s really all I have to say for now. We’ll provide updates as we get ‘em. I’m going on vacation for a while. Goodnight everyone.
Well, maybe not. Disclosure is a Pandora’s box with a panoply of taboo topics just waiting to spring out. It is, as one friend of mine calls it, "a sloppy tar-baby," a threatening, friendly, frightening, and inseparable bundle of unavoidable eventualities.
So I can imagine a few questions, even from a media as compliant as the American. "Mr. President," one correspondent might say, "what are the intentions of these aliens?" Or, "Mr. President, what does this say about the claims of alien abduction? Are they real, after all?" Or how about, "Mr. President, what about claims of underground alien bases? Or claims of secret possession of alien technology?" These questions might not arise immediately. But they would arise eventually. Once you open that lid, it will be very difficult to control the outcome.
The answers would not be pretty. For this reason, I doubt that disclosure will come from America ’s political establishment. But there are always other countries. There are always the aliens. The truth is already here; it’s simply waiting to land.
After all, what exactly are the secret keepers protecting? Let’s see. Power, wealth, control, their plans for the future, access to information, underground bases already built, the status quo.
But there must be more. How about communication with aliens? Worm hole technology? Access to our genetic code? Or any number of technologies that we have not even begun to discuss openly in our society. Remember the statement of an Area 51 insider to aerospace journalist James Goodall – this was back in the 1980s – "we have things in the Nevada desert that would make George Lucas envious." In other words, Star Wars technology.
Can you imagine the front page of the New York Times following a true disclosure of all this? "MASSIVE COVERUP EXPOSED." The biggest journalistic fiasco in history would finally be acknowledged, wholesale resignations would sweep the intelligence community, a political third party would do a clean sweep of Washington. Congress would promise emergency hearings, Arab oil nations would be in a state of collapse as oil price futures plummet, and the stock market would be in a headlong tailspin.
People would realize that a massive power structure has existed for generations, and has siphoned away trillions of dollars. They would learn that it has played a dominant, though unacknowledged, role in shaping their lives.
Think about NASA and the space shuttle program. There are no shortage of quiet discussions about the antiquated nature of NASA’s shuttle technology. Astronauts have died because better technology was denied to them. And that is merely the tip of the iceberg, for this issue goes far beyond NASA.
No, people wouldn’t be pleased or especially understanding. Heads would roll.
The American system of government, as it has come to exist, and by extension American society, and by extension our current global civilization, is not compatible with true UFO disclosure. Disclosure would rip it all away.
You might argue that this would be a good reason to maintain the secrecy. On the other hand, I would argue it’s the best reason for disclosure.
As bad as things look today, I retain hope for a post-disclosure world. I retain a faith – yes, I guess it’s faith – in the value of truth over all things. A statement by my favorite writer, Leo Tolstoy, hangs before me every day: "the one thing necessary, in life as in art, is to tell the truth." I cannot believe that a society based on a foundational lie can be better than one based on a foundational truth.
FAS | An extraordinary 95 percent of all Americans have at least heard or
read something about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), and 57 percent
believe they are real. (1)
Former US Presidents Carter and Reagan claim to have seen a UFO.
UFOlogists--a neologism for UFO buffs--and private UFO organizations are
found throughout the United States. Many are convinced that the US
Government, and particularly CIA, are engaged in a massive conspiracy
and coverup of the issue. The idea that CIA has secretly concealed its
research into UFOs has been a major theme of UFO buffs since the modern
UFO phenomena emerged in the late 1940s. (2)
In late 1993, after being pressured by UFOlogists for the release of additional CIA information on UFOs, (3)
DCI R. James Woolsey ordered another review of all Agency files on
UFOs. Using CIA records compiled from that review, this study traces
CIA interest and involvement in the UFO controversy from the late 1940s
to 1990. It chronologically examines the Agency's efforts to solve the
mystery of UFOs, its programs that had an impact on UFO sightings, and
its attempts to conceal CIA involvement in the entire UFO issue. What
emerges from this examination is that, while Agency concern over UFOs
was substantial until the early 1950s, CIA has since paid only limited
and peripheral attention to the phenomena.
Background
The emergence in 1947 of the Cold War confrontation between
the United States and the Soviet Union also saw the first wave of UFO
sightings. The first report of a "flying saucer" over the United
States came on 24 June 1947, when Kenneth Arnold, a private pilot and
reputable businessman, while looking for a downed plane sighted nine
disk-shaped objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington, traveling at an
estimated speed of over 1,000 mph. Arnold's report was followed by a
flood of additional sightings, including reports from military and
civilian pilots and air traffic controllers all over the United States. (4)
In 1948, Air Force Gen. Nathan Twining, head of the Air Technical
Service Command, established Project SIGN (initially named Project
SAUCER) to collect, collate, evaluate, and distribute within the
government all information relating to such sightings, on the premise
that UFOs might be real and of national security concern. (5)
The Technical Intelligence Division of the Air Material Command
(AMC) at Wright Field (later Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) in Dayton,
Ohio, assumed control of Project SIGN and began its work on 23 January
1948. Although at first fearful that the objects might be Soviet secret
weapons, the Air Force soon concluded that UFOs were real but easily
explained and not extraordinary. The Air Force report found that almost
all sightings stemmed from one or more of three causes: mass hysteria
and hallucination, hoax, or misinterpretation of known objects.
Nevertheless, the report recommended continued military intelligence
control over the investigation of all sightings and did not rule out the
possibility of extraterrestrial phenomena. (6)
Amid mounting UFO sightings, the Air Force continued to collect
and evaluate UFO data in the late 1940s under a new project, GRUDGE,
which tried to alleviate public anxiety over UFOs via a public relations
campaign designed to persuade the public that UFOs constituted nothing
unusual or extraordinary. UFO sightings were explained as balloons,
conventional aircraft, planets, meteors, optical illusions, solar
reflections, or even "large hailstones." GRUDGE officials found no
evidence in UFO sightings of advanced foreign weapons design or
development, and they concluded that UFOs did not threaten US security.
They recommended that the project be reduced in scope because the very
existence of Air Force official interest encouraged people to believe in
UFOs and contributed to a "war hysteria" atmosphere. On 27 December
1949, the Air Force announced the project's termination. (7)
With increased Cold War tensions, the Korean war, and continued
UFO sightings, USAF Director of Intelligence Maj. Gen. Charles P. Cabell
ordered a new UFO project in 1952. Project BLUE BOOK became the major
Air Force effort to study the UFO phenomenon throughout the 1950s and
1960s. (8)
The task of identifying and explaining UFOs continued to fall on the
Air Material Command at Wright-Patterson. With a small staff, the Air
Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) tried to persuade the public that
UFOs were not extraordinary. (9)
Projects SIGN, GRUDGE, and BLUE BOOK set the tone for the official US
Government position regarding UFOs for the next 30 years.
Early CIA Concerns, 1947-52
CIA closely monitored the Air Force effort, aware of the
mounting number of sightings and increasingly concerned that UFOs might
pose a potential security threat. (10) Given the distribution of the sightings, CIA officials in 1952 questioned whether they might reflect "midsummer madness.'' (11)
Agency officials accepted the Air Force's conclusions about UFO
reports, although they concluded that "since there is a remote
possibility that they may be interplanetary aircraft, it is necessary to
investigate each sighting." (12)
A massive buildup of sightings over the United States in 1952,
especially in July, alarmed the Truman administration. On 19 and 20
July, radar scopes at Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force
Base tracked mysterious blips. On 27 July, the blips reappeared. The
Air Force scrambled interceptor aircraft to investigate, but they found
nothing. The incidents, however, caused headlines across the country.
The White House wanted to know what was happening, and the Air Force
quickly offered the explanation that the radar blips might be the result
of "temperature inversions." Later, a Civil Aeronautics Administration
investigation confirmed that such radar blips were quite common and were
caused by temperature inversions. (13)
Although it had monitored UFO reports for at least three years,
CIA reacted to the new rash of sightings by forming a special study
group within the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) and the Office
of Current Intelligence (OCI) to review the situation. (14)
Edward Tauss, acting chief of OSI's Weapons and Equipment Division,
reported for the group that most UFO sightings could be easily
explained. Nevertheless, he recommended that the Agency continue
monitoring the problem, in coordination with ATIC. He also urged that
CIA conceal its interest from the media and the public, "in view of
their probable alarmist tendencies" to accept such interest as
confirming the existence of UFOs. (15)
Upon receiving the report, Deputy Director for Intelligence (DDI)
Robert Amory, Jr. assigned responsibility for the UFO investigations to
OSI's Physics and Electronics Division, with A. Ray Gordon as the
officer in charge. (16)
Each branch in the division was to contribute to the investigation,
and Gordon was to coordinate closely with ATIC. Amory, who asked the
group to focus on the national security implications of UFOs, was
relaying DCI Walter Bedell Smith's concerns. (17)
Smith wanted to know whether or not the Air Force investigation of
flying saucers was sufficiently objective and how much more money and
manpower would be necessary to determine the cause of the small
percentage of unexplained flying saucers. Smith believed "there was
only one chance in 10,000 that the phenomenon posed a threat to the
security of the country, but even that chance could not be taken."
According to Smith, it was CIA's responsibility by statute to coordinate
the intelligence effort required to solve the problem. Smith also
wanted to know what use could be made of the UFO phenomenon in
connection with US psychological warfare efforts. (18)
Led by Gordon, the CIA Study Group met with Air Force officials
at Wright-Patterson and reviewed their data and findings. The Air Force
claimed that 90 percent of the reported sightings were easily accounted
for. The other 10 percent were characterized as "a number of
incredible reports from credible observers." The Air Force rejected the
theories that the sightings involved US or Soviet secret weapons
development or that they involved "men from Mars"; there was no evidence
to support these concepts. The Air Force briefers sought to explain
these UFO reports as the misinterpretation of known objects or little
understood natural phenomena. (19) Air Force and CIA officials agreed that outside knowledge of Agency interest in UFOs would make the problem more serious. (20) This concealment of CIA interest contributed greatly to later charges of a CIA conspiracy and coverup.
The CIA Study Group also searched the Soviet press for UFO
reports, but found none, causing the group to conclude that the absence
of reports had to have been the result of deliberate Soviet Government
policy. The group also envisioned the USSR's possible use of UFOs as a
psychological warfare tool. In addition, they worried that, if the US
air warning system should be deliberately overloaded by UFO sightings,
the Soviets might gain a surprise advantage in any nuclear attack. (21)
Because of the tense Cold War situation and increased Soviet
capabilities, the CIA Study Group saw serious national security concerns
in the flying saucer situation. The group believed that the Soviets
could use UFO reports to touch off mass hysteria and panic in the United
States. The group also believed that the Soviets might use UFO
sightings to overload the US air warning system so that it could not
distinguish real targets from phantom UFOs. H. Marshall Chadwell,
Assistant Director of OSI, added that he considered the problem of such
importance "that it should be brought to the attention of the National
Security Council, in order that a communitywide coordinated effort
towards it solution may be initiated." (22)
Chadwell briefed DCI Smith on the subject of UFOs in December
1952. He urged action because he was convinced that "something was
going on that must have immediate attention" and that "sightings of
unexplained objects at great altitudes and traveling at high speeds in
the vicinity of major US defense installations are of such nature that
they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial
vehicles." He drafted a memorandum from the DCI to the National
Security Council (NSC) and a proposed NSC Directive establishing the
investigation of UFOs as a priority project throughout the intelligence
and the defense research and development community. (23) Chadwell also urged Smith to establish an external research project of top-level scientists to study the problem of UFOs. (24)
After this briefing, Smith directed DDI Amory to prepare a NSC
Intelligence Directive (NSCID) for submission to the NSC on the need to
continue the investigation of UFOs and to coordinate such investigations
with the Air Force. (25)
greyfalcon | "In 1947, Banister reported the discovery of a 'flying disk' in Twin Falls, Idaho, according to a 11 July 1947 "Associated Press" report. The saucer measured roughly 30.5’ across, and "appeared to have been turned out by a machine," possibly as a prototype [according to Banister].
Suspects in the John Kennedy assassination had a pronounced knack for stumbling onto the "unexplained" flying disks.
It is a commentary on the UFO/mind control/intelligence connection that the counterterrorist unit of the FBI already tied to Shaw and Crisman, Division Five—"the Nazi division"—also employed Guy Banister, and has been largely responsible for the development of a form of remote brain manipulation known as Ultrasonic Intra-Cerebral Control.
So once again, the plot thickens. Now the subject of mind control surfaces. There seems to be no obvious correlation amongst these amazing stories and their surprising facts. But can we connect the dots? Or is this just another fantasy offered up by hyper-active minds fond of conspiracy theories? On the other hand, could these astounding connections be better explained as evidence of "disinformation" spun by master intelligence officers with a checkered past?
Roswell and the Reich
Connecting the timing of Banister’s story to the Roswell incident—the seminal UFO incident raging in the press commenced a mere three days earlier—it seems extraordinary to contemplate that the only connection between these incidents is purely an "alien UFO encounter". As alternative science and history researcher, Joseph P. Farrell, points out convincingly in his book "Roswell and the Reich: The Nazi Connection", when the facts are painstakingly evaluated, the evidence for a "spacecraft" manned by extraterrestrials is choosing the least likely explanation. This may be the story officials want us to believe. However, it remains unwedded to almost all of the best-known facts.
Even Nick Redfern, a noted UFologist and author, recommends Farrell’s carefully written work by citing the "publishers blurb" in his blog on 10 February 2010.
In "Roswell and the Reich," Farrell presents a very different scenario of what crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, and why the U.S. military has continued its cover-up to this day. By means of a meticulous review of the best-known Roswell research from both UFO-ET advocates and skeptics alike, as well as some not-so-well known Roswell research, Farrell presents a fascinating case sure to disturb both ET believer and skeptic alike, namely, that what crashed may have been representative of an independent postwar Nazi power, an extraterritorial Reich monitoring its old enemy, America, and its continuing developments of the very technologies it confiscated from Germany at the end of the war.
Farrell’s book is not bed-time reading, and this one is particularly difficult because it reads like a detailed legal brief, examining the testimony meticulously, invalidating witnesses, and ruling out evidence with the precision of a scalpel. Nevertheless, after one has plodded through it, the conclusion is compelling. There are no reasons to postulate an extraterrestrial event at all. There were no bodies—and even if there were, there are no logical arguments to suppose them extraterrestrial. While there were undeniable sightings and even extraordinary artifacts (various metals with no similitude to anything experimental in western laboratories, let alone in use), there was no solid rationale to suppose anything other than a terrestrial explanation. Furthermore, the probability of infiltration by military intelligence personnel into the Roswell research community was undeniable. The most significant and credible authors all had intelligence backgrounds! Was this a case of the foxes being left to guard the hen house? If so, perhaps they knew where the bodies were buried—except the alien bodies so it seems.
There are consequently two datasets that any theory of the Roswell Incident must seek to rationalize: (1) the debris, the description of which is consistent across time and various witnesses as has been seen in the previous pages, and (2) the bodies, the description of which is not consistent over time nor over several witnesses in spite of claims to the contrary, and moreover whose witnesses have in turn either been impeached, or shown to be based upon second-hand-and-dead man’s testimony in many instances, or whom other data has revealed were unlikely to have been in the area in order actually to see such bodies.
In summary, any theory that seeks to explain Roswell must answer two incontrovertible facts: There were extraordinary, unknown metals with mysterious properties discovered on 8 July 1947 at Roswell that absolutely originate from a source outside of America. Secondly, the evidence Farrell recounts argues that no bodies were found at the crash site. If intelligent beings were flying these crafts, they were guiding them remotely. [Not exactly outlandish given that all of the V1 and V2 rockets that hit London suburbs were un-piloted aircraft].
Farrell progresses toward concluding the matter with this statement:
"By July of 1947, there were abundant clues that were beginning to be pieced together by American intelligence that Nazism had survived not only in isolated enclaves, but that it was an organized international force. And by the mid-1950s, it was abundantly clear to the U.S. Air Force that those Nazis had continued to research independently their most extraordinary projects and sciences, and that they were making penetrations into the most sensitive areas of the American military-industrial-intelligence complex".
Likewise, from the first reactions of Roswell in 1947 to the Robertson Panel in 1953, not only Farrell but Constantine assures us that the experts had an agenda to keep these military secrets "under wraps". It was their concerted opinion to educate the public in what the experts wanted it to believe—for the sake of national interests. Keeping the public calm was best achieved by distributing the disinformation of outer space visitations—a position beginning in 1960 the government would reverse. Meanwhile, better to keep the whole possibility of Nazis buried and control the masses however it could. At the time, inventing an alien religion for the kooks was not a bad option.
Therefore, The Robertson Panel concluded:
"This education could be accomplished by mass media, [especially] television, motion pictures and popular articles". The panel advised that mental health professionals familiar with mob psychology should design the "education" program. It also recommended that UFO organizations should be surveilled "because of their potentially great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur. The apparent irresponsibility and the possible use of such groups for subversive purposes should be kept in mind".
As a result of these recommendations UFO enthusiasts would be watched carefully. Who knew how much trouble they might stir up? After all, the Panel concluded that the so-called Foo-fighters experienced by Allied pilots toward the end of World War II were probably nothing more than an exotic form of technology developed by the Nazis and/or Japanese with no real risk to national security. No less an authority than the famous combat pilot Jimmy Doolittle [known for the 1942 Tokyo raid] cited this conclusion in his report requested by the Panel.
So it was agreed then: It is best to keep the public in the dark while we play catch up with the Nazis—whoever they are and wherever they might be.
So is it that thousands of Nazis and their technologies escaped Europe and made their way to the Americas. The argument that rogue German scientists found it advantageous to demonstrate their extraordinary new flying machines to frighten their American adversaries surely seems far-fetched. But the depth of analysis provided by numerous researchers hints strongly otherwise.
However, while the source of flying saucers in the U.S. may be debated—whether they were truly German in origin, came from beyond the stars, or didn’t exist at all—there is no doubt that dozens of the worst war criminals came to the United States as the special guests of the American government. As a result, America would never be the same again.
greyfalcon | During the course of researching his best-selling book "The Hunt for Zero Point", Nick Cook stumbled upon World War II era evidence for a secret Nazi Weapon that came to be known as the “Nazi Bell” device. This device was constructed by a scientific team reporting to SS General Hans Kammler under a veil of secrecy deeper than even that of the Nazi nuclear research.
While Cook’s research yielded little information about the specific design or application of the Nazi Bell device, his sources indicated that it apparently was able create a variety of startling effects on nearby objects. It has been speculated that the Bell device was designed to use high-speed, counter-rotating components filled with specialized materials and energized by electromagnetic energy to induce “torsion” effects and thus control gravity and other significant effects.
John Dering -- a physicist specializing advanced directed energy, nonlinear electrodynamics, and new energy sources -- has further reported on a “Rhine Valley” facility and device. He believes this to have been an actual wartime prototype deployment of a successor to the Nazi Bell experiments, which were carried out in the Wenceslas Mine research lab in occupied Poland. While the Bell experiment was focused on developing a radical new propulsion technology, the little-known Rhine Valley experiment may have been a last-ditch attempt to weaponize the Bell’s dangerous side effect for use against Allied forces.
Dering speculates that the German WWII research was intended to create a powerful propulsion effect by engineering application of Einstein’s Unified Field Theory (UFT) equations. Within the 1929 version of the Einstein UFT equations, a linkage is found between the “Vector Magnetic Potential” and Torsion. Put simply, in the Unified Field Theory, the effects of curved space-time (resulting from a massive body, like the Earth) can locally offset by creating Torsion. Thus electromagnetic interactions are harnessed to induce torsion, which in turn can then null out gravitation. This astounding possibility for gravity control is not predicted in either the Special or General Relativity theories and appears only in the Unified Field equations. Thus, a sort of counteraction to gravity or “anti-gravity” field would be the result. The heavy-duty concrete construction of the test-rig at the Wenceslas Mine -- complete with heavy steel mounting-rings -- bears witness to the massive scale of the forces that the research produced.
While the full purpose and results of neither experiment is completely known, it is obvious that Nazi Bell possessed a great deal of value in terms of secret-weapons. With a range of choices at his disposal at the end of World War II, Hans Kammler considered only the Nazi Bell experiment as being valuable enough to save Germany from the encroaching Allied & Russian forces.
The Bell project [whatever its full purpose] was the only research program in Nazi Germany to carry the designation “War Decisive”. Not even the German atomic bomb or rocket programs were considered of such importance!
Historically speaking, the German’s motive for developing the Nazi Bell device seems apparent. Hitler’s Third Reich had an almost borderline obsession with secret “Wunder” and “Ãœber-weapons” that they felt would give them an advantage against the Allies. The wild success of the V-2 rocket program had emboldened them to undertake the development of even more esoteric weapons projects such as the world’s first jet fighter (the Me-262) and a series of jet-powered Coanda-Effect UFO prototypes (radical disk-shaped VTOL aircraft designs that proved ultimately unsuccessful). The most notable of these was a design by Andreas Epp, which became an inspiration for the later AvroCar experiments of the 1950s.
Neither the Me-262 nor the Coanda-Effect disk devices were ready in time for use against the Allies but nonetheless received the backing of the Third Reich, which supplied them with trained scientists, materials, research funding, and a nearly endless supply of slave-labor with which to build the projects.
It’s not known where the true inspiration for the Nazi Bell device and prior Rhine-Valley experiments originated. But it's possible to speculate that they were trying to leap to a completely electromagnetic propulsion system after realizing the limited potential in controllability and speed from their experimentation with the Coanda-Effect saucer technology. Perhaps some of the more forward-thinking physicists had the ear of Hans Kammler and suggested to him that the time was right to evolve to a technology so far ahead of aerodynamic propulsion of the day that it would give Germany absolute supremacy in the air. Darker possibilities exist, given that the Bell Device researchers appeared very interested in the dangerous and lethal side effects created by exposure to the Bell force field.
Assuming that the Nazi’s had decided on a nearly fictional approach to directly interacting with gravity through electromagnetism, the next logical step that they would have taken is to find a scientific basis to work from. As scientists, Kammler’s team would have quickly realized that this scientific support wouldn’t have come from either Relativity Theory or Quantum Mechanics. But they wouldn’t have had to search very far as the Germans had already reviewed just such a theory to unify Electromagnetism and Gravitational Forces.
On 14 June 1928, a paper was published in German that would have certainly attracted the attention of anyone looking for a quick and easy way to convert from electricity to gravitational force. The English translation of the title is “New possibility for a Unified Field Theory of Gravitation and Electricity”. It contains the beginnings of what later became known as Torsion Theory. Despite the Nazi dislike for Jewish science and culture, this paper was written by a physicist too renowned to be ignored. Quite possibly the World’s greatest physicist -- Albert Einstein!
Starting in the early 1920s, Einstein and others began to speculate that General Relativity (which describes gravitation and space-time) could be modified to include the laws of Maxwell that describe electromagnetism. In essence, Einstein sought to show that the laws of electricity and magnetism could be “unified” with the laws of gravitation. In other words, such a theory would imply that all electrical and magnetic effects and all gravity effects are manifestations of an underlying “Unified Field”. By the late 1920s, Einstein’s papers on Unified Field theory began to be read by physicists interested in exploring experimental verification of his theories.
John Dering has suggested that in addition to a general familiarity with Einstein’s Unified Field Theory from written publications, the Nazi’s may have in fact had “inside information” on the subject. Supposedly, Gerlach had discussed the foundations of this new Unified Field Theory at length with Einstein while the theory was being formulated, and had also collaborated with Einstein during the 1920s on a search for experimental verification. As History tells us, Gerlach was later appointed to the position of “plenipotentiary” for Nazi Fission Research in 1944 by the Reich Research Council giving him top-level scientific connections throughout Germany’s cutting-edge research programs. Nick Cook has also highlighted Gerlach’s connection to the Nazi-Bell project through the testimony of defense journalist Igor Witkowski, who claims to have been shown documents identifying Gerlach’s involvement in the project.
Thus, with the driving goal of building an electromagnetically-powered UFO to replace the less-than-spectacular performance of the Coanda-Effect flying disks, Kammler’s scientific team would have already been familiar with Einstein’s work in gravity and would have had a real basis from the published UFT tensor equations to begin rapid experimentation with a new technology for 1940's era anti-gravity!
theblackvault | So, if the “Fascist UFO Files” are authentic, this rewrites the
history of ‘official’ ufology, and the first country to officially deal
with the UFO problem was no longer the United States, but Italy.
Alfredo Lissoni’s hypothesis is that the purported saucer recovered
in 1933 had been hidden in one of the nearest and most discrete hangars
in that region – namely the hangars of the aeronautical establishments
of the SIAI Marchetti at Vergiate or Sesto Calende in the Varese region
of Ticino. At that time they were under the control of Regia Aeronautica
(Royal Italian Air Force) and General Italo Balbo, a very popular and
world famous airman and, as indicated, a member of the RS/33 Cabinet. At
the beginning of World War II, although he was against Italy’s alliance
with Nazi Germany, he became the viceroy of Lybia, but his plane was
shot down there by Italian batteries “by mistake”. Another member of the
Cabinet, Mussolini’s son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano, was later
executed by the Fascists due to his opposition to Il Duce.
The “Varese trail” had been suggested to Lissoni via several clues:
namely that the messages about the recovery of the UFO came from the
nearby Telegraphic Office of Milano; and at that time Black Shirts were
suddenly dispatched to that region; and a Varese newspaper, “Cornice
Praline”, of June 20, 1933, gave the first report, emphasizing that
forms of life on Mars were in contact with the Earth – almost as it were
a matter of fact. Also at the SIAI Marchetti at Sesto Calende, there
was a director by the name of Moretti; and during the existence of the
Italian Social Republic, it was a man named Moretti who, having gone
over to the Resistance, set fire to the hangars at Vergiate (which were
perhaps guarding some aerospace secret). And finally, when the war was
over, the US Air Force and members of the Nazi Secret Service were
simultaneously infiltrated into Sesto Calende, to investigate rumours of
the presence of terrestrial flying saucers kept at Vergiate. Also, from
time immemorial the entire region, was at the centre of intense
ufological activity – to such a degree that it gained the nickname of
being “The Ticino Triangle”.
In April of 1945, the 1st Armoured Division captured the SIAI
Marchetti Aviation Facility where the 1933 Magenta UFO (or it debris)
was probably kept and it was brought to the United States. Indeed the
“RS/33 Cabinet” had continued to work right up to the time of the
Italian Social Republic, the period in which a part of the documentation
on UFOs, in several sealed boxes, had been sent to Berlin, while a part
– “a not irrelevant part” – remained in Italy.
And this latest consignment of material, included copies of new
documents, which possibly demonstrated the existence of agreements
between Hitler and Mussolini regarding the study of a new (alien?)
technology, agreements that had been made in 1938.These documents were: a
Stefani Agency message from Florence containing an interview with
Hitler when he was visiting Italy; a banknote of the nominal value of a
million Lire (maybe “black funds” of the RS/33 Cabinet); minutes
regarding the oath of secrecy given by the professors who collaborated
with the Fascist Government; an invitation (registered) to Benito and
Rachele Mussolini to Villa Torlonia (said to be for a “riuione
riservatissima dedicada al Gabinetto RS/33” (that is “an extremely
private meeting dedicated to the RS/33 Cabinet”).
Besides, there is also a strange and cryptic reference from a speech by Mussolini on March 23rd, 1941, when the Duce stated:
wikipedia | The alleged purpose of Project Blue Beam is to bring about a global New Age religion, which is seen as a core requirement for the New World Order's dictatorship to be realized. There's nothing new in thinking of religion as a form of control, but the existence of multiple religions, spin-offcults, competing sects,
and atheists suggest that controlling the population entirely through a
single religion isn't particularly easy. Past attempts have required
mechanisms of totalitarianism such as the Inquisition.
Monast's theory, however, suggests using sufficiently advanced technology to trick people into believing. Of course, the plan would have to assume that people could never fathom the trick at all — something contested by anyone sane enough not to swallow this particular conspiracy.
The primary claimed perpetrator of Project Blue Beam is NASA, presented as a large and mostly faceless organization that can readily absorb such frankly odd accusations, aided by the United Nations, another old-time boogeyman of conspiracy theorists.
According to Monast, the project has four steps:
Step One
Step One requires the breakdown of all archaeological
knowledge. This will apparently be accomplished by faking earthquakes
at precise locations around the planet. Fake "new discoveries" at these
locations "will finally explain to all people the error of all
fundamental religious doctrines", specifically Christian and Muslim
doctrines.
This makes some degree of sense; if you want to thoroughly usurp a
current way of thinking, you need to completely discredit and destroy
it before putting forward your own. However, religious belief is notoriouslyresilientto things like facts. The Shroud of Turin is a famous example that is still believed by many to be a genuine shroud of Jesus as opposed to the medieval forgery that it has been conclusively shown to be. Prayer studies, too, show how difficult it is to shift religious conviction with mere observational fact. Indeed, many theologians avoid making falsifiable claims or place belief somewhere specifically beyond observation to aid this. So what finds could possibly fundamentally destroy both Christianity and Islam, almost overnight, and universally all over the globe? Probably nothing. Yet, this is only step one of an increasingly ludicrous set of events that Project Blue Beam predicts will occur.
Step Two
Step Two involves a gigantic "space show" wherein three-dimensional
holographic laser projections will be beamed all over the planet — and
this is where Blue Beam really takes off. The projections will
take the shape of whatever deity is most predominant, and will speak in
all languages. At the end of this light show, the gods will all merge
into one god, the Antichrist.
This is a rather baffling plan, as it seems to assume that people will think this is actually their god, rather than the more natural twenty-first-century assumption that it is a particularly opaque Coca-Cola advertisement.[note 5]
Evidence commonly advanced for this is a supposed plan to project the
face of Allah, despite its contradiction with Muslim belief of God's
uniqueness, over Baghdad in 1991 to tell the Iraqis to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Someone, somewhere, must have thought
that those primitive, ignorant non-Western savages wouldn't have had
television or advertising and would never guess it was being done with
mirrors.[4]
In general, pretty much anything that either a) involves light or b)
has been seen in the sky has been put forward as evidence that Project
Blue Beam is real, and such things are "tests" of the technology —
namely unidentified flying objects.
Existing display technology such as 3D projection mapping and holograms
are put forward as foreshadowing the great light show in the sky.
This stage will apparently be accomplished with the aid of a Soviet
computer that will be fed "with the minute physio-psychological
particulars based on their studies of the anatomy and electro-mechanical
composition of the human body, and the studies of the electrical,
chemical and biological properties of the human brain", and every human
has been allocated a unique radio wavelength. The computers are also
capable of inducing suicidal thoughts.[16]
The Soviets are (not "were") the "New World Order" people. Why NASA
would use a Soviet computer when the USSR had to import or copy much of
its computer technology from the West is not detailed.
The second part of Step Two (wouldn't that be Step Three?)
happens when the holograms result in the dissolution of social and
religious order, "setting loose millions of programmed religious
fanatics through demonic possession
on a scale never witnessed before". The United Nations plans to use
Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" as the anthem for the introduction of the New
Age one world religion.[1][note 6]
There is relatively little to debunk in this, the most
widely-remembered section of the Project Blue Beam conspiracy, as the
idea is so infeasible. Citing actual existing communication technology
is odd if the point is for the end product to appear magical,
rather than just as cheap laser projections onto clouds. This hasn't
stopped some very strange conspiracy theories about such things popping
up.[note 7] Indeed, the notion of gods being projected into the sky was floated in 1991 by conspiracy theorist Betty J. Mills.[17] And US general (and CIAshyster extraordinaire), Edward Lansdale, actually floated a plan to fake a Second Coming over Cuba to get rid of Castro.[18]
Step Three
Step Three is "Telepathic Electronic Two-Way Communication". It involves making people think their god is speaking to them through telepathy, projected into the head of each person individually using extreme low frequency radio waves. (Atheists will presumably hear an absence of Richard Dawkins.)
The book goes to some lengths to describe how this would be feasible,
including a claim that ELF thought projection caused the depressive
illness of Michael Dukakis' wife, Kitty.
Step Four
Step Four has three parts:
Making humanity think an alien invasion is about to occur in every major city;
A mixture of electronic and supernatural
forces, allowing the supernatural forces to travel through fiber
optics, coax, power, and telephone lines to penetrate all electronic
equipment and appliances that will, by then, all have a special
microchip installed.[19]
Then chaos
will break out, and people will finally be willing, perhaps even
desperate, to accept the New World Order. "The techniques used in the
fourth step is exactly the same used in the past in the USSR to force
the people to accept Communism."
A device has apparently already been perfected that will lift enormous numbers of people, as in a Rapture. UFO abductions are tests of this device.
Project Blue Beam proponents believe psychological preparations have already been made, Monast having claimed that 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, and the Star Trek series all involve an invasion from space and all nations coming together[3] (the first two don't, the third is peaceful contact) and that Jurassic Park propagandises evolution in order to make people think God's words are lies.
The New World Order according to Monast
The book detailed the theory. In the 1994 lecture, Monast detailed what would happen afterward.[3]
All people will be required to take an oath to Lucifer with a
ritual initiation to enter the New World Order. Resisters will be
categorised as follows:
Christian children will be kept for human sacrifice or sexual slaves.
Prisoners to be used in medical experiments.
Prisoners to be used as living organ banks.
Healthy workers in slave labour camps.
Uncertain prisoners in the international re-education center, thence
to repent on television and learn to glorify the New World Order.
nieuwe-revu |Dutch website REVU journalist Max Moszkowicz, discloses that David Grusch has documents signed by the inspector general, indicating that one of the UFOs in US Holding was found in Sicily, Italy and taken from Mussolini during WW2, confirmed by ANOTHER Whistleblower Jonathan Gray from NASIC.
Jonathan Gray is a generation officer of the United States intelligence community with a Top-Secret Clearance currently working for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center ( NASIC ), where UAP's analysis was his focus. He previously had experience with Private Aerospace and Special Directive Task Forces of the Department of Defense.
“ The non-human intelligence phenomenon is real. We're not alone, ”said Gray. “ This type of query is not limited to the United States. This is a global phenomenon, yet a global solution continues to elude us. ”
Furthermore, it is revealed that documents exist, proving that US captured a UFO, in Sicily, Italy, from Mussolini during WW2.
What
the UAP task force leader says in the interview, substantiated by the
official documents signed by the inspector general – an officially
appointed and appointed person who has to sign for the authenticity of a
secret document – is that at least one UAP/UFO is in American
possession . But how did they come into possession of this UFO? In the article released today by Kean, the origin of the alleged extraterrestrial material is missing. In
the full article coming out next week in the Revu, I'll say more about
those who have confirmed to me that this is the case: In 1933, fascist
dictator Benito Mussolini is briefed by his panicked secret service
about a crashed air vehicle that they did not recognize it as human. Initially, the Italians think that the German neighbors have lost a secret weapon, but they know nothing about it. An Italian variant of Area 51 is being built and they try to study the vehicle. During World War II, the Americans invade Italy via Sicily, after which they eventually also encounter the UFO. The object will be transported to America and stored in presumably Area 51/S-4. We now know definitively that we are not alone in the universe. The object will be transported to America and stored in presumably Area 51/S-4. We now know definitively that we are not alone in the universe. The object will be transported to America and stored in presumably Area 51/S-4. We now know definitively that we are not alone in the universe.
err.ee | "Whataboutism" is not just a feature of Russian rhetoric. The U.S.
invasion of Iraq universally undercut U.S. credibility and continues to
do so. For many critics of the United States, Iraq was the most recent
in a series of American sins stretching back to Vietnam and the
precursor of current events. Even though a tiny handful of states have
sided with Russia in successive UN resolutions in the General Assembly,
significant abstentions, including by China and India, signal
displeasure with the United States. As a result, the vital twin tasks of
restoring the prohibition against war and the use of force as the
critical cornerstone of the United Nations and international system, and
of defending Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, get lost
in a morass of skepticism and suspicions about the United States.
In
the so-called "Global South," and what I am loosely referring to as the
"Rest" (of the world), there is no sense of the U.S. as a virtuous
state. Perceptions of American hubris and hypocrisy are
widespread. Trust in the international system(s) that the U.S. helped
invent and has presided over since World War II is long gone. Elites
and populations in many of these countries believe that the system was
imposed on them at a time of weakness when they were only just securing
their independence. Even if elites and populations have generally
benefitted from pax Americana, they believe the United States and its
bloc of countries in the collective West have benefitted far more. For
them, this war is about protecting the West's benefits and hegemony, not
defending Ukraine.
Russian
false narratives about its invasion of Ukraine and about the U.S.
resonate and take root globally because they fall on this fertile soil.
Russia's disinformation seems more like information—it comports with
"the facts" as others seem them. Non-Western elites share the same
belief as some Western analysts that Russia was provoked or pushed into
war by the United States and NATO expansion. They resent the power of
the U.S. dollar and Washington's frequent punitive use of financial
sanctions. They were not consulted by the U.S. on this round of
sanctions against Russia. They see Western sanctions constraining their
energy and food supplies and pushing up prices. They blame Russia's
Black Sea blockade and deliberate disruption of global grain exports on
the United States—not on the actual perpetrator, Vladimir Putin. They
point out that no-one pushed to sanction the United States when it
invaded Afghanistan and then Iraq, even though they were opposed to U.S.
intervention, so why should they step up now?
Countries in the
Global South's resistance to U.S. and European appeals for solidarity on
Ukraine are an open rebellion. This is a mutiny against what they see
as the collective West dominating the international discourse and
foisting its problems on everyone else, while brushing aside their
priorities on climate change compensation, economic development, and
debt relief. The Rest feel constantly marginalized in world affairs. Why
in fact are they labeled (as I am reflecting here in this speech) the
"Global South," having previously been called the Third World or the
Developing World? Why are they even the "Rest" of the world? They are
the world, representing 6.5 billion people. Our terminology reeks of
colonialism.
The
Cold War era non-aligned movement has reemerged if it ever went away.
At present, this is less a cohesive movement than a desire for distance,
to be left out of the European mess around Ukraine. But it is also a
very clear negative reaction to the American propensity for defining the
global order and forcing countries to take sides. As one Indian
interlocutor recently exclaimed about Ukraine: "this is your conflict! …
We have other pressing matters, our own issues … We are in our own
lands on our own sides … Where are you when things go wrong for us?"
Most
countries—including many in Europe—reject the current U.S. framing of a
new "Great Power Competition"—a geopolitical tug-of-war between the
United States and China. States and elites bristle at the U.S. idea that
"you are either with us or against us," or you are "on the right or
wrong side of history" in an epic struggle of democracies versus
autocracies. Few outside Europe accept this definition of the war in
Ukraine or the geopolitical stakes. They don't want to be assigned to
new blocs that are artificially imposed, and no-one wants to be caught
in a titanic clash between the United States and China. In contrast to
the U.S., as well as others like Japan, South Korea and India, most
countries do not see China as a direct military or security threat. They
may have serious qualms about China's rough economic and political
behavior and its blatant abuse of human rights, but they still see
China's value as a trading and investment partner for their future
development. The United States and the European Union don't offer
sufficient alternatives for countries to turn away from China, including
in the security realm—and even within Europe the sense of how much is
at stake for individual countries in the larger international system and
in relations with China varies.
Outside Europe, the interest in
new regional orders is more pronounced. In this context, the
BRICS—which, for its members offers an alternative to the G7 and the
G20—is now attractive to others. Nineteen countries, including Saudi
Arabia and Iran, purportedly showed interested in joining the
organization ahead of its recent April 2023 summit. Countries see the
BRICS (and other similar entities like the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization or SCO) as offering flexible diplomatic arrangements and
possible new strategic alliances as well as different trade
opportunities beyond the United States and Europe. BRICS members and
aspirants, however, have very disparate interests. We need to consider
these as we look ahead to finding a resolution to the war in Ukraine and
as we consider the kinds of structures and networks we will have to
deal with in the future.
I am going to run through some of the factors that are most relevant to thinking about Ukraine in the BRICS context.
pbs | Judy Woodruff: Ultimately, what was your assessment of Donald Trump as a person and as a president?
Fiona Hill: Well, as a person, he was extremely vulnerable to manipulation. And that became a problem for him as a president.
And what I mean by that is, he had a very fragile ego, and he was very susceptible to flattery, as well as taking massive offense, as we all saw, to any kind of criticism. So, on a personal level, that was also a pretty dangerous flaw.
When you're the president of the United States, it becomes a fatal flaw, because President Trump couldn't disassociate or disentangle himself from many of the issues that were the critical ones to address. So, when people were concerned about Russian influence in the United States election, he only thought about how that affected him, for example.
When people talked about the changes in the U.S. economic structure, he would always think, first of all, about how that might affect him and about how that might affect how people would vote for him. So, as a president, he was uniquely preoccupied with himself, not with the country.
And that, of course, made all of the problems of intelligence risks even higher, because the Russians or others from the outside could also manipulate those tendencies.
Judy Woodruff: So, if you can answer this, is the world safer or is it more dangerous because of his presidency?
Fiona Hill: Well, I think it's become more dangerous, because he was also extremely divisive, because President Trump was very focused on getting reelected, and he wasn't going to do that by appealing to all Americans.
He wanted to appeal to a particular base of people who were attracted by his personality or attracted by the things that he said he was going to do for them. And, of course, that's on different parts of the economic scale and the socioeconomic lower levels. It's the people — he said he was going to find them a job. He was going to fix the economy, so they would have jobs.
At the top end, among millionaires and billionaires, it was that he was going to protect their fortunes, from — being from those circles himself.
Judy Woodruff: What I find so striking is that you weren't so concerned about Donald Trump being controlled by Vladimir Putin, being influenced by Vladimir Putin, as you were concerned about the United States following on the same political path that you see Russia follow under Vladimir Putin.
Fiona Hill: That's absolutely right, because Russia went through a similar wrenching economic period and political periods in the 1990s.
So, Russia had its equivalent of a kind of the Great Recession, and, at the end of that decade, President Putin comes in and says, I'm going to fix everything. I'm going to make America great again, which, of course, is what President Trump said in 2016. And what Putin did was basically tie himself up into all of these politics.
He, of course, has extended his terms in office through amending the Constitution. He can essentially be president until 2036. And Donald Trump has also said that he wants to be president in perpetuity. He wouldn't accept that he had lost the 2020 election. He's saying he's going to come back, that he has a right to come back because he was never kicked out of office in the first place.
And he's been spreading lies about essentially his own role in all the events that we have seen over the last years, January 6, for example, and the storming of the Capitol.
Judy Woodruff: Do you believe our democracy is in danger as a result of this?
Fiona Hill: I do.
And I think that danger is increasing by the day, because we're constantly seeing other political figures trying to emulate Trump. We're now in a situation where lies and deceit have become the coin of governance.
Judy Woodruff: It's a disturbing conclusion in this book.
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arrived at the emergency room at the University of Vermont Medical Center.
He ...
actually floated a plan to fake a Second Coming over 
