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C. Standards
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T Substantial
A. Interpretation- Substantial means real
Concise Oxford English Dictionary 8
substantial/sbstanl/
adjective
1 of considerable importance, size, or worth.
strongly built or made.
important in material or social terms; wealthy.
2 concerning the essentials of something.
3 real and tangible rather than imaginary
B. Violation their aff does not make a substantial increase because space exploration
& development is a hoax
Cooper, First Class Petty Officer QM1, E-6 with a Top Secret, Q, SI, security clearance,
1997
(William, Majesty Twelve Hourofthetime.com, http://www.hourofthetime.com/majestyt.htm, accessed: 6/25/, SL)
NASA was created to make interstellar travel believable. The Apollo Space Program foisted the idea that man could
travel to, and walk upon, the moon. Every Apollo mission was carefully rehearsed and then filmed in large
sound stages at the Atomic Energy Commissions Top Secret test site in the Nevada Desert and in a secured and guarded
sound stage at the Walt Disney Studios within which was a huge scale mock-up of the moon. All of the names, missions, landing sites,
and events in the Apollo Space Program echoed the occult metaphors, rituals, and symbology of the Illuminati's secret religion: The
most transparent was the faked explosion on the spacecraft Apollo 13, named "Aquarius" (new age) at 1:13 (1313 military time) on
April 13, 1970 which was the metaphor for the initiation ceremony involving the death (explosion), placement in the coffin (period of
uncertainty of their survival), communion with the spiritual world and the imparting of esoteric knowledge to the candidate (orbit and
observation of the moon without physical contact), rebirth of the initiate (solution of problem and repairs), and the raising up (of the
Phoenix, the new age of Aquarius) by the grip of the lions paw (reentry and recovery of Apollo 13). 13 is the number of death and
rebirth, death and reincarnation, sacrifice, the Phoenix, the Christ (perfected soul imprisoned in matter), and the transition from the old to
the new. Another revelation to those who understand the symbolic language of the Illuminati is the hidden meaning of the names of the
Space Shuttles, "A Colombian Enterprise to Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis... and all Challengers shall be destroyed."
Exploration of the moon stopped because it was impossible to continue the hoax without being
ultimately discovered: And of course they ran out of pre-filmed episodes. No man has ever ascended higher than 300 miles, if
that high, above the Earth's surface. No man has ever orbited, landed on, or walked upon the moon in any publicly known space
program. If man has ever truly been to the moon it has been done in secret and with a far different technology. The tremendous
radiation encountered in the Van Allen Belt, solar radiation, cosmic radiation, temperature control,
and many other problems connected with space travel prevent living organisms leaving our
atmosphere with our known level of technology . Any intelligent high school student with a basic
physics book can prove NASA faked the Apollo moon landings.
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***Hoax Counterplan***
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Hoax CP 1/2
Text: The United States federal government should announce its intention to and use
supporting evidence of (Insert Plan Advocacy)______________________________
______________________________________________________________________,
however secretly hoax actual implementation of the plan.
Hoax CP 2/2
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Cosnette, International Director of UFO Research Center, 09
missions (details of how to purchase the video are at the bottom of this article). Percy
firmly believes that the Apollo
footage was either faked or not the original film that was shot on the Moon. He believes that many
anomalous features that would alert the eagle eyed viewer, could have been placed in the films by whistle blowers
who were deeply dissatisfied to be a part of the cover-up. He has studied the entire transfer of the original film on
video tape, a feat that not many people have done. What many people did not realize at the time was that a lot of
the footage was actually pre-recorded and not live at all. The first anomalous piece of footage I would like to discuss
is from the 1972 Apollo 16 Mission. There is a major discrepancy between the still photograph taken with a
Hasselblad 500 EL/70 camera and the TV coverage film which was shot from a stationary movie
camera placed behind the astronauts. The movie sequence (that is viewable by clicking the picture to the left) shows
one of the astronauts making a jump salute whilst another astronaut takes a still photo with the Hasselblad
camera. On the still photo (that is pictured left) we see a flap of triangular fabric that has come loose and
flapped up behind the astronauts head. However the TV film which was shot from behind the
astronaut doesn't show the flap? Why not? Another example that appears to be faked is the footage of Earth taken from the
Apollo 11 when it was 130,000 miles away. This is the very first view ever taken of Earth on the mission and it seems strange
that Buzz Aldrin would film the Earth when he was stood far away from the window, why would he do
that? Surely you would want to get close to the window to get the best picture and also to eliminate light reflections that are evident
towards the end of this sequence? But no, we see the window frame come into view on the left of the shot. The camera isn't set to
infinity either to get the closest shot. The window frame that comes into shot would have been out of focus if it was. Did the
astronauts actually film a transparency of the Earth that was stuck to the window? You may think this odd,
but a few minutes after filming the Earth, the cameraman adjusts his lens and focuses on Mike Collins inside the craft. What we see is
what appears to be an exposure of the Earth taped to the window that is in the background to the right of him. That is the very same
window that Aldrin was filming the Earth. But the biggest shock is yet to come! The camera pans left past Neil Armstrong
towards the left hand side of the Apollo 11, and what do we see out of the left window??? We see what
appears to be another Earth... Go on, watch the video by clicking the picture above and you'll see it with your own eyes! It
must also be noted that the Apollo 11 at this point of the mission was supposedly half way to the Moon.
The time elapsed was 34 hours and 16 minutes, but from the view of Earth in the right hand window,
we can say that in fact they were not in deep space at all, but still in low Earth orbit ! look at the blue sky
outside. That would also explain why they would be filming an exposure of the Earth that was far away, to give the impression that they
were in deep space. The exposure would be clipped to the window and the Sun's luminance would light it up, a technique that was used
to read star charts to help with navigation and star reference.
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CP Solves Leadership
Empirics prove that this cp has full solvency- we never went to the moon yet it drastically
increased our primacy through propaganda during the cold war-solves leadership
We faked the moon landings to get ahead of the USSR during the Cold War
Conspiracy theories and hoaxes, no date
[Conspiracy theories and hoaxes, Apollo Moon Landing Hoax Why Fake a Moon Landing? no date,
http://www.conspiracy-theories-hoax.com/apollo-moon-landing-hoax-why-fake-a-moon-landing.html, accessed
6/27/11, HK]
Whether the conspiracy was possible or if there was a motive for faking the landings, is a big part of the moon hoax.Many
conspiracy debunkers say that there was no reason for the US to fake the moon landings. This is false,
as at the time America was publicly losing the space race, as Russia had put the: First man/woman in space.
First animal in space. First three person mission in space. And the first space station in orbit. Even though
these landmarks were achieved using crude methods, (i.e. putting a man on a rocket or adding a extra man on a two manned spaceship)
to the public eye, it would seem as if the US were losing the space race. And IF, and only if the US couldnt
put a man on the moon in time, then the deadline that JFK set, and public pressure, could have forced
the government to fake a moon landing. So the US did have a motive for faking a moon landings, but how would NASA
have carried out this enormous conspiracy? In this hoax imagine that you are the contractors, NASA tells you about the moon
landing conspiracy and pays you for your services that your not giving . You make announcement to the public
telling them that your making rocket parts. (This is for the share holders.) Then at the first day of work you tell everybody in the factory
that their not really making rocket parts, and that if they play this out theyll be set for life. Employees that dont comply get stern death
threats from NASA officials. The advantage to this is type of conspiracy is, no real equipment has to be made,
except for a rocket to go up and a lander to come down. The disadvantage to this is how many people are told about
the conspiracy. At one point over half a million people were involved in the Apollo project at one time, and the conspiracy believers are
saying that no one came forward even on their death beds (dead men/women can not be killed) and out of all of those people nobody saw
a sense of duty to tell the people of their country the truth!!
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And government secrets arent all bad-safety reasons, public scrutiny and more
Feldman, law teacher at Harvard University and part of Council of Foreign Relations, 09
[Noah, law teacher at Harvard University and part of Council of Foreign Relations, The New York Times, In
Defense of Secrecy 2/10/2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15wwln_lede-t.html, accessed
6/27/11, HK]
On the surface, it might seem that more and better information about the governments decisions (and
decision-making processes) is always preferable, especially if the information is provided before events transpire. As good-
government advocates are right to remind us, if the public learns of an important decision only after it has been made, advocacy groups
and concerned citizens cannot influence it. They can only give their endorsement or disapproval after the fact and hope it has some effect
the next time around. When it comes to the proposal and drafting of legislation, we expect public engagement, even as we acknowledge
that special-interest groups can use that process to torpedo innovative laws in the way the insurance industry brought down health care
reform during President Clintons first term. Yet there are many circumstances in which secrets are critical.
Consider the quotidian business of government inspection: it requires the element of surprise, or else regulated industries
could game the system by preparing for oversight on specified days and places. A grander example comes from
diplomacy. Whether to negotiate with Iran is an important topic of debate, but the actual negotiation,
and even the steps leading up to it, cannot successfully be conducted under the glare of public scrutiny. Neither
side would take the risks necessary for real engagement as long as its high-risk efforts could be exposed to denunciation and ridicule if it
failed. The financial bailout has its own needs for secrecy . It is essential for Congress to debate what sorts of industries
or companies should be saved and how, and it must authorize the money, just as it must pay for a war. But the decisions to bail
out AIG and to let Lehman Brothers fail, whatever their merits, were the sorts of immediate, crisis-driven
judgment calls that could not have reasonably been subjected to extensive public debate, or that would have
been improved by public lobbying and interest-group advocacy. If specific companies could lobby for bailouts, and their competitors
could argue against, the bailouts would turn into political football which is what arguably distorted the effort to bail out the auto
companies. Obama presumably knows all this; his pronouncements about transparency so far have been so general as to be largely
symbolic. That he issued a statement urging his subordinates to increase and improve opportunities for public participation in
government without providing any specifics suggests that he wants to change the background tone of government but also that
he recognizes the limits of transparency.
***Ashtar***
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Competition
Any permutation is severs the immediacy and certainty of the plan and the counterplan
avoids the Ashtar DA net benefit.
Solvency -
The Ashtar command can control matter, energy, and gravity we should consult over
space exploration & development
Lord Ashtar, 2004 (August 19, 2004, Our Fleets Are In Position, Ready Yourselves Brother Veritus,
http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/ashtar_command_mission.htm, accessed 6/27/11, SL)
I salute you in the sacred name of I AM and in representation of the Intergalactic Command! My name is
Ashtar Sheran, I am a space Commander, and I am in charge of the Star Ship. The Ashtar Command is a
branch of the Intergalactic Command with the specific mission of assisting this planet in crisis. It is
under the direct supervision, the loving care and the attention of Beloved Master Sananda (known by
you as Jesus); who, among other positions, is the Supreme Commander of the Holy Alliance. The
Ashtar Command is present everywhere. In and over the Earths atmosphere, there are thousands
and thousands of space ships, of course, the majority at an invisible level. Its function is to watch over
the planet and its inhabitants, to be attentive to any fault or danger and if we are invoked, to intervene
quickly in an impersonal manner, since our mission of Love is to help. Due to our great scientific-
technological level, we can control matter, energy, counteract and annul the Law of Gravity. To make
our ships visible (which we do now exceptionally), we retard the vibratory frequency and this makes possible
densification. We do not live in a physical body but in etheric level, but our bodies are the same as yours in
form and aspect, albeit finer and subtle. We are the authority that controls the space program to be
fulfilled for the Planet Earth.
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1NC - Ashtar DA
A. Uniqueness We are moving towards our necessary quota of lightness
Ariana, Pleiadian Walk In and Channel and Communicator, Healer and Artist, 11
(Anakya, 5/2/2011, Channelling, Human Ascension: Earth Changes and Evacuation of Earth Ashtar Spiritual
Forum, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/instructions-for-accomplishing#ixzz1QVjan065,
accessed: 6/24/11, SL)
Remember: it is due to the lack of light that we have not met the Galactic Federation of Light . Yes, I said
LIGHT. They do not resonate with darkness. They will not return-until a certain quota of light is here.
You, as lightworkers, have been sent here for one reason, and one reason ONLY. To work with light-to focus it-to create it-to HOLD IT
ONCE CREATED-to transform...in ways you cannot begin to imagine. Do a visualization. Imagine traveling to a foreign land-
where friendly and loving people reach out to you-and compete to have you in their home as a guest, so they can treat you well and listen
to your stories of where you are from-and exchange love. There are no wars, there is no crime. All the world ....is at
peace, and in joy and laughter. We have so long been enslaved, that we no longer can fathom true
freedom. Want to explore the Pleades and return home for awhile? Imagine no calendar-no job to return to-no
money-and only safety, health and happiness in your travels. All is provided . We will learn and follow
the Law of One. Which creates balance and good for all. All is one. One is all. Namaste. Lightworkers.... master and hold the
light....
B. Link & Impact The 1ac embraces negativity rather than lightness, makes
evacuation impossible and guarantees our extinction
Skirvin, 6/17/2011
(Revered Joshua, Best Kept Secrets #3 Ashtar Command Center Spiritual Blogs,
http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/best-kept-secrets-3#ixzz1QXGL8Ogq, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
Hello friends, let us finish this article on planet-x. As it is the 3rd. time here now it gets bigger and stronger as it pulls
on the earth and forces the magnetic energy to expand and start to change course . The earths
expansion causes earth quakes and volcanoes to go off to release the pressure. We will see more of
what happened in New Zealand and now Japan as Planet-x gets closer still. The plates under Japan
will continue to move and break up as the earth quakes there continue on and on ,more damage is yet
to come. The moon like the earth has been forced to move away from Planet-x and has also changed its
course. And of course the sun is really upset because it is so close to it and will continue with its coronas
and super flares. More heavy storms will also continue on earth with floods like last year until Planet-x
moves away from us but first she will show her face to us for all to see. things will settle down a bit
until she returns again next year and will come even closer and be a even stronger pull on the earth
sun and moon. Planet-x will join in the Galactic alignment of dec.21,2012 . And thats when who ever is
still here who has a ticket to leave must leave as things will get very heavy down here . I myself am looking
forward to the new adventure on the new earth they have prepared for us. No one in fear or negativity will be picked by
the ships that will come to rescue us. The rescue should start sometime next year according to how
heavy the earth changes are. The christens call it the Golden age of peace. .Hope to see you there in our new
healthy and young bodies. Or if you choose you can join the Federation of light and visit the universe . Some
may even wish to come back to repopulate the old earth when she is finished her healing process.
Anyway you look at it, its going to be exciting times. The governments of the western world want to keep it a secret
because they don;t believe we the people will survive. They and the sinister secret government SSG
have known about this for a long time and have built underground cities,bases,roads and rail systems
for there survival. But they don;t know about Jesus,Ashtar and the federation of light rescue plans for
us. All of this and more,I write about in my new book which you can get on my web site. I want people to know there is hope
even amongst the greatest change the people and the earth has ever gone through. We are not alone in
this quest and never was. We are on journey without distance . So we must start the re-awaking process
now so that we are ready for it because ready or not here it comes
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Ashtar DA - TimeFrame
The paradigm is shifting and the negativity has been combated the Deprogramming is
starting now towards the creation of the Federation of Nations and full Disclosure is on
schedule for mid July
Skirvin, 6/17/2011 (Revered Joshua, Paradigm Shift Begins Ashtar Command Center Spiritual Blogs,
http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/paradigm-shift-begins-1#ixzz1QX9kprh6, accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
But our jobs now as light-workers and warriors will be much easier, which is a blessing because we need all the positive
energy we can muster up to not only deal with our own Deprograming. But the Deprograming of the
sleeping survivors, starting with the lightworkers, so that as many as possible of the original 250,000 may
wake up. And in so doing we may all make the Ascension Program a complete reality . Our mission has
up to now been greatly hampered. I want to shout and cheer for the''war both in the heavens and on earth is
over''. Lets celebrate this very special occasion as soon as we can. Problem is I don't know if we have time for a party,
as time itself is speeding up as well. But do put the word out that this Great News comes from Sananda and
Ashtar, so I believe its true. Also they say we should start to feel the Christ energy now as it returns. Jesus is
head of the Christ office and the valves have been opened full throttle, take in as much as you can handle. I
myself have begun to feel and remember these energies from long ago before we neared the 50% mark of
negativity. Which we are more than Lucky to survive as some planets didn't make it far past that mark. But
we are special. Thats why our father Michael created Jesus to save us. The ascended Masters have also
been busy, not only in the spirit realm but down here on the planet as well. They are nearly finished
with the preparations of installing the new benevolent world gov't called (FON) the Federation of
Nations. There human partners are now in place to take leadership when Discloser and Contact is
made, which also looks to be on schedule by or before summer in the west. The new world currency backed
by precious metals are also in place and ready to be distrbuted . And of course the federation of light is also
very involved in all of this and are ready to take there places . The time peroid of mid June to mid July
is still holding strong. I believe we must stick to this time table because of the coming of planet-X,ELEnin
and the Great Disruption and Earth Changes it will bring.
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Ashtar DA - TimeFrame
Between August 13-18, humanity will move to another spiritual plane in the Spiritual
Evolution, bringing us closer to Ascention
Cota-Robles, Chanel and Co-founder of the New Age Study of Humanitys Purpose
6/13/2011
(Patricia Diane, This is a cosmic moment Ashtar Command Center Spiritual Blog,
http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/this-is-a-cosmic-moment-by#ixzz1QXDD71iP, accessed
6/27/11, SL)
We are moving at warp speed through frequencies, vibrations, and physical experiences beyond
anything Humanitys physical bodies have collectively endured . The Divine Intent of this rapid
acceleration is to strengthen our bodies at a cellular level, so that our I AM Presence can move us
through the surfacing negativity quickly. Then we will be able to effectively anchor our NEW
Planetary CAUSE of Divine Love into the physical plane. This will be accomplished August 13-18,
2011, through the newly expanded Threefold Flames now pulsating through every persons heart . It is
true that we are in uncharted waters, but our I AM Presence is able to take command in ways we have
not experienced since our fall from Grace aeons ago. This aspect of our Divinity is daily and hourly
guiding us through these monumental changes in alignment with our Divine Plans and our highest good.
Listen to your heart. Be still and KNOW. It is vital that we stop clinging to the obsolete behavior patterns
that no longer serve us. Instead, we must push away from the shore and turn our faces toward the
radiant Light of our Father-Mother God. Then as we are catapulted through this fast moving River of
Life, we will KNOW that the Light of God is ALWAYS Victorious and that WE are that Lig ht! The key
words for this summer are Trust, Self-Acceptance, and New Beginnings. This is the Cosmic Moment for which we have been preparing
for lifetimes. Everything we need to succeed God Victoriously in our particular facet of this Divine Mission is already within us. Be at
Peace. All is well. This summer the Company of Heaven is standing in readiness awaiting the invitation to
intervene in our lives. Powerful celestial alignments are occurring that will help us release and let go of
the behavior patterns that have kept us stuck in our dysfunctional human miscreations. This is an
incredibly powerful and sacred time. This month we will experience three eclipses and the June Solstice , all of
which will provide unique opportunities for Humanity to add to the Light of the world as we pave the way for the unprecedented influx
of Divine Love that will be secured in the physical plane through every person's Heart Flame, in August. Each of these
alignments will build on the previous influx of Light which will catapult the Earth and ALL her Life
further up the Spiral of Evolution. This will move us a quantum leap toward our ultimate goal of
Ascension into the 5th-Dimensional frequencies of Divine Love and Unity Consciousness. For this reason,
the entire Universe is rejoicing, and the Company of Heaven is assisting us in unprecedented ways. For the activity of Light
that will take place August 13-18, 2011, it is critical that Lightworkers from around the world be physically
present. Through our unified Heart Flames, we will form the transformer through which our NEW
Planetary CAUSE of Divine Love will be permanently secured in the physical world of form. The
Lightworkers who have been prepared to serve in this wondrous way, on behalf of Humanity and ALL Life on this sweet Earth, will
know who they are through the inner promptings of their heart. So listen to your heart, and Trust your inner guidance.
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Ashtar rules under Service, Love, and Humility they are omnipresent and omnipotent
and are here to help
Lord Ashtar, 2004 (August 19, 2004, Our Fleets Are In Position, Ready Yourselves Brother Veritus,
http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/ashtar_command_mission.htm, accessed 6/27/11, SL)
I tell you: we have centuries being at your side, but now we are making ourselves known more directly.
Machu Pichu was constructed with our collaboration, Nazca and Palenque. We frequently visited
Atlantis, because this did not astonish them, instead the arriving of space beings looked to them as
something natural. By knowing themselves as citizens of Cosmos, they accepted travelers of other
worlds, such as now you do with tourists in you plane. It has to be comprehended, at the level of
multitudes, that our apparent superiority is to be found in the simplicity, Love and humility we have
been able to achieve. If we were superior, the way that is understood in your world, the Earth were
already conquered by space beings and it has not been that way. Our motto is: Union, Service,
Love, Humility and we only accept as norm of conduct the laws ruling Cosmos, the will of the One
unknown whom you call God. We are also beings in evolution as you are. We the Space Brothers do not
present ourselves in the sky to frighten or intimidate human beings nor to astonish them. We are not
interested in standing out or in bringing attention to ourselves to pretend superiority . We came in a
Mission of Love and Impersonal Service, because our brethren of Earth need much help, so the world-
school they inhabit does not pass through higher sufferings than the ones they can withstand and
which correspond to their evolutionary level. Do not feel alone in the Universe. We exist and are
always aware of you, of everything happening on the planet. Some of ours incarnated as humans and
are disseminated around the world. They may or may not remember their labor of help, for the Effluvium (accumulation of
negative thoughts-feelings in the atmosphere) make them sleepy and they forget their origin, become confused and lost strayed through
the plane density; or do become triumphant, despite so many interferences. We are as real and tangible as you are, we
live and exist. We do no have any bizarre aspect nor are we interested in war or conquest purposes.
We only wish to help by Love. If you accept it, great benefits will result from that, as happened in the
millenary India of remote times. The advancement they achieved in architecture is due to our art and
technology. It was left this proof: the monuments imitate our space ships in the tip or steeple and even in the
shape of their temples. The map "Piris Reis" was made under our collaboration and equally our help can be seen in the Gate of
the Sun of Lake Titicaca. Symbolically, the signs point to the period of rotation and translation of our beloved planet Venus. With
all of these examples we present of the past, you can become aware that certainly there has been
contact and you were not as isolated as you believe nor our apparition is a sudden thing of modern
times. We hope these words give clarity and understanding to many over the truth of our existence and right purposes. We are
your Elder Brothers and we salute you with Love. He who thus understands it so will greatly elevate
his level of consciousness. We have been integrated in the labor of rescuing this planet, but help
comes from much more time ago.
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AFF No Impact
Planetary ascension is not the Ashtar Command Center zapping the entire human race into
their spaceships to save us from disaster
Ariana, Pleiadian Walk In and Channel and Communicator, Healer and Artist, 2011
(Anakya, 5/2/2011, Channelling, Human Ascension: Earth Changes and Evacuation of Earth Ashtar Spiritual
Forum, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/forum/topics/channelling-ascension-and#ixzz1QWWocZp2, accessed:
6/27/11, SL)
Planetary ascension is a whole different ball game. That is about the whole reality that we are living in moving
from 3-D and 4-D into a higher density. A lot of people don't realize we have already begun to move into 4-D
(although it is intermittent at present). They seem to imagine it means all kind of fantastical things will be seen
and felt. However, 4-D is only a slightly higher vibration than 3-D, so things still appear the same - on the
outside at least. But what it does mean is that the energy of the new vibration causes more massive change. It
causes people to examine then throw off old, out-moded belief systems and societies to experience
collapse of systems and structures that will no longer work in the new energy field. If it could be said that
there is a planetary lesson attached to experiencing 4-D, I would say it would be Responsibility. This experience is definitely
about realizing and claiming responsibility - for creating our own reality and living with the
consequences - for one thing. So many people spend so much time with their heads in the stars and looking to the future, that they
forget to really look into, and appreciate where they are right now. With regard to spiritual development, many imagined 4-D to mean
that people would suddenly become instantly spiritually awakened and aware - yet we are still seeing gradual awakening, and only at the
pace that each individual is ready for. There are still many who probably won't awaken at all. That's because it
is the way the process happens naturally and also because Free Will comes into play. Although, for those on
Earth it is accelerated because we have the benefit of all this transforming energy and paradigms (powerful creative energy which is
generating change). It is, however, up to each of us how we use this energy to our advantage.
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***Continued***
Dr. Charles Laughead, an MD on the staff of Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan, started communicating with various
entities "from outer space" in 1954, largely through trance mediums who served as instrument for Ashtar and his cronies from that great
intergalactic council in the sky. A number of minor prophecies were passed along, and as usual, they came true on the nose. Then Ashtar
tossed in his bombshell. The world was going to end on December 21, 1954, he announced convincingly.
North America was going to split in two, and the Atlantic coast would sink into the sea. France, England and Russia were also slated for
a watery grave. However, all was not lost. A few chosen people would be rescued by spaceships. Naturally Dr. Laughead and his friends
were among that select group. Dr. Laughhead made sober declarations to the press and on December 21, 1954 he and a group of his
fellow believers clustered together in the garden to await rescue ... and waited. And waited. And waited!
In California, a man named Allen Noonan claims to have experienced still another variation of this particular mind-warping
phenomenon. Soon after his discharge from the Army following World War II, Noonan went to work for a company handling outdoor
billboards. One day, he says, he was working on a billboard when suddenly he was taken in astral form to a strange place. He found
himself in a huge white building filled with white light. A group of "elders" were situated around a glowing throne, and a great voice
boomed from that throne and asked "Will you agree to be the Savior of the World?"
Noonan quickly agreed to this role. Then he was told, "You may die in the hands of your fellowmen. Their sin shall remain with you
until the Mother Comforter comes to deliver them."
The next thing he knew, he was back in his body working on the signboard. In later experiences, he allegedly visited other planets such
as Venus, and he frequently received telepathic messages and instructions from our old friend Ashtar. In this case, he knew it as "the
Ashtar Command and the United Planets Organization".
Allen Noonan is not the only Space Age messiah appointed by the Ashtar command...
In Denmark a man named Knud Weinking began receiving telepathic flashes in May, 1967, including a number of impressive
prophecies which came true ..He was then instructed to build a lead-lined bomb shelter and prepare for a holocaust on December 24,
1967 ...
...Mediums, telepaths, sensitives, and UFO contactees throughout the world were all reporting identical messages. There was definitely
going to be an unprecedented event on December 24, 1967. Ashtar was talking through Ouija boards to people who had never before
heard the name. Another busy entity named Orlon was spreading the word. The curious thing about these messages was that they were
all phrased in the same manner, no matter what language was being used. They all carried the same warning. People were reporting
strange dreams, dreams about symbols of Christmas ... There were also stories about dead telephones and glowing entities prowling
through bedroom and homes. Many of these messages, dreams and prophecies were collected together by a British organization calling
itself Universal Links. The stage was set for Doomsday. Thousands, perhaps even millions, of people had been warned The Danish cult
locked themselves up in their bomb shelter ... After the imaginary crisis had passed, the American wire services finally carried stories
about the cowering Danes, ridiculing them, of course. But Mr. Weinking came up with a message that explained it all: "I told you two
thousand years ago that a time would be given and even so I would not come. If you had read your Bible a little more carefully, you
would have borne in mind the story of the bridegroom who did not come at the time he was expected. Be careful so that you are not
found without oil in your lamps. I have told you I will come with suddenness, and I shall be coming soon!"
It was all a dry run, or was it? Actually, it was a rather impressive sequence of events , and it really proved something very important.
Many predictions of the December twenty-fourth disaster had been well documented well in advance of that date. These messages came
through in many different, countries, from people who had no knowledge of or communications with one another. The UFO contactees
received the same identical messages as the trance mediums communing with spirits. A link had been established. It was now clear (to
me anyway) that all of these people were tuned to a central source. (Possibly an earthly electronic device) My earlier speculations
seemed true -- the UFO entities and the spirit entities were part of the same gigantic system. So more pieces of this tremendous puzzle
were falling into place. A long series of events had apparently been staged to warn us of that tiger behind the door. Some of the entities
were evil liars. They had ruined the lives of many by producing "proof" which led to false beliefs and irresponsible actions. Dr.
Laughead and Knud Weinking had been victims in this enormous game. Many "New Agers" have become victims over the past several
years.
In the 90's people like Elizabeth Claire Prophet and David Koresh have played on people's ignorance.
More will come to those who believe everything they hear and continue to give the power of their lives
over to others. Use discernment is your search for truth. Never trust a "channel" more that your own inner guidance.
Walk the path of light and love in this lifetime, on this wondrous earth, with your family and loved ones. Kindness, opening the heart
and respect for others are the first steps for true ascension.
The following is claimed by the false teachers and the unenlightened:
Ashtar works very closely with Archangel Michael, in protecting the evolution of humanity through
harmonizing the negative and evil influences that could overwhelm us . Ashtar is in command of a
particular area of the cosmos which he and his many spiritual helpers patrol', this area or zone includes planet earth; because
of this he is often referred to as Commander Ashtar.
Ashtar works through the Merkabah , the spiritual vehicle of Light that comes direct from the Godhead. At the moment Ashtar is
Controller of the Merkabah, for our part of the Universe. He moves between heavens, dimensions, and realities with his powerful mind
guiding and controlling the energies of the Merkabah so that we humans can participate in the evolutionary process of our zone.
ALL OF THESE CLAIMS ARE LIES - AND A TRAP TO STEAL YOUR SOUL!
PLEASE - FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE - PROTECT YOURSELF.
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Aff No Evacuation
Project Uplift was abandoned in the 80s didnt have unanimous support and too many
negative consequences
Ariana, Pleiadian Walk In and Channel and Communicator, Healer and Artist, 2011
(Anakya, 5/2/2011, Channelling, Human Ascension: Earth Changes and Evacuation of Earth Ashtar Spiritual
Forum, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/forum/topics/channelling-ascension-and#ixzz1QWWocZp2, accessed:
6/27/11, SL)
There has been SO much channelled about this. First back in the '80's and '90's, and it has resurfaced now. I have already said quite a
bit about this in terms of the fact that Project Uplift (i.e. uplifting people from Earth en masse during major Earth changes) was
abandoned by the Council and Ashtar Command because the decision had to be unanimous (by
consensus) and because of the perceived trauma such a thing would cause the people uplifted, problems
adjusting to life on Motherships - not to mention the logistical nightmare - but here is another thing to think about. Many
of the channellings say that the Ashtar Command is going to "save us" when things get tough on the planet.
Save us from what? Our own Ascension process? Why is it anyone else's responsibility to help us
survive and thrive in our own environment? With changes that we helped to create? The channellings
say that the Ashtar Command will remove people "in the blink of an eye". I wonder if people realize that if
there was an evacuation like that, people could be seperated from family, partner, friends - maybe
even their children? That is because they could not take people who had not given their permission and
had no awareness of their existence. It is against Universal Law. How would you feel if you left the planet, and
your loved ones had to stay? What if you had them taken forcibly against their will? How would they respond and feel?. What would
the suddenly changed energy and environment do to them?. You cannot expose people to things like that if they are
not ready for it and open to the experience. They have to give their permission, otherwise it is just abduction!
No one in the Ashtar Command fleet or associated fleets is willing to do that. If you remove people
physically from their home world suddenly, they suffer from many spiritual, mental and emotional
adjustment problems (even sickness) which can be fatal. You have altered gravitational fields to deal with - not to mention
a massive vibration shift. Human bodies have to gradually adjust to increases in vibration, or they will
overload and burn out. You are talking about bodies that have been 3-D for a long time suddenly becoming something else
without going through the steps in between. Also, human bodies at this time are not equipped to travel in space
craft which move much, much faster than the speed of light. Or ships which travel between
dimensions. In order for members of the Ashtar Command to artificially alter human bodies so that
they can cope with these things (as many of the channellings claim), it would violate another law. Well, a couple of them
actually. One is the law of non-interference. They cannot do anything that extremely alters the course of
another being or civilization's natural evolution. It has major repercussions! Look at what happened when the
Atlanteans did that, for example. They experimented and tampered with natural laws and life forms to the
point where their either destroyed it, or created creatures which could not possibly survive - let alone
thrive.
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Aff No Evacuation
Project Uplift was thrown out in the 80s due to its high risks and negative scenarios from
holographic testing
Ariana, Pleiadian Walk In and Channel and Communicator, Healer and Artist, 2011
(Anakya, 5/2/2011, Channelling, Human Ascension: Earth Changes and Evacuation of Earth Ashtar Spiritual
Forum, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/forum/topics/project-awaken-earth#ixzz1QVhksPHZ, accessed:
6/27/11, SL)
As I work on Earth as a communicator for the Ashtar Command and Interplanetary Council, I have found that at times I have been called
upon to correct this information (as many of the channels were also requested to do). As I covered in my last article, Project
Uplift was abandoned at the time by the Ashtar Command (in the late 1980s ). The decision was
based on rigorous discussion and holographic test scenarios which proved that such an intervention
would potentially be harmful to many of those the Command was attempting to help . It would involve
separating people from friends and family (who were not ready and had not chosen such a destiny) and taking
people away from their lessons on Earth which could only be accomplished while there. The Ashtar Command
must obey (as do all civilizations belonging to the Association of Worlds) a strict code of non-interference when
observing or interacting with another civilization. Therefore there is a fine line between what would
constitute interfering with the natural evolutionary path of a particular civilization and working in
harmony with their free will and spiritual growth. When the Interplanetary Council makes a decision such as this, it
affects ALL personnel involved with that planet or civilization. The final decision must be by consensus, but , as the
majority decided to abandon Project Uplift, the motion was carried as they say on Earth.
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Aff No Evacuation
Too many issues with Project Uplift the majority of the human race isnt ready to accept
the existence of ETs
Ariana, Pleiadian Walk In and Channel and Communicator, Healer and Artist, 2011
(Anakya, 5/2/2011, Channelling, Human Ascension: Earth Changes and Evacuation of Earth Ashtar Spiritual
Forum, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/forum/topics/project-awaken-earth#ixzz1QViCuZhL, accessed:
6/27/11, SL)
What the Ashtar Command now focuses on (rather than Uplift) has been dubbed Project Awaken Earth in
colloquial English but that is really only one phase of the project. This project is exactly as it states an opportunity to help
souls on Earth awaken to their Divine heritage and spiritual capabilities. This is because it is understood
that this part must be accomplished before any physical interaction can occur (via density shift). But
Project Awaken is not being undertaken so that people on Earth can meet all within the Ashtar
Command face-to-face (although it is accepted that will eventually happen). To many of these cultures, physicality is
secondary to the energy and spirit. Such a project is undertaken because it is a way to help humanity
move beyond limitation and fear just as another enlightened group once helped some of us, and just as Earth humanity will
one day be called upon to do also. Project Uplift raised a myriad of environmental, behavioural, societal and
spiritual issues that came up. But this aspect has been very useful and valuable, because there is much that has been learned
from it (but never at the expense of Earth inhabitants). Regardless of what some on Earth choose to believe, life on board the
ships within the Ashtar Command and similar groups is NOT like living on Earth !. It is different on
almost every level. You would literally be suddenly catapulted into a truly alien environment . Even if
you are a Starseed, you will have become acclimatized to Earth and the density and structures there . It is now
familiar to you and is part of your life that you have chosen (although awakened Starseeds would definitely find it easier, and would
adjust faster). On the ships there is a strict order and harmony that must be maintained at all times
amongst the personnel and their families. Such a vast organization and community cannot function
efficiently without that harmony and order. For instance; you cant hide anything from anyone
emotionally or otherwise, and you cant have an emotional breakdown of any kind. There are healers on the
ships and there is healing technology which can help when someone goes out of phase (as we call it), but the patient must be at a stage
in their growth where they can assimilate the energy and quickly balance themselves. If that doesnt happen, then they are required to
leave the ship for a time until they regain balance. And when encountering the many other cultures that live and
work on the ships, there would be extensive cultural differences that could be a problem for those who
were unaware or not accustomed. Unfortunately, among many people on Earth there is the idea that all
ET beings are dangerous, or want to eat them or something. This is because of what the media has
projected. There is also their inherent fear of the unknown. This is a major barrier to interaction with
other planetary civilizations at this time. Unfortunately, Earth humans are not raised with the understanding
that they have universal family, or that intelligent life exists in different densities some of whom have been
around longer and have evolved differently. I am just outlining here some of the obstacles to deeper and more physical interaction with
universal family. There are a lot of radically different and new things and concepts that a person would have to be adjusted to.
Therefore it would have to be a GRADUAL process, and not one that people where simply just thrown
into at the deep end, so to speak.
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2012 will bring the end to negativity and evil as well as collapse of society as we know it
only a strong spiritual connection to Ashtar will save the human race
Singh, 4/29/11 (Ravinder Singh, Earth Changes Part 1: The Cosmic Events Ashtar Command Center Spiritual
Blog, http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/2012-postponed-to-the-middle#ixzz1QXNWc0Ns,
accessed: 6/27/11, SL)
2012 Shift from the dark age to Light Age We have just emerged from a 5000 year dark age and are in the transitory period before
moving into the Light Age. An intense churning and transformation was supposed to occur upto the year 2036 to remove all negativities
on this earth. However, the Rishis observed that many major events were going to occur in our Milky way
galaxy in the year 2012. They decided to use these events and prepone the end of pralaya to 2012, in order to reduce the
difficulties and suffering of Humanity. The Rishis chose 2012 to put an end to all the evil and negativity on this
earth. They decided to make use of the expected earth changes to collapse the existing corrupt systems
and replace them with new systems based on truth and love . The financial meltdown we witnessed in
the middle of 2009 was the beginning of a series of collapses, which would culminate by the end of
2012. Scientists and Astronomers are predicting an intense solar activity in the next couple of years,
which is expected to rupture the Earths electromagnetic field, resulting in the collapse of the electrical
and communication systems, thus throwing our modern life completely out of gear. Many other dependent
systems like transportation, supplies, medical facilities, employment, governance etc will also be
severely affected and eventually will collapse. The other Earth changes like the reversal of the geographic
poles and change in the direction of Earths rotation in 2012 will result in massive earthquakes,
volcanic eruptions and extreme weather changes. Its obvious that we cannot withstand such chaos,
anarchy and massive changes by any physical means. Only by having a strong spiritual connection
with the divine can one sail through these turbulent times. Those who choose to transform and accept
the values of the New Age will receive help and guidance from the Rishis and their workers . As the
existing systems breakdown, they will be replaced by more efficient and evolved systems, which are in
tune with the higher values of the New Age. But those who decide to hold on to the old values from the
dark ages, refusing to transform, will perish in these massive changes.
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***Space Travel***
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We havent gone back because its expensive- not because we never went
Caron, Managing Editor, ABC News On Campus, 09
(Christina, July 19 2009, , Managing Editor, ABC News On Campus , abc news Refuting the Most Popular
Appollo Moon Landing Hoax Theories
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Apollo11MoonLanding/story?id=8104410 6/27/11 BLG)
The Claim: If We Had Really Visited the Moon, We Would Be Able to Return. Why Haven't We Gone
Back? Going to the moon is expensive. Between 1961 and 1972, the Apollo program cost $25 billion,
according to the NASA Web site. The benefits of landing on the moon are still being questioned to this day,
and it's been suggested that another trip to the moon simply isn't necessary. Germann says "There's no
reason to go back." In 1970, "they canceled three [missions scheduled to fly to the moon] because of budget
problems. Quite frankly the moon is giant parking lot, there's just not much there. Space is dangerous
place. There's a lot of radiation. And humans become ill in low gravity. It's not comfortable -- it's not
someplace you want to live," he added.
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The flag rippled because it was touched and a landing wouldnt cause a crater- the moon
landing was real.
Caron, Managing Editor, ABC News On Campus, 09
(Christina, July 19 2009, , Managing Editor, ABC News On Campus , abc news Refuting the Most Popular
Appollo Moon Landing Hoax Theories
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Apollo11MoonLanding/story?id=8104410 6/27/11 BLG)
The Claim: There Isn't Any Wind on the Moon. The Flag Shouldn't be Rippling Yes, it is true that
there is no air or wind on the moon. Germann explained that the flag moved because the astronauts
touched it, creating ripples in the fabric. The flag is attached to a metal pole. If someone were to touch
the metal it would vibrate, and so would the flag. According to the moon hoax rebuttal on the NASA Web
site, "Unfurling a piece of rolled-up cloth with stored angular momentum will naturally result in waves and
ripples -- no breeze required!" The Claim: If the Apollo Landed on the Moon, Why Wasn't There a Giant
Blast Crater? Germann explained that the moon is a rock that has been compacted for millions of years. On
the top it is "powdery and fluffy" but a half an inch down it's hard. "The lower layer isn't going to
blow," he said. In addition, the moon's low gravity would have eased the impact of the shuttle.
The Hubble Telescope is too far away to take a picture- hoax theories are an insult to the
astronauts.
Caron, Managing Editor, ABC News On Campus, 09
(Christina, July 19 2009, , Managing Editor, ABC News On Campus , abc news Refuting the Most Popular
Appollo Moon Landing Hoax Theories
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Apollo11MoonLanding/story?id=8104410 6/27/11 BLG)
The Claim: If the Hubble Telescope Is Up There, Why Doesn't It Take a Picture? The moon is about
240,000 miles away from the earth, whereas the Hubble Telescope orbits approximately 380 miles
above the earth. "This I don't fault people for, it's a technical question," Germann said. "Because of the way
the Hubble is operated it can't resolve an object that small. "In one sense I guess it's good that people are
interested enough to doubt [the moon landing]. It's an iconic event, it stands for a whole era. And for that
reason it's important to people," Germann said. But he has little patience for the skeptics. "To say it's a fake
is an insult to the many people who worked on this and risked their lives to make it happen. That's
what gives it an edge for me."
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[The Chairman of the Soviet equivalent of NASA = Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, lead Soviet rocket engineer and
spacecraft designer
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***Flat Earth***
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Earth is flat and covered by a dome no space travel possible oceans prove
Shenton, president of the Flat Earth Society, 1998 (Daniel, Why the Earth is Flat, The Flat Earth
Society, http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm, SL)
Water. Regardless of which train of thought you follow, it covers over seventy-five percent of our planet's
surface. And the atmosphere, also a fluid, covers the entire surface. The difference is why. While flat-
Earthers know that the ocean is really just a large bowl, (with great sheets of ice around the edges to
hold the ocean back), and the atmosphere is contained by a large dome, the backwards "round-Earth"
way of thinking would have you believe that all those trillions of gallons of water and air just "stick" to
the planet's surface.
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If the earth was orbiting around the sun, everything on the surface would be thrown off
Shenton, president of the Flat Earth Society, 1998 (Daniel, Why the Earth is Flat, The Flat Earth
Society, http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm, SL)
A second critical piece to the Efimovich model is that the Earth is not the center of the solar system either. It
is, according to
"round Earth" theory, orbiting the sun at a radius of around five-hundred million kilometers. Were
this the case, the Earth would be an accelerated object in circular motion around its sun. And thereby are
the problems introduced. The Earth accelerating in circular motion would behave no differently than would
a car taking a corner: loose objects (humans and animals would act like loose change or a cup of coffee
on the dashboard) would slide around, or be thrown off completely . There would be an apparent
centrifugal force on everything. During the day, when things would be facing the sun and therefore on the inside of the
"orbit", buildings would be crushed and humans beings squashed like grasshoppers in a centrifuge . And
at night, when everything would be at the outside, trees and buildings would be ripped from the ground and
flung into outer space, and humans wouldn't stand a chance. Obviously, there is a flaw in Efimovich's "orbit" theory.
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If the earth was round, the oceans would fall off the surface and evaporate
Shenton, president of the Flat Earth Society, 1998 (Daniel, Why the Earth is Flat, The Flat Earth
Society, http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm, SL)
Conventional thinking would suggest that the water would just run down the sides of the Earth (to use
the analogy again, like droplets running down the sides of a beach ball) and fall into outer space, while the
air would dissipate. Using the earlier mentioned idea of "gravitational charge" gives some credibility to the
theory. If the fluids were static, then exposure to the gravitational field for a long enough period of time
would allow their molecules to align themselves with and be pulled in by the field. But fluids are not
static, especially not in the atmosphere and oceans. Great ocean currents run both at the surface and
deep below, carrying water across huge basins, keeping the solution far from stagnant. Jet streams of
air travel at hundreds of miles per hour through the atmosphere. And windblown rainclouds carry
vast quantities of evaporated seawater across miles of ground, releasing their load far from its starting
point. Water or air that (according to "round-Earth" theory) starts on one side of the planet could end up
completely on the other side in a matter of only a few days. With all this turbulence and motion, if the
world were round, the oceans should all fall "down" into the sky, leaving the planet dry and barren,
and the atmosphere would simply float away. Why, just look at the moon. It is round, like a ball, and yet it
has no atmosphere at all.
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***Hollow Earth***
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Earth is Hollow
Science can only theoretically discredit hollow earth but Admiral Byrds trip there proves
that it exists
Libra Rising 11 (Libra Rising, Hollow Earth Archives, June 2011,
http://www.librarising.com/hollow/hollowarchives.html, accessed 6/21/11, CW)
Admiral Byrd made two historic but unnanounced trips to the hollow earth, via airplane, both funded by
the U.S.government. The first was 1700 mile trip, via Alaska, to the north polar opening, in February of
1947, where Byrd described seeing vast forests and what looked like running herds of animals. The
second was a 2300 mile trip to the south polar opening, via McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic in 1956,
where he also saw vegetation and bodies of water before returning for lack of fuel. While the purpose of
these trips was to gather sensitive data concerning the Earth's interior, leakage of the events served to
strengthen the notion and reality that our planet is indeed hollow. Further news of this, was however,
repressed, and Byrd was sworn to silence as well. Byrd, however, did leave some writings, some of which
were leaked and described the Admiral's ecstatic descriptions of "The Unknown Country".
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The underground cities in inner earth are to protect us from war and natural disasters
Libra Rising 11 (Libra Rising, Hollow Earth Archives, June 2011,
http://www.librarising.com/hollow/hollowarchives.html, accessed 6/21/11, CW)
There are hundreds of large cities miles beneath the earth, many of which are interconnected by tunnels through
which high speed shuttles navigate, using magnetics for propulsion. Some of these are government or scientific installations while others
are more alien or otherworldly bases. Some of these cities or communities are located in or under mountains while others are in large
underground caverns. Nearly everyone knows about Telos a mile or so beneath Mt. Shasta in California. Not
everyone knows that nearly every major city on the planet has its roots in an inner city beneath it.
Secret elevators or shafts in some buildings lead to these duplicate cities, to which only certain
individuals are allowed or have access to. Most underground cities are built for protection in times of
war or natural catastrophes, as well as for secret and often forbidden projects or activities.
There is a way for us to get to hollow Earth, but the inner earth government is keeping it a
secret
Libra Rising 11 (Libra Rising, Hollow Earth Archives, June 2011,
http://www.librarising.com/hollow/hollowarchives.html, accessed 6/21/11, CW)
There is a massive conspiracy to hide the true nature of our planet that it is hollow, oblate, and
inhabited within. Access to the hollow interior is principally through the north polar opening which is
some 1200 to 1400 miles wide. There is also a south polar opening, but it is mostly covered with snow
and ice. At about 77 degrees north lattitude the the planet starts flattening out an around 82 degrees north
lattitude it starts curving inwards and one can catch glimpses of the earths inner central sun which lights
and warms the interior and which is behind aurora borealis. There is a noticeable rise in temperature in these
latitudes and salt water turns into fresh and wildlife is more abundant and the compass needle goes wild and
then points south instead of north. Admiral E. Byrd flew over and into the north polar opening in a
secret American expedition in 1947 and confirmed all of these facts but was sworn to silence over the
matter. All of the major powers have bases stationed in the Arctic in a united but hushed attempt to
probe the secrets of the hole at the pole and the interior world, but they are restricted entry by the
more powerful inner earth governments or societies which they fear. Before every golden age the ice and
snow around the polar openings melt and evaporate forming water or ice canopies around the planet and
liberating access to the inner earth.
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The good and the bad aliens are both subterranean species from hollow earth
Natalina 10 (Extraordinary Intelligence, UFOs Truth or Deception? Part 3: Aliens from Earth, 11/24/10,
http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/2924/the-unexplained/ufos-truth-or-deception-part-3-aliens-from-earth/,
accessed 6/24/11, CW)
Anyway, weve gotten a bit off base. Back to UFOs and aliens. It is believed by some that these
underground dwellings, be they mere caverns and passages or an entire inner Earth underworld, are
the home to beings that are alien to us; and that perhaps the possess technology beyond what weve been
able to achieve. Whether they originated here or they came here long ago is a place where researchers have a
variance in opinion. What matters, they say, is that they are here. And in one very famous account, they are
up to no good. In 1943, Richard Shaver had a story to tell. In those days, with stories as fantastic as
Shavers, it was common to submit stories to the cult or pulp magazines that were so popular at the
time. Shaver submitted his tale to Amazing Magazine. Editor/Publisher Ray Palmer began to correspond
with Shaver, and ultimately received a 10,000 word document titled, A Warning to Future Man.
Shaver claimed that there was a civilization living in underground caverns. These were mostly sinister
beings, descended from an extremely advanced prehistoric race that formed civilizations below the
Earths crust, but left because of the suns damaging radiation. From Shavers original manuscript: With
the most positive finality, the caverns do exist, and they are incredibly extensive, so that the possible
population (were not so many dead) could be thousands of times that of the surface of the earth, because it
consists of very many tiers of caves? The caves are connected by broad highways, carved through the solid
rock for thousands of miles, the whole inner earth being a vastly complicated network of tunnels connecting
literally thousands of great caved as large as any surface city, and some so large as to dwarf a New York to
insignificance. Those left behind fell into 2 categories. The Teros, supposedly benevolent, human-like
beings, and the Deros, who were sadistic and cruel. The Deros apparently like to kidnap humans, drag
them into their caverns, torture them, and then eat them. Not the most pleasant thing to
imagine. Shavers tales were printed by Palmer as a work of fiction, and was titled The Shaver
Mystery. Palmer insisted that while he presented the story in a fictional setting, he truly believed Shavers
accounts. They went on to compile quite a library of information, much of which can still be purchased
today. Heres a selection of what I was able to find.
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Science proves theres nothing in the center of the Earth except rock and liquid metal
Cain, the publisher of Universe Today, 9 (Fraser, Universe Today, Earths Inner Core, 3/9/9,
http://www.universetoday.com/26710/earths-inner-core/, accessed 6/28/11, CW)
Deep beneath the Earth lies the core. This is a ball of solid metal surrounded by liquid metal. The solid
part is the inner core of Earth, and the liquid part is known as the Earths outer core .
Scientists have long suspected that the interior of the Earth is much denser than the rest of the planet. Thats because the average density
of the planet is 5.5 g/cm3, while the surface is only 3 g/cm3. In other words, if the surface is less dense than the Earth, on average, then
the core must be much denser. During the formation of the Earth, 4.6 billion years ago, the planet was a
molten ball of rock and metal. Because it was a liquid, however, the heavier elements like iron and
nickel were able to sink down into the center. In fact, the inner core of the Earth probably has vast amounts of the heaviest
elements, like gold, platinum and uranium. But the fact that the Earth had two cores, inner and outer, was first
discovered in 1936 by seismologist Inge Lehmann. He observed that seismic waves created by
earthquakes on its surface would bounce off the two cores differently. This is similar to how light
waves refract differently as they pass through liquids. By measuring these seismic waves, scientists
have been able to map out the size of the inner core. The inner core of the Earth is thought to be about 2,440 km across;
about 70% the size of the Moon. Its very hot, probably 3,000 to 5,000 Kelvin. Scientists once believed that the inner core was possibly
a single, solid object; maybe even a single crystal of iron. But recent evidence has found that it has detailed structures, and even has an
inner, inner core.
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***Planet X***
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Planet X is the cause of global warming and we will never be able to solve for it
End Times Watcher, online writer about space topics, 11 (Mystery of the Iniquity, Effects of Planet
X!, 2/22/11, http://mysteryoftheinquity.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/effects-of-planet-x/, accessed 6/23/11, CW)
This is a short list of twenty five symptoms of Nibiru the brown dwarf with multiple moons in the alignment of an X in pictures from a south pole
observatory telescope. These symptoms include but are not limited to: 1. Massive migrating animal deaths taking
place all over the globe 2. Major super storm floods taking place everywhere 3. Magnetic pole migration that have been
going on since 2004 4. Irregular weather causing food shortages 5. Increased volcano eruptions 6. Increased
earthquakes 7. The wobble in the earths rotation getting worse 8. Sunrise coming 2 days early in Greenland 9. Yellowstone ground bulging from active magma swells 10.
No media coverage of Planet X/Comet Elenin calculated to pass only 21.6 million miles from earth 11. FEMA buying food and supplies for an expected New Madrid Fault
. Rogue tides from rising oceans
Catastrophe 12. Severe winter weather 13. Airports closing down to remark their runways over magnetic pole migration. 14
15. Sea Level Strangeness 16. Moon out of place 17.Increased solar radiation 18. Increased sink hole activity and large cracks forming 19. Global
Warming of all planets in our solar system 20. Unprecedented changes in sun and planets 21. Wacky Compasses 22. Leaky magnetic field 23.
Weather/climate-induced food shortages 24. Mega solar flare activity 25. Global ocean conveyor disruption This list could grown to more than a
thousand things that are going wrong on the earth for the same reason, as this link describes 600+ things caused by global
warming alone. The lying science community and media and our corrupt politicians want you to believe that
human beings are causing all of these problems when in reality they are all caused by the approach of
a brown dwarf entering our inner solar system for a once every 3600-year orbit around our Sun. This Planet X/Nibiru/ELEnin Brown Dwarf
Event Timeline has the most comprehensive analysis and commentary describing a chronological sequential timeline of events than you can find anywhere on the internet .
Google, NASA, the US Govt and the Media are doing everything possible to hide Nibiru from the
people in order to avoid sending the global population into panic, when in reality they are withholding
valuable lifesaving information as accomplices to deliberate global genocide .
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The Government is only concerned with saving the rich people from planet X while the
rest of us are left in its destructive path
McCanney, Professor at Cornell University 3 (James, Almighty Wind, What is Planet X?, 1/3/03,
http://www.amightywind.com/planetx/planetx.htm, accessed 6/22/11, CW)
During the twenty-two years since the discovery of Planet X, the governments of the wealthy industrial
nations of the world have quietly built vast underground complexes (bunkers) capable of housing
thousands of people. These bunkers are intended to guarantee the survival of certain wealthy political
leaders, ultra-rich bankers, corporate heads, etc., and others deemed necessary for their survival and
pleasure. These bunkers have been stocked with enough food, water, clothing, medicine, and
technological equipment to guarantee the survival of the occupants for several years. Those "selected"
to use the bunkers have also placed various treasures in them (art; money; automobiles; alcohol; etc.) in order
to preserve these things for their future use. At the proper time these "special" people plan to enter their
secret, reinforced, earthquake proof bunkers, where they expect to "ride out" the devastation caused
by Planet X, emerging only after the chaos and danger is over. But what about the masses of people on
Earth who have no bunkers? The ultra-rich political and financial leaders of the world couldn't care
less about the survival of the "common man." The only important thing to them is that they survive.
They are the "nobles." They must survive in order to rebuild a "New World Order" and rule over
those who survive the devastation caused by Planet X.
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***Aliens***
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Disclosure in 2012
2012 will be the year where governments admit the existence of aliens and enlist their help
in saving the human race from disaster
Sen, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Notre Dame
2006 (Mihir, December 21, 2012 the world will change forever as major Governments are forced to confess
the existence of advanced extraterrestrial UFOs India Daily, http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/14929.asp,
Accessed: 6/22/11, SL)
The Maya prediction of a cataclysmic end to the world as we know it is near. Secret preparations are
being made in many countries for the Governments to come out clean what they have been hiding for
decades the existence of unexplained advanced extraterrestrial UFOs. Brazil, India and China are taking
the lead in this matter. They want to make sure the emerging new world understands that we have to
coexist with our advanced extraterrestrial neighbors. Negotiations are on with future manned travel to
Moon, Mars and so on. There was a reason why Russia and America stopped lunar missions. There was
reason why no one dared to travel to Mars on manned mission. There are reasons why the pictures
from Apollo mission in Moon look fictitious. Apollo mission was real but it was an eye opener to the
space agencies. The extraterrestrials were already in Moon to greet us. In December 21, 2012
something will change. The world will secretly use the help of the extraterrestrials to avert massive
disaster for out civilization. The major Governments may not be able to keep the facts the under the rug any more.
The Federation of the Universe will visit earth in 2012 and invite us to be part of the
Federation in hopes to protect our civilization
India Daily, 2005 (Staff Reporter, An orderly visit of Extraterrestrial Federation in 2012 representing 88 star
constellations the world is getting ready for the most spectacular event India Daily,
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2656.asp, Accessed: 6/22/11, SL)
The world is getting ready for something spectacular in 2012. According to researchers, the Federation of the Universe
representing all the 88 star constellations will officially visit earth in 2012 and reveal themselves. It will
bring an end to all UFO cover-ups in various countries. In many countries all over the world the rumors are floating
around that many Governments are being contacted at this time slowly to announce their presence and
coming official visit. According to some, the human civilization has finally reached a level when the earth
can officially become part of the Federation of the Universe . They want an order and mo panic among people. A
slow but steady process is on to slowly make people of the world ready to see the representatives of the
Federation of the Universe. The world can finally become an official member of the Federation . The
Federation represents all the 88 constellations of stars. Constellations are patterns seen in the positions of stars. The
modern celestial sphere is divided into 88 regions, each containing a different constellation of stars. Celestial Sphere is an imaginary
sphere surrounding the Earth on which all heavenly objects (stars, galaxies, nebulae, etc...) seem to lie. The map of the Universe
and charted position of galaxies will be presented to the earth. In 2012 the world will come to
understand finally the actual evolution process, the process of bending time and space, the fact that
gravity is a wave and not a force and the fact that the whole Universe is run through electromagnetic
flux generated through natural process or artificial means. The earth will also be exposed to possible
dangers to our planet that we do not even perceive. Emergency evacuation plans will be created in case
of an unseen and unperceived calamity like what happened to Mars millions of years back. There is a
genuine attempt being made to protect our civilization. The earth will be made ready to understand
who we are, where is our origin and where is out future. Even things like what happens to us after
death and so on will also become clear in 2012. The world is getting ready for the facts slowly but steadily
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Eisenhower signed treaty with aliens allowing abductions in exchange for technology
de Gourdon, Editorial Board of the World Affairs Journal, 9 (Come Carpentier, The Global Crisis
and the Ultimate Secret of the Empire, Exopolitics Journal 3:2, July, p.71, http://exopoliticsjournal.com/vol-3/vol-
3-2-Carpentier.pdf)sbl
The author quotes at length testimonies submitted by various witnesses acting as whistle blowers who, with
varying degrees of personal credibility all allege that secret treaties or agreements have been signed by
senior security officials and implemented through Presidential executive orders since the 1950s at
least. Like Salla, several researchers have reported the secret meeting that allegedly took place on 20
Feb. 1954 at Muroc (Edwards) Air Force Base, California, between President Eisenhower in person and
certain space-faring visitors. The meeting is said to have resulted in the establishment of an agreement
called the GREADA Treaty which, in the circumstances, could only be unequal, in view of the tremendous
technological superiority of the visitors. It is said the US Government agreed to provide support when
required by the aliens and that the latter would not intervene in human affairs, would not come out in
the open and would in exchange supply some technologies to the host government. They reportedly
also extracted US consent for carrying out a number of abductions of humans for scientific research
purposes.
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Obama is a Reptilian
Our country is run by a shape shifting reptilian
Huebsch, Baylor University, 5/9/2009
[Russell, Baylor University, Associated Content, Barack Obama Is a Shape Shifting Alien 5/9/2009
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1526375/barack_obama_shape_shifting_reptilian.html, accessed 6/25/11,
HK]
Is Barack Obama really a shape shifting reptilian humanoid from a far away galaxy bent on the enslavement
of the human race? According to David Icke, who claims on his web site that most world leaders come
from a line of reptilians originating in the Alpha Draconis, Barack Obama is most likely a blood drinking
shape shifter bent on progressing the New World Order. Icke's reptilian theory makes the claim that
reptilians plan to control humanity and other civilizations through fear and negative emotion, a food
source for the reptilian. Icke believes the reptilians plan for world domination started to unravel with the
September 11 attacks on New York and Obama's presidency will lead us into this "New World Order",
but is this just mere babbling from a sick mind or does this theory have some legitimacy? Here are signs
that the Obama reptilian conspiracy is true."Change we need": Has Obama told us all along that he is
a changeling/shape shifting reptilian? Think about it, change always happens when a new president enters
office, perhaps Obama's corporeal body is crying out to the world that a shape shifting reptilian alien has
hijacked his avatar. "Change" might also be a code word for reptilian dictators across the globe that
America has elected another shape shifter as president. Even Adolph Hitler claimed to bring change for
the German people, but as we know all the only thing the world received from Hitler was millions of lost
lives and the genocide of an entire race of people. Whatever this "change" really means it certainly does
not bode well for the future of America and even worse for the human race. The questionable birth
certificate: Why would any presidential candidate try so desperately to hide a real birth certificate?
Perhaps because reptilian overlords do not receive birth certificates, they congeal out of a pile of goo! The
voting public would never vote for a space reptilian and if the plan for world domination ever leaked
to the general there would be mass chaos, thus the Republican party could never reveal Obama's true
ancestry and the reptilian conspiracy continues.
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Arcturus - Protectors
Arcturus, working with the Ascended Masters, protects the human race from warlike
extraterrestrials with their advanced weapondry tech
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coaching, alchemy, clearings, and readings. no date
(From A to Z of Alien Species Active in Earths Evolution Biblioteca Pleyades,
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_19a.htm, accessed: 6/28/11, SL)
ARCTURIANS Arcturus is one of the most advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy. It is a
fifth dimensional civilization which, in reality, is like a prototype for Earths future. Its energy works
with humanity as an emotional mental and spiritual healer. It is also an energy gateway through which
humans pass during death and rebirth. It functions as a way station for nonphysical consciousness to
become accustomed to physicality. The book, "The Keys of Enoch" has described it as the mid-way station or programming
center used by the physical brotherhoods in our local universe, to govern the many rounds of experiments with physicals on our end of
the galaxy. Their total focus in every aspect of their society to the path of God realization. The
Arcturians teach that the most fundamental ingredient for living in the fifth dimension is love. They
teach that negativity, fear and guilt must be overcome and be exchanged for love and light. Arcturus is
the brightest star in the Bootes constellation (click image right), which is approximately 36 light years from earth. The Arcturians
work in very close connection with the Ascended Masters whom they refer to as the brotherhood of the
all. They also work very closely with what they refer to as The Galactic Command. The Arcturians
travel the universe in their starships, which are some of the most advanced in the entire universe. One
of the reasons that Earth has not been attacked by more warlike negative extraterrestrials has been
these civilizations fear of these advanced starships of the Arcturians . These ships are the cutting edge state of the
art technology. One of the starships circling the earth is called the Starship Athena, named after one of the
Greek Gods. The Arcturian society is governed by what they call the elders. These beings are revered by the people of Arcturus
for the advanced knowledge, wisdom, and extremely high vibrational frequencies. The higher the vibrational frequency, the closer one is
to light, or spirit or God. The Arcturians are very short in physical stature, about three to four feet tall. They are also very slender. They
also all look very much alike in appearance. The Arcturians pride themselves in this because this erases the pettiness of comparison of
looks which is so predominant in our society.The Arcturians are the most loving and non-judgmental beings you
can possibly imagine. Their skin is a greenish color. They have very large almond shaped eyes. They
only have three fingers. They have the ability to move objects with their minds, and are totally
telepathic. The source of food is an effervescent type of liquid that is highly vitalizing to their entire being. Their eyes are a dark
brown or black color. Their main source of seeing is actually through their telepathic nature, not their
physical eyes. Their sense of hearing even transcends their telepathic nature. They also have an ability
to sense with the back of their heads. The average life span is from 350 to 400 of our earth years. Their highly
developed spiritual nature has allowed them to never age, since they have the ability to transcend time
and space. They terminate the life when the contract that has been arranged for their existence is up. There is also no sickness on
Arcturus, it was eliminated centuries ago.
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PROCYONIANS One of the more positive extraterrestrial groups are from a solar system that
revolves around Procyon. Procyon (click image right) is a binary yellowish/white star that rises before
Sirius in Canis Minoris, about 11.4 light years from Earth. They have been nicknamed the Swedes. They
are humanoid in nature with blond hair. They have a very strong positive spiritual attitude towards
the humanity of Earth. The United States government was not interested in negotiating with the Procyons
because they would not give them new weapons systems. The Procyonians have apparently cross bred
with us at many stages in our evolutionary development. This was done for a much more noble
purpose than the Greys. The Procyonians have a philosophy of service to others rather than service of
self. They have been involved in trying to protect us from the evil activities of the Greys and
Reptilians. They are able to travel in time and between dimensions of reality. They frequently use
mechanical vehicles for this, but are not dependent on them. The term Procyon translates into English as
"The home of those who travel through time." The Procyonians serve the Law of One. They are here to
help us help ourselves, totally respecting our free choice.
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Draconians - Aggressive
The Draconians are bidding their time for a planetary takeover as the human race
transitions to an interstellar presence in the universe
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coaching, alchemy, clearings, and readings. no date
(From A to Z of Alien Species Active in Earths Evolution Biblioteca Pleyades,
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_19a.htm, accessed: 6/28/11, SL)
ALPHA-DRACONIANS Reptilian beings who are said to have established colonies in Alpha Draconis
(Thuban) - click image right. Like all reptilians, these claim to have originated on Terra thousands of years
ago, a fact that they use to justify their attempt to re-take the earth for their own. They are apparently
a major part of a planned invasion which is eventually turning from covert infiltration mode to overt
invasion mode as the "window of opportunity " (the time span before International human society
becomes an interplanetary and interstellar power) slowly begins to close. They are attempting to keep
the "window" open by suppressing advanced technology from the masses, which would lead to
eventual Terran colonization of other planets by Earth and an eventual solution to the population,
pollution, food and other environmental problems. Being that Terrans have an inbred "warrior" instinct the
Draconians DO NOT want them/us to attain interstellar capabilities and therefore become a threat to
their imperialistic agendas (Draconian).
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"During many of the Egyptian dynasties it was quite common to have a visitation from a Sirian in the
disguise of one of their Gods ... Sirius was one of the first areas to be colonized by beings from the Lyran Star group and is
more advanced in a metaphysical sense." Djwhal Khul says Sirius is one of the more advanced training centers or
universities to which the Ascended Masters may travel. The path to Sirius is one of the seven paths to higher
evolution that each soul must choose upon achieving the sixth initiation and/or their ascension. The star Sirius is known as the Dog Star,
and is a member of the constellation of Canis Major. It lies approximately 8.7 light years from Earth. It is one of the most brilliant stars
that is observable in the night sky. In thinking of Sirius, then we must think of them in terms of being a group
consciousness of both physical and non physicality. The third dimensional Sirians visited both the Egyptian and Mayan
civilizations in times past. The Sirians gave the Egyptians much advanced astronomical and medical
information. The Mayans and the Inca also had a very personal relationship with the Syrians. Much
information was shared, and it is interesting that the Mayan race seemed to just vanish off the face of
the Earth at a certain point in their history. The Sirians left behind time capsules for our future generations to discover,
one of which was supposedly the crystal skull. At this time they are working with us primarily without direct
intervention. They were instrumental in helping us at the time of Atlantis during that cataclysmic
period. They also, at that time, mixed with us genetically. Their views currently on Earth is that they will
not consider a more active partnership again, until we outgrow the tendency as a people, to be
exploitive, judgmental and manipulative. The guides also refer to Sirius as a star system where the residents are seldom
permanent residents. It is a meeting place for those who have mastered their own planetary systems and are preparing there for further
duties and missions. They talk about it as an important way station for Earthlings who wish to continue
their spiritual development. The beings from Sirius who are visiting Earth are very good at the
practical application of very advanced theoretical ideas that are being brought forth from other very
advanced extraterrestrial civilizations. They are here to ground and make usable these advanced ideas
and technologies. Sirius helped to build the great pyramids and temples of Egypt. They also helped in
the building of many of the tunnels and pathways to the Inner Earth. They will be very involved in the future in
establishing the Golden Age on this planet.
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Chameleons
The Chameleon race function as mercenaries to the silent take-over of human society
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http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_19a.htm, accessed: 6/28/11, SL)
CHAMELEON Reptilians genetically bred to enable themselves to appear human. Also less-
humanoid appearing Reptiloids who use a form of technosis, molecular shape-shifting and/or laser holograms
to produce an outward "human" appearance. Reports of these have surface from underground joint-
operational facilities near: Dulce, New Mexico Dougway, Utah Groom Lake, Nevada Deep Springs,
California Fort Lewis, Washington and elsewhere They are reportedly involved in some type of
infiltration agenda. These infiltrators can appear remarkably human outwardly , however at the
same time retaining reptilian or neo-saurian internal organs. Often described as appearing bulge-eyed
with scaly, hairless skin behind their disguise. One report alleged that the Chameleons may utilize
artificial lenses to conceal "slit-pupiled iris". Some claim they are genetically bred mercenaries
who are part of an advanced guard of a planned silent invasion-takeover of human society.
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Aliens - Benevolent
Aliens are everywhere and theyre watching-Bulgarian scientists and the Vatican claim
The Telegraph, 09
[The Telegraph, Aliens already exist on Earth Bulgarian Scientists Claim 11/26/09
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/bulgaria/6650677/Aliens-already-exist-on-earth-Bulgarian-
scientists-claim.html, accessed 6/21/11, HK]
Work on deciphering a complex set of symbols sent to them is underway, scientists from the country's Space Research
Institute said. They claim aliens are currently answering 30 questions posed to them . Lachezar Filipov,
deputy director of the Space Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, confirmed the research. He said the
centre's researchers were analysing 150 crop circles from around the world, which they believe answer the
questions. "Aliens are currently all around us, and are watching us all the time ," Mr Filipov told Bulgarian
media. "They are not hostile towards us, rather, they want to help us but we have not grown enough in order to
establish direct contact with them." Mr Filipov said that even the seat of the Catholic church, the Vatican, had
agreed that aliens existed. He said humans were not going to be able to establish contact with the extraterrestrials through radio
waves but through the power of thought. "The human race was certainly going to have direct contact with the
aliens in the next 10 to 15 years," he said. "Extraterrestrials are critical of the people's amoral behavior
referring to the humans' interference in nature's processes." The publication of the BAS researchers report
concerning communicating with aliens comes in the midst of a controversy over the role, feasibility, and reform of the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences. Last week it lead to a heated debate between Bulgaria's Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, and President
Georgi Parvanov.
***No Aliens***
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No Aliens on Earth
Nearest galaxy is 2 million years away
Deem, Researcher/Specialist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 6 (Rich, Aug 25, UFO's and
Extraterrestrial Aliens: Why Earth Has Never Been Visited, http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/ufo.html)
Have we been visited by extraterrestrial beings from elsewhere in the universe? First, I would like to
eliminate the idea that we have been visited by beings located outside our own galaxy. Andromeda, the
nearest galaxy to the Milky Way is 2 million light years distant. This means that if there were aliens in
Andromeda, it would take them longer than 2 million years to come to earth.1 Another problem is why
they would want to visit our galaxy. The Andromeda galaxy is considerably larger than our galaxy. If life
were common in the universe, there should be many times more of it in Andromeda, than in our wimpy
galaxy. Why would they even want to visit us? A third problem for potential aliens is detecting us. We
have been sending radio waves for less than 100 years. It will be another 2 million years before those
signals reach our closest neighboring galaxy. The light (and other electromagnetic signals) that they now
see represent the way the earth looked 2 million years ago. Beings in other galaxies would have no way of
knowing that advanced life forms existed in our galaxy.
No physical evidence
Deem, Researcher/Specialist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 6 (Rich, Aug 25, UFO's and
Extraterrestrial Aliens: Why Earth Has Never Been Visited, http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/ufo.html
UFO believers would ask about Roswell, UFO sightings and alien abductions. The problem I have with
the whole Roswell/government conspiracy thing is that there is not one piece of physical evidence. The
government has never been able to keep any kinds of secrets - much less over a period of 40 years.
Regarding abductions, none of the people involved have been shown to have any signs of tampering,
which would be readily apparent by MRI.
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No Aliens
Probability is virtually zero
Deem, Researcher/Specialist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 6 (Rich, Aug 25, UFO's and
Extraterrestrial Aliens: Why Earth Has Never Been Visited, http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/ufo.html
This paper has shown that the probability of aliens visiting the earth is virtually zero. Potential aliens in
other galaxies are too far away to detect our presence (since radio signals will not reach them for
millions of years) and the travel times make intergalactic travel impractical. Recent scientific studies
demonstrate that the universe is much less hospitable to life than it would seem from our unique Solar
System and planet. A large proportion of our galaxy is uninhabitable. Parts of it would not even be expected
to produce rocky planets. The highly unlikely collision that produced our large moon prevented the earth
from being a waterworld.5 It also ejected the majority of our primordial atmosphere, which prevented the
earth from going through a runaway greenhouse effect similar to what happened to Venus, our sister planet.
Finally, our Solar System is unique in that it has large gas giants located only in the outer regions. Other
systems discovered have gas giants located either near their star or in both inner and outer regions of their
planetary system. The presence of gas giants near the star would eject any rocky planets from orbit. The
presence of gas giants in the outer region of planetary systems is absolutely necessary for the survival of
advanced life forms. Without Jupiter, the number of catastrophic collisions that the earth would experience
would be at least 10,000 times greater. So instead of suffering massive species extinction events every 100
million years, the earth would experience these events every 10,000 years.6 Only bacteria and other simple
life forms would be able to survive this kind of bombardment - no advanced life could ever form in the
vast majority of planetary systems. These problems indicate that there would be no more than 150
advanced civilizations within our galaxy - and, more likely, we are completely alone in our galaxy.
Interstellar space travel is much more difficult than indicated in movies and television series, such as
Star Trek and Star Wars and the like. First, it is not possible to travel at speeds greater than the speed of
light - the physics of the universe prevent it. Second, traveling near the speed of light is impractical for
biological organisms. Collisions with particles even the size of a grain of sand would be catastrophic.
An even worse problem is that the light from ordinary stars would be blue-shifted all the way to the
gamma end of the spectrum when traveling near the speed of light. These gamma rays would destroy
all biological life - even if it were in suspended animation (if that were possible). In essence, these
problems would restrict the speed of travel to well below the speed of light. The most optimistic
estimate for the presence of extraterrestrial civilizations would put them 2000 light years apart. With
no intermediate habitable stopping points, space travel over this distance would be impractical. So,
even if we are not alone in this galaxy, it would be highly unlikely that any extraterrestrial civilization
could have visited us. What about all the "evidence" for extraterrestrials and UFOs? See the links below for
more information.
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No Area 51 Aliens
Area 51 employees break silence no aliens or UFOs
Lacitis, Seattle Times staff reporter, 10 (Erik, March 27, Area 51 vets break silence: Sorry, but no space
aliens or UFOs < http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011461015_area51vets28m.html)
The secrets, some of them, have been declassified.
Noce, 72, and his fellow Area 51 veterans around the country now are free to talk about doing contract
work for the CIA in the 1960s and '70s at the arid, isolated Southern Nevada government testing site.
Their stories shed some light on a site shrouded in mystery; classified projects still are going on there. It's
not a big leap from warding off the curious 40 or 50 years ago, to warding off the curious who now make the
drive to Area 51.
The veterans' stories provide a glimpse of real-life government covert operations, with their everyday
routines and moments of excitement.
Noce didn't seek out publicity. But when contacted, he was glad to tell what it was like.
"I was sworn to secrecy for 47 years. I couldn't talk about it," he says.
In the 1960s, Area 51 was the test site for the A-12 and its successor, the SR-71 Blackbird, a secret spy
plane that broke records at documented speeds that still have been unmatched. The CIA says it reached
Mach 3.29 (about 2,200 mph) at 90,000 feet.
But after September 2007, when the CIA displayed an A-12 in front of its Langley, Va., headquarters as part
of the agency's 60th birthday, much of the secrecy of those days at Area 51 fell away.
Advance warning to UFOlogists: Sorry, although Noce and other Area 51 vets say they saw plenty of
secret stuff, none make claims about aliens.
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Alien Abduction victims are lying- either for money or psychological reasons
Holden and French University of London, UK 02
(Katharine J, Christopher C. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 2002, 7 (3) 163-178 Alien Abduction Experiences: Some
Clues from Neuropsychology and Neuropsychiatry EBSCOhost 6-23-11 BLG)
Uninformed sceptics often assert that alleged alien abductees are simply lying about their experiences.
The assumed motivations are financial, in that claimants may make money from books and film rights.
They are also psychosocial, in that the abductee may become a celebrated case, appear at conferences
and on talk shows, and generally have opportunities that would otherwise not be available to them.
However, as Appelle (1996) points out, in the vast majority of cases abductees do not go public and although
some cases may indeed be deliberate hoaxes, most informed sceptics generally accept that the majority of
claimants are sincere in their beliefs. If abductees are not deliberately deceiving other people, is it
possible that they really were abducted by aliens? This seems highly unlikely, as the evidence
presented in support of alien visitation is far weaker than uncritical and sensationalist media coverage
typically implies. Even such celebrated cases as the alleged crash of a flying saucer and recovery of alien
bodies near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 are in fact based on incredibly weak evidence (see, e.g., Klass,
1997; Korff, 1997). Assuming that abductees are not deliberately deceiving others about their experiences
and also assuming that they are almost certainly wrong in thinking that they really have had a close encounter
with an alien, the question arises of how one is to account for their claims. A review of the literature reveals
that a number of different approaches to answering this question have been adopted. One approach involves
focusing on the personalities of abductee claimants and exploring factors such as levels of fantasy proneness
(e.g., Bartholomew, Basterfield, & Howard, 1991; Bartholomew & Howard, 1998; Newman & Baumeister,
1996; Ring & Rosing, 1990; Rodeghier, Goodpaster, & Blatter- bauer, 1991; Spanos, Cross, Dickson, &
DuBreuil, 1993), boundary-deficit personality (e.g., Parnell & Sprinkle, 1990; Ring & Rosing, 1990), escape-
from- self and masochistic fantasies (e.g., Newman & Baumeister, 1996), and the psychically sensitive
personality (e.g., Johnson, 1994). Others have viewed alien abduction experiences as the product of biased
investigators (e.g., Klass, 1988; 166 HOLDEN AND FRENCH Matheson, 1998). Finally, some
researchers have considered the claims of alien abductees in terms of possible clues from the fields of
neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry. The focus of this paper is on the latter.
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German WWII tech is being used to fake extraterrestrial sightings to promote alien threat
con to distract from the Illuminatis real plan
Cooper, First Class Petty Officer QM1, E-6 with a Top Secret, Q, SI, security clearance,
1997
(William, Majesty Twelve Hourofthetime.com, http://www.hourofthetime.com/majestyt.htm, accessed: 6/25/, SL)
The plan is real. The extraterrestrial threat is artificial. The threat is presented through the use of
secret technology originally developed by the Germans in their secret weapons programs during WW-II, by geniuses
like Nikola Tesla, and many others. Military and government personnel who have access to this material
believe it is real. None of them, however, has ever seen any evidence of the existence of any
extraterrestrial creature nor any advanced technology other that that of human origin . It is not what
they see that convinces them it is extraterrestrial in origin but the manner in which it is presented . It is
extremely difficult, if not impossible, to believe that Top Secret government or military documentation
could be lies. It is trust in government by men and women who have given their lives in its service that
keeps this monumental lie a alive. All so-called leaks are intentional misinformation projects designed
to promote the alien threat scenario while allowing for complete deniability on the part of government.
The antics of Vicki (Cooper) Ecker (CIA), Donald Francis Ecker III (Dupe), William Moore, Jaime Shandera, Stanton T.
Friedman, Bruce Maccabee (CIA, ONI), Barry Taff PhD.(Pneuropsychiatric Institute of UCLA worked with recently deceased Dr. Louis
Jollyn "Jolly" West), Whitley Strieber, Bud Hopkins (CIA), John Lear (CIA), Linda Moulton Howe Order of the Eastern Star and
American Federation of Human Rights (American co-masonry), Art Bell (Freemason), Glen Campbell, George Knapp (Freemason),
Colonel Philip Corso (CIA, a monumental liar now Deceased), Richard Hoagland and his Face on Mars, the so-called alien autopsy film,
NASA and the Apollo Moon Missions, the so-called Mars Meteorite which was fraudulently promoted as
containing fossil evidence of life on Mars, the War Of The Worlds, and many other people and events are projects of
this type. Some (very few) of these People are unwitting accomplices in the charade and truly believe in
the extraterrestrial threat. Most of those named, and others not named, are active, and with full knowledge,
agents of illuminism/socialism. The most well known are active Fellow Travelers, communist agents of
the KGB, the Central Intelligence Agency, or one of the many psychological warfare agencies founded by the
Rhodes Round Table Group (The Group), the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the Council On Foreign Relations.
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***Impact/Advantage Answers***
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All Impacts
The aff can never solve for any human caused impacts, like war, because all of those
impacts are caused by reptilian mind control as long as reptilians exist in the world
humans will never have full control of their own thoughts and action
Lewis, professor at Montclair State University and Kahn, professor at Antioch University 5
(Tyson and Richard, The Reptoid Hypothesis: Utopian and Dystopian Representational Motifs in David Ickes
Alien Conspiracy Theory, Utopian Societies, volume: 16 no. 1, 2005, p. 10-11, 6/27/11 CW)
Mirroring a number of claims made by the political far-right, Icke asserts a standard
conspiracy-culture line that the pure Aryan bloodline has ruled the planet throughout history,
though he is unique in developing it in an exocultural direction. In Ickes mind, Aryan lizards
have been Sumerian kings, Egyptian pharaohs, and, in more recent history, American presidents
and British prime ministers. According to Icke, 43 American presidents, including George
Washington and George W. Bush, are direct reptoid-lineage descendants, and the Queen Mother
herself was seriously reptilian (Children 79). In fact, it is at this point that much of Ickes work
has its most enduring interest, by providing historical critique that is at once trenchant political
analysis mixed with what reads like an over-the-top satire in the tradition of Jonathan Swift. 7 In
this respect, Ickes work includes any number of accountings of how world leaders and other
famous personalities, in order to satiate their reptilian bloodlust, take part in ritualistic sacrifices
and pedophilic activities that include kidnapping, hedonistic drug parties, and brutal murder. Icke
himself theorizes that such obscene acts as these typify the difference between alien-kind and
humanity and that they are necessary else the Aryan-reptilians lose their temporary human form
and revert to their original reptoid physiognomy. Again following the prevailing exocultural
explanation, Icke claims that in order to maintain their position of world domination down
through the centuries, the Aryan lizards have created a secret society known as the Freemasons
or Illuminati. The Illuminati are the grand historical puppet masters, presiding over all human
activities through indirect channels of control and manipulation. From the innermost secretive
Round Table, a handful of reptilian masterminds directs the course of human events via a
network of international organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral - -
1111Commission, The Bilderberg Group, the IMF, World Bank, and the United Nations (Children
339). The plan is quite simply to complete their financial control of the human race (Children
345). In order to maintain their anonymity and deflect attention away from their ubiquitous
presence in international finance and politics, Icke believes that the Illuminati are very interested
in mind control. The media and the Internet are two powerful tools that they have developed to
achieve mind control over the general populace. In Ickes conspiratorial schema, The media, in
turn, get their news and information overwhelmingly from official sources, which, like the
media itself, are owned by the reptilian bloodline (Children 260). Commenting on the Internet
conspiracy, Icke writes, The Internet is an Illuminati creation and only exists because of
military technology. . . . It allows for the easiest possible surveillance of personal
communications through e-mails, and the websites visited by individuals give the authorities the
opportunity to build a personality and knowledge profile of everyone. Its about control
(Children 415). The Internet, then, is just another step towards perfect surveillance of the human
race. The most important goal of the Illuminati is, according to Icke, a micro-chipped
population (Children 368). Once a microchip is inserted into the human body, each individual
will be tracked using a global positioning satellite. Thus in the 21st century the reptoids have
gone digital, inventing and deploying new information technologies that will further suppress the
truth, expand the scope of surveillance, and restrict individual freedoms.
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***Authors Debate***
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They destroy education by failing to do proper research- their inaccurate judgments are
caused by an inadequacy of metacognition
Wiley et al. Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago 2009
(Jennifer Wiley, Susan R Goldman is a Professor of Psychology and Education University of Illinois at Chicago, Arthur C Graesser is presently a
full professor in the Department of Psychology, an adjunct professor in Computer Science, and co-director of the Institute for Intelligent Systems
at the University of Memphis, Christopher A Sanchez Assistant Professor Cognitive Science & Engineering Program Arizona State University,
Source Evaluation, Comprehension, and Learning in Internet Science Inquiry Tasks American Educational Research Journal. Washington: Dec
2009. Vol. 46, Iss. 4; pg. 1060, 47 pgs accessed: 6/22/11 proquest) TJL
Effective metacognition also plays a role in the processes and outcomes of comprehension. Successful
comprehenders better monitor the adequacy of their text representation and use a range of strategies in
response to failures to understand what they are reading (Duke & Pearson, 2002; Garner, 1987; Griffin,
Wiley, & Thiede, 2008; Hacker et al., 1998; McNamara, 2004; Palincsar & Brown, 1984; Pressley, 2002;
Thiede, Griffin, Wiley, & Redford, in press). When students fail to monitor their understanding
accurately, such as by making inaccurate judgments of learning, information quality, and the
relevance of information to goals, they make poor study decisions and fail to reread misunderstood
information (Thiede, Anderson, & Therriault, 2003). The result is little or no improvements in
comprehension and ultimately poor overall learning outcomes (Wiley et al., 2005; Winne, 2001).
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Ableism is like racism and sexism and oppresses and marginalizes those who we label as
disabled
Overboe, Professor at Wildfrid Laurier, 2007
(James, Professor at Wildfrid Laurier, Chapter 2
Vitalism: Subjectivity Exceeding Racism, Sexism, and (Psychiatric) Ableism,
http://appweb.cortland.edu/ojs/index.php/Wagadu/article/viewFile/324/611, JSkoog)
In a previous life, I found myself working as a social worker at a drop-in-centre for people who were
undergoing or had undergone psychiatric treatment. My orientation for the position, in part, consisted of
being informed that there were clients with difficult psychiatric problems. This was my initial
introduction to Donna (a pseudonym), an aboriginal woman who undergoes psychiatric intervention.
My colleagues informed me that they were attempting to separate the ongoing negative effects of
oppression experienced through colonization and patriarchy from the real psychiatric disorder. This
approach is problematic for me because, as some one who experiences cerebral, I contend that ableism, like
racism and sexism, oppresses people by labeling them as having either a physical, psychiatric,
cognitive, developmental, and sensory disability. Moreover, people can be read as having a
combination of disabilities. For example, my experience of cerebral palsy has been read by others as
having both physical and cognitive disabilities. Yet, for the most part, anti-oppression movements and
liberal discourses continue to pathologise people who are disabled, especially those who have been
psychiatrized. Donna experienced oppression as a woman, as an aboriginal, and through being
psychiatrized. Historically, gender (see Smith, 1990; Groneman, 1995) and race have been conflated
with mental inferiority. In this way, they have been socially constructed to represent medical
pathology. Antioppression movements may have lessened the medical pathology based on
racialization or gender. However the experience of being psychiatrized continues to be pathologised
as a condition requiring a cure.
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Ablism Impacts
Ableist rhetoric is akin to other racist and bigoted language and is purely used for
exclusionary purposes
James, feminist blogger, 10
(Rachel McCarthy, feminist blogger for Deepylproblematic.com, Guest Post from RMJ: Ableist Word Profile:
Crazy, May 17, 2010, http://disabledfeminists.com/2010/05/17/guest-post-from-rmj-ableist-word-profile-crazy/
Like every ism, ableism is absorbed through the culture on a more subconscious level, embedding itself in our
language like a guerrilla force. Crazy is one of the most versatile and frequently used slurs, a word used
sometimes directly against persons with mental disabilities (PWMD), sometimes indirectly against persons with
able privilege, sometimes descriptive and value-neutral, and sometimes in a superficially positive light. As a direct
slur against PWMD: Crazy as a word is directly and strongly tied to mental disability. Its used as a slur
directly against PWMD both to discredit and to marginalize. If a person with a history of mental illness wants to
do something, for good or bad, that challenges something, that persons thoughts, arguments, and rhetoric are
dismissed because that person is crazy. If a PWMD is going through pain because of something unrelated to their
mental state, culpability for the pain is placed solely on their being crazy. Even if their suffering is related to their
disability, it is, in a catch-22, dismissed due to their craziness; the PWMD is expected to pull themselves up
by their bootstraps if they want to be viewed as a valid human being. Examples: I cant believe Britney shaved
her head. Crazy bitch. Not only is Dworkin cissexist, shes fucking crazy! As a way to discredit neurotypical
people: Crazy is also often used to describe a neurotypical person that the speaker disagrees with. Its used to
discredit able-privileged persons by saying that they are actually mentally disabled and what could be
worse than that? Examples: Tom Cruise is fucking crazy. Seriously, hes batshit insane about Prozac, yelling at
Matt Lauer and shit. Did you hear that Shirley broke up with Jim? She thought he was cheating on her. Yeah,
shes crazy, Jims a great guy. Crazy is often used even, still, by me and other feminists to negatively describe
ideas, writing, or other nouns that the speaker finds disagreeable. Conservatives are crazy, acts of oppression are
crazy making , this winters snow is craziness. This usage makes a direct connection between mental disability
and bad qualities of all stripes, turning disability itself into a negative descriptor. Whether it means bad or evil
or outlandish or illogical or unthinkable, its turning the condition of having a disability into an all-purpose
negative descriptor. When using crazy as a synonym for violent, disturbing, or wrong, its saying that PWMD
are violent, disturbing, wrong. Its using disability as a rhetorical weapon. Examples: They took the public
option out of the health care plan? Thats fucking crazy! Yeah, Loretta went crazy on Jeanie last night. Gave her a
black eye and everything. Crazy as a positive amplifier: On the flip side, crazy is often used as a positive
amplifier. Folks say that they are crazy about something or someone they love or like. But just because its
positive doesnt mean its a good thing. Crazy as a positive adjective still mean overly or too much. Its meant
to admit a slight lack of foresight or sense on the part of the speaker. Furthermore, a slur is a slur is a slur, no matter
the context. Crazy is mostly, and overtly, used to mean bad, silly, not worth paying attention to, too
much. Persons with mental illnesses are none of these things as a group. The positive use is not that positive,
and it doesnt absolve the mountains of bad usage. Examples: Ive been crazy busy lately, sorry I havent been
around much. Im just crazy about ice cream! Crazy a destructive word, used to hurt people with mental
disabilities. Its used to discredit, to marginalize, to make sure that we feel shame for our disability and
discourage self-care, to make sure that those of us brave enough to publicly identify as having mental disabilities
are continually discredited. Editors Note: It can take longer than usual for com
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AT: Ableism
Even if ableist discourses are stopped, there is still stigma attached to disability - their K
doesnt solve anything
Kiriamaya, Blogger 11
(Kiriamaya, Blogger on Tumblr, Perpetually Myself: It's not enough to call out ableist language, Tumblr, May 12,
2011, http://kiriamaya.tumblr.com/post/5433850854/perpetually-myself-its-not-enough-to-call-out-ableist, JSkoog)
Language is important, but more important still are the underlying assumptions which shape our
society. Assumptions about who is valuable and who isnt, about what the proper way to behave is, about
what counts as contributing to to society/the economy/whateverthe list goes on and on. Widespread
use of crazy and lame (etc.) are but symptoms of the larger problemsociety is full of ableist
assumptions, some of which are very obvious and some of which may be more subtlebut ableist
nonetheless. The elimination of ableist words is but a small part of what needs to be done, and it
frustrates and disappointments me that so much social justice work has stopped at languagewhich
is in many ways the easiest part. Take stigma against people with intellectual disabilities. I am glad that its
no longer acceptable to use the r-word in many circles, and that other words are making some headway. (I
struggle with idiot and crazy and a lot of others myself in everyday speech.) But I dont think this has
actually done all that much to promote the equality and worth of people with intellectual disabilities. There
is still the assumption that it is better to be intelligent (whatever that means), that mental illness
(however you define that) is something to be pitied, and that, in short, its better to be non-disabled than
not. The end result is a very shallow sort of social justice discourse that keeps all of the underlying
problematic assumptions in place while giving lip service to equality. Its very troubling. Truly
examining ones ableism does not mean renaming the tags on your blog so that lame and crazy no longer
appear. It is not being the fifth person on a thread to self-righteously proclaim that idiot is ableist, and then
simply stopping at that. That is superficial, and oftentimes little more than a way for neurotypical and/or
able-bodied people to publicly demonstrate their Good Ally status and pat themselves on the back.
Examining ones ableism means constantly questioning and re-formulating basic assumptions which
are oftentimes so deeply ingrained that its hard even to see them, let alone disavow them. Take the
assumption that intelligence is valuable, for instance. Its so ingrained in our society, so hard to root
outIll not pretend to be perfect on this scoreand yet doing so is vital if we are to create a world in
which people with intellectual disabilities are equalsnot simply people-seen-as-lesser whom are
condescended to.
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Governmentality and totalizing control over regimes of truth forms the basis of oppressive
state power
Marshall, University of Auckland - Emeritus Professor School of Education, 95
(James D, Foucault And Neo-Liberalism: Biopower And Busno-power, http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-
Yearbook/95_docs/marshall.html)
Foucault also develops the notion of governmentality as the art of government or, as it is sometimes
referred to, the "reason of state." This notion "refers to the state, to its nature and to its own rationality."
He sees the technologies of domination and the self as being the techniques used "to make of the
individual a significant element for the state." By "government" Foucault should be understood as
meaning something close to "the conduct of conduct." This is a form of activity which attempts or aims at
the conduct of persons; it is the attempt to shape, to guide, or to affect not only the conduct of people
but, also, the attempt to constitute people in such ways that they can be governed. In Foucault's work
this activity of governance could cover the relations of self to self, self to others, relations between
institutions and social communities, and the exercise of political sovereignty. Governmentality is obtained
not by a totalizing deterministic or oppressive form of power, but by bio-power directed in a totalizing
manner at whole populations and, at one and the same time, at individuals so that they are both
individualized and normalized. Here one locates the human sciences and their "truths," and the
institutions or disciplinary blocks (including education) in which these truths have been developed,
played, and continue to play, a crucially important role.
Challenges Sovereignty
Exopolitical engagement is key to challenging sovereign authority
Acimovic, lecturer in Further Education, 11
(Natasha, and currently teaches Adult Literacy and Academic Study Skills at a British college,Transcending the
Hall of Mirrors: The Simultaneity of Discourse, the Third Space and Adopting Multiple Ways of Viewing the
Construction of Human-Alien Identities, Exopolitics Journal, June, http://www.exopoliticsjournal.com/vol-3/vol-3-
4-Acimovic.pdf, JSkoog)
What are the implications then for Exopolitics? Certainly, there are some obvious differences between the postcolonial and experiencer
spheres but while the ramifications of the former can be more effectively established the latter presents us with a paradox since we are
dealing with impact of an unfamiliar, extraterrestrial paradigm. Furthermore, this is complicated by the denial of the ETH as a part of
consensus reality. A similar concern is explored by Professors Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall. They examine how the UFO
as an authoritative taboo is actively produced via the mechanism of sovereign rule. This political
necessity propagated by the union of science and the state, even if this pact forms a somewhat uneasy
one, ensures the stability of it. They contend that since the UFO issue includes the possibility of
extraterrestrials as a plausible hypothesis then modern sovereignty is faced with a physical and
ontological threat to its rule. I would suggest that if this is true of the UFO subject then this is even more so in regards to the
issue of inter-dimensional and (or) off planetary intelligences interacting with the Earths human citizens. Accordingly, the UFO
issue represents a sort of double entrapment since to disclose the former would lead to a questioning
of the latter, and it is this site in particular that poses ontological threats to identity or social being. 29
Subsequently, if the psychosocial dynamics of experiencers narratives shares similarities with those identified by postcolonial theorists
then it is a political imperative for Exopolitics to explore this further for a number of significant reasons. Firstly, aside from the
psychological framework utilised by John Mack and others to account for the validity of the abduction and contactee phenomenon, we
have a comparative psychosocial framework that lends further weight to the issue by showing that the
impact of the alien presence constructs states of being that are representative of how multiple human
cultures intersect. Secondly, it is ethically imperative for Exopolitics to do so. When left to the skeptics and scientific authorities
to examine such an area, and in this particular point I am referring to how Wendt and Duvall situate the sceptic and science as sources
of authority, then we are presented with the type of analysis that is representative of Dr Mark Newbrooks treatment of the experiencer,
as a sort of interplanetary hoaxer or dissident determined to confound the application of authoritative, scientific linguistic modes via
their use of alien languages. 30 Needless to say, if Exopolitics as a discipline does not venture further into the
territory of academia to reappropriate sites which are critical to a deeper understanding the ETH
then those who speak with sovereign authority will be able to maintain the epistemology of [UFO]
ignorance. 31 In the process the modern state is able to uphold its public discourse that, using Mark Newbrook words, the
balance of probability regarding the ETH does not warrant further focused attention. 32 Thirdly, the ethical imperative is
that it is experiencers themselves who are left to deal with the psychological fallout from the machine
of sovereignty, and what is it Exopolitics if not a site of resistance and a counter cultural discourse?
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Challenges Sovereignty
The uncertainty created by the UFO directly threatens the epistemology of the science that
the sovereign relies on to maintain power
Wendt, Minnesota Professor of International Relations and Duvall, Ohio State -
Professor of International Relations, 8
(Alexander and Raymond, Sovereignty and the UFO, August 2008, Political Theory Volume 36 Number 4,
http://ovnis-usa.com/DIVERS/Wendt_Duvall_PoliticalTheory.pdf,JSkoog)
As unidentified object the UFO poses a threat of unknowability to science, upon which modern sovereignty
depends. Of course, there are many things science does not know , like the cure for cancer, but its authority rests
on the assumption that nothing in Nature is in principle unknowable. UFOs challenge modern science in
two ways: (1) they appear random and unsystematic, making them difficult to grasp objectively; and (2) some
appear to violate the laws of physics (like the 40g turns in the Belgian F-16 case). This does not mean that UFOs
are in fact humanly unknowable, but they might be, and in that respect they haunt modern sovereignty
with the possibility of epistemic failure. To see how this might be uniquely threatening it is useful to compare the UFO to
three other cases of what might be seen as unknowability. One is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in quantum theory, which
acknowledges inherent limits on the ability to know sub-atomic reality. Since the Uncertainty Principle has not stopped physicists from
doing physics, this might seem to undermine our claim that potential unknowability precludes a decision on the UFO as object. Yet,
there are known unknowns and unknown unknowns, and here the two cases differ. Quantum mechanics emerged in a highly structured
context of extant theory and established experimental results, and is a systematic body of knowledge that enables physicists to
manipulate reality with extraordinary precision. With quantum theory we know exactly what we cannot know, enabling it to be safely
incorporated into modern science. The UFO, in contrast, emerges in a context free of extant theory and empirical
research, and raises fundamental questions about the place of human beings in the universe. That we
might never know what we cannot know about UFOs makes their potential objectivity more
problematic for the modern project.
The sovereigns attempts to discredit and ignore the UFO creates self censorship among the
population that seeks to remove knowledge
Wendt, Minnesota Professor of International Relations and Duvall, Ohio State -
Professor of International Relations, 8
(Alexander and Raymond, Sovereignty and the UFO, August 2008, Political Theory Volume 36 Number 4,
http://ovnis-usa.com/DIVERS/Wendt_Duvall_PoliticalTheory.pdf,JSkoog)
One might distinguish at least four such techniques: (1) authoritative representations, like the U.S. Air
Forces claim that UFOs are not a national security threat,67 the portrayal of ufology as pseudo-
science, and the science fictionalization of UFOs in the media; (2) official inquiries, like the 1969 Condon
Report, which have the appearance of being scientific but are essentially show trials systematically
deformed by a priori rejection of the ETH;68 (3) official secrecy, which removes knowledge from the
system;69 and finally (4) discipline in the Foucauldian sense, ranging from formal attacks on the
paranoid style of UFO believers as a threat to modern rationality,70 to everyday dismissal of those
who express public interest in UFOs, which generates a spiral of silence in which individuals engage
in self-censorship instead.71 Much could be said from a governmentality perspective about these
techniques, which are amply documented in the ufological literature, but we lack the space to do so here.
Instead, we have focused on explaining why all this anti-UFO work is necessary in the first place, which goes
to the fundamental puzzle with which we began our argument: given the many reasons to study UFOs,
why arent they taken seriously? To answer this question the specific techniques by which the UFO is
normalized can be a distraction, since ignorance is multiply realizable at the micro-level
Notwithstanding the importance of governmentality to a critical theory of anthropocentric rule, it is to
the performative insecurity of modern sovereignty that one must look first.
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Challenges Governmentality
Foucauldian concepts of the state intervening in sciences epistemology
Wendt, Minnesota Professor of International Relations and Duvall, Ohio State -
Professor of International Relations, 8
(Alexander and Raymond, Sovereignty and the UFO, August 2008, Political Theory Volume 36 Number 4,
http://ovnis-usa.com/DIVERS/Wendt_Duvall_PoliticalTheory.pdf,JSkoog)
In thinking about the problem of rule, political scientists have traditionally focused on either individual
agents or institutional structures, in both cases treating government as a given object. In contrast, Foucaults
concept of governmentality is focused on the art of governing, understood as the biopolitical
conduct of conduct for a population of subjects.45 Thus, governmentality concerns the specific
regime of practices through which the population is constituted and (self-)regularized. Modern
governmentality marks a shift in discourses of rule away from the states sovereign power its ability
to take life and/or render it bareand toward its fostering and regularizing of life in biopolitics. The
object of government is no longer simply obedience to the king, but regulating the conditions of life for
subjects. To this end biopolitics requires that the conditions of life of the population be made visible and
assayed, and practical knowledge be made available to improve them. As a result, with modern
governmentality we see the emergence of both panoptic surveillance and numerous specialized
discoursesof education, political economy, demography, health, morality, and othersthe effect of which
is to make populations knowable and subject to the regularization that will make for the happy life.
A constitutive feature of modern governmentality is that its discourses are scientific, which means that
science and the state are today deeply intermeshed. Through science the state makes its subjects and
objects known, lending them a facticity that facilitates their regularization, and through the state
science acquires institutional support and prestige. Despite this symbiosis, however, there is also an
important epistemological difference between the two. Science seeks, but knows it can never fully
achieve, the truth, defined as an apolitical, objective representation of the world. To this end it relies
on norms and practices that produce an evolving, always potentially contested body of knowledge. The
state, in contrast, seeks a regime of truth to which its population will reliably adhere. Standards for
knowledge in that context privilege stability and normalization over the uncertain path of scientific truth.
Although science and the state are allied in the modern UFO regime, we suggest in conclusion that this
difference opens space for critical theory and resistance.
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Key to Dissent
Conspiracy theories should be understood as questioning the gatekeeping of official media
and information, opening space for dissent beyond the mainstream
Alvarez, staff writer Rutgers Today, 2008 (Ashanti M., Panic over the unknown: New book examines
the collective anxiety surrounding conspiracy theories Rutgers Today, April 23,
http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2008-04-09.1171885477/article.2008-04-23.8077404311, SL)
A cultural studies scholar who takes a critical look at popular culture (one of his recent areas of study is reality television), Bratich
says that recent conspiracy theories are born out of the investigative vacuum created by institutional
failure and filled by grassroots access to technology. A lot of my undergrads really light up when I start
talking about secret societies," Bratich said. "They are feeling the alienation and skepticism that young
people have had for many generations, and now its taking this other shape, too, through social network
media. Indeed, ideas surrounding conspiracy theories have invaded the consciousness of millions,
especially young people, through the popularization of alternative media websites and particularly through video
embedding and sharing. The documentary Loose Change, which promulgates the notion that the U.S.
government was involved in the 9/11 attacks, spread like wildfire across the internet and prompted an
equally well-known debunking by Popular Mechanics magazine. That a failed film school student from
upstate New York and a magazine dedicated to automotive technology and used cars engaged in a
debate about what happened that day points to a larger failing by government commissions and the
mainstream media to answer the publics many questions about the tragedy. Where are the
investigative bodies that we can turn to to trust and do these investigations and research? Bratich asks.
Investigative journalism has been gutted over the last 15 or 20 years. Government-appointed bodies ... their
work is not just full of holes but has all these closed door meetings. Now we are faced with how to reorient
ourselves around this new version of investigative research, he says. When he arrived at Rutgers from the University of New
Hampshire in 2003, Bratich settled in Princeton. I was accustomed to college towns, he said. But a year later he decided to move to
New Yorks Lower East Side, just across the lower tip of Manhattan from Ground Zero. That actually changed a lot of my work,
moving to New York City, Bratich said. The last chapter, which deals with the 9/11 attacks, came from Bratichs experience at 9/11
truth movement meetings taking place in lower Manhattan. I wanted to see how they were trying to organize politically. Being on the
Lower East Side plugged me into a set of activists and activist organizations, which made me think about how to analyze the truth
movement in as far as how it links up to the left. Conspiracy theories are neither exclusive to the left nor right
side of the political opinion spectrum. Instead, certain types of skepticism have become attached to
extremism of either wing, rendering the askers of questions marginal. In Conspiracy Panics, Bratich is
mostly concerned with mainstream left media outlets that act as gatekeepers in an attempt to regulate
discourse surrounding conspiracy theories and retain legitimacy. He puts forth the idea of a sphere of
legitimate dissensus. Its about what kinds of claims and knowledges can appear on the range of
possible opinions, Bratich said.
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AT: Irrational
As technology blurs the lines of reality and rationality, only conspiracy theory offers a way
for individuals to reclaim meaning
Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges - Professor of Political Science, 98
(Jodi, Aliens in America, pg. 9-10,)
Such dismissals, handed out ever more frequently as science increasingly impacts on our lives,
contribute to the mistrust that pervades contemporary democracy. Those in positions of power deploy
terms like "reasonable" and "rational." Previously, the victims of this deployment, the
"unreasonable" and "irrational," remained isolated. They had difficulty getting attention and fighting
back. Now, thanks to widespread developments in communication networks, the "irrational" can get
their message out. They can find and connect with those myriad others also dismissed by science. They can
network and offer alternatives to official deployments or reason. They can reclaim their rationality on
their own terms.
What happens when there is so much suspicion of terms like "reasonable" and "rational" that one can
no longer tell what an informed decision on a matter like, say, partial-birth abortion or nuclear waste
storage might look like? This is where America is today. We face a situation of profound blurring, of
complex interconnection, that has profoundly altered the conditions we use to establish the intelligibility of
an issue or judgment. We have permanent media. Although not yet seamless, as proponents of push
technologies which, like TV, deliver messages without the user having to search for them advocate, the
experience of media in millennial America smears lines between ad and information, product and
producer, ad and product, entertainment and all of the above. 23 The new communication technologies
make possible connections between persons and information that were once unimaginable. These
include temporal and spatial connections: I can see images from Mars now, in real time. They include
conceptual and visual connections, "special effects" no longer limited to Industrial Light and Magic but
available from Photoshop for the splicer on a budget. How can we tell whether a person in a photo was
inserted or really there?
Access to media and technology affects the practices of democracy. More opinions, more contestations
are possible than before simply because of the ease of connection. Dismissing others' opinions is more
likely to provoke outrage, to get some kind of response, even if only a few thousand people on the Internet
are watching. The lines of thinking, the networks of discursive authority that had remained separate,
are now more likely to blur as more people know more about what happens. Yet, they still may not
know what it means or even if it really happened. How can I know which statement on partial abortion
reflects "facts" the pro-life movement wants to disseminate? How can I know whether this is an issue on
which I might change my mind or compromise?
UFOs, aliens, and abduction provide ideal vehicles for accessing the effects of these changes on
American society. America has a long history of contestations, fringe groups, and conspiracy theorists. Now,
though, any contest, any group, any theory has more opportunity to acquire an audience, to link into a
network where it won't be obscured by those parts of our culture with claims to public or political status.
Because of the pervasiveness of UFO belief and the ubiquity of alien imagery, ufology is an especially
revealing window into current American paranoia and distrust. We might say that it's "of the fringe"
though no longer "on the fringe."
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Scientists act as gatekeeprs of knowledge - they try to label those who believe as irrational
Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges - Professor of Political Science, 98
(Jodi, Aliens in America pg. 8-9)
We have moved from consensus reality to virtual reality. Politics itself must now be theorized from
within the widespread dispersion of paranoia that has supplanted focused targets such as "Jim Crow"
laws, Richard Nixon, and the Vietnam War. Insofar as its practioners can link together varieties of
disparate phenomena to find patterns of denial, occlusion, and manipulation, conspiracy theory, far
from a label dismissively attached to the lunatic fringe, may well be an appropriate vehicle for political
contestation.20 Some government agencies, as well as some researchers and journalists, have already
been thinking and acting in ways that might have been dismissed as "conspiratorial" under traditional
politics. As Grant Kester explains in his compelling analysis of federal information policies during the
Reagan administration:
With the growing use of computer networks the government is faced with the problem of an information
blizzard a lascivious and potentially threatening intermingling in which memos, affidavits, invoices, re-
ceipts, bank statements, and other documents combine and recombine themselves to produce dangerous new
constellations of meaning. In this scenario the threat doesn't lie with a single piece of damaging information
that "leaks out" and exposes government malfeasance, but with the possible interconnections that might be
made among dozens of different bits of information; bits that might mean little or nothing by themselves, but
that, when assembled by the researcher into a particular narrative form, could prove extremely damaging.21
To reiterate, my claim is not that people who think they have been abducted by aliens threaten to
destroy democracy. It is not that UFO believers are irrational.22 Rather, being unable to judge their
rationality points to the lack of widespread criteria for judgments about what is reasonable and what
is not: ufological discourse upholds the very criteria for scientific rationality that mainstream science
uses to dismiss it. "Scientists" are the ones who have problems with the "rationality" of those in the
UFO community. "Scientists" are the ones who feel a need to explain why some people believe in flying
saucers, or who dismiss those who do so as "distorted" or "prejudiced" or "ignorant."
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The mainstreams attempts at silencing conspiracy theories construct an Other between
those in power and those who question power
Goshorn, Professor of American politics and cultural history, 2000
(Keith, Professor of American politics and cultural history, Strategies of Deterrence and Frames Of Containment:
On Critical Paranoia And Anti-Conspiracy Discourse, 2000, Project Muse,
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v004/4.3r_goshorn.html, JSkoog)
12. The idea that misguided souls are being duped by conspiracy theories issues from a long history of
upper class leaders and elitist intellectuals who have always feared that "...the masses are still captive to
ignorance and superstition," whereas those who had the means to lead and control society occupied the
seat of logic and rationality. Yet when the lower classes have expressed suspicions of ruling class
conspiracies to manipulate and dominate them, such narratives typically have been publicly ridiculed
as mere paranoid fantasies in order to diminish their credibility. One of the most influential American
academic theorists of propaganda, Harold Lasswell, could thus use this belief as the justification for the
necessary "...development of a whole new technique of control, largely through propaganda" which was
"...the one means of mass mobilization which is cheaper than violence, bribery, or other possible
control techniques."[7] And finally, as most of the recent writers discussed here are beginning to
acknowledge, not only is it inaccurate to say that all those who "believe in" conspiracy theories are
simply paranoid, but also to persecute those Others for believing in the wrong set of truth-claims
resonates with a long series of earlier religious campaigns against heresies and ideological campaigns
driven by a characteristically American counter-subversive impulse. Such persecution further re-enacts a
familiar ritual of masculinist logic attempting to "feminize" its opponents.
Abduction Narratives
Alien abduction narratives are representative of the disruption in the global system
Dean , Professor of Political Theory at Hobart and William Smith Colleges 97
(Jodi, John Hopkins University Press The Familiarity of Strangeness: Aliens, Citizens, and Abduction Project
MUSE, June 21, 2011, BLG)
Slavoj Zizek's discussion of the "theft of enjoyment" can help us understand not just the thematization
of passivity in the alien abduction narrative but also the way the program as a whole disrupts the
fantasy of global citizenship.65 In his analysis of nationalism, Zizek suggests that we impute to the other
an "excessive enjoyment," always suspecting the other of attempting to steal ours. He writes: "What we
conceal by imputing to the Other the theft of enjoyment is the traumatic fact that we never possessed what
was allegedly stolen from us: the lack ('castration') is original."66 In abduction, the alien takes away our
agency, and the sense of security and certainty upon which our agency was predicated. This theft of
agency is manifest not just in the power of the alien to paralyze us and abduct us at will but also in its
technological superiority and pernicious breeding project. Because of its expertise, it takes away our
pride in technological achievement. Because of its genetic investigations, it abducts our children, our
ability to determine, or at least influence, our future. Zizek's formulation reminds us that the
abduction narrative functions to conceal the fact that our agency was an illusion, just like our security
and certainty. The technology has been controlling us, developing, spreading, replicating with its own
momentum, a momentum no one of us can comprehend. We might have thought that our genes are all we
have, but since we can't really be said to own or possess them (they constitute us, or so we are told), their
theft by aliens marks our contradictory and ambiguous relationship to our own bio-chemistry.
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Reville, public awareness of science officer at UCC, 9 (William, assistant prof. of biochem at
UCC, public awareness of science officer, Dec. 1, 2009, Lexis Nexis, When is a theory not a
theory?, p. 19, 6.27.11 JSkoog)
THE TERM conspiracy theory commonly means a fringe theory that explains an event as the secret
machinations of powerful Machiavellian conspirators. The modern popularity of such theories dates from the
conspiracy theory that arose in the 1960s around the assassination of JFK. Enhanced Coverage LinkingJFK.
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theories with a jaundiced eye and often ridicules them. Of course genuine conspiracies do exist, for example
Abraham Lincoln died as a result of a conspiracy. And George Bernard Shaw said, All professions are
conspiracies against the laity . The word theory in conspiracy theory is used in a different sense to its use in
science. A scientific theory is the agreed best explanation of a phenomenon, arrived at after long years of
examining evidence and testing hypotheses by experiment. In everyday usage theory refers to a hypothesis an
informed (and sometimes not-informed) guess as to the explanation of a phenomenon. Scientific theories
are falsifiable and modifiable in the light of new evidence. Conspiracy theories, eg a secret branch of
government is covering-up evidence of alien visits, are often unfalsifiable. Proponents of conspiracy
theories are also very resistant to contrary evidence. Conspiracy theories are common and have grown up
around well-known incidents such as: JFK Enhanced Coverage LinkingJFK -Search using: Biographies Plus
News News, Most Recent 60 Days s assassination; the death of Princess Diana; the 9/11 terrorist attack; the
ApolloMoon landing; the Roswell UFO incident, and so on. The theme features regularly in films, books
television programmes. The two most infamous conspiracy theories of the 20th century were devised by
Hitler and Stalin. Psychology attempts to explain conspiracy theories in various ways such as attempts to
provide reassurance that disturbing events are not random but are the product of human intelligence and are,
therefore, potentially controllable. The projection of undesirable characteristics of the self onto the
conspirators is also suggested as another impulse behind conspiracy theories. Some conspiracy theories are
obviously ridiculous, for example, the claim by former television presenter David Icke that humanity is
controlled by alien reptiles who assume our appearance by drinking human blood. Other such theories
seize on perceived weak points in the official explanation of an event, such as why were the hijacked 9/11
aircraft not shot down? Most conspiracy theories, in my opinion, do not withstand critical analysis. Most
fail the test of Occam s Razor, a logical principle devised by medieval philosopher William of Occam
which states, One should not increase beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to
explain anything . This principle of parsimony has proved itself most useful in science. Many
conspiracy theories are convoluted explanations of mainstream evidence. Finally, let me tell you my own
little story of a conspiracy theory. A taxi-driver recently told me that immigrants are entitled to receive dole
plus a weekly socialising allowance of EUR 70, and that immigrants are entitled to a grant of EUR 17,000 to
buy a taxi. He said all taxi drivers knew this and Irish people are not entitled to these benefits. The
Department of Family and Social Affairs press office assured me that the taxi-driver s claims are incorrect. In
order to qualify for dole, everybody must first satisfy the Habitual Residence Condition, ie that their centre of
interest is Ireland. Social welfare does not pay a socialising allowance and everybody, Irish and non-Irish,
must be treated the same. The socialising allowance idea probably refers to asylum seekers. Asylum seekers
are not entitled to the dole. They are housed and fed by the government while their applications for asylum
are processed. In addition they are given a weekly allocation of about EUR 40 to buy small necessary items
that cannot be foreseen in detail. Finally the notion of the EUR 17,000 taxi grant to immigrants is a distortion
of the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance scheme. This scheme is open to all who are eligible for the dole.
If you can convince officials of the Department that you have a viable business idea that will get you out of
the ranks of the unemployed, you may be awarded a small grant to get the enterprise started. But, buying a
taxi in the present recession, with taxis already in over-supply, would hardly qualify as a viable business idea
. William Reville is UCC s associate professor of biochemistry and public awareness of science officer
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Clinical Paranoia
The clinical paranoia and political paranoia are not mutually exclusive
Barkun, professor emeritus of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs and FBI consultant, 03
(Michael, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, pg. 16, SL)
Unlike Hofstadter, some have argued that the clinical and the political may overlap. Robert Robins and Jerrold Post assert
that the domain of political paranoia encompasses a range of exemplars , including such clinical
paranoids as James Forrestal and Joseph Stalin; borderline paranoids whose delusion is likely to
involve exaggeration and distortion of genuine events and rational beliefs rather than pure psychotic inven-
tion; and cultures in which, at least temporarily, conspiracy beliefs be- come a culturally defined norm. In this
view, conspiracy beliefs become neither determinative of paranoia nor divorced from it . Instead, con-
spiracism straddles a blurred and shifting boundary between pathology and normalcy . 7
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Biopower is not genocidal when it is deployed by a government which also respects rights.
Dickinson, UC Berkeley - Associate Professor History, 4
(Edward Ross, Biopolitics, Fascism, Democracy: Some Reflections on Our Discourse About Modernity, Central
European History, vol. 37, no. 1, 148)
At its simplest, this view of the politics of expertise and professionalization is certainly plausible. Historically speaking, however, the
further conjecture that this micropolitical dynamic creates authoritarian, totalitarian, or homicidal
potentials at the level of the state does not seem very tenable. Historically, it appears that the greatest
advocates of political democracy in Germany left liberals and Social Democrats have been also the greatest
advocates of every kind of biopolitical social engineering, from public health and welfare programs
through social insurance to city planning and, yes, even eugenics. 102 The state they built has intervened
in social relations to an (until recently) ever-growing degree; professionalization has run ever more rampant in Western societies;
the production of scientistic and technocratic expert knowledge has proceeded at an ever more frenetic pace. And yet, from the
perspective of the first years of the millennium, the second half of the twentieth century appears to be the great
age of democracy in precisely those societies where these processes have been most in evidence. What is
more, the interventionist state has steadily expanded both the rights and the resources of virtually
every citizen including those who were stigmatized and persecuted as biologically defective under National Socialism. Perhaps
these processes have created an ever more restrictive iron cage of rationality in European societies. But if so, it seems clear that
there is no necessary correlation between rationalization and authoritarian politics; the opposite seems
in fact to be at least equally true.
Biopower is inevitable
Wright, Fellow at the Centre for Global Political Economy 2008
(Nathan, Camp as Paradigm: Bio-Politics and State Racism in Foucault and Agamben,
http://ccjournal.cgu.edu/past_issues/nathan_wright.html)
Perhaps the one failure of Foucaults that, unresolved, rings as most ominous is his failure to further examine the problem of bio-
political state racism that he first raises in his lecture series, Society Must Be Defended. At the end of the last lecture,
Foucault suggests that bio-power is here to stay as a fixture of modernity. Perhaps given its focus on
the preservation of the population of the nation it which it is practiced, bio-power itself is something
that Foucault accepts as here to stay. Yet his analysis of bio-politics and bio-power leads inevitably to state-sanctioned
racism, be the government democratic, socialist, or fascist. As a result, he ends the lecture series with the question, How can one both
make a bio-power function and exercise the rights of war, the rights of murder and the function of death, without becoming racist? That
was the problem, and that, I think, is still the problem. It was a problem to which he never returned. However, in the space opened by
Foucaults failure to solve the problem of state racism and to elaborate a unitary theory of power (Agamben 1998, 5) steps Agamben
in an attempt to complete an analysis of Foucauldian bio-politics and to, while not solve the problem of state racism, at least give
direction for further inquiry and hope of a politics that escapes the problem of this racism .