UFOs are extremely important to contemporary civilization because irrational forces are an integral part of the nature of man. These forces can be recognized; once they are recognized they can be nurtured and used. The subtle power of groups like the contactees lies in the unwillingness of existing structures to recognize the reality of new phenomena and the need for change. This failure makes it necessary for each individual to deal with the challenge on his own spiritual level.
I believe there is a machinery of mass manipulation behind the UFO phenomenon. It aims at social and political goals by diverting attention from some human problems and by providing a potential release for tensions caused by others. The contactees are a part of that machinery. They are helping to create a new form of belief: an expectation of actual contact among large parts of the public. In turn this expectation makes millions of people hope for the imminent realization of that age-old dream: salvation from above, surrender to the greater power of some wise navigators of the cosmos.
With the release of popular UFO movies, many people who previously were skeptics have begun to jump on this bandwagon from outer space. I wish them bon voyage.
However, if you take the trouble to join me in the analysis of the modern UFO myth, you will see human beings under the control of a strange force that is bending them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.
This role may be very important if changing social conditions make it desirable to focus the attention of the public on the distant stars while obsolete human institutions are wiped out and rebuilt in new ways.
Are the manipulators, in the final analysis, nothing more than a group of humans who have mastered a very advanced form of power?
Let me summarize my conclusions thus far. UFOs are real. They are physical devices used to affect human consciousness. They may not be from outer space. Their purpose may be to achieve social changes on this planet, through a belief system that uses systematic manipulation of witnesses and contactees; covert use of various sects and cults; control of the channels through which the alleged “space messages” can make an impact on the public.
Part One of this book will assemble the arguments against the idea that UFOs come from outer space. It will describe what the contactees are actually experiencing: confusion, helplessness, and often despair. Part Two will expand the discussion to a subject that is shunned by all UFO researchers – politics. For if UFOs make an impact on our social reality, they are bound to change our political realities as well. This discussion will lead to a new “model” of what is happening, a model in which UFOs appear against the background of a worldwide manipulation operation. Part Three will show the brutal consequences of this model: it may add apprehension to disappointment as we suggest that the mutilations of animals that are taking place throughout the Western states are part of the same manipulation.
A friend who read this book in manuscript advised me not to publish it: “That’s not what America wants to hear,” he said. “America wants a big UFO that flies down from heaven, as in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, filled with new hopes for mankind; America wants a shiny spacecraft to replace the deflated balloon of its religious values. If UFOs are connected with unexplained mutilation of cattle and with behavior modification on a grand scale, America doesn’t want to know about it.”
Jacques F. Vallée, Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults, 1979
Nearly 45% of respondents to the weekly sentiment survey conducted by the American Association of Individual Investors believe that stocks will rise over the next six months, up sharply from the 29.1% share seen last week.
Concurrently, 24.3% of those surveyed expressed a bearish view, compared to 36.8% over the seven days ended May 31. The share of bulls and bears each stand at their highest and lowest, respectively, since mid-November 2021, a few days before the Nasdaq 100 logged its everything bubble highs.
“Fraud and scam and corporate malfeasance is the weather,
and the Fed creates the climate.”
Christopher Leonard (excellent interview.)
A few excerpts from Leonard above:
“The incredible awe and respect, and the fact that Bernanke just seems beyond criticism, is mind-blowing to me....I don’t understand it. I think that this guy is totally reckless. The hubris is on the record...This guy was stunningly dishonest with the American people...”
“Ben Bernanke took so many huge risks and was so astoundingly wrong about so much. You just look at the debate about quantitative easing in 2012. Bernanke had his staff draw up a forecast of what was going to happen. All the numbers are in the book; it’s stunningly wrong.”
"It’s totally tearing apart our society, honestly. I think it’s at the root of a lot of our ills right now."
I have mentioned Christopher Leonard a number of times here on Substack and on Twitter. He is one of a handful of business reporters who gets the scam, and honestly reports on it. I encourage you to check out his other writings on the Fed, including his book, The Lords of Easy Money.
Just saving this for future historians:
New York Times, January 19, 2008:
David W. Tice, a renowned bear, said Friday that the Dow would sink to 6,000 by the end of the year as the country slides into a recession. But Abby Joseph Cohen, the superbull at Goldman Sachs, maintained that the Dow would roar back to finish 2008 at a level 22 percent higher — 14,750 is the number — as the economy perks up later in the year.
…President Bush called for $145 billion in tax rebates for American families and incentives for businesses to keep the economy from sliding into recession.
We were already in recession when this article ran.
The Dow ended the year at 8,776.39, a drop of 33.84%.
Irina Slav, “one of the bluntest critics of Europe’s climate policies and the “energy transition.”” Money quote: “Brussels is the new Moscow.” Interesting perspective from someone used to living under totalitarianism. Here Substack is here.
Markets Are Signalling A Recession Is Imminent | Eric Basmajian
Vincent Daniel on Forward Guidance
…the liquidity started to suck out of the market, and as a result…it started to expose a lot of the things that we were feeling, some of the names we were seeing - particularly in the, what I would call, fake consumer fintech area, the Affirm’s, the Upstart’s, the SoFi’s of the world…
That glorious time lasted up until about October 2022…that’s when I think Jerome Powell actually showed that the Emperor really had no clothes. If we think about what happened in October 2022, that was probably peak tightening of liquidity, the UK pension system was in shambles, so global central banks actually started instituting QE…it was QE. They printed money, or expanded the balance sheet to be exact…
Please please please, for all investors, don’t short stocks.
Lots of great quotes, including “The Fed Put is never dead” and “You show me the asset with the low risk weighting, and I will show you where the next bubble is."
In "The Emperor's New Clothes", the child who pointed out that the Emperor was naked wasn't suddenly right, like a stopped clock.
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