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Pagan Gnostics inspire affirmation of human free will — Manipulative Extraterrestrials, artificial intelligence, and religion
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Compiled from Dr. John Lash [Excerpted]
Indigenous lore of the Americas is full of tricksters who interact with the native peoples, usually in a playful manner. There is a vast range of trickster entities that do no harm and harbor no intent to deceive. Their trickery is pure fun, or it may often be a way to instruct humans in survival, adaptation, and even self-knowledge. Many tricksters take the form of animals such as the rabbit, fox, crow, coyote, and so forth. These shapeshifting entities belong to the planetary habitat as much as we do. They are psychic, animistic powers of this world, close to the “animal powers” recognized by all indigenous peoples as allies to the human species. The fairies and “little people” of Celtic folk-lore belong to this class.
Indigenous wisdom teaches that we cannot fully know what it means to be human unless we show the humility to learn from non-human beings. Trickster entities also include the spirits of various species of psychoactive plants, fungi, and mushrooms. The ninos or hongitos, the “little ones” of Maria Sabinas, for example. Or the trolls seen in DMT experiences, reported by Terence McKenna and others.
There is, however, a particular strain of the trickster-type entity that behaves in a different manner. It deliberately presents itself as a cosmo-god, having a divine status. This entity tricks us by pretending to be other than it is. Most tricksters do not act in this way, as you can see from a study of the indigenous lore. They may be shapeshifters, they may spin tall tales and perform all manner of clever illusions, but they do not pretend to be cosmic gods. Those who do present themselves as cosmo-gods, our creators, and so forth, could be called “trickster gods.” But this is a tricky term! We can call them trickster-gods, not because they are true gods, but because they can be mistaken for true gods.
These tricksters cannot be equated with the animistic type of trickster, nor are they psycho-gods. They can be identified by their deceptive tactics, their attempt to be taken for genuine cosmic gods. In short, they are pretenders, imposters who seek to imitate the cosmo-gods. I propose that they be called pseudo-gods. Such are the Archons described in Gnostic writings.
Demiurge and Sophia
The ultimate imposter deity is Jehovah, the father god of the Bible. This entity of the lord of the Archons, or chief archon (protarchon). Jehovah is a trickster-god who pretends to be an Aeon, a Generator. When Gnostics explained this distinction, they were violently resisted and, in some cases, murdered by the devotees of the pseudo-god. Much violence has been done on this planet to protect the Biblical pseudo-god from being exposed. In fact, Jehovah´s agenda encourages and sanctions this violence, as any sane person can see from reading a few pages of the Old Testament. The pseudo-god needs to protect its identity and preserve its deception. To do so, it persuades its human devotees to fight in its behalf. This particular trickster-god is extremely jealous and malicious. This explains why the three mainstream religions, whose followers take the pseudo-god for the supreme creator, are informed by an agenda of violence, aggression, and domination. We live on a planet where millions of inhabitants are caught in the deceptive spell of a pseudo-god. This was the Gnostic warning to humanity.
Some writers on Biblical Ufology — see Nine Theories of Extraterrestrial Contact, which I discussed in the Noory interview — have pointed out that Jehovah acts like a murdurous psychotic. Christian O’Brien (The Genius of the Few) is particularly astute in his psychological profile of the Biblical father god, and A. D. Horn (Humanity’s Extraterrestrial Origins) flatly asserts that “Jehovah is a lizzie” — that is, a predatory reptilian. Horn does not cite Gnostic sources, but this is exactly what you will find in the Nag Hammadi materials. The Apocryphon of John (NHC II, 1) and other cosmological texts use the term drakonic for Jehovah, or the Demiurge, as this pseudo-god is also called. The name given to this entity in the Mysteries was Yaldabaoth, YAL-duh-BUY-ot. Roughly translated this means “breeder of the hive, or horde.”
Now, an important distinction: I cannot say if there are malevolent trickster-gods throughout the cosmos, manifesting in various worlds. The Gnostic teachings that survive do not cover this range of phenomena. Gnostic cosmology is specific to the conditions of our solar system and life on earth. The seers of the ancient Pagan Mysteries observed that Archontic entities are present in the solar system, but they are not native to the earth as we are. They are literally an extra-terrestrial and non-terrestrial species. As such, they are only capable of flitting into the atmosphere of the earth in erratic ways, making brief forays, and then flitting out again. For them to remain on earth, special conditions would have to be established, just as when humans set up an outpost on the moon, or in the depths of the ocean. The Archon tricksters cannot live in the biosphere, just as we cannot live on the other planets of the solar system such as mars, jupiter, and neptune.
Gnostics taught that the earth does not belong to the solar system, but is merely captured in it. As the Gaia theory of Lovelock and Margulis affirms, the earth differs from the rest of the planets by the strange equilibrium of its atmosphere, providing not only a space for life-forms to inhabit but an interactive medium in which life can evolve, adapt, and innovate. Such is the miracle of life on earth, including the human species as part of an open experiment overseen by the cosmic gods, the Aeons.
The earth is a special case (as Gaia theory asserts), because it is embodiment of a cosmo-god, the Aeon Sophia, whose name means wisdom. On this planet we see wisdom incarnate, living, evolving, sentient, and we are part of it. Sophia is one of the cosmo-gods of the galaxy we inhabit. She emerged from the core of the galaxy, the pleroma, to become immersed in a planetary body. This situation is unique to our world. Mythologically, it is called the Fall of Sophia. To us, Sophia is the one Aeon or cosmo-god who is directly, sensorially present. We live in her skin. Our cosmic mother is the Aeon Sophia, whom we now call Gaia.
But Sophia is also the mother of the Archons, the tricky pseudo-gods who want us to take them for Aeons. Gnostic mythology (extensively described on site and in my book, Not in His Image) taught that before Sopha morphed into the earth, she produced a kind of spatter in the realms of elementary matter (quantum foam), resulting in a weird species made of inorganic (silicon-based) elements: the Archons. These entities proceeded to fashion a world for themselves, the planetary system exclusive of the earth, which is Sophia’s body, and was formed somewhat later. The Archons are so named, from Greek archai, “prior, previous,” because they and their world were formed before Sophia morphed into the earth.
This is all quite a huge picture, of course. I do not expect anyone to digest it in one lump. But it is remarkable that seers in the ancient Mysteries were able to establish this scenario. Take it or leave it, believe it or not. Personally, I believe this scenario is trustworthy and can be tested against the evidence. It explains the origin of the Archontic ETs, both reptilian and embryonic or neonate types (the big-headed, bug-eyed Greys), as no other theory can do. The value of the Gnostic scenario of the Demiurge and his horde is that it gives us a framework for discerning various types of non-human entities, and detecting one predatory type of trickster-god. I do not insist that these are the only predatory ETs in our galaxy — I know there are tales of many types — but the brutal fact is, one is enough to endanger our evolution. Following Gnostic teachings, I believe that the Archons are the most immediate and intimate threat to humanity.
The Insanity of God
Now, just a few more words on Gnostic cosmology, and then I will return to the question that prompted this brief essay.
I often say that the Gnostic seers in the Mysteries were adept at paranormal skills such as lucid dreaming, remote viewing, clairaudiance and clairvoyance. If this is correct, they would have been able to observe the Archon pseudo-gods and discern their modus operandi. In fact, about one-fifth of the NHC concerns the origins, motives, tactics, and actions of the Archons. What those seers were able to determine about the predatory trickster-gods may be crucial to human survival. I want to emphasize one aspect of their dia-Gnosis of alien intrusion: not only does Yaldabaoth pretend to be the supreme creator god, but he falsely believes he is just that. The chief Archon has a god complex! He is not only trying to deceive us, he is deceived. The pseudo-god is delusional, and his delusion infects all those who follow him — such is the shocking message from the ancient Mysteries.
The Gnostic assertion of the insanity of god must be one of the most astonishing concepts in human experience. But it is not isolated, not totally unique. In The Madness of the Ego I present a Buddhist parallel to the Gnostic Demiurge. Read this scenario and see if it is not an exact equivalent to the Gnostic myth of the Demiurge. Both narratives state that the pseudo-god mistakes himself for the creator of the entire univrse. This, of course, is exactly what Jehovah does, too. Believers in the mainstream religions who take this delusional entity for their Supreme Being are themselves delusional. In blind faith, millions of people are enmeshed in the insanity of a pretender god and implicated in the violence and aggression of the Archons.
The Demiurge is an imposter deity who works against humanity. Yaldabaoth stands between humanity and the Aeons in the galactic core, pretending to be one of them. The Archon horde, operating on a hive-mentality, try to intrude between humanity and the Aeon Sophia, embodied in the earth. Thus they work against our innate wisdom, so closely connected to the intelligence of Gaia, in the vain attempt to deviate us from that connection. This is the dia-Gnosis of the Mystery seers.
Double Deception
Finally, in closing, I would like to return to the call-in on the interview with Geroge Noory. Is it possible, he asked, to discern ET-Archons in other myths around the world? It is clear that the Sumerian Annunaki and the Gnostic Archons are identical to modern ETs, but it is by no means easy to go through the massive material of myth and folk-lore and weed out every reference to the pseudo-deities. I have not done this, not completely or exhaustively, but I have made various attempt at it. I would like to report my investigations on another article on site.
Meantime, there is one more crucial factor in the dia-Gnosis. This concerns the double deception of the ET phenomenon: the phenomenon itself tricks us from seeing how it works. Since I have introduced the ET-Archon theory on this site, there has been ever more excited talk about how the gods described in ancient myth were actually extraterrestrials or “ancient astronauts.” I am certain that factoring the Archons into this discussion can be extremely instructive. At the same time, the introduction of Gnostic counter-intelligence on alien intrusion takes the discussion to another level. We now have to become more sophisticated in our understanding of the alien factor.
When we today regard the gods described in ancient times as Archontic ETs, we tend to think that we have finally understood who the gods are. This is not correct: in reality, we have come to see who the gods are not! In making the identification, Annunaki = ETs, for instance, we catch sight of the entities who pretend to be gods. In the Sumerian cunieform record, which are transcripts of channelled materials, the Annunaki claim to be our creators. But does the fact that something was written on clay tablets 2800 years ago mean that it is true? Of course not. The Sumerian cunieform record presents a claim that the Annunaki are superior creator gods, not proof that they are.
The cunieform tablets are not evidence of facts, they are evidence of a story presented as fact.
Here we are close to seeing the double deception. Having ascertained that the ancient gods were really ETs, we fail to ask, What about gods who are not ETs? The nature of the ET deception is, first, that it tricks us about the gods, and then, when we get on to the deception, it diverts us from looking beyond it toward the true gods, the divinities of the living cosmos. Having made the ET-god connection, we must take another step toward more sophisticated knowing. The sane thing to do, then, would be to ask, If the Archon-ETs were wrongly regarded as gods, who are the genuine gods? It would be a gross error to assume that we have understood the nature of the gods simply by making the ET connection to ancient mythology.
Due to the double deception of the ET phenomenon, we tend to assume that “ancient astronauts”, who pretended to be gods and were taken as such, must be the only gods.
With the dia-Gnosis of the Archons, we are just on the threshold of discovering the true Gods. This is a momentous shift.
According to the Gnostics, the “true gods” are the Aeons of the Pleroma. And one of these is Sophia, the wisdom goddess, who morphed into the planet earth. Today we call her Gaia. She is the ground of life and consciousness for the human species and all sentient life, including molecular life. Such is the ancient Pagan teaching preserved by the guardians of the Mysteries. Today we stand at the threshold of reviving and reliving that teaching.
The trick is, to get past the extraterrestrial tricksters to the real magic of life on this earth.
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U.S. astronauts document UFO sightings
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Major Gordon Cooper
One of the original Mercury Astronauts and the last American to fly in space alone. On May 15, 1963, he shot into space in a Mercury capsule for a 22 orbit journey around the world. During the final orbit, Major Gordon Cooper told the tracking station at Muchea (near Perth Australia) that he could see a glowing, greenish object ahead of him quickly approaching his capsule. The UFO was real and solid, because it was picked up by Muchea’s tracking radar.
Cooper’s sighting was reported by the National Broadcast Company, which was covering the flight step by step; but when Cooper landed, reporters were told that they would not be allowed to question him about the UFO sighting.
Major Cooper was a firm believer in UFOs. Ten years earlier, in 1951 he had sighted a UFO while piloting an F-86 Sabrejet over Western Germany. They were metallic, saucer-shaped discs at considerable altitude and could out-maneuver all American fighter planes.
Major Cooper also testified before the United Nations:
“I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets… Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.”
“I did have occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.”
And according to a taped interview by J. L. Ferrando, Major Cooper said:
“For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public.
Ed White & James McDivitt
In June 1965, astronauts Ed White (first American to walk in space), and James McDivitt were passing over Hawaii in a Gemini spacecraft when they saw a weird-looking metallic object. The UFO had long arms sticking out of it. McDivitt took pictures with a cine-camera. Those pictures have never been released.
James Lovell and Frank Borman
In December 1965, Gemini astronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman also saw a UFO during their second orbit of their record-breaking 14 day flight. Borman reported that he saw an unidentified spacecraft some distance from their capsule. Gemini Control, at Cape Kennedy told him that he was seeing the final stage of their own Titan booster rocket. Borman confirmed that he could see the booster rocket all right, but that he could also see something completely different.
During James Lovell’s flight on Gemini 7:
Lovell: BOGEY AT 10 O’CLOCK HIGH.
Capcom: This is Houston. Say again 7.
Lovell: SAID WE HAVE A BOGEY AT 10 O’CLOCK HIGH.
Capcom: Gemini 7, is that the booster or is that an actual sighting?
Lovell: WE HAVE SEVERAL…ACTUAL SIGHTING.
Capcom: …Estimated distance or size?
Lovell: WE ALSO HAVE THE BOOSTER IN SIGHT…
Neil Armstrong & Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin
According to hitherto un-confirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after that historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969. I remember hearing one of the astronauts refer to a “light” in or on a crater during the television transmission, followed by a request from mission control for further information. Nothing more was heard.
According to a former NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed radio hams with their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA’s broadcasting outlets picked up the following exchange:
NASA: Whats there?
Mission Control calling Apollo 11…
Apollo11: These “Babies” are huge, Sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You wouldn’t believe it! I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out there, Lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They’re on the Moon watching us!
A certain professor, who wished to remain anonymous, was engaged in a discussion with Neil Armstrong during a NASA symposium.
Professor: What REALLY happened out there with Apollo 11?
Armstrong: It was incredible, of course we had always known there was a possibility, the fact is, we were warned off!(by the Aliens). There was never any question then of a space station or a moon city.
Professor: How do you mean “warned off”?
Armstrong: I can’t go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology – Boy, were they big!…and menacing! No, there is no question of a space station.
Professor: But NASA had other missions after Apollo 11?
Armstrong: Naturally – NASA was committed at that time, and couldn’t risk panic on Earth. But it really was a quick scoop and back again.
According to a Dr. Vladimir Azhazha:
“Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large, mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. But this message was never heard by the public — because NASA censored it.”
According to a Dr. Aleksandr Kasantsev, Buzz Aldrin took color movie film of the UFOs from inside the module, and continued filming them after he and Armstrong went outside.
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Michigan witness reports Cigar-shaped UFO – Long as a Football Field
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On February 16, 2010, at or about 3:08 PM, I was driving south on N. Meridian Rd, north of Grand Rives Ave, near Okemos, MI.
Weather was very cloudy, solid, dark storm type clouds, they did not appear to be moving. I was not looking at the sky, but noticed large movement through the tops of approaching trees.
I realized immediately what I was seeing was not normal and slowed the car to a crawl, all most stop, as I am not one to look away from the road in front of me while driving. I saw a large oblong shape (cigar shape) at least the length of a football field or even longer.
The height I can only guess was maybe 80 to 100 foot tall. It was maybe 1000 foot off the ground. I really do not know, but did measure with my hand. It was darker then the clouds behind it.
It was a matted, flat charcoal black with very defined edges, it seemed like it was outlined in a darker black at the edges. If it were not for the darker edges, it almost would have been camouflaged to the clouds behind it, but the edges made the shape very defined and stand right out.
The shape was moving southeast steadily, but much slower than an airplane. My brain tried to say that it was a HUGE black airplane, however there were no wings. If it were a plane I could see it clear enough.
I should have seen huge wings, but it was way, way, too big to be a plane, and moving too slow to be a plane. I watched it for about 10 seconds then it disappeared. About 6 seconds after that, it reappeared for about 15 seconds again, still moving in the same direction.
No lights, it just disappeared again. I thought maybe I should stop and just watch for a few minutes, then decided to go slow and keep glancing for it in the direction it was headed, and I could get past the trees, and maybe see it totally unobstructed from trees.
Although, in no way did the trees prevent or alter what I was seeing, I just wanted complete view without any trees. I continued south on Meridian Rd seeing nothing. I crossed Grand Rive Ave, continued on, when I came to the I-96 overpass.
About 5 minutes after seeing the object I decided to stop the car on top of the overpass and just look, as long as no cars were on the road. I figured I would just look in the direction the craft was heading when I saw it, taking advantage of the height of the overpass and wide-open space and maybe see it again.
I was not stopped but maybe 30 seconds and I saw a lightning-like, almost blinding pulse-type intensity flash of blue, white clear light in the sky at about the same height as the object was flying.
The flash was not lightening. It held a large oblong shape for the entire time it was visible, about 6 seconds. I would say the shape was the size of a large two-story house.
It was directly over the highway towards Williamston. It seemed to have depth somehow in the center. I have to feel this was related, as that area would have been about where the object would have been if it continued on the same path of flight and speed it was traveling just minutes earlier.
I cannot think of anything else in the area that it could have been. It was not a normal thing to see, and it was above the highway, which goes on for miles in the same direction at the same elevation, it would not have been a reflection from traffic in the distance, it was too high.
It reminded me of a “huge doorway”, but it was like lightning. There were cars approaching so I moved on.
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Israel and South Africa’s former Apartheid regime: Is It a Fair Comparison?
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by Edward Corrigan [excerpted article]
There is a controversy raging in North America over Israeli Apartheid Week (March 1-7 2010).1 A resolution was passed in the Ontario Provincial Parliament which was unanimously supported (only 30 MPPs voted) and declared the comparison of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to apartheid as “odious.” To quote an article in the Toronto Star Canada’s largest circulation paper.
In a rare show of unanimity, Ontario MPPs of all political stripes have banded together to condemn “Israeli Apartheid Week.”
Progressive Conservative MPP Peter Shurman (Thornhill) tabled the motion Thursday to denounce the sixth annual provocative campus event that kicks off next week at universities and colleges in 35 cities around the world.
“Resolutions in the Ontario Legislature send a message. They are about moral suasion,” said Shurman, adding “it is close to hate speech” to liken democratic Israel to apartheid-era South Africa.
“I want the name changed. It’s just wrong,” he said, emphasizing that “respectful” debate about the Middle East is much more constructive than slinging slurs.
“Israeli Apartheid Week is not a dialogue, it’s a monologue, and it is an imposition of a view by the name itself – the name is hateful, it is odious,” he said, adding it is also offensive to the millions of black South Africans oppressed by a racist white regime until the early 1990s.2
Progressive Conservative MPP Peter Shurman (Thornhill) was quoted as saying that he wants “the name changed. It’s just wrong” and that his resolution is about “moral suasion”, and that the term apartheid is “close to hate speech…hateful” and “odious”. He says he wants a “respectful” debate much more “constructive” than “slinging slurs.”
New Democratic MPP Cheri DiNovo (Parkdale-High Park) also claimed that the word apartheid is “inflammatory” and ”used inappropriately in the case of Israel”. “Apartheid does not help the discussion,” she states.
Shurman also argued that the comparison “is also offensive to the millions of black South Africans oppressed by a racist white regime until the early 1990s.”2
It is interesting to see what South African’s who actually lived under the Apartheid system have to say about Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. The natural basis of such kinship between the policies of Israel and South Africa was apparently recognized by the virulent supporter of Apartheid and prime minister of South Africa, Hendrik Verwoerd. He noted in 1961 that Jews “took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. In that I agree with them, Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.”3
The much revered leader of the struggle against racism and Apartheid in South Africa and the first President of the non-racist Republic of South Africa Nelson Mandela had the following to say on the issue of the Palestinians. To quote journalist John Pilger, “To Nelson Mandela, justice for the Palestinians is ‘the greatest moral issue of our time.’”4
Here is an excerpt from a speech Nelson Mandela gave on International day of Solidarity with the Palestinians.
The temptation in our situation is to speak in muffled tones about an issue such as the right of the people of Palestine to a state of their own. We can easily be enticed to read reconciliation and fairness as meaning parity between justice and injustice. Having achieved our own freedom, we can fall into the trap of washing our hands of difficulties that others faces.
Yet we would be less than human if we did so.
It behooves all South Africans, themselves erstwhile beneficiaries of generous international support, to stand up and be counted among those contributing actively to the cause of freedom and justice.
Even during the days of negotiations, our own experience taught us that the pursuit of human fraternity and equality — irrespective of race or religion – should stand at the centre of our peaceful endeavours. The choice is not between freedom and justice, on the one hand, and their opposite, on the other. Peace and prosperity; tranquility and security are only possible if these are enjoyed by all without discrimination.
It is in this spirit that I have come to join you today to add our own voice to the universal call for Palestinian self-determination and statehood.5
In March 1985, Denis Goldberg, a Jewish South African and member of the African National Congress and sentenced in 1964 to life imprisonment for “conspiring to overthrow the apartheid regime,” was released through the intercession of his daughter, an Israeli, and top Israeli officials, including the president of Israel and allowed to go into exile to Israel.
Goldberg said after arriving in Israel that he saw “many similarities in the oppression of blacks in South Africa and of Palestinians.” He called for a total economic boycott of South Africa, singling out Israel as a major ally of the apartheid regime. Refusing to live in a country that supported Apartheid South Africa Goldberg quickly left Israel and moved to London, England.6
Mr. Aziz Pahad, the South African Deputy Foreign Minister, and Mr. Kgalema Motlanthe, the Deputy President of the African National Congress (ANC), met with Palestinian human rights activists on 6 June 2008 in South Africa. The South Africans officials had recently returned from a visit to the 1967 Occupied Palestinian Territory. In the meeting with Arab Political Leaders and Adalah representatives Mr. Pahad and Mr. Motlanthe stressed the South African government’s support for the Palestinian people. Mr. Motlanthe stated that in his view “the current situation for Palestinians in the OPT is worse than conditions were for Blacks under the Apartheid regime.”7
Here is an excerpt from an article describing the reactions of Veteran African Congress members after visiting the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
Veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle said last night that the restrictions endured by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories was in some respects worse than that imposed on the black majority under white rule in South Africa.
Members of a 23-strong human-rights team of prominent South Africans cited the impact of the Israeli military’s separation barrier, checkpoints, the permit system for Palestinian travel, and the extent to which Palestinians are barred from using roads in the West Bank.
After a five-day visit to Israel and the Occupied Territories, some delegates expressed shock and dismay at conditions in the Israeli-controlled heart of Hebron. Uniquely among West Bank cities, 800 settlers now live there and segregation has seen the closure of nearly 3,000 Palestinian businesses and housing units. Palestinian cars (and in some sections pedestrians) are prohibited from using the once busy streets.
“Even with the system of permits, even with the limits of movement to South Africa, we never had as much restriction on movement as I see for the people here,” said an ANC parliamentarian, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge of the West Bank. “There are areas in which people would live their whole lifetime without visiting because it’s impossible.”8
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy also wrote an article on this visit by South African dignitaries. Here are excerpts from his report:
Lunch is in a hotel in the city, and Madlala-Routledge speaks. “It is hard for me to describe what I am feeling. What I see here is worse than what we experienced. But I am encouraged to find that there are courageous people here. We want to support you in your struggle, by every possible means. There are quite a few Jews in our delegation, and we are very proud that they are the ones who brought us here. They are demonstrating their commitment to support you. In our country we were able to unite all the forces behind one struggle, and there were courageous whites, including Jews, who joined the struggle. I hope we will see more Israeli Jews joining your struggle.”
She was deputy defense minister from 1999 to 2004; in 1987 she served time in prison. Later, I asked her in what ways the situation here is worse than apartheid. “The absolute control of people’s lives, the lack of freedom of movement, the army presence everywhere, the total separation and the extensive destruction we saw.”
Madlala-Routledge thinks that the struggle against the occupation is not succeeding here because of U.S. support for Israel – not the case with apartheid, which international sanctions helped destroy. Here, the racist ideology is also reinforced by religion, which was not the case in South Africa. “Talk about the ‘promised land’ and the ‘chosen people’ adds a religious dimension to racism which we did not have.”
Equally harsh are the remarks of the editor-in-chief of the Sunday Times of South Africa, Mondli Makhanya, 38. “When you observe from afar you know that things are bad, but you do not know how bad. Nothing can prepare you for the evil we have seen here. In a certain sense, it is worse, worse, worse than everything we endured. The level of the apartheid, the racism and the brutality are worse than the worst period of apartheid.
“The apartheid regime viewed the blacks as inferior; I do not think the Israelis see the Palestinians as human beings at all. How can a human brain engineer this total separation, the separate roads, the checkpoints? What we went through was terrible, terrible, terrible – and yet there is no comparison. Here it is more terrible. We also knew that it would end one day; here there is no end in sight. The end of the tunnel is blacker than black.9
- Here is what other prominent South Africans have to say about the issue of Israel and Apartheid. PLEASE SEE LINK
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Serious discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must include the full spectrum of opinion in keeping with democratic values, free speech and much needed critical inquiry. In Israel, there is a vibrant political debate, and while this debate and democratic discourse is coming increasingly under attack, this debate contributes to the vitality of Israeli society as it deals with the Palestinian issue, the nature of a “Jewish State” and how to govern its society.
America, which provides a great deal of financial, military and political support for Israel, needs to be aware of this debate in Israel and in Jewish circles, and to understand the ramifications of uncritical support for the policies and actions of Israel toward the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors. To stifle and censor the discussion of these important issues does no favors for the United States, Canada or for Israel or the Jewish people.
- Israeli Apartheid Week: Solidarity in action: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, March 1-7, 2010. [↩]
- “MPPs decry linking Israel to `apartheid’: In rare show of political unity, legislators join in denouncing ‘odious’ name of campus event,” Toronto Star, February 26, 2010. [↩] [↩]
- “Israel and South Africa: A Natural Alliance,” by Robert B. Ashmore, The Link, October-November 1988, Volume 21, Issue 4. [↩]
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Edward C. Corrigan is a lawyer certified as a Specialist in Citizenship and Immigration Law and Immigration and Refugee Protection by the Law Society of Upper Canada in London, Ontario, Canada. He can be reached at: corriganlaw@edcorrigan.ca. Read other articles by Edward.
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Texas Witness describes encounter with Shape-changing UFO
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Chambers County, Texas – Incident on 16 February 2010
My friend and I were in route from Port Arthur to Houston, traveling west bound on Highway 73, we had just passed the landfill (between Winnie, TX). The time was about 11:45 PM. We were visiting my aunt in ICU in Port Arthur.
I had just activated the Google Navigator on my 3G phone. I was thinking to myself, How cool!, we are tracking in virtual time on a satellite map, this must be the way we appear from an aerial view.
At that same instant, my friend who was driving,in a calm collective manner, says “See, I told you that there are UFOs around here!”
I looked up, my eyes immediately fixated to the top left corner of the windshield.
And sure enough, there it was, traveling east, about 200 ft above the highway. It appeared to be pulsating a glowing / fluorescent, bright, rainbow colour. However all of the colors displayed at the same time.
There were three rhomboid-shaped, pulsating objects. They seemed to be separate, but yet as one unit.
I asked my friend, ”Did you see that? what the hell is that?” four times, I also rolled all of the car windows down and I opened the sun roof.
This was to reassure myself that we weren’t just seeing a reflection off of the car’s glass, and my friend confirmed four times that we were both seeing the same phenomena.
As I opened the sun roof, never taking my eyes off of the object, I popped my head up through the sun roof, and said “WOW! that’s no reflection! That’s a bone fide UFO!”
That very instant, the object made an immediate U-turn.
And now it was following us down Highway 73. I never once lost visual contact with the object. I jumped down into my seat and shouted ”They are coming, they are following us.”
Keep in mind that this is a dark and desolate highway at this time of the night.
I kept my eye on it, while my friend was frantically speeding up to get away! I could see the same colors pulsating 100 ft above the pavement behind us, but it seemed very different than what colors you or I are use to.
I was almost hypnotized by this strange sight, I could see the triangle-shaped pulsating rhomboids getting larger, and closer, leaving and getting smaller, and yet not moving at all.
Well my friend, as strange as it may sound, all of this was taking place simultaneously. My eyes and brain were not quiet sure how to process all of this together.
We became panicked and sped up to approximately 120 mph. Again this thing never changed perspective, of course we were speeding, but the object stayed behind us, but not ever moving.
My friend says to me, “Stop staring at it.”
The object got almost to the back of my car, then I noticed a yellow-amber colored column of light slowly coming down to the ground from the object. Then the column of light became very, very bright and became almost like an orange fire ball.
I could see the grass and the dirt flying about under the fireball. I started screaming, “They are going to blow us up.” That instant, the object started to wobble.
And the air all around it seemed to ripple as if it were water. Then the object became one with the column of light – it reminded me of how Mercury looks on a hard surface.
And all in the same split second, the object then became a bright, large sphere, with the same pulsating colorful pattern. I was shell shocked.
Did I just see that take place in this dimension? By this time I could feel a presence in my persona, not anything unusual, no strange voices, but almost like my subconscious was suddenly in charge.
I never once felt threatened in that sense, but I was subtlety able to become aware of this new, unfamiliar feeling in my head.
This sounds strange, but like I said, there are no words to adequately describe what we were seeing.
We continued for few minutes, then I noticed two cars traveling east bound were coming, after what seemed like an eternity. I was wide eyed of course waiting to see if those cars would notice what was following us.
Sure enough, they all slammed on their brakes and pulled to the side of the road. At that time the object behind us backed down, and in a split second, the sphere divided into two and disappeared.
I feel like someone else out there had to have seen something.
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Giant EBE UFOs reported near Sun now visible with close-up image technology
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by Alfred Lambremont Webre
Breakthroughs in new imaging technology developed by the firm of Ron Stewart/Ron Nussbeck may now permit human observers to identify what appear to be planet-sized extraterrestrial UFOs exiting from dimensional portals in the Sun (See images and slideshow in article below). A giant solar UFO wave commenced January 18, 2010, as predicted by the singularity theory of physicist Nassim Haramein that postulates that planet-sized UFOs access our solar system using the Sun as a star gate.
Images of the Sun taken by NASA Stereo spacecraft independently on January 21, 2010 and again on January 23, 2010 were submitted by this Examiner.com reporter to a demonstration test using this new proprietary imaging technology. The resulting images and analysis arguably visually confirm the existence of extraterrestrial or interdimensional giant UFOs exiting from what the images show as portals or tunnels on the Sun, in both sets of images from independent NASA Stereo photos dated Jan. 21 and 23, 2010, respectively. These results were released by the Ron Stewart/Ron Nussbeck firm in a report, parts 1 and 2 dated February 2 and 3, 2010.
According to communications with this reporter from film director Jose Escamilla and Mike Bird, director of Exopolitics Canada, NASA has acted to remove Stereo images of the Sun containing giant UFOs from their website. Dr. Joe Gurman, NASA Stereo Project scientist, stated the giant solar UFOs are “compression artifacts”. The images derived by the Ron Stewart/Ron Nussbeck imaging technology appear to demonstrate that planet-sized extraterrestrial or interdimensional UFOs can be identified in these images as entering and exiting from dimensional portals in the Sun.
NASA appears, by the weight of prima facie visual evidence, to have been engaged in yet another cover-up of intelligent extraterrestrial life in our solar system, contrary to its mandate under the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.
In a taped lecture on a previous solar UFO wave, physicist Nassim Haramein posited the giant solar UFOs as extraterrestrial craft accessing our solar system via the black hole or dimensional portal of our Sun, as his singularity theory predicted.
Ron Stewart/Ron Nussbeck approached Mr. Haramein’s staff prior to his Feb. 3, 2010 public remarks on a Coast-to-Coast radio program with copies of the two new imaging technology reports on solar UFOs. Mr. Haramein has yet to be reached for public comment on the two reports. On Feb. 3 program Mr. Haramein noted that “‘there is activity around the sun that can’t easily be explained by conventional means,’ yet it’s difficult to make distinctions between camera artifacts and anomalous objects.”
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UFOs spotted around the Sun
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Several huge spherical UFOs have recently been seen orbiting the Sun since January of this year. These objects were captured by NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). SOHO was launched in 1995 to study the Sun and is a joint venture between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA and is slated to continue its mission until December 2012. The objects observed seem to appear and move in different positions around the Sun and seemed to be as large as our planet Earth.
Several experts and scientists believe that the objects could not be classified as either comets or asteroids, since they would ultimately be destroyed either by the gravitational pull or heat of the Sun. The official statement from NASA is that the central data recorder that stored all of the playback data for the solar missions failed and what was observed really are “compression artifacts.”
This week, NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) observed several objects flying across the surface of the Sun, exhibiting the same if not more stealth than 
those seen in January. Are we looking at interdimensional spacecrafts interfacing with our solar system through the black-hole singularity of the Sun’s portal or stargate, as proposed by physicist Nassim Haramein? What could account for the size, movement and disregard for gravity by these objects?
Perhaps, that is why NASA launched the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) this week, the latest craft designed to study the Sun’s inner workings in unprecedented detail. According to NASA, SDO will be a first-of-a-kind mission, the most technologically advanced of heliophysics spacecraft ever and will take images of the sun every 0.75 seconds and daily send back about 1.5 terabytes of data to Earth, the equivalent of streaming 380 full-length movies.
“Study the inner workings of the Sun in unprecedented detail.” Maybe Haramein is onto something.
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UFOs reported near Bagram Air Force Base, Afghanistan
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A soldier stationed at Bagram Air Force Base, Afghanistan, reports a May 15, 2009, UFO sighting of “red coloured lights” flying around the mountain area surrounding the base, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.
The January 10 report details how incoming aircraft at night do not use lights “to prevent insurgents from attacking them during landing.”
One of the lights “moved back in forth in a slow motion, but also appeared to hover from time to time.”
The soldier reports that others saw the lights too and “wondered what they were.”
The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If International MUFON investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update.
Afghanistan – May 15, 2009 – Multiple Lights over Bagram AB, AF. MUFON Case # 21424.
I was stationed at Bagram AB during most of 2009. On or about May 15, 2009; I was enjoying a night off. I had stepped out of my B-Hut for a cigarette and noticed several red colored lights around the mountains surrounding the base.
One light in particular appeared to be an orb and was hovering over the SW end of the base. This light was not like any aircraft light that operates in the area.
Most of the aircraft that are coming in at night do not have any lights on to prevent insurgents from attacking them during landing. The SW light moved back in forth in a slow motion, but also appeared to hover from time to time. Another light located to the SE hovered over a mountain pass at an altitude of about 25-30k feet. The third light was over the mountains just to the E of the base. I did see a pair of F-15s go up and begin patrols, but made no effort to intercept the lights.
A Kiowa helicopter was also flying around, but this was more likely as part of the base’s standard force protection than in relation to the lights. These lights remained until just before sunrise, but had not lost any visibility like a star would as sunrise began. I did not see how the lights left the area as I had returned to my quarters. I know other soldiers saw them and wondered what they were from discussions at my office as well as the chow hall.
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California Witness reports UFO and EBE
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A California witnesses’ attention is drawn to a 3-foot-wide beam of light shining down on the backyard February 27, and then sees a “humanoid” figure, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.
“The light beam ended up moving towards one of my windows,” the witness stated, “then held there about 3 feet away from it.”
But the witness soon noticed something even odder – “what looked to be a projection on the white flowers on the fruit tree of a head and shoulders of a mottled brown and black reptile humanoid figure.”
After a few minutes, the beam and figure disappeared, and the witness noticed an “out of place” blue-white star moving away.
The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If Arizona MUFON investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update.
CA, February 27, 2010 – Beam of bright white light in yard and a projection of something from a blue white scintallating object high in sky. MUFON Case # 22061.
I was reading a book and got a little tired, so I turned off the light and was just relaxing in the dark looking out into our yard. Last night the moon was overhead and lit up my backyard like a spotlight.
But suddenly I noticed, there was a definite separate beam of light about 3 feet across coming straight down in one part of my yard.
The light beam ended up moving towards one of my windows then held there about 3 feet away from it. Our fruit tree in the backyard is covered in bright white flowers right now.
First on the tree I saw what looked like a wave, that caught my eye, like when the heat is coming off the blacktop on a hot summer day. It obscured part of the flowers, but the other flowers and trees in yard were clearly seen.
I have high end energy efficient silvered windows that block 99% of the UV so that was really weird. Then I saw 2 lights in the fruit tree. Little tiny like LED’s bright white, reminded me of when you take a flashlight and see the cat eyes looking back in reflection only much brighter. The lights were about the distance apart that eyes would be.
I noticed because I wear glasses and they projected some light and they reflected off my lenses. Then I saw what looked to be a projection on the white flowers on the fruit tree of a head and shoulders of a mottled brown and black reptile humanoid figure.
It seemed to be mouthing words or something, no nose, reptile like folds where the nose would be, dark yellow eyes, it had a hand? with 3 claws one was bigger than the other 2, it motioned while speaking? Teeth too, little points, they were white so they stood out against the color of the mouth. I couldn’t hear anything, words or sounds for that matter.
We have a marsh nearby and right now the frogs are mating so it is loud. I didn’t even hear that when this happened. After a few minutes the beam, image and eyes disappeared. I looked outside and saw an out of place blue, white star scintallating and then it disappeared. If that star was projecting something and it hit my window from that angle then it would have hit the spot right there on my fruit tree. Never saw that before.
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