The Pope is coming to the US and right wingers are not looking forward to his visit

OMG! What will we do? The Pope is saying all kinds of outrageous things that sound too much like love and compassion.  We can't have THAT in our religions! 

FIVE WAYS POPE FRANCIS HAS MADE RIGHT-WING CHRISTIANS EXPLODE WITH RAGE
By Janet Allon

Congressional Republicans invited Pope Benedict XVI to address Congress awhile ago. Boy, do they wish they could rescind that invitation now that the much more progressive Pope Francis is gearing up to come to Washington on September 24.

The people's pope has been on a tear lately, one week suggesting that women who have had abortions might be forgiven, the next week saying there might be room in the church for divorced people, and fast-tracking the annulment process.

All this forgiveness seems downright un-Christian to the conservative right, both here, and Vatican observers say, within the church hierarchy where a culture war and conservative backlash is brewing. What has conservatives in such a tizzy? The pope had already implied that atheists who live a moral life might find a way into heaven, and declined to pass judgment on gay people (literally, he said, "Who am I to judge?"). This forgiving, inclusive and compassionate church is not the one conservatives signed up for.

Let's review some of the more "radical" things the progressive pontiff has said and done just in the last few months that have set the right-wing's blood boiling anew.

1. Pope Francis said it is our moral duty to address climate change.

The pope's encyclical on climate change in June was a groundbreaking document and the call to arms the environmental movement has been longing for. It told the world's 1.2 billion Catholics — and everyone else for that matter — that it is our moral duty to save the earth from this ongoing manmade destruction. The encyclical helped close the gap between science and religion, and pointed out that the world's most vulnerable citizens suffer the brunt of climate instability. It also called out capitalism, consumerism and greed as primary culprits for the earth's destruction.

Sure enough, the encyclical was taken as sacrilege among prominent Republican Catholics here at home, including Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum, who suggested the pope leave science to the scientists, which of course, is precisely what he did. Conservatives like Jeb Bush did not appreciate the swipe at his one true religion, capitalism. "I don't get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinal or my pope," he told his supporters at the time.

Climate change has amazingly and depressingly become the most contentious issue in America, more so than abortion, according to recent polling from the Carsey Institute. At least the pope is on the correct side of this inexplicably polarizing issue.

2. Pope Francis said women who have had abortions can be absolved of their "sin."

The pope did not go quite so far as to suggest that abortion is not a mortal sin, but he did go where no pope has gone before when he recently announced a year of mercy (starting this December) during which women who have had abortions can seek and be granted absolution. Repentance is, however, a prerequisite. It's not a full-on feminist victory or anything, but it is a tiny step.

That did not go over well among our rabid anti-abortion (and it seems, anti-forgiveness) wing like Huckabee, Cruz, Santorum and Walker, for starters. And once again, Jeb Bush found himself disagreeing with and even lecturing the leader of his faith, suggesting that if anyone deserves mercy, it isn't those sinful women, it's the "unborn." Bush did like the sound of repentant women, though, and gave lip service to being pro-mercy.

3. Pope Francis called unfettered capitalism the "dung of the devil."

You have to love Pope Francis' way with words. On a July visit to Bolivia and its left-leaning leader, the pope denounced the "new colonialism" in which richer countries and international banks impose austerity programs on developing nations. In a sweeping speech that sounded quasi-socialist, the pope said the poor have the "sacred rights" to labor, lodging and land. He again called for a halt to the destruction of the earth before it is too late, destruction that disproportionately affects the world's poor.

Needless to say, conservatives did not care for the pope's description of capitalism as Lucifer's fecal material.

The integration of environmental, economic and moral issues puts the pope on a par with some of the deeper and more radical thinkers of our time, like Naomi Klein, who recently gave a shout-out to Francis as a role model of the kind of transformational leader the world needs now.

4. Pope Francis rejected creationism.

For a man of the cloth, Pope Francis has a refreshing admiration for science. The world witnessed that with his encyclical on the environment, where he threw his lot in with science. We saw it again when he said one can be a good Catholic and believe in evolution and the Big Bang, and that neither are incompatible with the existence of a creator.

Speaking at the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences recently, the pope said, "When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so."

It's a tough communion wafer to swallow for Bobby Jindal and other right-wing creationism advocates.

5. Pope Francis made it easier and cheaper to get marriages annulled.

It was a small bureaucratic change in some ways, but it spoke volumes about forgiveness, the recognition that families have changed, and making more people feel welcome in the Catholic hurch. On September 8, the Vatican unveiled new rules to make it easier, faster and less costly to obtain an annulment. Both of Francis' predecessor's, John Paul II and Benedict XVI had gone in exactly the opposite direction, consigning the miserable in marriage to eternal togetherness, or living in sin.

"This is a 180-degree change in direction," James Bretzke, a professor of theology at Boston College, told the Guardian. "Francis has shown us over and over again his [different approach], which is, let's look at the people in the pews, in the barrios, in the field, and let's respond to them in their existential needs."

An easier, less intimidating annulment process is one thing, but the even larger and more contentious issue is whether the Church will ease its stance on divorced Catholics, and whether they can take communion. That and other issues affecting the modern family will be discussed at a meeting of the Synod of Bishops next month. But the annulment move makes it seem a lot more possible that communion for the divorced may be on its way.

American conservatives were pretty quiet about this change, probably because many of them have been divorced and remarried multiple times (Kim Davis), so that would be pretty hypocritical.

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VIDEO: A blindfolded woman shows her bikini body in public to promote love and self-acceptance

Amy Pence-Brown stood blind-folded in a bikini in Boise, to promote self-acceptance.  The crowd's reactions are incredibly powerful -- VIDEO
http://www.bustle.com/articles/109699-amy-pence-brown-stood-blindfolded-in-a-bikini-in-boise-to-promote-self-acceptance-and-the-crowds-reactions

When you watch this, you may just begin to cry at the beauty of the woman and the people -- both externally and internally.  (My tears are still flowing...)

EXCERPT:  Body acceptance performance pieces are commonplace in relatively progressive cities like London and New York City, but what if someone conducted an experiment in a less cosmopolitan city? When Boise, ID-based activist Amy Pence-Brown stood blindfolded in a bikini in public, wearing nothing else but a sign instructing passers-by to draw on her body, she entrusted herself to a marketplace full of complete strangers. Her experiment had the potential to go terribly wrong — but instead, the results showed just how accepting humanity can be.

The premise was simple: Pence-Brown, a mother of three who founded the Boise Rad Fat Collective, stripped down in a downtown Boise market, donned a blindfold, and stood alone with a marker in either hand. A sign leaning against her knees read, "I'm standing for anyone who has struggled with a self-esteem issue like me, because all bodies are valuable. To support self-acceptance, draw a heart on my body." With that, all she had to do was wait.  See video link at:  http://www.bustle.com/articles/109699-amy-pence-brown-stood-blindfolded-in-a-bikini-in-boise-to-promote-self-acceptance-and-the-crowds-reactions

Amy's message contrasts with that of Donald Trump regarding women's bodies and their looks.  Amy speaks to the heart.  Donald speaks to the darker nature of the ego. 
(Quo vadis?  Which way are we going?)

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An insightful essay about Elmira, Mark Twain and Donald Trump

Am sure Mark Twain would have had Much to say about Donald Trump.  As a young girl living in Elmira, I remember my Twain-admiring Dad reading Huck Finn to me -- and laughing hilariously when he read the parts about Pap's ranting, especially about his ragtag clothes and hat ("Look at my hat, if you call it a hat...") -- and the "govment" he blamed for keeping him down. Here's the part of Pap's rant that made Dad laugh so much: 

"Call this a govment! why, just look at it and see what it's like. Here's the law a-standing ready to take a man's son away from him—a man's own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising. Yes, just as that man has got that son raised at last, and ready to go to work and begin to do suthin' for HIM and give him a rest, the law up and goes for him. And they call THAT govment! That ain't all, nuther.   Here's what the law does: The law takes a man worth six thousand dollars and up'ards, and jams him into an old trap of a cabin like this, and lets him go round in clothes that ain't fitten for a hog. They call that govment! A man can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all. Yes, and I TOLD 'em so; I told old Thatcher so to his face. Lots of 'em heard me, and can tell what I said. Says I, for two cents I'd leave the blamed country and never come a-near it agin. Them's the very words. I says look at my hat—if you call it a hat—but the lid raises up and the rest of it goes down till it's below my chin, and then it ain't rightly a hat at all, but more like my head was shoved up through a jint o' stove-pipe. Look at it, says I—such a hat for me to wear—one of the wealthiest men in this town if I could git my rights." 

There are many voters in today's world who sound like the govment-hating Pap and who are cheering Donald Trump. But I don't think my Republican Dad would be laughing about Trump's ascendancy in the polls.  Trump's ego-driven ravings have no actual substance (he speaks, yet he says nothing!) -- and his derogatory insults against women are too disgusting. Like the Republican party itself, Trump appeals to the worst in people--to their selfishness, their racism, and their fears.  Mark Twain would have despised him and made literary mincemeat out of him.

The August Day Mark Twain Met Donald Trump
By Michael Winship

About author:  Michael Winship, senior writing fellow at Demos and president of the Writers Guild, East, is senior writer on the new public television series Moyers & Company, premiering this month. Go to www.BillMoyers.com.

— from Moyers & Company

How I spent my summer vacation — part of it, at least. One weekend in August, my girlfriend Pat and I went upstate to visit my sister, also named Patricia, and while there took a field trip to Elmira, New York.

We were on bit of a pilgrimage. Mark Twain, real name Samuel L. Clemens, is buried in Elmira and the three of us decided to visit his grave. For many years, Twain spent his summers at the Elmira home of his in-laws, Quarry Farm, overlooking the Chemung River Valley. His sister-in-law even built him a small gazebo retreat in which he did much of his finest writing. It is, he wrote, "the quietest of all quiet places" in "an elevation that commands leagues of valley and city and retreating ranges of distant blue hills."

Twain stopped visiting Elmira after his daughter Suzy's death in 1896, only to return in 1910, following his death in Redding, Connecticut. His remains were brought to Elmira's Woodlawn Cemetery for burial. It's a short drive from the center of town. Twain, his wife, children, son-in-law and only grandchild are all there. Each has a stone marker and in front of Twain's, fellow writers and devotees have planted their pens in his memory.

There's a larger monument, too, placed by his daughter Clara. It honors Twain and Clara's husband, the Russian musician Ossip Gabrilowitsch, with large bronze medallions, each a bas-relief profile. But at the beginning of the year, the tomb was vandalized. Twain's medallion was pried from the stone. Luckily, the thief was caught. Repairs and restoration of the plaque will take a few more weeks.

Vandals and Mark Twain. The two ideas tangoed in my head and naturally danced me over to Donald Trump. We were having a quiet weekend's interlude in upstate New York but even there it was impossible to ignore the cacophony of Trump's verbal vandalism and braying pitch to nativism and bigotry. Such jingoism was just the kind of ideological humbuggery Mark Twain loved to puncture. Yet he would agree with Trump's – and our — disgust for the current, disheveled and inert state of our governance.

In fact, years ago, historian and author Garry Wills wrote, "To understand America, read Mark Twain…. No matter what new craziness pops up in America, I find it described beforehand by him…

"What made Twain so prescient?" Wills continued. "Our own persistence in folly, no doubt. But more than that he understood the peculiarly American brand of folly as no one before or after."

So while it may be too easy to piggyback onto Twain's prescience, in these disturbed and disturbing times, it's irresistible, with the understanding that there's a lot of spurious Twain material out there that never came from him and the knowledge that in some cases what he said and wrote can be as variously interpreted as the Bible or Koran.

Twain was a contributor to the 19th century magazine The Galaxy, and in it, he claimed, "I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect." He lied about the meddling part. Lucky for us.

Twain would have sympathized with all who heap scorn on Congress and Washington. As he famously wrote, "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." And, "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." And, "… I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind, Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman."

He believed "public office is private graft," and nowhere did Twain sink his teeth more deeply into the hypocrisy and greed of Washington and its politicians than in his first novel, The Gilded Age, written with Charles Dudley Warner. The very title gave its name to an era of wretched, wealthy excess by plutocrats who embraced economic inequality, an era we revisit today in our own Second Gilded Age.

So devastating is the book's portrayal of Washington skullduggery, replete with lobbyists and the superrich on a spending spree — buying up government officials — Twain and Warner originally hoped that Thomas Nast, the political cartoonist who savaged New York City's Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall, would provide the illustrations. Garry Wills called it "our best political novel," greater than Henry James' Democracy or John Dos Passos' USA.

Says Colonel Sellers, the get-rich-quick schemer who's one of the novel's central characters, "There is no country in the world, Sir, that pursues corruption as inveterately as we do. There is no country in the world whose representatives try each other as much as ours do, or stick to it as long on a stretch. I think there is something great in being a model for the whole civilized world, Washington."

But beyond the peccadilloes of the capital and its affluent gatekeepers, Mark Twain feared our baser instincts. Yes, "the political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet," he wrote, but he also feared our reasoning powers "are not above the monkey's." On the one hand, "We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty." On the other, "To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology," a built-in redundancy thrown in by a distracted Creator.

So I thought about which of Twain's characters would come closest to Donald Trump's bumptious personality but ultimately rejected the well-to-do wheelers and dealers that populate The Gilded Age. Instead, I decided that in many respects, the character most like The Donald was that of Huckleberry Finn's dissolute father, Pap.

Even though Pap lusts mostly for liquor and Huck's loot, a treasure trove back then of $6,000 that today wouldn't cover Trump's barber bills, he shares the billionaire's braggadocio, the propensity for noise, surly resentments and irrational lashings out, especially at minorities.

A good substance-free rant is just Pap and Trump's style: "Then the old man got to cussing," Huck recounts, "and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadn't skipped any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didn't know the names of, and so called them what's-his-name when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing."

Derisively, Pap says, "Oh, yes, this is a wonderful govment [sic], wonderful," and then explodes at the notion of an educated, free black man. "They said he was a p'fessor in a college, and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. And that ain't the wust. They said he could vote when he was at home. Well, that let me out. Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to? …I says I'll never vote agin. Them's the very words I said; they all heard me; and the country may rot for all me — I'll never vote agin as long as I live."

Many Republicans fear Trump's possible nomination, "increasingly concerned that [his] inflammatory language is damaging the party," Jonathan Martin wrote in The New York Times, "…that his remarks are hardening the tone of other candidates on racial issues in ways that could repel the voters they need to take back the White House." Yet if another GOP candidate wins their nod instead, those same Republicans fear that Trump's voters will stay at home, just like Pap. It is a wretched bed they have made for themselves this last 50 years, a legacy of mongering and misinformation, and with the unlikely Trump of New York, instead of someone from the Deep Red South, the Republicans have managed to achieve a destructive apotheosis of dog whistles and hatred.

"Such is the human race," Twain wrote back in 1907. "Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat." Prescient indeed.
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About author Michael Winship, senior writing fellow at Demos and president of the Writers Guild, East, is senior writer on the new public television series Moyers & Company, premiering this month. Go to www.BillMoyers.com.

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Say goodbye to National Geographic, just bought by Rupert Murdoch

Sad but true:  With Rupert Murdoch now at the helm of Natl. Geo., we will not be seeing truth about climate change (or anything else, for that matter) from that source anymore, either in its magazine or in its TV shows.  Once again, money wins over conscience and environmental conservation. What a shame!  National Geo. will now be joining hands with Fox News, et al. UGH.  Time to cancel our subscriptions!   Please pass the word along...

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/viewers-vow-boycott-after-rupert-murdoch-buys-natgeo-cash-triumphs-over-conservation-conscience/

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This essay says it best about Hillary: She Can't Go Rogue

The machine has taken her over and we will never know the real Hillary.  She's part and parcel with establishment politics and will do the bidding of the corporate masters. 
GO Bernie!!!

HILLARY CLINTON CAN'T GO ROGUE
By P.M. Carpenter

What's the best thing that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had going for him?

Nothing.

He had no money, no machine, no consultants, no media advisers, no real fame, no exalted history, no sense of destiny — no nothing but himself, which freed him to be himself.

What's the worst thing that Hillary Clinton had going for her?

Everything.

She had and has it all, money, organization and a regal status — all of which has enslaved her. She's at the center of the nation's most powerful political machine, and the latter's immensity has made her — the "her-herself" Clinton, to pilfer Walt Whitman — more than a little elusive.

She is the smallest cog in a massive apparatus of overpreparedness, which has reduced her further, to headlines such as this: "Hillary Clinton to Show More Humor and Heart, Aides Say." Aides say. They "want to show her humor." They "want to show her heart." They want "to bring spontaneity to a candidacy that sometimes seems wooden and overly cautious."

Humor and heart on the campaign trail seem as foreign to Hillary Clinton as they do to Jeb Bush. When her humor does materialize in public, it comes across as "sarcastic," which her aides acknowledge. It's a sort of royal, We-are-not-amused levity — a humor that packs a punch, but lacks fun (as though, and this was most unfortunate, it's been wiped "with a cloth").

As for heart, Hillary's, like Al Gore's, doesn't translate well before large gatherings, which are the mother lode of human connections on the presidential-campaign level. By definition, displaying heart is an impalpable art; Harry Truman could do it, Adlai Stevenson (in impossible circumstances) could do it, and so on, on through Barack Obama. Hillary cannot. Not at this stage. That's no criticism, for criticism is rightly reserved for the changeable.

And just how in hell does one "bring" spontaneity to another human being? (Late last week, as her spontaneity was being mapped out by others, Hillary was at a presser. After a few queries, a voice boomed from her right: We'll take one more question. Hillary, startled, looked around, and then obeyed the command. Bill would have spontaneously boomed back: "I'll take all the questions you've got.")

Hillary's curse is that she's the smallest wheel in a massive engine — which means she performs best when she's well greased, programmed and scripted, which loops back with a fierce inexorability to the original problem. She lost herself in enormity years ago, and there's no way to bring her back. She's engulfed by conflicting advisers, swamped by demanding money, torn by coalitions, smothered in queenship and consumed by a sprawling, tentacled Leviathan known as the Clinton Machine.

And in an inherited machine, one can't go rogue.
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Baby looks EXACTLY like his great-great grandfather's baby photo

You'd swear it was the exact same child.  (Maybe it is -- reincarnationally). 

Read entire article:   https://gma.yahoo.com/babys-photo-bears-uncanny-resemblance-great-great-grandfather-183827107--abc-news-parenting.html

The apple certainly didn't fall far from the tree in this family.

When Dallas English came across his cousin's Facebook post of a 109-year-old photo of their relative, he couldn't help but notice the uncanny resemblance to his 11-month-old son, Ace.

"As soon as I saw the picture my jaw dropped because it looks like it IS my son sitting there in a baptism dress," English, 30, wrote to ABC News. "It still amazes me."

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HYPOCRISY, CHRISTIAN "RIGHTS" and KIM DAVIS

Unfortunately, we more often see self-righteous, judgmental fundamentalists than those who are really following the teachings of Christ.

Humility, Hypocritical Christians and Kim Davis
By Jaime O'Neill

I have great respect for people who have the courage to stand by their principles, who are willing to go against the prevailing currents, who are willing to make sacrifices for what they believe. That respect does not extend to Kim Davis, the elected county clerk in Kentucky, the one who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples seeking them. She's in jail now, put there by a judge who found her to be in contempt of court. I think she belongs in jail.

In the eyes of some right wingers, withholding my respect from this woman is just another example of liberal hypocrisy, of a double standard they see people like me applying in cases where we disapprove of civil disobedience when it's engaged in by people whose views we don't share, but applaud when practiced by people with whom we agree.

If Kim Davis wanted to forfeit her job because she could no longer perform it in accordance with her religious views, I could respect that stance, though I don't agree with the religious views that led to her resignation.

But for this exceedingly self-righteous woman to expect that she can accept the salary for a job she is only willing to do selectively is not only unlawful in this case, but unreasonable.

Being unreasonable is not uncommon among fundamentalist religious types. These are people who believe in things unseen, who operate on "faith," not reason. And since they are, by their lights, sanctified by God in all they think and do, they can proceed accordingly, defying all other authority, and showing contempt for all other beliefs but their own. Despite the hubris implicit in such a view, guys like Mike Huckabee can conclude that the four-times-married Ms. Davis is defying the law in an act of "humility."

If, however, that government functionary wants to live her faith in ways that are inconsistent with her job, then she must forfeit the job her beliefs preclude her from doing.

That's not complicated, unless you're a zealot. Kim Davis, who found her way to her current faith just a few years ago is in the throes of zealotry often seen in new converts to faith-based fundamentalism. Her utter lack of self-doubt is plain on her face, along with her fundamentally un-Christian enthusiasm for judging others and finding them less worthy than she thinks herself to be. I have seen dozens of pictures of this woman, and what I don't see reflected in her countenance in any of those images is anything that looks like love, or agape, or any of the stuff that might seem consistent with the message Christ brought.

I do see, however, a hunger for martyrdom, the lust so many Christians (not to mention Muslims) have to feel persecuted. And it's clear that the fundamentalists of Kentucky and other places with large populations of people whose views are benighted by bad religion will rally in support of Kim Davis, will attempt to turn her into a Joan of Arkansas and Tennessee and Alabama, the Holy Mama of mega-church hustlers and politicians who think they can make hay by proclaiming the godliness of her stand.

No one is standing in the way of the views this woman holds, however. All she has to do is go home, or keep that hate in her heart, and not out on the counter that separates her from the citizens she is paid to serve without prejudice.

And, were she to do that, I could admire her willingness to live her beliefs, and to pay the price that comes with them. As it stands, however, she'll soon be awash in money from similarly bigoted "Christians" and "conservatives" who don't, apparently, believe in the rule of law, and who are rather unclear on the concepts that were once considered to be the bedrock of their faith. Love thy neighbor as thyself, judge not lest ye be judged, do unto others. Etc., etc., etc.

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IMPORTANT: Learning about the government HAARP program (Giant ELF Wave Transmitters)

In order to be informed voters, it's very important that we educate ourselves as to what is going on in our world.   Weather changes are happening through manipulation of the ionosphere.  Through military HAARP technology, man is now causing dramatic unusual weather changes, with a possible intent to use hurricanes and earthquakes as weapons (info. leaked by whistleblowers), but the government is not going to tell you about this.

Indisputable scientific fact:  Our earth is more unstable now than ever before -- wobbling more. Dangerous experiments (with potentially catastrophic consequences), "combining ignorance and power," as predicted by Carl Sagan, are now in operation on our planet.  Nikola Tesla's discoveries are being used without understanding of the effects they can cause. We are like toddlers playing with fire.  Learn about the HAARP High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program instituted by the U.S. in 1990.

Essential films to watch:  

HAARP, History Channel documentary:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UD3yUEl5EM 

HOLES IN HEAVEN video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWVU6DKcjyA

Scientific explanation of earth's magnetic field lines and effect of HAARP on them: HAARP and Mind Control - Dr. Nick Begich:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l7gk3PCm7o

Short videos of anomalies in our sky (not for wimps who would rather deny than face facts):
HAARP:  guaranteed to blow your mind!  most unusual cloud formations and portals now being seen in our skies:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsCRzSKP-p8  
HAARP cutting sharply through clouds:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNahvVa_fSI
HAARP more evidence caught on tape:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sOnQlIxUWw

HAARP Boils the Upper Atmosphere

HAARP zaps the upper atmosphere with a focused and steerable electromagnetic beam. It is an advanced model of an "ionospheric heater." (The ionosphere is the electrically-charged sphere surrounding Earth's upper atmosphere. It ranges between 40 to 60 miles above the surface of the Earth.)

Put simply, the apparatus for HAARP is a reversal of a radio telescope; antenna send out signals instead of receiving. HAARP is a super-powerful radiowave-beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere by focusing a beam and heating those areas. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto earth and penetrate everything -- living and dead.

HAARP publicity gives the impression that the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program is mainly an academic project with the goal of changing the ionosphere to improve communications for our own good. However, other U.S. military documents put it more clearly -- HAARP aims to learn how to "exploit the ionosphere for Department of Defense purposes."

But the possible uses which the HAARP records do not explain, and which can only be found in Air Force, Army, Navy and other federal agency records, are alarming. Moreover, effects from the reckless use of these power levels in our natural shield -- the ionosphere -- could be cataclysmic according to some scientists.

Two Alaskans put it bluntly. A founder of the NO HAARP movement, Clare Zickuhr, says "The military is giving the ionosphere a big kick to see what happens."
The military failed to tell the public that they do not know what exactly will happen, but a Penn State science article brags about that uncertainty. This is Macho science. The HAARP project uses the largest energy levels yet played with by what Dr. Nick Begich calls "the big boys with their new toys." HAARP is an experiment in the sky, and experiments are done to find out something not already known. Independent scientists have told Begich that a HAARP-type "skybuster" with its unforeseen effects could be an act of global vandalism.

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Watch Anderson Cooper: Mindfulness video, with accompanying print words

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mindfulness-anderson-cooper-60-minutes/

Could change the world, as each person changes within.... something to think about.

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60 Minutes: Anderson Cooper reports on "Mindfulness" -- good video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDxIBQT7F54

A good start towards harmony and peace within oneself.  Perhaps if enough learn to be "mindful," external events on the planet will also begin to change for the better.

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Nazi right wingers coming back in small-town Germany

Here is a chilling story of the rise of the German right wing once again.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sebastian-matthes/germany-refugee-crisis_b_8071114.html
The same thing is happening in our country with the rise of Donald Trump and his adoration by our own right wing.

Germany has its own Donald Trump types, rising up to the surface once again -- reminiscent of Hitler's rise to power.  Right wingers of any country, blinded by their nationalistic thinking, do not recognize themselves as Nazi types. They think of themselves as "patriots," trying to preserve a way of life that is changing -- and they are goaded on by Fear propaganda delivered by the Donald Trumps or Adolph Hitlers of this world.  Remember the rise of Hitler in the '30s and '40s?  American conservatives would deny in horror that anyone would even think they were like Hitler's Nazis.  In their zeal to adopt the hatred and prejudice being shouted from the mouth of Donald Trump, they are oblivious to the similarities of themselves to the German population in the '30s and '40s.  Germans who thought themselves to be good Christians went along with Hitler's hate-driven pronouncements ... and soon .... well, read any history book to get the end of this story.  We are still living with its terrible ramifications in today's world.  

Take a good look at Donald Trump and his rhetoric that is rousing the U.S. right wing today.  Listen to them cheering him as he ramps up their fear.  This is how wars start.  This is how "final solutions" like Hitler's begin.  Even if you try to get a far right winger to look in the mirror at themselves (can you imagine Donald Trump doing this and seeing himself as he really is--a hate-filled demagogue in the making?), they will see a "patriot" standing up for their "rights."  The bizarre upside-down, backwards world of the Bubble dwellers is surrounded by a wall of impenetrable Fear.  That Fear is daily being revved up and spurred on by Trump and Fox.  But the right wingers don't even realize they are being provoked and roused to hatred through fear...they would never think of themselves as fear-driven.  Fox's incessant daily doses of racism and prejudice has made their viewers immune to recognition of fear propaganda. Under Fox's spell, they think of it as  "patriotism" of the highest order.  Too sad, because they can't be reached by clear seeing.  They will defend themselves to the death against all the "enemies" they have been carefully taught to fear. 

Welcome to the madhouse.  It's called planet Earth where the natives are doomed to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over.  Mind-controlled by power-and-greed-obsessed leaders, a large portion of the inhabitants are unable to learn from their own history and make the changes in consciousness that could truly lead us to a better future.

As Pogo in the comic strip sagely states: "We have met the enemy and he is us."    

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For years, media and politics have overlooked and underestimated how powerful the right-wing movement has become in some parts of Germany. They have ignored the fact that small towns in the East German states are "culturally controlled almost entirely by right-wing extremists": with murals in the style of the Nazi period, references to Hitler's birthplace, and an atmosphere of fear exaggerated by the far right extremists. In these towns, the right-wing culture dominates everything from high school to the carpenter's shop.

But there are also attacks on asylum-seekers' quarters in the South and West of Germany. Therefore, the radicalization of parts of German society is not a purely East German phenomenon. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution understands this as a threat, a new form of right-wing terrorism.

Forty percent of refugees coming to Europe, come to Germany. According to recent estimates of the government, it will be 800,000 people this year. That equals the number of people living in Frankfurt, Main. Many Germans are scared of that.  "Concerned citizens," as they like to call themselves, are not concerned about the refugees. They worry about themselves. They are scared of economic decline, scared of old age poverty. Scared that something will be taken away from them.

And now they have found the reason for their fear: Refugees that come to Germany to take the last couple of Euros and benefits away from them.

The preachers of hatred and extreme right parties, which have mostly flown under the radar until now, use this fear. They have found their audience. They use the Internet to goad on the scared masses. They spread fake articles about refugees, who allegedly come at German school girls, only to later exploit our social system. According to these hatemongers, politicians and the press lie, so they construct their own reality. Following their sick logic, there is a "will of the people" that justifies violence against foreign fellow citizens. Therefore, we are not only experiencing one of the worst waves of right-wing terror since World War II, but also a gruesome peak of xenophobic propaganda.

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She Picks Up This Fluffy Puppy And Tells Him to Sleep: UNBELIEVABLE!

Is this little girl actually hypnotizing these animals? Check this one
out -- amazing! I could sure use her on nights when I can't sleep (~.~)
http://sleepy-animals.littlethings.com/little-girl-animal-hypnosis/?utm_source=LTcom&utm_campaign=performances&utm_medium=Email
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She Picks Up This Fluffy Puppy And Tells Him to Sleep: UNBELIEVABLE!

Is this little girl actually hypnotizing these animals? Check this one
out -- amazing! I could sure use her on nights when I can't sleep (~.~)
> http://sleepy-animals.littlethings.com/little-girl-animal-hypnosis/?utm_source=LTcom&utm_campaign=performances&utm_medium=Email
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FOR SHAME! OxyContin now approved for use on children!

Where we are now in this country:  Greed overrules common sense every time!

FDA and Big Pharma Lock Arms and Approve OxyContin for Use in Children in Order to Extend Patent and Make Money!
rawfoodworld.com

Purdue Pharma LP, announced in 2012 the plan to test OxyContin on children in order to extend their patent

EXCERPT:  For Purdue Pharma LP, this one medication generated more that $2.8 billion dollars in sales with numerous companies seeking after the ability to produce their own generic versions and get their hands in the pot.  Yet, Purdue Pharma LP, figured out a way to protect their own cash cow.  Their method was to utilize the FDA's pediatric testing incentive for drugs, which gave the company a patent extension for conducting clinical trials on children. (1)

Due to greed and corruption at the highest tier, 150 children between the ages of 6 and 16 were enrolled into a multi-site trial.  What makes this worse is not just that children were used in order to increase profitability for this drug company and others tied into the trickle down/up money effect, but that the FDA has taken these studies and has now approved OxyContin for children's use.

The FDA used Purdue Pharma LP's research in order to approve OxyContin for children

The FDA completed a press release hoping to convince the public that they are only watching out for the nation's children.  They report that the drug is approved in order to help children who experience cancer pain, extensive trauma or surgeries that require long-term pain management.  The FDA reports that due to the studies completed by Purdue Pharma LP, they now can help your 11-16 year old child manage extensive pain that they had to endure prior to the FDA's approval.(2)

For those who believe that this medication could indeed be helpful, first consider that OxyContin is a gateway drug for heroin.  Now also consider that nine out of ten Americans who meet criteria for addiction diagnosis start smoking, drinking or using before the age of 18. (3)  According to the CDC, opioids kill an average of 44 people a day in the United States.(4)

The FDA wants you to believe they are protecting the nation's children, yet they do not seem to care about the long-term impact of addiction for your child or your family

It is important for parents to educate themselves.  The FDA has a clear conscience and wants the public to believe that they are protecting the nation's children from experiencing long-suffering.  Are they?  Have they thought about the child and family that survives a traumatic and painful disease/injury only to face addiction on the other side?  Have they considered the painful process of opioid detox?  Have they considered how addiction can tear a family apart and can even kill a person?  Have they forgotten how many prescription medications are used improperly or sold on the streets by teens?

This is a bold and careless move that is money centric.  If you have a child that is ill, suffering pain or had a traumatic injury, consider healthy pain management or alternative treatments.  Research shows that OxyContin is not the only effective pain management for children; it also shows the benefits of therapy, massage, acupuncture, essential oils, food, vitamins and exercise.

Seek out a trusted practitioner to provide treatment for your child.  Gather research and data, and allow your child's treatment team to make an informed decision. Surround yourself with people who will help advocate for your child's best interest and do not let a treatment team make decisions for your child without your approval.

Sources for this article include:
(1) www.naturalnews.com

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1930s Germany deja vu?

THE UGLINESS AND THE UNFOLDING HORRORS
By Jaime O'Neill

EXCERPT:
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

My memory isn't as good as it used to be so maybe that's the problem, but I simply don't remember my country being this ugly when I was younger. Oh sure, there was always lots of ugliness, including the racism, the xenophobia, the crabbed and mean spirited hatred of others that looks particularly bad when it is so common in a country as rich and favored as ours has been.

There have been always been those ugly faces that exemplified the worst we had in our national character, faces like Joe McCarthy's, for instance, or George Wallace's, or John Mitchell's, Nixon's Attorney General. And there have been marketers of malice and mania in the past, too, precursors to Limbaugh, Savage, Beck, and the rest, guys like Joe Pine, or Morton Downey, Jr., who pioneered such ugliness on television, or Father Coughlin back in the '30s, who sold fear, hate, and anti-Semitism on radio.

But the degree and the vehemence of our current ugliness seems to run much deeper and record itself even more darkly on Facebook, on Fox, or in the faces of the Republican men who seek the highest office in the land.

The hordes of yahoos abroad in the land are frightening, and it is, perhaps, no surprise that one of the notable cultural phenomena of the last couple of decades has been the popularity of the zombie apocalypse, that nightmare of walking dead who are menacing everyone else, a metaphor, perhaps, for our fear of what we see everywhere from Wal-Mart to the field of Republican candidates for POTUS.

When the audiences for those people cheer disdain for teachers, applaud the idea of forcing 11-year-old girls to carry the fetus created by a rapist to term, and when they hoot and holler for a rich crook who dodged the draft as he mimics the vigilante killing of an American soldier who was taken prisoner in Afghanistan, we are putting our national ugliness on open display, looking dangerously like the way Germany looked when Hitler was on his rise to power. The ugliness of our people could hardly have gotten uglier than when a young woman on Fox commented on the news of former President Jimmy Carter's cancer, saying "a cancer got cancer," and "boo hoo." Her sentiments were echoed by untold numbers of comments on various right wing websites, spread on Facebook, and shared wherever the uglies shared ugliness. And though comparisons to the Nazis are routinely denounced by commentators on the right and on the left, the parallels seem obvious, and undeniable. Throughout the 1920s, Germany's economy was in the tank. Unhappy reactionary Germans wanted a scape goat, wanted someone who would fuel their anger, someone who could manipulate their fears and focus all of that discontent. They wanted a strong man who would reclaim an imagined former greatness. They hungered for a strong military again, and for aggression to replace what they perceived as the passive acceptance of dictates from other nations they saw as inferior.

Meanwhile, the idea of German "exceptionalism" gained ever greater and more belligerent currency, manifesting itself as a kind of nationalism based on the idea of a "superior race," the Aryan mythology that could be used to impose its will on lesser people.

When a right wing talk radio host in Iowa (the heartland), promotes the idea of enslaving Mexican farm workers who are here illegally, and when that notion is not met with condemnation by the entire population, you know the country is settling very deep into the muck, miring itself in the worst kind of ugliness, hungering for a police state even while the most vociferous supporters of government intrusion in our lives insist that they was for smaller government.

Meanwhile, our news media seems complicit in spreading the tale as the fascists want it to be told. Meanwhile, the liberals equivocate or remain silent, telling themselves, as they did in Germany, that such madness would surely be self-limiting, that the nation would, sooner or later, see where such hatred and fear mongering can lead. Meanwhile, the right wingers, emboldened, grew ever more extreme, ever more hateful, using their twisted interpretations of religion to justify the most ungodly things imaginable. Meanwhile, the "moderates" were seen rushing ever rightward, their status as people with moderate views distorting the very definition of moderation, pushing the national conversation into a kind of "newspeak" in which war equals peace and justice equals summary executions by out-of-control cops. Meanwhile, the corporatists, the industrialists, the wealthiest few, the shielded, entitled, and most privileged, threw their money and power behind the men who promised to ensure the advantages that had made them so rich and powerful in the first place.

And so, when a demagogue steps forward, a man with an odd way of arranging his hair and a promise to make the homeland great again, the most thuggish elements begin to scream "seig heil," and ugliness is loosed upon the land.

I think of the first stanza of the William Butler Yeats' poem, written in the immediate aftermath of World War I, as the seeds of resentment that would sprout Nazism were beginning to grow in Germany.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

And, reading those words nearly a full century after they were written, I think that this is not an old poem I am reading; this is the news.

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Donald Trump's Song of Himself

Donald Trump's Song of Himself
By Jaime O'Neill

I have a little world view
It suits me to a T
It may not work for everyone
But it surely works for me.

I think the poor are lazy
And not as good as me
A few may be good people,
But the rest want stuff for free.

I cherish all the women
But hope that you agree
Megyn Kelly is an awful bitch
And Rosie's real ug-ly.

Most Mexicans are rapists
That's plain for all to see
They're coming for our women
And their virginity.

I am a sublime human being
As special as can be
That's why I'm so rewarded
And have so much mon-ey.

That old 14th Amendment
Just don't work for me
Don't want no anchor babies
Livin' here for free.

I say a prayer for trickle down
Each time I take a pee
It works so well to keep me rich
And livin' life tax-free.

In fact, I get lotsa other breaks
In the form of subsidies
The politicians give me real good deals
Nearly anytime I sneeze.

I'll build a really pretty wall
And name it after me
Mexicans will be made to pay
So they can't come aqui.

We'll be the best that ever was
Or that will ever be
Trumpland (aka America)
From sea to Trumpish sea.

Pundits say that what I do
Is campaign pornography
And that the "awful" things I say
Will sink the GOP.

But I don't give a tinker's damn
It doesn't bother me
More fun than this I couldn't buy
My ego's on a spree.

The media all just eat me up
Hell, I could charge a fee
And make all the TV hacks
Pay just to talk to me.

I'm nearly all the news you'll hear
From CNN to NBC
It's summer entertainment
But it's not democracy.

I don't care about that neither,
Because I'm all that's on TV
It may sometimes be ugly
But it's real reality

It ain't about good government
It's about celebrity
It's about sucking up all TV time
From Joe to Hannity.

And now this song is ending,
Though I hope that you will see
There's more to hear and more to love
About a wondrous guy like me.

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Am sending this out, but I don't expect right wingers to believe it

"Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth." - Mark Crispin Miller

"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer

Those who are being taught by Fox Noise will never believe truth. Facts are rejected by Fox news "hosts" while they pump right-wing ideological B.S. into the minds of their viewers.  For those who have never watched Fox, I recommend tuning to that channel just to see how their loyal viewers are molded into robots, every second of every day. Be forewarned: It's like being catapulted into Upside-down Bizarro World where everything you know to be true is refuted with mind-manipulating falsehoods--often delivered by women chosen for their facial beauty, short skirts, long legs and high heels...and ignorance. They are Fox's eye candy for the men viewers who don't want truth--just give them lies put forth by long eye-lashed, heavily lipsticked female sex objects.  To keep viewers entertained and stimulated,  drumbeats and music designed to excite are continually heard behind the oft-appearing gigantic words "BREAKING NEWS!" and "ALERT!" Fear is the order of the day in practically everything they report (invent).  Known facts don't matter at all, because, of course, they are interested only in lining up the lemmings, brainwashing them to jump off whichever cliff they are promoting as "FEAR Cliff of the Day." 

Most Fox viewers will unquestioningly follow the leaders the network gives them (Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly, etc.) Well...just recently one exception has been brought to her knees by the man who has previously said he wanted to see a woman on her knees (hmm...who could That be?) Megyn Kelly, their once highly touted woman "anchor/reporter," has fallen into disfavor and been toppled from her perch by Donald Trump, who will brook no disagreement or hard questions from ANYone, including Fox.  Roger Ailes had to call the Donald to apologize to him for Megyn's harshness towards him with her debate question re. Trump's abusive comments about women.  We can't have King Donald unhappy, now, can we?  Especially when he is creating higher ratings for Fox (and all the other networks, too, for that matter). Fox viewers love Donald and want to see him become our President. (sigh.....) 

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call journalistic "news" in today's world.  Can we possibly sink any Lower than this?  Stay tuned --I think the Donald and Fox will prove there is no bottom limit to their fake noise that has wholly mesmerized the far right wing. 

Following is one example of a scientifically proven truth (proven over and over and over) that will never be accepted by Fox, their corporate masters, or their dumbed-down viewers  (unless King Donald rocks the Fox boat again by telling them he believes the scientists).  

The 97 Percent Scientific Consensus on Climate Change Is Wrong—It's Even Higher

By Taylor Hill, editor at TakePart

The debate on global warming is over. Way over.

Jul 9, 2015

In May, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver attempted to visually demonstrate what a true debate on climate change should look like. Instead of bringing out one expert on either side of the issue, Oliver brought on set 97 scientists who support evidence that humans are causing global warming to argue with three climate skeptics—"a statistically representative climate change debate," he said.

The sketch was based on the "climate consensus," the notion that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that global warming is occurring and that humans are part of the problem.

But if Oliver really wanted to be up-to-date on his stats, he would have put 99.99 scientists on one side of the desk.

That's according to James L. Powell, director of the National Physical Sciences Consortium, who reviewed more than 24,000 peer-reviewed scientific articles on climate change published between 2013 and 2014.

Powell identified 69,406 authors named in the articles, four of whom rejected climate change as being caused by human emissions.

That's one in every 17,352 scientists. Oliver would need a much bigger studio to statistically represent that dispa

"The 97 percent is wrong, period," Powell said. "Look at it this way: If someone says that 97 percent of publishing climate scientists accept anthropogenic [human-caused] global warming, your natural inference is that 3 percent reject it. But I found only 0.006 percent who reject it. That is a difference of 500 tim

To obtain his figures, Powell—a member of the National Science Board under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush—reviewed the abstracts of 24,210 papers, searching for key words such as "global warming," "global climate change," and "climate change." He spent nine months reading titles and abstracts, finding only five articles (two from the same author) that clearly reject human-caused global warming or give another explanation for the rising temperatures. The paper isn't in the public domain yet, but Powell has sent it in to a peer-reviewed journal for publication this summer.

So, Why Should You Care?
Powell said correcting the commonly held climate consensus number of 97 percent to 99.99 percent is just one more step in the process of ending the climate debate.

"Publishing scientists are virtually unanimous: Anthropogenic global warming is true," Powell said. The quicker we understand that, he said, the quicker we can agree on the importance of cutting carbon emissions, which influence global temperatures, sea-level rise, long-term health, and the world's food supply.

But try telling that to large portions of Americans—a third of whom believe that global warming will either never happen (16 percent) or will not happen in their lifetime (17 percent), according to a March 2015 Gallup poll.

Read the Pew Research Center's January survey, and the divide between the scientific community and the general public on climate change appears even wider. The survey asked members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the general public if they believed the Earth was getting warmer owing to human activity.

While 87 percent of the AAAS community agreed that the Earth was getting warmer thanks to humans, only 50 percent of regular Joes agreed, and nearly half responded either that the Earth was getting warmer on its own or that there was no evidence of climate change at all.

Powell said he wasn't surprised to find the large disparity between those who reject and accept climate change in the scientific publishing world. He knew that in 2004 Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University, had reviewed 928 abstracts of articles on global warming, finding none that rejected it.

"Scientists have done so much more work since then," Oreskes told MSNBC. "For me, as a historian of science, it really feels like overkill. One starts to think, how many more times do we need to say this before we really get it and start to act on it?"

Oreskes coauthored the book Merchants of Doubt, which looks at how industry interest groups have placed "science experts" in different fields to deceive the public on issues such as tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and climate change. Her 2004 research was the first to find a consensus on climate change. Powell's work is just the latest to strengthen that argument. (Disclosure: The documentary Merchants of Doubt, which is based on Oreskes' book, was produced by Participant Media, TakePart's parent company.)

"Many people evidently feel that they can accept the findings of science that they agree with and reject those that they find offensive or inconvenient," Powell said. "But it doesn't work that way. Science is of a piece, all fitting together like a beautiful tapestry. To say that climate scientists are wrong is to say that all these fields are wrong and therefore science itself is wrong. But if it were, nothing would work. People can't have it both way

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Astronaut Edgar Mitchell tells the truth about UFOs

in this article that appeared in today's England's Daily Mail -- but, of course, it is denied by NASA and government officials.  The mainstream press call his words "bizarre"....(can't have people running screaming through the streets, ya' know...)  You won't see this article in the U.S. mainstream news, either printed or on TV, but what Mitchell says is the truth.  For anyone curious and wanting to explore the truth about aliens and UFOs, you might want to start with videos of Robert Dean's talks.  Dean was a Command Sgt. Major at SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe) in 1963 when he first was informed of the visitation to our planet by several alien groups.  He perused the files that were available to him with his Cosmic Top Secret clearance, and became consumed by what he calls "the greatest story in human history." As he says with great sincerity (and even some regret), "My life has not been the same since." 

The true story of humankind and how it came about is a part of what he learned in the papers that were called "The Assessment."  The information in those papers solves the mystery of the "missing link."  He tells us that now the human race is in the midst of transition -- what might be termed "a transcendent transformation into a higher form of life."   Edgar Mitchell and several other astronauts were aware of the alien presence on Earth -- and Mitchell is now speaking up about it.  Both Mitchell and Bob Dean are aware of the spiritual nature of our being. Not proponents of religion, they are wanting to make us aware of a new paradigm taking shape on our planet and in its inhabitants with the help of extra-terrestrial and multi-dimensional "elder brothers" who are watching over us to make sure we don't blow ourselves up.

If you are at all curious, the following video of Bob Dean's presentation in 2010 at a UFO conference in Madrid, Spain, tells the full story.  If you elect to watch the video (I highly recommend it), you will get a feeling for the kind of man Bob Dean is -- humble, truthful, sincere, articulate -- and frustrated that so few are aware of this "greatest story in human history." I've met him and spoken with him at several UFO conferences.  A better man is hard to find in our world.  I know him to be a completely honest, warm-hearted gentle man. But judge for yourself as you watch his presentation.  I believe it is time for more people to awaken to a broader understanding of who we are -- and Bob Dean's presentation is a good place to take the first step.  You can see it at: 
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=Robert+Dean+youtube&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

Aliens tried to save America from nuclear war': UFOs shot at missiles in White Sands to protect Earth, claims former astronaut

• Comment made by Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon 
• He says UFO stories from high-ranking military officials back up claim 
• 'Test missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft,' he said 

By Ellie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail.com

Aliens came to Earth to stop a nuclear war between America and Russia, according the bizarre claim of a former astronaut.

Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, says high-ranking military officials witnessed alien ships during weapons tests throughout the 1940s.

The UFOs, he says, were spotted hovering over the world's first nuclear weapons test which took place on July 16, 1945 in the desolate White Sands deserts of New Mexico.

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Edgar Mitchell (left), the sixth man to walk on the moon, says high-ranking military sources witness alien ships hovering during weapons tests. The UFOs, he says, were seen during the world's first nuclear weapons test which took place on July 16, 1945 in the desolate White Sands deserts of New Mexico

The Nasa veteran has regularly spoken about his belief in aliens ever since he landed on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

'White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons - and that's what the extra-terrestrials were interested in,' the 84-year-old Texan told Mirror Online. 

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'They wanted to know about our military capabilities. 

'My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.'

Dr Mitchell says stories from people who manned missile bases during the 20th Century back up his claims.

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Edgar Mitchell, a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, says stories from people who manned missile bases during the 20th Century back up his claims. 'Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft,' he said

'Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft,' he said.

He previously said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.

He claimed our technology is 'not nearly as sophisticated' as theirs and 'had they been hostile', he warned 'we would be been gone by now'.

Nick Pope, a former Ministry of Defence UFO researcher, told DailyMail.com that Dr Mitchell's comments are all based on second-hand reports.

'Even where Mitchell's sources are genuine, how do we know they have access to classified information about UFOs?' asks Pope.

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'White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons - and that's what the extra-terrestrials were interested in,' the 84-year-old told Mirror Online. 'My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.'

UFO believers say it's no coincidence that aliens showed up very shortly after we'd developed atomic weapons and rocket technology, as this is when they were alerted to the threat we pose to the wider cosmos.

'Ironically, governments have sometimes secretly promoted belief in UFOs, because if someone sees a secret prototype aircraft or drone, it's much better to have it reported as a flying saucer than recognised for what it is,' said Pope.  

'None of this is to say that there haven't been some genuinely fascinating and unexplained UFO sightings around nuclear facilities and military bases, but just because a UFO sighting is unexplained, it doesn't follow that it's extraterrestrial.'

'In a final irony, the very conspiracy theorists who believe Edgar Mitchell when he talks about aliens don't believe him when he talks about his moon mission, because they think it was all done on a film set.' 

Edgar Mitchell watches crewmate hit golf ball off moon in '71

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This image was taken during the Apollo 14 mission in February 1971 of US astronauts Alan Shepard (left) and Edgar Mitchell (right). The Apollo XIV mission, the third mission to land on the moon, was launched on January 31, 1971 and landed on the moon on February 5, 1971

Dr Mitchell, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics also says the Roswell cover up was real.

'This is really starting to open up,' he told a radio show several years ago. 'I think we're headed for real disclosure and some serious organisations are moving in that direction.'

Officials from Nasa were quick to play the comments down.

In a statement at the time, a spokesman said: 'Nasa does not track UFOs. Nasa is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe.

'Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue.'

MARTIAN CIVILISATION WAS WIPED OUT BY ALIENS, CLAIMS PHYSICIST

While Edgar Mitchell may believe aliens attempted to save Earth from nuclear war, others have claimed ET has proved it.  

Earlier this year, physicist Dr John Brandenburg said he believes an ancient civilisation on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear attack from another alien race.

Dr Brandenburg says ancient Martians known as Cydonians and Utopians were massacred in the attack - and evidence of the genocide can still be seen today. 

Back in 2011 the scientist first postulated that the red colour on Mars could have been due to a naturally occurring thermonuclear explosion.

'The Martian surface is covered with a thin layer of radioactive substances including uranium, thorium and radioactive potassium - and this pattern radiates from a hot spot on Mars,' he told Fox News at the time. 

'A nuclear explosion could have sent debris all around the planet.'

But since then he has advanced his theory to the level that he now no longer thinks it was a naturally occurring explosion - but rather one planned by an intelligent alien race.

According to Vice, the conclusion of his latest paper says that nuclear isotopes in the atmosphere resembling hydrogen bomb tests 'may present an example of civilisation wiped out by a nuclear attack from space.'

Earlier this year, physicist Dr John Brandenburg said an ancient civilisation on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear attack from another alien race. He claims there is evidence for two nuclear explosions on the red planet (image from his paper shown)

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