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Laurance Rockefeller, one of the heirs to the Rockefeller fortune and the sugar daddy of the Left back when George Soros was still trying to get a visa to come to America, had two great obsessions: environmentalism and UFOs. His wealth and power ensured that both would strongly influence generations of politicians. While his political impact on environmentalism was more public, complete with a Congressional Gold Medal, his UFO obsession was a little less so.
Yet one of the most memorable images of the political impact of ‘Mr. Conservationism’ is a photo of the billionaire, dressed like an L.L. Bean catalog version of a rancher walking side by side with Hillary Clinton. The First Lady is carrying a copy of a UFO book presented to her by Larry.
Both Bill and Hillary Clinton had an interest in UFOs even if little green men took a backseat to Bill’s interest in philandering and Hillary’s interest in inflicting payback on her political enemies.
Bill Clinton recently disclosed that he “sent people to Area 51 to make sure there were no aliens” and Hillary suggested, ‘“I think we may have been (visited already). We don’t know for sure” and promised to release information about UFOs if she became president.
But it was John Podesta, Hillary’s campaign chair, who had been obsessed with UFOs in and out of the White House, and called the lack of UFO disclosures his “greatest failure” who was really lost in space. Podesta’s UFO obsession even led him to appear on an episode of Ancient Aliens which claimed that Hillary Clinton was defeated to suppress the truth about space aliens.
“John can get totally maniacal and phobic on certain subjects. He’s been known to pick up the phone to call the Air Force and ask them what’s going on in Area 51,” Mike McCurry, Bill Clinton’s former press secretary, claimed.
But now Podesta has a new job. After John Kerry dropped out as climate envoy to work on Biden’s campaign, Biden appointed the UFO nut as climate envoy in his place.
The fusion of environmentalism and UFO conspiracies is not a coincidence. Global warming originated from the Science Fiction belief that Mars and Venus had once been populated worlds just like Earth and that if we don’t restrain our industry, we too will end up just like them. That is why early terms for global warming included the “Venus Syndrome” or “Greenhouse Effect.”
While talking about UFOs, Bill Clinton concluded by urging that “we should take care of this planet.” Both global warming and UFOs are pseudoscientific beliefs that serve as a substitute religion for the one that is missing. The typical UFO believer is a liberal who was raised with religion, but discarded it and retains a strong need for a sense of meaning and wonder.
Both Rockefeller and Bill Clinton were raised as Baptists and then moved on to spaceships or seances in the White House. Podesta, marketed as a “Son of the Church”, was caught sending emails expressing contempt for Catholics while taking emails from UFO believers seriously.
Sean Kirkpatrick, the former head of the Pentagon’s UFO investigative office, recently blamed members of Congress possessed by an irrational “UFO religion” for the madness.
The strangest thing about UFOs may be the high level Democrats, including not only the Clintons, but former Senate Majority Harry Reid, who expended political capital on them.
But few senators could rival the environmentalist and UFO fixations of the late Senator Claiborne Pell, after whom the Pell Grants are named. Remembered by Biden in his eulogy as “quirky”, Pell believed not only in UFOs but in psychic powers, hosted psychic spoon bending sessions in his office, and had a Senate staffer assigned to monitoring the paranormal.
Pell, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who had mentored both Biden and Gore, wanted to establish a National Commission on Human Resource Development to promote psychic powers. The bill was cosponsored by Gore who, when he wasn’t inventing the internet, can be seen posing in a photo with alleged psychic Uri Geller, National Security Advisor Tony Lake and Soviet Foreign Minister Vorontsov. According to Geller, Senator Pell had recruited him to psychically “convince the Russians to sign the nuclear reduction treaty”.
Pell’s Human Potential Foundation would eventually be funded by Laurance Rockefeller and would look into UFOs among other X-Files matters.
“The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena,” Senate Majority Leader Church Schumer recently insisted.
The spectacle of presidents and members of Congress searching for little green men while the country burns may seem strange, but the Byzantines were reportedly furiously arguing about the sex of angels while the Turkish armies closed in. Everyone needs something to believe in.
In 1961’s ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’, a UFO arrives in D.C. with a giant robot and an alien infiltrator capable of resurrecting the dead to forcibly end the Cold War. The movie was widely seen as a secular Christian allegory and that was the intent of its screenwriter and producer. That same year, Robert Heinlein’s ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ bestselling novel offered yet another allegory of a messenger with supernatural powers sent by aliens to found a religion and transform society.
Belief in UFOs have been climbing even as traditional religious beliefs have been declining.
That may be why polls show that Democrats are far more likely to believe in UFOs than Republicans and why prominent Senate Democrats have led the charge on flying saucers.
A Pew poll found that those least likely to believe in UFOs attended religious services at least once a week, while those most likely to believe in flying saucers attended seldom or never. Not a diffuse sense of spirituality or even religious identification were the crucial factors but direct involvement in organized religion. As traditional religion declines, other things fill the void.
Why does it really matter whether space aliens exist? It matters a great deal to believers.
In the modernist conception of an indifferent universe which came into being by accident, on a tiny world rotating around an obscure sun, a species whose members have come to believe that they arose not through divine providence, but through a series of random genetic accidents over the course of millions of years still needs a source of salvation and comfort. A plausible concept of aliens, guided by vastly different biological processes, incapable of even communicating with us and prevented by the speed of light from ever meeting us, will not fulfill that religious need.
But UFO believers envision aliens that are not indifferent to humanity and are here to save us.
The UFO believer has imbibed just enough modernism to have trouble with the notion of G-d, but powerful and wise aliens, more advanced and developed than ourselves, who have solved the social problems that hold us back, seem like they fit neatly into the idea of an infinite universe and the evolution of man which proved so challenging to traditional religious beliefs.
Much like global warming is a “scientific theory” that manages to confirm every elite prejudice against the Industrial Revolution, the UFOs tend to reflect the beliefs of their inventors that war and pollution are awful and mankind must overcome them to join the ‘galactic confederation’.
Rather than struggling to remake Christianity and Judaism over to fit their social agenda, many progressives find it easier to start from scratch with flying saucers. For others, UFOs offer a belief system grounded in TV shows and movies that is more real to them than the Bible.
Having eliminated a Creator, the UFO believer replaces him with some little green men. The idea of mankind being punished with a flood for its sins is absurd, but the idea of Gaia punishing mankind for the Industrial Revolution with rising sea levels is just science. And anyone who disagrees can take it up with global warming envoy and ambassador to the aliens: John Podesta.
Birder says
How’s the saying from G K Chesterton go….
If you don’t believe in God, you don’t believe in nothing, then you’ll believe in anything.
That pretty much sums it up! Our so called “leaders” are as insane as ever! You can’t make this up!
Greg says
Clearly, hysterical Democ-rats (they see gods, global warming and little green men) need to boost, mask and social distance themselves against the spread of Joe Bite-Me’s viral dementia. Apparently, It’s a pandemic of the vaccinated.
D M says
Do not rule out the possibility of demons manifesting themselves.
Snuffy Carter says
wrt DM-
…because Satan and his demons have to deceive those left behind after the rapture (1st Thessalonians 4:17) that God did not remove his followers from earth in a blink of an eye, but rather aliens in UFOs took these people from earth.
Mark Dunn says
This article explains a lot, in last six months or more, the news cycle was filled with UFO stories. I thought the elites were trolling the electorate as a distraction from war and inflation. But like everything it is worse than we thought. Our betters believe in little green men. They use to put people in the booby hatch for that.
Daniel Greenfield says
There used to be standards of sanity. Now the elites follow no rules except whatever falls into their brains.
BZBBAZ says
Outstanding article, Mr. Greenfield. It explains a lot. The rejection of God, the Faith of Our Fathers, and the Bible will open minds to deception mentioned in the Bible as a key sign of end times.
When light is removed, darkness emerges. People call good evil and evil good. The times are ripe for the anti-christ.
SPURWING PLOVER says
They have replace God with False Gods Earth Moon Fire Water Etc. and Earth day is when they celebrate their false gods and soon they will be remanding their Sacrifices but they call it Abortion and Euthanasia where at one time they ripped out a victims Heart the Aztecs were notorious for this
Eden says
There are UFO’s, but no ET’s. Read the Fermi Paradox:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
Lancer says
Not so sure Fermi is the final authority. Millions of life species on this infinitesimal speck of a planet in the unimaginably vast universe. Jesus said: “I have other sheep that are not of this fold” and “My Father’s house has many rooms”.
Mark Dunn says
‘The other sheep’ Jesus referred to were most likely the none Jews.
Algorithmic Analyst says
When I think of the vastness of space, I wonder “How did they get here?”
Daniel Greenfield says
Especially considering the limitations of the speed of light, the time it would take to make it here from even the nearest star, and the vast amounts of resources it would take in order to do what?
Appear occasionally to Jimmy Carter?
In the middle ages, people used to see elves and fairies. Then it was ghosts. No real coincidence that people began seeing UFOs around the same time the idea of space travel began to be popularized and that we began testing experimental aircraft.
Lancer says
Assuming a ship travels at the speed of light, the length of the universe shrinks to zero. This is the Lorentz Contraction. Therefore, at light speed, the occupants cross the entire universe in an instant and distances are meaningless. Time would only be needed to accelerate to and decelerate from light speed.
Mo de Profit says
And why do they only seem to land in the USA?
Daniel Greenfield says
white privilege
Luz Maria Rodriguez says
They don’t.
There are highly credible reports across the globe even in China. China has a network of clubs that report the phenomenon.
A very close relative experienced one at Vandenberg AFB in CA in the mid 1960s.
They are a reality. They are not weather balloons. They were tracked on the Nimitz and other war ships, etc., via multiple advanced, military secretive sensors, that is, not only by human eyes.
Some argue they have been around more than modern humans; others that they warp time and space. Most say much of what an advanced nonhuman species mightl perform would appear as magic to we the backwards. What would Buffalo Bill have thought in mid 1800s had he witnessed an F18 break the sound barrier streaking by a few hundred feet overhead. How would such technology have been interpreted.
Anyone here ever ponder the Miracle of Fatima in 1917? Then, witnessed by some one hundred thousand or so, how can the sun dance in the sky? We KNOW it can’t, it is ridiculous. Did all the hundred thousand hallucinate? Was IT Her, or was it something else? Of all the mammals on this planet, one species, humans are so conceited that they believe they are the only intelligent species in this universe.
Funny how the Big Bang is now being questioned based on the newest discoveries.
Still, our gov should not be trusted with its history of propaganda and cia works.
owensgate says
The fact that they do “Right Angle” turns instantly at Mach 5, tells us they are impervious to gravity and inertia. There is only one explanation: they are interdimensional entities, undoubtedly Demonic. There’s another interesting question that should be asked: If they’re so damn advanced, why do their “vehicles” crash land?
Hannah says
The apologists are already working on that embarrassing science fact. — plus the fact that SETI has not found any sign of ET life Out There.
They’re subtly shifting the narrative from “extra-terrestrial” to “extra-dimensional” intelligence. They will soon say — “Oh wait, we’ve been looking for them out in space, but we didn’t find them because they’ve been right here the whole time!”
The fact that this exposes the EDs as alien spirits will repel adherents of the Biblical faiths, but not the pagans who always believed that their gods lived in a realm parallel to the physical cosmos. As King Solomon wrote, there is nothing new under the sun.
Edward says
This is not about Democrats and their craziness.
The current GOP Congress is trying to investigate our government’s UFO files. Why are there UFO files? Are they about nothing? What’s the harm of finding out?
Former military officials are coming forward. Are they leftist atheist hippies?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/are-5-memorable-moments-congress-ufo-hearing-rcna96476
https://www.fox13news.com/news/republican-congresswoman-says-technology-she-saw-during-ufo-hearing-unlike-anything-any-government-has
Henry Swanson says
I believe they haven’t released the “files” because there is nothing in them. The last thing they want to do is show that there is zero evidence of any visitation whatsoever.
Edward says
Why would want to hide evidence of zero visitation?
Mo de Profit says
Because they are NOT UFOs they are foreign spy balloons and personal surveillance drones designed to check on you the people.
Daniel Greenfield says
UFO sightings tend to fall into the category of aerial activities by our aircraft or enemy aircraft, or people thinking that a cloud or some optical phenomenon is a flying saucer
(we ended up with an entire legend of canals on Mars because a guy named Lowell had a flawed telescope)
keeping the former hidden is done for obvious reasons and the latter is a waste of time
Semaphore says
Actually it was Giovanni Schiaparelli who first “discovered” them, calling them “caneli” (channels), misread in the english press as canals. It was also Lowell’s overactive imagination and hubris that gave us the legend. There’s a lesson here.
Lancer says
What I saw years ago cross the sky was not of this world. I don’t get why impossible (for us) arial maneuvers need to be debunked and “explained”. What I saw was extraterrestrial, full stop.
Luz Maria Rodriguez says
Correct, sir.
There definitely is something to them. They are NOT weather balloons. As i mentioned before, a very close relative had an experience at Vandenberg AFB in the mid 1960s. The missile officers testified, did affidavits swearing of their experiences with the phenomenon. The only real questions are: who are they and what is their intention?
Have you seen/heard the testimony of F18 pilots David Favre and Ryan Graves, others as well? They are real, have been sensed by multiple advanced radars infrared, etc. Some of the radar is so secretive the military will not allow description perceived so that our enemies do not get an idea of what we have is capable of. Those sensors tracked & recorded the phenomenon. They are REAL.
Let the low information people believe what they want. They cannot change reality.
Rob A says
I’m a retired electrical engineer. Once upon during a period in my career, I worked for a company that was a subcontractor on certain military black projects at classified locations. Suffice it to say, it’s a humbling experience to discover beyond any doubt the we humans, despite our current level of scientific knowledge and understanding, in the order of things are a primitive species. That’s all I’ll say about that.
The universe is some 14+ billion years old and that’s only from what we’ve determined from the observable universe that is still expanding. The earth has only been around for 4.5 billion years and our species, homo sapiens, have only been around for a few hundred thousand years.
And yet most of our species, without an iota of tangible proof, arrogantly and self righteously believe that we’re alone in this universe and moreover, that there is no other intelligence in the universe greater that human intelligence. That’s the hallmark of an ignorant, primitive, fearful and superstitious sentient species yet to evolve into sapient beings.
I imagine that such people would be afraid to look at pictures of the earth and moon taken by deep space probes from Mars orbiters and beyond.
Their minds cannot handle seeing that tiny blue marble with that grey speck of dirt orbiting it and realize that the entirety of human civilization, past and present, originated and still exists on that tiny blue marble.
Ron Kelmell says
UFOs and Hillary? A perfect match to get votes from the insanity crowd on the left.. Alphabet perverts on their life quest after the next sexual adventure, Marxists, BLM cry babies, illegal alien invasion supporters, etc. all make for a fine collection of wack jobs voting for America’s future….what can possibly go wrong?
Ed Snider says
Hillary, herself, is a UFO—an UnFucked Object.
Snuffy Carter says
Maybe Hillary and Pelosi are aliens that the UFOs dropped off on earth – kind of like throwing your trash over the fence into someone else’s yard.
CraigAustin says
It highly unlikely that we are alone in the universe, but even less likely to meet each other over space and time.
Lightbringer says
Yep. Space is big and time is long.
Solo Boy says
OUCH! Poorly researched. “The Day the Earth Stood Still” aired in 1951 NOT in 1961. “Stranger in a Strange Land” thus came 10 years later.
Really makes the article suspect when you can’t get this correct about science fiction!
owensgate says
More obvious, the omission of “War of the Worlds” (1953). “Don’t fool around with something when you don’t know what it is!” Best SF line of dialog ever.
Semaphore says
Voltaire said, “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” I may be wrong, but I think Voltaire understood the contradictory nature of our species. We are by nature killer apes, no matter which race or culture. Robert Ardrey wrote about this in “African Genesis” some 50 or more years ago. Yet at birth we are probably more vulnerable than any other mammal, taking about a full year to be able to walk and some ten to twelve years to become reproductive. So we needed a balancing act between our savagery and survival. Forming societies was a necessary solution. And to keep our native agression in check we developed faith, superstition, magical practices and laws. I think what we are seeing now is a quandry borne out of our loss of traditional faith. Our natural ruthlessness has less to keep in check, so we invent crises and boogymen just to survive. Problem is we have gone to the absurd for our redemption. Space men? Global warming? Another Venus? OK…
Spurwing Plover says
The Invaders Sci Fi TV series from the 1960’s involving aliens from a dying planet coming to take over Earth they had to regenerate themselves every so often to maintaine their human apperence in glass tubs and when they died they went up in a red glow leaving behind their ashes
owensgate says
Little almond slant eyed green or gray “pencil-neck things” have no business on Earth. Someone, somewhere, should open up on them, it, whatever, and ship the carcasses away for autopsy. It’s unbelievable the Military, having one of these “craft” on radar, and in sight, cannot get a “lock” on them and fire on it. If it were me in an F18, my missile would fly, without “higher authorization”, and if necessary, I’d plead the “Alec Baldwin” defense, “My missile just fired itself”.
Chitzpan says
It is all just a distraction – when the prez gets a lot of bad press 9ver some issue/scandal, what better method is there than to bring up UFIs to diffuse attention away from you?
It’s no surprise that famous leftists and anarchists are conspiracy theorists – it’s the kind of content that can help breed real-life scandals, complete with illusions, tricks, innuendo, lies, distractions from the truth, etc….. Those who are good at planning coups and rising above others in their professions (albeit, the dirty way) all love this stuff. They learn from the influence it has over decent, but gullible Americans who probably believe everything they read or see on TV., and they see just how powerful and influential the peddlers can be.
David L says
We know from the Bible that there are non-Human intelligences “out there” … or in fact, all around us that we cannot see. I have no problem with the concept of “aliens,” only with their supposed origins, since we also know that Lucifer can still present himself as a Angel of Light, which – to me – presupposes that he can also appear as a lot of things less exalted.
There is an old book that was republished a couple decades back, “The Presence of Spirits in Madness” that deals with whether “demons” are real, from an empirical perspective. It concludes that there appear to be two types of “spirits,” those who appear to help those who suffer mental illness, and those who apper only to torment. I see parallels with accounts of “alien contact” and UFO phenomenology in general, and I believe, it is due to similar origins.
The West is full of “enlightened” suckers who too often believe that *we* can find “good in people” who only wish to trade upon our foolishness to their benefit and our harm. I fully expect that “something” will appear, maybe in my lifetime – we are being primed for it – and that those who understand evil and how evil manipulates fools, will be kept silent until it is too late.
The USA is not discernible in End Times prophecy, it may be that we are just too foolish to make it to the finish line as a Nation and will be displaced from any “leadership” position and off the stage completely, by then.
For what it’s worth.
Steven Kardas says
We have be subjected to a blizzard of blatant lies for quite a while so a few more really big whopper’s should not come as a surprise, like it will be revealed the Space Aliens want Trump in prison too…….