Showing posts with label Dennis Kucinich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dennis Kucinich. Show all posts

Friday, November 13, 2015

No UFO Questions for GOP Please


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No UFO Questions for GOP Please

By Billy Cox
De Void
11-10-15

     Dude, what’s up with Mother Jones? For the third time in seven months, reporter A.J. Vicens has gone UFO and nobody’s revoked his press badge. What gives?

The latest offering comes just hours before tonight’s Republican presidential contender soiree in Milwaukee, under the headline “The Debate Is Over. This Is the Best Candidate for UFO Disclosure.” Never mind that the headline doesn't square with the copy. Vicens managed to find and post an eight-year-old clip from John Kasich’s days as a Fox News host for a segment called “Heartland,” in which Kasich refereed a lame excuse of UFO debate. It pitted Bill “The Science Guy” Nye against New Agey author David Sereda, whose Facebook page says he “Studied at University of the Universe.”

Kasich never volunteered an opinion one way or the other on UFOs during this seven-minute segment, but what the hell, man, the door’s wide open now, let’s drag the Ohio guv into The Great Taboo the same way Tim Russert dropped a bomb on Dennis Kucinich during the Democratic primary debate in 2007.


The fact that Kasich had the gall to even schedule a discussion on UFOs suggests some deviant character flaw that Fox Business Network panelists need to take a good hard look at tonight; after all, Kasich soiled the Fox brand on their parent company’s schedule. And while we’re at it:

What do you suppose Trump is covering up? Will someone ask The Donald about those UFOs tailing his helicopter in broad daylight at the Iowa State Fair in August? UFOs flirt with me, they always have, what can I tell ya, some of my best friends are UFOs, if they weren't UFOs I'd probably be dating them ...
Anyhow, larger point: Just last month, Vicens wrote another MJ piece about a group of scientists – UFODATA – hoping to establish a network of tracking stations to detect and record anomalous activity in our atmosphere. This doesn’t sound very traditional Mother Jones to De Void. And in April, taking his cue from a tweet dispatched by longtime Clinton insider John Podesta, Vicens uncorked yet another one, under the banner “ETs for Hillary: Why UFO Activists Are Excited About Another Clinton Presidency.” He built it around an email knee-slapper reply from Hillary’s staff, which had not yet committed to a 2016 White House run: “Our non-campaign has a strict policy of not commenting on extraterrestrial activity. BUT, the Truth Is Out There.” Clever.

The truth, of course, is that Hillary does have a few UFO cards she’s not playing, and if the House Select Committee on Benghazi was really interested making her squirm, it should’ve asked about the former First Lady's discussions with the late philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller and former White House Science Advisor John Gibbons. Maybe put retired CIA bigwigs Robert Gates and Chase Brandon under oath, or subpoena Webb Hubbell and get the former Justice Department official to quit being such a sphinx. But that's really up to the press now, isn't it? Maybe, if Mother Jones – or anyone else, for that matter – decides to actually invest aggressive reporting into The Great Taboo, the political intrigues spanning this issue for decades will give partisans on both sides of the aisle something vastly more interesting to howl about. Props to Mr. Vicens for trying to do something different. But what’s the plan?

Thursday, July 23, 2015

The Extraterrestrial Vote



By Rebecca Leber
www.newrepublic.com
7-16-15

      NASA's nine-year-old New Horizons mission made history on Tuesday by giving Earth its first close glimpse at the on-again, off-again ninth planet, Pluto. In response, President Barack Obama tweeted:


But was New Horizons really Pluto’s first visitor? John Podesta, who left his White House senior adviser position earlier this year to run Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, questioned the assumption:


Podesta is a well-documented science fiction enthusiast who's regularly riffed on the X-Files tagline, “The truth is out there.”

In 2002, Podesta told reporters at the National Press Club that the U.S. government should “declassify records that are more than 25 years old.” He was, of course, discussing UFOs. “It’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there,” he said. . . .

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Celebrity Alien / UFO Encounters



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Celebrity Alien – UFO Encounters

10 Stars Who Have Seen Aliens

By Samantha Grossman
newsfeed.time.com
7-13-13

     Former NBA star Baron Davis says he was recently abducted by aliens. From Fran Drescher to John Lennon to William Shatner himself, celebrities who have had close encounters.

Baron Davis–Former New York Knicks star Baron Davis appeared on a recent episode of the podcast The Champs and, rather matter-of-factly, said he’d been abducted by aliens. . . .

Fran Drescher–Fran Drescher, best known for her role as Fran Fine on The Nanny (and, of course, for that nasaly voice), is also vocal about her belief in the paranormal. The actress once told the Huffington Post that in separate encounters, a few years before they met, she and her ex-husband both saw aliens while driving with their fathers. . . .

Sammy Hagar–Over the years, former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar has remained outspoken about his belief in aliens and his personal encounters with them. His 2011 autobiography, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, delves into the topic — although he told MTV Hive that he would have liked to discuss it even further. . . .

Jimmy Carter–Former President Jimmy Carter reported that he saw a UFO in Leary, Georgia, in 1969. As Yahoo reports, Carter shared details of the experience four years after the fact with the International UFO Bureau in Oklahoma City. . . .

Olivia Newton-John–Grammy-winning singer and actress Olivia Newton-John has been intrigued by the paranormal ever since she spotted an unidentified flying object when she was 15, she told the Sun in 2009. The bright silver object she saw flying across the sky sparked a lifelong interest in extra-terrestrials — and now, she doesn’t think she’s alone in her belief of alien visitors. . . .

John Lennon–Imagine all the people … and all the aliens, too? In 2004, magician Uri Geller told the story of his friend John Lennon’s encounter with extra-terrestrials. It happened one night after a blazing light jolted him awake while sleeping in bed. . . .

Robbie Williams–In 2006, best-selling English singer Robbie Williams took a hiatus from his career in entertainment to explore the world of UFOs and extra-terrestrial life. He and journalist Jon Ronson headed into the Nevada desert to meet UFO abductees and gather their own evidence. . . .

Miyuki Hatoyama–Former Japanese First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama might be a notable figure across the globe, but she also believes in life far beyond the boundaries of Earth. In a 2008 book titled Very Strange Things I’ve Encountered, Hatoyama wrote, “While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus. . . .

Dennis Kucinich–In a 2007 presidential debate, NBC’s Tim Russert cited a passage from Shirley MacLaine’s book, in which the actress wrote that candidate Dennis Kucinich had seen a UFO from her home in Washington state. The former Ohio representative confirmed that he had indeed spotted an unidentified flying object, and compared his experience to Jimmy Carter’s. . . .

William Shatner–William Shatner, the beloved Canadian actor known for playing Star Trek‘s Captain Kirk, has been especially vocal about his belief in all things paranormal. In a 2010 interview with the Montreal Gazette (not currently available online), he said, “There is no doubt that there is life out there; the mathematics of it lead you to that absolute conclusion. . . .

Monday, April 21, 2008

UFO Hunter for Clinton: 'X-Conference'

X-Conference Header GrayHillary & Alien
By Whitney Blair Wyckoff
4-21-08

      For a number Americans the economy is a major issue for this upcoming presidential election. But many of those attending the X-Conference held in suburban Washington, D.C., over the weekend are concerned with a different kind of green.

The X-Conference is a weekend-long symposium on exopolitics--or governmental, political or social issues relating to aliens and UFOs. Various heavyweights in the UFO community came to the event to speak about their work and to discuss a conspiracy to cover up encounters with the third kind.

"There is no more important research going on in the world," said Steve Bassett, executive producer of the event, at the conference on Sunday morning. Most of the 120 or so audience members nodded in agreement.

Grant Cameron, a lecturing UFO researcher, said that UFOs have long been an issue with presidential candidates. But he said that he no longer thinks that presidents have all the facts when it comes to extra terrestrial visits.

"There's a government inside a government," that controls this information, Cameron said.

Take former President Jimmy Carter, he said. Cameron said that Carter admitted to seeing a UFO and promised to disclose any information the government had about UFOs during his presidency. But Carter never did, Cameron said.

Rom Simone, another lecturer, said it was because Carter was an outsider, shut out of the industrial-military complex. "This is what Eisenhower warned about in his last speech," Simone said.

For this election, Cameron thought that Dennis Kucinich was the mostly likely candidate to provide full disclosure on UFOs. After all, Kucinich also admitted to seeing an unidentified flying object during one of the presidential debates. But since Kucinich dropped out of the race, Cameron endorsed another candidate.

Carmeron ended up endorsing Hillary Clinton on his Web site "Hillary is sympathetic to the issue," said Cameron, a Canadian who also works as a building facility manager at the University of Manitoba to pay the bills.

Cameron added that both Hillary and former president Bill Clinton met with UFO enthusiast Laurance Rockefeller to talk about extra terrestrials. And Cameron said that he has acquired documents through Freedom of Information Act requests that show that the former president investigated UFOs.

But Cameron stressed that it is up to the UFO community to keep pushing the issue.

"Everybody is waiting for a Messiah, everyone is waiting for someone to come and make it all better," Cameron said. "Disclosure is our game. It's up to us to do the work and push the issue."

While some at the conference were skeptics about UFOs until they witnessed a sighting, Terri Mansfield said that she had believed in life outside of Earth ever since she was a little girl.

"I used to look up at the sky and wonder where I came from," she said.

Eleven years ago, Mansfield witnessed a light formation over Phoenix that some said was a UFO. The event got much press coverage. Mansfield is featured in a documentary called The Phoenix Lights.

Even though Cameron has devoted his life to studying UFOs, he said he has no problem with cynics. In fact, Cameron's 25-year-old son has no interest in UFOs, he said.

"Everybody has a right to believe what they want to believe," he said. "In the end it will eventually work out."

Monday, January 14, 2008

A call For Investigative Journalism

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By Paradigm Research Group
1-14-08

     Washington, DC - Recent events have made it clear it is time for the political reporters, editors, moderators and talk show hosts to penetrate the ridicule curtain and ask serious questions of and demand appropriate answers from the presidential candidates regarding the UFO issue and the government's 60-year non-denial, denial (truth embargo) of an extraterrestrial explanation.

Another major document release by the Ministry of Defence is pending in the United Kingdom, a mass sighting similar to the 1997 Phoenix lights events has taken place in San Diego, Dennis Kucinich has acknowledged a significant sighting which has been confirmed and written up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Other candidates have been queried, including VP hopeful, NM Governor Bill Richardson, Follow-up and investigative journalism is called for.

Friday, January 04, 2008

What Kucinich Saw: Witnesses Describe His Close Encounter

Dennis Kucinich & UFO
By Michael M. Phillips
The Wall Street Journal
1-2-08

      The 2008 presidential race has raised many questions about the candidates' personal histories. Will Barack Obama's past drug use preclude a White House future? Will Christian conservatives forgive Rudy Giuliani his two divorces? Will voters forgive Hillary Clinton for forgiving Bill?

And what exactly did Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich see hovering above actress Shirley MacLaine's house 25 years ago?

This fall, Ms. MacLaine revealed in her new book that the Ohio congressman had seen a UFO and felt "a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind." In a Democratic presidential debate in late October, Mr. Kucinich acknowledged ...

Saturday, December 01, 2007

Kucinich's Close Encounter

Dennis Kucinich & UFO
By The LA Times
12-1-07


The presidential candidate's televised acknowledgment of seeing a UFO has put the issue back on the radar.
     Although it's unlikely that voters will ever have anything resembling a close encounter with Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), the two-time presidential hopeless has helped revive an issue that means more to many Americans than any election: suppression of UFO evidence by the men in black.

You may recall that during a recent MSNBC Democratic presidential candidates' debate, moderator Tim Russert drew out Kucinich on the revelation (by Oscar-winning paranormal investigator Shirley MacLaine) that he had once spotted a "triangular craft, silent and hovering." Kucinich's reply, which was intriguing in its own right, came at a conjunction of -- well, maybe not of UFO activity, but certainly of UFO aficionado activity.

This fall saw the first anniversary of the multiple-witness saucer incident over the United Airlines terminal at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, which is already shaping up as this decade's great sighting. In late October, a federal judge ordered NASA to search its records for information on one of two fabled UFO sightings from 1965.

And last month, the New York-based Coalition for Freedom of Information held a conference at which more than a score of pilots from around the world gathered to share their experiences with unidentified flying objects. Moderator Fife Symington (the controversial former governor of Arizona) summed up the conference by calling for the government to stop perpetuating "the myth that ALL UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms" and reopen its official Blue Book investigation, which has been closed since 1969.

Are we on the verge of an alien breakthrough? Is this new critical mass of respectable UFO hawks about to rout the army of dissembling federal agents, driving around in their 1964 Chevy Malibus with their shades and fixed smiles?

Probably not. There have been high-profile flying saucer enthusiasts in the past, including astronauts Buzz Aldrin, who spotted a mysterious something during Apollo 11's return trip, and the late Gordon Cooper, who once informed the United Nations, "I believe that . . . extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which are a little more technically advanced than we are on Earth."

Kucinich mentioned in his own defense that President Carter was a UFO witness, and he might have mentioned that Ronald Reagan was as well. Then again, if you think presidents really run the country, well, that's what "they" want you to think.

If anything keeps the cult of the UFO alive, it's not the respectability of the witnesses but the clumsy, protesting-too-much denials of government agencies. The Federal Aviation Administration got caught in a fib about last year's O'Hare incident after the Chicago Tribune filed a Freedom of Information Act request. And it's somewhat perverse to call for reopening a federal UFO investigation given how universally hated the knee-jerk-skeptical Project Blue Book turned out to be.

John Podesta, the Clinton White House chief of staff who has never disguised his interest in flying saucers, makes the case that the government should declassify its UFO-related materials "and let people have at it," a demand that is as reasonable as it is unlikely to happen, given how easily this topic can be rerouted into japery.

In his debate reply, Kucinich made a point dear to respectable UFO investigators: "It was an unidentified flying object, OK?" he said. "It's like ... it was unidentified. I saw something." There's a difference between saying objects in the sky are sometimes not familiar and claiming to have been probed by taciturn "grays," and people such as Coalition for Freedom of Information co-founder Leslie Kean express understandable frustration that UFO ridicule purposely blurs that distinction.

But with Kucinich as a central advocate, ridicule may be unavoidable. In the debate, Kucinich made a self-deprecating joke about moving his campaign headquarters to "Roswell, New Mexico, and another one in Exeter, New Hampshire." Roswell everybody knows about, but with the easy reference to the 1965 Exeter incident, Kucinich leaves the impression that he's not just a UFO witness, he's a buff.

Let him go on, and we suspect Kucinich will soon be expanding on the Kecksburg sightings, the Val Johnson incident, Lonnie Zamora, the "Kaikoura lights" and countless other visitations from the sky that continue to sustain our nation's sense of mystery.

Monday, November 05, 2007

'Kucinich is Not The First Presidential Aspirant to Report Seeing a UFO'

Presidents & UFOs
UFO discussions aren’t completely alien to politics

By ROBIN ABCARIAN
LA Times
11-3-07

     Presidential candidates have flip-flopped on taxes, on abortion, on gun control and on the war.

But rarely has one flip-flopped on flying saucers.

Until now.

In September, a spokeswoman for Rep. Dennis Kucinich dismissed a report that the Ohio Democrat had a close encounter with a UFO.

“If you have a serious question, just ask me,” Kucinich staffer Natalie Laber told a Washington Post reporter who inquired about Kucinich’s knowledge of UFOs. “If not, then just keep your silly comments to yourself.”

But Tuesday night, Kucinich had no wiggle room when debate moderator Tim Russert posed this question:

“The godmother of your daughter, Shirley MacLaine, writes in her new book that you’ve sighted a UFO over her home in Washington state, that you found the encounter extremely moving, that it was a triangular craft silent and hovering, that you felt a connection to your heart and heard direction in your mind. Now, did you see a UFO?”

Kucinich replied: “I did.”

Kucinich did not elaborate much. He joked about moving his campaign headquarters to Roswell, N.M., the site of the country’s most famous alleged UFO crash.

This, in fact, is why a second presidential candidate, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, was drawn into the fray.

When MSNBC’s Chris Matthews asked Richardson after the debate what he thought of Kucinich’s UFO response, Richardson smiled, giggled a little and explained that as governor of a state that depends on the UFO-enthralled tourist dollar, he was not in a position to criticize.

Although, Richardson hastened to add, he has never seen a UFO.

He also said it was time for the government to “come clean” on the Roswell matter.

Matthews began to sputter in disbelief, but as it happens, Richardson was not boldly going where no one (including his own self) had gone before. He has said many times that the mystery surrounding the 1947 crash in Roswell has never been adequately explained.

“Clearly,” he wrote in a foreword to a 2004 book about the crash, “it would help everyone if the U.S. government disclosed everything it knows.”

Kucinich is not the first presidential aspirant to report seeing a UFO.

According to many news accounts, when Jimmy Carter was governor of Georgia in 1973, he filed a report with the International UFO Bureau in Oklahoma City, saying that he had seen an unidentified glowing object four years earlier in Leary, Ga. Carter said later that he did not believe the object to be an alien craft, and some “ufologists,” as specialists call themselves, think he saw a halo around the planet Venus.

Ronald Reagan thought he had seen UFOs at least twice — once on the West Coast while driving to Hollywood with his wife, Nancy Reagan, and once, as governor of California, on a plane flying near Bakersfield.

In Landslide, their 1988 book about Reagan’s second term as president, journalists Doyle McManus, the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief, and Jane Mayer, now of The New Yorker, wrote that Reagan’s staff worked hard to keep the UFO sighting stories under wraps.

That’s easy to understand, because, as Alejandro Rojas, who handles media relations for the Mutual UFO Network, pointed out, “It’s typically an issue used on politicians to make them look bad.”

But, added Rojas, whose group investigates UFO sightings as well as reports of alien abductions, he was happy to see the issue raised in a presidential forum: “It’s great because the debate highlighted it.”

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

UFOs Land at Democratic Debate

Dennis Kucinich & UFO
By Frank Warren
© 10-31-07

     Two monumental things took place last night in regards to Ufology; one was a very positive, admirable, promising and hopeful act in regards to the subject that has happened in quite some time. The other was yet another blow to research, and “how” the public views the issue.

The “former” was the fact that during a “presidential debate” a question concerning “Unidentified Flying Objects” was interjected into the dialogue. Here’s the colloquy that followed with moderator, “Tim Russert” and candidate, “Congressman Dennis Kucinich”:
MR. RUSSERT: Congressman Kucinich, I want to move to a different area, because this is a serious question.

The godmother of your daughter, Shirley MacLaine, writes in her new book that you've cited a UFO over her home in Washington state -- (laughter) -- that you found the encounter extremely moving, that it was a triangular craft silent and hovering, that you felt a connection to your heart and heard direction in your mind.
Now, did you see a UFO? (Laughter.)
For a spilt second even though there was “expected” laughter from the audience, Russert framed the question as a “serious one” this could have been read as “mild sarcasm” or could have been taken very sincerely, and all of it depended on the response.

Having watched the debate myself, I took a breath at this moment, as time seem to slow down; my mind was reeling in regards to what was going to be a monumental “UFO moment!” We were about to hear a “presidential candidate” address millions of Americans, not only about the subject of UFOs, but the fact that he has seen one himself! Not just the garden variety “light in the sky,” but an actual “triangular shaped craft!”

I anticipated Kucinich exalting the seriousness of the matter, and pledging “government” disclosure when elected as president! He was going to briefly inform the American public about the seriousness of the matter, and prompt his colleagues to follow suit. This was clearly one of the most “beneficial events” to take place in recent UFO history! Then the “latter” took place (first paragraph).

Kucinich didn’t take advantage of the moment; he did something very uncharacteristic of his nature; he followed “the old party line,” a line that both Republicans and Democrats share (one of few). He made light of the subject! He missed the boat! He aided the enemy (ignorance)!

Here is his reply:
MR. RUSSERT: Now, did you see a UFO? (Laughter.)

REP. KUCINICH: I did. And the rest of the account -- (interrupted by laughter) -- I didn't -- I -- it was unidentified flying object, okay. It's like -- it's unidentified. I saw something.

Now, to answer your question, I'm moving my -- and I'm also going to move my campaign office to Roswell, New Mexico and another one, an extra, to New Hampshire, okay. (Laughter.) And also, you have to keep in mind that more -- that Jimmy Carter saw a UFO, and also that more people in this country have seen UFOs than, I think, approve of George Bush's presidency. (Laughter.)
Opportunity missed, is opportunity lost! Sadly today, these comments are fodder for newspapers nation wide, and each are putting their own spin on Russert’s questions as well as Kucinich’s reply.

The Washington Post erroneously wrote:
"’Shirley MacLaine writes in her new book that you sighted a UFO over her home in Washington state,’" Russert said, ‘that you found the encounter extremely moving, that it was a triangular craft, silent and hovering, that you felt a connection to your heart and heard directions in your mind.’

Kucinich said yes, all of that was true.

And he defended it as a solid policy position . . ..”

This is incorrect to be polite, he didn’t say, “’all’ of that was true, ” and sadly he didn’t defend it as a “solid policy decision.” Of course we must expect more of the distortions, as this story rolls on.

Unfortunately, we Ufologists have become accustomed to culling the positive from these types of proceedings; we know Kucinich had a sighting, and although he chose not to take this opportunity to “raise the bar” regarding the subject, he can’t and isn’t “denying” what took place. Moreover, his experience precipitated the subject of UFOs being addressed at a forum, which will help elect the next president of the United States of America; for those of us that pay attention, this must be our solace.