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Post by auntym on Apr 30, 2013 11:37:12 GMT -6
www.ufodigest.com/article/politicians-priorities-0430April 30, 2013 Political Priorities and UFOsBy Dennis G. Balthaser I really do not enjoy writing or talking about political concerns I have, but am becoming more concerned that the only objective our leaders in Washington have are interests that benefit themselves. I won’t lay blame on any individual party either, as I feel they all fall into the same trap once they get to Washington. Over the past 65 years much has been written and reported in reference to the UFO situation world wide, while our leaders have for the most part ignored it, or have shown no interest in looking in to it, so the public might at least know truthfully what all these reports are about. Nearly every President since Truman has indicated they would investigate the reports and have not succeeded in doing so. I think I do understand that since the President is a “temporary employee”, serving a maximum of 8 years as President, he most likely doesn’t have the security clearance, or “need to know” to follow through on his desire to obtain the information. In my opinion the President can’t be trusted with such information. Nearly all have tried while in office to no avail, which I’ll explain later. Many of those that are in Congress are active on various committees that could easily look into the UFO situation, but have not done so to any satisfactory degree. Excuses for not doing so are evident in some of the reports I have read. This is not a matter of serving only their constituents they represent from each state, but a national concern that should be looked at by many or all of those that are elected to serve the people they represent. The Constitution states plainly in it’s opening statement, “We the People”, and for me that’s been lost by those we elect to represent us in Washington. When legislation needs to be passed prior to being read by those voting on it, as Nancy Pelosi recently alluded to regarding passage of the “Obama Care bill,” we have a major problem with those we elected to represent us. I suppose I shouldn’t expect them to take UFO reports under consideration, based on their current records, of not being able to agree on any legislation that currently affects all of us. Two Presidents, Reagan and Carter reported sightings of UFOs prior to becoming presidents, while governors of their states in California and Georgia. Reagan even addressed the UFO topic at the United Nations in a speech given there in 1987 while President. President Clinton had an interest in UFOs and asked an aide to look into the topic, who reported back to the President that he could not find any information. I’ve heard rumors about Eisenhower having some involvement with extraterrestrials, but have never seen any confirmation on that. George Bush, Senior was head of the CIA prior to becoming president, and may well have been the only president with any prior knowledge of UFOs, although he has never publicly mentioned anything, that I’m aware of. Barry Goldwater was a United States Senator from Arizona who ran for President in the 1960’s and lost to Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 Presidential election. He was also a member of the Senate Intelligence committee, and promoted to Brigadier General in the Air Force Reserve. His interest in the possibility of extraterrestrial beings visiting earth has been recorded several times in interviews he did, particularly during an interview with Larry King on CNN in 1988. He had asked General Curtis LeMay about going in to the Blue Room at Hangar 18 at Wright Field in Dayton Ohio, and was told by General LeMay “to go to Hell”, and “don’t ever ask me that question again.” CONTINUE READING: www.ufodigest.com/article/politicians-priorities-0430
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Post by auntym on Oct 11, 2015 11:55:31 GMT -6
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Post by lois on Oct 12, 2015 21:47:12 GMT -6
Hillary has been into ufos for years. I was hoping she may come forward someday .
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Post by skywalker on Oct 13, 2015 19:55:36 GMT -6
I doubt she knows anything. Presidents and politicians aren't on the "need to know" list for that type of information.
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Post by auntym on Nov 1, 2015 12:54:45 GMT -6
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/30/guv-believes-in-aliens-and-jeb-bush-s-chances.html10.30.15 Guv Believes in Aliens—and Jeb Bush’s Chancesby Olivia Nuzzi Photo illustration by The Daily Beast Here’s something every flailing campaign needs: an endorsement from Arizona governor-turned-pastry chef Fife Symington, who once wrote an op-ed about seeing a UFO. A man who saw a UFO also sees Jeb Bush as president of the United States. On Wednesday, Fife Symington, a former governor of Arizona who claims that “some form of an alien spacecraft” hovered over the mountains in Phoenix in 1997, endorsed something equally implausible: Bush’s bid for the Republican nomination. “As governor of Florida, Jeb enacted smart conservative policies that grew his state’s economy and helped lift up his state’s education system,” Symington said in a statement released by the Bush campaign. “And since leaving office Jeb has been a successful private sector leader, creating jobs and opportunity. As we have painfully learned over the last 7 years, we need a president with a proven record of getting results beyond being a talking head on television.” Receiving a political endorsement from Symington, who could not be reached for comment for this story, is sort of like getting a letter of recommendation from a phone psychic or Gary Busey. But then any support may be good support when the candidate is polling behind Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Marco Rubio, and the general consensus is that we’d all be wise to have our Bush campaign obituaries ready to go. Enter Symington. The scion of a privileged Maryland family—his great-grandfather was famed industrialist Henry Clay Frick—Symington is a Harvard grad and Air Force vet. He was stationed in Arizona during the Vietnam War and stayed there, building a life for himself in the real estate business before entering politics. That’s when things got weird. CONTINUE READING: www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/30/guv-believes-in-aliens-and-jeb-bush-s-chances.html
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Post by auntym on Nov 11, 2015 15:34:32 GMT -6
www.theufochronicles.com/2015/11/best-gop-candidate-for-ufo-disclosure.html Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Best GOP Candidate for UFO Disclosure | VIDEO By AJ Vicens / www.motherjones.com/authors/aj-vicens11-10-15 If you believe the truth is really out there—and you also want to keep taxes low on the rich—here’s your candidate. During the period between his 18 years in Congress and his two terms as Ohio's governor (2011-present), GOP presidential hopeful John Kasich hosted "From the Heartland," a Fox News show where he discussed a variety of social and political topics with guests. The show aired from 2001 until 2007 and in February of that final year, Bill Nye the Science Guy and David Sereda – a UFO activist and the director of a 2005 documentary called "Dan Akroyd Unplugged on UFOs"– were on the show to discuss a "Heartland Special Investigation into UFOs." The intro featured shaky footage of flickering lights in the sky that were purported to be UFOs. As ominous 1950's-era UFO movie music played in the background, reporter Janice Dean said, "UFO sightings seem to be on the rise," referring to a highly-publicized UFO sighting that had recently occurred over Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. "But it seems the public still wants to know the truth," she said. "Do UFOs exist? You decide." Kasich then introduced his guests and let Sereda talk about his "exclusive" footage of alleged UFOs over Lake Erie. After Sereda talked about the footage, Kasich jumped back in. "Alright, Bill Nye, you're the science guy," he said. "You gotta be a little bit wacky to think that UFOs are down here, and that some people believe that folks have actually got on these ships? I mean, tell us, you're the science guy." Nye could barely conceal his contempt. [...] CONTINUE READING: www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/11/john-kasich-ufo-bill-nye-science-guyUploaded on Feb 4, 2007 Clip of UFO story captured from FOX News Channel on 2/3/07.
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Post by auntym on Nov 24, 2015 12:37:01 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Dec 17, 2015 13:51:46 GMT -6
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15425/on-cnns-cosmic-unconsciousness/ On CNN's Cosmic UnconsciousnessBy Billy Cox, Herald-Tribune / Wednesday, December 16, 2015 CNN’s flailing relationship with The Great Taboo turned another page before its Tuesday night broadcast of the Republican debate in Las Vegas. In a 3-minute 18-second clip titled “How Nevada’s UFO hunters view the 2016 race,” producers followed three presumed researchers to the perimeters of Area 51 to grab uninteresting footage of lights in the night sky. “We” say presumed because the piece contains no narration, just a moody soundtrack punctuated with subtitled overlays and sound bites from three on-camera faces. Considering how there’s no news hook tying the GOP contenders to the UFO issue, one assumes CNN was simply trying to show off how thoroughly it had covered every conceivable niche, and then some, in its debate buildup. Indeed, the online "UFO hunters" replay is filed in CNN’s “Politics” archives. Talk about Thinking Outside The Box – the producers even labeled one montage “The Cosmic Unconsciousness Of The 2016 Election,” without bothering to tell us what the hell they meant by that. Before getting into “How Nevada’s UFO hunters view the 2016 race,” let’s remember that CNN has never known how to handle this nagging conundrum. Larry King used to do UFOs but he was the king of the non sequitur and could convert a physicist's exposition on quarks into a question about cat food. Mostly, CNN regarded UFOs as wino skank. As far back as 2007, during the presidential primary debates, then senior VP David Bohrman lamented to Wired magazine the wisdom of allowing YouTube "citizen journalists" to pose questions to the contenders. “If you would have taken the most-viewed questions last time,” he said, “the top question would have been whether Arnold Schwarzenegger was a cyborg sent to save the planet Earth. The second most-viewed video was: Will you convene a national meeting on UFOs?” On the other hand, false equivalencies aside, CNN implicitly concedes that UFOs do draw numbers. How else to explain its decision to live-stream, just three years later, a press conference in Washington, D.C., involving Air Force veterans delivering eyewitness accounts of UFO activity over America’s nuclear weapons facilities. Nope, their testimony was too de classe for a spot in CNN's televised news cycle, but the stunt no doubt proved a boon for its online traffic. Go figure. So like, just what is it about The Great Taboo, exactly, that wrings some of the sharpest minds on CNN into derivative ragwater? From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock to golden boy Anderson Cooper, UFOs have reduced their otherwise original perspectives into hack formulas that could’ve been hatched in a Dilbert strip. And please, spare me the lecture about how their evil puppet masters made ‘em do it. Cooper and Spurlock have plenty of options; they can always say no. Anyhow, CNN did it again yesterday. With flashlights, grainy-green night-vision optics and the crunch of hiking boots across the desert floor, producers managed to find a “UFO hunter” named Alex Podovich who, believe it or not, finds a way to support both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders without chewing his own eyeballs out of their sockets. What do Podovich’s bifurcated political views have to do with UFOs? We’re never told. That’s probably what CNN means by “The Cosmic Unconsciousness of the 2016 Election.” You either get it or you don't. And then there’s a “UFO hunter” who calls himself BK Mojave. Amid the Nevada darkness, BK Mojave proclaims from the outset that “We are out here to look for ET!” He supports Trump because “I think he’s trying to save America.” The UFO connection? “I could be wrong, but the extraterrestrials tell me that Donald Trump is the one to, uh, lead America.” Well sure. The freak show. Finally. But here’s what sets BK Mojave at a distance from the rank-and-file conspiracy subscribers. He doesn’t believe in full disclosure. Off camera voice: “If Trump gets elected, he’s there, he goes to Area 51, he sees whatever’s going on there, you don’t want him to tell you what he saw?” BK Movaje: “No. If it has to do with the war machine, no, keep that behind closed doors. If it has to do with, like, medicine or being able to light your house or my house of the city for free, then I think they should, uh, release that.” Well that’s different. Somewhat. The only “UFO hunter” who came even remotely close to making any sense was a guy named Mat Baroudi. “We all know something is going on,” he said. “But we never get to see the whole picture.” Dude, forget the whole picture. With CNN, we’re lucky to get coherence. When it comes to UFOs, CNN is the Titanic hitting an iceberg in 30 feet of water. devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15425/on-cnns-cosmic-unconsciousness/
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Post by auntym on Dec 23, 2015 14:01:53 GMT -6
www.nwaonline.com/news/2015/dec/20/he-sees-stars-aligning-in-election-year/ For lobbyist, unveiling UFOs consumes life He sees stars aligning in election yearBy Ben Terris The Washington Post Posted: December 20, 2015 SUSAN BIDDLE Credit: The Washington Post Stephen Bassett, self-appointed lobbyist for those who say they’ve had encounters with aliens, finds getting an appointment on Capitol Hill is as difficult as getting to the truth about UFOs. One day nearly 20 years ago, Stephen Bassett realized that UFO abductees needed a lobbyist. He had spent four months working for the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research out of a modest town house in Cambridge, Mass., when he had the epiphany: He could continue his research with John Mack, the leading authority on the alien abductions, for the rest of his life, but it would never make a difference. "It occurred to me that it wasn't a scientific problem, but a political one," he said. They could pile evidence of extraterrestrial encounters from the White House lawn to the moon, and no one would pay it any mind. What the issue needed was someone who could get the powers-that-be to listen. The alien issue was really heating up in 1996, what with the summer blockbuster Independence Day, and Bassett worried that someone else would get the same idea. So he quit his volunteer gig, piled his belongings atop his beat-up Mazda RX-7 and drove off to Washington. "I get down there, and I file" the lobbyist papers, he recalled. "I'm the first one. Nineteen years later, I'm still the only one. I could of taken my time." Bassett, a balding man with expressive eyes that seem to go from blue to green, has long had one goal: get the government to admit it has been covering up proof of alien visits. It has been a lonely battle, but he is convinced that the stars have finally aligned for his convoluted theory, which involves the Clintons, their longtime adviser John Podesta and a now-deceased billionaire. "I want to see disclosure by the New Hampshire primary," he said brushing crumbs off his black dress shirt and purple tie during lunch at the National Press Club this month. "And I can make the case that it's going to happen." Bassett was born in 1946 to a military family that moved all over the country. He read science fiction, built model planes, enjoyed the cheap bowling and milkshakes on the bases. His father rarely spoke to him and fought constantly with his mother. And Bassett struggled with obsessive-compulsive tendencies. CONTINUE READING: www.nwaonline.com/news/2015/dec/20/he-sees-stars-aligning-in-election-year/
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Post by auntym on Jan 1, 2016 13:44:42 GMT -6
www.conwaydailysun.com/newsx/local-news/123978-clinton-promises-to-investigate-ufos CLINTON PROMISES TO INVESTIGATE UFOSDecember 30, 2015 By Daymond Steer CONWAY — Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton gave UFO enthusiasts a reason to cheer at the close of her recent editorial board meeting with The Conway Daily Sun. During the meeting, the former first lady, former senator from New York and secretary of state answered serious questions about foreign policy and the economy, and at the end, she chatted with this reporter, who had asked her about UFOs the last time she visited. She recalled that 2007 exchange with a smile and seemed to have fun discussing the topic. "Yes, I'm going to get to the bottom of it," said Clinton with enthusiasm. Back in 2007, Clinton had said that the No. 1 topic of freedom-of-information requests that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, received at his library was UFOs. Last year, Bill Clinton told late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel that he wouldn't be surprised if Earth is visited by aliens since so many planets out there may support life. "I just hope it's not like 'Independence Day,'" said Clinton, referring to a movie about alien invaders. When asked about her husband's nonchalant comment about contact with the third kind, Hillary Clinton responded: "I think we may have been (visited already). We don't know for sure." Clinton also said she would like to look into Area 51, a secret military base in Nevada that has long been rumored to contain aliens. At first, she called it Area 54 and then corrected herself. But Bill Clinton told Kimmel that he had already looked into Area 51. He said everyone who works there has to stop about an hour away to put on special clothing. Clinton said Area 51 is where stealth technology is made. "There are no aliens there," said Bill Clinton, adding at the anniversary of the supposed Roswell, N.M., crash in 1947, he released all the documents he could on the subject because he knew there would be popular demand. Kimmell had Bill Clinton promise that he would have announced the existence of aliens if he had found them. Hillary Clinton, while at the Sun, added that the chairman of her campaign, John Podesta, is a huge fan of UFO lore. She said he enjoys a sci-fi show on the FX network. Podesta served as chief of staff to Bill Clinton and counselor to the president for Barack Obama. "He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out," said Clinton. "One way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51." www.conwaydailysun.com/newsx/local-news/123978-clinton-promises-to-investigate-ufos
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Post by auntym on Jan 15, 2016 14:03:14 GMT -6
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15441/about-time-someone-finally-asked/ About time someone finally askedBy Billy Cox, Herald-Tribune / devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/author/cox/ Thursday, January 7, 2016 Appropriately, years after the neglected fringe began debating the “Rockefeller Initiative” that triggered the Clinton administration’s backdoor interest in UFOs, it took a reporter at a small daily in New Hampshire to pop the question to the former First Lady. Suddenly, boom, Hillary Clinton’s reply circles the globe within hours. The majors jumped all over it, a wildly eclectic lot, from the Fleet Street Cassandras to the inside-baseball types at Poynter and The Hill. This shouldn’t be terribly surprising. UFOs generate beaucoup traffic, especially when attached to politicians’ names. Most of what’s cropping up are echo-chamber reverb summaries of Hillary’s quotes, such as “Yes, I’m going to get to the bottom of it” if elected and “I think we may have been (visited already). We don’t know for sure.” And, if precedent holds, any original reporting on the Clinton White House’s UFO intrigues will be a fluke. But no serious presidential candidate has ever been so conversational about The Great Taboo. What Conway Daily Sun reporter Daymond Steer found most interesting about the buildup to his dropping the U-word on the Democratic frontrunner last week was the consistency with which campaign manager John Podesta has been flagging the gorilla in the room. From his famous video exhortation at the National Press Club in 2002 to his 2010 endorsement of Leslie Kean’s UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record to his February 2015 farewell tweet as Obama White House advisor (“my biggest failure …. Once again not securing the disclosure of the UFO files”), the veteran pol and “X-Files” fan has established a clear pattern. The peanut gallery likes to attribute it to a glib sense of humor, but Podesta went back and hit it again in September. “Great interview,” he tweeted at “Girls” star Lena Dunham following her online sit-down with the ex-State Department Secretary. "But Lena, ask her about aliens next time!!” And he didn't mean Mexicans. Unlike most Beltway geniuses, Steer has actually been paying attention to this issue. He told De Void his UFO query was pretty much a no-brainer. “They’ve been opening the door," he said. "I just walked in.” Steer said Clinton’s joviality that characterized their brief chat might make her professed commitment to investigating UFOs “open to interpretation.” (Exhibit A: George W. Bush, Y2K.) But he added, “She seems to have fun talking about it.” Indeed, this wasn’t Steer’s first discussion with her about The Great Taboo. During Clinton’s primary swing through New Hampshire in 2007, Steer wrote, the then-Senator informed him that “the No. 1 topic of freedom-of-information requests that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, received at his library was UFOs.” One of the most tenacious authors of those requests was and is Canadian researcher Grant Cameron. An old hand at navigating the FOIA system, the Winnipeg resident began fishing for UFO-related material in 2001, before Clinton left office. He squeezed it in at the last minute to avoid the long waiting period that kicks in for the release of presidential docs once the chief executive steps down. What Cameron got – from Clinton’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) – was a trove of 1,000 memos, letters, correspondences, etc., detailing a three-year effort by billionaire Laurance Rockefeller to get a face-to-face with the Clintons about UFOs. Included in the paper cache was the draft of a letter to President Clinton, prepared by Rocky, requesting three things: 1) prioritizing UFOs for classification review, 2) a formal government office pulling that information together, and 3) amnesty for whistle-blowers. “It is widely believed that various agencies of the federal government have substantial information concerning the existence or non-existence of UFOs,” the draft stated, “and that it has been unnecessarily withheld from the public as classified for reasons of national security.” The draft was forwarded to OSTP chief John Gibbons in November 1995 by Rocky’s attorney Henry Diamond. Diamond also indicated that his famous client “has been discussing [the letter] with Mrs. Clinton and her staff.” Three months later, in a followup letter to Gibbons, Rockefeller wrote “You indicated that you will keep the First Lady’s Office informed, and we shall as well.” The Clintons eventually met with Rockefeller at his Jackson Hole ranch in August 1995. The particulars of what transpired are not contained in the FOIA returns. But what happened to those 1,000 released documents between 2001 and today? Although the Rockefeller papers were posted online several years ago, Grant Cameron says his FOIAs for that stuff and additional material – from both the National Archives and the Clinton Presidential Library – have drawn blanks. The latest notification from the CPL’s supervisory archivist, dated 10/28/15, stated “We were only able to locate 42 pages because they did not show up as a specific hit in our electronic searches.” Records-keeper Dana Simmons noted “we do not have document level control over our entire collection,” and that their folder-specific system makes it “impossible” to find what he wanted in an initial search. “It must be some kind of bureaucratic mixup,” says Cameron, noting it makes no sense to hide documents already in the public domain. “But if you go to the National Archives or the Clinton Library wanting to do research on the Rockefeller Initiative, those documents don’t exist. If a reporter wants to follow up on this story, the logical question is, where are the documents?” Ultimately, Cameron says, Clinton’s UFO remarks in New Hampshire couldn't have been as whimsical as they might have appeared. “She made a risky move, especially after what happened to (Democratic presidential candidate Dennis) Kucinich in 2007,” he says, alluding to Tim Russert’s got-cha UFO bomb during a primary debate. Whatever slim hopes Kucinich entertained of earning the nomination fell into the wood chipper. The next Democratic debate is Jan. 17. The Kucinich debacle came from out of nowhere. But the Hillary-UFO connection has been telegraphed by her own campaign manager. “Keep your eye on Podesta,” says Cameron. “He’s behind the whole thing, ay?” devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15441/about-time-someone-finally-asked/
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Post by auntym on Jan 19, 2016 15:07:54 GMT -6
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/17/inside-the-beltway-hillary-clinton-and-the-ufos-pa/ Hillary Clinton’s UFO story becomes a favorite topic of the global media: Study By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times / www.washingtontimes.com/staff/jennifer-harper/ Sunday, January 17, 2016 Let us recall that presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton recently had a close encounter of the journalistic kind with The Conway Daily Sun, a small New Hampshire newspaper that asked the candidate her opinion on UFOs and extraterrestrials. Though she may not be as forthcoming on other matters, a surprisingly candid Mrs. Clinton told the paper that she would look into the UFO question, adding that Earth “may already have been visited” and that a future task force could investigate Area 51, a top-secret military installation in Nevada rumored to have had dealings with the phenomenon. Did anyone pay attention to the report? Why, yes, they did. The Paradigm Research Group, an activist organization that tracks the path of such controversial topics through politics and media, reports that, so far, 350 overseas and U.S.-based news organizations, plus 200 local U.S. radio and television outlets, have carried the story. Stephen Bassett, a registered lobbyist and founder of the group, encourages Mrs. Clinton to expand on the remarks that created such buzz and disclose what she may know. “Because you aspire to the highest office in the nation, you have an extraordinary opportunity and primary obligation to address what is easily the most profound issue of our time — an issue with major national security and policy implications,” says Mr. Basset in an open letter to Mrs. Clinton, adding, “What the American people need is less legacy and more truth.” She was forthcoming with CNN on Sunday, however. Asked whether she would take time to see the new feature film “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” Mrs. Clinton replied, “I’m just too busy campaigning.” CONTINUE READING: www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/17/inside-the-beltway-hillary-clinton-and-the-ufos-pa/
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Post by auntym on Jan 21, 2016 14:20:46 GMT -6
devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15450/some-ideas-about-digging/ Some ideas about diggingBy Billy Cox, Herald-Tribune / devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/author/cox/ Wednesday, January 20, 2016 NBC didn’t take the Hillary Clinton UFO bait during Sunday night’s primary debate, staged just a couple of weeks after the former Secretary of State vowed to “get to the bottom of” The Great Taboo. As per tradition, the mainstream media tossed a lot of confetti in the air over her UFO remarks before getting bored and wandering off. But in doing so, they forget – assuming they ever knew – about the formidable and unremitting curiosity of Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta. In 2002, the former Clinton White House chief of staff joined the ad hoc Coalition for Freedom of Information in a federal lawsuit against NASA for access to files related to the so-called Kecksburg incident of 1965. Although that initiative, spearheaded by independent investigative journalist Leslie Kean, produced no smoking gun, the effort shook loose hundreds of previously unreleased documents, revealed that many others had been destroyed or went missing, and forced the space agency to pay the plaintiff's legal fees. We may never know what, if anything, Podesta attempted to accomplish on the UFO front during his time as senior adviser in the Obama White House. But he has a roadmap for how to attack the archives on multiple fronts. Or rather, he has access to a strategy promoted by a network of scholars, historians and researchers known as the Sign Historical Group (SHG). In 2002, with decades invested in clawing through the brambles of federal acronyms stretching back to World War II, SHG says it sent a detailed proposal to Podesta about what to look for, and where. It updated that pitch online in 2014. For member Jan Aldrich, director of the even more specialized Project 1947, the logical – and perhaps only – way to understand the controversy is to toggle the FOIA time machine back to when the U.S. military actually left a paper trail in its efforts to comprehend the incomprehensible. Nearly 70 years later, he argues, the gatekeepers still aren't on top of this mess. “The government may have better data,” says Aldrich in an email to De Void, “but they are still puzzled.” Want answers? Then forget about drilling into the gold mine using more recent cases. “If there is more definitive information in the government’s possession," he adds, "then I would think it would be [at] some high level government scientific lab or … in the compartmentalized stove pipes of special surveillance programs.” It's going to be a long and tedious slog, but any hopes of reaching the ground floor of Uncle Sam's relationship with UFOs will require punching through layers of bureaucratic sediment. The way SHG sees it, the “Holy Grail of Ufology” is 68 years old. It's a report whose title is so banal – “Estimate of the Situation,” or EOTS -- it sounds like it was written to be invisible. EOTS was the product of the USAF’s first official inquiry into the “flying disc” phenomenon. The brass called it Project Sign, the namesake of SHG. In 1948, Sign analysts from Wright-Patterson AFB’s Technical Intelligence Division sized up the problem and prepared a draft, or estimate, venturing that UFOs likely had “interplanetary” origins. USAF Chief of Staff Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg rejected their best guess and demanded another. In a November ’48 come-to-Jesus showdown that would probably make a great David Mamet drama, members of the Sign team were assembled in Washington, D.C., and told what to write. Dissenters were reassigned. “The Estimate died a quick death,” wrote USAF Capt. Edward Ruppelt, who directed the more widely known successor, Project Blue Book, in 1956. “Some months later it was completely declassified and relegated to the incinerator. A few copies, one of which I saw, were kept as mementos of the golden days of the UFOs." Remaining copies of EOTS have not been located. But EOTS is just a small piece of the puzzle. SHG’s strategy, broken into categories and subcategories, runs 43 pages and offers numerous leads, most based on existing documents. If a picture paints a thousand words, the payoffs from references from one source alone -- a document called “History of Air Technical Intelligence Center 1 July 1952-31 December 1952” -- could be incalculable. According to that summary, ATIC’s mission was “to investigate and analyse [cq] reports of unidentified aerial objects or of phenomena of possible concern to the air defense of the US” and to “produce air technical and scientific intelligence studies and estimates of alien capabilities to conduct aerial warfare.” To that end, states a “Technical Requirements Division” paper, “the installation of gun cameras in F-86’s assigned to the Fighter Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Base was assured. The purpose of these installations is to provide suitable photographs during flights resulting from reports or sightings of unidentified flying objects.” Furthermore, "15 officer Air Attaches, 10 airmen, 27 ATLO’s [assembly test and launch operations personnel] and 37 investigators” received specialized training. They fanned out into three states “to investigate flying object reports. To date, 100 videon stereoscopic cameras, equipped with diffraction gratings over one lens, have been procured and received at ATIC.” So what happened to the pix? And SHG isn’t just poking around for military records – what is the CIA hanging onto? SHG takes aim at an “unremittingly pedestrian” narrative published in 1997 by Agency historian Gerald K. Haines. His CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90 paper issued the absurd and unsubstantiated claim that more than half of all UFO reports in the late 1950s and 1960s could be explained by high-altitude spy planes. “Following a lawsuit,” writes SHG, “the CIA released about 900 pages of UFO documents. However, this and later releases by the CIA does not represent the total material on the subject, which has been estimated to be at least 16,000 pages. Furthermore, there are documents held by the Navy, Air Force, FBI, Army and others, which give important insight into the CIA’s activities here. Most of these documents were apparently unknown to Haines, and some are little known to many in the UFO field. Also, Haines apparently is unaware of the huge amount of data in multiple copies, which went to the CIA from other agencies, further indicating the whole story has not been made available to the public.” AFCRL, AMC, SAC, MERINT, CIRVIS, MATS -- the Sign Historical Group's list of data suspects goes on and on. So John Podesta's call for accountability isn't just some vague quirky "X-Files" exhortation. It's a demand for closing the gaps in official history. After all, we did pay for it, so we do own it. Check out SHG’s ideas for getting this stuff back, at www.project1947.com/shg/cfi/sfcfiproposal.htm. De Void came away from it with just one question: Why do we still allow the dead WWII crowd who made the original classification decisions to keep telling us what we can and can't handle? devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/15450/some-ideas-about-digging/
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Post by auntym on Jan 26, 2016 16:10:15 GMT -6
www.vice.com/read/an-alien-hunters-guide-to-the-2016-election An Alien Hunter’s Guide to the 2016 ElectionBy Daniel Oberhaus / www.vice.com/author/daniel-oberhausJanuary 26, 2016 Of all the fringe interest groups orbiting the landscape of American politics, there are perhaps none quite as maligned as those committed to uncovering the truth about extraterrestrial life. In recent elections, these UFO advocates have mostly laid low, ignored—if not openly mocked—by politicians seeking higher office. But as the 2016 race gets officially underway, alien hunters are starting to wonder if this election might be different. The group got some high-profile encouragement last month from none other than Hillary Clinton. In an interview with a small New Hampshire newspaper, the Democratic presidential candidate promised that, if elected, she would share whatever information exists about the government's contact with extraterrestrials. "I'm going to get to the bottom of it," Clinton told the Conway Daily Sun. "I think we may have been [visited already]. We don't know for sure." The comment may have been tongue-in-cheek, but it was enough to excite the diehard skeptics who have been fighting, unsuccessfully for more than half a century, to get the government to disclose what it knows about aliens. For this group, the remark seemed to confirm long-held suspicions that Clinton is sympathetic to its cause—suspicions rooted in her 90s-era ties to UFO activists like Laurence Rockefeller, and in her relationship to campaign chairman John Podesta, a noted skeptic who has called for greater government transparency around the alien question, and whose influence Clinton cited in her interview. "He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out one way or another," Clinton told the newspaper. "Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51." Regardless of whether Clinton meant for any of this to be taken seriously, the interview signaled to alien hunters that the 2016 presidential election could be a significant one for their movement—marking the first time since the other Clinton was in office that the topic of extraterrestrial contact might be broached by politicians on the national level. CONTINUE READING: www.vice.com/read/an-alien-hunters-guide-to-the-2016-election
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Post by auntym on Feb 1, 2016 15:12:50 GMT -6
2 SHORT VIDEOS SHOW HOW THE IOWA CAUCUSES WORK
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Post by auntym on Feb 10, 2016 14:34:22 GMT -6
DELEGATE TRACKER LAST UPDATED: FEBRUARY 10, 2016 AP Interactive @ap_Interactive 7h7 hours ago
Tracking the delegates: Trump, Clinton in the lead following New Hampshire apne.ws/1PCx88g
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Post by auntym on Mar 2, 2016 12:45:54 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Mar 25, 2016 21:40:56 GMT -6
www.openminds.tv/hillary-talks-ufos-with-jimmy-kimmel/36692 Hillary talks UFOs with Jimmy Kimmel (Video)Posted by: Alejandro Rojas March 25, 2016 Jimmy Kimmel has done it again and asked the UFO question to another high level politician. This time, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Clinton actually responded positively and said she will try to open UFO files. Clinton’s campaign more than any other this election cycle has addressed the UFO question. In part due to Clinton’s campaign manager being an avid UFO enthusiast, but also because her husband, former president Bill Clinton, also has had an interest in UFOs. Bill acknowledged his interest on Jimmy Kimmel Live during a visit to the show in 2014. He told Kimmel he had looked into UFOs and Area 51, but did not find anything. However, he said he does believe there is likely extraterrestrial life out there somewhere. Recently, Hillary was reminded of this statement by a reporter with The Conway Daily Sun. Hillary responded that she would look into UFOs and Area 51. She stuck to this claim when asked about UFOs by Kimmel last night. In an appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show last night, Kimmel also brought up the comments made on his show by Bill. He said Bill told him he looked for the UFO files, but there was nothing there. Hillary responded, “I am going to do it again.” “I would like us to go into those files and hopefully make as much of that public as possible,” Clinton told Kimmel. “If there’s nothing there, let’s tell people there’s nothing there.” To this, Kimmel asked what if there is something there. Hillary replied, “If there is something there, unless it’s a threat to national security, I think we ought to share it with the public.” Hillary also demonstrated some knowledge of recent developments in UFO research. After telling Kimmel she would look into UFOs again, she explained that there is a new name for UFOs. She said it is “Unexplained Aerial Phenomenon (UAP).” It is not too much of a surprise that she should be up to speed on the UFO topic, or at least have access to someone who is. Her campaign manager, John Podesta, called for the release of UFO files at a press conference in 2012. He has also been interviewed on the topic recently, and has been tweeting about UFOs, including tweets encouraging people to ask Hillary about them. MORE VIDEO & CONTINUE READING: www.openminds.tv/hillary-talks-ufos-with-jimmy-kimmel/36692
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Post by auntym on Mar 27, 2016 15:44:54 GMT -6
Lee Speigel @lee_Speigel
Kudos to Jimmy Kimmel, who got Hillary Clinton to talk for a whole minute about UFOs - hardly seems long enough. huff.to/1UPXWbT
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E.t's do not exist....
Smirk !
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Post by auntym on Mar 31, 2016 13:27:02 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-shostak/will-hillary-clinton-unma_b_9573640.html Will Hillary Clinton Unmask Area 51?03/30/2016 Seth Shostak / Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute / www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-shostak/If you’re worried about little gray guys with no hair and amygdaloid eyes, Hillary Clinton wants to help. Last week, in an interview with late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel, Clinton said that she planned to follow up on inquiries made years ago by her husband, and bare what the government really knows about visiting aliens. The principal question: Are a few such cosmic beings — or at least some of their spacecraft — under wraps at Area 51, Nevada’s creepy, cryptic military facility? Inquiring minds want to know. Of course they do. But I doubt that Clinton can provide a satisfactory answer. First, the back story. For decades, surveys have shown that roughly one-third of the populace will raise their hand if asked, “Do you think Earth is being visited by extraterrestrials?” That’s a hundred million Americans, and of course, some of them have political influence. When Bill Clinton was president, the wealthy philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller sponsored, and then promoted, a document that described what was called the best evidence for alien craft. He met with Bill Clinton in 1996, and encouraged him make a deep dive on the subject. Clinton tried to learn if cosmic creatures were warehoused at Area 51, but said he came up empty. Now we have UFO redux. Hillary is being urged by her campaign manager, John Podesta, to think again. Or at least, to ask again. Podesta, who was Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff and more recently Counselor to President Obama, now chairs Hillary’s campaign. He’s long pushed for disclosure of any government information germane to the UFO question, and for over two decades has made this a minor leitmotif for the Clintons. So what is Hillary going to do that her husband didn’t? Well, maybe nothing more than to simply look into the subject again. But, Kimmel upped the ante. What if Hillary finds that the government really does have proof of aliens? “Well, if there is something there,” Clinton responded, “unless it’s a threat to national security, I think we ought to share it with the public.” In other words, tell it like it is. Clinton is siding with those who clamor for “disclosure,” a code word for the government coming clean and admitting to the public what it really knows about UFOs. The thesis is simple: the question of alien presence will be settled if the feds simply open their files. But that premise is weak. An extraordinary claim (we’re being visited) is defended with a resort to hidden information. Suppose someone tells you they’ve found a cure for cancer. Would you believe them if they also said that the crucial proof was hidden for decades by a malevolent government? There’s also a subtle bias in the disclosure approach. The very term implies that there is something to disclose. But what if there’s not? Things go wrong anyway. In 1970 the Air Force ended Project Blue Book - its investigation of UFOs — saying that it had found nothing of interest in the many reports it collected. Did that put claims of saucer-sailing visitors to bed? No, it merely spawned a conviction that the Air Force investigation was rigged or that the real UFO evidence was in the relatively small collection of unexplained cases. In 2009, the British Ministry of Defence shuttered its UFO hotline. The number of reported sightings had reached two or three a day, and the burden of dealing with them was considered insupportable. The MOD said that after more than a half-century of taking hotline tips, they had learned nothing of either military or scientific value. They also released tens of thousands of related government documents. Nonetheless, you’re living in dreamland if you think that all members of the British public have now dismissed the idea that Earth is hosting extraterrestrials. So disclosure is a mirage unless the answer is the right one. If the government’s response to Hillary’s queries is “there’s nothing at Area 51 but military aircraft,” do you really expect that those whose psyches are invested in the alien visitation story are going to buy it? Not likely. They’re not going to hand over their swords and abandon the idea of aliens on Earth. Given the inherent problem of proving a negative, I doubt they’ll ever come to this conclusion. Ever. And even if you don’t share my skepticism, note that Hillary’s response to Kimmel had a qualifier as obvious as a circus parade. She said that yes, she’ll share whatever information she finds “unless it’s a threat to national security.” Even a fourth grader will realize this is a handy excuse to hold back information. Not that she necessarily would. It’s just that any statement saying that there are no alien bodies at Area 51 is immediately suspect. It won’t settle any arguments. Clinton may just have been kidding around with Kimmel. And on the practical side, given the large number of people who believe that Earth has house guests, maybe this was just a gambit to influence some voters to favor her candidacy. But one thing you can bet on: Area 51 and its putative store of extraterrestrial paraphernalia isn’t about to become an open book. And for the UFO folks, that might be a good thing. After all, its value isn’t that it actually houses aliens or alien artifacts, but that it might. www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-shostak/will-hillary-clinton-unma_b_9573640.html
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Post by auntym on Apr 5, 2016 15:44:52 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Apr 8, 2016 14:14:30 GMT -6
www.cnn.com/2016/04/07/politics/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-ufo/index.html Clinton campaign chair: 'The American people can handle the truth' on UFOs VIDEOBy Eli Watkins, CNN / www.cnn.com/profiles/eli-watkinsThu April 7, 2016 Washington (CNN)There has long been an air of conspiracy surrounding theories of alien life, and the head of Hillary Clinton's campaign said Thursday it's time to do away with the secrecy. CNN's Jake Tapper pulled aside Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, who was a guest on "The Lead," to talk aliens. "The U.S. government could do a much better job in answering the quite legitimate questions that people have about what's going on with unidentified aerial phenomena," Podesta said. Podesta has made his interest in the possibility of alien life and conspiratorial leanings toward Area 51 well known. During his time serving in the Obama administration, Podesta tweeted, "Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstilloutthere cc: @nytimesdowd." Clinton herself pledged in January to "get to the bottom" of whether rumors of U.S. contact with extraterrestrial life were true. In regard to Area 51, Podesta echoed Clinton's call, saying, "What I've talked to the secretary about, and what she's said now in public, is that if she's elected president, when she gets into office, she'll ask for as many records as the United States federal government has to be declassified, and I think that's a commitment that she intends to keep and that I intend to hold her to." Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, said the 42nd president once "asked for some information about some of these things, and in particular, some information about what was going on at Area 51." Asked if there is evidence of alien life, Podesta said, "That's for the public to judge once they've seen all the evidence that the U.S. government has." When it came to his own beliefs about beings from outer space, Podesta said, "There are a lot of planets out there." And he made clear: "The American people can handle the truth." WATCH VIDEO: www.cnn.com/2016/04/07/politics/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-ufo/index.html
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Post by auntym on Apr 20, 2016 14:11:32 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-ufo-files_us_5716a9f8e4b0018f9cbb83a1?utm_hp_ref=weird-news Hillary Clinton Is Making Big Promises To UFO Believers“There are enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen making them up.”04/20/2016 by Lee Speigel / www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-speigel/ Writer, Editor, The Huffington Post The Breakfast Club April 18, 2016: Secretary Hillary Clinton tells New York radio station Power 105.1 FM program, The Breakfast Club, she really wants to open the government UFO files because she’s personally interested in it. Hillary Clinton is certainly not hiding the fact that she’s really interested in UFOs, as she has pointed out numerous times in her bid to take up residence again in The White House. Among her many campaign stops this week, the former New York senator paid a visit to a senior center on Monday in East Harlem. While there, she sat down with Power 105.1 FM Radio’s Breakfast Club program, where on-air personality Charlamagne engaged the presidential hopeful in a subject she’s spoken about several times on the campaign trail — UFOs. CONTINUE READING: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-ufo-files_us_5716a9f8e4b0018f9cbb83a1?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
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Post by swamprat on May 2, 2016 19:12:23 GMT -6
A NEW TERM IS BORN
Someone finally came up with a name for our U. S. election process this year.
"ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION": the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for President put forth by either party in the 2016 election year.
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Post by auntym on May 10, 2016 11:52:48 GMT -6
www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-aliens.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0 The New York Times ✔ @nytimes
UFO enthusiasts have declared Hillary Clinton the first “E.T. candidate” nyti.ms/1TC7fGS Hillary Clinton, the First ‘E.T. Candidate,’ Has U.F.O. Fans in ThrallBy AMY CHOZICK / topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/amy_chozick/index.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=Byline®ion=Header&pgtype=articleMAY 10, 2016 Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, has said she believes in giving wider access to government records related to U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial life. By ERICA BERENSTEIN on Publish Date May 10, 2016. Photo by Eric Thayer for The New York Times. Watch in Times Video » When Jimmy Kimmel asked Hillary Clinton in a late-night TV interview about U.F.O.s, she quickly corrected his terminology. “You know, there’s a new name,” Mrs. Clinton said in the March appearance. “It’s unexplained aerial phenomenon,” she said. “U.A.P. That’s the latest nomenclature.” Known for her grasp of policy, Mrs. Clinton has spoken at length in her presidential campaign on topics ranging from Alzheimer’s research to military tensions in the South China Sea. But it is her unusual knowledge about extraterrestrials that has struck a small but committed cohort of voters. Mrs. Clinton has vowed that barring any threats to national security, she would open up government files on the subject, a shift from President Obama, who typically dismisses the topic as a joke. Her position has elated U.F.O. enthusiasts, who have declared Mrs. Clinton the first “E.T. candidate.” “Hillary has embraced this issue with an absolutely unprecedented level of interest in American politics,” said Joseph G. Buchman, who has spent decades calling for more transparency in government about extraterrestrials. Mrs. Clinton, a cautious candidate who often bemoans being the subject of Republican conspiracy theories, has shown surprising ease plunging into the discussion of the possibility of extraterrestrial beings. She has said in recent interviews that as president she would release information about Area 51, the remote Air Force base in Nevada believed by some to be a secret hub where the government stores classified information about aliens and U.F.O.s. In a radio interview last month, she said, “I want to open the files as much as we can.” Asked if she believed in U.F.O.s, Mrs. Clinton said, “I don’t know. I want to see what the information shows.” But, she added, “There’s enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen making them up.” When asked about extraterrestrials in an interview with The Conway Daily Sun in New Hampshire late last year, Mrs. Clinton promised to “get to the bottom of it.” WATCH VIDEO & CONTINUE READING: www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-aliens.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
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Post by swamprat on May 10, 2016 13:29:38 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on May 11, 2016 12:48:23 GMT -6
Neil deGrasse Tyson ✔ @neiltyson
Candidate Endorsements matter if you’d rather have a famous person, an organization, or media entity do your thinking for you
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Post by swamprat on May 11, 2016 13:52:08 GMT -6
The Trumpster's Presidential qualifications...
Obama is against Trump... Check The Media are against Trump... Check The establishment Democrats are against Trump... Check The establishment Republicans are against Trump... Check The Pope is against Trump... Check The UN is against Trump... Check The EU is against Trump... Check China is against Trump... Check Mexico is against Trump... Check Soros is against Trump... Check Black Lives Matter is against Trump... Check Move On is against Trump... Check Koch Brothers are against Trump... Check Bushes are against Trump ... Check Planned Parenthood is against Trump....Check Hillary & Sanders are both against Trump ... Check Illegal aliens are against Trump ... Check Islam is against Trump ... Check Kasich & Cruz are against Trump ... Check Hateful, racist, violent Liberals are against Trump.. Check
NOW THAT BEING SAID...
It seems to me, Trump MUST BE the Best Qualified Candidate we could ever have. If you have so many political insiders and left wing NUT CASES all SCARED TO DEATH, that they all speak out against him at the same time!! Most of all, it will be the People's Choice...
PLUS
He's not a Lifetime Politician...Check He's not a Lawyer.....Check He's not doing it for the money...Check He's a Natural Born American Citizen born in the USA from American parents
Bonus points!
Whoopi says she will leave the country... Rosie says she will leave the country... Sharpton says he will leave the country... Gov. Brown says California will build a wall... Cher says she will leave the country... Cyrus says she will leave the country...
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights will prevail.... Hillary will go to jail.....
The budget will be balanced in 8 years.... Americans will have first choice at jobs..... You will not be able to marry your pet.... You will be able to keep your gun(s) if you qualify... (Not a criminal, etc.) Only Live Human American Registered Citizens can vote.... You can have and keep your own Doctor..... You can say what you want without being called a racist....
He will make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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