There is a high ranking Canadian, a former defense minister, highly educated, well respected, and serious thinker. He is now 90 years old, and no longer feels bound to keep some things secret:
“The latest reports that I’ve been getting from various sources are that there are about 80 different species and some of them look just like us and they could walk down the street and you wouldn’t know if you walked past one," said Hellyer, head of the armed forces in Canada during the Cold War, who went public with his theories on extraterrestrial life in 2005, The National Post reported. "They are what we call 'Nordic Blondes . . . .”
But fear not: Hellyer said most of the aliens who have “been visiting our planet for thousands of years” are “benign and benevolent, and they do want to help us, [but] there may be one or two species which do not.”
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“Since we invented the atomic bomb and they are very concerned about that and the fact that we might use it again, and because the Cosmos is a unity and it affects not just us but other people in the Cosmos, they are very much afraid that we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again, and this would be very bad for us and for them as well,” he said.
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Here is the bio on Paul Hellyer:
First elected as a Liberal in 1949 federal election in the riding of Davenport, he was the youngest person ever elected to that point in the Canadian House of Commons. He served a brief stint as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of National Defence, and made a good impression. He was then named Associate Minister of National Defence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. This post was short-lived, though, as Hellyer lost his seat when the St. Laurent government lost the 1957 election two months later.
Hellyer returned to parliament in a 1958 by-election in the neighbouring riding of Trinity, and became an effective opposition critic of John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative government. . . .
When the Liberals returned to power in the 1963 election, Hellyer became Minister of National Defence in the cabinet of Lester B. Pearson. This was the most notable period in Hellyer's political career. As Minister of Defence, he oversaw the drastic and controversial integration and unification of the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Air Force into a single organization, the Canadian Forces.
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FROM the church of Ineffable Stupidity:
My simple request.
Yo, you greys, blondes, FSMs or whatever you wish to call yourselves. Howdy. According to Paul, you guys are really polite and don't act without an invite. Here it is. We invite you. I personally invite you.
Europe is being shaken to its core by regressive, idiotic economic policies propounded and promoted by teaBuggered assholes like the Kochs. Austerity, as they call it, is literally killing people. Russia is being run into the ground by their local version of a Sarah Putin, a power-hungry greedy, asshole who combines Tsarist impulses with offending others, and a remarkable brand of deliberate willful stupidity. China is rapidly poisoning its water, land, air, and children, as it races to get to . . . somewhere.
Then we get to the US and A, as Borat calls us.
We are a mess.
Politics
Our federal cistern is a disaster. Once rampant TeaBuggerism began invading our body politic, any chance at dealing with critical issues like nuclear weapons, dirty shale oil, climate change, or even something simple, easy, and welcome, like creating a workable peace in the Muddle East, became impossible. System, not cistern, although they are easy to confuse these days.
It is partly due to the color of our president's skin, it is in part due to his choice of political parties, but it is also due to a small, evil, greedy group of assholes who wish to enrich their already overfilled pockets on the backs of everyone else. They spent $400 Millions in the last election cycle, just to defeat and fuck over liberals, democrats, and most of all, Obama.
While our political system was designed and intended to identify, confront, then solve the very great problems we now face, when a small group of religious bigots, billionaire backed ultraconservatives, and teabuggerers obstruct our every effort, it proves that our system is broken.
Economics
Austerity sucks. It destroys economies from within. It is as though conservative assholes forgot the lessons of 1929, and are hellbent on repeating that mess.
Economic experts are ignored, religious based ideas are promoted. At the same time, millions suffer, while we waste billions on a fattened cow they worship almost as much as some make believe figure from a two volume fairy tale, our bloated military.
Social issues
Racism, sexism, privacy . . . Each of these issues face a binary choice, either we can become a progressive society, intent on benefitting each and every one of us without discrimination, or we can continue to head for a dive off a cliff based on fear, willful ignorance, fundie religions, and hatred. (But I repeat myself)
So, here is my request. We need your help. We need your advice. We need your input and support. I do not dare ask that you fix each and every problem we face (although I would make one exception - Fukushima) but only ask that you make yourselves known to the general population. Us. Me. My honey. My friends.
Just the mere fact of your existence would make things better. A PUBLIC fact, that is. I can only imagine how the Rushes, Seans and Glens would react (Sarah would blame Obama and call it a liberal socialist plot). But most of the time, people would rejoice in knowing that we are not alone, that you are here and that we can be friends.
The current austerity moguls would be laughed out of power. The TeaBuggerers would be tossed from the political stage. And thieves and bastards like the Kochs would be rendered powerless, because of the knowledge of your existence.
So, please call me. Text me. Email me. Hell, knock on my front door. I am unimportant, common, but concerned. Quite concerned. A curmudgeon with a bad sense of humor and femur. That is precisely why I am a perfect person to contact. Because I guarantee that millions would learn about your presence, and the vast majority would agree with my request for your help. Your support. Your knowledge. Your technology. Your insight and your intelligence. It would not be interference, but simply a response to a heartfelt request and plea for help.
Klatu Barada Nikto.