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TANYA CHUTKAN, LETITIA JAMES, AND FANI WILLIS MATERIALIZE AS EXTRATERRESTRIAL CLONES WHO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
One of the last things you'd expect with stuffy politicians facing off in the first Republican Presidential Primary Debate is a discussion on the controversial subject of UFOs... but that's exactly what happened last night [August 23, 2023]. The awkward moment in the debate... came when moderator Martha MacCallum took aim at former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to ask his opinion about a president's responsibility to provide the American public with the truth about the UFO topic. \"I get the UFO question?\" Christie responded with a smile... \"The job of the president of the United States is to stand for truth,\" Christie replied. \"Especially coming from a woman from New Jersey, I think it's horrible that just because I'm from New Jersey, you asked me about unidentified flying objects and Martians. We're different but we're not that different.\" This New Jersey connection is about Orson Welles's infamous Mercury Theatre radio broadcast of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds back on October 30, 1938, when a panicking public believed that hostile Martian tripod machines were rampaging around the countryside near Grovers Mill, New Jersey.--Jeffrey Spry, '\"I get the UFO question?' New Jersey's Chris Christie promises honesty on aliens in 1st Republican presidential debate,\" Space.com, August 24, 2023, As the prosecutions of Mr. Trump have accelerated, so too have threats against law enforcement officials [and] judges... The threats, in turn, are prompting protective measures... Mr. Trump's language has often been, at a minimum, aggressive and confrontational toward his perceived foes, and sometimes has at least bordered on incitement... Mr. Trump baselessly suggested in a social media post that Gen. Mark A. Milley... might have engaged in treason, \"an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the penalty would have been DEATH.\"... The day before a threatening call last month to Judge Tanya S. Chutkan's chambers [made by a Texas woman]... Mr. Trump posted on his social media site: \"IF YOU GO AFTER ME I'M COMING FOR YOU!\"--Michael S Schmidt, Adam Goldman, Maggie Haberman, and Glen Thrush, \"Heated Language Around Trump Raises Worries of Deadly Dissent,\" The New York Times, September 26, 2023, A1, A14.
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On UFOlogy with Chinese characteristics and the fate of Chinese socialism
From its birth in the late 1970s, Chinese UFOlogy has passed through a series of transformations that are illuminating with respect to certain key interpretive problems around the nature and trajectories of Chinese socialism, the question of tradition and 'Chinese characteristics', and the role of science in China's modernisation. In analysing this history, this essay asks: what is the relationship between UFOlogy and socialism?
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Land of (Re) Enchantment: Tourism and Sacred Space at Roswell and Chimayó, New Mexico
[...]upon cursory inspection, the Chimayo site seems sacred and the Roswell one secular. The adobe church's full name, El Santuario de Nuestro Señor de Esquípulas, embodies its Spanish Catholic heritage.\\n30 Sites of pilgrimage within New Mexico, such as Roswell and Chimayó, invigorate the state's economy and bring tourists into contact with greater realms of meaning.
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How Prophecy Never Fails: Interpretive Reason in a Flying-Saucer Group
This descriptive analysis utilizes the ethnomethological approach to examine how reality is socially constructed within the interpretive logic of a flying-saucer group. Ethnographic data was collected over a five year period at the Unarius Academy of Science in El Cajon, California. Drawing upon participant observation, interviews, and archival research, the inquiry explores the historical events surrounding, as well as the contemporary understanding of, their prophecy and its role in reality maintenance. Periphery issues and criticisms of Festinger's When prophecy fails by the ZygmuntMelton model are considered as relevant to the historical data. With Pollners notion of mundane reason as the framework for analysis, the qualitative data show how contemporary member-practitioners explain away the interpretations of others, thereby sustaining their commitment to the group and the validity of their prophecy.
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Our Very Own Cargo Cult
If people should ask who or what they are supposed to be, that would invoke them in the cargo-cult known as \"the social sciences.\" Every trade, occupation and profession has its secrets. What is called culture, society , art, science, and even religion, is the capitalization of those secrets.
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