This whole unfolding series of revelations the equivalent of the now standard Washington, D.C. “Friday night document dump.”

I’ve commented here a time or two before about UFOs, a subject which I actually view as one of potentially great significance with reference to our view of ourselves as human beings, of our civilization, our planet, and our place in the Universe.

Something which, while being viewed as “off the wall,” in “tin-foil hat territory,” and illusory could–in the great scheme of things, and for us–perhaps turn out to be of supreme significance and importance.

If, in the modern era, cumulatively thousands of UFOs–possessing and demonstrating characteristics and capabilities “light years” above our current capabilities and technologies–have been/are flying around and through U.S. and other country’s airspace, and especially—as we’ve now seen officially reported–over U.S. Navy battle groups, and over U.S. ICBM installations, over nuclear weapons, military storage areas and installations, over civilian nuclear power plants (not to mention over numerous cities and towns), and near many military and commercial passenger aircraft, have been doing so since at least the mid 1940s, and have been witnessed–all over the world, in fact–and often by serious people, by many credible, trained observers, and sometimes observed simultaneously by multiple observers on land, on ships, in the air, and by radar—I’d call that, at a minimum, a major national security problem, and a phenomenon that deserves serous investigation and attention.

Lately I’ve noticed an uptick in developments, and in the visibility of this issue.

The emergence of the UFO focused “To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science,” and their HISTORY Channel show ”Unidentified,” the emergence, this April, of officially authenticated military videos of three UFO incidents, and the U.S. Navy changing its reporting requirements to encourage it’s pilots, and other naval personnel, to report UFO sightings, language in the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act mandating the production of an unclassified report (with a classified annex) on UFOs, the information that has been gathered on them, an estimate of the national security threat they might pose, and where they come from, members of the Congress reportedly being briefed on the UFO issue, the report/admission this year that there is currently a Task Force within U.S. Naval Intelligence which tracks such UFO sightings, plus news report references to the U.S. military being given recent classified briefings about “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”

Of course, in this “highly charged political atmosphere,” this could all be just one of several carefully staged “shiny objects,” a campaign of “distraction,” but I get the feeling that it might not be.

I certainly could be wrong, but it appears to me that this subject is—starting a couple of years ago and, now, all of a sudden—being more and more swiftly pushed into public view, and being presented this way to build up to some type of major revelation/announcement.

https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2020/07/church-volunteer-admits-to-arson-attack-on-french-cathedral/

French media quoted the Nantes prosecutor as saying that the 39-year-old Rwandan, who’d been tasked with the job of locking up the cathedral, told the investigating magistrate that he lit three fires: on two cathedral organs and an electrical box. His motives were unknown.

The prosecutor said the arson charge is punishable by a 10-year jail term and a fine of 150,000 euros ($175,000).

Picked up immediately after the fire, held for over a day and then released, the man was detained again on Saturday morning, on the basis of evidence gathered by police forensic experts and a 20-strong team of investigators who questioned more than 30 people, the prosecutor said in a statement.

The fire broke the main stained-glass windows between the cathedral’s two towers and destroyed its main organ. Dating from the 17th century, the organ was called the “soul of the cathedral” by faithful.

The cathedral was built over five centuries and completed in 1891. The organ had previously survived a serious fire in 1972, which annihilated much of its wooden structures.

https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2020/07/pope-francis-pained-by-decision-to-turn-hagia-sophia-into-mosque/

Prior to Sunday, [7/12] the pope had been criticized among some Orthodox news sites for his “sad silence” on the decision [by Turkey], which was heavily opposed by Orthodox churches around the world, who argued that the monument’s neutrality as a museum served as a point of unity between East and West.

According to the Orthodox Times news agency, the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate said Friday they regret that their concern and that of other Orthodox churches “has not been heard.”

“Unfortunately, this decision is not aimed at pacifying the existing disputes, but, on the contrary, it can lead to even greater divisions,” they said.

Last Sunday Pope Francis came under fire for omitting a portion of text in his Angelus appealing for religious freedom and human rights in Hong Kong. He has yet to speak out about the issue.

It just came to my attention finally about the situation in Denver with the Colorado state capitol building. It absolutely blows my mind that a state Capitol would just be surrendered to vandals without a fight. Is that really what happened?? Tell me it’s not so. This is what war – a lost war – looks like.

As for Agia Sofia in Istanbul (it’s funny that most people at my church would probably give me the stink-eye for calling it anything other than Constantinople, even though the city has been basically out of Greek hands for almost 600 years now – so I don’t talk about it)… I feel as if I have to say something about it. Even though I’m an Orthodox Christian and part of a Greek church, I frankly have a hard time getting much worked up about the re-mosquification of the cathedral. Yes, it was and in certain ways still is a holy place, and yes, it was the – I’ll put it crudely and say the “political” center of Christendom for centuries (although I don’t really mean this word in the typical sense). There are other less obvious things that give Agia Sofia significance, such as the role that its clergy and choirs played in setting up many of our liturgical details which later spread throughout the Orthodox world. I can imagine that there must have been quite a few hymns which were first chanted or reached their fullest expression there. What if St. John Koukouzelis worked there? And some saintly Patriarchs preached there.

But look, the building was taken from us over half a millennium ago by right of conquest, had already been mosquified once in 1453 and has been used as a mosque for fully 85% of the time from then to now. What happened last Friday is to me just a reset to status quo ante. Sure, I’d love to see those minarets blown to bits (they are an obscenity), and sure, Erdogan is what he is, and sure, the bit about the imam carrying that scimitar and all the rest is just a giant piece of insolence; but at the end of the day, Agia Sofia is a building. Souls are more important than buildings, right? To hear Greeks talk sounds a lot like the relationship of Jews to the Temple, and it just doesn’t feel right to me that we should be making some kind of equivalence of this nature. Jews and the Temple at Jerusalem have a connection that is fundamentally different and more justified in my view.

Besides, even if the Orthodox were to regain it at some point, would we be worthy of inhabiting it? Or is it really about worldly pride in possessing that wonder of the old world? Is it that Greece could finally feel “important” again if she had the old imperial capital back? I think that as Christians, we should accept loss of worldly glories as routine. Yes, we can exert ourselves to create truly beautiful things that elevate people’s souls. But any expectation that those things will last forever is a fool’s dream, a phantom of the world. Christ came not to put up grand buildings, but to save souls. How would having Agia Sofia back in Greek or Russian hands help anybody if it’s just a trophy? Now if, for example, it were to become a focal point for the renewal of spiritual life in Europe (especially combined with Mt. Athos), or from which we would finally get our act together and preach Christ to the Turks – that I would call a real justification.

Actually, it just occurred to me… is there a conceivable parallel between the re-mosquification of Agia Sofia and the ruin of the Capitol at Denver? The latter has basically been lost in a battle. So was the former (albeit on a greater scale and with more at stake). Both events are connected with the decay of the civilizations that created those structures, as expressed in the manner of their loss – the one because the Empire finally reaped the fruit of centuries of mistakes along the way, and the other because the society just can’t be bothered to fight for it. It’s just an unformed thought and maybe too much of a stretch.

this goes back to the classic example of the rothschildes… whose father put one in each country to control banking across the globe… or if you read history, the medici family… or the vanderbuilts… this was why the hyphenated names… not for feminist reasons… (ergo the joke that its not her name its her fathers name)… but to show which families were joined… as in the days of royalty.. if you start unravelling the names, and the new names, you will find their children are dotted all over at the best jobs in press, companies, etc…

funny how that works out..

the lower class people who did this and dont have a family history and dont know their past, are transitory… they have no anchors, and they have no futures… they are completely disposable because of it and were convinced to do it to themselves… what if Hitler made no ovens but convinced jews to self exterminate with abortions… he would have done what was done here in the US to what is now the target group of anti-racisms racism… which once they are neutered, people like blasio will have no problem going after the other classical target for they will have zero protectors… just as the amish wont either..

This only occurs when the mothers and fathers are married and stay married.

Republicans should be claiming there can be no “social justice” until there is family justice for the children – and raising them in families with a mother and father.

And admitting this problem is not such a problem for the rich, like Trump, but is a huge problem for all who make less than the US median of income (about $60k/yr).

In Slovakia, one of the leaders of a party (We are Family – Sme Rodina) has 11 kids from 9 different non-married women. His facebook is full of pictures of him and some of his kids.

Terrible example for poor folk.

Optimal culture for poor people is not optimal for rich. We should be pushing laws and culture which help poor folk more.

It’s a jungle out there and one can’t be too careful…especially since in addition to all the other booby traps, “silence is violence”.

(And so maybe this is the best reason to wear a mask. A heavy-duty one, totally sound proof…)