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Mar 8, 2009

The Disclosure Project May 9th 2001 National Press Club Conference and DEAFENING SILENCE: Media Response to the May 9th Event and its Implications Regarding the Truth of Disclosure by Jonathan Kolber

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On Wednesday, May 9th 2001, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to establish the reality of UFOs or extraterrestrial vehicles, extraterrestrial life forms, and resulting advanced energy and propulsion technologies.

DEAFENING SILENCE: Media Response to the May 9th Event
and its Implications Regarding the Truth of Disclosure

by Jonathan Kolber

http://www.disclosureproject.org/May9response.htm

My intent is to establish that the media’s curiously limited coverage of the May 9, 2001 National Press Club briefing is highly significant.

At that event, nearly two dozen witnesses stepped forward and offered their testimony as to personal knowledge of ET’s and ET-related technologies. These witnesses claimed top secret clearances and military and civilian accomplishments of the highest order. Some brandished uncensored secret documents. The world’s major media were in attendance, yet few reported what they saw, most neglecting to even make skeptical mention.

How can this be? Major legal trials are decided based on weaker testimony than was provided that day. Prison sentences are meted out on less. The initial Watergate evidence was less, and the implications of this make Watergate insignificant by comparison. Yet the silence is deafening.

Three Possibilities:

If true, the witness testimony literally ushers in the basis for a whole new world of peace and prosperity for all. Validating the truth of Disclosure is probably the most pressing question of our times. The implications for the human future are so overwhelming that virtually everything else becomes secondary. However, the mass media have not performed validation. No investigative stories seeking to prove or disprove the witness testimony have appeared.

This cannot be due to lack of material; in the remainder of this article I will perform validation based upon material handed to the world’s media on May 9th.

In my view, only three possibilities exist: the witnesses were all lying, they were all delusional, or they were documenting the greatest cover-up in history. The reason is that if any one witness were neither lying nor delusional, then the truth of Disclosure is established. Let’s examine each possibility in turn.

If the witnesses were lying, a reasonable observer would ask, “where is the payoff?” What is the possible benefit to a liar pleading for the chance to testify before Congress under oath? The most likely payoff would be a trip to jail. These witnesses have not openly requested any financial compensation, speaking engagements or the like, and the Disclosure Project’s operation cannot support a payoff to dozens of persons. A cursory evaluation of its “products” coupled with a visit to its Charlottesville offices will establish this. Further, the parent organization, CSETI, is an IRS 501C3 nonprofit organization, and its lack of financial resources is a matter of public record. So the notion that the witnesses were doing so for material benefit is unsupported by facts at hand.

To my knowledge, large numbers of persons do not collude to lie without some compelling expected benefit. Other than money, the only such reason I can conceive in this case would be ideology. I wonder what radical extremist “ideology” could plausibly unite such a diverse group of senior corporate and military witnesses, nearly all of whom have previously displayed consistent loyalty to the United States in word and deed? I find none, and I therefore dismiss lying as implausible.

Further, the witnesses claimed impressive credentials. Among them were a Brigadier General, an Admiral, men who previously had their finger on the nuclear launch trigger, air traffic controllers, Vice Presidents of major American corporations—persons who either routinely have had our lives in their hands or made decisions affecting everyone. To my knowledge, in the half-year since May 9th, not a single claimed credential has been challenged in a public forum. Were they lying en masse, such an exposure would be a nice feather in the cap of some reporter. However, it hasn’t happened.

If all the witnesses were delusional, then a reasonable observer would presume that such “mass psychosis” did not suddenly manifest. That is, a number of witnesses would have shown psychotic tendencies in the past, in some cases probably including hospitalization. To my knowledge, this has not been alleged.

If they were documenting the greatest cover-up in history, and especially as briefing books that enumerated details of specific cases were handed out on May 9th to the dozens of reporters present, coverage should have dominated the media ever since, with a national outcry for hearings. This did not happen either.

Implications:

What do the above facts and inferences imply about the state of affairs in the media and the credibility of the witness testimony? In my view, they imply a lot.

If the witnesses were neither lying nor delusional, then the deafening media silence following May 9th implies an intentional process of failure to explore and reveal the truth. Said less politely, it implies censorship. (If I am right, this is itself an explosive statement, worthy of significant media attention—which it will not receive.) The only stories comparable in significance to May 9th would be World War III, a plague decimating millions, or the like. Yet between May 9th and September 11th, the news media was saturated with stories that are comparatively trivial.

Briefing documents were provided to reporters present. These books provided much of due diligence necessary for those reporters to explore the truth. However, neither Watergate-type coverage nor exposure of witness fraud has followed.

One of the witnesses reported how he became aware of 43 persons on the payrolls of major media organs while in fact working for the US government. Their job was to intercept ET-related stories and squelch, spin or ridicule. If we accept his testimony as factual, it provides a plausible explanation for the deafening silence following May 9th.

There is a bright spot in this situation. Some of the media did provide coverage, if only for a few days. This suggests that those who control media reporting do not have a monolithic power; they can be circumvented. The event did run on the internet and was seen by 250,000 viewers, despite “sophisticated electronic jamming” during the first hour (words attributed to the broadcast provider, not the Disclosure Project). Indeed, it continues to be fully documented at the Project’s web site.

Conclusions:

Since an expose of witness deceit or mass psychosis would itself have been a good, career-building story for some reporter, but no such story has appeared, I conclude that these witnesses are who they claim to be.

If these witnesses are who they claim to be, then they presented testimony they believe truthful. Yet no factual detail of any of that testimony has since been disputed in the media. Half a year is enough time to do the research. I believe the testimony is true as presented.

If the data is true as presented and the media are essentially ignoring what is indisputably the greatest story of our era, then the media are not performing the job they claim to do. Either they are being suppressed/censored, or they do not believe the public would find this subject interesting.

The tabloids continuously run stories on ET-related subjects, and polls show high public interest in the subject, so lack of interest value cannot be the explanation. I conclude that there is active suppression. This is corroborated by the witness claim of 43 intelligence operatives on major media payrolls.

Despite active suppression, enough coverage of the May 9th event happened in major publications and broadcast media to prove that the suppression can be thwarted. An event of significant enough impact and orchestration can break through the censorship. Millions of persons previously unaware of or dubious about ET-related technologies and their significance for ending our dependence on Arab oil have since become aware.

We live in a controlled society, one in which the control is secretive yet masquerades as openness. Yet, as proven May 9th, this control can be overcome by the concerted efforts of determined groups of persons. We must seek such opportunities again.

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  1. M says:

    Privitization of space in the 2030s or so due to molecular nanotech will force the hand of the insiders, they won’t have a choice. Some form of disclosure will have to be made. Spin and disinformation is to be expected, but it may not be enough to close Pandora’s box. What are the inplications?

    1. We don’t have representative democracy. It’s a scam. Extra legal power structures exist that circumvent the electoral process. The common man has no say in issues that affect the welfare of the entire species. The people are divided over hot button topics like stem cell research and gay marriage, but when it comes to macro level issues, they have no say.

    2. We don’t have a free press. The ET issue is dead serious as these whistleblowers assert. Former astronauts have said black intelligence groups have bodies and craft. Why is this not investigated by serious journalists, instead only spoken about in a mocking tone? They are either controlled or retarded.

    3. Mainstream academia is at the very least incompetent. They go on and on about the Fermi paradox but refuse to look into the UFO issue. The Belgian Air Force has gun camera footage of aircraft making 90 degree turns at 2,000 mph. Google “black triangles” and you’ll see it. These objects exhibit flight characteristics far in advance of any known aerospace technologies. We have former engineers for Lockheed Skunkworks and Raytheon coming foward to talk about reverse engineering of alien craft, space based weapons systems and the like. These are Phds with top secret security clearances, not redneck “contactees.” The cognitive dissonance and denial is getting old. Take a look at Richard Dolan’s books. He lays it out very well. No BS just empirical fact finding. Skepticism is healthy, stupidity is not. Scientists would rather play mental gymnastics than look at what’s in front of them. It’s disgusting.

    According to the intelligence, military and scientists involved, the reason for the cover up is maintaining control of the population. The technology the ETs posess would provide unlimited, clean energy. This would completely destroy the current economic system. They’ve made the decision that human beings can’t be free. The Third world will remain politically impotent, people in general will remain slaves to money and debt. The fractional reserve bankers will retain their leash over the governments they loan money to and then charge interest to in the form of income taxes. Globalization and economic centralization into their hands will continue. See “Money as Debt” and “The Money Masters.” There is no conspiracy here, the facts can’t be spinned, it is what it is.

    The amount of anger this information will cause can’t be underestimated. How many people were condemned to poverty and starvation because humanity wasn’t deemed ready for free energy technologies? This is a crime against humanity, cut and dry.

    As we approach the singularity, it’s going to become apparent to the public that our society operates under a number of big lies. It’s not just the ET issue. How will the bankers react to the nanofactory and their reduced influence? Who will have access to radical life extension and gentic enhancement technologies? Will robotics and software eliminate jobs, or the very concept of work itself? No amount of denial will make these issues go away. We can no longer pretend that special interests don’t exist in our society and exercise tremendous influence disproportionate to their number. The problem of the parasite class will have to be dealt with. The sociopaths that run the fractional reserve banking system will not give up their power voluntarily. There will be blowback. When people can no longer be controlled by money, more draconian measures may be implemented. It’s going to get ugly. The fact that it even has to get to that point speaks volumes about our species.