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Still from District 9 - Photo AP
Yesterday, I got the chance to watch District 9. Unfortunately, it was an unhappy experience. I walked out after 20 minutes. While District 9 largely showed extraterrestrials on the receiving end of racist human policies, what most disturbed me was the crude depiction of the extraterrestrials. District 9 was a clever reversal of the invading alien genre that nevertheless succeeds in propagandizing extraterrestrials via negative stereotypes. Together with the upcoming November release of The Fourth Kind, Hollywood is once again resorting to pretty crude depictions of extraterrestrial life.
Is there a hidden purpose in movies such as District 9 to propagandize extraterrestrial life? Are government/corporate entities secretly conditioning humanity for future disclosures based on a contrived alien threat? To find answers, I asked world renowned UFO/exopolitics expert, Paola Harris. She has researched UFOs for over thirty years and on September 14 begins teaching an online course on UFOs and Hollywood. Her answers to my eight questions cast light on how Hollywood has historically depicted UFOs and extraterrestrials, and what one will encounter in what promises to be a fascinating online course. I should have first sat through her course before venturing out to watch District 9.
1. What is the significance of recent movies like District 9 and the Fourth Kind that show extraterrestrials in a negative light?
I think District 9 deals with racism in general and has a positive message. It truly shows what is would be like to be in another person’s shoes. It shows what a dominant culture, with military might, can do to an alien culture whether it is the Black Culture of South Africa or even an “off-world”culture. Any kind of racist judgement : for example, the deciding whether some alien races are “bad” or “good” does not lead to productive galactic diplomacy and that is the core of the Exopolitics. We, as a planetary culture, have a choice about how humanity can integrate into a cosmic community. These films show us the consequences of our choices.
2. What are your thoughts on the remake of the Day the Earth Stood Still that changed visiting extraterrestrials from pacifists wanting to help humanity avoid nuclear war, to environmentalists ready to eliminate humanity to save the planet?
It is a change in focus. It seems some scriptwriter thought we were not worth saving in this version. The first warning about nuclear destruction was given in the original film. But the remake has a different focus. Since the Earth is a “ jewel of the Universe”, the mission was to save only plant and animal life. However, the ultimate message was that there is always hope for “Cosmic redemption . This happens when a robotic Keanu Reeves sees the love of a mother and child.
3. Do you agree that a pattern is emerging where Hollywood is putting out more extraterrestrial related movies that are focused on negative aspects of human extraterrestrial contact?
I think there is a balance of both. For entertainment value, there seems to be a need for violence and negativity. The monsters, and body snatchers are there to make money. But The films-“ ET, Close Encounters, The Abyss, The Fifth Element, Bladerunner, Starman and especially David Bowie in "The Man Who Fell to Earth” encourage pathos and empathy for those not like us otherwise known as alien life forms. I include portions of these films in my course.
I think that the Cab driver who saves the alien kids in” The Race to Witch Mountain” has a message and I think Disney and ABC are among the front-runners here. They always were . We know that early on Disney cartoonist Ward Kimbel was approached to do a disclosure film by the intelligence community. Walt Disney himself was very good friends with Werner van Braun who certainly knew the “Truth”. Look at what ABC News kids put out about eight years ago. This is disclosure in the most obvious of forms. Disney, TV and Movies are all related and the ABC special on Abductions recently finally treated abductees such as Stan Romanak with the greatest respect. It is a shame Dr. John Mack could not live to see it.
4. Is Hollywood's negative ET theme audience driven or is there a psychological conditioning function at work here.
It depends. I think Spielberg is definitely an insider with mixed messages. He can create an ET and Close Encounters, then turn around and destroy humanity with WAR of the Worlds. Who is calling the shots here? But his miniseries “Taken “ is a masterpiece .It encompasses all the elements of the abduction/ contact phenomena and the consequent government cover-up.
Audiences want excitement and often Hollywood gives us what we want even if it distorts the reality of alien visitation and the UFO Phenomenon.The Earth is still here and no has destroyed us yet. This may be too boring for audiences so we need to place our aggression in the alien framework.
5. To what extent has Hollywood been coopted by the military-intelligence community to put out material that conditions Americans and the world as part of a psychological warfare program.
I think a “fear” induced populace is easily manageable whether it be concerned the Swine flu or some alien threat. Hollywood and visual media is a tool of the controllers but occasionally we have inspired individuals. I think producer/director Paul Davids did us a service with his film ROSWELL which is based on the surviving witness testimony of many from the Roswell incident including Jesse Marcel Jr.
Many accounts have solid witness testimony and that is what interests me most. I have interviewed so many of these people. One example is retired Air Force fighter pilot, Dr. Milton Torres who was ordered to fire a missile on a UfO over Manston England in 1957 .The question is “did UFOS ever shoot back?” The study of Ufology and Exopolitics is bringing the truth to light and often the “truth” is far stranger than fiction, believe me.
My classes read my in- depth interviews with military, intelligence people and astronauts, then they connect the dots in essay form. Any intelligent scholar and researcher can do this. As my mentor, J Allen Hynek said” UFOs must be studied seriously and without the ridicule factor”. From european my travels, I find this is done more seriously abroad. Few people laugh there. They have a genuine curiosity based on a historical anthropological perspective connected to ancient cultures. We in the USA are a new culture. We need to study “Cosmic Cultures” as we study the social sciences.
6. In your course, Hollywood and UFOs, do you focus on positive extraterrestrial images in movies? Why is this important?
It is a matter of making sense of all this. It is not just positive or negative. It just is! I am used to teachingfrom a historical perspective as I have taught literature and history in high school for thirty years and I have a Masters degree. In these Exopolitics classes, which taught through the Exopolitics Institute, we use my book filled with interviews called Connecting the Dots: Making Sense of the UfO Phenomena and loads of supplemental essays from other researchers and expert witness testimony to put together a puzzle.
I do not tell students what to think. I do not have the answers. In fact in my last book Exopolitics: All the Above, which specifically deals with theories of disclosure, I say “the answer is there is no answer. It is merely a study: a study of history and how to prepare for contact. One thing is true. The phenomena exists!
7. What do students find most rewarding in doing your Hollywood and UFO course?
I propose specific subjects for 13 modules that students must react to in order to receive credit but they always go further. They find corroborating evidence from their own experience, from Utube, or from books they volunteer to read. They become so interested that most do more than the work required. They also view films and TV in a more metaphoric way. They look for deeper meaning and see connections in media. Most could really teach the course in their communities. There is more than enough proof and expert testimony to win any case in a court of law that UFOS are “real: that we have been visited since ancient times, that we are being observed and lastly, that we are at a crucial point in our evolution.
8. Any last thoughts on the role of Hollywood and UFOs.
Yes! What stimulated me most was that last scene from Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind when Francoise Truffaut creates the hand signals of communication with these strange beings. What is happening is that he experiences contact with extraterrestrial life form so different from ours that there seems to be no commonality. But the commonality is a smile. That famous smile.
Contact will change the course of human evolution and human consciousness forever. It changed mine. The impact was immense and I think some people are very afraid of this. I welcome it.
For more info:
To learn more about Paola Harris course, Hollywood and the Disclosure Process visit: http://exopoliticsinstitute.org/certificates/Exo-108.htm . To learn about other courses and the Exopolitics Certification Program, visit: http://exopoliticsinstitute.org/certificates/schedule.htm
Comments
Its unfortunate. You should have just watched the rest of the film. The main character discovers that MNU was keeping the extraterrestrials in these horrible enviroments because MNU were trying to figure out how the alien weapons worked (MNU represented the black budget). The main character also discovers the value of extraterrestrial life and peace in space. You should have stayed and watched the entire film =(
This time I think that we must recognize that Dr. Salla is doing the right thing.
Why?
Simply because he is writing about science-fiction, without telling us that he is talking about science, revelations, contactees and anonymous sources.
Science fiction, Paranormal Thrillers, Alternative History ARE the substance of Exopolitics and there is nothing wrong about reading fiction ...as fiction.
Well Done.
James Black
It's too bad that you made such a hasty generalization about the movie.......to understand the whole movie is to watch the "whole" movie, not just once, but many times....and not just 20 minutes of it....what happened in the time that you did not see that could have had significant impact on what you are postulating about in your article.......
If the basic premise of a logical argument is wrong then the rest of the theory would follow in its footsteps and be wrong too.
It would be nice to go back and see the whole movie and re-evaluate your claims and also correct the grammer mistakes in this article too..
I 100% believe in UFO's and I loved District 9. It was, after all,FICTION. Also the end of the movie reveals the Aliens to be the victims and man as the enemy. Go back and watch the whole thing, great movie. ITS NOT REALITY, just for fun. If it were reality the aliens would win any war that was started with them.
I am glad you walked out.More people should. The movie is about the troubles in South Africa gift wrapped as a ufo movie.I wish I could get my money back.
I've read so many articles put this down as another hollywood attempt to, such and such. Only problem is this is a Peter Jackson movie that was privately funded, and now if you know anything you will know that Peter Jackson is a New Zealander and works out of New Zealand. hollywood had no connection to this movie. Now, as someone who has had a life long experience with different beings, and have put my book online for free because i have no desire to profit from such. I enjoyed this movie, unlike some people I guess I find the pure entertainment in these, and in no way look towards them to be bringing any message.
District 9 is about xenophobia, and very realisticly portrays typical human behaviour
and attitudes to those who are strange, different or do not belong.
The movie addresses military greed and lawlessness and how easily the average citizen is hoodwinked by propaganda and the reactions of an ordinary man when he sees for himself the type of experimentation that was conducted on the aliens and his desperate reaction when
he realises that nothing will stand in the way of the mighty military machine, and how little regard the military has for life or civil rights, whether human or alien.
This movie should not be dismissed or underestimated as it addresses vital issues regarding
extraterrestrial and human relations.
This movie should be a warning to those that think extraterrestrials will be received with open arms by human society.
Xenophobia is a very real phenomena, and South African society has had to deal with this
nasty issue, this typical human reaction to those who d
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Xenophobia is a very real phenomena, and South African society has had to deal with this nasty issue, this typical human reaction to those who do not belong.
Only recently xenophobic violence in South Africa was main news when local africans killed, hurt, maimed and burned alive, other africans that were not from South Africa.
Please see the whole movie, see it in context and understand that xenophobia is perhaps a topic that should be taken seriousely, especially by those who wish to be future extraterrestrial diplomats and representatives.
Xenophobia is a study that should receive the highest priority.
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Xenophobia is a very real phenomena, and South African society has had to deal with this nasty issue, this typical human reaction to those who do not belong.
Only recently xenophobic violence in South Africa was main news when local africans killed, hurt, maimed and burned alive, other africans that were not from South Africa.
Please see the whole movie, see it in context and understand that xenophobia is perhaps a topic that should be taken seriousely, especially by those who wish to be future extraterrestrial diplomats and representatives.
Xenophobia is a study that should receive the highest priority.
Sad to hear you left District 9 in the first 20 minutes. The underlying conclusion in my opinion is: Man is the most destructive, Ignorant race due to lack of spirit, respect,and truth. Only until the reporter started to change into a pron (alien) did he realize man will do anything for the advancement of weaponry until he has completely destroyed themselves. Humans try to kidnap him as the key to weaponry enhancement. The Aliens rarely fire on Humans but just ask to be left alone. All the while being able to disintegrate humans with laser/plasma technology (which the US and other Governments really do have right now). Humans conduct home-evictions on the aliens like the peoples of the west bank, America, and the Apartheid in South Africa from 1947 till today (and every dogma enforced doctrine of our days) . The Aliens finally showed up and human still cannot see past his material convictions.
Very fitting.
Perhaps you wrote a good article here. Of course, I don't know. I may never know. After all, I stopped reading after the first two paragraphs to give myself a comparative experience to the one which you gave <i>District 9</i>.
Being "chosen," I strongly disagree that Stan Romanak was treated with "the greatest respect" by ABC - HE WAS VERY MUCH DISRESPECTED! With all due respect, such is the perspective that Ms. Harris puts on things, which alludes to the perspective of Dr. Salla - they don't want to "judge" the Aliens but instead want you to let them be what they are and to accept whatever that is! Having had two medically diagnosed "anomalous" operative procedures, I for one am not willing to accept that we should let Aliens be what they want. They want us to be what THEY want us to be, to not question that, and to teach other Humans the same. A vast majority of Humans (Military, Governments, Intelligencia, etc.) are SO afraid of the Aliens that this is the position they've come to take, in addition to keeping this "secret" from us too. READER, DOES THIS SEEM GOOD TO YOU? Do you lie to your friends and then expect them to think you care for them when they find out?
The best in human kindness showed up in this movie, such a pity that you did not see it.
You will probably have to go see it again now.It is very heart warming to know that people such as he, exist in the real world.
Wikus Van De Merwe got his character just right.
Of course it was only a movie,and has no relation to the real aliens.
And Mr Salla may I add that until you have seen this, in it's entirety, you cannot throw stones.
Re-watch, then re-post.
Lamentably the humans still we played the game of the dualidad…. There is nothing so that to pelar… nor because to fight…. Anyway all the truth will be revealed…. The light prevails Everything will be revealed!
Xenophobia or racialism is part of our instinct to survive because it preserves racial types instead of allowing them to be destroyed. Give me George Pal's War of the Worlds for a good alien invasion story.
Straight shootin' from Texas
Human males - in groups - inevitably become greedy, ultra violent, right wing and so destructive as to warrant their extinction. Thats what the movie was about. It was a truthful indictment of Humanity as its normal level(absolute and endless destruction of their own and their planet).
Humans WILL achieve their goal of extinction in the not too distant future. The sign "NO HUMANS !" was very apropo as to how almost all Advanced Races feel about that sad tiny group of arrogant fools.
Mr. Salla,
How, in heaven's name, do you call yourself an open minded academic? You have missed the entire point behind the movie (which was partly an indictment of apartheid and fully exposed man's inhumanity to man/alien) simply because these aliens were acting "unalien-like"? Please, step down from your high horse and smell the storyline and behave like an academic who truly values critical thinking.
You walked out after 20 minutes? How can you even write about it? Very bad form. You missed the whole point of the movie.
Who knew that Salla or his cohorts would censor comments right here? Isn't this an American owned newspaper? Do I now have right to speak my piece? Censoring comments that prove how delusional this man is only allows him to continue to mislead people with his unproven claims. When Salla can put up evidence that can be proven scientifically then I will shut up.
Correction: I meant website not newspaper
"Is Hollywood's negative ET theme audience driven or is there a psychological conditioning function at work here?"
Personally I think it's caused by people looking into our own history at the only think we know of that can compare to extraterrestrial's arriving in mass. That would be when Europeans began entering the Western Hemisphere and taking it over. Some people like to believe that if an alien race has come far enough with their evolution to have the power to travel the stars that they well be benevolent in nature. Looking at all life on Earth I see no evidence that any life forms ever stop competing for resources. If they are making the effort to come all this way the conquest of our planet may be exactly what they have in mind.
When you do your online study about UFO's and Hollywood, remember, they are controlled by the government and the Boop Tube and Television is meant to confuse you and warp your minds.
Aliens/UFO's are the fallen angels and mankinds version of techology learned from them, as stated in Dr. Salla's latest set of articles concerning the book of Enoch.
God has reserved the fallen angels for the day of judgment. Full disclosure and the open reintegrating of them into our society, along with their hybrid children from alien abuctions, allowed by our governments, will bring about all that is written in the prophecies written in the Word of God, the Bible.
So while you are all studying the UFO quagmire, start studying about the fallen angels in the scriptures, then all of this will make sense.
ljb
...You should watch the whole movie, The Prawns prove to be amazingly intelligent. This is the first movie I have seen that portrayed Extraterrestrials in such a way. They are shown to be conscious, thinking, intelligent creatures with amazing technology.
This Examiner post is a drag man
and I also read that someone was censored!?
Free speech yo!
Hate it when bible fanatics mix up UFO's in their little sense of them being angels and satans little helpers. They start explaining how there is no life other than ours and all that bs. There doesnt have to be an earthlike planet for intelligent life to LIVE, it can be extreme. They are only helping us, or at least trying and yet the military is thinking they are the enemy. Such a shame on how people are so scared of their military when they basically outnumber the militarized population by the millions. The peoples problem is, they are afraid of what the govt will do. the sooner you start realizing we are already dead from day one, the sooner we can take control of our govt by force. i dont care if its another civil war b/c the US surely isn't run by the people anymore.
District 9 does not end how it begins. At first it portrays the view of the MNU and general public upon the aliens, but over time, it changes, and you get to see the aliens how they are, intelligent, just trying to make their living under the harsh conditions men keep them in, and you even get to see a really nice father-son-relationship there. The movie actually contrasts racism and prejudice with the truth about the alien, i.e. that they are neither savage, nor stupid, nor evil. They are, in the end, just like us.
Good job on writing a article about a movie you never even seen
It's amazing to see an unknown director bring a brilliant idea for a film from nothing to a damn good watch.
It also amazes me how an obvious ufo nut would walk out of a film about aliens, and fail completely to see the morals behind the film.
This film was a masterpiece, it depicted human nature perfectly.
I watched All of D9 and it was just repeting what the news notworks are saying everyday all around the world except humans are the aliens.this is a good film for sheep , those who arnt aware the world is upsidedown
I watched All of D9 and it was just repeting what the news notworks are saying everyday all around the world except humans are the aliens.this is a good film for sheep , those who arnt aware the world is upsidedown
I believe in superior beings ,there is too much evidence not to at least to give it a thought both in ancient written tablets and many sightings by credible witnesses, that there is one or more highly advanced entities, but there is the nasty agenda of depopulation that bothers me, I think the depopulation thing with disease ,codex armentarious,wars ,the internment camps are or have something to do with this .... but I dont know where the pieces fit,but .I do think we are in critical times ,disclosure or not ..the world population is in the way of the elitists, that I feel is the big thing they are going to disclose....because I just dont think Disclosure is the highest priority for the capitalists
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