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Alien Invasion: The New CT?

Horatius

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I was thinking of this for a Stundie, but it's too big, and really, it needs its own thread!

It turns out, Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast was all a Commie/CFR/somebodyorother plot!

At least according to my old pal Questy:



The plan to create an artificial extraterrestrial threat to the Earth was first mentioned by the Marxist, John Dewey.

"Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose." John Dewey, New York 1917.

The premise was tested for credibility with the CBS presentation of The War Of The Worlds by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on October 30, 1938. At 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, on the evening of October 30, 1938, the night before All Saints Day, now generally celebrated as Halloween, an estimated six million Americans listened to the famous Orson Welles broadcast, War Of The Worlds. The broadcast described an extraterrestrial invasion from Mars. An estimated one million sheople responded with sustained credulity and fear. Thousands responded with sheer panic.

The broadcast was a psychological warfare experiment conducted by The Princeton Radio Project. The Rockefeller Foundation funded the project in the fall of 1937. An Office of Radio Research was set up with Paul F. Lazarsfeld as director, and Frank Stanton and Hadley Cantril as associate directors. Cantril used a special grant from the General Education Board to study the effects of the broadcast. Cantril published the study as a book titled The Invasion From Mars - A Study In The Psychology Of Panic. It contains a complete script of the broadcast. The book is one of a series of studies sponsored by the Federal Radio Education Committee.

War Of The Worlds, was broadcast by Mercury Theater on the Air, from a microphone in a New York studio of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Council on Foreign Relations member Frank Stanton was a CBS executive. Stanton would direct Radio Free Europe. Regarding the programs realism Cantril writes, "The sheer dramatic excellence of the broadcast must not be overlooked. The unusual realism of the performance may be attributed to the fact that the early parts of the broadcast fell within the existing standards of judgment of the listeners..."



I don't even know where to start.
 
You have to remember that it's Quest. He is one of the nuttiest in the jar of nuts.
 
You have to remember that it's Quest. He is one of the nuttiest in the jar of nuts.



True. No CT too great or too small for the Quester!



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Funny thing, if you listen to a recording of the broadcast, it's as hokey as a puck. Granted that 1930s radio pronouncers affected an oddly "scripted" sound, it's still inconceivable that anybody could be fooled by it.

The extent of the real panic it caused has been questioned --

What the hell am I doing? This is a CT thread! Nobody tries to talk sense around here!

I -- I feel like a fool.
 
How do they reconcile that with the fact that Welles was practically ostracized by NWO usual suspects (Hollywood and the gov't)?
Welles in Europe (1948 to 1956)
Welles left Hollywood for Europe in late 1947, enigmatically saying he had chosen "freedom". This must refer to both acting offers and the possibility of directing and producing films again. There is now compelling evidence that Welles was blacklisted in Hollywood, after years of propaganda by the Hearst empire labeling him a communist and years of FBI investigations prompted by J. Edgar Hoover.

Consider also, the novel had been in publication for 40 years, prior to the radio performance.

Other issues:
* It is not "The Princeton Radio Project". It is "The Radio ProjectWP" which was headquarted at Princeton University.
* Hadley Contril wasa Princeton psychologist, and I am not finding anything to substantiate that he was an "associate director" of "The Radio Project", only that he was involved with it.
* Frank StantonWP was from CBS and, again, I can not find evidence he was an "associate director," though he was chairman of the Rand CorporationWP from '61 to '67, so he's damned in their eyes anyway even though he battled the gov't for freedom of press. Neither am I finding that he was associated with the Council of Foreign Nations, though, if he was, it is circular reasoning to say this is evidence of a conspiracy.
* Radio Free EuropeWP wouldn't come in to existence for another 12 years, and can hardly be considered a conspiracy since their intentions to subvert Communism were quite clear.
* Use of the Rockefeller FoundationWP as evidence of a conspiracy is circular reasoning
 
Clearly it was just deep, deep, deep cover. These NWO types think of everything.....
 
"Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose." John Dewey, New York 1917.

Didn't Reagan say something almost exactly like this?
 
How do they reconcile that with the fact that Welles was practically ostracized by NWO usual suspects (Hollywood and the gov't)?


Consider also, the novel had been in publication for 40 years, prior to the radio performance.

Other issues:
* It is not "The Princeton Radio Project". It is "The Radio ProjectWP" which was headquarted at Princeton University.
* Hadley Contril wasa Princeton psychologist, and I am not finding anything to substantiate that he was an "associate director" of "The Radio Project", only that he was involved with it.
* Frank StantonWP was from CBS and, again, I can not find evidence he was an "associate director," though he was chairman of the Rand CorporationWP from '61 to '67, so he's damned in their eyes anyway even though he battled the gov't for freedom of press. Neither am I finding that he was associated with the Council of Foreign Nations, though, if he was, it is circular reasoning to say this is evidence of a conspiracy.
* Radio Free EuropeWP wouldn't come in to existence for another 12 years, and can hardly be considered a conspiracy since their intentions to subvert Communism were quite clear.
* Use of the Rockefeller FoundationWP as evidence of a conspiracy is circular reasoning



Wait wait wait!

Are you telling me that a CTist got something wrong? Mark the date! This shall certainly never happen again!


:)

And does it disturb anyone else that people have pulled up this much info on Welles, the broadcast, and the bit players in this CT in such a short time? How lazy are these CT guys, that they can't do the same?
 
Guess what!!! I don't know if you have heard of the "Disclosure project"?

http://www.disclosureproject.org/

One of the witnesses, it's a woman who happened to work at NASA. And one of her statements is that there are entire buildings dedicated at blurring, photoshopping, UFO out of space photography. Just so they don't have to deal with them.
She says she was shown pictures where you could see the shadow of a large spacecraft on the moon, and she says these pictures were about to be "blurred".

Another guy, who has nothing to do with the disclosur eproject, hacked into NAsa and did find pictures of UFOs and other techonology. He says he had heard of the woman's testimonial, and when he found the pictures he was impressed because he found stuff on NAsa that she said was there. You'll also find this on google by typing stuff like "NASA Hacker" or something.

Another statement is that, out of all these witnesses from nasa and the military, they all say that these UFO's(most of them in the disc. proj. agree that they are beings from other planet), don't have any belical or agressive intentions towards our civilization.
I mean, if there ARE aliens out there, and if what these guys say is true... I don't see why worry about them.
Another claim is that the same person who showed her the pictures about to be photoshopped told her that the government was going to fake an alien invasion to.....
I don't remmember the rest. It's not like there is a 'rest'. Perhaps that's all she said and I think she might have said something, besides that....or maybe I'm just imagining they told her why fake an invasion.
You can get the videos of the disclosure project on google video or youtube, including her testimony.
I bet someone knows this woman's name. Just search for, perhaps, the only woman on the whole witness thing. Search this site. There are threads on the Disclosure Project.

Reagan did talk of alien threats. However, as always, it's taken out of context.
Here's the bit that everybody talks about (it's just THE part. It's longer):


Address to the 42d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York

September 21, 1987


"I have spoken today of a vision and the obstacles to its realization. More than a century ago a young Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, visited America. After that visit he predicted that the two great powers of the future world would be, on one hand, the United States, which would be built, as he said, ``by the plowshare,'' and, on the other, Russia, which would go forward, again, as he said, ``by the sword.'' Yet need it be so? Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?"

the last question is most likely not mentioned in conspiracy theories. the onyl thing that is alien is our stupid behaviour towards each other.
Just because he's a president he can't "daydream a bit? I have also thought about how we would all unite to protect our planet. If I was to be in a position of power, would I be in a conspiracy? Does reagen have to be in one? Can't the guy just THINK about how good for us it would be if we had the obligation of getting together once and for all? Perhaps that's why the government is "going to fake an invasion". A plan to unite people? I dunno I'm just letting my imagination go with the flow.


Also.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio)#Public_reaction

Don't just read the "OMG!!! Government coverup!!!!" articles. You'll end up figuring out that...it's not really how these things go.
 
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I saw the comic strip before I read this thread and I thought the comic was funny... Now it's hilarious!
 
I saw the comic strip before I read this thread and I thought the comic was funny... Now it's hilarious!



You really can't parody these guys. They write better comedy by accident than I can on purpose!

:)
 
IIRC, the broadcast said "Mercury Theater of the Air" several times.

Also, Welles was more or less blacklisted after "Citizen Kane". Hearst had no sense of humor, and that was a little close to the bone for him. (Best film ever, IMHO.)

I can't wait to hear how R. Mackey responds re: the Disclosure Project. I bet he already has elsewhere, but my search-fu is weak. But then, how should he know? He's only an EFFING NASA SCIENTIST!!!!!
 
I can't wait to hear how R. Mackey responds re: the Disclosure Project. I bet he already has elsewhere, but my search-fu is weak. But then, how should he know? He's only an EFFING NASA SCIENTIST!!!!!



And therefore, he's in on it, by definition.

I knew that B*****d was holding out on us!!

:)
 
Personally, I think an alien attack would likely be a very, very bad thing to happen to earth.

Sure, there might cooperation between the nations of the world.

We might also be screwed.

Not to mention the technology required to to travel light years and try and blast a planet out of existance - were we to win the war, there's a good chance we'd end up just fighting amongst ourselves afterwards anyway.

On the other hand, it'd be one hell of a way to go...
 
My God. Buckaroo Banzai was RIGHT!!!

Now you understand my sig line, eh?

I can't wait to hear how R. Mackey responds re: the Disclosure Project. I bet he already has elsewhere, but my search-fu is weak. But then, how should he know? He's only an EFFING NASA SCIENTIST!!!!!

You rang?

To be perfectly honest, I'd never heard of these folks before. This won't surprise you, but just like real structural engineers don't spend their coffee breaks arguing whether it was C4-coated rebar or Thermite that brought down the WTC, real NASA folks don't even think about UFO nuts or Moon hoaxers, unless we happen to run afoul of one driving past the homeless shelter.

I looked at their website, and I can't even figure out what it is they're claiming. So they're hocking DVDs of testimony from unnamed figures -- big deal! Other than that, what's the point?

How can I be a "gatekeeper" if I don't even know what I'm supposed to be censoring, I ask? Man, kids are lazy these days...
 

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