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In some ways, the First Annual Exopolitics Expo, also known as the X-Conference, held last weekend at the Hilton hotel in Gaithersburg, Md., outside of Washington D.C. looked like a typical UFO conference. The usual vendors were there with tables of books and magazines on every esoteric topic under the sun, from extraterrestrials to mystical healing.
The X-Conference was, however, larger than most, with more than 700 attendees. Its extensive roster of speakers was unusually high-quality, studded with renowned authors and PhD's. But what really stands out was the conference's theme: Exopolitics.
Until now, UFO conferences had been aimed at convincing the public that the extraterrestrial presence is real and to inform the cognoscenti of the latest sightings and theories. This conference went far beyond that. It operated on the premise that the extraterrestrial presence is an established fact and that now we must actively deal with its political implications.
Conference organizer Steve Bassett in his opening address, co-hosted with former CNN newswoman Cheryl Jones, pointed out that convincing the public is no longer a problem. According to a 2002 Roper poll, two-thirds of Americans believe that UFOs are real and that the government is covering it up and 60 percent support the government revealing this information.
"It's possible that disclosure will happen before the next conference in 2005. The charade is going to end, but people keep on playing the game," Bassett said.
Exopolitics is the new buzzword that will soon dominate the issue, he said. "Within a year exopolitics will change the government and attitudes of people to the phenomenon. Students will flock to college graduate courses on exopolitics."
The book Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence by Michael Salla, Ph.D., would undoubtedly be the primary textbook in such a course. Bassett introduced Dr. Salla as an eminent scholar and professional academic who sacrificed his career to pursue his interest in a field shunned by the academic community at large. "He has the kind of guts we hope to see in Congress," Bassett said.
Dr. Salla is currently researcher in residence at the Center for Global Peace in Washington D.C. and directs the center's Peace Ambassador Program. He got his Ph.D. in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. He has written five books and numerous articles on international affairs and peace, ethnic conflict and conflict resolution.
Dr. Salla defined exopolitics as "the study of political actions made in response to the extraterrestrial presence in human affairs." He said the same methodologies used to study international affairs could be applied using data gleaned from a variety of sources, including government whistleblowers, abductees, UFO sightings and close encounters, leaked or declassified government documents, and remote viewers and channelers, although of course some sources are stronger and more reliable than others.
It is clear from all these sources that the U.S. military has known of the ET presence at least since the early 1940s, has acquired alien technology from crashed saucers, and has made a secret agreement with one of the several alien species known to have visited this planet. Keeping the public in the dark to avoid "panic" and to prevent other countries from acquiring the alien technology we acquired became an integral part of U.S. policy, Dr. Salla said.
The problem is that the United States, following Henry Kissinger's doctrine of "realpolitik," tossed out all considerations of morality in the attempt to maximize U.S. national power in competition with other powers of the earth. Thus our relations with ETs became a matter of what they could provide in technology to increase U.S. power.
An alien race called the Nordics, who are human-like in appearance, offered to open relations if we stopped testing hydrogen bombs, but our government refused. Instead, we entered into an agreement with a deceitful and predatory race of grays who hoodwinked our leaders into allowing the wholesale abduction of U.S. citizens for their breeding program in return for technology that they never gave.
Dr. Salla also showed how the CIA's "black budget" can legally siphon off billions of dollars from other government agencies without accountability. Government audits have uncovered massive irregularities in the Department of Defense budget and other budgets that were never explained that amount to trillions of dollars, presumably gone into the black budget.
There is also evidence that the U.S. intelligence apparatus has engaged in illegal methods of fundraising, such as the sale of illegal drugs. Dr. Salla pointed out that the Taliban halted the production of opium poppies in Afghanistan, but since the U.S. invasion the opium trade there is flourishing again.
In short, the culture of secrecy that evolved around the ET presence contributed to foreign adventurism that has gotten the U.S. mired in Iraq and other areas of the world, to internal subversion by aliens who think of humans as a resource to be plundered, to the murder of U.S. citizens including former defense Secretary James Forestall and John F. Kennedy, and to wide economic illegality and violation of citizens' constitutional rights. Clearly this policy is self-destructive and must be replaced with a more transparent and ethical doctrine, Dr. Salla said.
Dr. Salla is only one of many speakers at the conference who provided startling information and insights into the ET presence on the earth and the American government's failed response to it. Other speakers include British researcher Timothy Good, Disclosure Project founder Stephen Greer, investigative journalist Jim Marrs, writer Richard Dolan, UFO investigator Richard C. Hoagland, Philip Corso Jr. and many more that I wasn't able to cover.
DVDs from all the speeches and workshops can be ordered online from LostArtsMedia.com.
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