First released in 1976, the German documentary Mysteries of the Gods raises the same questions that were asked by Chariots of the Gods and it offers up the same answers. How did ancient man build the pyramids? Aliens! How were the giant statues of Easter Island moved to their final resting place? Aliens! Who created Stonehenge? Aliens! Who drew the South American ley lines? Aliens! Who took Elijah, Gilgamesh, and Enoch up into the sky? Aliens! Who is responsible for religion? Aliens!
Mysteries of the Gods was made by the same people who did Chariots of the Gods but it’s less a continuation and more of a remake. The only new thing that Mysteries of the Gods brought to the table was the suggestion that the governments of the world knew about the aliens and that they were, in some cases, working with the aliens. I’ve already made my feelings about those theories clear. I’m a skeptic and I’m proud of it. Still, it’s interesting to wonder what type of advice the aliens would have given the world leaders. I mean, considering everything that has happened over the past 66 years, it doesn’t appear to be very good advice!
Seriously, tell those dumbass aliens to go home and mess around with their own planet.
When Mysteries of the Gods came over to the United States, it was decided that the film needed a bit more of an American feel to it. The original’s German narrator would have to go. But who could replace him? Who had the gravitas necessary to seriously discuss the theory of ancient astronauts? Who would draw in the science fiction crowd while possibly still appealing to people who didn’t know much about the history of UFO sightings? Who would have the proper enthusiasm for the project? Who was reasonably famous but still enough in need of a paycheck that they would agree to be associated with something as shoddy as Mysteries of the Gods?
We all know the answer to that question.
And if the American distributors were going to pay William Shatner to re-record the film’s narration, why not take full advantage of his presence and film some scenes of him interviewing various psychics and scientists? Why not have him wax rhapsodic about a crystal skull while actually holding the artifact? Why not have him actually visiting the locations described in the documentary? Why not put him in a green turtleneck and a black jacket and present him as being the hip face of pseudo-science? And why not change the title of the film to William Shatner’s Mysteries of the Gods, implying that Shatner himself had something substantial to do with the making of the film?
And let’s give credit where credit is due. Mysteries of the Gods is a ludicrous documentary that provides even less evidence for its fantastical claim than Chariot of the Gods did. But the American version of the film is worth watching, just to see William Shatner trying to repress his natural smirk while reciting the film’s overwrought narration. Shatner appears to be amused by the whole thing and he definitely comes across as being a good sport as he gamely interview a series of crackpots who are all convinced they’ve cracked some sort of alien code. The film ends on a triumphant note, with psychic Jeanne Dixon telling an excited Shatner that aliens will visit Earth in April of 1977.
Now, you may say that Dixon was incorrect. There’s no record of aliens coming to Earth in 1977. Maybe that’s just what they want you to believe! To quote the Amazing Criswell, can you prove it didn’t happen?
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Is the “Dreyfus Affair”, just a cheap publicity stunt? Why should Israel presume that a political alliance with Australia ever existed?
Australia maintained a neutral stance during the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Australia supported post wars UN Resolutions 242 and 338 written by British and French imperialism in the Middle East! Demands that Israel return to its ’48 Armistice battle lines amounts to revisionist history and supports EU imperialism in the Middle East which seeks to force Israel to return to a weak political pawn controlled by Great Power strategic interests; as if Israel exists as a UN pre-Independence War protectorate territory of the UN-nations.
UN – Nations political rhetoric propaganda that its interference in determination of Israeli strategic national interests, waving its bogus flag “promote peace”, simply conceals foreign great power efforts which reject the radical change in the balance of power in the Middle East, the result of Israeli military victories.
Calls for withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from “territories occupied during the wars” – an utter fraud great power hat trick deception! The so called UN – Nations “efforts to find a peaceful solution” amounts to excuses by thieves to rob the Jewish state of its national security having defendable international borders.
Australia has never condemned the UN – Nations, which Israel accuses of establishing their own policy Apartheid against Israel; which singles out Israel as the only member which the UN – Nations flatly refuses to recognize as a nation state within the region of the Middle East. This Apartheid racism has forced Israel to piggy-back as a temporary EU member in order that Israel might chair UN – Nations committees.
Israel flat-out rejects post its 2 Wars of Independence, ’48 and ’67 to establish the “Green Line” as its permanent international borders. Israel simply not a UN protectorate territory. The Quartet 2-State solution stinks of Nazi ‘Final Solution’. Post Shoah Europe does not shape nor influence Israeli strategic interests; Israel condemns to this day the British cowardly 1939 White Paper betrayal which influenced FDR to close the borders of America to Jews attempting to escape from Hitler’s genocide.
Diplomacy involves finding common ground, and Israel shares no common ground not with the EU nor with Australia. Imposition of political revisionism favors returning Israel to indefensible borders and the Quartet powers dominating the Middle East. Twice Arab leaders threatened, both in ’48 and ’67, to complete the Nazi genocide and throw the Jews into the Sea. Failure by UN – Nations Resolutions to address this cold-hard fact invalidates the neutrality of the UN, just as pre-Wars British and French neutrality but post-Wars British and French overbearing attempts to dictate peace terms based upon the presumption that Arab states won both wars.
The term “apartheid” has been used by some critics of Israel to describe its treatment of Palestinians, especially in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. However, Israel vehemently rejects this characterization, arguing that it provides full civil rights to its Arab citizens (who make up about 20% of the population).
Guilty European and Arab states have forged an alliance which projects and promotes and attempts to foist their repeated attempts of Jewish genocide upon the Jews themselves. This trash propaganda directly compares to the slander “the Jews poisoned the wells”, and Church “Blood Libels” repeated prior to every Easter for a millennium or more! Jews carry the scares and trauma of European and Arab barbarism whereby dhimmi Jewish refugee populations had no political or social rights.
The propaganda of “apartheid” in the context of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is part of a broader international debate on the legitimacy of the occupation and the viability of a two-state solution. This trash-talk compares to the WWI Allies slander of Germany, calling the German People “The Huns”. These criminal lies produced the fruits of Adolf Hitler!
The British ’39 White Paper betrayed the Balfour Declaration. Just that simple. Israel’s refusal to accept the international community’s proposed solutions (such as the two-state solution or pre-1967 borders) perceived as a rejection of the same international forces that failed to protect the Jewish people throughout 2000+ years, which culminated in the Shoah and the Allies refusal to bomb the rail-lines leading to Auschwitz!
That Australia recognizes Jerusalem as the Capital of the Jewish state, only exposes the pimp/whore relationship between it and the US. President Trump exercised tremendous leadership and moral courage to move the US embassy to Jerusalem. That PM Morrison basks in the huge shadow cast by President Trump, while much appreciated, Australia has shown no national backbone in forging a political and economic alliance with Israel.
Calls for Israel to return to pre-1967 borders or to accept a two-state solution an abomination to Israelis. Given the repeated existential Arab threats/wars, such biased posturing by “friendly nations”, with friends like these, who needs enemies. Israel’s rejection of the Green Line as its permanent border expresses Israeli diplomacy which requires security, not dependent on international guarantees but on realities which its military strength achieved.
Mandate Palestine ceased to exist in 1948. The UN condemned Jordan’s annexation of Samaria as illegal in 1950. Jordan never established a Palestinian state between 1950 to 1967. The propaganda of post war ’67 of the “West Bank” as bogus as the 1964 Arafat call for the Palestinian State!
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