Star Wars Fans... the Real X-Wing and Possibly the Real Death Star Created

$11 million sought to build X-wing, counter Kickstarter Death Star

by Tim Hornyak

 February 10, 2013 9:45 AM PST

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There's no disturbing lack of faith among Kickstarter supporters.

After all, a crowdfunded project to construct the Death Star that was launched less than a week ago already has nearly 1,500 backers and an astonishing $364,772 in pledges.

Well, the Rebels aren't taking that threat sitting down. A rival Kickstarter campaign to build X-wing fighters has just taken off. Its goal is to build one of the famous spaceships from "Star Wars" and then more.

"If George Lucas produced 'Star Wars IV, A New Hope,' for $11,000,000 we figure we can finance a prototype of an X-Wing and train a pilot," organizer Simon Kwan, a product designer in Shanghai, writes on the campaign page.

"One update we'd like to include for our updated X-Wing is iPhone and Siri integration."

The stretch goal is to build a squadron of X-wings for $4,485,672,683, the worldwide box office take of all the films in the franchise, according to The Numbers, a film sales tracking site.

A further goal is "13 million Galactic Standard Credits: A Class YT-1300 Freighter (heavily modified) and a crew consisting of a Corellian smuggler and a Wookie co-pilot."

Tech Crunch, however, politely points out that such credits have been estimated at only 62 cents, making the Falcon cost only $8 million, which is of course less than the campaign's basic goal.

Details, details. What matters is we get an X-wing built, stat!

At least then we'll have a chance of countering a real threat to our planet: asteroids.

Source: CT

Death Star not dead? Star Wars fans raise $380k for open source project, aim for more

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The Death Star. (Image from starwars.wikia.com)

Sci-Fi fans pushing for the creation of a Star Wars inspired “Death Star” have raised almost US$400,000 on a fundraising site to make it happen. It comes after Washington turned down a petition for its construction, citing astronomical costs.

Undeterred by Washington’s lack of enthusiasm, supporters of the proposed Death Star have generated an account on Kickstarter – a funding platform for creative projects, which asks for direct financial support from others in order to bring an idea to life.  

The open source Death Star page is initially aiming to raise 20,000,000 pounds ($31.5 million). The money would be used to design more “detailed plans and enough chicken wire to protect reactor exhaust ports.”

It may seem like a lot of money, but it’s just a drop in the bucket compared to the Death Star’s estimated construction cost of 543 quadrillion pounds ($850 quadrillion), which was quoted by the US government.

Backers of Kickstarter projects usually receive a reward for pledging their money – and the Death Star project is offering its own set of incentives.

The prize is rather modest for those who pledge 1 pound ($1.58) or more. According to the Kickstarter page, they receive only “our thanks and the knowledge that we’re one step closer to a safer planet.”

However, more generous spenders receive a more impressive reward. Those who pledge 10 pounds or more are promised to have their name “etched onto the underneath of one of the MSE-6-series repair droids used on the finished station.”

With 49 days to go, the project currently has 1,473 backers – 968 of whom are in line to have their name etched into Death Star history. Thus far, the project has raised 240,816 pounds ($380,392) of its first goal.

It’s a low-risk situation for supporters, because unless the entire goal amount is reached backers don’t have to pay a penny.

And if the idea seems a little too ‘out there’ to be taken seriously, that’s because it is.

“The main challenge is assuring Kickstarter that this is a joke and not a serious project. As proof, the goal has been set high enough to make successful funding almost impossible,” the page reads underneath the project’s ‘Risks and Challenges’ section.

The Kickstarter project comes after the US government rejected a petition to create the Death Star, giving three reasons why the project wasn’t viable:

• The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850 quadrillion.

• The Administration does not support blowing up planets.

• Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

The response was authored by Paul Shawcross, who oversees the science and space departments at the White House, and was titled, 'This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking For.'

Washington had to respond to the petition, which was posted on the White House’s ‘We the People’ website. The US previously vowed to give an official response to any petition generating 25,000 signatures or more – including those lobbying for Death Star construction. The petition received 34,435 signatures. The signature threshold for petitions has since been raised to 100,000, making it more difficult to receive a response from the administration. 

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Open-source Death Star project launched on Kickstarter

Now that the U.S. government has wimped out on building a Death Star, a Kickstarter project has emerged to raise funds to construct the deadly spaceship using open-source hardware and software.

by Amanda Kooser

 February 6, 2013 1:03 PM PST

The Angry Birds Death Star is a lot easier to get ahold of.

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"Star Wars" fans don't like taking "no" for an answer. The White House may have denied a petition to build a Death Star, but that hasn't stopped Dark Side wannabes from taking matters into their own hands. There's now a Kickstarter project gathering funds to build an open-source Death Star.

The project has a modest initial goal of just $30 million. That will fund initial plans and the massive amount of chicken wire needed to protect the reactor exhaust ports. The first stretch goal is where things get more serious. If the project raises $850,000,000,000,000,000, then work will begin on the actual construction. OK, that's a mighty big "if," but a geek can dream, right?

In a bid to keep costs down, the Death Star will be constructed with only open-source hardware and software. That means the plans would be available to anyone who wants to build a Death Star of their very own. I'm pretty sure there's an alternate universe somewhere where every person has their own open-source Death Star. It's probably the same universe where Spock has a goatee.

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Washington bureaucrats reject public request to build Death Star due to excessive cost

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Death Star - visionary project rejected by the Obama administration.

The office of the US President has rejected a popular public petition to construct a Death Star due to a high construction cost of $850 quadrillion, a major design flaw and the fact that “the Administration does not support blowing up planets.”

The proposal to construct the Star Wars-inspired space station-cum-death ray was lodged in November last year through We the People, a recently-implemented system that allows ordinary Americans to petition the government with any request, providing it gets enough popular support. 

The authors promised that building the Death Star would “spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense.” 

The petition has collected 34,435 signatures, well above the 25,000 threshold that necessitates a response from the White House.

But despite endorsement from the public, the government has been reluctant to make the necessary investment in the pioneering space platform.

Titled ‘This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For’ and authored by Paul Shawcross, who oversees science and space departments at the White House, the official response gives three reasons for why the project isn’t viable: 

• The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.

• The Administration does not support blowing up planets.

• Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

Instead, Shawcross calls for Americans to revel in the existence of the rather more modest International Space Station, which although impressive, does not possess a death ray, or in fact weapons of any sort.

This is not the only time We the People has been used to push forward unlikely proposals. Recent petitions have called for British TV interviewer Piers Morgan to be deported for his gun control stance (more than 100,000 signatures) for Texas to secede (more than 120,000 signatories) and to recount the presidential election, which 68,000 petitioners claim Barack Obama won through a combination of fraud and administrative error.

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CIA Interest & Involvement In Extraterrestrial Reality

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Online Magazine American Chronicle
May 20, 2008
by Ed Komarek

CIA interest and involvement in extraterrestrial reality has been well documented through declassified documents. The extent and the degree of CIA involvement has not been well documented but is massive and beyond the comprehension of most investigators. Of course the CIA is not the only major player in the investigation, exploitation and suppression of extraterrestrial technology and reality.

Other organizations like the NSA are very much involved but what is unique about CIA involvement is the covert scope and breadth of CIA operations throughout society not just in the United States but worldwide as well. The CIA both in terrestrial and extraterrestrial operations is for all extents and purposes an agency owned and operated by entrenched special interests. It´s a complete shadow government in itself that creates and manages shadow governments in countries around the world for entrenched special interests in business and politics.

The Church Commission investigations of CIA criminal wrongdoing barely scratched the surface of the CIA´s terrestrial unconstitutional and unethical operations but never even laid a hair on the CIA´s extraterrestrial operations.

Today the CIA with its own private army, air force and navy, it´s national and international death squads, its huge trillion dollar off the record funding operations, its infiltration and control of mainstream media, its control over not just the military and press in the United States but other nations as well, is staggering.

While the CIA is a constitutional agency many of its covert operations especially the extraterrestrial operations are unconstitutional or given only an appearance of legality through secret executive orders out of the White House. In a classic case of the tail wagging the dog the CIA´s extraterrestrial operations are so secret and deceptive that there is almost no control or oversight by legitimate constitutional government.

The CIA´s extraterrestrial operations were created to get a handle on, exploit extraterrestrial technology and propagandize the public but now seem to be almost completely under the control of elite global entrenched special interests in collaboration with predatory extraterrestrial races. In other words the predatory extraterrestrials and their willing and not so willing human entrenched interests have turned the tables on the process and now use the CIA´s extraterrestrial operations against the interests of the world public and even the ethical extraterrestrials that would be our allies.

Over the period of my UFO/ET investigations I have run across little tidbits of information that combined with some creative remote viewing are allowing me to gain some understanding of covert CIA Extraterrestrial Operations and the threat they pose to society. Of course the CIA often gets blamed for the faults of others and has been tasked with an impossible task that requires widespread criminal activity. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around and once again the CIA is sure to be singled out as the scapegoat.

I believe CIA/NSA covert extraterrestrial operations have become a lynchpin to worldwide shadow government resulting in a very dangerous and flawed extraterrestrial policy. In my opinion extraterrestrial operations and policy should be in the hands of diplomats rather than the military and clandestine services, and should be immediately transferred to the State Department so that an enlightened extraterrestrial policy can be created and implemented at he highest levels.

Some of the latest tidbits of information coming from insider sources seem to indicate that CIA extraterrestrial operations are beginning to meltdown with accelerating UFO/ET disclosure. I just had some personal confirmation of this from a source that is becoming psychologically unglued and recently while drunk and very hostile called up regular military officers in the middle of the night, gave special codes and then proceeded to harangue a high level general.

This accelerating meltdown and turmoil in internal CIA/NSA/ET operations is causing the threat and intimidation levels to rise inside and outside of government as UFO/ET disclosure beckons. I also infer this from recent comments passed on by insider A on the OM /UN thread.

I am also beginning to wonder if this might be partly terrestrial fallout from a now rapidly escalating ET space war. I am thinking that we will soon see a covert internal war in government accelerate into real overt fighting as regular military and politician´s rebel against the oppressive tactics employed by an increasingly dangerous and threatened secret shadow government of which the CIA/NSA plays an important role.

There are always those who ask me to provide more evidence for my concepts and conclusions. Often I can´t do that in order to protect my sources and at times I just get tired of doing the confirmation work that is only a few keystrokes away for anybody remotely interested in the subject. The following case is an example of many sources and cases I have not been able to divulge. I have remained quiet on this case for about 15 years and only now feel it is okay to go public with it as evidence in support of the CIA/NSA extraterrestrial program.

In 1993 we were building publicity for Operation Right To Know a UFO/ET activist organization I co-founded. I have many letters from this time and was contacted by Robert E. Cotner in a letter postmarked 2/22/93 asking me to contact him for a deathbed confession. He claimed to have ended up in prison by being framed by some corrupt local government officials and provided me with much documentation. He was isolated and had no friends that could help him. Over a period of years we exchanged letters by snail mail and he briefed me on his involvement in CIA/NSA extraterrestrial projects. I think I can safely release some of this material including his name and his death bed confession affidavit signed and notarized on 3/3/93. So many years have elapsed and Robert Cotner is most likely dead by now. Hopefully some other enterprising UFO/ET investigators will become involved in this case for the insights it offers into super-secret CIA/NSA shadow government programs.

In a first long letter Mr. Cotner describes himself as CIA/NSA low level black bag covert field agent. At times he says he worked under Admiral Bobby Inman and had a high level contact with Wackenhut Corporation that he never used. He says he worked under G. Gordon Libby. At other times he did not know who he worked for. There is more information in his letters on extraterrestrial and terrestrial affairs but for now it´s enough of a hassle to just transcribe the following long affidavit.

Some of the information explains how to make very dangerous devices and poisons from common household products that should not be openly circulated. Robert commented on handheld radiation devices that can covertly kill or cause physical and mental damage. There is also a detailed discussion on how to create fake IDs and identities that are part of basic CIA training.

This affidavit was written on a prison typewriter with many misspellings and other errors some that I have corrected. I have made some other slight alterations for better reading like changing C.I.A. and N.S.A. to CIA/NSA.

I, Robert E. Cotner, born 3/19/46, SS No. 441444447, military number R.A. 25731405, NG 25731405, and MKULTRA CIA number 1059, Tulsa Private Investigator number 1059, (until 1979), do hereby swear under oath that the following is true and correct to the best of my memory, and that this should be accepted as a death bed statement, because I am dying and may be murdered even before I can die of other causes.

MUFON UFO Journal, "Official Publication" of the Mutual UFO Network since 1967, (that´s odd)! I just read it, and in 1967 I had just gotten my private investigators license in Tulsa , Oklahoma (no. 1059) and was contacted by the FBI. (I went into the Army in 1963, and the CIA in 1964, and I left the CIA and FBI in 1972). I was among other things involved in part of the MKULTRA project, and as such I saw my first UFO at Edwards Air Force Base in 1964, (the saucer from Roswell , with letters of a 4000 year old language on its controls, which I can duplicate).

There are at least three different types of UFOs I have personally seen. And three different races that built them. From 1967, when I decided to get out of the CIA, I started stealing copies of top secret files and records on many different subjects including UFOs and those stolen files are still hidden where I put them.

Tesla, before he was murdered, invented most of the devices now part of the "star wars" and a lot of it is in space right now.

I maintained my informational contacts in intelligence and etc. up until 1990, so that is the newest date I can give you. (I would prefer to be asked direct questions I can answer with a yes or no answer).

Tulsa Oklahoma cable T.V. Channel 3, in 1986 had me on the DAZE show, for an interview about my past CIA work, and they still maintain a tape of it. I still know, (right now) how to access secret files of 5 governments on UFOs. The things I know about government secret projects will get you put in prison, or killed, as it has me.

Deep cover, clandestine projects operations is what I mostly did, usually. The people in charge of these secret government projects do not argue any moral rights or wrongs, justice and fair play never enter into their acts.

Some ETs have already interbred with humans. These beings are multi-dimensional capable. Our government employs them in many different fields including UFOs, and their ancestors came here in UFOs through warps in the dimensions. Our government has duplicated some warp devices. These beings have overwhelming natural talents including psychic. Legends tell us about them.

While I was with the CIA I was sent many places including Russian ones. All these people should remember me: Semyon Kirlion and his aura photos that lead part of the way to research on dimensional warps: ( Krasnodar ) ; Dr. Gennady on bio-energy research and powered weapons: Dr. Felix Zigel showed me secret Russian UFO documents, including captured WW2 German ones on Atlantis and UFOs and Professor Pushkins on gravitational waves from living systems, all before 1972 when I had personally examined or stole copies of documents proving our and Russian joint projects on UFOs since 1917. I saw 3 different types, from 3 different races, one of which was multi-dimensional, and in 1979 in China Lake Naval Base, I saw the last one.

Our government works with one race only. U.S. Senators who have been in Congress more than 4 years are directly or indirectly involved in a conspiracy to prevent the public from finding out the truth and they will harm you if you get too close to the truth.

Page one of two.

Some UFO government projects are financed by illegal drug manufacturing importation and sales in the U.S. today.

Since 1964 any UFO investigator who got or gets too close to the truth has or will disappear or be placed in prison, a accident resulting in their death and any attempt to present any evidence to politicians will result in actions of this nature if it contains any truth, because harassment or intimidation is not done by real people involved in the real projects.

The second type (from a different race) UFO I saw, was at a mountain complex owned by DOW, in Tennessee or Georgia mountains, and the third type (from a third race) I saw in a Colorado secret Chemical Warfare Center.

The top secret U.S., German and Russian files from 1917 to 1990 that I saw, and stole certain copies of, clearly show UFO evidence going back 13,000 years, and completely destroys all established religious bases, and most of societies ideals and that is one reason the government can not release those records and files to the public.

I do know one man who knows more than I do, has seen more than me, and has stolen original as well as copies of original files and evidence, and is now traveling in hiding in the U.S. as a homeless person because of it. He can draw from memory many things I can only identify after I see them again.

At present only 100 people really run this government, the people do not, and can not, nor will they ever be allowed to.

Further this affidavit sayeth not, except that I have not much longer to live and that my abilities to spell, write and in other areas gets worse each day. (Former U.S. Senator Bartlet and U.S. Speaker Carl Albert I once worked for on a special project also).

Signed Robert E. Cotner
Sworn to and subscribed to before me this 3 day of March 1993. Notary (unreadable signature) my commission expires 2/19/97.

On the 12^th of November 2007 former Arizona Governor Fife Symington moderated a distinguished panel of former high-ranking government, aviation and military officials from seven countries who discussed encounters with UFOs and official investigations. The event at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. was organized by filmmaker James Fox and journalist Leslie Kean.

List of Panelists:

• Fife Symington, Former Arizona Governor, Moderator
• Ray Bowyer, Captain, Aurigny Air Services, Channel Islands
• Rodrigo Bravo, Captain and Pilot for the Aviation Army of Chile
• General Wilfried De Brouwer, Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Belgian Air Force (Ret.)
• John Callahan, Chief of Accidents and Investigations for the FAA, 1980’s (Ret.)
• Dr. Anthony Choy, Founder, 2001, OIFAA (Office for Investigation of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena), Peruvian Air Force
• Jean-Claude Duboc, Captain, Air France (Ret.)
• Charles I. Halt, Col. USAF (Ret.), Former Director, Inspections Directorate, DOD I.G.
• General Parviz Jafari, Iranian Air Force (Ret.)
• Jim Penniston, TSgt USAF (Ret.)
• Dr. Claude Poher, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, Founder, French GEPAN
• Nick Pope, Ministry of Defence, UK, 1985-2006
• Dr. Jean-Claude Ribes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, 1963-98
• Comandante Oscar Santa Maria, Peruvian Air Force (Ret.)

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You Can't Eat Flowers

Glenn Beck: You can't eat flowers

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The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life
By Ben Sherwood
GLENN: Shawn, I pray for you and God bless you. Thank you so much for calling. Things will get better. And listen, America, I just, I have a couple of friends who are losing their houses and they don't have anything. They don't have a job. They have nothing. And they -- you know, one of them just said to me a couple of days ago, crying to me, "Glenn, I did the right things. I did my job but then everything just changed overnight." And the best thing I could say to him is you're not alone. Anything I can do to help you, I will. You know, you need food, whatever, I will help you. Because I'm going to be in that situation, too, most likely. We all will. You know, if this thing spirals out of control -- and hopefully it doesn't. But if it does, we're going to need to depend on each other. We need to be the people that we promised we would be on September 12th. We're going to have to depend on each other. So reach out to each other. Let people know that they're not alone and that you do have compassion, and we've got to be the people that our grandparents were during the Great Depression and helping each other out.


Let me go to Ben Sherwood now. He is the author of the Survivors Club and Ben and I kind of e-mailed each other back and forth the other day. Excuse me, Ben. You have a new quiz out on the Internet that shows you what kind of an economic survivor you are.


SHERWOOD: That's right, Glenn. First of all, listening to Shawn I think that he identified exactly the survivor personality type that you and I have discussed before as the kind of person who bounces back from adversity is the person who refuses to get knocked down for good and they pick themselves up and they dust themselves off. He was laid off twice, but he goes out and he finds a part-time job. That's a real survivor personality and you know that he is going to make it. There are two facts that sort of jump out at me right now and the world, this recession, the great recession.


GLENN: I'm about to change that to the depression. I was at a dinner last night with leaders of two extraordinarily large corporations, gigantic corporations, and one of them said, you know, this depression -- and I said, excuse me, hang on. Did you just call it a depression? Both of the CEOs both looked at me like I was nuts and said, what are you calling it? And they are both liberals. They are both liberals. Anyway, go ahead.


SHERWOOD: So the two facts are first that one industry that is flourishing right now is the vegetable seed industry. Sales are up double digits and flower seed sales are down, and the reason is that in this recession people are realizing that you can't eat flowers and that to me is a sign of the kind of adaptability and hard thinking that people are having to do that is literally grow their own food. And there are actually seed companies, the world's largest seed company right now has a money package that's out there where they offer you $10 worth of seeds that can grow $685 worth of food for yourself. The second fact that I saw out there, again it goes to the survivor personality that we're going to talk about is that in recessions, going back to 1968, the enrollment and membership in evangelical churches grew 50% during each recession as people turned to faith and belief in God to get them through their ordeal. So this quiz that we put together that's available on your website, part of the Survivors Club philosophy is if you know what kind of survivor you are in an economic crisis, are you a fighter, are you a believer, are you a realist, you have a head start dealing with the challenges that we all face: Unemployment, foreclosure, bankruptcy. And so this quiz, in just a couple of minutes on your website, tells people what type of survivor they are and guide them to some resources on the Web that can help them through the different crises that they face.


GLENN: How does that help -- I can't remember what I was. What was I, Ben? I was a --


SHERWOOD: Connector. Connector.


GLENN: Connector. What does that mean and how would that help me?


SHERWOOD: Well, if you listen to what you were just saying earlier, sort of your message to your listeners this morning, we are not alone was sort of the central message that you put forward, that we need to reach out to other people, that you're there for your friend who's going through foreclosure and you'll help him in any way you can because you know someday you may face the same kind of challenge. That is the core connector philosophy. That's an idea that you're not one man against the world, that you belong to a community of people and that that community, your street, your neighborhood, your friends, your family, your church, that that community is your most powerful survival tool and so by knowing that you're a connector and digging deeper into the connector personality which I sort of lay out in great detail, you can begin to do things to pick yourself up, to pick your neighbor up and to get through this recession.


GLENN: How am I a connector if I am so against the global community? I am so against the government doing these things. I mean, that's what Obama -- I bet Obama's a connector. Isn't that the same --


SHERWOOD: You know, I -- that's sort of beyond my limited focus which is surviving and thriving against any challenge, whether it's economic or health. You know, I think what we study in the Survivors Club is what are the personality traits, what are the qualities that help some people bounce back and others don't, and --


GLENN: And is one stronger than another?


SHERWOOD: I don't think so because I think that believers, for instance, when I interviewed survivors around the world, people who were, as you know, attacked by mountain lions.


GLENN: Yeah.


SHERWOOD: Slammed by 20-ton trash trucks, left for dead after violent crimes, believers had the same kind of power to overcome adversity as fighters. Connectors had the same strengths as realists or thinkers. So no, I don't think any one particular type is better than any other.


GLENN: And how come I was a fighter when it comes to the other test and a connector when it comes to an economic?


SHERWOOD: Well, it's interesting because each situation calls upon a different set of traits that you have and as I've said to you, the deeper, richer profile, so we have a much deeper, longer test that comes along with the book that gives you the top three strengths that you have and the bottom three and it's sort of a longer, richer analysis. The quick glimpse on these quizzes gives you the top line of, for instance, what you're like in a survival challenge or what you're like in an economic challenge. So what we find in your test is that you're somebody who's going to rally your friends, be there for your friends, help your friends in the event of an economic challenge, whereas in a survival challenge, say outdoors or in a plane crash, you're more of a fighter type. You're a person who is going to be on a mission to lead people through the fire to solve your problem.


GLENN: Okay. The quiz is up at GlennBeck.com, and I want to come back to you just a little bit and talk about economic survival and what people need to survive. Ben Sherwood is on the phone. Ben Sherwood is the author of the Survivors Club. He went and he interviewed survivors of almost everything, from being eaten by a mountain lion to economic collapse and found out what they all have in common and it's fascinating stuff. If I'm not mistaken, one of the main points that you -- Stephen Colbert just ridiculed me last night for almost a half hour on our war room episode of looking at scary scenarios. And, you know, Ben, you are the guy that really showed me the importance of "Name the monster in the dark." Just look at the unthinkable and then you're not afraid of it anymore.


SHERWOOD: The Air Force has a phrase for that: Hug the monster. Name the monster in dark, hug the monster. When an Air Force, when an aviator is shot down in enemy territory, they train their pilots not to freeze and panic because you're behind enemy lines, all you've got is a pistol and a survival kit. They teach those aviators through incredibly rigorous training that I actually went through some of it in the woods of Spokane, Washington. They teach those aviators to go right up to that fear, grab a hold of it and wrestle with it because the more you are exposed to that fear, the more you embrace it, that fear stops terrifying and it actually becomes the main motivator to do something, to take action.


GLENN: It's the -- I mean, I tell you a lot of life answers could be found in "Star Wars." It's why Luke went into the cave and saw Darth Vader. It was with Yoda, right? I mean, it's the same thing. Face your fear.


SHERWOOD: Exactly, face your fear. The other thing they teach is this phrase that I love -- the Air Force is full of memorable phrases. They say eat an elephant one bite at a time.


GLENN: Right.


SHERWOOD: That means if you try to devour an entire elephant, you are going to get sick or you are going to give up.


GLENN: You wouldn't even know where to start.


SHERWOOD: Exactly. If you break your economic challenge into little parts, if you divide it up into small achievable tasks, you begin to develop some momentum and suddenly you're no longer sitting on your couch unable to open your 401(k) sheet or unable to deal with the fact that your company, your factory just closed and suddenly you're getting up in the morning, you're on the Internet, you're going to the library looking for resources. As some job counselors in Ohio have counseled, you are going to construction sites to see where the building is still taking place and asking what businesses are coming. Maybe you are going to a church pew and leaving behind a little sheet of paper that says what your qualifications are because as one expert in Ohio told the Wall Street Journal, churchgoers are generous and giving people and if they see you are showing initiative and you are trying to do something by leaving behind in church pews a church card that says you are available to do work, generous people may be inclined to help you and give you a lift and a hand and a job. So it's that attitude of just doing little things, suddenly you're on your way.

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