Monday, March 30, 2009

UFOs and CULTURAL CRITICISM

Popular Culture , High Culture, and UFOs

Postmodernism "no longer recognizes the distinction between high and popular culture".
This phenomenon becomes evident in the Era of the Mass Media, including the Internet.
Some UFO experts tell us that the absurdities of the UFO discourse keep the best minds far from the necessary research, but this is not so, because UFO discourse IS Pop Culture by it's own rights.
That is why, the idea that "redeeming" the UFO-ET-Aliens rhetoric trough Science, is absurd.
The UFO galaxy of memes is pop culture and can never be other thing.
Serious and outmoded institutions like the modern State, will never recognize the UFO phenomenon, because if they do that, they assume Popular Culture as High Culture, and this is dangerous for the State. It is a self-subversive act. It is Theater of the Absurd.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Boylan and Webre's conflicting memes..!

Here is Eli's post in his UFO Tabloid blog:


Dr. Boylan, Crowned Councilor of Earth by the Star Nations, gave us this paramount information:
Friends,
Star Nations foresees that President Obama will have his Administration bring the reality of Star Visitors, their presence and their communications "to the forefront for the public." This Government Acknowledgment will occur before New Year's Eve, 2010, but may happen as soon as sometime this year.
President Obama wants to move the public beyond the old UFO Cover-Up as soon as feasible. To this end the President has been in discussions with Vice-President Joe Biden on the matter of presenting UFO facts to the public.
The reason the President may not take action immediately is because he knows that the people are suffering in this severe global Depression, and he wants to attend to the people's basic needs and financial uncertainties "first and foremost".
Although Obama is in discussion with Vice-President Biden about clearing the air on the UFO subject, Star Nations foresees that Cabinet member Hillary Clinton will be a very big road block to his actions at disclosure. Hillary Clinton will be the Cabal's "point man" on blockading progress towards public disclosure. It is foreseen that Hillary will twist and maliciously distort what the President says to Biden, and what the Vice-President says to Obama about proceeding with the steps towards public acknowledgment of UFO reality. Hillary will try to get them into a fight with each other and to distrust each other.
Star Nations foresees that "ultimately Obama has the final say, as he knows that the people can handle the truth, after what they have handled for the last eight years" [Bush-Cheney Administration] .
The Cabal will also fight UFO disclosure by threats, offers of financial inducements (bribes), and psychological threats to certain members of the Cabinet. Star Nations does not necessarily foresee that any Cabinet officers will give in.
As already noted, the Cabinet Officer most to be watched will be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She is Cabal all the way.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is in a key position for disclosure matters, and could be subject to Cabal pressure and disinformation to make him an adversarial voice against Disclosure because of the attendant exposure of "military secrets" that are actually Star Visitor stolen technology, and other embarrassing revelations.
The Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu, is former head of Lawrence Berkeley (Radiation) Laboratory, Berkeley, CA. Because of his professional contacts and ties with nuclear weapons officials and Department of Defense officers, and because the Dept. of Energy nominally controls the Cabal-infested Nevada Test Site-Area 51-Site S-4-Indian Springs Air Force Station complex, (which also includes extensive Star Visitor consultation facilities (as well as covert Star Visitor confinement jails), Secretary Chu may be pressured to block Disclosure because of the enormous black eye the Dept. of Energy will get when crimes committed at its Nevada installations by Cabal-infiltrator personnel become revealed.
There is some risk that Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, under whose DHS Department fall the Secret Service as well as FEMA and various anti-terrorism enforcement agencies, may be subjected to pressure also. The Cabal make seek to persuade her that there will be "rioting in the streets" if Disclosure of Star Visitor presence is made.
Though not a Cabinet Officer, whomever Obama picks as the Director of the National Security Agency (DIRNSA) will take over an agency which has been thoroughly infiltrated by the Cabal right up to and including its present Director, Lt. General Keith Alexander. It is interesting that apparently Obama has not replaced Alexander (yet). Perhaps Obama is going to let DIRNSA Alexander (deservedly) take the fall for all the evil and dirty actions done by the Cabal using military-intelligen ce assets, for example the operating of secret confinement installations for captive Star Visitors. After Lt. Gen. Alexander is properly blamed, (hopefully indicted), and removed from office, then President Obama can name a clean person to clean house at NSA of the Cabal filth and infiltrators.
The Star Nations message is that government public acknowledgment of Star Visitor reality, presence, and communication will begin in the next two years. Their future-viewings do not necessarily imply that every detail and aspect of Star Visitors-officials interactions over the last 60+ years will be brought out by December, 2010. Those fuller briefings may take longer.
in the light,
Richard Boylan, Ph.D.

My comment to Alfred Webre' s Examiner article.

This is a classic example of what a "factoid" is.
Webre gives us this:

"There is converging objective predictive evidence, expert opinion, exopolitical policy analysis, and extraterrestrial contactee communications supporting a hypothesis that large scale “wild card” event(s), involving mass extraterrestrial (UFO) sightings or landings over major urban or other visible centers on the planet for peaceful purposes may occur during the period leading up to 2011-12 or beyond. "

The "converging objective predictive evidence" is a totally meaningless paragraph that means nothing at all.
However, Webre gives us this nonsense because he wants to plant memes. To create factoids built on meaningless rhetoric.
That is the "style" of Exopolitics after all.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Prayer protects man from Alien Abduction

A New York man experienced a group of UFOs "assembling" over his home - and later describes what could be an "alien abduction" - somewhat resolved with "a sign from God."

He writes that sleep "is now replete with danger and loss of control of consciousness."

With strange events taking place inside his home, he asks for a sign from God - the apperance of a white bird at his window. And his prayer was answered.


http://www.examiner.com/x-2363-UFO-Examiner~y2009m3d25-NY-man-finds-UFO-protection-in-prayer?cid=exrss-UFO-Examiner

British UFOs were a light show, but...

The fantastic 'flying saucers" videotaped by Derek Burdon in the London sky, were just a light show projected from the British Parliament, but...something more is going on.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5039928/UFOs-may-be-light-show.html

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Asking Vichy to disclose Nazi's Agenda?

Dear friends of truth.

Vichy was the "capital" of Occupied France from 1940 to 1944. The "collaborationist" government of Vichy was the faithful interpreter of the the German Nazi Occupation will and purposes.
Now, let us consider this: The idea of asking the Vichy gov. to DISCLOSE Nazi plans and activities, would be totally ABSURD, right?
Indeed.
The analogy is obvious: The Earth "authorities" cannot stop the UNWANTED ALIEN OCCUPANT. Illegal Aliens invade our planet, abduct people ( including kids) dismember animals, occupy bases and who knows what more. We are, as Andrew says, the "farm" of the reps.

Consequently, human govs, are "Vichy govs" that collaborate with the occupant.
We can understand that to ASK these pro-occupation governments to DISCLOSE the agenda of the Invaders is either absurd or worst, PURE DISINFORMATION.
By the way, collaborationists always tell us that Invaders are a "liberation force"...gimme a break.

Fraternally
James.

EARTH BELONG TO US, HUMANS

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Huge Strategic Mistake for Exopolitics

FACEBOOK, STALINGRAD FOR EXOs
Andrew Hennessey

In a new found and alleged commitment to Disclosure the Exopoliticians take to Facebook to conquer the world with workshops and book sales and conference ticket sales and of course their own unique brand of irrationalist Boylanesque gaga.
This further expansion for more networked living space into the uncharted steppes and Urals of this digital Eastern front could be the wintery graveyard of the Exo circus.

With no cover from SS reptogreyspook rearguard who usually hide on yahoo forums with fake Ids sillyevilname@ yahoo.com etc soundswierdanddangerous@ yahoo.com facebook makes it very hard for subversives and psyops to give anonymous support to the Exo doctors.

Psyops usually lay down covering fire with character sniping and lay on smoke and mirrors and other diversions to cover the retreat of the exposed Exo Uberman when they encounter barracking from rationalists asking simple questions like `prove that' or `how do you know that ?' the Exo offensive deep into the territorial heart of the lives of millions of realists will be totally exposed to the freezing wintery critique of millions of sensible and accountable people who will ask and expect reason and accountability from Exoland.

The usual psyops cover and diversions, that have protected the Exos on other forums, however, cannot be done on facebook without total legal transparency and in fact people fomenting irrationalist and semantic chaos can be very easily weeded out.

Consequently the EXO incursion into the digital and educated network land of Facebook – although allegedly desirable – is probably a huge strategic mistake for Exopolitics – who will be totally exposed to reasonable and wintery comments for their outrageous claims and assertions. Millions of educated people intolerant of BS.

You can see how the Exos dodge rational refutations of their claims and avoid being confronted by evidence when Boylan bans images from his weird cult. For him being exposed to rational counterexamples of his theories isn't good. They can't stop the presentation of such empirical evidence on facebook.

Facebook although offering and networking more living room for Exo ideas is probably going to blow Exopolitics away.

That's why Facebook is probably the Stalingrad of Exopolitics in my opinion.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Demonizing the Aliens?

We want to brought our attention to this important document written by a victim of the Alien Abductors. Follow the link below, please.


http://iwasabducted.com/schroeder/index.htm
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Monday, March 23, 2009

OPEN LETTER TO DAVID ICKE: THE NEW DESOLATION

From Andrew Hennessey

Folks find it hard to grasp. Practitioners of skepticism and reason,
would-be allies and people of power may be persuaded. Influential thinkers may come on board. Politicians may represent - but alas the idea, the very idea appears to be a nonsense.

No-one with any attributes of reason can possibly buy into a Global
Conspiracy.
The why is easy - far too easy - for how can there possibly be one
controlling Cabal when the myriad of secret and secretive societies acting in total self-interest appear to be in total competition and often degrees of isolation from one another.

Pro-human activist David Icke publishes literally hundreds of different
conspiratorial organisations and factions.
Any fair minded human must be asking - well if they are all conspiring – how can they possibly represent one global idea, one global direction, one global interest.
How can they all recognise one another - there just cannot be memories big enough to embrace all the secret coding and communication systems between thousands of co-operating secret societies from global cultures. There would have to be a simple answer.

If all the players in those thousands of societies shared two simple
attributes we can identify them amongst the smoke and mirrors of their
social circuses.
And I think they do.
1. The ancient [reptilian/aryan] bloodlines are fully telepathic [unlike
their despised human clones and mimics] certainly this considerably eases their own burden of identification and communication.
2. They are anti-human, and anti-life, desolate.

The guy I have looked to to break the barriers down and get to the core of the conspiracy is David Icke.
David named and shamed the aliens within, he tore into their overt social structures, but then he seemed to hit the skids with frequencies and channelling.
Despite telepathy being skirted around as an effect of the global
conspiracy, he never identified it as THE central attribute of this global
genocide.
Ariosophy speaks of the Edenic Aryan telepathic gland that degenerated in Humanity - why doesn't David ?
My next bit of news was that I heard David isn't much into soul and that he doesn't really go down that route. I would have to hear him say one way or the other - but certainly I can identify a lack of spiritual perspective in David's belief system.
It's re-incarnation and Telepathy that are central to every major thing we ever tore away from the secrecy of the vaults or the abductee chambers.
It is surely obvious that it is the reptoid powers of telepathy that are
scything away amongst the confusion of the 'sheeple'.
It is the one simple unifying theory of conspiracy that makes possible a Global force for genocide of the human species.
I enjoyed the Biggest Secret and heard a lot more of the same in Children of the Matrix, but neither book got to the dark heart of the issue.
Sure, us 'sheeple' are at a dense disadvantage, but we are noble souls
inhabiting a cumbersome overcoat.
The dark attributes of the reptoid mindset are Nihilism, Lunacy and
Pornography - they practise desolation to ruin our spirits and degrade our souls and we see evidence of that in all the ritual exposes that David bravely does.
The Fallen though are clearly plotting and we need to see the truth and hear it from our leading lights.
So please, David - believe in your soul and give the sheeple back their own telepathic voice, their birthright, by acknowledging that the Telepathic Conspiracy is actually The Biggest of All Secrets on this Planet.
The reptoids would run if the 'chattering monkeys' stopped chattering and all complained with the one powerful voice.
The monkeys don't yet know that they have a telepathic voice and influence thanks to millennia of reptoid misinformation about the acquisition of 'magical powers'.
Telepathy, however, is a simple bit of resonant order emerging as waves from the chaotic furnace that is our 'soul'.
Order truly would emerge out of chaos if we all realised that.

Andrew Hennessey

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Great Images of Mars.

We want to say thanks to Andrew Hennessey for this magnificent contribution.

the photo folder of this group has some important nasa images of mars that show contemporary activity on its surface - past and present
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/RationalUFOLOGY/photos/ album/857385310/ pic/list

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The Impossible Conspiracy

Alfred Webre, a lawyer, writes this:

Mar 18, Alfred Lambremont Webre, Canada
> > Acknowledge Earth's existence in a populated and highly
> > organized Universe,
> > filled with intelligent civilizations who are outreaching
> > to humanity at
> > this time. Reach out peacefully to the intelligent
> > population now living
> > under the surface of our nearest neighbor, Mars

Webre' "scientific" investigation is based in some research done by Andrew Basiago, another lawyer and self-proclaimed "Mars researcher".

Now IF the discoveries of Webre and Basiago are real, THEN we must consider not only the NASA cover-up, but a world wide conspiracy of all the governments, scientists, universities, observatories, and scientific institutions. We must also understand that the whole Media is included in this monstrous scheme.
How this universal plot works? How these secrets are kept?. How the control of EVERYBODY is enforced?
Obviously, the idea of this conspiracy is ABSURD. Any rational individual probably will agree with me that such a machination is IMPOSSIBLE in the modern world and probably in any world.
So, I must conclude that there are NO EVIDENCES of intelligent population under the surface of Mars. Also there are NO EVIDENCES that we live in a Universe FILLED with intelligent civilizations who are outreaching to humanity at this time.
Besides, there are NO EVIDENCES of such Universal Conspiracy.
Honestly, these individuals have a very poor image of us all.

In TRUTH we TRUST

Fraternally
James Black

Webre's Sources Please???

Please read below this declaration of Alfred Webre; a classic (and unimaginative) sample of disinformation, IMO, and my comment below:

From: EXOPOLITICS.COM
> Subject: [prepare4contact] PETITION: Obama Administration Requests Info on Planetary Challenges
> To: "EXOPOLITICS. COM"
> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 6:30 PM
> Hi All - I signed this Petition with
> the following note:
>
> 11:26 am PDT, Mar 18, Alfred Lambremont Webre, Canada
> Acknowledge Earth's existence in a populated and highly
> organized Universe,
> filled with intelligent civilizations who are outreaching
> to humanity at
> this time. Reach out peacefully to the intelligent
> population now living
> under the surface of our nearest neighbor, Mars

Of course, the first question is this:- Mr. Webre, please tell us how do you know`all this.
See that he talks without doubts, just as Dr. Boylan does in his Star Brothers Cult.
Now, if Webre knows without doubt "Earth's existence in a populated and highly
> organized Universe,
> filled with intelligent civilizations who are outreaching
> to humanity at
> this time. Reach out peacefully to the intelligent
> population now living
> under the surface of our nearest neighbor, Mars..." why does he and the other EXOS need a Disclosure?

We can assume that IF Webre knows all this for sure, he must have EVIDENCES, and if he has these EVIDENCES, he should go to the media and REVEAL THE TRUTH to the WORLD...and to us.
However, IF Webre believes he knows all this for sure and he doesn't, THEN he needs a good Doctor, and even a time of "rest" in some appropiate Institution, under professional control.
Also we must consider this:
Webre believes that we are all stupids and ignorants, and he is selling us bad science-fiction disguiced as fact.
There is also one more alternative: Webre follows some pattern given to him by Disinformation and Manipulation Experts.



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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Contradictions on the Exopolitical model.

We will take a look at the contradictions in the Exopolitical model.
We have three basic elements working in it.

These are The ALIENS, the GOVERNMENT and the EXOS, demanding what they call a full DISCLOSURE.
The EXOS sell the image of "experts" who know what is going on, trough contactees, anonymous sources and whistleblowers.
The EXOS talk and write about secret contact between GOV. and ALIENS.
EXOS even sell the idea of a secret human history, and alien technology in the hands of the authorities.
The obvious CONTRADICTION is this one:
IF the Gov. is evil , conspirator, essentially anti-democratic BECAUSE of his secret alliance with the Aliens, THEN the Aliens also conspire to keep the close-up.
The cover-up is responsibility of BOTH the gov and the ETs.
ETs conspire with the Gov. to keep the secret, "ergo", Both, Aliens and Government are accomplices.
Evidently, the idea that the Gov. is "evil" and ETs are good becomes a total contradiction.

IF Aliens were "good" and "benevolent" with us, they would end the Close-up, with or without the Gov's authorization.
EXOS, who know so much about the aliens, should ask them to end the Close-up.
If, on the contrary, authorities remain silent, knowing that ETs are guilty of criminal acts like abductions, harassment and abuses, the idea of begging the Gov. to end the Cover-Up is ABSURD.
There is an Illicit Association between Gov. and ETs, and probably the Gov. is guilty of High Treason.
Is evident that the idea of "benevolent" aliens and malevolent Government is contradictory and absurd.

Also, a conciliatory concept like a few Aliens are perhaps bad, but most are good is also unsustainable, because in that case, neither the Gov, nor the benevolent ETs can control the criminal Aliens.

Fraternally
James

Monday, March 16, 2009

1,483 Alien Races..!

Dr. Boylan, who is nothing less than the Councilor of Earth, give us the following information:


The Star Visitor you describe is not a common one. But then there are 1,483 star races making contact with Earth.
Most important for you to notice is the vibes or energy you sense emanating from this person. If it is positive vibes and good energy, then you can relax and engage the Star Visitor as you would any Human stranger you wished to engage politely.
If the vibes are bad or the energy feels dark, then you know that you are being accosted by a fake "visitor" manufactured by Cabal psychic, psychotronic, or remotely-projected holographic means. React appropriately.

in the light,

Richard Boylan, Ph.D.>

Isn't it wonderful? Yes, it is. And again I am worried about the traffic problems...each race with their own transportation...good Lord! That's why we see thousands and thousands of UFOs each time we watch the sky.
Read again, dear friends, 1.483 star races coming here to teach us some New Age wisdom, the names of a few Cabalistic Angels and lots of Madame Blavatsky.

And let me tell you that all these ET.s have excellent flying saucers. You never find a screw of a nut, and nobody has pictures of these gentle Visitors.
No, Dr. Salla, do not excommunicate me. All those 1,483 races are nice, good, gentle, intelligent and love us soooooo much..!
Perhaps some of them need to practice thousands of abductions of adults and kids, but there is no need to demonize them, right?
Alfred Webre teaches us also that a Golden Age is coming, so don't worry about those 1,483 races.
Believe me, very soon, President Obama will let us know how those 1,483 races look. (Anonymous but reliable sources told me that the disclosure day, kids must be kept out of the TV.)
Some of these races are pretty anthropomorphic, but others...
The disclosure day, send your kids to bed early. Adult should have some sleeping pills at hand.

Fraternally
James

Friday, March 13, 2009

Andrew Hennessey on Exopolitics

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:12 PM, andrew hennessey wrote:
firstly it is NOT a pro-human group campaigning for truth, freedom and social accountability for alien criminality.

no matter how many times the whistle has been blown ... there is nothing new to say that could not have been said in the 1950's ... we are running out of colonel saunders or colonel shadows with wierd facts - that pantomime is over ...

in fact it has taken a truly sinister and surreal turn when salla reveals his true colors ...
so what therefore is this sickening semantic chaos and melee called exopolitics ???

I think the exo movement is now a psyop using cognitive dissonance ... they use it to kill peoples last hope of escape.
it makes us campaigners with the right amount of seasoning for the harvest ...

andrew

Rational vs. Irrational Rhetoric

In this age of poor reading, mediocrity, and lots of disinfo, we must use some care in our communications with others.
First I want to take a look at the style and content of Contactees' messages presumably originated in Alien sources.
These messages are based in some elements of human culture and subculture.
Sample: the whole Idea of the Ascendant Masters comes from Blavatsky-Leadbetter theosophic writings and ideas. Another contribution to these messages is a misunderstanding of the Tibetan forms of Buddhism, heavily blended with pre-Buddhist beliefs.
In self proclaimed contactees messages we will find a lot of this XIX Century Esoterism and Occultism.
Also, in these messages we find many elements of the Cabalistic Doctrines, such as Angelic Names and Sephirotic Paths.
What remains are New Age generalizations, the so called Esoteric Christianism, and of course all this blended with some science-fiction as visits to other planets, palpitation, and "technological miracles" like these.
Of course, the CONCLUSION IS OBVIOUS. All this is human culture. In these messages there is not a single drop of "alien culture".
These "aliens" talk a lot about our human culture and superstitions but NEVER tell us something ORIGINAL. Never.The conclusion to this is very simple:
The advanced and uninvited visitors from we don´t know where, either DO NOT EXIST or they DO NOT WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH US.
That is why a few weeks ago I suggested some kind of mathematical as possible EVIDENCE of an alien culture in contact with us.
These aliens of course are not interested in helping us at all. They do not teach us how to cure cancer or any other illness. They just talk New Age non'sense...
The aliens not only are uninvited but illegal. Either they do not exist OR they laugh a lot of the messages of the contactees.
The whistleblowers are something different. These, always totally discredited, always talk about WHAT GOV. KNOWS. They worked with alien crafts and alien technology but they only have WORDS to give us, never, NEVER a little, nice ALIEN SCREW or NUT.

Think about all this.
Fraternally

James

WE LIVE IN A WORLD

We live in a world,
where there is no difference between fiction and fact.
we are not "we" anymore.
But let me tell you this, sisters and brothers:
Power comes from these practices:
1) Concentration at will.
2) Depersonalization at will. (stop being who you are at will)
3) Suspension of beliefs or disbeliefs at will. (you can understand what is to belief in something, or not)
These three operations make you a totally free woman or man.


Fraternally James

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Wishful Thinking & Responsibility

With all due respect , we will see what is rational here and what is not. Please read between lines what we can say about this:

Here is an interesting article in Toronto's Globe and Mail.
About Paul Hellyer as he completes his 13th book
and memoirs at age 85.

http://www.theglobe andmail.com/ servlet/story/ LAC.20090223. MACGREGOR23/ TPStory/National /columnists

Some quotes:

"UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head."

Without doubt, UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS exist, but should not be compared with airplanes because airplanes are IDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS. Both are different categories of "objects" right?


"The cosmos is teeming with life,"

Probably, but until now, UFOs are not Evidence of a cosmos teeming with life. First we must IDENTIFY these objects, and find what these are. WE DON'T KNOW is Cosmos is teeming with Life.


"I haven't seen the Taj Mahal either,But I know it exists."

This is fallacious thinking. If you try Google, you will find millions of words, testimonies, pictures, films and videos of the Taj Majal. If you do the same with the category Extraterrestrial Life, you will find no evidence of such thing, even if it is possible to believe that probably there is life in the Universe, other than in our planet.

"I think there is a spiritual longing out there," he says. "People are
so distressed at the present time by all that is going on in the
world. The banking system has fallen apart. People worry there's a
possibility of war between the Christian world and the Muslim world.
We want something better."
"It's about hope - what we are all looking for."

This is just wishful thinking. Our spiritual longing will not create nice, benevolent Cosmic Brothers at all. Human problems can only be solved by us, humans. The destiny of our Civilization is and always will be in our hands. We, humans, will save Life, or we will destroy it. The last thing we should do is to WAIT for someone or something to save us.
Salvation from Hunger, Illness, Pain, War, is OUR RESPONSIBILITY.


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