Our Christmas Midweek Update celebrates the potential which is now before us, a potential which Donald Trump presaged seven and a half years ago in a remarkable Oval Office address delivered to the American people.
When thinking about the changes set in motion this year at Christmas, the events which standout are the revelation that the American presidency has been vacant for four years, and the failed assassinations of the man who won the election to replace this shadow government.
In last week's class we discussed the principles of Hamiltonian National Banking. This Saturday Robert Ingraham will present an outline of how we can apply those principles today.
Our Christmas Midweek Update celebrates the potential which is now before us, a potential which Donald Trump presaged seven and a half years ago in a remarkable Oval Office address delivered to the American people.
Our Christmas Midweek Update celebrates the potential which is now before us, a potential which Donald Trump presaged seven and a half years ago in a remarkable Oval Office address delivered to the American people. We reflect on that speech from the vantage point of another remarkable message, that of the Apollo 8 astronauts on Christmas Eve 1968.
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Susan Kokinda: [00:00:00] Hello everybody, it is December 25th, Christmas Day 2024. This is Susan Kokinda with a special Promethean Action Midweek Update. I'm not going to do much updating today. Barbara Boyd's Saturday and Monday briefs have done a masterful job of capturing recent events through the lens of the extraordinary transformation taking place in the nation and in the world.
She's addressed how Donald Trump and his team, with the backing of a mobilized MAGA movement that is only just beginning to discover the power that it can wield, is already disrupting, the Empire's grip over Washington, D. C., as we saw in the fight over the continuing resolution last week. This post November 5th world is a very different place than the world we were living in before Donald Trump's victory, and we are all just beginning to get a sense of the magnitude of this change.[00:01:00]
But, as today is the celebration of Christ's birth, with the profound spiritual meaning it holds, I want to take this discussion in a different direction. I guess you could say that the direction is up, literally and metaphorically.
Back in 2017, in March, just two months into his presidency, Donald Trump spoke to the American people from the Oval Office. He spoke about America's mission in space. In it, he said, we look to the heavens with wonder and curiosity. I'm going to play the full five minutes of Trump's address shortly. But first, I want to put it in the following context.
Turn back now to 1968. On Christmas Eve, the three astronauts of Apollo 8, James Lovell, William Anders, and Frank Borman, [00:02:00] sent a message from lunar orbit back to the people of Earth. They each took turns reading from the book of Genesis. Anders began with the opening passages. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the Earth, and the Earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, Let there be light. And there was light, and God saw the light, that it was good.
Frank Borman concluded the message. And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you. All of you on the good Earth.
Now, 1968 had been a terrible year. [00:03:00] It began with the Tet Offensive and the intensification of the Vietnam War. In the spring, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy came within two months of each other. The Vietnam War, the Cold War, the assassinations, and the accompanying turmoil, both genuine and instigated, were markers of what was to come. So that message, reaffirming the principle of the good in God's actions, was truly needed.
And that it came from the first human beings to orbit the moon made it more sublime. Space exploration affirms our uniqueness as human beings, that we're made in the image of the creator. We create. We create beautiful structures like Brunelleschi's Dome in Florence or the Notre Dame Cathedral, both of which Donald Trump has celebrated.
[00:04:00] We create amazing new institutions like the American Republic and its inspired Constitution. We, or in this case, Elon Musk, creates powerful new reusable boosters, which can ultimately take us to Mars. And you know, from the number of times he mentions it, that Musk's super heavy booster has surely captured the attention of Donald Trump.
So now, here is our Christmas offering to you. Donald Trump's 5 minute March 2017 Oval Office Address to the American people.
Neil Armstrong: That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.[00:05:00]
Donald Trump: My fellow Americans, this week in the company of astronauts, I was honored to sign the NASA Transition Authorization Act right into law. With this legislation, we renew our national commitment to NASA's mission of exploration and discovery, and we continue a tradition that is as old as mankind. We look to the heavens with wonder and curiosity.
More than two decades ago, one scientist followed this curiosity and dramatically changed our understanding of the universe. The year was 1995. Taxpayers were spending billions and billions of dollars on NASA's Hubble [00:06:00] Space Telescope. The astronomer in charge had a novel idea. He wanted to use the expensive telescope in a totally unconventional way.
Instead of pointing Hubble's eye at nearby stars or distant formations, Robert Williams wanted to peer into the void. He aimed the massive telescope at one of the emptiest regions of the night sky. For ten days during Christmas of 1995, Hubble stared into the abyss, seeking whatever light it could glean from the darkness, and it was total darkness.
Fellow astronomers didn't know if he'd see much of anything, but Williams was rewarded, and the entire world was struck by the awesome images of our satellite return. In that tiny patch of sky, the Hubble Deep Field Showed thousands of lights. Each brilliant spot represented not a single star, but an [00:07:00] entire galaxy.
The discovery was absolutely incredible. But the unforgettable image did not satisfy our deep hunger for knowledge. It increased ever more and even more. And reminded us how much we do not know about space. Frankly, how much we do not know about life.
With this week's NASA reauthorization, we continue progress on Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope. It is amazing. The Webb Telescope is set to launch next year. It will gaze back through time and space to the very first stars and the earliest galaxies in the universe. We can only imagine what incredible visions it will bring.
At a time when Washington is consumed with the daily debates of our nation, I was proud that Congress [00:08:00] came together overwhelmingly to reaffirm our nation's commitment to expanding the frontiers of knowledge. NASA's greatest discoveries teach us many, many things. One lesson is the need to view old questions with fresh eyes.
To have the courage to look for answers in places we have never looked before. To think in new ways because we have new information. Most of all, new discoveries remind us that in America, anything is possible if we have the courage and wisdom to learn. In the span of one lifetime, our nation went from black and white pictures of the first airplanes to beautiful images of the oldest galaxies captured by a camera in outer space.
I am confident that if Americans can achieve these things, there is no problem we cannot solve. There is no challenge we cannot meet. There is no aim that is too high. Whatever it takes and however [00:09:00] long it will be, we are a nation of problem solvers and the future belongs to us. We are truly a great place to be. I love America.
Susan Kokinda: Now, I truly hope that in his second term, President Trump returns to these weekly talks to the American people because they ended too soon in his first administration, probably under the weight of the escalating attacks against him. But in those 2017 remarks, Trump referred to the coming year's launch of the James Webb Telescope.
Now, it was not launched during his first term, but rather four and a half years later. But it was launched in 2021 on Christmas Day. So happy birthday, James Webb Telescope. And it continues to give us amazing [00:10:00] insights into God's good and beautiful universe, and as Trump said, to fuel our deep hunger for knowledge.
So on this Christmas Day, 2024, be thankful for what Detroit Pastor Lorenzo Sewell called the millimeter miracle that spared Donald Trump's life on July 13th. Be joyful over the victory achieved in this election year. Be vigilant because the principalities and powers that are arrayed against us are not yet vanquished, but especially be optimistic about where the coming years can take us.
So, from everyone here at Promethean Action, Merry Christmas, thank you for joining us, and I will see you next week in 2025.
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