UFO gelovigen werden eerder afgebrand door de media, nu worden UFO ontkenners meer en meer het mikpunt van spot

Caitlin Johnstone heeft een derde artikel gewijd aan de ommezwaai die is gemaakt t.a.v. UFO’s, een ommezwaai die volledig te danken is aan de grootste terreurorganisatie ter wereld, het Pentagon…. Een paar jaar geleden heeft de Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (zoiets als onze staatssecretaris van Defensie) Chris Mellon een paar video’s gelekt naar de pers waaruit blijkt dat men wel degelijk te maken zou kunnen hebben met UFO’s, vliegende objecten die wat betreft het manoeuvreren technisch superieur zijn aan alle bekende vliegende aardse objecten……

Er zit uiteraard een enorme adder onder het gras: het Pentagon stelde niet dat het hier per se om buitenaards technologie gaat en je voelt ‘m waarschijnlijk al aankomen: het Pentagon houdt zwaar rekening met aardse technologie en gezien de mogelijkheden kunnen dat maar 2 landen zijn die iets dergelijks zouden kunnen bouwen >> Rusland of China….. Niet moeilijk om te raden waarom het Pentagon dit doet: juist >> een nog veel groter budget voor de luchtmacht, terwijl het totale budget voor dit jaar al 735 miljard dollar groot is, waar zo’n 14 miljoen kinderen in de VS tegelijkertijd hongerlijden en een enorm aantal mensen niet, of slecht is verzekerd tegen ziektekosten, zodat velen zelfs niet in aanmerking komen voor kankertherapieën…… Voorts: mochten Rusland of China over dergelijke technologie beschikken zou men deze al lang hebben ingezet in oorlogen en had men een groot aantal oorlogsmisdaden begaan door de VS en haar NAVO-bondgenoten kunnen voorkomen…….

Maar het kan nog veel verder gaan zo noemt Caitlin o.a. Tom DeLonge, de zanger Van Blink-182, die wordt gevoed met allerlei kul over UFO’s, in dit geval wel als alien technologie, waarbij deze aliens verantwoordelijk zijn voor oorlogen daar ze zich daarmee op de één of andere manier voeden….. (ha! ha! ha! >> ik heb zelden een nog dommere complottheorie gehoord) Voorts zou men atoombommen en alles wat daarna kwam op gebied van kernwapens hebben ontwikkeld om aliens te lijf te kunnen, daar men alleen daarmee deze buitenaardsen zou kunnen bestrijden…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Als het aliens ernst was om ons te lijf te gaan, was de mensheid al lang en breed uitgeroeid. Om te kunnen kunnen reizen over enorme afstanden waar je zelfs bij benadering van de snelheid van het licht de dichtstbijzijnde planeten waar leven zou kunnen bestaan, alsnog een paar honderd jaar moeten reizen, echter deze aliens zouden over technologie beschikken waarmee ze dergelijke reizen heel veel sneller kunnen doen (en daarmee in feite kunnen tijdreizen)……. Nogmaals: aliens die een dergelijke technologie hebben ontwikkeld zouden, als ze kwaadwillend waren, de mens al lang en breed hebben uitgeroeid……. 

Zelf hoop ik dat wanneer buitenaardsen ons in de gaten houden, deze zullen ingrijpen voordat we de wereld letterlijk naar god of thor hebben geholpen, iets waar we keihard op afstevenen, ondanks alle ‘mooie’ maar zeer valse praatjes van politici en foute wetenschappers die zich hebben verkocht aan het grote bedrijfsleven….. Het is nu al zeker dat de wereldtemperatuur aan het eind van deze eeuw met heel wat meer zal zijn gestegen dan ons met het lamme klimaatakkoord van Parijs werd beloofd >> 1,5 graad Celsius……. Dat betekent dat flinke delen van onze kleine planeet onbewoonbaar zullen worden, hetzij doordat de temperatuur zo hoog is gestegen dat je daar niet kan overleven, dan wel door het onderlopen van laaggelegen gebieden….. Op 4 juni jl. werd bekend gemaakt dat met een onderzoek van de universiteit van Londen is aangetoond dat het Arctisch ijs twee keer zo snel smelt dan eerder gedacht, wat betekent dat de zeespiegel veel sneller stijgt dan eerder werd berekend……..

Terug naar het UFO verhaal: hoe dan ook, wat de uitkomst ook zal zijn (of alien technologie dan wel aardse technologie), het Pentagon wint altijd met een ferm groter budget dan men daar nu al krijgt en dat is voor dit jaar al het meer dan belachelijk grote bedrag van 735 miljard dollar……(en waarvan precies als in Nederland al een paar keer gezien, grote sommen uitgegeven geld niet achterhaald kunnen worden….)…. ‘Waar angstzaaien al niet goed voor is……..’ 

Tot slot nog dit: het overgrote deel van de landen heeft ervoor getekend dat elke alien die wordt aangetroffen onmiddellijk moet worden geëxecuteerd…….. Te gek voor woorden……..

Onder het laatste artikel van Caitlin, heb ik ook haar tweede artikel over UFO’s opgenomen (voor het eerste artikel zie de links onderaan in dit bericht):  

Media Flipping 180° On UFOs At Pentagon’s Directive Says More About Mede links odia Than UFOs

 


 

by Caitlin Johnstone

Listen to a reading of this article:

After the January 6 riot at the US Capitol Building, the mass media immediately seized the opportunity
to call for more internet censorship to prevent the spread of crazy
conspiracy theories. Now the mass media are saying the US military has
been lying about UFOs for decades and hey, maybe space aliens are flying
around above your house.

Half
of the UFO articles coming out of the mass media these days are
basically just stalwart propagandists for the western empire explaining
to each other that it’s okay to talk about UFOs now and they should all
feel perfectly fine and normal about that.

These
unprincipled propagandists are falling all over themselves to dismantle
taboos which they’ve been unquestioningly upholding and enforcing for
decades, really for no other reason than because they were told to by
the US military.


Nick Pope



@nickpopemod

Here’s another mainstream media article about the changing attitude towards UFOs – this one making an interesting point about the reversal of the usual skeptic/believer dynamic.  https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/06/flying-visits/ 

 

It’s getting harder to laugh off the idea of UFOs | The Spectator Australia

When
the late-night talk-show host James Corden asked Barack Obama about
UFOs last month, there was as usual an air of nervous joviality
surrounding the subject. Bandleader Reggie Watts pressed him…

spectator.com.au

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Can
we take a minute to ingest how obnoxious that is? The “free press”, the
journalistic institutions who are purportedly responsible for
maintaining a well-informed public and holding the power to account, are
now reporting something they used to scoff at and dismiss, because the US military told them it’s legitimate.

The
US military. The single most dangerous part of the single most powerful
government on earth, who the press is meant to be holding accountable
with the light of truth. The part of the US government where intense
skepticism is the most important. They’re not just failing to apply
critical journalism, but are actively picking up the torch and running
with a story as bizarre as the possibility that extraterrestrials are
buzzing around the earth’s atmosphere.

The
fact that the mass media are now talking about UFOs all the time
because the US military told them it’s a legitimate story to cover says
very little about UFOs, but it says a lot about the mass media.

These outlets are propaganda firms. Clearly. When The New York Times first reported
that US officials familiar with the government UFO report say that UFOs
might be alien aircraft or could be secret Russian or Chinese
technology, but say it’s definitely not any kind of secret US
technology, there was not a shred of incredulity from the mass media
about the latter claim. News media institutions all took great pains to inform their audiences
that UFOs could be a sign that the US is losing the arms race to Russia
and China, and that it could totally be space aliens, but I never saw
one news report reminding readers to take US government denials of
possession of secret aerial technology with a very large grain of salt.

These
propaganda institutions aren’t just selling the public one
irresponsible story here, they’re selling them two. They’re not just
uncritically reporting that UFOs are definitely real and probably
threatening, they’re also tacitly selling the false idea that the US war
machine does not have an extremely well-documented history of lying.


Tom DeLonge



@tomdelonge

 How Harry Reid, a Terrorist Interrogator and the Singer From Blink-182 Took UFOs Mainstream – POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900 

 

How Harry Reid, a Terrorist Interrogator and the Singer From Blink-182 Took UFOs Mainstream

The hidden history of how Washington embraced a fringe field of science. politico.com 

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The
more I learn about this new UFO narrative and its origins the more of a
freaky psyop it looks like. It’s clearly been packaged for and marketed
to mainstream Americans who don’t understand global power dynamics or
the depravity of the US military/intelligence machine. There’s basically
just a handful of people
who are officially responsible for this weird new mainstream UFO
plotline, and they’re all either military/intelligence insiders, sleazy
warmongering politicians, or the singer from Blink-182.

I really mean that, by the way; Blink 182’s Tom DeLonge and his To The Stars Academy played a critical role
in the unfolding of this story. Think about how easy that situation
would be to manipulate. All you’d really need is to surround DeLonge
with some spooks feeding him whatever information you want him to
believe, allow some “leaks” to the press, and then you’ve got this
vaguely organic-looking group seeding out information that you wanted to
get out anyway so you can advance whatever agendas you’ve got planned.

And if you listen to DeLonge talk at length
about the insane things he’s been told about aliens and UFOs by the
military and intelligence insiders he’s surrounded himself with, it’s
pretty clear he’s at the center of some kind of disinfo operation. The
things he’s been told include things like that aliens
are responsible for the world’s wars, that they feed off human conflict
and negativity, that nuclear tests were actually the military targeting
alien aircraft because that’s how you kill them, and that the US
military has been acting heroically in the highest interest for the
benefit of mankind against these malevolent entities.

How hard would it be to take a naive rock star who comes from a military family,
who trusts the US war machine, and who desperately wants to believe in
UFOs, and use him to insert a desired narrative into public
consciousness? I reckon not too hard.

@tomdelonge

Tom DeLonge


So proud of my brother, Shon. He just retired after 24 years in Naval Special Warfare. An… https://www.instagram.com/p/BJCCVYfAYBk/ 

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This
is what the mass media are swallowing hook, line and sinker, with zero
gag reflex, and regurgitating into the minds of their audiences.

And now you’ve got philosopher Sam Harris reporting
that he’s been contacted by insiders allegedly privy to special
knowledge about this thing who are telling him that “when this other
shoe drops you’re going to be in the position of having to acknowledge
that all the experts are on the same page, and there’s just this blanket
declaration that we’re in the presence of alien technology, we don’t
know what to make of it. So prepare your brain for that and figure out
what you’re going to do.”

Pretty
jarring stuff. Now, re-read it with the understanding that he’s talking
about some sort of military or intelligence operative who is openly
prepping a high-profile influencer. Looks a bit different in that light,
no?

Like
DeLonge, Harris has also demonstrated a blindly trusting mind when it
comes to the US war machine, which is kind of funny coming from an
outspoken atheist who prides himself in his logic and evidence-based
worldview. Harris has placed his trust in everything from Russia hysteria to the “war on terror” to the invasion of Afghanistan, so he makes another ideal mark for uncritically seeding disinformation out to the public.


@SamHarrisOrg

Sam Harris



Replying to @FreeSpeechOrDie

@FreeSpeechOrDie I supported the initial invasion of Afghanistan. And I support ongoing actions against actual jihadists.

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You’d
have to be absolutely out of your mind to trust anything we’re being
told about any of this, and this is coming from someone who has actually
seen UFOs. On two separate occasions I’ve seen lights in the night sky
behaving in ways known technologies can’t explain, and I’ve had plenty
of other experiences most people would consider extraordinary as well.
And I still place exactly zero trust in this new UFO plotline. And neither should you.

Today
I received my first online comment from someone calling me a
“conspiracy theorist” for expressing skepticism about UFOs. This is the
new reality, folks. Buckle up.

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Hier het eerste artikel van Caitlin over UFO’s:  

Drivers Of The New UFO Narrative Keep Absurdly Saying They Could Be Dangerous ETs

by Caitlin Johnstone

 

Listen to a reading of this article:

I’ve been learning as much as I can about the new UFO narrative the political/media class have been pushing in conjunction with the US military to prepare for the Senate report that’s due to be released this month.

One
of the disconcerting things I’ve been seeing again and again from all
the major players in this new narrative like Lue Elizondo and
Christopher Mellon is the absurd assertion that not only is it entirely
possible that the unknown phenomena allegedly being regularly witnessed
by military personnel are extraterrestrial in origin, but that if they
are extraterrestrial they may want to hurt us.

Mellon,
the former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
who helped get the ball rolling on UFOs entering mainstream attention
back in 2017 when he leaked three Pentagon videos to The New York Times, has stated that he sees extraterrestrial origin as an entirely possible explanation for these phenomena.

“We don’t even understand how you could do something like that,” Mellon said in a recent interview with CTV News
of the inexplicable maneuvers and features these aircraft supposedly
demonstrate. “We don’t even understand the science behind it. Not like
somebody’s a couple generations of fighter jet behind us; I mean this is
a whole difference of kind, not degree.”

In this new interview with CTV of Canada I had the opportunity to clarify my views on some of the current #UAP issues: https://t.co/zKxCGWi4NS

— Christopher K. Mellon (@ChristopherKMe4) May 27, 2021

Asked
why the pilots of mysterious aircraft with incomprehensible scientific
advancement might want to monitor the US military, Mellon said the
following:

“Well
probably for the same reason we do: to understand what kind of threat
we could pose to them. Should a conflict arise they want to be able to
engage us effectively, defeat us rapidly, at minimum cost of life and
treasure, just as we would on the other side. We do similar kinds of
things; we don’t have vehicles quite like this, but we’re certainly very
actively monitoring military forces of other countries.”

The
notion that UFOs could pose a threat to humans whether their alleged
operators are from our own world or from another is being promoted by
the main drivers of this strange new plotline, and it is being
enthusiastically lapped up by many UFO enthusiasts who see framing these
phenomena as a national security threat as the best way to get
mainstream power structures to take them seriously and disclose
information to the public.

This
is bothersome for a couple of separate reasons. Firstly, it is of
course bothersome because one ought to be bothered any time military and
intelligence insiders make unsubstantiated claims that there’s a
foreign threat to US security. The added notion that this foreign threat
could be from another world carries all kinds of implications for what
kinds of unprecedentedly radical policy and funding adjustments would
have to be made in order to counter this supposed threat, and it would
take an appalling amount of gullibility to believe that those
adjustments would be made for that reason at this point in time instead
of the very obvious reason that the US is in a new and escalating cold war with both Russia and China.


Caitlin Johnstone 


@caitoz

Everything Keeps Getting Weirder And Weirder

The Pentagon did not spontaneously evolve an interest in radical transparency, and it is not coincidental that this UFO stuff is coming out as we hurtle into a new cold war and a race to weaponize space.https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/everything-keeps-getting-weirder 

Everything Keeps Getting Weirder And Weirder

Listen
to this article: Back in 2019 I wrote an article titled “Things Are
Only Going To Get Weirder”, and from Covid to the 2020 election to the
steadily increasing regularity with which UFOs are…

caitlinjohnstone.substack.com

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Secondly,
it’s bothersome because it just says so much about human madness that
people believe UFOs could simultaneously be the product of an immensely
advanced extraterrestrial civilization, and also be a threat. They could
be one or the other, but not both.

Just
in our own tiny blip of recorded history, humanity has matured mentally
and emotionally during our time on this planet. We no longer accept it
as normal for our governments to torture someone to death in the town
square, for example, and owning another human being as property is now
seen as reprehensible. We’ve still got a mountain of inner demons to
conquer, but you also can’t deny that we’ve created a much more conscious and peaceful world for ourselves than the one we used to live in.

Imagine
how much further an intelligent life form would have progressed if it
began maturing millions of years earlier than ours. Imagine how
emotionally and intellectually developed a civilization would have to be
to make it past all the self-imposed dangers its own intelligence posed
to it like the dangers human intelligence poses to us now, if it had passed the great test
and cleared that hurdle in its maturation process, and then gone on
maturing for thousands or millions of years past the point we’re at now.

When
I bring this up online people tell me, “Well look at what the Europeans
did when they met indigenous populations! That’s what happens when a
more advanced civilization meets a less advanced one.”

You see this ridiculous notion pushed everywhere, including by supposedly smart people like Stephen Hawking,
that Europeans meeting the indigenous people of Africa, Australia and
the Americas is a good model for what we could expect from an encounter
with a civilization millions of years more advanced than our own. This
reveals a fallacious assumption that genocidal Europeans were in fact
“more advanced” than the other humans they met around the world; they
were a bit more technologically advanced, but any research on the
horrific things they did to those people will show you that they were
emotionally infantile by today’s standards. It also looks at humans who
began developing on the same planet at the same time as comparable to
extraterrestrials who would have begun developing long before us.

Beyond the fact that we have seen in our own experience that an intelligent consciousness will keep expanding its consciousness
over time, the most glaring piece of evidence that UFOs could pose no
threat to us if they are extraterrestrial is that if they did, they
would have taken us out long ago. UFO encounters have been documented
for generations; there is nothing humans could do to stop a sentient
species that is orders of magnitude technologically superior to us, no
matter what the movies say.

If
extraterrestrials are here they clearly don’t want to hurt us, and why
would they? What could we possibly have that they’d want? In the
unlikely event that there is some kind of element or resource here that
they need, there’s no reason to believe they couldn’t get it elsewhere,
or indeed that they couldn’t create it themselves at the level of
scientific understanding they’d necessarily be operating from.

The
idea that a civilization could attain a level of advancement comparable
to ours, successfully learn to share resources and collaborate enough
to avoid wiping itself out, continue maturing for a very long time,
master interstellar, intergalactic, and/or interdimensional travel,
create aircraft that can operate in the way people who encounter them
describe, and then fly across the universe to go kill a bunch of
barely-evolved primates for some reason is just absurd on its face, and
even if such a thing could happen it would have happened already.

I’ve
sat through so much video footage on this subject, and I just get so
frustrated listening to all these military-minded men talking about the
need to know what the “capabilities” of these things are and how to
prevent them from posing a threat to “national security”. If we are in
fact not alone in this universe and are in fact being visited by other
civilizations, these are the absolute stupidest questions we could
possibly be asking ourselves about them. Not how can we contact them,
not is it possible to communicate with them, not what could we learn
from them, not where are they from and what is their story, but how can
we kill them if we need to.

I
have no idea if we are being visited by ETs, but if we are the US
military is literally the worst thing our species could possibly use to
relate to them.

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Zie ook: ‘UFO openbaringen VS ministerie ‘van defensie’ de manier om nog meer oorlogsbudget te verkrijgen‘ (met het eerste artikel van Caitlin Johnstone)

Pentagon geeft toe onderzoek naar UFO’s te doen

Terzijde, zie ook: ‘Wetenschappers denken werkelijk dat je door een zwart gat kan reizen naar een ander universum

Lichtgelovige ‘atheïst’ gelooft Russiagate leugens…..

Ongelofelijk
maar waar: Sam Harris, volgens de schrijver van het hieronder
opgenomen artikel, Caitlin Johnstone, een goeroe van de atheïsten,
heeft laten weten dat hij het verhaal gelooft dat Rusland de
presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 heeft gemanipuleerd, ondanks dat daar
totaal geen bewijs voor is gegeven en dat na 2 jaar lang leugens over deze zaak (zonder dat men in die tijd met bewijzen kwam…)….

Harris
liet als atheïst o.a. weten het niet te begrijpen dat mensen een
geloof omarmen, een geloof bijvoorbeeld in een god, waarvoor elk
bewijs ontbreekt…….. Nu doet deze Harris precies hetzelfde als
christenen doen, geloven in een zaak die niet te bewijzen is, daar
deze nooit heeft plaatsgevonden….

Je
vraagt je wellicht af waarom Harris gelooft dat Rusland de
verkiezingen manipuleerde, wel dat is héééél simpel: de geheime
diensten van de VS zeggen dat het zo is……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Als er nu één ding duidelijk is, is het wel het feit dat de geheime
diensten in de VS vooral goed zijn in liegen, zelfs als het tegendeel
meer dan bewezen is, neem de leugens die hebben geleid tot de
illegale oorlog in 2003 van de VS en haar NAVO partners tegen Irak.
De claim dat Irak massavernietigingswapens had, was al 10 keer naar
de prullenbak verwezen door het VN team van wapeninspecteurs o.l.v.
Blix…….

Credulous
Atheist Believes Evidence-Free Establishment Russia Narrative

by Caitlin
Johnstone

The
other day RT reporter Dan Cohen 
flagged how
New Atheism guru Sam Harris recently had a shady cold war manipulator
on his podcast promulgating the establishment narrative that Russian
hackers and trolls interfered in the 2016 US election, despite the
fact that there is no more publicly available evidence for this than
there is for the existence of biblical Jehovah. I find this both
fascinating and hilarious.

Listen
to New Atheist guru 
@SamHarrisOrg faithfully
accept 
@NewKnowledgeAI disinformation
warrior 
@noUpside‘s
claim that there’s no doubt Russia meddled in the 2016 election
because “the intelligence agencies know it
happened” 
https://t.co/GHf94ZAEtB HT @Whtaplpic.twitter.com/Hgf4PQzTA9

Dan
Cohen (@dancohen3000) 
January
16, 2019

(uiteraard is dit niet de ‘video’ die bij het Twitterbericht hoort, echter in deze gesproken tekst gaat Harris uitvoerig in op de leugen die men ‘Russiagate’ is gaan noemen, voor het origineel klik hier)


Harris,
author of 
The
End of Faith
 and
commonly mentioned in the same breath as atheistic thought leaders
like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, once wrote the
following:

“While
believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness
or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds
immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our
discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about
things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling
that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still
have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at
sea, will be thought insane.”

Belief
in the establishment Russia narrative is very much the same. As Ray
McGovern of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity recently
documented in 
an
excellent article
 for Consortium
News
 titled
“A Look Back at Clapper’s Jan. 2017 ‘Assessment’ on
Russia-gate”, the entire election meddling narrative was built
upon an ODNI* assessment by two dozen analysts hand-picked and
overseen by James Clapper. McGovern notes how Clapper, then the
Director of National Intelligence, is notorious for having helped
sell the lies that led to the Iraq invasion, for lying to congress
about NSA surveillance, and for 
multiple
instances
 of
claiming that Russians are 
genetically
predisposed
 to
nefarious behavior.

We
the public have never seen the evidence that led to this extremely
shady assessment’s findings, yet those findings have gradually been
integrated into mass media reports as infallible fact upon which the
rest of the establishment Russia narrative has been built. Like
belief in mainstream religions, the only reason its lack of evidence
fails to come into question is because it has been made popular by
mainstream politicians and credulous media talking heads who have
been reporting it as fact day in and day out for two years, without
adding any solid, tangible evidence to the equation beyond the
unsubstantiated say-so of intelligence agencies with an extensive
record of lying to the public to manufacture support for preexisting
geopolitical agendas. It’s an entirely faith-based narrative, only
instead of placing faith in the words of priests and books authored
by long-dead men, faith is placed in the authoritative say-so of the
imperial intelligence community.

Sam Harris

@SamHarrisOrg

I really enjoyed speaking with Renee DiResta about information warfare. We live in interesting times…@noUpside https://samharris.org/podcasts/145-information-war/ 


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8:31 PM – Jan 2, 2019

Waking Up Podcast #145 – The Information War | Sam Harris

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Renée DiResta about Russia’s “Internet Research Agency” and its efforts to amplify conspiracy thinking and partisan conflict in the United…

samharris.org






It’s
funny then, given the aforementioned quote, that Harris escalated
his 
already
highly credulous
 relationship
with the CIA Russia narrative in a podcast earlier this month titled
The
Information War

in which he nodded faithfully along with a guest whose organization
was recently exposed as having manufactured the appearance of Russian
election meddling in an Alabama Senate race. His guest, Renee
DiResta, is named in a December 
New
York Times
 report
 for
her involvement in a project by narrative control firm New Knowledge,
which claims in an internal document to have “orchestrated an
elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the
[Alabama Senate candidate Roy] Moore campaign was amplified on social
media by a Russian botnet.” This same narrative control firm which
manufactured the bogus story that Moore was being amplified by
Russian bots also authored two reports on Russian social media
meddling for the US Congress in December which 
set
off a week’s worth of hysterical shrieking headlines
.

At
no time in Harris’ interview with DiResta does he question any of her
cold war rhetoric or baseless assertions, and indeed he eggs her
along with agreeable questions along the lines of the CIA/CNN Russia
narrative.

“Many
people, certainly most Trump supporters, continue to doubt whether
Russia interfered in anything in 2016,” Harris said, as though
skepticism of the unproven claims of shady intelligence agencies is a
bad thing, then asked point-blank, “Is there any basis for doubt
about that at this point?”

“Nope,”
DiResta replied.

“This
is just crystal clear as a matter of what our intelligence services
tell us, and a matter of what people like you can ascertain by just
studying online behavior?” Harris helpfully added.

“It
happened,” DiResta replied. “There’s really nothing else to
say about it. The intelligence agencies know it happened, foreign
governments know it happened, the platforms acknowledge it happened.

There
may be some small group of people that continues to live like
ostriches, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”

Intelligence
agencies know something happened, therefore it happened. The Pope
knows bread and wine transubstantiates into the literal body and
blood of Jesus Christ, therefore it happens. Sam Harris went right
along with this, completely unquestioning like a good little cult
member.

Aaron Maté

@aaronjmate

Silly Republican, as if a $100k social media campaign “could have affected the closely fought Senate race” in 2017.

Oh wait, that’s also the prevailing liberal supposition about a ~$100k Russian social media campaign in a 2016 presidential race. Never mind!

Dan Cohen

@dancohen3000

Replying to @dancohen3000

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is “exploring” whether the @NewKnowledgeAI disinformation operation violated state campaign laws and is “worried that the operation could have affected the closely fought Senate race.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/27/disinformation-campaign-targeting-roy-moores-senate-bid-may-have-violated-law-alabama-attorney-general-says/ 


230

8:05 PM – Dec 27, 2018

In an
article for 
The
Nation
,
journalist Aaron Maté breaks down how the data within the
establishment Russia narrative itself shows that Russia’s social
media involvement in US politics was “small, amateurish, and
mostly unrelated to the 2016 election,” with only a tiny
fraction of the Russia-based Internet Research Agency’s US content
having anything to do with the election at all, a very small amount
of funds allocated to the total project, and making up an
infinitesimally small percentage of total social media content viewed
by Americans. Maté 
has
also noted
 that
the total expenditure on IRA posts for the entire US election is
actually comparable to what New Knowledge spent on its “false
flag operation” in the Alabama Senate race alone, which New
Knowledge claims was too small to have impacted the election.

If
that’s not enough reason for you to be skeptical, Maté and 
the Moon
of Alabama
 blog
 point
out that there is no evidence that the Internet Research Agency had
any intent to influence the election, nor indeed that it is anything
other than a for-profit clickbait operation. Looking at the content
of the posts we’ve been shown and the statistics we’ve been told
about them, this is very difficult to argue against, which is
probably why nobody ever tries to.

Sam
Harris the credulous atheist never brings any of this up,
uncritically letting his guest spout faith-based doctrine about both
Kremlin social media interference and Russian hacking.

“Let’s
talk about the WikiLeaks data dump,” DiResta said later in
the podcast. “So as you mentioned at the start, the GRU** had this
hack, they had these emails and they laundered these emails through
WikiLeaks. They gave them to WikiLeaks.”

There
is no more publicly available evidence that this happened than there
is that the Qur’an is the actual, literal word of actual, literal
Allah, yet Sam Harris the credulous atheist never asked her for
evidence of her claims. He uncritically let her advance not just
establishment narratives but establishment agendas as well, nodding
agreeably along as she called for social media platforms to
collaborate with intelligence agencies and grieved about America
being legally unable to respond with propaganda of its own to Russian
online manipulations.

Support
for establishment cold war narratives against Russia is not the only
front along which Sam Harris finds himself in alignment with
neoconservatism, whose push for a more aggressive posture toward the
USSR was one of the early tenets of the movement. Harris’ extensive
history of I
slamophobic
comments
 and
his 
sympathetic
attitude
 toward
the so-called “war on terror” and US military
interventionism in Muslim-majority nations play right into the hands
of neoconservative agendas in the Middle East, and he’s been 
accused
of being a closet neocon
 so
much he’s 
had
to publicly address it
.
Neoconservatives have been consistently wrong about literally
everything to do with foreign policy for decades, yet Sam Harris the
credulous atheist finds theirs a sufficiently rational ideology to
ride alongside. There is no more evidence that US interventionism in
the Middle East is helpful than there is for the existence of Vishnu,
yet Sam Harris the credulous atheist uncritically endorses it.

Establishment-fueled
Russia hysteria is a religion. It is an entirely faith-based belief
system which has 
toxic
effects on the people who subscribe to it
,
and toxic effects on the world as it manufactures support for insane
escalations between two nuclear superpowers. As we 
discussed
yesterday
,
if you don’t have a functioning radar for detecting malignant
narratives, you might get lucky and find yourself in opposition to
some pernicious belief systems, yet also find yourself selling CIA
narratives to your very large online audience as well.

Credulous
atheist Sam Harris doesn’t oppose all religions. He is critical of
some of them, and he is a zealous bishop of others.

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Hier nog een gesprek tussen Harris en Renée DiResta, ‘Waking Up Podcast #145’ waarvan zoals je ziet de afbeelding al te zien was in het op één na laatste Twitterbericht:

*  ODNI: Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

** GRU = GROe (Nederland)

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