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A Conservative and a Marxist Both Claim Ufology Is a Leftist Pursuit

7/18/2018

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​It’s no secret that I have devoted considerable space to discussing the close connection between the collection of topics loosely grouped as “fringe history” and the alt-right and other extreme right groups. These connections were comprehensively documented by the sociologist Michael Barkun in his book A Culture of Conspiracy (2006, rev. 2013), a volume that made the case that extreme rightists had purposely and purposefully infiltrated ufology and related fringe fields in order to use them as a recruiting tool for extremist ideology. These connections became only more obvious in wake of the rise of Donald Trump, with Trump supporters such as Alex Jones, Jason Reza Jorjani, David Wilcock and others spouting a range of ancient astronaut and anti-government conspiracy theories that circle around white nationalism, anti-Semitism, and extreme conservative politics. 
​But some are unhappy with the association of ufology with the extreme right. One conservative writer recently argued that ufology and ancient astronauts and all of the related detritus of fringe history are really a liberal belief, while a leftist author is upset that the right is claiming ufology and wants to reclaim it for Marxism.
 
Frontpage Mag is a conservative publication founded by rightwing provocateur David Horowitz. In a recent article, a rightwing hack who specializes in Islamophobic and anti-leftist articles, claimed that UFOs are a delusion of the left and that Democrats are susceptible to a foolish belief in space aliens because they have lost faith in the United States. Horowitz tied his article to Democratic apparatchik John Podesta’s appearance on Ancient Aliens several months ago, and the article contains no new information.
 
He cites his claim to a 2013 Huffington Post/YouGov poll showing 58% of Democrats believe UFOs could be alien spacecraft, while 37% of Republicans agree. The poll found that 58% of self-identified Democrats polled either believed strongly or slightly in alien visitation. It also found an equally significant correlation between education level and UFO belief, which Horowitz ignored. In the survey, 60% of people with a high school diploma believed in UFOs while 37% of those with a college degree believed. Those numbers are nearly identical to the party affiliation number and therefore equally significant. But not to Horowitz.
 
Horowitz seized on the party ID to link Democrats to what he claimed were leftist “conspiracy theories” about Russian meddling in the 2016 election, meddling that 17 U.S. intelligence agencies and officials including the speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, a Republican, and even Pres. Trump, under duress yesterday, agree occurred:
​It’s natural for them to believe the worst of a country they already distrust. The left’s core beliefs are a series of conspiracy theories about class, race and gender. These conspiracy theories explain everything from crime rates to poverty to social problems. Most leftist programs are geared toward fighting a conspiracy by white people, by men, by the wealthy and the middle class that doesn’t exist except in the minds of the left.
​Certainly, there is irony in Frontpage using UFO conspiracies as a justification for a hackneyed irrational conspiracy theory that liberals are mentally deranged, irrational, and hateful.
 
On the other side, A. M. Gittlitz, a leftist writer of a Marxist bent, recently published a piece asserting that there was a long and proud Marxist tradition, mostly among Trotskyites, of embracing ufology as a cosmic alternative to capitalist reality. He outlines many of the efforts of Soviet and Russian writers, and their stooges in Europe, to promote space aliens as interstellar communists, including such familiar names to us as Peter Kolosimo, the Italian communist who made use of Soviet propaganda in his books and pretended that H. P. Lovecraft’s science fiction stories were true dispatches from the stars.
 
Glittiz, however, notes that in the United States, the loudest voices in ufology are rightwing nuts who rant about anti-government conspiracies and promote what I have described as racist and anti-Semitic views under the cover of ufology. All of Glittiz’s examples of leftist and Marxist ufologists date from the 1960s and 1970s, when there was still a utopian streak in American thought that mirrored, to an extent, the stated (if never honored) Marxist goals of equality for all. In those days, aliens were often imagined as alternate versions of human society, cosmic teachers who might show us a better way to live, and the province of hippies and utopians who had big plans for the Space Brothers. Today, we see aliens mostly as anal invaders and toothy monsters terrorizing the economically disadvantaged. There were and are exceptions, of course.
 
Glittiz is right that there was a Marxist ufology in the 1960s, but I think he is entirely too cheery in assuming that it was due to Soviet and communist love of science and a desire to find space comrades. The fact is that the Soviet Union produced most of its ancient astronaut material for Western consumption, published in English-language and French-language Western-facing magazines like Sputnik, even after the government began to crack down on the idea internally in the late 1960s. The Soviets carefully seeded the West with ancient astronaut material, providing “scientific” articles about ancient astronauts to writers like Kolosimo, Robert Charroux, and Erich von Däniken—who even traveled to Moscow to receive Soviet propaganda, despite being an ardent anti-socialist. These men happily cited Soviet scientists as allegedly credible alternatives to Western scholarship.
 
This brings me to what is perhaps the most important point: There are many leftists, liberals, Democrats, Marxists, and communists among the ranks of ufologists, ancient astronaut theorists, and believers. We could make a long list of them: Giorgio Tsoukalos of Ancient Aliens is an avowed liberal, and John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, and Harry Reid, who funded the Pentagon’s UFO program, are all Democrats. Kolosimo was a communist. Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier were socialists. Dozens of celebrities have embraced Ancient Aliens.

Ufology, as a field, was once populated by younger men, who grew older and more conservative over time. Similarly, there is no one political orientation for an ancient astronaut theorist.
 
But that doesn’t change the fact that the ancient astronaut theory is structurally conservative, with a small “c.”
 
I will use an example to help illustrate this. In my 2008 book Knowing Fear, I explain that the horror genre is structurally conservative. The premise of a horror story centers on the violation of the status quo and an effort to restore that status quo ante, thus going back to the way things were before the disruption. The element that violates the status quo, by definition, represents change, and therefore its suppression is an expression of the conservative desire to resist change. More often than not, this takes the form of the narrative “punishing” liberal behaviors, especially those revolving around sex and substances, or “punishing” efforts to discover new knowledge. Tradition and conformity are rewarded in the typical horror narrative.
 
There are of course exceptions. Get Out was an explicitly liberal horror movie, though it accomplished this by differentiating between small-c conservatism (keeping things the way they are) and capital-C Conservatism, the political ideology increasingly associated with white revanchism.
 
But the structural conservatism of horror doesn’t prevent the genre from being populated by decidedly liberal writers, like Stephen King, or from it being enjoyed by audiences that are primarily young and often liberal.
 
Similarly, ufology is a field that, on cable TV at least, attracts a young and liberal audience to messages that are produced, increasingly, by old, white conservatives. The ancient astronaut theory is structurally conservative because it reinforces traditional hierarchies under the grace of semi-divine aliens, asks us to view traditions and myths just as literally as our ancestors did, and attempts to reinvigorate the emotional and spiritual power of ancient traditions.
 
In both the ancient astronaut and horror fields, we see the result of structural conservatism manifest in a tendency toward racism—ancient astronaut theories denigrate the accomplishments of native peoples, while horror films are infamous for killing off the black character first—and an implicit acceptance of the idea that things were better / stronger / faster / more advanced in the past, which is in this conception the source and font of all tradition and power. 
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HUGH'S POO
7/18/2018 08:44:55 am

FUNNY YOU SHOULD MENTION THE 'LEFT' & UFO'S;
'COZ I LEFT SOMETHING QUITE ALIEN & OUT OF THIS WORLD, BEHIND THE BUSHES NEAR STONEHENGE THIS MORNING.
A CYCLOPEAN, MONOLITHIC BROWN DOLMEN STEAMER.
AND THAT'S NO CONSPIRACY!

Telluric energies, ley lines, Giants, etc, etc.

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Altright
7/18/2018 08:56:52 am

_He cites his claim to a 2013 Huffington Post/YouGov poll showing 58% of Democrats believe UFOs could be alien spacecraft, while 37% of Republicans agree._

How come aliens are “fringe” when basically half of population agrees they visit us.

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Doc Rock
7/18/2018 01:59:45 pm

Vast difference between, on one hand, acknowledging in a poll that you kind of believe that ETs exist and, on the other hand, believing and asserting without supporting evidence that aliens built everything from the great pyramids to the Easter Island statues and are actively kidnapping and anally probing people.


Kind of like the difference between acknowledging some sort of belief in a religious system versus letting someone bleed to death because you believe that praying over them is a better solution than dialing 911.

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Altright
7/19/2018 04:21:01 am

If aliens indeed are visiting Earth then it is highly likely that they have some sort of an agenda here.

There is as much evidence that aliens and/or unknown advanced human civilization (Atlantis) built the great pyramids as there is evidence that Khufu built them. In fact common sense rather suggests the former than the latter. These ropes and pulleys theories are quite funny considering the scale and especially the accuracy (almost equal length of the sides, right angles, alignement with east, west, north and south, top being exactly at the center, etc.) of the work.

Also being kidnapped by aliens is reported in a very similar way by hundreds if not thousands of people from different time periods and cultures. Harvard professor John E. Mack and his books are recommended reading. So there is at least some merit to the theory as long as “mainstream” comes up with a plausible explanation as to what is happening to these people.

Doc
7/19/2018 10:56:22 am

The issue of who built the pyramids and every other big pile of rocks has been beaten to death here and elsewhere.

The issue of Mack's (censured by Harvard for methodological errors in his research) work as well as the general topic of reports of alien abduction has been beaten to death here and elsewhere.

Like it or not, just plain old humans have been able to move really big stuff and align things with pretty basic technology for a long, long time. And safe bet that sleep paralysis, delusion, and hallucination are universal phenomena.

Altright
7/19/2018 11:45:55 am

Like it or not, there is no evidence that plain old humans built the pyramids especially considering the question where are older more primitive pyramids that had to precede the more advanced ones?

Doc Rock
7/19/2018 12:07:08 pm

A mountain of professionals and scholars who are well trained in the relevant fields say otherwise and can readily support their positions in very rational and objective fashion. You can't even try to support your position without taking a quick trip thru sillyville.

Thanks for helping to provide further clarification of what constitutes the fringe.

Time to dump a double shot of Tullamore Dew into my last cup of coffee of the morning.





Altright
7/19/2018 12:16:40 pm

“Scholars” have of course never been wrong before. Plain old groupthink. Blind leading the blind.

Doc Rock
7/19/2018 12:22:32 pm

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case.

Mmmm, tasty.

Mandalore
7/19/2018 02:36:17 pm

There is a clear progression of pyramid construction with older and more primitive forms. Mastabas ----> step pyramid ----> Meidum and bent pyramids ----> red pyramid, which was the model for the rest of the Old Kingdom's pyramids. The pyramids didn't just come out of nowhere as those who are uninformed would have you believe.

bezalel
7/20/2018 09:38:30 pm

Altright
You do not understand the basic precepts of the scientific method

Get an education

STFU until you do

There is NO physical evidence that aliens have interfered with humans at any time

Probably plenty of aliens out there, yes.

No evidence yet they are here

None

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T. Franke link
7/18/2018 10:10:13 am

As a German, I ask myself when reading this article and the articles it is talking about, whether not only the Germans but also the Americans are so ensnared in their mental injuries that they are in heavy need of psychiatric treatment?

I suggest to stay with the ancient wisdom: errare humanum est.

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Machala
7/18/2018 12:07:19 pm

Jason,
When did the alt-right hijack ufology ? I understand the point you are trying to make by tying white supremacists to Ancient Alien belief but I think you're stretching a bit.

Most of the people I knew when I lived in Sedona and other areas I've been that are known to attract New Age thinkers, I have never known any of them to be "Conservative" ideologues. Quite the reverse ! They were extremely Liberal in their political leanings and totally culturally homogeneous.

It was the tree-huggin', pot smolin'. incense burnin' hippie-dippies that embraced the possibility of UFO's and alien creatures. The pickup drivin', gun totin', tobacco chewin', red-necks scoffed at the very notion of "little green men" and the only ancient ancestors they knew or cared about were the ones in their own families, who stole the land from the Indians and fought for the Confederacy.

When did they suddenly change sides ? When did the Red Necks become "enlightened" and the Hippies become cynics ?


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Jason Colavito link
7/18/2018 01:45:04 pm

According to Barkun, rightwing extremists began to enter ufology in the 1980s and took it over in the 1990s, building off of the anti-government "militia" movement of that decade and the anti-government paranoia fostered by the "X-Files." There are obviously a large number of hippie-dippy New Age UFO believers still, but the UFO organizations and the upper ranks of professional ufology have seen a steady drift to the right. Witness MUFON's recent racism scandals. There is clearly a disconnect between the heterogeneous everyday UFO believers and the more politically active leaders of the ufology community.

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Joe Scales
7/18/2018 08:00:24 pm

And staying on point, let's again hear from Professor Barken:

"My research has focused on the extreme right, so I have not looked at the extreme left, though I know they exist, and they share the same characteristics. Conspiracism is not exclusively a right-wing phenomenon. A main characteristic is a deep suspicion of authority—religious, political, academic, etc. As a result, it doesn’t matter whether the political authority is Democratic or Republican. Conspiracy theorists are as suspicious of Republican presidents as they are of Democrats. For example, a tremendous amount of conspiracy developed around the figure of George H.W. Bush. So there is a non-partisan aspect to conspiracism. Their tendency is not to believe any authority."

Americanegro
7/18/2018 10:00:33 pm

"For example, a tremendous amount of conspiracy developed around the figure of George H.W. Bush."

And rightly so. We're worried now about having a CIA Director as SecState but then we had a CIA Director as President after being Vice-President. And VPs can be given power: Nixon ran the Vietnam desk under Eisenhower and advocated for at least the consideration of using nuclear weapons. That's right, under Eisenhower. Also Bush foolishly or purposely used the phrase "New World Order". And using April Glaspie he lured Saddam Hussein into a war which was essentially a giant training exercise.

G.H.W. Bush also seems to be the American of his generation who doesn't know where he was on November 22, 1963. I find that curious.

Still waiting on that diet soda.

JaredMithrandir link
7/18/2018 10:44:11 pm

Only in America is being Anti-Govenrment thought of as Conservative.

G. Glas
7/18/2018 07:03:20 pm

“When did they suddenly change sides ? When did the Red Necks become "enlightened" and the Hippies become cynics ?”

Seems to me that the worm began to turn in September of 2001.

Anyhow, what an interesting subject to discuss. Wouldn’t it be neat if a timeline could be developed?

I know that some would say that the hippies becoming cynical started the day after Woodstock.

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Americanegro
7/18/2018 07:53:12 pm

Some would say anything, but I'd suggest you consider a different festival, and I don't mean Woodstock 99 or whatever the one with the rape gangs was.

Doc Rock
7/18/2018 08:27:32 pm

Machala

There is no shortage of people who traded their circa-1970 long hair, incense, and liberal ideology for a briefcase, house in the suburbs, and membership in the Republican party.

The school where I did my undergrad degree has a longstanding hippie reputation and attracts a lot of students attracted to that lifestyle, many who come from fairly well off families. Lots of white kids running around in dreadlocks and with Amnesty International bumper stickers on their cars and rebelling against their parents' lifestyle. But then a few years later the trust fund kicks in. Or they decide that going to grad school for an MBA will make for a better life than an M.A. in Ethnic Studies (yes, kiddie table, that major also exists), so off they go. Often get a shift to the right as well.

So, wouldn't surprise me that more than a few of those staunchly conservative consumers of all things UFO in the present consumed their fair share of Purple Owsley back in the day.

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Machala
7/18/2018 09:04:54 pm

You're observation is spot on, I'm sure. What intrigues me more is a 180 degree shift in world viewpoint on the part of the "Republican" and "Democrat" Parties in the U.S.

There was a time not long ago that the Republican party was the party of free trade, fiscal responsibility, strong supporters of "world wide democracy" ( so long as it forwarded U.S. Corporate interests ) which meant fierce opposition to Communist China, North Korea, and Russia in its pre & post detente political poses.

Now it is the Liberal leaning Democrats who are fighting for free trade, world governmental alliances, fiscal responsibility, and are the ones opposing dictators and repressive regimes and targets of Russian, Chinese, North Korean, and Israeli political espionage.

The role reversal is particularly fascinating - if it were so alarming - particularly watching the Washington sycophants, who used to be "Rock-Ribbed Republicans" bending over backward to kiss Emperor Trumps rump and act as apologist for Russian,Chinese, North Korean, and Israeli interference and growing influence in the United States government.

Doc Rock
7/18/2018 09:24:13 pm

I think there have been a number of shifts. At one point the Republicans were viewed as uptight, prudish, and lacking a sense of humor. People who acted like they were born 50 years old. The Democrats were the fun loving, youthful, humorous ones. In the present, it has been asserted that the parties have traded personalities. Fox News is a good example. Lot's of cute youngish chicks showing off legs and cleavage and a sort of Saturday Night Live vibe in terms of irreverent humor. But then if you change the channel you end up with someone like Rachel Maddow taking themselves way too seriously.


G. Glas
7/18/2018 10:52:41 pm

Oh man, you know what’s really freaking me out right now?

We all know we’ve done this before, right? History repeating itself and all that.

So it begs the question: Who were history’s earliest known “hippies and rednecks”? And when they swapped places on the political spectrum, what was driving them to the tipping point?

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Doc Rock
7/19/2018 11:53:02 am

Redneck is yet another label that has been so used and abused that current usage often bears relatively little resemblance to its original meaning. No shortage of people in the area where I grew up who would quickly get slapped with the label Redneck, but are card carrying Democrats.

G. Glas
7/22/2018 07:20:29 pm

I am collaquially a redfern.

Oops! I mean “redneck”.

I totally “get” what you are saying.

We’re all some sort of “Chav”, which is presently my fave name for “redneck”.


God-Bless Mother England.

Americanegro
7/23/2018 04:15:02 pm

Rednecks tend to be Democrats you idiot.

Doc Rock
7/23/2018 09:14:08 pm

G. Glas,

When I think of Chav, the mental image, at least in terms of fashion, leans more toward Ali G than Hank Williams, Jr. But then again, my understanding of the concept of Chav is probably as "imperfect" as most understandings of the concept of redneck.

V
7/19/2018 03:24:34 pm

Thing is, I don't think it WAS a "sudden" change of sides. My observation is...they got old. Not just the people, but the ideas. Things that used to be wild cutting-edge ideas got stale and old, and younger people found, as always, a new crop of problems to focus on (since every social solution is the basis of new problems, and solving larger problems just uncovers a whole crop of slightly smaller ones that were always there, just hidden under the larger one). The people also got older, and more resistant to change, and the ideas aren't new ones, so they're comfortable. *shrugs* It's kind of a pattern we see throughout history, after all.

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Godric
7/22/2018 07:27:59 pm

I know you, right?

No one just *shrugs* like you just did.

Admit it, *Shrugger*!

Just Admidsth ith!

phtagn.

enoon@erehwon.com
7/22/2018 10:50:53 pm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dRuRKirloQ8

Riley V
7/18/2018 05:25:33 pm

Let’s see;

Greys? Check
Nordics? Check
Reptilians? Check.

Black, Brown, Yellow, or Red Aliens? No. Never.

I interview people for part of my income. I always ask about their political leanings (Left, Middle, Right), and if they have had a paranormal experience. I’ve never found a pattern linking the two questions.

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Jason Colavito link
7/18/2018 05:38:15 pm

The pattern is more about the ideologies of those who make money selling paranormal conspiracy theories.

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Riley V
7/18/2018 10:11:39 pm

Ideologies do last longer if someone can make money off the deal. Enough paranormal books have been written by enough con artists now that a whole lit review can be made by re-hashing each other’s books.

I’m waiting for the PUFT (Paranormal Unified Field Theory) that can tie Aliens, Ghosts, Faries, Nessie, Nephalim, and Pyramid Power all together.

I love your work.

Godric
7/22/2018 08:31:01 pm

It’ll continue to be so.

Until we meet them with Silence.

Silence is our only Power,

Think about that.

Let me know if you agree,

These #s leverage agreement.

They depend on our posts to get it.

I would suggest re-visiting the meaning of “Forum”.

T’sall good, you gang of Pirates,

I got you “Alll’” on radar.

:)

Titus Pullo
7/18/2018 10:14:46 pm

Structural Conservatism...really. Oh boy I often think universities should just teach hard sciences and engineering and allow the individual to decide on their ideology.

David Horowitz conservative? Let's see he is for a very interventionist foreign policy (which has always been part of the Democratic progressive wing since Wilson), doesn't have a problem with public debt, and to be honest I'm not sure one position he takes outside of perhaps some social issues where I would consider him conservative. As for the left caring about debt and trade, sure they were so judicious when Obama rang up 12T in new debt with his keynesian fallacies. Neither party cares much about public debt and hasn't since Nixon took us off Bretton Woods (which one could argue was the starting point of he massive income inequality, stagnant wages, and trade deficits and a bubble economy).

Now we have Russia..a nation with the GDP just above Spain as our enemy. They hacked the DNC..ok well every country (yes even our friends) hack each others computers and spy on each other. We spend 40% more in real dollars today in the military than we did during Ike when we really did have an enemy to protect Europe and Japan from (USSR and China) and we can't stop some hackers? And please don't get me started on if we do the same thing. Iran is run by a bunch of thugs because the US funded to overturn a legitimate election of a left winger in the 50's. We funded to overthrow a commie puppet of the USSR in Afghanistan opening it up to the Taliban. And our performance in overthrowing goats from South Vietnam to Peru is known. And recently the Ukraine...a duly elected pro Russian thug was overthrown with at least tacit US support. Look Putin is a typical thug..but so is the leader of Pakistan and they have a larger population and nukes as well. All nations act in their own self interest..and need to protect themselves and not blame other nations for tying to influence them. As for collusiion and Trump...if he did he is toast but honestly American politicians have been in cahoots with foreign powers to try and alter US elections before. Nixon in 68 with South Vietnam, Kennedy in 80 and so on.

As for Jason's fear of "white nationalism"...its just a form of tribalism which the left has been pushing for years...and yes the nazi's had a point that people do tend to feel comfort with their local surroundings and people like them. The USSR didn't break the nationalistic feelings of the Soviet States did they? Communism was supposed to wipe away 'tribalism" but it didn't. The closest mankind has come to that was the American idea of a melting pot..something we celebrated when I came of age in the 70's but replaced by "multiculturalism" which is dividing us..

Sorry for the long rant but Jason is covering so many topics in this post...totally enjoyed it as always.

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Jason Colavito link
7/18/2018 10:48:23 pm

Structurally conservative narratives aren't the same as the ideology incorrectly termed Conservatism. There is some overlap, which is why structurally conservative media can be used to support political Conservatism. But surely you recognize that the ideology passing under the name of Conservatism has little to do with the traditional conservatism of Edmund Burke or the traditional definition of conservatism as referring to the preservation of tradition.

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Alejandro Agostinelli link
7/19/2018 01:32:54 am

Glittiz made a historical review of marginal groups of the trotskyist left as posadismo, so it does not invalidate your analysis: it's complementary. A correction: Pauwels was a supporter of the new right. Regards

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expat link
7/19/2018 12:45:43 pm

Robert Morningstar, editor of 'UFO Digest' is a radical conservative and obsessive Islamophobe. On 26 January 2016 he posted this on FB:

"Islam is certainly NOT a "religion of peace" as Obama professes and pontificates. Islam is a religion of pieces of human beings, left scattered, with many other victims maimed across the world in the Name of Allah, the merciless and despicable, a demonic deity who demands and condones subhuman barbarity and depravity such as this."

'THIS' is a picture of a decapitated young woman in stark, horrific detail. She's dressed in a black bra and figure-hugging denim trousers. Her severed head lies about a foot from her body, and she is lying in a lake of blood.

The problem with this as anti-Islamic propaganda is that it has nothing to do with Islam. The victim is Patricia Pereira da Silva, a Brazilian who was killed by her jealous boyfriend, Renato Guilherme Silva, after he caught her posting photos to another man on WhatsApp. It happened in 2015 in the State of Pernambuco, in a village called Angelito Agreste.

Morningstar proclaims that he's a scholar. I think he's something very different.

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Americanegro
7/23/2018 04:19:27 pm


"Islam is certainly NOT a "religion of peace" as Obama professes and pontificates. Islam is a religion of pieces of human beings, left scattered, with many other victims maimed across the world in the Name of Allah, the merciless and despicable, a demonic deity who demands and condones subhuman barbarity and depravity such as this."

That's true although it was Bush who first used the ill-advised term.. What is your point?

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Kal
7/19/2018 03:11:58 pm

Aliens would not come to Earth to meddle in or take sides in our politics. Such a thing would suggest they would give any wit about human nature, and want to influence it. Human nature does not change. It may evolve.or mutate though.

UFO conspiracies and the fringe boils down to disenchanted lonely people need something to believe in, such as an other, who controls the randomness of their lives. Sometimes stuff just happens, for no rhyme or reason but it just is. Entropy more than Karma is a pain.

Makes prefect sense that the disenchanted hippie generation (Baby Boomers, those born at the end of WW2, mid 1940s, and were in their early 20s by the middle 1960s), went from UFOs and utopias for escape, and then so did their alt right counterparts.Ironically they seem to have common ground. They both think aliens had to be responsible for their own coincidental failings.

The X Generation (middle 1960s to middle 1980s), fell into the light conservative 'family values' trap and became disillusioned also, but ended toward aliens as the 'black hat wearing, Ridley Scott, John Carpenter type).

Yes, aliens can certainly be black. The Xenomorph, the Thing, the Smoke Monster, the Creature, (although he's kind of green), the Oil Aliens from the X Files, etc. These are pop culture aliens though, from scifi.

As someone said, the Valley of the Kings does indeed show several broken down early pyramids, quarries, stones, leftover stuff, and whatnot indicating humans built them. Also most of Cairo was built on the edge of that, out of stuff left around, at least for the walls. Humans called Egyptians built them. Just because later people came by and didn't understand how it was built, doesn't mean 'the others from space' did it.

ET was brown and he was a good pop scifi alien.

So aliens aren't hacking our elections. That's the Russians.



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