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These programs highlight a disturbing synthesis of substantive, factual inquiries (the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, Sr.) with proto-fascistic ancient aliens built the pyramids, ancient astronauts, Eric von Daniken bs.
Holocaust deniers have long hovered around the edges of the assassination research. Once one realizes that, in fact, Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy in the JFK assassination, James Earl Ray was a patsy in the assassination of Martin Luther King and Sirhan Sirhan was a [mind-controlled] patsy in the assassination of RFK, Sr. it leaves many in a relativistic political/intellectual universe. They wonder: “Maybe the Holocaust didn’t happen?”
Discussion and Analysis Includes: Amaryllis Fox’s role as intelligence adviser to the Office of Management and Budget and the President’s Foreign Intelligence Review Board; Tulsi Gabbard’s support for India’s attack on Pakistan; Modi’s networking with the RSS; An incisive article noting the possibility of U.S. and/or U.K involvement in the terrorist incident in Kashmir; Review of the relationship between RFK, Jr. daughter-in-law and campaign manager Amaryllis Fox and Tulsi Gabbard; Tulsi Gabbard’s profound relationship with the Hindutva fascist organization RSS (the organization that assassinated Mahatma Gandhi); Review of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi; Review of Gabbard’s membership in the Hare Krishna Cult; Discussion of the New Age, the UFO disinformation gambit; the fascist/Nazi roots of the alternative archaeology/“Our Brothers from Space” meme; The recent presentation of disinformation concerning “chambers beneath the Pyramids of Egypt” (proving that Space Aliens built the Pyramids); the approval of that bs by numerous figures in “Team Trump” including Anna Paulina Luna, heading up “inquiries” into the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, 9/11, UFO’s; Jeffrey Epstein.
1.Amaryllis Fox Kennedy — Wikipedia
. . . . Amaryllis Fox Kennedy (born Amaryllis Damerell Thornber; September 22, 1980)[1][2] is an American former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer and writer serving since 2025 as the Associate Director for Intelligence and International Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and as a member of Donald Trump’s Intelligence Advisory Board.[3][4] She served in the CIA from 2002 to 2010. . . .
2a.“With You As You Hunt Down...”: US Spy Chief To PM Modi On Kashmir Attack
The US spy chief extended Washington’s full support to New Delhi and told Prime Minister Modi that “We are with you and support you as you hunt down those responsible for this heinous attack.”
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Written by:Abhishek Chakraborty
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2b.India should tread warily on battlefield — Indian Punchline
. . . . Later in the evening yesterday, Modi also received Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat at his residence in a gesture “emphasising national interest over protocol,” as a national daily noted. However, there should be no misconceptions over how Bhagwat’s mind is working. Five days back, he had remarked, “We hope for a strong response (to Pahalgam attack.)” . . . .
2c.Did Western Intelligence Play a Role in the Latest Terrorist Attack in Kashmir?
India and Pakistan are teetering on the precipice of war following the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahalgam, which sits in the Indian-controlled region of Kashmir, that left 22 tourists dead. The timing of this attack — coming on the heels of Vice President J.D. Vance’s visit to India — raises some uncomfortable questions that merit an answer… Were Western intelligence agencies involved? For what purpose? Let me propose a couple of plausible motives… spark tensions with China and create turmoil within BRICS.
While many uninformed Westerners might scoff at the idea, Pakistan’s Defense Minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, accused India of staging a false flag. But Asif didn’t stop there. During an interview with Sky News, Asif admitted that Pakistan has been supporting and funding terrorist groups for about three decades, describing this as “doing the dirty work for the United States and the West, including Britain.” He acknowledged that this was a “mistake” and said Pakistan has suffered greatly as a result, especially by aligning with the West during the Soviet-Afghan war and the post‑9/11 US-led war on terror. Asif stated that if Pakistan had not joined these efforts, its international record would have been “unimpeachable.”
Asif emphasized three key points:
Collaboration with Western Powers: Asif stated, “We have been doing this dirty work for the United States for about three decades, you know, the West, including Britain.” This comment was made in the context of discussing Pakistan’s historical role in supporting Western-led initiatives, which he suggests have contributed to the current challenges with terrorism.
Training of Mujahideen: Reflecting on Pakistan’s past decisions, Asif acknowledged that the country had trained Mujahideen fighters during the Afghan-Soviet war, stating, “We prepared them and now they have become terrorists.” He emphasized that Pakistan should not have engaged in such activities at the behest of other nations.
Critique of U.S. Military Actions: Asif has criticized the United States for its military interventions, noting that Pakistan has suffered due to its alliance with the U.S. He pointed out that the U.S. left behind high-tech weapons in Afghanistan, which have contributed to the rise in terrorism within Pakistan.
The attack in Pahalgam, at a minimum, was designed to disrupt further development of the area as a tourist destination. Still, in light of Asif’s remarkable confession, I cannot rule out something more nefarious by my former outfit or by Britain’s MI‑6.
The conflict between Pakistan and India heated up quickly on Tuesday, with India hitting alleged terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan retaliating with artillery and missile strikes. Following this spike in violence, things appear to have calmed down. Iran’s Foreign Minister Aragchi is in the region, trying to mediate. I suspect that he is doing this with the full backing and support of both Russia and China. . . .
3.Did you hear the incredible news? Earth-shattering news. Or, rather, history-shattering news: A pair of researchers has uncovered evidence of a vast underground city beneath the pyramids of Giza. A previously undiscovered subterranean complex that is many times deeper than the height of the pyramids. So vast that it has observers pointing to the discovery as powerful evidence of a civilization with advanced capabilities that has been lost to history. Or even aliens.
It’s that significant a discovery. Or at least it would have been that significant a discovery had it been based on verifiable scientific methods and withstood peer review. Instead, as we’re going to see, the study is based on claims that experts say simply aren’t feasible given the technology used by the two researchers to map out the underground structures. The two researchers – Corrado Malanga, from Italy’s University of Pisa, and Filippo Biondi with the University of Strathclyde in Scotland – had already published a separate peer-reviewed paper in October 2022 in the scientific journal Remote Sensing which found hidden rooms and ramps inside the Khafre pyramid. But this latest non-peer-reviewed paper purports to reveal underground structures on a much larger scale. Malanga is a UFOlogist and has appeared on YouTube shows about aliens. Biondi is a specialist in radar technology. According to Professor Lawrence Conyers, a radar expert at the University of Denver who focuses on archaeology, any claims based on the radar technology they used are ‘a huge exaggeration’ since it’s not possible for the technology to penetrate as deeply into the ground to back up the claims they are making.
And yet, as we’re going to see, the reporting on these ‘findings’ includes breathless reports in The Daily Mail with quotes from ‘experts’ about how the whole history of Egyptian history has been rewritten and evidence of advance pre-flood civilizations is about to be revealed. Or maybe it’s evidence of an alien origin for the pyramids. Perhaps the pyramids really are ancient power plants! Yep, that’s the spin this story has been getting from the Daily Mail, including quotes from Joe Rogan about how ‘mind-blowing’ a development this all is or quotes from ‘researcher Jay Anderson’ who has concluded that “The pyramid itself was already a massive red flag in the ancient Egyptian historical narrative but now, with this discovery, I think it’s impossible to say that the Egyptians we’ve been taught about built these structures…It provides the most extraordinary evidence for a pre-flood era civilisation that was flourishing in a way that we can scarcely comprehend.”
It’s also rather notable that, of the two Daily Mail article below on this story, it’s only the article from March 22 that even mentions the fact that the study hasn’t been peer reviewed and has already been debunked by experts. The Daily Mail piece from March 30 makes no mention but instead run with the headline “Were the Pyramids built by aliens? Inside the bizarre conspiracy theory ‘backed’ by Elon Musk – after experts make astonishing discovery.” Of course, as we’ve seen, not only has Elon Musk promoted the ‘aliens built the pyramids’ meme but his maternal grandfather was utterly obsessed with discovering ‘lost cities’ in Southern Africa that would prove the existences of advanced non-black civilizations. The mainstreaming of the ‘lost civilization/alien astronaut’ narratives continues.
But as we’re going to be reminded of in the following 2018 Southern Poverty Law Center piece, the mainstreaming of the ‘lost civilization/alien astronaut’ narratives is hardly new. It’s been going on for decades. Centuries, if you factor in the reality that the notion of a lost white civilization that pre-dated the Native Americans on North America was a widely held view from the colonial era until the 20th Century. In fact, when President Andrew Jackson was justifying the ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native tribes, he cited the mythological extermination of this alleged ancient Aryan tribe at the hands of Native Americans as a kind of historical precedent for his action. Narratives wholly embraced by the Nazis’ anti-Enlightenment myths and continued percolating through the culture for decades. Flash forward to the 2000s, and we find outlets like the History Channel routinely platforming ‘lost civilization’ and ‘ancient alien’ narratives. Narratives still going strong today, thanks, in large part, to their now-routine media mainstreaming that has been going on for decades:
The modern far right is crisscrossed with pseudo-scientific research into lost Aryan super-civilizations, biblical giants, ancient astronauts and the occasional inter-dimensional alien.
On December 6, 1830, Andrew Jackson used his second State of the Union address to defend the Indian Removal Act, the administration’s sole legislative victory. He described the law promulgating the expulsion and resettlement of southeastern Native American tribes as the “happy consummation” of U.S. Indian policy. To his critics who “wept over the fate of the aborigines” —and who, it turned out, accurately predicted the horrors of the forced migrations known collectively to history as the Trail of Tears — Jackson offered an archeology lesson. Any “melancholy reflections” were ahistorical, he said, because the Indians were neither innocent victims nor first peoples, but perpetrators of what Jackson’s modern admirers might call “white genocide.”
Jackson knew this because the evidence was everywhere in plain sight.
“In the monuments and fortifications of an unknown people, we behold the memorials of a once-powerful race,” said Jackson, “exterminated to make room for the existing savage tribes.”
This reference to a “once-powerful race” was not lost on the American public of 1830. Every schoolboy and girl knew it to be the Lost Race of the Mound Builders, believed to be the continent’s original Caucasian inhabitants. From the colonial era into the twentieth century, it was widely accepted that certain earthen structures and burial grounds proved the existence of “white” or Indo-European peoples who settled North America only to be wiped out by the arrival of Jackson’s “savage (Asiatic) tribes.”
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In the early 1890s, the U.S. ethnologist Cyrus Vance discredited the theory in a series published by the Smithsonian Institution. But the idea of a pre-Colombian “white genocide” never disappeared. It survived in subcultures, influenced by the occult and Atlantis legends, which clung to theories of lost ancient super-civilizations that, curiously, always seemed to be racially “white.”
In recent decades, as evidence of a richer paleoamerican record than previously realized has come to light, Jackson’s “once-powerful race” has found a new generation of boosters on the far right, where fantasies of “white genocide” distantly past and currently unfolding are an animating obsession.
In the fractured and constantly cross-fertilizing galaxy of extremist conspiracy culture, the white Moundbuilders —now known on the far right as “the Solutreans” — share a stage with other characters from an ancient and racially glorious but “suppressed” past: ancient Nordic-looking astronauts, biblical Aryan giants, Nazi scientists under the South Pole, and the occasional inter-dimensional alien in league with the Jews.
Alt-History Goes Prime Time
Over the last decade, the History Channel has exploited and fueled the popularization of alternative archeology, or alt-history. Numerous programs on the network showcase ideas that, while not explicitly racist or anti-Semitic, have origins in colonial projects and have been championed (for a reason) by modern extremists.
Take “America Unearthed,” which aired between 2012 and 2015 on H2, a defunct History Channel network. That show’s host, a geologist named Scott Wolter, promoted theories that ancient Celts and Scots settled North America and hybridized Native Americans centuries before Columbus. The details can be found in Wolter’s contributions to Lost Worlds of Ancient America, a 2012 anthology edited by Frank Joseph, born Frank Collin, founder of the National Socialist Party of America. (In 1993, following his expulsion from the party for “impure blood”, Collin became editor of Ancient American magazine and has authored dozens of books dealing with ancient “suppressed” history.) In another episode, when a guest professes admiration for the Knights of the Golden Circle, a group of wealthy Southerners who sought to create a hemispheric slave empire, Wolter just nods. (Wolter has denied that he or his ideas are racist, and claims to be politically liberal.)
Whatever the personal politics of the host, these shows serve as vectors for racist ideas and scholarship, argues the independent scholar Jason Colavito, who has been tracking this cultural crossover and amplification of fringe history for years. In books like Foundations of Atlantis, Ancient Astronauts, and Other Alternative Pasts, Colavito explores and debunks many of the ideas promoted on the History Channel and far right websites alike.
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Shows like “America Unearthed” are heavily discussed on white nationalist alt-history forums, as well as general far right political sites like Stormfront. They are routinely praised for introducing viewers to variations on the Solutrean Hypothesis (see below) and raising the profile of racist pseudo-scholarship.
Consider the H2 series “In Search of Aliens,” which, before its demise, promoted the work of Jan Udo Holey, a German writer whose antisemitic books have been banned across Europe. (Holey’s pen name, Jan Van Helsig, is a blunt Dracula reference, i.e. Jews are bloodsuckers.) The History Channel’s long-running series “Ancient Aliens,” meanwhile, features David Childress, whose books cite and build on the work of James Churchward, who promoted an ancient empire called the “lost continent of Mu,” whose “dominant race” was an “exceedingly handsome people, with clear white or olive skin.”
While the appeal of these theories has roots in Jacksonian justification for Manifest Destiny, their current manifestations are closely intertwined with the venomous persecution complexes that motivate the modern far right .
“Pseudo-histories feed the self-importance and aggrievement of neo-Nazis and alt-right folk,” says Benjamin Radford, a fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry who has written widely on pseudo-history and claims of paranormal activity. “They feel their rightful place in the world has been denied them — by‘Big Archeology’, byJews, by an oppressive government.”
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The Nazi Connection
The basic tenets of alt-archeology and alt-history were foundational to the ideology and program of National Socialism, but the Nazis did not invent them. The Nazi belief in a pure Aryan race with a glorious ancient past and distinct genetic history was central to a transatlantic nineteenth-century occult scene (that featured a heavy German influence.) After Hitler assumed power, this belief was institutionalized in the form of the Ancestral Heritage and Teaching Society, or the Ahnenerbe, an alt-archeology research outfit founded by Heinrich Himmler and the Atlantis theorist Herman Wirth.
Under the banner of the Ahnerbe, Nazi explorers fanned out across Europe and the globe in search of relics holding (possibly supernatural) hints of ancient Aryan glory. In 1938, a team was dispatched to Iceland in search of the lost Aryan civilization of Thule, which Nazi leaders discovered in an Icelandic epic poem. Among the Nazis’ interests in Thule was the legend of a race of ancient Aryan giants. (Versions of this myth remain common among biblically focused alt-historians like Steve Quayle and L.A. Marzulli.)
Belief in these legends was possible because of the Nazis’ sharp rejection of the Enlightenment. Dismissing the science of racial diversification and the archeological record, they reveled in symbology, myths and legends of “pure” ancient kingdoms that conquered the world under its symbol, the swastika. (This, the Nazis believed, explained the symbol’s presence in both Native American and Indian art.)
The Solutreans and the Original “White Genocide”
In the U.S., the average member of the far right is likely more familiar with the modern version of Jackson’s Race of the Moundbuilders, known as the Solutreans.
The name is taken from a hypothesis first promoted in the 1930s by the American archeologist Frank Hibben, who discovered arrowheads in North America that pre-dated the earliest Native American culture known at the time, the Clovis. The arrowheads, argued Hibben, resembled those of the Solutreans, a Stone Age people who inhabited southwestern Europe. Most of the field quickly dismissed the similarity as meaningless, but Hibben found adherents among those yearning for a new and more scientifically respectable version of Jackson’s “once-powerful race.” For them, the arrowheads (and other contested findings) prove that “European” Solutreans migrated to America across the northern ice-shelf millennia before “the Mongoloids” (as Solutrean adherents are apt to describe Native Americans.)
There is a second punchline to white nationalists continuing to hold up the Solutreans as victims of a prehistoric white persecution drama: Most scholars believe the Solutreans preceded racial diversification, and their arrowheads are artifacts of a dark-skinned people not long out of North Africa.
Atlantis, Aliens & Ancient Astronauts
In 1882, a decade before the Smithsonian debunked the Race of the Moundbuilders, a Minnesota Congressman and writer named Ignatius Loyola Donnelly published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. The book provided another and more elaborate theory of an Aryan-looking super civilization that diffused technology to the rest of the world. Donnell’s book, based on mentions of Atlantis by Plato, cut the template for the sci-fi-tinged lost white civilization theories now experiencing a revival on cable television and beyond.
But just as Atlantis theory gained traction following the debunking of the Moundbuilders, so have theories of ancient Aryan astronauts superseded Atlantis with the mapping of the oceans and their floors.
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In the 1960s and 70s, Erich von Daniken and Zecharia Sitchin put a twist on myths about Aryan visitors from a lost civilization predating the last Ice Age. These visitors to Mesoamerica didn’t come from Atlantis but from the sky. Bestsellers like von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods (seven million sold and counting) popularized the idea that Aryan-looking aliens brought science and technology to primitive peoples around the world. In recent years, Graham Hancock has repackaged Ancient Astronaut Theory for a new generation in his bestselling Fingerprints of the Gods, and through steady work as a History Channel talking head.
Today’s far right is divided on Ancient Astronaut theory. On the one hand, it denies agency to brown-skinned peoples, and features Aryan-looking heroes, which they consider good things; but it also deprives ancient (human) Aryans of the accomplishments credited to them so lavishly in Atlantis and other theories.
Consider the case of Patrick Chouinard, a prolific writer who operates the alt-history sites RenegadeTribune.com and ancientaryans.com. (The latter site’s symbol, the Norse rune, was also the logo of the Nazi Ahnenerbe.) Like the Nazis, the sites are dedicated to recapturing a lost, pure Aryan civilization —one respectful of, but not dependent on alien life. In September, Chouinard cast a critical eye on the upcoming tenth season of the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens, in an article titled “Are Ancient Aliens Theorists Selling Our People Short?”
Chouinard believes they are. He cites an old episode of the H2’s In Search of Aliens in which the hosts, Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress (see above), explore the alleged mystery of some “elongated skulls” discovered in Peru. Chouinard scoffs at the hosts’ conclusion that the skulls belonged to aliens. Rather, he argued, reconstructions “show a very Nordic facial structure with [a] huge cranium.” This could be proof, furthermore, of “a separate branch of the White race the went along its own evolutionary path over 5,000 years ago.”
And who, you might wonder, does Chouinard believe is behind the Ancient Alien Theory that is “selling his people short”?
“The Jews,” writes Chouinard, “are using … the ancient alien camp to confound our race to the point that we deny our own accomplishments. The White race did not need ancient aliens to build our ancient civilizations, or to found other civilizations in remote corners of the Earth. Our race is capable of so much more.”
In 2018, it is dangerous in alt-ancient history circles to completely discount Ancient Aliens. Chouinard knows this. Rather than risk alienating his readers, he concedes, “It is very possible that visitations from extraterrestrials did happen in ancient times, [but] I will not conclude that the majority of our accomplishments as a race can be attributed to extraterrestrials.”
UFOs & “Refracted” Anti-Semitism
Massive and hopelessly intricate cover-ups. Nefarious alien races with gnomish physical features. Tales of secret Nazi super-technologies. It was always inevitable that the UFO and far right scenes would end up in bed together. UFO culture cast a shadow over everything in the postwar years, and as noted above, the far right has never been a stranger to the supernatural.
In Culture of Conspiracy, the historian Michael Barkun locates the early 1990s as the decade this convergence accelerated. Books like William Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horse and journals published by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn described UFO conspiracies that fit snugly into the New World Order conspiracy template, heavily influencing that decade’s militia movement. (Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was reportedly a fan of Cooper’s radio show.)
But the seeds of this union are much deeper in the postwar record. One of the most important early UFO writers in the early 1950s, William Dudley Pelly, was an American occultist and fascist; his most important disciple, George Hunt Williamson, produced Byzantine UFO theories that incorporated anti-Semitic themes. Williamson’s 1958 book, UFOsConfidential, claimed every government on earth was under the control of a handful of (mostly Jewish) “international bankers,” which for some reason the author believed included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.
Pelley and Williamson’s successors are not always or even often so blatantly anti-Semitic. But the fingerprints of anti-Semites are visible in the works of influential modern UFO writers like Jim Marrs and Jim Keith. These fingerprints appear in what Barkun calls “refracted racism and anti-Semitism,” in which old tropes are repackaged as an episode of the X‑Files. This repackaging often includes not very subtle distinctions between “benevolent” aliens (tall, Aryan-looking) and “malevolent” aliens (short, grotesque, often in league with “international bankers”).
More than anyone else, the British conspiracist David Icke has popularized the Alien version of New World Order conspiracy. The former sportscaster’s elaborate theory is the Sgt. Peppers album-cover of the genre, featuring the Masons, the Vatican, the Illuminati, the House of Windsor —everyone is there. At the center of the theory is an alien race of lizard people from the fifth-dimension. Though Icke has always denied trafficking in anti-Semitism, he has endorsed the Protocols of the Elders of Zion —the famous forgery and foundational text of modern anti-Semitism —choosing to call it “The Illuminati Protocols.”
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Hollow Earth, Secret Nazi Labs & the South Pole
Another inevitable development in postwar conspiracy subculture was the rise of a belief in secret Nazi bases underneath Antarctica. The idea of a “hollow” or “inner” earth was a key tenet of nineteenth-century occultism, and in the postwar years it reemerged as a setting for escaped Nazi scientists working in secret technology and weapons labs.
The legend took root during the mid-1970s, nurtured by the Canadian neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel, who argued that Nazis invented flying saucers and had taken their breakthrough technology to bases deep under the South Pole.
The Third Reich was interested in a possible base at the South Pole, and a few high-level Nazis did escape to Argentina, whose national territory includes a slice of Antarctica extending to the South Pole. Zundel and his successors have infused these facts with Victorian inner-earth legends, and then marinated them over multiple viewings of the 1968 B‑flick, They Saved Hitler’s Brain. Versions of the theory remain popular on neo-Nazi alt-history sites, and in recent years British tabloids like the Mirror and Daily Star have found click-bait gold in spreading them.
The story’s persistence led Colin Summerhayes of Cambridge University’s Polar Research Institute to look into the matter. In a 2006 edition of The Polar Record, Summerhayes presented his heavily footnoted and researched conclusion that secret Nazi bases do not exist, and have never existed, on or below Antarctica.
As exhaustive as it was, it is unlikely Summerhayes’ study had much impact among the theory’s adherents. It was, after all, competing with an ever expanding glut of “hidden history” books, podcasts and websites. One of many such titles to appear that year was SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazi’s Incredible Secret Technology, penned by Joseph P. Farrell, a prolific alt-historian and regular on Red Ice Radio.
4. And that SPLC report from back in 2018 brings us to the following story that has received quite a bit of coverage in recent weeks. The kind of story that has advocates of both ‘ancient astronauts’ as well as ‘long lost advanced civilizations’ tittering with excitement: a pair of Italian researchers claim to have discovered a vast underground city beneath the pyramids of Giza. So vast is this previously undiscovered underground complex that a number of researchers are treating it like a paradigm-shattering discovery that should force a reinterpretation of the history of the Pyramids. That’s the narrative getting mainstream treatment in publications like The Daily Mail. Ancient non-advance people could not have built these vast structures. Only a lost advanced civilization could have done it. Or aliens:
They were not, so the polemic went, the work of ‘puny’ man, but instead those ‘giants of Mars’.
Yes, the Pyramids of Giza – those monuments to god-like splendour that have stood for more than 4,000 years – were built by aliens.
That was the ‘claim’ made by American astronomer Garrett P. Serviss in his 1898 book Edison’s Conquest of Mars.
Perceptive readers will have noted that Serviss’s work – an unauthorised re-write of HG Wells’ 1897 alien invasion novel The War of the Worlds – was fictional.
But it did popularise a theory that, even in more recent years, has continued to find traction.
In 2020, billionaire Tesla boss Elon Musk drew the scorn of experts when he took to Twitter – the social network that he bought in 2022 for $44billion – to write: ‘Aliens built the pyramids obv’.
Now, the discovery this month that an ‘underground city’ lies in a ‘hidden world’ beneath Egypt’s most famous pyramids has again focused attention on the structures that have obsessed experts and amateurs alike for millennia.
Just what could the vast network, which descends more than a mile into the sands, have been used for?
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The largest of the three pyramids at Giza – the Great Pyramid – was built more than 4,500 years ago in around 2560BC for King Khufu, who was the second pharaoh of Ancient Egypt’s fourth dynasty.
Until the completion of Lincoln Cathedral in the 14th century, it was the tallest building in the world.
The pyramid, which was topped with a gold or electrum capping stone, was built as a sacred tomb for Khufu, who believed himself to be divine.
The other two pyramids, built for pharaohs Menkaure and Khafre, were constructed decades later.
The notion that the structures were built by or with the help of aliens gained further traction with Swiss author Erich von Däniken’s influential 1968 book Chariots of the Gods.
He argued that Giza’s Great Pyramid could not have been built without the help of advanced alien technology.
The author wrote: ‘If we meekly accept the neat package of knowledge that the Egyptologists serve up to us, ancient Egypt appears suddenly and without transition with a fantastic ready-made civilization.
‘Great cities and enormous temples, colossal status with tremendous expressive power, splendid streets flanked by magnificent sculptures, perfect drainage systems, luxurious tombs carved out of the rock, pyramids of overwhelming size – these and many other wonderful things shot out of the ground, so to speak.
‘Genuine miracles in a country that is suddenly capable of such achievements without recognizable prehistory!’
He added: ‘An artificial mountain, some 490 feet high and weighing 6,500,000 tons, stands there as evidence of an incredible achievement, and this monument is supposed to be nothing more than the burial place of an extravagant king!
‘Anyone who can believe that explanation is welcome to it…’
The late Belgian author Philip Coppens was similarly forthright in his 2011 book The Ancient Alien Question.
He said in one passage: ‘If aliens built the Great Pyramid, then it needs to be argued that they were also responsible for at least some of the other pyramids in ancient Egypt.’
But experts have rubbished any notion that beings from other planets might have been involved in the construction of the pyramids.
Speaking on the BBC’s History Extra podcast, British Egyptologist Professor Joyce Tyldesley said: ‘It’s almost almost sort of a bit like a form of racism, isn’t it, that these people couldn’t do it, so someone else must have done it.’
‘But I think there’s a bit more to it than that. Because prior to the idea of aliens helping build the pyramids, we had the idea that maybe people from Atlantis might have helped build the pyramids, and prior to that, we had the idea that God inspired builders to use the pyramid inch, a divinely inspired measurement to build the pyramids.
‘So I think it’s that there’s always been a long succession of theories about how the pyramids might have been built, and as one is sort of superseded by the other.
‘So it doesn’t just come out of nowhere. I think it’s a sort of changing and evolving belief as how the pyramids might have been built, and that’s just the latest one that we have.
‘As we become more interested in space and aliens, then they’ve sort of been attached to this theory as well.’
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The Great Pyramid was supposedly completed in 24 years.
But it was built from 2.3million limestone blocks, with each one weighing between 2.5tons 70 tons.
British writer Graham Hancock noted: ‘Assuming the masons worked ten hours a day, 365 days a year, they would have needed to place one block every two minutes.’
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The latest discovery that cavernous spaces exist beneath the pyramids was made by researchers from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and the Italian University of Pisa.
‘When we magnify the images we will reveal that beneath it lies what can only be described as a true underground city… an entire hidden world of many structures,’ said Corrado Malanga, one of the archaeological researchers.
It remains a mystery how much older than the pyramids the structures are.
It is also unknown was their purpose is, but they are connected by geometric passages.
Even more spectacular are eight vertical columns that descend 2,1245feet into a pair of huge chambers.
The depth is is almost five times the height of the Khafre Pyramid.
The cylinders are aligned in two rows of four that run north to south.
Given that the edges of the Great Pyramids face exactly north, south, east and west, the arrangements of the cylinders is certain to be significant.
And around each pillar is a staircase-like walkway.
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5.And that Daily Mail report from March 30 brings us to the following Daily Mail report from 8 days earlier. A report that includes some rather important details regarding the veracity of these findings. Details left out of the March 30 report entirely: the study hasn’t been peer reviewed and experts have already debunked it:
“The bombshell theory – which many experts claim to have already debunked – comes from a study that used radar pulses to create high-resolution images deep into the ground beneath the structures, the same way sonar radar is used to map the depths of the ocean.”
A bombshell theory…that happens to have already been debunked by experts. It’s a rather important detail in this story. A detail the Daily Mail decided to include in this March 22 version of that story but left out of the above March 30 version entirely. No mention at all of all the problems with this ‘groundbreaking research’. That’s part of the context of this story of the amazing discovery beneath the pyramids. The Daily Mail went from promoting this story – while at least including some expert caveats – to just promoting it without the caveats. So when we see how Joe Rogan has been promoting the idea that the pyramids are some sort of ancient hydrogen-generating power plant or other ‘experts’ suggest it’s all evidence of a “pre-flood era civilisation that was flourishing in a way that we can scarcely comprehend”, keep in mind how the public at large is being ‘informed’ about these ‘alternative histories’ from a variety of difference sources. Between online news like the Daily Mail or podcasters like Joe Rogan, the mainstreaming of the ‘ancient aliens’ meme has gone well being the History Channel. Learning that one of the two researchers, Corrado Malanga, is a UFOlogist and has appeared on YouTube shows about aliens is kind of what we should expect at this point:
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American podcaster Joe Rogan has now weighed in on the ‘mind-blowing’ development, calling it ‘very very very weird’.
Rogan said: ‘This is insane. It’s quite stunning. They don’t understand what it is but it’s a uniform structure. There are several pillars and all of this is very very very weird.
‘It’s really crazy.’
He added: ‘Christopher Dunne believes that the Pyramid of Giza is a big power plant.
‘He has a theory about why its built the way its built.
‘He thinks it coincides with the ability to produce hydrogen, to utilise the rays of space and to generate electricity through this.’
Researcher Jay Anderson added: ‘What has just been announced in relation to the pyramids at the Giza plateau and the plateau itself is so incredible, so awe-inspiring and narrative shattering that I’ve been sitting here for the last hour trying to wrap my heard around the implications of what we were just told.
‘It’s nothing short of mindblowing. What’s been discovered is that there are huge structures coming down from the base of the pyramid deep into the bedrock.
‘It then connects to massive internal structures deep deep down.
‘The pyramid itself was already a massive red flag in the ancient Egyptian historical narrative but now, with this discovery, I think it’s impossible to say that the Egyptians we’ve been taught about built these structures.
‘It provides the most extraordinary evidence for a pre-flood era civilisation that was flourishing in a way that we can scarcely comprehend.’
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Malanga is a UFOlogist and has appeared on YouTube shows about aliens, where he has discussed his more than decade-long career of studying UFO sightings in Italy.
Biondi, on the other hand specializes radar technology.
Malanga and Biondi’s published a separate peer-reviewed paper in October 2022 in the scientific journal Remote Sensing which found hidden rooms and ramps inside Khafre, along with evidence of a thermal anomaly near the pyramid’s base.
The new study used similar technology, but got a boost from a satellite orbiting Earth.
The new radar technique works by combining satellite radar data with tiny vibrations from naturally-occurring seismic movements, to construct 3D images of what lies beneath the surface of the earth, without doing any physical digging.
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Sadly, instead, it appears that the researchers behind this bombshell report are engaging in a “huge exaggeration” at best, making claims that simply aren’t possible given the technology. And then there’s the proprietary data analysis software that doesn’t lend itself to peer review. How convenient:
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The paper, which has not been peer-reviewed by independent experts, found eight vertical cylinder-shaped structures extending more than 2,100 feet below the pyramid and more unknown structures 4,000 feet deeper.
A press release described the findings as ‘groundbreaking’ and if true could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt.
However, independent experts have raised serious concerns about the study.
Professor Lawrence Conyers, a radar expert at the University of Denver who focuses on archaeology, told DailyMail.com that it is not possible for the technology to penetrate that deeply into the ground, making the idea of an underground city ‘a huge exaggeration.’
Professor Conyers said it is conceivable there are small structures, such as shafts and chambers, beneath the pyramids that existed before they were built because the site was ‘special to ancient people.’
He highlighted how ‘the Mayans and other people in ancient Mesoamerica often built pyramids on top of the entrances of caves or caverns that had ceremonial meaning to them.’
The work by Corrado Malanga, from Italy’s University of Pisa, and Filippo Biondi with the University of Strathclyde in Scotland has only been released during an in-person briefing in Italy this week and is yet to be published in a scientific journal, where it would need to be analyzed by independent experts.
Despite the scepticism, Professor Conyers added that the only way to prove the discoveries to be true would be ‘targeted excavations.’
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He also told DailyMail.com that he could not tell if the technology used actually picked up hidden structure below the pyramid.
‘They are using all kinds of fancy proprietary data analysis software,’ said Professor Conyers.
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Finally, note the member of congress who decided to share their interest in the alleged findings: Anna Paulina Luna, the same member of congress who has taken the lead in the disclosure of state secrets surrounding events like the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and UFOs. Again, how convenient:
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The news has gone viral this week, with X flooded with posts about the potential discovery.
Florida congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna shared a post about the structures on her X page.
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It’s kind of amazing that we aren’t getting more reports of members of Congress touting this story. Unfounded claims of ancient aliens and lost civilizations are weirdly on brand for the second Trump administration. How long before we get a congressional hearing on the horrors of Critical Race Theory wiping away the proud history of the Aryan Mound Builders? It’s just a matter of time at this point. It’s the actual credible evidence for the Aryan Mound Builders that we’ll have to keep waiting for.
“The bombshell theory – which many experts claim to have already debunked – comes from a study that used radar pulses to create high-resolution images deep into the ground beneath the structures, the same way sonar radar is used to map the depths of the ocean.”
The ‘groundbreaking’ discovery beneath the Egyptian pyramids has taken the world by storm and new theories have emerged to cast doubt on how the structures were built.
Researchers from Italy and Scotland claim to have uncovered ‘a vast underground city’ which stretches more than 6,500 feet directly underneath the Pyramids of Giza, making them 10 times larger than the pyramids themselves.
The bombshell theory – which many experts claim to have already debunked – comes from a study that used radar pulses to create high-resolution images deep into the ground beneath the structures, the same way sonar radar is used to map the depths of the ocean.
American podcaster Joe Rogan has now weighed in on the ‘mind-blowing’ development, calling it ‘very very very weird’.
Rogan said: ‘This is insane. It’s quite stunning. They don’t understand what it is but it’s a uniform structure. There are several pillars and all of this is very very very weird.
‘It’s really crazy.’
He added: ‘Christopher Dunne believes that the Pyramid of Giza is a big power plant.
‘He has a theory about why its built the way its built.
‘He thinks it coincides with the ability to produce hydrogen, to utilise the rays of space and to generate electricity through this.’
Researcher Jay Anderson added: ‘What has just been announced in relation to the pyramids at the Giza plateau and the plateau itself is so incredible, so awe-inspiring and narrative shattering that I’ve been sitting here for the last hour trying to wrap my heard around the implications of what we were just told.
‘It’s nothing short of mindblowing. What’s been discovered is that there are huge structures coming down from the base of the pyramid deep into the bedrock.
‘It then connects to massive internal structures deep deep down.
‘The pyramid itself was already a massive red flag in the ancient Egyptian historical narrative but now, with this discovery, I think it’s impossible to say that the Egyptians we’ve been taught about built these structures.
‘It provides the most extraordinary evidence for a pre-flood era civilisation that was flourishing in a way that we can scarcely comprehend.’
The paper, which has not been peer-reviewed by independent experts, found eight vertical cylinder-shaped structures extending more than 2,100 feet below the pyramid and more unknown structures 4,000 feet deeper.
A press release described the findings as ‘groundbreaking’ and if true could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt.
However, independent experts have raised serious concerns about the study.
Professor Lawrence Conyers, a radar expert at the University of Denver who focuses on archaeology, told DailyMail.com that it is not possible for the technology to penetrate that deeply into the ground, making the idea of an underground city ‘a huge exaggeration.’
Professor Conyers said it is conceivable there are small structures, such as shafts and chambers, beneath the pyramids that existed before they were built because the site was ‘special to ancient people.’
He highlighted how ‘the Mayans and other people in ancient Mesoamerica often built pyramids on top of the entrances of caves or caverns that had ceremonial meaning to them.’
The work by Corrado Malanga, from Italy’s University of Pisa, and Filippo Biondi with the University of Strathclyde in Scotland has only been released during an in-person briefing in Italy this week and is yet to be published in a scientific journal, where it would need to be analyzed by independent experts.
Despite the scepticism, Professor Conyers added that the only way to prove the discoveries to be true would be ‘targeted excavations.’
‘My take is that as long as authors are not making things up and that their basic methods are correct, their interpretations should be given a look by all who care about the site,’ he explained.
‘We can quibble about interpretations, and that is called science. But the basic methods need to be solid.’
He also told DailyMail.com that he could not tell if the technology used actually picked up hidden structure below the pyramid.
‘They are using all kinds of fancy proprietary data analysis software,’ said Professor Conyers.
…
Malanga is a UFOlogist and has appeared on YouTube shows about aliens, where he has discussed his more than decade-long career of studying UFO sightings in Italy.
Biondi, on the other hand specializes radar technology.
Malanga and Biondi’s published a separate peer-reviewed paper in October 2022 in the scientific journal Remote Sensing which found hidden rooms and ramps inside Khafre, along with evidence of a thermal anomaly near the pyramid’s base.
The new study used similar technology, but got a boost from a satellite orbiting Earth.
The new radar technique works by combining satellite radar data with tiny vibrations from naturally-occurring seismic movements, to construct 3D images of what lies beneath the surface of the earth, without doing any physical digging.
Nicole Ciccolo, the project’s spokesperson, said: ‘A vast underground city has been discovered beneath the pyramids,’
‘[The] groundbreaking study has redefined the boundaries of satellite data analysis and archaeological exploration.’
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The cylinder-shaped structures, which Ciccolo referred to as ‘shafts,’ were arranged in two parallel rows and surrounded by descending spiral pathways.
Ciccolo said the cylinder structures were found underneath each of the three pyramids and appeared ‘to serve as access points to this underground system.’
The team explained the system as other chamber-like structures interconnecting under all three of the pyramids.
‘The existence of vast chambers beneath the earth’s surface, comparable in size to the pyramids themselves, which have a remarkably strong correlation between the legendary Halls of Amenti,’ Ciccolo said.
‘These new archaeological findings could redefine our understanding of the sacred topography of ancient Egypt, providing spatial coordinates for previously unknown and unexplored subterranean structures,’ she added.
The news has gone viral this week, with X flooded with posts about the potential discovery.
Florida congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna shared a post about the structures on her X page.
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Banking with Bin Laden
Good afternoon, Mr. Every, I’ve been following your work since then, and I find the topics you’ve covered interesting. I’ll get straight to the point. I’ve certainly heard or read the work of Polish journalist and researcher Igor Witkowski on UFOs and their relationship with the Third Reich, and on the so-called Die Glocke.
Have you considered writing or analyzing what this person has said in recent years? Without going into too much detail, what is your opinion of the work Joseph P. Farrell has done on the subject of the Nazis?
Sincerely, Chris.
@Chris–
My name is spelled “E‑M-O-R‑Y,” not “E‑V-E-R‑Y.”
Cordially,
Dave Emory
The intellectual degradation of the American public is hardly a new phenomena, going back to the popularization of television at the very least. But that doesn’t mean it can’t get much, much worse. Faster than many suspect possible. Which brings us to the following Talking Points Memo report about a new development in the intellectual degradation of the US populace that could prove to be particularly damaging should we experience some sort of ‘UFO event’ in coming years:
President Trump’s media company has a new streaming platform, Truth+, one of the various entities along with the Truth Social social media platform that has been developed by Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), an entity majority owned by Trump himself. The streaming entity was formed in 2024 with an investment by Republican mega-donor James E. Davison in a move that had many experts concerned about the undue influence such an arrangement creates for Davison. But as we’re going to see, the concerns about undue influence should go far beyond concerns over whether or not a Republican mega-donor has inappropriate access to the US president. Because it turns out Truth+ has become a source of some highly concerning influence over its audience. Specifically, the influence what appears to be a flood of ‘documentaries’ on Truth+ asserting ancient alien manipulations of humanity. Alien manipulations that include not just an alien hand behind major religions — with the Judeochristian God and Hindu Krisha possibly aliens themselves — but the alien creation of humanity itself. Yep, the aliens are our gods. Or at least that’s what these ‘documentaries’ suggest the evidence points towards.
But not necessarily nice gods. These ‘documentaries’ don’t exactly paint this alien influence on humanity as some sort of benign or positive influence. No, the aliens appear to have some sort of very sinister agenda, which includes a “blood lab” in New Mexico that operates as part of a secret US government agenda to both keep the reality of UFOs hidden while providing the aliens with blood they can consume. Other projects at these labs include “deliberate production of utterly abominable results such as ape-human embryos and other ungodly biological combinations.” The ‘documentary’ “Lizard People” portrays the aliens as some sort of reptilian race, in keeping with the ‘reptilian shape-shifters’ narrative that has long defined much of the “Illuminati” lore popularized by figures like David Icke. “Lizard People” was consistently on the “10 most watch” list for Truth+ during the week prior to the publication of the TPM piece.
The documentaries appear to be almost entirely the creation of one particular production company: Alchemy Werks LLC. In producer of these ‘documentaries’, Charles Thompsen, has produced over a dozen such films since 2022. “I don’t know how you could take ‘Lizard People’ seriously, honestly,” claimed Thompsen, who went on to compare them to “Dungeons and Dragons” and other fantasy entertainment. And, in fact, these films don’t exclusively show up on Truth+. They appear on multiple streaming platforms. But it only seems to be Truth+ that labels them as “documentaries” and not “sci-fi” or “fantasy”. Amusingly, Thompsen told TPM he would contact Truth+ about the “documentary” label they gave two of the most notorious films he produced, “Lizard People” and “Conspiracy Chronicles: Dark Underworld”. It appears the latter got shifted to a “sci-fi” category on Truth+ while the former is still a “documentary”.
The piece also contains an interesting historical detail that might relate to the obsession that animated Elon Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, along with Elon’s own interests in the alien origins of the pyramids. As we’ve seen, Haldeman was obsessed with discovering evidence of ancient civilizations (of non-black people ) in Africa, having been convinced that such a discovery would serve as a historical justification for the South African apartheid government. Well, according to researcher Logan Strain, the popularization of the ‘lizard people’ ancient civilization concept took off in the 1940s after a cult leader, Maurice Doreal, read a fictional story about lizard people by Robert E. Howard, the author of the Conan the Barbarian series. Doreal went on to author a pamphlet entitled The Mysteries of Gobi that described a civilization of ancient lizard people beneath the desert.
So has President Trump taken any steps to address the many problems associated with owning a streaming platform that mislabels lizard alien conspiracy movies as ‘documentaries’? LOL, of course not. Or at least he hasn’t taken any meaningful steps. Instead, the president placed his majority shares of TMTG in a revocable trust managed solely by Donald Trump Jr. In addition, TMTG’s CEO and chairman happens to be Devin Nunes who serves as the current chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory board. Yes, the chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory board is the guy overseeing the promotion of lizard people ‘documentaries’.
And that’s all why we should probably expect a growing public belief in ancient alien civilizations manipulating humanity. At least the members of the public gullible enough to sign up for the streaming platform owned by the President of the United States. This is where we are:
“These ideas are easy to dismiss as utterly and obviously ridiculous. However, they have a history of attracting troubled believers on the furthest conspiracy fringe. And, while these movies are available on other streaming platforms, in this case the sitting president’s nascent media empire is playing a role in the promotion of this extreme content. Trump’s streaming service also seems to have helped it to find an audience. On Monday and through much of last week, “Lizard People” was listed among the top 10 “most watched” programs on the streaming service.”
This isn’t just a story about a “Lizard People” movie being showcased on President Trump’s “Truth+” streaming platform. It’s about multiple such movies being labeled as ‘documentaries’ and ending up among the ‘most watched’ videos on the platform. ‘Documentaries’ arguing that lizard aliens have been shaping human civilization for thousands of years and continue to do so to this day, even using the power of time travel. These lizard aliens may have even created humanity themselves:
And as these ‘documentaries’ warn audiences, it’s not just that aliens have been secretly manipulating, even starting, humanity. The Judeochristian God and other religious leaders including the Hindu deity Krishna may have even been aliens themselves:
And while ‘Lizard people’ narrative has obvious anti-Semitic undertones along the lines of David Icke, note how it also lends itself to attacks on the Catholic Church. And presumably any other religion if the aliens have been secretly controlling humanity for millennia. Which is a reminder that any upcoming ‘UFO visitations’ could be used for both a ‘World Peace’ kind of new religious event but also some kind of horrific sectarian war:
But this narrative doesn’t just merge religions with UFO-ology. There’s even a kind of vampire UFO angle, with discussion of “blood labs” where blood is generated for the aliens’ consumption. It’s a particularly QAnon-friendly version of this narrative:
And then there’s this interesting historical tidbit about the origins and popularization of the ‘lizard people’ concept, while many of these concepts go back to Madam Blavatsky, it was in the 1940s when a cult leader, Maurice Doreal, read science fiction story about lizard people that inspired him to make the claim that an ancient race of lizard people created a lost civilization beneath the Gobi desert. It’s the kind of story that has obvious parallels with both the ‘lost African civilization’ narratives that so deeply influence Elon Musk’s grandfather Joshua Haldeman and also Musk’s own suggestions that aliens built the pyramids. Which raises the grimly fascinating questions as to whether or not Musk’s grandfather was a fan of the lizard people stories. He certainly would have been the target audience:
And it’s not like President Trump just owns a small minority stake in the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG). He’s the majority owner. And while that ownership was placed in a revocable trust, that trust is solely managed by Don Jr. And TMTG’s CEO and chairman is Devin Nunes, the current chair of Trump’s intelligence advisory board. And, oh look at that, it turns out the valuation for this company dwarfs its revenues. It’s like a Trump family/administration joint conflict of interest:
And then we get to the explanation from the company that actually produces all of these ‘documentaries’, Alchemy Werks LLC. According to Charles Thompsen — who has produced over a dozen such films since 2022 — it’s all merely intended to be fantasy entertainment and should have been marked as “sci-fi/fantasy”. It was only after TPM approached Thompsen that one of the films, “Conspiracy Chronicles: Dark Underworld”, was switched from “documentary” to “sci-fi” on TMTG. “Lizard People: Rulers of Time and Space” is still identified as a “documentary”:
And as we’ve seen, it’s not like the mainstreaming of this kind of material is just taking place on a media platform own by the President of the United States. This kind of ‘ancient aliens’ narrative has been aggressively promoted on outlets like the History Channel for years. Beyond that, you can find these same videos on other platforms like Amazon Prime. But, again, none of those platforms are majority owned by the sitting president. A president with a political following that often takes on a religious fervor. What kind of long-term cultural impact is Truth+ creating here? Because odds are the audiences gullible enough to treat these movies as ‘documentaries’ probably aren’t going to suddenly ‘snap out of it’ when Trump leaves office:
And keep in mind that this phenomena of a streaming platform owned by the President pumping out far right alien conspiracy ‘documentaries’ has really just gotten started. Truth+ is less than a year old. The golden age of far right conspiracy narratives is only gaining momentum. Gullible revisionism is the theme of the day. The fact that the person ultimately behind this happens to be the most openly corrupt US President in history known for spinning his way out of any and all controversy through a string of lies on nonsense is, sadly, very much in keeping with that theme.