Pardon me for yawning.
Julian Assange and Wikileaks, dutifully serving the Obama administration’s goal of embarrassing the president’s most serious Democratic presidential rival, Hillary Clinton, has said that he will release UFO-related documents found in his government cache of illegally obtained documents. Another yawn.
Here’s my prediction (putting my Great Karnak hat on … there it is). The secret documents will reveal:
1. That there have been UFO reports (old news there; check).
2. That the government has shown an interest in some of those reports and sought to identify the UFO (old news there; check).
3. That certain government and military officials don’t know what some of the UFOs are (old news there; check).
In a nutshell, these documents will sound like all the other ones. Now for some small-c conspiracy thoughts.
I wonder how we can tell if they are authentic? Think about it. Can we really trust Wikileaks? Are they agenda-less? (I’m chuckling now, not yawning). Further, who could possibly verify that Assange or anyone else down the chain have not altered them? Is the government going to step in and say, “well, that’s right, except for this line in this paragraph; we deny that.” They could, but could we trust them?
This is, frankly speaking, the inescapable world of ufology. Anyone can (and will) say anything to cast suspicion (and it’s to be taken seriously since it has such a poor — or good — record of disinformation).
Breaking report from Wikileaks: “The Sky Is Blue”
http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2010/12/breaking-report-from-wikileaks-sky-is.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+redactedNews+%28un%5Bredacted%5D+news%29
funny!
I think you are correct about the yawn factor. From the UK Guardian online chat (yep, that’s the source of all this), it didn’t seem like Assange was selling disclosure very much at all. Here’s his complete statement:
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[Q.] Mr Assange, have there ever been documents forwarded to you which deal with the topic of UFOs or extraterrestrials?
Julian Assange:
Many weirdos email us about UFOs or how they discovered that they were the anti-christ whilst talking with their ex-wife at a garden party over a pot-plant. However, as yet they have not satisfied two of our publishing rules.
1) that the documents not be self-authored;
2) that they be original.
However, it is worth noting that in yet-to-be-published parts of the cablegate archive there are indeed references to UFOs.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-wikileaks
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The online community and the press has made way more of this than the statement warrants, I think.
> Can we really trust Wikileaks?
It’s jumping the gun to worry about Assange having a UFO agenda. I would start with the basics of journalism: what is the agenda of the supplier of the documents? Douglas Feith and British intelligence taught us how information can be cherry-picked to make a dodgy dossier — and how the uninformed will uncritically accept it.
The chat quoted suggests Assange will be very suspicious about UFO documents, but does he have the background to sort out if a UFO file is complete and the documents genuine? Doubt it.
PS. I hope that Breibart link was put in as a joke!
Couldn’t someone say the same “yawn boring look at that BS” about your ufo site? Not of a wikileaks fanboy, but it is hard to throw stones in a glass house.
sure – and the same goes for your comment.