Popping Your China-Likud Balloons With Some Facts About American Space Lasers and Satellites: Surveillance and the Skies Since the 1930s
Popping Your China-Likud Balloons With Some Facts About American Space Lasers and Satellites: Surveillance and the Skies Since the 1930s
A symbolic and stupid politics limits our ability to see what's really going on between fascism and the UFOs
“Not gonna lie. First, I thought this was a #ufo. Then, I thought it was Elon Musk in a Wizard of Oz cosplay scenario. But it was just a run-of-the mill Chinese spy balloon!” — Chase Doak, amateur photographer.
Before we get to the balloons that are seemingly just now becoming more mainstream in our discussion a little is needed by way of disclosure: I am a major investor in satellite technology.
The best way to think about the Chinese balloons was expressed by my erstwhile friend and George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum who wondered loudly about our capabilities.
Frum once bet me that Trump wouldn’t win—and then didn’t pay up — and acted as if we didn’t know each other. OK, whatever. But on this point he’s not wrong.
The Chinese have way overinvested in balloons and drones precisely because the United States is so dominant. Years ago I called on Congressman Matt Gaetz, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, to ban DJI drones from being given to American law enforcement. Gaetz did that—only to be targeted by Attorney General Bill Barr, whose Chinese-Israeli connections are legion.
The United States of America is way, way ahead of any nation when it comes to spying infrastructure and we have recently blocked out by the Israelis and the Chinese from our the satellite infrastructure. I worked on this effort and a report I did was presented in the early days of the Biden Administration. You’re welcome.
I think this development has been all to the good and that it may well be helpful for maintaining international agreements. I think there’s a direct trade-off between these two charts below and I think this phenomenon of cameras to law enforcement is pretty true of American law enforcement too — if we dared to techify the police.
And given that many of these satellites aren’t just taking pictures we might even ask if they could be called American space lasers, albeit quietly.
I more or less agree with that sage Whoopi Goldberg, who said on the View, "we spy on them. They spy on us. We find out stuff. They find out stuff. You know and the world keeps going around.”
Yes, it does, Whoopi, and there are lots of satellites overhead. Whoopee!
What’s more interesting to me is the obsession with creating another Sputnik moment in the United States and who might be pushing it and who might be profiting from it.
We’ve discussed at some length the various Likud/Chisraeli spies in America operating and polluting our national discourse. What these types seemingly all have in common is an obsession with UFOs. Why?
Could it because they want us to continue blowing money on planes which don’t really work and which are awfully expensive to operate in any case?
Consider that there’s been just such an op recently with the second Top Gun film, produced by nepo baby David Ellison, alongside his Chinese partners Tencent. Naturally David is the son of Larry Ellison, Likud billionaire, Twitter investor and #StopTheSteal supporter. The elder Ellison even offered Netanyahu a job working for Oracle. There’s also a weird subplot here where the Israeli deep state is suing Ellison over the film rights.
One of the more prominent discussers of the UFO matter is Likud spy Eric Weinstein on whose podcast receives advertising dollars from none other than Oracle.
We might even notice that the Israeli psyop QAnon has merged with UFOlogy as these two Vice headlines make clear.
Q Anon was, of course, implicated in trying to overthrow the United States on January 6th — which is about as anti-American as you can get.
So might we ask is the obsession with UFOs anti-American? Or is it simply part of a larger obsessive strand in our nerdocracy?
On some level it’s perfectly normal to be curious about what’s going on in the military industrial complex.
Well consider what the new plane — the B-21 raider — released by the U.S. military looks like.
Kind of looks like a flying saucer doesn’t it?
And naturally the CIA’s having admitted that it lied about a lot of UFO sightings lends credence to the notion that the government can’t quite be trusted.
Let’s quote the New York Times from 1997:
In the darkest days of the cold war, the military lied to the American public about the true nature of many unidentified flying objects in an effort to hide its growing fleets of spy planes, a Central Intelligence Agency study says.
The deceptions were made in the 1950's and 1960's amid a wave of U.F.O. sightings that alarmed the public and parts of official Washington.
The C.I.A. study says the Air Force knew that most reports by citizens and aviation experts were based on fleeting glimpses of U-2 and SR-71 spy planes, which fly extremely high.
And that’s before we even talk about the strange case of Mr. Paul Bennewitz who was seemingly screwed with by undercover government agents and driven mad.
You can read all about it in Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth (2005), which is summarized here.
In 1978, Paul Bennewitz, an electrical physicist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, became convinced that the strange lights he saw hovering in the night sky were extraterrestrial. He reached out to newspapers, senators, and even the president before anyone responded. Air Force investigators listened to his story, as did Bill Moore, the author of the first book on the infamous Roswell UFO incident.
Unbeknownst to Bennewitz, Moore was hired by a group of intelligence agents to keep tabs on Bennewitz while the Air Force ran a psychological profile and disinformation campaign on the unsuspecting physicist. In return, Air Force Intelligence would let Moore in on classified UFO material.
What follows is a scandalous true tale of disinformation, corruption, and exploitation, all at the hands of the United States intelligence community.
Big if true, as they say, but not exactly wrong either. Could it be that U.S. intelligence investigated a lot of UFO sightings just to see what material was leaking out about our capabilities?
Note that Bennewitz is seemingly an electrical physicist though his training was apparently autodidactic. Bennewitz’s lineage is German which is also true of Joerg Arnu, the German-born electrical engineer and UFOlogist whose home was raided by the FBI and Air Force Intelligence. Now would you trust a weird foreigner with a background in electrical engineering that close to a military installation?
Howard Blum’s great book, Out There: The Government’s Secret Quest for Extraterrestials, details other examples of this kind of government funded inquiry. Sure maybe it’s about finding ET — or maybe it’s about noticing Russian satellites orbiting the Earth giving off strange electrical signals. Is that really why Russian-Israeli Yuri Milner gave $100 million to look for alien life?
Dual use goes both ways. The very same satellites that are patrolling the Ukrainian heavens can be used to neutralize Chinese landing craft or cartel speedboats. They can out contractors stealing building material or skimping on safety too.
When you understand how our new satellite infrastructure can make the kind of construction looting we’ve seen in Turkey impossible you get how dangerous it is to the people who brought you the Surfside condo collapse.
Never forget that Nathan Reiber worked for JINSA, the very same pro-Israel front where Larry Greenfield was gainfully employed before his sudden and unexamined death.
Is that why Governor Ron DeSantis allowed the Israelis to comb through the rubble? I wonder. Could this rather slavish video be a reason?
What most people don’t really understand is that this stuff has been going on a long time and that the selection of people who believe in UFOs by foreign intelligence is extremely important. You get a twofer when you have obsessive people focusing on the development of military technology. It’s even better when they share their discoveries online. Why send a spy when you can have an obsessive work diligently for free? For what it’s worth I’ve come to believe that much of the internet has been built by obsessives. You might be reading such a thing right now.
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There is indeed a long history of UFOlogy as even a cursory purview of the Nazi UFOs Wiki makes clear. Personally I dig this sort of stuff. I’m here for it. Into it, even. I like the idea of Wunderwaffe, or “wonder weapons” but I’m not sure I believe that they were really ever possible. With that engineering, Germany still couldn’t imagine a future that everyone would want to join.
The notion that Americans are behind on technology is a kind of psyop which plays to American anxiety that we aren’t the dominant force in world affairs. It’s wrong but it’s deeply seductive. You can see how a foreign adversary might use that anxiety to get us to do stupid things, like, say, invade Iraq or Afghanistan looking for weapons or enemies that might fell us.
But history teaches us that if we are to defeated that enemy must spring up from within us. To defeat us, he must first misinform us as to his intentions. He must make fascism look like simple patriotism.
We might look at William Dudley Pelley, who Smithsonian once described as “The Screenwriting Mystic Who Wanted to Be the American Führer.”
When Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in January 1933, an American named William Dudley Pelley believed the Führer’s rise was the fulfillment of a prophecy revealed to him by the spirit world in 1929. It was a sign, he thought, ushering in his own ascent to power, and he announced the creation of the Silver Legion, a Christian militia dedicated to the spiritual and political renewal of the United States. Jesus, Pelley reported, even dropped a line to say he approved of the plan.
Doesn't that sound like “Trust the plan”?
Another biography makes it plain the connections.
Early in the 1940s, Pelley moved from Asheville to Noblesville, Indiana after being convicted of fraud in a North Carolina court. By then his public career was nearing its end. The Special House Congressional Subcommittee on Un-American Activities had begun to investigate the Silver Shirts. Witnesses testified that the Shirts were plotting to overthrow the government. When subpoenaed, Pelley initially refused to testify. In 1940, however, he made a surprise appearance before the committee and professed his desire to become “America’s Hitler.”
Eventually, President Franklin D. Roosevelt stopped Pelley’s increasingly disturbing rhetoric. Roosevelt asked Attorney General Francis Biddle to investigate Pelley on charges of sedition and insurrection. Pelley was arrested in April 1942, tried, and found guilty on eleven charges. He was sentenced to fifteen years in a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. After being released in 1952, Pelley spent the rest of his life in Noblesville. There, he developed an elaborate religious philosophy called “Soulcraft,” based on his belief in UFOs and extraterrestrials.
Yes, that’s right William Dudley Pelley even formed a religion around his UFO obsession. You can even listen to some of his sermons from 1950.
Doesn’t he look suspiciously like Jordan Peterson, that Likud backed agent? As you know, physiognomy isn’t real. Or is it?
We might consider treating some of these purveyors of misinformation or promoters of intellectual cul de sacs in much the same way as we treated their fascist antecedents — by identifying them, by confronting them, and ultimately by jailing them.
Might I suggest that we start with Eric Weinstein?
Notice how Eric is controlling Joe Rogan? Might we think Rogan is being blackmailed?
