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Not at all, Sitchin is so good even you are confirming his theory. Your link said Earth's water came from the asteroid belt and the sun. The Enuma Elish says the sun's fresh water mingled with Tiamat's salt water and the Earth's water came from her. Sitchin got so much right books will be written.
Here is the relevant Enuma Elish part. It is the very beginning. Now, you say that the two waters were from the solar wind and the asteroid belt and a remembered tale from space aliens. IIRC Sitchin said that all the earth's waters came from the Asteroid belt as did the earth itself. There is no planetary cosmology in this story.

1 When the heavens above did not exist,
2 And earth beneath had not come into being —
3 There was Apsû, the first in order, their begetter,
4 And demiurge Tia-mat, who gave birth to them all;
5 They had mingled their waters together
6 Before meadow-land had coalesced and reed-bed was to he found —
7 When not one of the gods had been formed
8 Or had come into being, when no destinies had been decreed,
9 The gods were created within them:

The non space alien version is less dramatic: fresh water from the rivers and salt water from the ocean mingled in the tidal estuary where people lived. At one point above you suggested that the simple answer was probably best. 400,000 years of alien occupation without any trace left? or in a tidal estuary where waters do mingle and where people lived and would have seen such a thing? Please point out to me where the creation story says anything about the sun or planets? In fact, according to the story above, there were no planets or anything when the "waters mingled". Apsu is the god of fresh water and not the sun.

Commentary: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/225/enuma-elish---the-babylonian-epic-of-creation---fu/
The story, one of the oldest, if not the oldest in the world, concerns the birth of the gods and the creation of the universe and human beings. In the beginning, there was only undifferentiated water swirling in chaos. Out of this swirl, the waters divided into sweet, fresh water, known as the god Apsu, and salty bitter water, the goddess Tiamat. Once differentiated, the union of these two entities gave birth to the younger gods.

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The Babylonian epic Enuma Elish is named for its incipit: "When above" the heavens did not yet exist nor the earth below, Apsu the subterranean ocean was there, "the first, the begetter", and Tiamat, the overground sea, "she who bore them all"; they were "mixing their waters". It is thought that female deities are older than male ones in Mesopotamia and Tiamat may have begun as part of the cult of Nammu, a female principle of a watery creative force, with equally strong connections to the underworld, which predates the appearance of Ea-Enki.[11]

Harriet Crawford finds this "mixing of the waters" to be a natural feature of the middle Persian Gulf, where fresh waters from the Arabian aquifer mix and mingle with the salt waters of the sea.[12] This characteristic is especially true of the region of Bahrain, whose name in Arabic means "two seas", and which is thought to be the site of Dilmun, the original site of the Sumerian creation beliefs.[13] The difference in density of salt and fresh water drives a perceptible separation.
 
A general problem with any theory that great knowledge was encoded using metaphors, is that a text consisting of a web of metaphors becomes its own thing, where the metaphors acquire different dynamics that what they are supposed to present.

Gregor Samsa felt that he was no longer part of humanity, through allegory (a web of metaphors) becomes "Gregor Samsa woke to find himself transformed to a gigantic insect". The reader would have gotten the message more easily through the first phrase, but in art the encoding serves various purposes and certainly isn't about just hiding and preserving the original message.
 
Here is the relevant Enuma Elish part. It is the very beginning. Now, you say that the two waters were from the solar wind and the asteroid belt and a remembered tale from space aliens. IIRC Sitchin said that all the earth's waters came from the Asteroid belt as did the earth itself. There is no planetary cosmology in this story.

1 When the heavens above did not exist,
2 And earth beneath had not come into being —
3 There was Apsû, the first in order, their begetter,
4 And demiurge Tia-mat, who gave birth to them all;
5 They had mingled their waters together
6 Before meadow-land had coalesced and reed-bed was to he found —
7 When not one of the gods had been formed
8 Or had come into being, when no destinies had been decreed,
9 The gods were created within them:
10 Lah(mu and Lah(amu were formed and came into being.
11 While they grew and increased in stature
12 Anšar and Kišar, who excelled them, were created.
13 They prolonged their days, they multiplied their years.
14 Anu, their son, could rival his fathers.
15 Anu, the son, equalled Anšar,
16 And Anu begat Nudimmud, his own equal.
17 Nudimmud was the champion among his fathers:
18 Profoundly discerning, wise, of robust strength;
19 Very much stronger than his father's begetter, Anšar
20 He had no rival among the gods, his brothers.

In 20 lines we have the original solar system. Now line 4 has another translation that refers to Mummu-Tiamat, Mummu is Apsu's companion:

"He appeared in the Babylonian creation myth, the Enuma Elish, as the vizier of the primeval gods Apsû, the fresh water, and Tiamat, the salt water.[2] and sometimes referred to as their son."

Yet he's not mentioned in the opening 20 lines but appears a few lines later as already existing. That might be why line 4 includes Mummu in at least 1 translation, its a minor point but still noteworthy. No (other) gods had formed yet, no 'destinies' decreed. Its talking about planets and their orbits. The Apsu's fresh water and Tiamat's salt water mingled and a pair of gods were born between them, the male and female siblings Lahmu and Lahamu - Mars and Venus.

Okay, the Enuma Elish has just described the 4 inner planets and sun, but it places Tiamat on the other side of Mars... Venus and Mars were born between Apsu and Tiamat. Remember the 9 Mile Canyon rock art with the horned deity with 3 sheep to it's left and 5 to it's right as the warrior with bow and arrow approaches from the right and below?

While Mars and Venus were still growing another pair of planets began forming, Ansar and Kisar (Saturn and Jupiter, Sitchin translates them as foremost of Heaven and foremost of firm worlds). They give birth to Anu (Uranus) who in turn begat Nudimmud/Ea/Enki (Neptune). There we have the 4 outer gas giants.

21 The divine brothers came together,
22 Their clamour got loud, throwing Tia-mat into a turmoil.
23 They jarred the nerves of Tia-mat,
24 And by their dancing they spread alarm in Anduruna.
25 Apsû did not diminish their clamour,
26 And Tia-mat was silent when confronted with them.
27 Their conduct was displeasing to her,
28 Yet though their behaviour was not good, she wished to spare them.
29 Thereupon Apsû, the begetter of the great gods,
30 Called Mummu, his vizier, and addressed him,
31 "Vizier Mummu, who gratifies my pleasure,
32 Come, let us go to Tia-mat!"

The planets had erratic orbits, Apsu and Mummu tell Tiamat they must be dealt with...

59 Ea, who excels in knowledge, the skilled and learned,
60 Ea, who knows everything, perceived their tricks.
61 He fashioned it and made it to be all-embracing,
62 He executed it skilfully as supreme—his pure incantation.
63 He recited it and set it on the waters,
64 He poured sleep upon him as he was slumbering deeply.
65 He put Apsû to slumber as he poured out sleep,
66 And Mummu, the counsellor, was breathless with agitation.
67 He split (Apsû's) sinews, ripped off his crown,
68 Carried away his aura and put it on himself.
69 He bound Apsû and killed him;
70 Mummu he confined and handled roughly.
71 He set his dwelling upon Apsû,
72 And laid hold on Mummu, keeping the nose-rope in his hand.
73 After Ea had bound and slain his enemies,
74 Had achieved victory over his foes,
75 He rested quietly in his chamber,
76 He called it Apsû, whose shrines he appointed.

Ea (Nudimmud) poured slumber on Apsu robbing him of his creative powers

79 In the chamber of the destinies, the room of the archetypes,
80 The wisest of the wise, the sage of the gods, Be-l was conceived.
81 In Apsû was Marduk born,
82 In pure Apsû was Marduk born.
83 Ea his father begat him,
84 Damkina his mother bore him.
85 He sucked the breasts of goddesses,
86 A nurse reared him and filled him with terror.
87 His figure was well developed, the glance of his eyes was dazzling,
88 His growth was manly, he was mighty from the beginning.
89 Anu, his father's begetter, saw him,
90 He exulted and smiled; his heart filled with joy.
91 Anu rendered him perfect: his divinity was remarkable,
92 And he became very lofty, excelling them in his attributes.
93 His members were incomprehensibly wonderful,
94 Incapable of being grasped with the mind, hard even to look on.
95 Four were his eyes, four his ears,
96 Flame shot forth as he moved his lips.
97 His four ears grew large,
93 And his eyes likewise took in everything.
99 His figure was lofty and superior in comparison with the gods,
100 His limbs were surpassing, his nature was superior.
101 'Mari-utu, Mari-utu,
102 The Son, the Sun-god, the Sun-god of the gods.'
103 He was clothed with the aura of the Ten Gods, so exalted was his strength,
104 The Fifty Dreads were loaded upon him.
105 Anu formed and gave birth to the four winds
106 He delivered them to him, "My son, let them whirl!"
107 He formed dust and set a hurricane to drive it,

The text describes Marduk and says Anu (Uranus) provided him with 4 winds (moons), but it says Marduk was clothed with the halo of Ten Gods. Apsu, Mummu, Lahamu, Lahmu, Tiamat, Kisar, Ansar, Anu, Nudimmud and Marduk. He was brought forth by Neptune, next Uranus supplies 4 satellites - and if you think thats impossible, something major happened to Uranus - and the remaining text on tablet 1 describes the armies being formed for battle with Qingu becoming the leader of Tiamat's forces.

The non space alien version is less dramatic: fresh water from the rivers and salt water from the ocean mingled in the tidal estuary where people lived.

1 When the heavens above did not exist,
2 And earth beneath had not come into being —
3 There was Apsû, the first in order, their begetter,
4 And demiurge Tia-mat, who gave birth to them all;
5 They had mingled their waters together
6 Before meadow-land had coalesced and reed-bed was to he found —
7 When not one of the gods had been formed
8 Or had come into being, when no destinies had been decreed

These events were before the Earth just as Genesis describes a dark, water covered primordial world before God's 'light'.

Please point out to me where the creation story says anything about the sun or planets? In fact, according to the story above, there were no planets or anything when the "waters mingled". Apsu is the god of fresh water and not the sun.

Tab 4
93 Tia-mat and Marduk, the sage of the gods, came together,
94 Joining in strife, drawing near to battle.
95 Be-l spread out his net and enmeshed her;
96 He let loose the Evil Wind, the rear guard, in her face.
97 Tia-mat opened her mouth to swallow it,
98 She let the Evil Wind in so that she could not close her lips.
99 The fierce winds weighed down her belly,
100 Her inwards were distended and she opened her mouth wide.
101 He let fly an arrow and pierced her belly,
102 He tore open her entrails and slit her inwards,
103 He bound her and extinguished her life,
104 He threw down her corpse and stood on it.
105 After he had killed Tia-mat, the leader,
106 Her assembly dispersed, her host scattered.
107 Her divine aides, who went beside her,
108 In trembling and fear beat a retreat.
109 . . . . to save their lives,
110 But they were completely surrounded, unable to escape.
111 He bound them and broke their weapons,
112 And they lay enmeshed, sitting in a snare,
113 Hiding in corners, filled with grief,
114 Bearing his punishment, held in a prison.
115 The eleven creatures who were laden with fearfulness,
116 The throng of devils who went as grooms at her right hand,
117 He put ropes upon them and bound their arms,
118 Together with their warfare he trampled them beneath him.

Thats where the comets etc come from, when world's collide stuff goes flying. I'd expect this invading planet to be corralling all sorts of debris. But whats all the fuss? Marduk murdered a woman and it ended up as the basis for the Enuma Elish and Genesis? No, Tiamat is female because Marduk is male and their collision(s) produced life.

135 Be-l rested, surveying the corpse,
136 In order to divide the lump by a clever scheme.
137 He split her into two like a dried fish:
138 One half of her he set up and stretched out as the heavens.

Tab 5
62 [(Thus) the half of her] he stretched out and made it firm as the earth.
63 [After] he had finished his work inside Tia-mat,
64 [He spread] his net and let it right out.
65 He surveyed the heavens and the earth .

Thats the first mention of Earth... Half of Tiamat was stretched out to form the heavens, firm, ie biblical 'firmament'.

Tab 5
1 He fashioned heavenly stations for the great gods,
2 And set up constellations, the patterns of the stars.
3 He appointed the year, marked off divisions,
4 And set up three stars each for the twelve months.
5 After he had organized the year,
6 He established the heavenly station of Ne-beru to fix the stars' intervals.

The great gods are the planets, the mystery is Nibiru/Ne-beru. The name of Peru comes from Biru and Votan/Wotan is a Mayan (and Norse) god.

12 He created Nannar, entrusting to him the night.
13 He appointed him as the jewel of the night to fix the days,
14 And month by month without ceasing he elevated him with a crown,
15 (Saying,) "Shine over the land at the beginning of the month,
16 Resplendent with horns to fix six days.
17 On the seventh day the crown will be half size,
18 On the fifteenth day, halfway through each month, stand in opposition.

So there's the Moon finally

73 [Now] the eleven creatures to which Tia-mat had given birth and . . . ,
74 He broke their weapons and bound them (the creatures) to his feet.
75 He made images of them and stationed them at the [Gate] of the Apsû,
76 To be a sign never to be forgotten.

Now thats interesting, if the Apsu had become Neptune because Ea robbed the sun of its power to create more planets, then these creatures at the Gate of the Apsu might refer to Kuiper Belt objects. Marduk bound them to his feet, researchers are looking at them to find the 9th planet.

Tab 7
16 Who established, the pure heavens for the gods,
17 Who took charge of their courses, who appointed [their stations]

Indeed... Marduk has changed the solar system. Something has dragged the planets away from the sun's equatorial plane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_inclination

Jupiter's over 6 degrees off kilter

83 Who created the earth on the water and made firm the height of heaven.

124 As (49) Ne-beru let him hold the crossing place of heaven and underworld,
125 They should not cross above or below, but should wait for him.
126 Ne-beru is his star, which he caused to shine in the sky,
127 Let him take his stand on the heavenly staircase that they may look at him.
128 Yes, he who constantly crosses the Sea without resting,
129 Let his name be Ne-beru, who grasps her middle,
130 Let him fix the paths of the stars of heaven,
131 Let him shepherd all the gods like sheep,
132 Let him bind Tia-mat and put her life in mortal danger,
133 To generations yet unborn, to distant future days,
134 May he continue unchecked, may he persist into eternity.
135 Since he created the heavens and fashioned the earth

The sign of the cross has great antiquity... But if the Earth (and the firm, stretched out Heaven) came from Tiamat, then Tiamat was a planet.

And the lord stood upon Tiamat's hinder parts,
And with his merciless club he smashed her skull.
He cut through the channels of her blood,
And he made the North wind bear it away into secret places.

and so the Earth was carried away to a new location
 
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https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/no-jeffrey-epstein-thread.648650/

Oh, Brunel hung himself in jail just like Epstein?
I wonder if the cameras malfunctioned this time too.

I'll just leave this here from 2 months ago.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13523410/jeffrey-epstein-victim-taunts-prince-andrew-sweating/

And one of Epstein's alleged victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre today hit out at the royal - who famously claimed he couldn't sweat - in the wake of the arrest of Brunel.

The 37-year-old said: "Are you sweating yet, Prince Andrew? You should be. Your buddy Jean-Luc Brunel is behind bars. Remember those girls he supplied to you on the island?

"Well, you might want to start thinking of new allergies cuz you’re about to burn. This piggy will roll over on EVERYONE to save his own bacon.


“Those who participated in this sex trafficking ring should be worried."

Brunel was Epstein's best friend and supplied him with 1000 girls over the years.

We will see how long Epstein's main henchwoman Ghislaine lasts.

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Was Trump throttled by unelected officials? They were spying on him for a year and then he got impeached by the cold warriors. And ofc much of our media fed us Russiagate by the dump truck, every night for 3+ years - and these people cry about Trump's dishonesty? The deep state is not shadowy, they get hired to tell us the truth ;);) by MSNBC, CNN, Fox, and other various propaganda outlets. When John Brennan and James Clapper are the people our media pays for the truth we're in serious trouble.
The former CIA director was trying his hardest to confirm the deep state exists yesterday.


Yes, there is no political force as bad as Republicans in the world today.

Not the Chinese communists, the North Koreans, the Taliban, Putin, nothing.

Edward Luce is the chief commentator and columnist for the Financial Times in Washington DC.
 
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As an active threat to America? Our biggest threats are obviously from within.
 
The former CIA director was trying his hardest to confirm the deep state exists yesterday.


Yes, there is no political force as bad as Republicans in the world today.

Not the Chinese communists, the North Koreans, the Taliban, Putin, nothing.

Edward Luce is the chief commentator and columnist for the Financial Times in Washington DC.
You really try hard to push conspiracy-theories, don't you?

No, the former CIA director did no such thing. He just did said what is basically obvious to anyone with a rational mind: the Republican party has completely lost it, and does everything it can to destroy the Republic and its laws. That is pretty much the opposite of a deep-state, as a deep-state wouldn't publically talk about that, but simply annihilate such a threat to the nation and replace it with something more to its liking. Seeing how Republicans can get away with sheer lunacy time and time again, with next to no effort to stop them, it becomes blindingly obvious that there is no such thing as a deep-state. Though it makes sense for certain lunatics to peddle this deep-state rubbish, as they need blind and obedient sheep who distrust the institutions that try to defend the Republic.

Then there is the point of actual capabilities. E.g. Andorra being run by fascists would be no threat to anyone but the citizens of Andorra. 1930's Germany falling into the hands of Hitler and unleashing the biggest war the world had ever seen, on the other hand, is kind of a big thing. Even more so once we add the attempt to exterminate peoples. What you have here, is by far the most powerful nation in the world, and a party that is openly hostile to all democratic institutions, including elections. A party whose members and supporters have openly called for extreme violence against and murder of others. A party that has thrown common sense, science and eduction under the bus, in favour of a fever dream of returning to an "ideal" past that never existed. All while happily dreaming of treating non-whites like garbage again, and forcing women into the kitchen or to the role of raising the kids. A party that is so far away from basic decency or even having a coherent platform beyond oppressing others, has no reason to exist. A party that stands for tyranny and lawlessness towards anyone who doesn't show blind obedience to the cause being possibly in charge of the most powerful nation on earth, is very much the biggest threat there is today. None of the nations or people you mention have had much of a democracy. And as much as China and especially Russia try their hardest to undermine democracy elsewhere, neither of them is as much of a threat to the well-being of democracy and international institutions as the largest and most powerful democracy falling from grace and being controlled by those who have no morals, empathy or regard for the pillars of their own society.
 
You really try hard to push conspiracy-theories, don't you?

No, the former CIA director did no such thing. He just did said what is basically obvious to anyone with a rational mind: the Republican party has completely lost it, and does everything it can to destroy the Republic and its laws. That is pretty much the opposite of a deep-state, as a deep-state wouldn't publically talk about that, but simply annihilate such a threat to the nation and replace it with something more to its liking. Seeing how Republicans can get away with sheer lunacy time and time again, with next to no effort to stop them, it becomes blindingly obvious that there is no such thing as a deep-state. Though it makes sense for certain lunatics to peddle this deep-state rubbish, as they need blind and obedient sheep who distrust the institutions that try to defend the Republic.

Then there is the point of actual capabilities. E.g. Andorra being run by fascists would be no threat to anyone but the citizens of Andorra. 1930's Germany falling into the hands of Hitler and unleashing the biggest war the world had ever seen, on the other hand, is kind of a big thing. Even more so once we add the attempt to exterminate peoples. What you have here, is by far the most powerful nation in the world, and a party that is openly hostile to all democratic institutions, including elections. A party whose members and supporters have openly called for extreme violence against and murder of others. A party that has thrown common sense, science and eduction under the bus, in favour of a fever dream of returning to an "ideal" past that never existed. All while happily dreaming of treating non-whites like garbage again, and forcing women into the kitchen or to the role of raising the kids. A party that is so far away from basic decency or even having a coherent platform beyond oppressing others, has no reason to exist. A party that stands for tyranny and lawlessness towards anyone who doesn't show blind obedience to the cause being possibly in charge of the most powerful nation on earth, is very much the biggest threat there is today. None of the nations or people you mention have had much of a democracy. And as much as China and especially Russia try their hardest to undermine democracy elsewhere, neither of them is as much of a threat to the well-being of democracy and international institutions as the largest and most powerful democracy falling from grace and being controlled by those who have no morals, empathy or regard for the pillars of their own society.
I hear that a lot these days, but such a negative view of the Republican Party has me scratching my head.
They are a giant chunk of the country.

What are some good things about the Republican Party?
 
I hear that a lot these days, but such a negative view of the Republican Party has me scratching my head.
They are a giant chunk of the country.

What are some good things about the Republican Party?

Republican voters are a giant chunk of the country, Republican politicians and party officials a very small chunk.
 
I hear that a lot these days, but such a negative view of the Republican Party has me scratching my head.
They are a giant chunk of the country.

What are some good things about the Republican Party?
Farm Boy is in it. That’s about the main good thing it has going for it right now.
 
I’m mildly offended that UFOs have been classified as leaving reality. That’s simply not true. UFOs have been sighted since the 1950s, and some of them are surely planes made by the US government being tested clandestinely.

If you wanna say the ET hypothesis is leaving reality? I’d disagree, but it is disputable. Presently there’s little way to apply Occam’s razor: there is no way of knowing the frequency of ET life(if any) nor their level of technological achievement. I’ll give that leaving reality, still. But UFOs, generally? Nah man. They’re here. Don’t gimme that!
 
One long forgotten conspiracy: columnist and TV personality Dorothy Kilgallen was murdered because she was asking too many questions about Jack Ruby and the JFK assassination.
 
CBC said:

How a London, Ont., cricket plant found itself at the heart of an international conspiracy theory​

7 days after the factory was built, it was falsely implicated in a global conspiracy

A London, Ont., cricket factory that produces insects used as pet food has found itself at the heart of a sweeping international conspiracy theory whose purveyors claim a cabal of shadowy elites are trying to force the population to eat insects as part of a sinister totalitarian plot.

The conspiracy theory has been circulating for months, amplified and published by hawkers of online misinformation in Canada and elsewhere in English and Chinese, often with the falsehood growing more sweeping or outrageous with each iteration.

Those spreading the myth aren't just online bloggers and anonymous social media accounts. The falsehoods are also spread and tweaked by a number of political operators to suit their agenda, including the Alberta separatist movement and politicians like a sitting MP and a Conservative Party of Canada leadership hopeful.

CBC News charted the history of how this conspiracy theory grew, from a single tweet by an Ontario construction company to being used as rhetoric in the Conservative Party of Canada leadership campaign.

The timeline of the theory's growth​

The entire thread begins simply enough with a tweet on June 10 from the Toronto-based construction company Ellis Don, announcing it had just completed work on the world's largest cricket production facility.

The information was picked up a week later by Awakening Canada, a Facebook group that posts misinformation about the pandemic and conspiracy theories about the World Economic Forum.

The June 17 post was published shortly after midnight, asking: "Are you guys ready to eat some crickets welcome to communist Canada." It got 10 shares among the page's 4,600 followers.

Eight hours later, the false information was repeated by Mike McMullen, a London, Ont., political candidate who ran for the People's Party of Canada in the last federal election, and a candidate for city councillor in this October's municipal elections.

He posts the same Ellis Don tweet on his Facebook page with the caption, "Klaus Schwab and the WEFers must be pleased..." The post gets 29 shares among his 1,900 followers.

"There's a growing number of people who think our country is messed up and our politicians are puppets," McMullen told CBC News when asked Thursday about the post. "A lot of people are concerned that they're going to get them to eat bugs."

When asked for evidence, McMullen was unable to proffer anything except for the biographies of a few prominent Canadian politicians on the WEF website, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.

"I think that is the plan," McMullen said. "This is my opinion I'm giving you."

CBC News reached out to Aspire Food Group, which owns the cricket plant. Mohammed Ashour, the company's chief executive, was unavailable for comment Thursday and Friday.

Ashour told Vice News in July that the company no longer markets its products for human consumption and focuses only on pet food because, he told the publication, crickets have "a bit of an ick factor."

False info appears 10 hours later in Chinese​

About 10 hours later, on June 17, the false information was shared on Facebook in Chinese on this page. According to Facebook's translation algorithm, followers are told the cricket factory is part of the "'Great Reset' agenda to stop the people from owning everything and implement the major food chain."

On June 18, a similar post appears on Black Sheep Truth Media, a Facebook group that features numerous conspiracy theories with the caption: "The planned food shortages now offers a solution. Not to worry now, there will be plenty to eat folks."

The information has been reaching more people, with at least 292 shares and 164 comments among the page's 30,000 followers. It is also flagged as false information by Facebook after being singled out by independent fact checkers.

Next, on June 22, the conspiracy is repeated by Tanner Hnidey, the vice-president of economics with the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), a provincial separatist group.

Hnidey posts a video to his personal Facebook titled "We're going to keep eating Alberta Beef!"

"I do not intend to eat crickets or bugs for breakfast," Hnidey says in the video, falsely claiming the federal government is trying to replace beef with insect protein.

CBC News received an email statement from the APP on Thursday, saying, "The video link you provided appears to be from his personal Facebook page and he is entitled to his opinion.

"We will forward this to Mr. Hnidey and the media team for their response," the writer said, signing only as "the APP Team."

Hnidey did not respond Thursday or Friday.

Story makes the rounds​

On July 3, the falsehood is published in the Calgary-based Western Standard in a column titled, "If Canadians wanted to eat crickets, we wouldn't be forced to subsidize the cricket farm." The column has been shared at least 450 times to 130,000 followers.

On July 5, Cheryl Gallant, the Conservative MP for Renfrew–Nipissing–Pembroke, creates a Facebook post linking protests against sustainable farming practices in the Netherlands to February's Canadian Freedom Convoy protest with the caption, "Trudeau wants us to eat crickets."

She published the false information again in a link to the Western Standard column on Aug. 7, with the caption, "it's interesting that Trudeau invested millions in cricket farming to fight a food shortage long before Putin invaded Ukraine."

Gallant did not respond Thursday or Friday to a request for comment from CBC News.

On July 9, federal Conservative leadership hopeful Leslyn Lewis wrote a blog post with the heading, "Is animal meat being phased out?" that hints the cricket plant is part of a larger plan by the federal government to phase out meat.

The post has been shared thousands of times on social media, including among groups that share fake news and conspiracy theories, such as the Druthers Community Group.

Lewis did not respond Thursday or Friday to a request for comment from CBC News.

Prof links falsehood to anti-government feelings​

CBC News shared the timeline of the conspiracy theory's growth with Alison Meek, an associate professor of history at King's College at Western University in London, Ont., who studies conspiracy theories.

She said the false information taps into a growing anti-government sentiment, playing on the fear and isolation many felt during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic when authorities were imposing sweeping lockdowns and health restrictions that upended many people's daily routines.

"I think what we're seeing is tapping into the same sort of thing we saw with the Freedom Convoy or mandates," she said. "This real anti-government sentiment has taken hold."

Meek said it's clear from the timeline that the false information was twisted and manipulated by each person who spread it, adding or taking away details in order to create propaganda to suit their own agenda.

"Conspiracy theorists can put their own stamp on it and use it in the way they see fit."

Meek said while conspiracy theories have existed since time immemorial in stories about secret societies such as the Freemasons and the Illuminati, the internet has allowed these theories to quickly flourish by reaching people instantly across borders and languages.

"The Internet has been a real boon to conspiracy theories," she said. "It's free, you reach like-minded individuals and it can be twisted to fit whatever the agenda is, whether it's the 'Great Reset,' or World Economic Forum or state politics."

She said while fact-checking conspiracy theories can be exhausting, it must be done to keep those who propagate the lie from dominating the conversation with false information.

Even then, she said, when confronted with evidence or the truth, conspiracy theorists will hide behind the idea of scientific rigour, claiming they were just questioning the truth or offering an alternative theory.

"It gives those pushing the conspiracy theories an out. They say, 'I'm just asking questions.'

"Of course, you question," added Meek. "But questioning means you have to accept the answers that, 'This is just a cricket factory to make pet food because that's where the evidence points,' as opposed to, 'Just because we can't find the proof for something must mean there's something nefarious going on' — that's not the way journalistic, academic or scientific inquiry works."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-ontario-cricket-factory-1.6562083
 
We will see how long Epstein's main henchwoman Ghislaine lasts.

I am curious why she wasn't able to make a plea deal by revealing others.
 
I am curious why she wasn't able to make a plea deal by revealing others.
'Cos she would rather face a lifetime in prison that what Jeffery faced?
 
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