9/11 CultWatch

Mutologists As Precursors To 9/11 Truth Activists?

The June Fortean Times (issue 302) has a very strong piece of de-bunking about animal mutilations in the United States.

This phenomena appears to have begun in 1967 and to have petered out by 1980, with some 'researchers' blaming UFOs and extra terrestrials for perceived attacks on cattle and horses on the American prairies. The whole issue appears to have been put to bed by an investigation by Kevin Rommel for the State of New Mexico, but here at 9/11 Cultwatch we noted with interest the references to 'mutologists' - those who believed in an alien explanation for cattle mutilations.

The mutologists eventually earned their own study, a book called Mute Evidence by Daniel Kagan and Ian Summers (Bantam, 1984). Fortean Times reproduce this description of mutologists from p.175 of that book:

"The whole thing was ......a closed system, self-referential, solipsistic, which allowed no fresh information to enter unless it was properly polarized to support the prevailing attitude of mystery, conspiracy, weirdness and/or UFOs and space aliens".

And that, to a tee, could be used to describe 9/11 truthers a generation later. 

 

Old 9/11 Truthers Don't Grow Old...........

but they do re-brand themselves. 

Looking at the website of Annie Machon, former Secretary of the UK and Ireland 9/11 Truth Movement, it has a total of 83 catergories listed in a column on the right hand side of its front page. These range from Afghanistan to Northern Ireland, from Drones to Subversion.

But not, oddly enough, 9/11 truth. 

Anyone would think she was embarrased by that episode in her post-MI5 life. 

Alex Jones Caption Competition

All at 9/11 Cultwatch were delighted to see that fearless investigator Alex Jones has used some of his time in England in the past week productively, seeing some of our green and pleasant land.

Captions please for this picture of the man himself at Stonehenge:

The winning entry will be selected by Lord Rothschild, with the lucky person guaranteed free admission to the Bilderberg conference in 2014. Or something else. 

A Thank You To The Bilderberg Group

Well, thank you Bilderbergs. 

Not only have you managed to put Watford on the map (something last achieved when the great British sit-com Terry and June was set there) but you have even provided the comedy gold of bringing Alex Jones to the country. 

Here at 9/11 Cultwatch we can't get too excited by the Bilderberg Group - as we have said on many occasions when asked to comment 'members of the ruling class meet together and talk politics shock'. That some in the media - from both left and right - seem to have got a little giddy about the conference surprised us. However when we see the often sensible Spinwatch tweeting comments 9/11 truther Michael Meacher MP has made about Bilderberg, we are reminded how much websites like this still have to do:

RT @occupylondon: SKY NEWS: UK MP Michael Meacher calls for transparency of #Bilderberg2013: youtu.be/jAm-l4kE1Zw @occupynn #olsx...

— Spinwatch (@Spinwatch) June 7, 2013

 

 

Having said that, Tom Griffin's Spinwatch article on Bilderberg is eminently sensible, and his reference to the federalist nature of Bilderberg perhaps explains why some in UKIP have got more excited about the event than they really should. 

Now, how do we make Alex Jones go away again?