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IMO we were riding the wave about a year ago with the high point being the Congressional hearing with the three witnesses which both George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell help put together. There were a few cobbled together politicians in Congress that were at the forefront of the effort to investigate the subject for various reasons led mainly by the outspoken Tim Burchett. However those efforts seem to have dissipated or stalled at least publically. In fact this whole episode seemed to point out that whatever evidence there maybe including what is said in private meetings and such, they are not meant for public preview. As Billy's post is pointing out, the effort to shut the lid on any whistleblower is going full speed ahead. The latest was the publically released case of Jack Teixeira (former member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard) who was found to have leaked highly sensitive information regarding classified military documents. He pleaded guilty and will now serve 16.6 years in federal prison. I am not defending Jack's actions in what he did, but pointing out that this to me is a put on notice display of what could happen to so called UFO whistleblowers etc. After all the UFO subject pertaining to the military has always been put on a highly classified level of so called 'National Security Interest'. As a few have pointed out, AARO will not be able to protect any whistleblower coming forward to them, even if that snake of a person Sean Kirkpatrick is not now heading that agency. So where are we? I could be wrong but would not count on any politician to really buck the system.

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https://twitter.com/i/status/1760898644339831014

Susan Gerbic (not Gough as stated in the video) is the leader of the Guerilla Skeptics.

She's ex-DoD, and she looks like her primary mode of transportation is a broom.

"The 'Guerrilla' Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories

Susan Gerbic's team of over 100 editors are responsible for some of Wikipedia’s most trafficked pages about UFOs and other pseudoscience."

https://www.wired.com/story/guerrilla-wikipedia-editors-who-combat-conspiracy-theories/

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They wanted me to help them edit any Wikipedia articles that had to do with the ET/UFO phenomenon.

But I never took it far enough to get a dollar figure. I just told them I was too busy to help, and stopped posting on the forum.

To be honest, it creeped me out.

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Danny Shehanshould file a class action lawsuit against the Guerilla Skeptics. They are deliberately defaming many by their actions. Wikipedia also needs to be held accountable if they are aware that they are knowingly allowing false edits to individuals profiles. Their "intent" is not to "inform" but to "harm".

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Great work Billy!

Maybe They will blow this all to hell today and go catastrophic, uncontrolled Disclosure and show up during the live moon landing at 4:24 p.m. EST. Then will see how the Wiki-jerks handle a live, undeniable event. Maybe?

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Jimmy Wales is a 1st class POS.

Wikipedia is Rotten to the Core

https://skepticalaboutskeptics.org/wikipedia-captured-by-skeptics/wikipedia-rotten-core/

I regularly posted on a guerilla skeptics forum for a period of time about 10 years ago by pretending to be a fellow pseudo-skeptic like them. Once they were thoroughly convinced that I was in their camp they started trying to recruit me by offering me money to help them with Wikipedia.

Wales is getting paid boatloads of money to accede to their wishes. There's no doubt that the money is coming from the spooks.

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The shout out to Duvall and Wendt is great. Their paper is worth a read!

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I've heard a few anecdotes where family members (not my family) have tried to correct errors in Wikipedia biographies, only for the 'editors' to change it back again. It's a handy source, if you are aware of its limitations and that a lot seems to have been lifted directly from text books. What you pay is what you get. I'm not surprised that an extreme group, with a specific agenda, can hijack the system.

Perhaps the people on this forum represent part of the other extreme ( I know I do, to some extent), but is it a matter of free will that either side does so?

It's pretty well accepted that the IQ test (whatever it's actually measuring), results in a bell curve set of results, given a large enough population. Roughly 2% of a population will have an IQ of 70 or less, indicating that they are significantly impaired cognitively, representing a significant portion of those with special educational needs. 1 in 50. No potential parent wants to hear that. (And it brings up a separate issue of genetic editing.)

It also suggests that, while we don't live in a clockwork Newtonian reality, there are aspects of our reality that are statistically predictable.. And this has an impact on UAP research in several ways:

1. The probability of ET intelligence.

2. The interactions of ETs with developing civilisations, based on the predictability of any given civilisation's responses, including the internal conflict of handling (or not) information indicating an ET presence.

3. The implications of psi, which has been proven to exist, statistically.

In a nutshell, these Wiki interferers are likely an inevitable (extreme) result of the processes of evolution. One day we may make formal contact with another intelligence. Meanwhile we still have a long way to go before we understand ourselves and the extent of our reality.

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Maybe follow the money. If I remember correctly, part of Rob Heatherly's investigation revealed the Guerilla Skeptics have a budget of something like $7 million a year. That's HUGE for a small organization of maybe a few hundred people at most. Somebody with deep pockets is funding them.

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These efforts help immensely

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Billy, the xtools link does not work.

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Luis Elizondo and Jay Stratton have told us the real UFO news.

https://x.com/LueElizondo/status/1684729197674246145

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Feb 21·edited Feb 21Liked by Billy Cox

Debunkers, game over!

U.S. government UFO video:

The FLIR (or FLIR1) (U.S. Navy) UFO video was filmed (approximately 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, California, on 14 November 2004) by USS Nimitz fighter pilot Lieutenant Chad Underwood.

https://www.navair.navy.mil/foia/sites/g/files/jejdrs566/files/2020-04/1%20-%20FLIR.mp4

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Maybe there are a few rational skeptics out there willing to look at evidence that may be contrary to their beliefs but I do not know who they are. The lines of perceiving reality are blurring rapidly everywhere so trying to get to any truth is becoming more and more difficult. Scientific discoveries are moving at an extraordinary speed while the general population is left wondering what it all means. This leaves plenty of room for the pseudo skeptics to fill the gap or hold the line on any thing that might actually change our perception of reality as we might have known it or believed. As many have said, we are in a transformational period (some call it transhumanism) but the schism is wide on many fronts on how this will play out. The UFO subject and its ramifications is a perfect example of the situation we now face.

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Feb 21·edited Feb 21

I would be curious if there are a few well known names in the Gorilla fan club that disclosure advocates would recognize...... that is if those with an agenda don't resort to pseudonyms in membership.

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Feb 21·edited Feb 21

Aw shucks

Every year I use and defer to Wikipedia as a source of objective, matter of fact content to differentiate the fake from the real.. Jimmy Wales sends a mass email informing me and millions of other users that only 2% of readership contribute donations to keep the platform operating..And I gave $10.00 this year. It appears that there's no true fact checking or editing re: the UAP subject...I want my money back!!

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