first off, love the pushback or should I say the education. I read a good deal of this... it's pretty dang long so I can't say I read it all. here's the part that I think is significant ( please suggest others as you see fit)
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For the last decade or so, Mutwa has formed a significant partnership with David Icke, probably the world’s best known and best-selling conspiracy theorist. Icke, who claims that the world is controlled by an elite of transdimensional, blood-drinking, shape-shifting reptilian aliens who steer global economic and political structures for the enslavement of our species, has found in Mutwa a powerful, authenticating voice. Mutwa, who has spoken extensively in recent years about his own varied encounters with extraterrestrials – which he claims to have been kidnapped, tortured and turned homosexual by, to have had sex with and eaten, amongst other things – brings the substantiating weight of timeless tradition to the subject of world-wide alien conspiracy.
How is it then, that a man who scholars in the field of African history and cultural life have labelled a charlatan, that at one time was a firm proponent of Apartheid and opponent of the ANC, that, having suffered numerous run-ins with extraterrestrials, who has claimed that the proper disposal through burial of the rubbish left behind after UFO crash-landings is part of ubiquitously known and timeless ‘African tradition’, could have been consulted by investigators from Scotland Yard as an expert for help in cracking a suspected ‘ritual killing’ in 2005, could have been invited to help design and bless as prestigious a monument as Mandela’s Freedom Park, or could be characterised by neo-shaman Bradford Keeney, his friend and patron, as “one of the most revered medicine men in the world”, “the great spiritual leader of Africa”, on whose head, incongruously, the South African and foreign governments are supposed to have put a bounty?
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so, there's a whole lot to process there but let's stick to the Icke stuff. it does seem to me that david icke sometimes plays fast and loose with the"experts" he relies on. I think he's in such a situation regarding kaufman and "covid-19 hasn't been isolated." this is sloppy. it shouldn't happen. and it should be corrected when it does happen. but this truth game is a rough-and-tumble battle.
Ben Joffe, (the author of this post) is quite brilliant... we really gotta get him on Skeptiko... and has some fantastic points about shamanism and anthropology, but I'm still trying to process where he comes down on the UFO / ET thing. I'm digging in and trying to figure it out but if anyone has a handle on it please let me know... the point being that the UFO / ET reality must be the starting point for these kinds of discussions. I go one step further and say that the reptilian reality should be presumed when looking at these cases. so I think you see where I'm going. can somebody help me out and let me know where ben joffe comes down on ET reptilians beyond david icke's understanding of them?