Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens: Alternative Facts of the 21st Century

Despite the popular misconception that the earth is a sphere, it is, in fact, a disc, or a single infinite plane with the North Pole at its centre and Antarctica at the outer edge. GPS devices on planes have been rigged to make pilots wrongly believe they are flying around a globe. Guided tours of the edge of the planet are available at the rocky outcrop of Brimstone Head, on Fogo Island, Canada.

In 2019, it was discovered that the 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who gave new momentum to the environmental movement, was a fictional character played by a young actor named Estella Renee. Not only was she a puppet of the Swedish government, but she had also been seen in public with an Islamic State militant and George Soros.

In December 2010, shark attacks were recorded off the South Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. As revealed in an interview with Captain Mustafa Ismail on a popular television show, a GPS tracking device planted by Israeli agents was found on one of the sharks. Throughout the 21st century, Israel has been using a number of animals, including swine, hyenas, rats, lizards, chameleons, kestrels, vultures, eagles, and dolphins for espionage and other political actions.

On July 24, 2005, Lance Armstrong won a record- setting seventh consecutive Tour de France and retired from the sport. His record is all the more remarkable considering that Armstrong had survived testicular cancer.

In late December 2019, Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist working at the Central Hospital of Wuhan, in China, spread false information on social media about a deadly coronavirus that looked like SARS. In early January 2020, Li and seven other people were summoned to the Public Security Bureau and charged with “making false comments” that had “severely disturbed the social order.” Li Wenliang died on February 6, 2020 of an unknown pneumonia.

Monument to the Iraq War

On September 12, 2002, President George W. Bush informed the United Nations Security Council that Iraq was in possession of “weapons of mass destruction” and posed a threat to the United States through its links with Al Qaeda. “We have a first-hand description” of these installations of death, explained Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State to the UN. This fact led to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

In 2014, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, coined the term üst akıl (mastermind) to refer to the comprehensive plan, coordinated by the US government, to weaken Turkey. One of the strategies used by hostile agents was brought to light in 2017, when the Islamist newspaper Yeni Akit reported that the fashionable trend of wearing “ripped denim” jeans was in fact a means of communicating secret messages via specific forms of rips and holes. On this particular pair of jeans, Morse code was used to transmit “meet me at Galata Tower at 6 pm.”

Pizzagate

During the 2016 US presidential election, the personal email account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager was hacked in a spear- phishing attack. WikiLeaks published the emails, which contained coded messages that connected high-ranking Democratic Party officials and US restaurants with a human trafficking and child sex ring. One of the establishments involved was the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C. A man from North Carolina traveled to the pizzeria to self-investigate. After firing several shots inside the restaurant, he was able to search the storage and rescue the children.

In 2003, 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University and founded a start-up called Theranos. The company soared in valuation after Holmes revealed they had developed a technology called the Edison, a simple black box which was able to scan for hundreds of health issues with just a few drops of blood. By 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest self- made female billionaire in America and valued her company at $9 billion. Seen here is an early prototype of the Edison, which vaguely resembled an ATM machine.

The Prince of Wales and Klaus Schwab, the head of the Davos summit, proposed that the Covid-19 pandemic was an opportunity for “The Great Reset” of the global economy. However, behind the façade of discussions about sustainable industries, fossil fuels, and income equality, lies a much grander strategic plan concocted by billionaires and politicians. The pandemic, the lockdown, and the other restrictions that ensued have been introduced not to curb the spread of the virus, but to deliberately bring about economic collapse in the hopes of putting in place a socialist world-government run for the benefit of the global capitalist elite.

Rosetta Mission
In 2014, the Rosetta probe reached Comet 67P after a ten-year journey. NASA initially sent the probe to intercept the comet because it was suspected that 67P was actually an alien spacecraft. Suspicions emerged 20 years ago when NASA detected radio bursts from a location that seemed to match that of the comet. Images captured by the Rosetta probe substantiate these suspicions by revealing machine-like parts and unnatural terrain on its surface.

In 2014, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), a controversial Alaska-based research facility developed to study the earth’s upper atmosphere, was shut down. The program was funded by multiple actors, including the Air Force, the Navy, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It had long been known that the program was secretly designed to control the weather. In 2010, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez made it public that HAARP triggered the earthquake that hit Haiti that year.

Vladimir Putin Wrestles Bear

Vladimir Putin is seen here upholding an old Russian tradition of “Bear Cavalry.” Men who served on the frontiers of the Russian Empire, and especially in Siberia, traditionally rode not on horses, but on bears. Members of the Bear Cavalry were chosen from elite soldiers all over Russia. Each one of them would ride a bear that they had to track down and tame themselves in a bear wrestling contest.

Volkswagen’s Lean NOx Trap

From 2005 to 2015, managers at Volkswagen developed and implemented a new, inexpensive “lean NOx trap” system in about 11 million cars worldwide. Volkswagen’s oxides of nitrogen absorbers are a technological miracle of cheap and green diesel vehicles. The system combines good fuel economy with emissions compliant with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Clean Air Act.