As an offshoot of research I’ve been carrying out since the onset of Donald Trump’s second coming to the White House, a “double-edged” question popped into my head this morning that went something like this: “Does art imitate life or, conversely, is it the arts directing our perception of life.”

The thing that sparked me to ponder this was stumbling across online images of Finnish film director Timo Vuorensola’s 2012 science-fiction comedy Iron Sky. Not what I’d expected my search to uncover at all but nevertheless an indirect route into a subject that’s been on my mind recently: the veracity of accounts I’ve come across about the “Dark Fleet”, its “Lunar Operations Command” and Antarctic portals to the Moon and Mars, where an Interplanetary Corporate Conglomerate (ICC) allegedly has well-established mining operations.

If it sounds like classic science-fiction fodder then that’s because it’s exactly what it is, unless the intention is really to use an ostensibly fictional narrative to disguise what’s actually the “gospel truth”... FULL STORY