Here’s the link: Secret CIA files claim Ark of the Covenant has been found | Daily Mail Online
What are your views on this? Can it be trusted?
Disregarding the fact that so-called “remote viewing” is a hoax, and the nonverified source of the alleged report: It is supposedly located “somewhere in the Middle East” and it is “hidden – underground”. This is so unspecified, unspecific, and unhelpful that you could just as well say “located somewhere on the Indian subcontinent – underground”, or another landmass of similiar size as the totally unspecified Middle East.
Also, one of the figure captions says: “it is ‘protected by entities’ who will ‘destroy’ those who attempt to break into it”. So, if you cannot find it, it is because it is too well hidden. If you do find it, it will be destroyed by its guardians unless you are authorised. So either way, it is impossible to find and verify.
In short: classic hoax.
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Why don’t you start with the most compelling evidence you think supports your position. A link is fine, but people are not going to research this for you. FYI, the Daily Mail has a terrible reputation for distorting facts, and sensationalising them, it is also a rabid right wing mouthpiece. As a single source I’d be extremely dubious about anything they claimed.
Now. what objective evidence, if any, can you demonstrate to support the claim in your title?
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lets see… Daily Mail, Noah’s Ark
I can tell that story is bullshit without even reading it.
Honestly, Daily Mail should have been enough.
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Fairly sure this one has been done before, the author doesn’t appear to be coming back, quelle surprise. The chicanery of remote viewing, has been thoroughly rinsed as well, the CIA wasted a fair bit of money investigating it as I recall from the discussion on here, and all for zero return, who could have known that magic wasn’t real. 
Meanwhile Elon Musk and his Do(d)ge(y) team, are making sure no tax is being wasted on any non-essential services.
Given that he, and his orange Sith Lord, pay fuck all tax anyway, you have to wonder why they would even pretend to care.
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Fixed that for you.
>20 chars.
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And someone else found jesus? and the rock of ages?
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Yeah I sort of lost it with my brother today – he emailed me an article written Tucker Carlson for the 2nd time. I ignored the first one, but this time I said, “Tucker effing Carlson is among the last people I would consider a credible source about anything. He was so extreme even Fox News fired him.” Hopefully that puts a stop to it.
Both of my surviving brothers have had an affinity for conspiracy theories – more as entertainment than gospel but once you start reading stuff like Tucker Carlson or the Daily Mail, you brain does begin to melt pretty shortly after.
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Oh, the Daily Mail. Which I’ve referred to in the past as the Daily Fail, the Scaly Mail, and more recently, the Daily Heil, after I learned of the manner in which a past owner had a hard-on for Hitler and fascism.
The owner in question was one Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere. This individual had a particularly colourful history, which included:
[1] Open support for Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in the 1930s (he even penned an article for the Daily Mail bearing the headline “Hurrah for the Blackshirts”);
[2] Writing fan letters to Adolf Hitler, including one urging him to invade Romania;
[3] Spreading anti-Semitic propaganda in his newspapers (one notorious article in the Daily Mail bore the headline “German Jews Pouring into Britain”);
[4] Hiring one Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a known Nazi spy, and paying her a retainer of £5,000 per year (back in the 1930s, this was equivalent to £200,000 per year today), as well as taking her on as a mistress (she also had contacts with Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler himself, and the wives of key Tory politicians);
Oh, and it was later revealed, in the case of Stephanie von Hohenlohe, that she was awarded the Golden Party Badge by the Nazi Party for her services to the Nazi espionage effort in the 1930s (Rothermere was engaging in some serious wick dipping into her around this time). In addition, the French Secret Service found documents in her Paris flat, revealing that she was to try and persuade Rothermere to campaign in the Daily Mail, for the return to Germany of territory ceded to Poland after the end of World War I. Her reward for this, if she succeeded, was to be around £200,000 (in 1938 money - equivalent to a whopping £13 million today).
In short, Rothermere was a fascist traitor, one who was for a time literally in bed with a notorious Nazi spy and honeypot temptress, who wrote numerous fan letters directly to Hitler, and who, once World War II started, left the UK in disgrace. Though of course, as is typical here, instead of being tried and shot for treachery as would have happened to one of the plebs, he was, as a member of the aristotwat Establishment, allowed to pack his bags for a comfortable exile, ending his days in a posh Bermuda holiday home in 1940 after unsuccessful attempts to try and erase his pro-Nazi past from the history books.
However, the Daily Mail didn’t end its ties with far Right politics, merely hid them for the duration of WWII, after which, it didn’t take long for the next generation of Rothermeres to return to business as usual, though on a less egregious scale until recently., whereupon we saw the hiring of that vicious racist specimen, Katie Hopkins, most famous for her remarks about taking a machine gun to “migrants” in the English Channel, and who can best be described as Juilus Streicher with XX chromosomes.
Anyone who wishes to, can explore various Internet sources and discover all manner of creepy facts about the Daily Mail, such as the manner in which it was taken to task for using student A-level results as an excuse to post photos of teenage girls (all white ones of course), in a manner reminiscent of a cattle market.
Though one area in which it’s departed from the flag-shagging tropes that are popular with the reich wing Gammons here, is the area of sycophancy toward the Royal Family. When Prince Harry married Meghan Markle, this was a bit much for the racists on the staff, and they launched a not-so-muted whispering campaign aimed at trashing her public popularity here. By contrast, the competition, principally the Daily Express, sailed a wider course around those rocks, preferring instead to concentrate upon grovelling worship of the whiter than white Princess Catherine. Which led to a spoof article about the staffers at that newspaper having orgasms over her giving birth to a baby boy on St George’s day. But I digress.
The short version of the above, is that you can trust the Daily Mail even less than you would trust a £13 (or $13, according to your local currency) banknote. Look hard enough online, and you’ll find a range of amusing Daily Mail spoofs in various states of activity, that will provide you with some indication of the taste this publication leaves in the mouth. It’s basically the reich wing version of the Soviet era Pravda.
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They care because any money not spent on the public good can be directed into their coffers.
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Probably true, which is why I was being ironic. I imagine that financial gain is the beginning and the end of their concern. They are a pair of grifters, nothing more.
No one in their right mind would trust anything from The Daily Heil.
UK Atheist
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“The onion” perhaps has more sound scientific articles.
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Honestly, anything coming from Daily Mail I take with a big grain of salt. They love flashy headlines, but facts usually get blurry. If the CIA really had proof of something that huge, it wouldn’t end up in a tabloid first.
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The Daily Heil is a mendacious fear mongering right wing sound box, it is a painful read. Whenever they report anything approaching a scientific discovery, they turn it into a comedic caricature of the facts, and their political bias, are a relentless assault on the senses. Give it a hard pass, would be my advice.
My 86 year old mother reads it daily, and is often in a rage about something when I see her, until I laugh, and fact check it, only to invariably find out it is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. I’ve tried to tell her what it is, and what it does, but she’s 86 after all, so I gently tell her I have no interest in what they print, none.
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I thought imthe ark was locked away with a priest who stayed with it until he died and a new apprentice would take over. Does anyone else remember that on a discovery channel show ir something?