Skeptical Humanities

Yep. You heard right. There are even more conspiracies this week. I thought that we were full up, that every permutation of wacky had been tried. Apparently, however, there is no fixed quota of b.s. that conspiracists are trying to fill. So we dive back in.

• It’s Genetic Farmageddon! When an article starts, “An arrogant scientific elite has divorced themselves from common sense, morality, and the rest of the human species in their quest for full spectrum scientific domination,” you know you have objective reporting. You left out them twisting their evil mustachios, Daniel. Somehow, he ends up at “super-intelligent A.I. may lead to a devastating world war that could kill billions of people.”
• I’m sorry, I meant, “Electronic Armageddon!“
• Susan Lindauer says that there are videotapes missing from the World Trade Center. As a bit of background, she was arrested for spying for the Iraqis and found mentally incompetent to contribute to her own defense. Also, if you read this, she offers no source or evidence, just a story, and then she thinks that there is something suspicious about there being no video of this. Funk dat. Oh wait, she says she has a “high level State Department source with a top security clearance.” Well, that settles it. She was also found to have classic delusions of grandeur, I believe, by her defense team.
• A little 9/11 analysis. “11 Reasons Why The 9/11 Fable is So Popular.” On their list: 1) “The bigness of the lie” followed by immediate self-Godwining, 2) “Mythical archetype of Osama Bin Laden and Islamic terrorists,” 3) “Most people are children who are easily controlled by fear,” 4) “Peer pressure, and the fear of mockery and ridicule” (it’s true, if you don’t want to be mocked, don’t become a Truther), 5) makes no sense, 6) the “financial- terrorism- media- military- industrial- Zionist- congressional complex” (their term, not mine), 7) “Mass social, cultural, and political brainwashing,” 8) “A lack of knowledge of history,” 9) “A lack of skepticism, curiosity and a sense of wonder,” 10) “A lack of humility to admit ignorance” (AHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA! ahem. AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!), 11) “The 9/11 lie is sacred.” There you have it. The worst analysis of anything ever. Notice, “we might, just possibly, be wrong” doesn’t occur to them. Also, I’m rather annoyed that their title does not use the word fable correctly, but that’s the English major in me, played in my fable by a knowledgeable, avuncular owl.
• Is the above “financial- terrorism- media- military- industrial- Zionist- congressional complex” related to Mike Adams’ “Chemical- agra- medical- pharma industrial complex business“?
• An interesting pairing provided by FederalJack, who I endorse for the entertainment value. First, “It’s Official, We Live in a Police State.” Less than an hour later: “Federal officials are circulating to all 18,000 U.S. law enforcement agencies a… civil rights video??!!” Nice f’ing police state. Here’s officer Lyons, the face of totalitarianism:

• Here’s another FederalJack screamer: “Who Are The Bankers That Benefit From The Norway Terror Attacks?” It’s like analysis, but without competency or reason.
• Are UFOs possibly video projections? Alex Jones thinks they might be.
• Korean pop star’s reputation ruined by conspiracy theory. No, not because he harbored one.
• I do not think that word means what you think it means: scapegoat.
• “High-ranking” people you have never heard of rent out space at National Press Club to prattle on about UFOs.
• A nice little essay about conspiracy theories and how they help the Arab world hurt itself.
• Andrew Rosenkranz discusses the increase of white supremacism in Florida. Also, he’s concerned that he keeps tossing “heads.”

• Sam Blumenfield examines “ The Hegelian Statist Virus in the Republican Party”.
• Fag judges may be fag-enabling fags. From the ever-delightful couple Charlie “Butts” and “Peter” LaBarbera.
• Let’s give Vigilant Citizen a shout out, eh wot? Be careful, fellas. That first model is actually a man.
• Moon base or volcano? You decide. Your answer will depend on whether or not you are already on the moon, however.
• Is Jewish Ex-Congressman Weiner’s Devout Muslim Wife, Working For Hillary Clinton, A Spy? This author is a horrid person. This is evidencelessness embodied. Just guilt by racist association, a new type of logical fallacy.
• Is someone at Above Top Secret actually thinking about inner-Earth-dwelling UFOs? Be still, my beating heart.
• I’ll let you decipher this: “Hoagland weaves together an intense eye-opener which connects Comet Elenin with September 11, the original masonic message, the bombing in Norway and the secret space program.”
• Here’s a bit of uncritical thinking: “Only a domestic terror attack can rescue Brand Obama.” How about growing a ball? That might help.
• Here’s one that was popular in the deliberately-misrepresent-o-sphere this week. My Pet Goat aficionado George W. Bush basically admitted that he was deliberately slow to move on 9/11, basically allowing it to happen on purpose, in order to not freak out a bunch of kids. I hate conspiracy theorists who make me defend Bush. Lots.
• New World Order’s favorite band? Megadeath.
• NaturalNews is positively soiling itself over what I will dub murder-weeds.
• Here’s a new one. They are no longer conspiracy theorists. They are “disinformation specialists.” Boy, do they ever not have irony.
• A UFO at the bottom of the Baltic Sea?
• The ADL on Sovereign Citizens, who actually scare me.
• This is interesting. The title is “Tea Party Pawns of the Illuminati,” but only a minority of people who read Before It’s News and vote on the veracity of the story think that’s a fact. I’m not going to say it’s because they are reasonable, but because a lot of them probably like the Tea Party. The funny thing about this is that Dick Armey, former House leader, if I remember correctly, helped fund the Tea Party through FreedomWorks. If you think that the Republicans are in the thrall of the Illuminati, why would you assume that the Tea Party wasn’t? I merely ask.
• Are UFOs controlling our ICBMs? Robert Hastings thinks so. Hear him not laughed out of a conversation:

• KXAS, a television station in Texas, captures a bug on camera, calls in UFO investigatiors. Why do they not call IIG? We look at this sort of thing all of the time! Decide for yourself:

• Here’s a survey of blurry globs of light in the sky. Or just aliens..I’m sorry. “Star Travelers.”
• Here’s a ripe little slice of hell: Alex Jones interviews Lydon LaRouche.
• UFO blogger reposts “History” channel documentary, “UFOs and the Old West,” or, Firefly.

Norway:

• That Norwegian nut Breivik expresses similar fears to those in the American anti-Sharia movement.
• Chip Berlet et al. on the far-right meme of “cultural Marxism,” which Breivik feared.
• On the Media found someone who actually read the 1500-word manifesto. Fascinating, and a must-read (ok, listen) analysis.
• Breivik covered in Iran: “Rothschild historian shares Anders Breivik’s Bat(ty) Zionist ideas about Muslims.” Yes, the site’s registered in Tehran.
• Zen Gardner sees a false flag operation. He never doesn’t.
• Michael Barkun, whose A Culture of Conspiracy is required reading in my classes, talked about the “Cultural Marxism” angle of the attacks and their real counterparts in America.

I figure a Michael Barkun reference is a good note to end on. It’s back into the trenches. Toodle-pip!

RJB