It may well be the thing that helps me get through the day.
Oh, man. I have to email this to my students.
RJB
No kidding! Al-qaeda bashes the Truthers! AHAHA!
September 29, 2011
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The Week in Conspiracy (25 Sept 2011)
September 25, 2011I’m recovering from a case of what was probably the Outbreak virus and working variously on numerous little projects, as always. But I’m not so busy that I would miss this week’s conspiracy theory round-up. I have been looking at some pretty horrid Christian Identity stuff lately, so I am a little more bitter than usual. It won’t appear here. You’re welcome.
- Jerome Corsi and Joseph Farah continue to paddle about in the shallow end of the pool with hard-hitting coverage of the President’s nationality. Also, Pat Boone comes out of the closet. As Birther! Sorry, don’t take that the wrong way!
- Barack Obama was manufactured by the CIA. I can’t tell if they mean literally, a la Lee Majors, or figuratively.
- At a UK event called Weird 11 (does that mean “slightly less improbable than Majestic-12”?), conspiracy theories are batted around like ping-pong balls. Also, I really like the idea of an organization called “Hospital Porters Against the New World Order.”
- Why is Homeland Security having drills on the same day that Elenin is in “alignment.” Also, what the hell is “alignment”? And what does it have to do with the Denver Airport? And have the folks from the Intel Hub forgotten to take their meds?
- In related news, sometimes asking questions is a sign of a healthy curious mind. Other times, not so much: “Barack Obama Colo. conspiracy theories: Is he avoiding Comet Elenin or leading nuclear test?“
- Also related: Infowars: “Creepy things are creepy.”
- UFOs are from Lake Erie, apparently. I like the title: “Claim: Giant UFO Base Under Lake Erie.” Unfortunately, they could not truthfully go with the headline: “Evidence: Giant UFO Base Under Lake Erie.”
- Here was five awesome minutes worth of research on my part. Some guy makes a video about transcripts of the radio chatter between the LEM and Command Module on Apollo 10 while they were behind the moon. This is cool enough for me, but then the crew members report hearing what they call music, “like andouter space-like thing”. Here’s the vid:
So the guy highlights a few quotes. Luckily, he zooms in enough on them so that at time 3:38, you can see that the noise is on channel VFH-A, which I dropped into the Googles and got an eminently reasonable explanation. Shielded by the moon, Apollo was not receiving any terrestrial broadcast, but broadcasts are not the only source of radio in the universe, or even the solar system. Lacking other radio sources, Jupiter would have been the loudest radio source in Earth’s lunar radio shadow. Guess what it sounds like?
Awesome! So, guys, do your homework. Learning is cool!
- My only excursion to 9/11 Trutherism this week (probably because I never get invited to the orgies of deception) is both unintentionally ironic and condescending. I think it’s a snippet from the most recent bigtime Truther vid, 9/11: Explosive Evidence: Experts Speak Out. In it, psychologists tell you exactly why you can’t let go of that feeling that the government is a warm cuddly friend who strokes your inner thigh every night as you drift off–COGNITIVE DISSONANCE! You can start to expect hearing this phrase used by Truthers (as I have recently–it’s a charge leveled against me twice here).
The funny thing is that absolutely nobody worth listening to takes their arguments seriously, so what do they do to correct the disparity between that reality and their understanding of the world? They invoke cognitive dissonance! Ahahaha! Damn, I love the irony. It’s like a loop-the-loop of fail.
- “What the Joint Special Ops Command and the Illuminati Have in Common” is the title and it is a compact world of hurt, let me tell you, beginning with the notion that it existed “throughout the 1800s” (it was totally non-existent by 1787) and ending with the assertion that the Illuminati were involved in the French Revolution (nope).
- You know, TPM, I’m getting tired of the phrase “extremist.” The people being discussed actually have views that distinguish them from others. You should use that more useful term. There’s nothing illegal with being extreme in your views.
- Brave patriots are standing up to fight the UN’s plan to encourage sustainable agricultural development, Agenda 21.
- NASA declares parts of the moon “off limits”–for some reason, probably related to aliens or alien cities or alien-human interbreeding or something.
- Yep. Vigilant Citizen. Symbolic pics. Yep.
- Even the John Birch Society has defenders.
- FederalJack reports that Susan Lindauer is getting death threats. Vigorously resists getting anything like independent confirmation.
- We Are Change NY is racist–ZOG is mentioned.
- There is only one explanation for this. UFOs are being transported to Las Vegas.
Conspiracy Theories of the Week:
- As a recipient of some of his death threats, I thought that this was timely. Dennis Markuze, aka David Mabus, is an undercover liberal planted to make certain conservatives (who I’m assuming share a worldview that they identify with) look as bad as Dennis Markuze.
- The other one comes through Alex Jones’s site: “Do dolphins speak in hieroglyphics and could we decipher them?” As long as they don’t say, “So long, and thanks for all the fish,” we’ll be OK.
And lastly a skeptical shout out to Tim Farley of whatstheharm.net, who has compiled a brief What’s the Harm rundown of real damage done by conspiracist beliefs.
That’s all everyone! Don’t take any wooden nickels. Or any all-nickel nickels, for that matter.
RJB
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The Week in Conspiracy 9/18
September 18, 2011I’m back. I’m almost done grading and can afford to give two hours to my last remaining joy, This Week in Conspiracy. I have a few weeks worth of stuff, since last week I stuck just to the 9/11 material that came through, most of which was actually recycled content. Oh well. Beats thinking.
- My favorite tweet of the week: “@JoshRosenau: My conspiracy theory of the day: Bachmann is a public health mole set out to highlight the insanity of anti-vaccine claims.” If you haven’t heard, Rep. Bachmann claimed that the HPV vaccine, a literal cure for multiple types of cancer, makes you mentally retarded. Stephen Colbert’s analysis was my favorite. Ron Paul’s supporters are now scaring people with anti-vaccine propaganda.
- UberBirther Joseph Farah declares his damage from the heavens!
- Russian creates time machine! In Soviet Russia, time machine creates you! And for some reason he thinks that the first thing everyone wants is to go back and stop the USSR from falling apart. ????
- Clearly, this drawing of the Atlanta bus routes proves that a giant supercomputer is in control of the world.
- The Posse Comitatus writes to the Record-Courier. Read those letters. Oregon is fucking scary.
- NASA Whistleblower, Alien Cities On Moon.
- How does someone who claims to be from Anonymous justify hacking celeb phones and posting their nudie shots? Badly:
“Attention Hollywood. We are Anonymous. We have been watching you. We have been listening to you. You have been allowed to run free too long. The time of Jew-controlled media is over. We are taking back the media with your faggot vampires and Scientology pastors. We are here for the people. We are here for the Lulz. We are here to stay. We have your lives. We have your blood, sweat and tears. Over the next couple of weeks, everyone will have them. We will rock you for ages. Consider this our acceptance speech for the Video Music Awards.”
- The Colbert Report is doing a segment on Denver International Airport conspiracy theories, or, the dumbest conspiracy theory ever.
- Feck. I am talking about anti-semitic aliens in class tomorrow (not joking). Here’s a twist. The Evil Jews are hiding the truth about the Nephilim and the Annunaki.
- Unfastened Coins: The Truth about the Titanic Cover-up!
- I’m sorry, maybe I’ve been grading too long, but this guy needs to focus his thesis.
- UFO or unidentified flying bird seen at a Notre Dame game (my alma mater!)
- Tennessee town bans tooth health.
- Here’s one of the worst sentences ever: “Mike Adams interviews Andrew Wakefield on Alex Jones’ show”:
- First review of Apollo 18 I’ve seen: It sucks.
- Federal Jack freaks the fuck out over weather modification. It’s clearly a roll cloud. There was one on Astronomy Pic of the Day earlier this month. They are pretty cool looking (last one has always been my fave). They are well understood, and grow the hell up.
This Week in Satan:
- “Shallow Satanists Stink up the Works.”
- “Satanic Cabal Threatens To Make San Francisco and Damascus “Uninhabitable.” I guess it’s good to have goals, but it just seems so random to me.
- Oh, I was called “Satan’s little helper” by the local truth community. Protip: There is no Satan only Zuul.
This Week in 9/11
- At 9/11 Investigate, were last week’s earthquakes nuclear strikes against underground military installations? Yes. By aliens.
- The Truth movement is going to take their message to the heart of darkness, the of power…Otterwa?
- At D-program, “Do 9/11 Truth critics have a case?” They say no, “No.” Thanks for clearing that up.
- Before 9/11 Alex Jones said that if there was an attack on 9/11, the government would be behind it. After nothing happens, he says that it was all just a big scare that the government was responsible for. It’s a study in confirmation bias in his followers–they forget the misses. Psychics and other scam artists rely on this type of silliness. What, Alex, did the towers collapse and not collapse too? (In which case, the terrorists took down Schrodinger’s Towers.) Regardless, the government is always wrong, no matter what.
- 9/11 is Occult-Based Trauma Mind Control.
- One of Robert Palmer’s backup dancers says that the Reality community is trying to discredit WTC7 Truth community’s claims by putting UFOs in footage of the collapse. I don’t see it, but I do see evidence of an internal collapse happening long before Truthers say it could have happened. I mean, really.
- Really? Iranian TV? Guess who did 9/11? JOOOOOOOOOS!
- The Beeb, who were in on 9/11, of course, give a rundown on the evolution of 9/11 conspiracy theories.
- Here’s a brightly polished turd: “9/11 Truth and Darwinism.”
- Skeptic Magazine and the Truthers.
- Man admits, “I did 9/11. My bad.“
- Oh this is just sad. If you want to discuss issues with your reps, make an appointment–you can. Don’t ambush them in the hall when they are going somewhere.
That’s all. No conspiracy theory of the week this week. I have to finish grading. Those two ideas aren’t actually connected, but I’ll let you think they were.
RJB
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Dear Internet, I’m Bob. I have arrived.
September 16, 2011
I totally have a new phone background.
For the backstory, or a version of the backstory, at least, go to We Are Change Atlanta. (Honestly, I was stunned to hear what I was up to.) Then go to my bosses at the “Georgia Tech Institute of Technology” [sic] and demand that I be fired, because it cracks me up.
RJB
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This Week in Conspiracy 9/11/11
September 11, 2011I wouldn’t have thought ten years ago that I would be doing what I’m doing now, blogging the strange ins and outs (mostly outs) of the conspiracist mind. If you haven’t heard, it’s been a decade since the World Trade Center attack. The country has not yet fully recovered from that incomprehensible day. I remember groping for some semblance of a narrative to explain what was unfolding in front of my eyes, and I clearly remember the sense of watching the second tower collapsing with a sense of the unreal.
Eventually that narrative emerged, but there are, as always, holdouts against reality, and to these people I now turn. There may be some old stuff in here. The deluge of 9/11 conspiracist stuff I’ve gotten on Twitter this week includes a lot of rehashed, long debunked stuff, especially youtube videos.
- Truthers deny 9/11 anniversary.
- I’m going to need to see 9/11 Conspiracy Roadtrip. Anyone have a link? Some Australians, usually the most sensible part of the realm, take issue with the documentary and call it a “hit piece.”
- David Chandler: Reciting Newton’s laws does not mean you are good at science.
- The Digital Cuttlefish has a brief appraisal and is mostly right about the Truthers. His Cuttliness also links to a few Slate articles about the Truthers.
- There is currently a conference in Toronto of 9/11 conspiracy theorists. It seems that they, like so much of the 19th century conspiratorial rhetoric agains the Jesuits I have been reading lately, are framing their arguments as a jury trial or at least focusing on forensic deliberation, only without the defense.
- Here are hacktivists claiming to have hacked Toronto jumbotrons.
- Well, hell. Mabus was right. Usenet prophecies about 9/11.
- Who controlled the planes?
- Wow. I found something worse than Rebecca Black. It was through David Icke’s site. This greasy cheese-eating troll and his bopping idiot consort better never meet a family member or they’re going to get disemboweled:
- FederalJack reminds us of the Israeli Mossad connection to 9/11, but forgets to remind us that the original report was withdrawn within 20 minutes by the outfit that released the info about Jooos on a bridge.
- The Truthers have started a 9/11 petition at a White House petition website. Be prepared to be completely ignored, gents.
- The Onion has their take on the week. I remember a week or so after the attacks when the Onion’s headline was perhaps the most accurate one I had yet seen: “HOLY FUCKING SHIT!”
- They also ran: “9/11 Memorial Curators Decide Not To Display Swastika Formed By Twisted Girders Found At Ground Zero.”
- Perhaps my favorite classic Onion film. Al Qaeda refutes 9/11 conspiracy theories. “Talking to you is like talking to a goat.”
- NEW EVIDENCE! FROM 2009!!! AN IRREFUTABLE YEAR!11!
- German politician loses all respectability by doubting 9/11. This is as it should be.
- Preemptive blame on the government (read the last line) from Alex Jones. Screw reliable sources. They have a time machine!
- Speaking of Jones, he has a reporter ask people whose opinions are utterly worthless if WTC7 was demolition. Also, it seems clear they could not find a credentialed reporter to work for Jones.
- Here’s a link to the original nanothermite paper. One of the collaborators of this pay-to-play journal article opted to retire instead of letting his peers at BYU review his work.
- An augmented reality app allows you to share your story of 9/11.
- Here’s a vid about all the witnesses to 9/11 dying. It’s spelled “dying,” Kevin.
- Popeye and the Intel Hub are indignant about…everything as always.
- Hey, this is nauseating: Christians for 9/11 Truth: A Call to Action.
- Wired discusses the 9/11 Truther comic. If someone could send me a pdf of this, I’d appreciate it. I’m not paying a dime for this tripe.
- There is nothing scarier than clicking on a link and seeing crazy person Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) smiling at you. Don’t click on this. She’ll smile at you.
- The 10-year anniversary ad campaign about Building 7 is launched by AE911Truth. I found a poster outside of my IIG-Atlanta meeting this morning announcing it, the same poster that popped up in Sydney:
- Susan Lindauer–not competent to assist her own espionage defense–Truther superstar.
- New group starts up: World911Truth.org.
- On Point did a story on Truthers. It was quite good, if you have not yet heard it.
- Isn’t the fact that (some) Truthers plan to tone it down on 9/11 sort of admitting that they don’t really have enough evidence to take the stand they are crowing about? If there are any Truther protests, they will do immense damage to their movement. So get out there, guys! AE911Truth Austin is heading out.
- Explosives at the Pentagon too.
- The Memoirs of a 9/11 Truth Activist.
- Here is a fair example of why I believe that we are not going to see the end of Trutherism in my lifetime. The two sides don’t speak the same language. And
- Allen L. Roland writes the worst, most exploitive thing ever.
- Veteran’s Today stunningly gets it right in their title: “I Can’t Even Begin to Understand.”
- From some bronie: “Oliver Stone: 9/11 Whitewasher and Sellout.”
- Rosie O’Donnell is still not clever. Twitter proves this.
- A 9/11 coloring book has been released. Released in the sense of anthrax, not in terms of publishing.
- David Icke and Luke Rudkowski: two bad things that go worse together.
- And speaking of the perpetual embarrassment machine, Luke managed to retrieve another not-a-story from the chairman of the 9/11 commission, while raising awareness of the uninstitutionalized mentally ill.
- Truth Davis (California) comes up with a deeply flawed statement of purpose. They aren’t even sure that a plane hit the Pentagon. How could ANYTHING they have to say be worth hearing?
- AE911Truth’s guide to exploiting the anniversary.
- Conspiracists: “After 10 Years, 75% of New Yorkers Never Saw Footage of WTC Building 7.” No. All you can say is that 75% don’t remember seeing it. I remember seeing it, and I was in St. Louis. What a strange cover-up.
- An older vid: Bill Cooper’s 9/11 Illuminati Satanic Ritual.
And that’s all. We’ll have double dose next week, as there is a lot of stuff I could not get to, like, all the non-9/11 conspiracy theories.
Update: A few weeks ago the archive.org put up a collection of 9/11 related news from the day of the attacks and other materials. I am told (below) that it is a woo-free zone.
RJB
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Interview with American Freethought
September 11, 2011I caught up with John and David from the American Freethought podcast at Dragon*Con, and they asked me to be on their show for the 9/11 episode. That interview is up right now. Go. Listen. Subscribe.
I am currently working on the 9/11 version of the “week in conspiracy,” but there is a lot. Go figure.
RJB
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My article in Skeptical Inquirer is out.
September 6, 2011Yeah, it’s pretty awesome. The long, unedited version is up at the CSI website.
“You Can’t Handle the Truthiness: A Night Out with the Truth Community”
Yay!
RJB
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This Week in Conspiracy (22 Aug 2011)
August 23, 2011You know, this torrent of goof is unforgiving and never lets up. Week after week I do this, and I honestly don’t expect anything at all (I’m not playing to the crowd or begging for attention or pity or anything). But it wears on you. In the past I have taken breaks, and I’m getting close right now, but for now, I feel compelled to slam my head into this ice cold bucket of surrealism once again and get my conspiracy on.
- So, David Duke authors a vid, “Zionist Terrorism in Norway.” The author sounds surprised that people might be offended by anything David Duke says. The comments are a nightmare, but nowhere nearly as bad as Dave’s hair:
- This week the wackosphere has been positively besotted with the misguided notion that a staged alien attack is around the corner. Or as Alex Jones put it: “Pay your carbon taxes to Al Gore or space aliens will attack.” A thoughtful reply.
- Ron Paul and FEMA death camps. ‘Nuff said.
- Why is NASA hiding the impending doom of earth? You see, Earth is entering an “intersteller energy cloud” that is upsetting the sun….Do they say that neutrinos are mutating? Anyway, this despite the fact that energy is not a Star Trek alien that hovers out there in amorphous cloud form. Hold on…I think I discovered why NASA isn’t reporting it. It’s because they were busy trying to figure out why Mercury was destroyed.
- The Association for Research and Enlightenment (aren’t they out of Harvard?) claims that they have found a pre-Ice Age civilization off of the Bahamas. I saw that this group is associated with “psychic” and “medical intuitive” Edgar Cayce. Yikes! Also, I want a cult! Why can’t I have a cult?!
- The paranoid underground seems to think that the Super Congress assembled to work on the budget is a sort of secret government. Also, John Kerry is a member of the Illuminati. Thought you’d like to know.
- Wow. There are still birthers.
- Sigh. Surprise, surprise. Vigilant Citizen thinks that the 27 Club is not only real, but apparently evidence of cult sacrifice.
- Ah, Susan Lindauer, who was found mentally unfit to contribute to her own defense when she was brought up on spying charges, was in LA speaking to the appropriately acronymed WACLA (We Are Change LA). Two things: 1) What’s with the dogs playing poker? and 2) Did that guy use the word “critical thinking”?
- From Carl Zimmer: Death threats leveled at chronic fatigue researchers. “No one’s bombed a lab,” he says, but the same can’t be said for researchers in nanotechnology.
- Racism and Hobbit metaphors. Who do you think is the Dark Lord is in this Canada Free Press article?
- Vatican and NASA pairing up either to discuss alien life, disclose the truth about aliens, or build a stairway to heaven.
- Mike Adams has a man-crush on Alex Jones.
- NATO? No, it’s now ZATO–the Zionist Alliance for Total Occupation. Take this thoughtful comment, for instance: “ZATO is a murder machine based on a web of lies, for the sole purpose of profit at any cost. It is the military arm of ZOG. Kim Kardashian is a murder machine, fueled by the corporations who pimp her as an icon for successful existence. It’s a fitting irony that she has no talent at anything but this and that is enough for most.” Later on, aligning Jews with Satanism, it reeks of Christian Identity.
- “Wake up to the falsehood, man!” Someone, not North Korea this time, takes Onion as fact.
- Hey, this is classy. 9/11-brand memorial wine.
- It’s a cure for cancer. I’m not joking. It makes cancer not happen in the first place. It’s the philosopher’s stone of public health, and we have it now. It’s the height of evil, in my opinion, that Natural News would suggest that scientists are hiding cures for cancer and offering instead, what, bran flakes and homeopathic grass clippings or whatever instead. Here’s something about Rick Perry.
- Here’s a good one. “World Government assaulting children with vaccines.” The guy calls himself doctor, but it’s an OMD: Doctor of Oriental Medicine. AHAHA! For over the self-aggrandizing dishonest title, bucko. You haven’t earned it.
- Are chemtrails related to today’s earthquake? HMMM?
- I think that Richard Gage has woken up and smelled the money. He’s looking to raise $1,000,000 for an ad campaign.
- Someone put one of my online handles up as an Israeli shill on /reddit.
- Here’s a party you don’t want to attend: “Dimitri The Lover, manager of The Scumballys, will address the crowd with his thoughts on 9-11, the New World Order’s conspiracy to feminize men, and where the world is heading in the next few years.” Count me in Canada for that one, suckers!
- Pamela Geller, who was heavily cited in the Breivik manifesto, is an abominable abomination with extra abominosity.
- A kid in a basement pretends he’s Anonymous and declares a war on the New World Order.
- Bob Tuskin asks, “Was the Titanic an Inside Job?” Yes, the iceberg was hired by the White Star Line, Bob.
- When I say that conspiracy theorists can’t tell truth from fiction, I’m not speaking metaphorically, people. “Armageddon is real.” OHMYGOD! We actually have a black president now! Oh, wait. That was Deep Impact. Morgan Freedman playing..PRESIDENT BECK!
- Aw, it’s so cute. Someone is still scared of Freemasons.
- I bet that John McTernan is regretting that tattoo now.
That’s it for now, folks. Getting ready for DragonCon and other events. Also, classes have started again, and my conspiracy theory class is getting off to a good start. Very excited.
RJB
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Illuminati Mind Control Lemur Baby
August 18, 2011A clear example of Illuminati mind control extending to other species is this image of a lemur:
This is what Vigilant Citizen does all day.
But I’m not satisfied with that. It needs something else…
Ah, that's better!
RJB
UPDATE: Eve just dubbed her “Lemur Baby Gaga.”
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This week in conspiracy (14 August 2011)
August 15, 2011Welcome. This week, the 9/11 Truthers were proved right about everything. Everything. Except the stuff that they were talking about. And yet they are crowing about Richard Clarke’s speculation about any relationship between the CIA and 2 of the 9/11 hijackers, unsubstantiated by evidence by his own admission, as if it was vindication of some sort. He just has questions, and when the stakes are this high, questions are not enough.
So, let’s break this down. Clarke wonders why the names of 2 known al-Qaida members were not known to the White House until 9/11 itself. He speculates that the CIA was trying to “turn” them into spies, which would give them access to intelligence about al-Qaida. Even if that is true, it clearly didn’t work. The entire premise of Clarke’s speculation is that the CIA was unable to get them to work with them. Failure all around then.
- UK Ministry of Defence dumps another batch of UFO-related files.
- Where does it say in this VISA commercial that it is meant to be a literal rendering of the future?
- You know, if Anthony Keadis were a member of the Illuminati, you’d think he’d have someone write better lyrics. If you want a laugh, or possibly a cry, see the comments.
OK, I’m going to dwell on Vigilant Citizen for a minute because I see it every week, and it doesn’t get any less weird or any more reflective as time passes. Just more pictures of people covering one eye, triangles or pyramids, and robot-people. Also, he has discovered that some advertisers use sex to promote whatever they are promoting. (Jaw hits floor.) For all the hysterics over there, I just don’t get what all the occult symbolism is supposed to be for, other than for him to yell, “See! Triangle!” and his readers to go, “I am sooo disappointed in triangles.” The one-eye thing, apparently, is supposed to be Illuminati/Masonic. Therefore, every time that you see only one eye of a subject being photographed, the Illuminati is sending a secret message, “Hi! We’re the Illuminati. Or possibly Masons.” Maybe I’m just a sheeple (I guess the singular is sheeperson), but I just don’t get the why.
And another thing. VC has a whole “sex-kitten” thing. If there’s a woman in a cat suit or with cat-eye mascara, what? Looking at the OED, I’d say that the earliest use of “sex kitten” is around the early 1950s. (Their first entry is 1958, but as a precaution I usually extend the phrase back a bit to allow for unrecorded oral usage of a word or term.) The Illuminati is making a Hefnerian sexist visual pun? Really? Again, to what end? Yeah, sex sells records (VC is especially concerned with the music industry), but it also sells car polish and Q-tips. I really don’t understand the impulse behind the interpretations and premises of the behind the Vigilant Citizen website.
By the way, when I was looking at the compound words/phrases that have sex in them, my favorite was a “sex mosaic”. I thought it was something you found in Pompeii’s frisky frescoes, but no, it is “an individual having some cells that are genetically of one sex and the rest of the other sex.” You learn something new every day.
- Dr. Joe “Wubble” Mercola: “GM Yellow Rice a ‘Trojan Horse.’ “ Yes, it’s a way of smuggling Vitamin A into Troy, er, poor people.
- I always look forward to neo-Nazis getting pranked, and there was a good one this week.
- Aaron Dykes, the least charismatic presenter in the history of changing the channel, promises that the globalist extermination list is out, but then doesn’t give it up.
- Of course, over at Before It’s News, they said that recent raids on raw food clubs (which are violating federal health laws–yes, people who buy unprocessed milk are putting themselves and their kids at risk, whether they think they are or not) are part of the eugenic plan, presumably the same one that Aaron was talking about. Or another one. He didn’t mention unprocessed milk.
- Federal Jack and Mike Adams, two bad things that go worse together, named leaders of the “government terrorism” Rawesome Foods raid, that is, the people who were on the warrant. Yeah, terrorism has a different meaning where I live.
- As the people BIN freak out over the impending destruction of Earth by Comet Elenin (this is a pretty trippy video, also hilarious–also, I may have put it up last week), NASA scientist assures us that his “subcompact automobile exerts a greater influence on the ocean’s tides than comet Elenin ever will.” It’s called physics, buddy. Get some.
- For some reason, the Atlantean Brotherhood Cult (the “About Us” page misleadingly does not say “We’re nuts!”), which I’ve never heard of, has been switching babies in Hollywood: “Emma Watson is now known to secretly be the daughter of actors Brian Dennehy and Bonnie Bedelia.” This is just the craziest thing that I have seen all night.
- This is a close second, however:
- On Hiroshima Day (cla-aaaaasy), the Centre for Research on Globalization scrounged up “America’s Planned Nuclear Attack on Libya.” When this does not happen, will they grovel and apologize for being so utterly and catastrophically wrong? Or doubt themselves? At all?
- Are genetically modified crops killing the bees? Probably not.
- The FBI looks for crazy ideologues hording weapons and ammo. TheIntelHub objects.
- I love that Alex Jones thinks that Rick Perry is being groomed by the Bilderbergers to be the next president. He’s being groomed by the Jesuits, which is completely different.
- Here’s one that really seemed like a logical fallacy, but when Eve and I looked at it, it wasn’t exactly a non sequitor and it wasn’t exactly a false analogy:
When it comes to condemning theft, however many trainers, mobile phones and designer clothes have been stolen by the London rioters, they are petty crooks compared to the thievery that has BP, with the aid of the western powers, quite literally stealing control of Iraq’s most valuable resource: the oil which was the main motivation for the invasion in 2003.
We decided to christen this one a “false sequitor.”
- Hey! New a theory about bin Laden. Get this: Bin Laden was guarded by Pakistan in exchange for Saudi cash! What, where are you going? You know what, I’m not convinced that bin Laden was being housed by Pakistan. He was an enemy of Pakistan. He was smart enough to never use a phone and only communicate by trusted courier. He was clearly smart enough to STAY INSIDE. What do the people in the neighborhood who don’t believe that he was there think, that he would be outside mowing the lawn, waving and issuing death threats to the infidel children in the neighborhood?
- Speaking of 9/11, an international hearing on 9/11 will begin in Toronto in September. It will have all the respect and legal authority of a model UN session. From 911Truth.org.
- Townhall.com is coughing up their usual gobs of delightful anti-Muslim conspiracist wackloonery. And OneNewsNow is not far behind.
- From DontTreadonMe.com, “5 Reasons Why American Riots Will Be the Worst In the World.” “BECAUSE WE’RE NUMBER ONE, BABY! U-S-A! U-S-A!” Seriously, this is Silver Shield’s a love letter to America.
- The Onion on the rise of hate groups in the American Northwest.
- From Veterans Today. Jewish/Zionist 5th column responsible for riots. Not, you know, the rioters.
- Did David Mabus join the 911 Truth movement now that he can’t threaten atheists with death?
- Wow. I’m posting something from CNBC. And it mentioned Hofstadter. This will never happen again.
- Jews making Christians outlaws. From Al-Jazeerah.
- “Japanese Government Prepares to Flee Tokyo–Nothing To Do with Radiation?” No, and it has everything to do with that GIGANTIC CREATURE RISING FROM THE DEEP!
This week in Ron Paul:
Well, the first Republican debate was hosted ahead of the Iowa primary. Ron Paul was
Well, after the debate, I got this tweet from FederalJack:
FederalJack
HELP RON PAUL WIN THE FOXNEWS POLL ON THE DEBATE. LET THEM TRY TO COVER THIS ONE UP… foxnews.com/opinion/2011/0…
2 minutes ago
Then a little later:
FOXNEWS MADE A SECOND DEBATE POLL, VOTE FOR PAUL IN THIS ONE AS WELL.
topix.com/issue/fox/gop-…
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply
Of course, FederalJack clearly illustrated why Paul will never win a national election:
FederalJack
Ron Paul: I Think The Feds Real Goal Is To Depreciate The Currency #RonPaul #RonPaul2012 #IowaStrawPoll
#GOP2012
The Ron Paul movement is getting too culty for comfort:
In related news, NPR the strange obsession with the gold standard that dogs the Paulite movement made national news as the price of gold went ever higher amid market concerns. And, honestly, the Planet Money reporter could only say, “Yeah, it makes no sense,” which is what I thought. Gold does not hold intrinsic value, like gold investors/merchants tell you. The fact that it is so high right now proves that it is valued like every other commodity, relative to other commodities. This, of course, is not what Dr. Mercola is saying. Yeah, apparently he gives out economic advice. What do you think the chances hare that he has gold interests? The current gold craze is an American Tulip boom, and people who are scared now are buying high, which will bite them when the price plummets, leaving them even worse off than they are now. Of course, in the strange media landscapes I wander, gold is pushed by a huge number of advertisers. Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, all these conspiracy theorists are getting paid to push gold. Who do you think is going to come out ahead? Not the investors, that’s for sure.
But back to the primary, Michelle Bachmann, who came to prominence a few years ago when she suggested that there should be investigation into members of Congress for being un-American (at about the 9:30 mark), appalling, well, the world, won. She recently signed an anti-Sharia document (which, for some reason, went out of its way to mention that black families were more stable under slavery–?!?!?!), which takes as an object of fear the exact same thing that Anders Breivik was worried about when he went on his rampage a few weeks ago. Well, Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker looked into her beliefs as evidenced by her book recommendations and what she has said are the most influential books in her life. The reading list is scary (NPR interview with Lizza), people, and she just won Iowa. She cited Francis Schaeffer’s series, “How Should We Then Live?” (which deteriorated into screeds about how the government was dumping chemicals into the water supply) and David Noebel, whose bizarre take on the country’s history has become popular in homeschooling circles [I believe he was an advisor to the Texas school board’s history committee] , even though he penned a classic conspiracist tract that accuses the Beatles of being part of a communist plot to to exert mind-control over teens by using rhythmic beats. (It’s called, “Communism, Hypnotism, and the Beatles,” and I’ve taught it.) Brannon Howse’s Worldview Weekend republished something of Noebel’s this week: “National Association of Evangelicals Pro-Communist?” Really? She won Iowa? If she wins the whole thing, I’m Splitsville.
Oh, and Rick Perry is not inviting more level-headed people to the stage at his “The Response” prayer rally. Jonathan Kay notes that one of the invited speakers thinks that the Statue of Liberty is a Masonic/Illuminati symbol.
Conspiracy Theory of the Week:
Let’s end on a happy note: Michael Jackson announces his comeback performance. Yep.
There’s more, but that’s all I have in me.
RJB
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