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YouTube does not care Sargon of Akkad is helping Alex Jones’ Infowars dodge a ban
By: Matthew Dimitri
Tags: Susan Wojcicki, Conspiracy Theories, Alex Jones, Infowars, YouTube

YouTube does not care Sargon of Akkad is helping Alex Jones’ Infowars dodge a ban Matthew Dimitri Sep 2, 2019·3 min read

( Melissa Joskow / Media Matters)

On August 30th, a YouTuber named Claudia Brown tweeted out a screenshot of Sargon of Akkad publishing a video on his channel that featured him and Alex Jones in studio, at Infowars.

The video has now amassed over 300,000 views.

Sargon of Akkad wrote in a pinned YouTube comment ‘hey folks, hosting this is pretty risky so you better follow me on the following platforms,’ linking to the platforms he has not been banned from, including Telegram, the far-right haven anti-Semites and Laura Loomer fled to after being kicked off virtually every medium.

Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) tells his followers hosting Infowars is risky on August 30th

A review by MMFA exposed 14 channels that streamed Infowars content; the channels were banned reportedly on (6/21/19). Ironically, YouTube is still hosting channels from Infowars personalities.

Right Wing Watch reported, that one of the 14 channels banned after a MMFA review called “General Shepherd” was resurrected without explanation.

The mixed messages YouTube sends to the public about its terms of service was highlighted on August 30th after YouTube decided to exemplify its “openness” by reinstating Infowars’ “War Room” YouTube channel, as first reported by Vice then Right Wing Watch.

Infowars’ “War Room” channel managed to stay up on YouTube for a few hours without consequence. Shortly after Vice’s Motherboard Vertical reported Infowars’ return to YouTube the channel was removed.

(Screen shot from YouTube, captured by Right Wing Watch August 30, 2019.)

YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, invited “offensive” content back onto the site by publishing a letter to YouTube’s creators on the company’s official blog. “Without an open system, diverse and authentic voices have trouble breaking through,” she wrote. “I believe preserving an open platform is more important than ever.”

It would be nice if YouTube cleared up why its acceptable to continue to host Infowars personalities on its platforms,notably, Islamophobe Paul Joseph Watson has gone unnoticed and posts content, unhindered.

(Though he was banned from Facebook and Instagram in May.)

Watson boasts over 1.7 million subscribers on YouTube and once said depression shouldn’t be a ‘medical condition’ and titled a video: “Why Are Feminists Fat & Ugly?”

(Screenshot from YouTube captured September 2, 2019)

Jones and his misery merchants augmented the grief and despair of Sandy Hook parents who lost their children, by saying the shooting was a false flag.
Mikhail Gorbachov / Gorbachev — In Russia Mandela Affects you!
By: Nathaniel Hébert
Tags: Mikhail Gorbachev, Conspiracy Theories, Parallel Universes, Quantum, Mandela Effect

The Grooming of Gorbachov

To anyone who lived through the 80s, Mikhail Gorbachov played a central figure on the political landscape, so it was a surprise to see his name is now spelled as “Gorbachev”!

Gorbachov selected as new Soviet chief

There’s thousands of articles in newspaper archives, all using the Mikhail Gorbachov spelling multiple times with authority. Articles reviewing his books, his Time Man of the Year awards, his political aspirations—all from journalists who should know better.

Can Mikhail Gorbachov convert his personal triumph into victory for the Soviet nation?

Which do you remember? Gorbachov or Gorbachev?

Mikhail Gorbachov: He could be the man to get Russia moving

Album of “Gorbachov” residuals: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nathanielhebert/albums/72157710663658616

Man of 1987 Mikhail Gorbachov may be for Time magazine. Author of the year he is not.

The Sixth Continent: Russia and the Making of Mikhail Gorbachov

The Sixth Continent: Russia and the Making of Mikhail Gorbachov

The Sixth Continent: Russia and the Making of Mikhail Gorbachov—reprint still contains the “Gorbachov” name on the cover.

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Of Aliens and UFOs
By: David Shorb
Tags: UFO, Conspiracy Theories, Culture, Science Fiction, Opinion

My growth in to a believer of UFOs and alien life is backed up with science. The Drake Equation which is as follows:

N = R* • fp • ne • fl • fi • fc • L

N = The number of civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy whose electromagnetic emissions are detectable. R* = The rate of formation of stars suitable for the development of intelligent life. fp = The fraction of those stars with planetary systems. ne = The number of planets, per solar system, with an environment suitable for life. fl = The fraction of suitable planets on which life actually appears. fi = The fraction of life bearing planets on which intelligent life emerges. fc = The fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space. L = The length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space.

It’s impossible with the percentage of planets and stars that there isn’t alien life out there. Alien life exists and we may or may not have seen it; And that is the debate. Have aliens visited our planet? The amount of sightings we have annually, well over several thousand a year world wide. Some spots in the world seem to have more than others.

Even with the Fermi paradox, I still think that there is life out there that is different yet similar to us. I think we just haven’t looked in the right place yet. Given enough time, we will find life like ours on a planet similar to ours.
YouTube Aims to Stop COVID-19 Conspiracies
By: Duffey Anderson
Tags: Fake News, Conspiracy Theories, Conspiracy, Covid 19, YouTube

It has recently been in the news that people are burning 5G equipment due to the spreading COVID-19 conspiracies on social media. In Liverpool (U.K.) especially these attacks on 5G masts have been prevalent. The mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, has reported receiving threats related to their 5G towers. With famous actor Woody Harrelson even sharing a social media post linking COVID to 5G towers, it’s been a popular topic of discussion on platforms.

As more people start to believe in the COVID-19 conspiracies many social media platforms have begun to take action against the spread of “fake news” on their platforms.The most recent platform to crack down on fake news is YouTube. YouTube recently stated that they have started removing videos that promote “medically unsubstantiated methods to prevent the coronavirus in place of seeking medical treatment.” In addition to that YouTube is also making sure to reduce recommendations of content that are related to coronavirus and 5G.

While some users claim that censoring information on platforms takes away from their freedom others are applauding YouTube’s actions. The fact is that “fake news” has been a major issue on social media platforms and in the face of a global pandemic its implications can have deadly consequences if not controlled. While YouTube’s restrictions can negatively affect holistic medicine and well-being businesses who promote on the platform, it’s a necessary step that has the possibility to save lives. This is a difficult time for social media platforms where they have to make the decision between “freedom of the press” or staying true to their Corporate Social Responsibility.

Original Article: https://mashable.com/article/youtube-5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories/
Conspiracy Theory Chronicles
By: Ilie Mihut
Tags: Conspiracy Theories

Chapter 2

So, Bill and Jill, the old couple from Britney in the continent of Oz were having their coffee with Baileys and watching the news. The news about the Guvid-19bis of course.

It was this bunch of scientists from the BHO (Burth Health Organisation) visiting the meat markets and the zoos in Yuhan and trying to figure out if the virus was a proper zoo one and enhanced in a Yuhan lab later or it was created in the lab and released in the “wild” after that.

Probably I forgot to mention that Yuhan is a city in Fackina, a country ruled by the Orange Yellow rulers with an iron fist. So those scientists from BHO were strictly controlled and shown only the “innocent” bit of the Guvid story. While in Fackina, the BHO delegation was very careful about blaming the Orange Yellow dudes for the Guvid pandemic, and for a very good reason: In Fackina you are against the government, and you will be transported into another universe, The Death Universe!

Well, after arriving in their home countries, the BHO scientists started talking about wild bats and pangolins, about the whole Yellow continent being infested with the Guvid virus, and mostly about the fact that they did not have access to the raw data they requested, and they were shown only what the Fackina government wanted which was not very much!

Back to Bill and Jill and their coffee, they started talking about the news they were watching and one thing leading to another Bill started thinking about another crazy conspiracy theory:

Let us imagine, said Bill, that the Guvid-19bis virus was created indeed in that lab in Yuhan, tested for some months on the Yellow population in Yuhan and the surrounding provinces and after a while, the virus was enhanced based on the tests.

Now, the enhanced Guvid-19bis, which was a proper name for the enhanced virus (the original virus was just Guvid-19!) became a proper biological weapon, ready to be unleashed on the planet. Soon they did just that and the planet was facing a nasty pandemic.

The big question was as Bill said, why, why release such a “beast” against every country on the planet?

Well, the answer is quite simple: The Fackina government did that to gain economic domination of the planet! Their scenario worked perfectly, country after the country went into lockdown, their economies collapsed, or were we very close to collapse and in a couple of months, the Fackinian economy became the strongest on the planet.

It seems that the Fackina government knew their Sun Tzu “Art of War” very well because they managed to conquer the world not with nuclear bombs, but with a very tiny but deadly virus!

As you know, Bill and Jill are two old, retired people living peacefully in Britney the main city of Oz, sometimes getting bored and coming up with crazy theories about everything!

Until next time, ta, ta and do not forget to wash your masks!
Don’t believe the hate: New Alex Jones on Joe Rogan is what the net was made for
By: Eliott Edge
Tags: UFO, Conspiracy Theories, Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, Podcast

Don’t believe the hate: New Alex Jones on Joe Rogan is what the net was made for Eliott Edge Feb 28, 2019·2 min read

Like Joseph Heller said, ‘Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.’

I have been listening to Joe Rogan’s recent follow-up interview with Alex Jones and Eddie Bravo, and it’s exactly what the internet was made for. Less than 30 hours old and the new Rogan is already boasting 3.6 million views. In fact, it would be listed as trending on YouTube, as many of Rogan’s videos frequently are, but it already seems that YouTube has gone out of the way to obscure the screaming popularity of the video—likely because YouTube and other social media platforms hate Alex Jones.

In the roaring 4 hours and 40 minutes, Rogan, Bravo, and Jones blast into an onslaught that includes and overview of the total web of global conspiracy, interdimensional aliens, psychedelic drugs, transhumanism, Jones’s recent expulsion from the major social media platforms, his new dislike for Trump, as well as Rogan and Jones’s bromance.

The show is a nonstop manic ride behind the curtain of popular history. The interview vacillates between genuinely horrifying campfire stories (some of which very well seem true—the importing of Nazis into America after World War II for example) and into long laughing jags over the bizarrerie that surrounds esoterica and conspiracies.

Bravo: “True or False. The Mayan’s smoked penis blood?” Rogan: [Laughs] Jones: “They did.” Bravo: “They did!” Rogan: “What!?”

One of the most freaky parts of their deep dive into the underground is watching Jones provide back-up citation after back-up citation to nearly every too-evil-to-be-true claim that he drops throughout the interview.

This might not be for everyone — and regardless if you believe any of what you hear or not—for me, it is easily one of the most entertaining moments in media history that I have ever since watching Mark Zuckerberg testify before Congress about Facebook on Facebook Live. My advice: this should be among the last articles you read about this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. Reading about this media power-bomb is not enough. Everything you read will be forever unable to get within a light-year’s striking distance to the absolutely transcendent wildness of this podcasts.

It’s good to see Jones and Rogan are friends again.

Highly recommend. It must be experienced.
How Many Pringles Combos Are There?
By: Ethan Moore
Tags: Statistics, Food, Super Bowl, Conspiracy Theories, Pringles

America stopped and wondered when the question was posed mid-Super Bowl: “How many Pringles flavor stack combinations are there?” Could the Amazon Alexa knockoff have been correct when it said 318,000?

Just googling the question gets us nowhere.

But is this true?

To answer this, let’s get the facts. According to Pringles’ product page, there are 17 different flavors of Pringles chips (not including the “wavy” products). This may seem low considering 20 cans are shown to be clearly and wastefully open in the frame above, but clearly there are some duplicates mixed in.

So, as was suggested in the commercial, we’ll assume that a “stack” is a combination of 3 Pringles.

NOTE: Pringles has a virtual chip stacking experience that offers 17 unique flavor options and has stacks of 3, so this analysis can officially be continued in good faith of the corporate potato chip overlords.

Now we have a decision to make. Is Cheddar-Jalapeno-Sour Cream and Onion the same as, say, Sour Cream and Onion-Cheddar-Jalapeno? The question posed in the commercial specifically said “combinations,” which would mean we should count the two stacks as identical. But as an experienced Pringles eater, I think the two stacks above should be treated differently (as they will certainly taste different), which means the real question should have been “How many Pringles flavor stack permutations are there?”

Because we are looking for the number of possible permutations with repetition (Jalapeno-Jalapeno-Jalapeno is a valid “stack”), this is the relevant formula where n is the number of different items to choose from and r is the number of items we are selecting.

In our case, we are picking 3 chips out of 14 possible chip flavors. So what’s 17³? Is it 318,000? I really hope it’s 318,000.

It’s not. It’s 4,913. There are only 4,913 Pringles flavor stack permutations. But that doesn’t sound as good on a multi-million dollar commercial.

But Ethan! That wasn’t the question! The question was how many combinations are there?

Well if you want to be a stickler, we’ll have to look at this equation, the one for number of combinations with repetition allowed:

I’ll spare you the pain of thinking about how that equation works. With 17 flavor possibilities and stacks of 3, there are 969!

THAT’S NOT 318,000.

The weirdest part about this statistical farce of a “commercial” is that I can’t even figure out where 318,000 came from. Did they actually just choose a number out of nowhere? I think that’s possible. Maybe they counted a “stack” as any grouping of chips of any size, but then there would be infinite combinations, so that can’t be it. Even if we looked at the number of permutations (there are always more permutations than combinations when using the same n and r values) of every product that Pringles sells, there are still only 39,270!

So in short, there are far fewer than 318,000 unique stacks of Pringles. If this advertisement was a ploy to get statistics students to write articles about the inaccuracy of their claim in the name of free advertising, it worked.
I Can Confirm The Illuminati Are Real And Only Formed To Film The Music Video For Katy Perry’s ‘Swish Swish”
By: Benjamin Hayslett
Tags: Katy Perry, Music, Illuminati, Conspiracy Theories, Comedy

I Can Confirm The Illuminati Are Real And Only Formed To Film The Music Video For Katy Perry’s ‘Swish Swish” Benjamin Hayslett May 9, 2019·2 min read

A secret society known as the “Illuminati” controls the highest level of global politics, economics, and news media. I can confirm that we exist and the group only formed to produce a music video for the third single off of Katy Perry’s comeback album “Witness.”

The Illuminati is a complex organization with underground operatives in different cities across the world. Our secret society has members that are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, Prime Ministers, and Nobel-winning scientists. All of these connections came in handy when The Illuminati began to move forward with the first phase of our plan: securing enough funding to film the complex visuals for Perry’s video.

For decades we operated in the shadows towards our goal of a clandestine totalitarian world government. The Kennedy Assassination, the abduction of the Lindbergh baby, 9/11; these were all things we considered doing before ultimately deciding we needed to focus on the extensive pre-production for a music video in which Katy Perry does a 360° dunk in front of The Backpack Kid.

I can finally reveal that the Illuminati is a secret society hell-bent on infiltrating global centers of influence, working to establish a New World order. So far the majority of this work has been making sure we got a nice camera, some cool costumes, and figured out how to put in some CGI effects to the little video we made for Perry’s song.

Now that the Illuminati are no longer operating in secret, I can confirm celebrities have always played an important role in transmitting our message to millions of people. However, when we approached Madonna and Britney Spears in early 2017 about appearing in the video alongside Perry, we were not able to offer them enough money. We got Nicki Minaj, which felt pretty good. But once we got down to the extensive logistics associated with running a Union film set, we abandoned some of the grander parts of our vision and ended up just transmitting our message through Molly Shannon, Gaten Matazzaro, Terry Crews and Football Meat Man in the music video that supported Katy Perry’s fifth studio album.

After years of work we have finally secured the reigns of power we believe will establish a New World Order. Funding and producing a high-level music video took a lot of time and we are really hoping this pays off.
Tim Draper of DFJ calls COVID-19 “Fake Flu” & Claims Government Conspiracy
By: Adam Walker
Tags: Conspiracy Theories, Covid 19, Coronavirus, Tim Draper

We can travel very easily…. And that is very scary for people in governments today, for a lot of people. Because their livelihoods and their way of thinking has been determined by that tribalism. Well, now, I hate to say it, but this fake flu is creating a tribalism again.

Today I attended an AMA given by Tim Draper in Bangalore, India.

Billionaires like Tim Draper are influential people and they have a social responsibility. That is why they cannot call the COVID-19 a “fake flu”. And they cannot casually claim that the global public health response to the virus is an excuse by governments to protect their vested interests.

This trivializes the global epidemic and creates mistrust in local governance.

Here is a recording from the event:

Recording of Tim Draper’s AMA | 12/03/20, Bangalore, India

Tim Draper: (00:00)

“And we were all tribal and it’s like, Hey, don’t cross this line. Because we’re big, and if you don’t cross the line and I don’t cross the line, we don’t have to go to war. If you find your clothing, shelter and food, I’ll find my clothing, shelter and food, we’re good. And the borders really meant something. Well they now, they don’t mean that much. We can travel very easily. We can communicate through Skype or Zoom or whatever very easily. We can see each other, it doesn’t matter where we are in the world. We can all do business with each other, get to know each other. All of this stuff is now happening and we’re all realizing that we don’t really need this border. And that’s starting to happen. And that is very scary for people in governments today, for a lot of people. Because their livelihoods and their way of thinking has been determined by that tribalism.”

Tim Draper: (01:13)

“Well, now, I hate to say it, but this fake flu is creating a tribalism again. It’s like, no, you can’t go from your country to our country because of the fake flu. It’s a big excuse to get from one place to another. And I’m thinking that this is them responding, or I think it’s a temporary thing. I mean, the flu is going to go, nobody’s going to… It’s going to be like all the other flus though, a little bit more, a little bit scarier. A tiny bit scarier. But it’s just going to come and go, and they are using this to try to get back to that tribalism. We are so far beyond the tribalism now that I think countries are now going to have to start competing for us.”
Beacon of Hope
By: Corbin Hicks
Tags: Natural Disasters, Professional Sports, Conspiracy Theories, Sports, Coincidence

Hey,

Not sure if you heard, but the Houston Astros are cheaters. From everything I’ve seen so far, it’s pretty clear the almost everyone in the Astros organization knew about this cheating and did nothing to stop it from happening. The Astros cheating had the serendipitous effect of uniting the entire city of Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, and it made me wonder about other sports champions that won titles in the wake of devastating tragedies. This list is what I’ve found after a few cursory Google searches. Make of this what you will.

October 17, 1989 — Loma Prieta earthquake hits California’s Central Coast and Bay Area, before Game 3 of the World Series

October 28, 1989 — the Oakland Athletics defeat the San Francisco Giants in the World Series, both located on either side of the San Francisco Bay

September 11, 2001 — Terrorists attack the World Trade Center in New York City

October 22, 2001 — The New York Yankees beat the Seattle Mariners to make it to the World Series, where they ultimately lose in Game 7 to the Arizona Diamondbacks

February 3, 2002 — The aptly named New England Patriots win Super Bowl XXXVI over the St. Louis Rams

August 2005 — Hurricane Katrina hits the New Orleans area

February 7, 2010 — New Orleans Saints win Super Bowl XLIV over the Indianapolis Colts

April 15, 2013 — Boston Marathon bombing takes place

October 30, 2013 — Boston Red Sox win the 2013 World Series over the St. Louis Cardinals

August 2017 — Hurricane Harvey hits the Houston area

November 1, 2017 — Houston Astros win the World Series over the Los Angeles Dodgers

May 22, 2017 — Terrorist bombing at Manchester Arena after an Ariana Grande concert

2017–2018 Premier League season — Manchester City wins the Premier League title with a record setting 100 point season. Manchester United finishes in 2nd place.

July 14, 2016 — cargo truck kills 86 people after ramming into people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France

July 15, 2018 — France wins the 2018 FIFA World Cup, beating Croatia in the Final

Basically, every recent tragedy has led to championship victory for that affected area except for two: 2012’s Hurricane Sandy and 2014’s Snowmageddon. Do better Atlanta.
QotD
By: Where Angels Fear
Tags: Quotes, Conspiracy Theories, Quote Of The Day, Jfk, Mental Illness

QotD

© Me 2020

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Have they always been with us in these numbers and we’re only now noticing because the Interwebz means they can all get in touch with each other and share the same delusion, like some weird coming out ‘pride’ festival for Jung’s collective Id? Or is the human race simply sliding inexorably into an idiocracy as prophesied?

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This is a ̶ ̶j̶o̶b̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶S̶u̶p̶e̶r̶m̶a̶n̶ Q_uestion for Gutbloom — if anyone knows, it’ll be him.

I ask because my browser is becoming increasingly weird and I fear that soon I won’t be able to tell what’s real and what isn’t any more.

I mean … I forget what I was looking for when this turned up (it wasn’t anything remotely like that) but there it was, in my search results nevertheless.

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So, you’re browsing around looking for something completely unrelated when you see something like this in your search results and you think to yourself “Nah … just more batshit insane Trump worshipping QAnon cargo cult BS” ¹ .

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But you investigate it anyway … because you wanna know

what really happened where the rumour started and how it got legs

Only, you’re not sure you trust Wikipedia when it tells you the story is true, because alt-rightards have probably been editing it — look at it … it reads like a 1960s ̶B̶-̶m̶o̶v̶i̶e̶ Z-movie plot based on a discarded draft of a short story even L. Ron Hubbard deemed too implausible.

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So, you check RationalWiki.

And it turns out the batshit crazy nonsense is actually true!

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Seriously … something needs to be done about QAnon before I stop believing anything any more because everything in my browser sounds like the ravings of the completely and utterly f**king insane crazies you see ranting to themselves on the street ².

Hey ho … where was I anyway?

‘Hot Girl Goes Pee Pee On Date’

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WHAT!!?

WtF has that got to do with quinoa?

Or even QAnon!?

Somebody, please …

HEEEELP … MEEEE … !!!

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Get Home Safely
By: Corbin Hicks
Tags: CIA, Conspiracy Theories, Google, Conspiracy, Venture Capital

These are truly scary times. I don’t have any witty banter about the COVID-19 Coronavirus. It’s an epidemic that’s spreading across the country like wildfire, so do what it takes to keep you and your loved ones healthy. I do have something to say about what may or may not be coming down the pipeline in the midst of the chaos.

As we’ve seen with the Patriot Act, our government will use every excuse and tool at its disposal in order to gain leverage, without worrying about our rights or privacy as citizens. So now is a great time to inform everyone that the CIA has a venture capital firm named In-Q-Tel that has invested in over a dozen technology companies. In-Q-Tel also played a prominent role in helping Google acquire the company Keyhole, which enabled Google to launch their Google Maps and Google Earth products. Now seems like an opportune moment to introduce something in the name of health awareness that we may regret in the future.

There’s also Clearview AI, which has been providing it’s cutting edge facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies and private companies all across the globe. Clearview is a powerful tool that allows users to upload any photo of an individual and essentially run a background check on that person and unearth a whole host of information without that person’s consent. It’s easy to see how a software that powerful can do damage in the wrong hands, but everyone seems to be distracted at the moment. No way this could ever go badly.

Stay safe.
The Coinkydinkal Apocalypse
By: Robin Chappell
Tags: Coronovirus, History, Co Vid 19, Conspiracy Theories, Global Pandemics

The Great Flu Pandemic of 1918. Coinkydinkally happened after the Great War to End All Wars. Which (of course) Wasn’t. which WAS however, the First Use of BioWarfare. Mustard Gas (from which all CONtagions Flow). The First Mass Experiment. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Ah, the Modern Era!

And now, here we are in the Second War — I mean, Pandemic. (Those aren’t ‘Wars.’ Technically. They’re “Tribal Conflicts” or “Religious Conflicts.” Which, ironically, the CIA just happens to have ‘Interests’ in. In one case — the proverbial Tribal Conflict — the CIA was (covertly) funding Both Sides of the CONflict. Coinkydinks that, Yes?

Resident Trumpf just happens to ‘shut down’ the Pandemic Response Team and firing the Coordinator of said outfit, a mere month or two before this Pandemic happens to hit. Oh, and defunding the CDC Viral Response Team as well. [VERY] Co-Inky-dinks. [See?]

All the meanwhile, whilst ranting about the whole Coronovirus (COVID-19) being a “Democratic Hoax” and putting the (Seven Hills Dominion) Vice Resident Pence on as the COVID-19 ‘White House Response Team’ (He, of the ‘We don’t need no Stinking Science,’ We’ve got this Handled through Prayer Response to the HIV Crisis [Those Gay People Got to Go before Jesus will Come]), Resident Trumpf has just announced that he is being Tested for that ‘fictional’ hoax. Oh, well. He can learn.

Are we seeing a Pattern here yet? Yes, you can brush it off as I’m ‘yet another “Conspiracy Theorist”,’ but in a Court of Law, the phrase “Preponderance of Evidence” bears the Weight of Conviction. And there are only so many ‘coincidences’ (Two is a Criminal Enterprise, Three or More is a Conspiracy to Commit — ) that can come to light whereby the Preponderance of ‘Yeah, Maybe You’re Right’ comes into the picture.

And that Other Phrase, “Only Time Will Tell” currently comes to mind as well. But “It’s Too Late” also burns into history. Much like the devastation of the Flu of 1918. First War, then Disease. Deadly coincidence, wasn’t it?
The difference between Pizzagate and Epsteingate, is that there was an actual criminal prosecution…
Tags: Politics, Conspiracy Theories, Partisanship, Pedophilia, Bias

The difference between Pizzagate and Epsteingate, is that there was an actual criminal prosecution more than 10 years ago that ended in a secret plea deal and a light sentence. A lot of deliberate confusion is created by the liberal progressive side which includes the mainstream media and the Democrat Party, between mainstream conservatism and fringe Nazis and conspiracy theorists. Mainstream conservatism deplores Naziism and lunatic conspiracy theories; it might defend the right of people like Alex Jones to peddle what he likes, but as Voltaire said, that doesn’t require that you agree with it.

The fault here mainly lies with the partisans of the liberal progressive side, who won’t distinguish between the genuine cases that they willingly cover up as if they are “right wing conspiracy theories”, and the ones that are nothing more than conspiracy theories. There is a lot of hypocrisy involved, as when it suits them, the rule is that “the victim must be believed” — but somehow that hasn’t applied to Juanita Broaddrick, or the Lolitas of Epstein’s island, or the children of working-class British systematically exploited by immigrant organised crime.

I actually suspect that Donald Trump is such a deeply strategic tactical operator under that boorish “front”, that he gave Alex Acosta a job in his administration knowing that this might give the MSM partisan reason to take an interest in “that plea deal” in 2008. Trump himself on the campaign trail, referred to “Bill Clinton’s big problems with that Epstein feller and his island”. The MSM has been desperately trying to tarnish Trump by remote association with Epstein, whereas if you follow the conservative alternative media, you will know that Trump had Epstein ejected and banned from Mar-O-Lago around 2004.

The same conservative alternative media has been asking all along, “why the cover-up”? Ann Coulter, for example, deserves credit for her years of advocacy for these particular victims — and it wouldn’t be fair to dismiss her as another Alex Jones type crank. You can hate her politics all you like, but she’s not a 9/11 “truther” or a vaccination “truther” or a Pizza-gater.
Conspiracy Theory Redux
Tags: Conspiracy Theories, Mwc Death

The expert is dead, killed by the unthinkable, the uneconomical, the unpolitical.

Long live the populist! Victims of missed fortune who are poor in pocket but rich in conviction. A conspiracy of the ravening, hungering for acknowledgment. Consensus contradictors giving birth to a new discipline: infodemics, composed of stories — not facts — created out of shared beliefs. Call them tribal truths, political precepts, or better yet religious realities. The gospel according to Saint Veritas, patron saint of rabbit holes and endless scrolling. Ready to start?

Put it up on the social and make a hash of it. See what bubbles out?

#Chemtrails, the gateway drug to conspiracy theory. The proof? Obvious to those that can apply scientific theory to faith: a dearth of flights during COVID resulted in an unprecedented rise in believers (conspiracy as self-fulfilling miracle). And the chemtrail chemical? Opiate of the masses seeded by a new world order in service of #ProjectMonarch: the mind control version of chaos theory. To wit: Monarchs aflutter in Texas reap the whirlwind in China. For conspiracy theorists, it’s all connected. Underlying patterns. Predictable, if you know how to look.

Slap it on the face, see how they like it. Turn the other cheek — my good side — and snap a spotlight. See if it shines.

Need something viral? Try a #BSL-4. Just fifty “Biosafety Level 4” labs in the world, and only two in China. One in spitting distance of the #WuhanWetMarket. Accident or coincidence? #WHO can tell? Neither S. Ars, M. Ers nor C. Ovid can be found. With no lessons to learn we’re bound to repeat history, just as 2020 was like 1918 all over again. Hundred and one years to the day, give or take. Expect the roaring twenties next, but we all know how that ends: bankers playing us for pigeons never learned how to fly. Raining suits. Contrast with 2008: economists like rubberized Teflon bounced right back into office. Expert survival skills.

Can’t blame the anti-vaxxers, though, they’ve learned the propaganda lesson well. Namely, that there’s more potency to inoculate the masses from indoctrination in a cell phone than a syringe, nowadays. Never mind #RFIDinjections turning people into antennas, rare earth metals injected right into the palm of our hand make it easy to track us all, even on a flat earth. And now they want to introduce vaccine passports, but only for some? Borderline morality.

Do a gram or two, see if it gives a heart attack.

Headline: Phony Science Fights Global Hoax! Round 1: Extractive Economy vs Global Warming, and the winner is…#TINA. Sceptical? Who isn’t? #ClimategateDeniers, but cooking the books just resurrects zombie myths.

S ee how things are trending…or not. Time for a little bought farm, but not too much. Cuts into the prophets:

Q (who precedes the time traveling Titor) and G, all 5 of them propagating µ and m, the waves of surveillance capitalism. And the future? IoT on every corner and a tower in every plot heralding the great awakening now that the expert is dead. #enjoytheshow
On/off, in/out: From 9/11 to George Floyd to COVID
By: Wilson Lanue
Tags: Conspiracy Theories, Pandemic, Politics

Photo by Stephane YAICH on Unsplash

Binary thinking. Humans are prone to it. Our very language — and the act of turning an idea into language in order to communicate — encourages it.

In binary thinking, steel is either solid or molten and a person either can breathe or cannot. It’s what leads 9/11 Truthers to say, smugly, that jet fuel doesn’t burn hot enough to melt steel — they believe this sentence disproves that airplanes could demolish the Twin Towers, not understanding that steel can exist in states between “liquid” and “strong enough to hold up a skyscraper.”

It’s what led law enforcement officers to believe that George Floyd was in no grave physical danger: He could plead for his life, which meant he could breathe. It just didn’t mean he could breathe adequately to sustain life.

I’ve been thinking about how we know the danger Floyd was in only because the worst-case scenario came about. We, the public at large, only know someone had to intervene because no one intervened. If one of the police on-scene had intervened, George Floyd would have lived another day and would not have been a headline. If someone else had intervened and, say, been arrested for saving Floyd’s life, that may have made the news.

If it had hit the national stage, I imagine a few medical experts meekly saying that “Well, we’ll never know what could have happened in Mr. Floyd’s case, but it’s possible to suffocate while still being able to fight for enough breath to speak…” And a bunch of angry pundits screaming with evangelical zeal about how “We know the guy was in no danger, because he was breathing! If he wasn’t breathing, he couldn’t have been whining and making himself out to be the victim!”

So it goes, too, with a pandemic. We’ve long known that infection — the multitudes of coronaviruses that have thrived in bats with little exposure to humans, say, or a bacteria strain made resistant to antibiotics through human abuse — was a serious candidate for destroying humanity. It’s why there was a structure in place for people who knew about infection to intervene in the early stages of a pandemic. It’s tragic that much of this structure was dismantled prior to our current pandemic in the name of “small government.”

But we know it was tragic only because the pandemic was not addressed quickly or well. If an efficient, timely response had kept COVID-19 infections closer to the scale of the SARS outbreak of almost two decades ago¹, then most people would not believe that efficient, timely response had been needed. COVID-19 would be almost universally thought of as media hysteria, and life-saving government support for pandemic readiness would be seen as throwing taxpayers’ money away.

Because we’re binary in our thinking about alarm bells, too. If there were a wolf, it would have eaten the sheep. If someone cried wolf, it means there was never a wolf. Too difficult to comprehend that sometimes a wolf didn’t get the sheep precisely because someone was there to raise the alarm.
You Don’t Need to Believe in a Conspiracy Theory
By: Rose Kumar M.D.
Tags: Prevention, Conspiracy Theories, Lifestyle, Covid 19, Choices

One of the reaons people are reacting this days, is due to the feeling of a ‘loss of control’. A pandemic for sure brings this to the fore. An invisible virus has paralyzed our world. This feeling of a ‘loss of control’ is at the heart of any conspiracy theory. When I see these theories pop up with millions of views and shares, I am reminded of this underlying cause. People who believe in these are looking for an outside reason for why they have ‘no control’.

The paradox is that we live with the illusion that we are ‘in control’ and our ego gets used to this illusion. It takes this way of feeling for granted, normalizes it and all of a sudden, we are entrained to think we can control life, death, illness and Nature. Our Medical System is based on this (and is failing miserably).

But this has never been the case. Control has always been an illusion. Eastern spirituality has taught this for over 10,000 years.

When we feel we are ‘not in control’. we look for reasons why. We look for the ‘enemy’ outside ourselves who is taking our control away. We are a society based on rationality. If we can’t find a reason for something we can’t explain, we make one up, to the detriment of all.

Fortunately, there are a few things we CAN control.

We can control what goes into our mouth and what comes out of our mouth.

We can learn what we should eat and not eat, and what is helpful to say and to not say.

We can learn how LIFESTYLE choices are the number one cause of co-morbidities and death from COVID and how to prevent them by changing our lifestyle to an evidence based, healthy one.

We can speak words of encouragement so our society can learn how COVID replicates in the body and what inhibits its replication.

We can hold each other up now more than ever to treat our bodies with kindness and healthy choices so we can enjoy maximal and fast recovery if we get sick and also reverse co-morbidities, ALL of which are created by our choices.

We can use COVID as a catalyst to reclaim our health and Make America Healthy Again!

The choice is ours.

A Vaccine will not save us, our choices will.

Until we have a ‘quick fix’, what are we going to do about our health?

This is the million dollar question.

What are you doing to change your choices and get healthy ???

Your LIFE depends on this.
Ouch! I like your article. It gives me good feelings for flossing.
By: Freestone Wilson
Tags: Teeth, Floss, Conspiracy Theories, Dental Care, Health

Ouch! I like your article. It gives me good feelings for flossing.

I wish to bring to you all’s attention here! About ten years ago, I always had bought the large-sized floss containers. Hundreds of yards of floss. Then suddenly my store was out of these large sizes. I also discovered that no stores now carried any large containers. The last time that I looked, all of the stores seemed to charge like $10 for a *tiny* little container of the cheapest small size diameter floss.

*Then* something weird happened! Suddenly seemingly every single dental organization was now saying that floss is no longer needed! a piece of British dental advice was to “toss out your floss *now*!

“Flossing has no proven benefits, so U.S. health department stops recommending the practice” says the Daily News.

“Everyone recommends flossing — but there’s hardly any proof it works….”

“Dental organizations and the federal government have long urged people to use dental floss, but the latest US guidelines have dropped the recommendation”. The Guardian newspaper.

[I looked just now: there are far fewer dental associations that are against flossing, now. Maybe the pushback from dentists have reversed this trend by the makers!]

hmm.

I have a conspiracy theory here! The cost of making floss increases. They have to sell it as dentists still recommend it. But would people now pay $20 to $40 for a large container? probably not. But the public would still demand floss! Thus the manufacturers persuaded many dental organizations to stop telling people to floss: problem solved for the manufacturers!

I have bought my large sizes at Amazon. Many warehouses must be full of large floss containers.
Inauthentic accounts fuel Oregon wildfire arson rumors
Tags: USA, Wildfires, Antifa, Conspiracy Theories, Social Media

As wildfires ravage Oregon and large parts of the U.S. West Coast, inauthentic social media accounts and doctored Facebook posts are attributing the Oregon fires to arson primarily to Antifa activists. As a result, law enforcement officials in the affected counties have had to divert resources to debunk claims attributing the fires to Antifa, though there was also one rumor attributing them to the right-wing militant Proud Boys, which has previously engaged in violence. Emergency operators in these counties have been inundated with calls primarily attributing acts of arson to Antifa, fueled by posts on Facebook and Twitter politicizing the fires. To date, false narratives targeting Antifa and protesters in general seem to have been more widespread and successful.

The influx of these reports has hampered the coordination of relief efforts. Local sheriff’s offices throughout the affected areas have also had to take to social media to urge the public to rely on official sources for information, and to refrain from sharing unverified rumors.
Why I Decided To Start A Patreon Page For My Podcast In 2020 During A Global Pandemic
By: Sam Whitfield
Tags: Podcasting, Entrepreneurship, Politics

A lot of podcasters depend on ad revenue to make money which is easier said than done, especially for indie podcasters such as myself and even though TWR is hosted and monetized through Anchor, the ad revenue only helps so much. And then there are the content restrictions… you see, for quite a few years now, I’ve had people asked me to review music on the podcast which I always laugh at because this is nearly impossible with the current state of the music industry and big tech (looking at you YouTube) going after anyone who wants to talk about their favorite albums even if it’s in a fair use sense. With a paywall, I’m free to post music and movie review episodes which is exactly what I plan to do on my new podcast The Savage Express (available to $3 tier members and up) exclusively on Patreon! I’ll also be having on my IRL friends on the podcast, who either aren’t as political as I am and/or have no interest in appearing on a semi political podcast like TWR in the first place. This is freeform podcasting at its finest, and I can’t wait for you to listen!
The Best Podcasts for Entrepreneurs | Anna Macko | Entrepreneurship
By: Anna Macko
Tags: Podcasting, Anna Macko, Business, Podcast, Entrepreneurship

In this day and age, many of us are working on our own startups, which means we’re always learning something new. Every startup founder knows that to move forward, you have to learn — or re-learn — every day. That’s why podcasts are the best way to get your learn on. Entrepreneurs can listen while driving, working out, or just killing time around the house.

If you enjoy watching TED talks, you’re in for a treat. “The TED Radio Hour” is hosted by TED curator Chris Anderson and brings you enlightening ideas from today’s most fascinating thinkers, doers, and dreamers. They cover topics such as health, art, design, science, literature, and music. It is a great way to learn about things you didn’t know you were interested in and will challenge your thoughts.

No list of inspiring podcasts would be complete without the man, the myth, the legend: Tim Ferriss. If you’re looking to become more successful in your life and career, listen to this podcast where he interviews high-performing people from different industries about how they beat stress, maintain their cognitive function, and more. He also discusses tips, tactics, and tools on how you can do the same.

This show takes a look at the hidden side of everything. Host Stephen Dubner will surprise you with interesting ideas and information that you never knew about topics including economics, business, politics, etc. This podcast will give an entrepreneur an open mind and well-rounded perspective of the industries they work in.

Pay Flynn’s popular podcast is all about entrepreneurs who use the Internet to generate passive income. Specifically, he focuses on “online businesses that will function whether or not you’re involved at any given moment.” Flynn also gives his own experiences and knowledge in order to give you a hand-up by explaining some of the tactics you can use to make money from home.

These days, there is no shortage of high-quality podcasts for entrepreneurs. Use this list to get started on your own entrepreneurial journey. You’ll be surprised by how much you will learn in a year if you listen to one episode of a podcast each day — you’ll be a changed person!
Missed Deliveries for Summer 2021
By: Podcast Delivery
Tags: Podcasting, Podcasts, Podcast Recommendations

Alan Cumming’s Shelves

In Alan Cumming’s house you’ll find some shelves. Well, lots of shelves in fact, and on these shelves are curiosities, rarities, and oddities, that Alan has collected throughout his varied and colourful career. Artefacts if you will from the museum of Alan’s life. In each episode of this podcast Alan reaches for one of these items, to tell the story behind it, ruminating on the memories it brings up.

However, Alan does not do this alone. His guests range from Cyndi Lauper and a pair of white leather gloves to Geri Halliwell and (lots and lots of) Spice Girls merch, and even Sir Ian McKellen and a hemp dog collar. We’ve also got Monica Lewinsky and a Creative Coalition Award, Fay Ripley and a Red Carpet Photo, and Jane Horrocks and a polaroid from Second Best.

Not all guests will be famous though. Alan’s life has taken many a twist and turn, and so there will be guests you don’t know yet, but their stories are brilliant. Part of the Acast Creator Network. Launches May 18th.