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Last Week Tonight

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Last Week Tonight is a comedy show on hosted by British-American comedian The show profiles current news stories and includes a detailed segment focusing on a specific topic of interest. Last Week Tonight has profiled the following notable subjects:
==Donald 'Drumpf'==
Last Week Tonight's most watched segment discusses Donald Trump, which popularized the term Donald Trump, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 28 February 2016.John Oliver slams Trump, a.k.a. Donald ‘Drumpf,’ for 22 brutal minutes. The Washington Post, 29 February 2016.
==Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption==
Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption was the name of the parody church that Oliver created to mock televangelists and expose holes in the United States tax code pertaining to churches. In the typical style of televangelists, he asked for seed money so that "great things will happen to you". 
The church was eventually dissolved and all money sent to the charity as originally announced, attributing the dissolution to being sent massive bags of seeds, a four-foot-tall wooden dong, and five packets of semen. Really.John Oliver's Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, September 2015.
==Nuclear Waste==
John Oliver made highly misleading claims in a video about nuclear waste.
This video has been addressed in an article by a scientist., John Oliver on nuclear waste Another researcher has also addressed this issue.,Addressing John Oliver: Why nuclear waste isn't being mishandled
==External links==
*Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on YouTube
==References==
Category:American media
Category:Comedy
Category:Television programmes
Lauren Stratford

Lauren Stratford, born Laurel Rose Wilson, was the author of Satan's Underground, yet another fraudulent book that was a best-seller on the Christian book market during the 1980s claiming to be the testimony of somebody who escaped Satanism. 
The book was published during the height of the "Satanic ritual abuse" scare of the late 1980s and championed by, among other Christian preachers, Hal Lindsey. The tall tales she spins in this book are among the goriest and sickest of any in the notoriously sensationalist field of Christian books by "ex-Satanists," recounting tales of being ritually sexually abused, forced to perform human sacrifices, brainwashed and tortured, placed in a metal drum with the bodies of babies who had been ritually sacrificed to Satan, and giving birth to children who were used in "snuff films". 
She was exposed as a fraud by other Christian ministries who investigated and found them to be outright fabrications.Bob & Gretchen Passantino and Jon Trott, "Satan's Sideshow: The True Lauren Stratford Story," Cornerstone, 1990 Vol. 18, Issue 90
It gets weirder. She resurfaced in the late 1990s, this time using the name Laura Grabowski, claiming to have been a childhood survivor of the Nazis' Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and that she had been experimented on by Joseph Mengele. This story was likewise exposed as fraudulent—she was from Washington State and not a Polish Jew as she claimed—and it soon surfaced that "Laura Grabowski" was the same person who a decade earlier had claimed to be a Satanic abuse survivor as "Lauren Stratford."Bob & Gretchen Passantino and Jon Trott, "Lauren Stratford: From Satanic Ritual Abuse to Jewish Holocaust Survivor," Cornerstone, 1999 October 13
==See also==
*Confabulation
*Lying for Jesus
==References==
Category:Authors
Category:Christians
Category:Satanism
Category:Shysters
Lawrence Ford

Lawrence Ford was for a time the Institute for Creation Research's Director of Communications.Screenshot of his former bio at icr.org, originally located here. He was the editor of their Acts & Facts magazine and other ICR publications, and was in charge of the ICR's various strayings into the world of social media. He seemed to run both the ICR's Twitter@ICRMedia on Twitter. and Facebook,The ICR's Facebook page. and had his own Twitter account that parroted the ICR's new articles.@fordlawrence on Twitter - now "protected" from public view. He wrote the editor's column on Acts & FactsAs of October 2012 this has been taken over by Jayme Durant. and was also on the ICR's speakers list.Screenshot of the list as at 13 April 2012.
==References==
Category:Christian apologists
Category:Institute for Creation Research
Category:Living people
Lawrence O'Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell is a political analyst and television personality for MSNBC. His show, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, which was started as a replacement for Keith Olbermann's Countdown which was canceled with Olbermann's departure from the network, is primarily him complaining about Republicans and reaffirming his own beliefs with guests who agree with him on everything.
Just about all of his program is devoted to calling out bullshit spewed by politicians and other pundits, often in the form of sentence-by-sentence breakdown analyses, in addition to highlighting key aspects of the day's events. Unlike other political correspondents, he has absolutely no problem with criticizing people he normally agrees with.
O'Donnell is a former United States Senate aide, and was also a consulting writer for The West Wing, appearing on the show as President Bartlett's less-than-liberal father. He tends to take small acting gigs from time to time,http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640713/ and his acting resume includes appearances on Big Love and Monk. He acted as himself in Homeland.
==On socialism==
O'Donnell identifies as a "practical European socialist." In what seems to be an endless quest for him, he devotes copious amounts of airtime trying to take the snarl out of the word "socialist." He explained on his show25 May 2011 that all Americans are socialists in that they benefit from publicly-funded, government-controlled schools, hospitals, military and prisons, and that these socialist enterprises do not detract from freedom. 
He has stated that he is "not a progressive. I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to progressive. Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist. I live to the extreme left, the extreme left of you mere liberals, okay?"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/06/lawrence-odonnell-calls-h_n_779909.html A bit of a head-scratcher since most of his screenwriting was politically moderate.
===Taxes===
He also appears to be on a quest against superlatives. In one instance, in response to Bill O'Reilly's claim that an anti-wealthy tax-hike proposal by Democrats (which, in reality, was simply a proposal to return taxes on millionaires to the levels they were during the prosperous Clinton administration) would be so much to make him quit doing his show,Oh, what a tragedy that would be! he noted that O'Reilly started doing his show during a period of higher taxes and that the show only provided some of his total income (O'Reilly earns a substantial amount of money from speaking fees and selling propaganda books). The actual tax increase from 35% to 39.6% for O'Reilly on his Fox News income alone would be a drop in the bucket, particularly since only earnings above a certain threshold are subject to that higher tax rate (see progressive taxation).
==See also==
*Keith Olbermann
*MSNBC
==References==
Category:Political pundits
Category:Left-wing activists
Category:Media
Category:Living people
Category:Social democrats
Lawsonomy

Lawsonomy is an idiosyncratic philosophy developed and promoted by Alfred W. Lawson (1869-1954) who is notable for his contributions to the development of early commercial aviation. He also played professional baseball.
Encompassing many disciplines including philosophy, biology, psychology and economics under the banner of "Natural law", Lawsonomy is best remembered (when it's remembered at all) for Lawson's attempt to throw out the fundamentals of physics and replace them with his own ideas. Energy, for example, does not exist in Lawsonian "physics". Lawson viewed the concept of energy in much the same way that hardcore creationists view the concept of evolution - as an unsubstantiated and faulty idea that has become entrenched in the mainstream. Having rejected the existence of energy, Lawson instead accounted for movement with his core idea of "penetrability" in which "suction and pressure" cause "currents" that enable movement. "Zig-zag-and-swirl" describes the pattern of motion caused by the pushing of pressure and the pulling of suction on matter of varying degrees of penetrability.
Lawson's works teem with his own terminology and self-referencing jargon. Zig-Zag-and-Swirl, Menorgs and Disorgs, Equaeverpoise, Lesether, Knowledgian, Lawsonpoise, Lawsonomy, Lawsonian — a preponderance of this sort of thing, combined with Lawson's lifelong habit of praising his own greatness while writing about himself in the third person, fails to distract the reader from the fact that Lawson never offers a shred of proof to back up his claims. He advocated a raw diet, an alternative economic system of direct credit, and adherence to the principles of "penetrability" in all areas of life.
In later life he developed Lawsonomy into the Lawsonian religion, apparently hoping that his ideas would find more acceptance as spiritual teachings than they had as science. In this the progress of the movement somewhat resembles the transition of 'therapeutic' Dianetics into the cult of Scientology. Whereas Hubbard set up his organisation with the marketing tools to propagate his ideas and to become rich a self-sustaining entity, Lawson's insistence on a 30-year program of exclusive study to master Lawsonomy actively hampered the spread of his newly rebranded "religion". Although a few devoted followers eventually completed their studies to graduate with the title of "Knowledgian" after Lawson's death, Lawsonomy never caught on.
Lawson confidently predicted that the world would have embraced his teachings by the year 2000. It didn't.
He also claimed to have found the means for humans to live to 200 years. He didn't.
==External links==
* The books (lawsonomy.org)
* Last of the Lawsonomists Documentary
==References==
Category:Pseudoscience
Category:Woo
Category:Pseudophysics
Category:Very minor religions
Le Livre des Secrets Trahis

Le Livre des Secrets Trahis (English: The Book of Betrayed Secrets) is a French language book written by Robert Charroux and published in 1964.Le Livre des Secrets Trahis by Robert Charroux (1964) R. Laffont. It is the second of Charroux's pseudohistorical essays, after Histoire Inconnue des Hommes Depuis Cent Mille Ans (English: One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown History), published in 1963.Histoire Inconnue des Hommes Depuis Cent Mil Ans by Robert Charroux (1963) R. Laffont. The book is divided into twenty-one chapters, each being an unhealthy broth of pseudohistory, willful ignorance, conspiracy theory, shoehorning and Biblical literalism, interspersed with barely understandable ramblings. The first thirteen chapters are covered here.
The book has been translated into English (Legacy of the Gods),Legacy of the Gods by Robert Charroux (1979) Sphere. ISBN 0722122705. German (Verratene Geheimnisse),Verratene Geheimnisse' by Robert Charroux (1979) Ullstein-Sachbuch. ISBN 3548344208. Spanish (El Libro de los Secretos Descubiertos),El Libro de los Secretos Descubiertos by Robert Charroux (1979) Plaza & Janes. ISBN 8401310938. Polish (Nieznana Historia Ludzkości: Księga Purpurowa),Nieznana Historia Ludzkości: Księga Purpurowa by Robert Charroux (1996) Pandora. ISBN 8385884092. and Romanian (Cartea Secretelor Ttrădate).Cartea Secretelor Ttrădate by Robert Charroux (2003) Lucman. ISBN 9738372755.
tl;dr: There aren't any actual secrets, just bullshit that he made up
N.B.: The ideas in each chapter are not presented in the same order that they appear in the book — the reasoning of each chapter is haphazard and interspersed with non sequiturs that make them difficult to understand and summarize. However, the order of chapters and the overall content of each chapter have been retained.
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==Chapter I: Submerged Cities and Destroyed Lands==
==Chapter II: The World Began in the USA==
==Chapter III: The Gobi Desert Mystery==
==Chapter IV: The Stone Age: An Invention==
==Chapter V: The Universe and the Space Ark==
==Chapter VI: Angels and the Books of Enoch==
==Chapter VII: The World's Biggest Secret and the Dangerous Word to Utter==
==Chapter VIII: Venus, Planet of Our Ancestors==
The French title of this chapter is Vénus, Planète de nos Ancêtres ("Venus, planet of our ancestors"). If you were expecting sane reasoning, you've been warned.
==Chapter IX : Cosmonauts from Hyperborea==
==Chapter X: The Jealous God and the Chosen People==
==Chapter XI:Apocrypha and Fantasy Stories==
==Chapter XII: The Other World and the Grail==
==Chapter XIII: The Castle of the Master of the World==
==External links==
*Le Livre des Secrets Trahis — full text
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Ancient aliens
Category:Antisemitism
Category:Books
Category:Side-by-side articles
Category:Conspiracy theories
Category:Creationism
Category:Pseudoarchaeology
Category:Pseudohistory
Category:White supremacy
Leaderless resistance

Leaderless resistance is a technique in which small, independent groups or individuals challenge an established adversary. It can include actions from non-violent disruption to vandalism to various forms of direct action.
With regard to White supremacists who commit acts of terrorism, it is sometimes given the misnomer of "lone wolf". It is a misnomer in such cases because white supremacists are ideologically coordinated, giving motivation to individuals to commit acts of terror."Insurrection" by Kathleen Belew. In: Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past, edited by Kevin M. Kruse & Julian E. Zelizer (2022) Basic Books. . Pages 251-265. With regard to white supremacist groups, the tactic of leaderless resistance began after the use of government informants within the Ku Klux Klan to prosecute the group. The Turner Diaries is a key document for leaderless revolution among white supremacists. The myth of the "lone wolf" is used by white supremacists and their supporters (particularly within the GOP) to obfuscate the size of and the primary causes of race-based violence in the United States.Memo reveals a House Republican strategy on shootings: downplay white nationalism, blame left: The GOP memo falsely pinned the El Paso massacre and other notable mass shootings on the left. by Steve Contorno (Published Aug. 16, 2019 | Updated Aug. 19, 2019) Tampa Bay Times. The size of the dedicate White supremacist movement in the 1980s was estimated to be about 25,000 in the US, with an additional 150,000-175,000 additional activists, and an additional 450,000 who read White supremacist literature.
In leaderless resistance, a recognized leader or group gives generalized instructions or ideas of some sort and other groups or individuals — without having any direct contact with the apparent "leadership" — begin to act in such a way as to carry out the goals expressed by the "leadership."
Leaderless resistance has been used by a number of groups. For instance, it could be used by internet groups who might wish to suggest that a particular movement or website should be targeted in some way — but the suggestion could be phrased in such a way that those suggesting such a course of action would be able to claim plausible denial of any wrongdoing.
Sometimes someone does something that just pisses a lot of people off. 
==See also==
* Occupy Wall Street
* Streisand effect
==References==
Category:Anthropology
Category:Culture
Category:Far-right politics
Category:White supremacy
Leadership Conference of Women Religious

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is an organization of American Roman Catholic Nuns, that offers support, education services, and outreach to the members and their congregations. It represents roughly 80% of the 55,000 nuns in the United States. The organization was formed in 1956, by Pope Pius XII, and has emphasized social issues like poverty and homelessness. They have also advocated the church revise its unbending stance on issues of masturbation, homosexuality, and abortion, all in direct conflict with Catholic teachings.https://lcwr.org/ The Conference formally disagrees with the Holy See on issues of birth control, emphasizing the importance of women being able to control the size of their families for both economic and personal health reasons. The Conference also disagrees with the Holy See on the ordination of women.An American Nun Responds To Vatican Criticism
Under Pope Benny, the Vatican wanted the nuns to support the Church's stance on abortion, birth control, and homosexuality, though the women disagree with the Vatican over these issues. In 2012, Cardinal William Levada began a formal investigation into their activities, expecting the Holy See to renounce its support of the Conference if they did not formally change their positions on these social issues.Catholic Bishops, Leadership Conference Of Women Religious (LCWR) Hold 'Cordial And Open' Meeting As of August 2012, the nuns had not responded to male overseers as the Vatican would like.US nuns won't 'compromise mission'
Since the religious women are further concerned about economic justice and poverty,US nuns won't 'compromise mission' they hoped Pope Francis would be more sympathetic. At first, Francis seemed to be siding with Cardinal Muller, the main critic and bugbear of the LCWR.Time to face facts: Pope Francis agrees with the doctrinal assessment of LCWR However, in April 2015, Pope Francis met with the sisters and effectively, all charges were dropped with enough "compromise" to save face. In particular, the male supervision of the LCWR has ended and the women have promised some (hopefully minor) changes the Vatican wants.Vatican Ends Battle With U.S. Catholic Nuns’ GroupVatican Ends Scrutiny Of U.S. Nuns
The LCWR were given the Herbert Haag Prize in 2013 for Freedom in the Church.“Rebel” nuns receive religious freedom award
==References==
Category:Catholicism
Leading Light Communist Organization

The Leading Light Communist Organization (LLCO) is an international communist organization that has branches in the USA, Bangladesh, and Ghana.https://llco.org/a-year-of-progress-and-consolidation/ It has developed a new ideology centred on a type of cult around 'Science'.Prairie Fire by Daniel K. Buntovnik (19 December 2015).Interview: Origins by Leading Light (May 26, 2014) LLCO (archived from April 9, 2016). The head of the organization was Commander Prairie Fire, a.k.a. Brennen Ryan, a.k.a. "El Hector" .A Tribute to Leading Light founder Prairie Fire by Jacob Brown (September 20, 2019) Leading Light Communist Organization.Jason Unruhe interview with Leading Light Commander Prairie Fire (Brennen Ryan) on Lin Biao and the Cultural Revolution (5 Jun 2017) llcobanglazone. Jason Unruhe is a former member of the LLCO in 2017, and continues to support it. Their declared goal is to liberate all of the Third World.
==Ideology==
The fundamental belief of the LLCO is that the proletariat of the First World is too rich to be considered proletarian. It is part of the bourgeoisie.https://llco.org/are-first-world-workers-more-productive/https://llco.org/questions-about-practice-in-the-first-world/ They often refer to the Third World as the 'Proletarian World'. According to their ideology, the First World leaders super-exploit the working class of the Third World, to pamper the working class in their own region. Notably, the organization says that their position is the same as Lenin's because there is no Socialist State. They are largely pro-Mao: there is, however, somewhat of a disagreement among their members about that. LLCO opposes Israel and supports the Palestinians. https://llco.org/molotov-mim-dogma-and-stalins-support-for-israel/ They have declared Communist Party of India (Maoist) Naxal guerillas a democratic force. https://llco.org/notes-on-todays-maoists-who-uphold-pol-pot-and-the-khmer-rouge/
 
They have also devised a so-called strategy, which they say is the ideological super weapon that will help them take over the world. Global People's War is the name of the strategy. It is gradually, occupying one Third World country after country and detaching them from the global economy. This will, they hope, deprive resources from the First World and cause its economic collapse.
==Dictatorship in the First World==
The LLCO has written in some places about imposing the dictatorship of the Proletarian World on the First World, Even though they have not explicitly written about an invasion, no other explanation of how that could be achieved has been given. (The obvious problem is that the governments of the First World will never allow the creation of a global communist bloc with the intention of invading and taking over the world).https://maoistrebelnews.com/2015/04/11/interview-commander-prairie-fire-of-the-leading-light-communist-organization/
==External links==
*The official website of Leading Light Communist Organization
*Another website of the LLCO
*Interview with Commander Fire
==References==
Leading question

A leading question is a sentence that is presented in an interrogatory form, but provokes (or "leads" to) a particular answer. Leading questions generally take the form of presenting an allegation and asking whether it is true, and often consist of simply an assertion followed by a request for confirmation. For instance, "You like cats, don't you?" They allow the person asking the question to get across their viewpoint (making them popular when you're trying to impress an audience or jury) and often tie the answerer down into giving a simple yes-or-no answer without qualification. Whether something is a leading question, or whether a leading question is legitimate, depends on the context. Studies have shown that extensive use of leading questions can lead to the generation of false memories.
Because they can produce inaccurate or misleading testimony, leading questions are disallowed during direct examination of witnesses during criminal trials. More open-ended questions are preferred, such as "On the day in question, what did you observe?" not "Did you see the defendant entering the building waving a gun and shouting, 'I'm gonna pop a cap in yo ass, motherfucker'?" If you ask "Do you have any problems with your boss?" you will get a more negative answer than if you ask "Tell me about your relationship with your boss."Leading Questions, MediaCollege.com, accessed 1 Aug 2019 One downside of this is that asking open questions leads to a lot of digression and irrelevant testimony and makes it hard to get to the important issue.Leading Questions FindLaw.
The terms "leading question" and "loaded question" are often confused, and they are frequently used interchangeably to simply mean a question that is dishonest or illegitimate. However, they are different: a leading question merely opens to a particular conclusion or discussion, while a loaded question assumes a conclusion (and thus is more dishonest overall). For instance, "Have you stopped hitting your wife?" is a frequently cited loaded question; the question assumes that the person has previously hit his wife. A leading version of it would be something like "You've hit your wife, haven't you?"
==See also==
*Just asking questions
*Loaded question
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* A worked example.
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==References==
Category:Fallacious arguments