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Andrew Emerson

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'''Doctor Andrew Emerson''' is a British mental health nurse who is involved with far-right politics. He believes in "equal treatment for the ethnic majority",<ref>http://draemerson.blogspot.co.uk/</ref> whatever ''that'' means.

Once a member of the [[BNP]], he left the party due to doubts about how it was being run and teamed up with other former members to start a new party named Patria ([[Latin]] for "homeland").<ref name=portsmouth>http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/former-bnp-member-sets-up-new-rival-far-right-political-party-1-4664433</ref> At Lancaster University in the 1970s he was a member of the International Socialists and he was also a member of the Chichester Labour Party in the 1990s.

Officially, Patria is "neither left nor right, but patriotic";<ref>http://www.patria-uk.org/two-cheers-for-the-news-portsmouth/</ref> variations of this tagline are common amongst right-wing organisations — the [[English Democrats]], for example, have used the slogan "not left, not right, just English!"<ref>http://www.englishdemocrats.org.uk/our-party-party-history.html</ref>

Patria's manifesto calls for "ethnic aliens" to be barred from entering the country, for the Human Rights Act 1998, the Race Relations Act 1965, the Equality Act 2010 and the Climate Change Act 2008 to be repealed and for Britain to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. It also promises the banning of [[halal]] and [[kosher]] slaughter and a halt to the construction of mosques, and hopes to reintroduce the [[death penalty]] for murder and treason.<ref>http://www.patria-uk.org/manifesto/</ref>

The Patria website features a number of articles by Emerson, containing his curious ramblings about "the liberation of our people from the yoke of alien oppression".<ref>http://www.patria-uk.org/a-grand-coalition-of-nationalist-parties/</ref> Emerson also runs a personal blog with a number of ''interesting'' posts, such as copypaste of a lengthy article from ''American Renaissance'' about the "Jewish agenda"<ref>http://draemerson.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/jewish-agenda.html</ref> and a ''Telegraph'' article about prehistoric Britain given the new title "The preeminent genius of the White race".<ref>http://draemerson.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/awesome-genius-of-white-race.html</ref>

"Racism is a made up word. [[Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white|It’s code for anti-white]], anti-English", says Emerson. "The people who accuse us of being racist can’t explain what they mean by the word."<ref name=portsmouth/> It's really fairly straightforward, Andrew: racism is discrimination towards a person or people because of their race. The fact that you are accusing your critics of being anti-white means that you obviously grasp the basics of the concept already, so is it ''really'' that much of a stretch for you to imagine anti-black or anti-Asian prejudice?

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Andrew McIntyre

#REDIRECT [[2024 United Kingdom riots#Andrew McIntyre]]

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Andrew Meyer

[[Image:Meyersarrest.jpg|thumb|165px|A martyr, or just a jackass?]]
{{uspolitics}}
'''Andrew Meyer''' is either a victim of the suppression of [[free speech]] and a victim of [[police brutality]], or an irritating twat who got his just desserts.

==Free speech incident==
On September 17, 2007, while attending a talk by [[John Kerry]] at the University of Florida, Meyer was tasered by the [[police]] and subsequently arrested.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaiWCS10C5s YouTube video]</ref> His crime? Speaking past his allotted time and asking Kerry a question about a sensitive subject.<ref>[http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2007-09-18-81759657_x.htm Student arrested, Tasered at Kerry event, USA Today, September 18, 2007]</ref> Meyer was released after a night in jail; two of the officers involved were put on leave. After his microphone was shut off, he was escorted aside and tried to break away. As he was doing so, the officers forced him to the ground, handcuffed him and then tasered him. During the tasing, he reportedly shouted, "'''Don't tase me, bro'''!" giving rise to a new [[meme]]. The event, caught on video, briefly made him a minor martyr to "[[free speech]]."

==A dose of reality==
Standing back to see the whole picture shows us a side of Meyer that waters down his claims of martyrdom. He has what is called a "disorganized diatribe" on the "world wide web" that criticizes the [[Iraq War]], the news media for not covering the conflict enough, and the [[United States|American]] public for paying too much attention to [[goat|celebrity news]].  

Meyer made a big stink to make sure that he could be the last speaker after it was announced that questions were closing, and it was only so he could bring up two [[conspiracy theory|pet]] points: Kerry's membership in [[Skull and Bones]] and alleged vote fraud in [[Ohio]] a state that Kerry supposedly won but wouldn't challenge the official results. Turns out he was just a jerk, not a hero. Or maybe a jerk can also be a hero (or vice versa?).

==Hoax?==
Some sources reported that Meyer may have intended to get "censored". The official police report states that he was calm and jokey once he was in the police car and that he resumed acting hysterical once he saw cameras.<ref>http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/09/18/offense.report.072274.pdf</ref> Conversely, many students believed that he was not intending for it to happen, as he wasn't the kind to usually attempt to start trouble (as if asking these kinds of questions aren't starting trouble in the first place).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20071113210850/http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/10/30/news/campus/meyer.txt</ref>

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Andrew Murray

{{communism|1}}
'''Andrew Philip Drummond-Murray''' {{lived|1958}} is a prominent [[British]] anti-war campaigner and admirer of [[Stalin]].

The chairman of the Stop the War Coalition<ref>http://www.newstatesman.com/node/145159</ref> and a member of the Communist Party of Britain, Murray has been criticised for a 1999 [[The Morning Star|''Morning Star'']] editorial in which he argued, in essence, that the West has committed [[crimes against humanity]] as well so, therefore, Stalin doesn't deserve as much criticism as he gets:

{{quotebox|Next Tuesday is the 120th anniversary of the birth of Josef Stalin. His career is the subject of a vast and everexpanding literature. Read it all and, at the end, you are still left paying your money and taking your choice. A socialist system embracing a third of the world and the defeat of Nazi Germany on the one hand. On the other, all accompanied by harsh measures imposed by a one-party regime. Nevertheless, if you believe that the worst crimes visited on humanity this century, from colonialism to Hiroshima and from concentration camps to mass poverty and unemployment have been caused by imperialism, then [Stalin’s birthday] might at least be a moment to ponder why the authors of those crimes and their hack propagandists abominate the name of Stalin beyond all others. It was, after all, Stalin’s best-known critic, [[Nikita Khrushchev]], who remarked in 1956 that “against imperialists, we are all Stalinists”<ref>http://socialaffairsunit.org.uk/digipub/index2.php?option=content&do_pdf=1&id=12</ref>}}

This is essentially [[whataboutism]] and the [[not as bad as]] argument fallacy, although he also seems to allude to the [[my enemy's enemy]] argument fallacy.

He has also called for solidarity with [[North Korea]]<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20031210230502/http://www.communist-party.org.uk/articles/2003/march/10-03-03.shtml</ref> and has been accused of barring Communist organisations from the Stop the War Coalition if they criticise the government of [[Iran]].<ref>http://communiststudents.org.uk/?p=5731</ref><ref>http://communiststudents.org.uk/?p=377</ref>

Do not confuse him with Andy Murray, the Scottish tennis player. One hits balls, the other talks them.

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Andrija Puharich

[[File:Andrija Puharich parapsychologist.jpg|thumb|left|165px|Puharich]]
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'''Andrija Puharich''', born '''Henry Karel Puharić''' {{lived|1918|1995}}, was a [[medical]] doctor and a [[parapsychology]] researcher who endorsed [[psychic]] phenomena, and is credited for bringing [[Uri Geller]] to the [[USA]]. 

==Biography==
Puharich graduated from the Northwestern University Medical School in 1946. Sometime later he became interested in psychic phenomena. He brought Uri Geller to mainstream audiences in the United States and endorsed him as a psychic. He believed in extremely extraordinary claims. Uri Geller at the time claimed that he was sent to [[Earth]] by [[extraterrestrials]].<ref>Samuel, Lawrence. (2011). Supernatural America: A Cultural History. Praeger. pp. 100-101. ISBN 978-0313398995 "After meeting Geller in Israel in 1971, Puharich was so taken with the twenty-three-year-old and his powers that he would describe the man in Messianic terms. More than just a particularly gifted psychic, Geller was an ambassador sent by extraterrestrials. (from a spaceship called Spectra located some fifty-three thousands light years away) to prepare Earthlings for the conquest of their planet." Seems legit.</ref>

According to [[James Randi]], Andrija Puharic enjoyed getting high on [[Psilocybin|mushrooms]], which Randi thinks may go a long way in explaining some of his beliefs.<ref> Randi, James. (1982). The Truth About Uri Geller. Prometheus Books. p. 24. ISBN 978-0879751999</ref>
Puharic wrote a book about Uri Geller called ''Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller'', in which he supports the idea that Uri Geller is a genuine psychic validated by [[science]].<ref>https://books.google.ca/books/about/Uri.html?id=giEGngEACAAJ&redir_esc=y</ref> He was granted several patents for his discoveries.<ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US3563246</ref><ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US2995633</ref> His son runs a website dedicated to Puharich.<ref>http://www.puharich.nl/doc.html</ref>

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André Vltchek

{{conspiracynav|1}}
{{cquote|Headline: [[North Korea]], [[Bullshit|a Land of Human Achievement, Love and Joy]]|||André Vltchek<ref name=NK>{{a|http://www.globalresearch.ca/north-korea-a-land-of-human-achievement-love-and-joy/5344960|North Korea, a Land of Human Achievement, Love and Joy.}} ''GlobalResearch''.</ref>}}

'''André Vltchek''' {{lived|1963|2020}} was a [[Russian]]-[[American]] born in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), [[USSR]] who was raised in Central Europe and later naturalized as a U.S. citizen. He was an "author, filmmaker, investigative [[journalist]], poet, photographer, '''revolutionary''', '''internationalist''' and globetrotter who fights against [[Western world|Western]] [[Imperialism]] and the Western regime imposed on the world" (i.e. "Western oppression", "Western propaganda", "Western imperialism", "Western [[terrorism]]"), and what not. In essence, he was a [[conspiracy theorist]], [[moonbat]] anti-[[Globalisation|globalist]], or more broadly anti-all-things-Western, who liked to describe himself as [[communist]] revolutionary, internationalist and [[environmentalist]].<ref name="andre-home">[http://andrevltchek.weebly.com/ André Vltchek] — Homepage</ref> He also considered himself a "famous" western writer/filmmaker.<ref name=NK/>

He also accused [[Ukraine]], [[NATO]] and [[EU]] (under the boot of new [[German]] [[fascism]]) of conspiring against Russia, denies [[Serbian]] [[war crimes]]. He praised various [[despot]]s both on the [[left]] and right, as well as far-right ethno-religious ultra-[[nationalist]] figures around the world — all in the spirit of the [[proletariat]] and communism. He was a staunch admirer of [[Putin]], as well as communist "icons" like the [[Kim Dynasty]], [[Castro]], and war criminal [[Slobodan Milošević]]. He called Peter Koenig, Christopher Black, Robert Fisk his comrades.<ref name="andre-home"/>

He also wrote conspiracy theorist pieces and venerated despots for both [[crank]] and non-crank [[webshites]] [[Globalresearch]], CounterPunch, The Information Clearing House, [[RT]], [[Pravda.ru]], China Daily, Z Commentaries, Z Net, Z Magazine, [[TeleSUR]], New Eastern Outlook (NEO), Veterans News Now, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Irish Times, The 4th Media, Dissident Voice, etc.<ref name="andre-home"/>

==External links==
* [http://andrevltchek.weebly.com/ Official site]
* [https://twitter.com/AndreVltchek Andre Vltchek] on [[Twitter]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20171009071238/https://www.telesurtv.net/english/staff/avltcheck Andre Vltchek] at TeleSUR English
* [https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/andre-vltchek Andre Vltchek] at Globalresearch

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Anima Mundi

[[File:Neoplatonic-Sun.GIF|thumb|right|165px|Neoplatonic [[Sun]]]]
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'''Anima Mundi''' is an [[occult]] and [[spiritual]] belief that everything in the [[Universe]] is connected by a world [[soul]]. 

==History==
According to the occult definition "The [[Latin]] term meaning 'Soul of the World', a pure ethereal spirit diffused throughout all nature, regarded by ancient philosophers as being the divine essence which embraces and energizes all life in the universe".<ref>[http://www.occultopedia.com/a/anima_mundi.htm Occult definition]</ref>

The idea can be traced back to [[Plato]] and was an important component of most Neoplatonic systems. It was later taught in occult and [[Hermeticism|hermetic]] schools. It can be found in the works of Paracelsus, the [[philosopher]]s [[Baruch Spinoza]], [[Gottfried Leibniz]], Friedrich Schelling and later in the writings of William Butler Yeats.

==Modern usage==
The idea of a world soul is found in many recent [[New Age]] books and publications.<ref>[http://www.animamundijourneys.com/ Anima Mundi Journeys]</ref>
==See also==
*[[Pantheism]]
*[[Panentheism]]
*[[Panpsychism]]
*[[Pandeism]]
*[[Global Consciousness Project]]

==Further reading==
*Roszak, Theodore (1992). ''The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology'' 
*Vassányi, Miklós (2010). ''Anima Mundi: The Rise of the World Soul Theory in Modern German Philosophy''

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Animal communicator

{{Psychic}}
'''Animal communicators''' are people who claim to be able to [[Psychic|psychically]] communicate with animals. They're also known as '''animal psychics''' or '''pet psychics'''.

Animal communicators use similar techniques as [[medium]]s such as [[cold reading]], except that they have an easier job since the animal can't speak up and say "hey, that's wrong!" All of the information provided by animal communicators fall in three categories:

# What the owner wants to hear, such as "he loves you" and "he's happy".
# Open doors like "the horse wants more hay" or "the [[dog]] likes to play outside".
# Unverifiable claims like "the [[goat]] has [[Fart|bad gas]]".

Unlike mediums—which takes real skill and manipulation, and are ''all'' frauds—you can probably delude yourself in believing you really ''are'' communicating with the animals, so not all animal communicators are necessarily frauds (which is probably the only good thing anyone can say about them).

Unfortunately these people can actually ''harm'' [[animal welfare]]. Take for example [https://youtu.be/HF9bassp2xg?t=31 this video]:

{{aquote|'''Psychic:''' It's a little too hot in here all the time
'''Owner:''' He is hot?! Oh… I was always worried about him being cold!
'''Psychic:''' No, he's a little hot.}}

The owner is not exactly acting on the best of information here.

==See also==
*[[Sonya Fitzpatrick]]
*[[The Men Who Stare at Goats]]

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Ann Bressington

{{conspiracynav|1}}
'''Ann Bressington''' {{lived|1955}} is a self-described "Truther MP"<ref>https://twitter.com/AnnBressington</ref> who was an independent member of the upper house of the South [[Australia]]n parliament from 2006 to 2014.<ref>http://www2.parliament.sa.gov.au/FormerMembers/Detail.aspx?PId=3128</ref> She was originally elected on the "No Pokies" ticket alongside high-profile anti-[[gambling]] campaigner [[Nick Xenophon]]. Her election was unexpected as it was thought unlikely that Nick Xenophon's ticket would receive enough votes to elect both of them. Xenophon and Bressington had a falling out shortly after her election. Bressington had been the founder and CEO of a [[drug]] rehabilitation centre prior to entering politics. She served a single 8-year term and did not contest the 2014 election.

Bressington believes in the [[New World Order]], [[Agenda 21]] and [[chemtrails]], and is a proponent of the anti-[[fluoride]] and anti-[[vaccination]] movements, as well as the [[One People's Public Trust]].<ref>http://reasonablehank.com/2013/03/04/ann-bressington-the-sitting-member-death-threats-and-disordered-thinking/</ref> She funded [[Christopher Monckton]]'s tour to Australia in 2013.<ref>http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/mp-ann-bressington-paid-up-for-lord-monckton-tour/story-e6frea6u-1226099344367</ref>

In 2013 she attracted controversy by posting a "Wanted" poster on her Facebook page for Tanya Plibersek, Australia's health minister at the time, for "poisoning 22.9 million Australians with the toxic industrial waste [[fluoride]]". When journalists asked Bressington for a comment regarding the poster, she did not respond but posted their questions - and phone numbers - on her Facebook page, along with the original wanted poster. Comments by her supporters suggesting that Plibersek be "[[Lynch mob|lynched]]" were allowed to remain on the page.<ref>http://reasonablehank.com/2013/03/04/ann-bressington-the-sitting-member-death-threats-and-disordered-thinking/</ref>

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Anna Rosmus

[[File:Anna Rosmus and Mickey Dorsey.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Anna Rosmus with US [[World War II]] veteran, Mickey Dorsey]]
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'''Dr. Anna Rosmus''' (1960–) is a [[Germany|German]]-[[American]] [[historian]] of the [[Holocaust]] who uncovered the truth about her hometown, Passau, Bavaria.<ref name=bio>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090111181128/http://www.sonoma.edu/ccgs/calendar/spring_2007/heritage/anna_rosmus/ Anna Rosmus profile]. Archived from sonoma.edu, 2007.</ref>  Whereas the town's official narrative held that the town's German population harbored [[Jews]] and opposed the [[Nazis]], Rosmus discovered that not only did the German population allow the Nazis to murder the town's entire Jewish population, but many Passau Germans were Nazis and took part in the extermination. Furthermore, when she began her research (as an adolescent in the 1970s), she revealed that the people who were community, business, and political leaders in Passau were Nazis responsible for the deaths of the Passau Jews.<ref name=cbs>[https://archive.md/4tTB6 Nasty Girl Still At Work]. Archived from CBS News, 11 February 2009.</ref>

Rosmus went on to expose similar myths and uncover the same wrongdoings in a neighboring town, an accomplishment which, when combined with her work in Passau, presents the question, "How many towns in Germany (or [[Europe]]) maintain an inaccurate narrative of their experience and actions during the Nazi era?"

For her legitimate, scholarly myth-busting, Rosmus has been the target of all kinds of name-calling, most notably that she is a "nasty girl." And between the death threats she received and fears for her children's safety, she and her family relocated to the [[United States]] in 1994 where they have lived ever since.<ref name=cbs /> In 1990, Michael Verhoeven made an excellent movie based on her story called, "The Nasty Girl."<ref name=film>Rita Kempley, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/thenastygirlpg13kempley_a0a154.htm ‘The Nasty Girl’ (PG-13)]. The Washington Post, 7 December 1990.</ref>

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