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Tricia Robertson

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'''Tricia J. Robertson''' is a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[parapsychologist]], [[spiritualist]], and [[pseudoscience]] promoter.

Robertson is a council member and past Vice President of the Scottish [[Society for Psychical Research]]. She is the author of the [[spiritualist]] book ''Things You Can Do When You're Dead'' (2013) which claims to be the result of a thirty-year research investigation into [[mediumship]], [[reincarnation]], [[psychic healing]], apparitions, [[poltergeist]]s, and after death communications. The book was published by the spiritualist company White Crow Books, which is co-run by the spiritualist [[crank]] author [[Michael E. Tymn]].<ref>[http://whitecrowbooks.com/books/page/things_you_can_do_when_youre_dead/ Things You Can do When You’re Dead! by Tricia J. Robertson]</ref>

Robertson, in her book, ignores any evidence of fraud in the mediums she discusses. She has written that the [[Irish]] medium [[Eileen Garrett]] communicated with spirits from the R101 airship that crashed; however, this case was debunked by Melvin Harris as a hoax. Robertson does not refer to Harris in her book or bibliography.<ref>Melvin Harris. (2003). ''Investigating the Unexplained: Psychic Detectives, the Amityville Horror-mongers, Jack the Ripper, and Other Mysteries of the Paranormal''. Prometheus Books. pp. 171–182. ISBN 978-1591021087</ref> She also claims other fraudulent mediums, such as [[Leonora Piper]] and [[Gladys Osborne Leonard]], communicated with spirits. 

In her book, Robertson ignored any critical or skeptical material on the paranormal, and her bibliography consists of only spiritualist books. Skeptical investigator [[Joe Nickell]] has debunked many of the alleged apparitional and poltergeist cases that Robertson claims are genuine. Practically everything in the book that Robertson claims is genuine evidence for [[life after death]] has been debunked in skeptical literature, but Robertson has ignored all of it.

The only supporters of Robertson are other spiritualist cranks such as [[Michael Prescott]] and Victor Zammit.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130724080229/http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2013/07/fyi-a-new-book-by-tricia-robertson-recounts-her-life-as-a-psychical-researcher-the-title-things-you-can-do-when-youre-dea.html Blog post on Things You Can Do When You're Dead by Michael Prescott]</ref> 

==Publications==
*''Things You Can Do When You're Dead!: True Accounts of After Death Communication'' (2013)
*''Soul Shift: Finding Where the Dead Go'' (2008) 

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Trinity Foundation

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The '''Trinity Foundation''' is a Christian watchdog organization based in [[Texas]]. Its primary function is to monitor and investigate the activities of [[Televangelist|televangelists]] and breaches of public trust through misuse of funds donated to religious organizations. They have worked with investigative media to try to "expose fraud and abuses committed in the name of [[God]]"<ref>[http://www.trinityfi.org/about_us.html Trinity Foundation: Who We Are]</ref> and worked with the [[Senate]] Financing Committee in their investigation into the non-profit [[tax]] status of certain televangelists (though this investigation was entirely ineffectual).<ref>[http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2011/january/grassley-investigation-ends-with-no-penalty-for.html?paging=off Grassley Investigation Ends with No Penalty for Televangelists]</ref><ref>[http://www.trinityfi.org/investigations/grassley_main.html Trinity Foundation on the Senate Finance Committee Investigation]</ref>

However, the Trinity Foundation itself is not without controversy. Former member Wendy Duncan wrote a book, ''I Can't Hear God Anymore: Life in a Dallas Cult'', exposing the inner workings of this group.<ref>http://www.dallascult.com</ref> Additionally, in a long article published in 2006, The Dallas Observer reported allegations by former members that Trinity Foundation is a religious cult.<ref>[http://www.dallasobserver.com/2006-08-03/news/the-cult-of-ole/full/ The Cult of Ole: Ole Anthony anointed himself the watchdog of America's televangelists. But who was watching Ole Anthony?]</ref>

The Trinity Foundation also published a periodical called ''The Wittenburg Door'', which did a good job at offending the religiously sensitive.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-darden/in-the-wake-of-charlie-he_b_6431010.html In the Wake of Charlie Hebdo: Why Satire Matters]</ref> The periodical is now a website-only operation.<ref>[http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/ The Wittenburg Door]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Hypocrisy]]

==References==
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Trish Regan

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'''Trish Regan''' (1972-) is a former [[Fox News|Faux News]] anchor and the poor man's [[Laura Ingraham]] clone.

She hosted her own primetime show from 2015 to 2020, though she was also previously a host at CNBC from 2007 to 2012. Like most reporters on Fox (the likes of [[Laura Ingraham]] and [[Megyn Kelly]]), she espouses standard conservative bigotry and left-wing bashing. While she was for the most part generally benign compared to her fellow pundits, she has stated several moronic opinions.

==General stupidity==
*Claimed that Denmark was socialist and compared Denmark to Venezuela<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSFfTG42Jl8</ref>, and she received massively negative feedback for that statement, to which she backtracked and doubled down on her stupidity.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xjnlNqk-g0</ref>
*She made claims that Covid-19 was just "a hoax" by democrats to make trump look bad.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIBdaUmZNMA</ref>
*She spread misinformation on NHS's policy of anti-discrimination<ref>https://twitter.com/trish_regan/status/1230301587165368321</ref>
*She claimed racism was a "democrat excuse" to impeach trump.<ref>https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/racism-latest-lamest-excuse-impeaching-trump-trish-regan</ref>

==A well deserved firing==
Trish Regan was laid off from the Fox Network in 2020 after downplaying covid (much like her fellow news hosts) and causing the deaths of millions of americans.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/business/media/trish-regan-fox-hiatus.html</ref>

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Triviality

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'''Triviality''' is a property of formal systems in [[logic]]. A system is trivial if its set of [[axiom]]s <math>X</math> entails every well-formed formula according to the inference rules of the system, ''i.e.'',

<center><math>\forall \phi.\left[X\vdash \phi\right]</math></center>

An example of triviality is a classical propositional system containing contradictory sentences for axioms; in such a system the [[principle of explosion]] can be used to infer any possible proposition or sentence.

On the other hand, a system of [[paraconsistent logic]] can be non-trivial even if it contains contradictory axioms, since its inference rules do not include the [[principle of explosion]].

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Troy Davis

'''Troy Anthony Davis''' was a 19-year prisoner on [[Georgia]]'s [[capital punishment|death row]] who was sentenced to be executed on September 23rd, 2008 for the murder of a police officer. The [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] suspended the execution.

The problem was that there was no conclusive evidence that he actually did it. Seven out of nine of the state's witnesses have either recanted or contradicted their testimony against him, frequently citing police coercion, and no murder weapon has been found. One of the two who didn't recant was later implicated as the actual shooter. Unfortunately, despite all of this, he was still on death row.

== Exposition ==

There is also an important general principle involved with state executions. We can never be absolutely certain that we are executing a guilty man. From start to finish, government controls the whole process, from police work to trial to sentencing. 

For an innocent man to be caught up in the process is bad enough, but having the state carry out an execution as well is intolerable. No amount of safeguards or appeals can prevent government corruption or colossal errors, and if the wrong man is executed, there can be no redress of grievances.  The death isn't the only thing that matters.  Prisoners suffer terribly on death row.

== Update ==

Troy Davis was executed on September 21, 2011.  His time of death was 11:08 PM EDT.

== See also ==

*[[Capital punishment]]

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Troy Southgate

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'''Troy Southgate''' is a figure who has associated himself with an array of organisations on the [[British]] far-right.

Southgate was born in Crystal Palace, South London, in 1965. In 1987, he joined the [[Society of St. Pius X]], a [[traditionalist Catholic]] organisation; afterward, he got involved in a street fight and was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. He joined the [[National Front]] in 1989, later migrating to the International Third Position,<ref name=slack>http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=2439</ref> one of the Front's many break-off groups.

In 1992, he was amongst the ITP members who left to form the English Nationalist Movement, renamed the National Revolutionary Faction in 1998; this militant organisation called for an armed insurrection against the government. In 2003, it was renamed National Anarchy, basing itself on a blend of [[nationalism]] and [[anarchism]] which held that society is facing an imminent collapse but - unlike many other far-right groups which promote this view - hailing this disaster as something positive.<ref>Sykes, Alan (2005). ''The Radical Right in Britain''. pp.129-30</ref>

Southgate, who abandoned Catholicism in 1997<ref name=slack/> and has since derided [[Christians]] as "weak",<ref>groups.yahoo.com/group/ivlianvs/message/56</ref> has also been involved with [[neopagan]] organisations such as Wulf Ingessunu's bizarre [[Woden's Folk]].

In 2005 he launched [[New Right (Europe)|New Right]] with Jonothon Boulter.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20110719024503/http://www.new-right.org/?p=14</ref>

==See also==
* [[National anarchism]]

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TrueOrigin

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'''TrueOrigin''' (at '''trueorigin.org''' and styled as '''True.Origin''') is a [[creationist]] site run by one Tim Wallace that attempts to refute the material collected in the [[talk.origins]] Archive, and is also an example of [[Badger's Law]].

The site claims to give an "intellectually honest" argument against [[evolution]], which it refers to as "[[evolutionism]]". The site is replete with [[quote mine]]s from [[Charles Darwin]] and contemporary [[scientist]]s.<ref>[http://aigbusted.blogspot.com/2007/10/deception-of-trueorigin.html The Deception of True.Origin], Jere Yost, ''Answers in Genesis Busted'', October 16, 2007.</ref> The arguments presented are not novel, with classic creationist chestnuts presented such as "[[microevolution]], but not [[macroevolution]]" and "evolution violates the [[second law of thermodynamics]]." Guest columns are authored by such scientific luminaries as [[Jonathan Sarfati]], [[Jonathan Wells]], and [[Harun Yahya]].

Arguments for a [[young Earth]] include:

*[[Lunar recession|The moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate that would make an old Earth impossible]].

==External links==
*[http://trueorigin.org/ Main page]

==See also==
*[[Badger's Law]]
*[[CreationWiki]], its ''de facto'' successor
*[[talk.origins]], its competitor which TrueOrigins was founded as a reaction to

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Trumpet of Patriots

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The ‘’’Trumpet of Patriots’’’ (formerly The '''Palmer United Party''', then the '''United Australia Party'''. Both self-named after Clive "national living treasure" Palmer), is a political party in [[Australia]] who, unfortunately, hold significant sway in the Australian Senate. It is also known for its atrocious, hard to look at, website given that its two primary colours are yellow on a white background.

==Support base==
The Trumpet of Patriots drew its support from typically uneducated, [[working class | working-class]], politically disinterested Australians who are easily sucked in by Clive Palmer's "everyday 'Strayin" rhetoric. In other words, they are basically the same type who support [[One Nation]] - which is clearly evident given that its support is most potent in Queensland. Even though Palmer's immigration policy (see below) aligns somewhat closer to that of the [[Australian Greens]], on face value at least.

==Policies==

According to the party's website, its policies are as follows.

* [[Hypocrisy|Party officials should not be lobbyists]], thereby taking a strong position on paid political lobbyists, saving taxpayers dollars and introducing fair policies.
* Establish an emissions trading scheme, another form of carbon pricing, [[Climate_change_denial#The_denial_staircase|that will not come into effect until other countries – US, China, EU, Japan and Korea – also establish such a scheme]].
* Revising the current Australian government refugee policy to ensure Australia is protected and refugees are given opportunities for a better future and lifestyle.
* Creating mineral wealth to continuously contribute to the welfare of the Australian community. This will be achieved by utilising mineral resources from Queensland and Western Australia, and incentives from the Commonwealth of Australia to establish downstream processing in the States of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia; and exporting products at a higher dollar value, thereby creating more revenue, jobs, tax and more facilities.
* Establishing a system where people create wealth in various parts of the country and for that wealth to flow back to the community that generates wealth.
* Closing down detention centres for asylum-seeker boat arrivals: "... abolish the detention camps, restore our navy to its traditional role, save the lives of children and families, keep families together and recognise the legitimate rights of those that have a lawful reason for entering Australia."
* Moving towards free trade and closer economic relations with Asia.
* Decentralisation and regional self-government, such as a new North Queensland state.
* Encouraging competitive markets by restricting monopoly and prohibiting unfair trading practices.
* Abolish higher education fees.

==External links==
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Truth Frequency Radio

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'''Truth Frequency Radio (TFR)''' is a [[webshite]] that serves as the home to numerous radio talk shows promoting [[fake news]] and insane [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]]. It is a self-proclaimed escapism portal, of sorts, from all [[Truth|THOSE]] [[evil]] [[Mainstream media|mainstream satanic news sources]], like [[Fox News]], [[CNN]], and [[MSNBC]].

==Programming==
TFR offers low quality radio programming around the clock 24/7, with replays usually dominating the graveyard schedule slots. Their offerings include ''The Infinite Fringe with Billy Ray'', ''Paranormal Portal with Brent Thomas'', and of course, ''The Gematria Effect with [[Zachary K. Hubbard|Zachary Hubbard]]'', just to name a few. An unusually large number of their programmers are wearing mirror or dark glasses in their website photos (Billy Ray, Travis Cook, Sean Caron, Kev Baker, jeranism and the appropriately-named "The Lizard Ritual")<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191125183905/https://tfrlive.com/ Truth Frequency Radio] (archived from November 25, 2019).</ref> which [[JAQ|makes one wonder]] what kind of [[drugs]] they're on or whether they're hiding their [[reptoid]] eyes.

If they wish, listeners from the US or UK can call in live!<ref group=note>213-233-3998 in the US or +44.203.393.2871 in the UK.</ref> Guests may call to just to drop in and say hi, offer some insight into said discussion, or (probably most excitingly) waste their irretrievable time refuting said host's [[Not even wrong|atrocious arguments]], even though, in all probability, they would never admit defeat regardless.

==Exposed?==
As with literally any other conspiracy theorist website, TFR claims to be the [[United States]] [[government]]'s biggest fear, exposing their deepest and darkest secrets day in and day out for any of the [[sheeple]] to see if only they [[WAKE UP|opened their damn eyes]]. Of course, having as much power as they have, the government could be assumed to be capable of eliminating websites like TFR with a stroke of a key… so why haven't they done this yet? Don't answer that, [[JAQ|it's rhetorical]].

==Self owned==
In a hilarious instance of [[irony]], selecting the "24/7 Beyond Evil" option under the "Listen Live" tab redirects users to [[IHeartMedia|IheartRadio's]] own website, which features "similar stations", including (drum roll) NBC Radio.<ref>[https://www.iheart.com/live/beyond-the-veil-7267/ Beyond The Veil]. IHeartRadio.</ref>

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Truth News Australia

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'''Total Non-Stop Action'''
 '''Truth News Australia''' (TNA) is an independent [[Australia|Australian]] media outlet dedicated to preaching [[libertarianism]] and a wide variety of [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]].  It's mostly run by conspiracy theorist Hereward Fenton.  

According to Fenton, TNA go "beyond the spin" of Australia's mainstream media and speak the truth, like all conspiracy theorists who have been down the rabbit hole.  They mainly preach central banking hysteria, 9/11 Truth, [[New World Order]] conspiracy theories, and are skeptical of vaccinations and argue for the existence of [[chemtrails]] used to kill off the [[useless eaters]].  So basically, one could argue that TNA are Australia's equivalent to [[Infowars]], with perhaps a smaller following.  Unlike many American truthers, TNA do not believe [[Sandy Hook]] was a [[false flag]],<ref>Hereward Fenton.  "[http://www.truthnews.com.au/news/story/count_me_out_of_the_sandy_hook_truther_movement Count me out of the Sandy Hook truther movement!]"  Truth News Australia.  2013 January 21.</ref> preferring to argue that Australia could be the capital of the [[New World Order]]<ref>Hereward Fenton.  "[http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/australia_the_new_capital_of_the_new_world_order Australia - the new capital of the New World Order?]"  Truth News Australia.  2012 December 5.</ref> (rather than  conspiracy theorists' usual targets, the United States, Rome or Israel). 

==See also==
*[[Infowars]]

== External links ==

*[http://www.truthnews.com.au/ Official website] of Truth News Australia.

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Tsar

{{sources needed}}[[File:Tsar Nicholas II -1898.jpg|right|thumb|165px|Tsar Nicholas II, the last tsar.]]{{historynav}}
The '''Tsars''' (or '''Czars''') (Russian: царь ''tsar'') were the rulers (kings or emperors) of [[Russia]] and some other Eastern European countries. The term derives from the [[Latin]] term for Emperor ([[Roman emperor|Caesar]]). The third to last Tsar, Alexander II, like [[Gorbachev]] of the [[Soviet Union]] afterwards, attempted some sort of parliamentary democracy (probably because of rising disdain for him), but was assassinated. The second to last Tsar, Alexander III, was terrified by this and backslid on his father's reforms. The last Russian Tsar was Nicholas II, who was an absolutist and utterly incompetent. He was overthrown in the first [[February Revolution of 1917|Russian uprising of 1917]] and later murdered along with his family by the [[Bolshevik]]s, which were sometimes seen as ''de facto'' inheriting<ref>Peter Truscott, ''Russia First: Breaking with the West'', I. B. Tauris, 1997, ISBN 1-86064-199-7, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2xYGaod3prIC&dq=%22tsarist+absolutism%22&pg=PA17 Google Print, p.17]</ref> (as rulers of the Soviet Union) the Tsars' autocratic ruling style that is, via [[Putin]], still continuing to this day.

The term has come to be attributed to high ranking public officials such as the drug Tsar (head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy) and 
Card Czar
 terrorism Tsar. When [[Barack Obama]] took office as [[President of the United States|President]] of the [[United States]], some [[Republican Party|Republicans]] took his naming of "Tsars" to be purposeful foreshadowing of literal [[dictator]]ship.

==Trivia==
If one wants to be completely pedantic in any discussion of Russian history from 1721 and onward, one can point out that ''technically'' the Tsardom ended in 1721 and the legal title of all future monarchs was "Imperator" (Ру. Император, "Emperor"), though the term "Tsar" continued to be used frequently even afterwards.

==See also==
*[[Rasputin]] - their trusted advisor.

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