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  • EPISODE 124 | One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

    A look at a few outstanding cases of plane crashes and disappearances, commercial flights that have gone awry, and some of the weirdness surrounding those mishaps. And, of course, the ones we’ll look at have had conspiracy theories spun about them.

    This episode is dedicated to my godson, Vova (or Rusty, as we call him), because he absolutely loves commercial aircraft.

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    BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust, August 2, 1947 (STENDEC)191 Is Cursed - Prinair Flight 191, American Airlines Flight 191, Delta Air Lines Flight 191, Comair Flight 5191, JetBlue Flight 191 and Germanwings Flight 9525TWA Flight 800, July 17, 1996More July 17 – TAM 3054 (July 17, 2007) and MH17 (July 17, 2014)Korean Air Lines Flight 007, September 1, 1983KAL007 "Theories"Bert Schlossberg Wades InMusic by Fannete Ronjat

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    EPISODE 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe – The Devil’s TriangleEPISODE 89 | JBS BS: The John Birch SocietyNumber of worldwide air traffic fatalities from 2006 to 2021Airplane Crashes on NSC Injury FactsA Pilot’s Last Words: “STENDEC” in Plane and Pilot MagazineThe Star Dust Mystery on Damn InterestingSTENDEC Solved in the North Texas Skeptic17th July a cursed date and 191 a cursed flight number? on FlyerTalk by JetAirways77WThe Curse of Flight 191 by Still Penguins Seldom Waddle on MediumThe Inauspicious “Curse” of Flight 191 on Airline GeeksFlight 191: The Cursed Number video on the Grand Conspiracies and Mysteries YouTube channelThe World's Riskiest Flight in EsquireFatal Over-Rotation: 50 Years Since The Crash Of Prinair Flight 191 on Simple FlyingThe Deadliest Crash: Flight 191 and its Maintenance Legacy in Aviation Maintenance MagazineKnowing When to Stop: The Investigation of Flight 191 by Mara E. Vatz, MIT 2003The Worst Crash in US History: American Airlines 191 video on the Fascinating Horror YouTube channelRemembering Delta Flight 191 at the National Weather ServiceDelta Flight 191 deadly crash 38 years ago led to changes in forecasting after microburst brought down plane on Fox WeatherWrong Runway: The Crash Of Comair Flight 5191, 16 Years On on Simple FlyingComair 5191 Crash Led to Air Traffic Control Changes on the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) websiteJetBlue Pilot Yelled About Sept. 11 and 'Push It to Full Throttle' on ABC NewsJetBlue flight diverted after captain’s ‘erratic’ behavior on CNN TravelGermanwings crash: What happened in the final 30 minutes on BBC NewsThe Real Story of Germanwings Flight 9525 in EsquireThe Germanwings Flight 9525 Crash video on the Dark Records YouTube channelTWA Flight 800 in RationalWiki25-year anniversary of TWA Flight 800 explosion marks new chapter in disaster’s history on CNNWhat Happened to TWA Flight 800? on History.com'First conspiracy of the internet age’: How the TWA Flight 800 explosion sparked online rumors for years in USA Today NewsTWA 800 lawsuit document filing15 Years Ago: TAM Flight 3054 Becomes Brazil's Deadliest Air Crash on Simple FlyingTAM 3054 entry on the Aviation Safety NetworkMH17 incident on the Government of the Netherlands websiteMalaysia Airlines Flight 17 at RationalWikiMH17 Ukraine plane crash: What we know on BBCMH17 plane crash: Horror and hope for families as trial starts on BBCKorean Air Lines flight 007 at BritannicaThe downing of Flight 007: 30 years later, a Cold War tragedy still seems surreal on CNNThe Death of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 by Peter Grier in AIR FORCE Magazine (January 2013)Vadim Kondrabaev: "Secret of the Empty Airplane" on Roy's Russian Aircraft ResourceKorean Air Lines Flight 007 alternative theories on WikipediaBert Schlossberg on RationalWikiKorean Airlines Flight 007 entry on ConservapediaRescue 007 - Schlossberg's websiteLet's Ask Putin column by Reed Irvine, Chairman for Accuracy in mediaWorld's 10 most mysterious plane disappearances and strangest aircraft crashes10 aviation Mysteries of Our TimeThe Unsolved Mysteries of 8 Missing Passenger Flights7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances

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  • EPISODE 123 | A Heritage of Nonsense: More JKF Stories

    Guest: Fred Litwin, author of A Heritage of Nonsense: Jim Garrison's Tales of Mystery and Imagination

    The JFK assassination truly is the gift that keeps on giving, as this third book on the topic by Fred Litwin demonstrates. People who became suspects after just a two-minute phone call, a comedian who claimed to have channeled Oswald's ghost, a dishwasher spy, Jim Garrison's theory of propinquity and more weirdness than you can shake a stick at.

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    02:37 - What's the problem with Jim Garrison?08:44 - Breck Wall makes a phone call and gets noticed, Garrison's "methods"17:55 - Raymond Broshears channels Lee Harvey Oswald20:42 - Arthur Strout tries to change careers24:14 - Richard Case Nagell is the Man in the Middle32:45 - Farewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK by "James Hepburn"38:47 - Aren't you sick of this? Music by Fanette Ronjat

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    Fred Litwin's websiteA Heritage of Nonsense on AmazonThe JFK Assassination w/Fred Litwin (Big ’Uns 5) episode 50Film Flam - JFK & Stone w/Fred Litwin episode 79Papers of Jim Garrison at the National ArchivesOliver Stone's Portrayal of Jim Garrison on The JFK 100Breck Wall Oral History video at The Sixth Floor MuseumWarren Commission testimony of Breck WallAssassination a Homosexual Thrill Killing by Dave ReitzesA Homosexual Thrill-Kill? By Adam GorightlyA Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History by Joan MellenBreck Wall blogsRaymond Broshears blogsArthur Strout blogsRichard Case Nagell blogsRichard Case Nagell - The Man Who Knew Too MuchNagell communications with the authoritiesHow to Get the CIA’s Attention: Threaten a JFK Assassination RevealThe Man Who Knew Too Much: Hired to Kill Oswald and Prevent the Assassination of JFK by Dick RussellRichard Case Nagel timelineMan in the Middle: The Inside Story textFarewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK article in Publisher's WeeklyThe Realist archivesThey Killed Our President: 63 Reasons to Believe There Was a Conspiracy to Assassinate JFK by Jesse VenturaThe Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by Roger Stone with Mike ColapietroHit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination by Richard Belzer

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  • EPISODE 122 | How to Be a Communist

    One of the many words tossed about these days as a snarl term is “communist”, but do the people using this sobriquet know what that really means? It certainly doesn’t mean every leftwing philosophy or ideology. In fact, Communism is a very specific set of applications of very certain ideas, and, like it or not, helped define the 20th century.

    So let’s look at what Communism is and what it isn’t, and what other systems and suites of thought have crossover with it. Like all the different flavors of Socialism.

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    Closer to Home - Socialism (market and non-market), Adam Smith, the Labour Theory of Value (LTV)Duty Now for the Future - The French Revolution and the Directory, the Conspiracy of Equals, Utopian Socialism, Chartism, Karl Marx and Friedreich Engels become buddiesMean Machine - Engels's "alienated labour" and The German Ideology, historical materialism, The Communist Manifesto, the basics of Marxism, Marx and Engels hatch a fast-track planBrothers in Arms - The Russian Tsar is overthrown and Communism comes to power, the first Communist platform, Reds versus Whites, Lenin develops LeninismMusic for the People - Stalin develops Marxism-Leninism, which spreads to all countries that go CommunistFuturistic Design - Mao Zedong takes over in China, Communism fails almost everywhereSubterranean Jungle - The Horseshoe Theory, Communism has more in common with Fascism than with socialism, comparing and contrasting Fascism and Communism, comparing and contrasting capitalism and socialism, Third Way, social liberalism, social democracyLife's What You Make It - Capitalism is not a social or political system, democracy is opposed to authoritarianism's many flavours Music by Fanette Ronjat

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    Why market socialism is a viable alternative to neoliberalism at the Lon don School of Economics and Political ScienceMarket Socialism: A Case for Rejuvenation by Pranab Bardhan and John E. Roemer in the Journal of Economic PerspectivesSocialist Market Economy chapters and articles on Science DirectNon-Market Socialism: What is it? How will it work? - 2 papers from the Socialist and Anarchist Utopias Panel at the 2018 The Great Transition: Setting the Stage for a Post-Capitalist SocietyInternational Conference in MontrealSOCIALISM WITHOUT MARKETS: DEMOCRATIC PLANNED SOCIALISM paper by Al CampbelWhat are some contemporary defenses of non-market socialism? on Quoralabour theory of value entry on BritannicaChapter 6: Theories of Value from Human Society and the Global Economy by Kit Sims TaylorGracchus Babeuf & the Conspiracy of EqualsUtopian Socialism articles on Science DirectUtopian Socialism in America on Digital HistoryChartism essay by Amy J. Lloyd, University of CambridgeWhat was the Chartist movement? on BBC BitesizeCapitalism and alienation by Phil Gaspar in Critical Thinking from the International Socialist ReviewMarx’s Theory of Alienation by Asher Horowitz, professor of political science at York University The German Ideology by Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsHistorical Materialism.org websiteWhat is Historical Materialism? video on PHILO-notes YouTube channelKarl Marx entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyManifesto of the Communist PartyWhat is 'Marxism' in The Economic TimesHow does Marxism differ from Leninism?What Is Marxism-Leninism?Marxism: What It Is and Comparison to Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism on InvestopediaThe Rise of Mao Zedong on Alpha HistorySocialism, Fascism, Capitalism and Communism Chart from the Hampton Roads Naval MuseumDemocracy in the Manual for Human Rights Education with Young PeopleCommunism vs. Fascism comparison chartCommunism vs. Socialism comparison chartSocialism vs Communism also with a chartCommunism vs. Democracy comparison chartCapitalism vs. Socialism comparison chartCapitalism vs Socialism another chartFascism and communism: Two sides of the same coin at the Adam Smith Institute History is much too important to be left to politicians by Jonathan Steele in The GuardianDifferent Types of Socialism6 Political Ideas Socialism different types video on various types of Socialism The Third Way: Myth and Reality by James Petras in the Monthly ReviewWhat the Heck Is Social Liberalism?Social Liberalism vs. Social ConservatismSocial Democracy definition by John Patrick in Understanding Democracy, A Hip Pocket GuideBasics on Social Democracy brochure by the Friedrich-Ebert-StiftungWhat Is Social Democracy? Unveiling Its Values videoWhat are the main differences between social democracy and democratic socialism? on QuoraLiberal or Social Democrat? in Dissent MagazineWhat's the difference between Social Democracy and Libertarianism? on Quora

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  • EPISODE 121 | Coup Coup G'joob: Civic Disturbances in the U.S. 1900 - Present

    This is a continuation of our previous episode about coup attempts, rebellions and civic unrest in the United States prior to the 20th century. This time, we jump into the 20th century and bring us right up to the present day. After hearing all this, you decide if things really are, as some would have you believe, the worst it’s ever been, or if in fact, America has always struggled with its foundational problems and original sins, coupled with an unusual appetite for, or at least tolerance of, violence.

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    Sitting on a Cornflake - Race riots, the Green Corn Rebellion of 1917, the Red Summer of 1919, Anarchists, the Battle of Blair Mountain (1921), 1931 - Bloody Harlan, the Housing Riots, the Kingfish vs. the Wild Bull of JeaneretteCorporation Tee-Shirt - The Business Plot of 1933-1934Yellow Matter Custard - The McMinn County War (the Battle of Athens) (1946)You Let Your Face Grow Long - The 1960s - Ax Handle Saturday, the Ole Miss Riot, the Harlem Riot, the Selma marches, the Watts Riot, the Long Hot Summer of 1967, segregationists in North Carolina, the Stonewall Riots, the Weathermen and the Days of Rage; the 1970s - the Kent State shootings, the Hard Hat Riot, Alcatraz and Catalina occupations, the Attica Prison Riot, the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) bombings and more; the 1980s and 1990s in briefA Serviceable Villain - The 21st century - Pseudolaw gets violent, the rise of protests, Occupy Wall Street, the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot, stochastic terrorism, Trump mouths off, King Henry II and his "turbulent priest", the Manson family, proposed solutions to violent outbursts, Pakistan's Sabaoon Project, Kenya's Preventing of Violent Extremism through Education, Islamic deradicalization group Muflehun, Google's Redirect Method, what we can doMusic by Fanette Ronjat

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    EPISODE 115 | Cuckoo Coups in the U.S.The Beatles explained: What does ‘goo goo g’joob’ mean?When the Socialist Revolution Came to Oklahoma—and Was Crushed in Smithsonian MagazineRed Summer: When Racist Mobs Ruled on American ExperienceRed Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs on History.comThe Battle of Blair Mountain on ReImagine AppalachiaIntroduction to the West Virginia Mine Wars on the National Park ServiceRemembering Bloody Harlan on Parallel NarrativesWhen the Unemployed Fought Back on Shelterforce.orgHuey Long: His Life and TimesWhy is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR? in The GuardianConsidering History: The 1933 Business Plot to Overthrow America in the Saturday Evening PostThe Battle of Athens: An Obscure American Revolution on Legends of AmericaThe Battle of Athens in American HeritageWhat happened on Ax Handle Saturday, Aug. 27, 1960, in Jacksonville?The Riot at Ole' Miss on American RadioWorksRiots erupt over desegregation of Ole Miss on History.comRiots of 1964: The Causes of Racial Violence paper by Roy Wilkins at the Notre Dame Law ReviewInside the Harlem Uprising of 1964 at RutgersWatts Rebellion on History.comShe Played a Key Role in the Police Response to the Watts Riots. The Memory Still Haunts Her—But Black History Is Full of Haunting Memories in TimeThe 1967 Riots: When Outrage Over Racial Injustice Boiled Over on History.comWhat was the Stonewall uprising? in National GeographicStonewall then and now in The Harvard GazetteChicago's Forgotten 'Days of Rage'THE MAY 4 SHOOTINGS AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: THE SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACYKent State shootings: The 1970 student protests that shook the US on the BBCWhat was the Weather Underground? on The HillHow the Weather Underground Failed at Revolution and Still Changed the World in TimeEvading the FBI: The Weather Underground Organization at Yale University PressSome Say Occupy Wall Street Did Nothing. It Changed Us More Than We Think in TimeOccupy Wall Street swept the world and achieved a lot, even if it may not feel like it in The GuardianGretchen Whitmer kidnapping articles on PBS NewsThe Final Twist in the Gretchen Whitmer Kidnap Case on SlateDonald Trump, Stochastic Terrorist in Mother JonesStochastic terrorism: critical reflections on an emerging concept in Critical Studies on TerrorismHow Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence in Scientific AmericanDeradicalizing, Rehabilitating, and Reintegrating Violent Extremists at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)Bringing them home: Pakistan's child deradicalisation centre offers second chanceEducation for Preventing Violent Extremism (EPVE) working group paper from the Club of MadridLessons Learned from Student-led Initiatives to Prevent Violent Extremism in Kenyan UniversitiesPREVENTING VIOLENT EXTREMISM THROUGH PROMOTING INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT, TOLERANCE AND RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY discussion paper from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Preventing violent extremism webpage at UNESCOPreventing Violent Radicalization in America report from the National Security Preparedness Group at the Bipartisan Policy CenterDHS Rebrands and Expands Biased, Ineffective Countering Violent Extremism Program at the Brennan Center for JusticeThe Redirect Method on MoonshotThe Search for Extremism: Deploying the Redirect Method at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

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  • EPISODE 120 | OOPArts Doompa-Dee-Doo

    Sometimes people find something
 interesting, maybe even mysterious. What is that? they ask. And then they or someone else makes a logical leap and says oh, wow, here is the missing link I’ve been looking for that proves all my theories that until now have been ridiculed or ignored. And not even scientists are immune to this very common and very human process.

    We’re looking at out of place artifacts, or OOPArts – things found in an unusual context. This might, upon examination, indicate that certain civilizational develops happened much earlier than we had thought or, if you’re of a certain bent, be used to further narratives of ancient advanced civilizations, Atlantis, ancient aliens, time travel, or the literal truth of the Bible.

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    02:27 - Cheer Up, Charlie - The Diquis Spheres, the Plain of Jars, the Eltanin Antenna, the Baigong Pipes, Starchild Skull, the Paluxy Tracks, the Meister Print, the Wolfsegg Iron (Salzburg Cube), the Klerksdorp Spheres; the Yonaguni Monument, the Land of Mu and Zealandia25:35 - I Want It Now - The Dorchester Vase, the London Hammer, the Kingoodie artifact, the Coso Artifact, the Wedge of Aiud34:39 - (I've Got a) Golden Ticket - The ShakƍkidogĆ«, the Quimbaya/Tolima "jets", the Saqqara Bird, the Abydos helicopter, the Dendera light/lamp, the Baghdad Battery47:09 - Pure Imagination - The Nampa Figurine, the Multiregional Hypothesis, the Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head, the Upshur BellMusic by Fanette Ronjat

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    Episode 04 | Saddam's Stargate and Taskforce 20Episode 11 | Conspirasaurus Rex - Dino-Mite Theories About the DinosaursOut of Place Artifacts on Historic MysteriesOOPARTs on History UndustedThe strange world of Out-of-place artifact (OOPArt)Archeological Fantasies websitePseudoarchaeology Research Archive (PARA) websiteThe Ancient Stone Spheres Costa Rica on 360 On HistoryAtlantis in America: Navigators of the Ancient World by Ivar Zapp and George Erikson Diquis Spheres UNESCO listingPlain of Jars in Archaeology MagazinePlain of Jars Archaeological Research Project websitePlain of Jars UNESCO listingIn Search of... the Eltanin AntennaThe Harp SpongeBaigong Pipes: The Strange Ancient "Pipes" Found In The Caves Of Mount BaigongThe Baigong Pipes Skeptoid podcast episodeThe Starchild Skull -- Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid? by Lloyd PyeThe Starchild ProjectStarchild entry in the Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcastPaluxy Man -- The Creationist PiltdownA Summary of the Taylor Site EvidenceFootprints in Stone (Forbidden History II) videoThe Meister Print on Footprints in StoneTripping Over a Trilobite: A Study of the Meister TracksThe Salzburg Cube on Legends & Chronicles The Saltzburg Cube (sic) on the Museum of Unnatural MysteryCreation Evidence Museum websiteAlleged Iron Pot in Coal10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Grooved SpheresKlerksdorp Spheres: Strange Spheres Found In 3 Billion-Year-Old RockConcretion on WIkipediaThe 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Grooved Spheres on Archaeological FantasiesExploration Mysteries: Yonaguni Monument on ExplorersWebJapan's mysterious underwater 'city' on the BBCWas the legendary lost continent of Mu the 'real' Atlantis?Scientific American entry on Dorchester find, June 1852, "A Relic of a By-Gone Age"The Dorchester Vase on Genesis ParkDorchester Pot on WikipediaThe Book of the Damned by Charles FortWorlds Before Our Own by Brad SteigerMysteries of the Unexplained: How Ordinary Men and Women Have Experienced the Strange, the Uncanny, and the Incredible Reader's Digest bookEdiacaran Period on Britannica If I Had a HammerThe London Hammer: It’s Real and It’s Fake on Naturalis HistoriaThe Kingoodie Artifact on Stronghold NationThose We Call Cavemen Were All That Remained Of Humanity After The Last Time We Destroyed Ourselves on Above Top SecretWhen Some 1920s Garbage Was Mistaken for an Ancient Artifact on SmithsonianWedge of Aiud on RationalWikiThe Mystery of Japan's DogĆ« FiguresAncient Dogu Figurines With Large Goggle-eyes Defy Scholarly Explanation on Ancient OriginsTolima "Fighter Jets" on Ancient Aliens DebunkedThe Saqqara Bird on Historic WingsThe Saqqara Bird on Digging Up Ancient AliensSubmarines and the Hieroglyphics on Egypt JoyHelicopter Hieroglyphs? Debunking the “Mystery” of the Abydos Carvings on Ancient Origins.netDendera lamp on RationalWikiThe Dendera Light Bulb is a microdroplets fog made of sprayed water produced to achieve evaporative cooling inside the horizontal passage of the Great Pyramid of KhufuWhat the "Light Bulb" Relief Means at the Dendera Temple on The Archaeologist Was the Baghdad Battery really a battery? on BBC Science FocusAwful Archaeology Ep. 6: The Baghdad Battery videoThe "Baghdad Battery" on the Iron SkepticThe Unique Figurine In Idaho That Still Baffles Archaeologists To This Day on Only In Your StateThe Nampa Figurine: 2-million-year-old Relic or Just a Hoax? on Ancient Origins Multiregional Hypothesis: Human Evolutionary Theory on Thought Co.The Tan-Tan Venus Tan-Tan: The oldest known human representation? on The Bradshaw Foundation - The Art of the Ice AgeCalixtlahuaca's Head at the University of New MexicoThe Calixtlahuaca Head at Ohio State Archaeological Outliers 300 Million Years old Bell with Garuda found in Buckhannon, West VirginiaThe Mystery of the Bronze Bell encased within a Block of Coal on Metallic ManGenesis Park website

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  • Episode 119 | False-Flag-A-Go-Go (WIW 14)

    The false flag trick started with naval warfare, but has also been used to initiate wars and to sabotage political opponents. And the conspirasphere uses the idea of the false flag, both in general and specific terms, quite often to justify certain narratives. In that regard, the two most influential are the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001. Since that latter event, nearly every major public incident has been called a false flag by someone or another.

    Since today is September 11, this seems like a fitting time to look at false flags from history, because they do actually happen. Sometimes.

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    03:10 - Talk of the Town - The Puumala incident, the Ems Dispatch, the Mukden incident, the Reichstag fire and the Lex van der Lubbe, the Gleiwitz incident, Operation Grandmother Died, Operation Himmler, pseudo-operations, the shelling of Mainila and the Winter War, the Gulf of Tonkin incident 14:11 - Mystery Achievement - Black propaganda, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the KGB's Section A, Operation Trust, the Zinoviev Letter, black propaganda post-9/11, the Roorback Forgery of 1844, the Canuck Letter, the Penkovsky Papers25:50 - Sense of Purpose - Culture jamming, Let’s Go! Shell in the Arctic, Scientology's Brain-Washing: A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics, L. Ron Hubbard's "fair game", Operation Freakout, Operation AJAX, Operation Susannah ("Unfortunate Business"), the bombing of the King David Hotel, Herman Hanneken in Haiti, the Mau Mau Uprising, quintuple agent Silver36:20 - Loose Screw - The U.S. hates Castro, Operation Mongoose, Operation Bingo, Operation Dirty Trick, Operation Northwoods, the Maine incident42:02 - Break Up the Concrete - McCain volunteer "attacked", Joe Jobs, sporgery, trolling CPAC with flags, Turlas piggybacks on OilRig, false flag cyber-opsMusic by Fanette Ronjat

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    Examples of historical false flag/covert operations and false pretexts for war on Paradox ForumFalse flags: What are they and when have they been used? on BBCFalse-Flag Operations at the Hoover Institution A Guide to False Flag Operations on Grey DynamicsFalse flags are real, but far less widespread than social media suggest on PoynterThe swedes stage a false flag attack against Russia! at On Wargames and SuchWinter War: The 1939 Soviet Invasion Of Finland In Crystal-Clear Photos on Radio Free Europe/Radio LibertyRevealed: the dark past of ‘Outcast’, MI6’s top wartime double agentSilver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis: The Most Remarkable Agent of The Second World War by Mihir Bose

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    Shell in the Arctic websiteThe Scandal of Scientology by Paulette CooperThe story of Paulette CooperOperation Freakout: an internal document from ScientologyFidel Castro: The CIA's 7 Most Bizarre Assassination Attempts on NBC NewsU.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba on ABC NewsInside Operation Northwoods, The U.S. Military Plot To Incite A War With Cuba on All That's InterestingOperation Northwoods documentMcCain Worker Made Up Attack Story on CBS NewsAn Actual False-Flag Operation at CPAC in The AtlanticRussian hackers cloak attacks using Iranian group at BBCHow Russia conducts false flag operations at US Embassy in the UKFalse Flag Theory | Psychics And Society on MediumHow the term ‘false flag’ migrated to the right on the Columbia Journalism reviewRaising the False Flag of Conspiracy: What Are the Psychiatric Implications? at Psychiatric Times

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  • EPISODE 118 | Public Enemy Antifa

    Much has been made about Antifa. Is it a concept, socio-political stance, or an organized group? Do they oppose oppression by any means necessary, or are they simply hooligans who want to break things? Or, as Trump and others in the Maga mirror world have suggested, are they the quasi-military arm of some insidious plot to undermine the very foundations of western society? Are they, in fact, terrorists? So, let’s trace what it is, where it comes from and who is part of it.

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    02:05 - Bring the Noise - Antifaschistische Aktion (Antifa), skinhead culture, Anti-Racist Action (ARA), skins go left and right, White Aryan Resistance (WAR) the Heritage Front, Midwest Anti-Fascist Network, National Alliance, the NSM in Toledo, Ohio11:30 - Shut 'em Down - The Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement (HARM) clash with the Illinois European Heritage Association, punch Nazis in the face, why the police protect them, police as legitimate targets, black bloc tactics, the New Sanctuary Movement, Milo Yiannopoulos goes to UC Berkeley19:10 - Public Enemy No. 1 - Fake Antifa Twitter accounts spread #PunchWhiteWomen and #PunchANazi, Jebediah88 fakes The Antifa Manual, It's Going Down counters with Forming an Antifa Group: A Manual, Microchip sends petitions to Trump, the far-right goes all in of Antifa disinformation, molehill mountaineering, Lucian Wintrich worries about "Antifa supersoldiers"25:39 - No Sympathy from the Devil - Louisiana police fall for "full list of antifa.docx", the American Identity Movement, CHiPs fall for "antifa buses", militias roam Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Jeffersonians in Sonora, California become "rooftop rednecks", a family has a scary camping trip in Forks, Washington; Trump tells more lies33:09 - Welcome to the Terrordome - Nonsense about Jan. 6, the Center for Strategic and International Studies creates a database of U.S. terrorist acts, Willem van Spronsen attacks an Immigration center in Washington, Patriot Prayer guy Aaron Danielson is killed by Michael Reinoehl, who is then killed by police; Trump crushes hard on the U.S. MarshallsMusic by Fanette Ronjat

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    EPISODE 61 | The Great Replacement - The White Wing Goes MainstreamEPISODE 76 | Klown Kar - The KKK Can KMA (World Is Weird 8)EPISODE 101 | Panic! at the Disco - The Jan. 6 Event (WIW 12)EPISODE 117 | Stay Awake – The Wokeness IssueAntifa.orgIt's Going Down websiteThe Long History of Antifa in The Progressive MagazineWho Are Antifa, and Are They a Threat? at the Center for Strategic & International StudiesInside the Underground Anti-Racist Movement that Brings the Fight to White Supremacists on Mother JonesWhat is antifa? Is it a group or an idea, and what do supporters want? on CBS NewsThe Philosophy of Antifa video on Philosophy TubeThe Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa by Gord HillAntifa: A New Political Resistance? in the Berkeley Political ReviewSeven things you need to know about Antifa on BBC11 Suggested Actions Towards Anti-Racism at UC DavisAnti-Racism Toolkit at Georgetown UniversityBeing Antiracist at the National Museum of African American History & CultureAntifa articles on SnopesEU Anti-racism Action Plan 2020-2025Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Antagonists of the Alt-Right video from The Daily ShowLeft Hook: A Brief History of Nazi Punching in America in Mother JonesIs Antifa Counterproductive? in The InterceptThinking Strategically About Free Speech And Violence in Current AffairsButterfly Attack: The Origins of the Fake Antifa Social Media Accounts on The Media Manipulation CasebookTwitter says fake "Antifa" account was run by white supremacists on CBS NewsFrom Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate from the Anti-Defamation LeagueA brief dictionary to help understand the US far right at Al JazeeraPrevalence of white supremacists in law enforcement demands drastic change on ReutersThe Nov. 4 conspiracy theory about antifa has some scary historical echoes on SlateHow the antifa conspiracy theory traveled from the fringe to the floor of Congress in USA TodayIs This 'Antifa Manual' Real? on SnopesForming An Antifa Group: A Manual on It's Going DownWhite House ‘antifa’ petition written by pro-Trump troll on PoliticoFamily reportedly harassed in Forks after being accused of being members of AntifaFederal officers won’t be charged for killing Portland anti-fascist supporter, prosecutor states'I Am Antifa': One Activist's Violent Death Became A Symbol For The Right And Left on NPRWhat we know about Portland shooting suspect Michael Reinoehl in The News TribuneTrump Cheered His Killing As ‘Retribution,’ Now His Family Is Suing in Court in Rolling StoneFamily of activist killed in alleged ‘spray of bullets’ by US police files lawsuit on The GuardianThe Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States from the Center for Strategic & International StudiesPushed to Extremes: Domestic Terrorism amid Polarization and Protest from the Center for Strategic & International Studies

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  • EPISODE 117 | Stay Awake – The Wokeness Issue

    In a classic example of the weird mirror world days we are currently moving through, a term used by Black people to mean one thing has been turned by opportunists into something totally different.

    So, let's look at the origin of the term "woke", how it's been used, African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), the Black Lives Matter movement, Defund the Police, and the appropriating of the word by those who see more personal profit in keeping us all divided.

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    02:23 - Hi Diddle Dee Dee (An Actor's Life For Me) - Jive talk/hep talk/Harlemese/Ebonics/AAVE, "stay woke"10:53 - Someday My Prince Will Come - Black Lives Matter, Campaign Zero, M4BL15:44 - Little April Shower - Defund the Police, support drops drastically21:07 - Pink Elephants on Parade - All lives matter, white lives matter, blue lives matter, Russian trolls try to start a race war, #fakehashtags, athletes kneel in protest26:59 - I Wan’na Be Like You - "Woke" becomes a snarl term, cancel culture rises, Cultural Marxism, the mirror world ascendant33:55 - Heigh Ho - Musk's "woke mind virus" (WMV); DeSantis declares war with the PREA ("Don't Say Gay") and Stop WOKE, fights with the Mouse, babbles about Critical Race Theory41:00 - Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah - Woke Christianity, woke Capitalism, corporate sociopolitical activism (CSA); John Ringo, ConCarolinas and Go Woke, Go Broke; Boycotts against Nike, Gillette, United Airlines, Disney, Bud Light49:50 - Cruella De Vril - GAG targets Target, astroturfing, DeSantis goes after DEI programs53:30 - Second Star to the Right - How it all has come to thisMusic by Fanette Ronjat

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    EPISODE 40 | When Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad PuppiesEPISODE 41 | Critical Race Theory - Re-examining "Normal"EPISODE 61 | The Great Replacement - The White Wing Goes MainstreamEPISODE 100 | Conspirasphere Rising - A Talk w/Derek ArnoldEPISODE 106 | Suffer the Children – Pizzagate, Wayfair & the Seeds of QAnonStay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney FilmsA history of “wokeness” on VoxWokeness: A Brief History of Wokeness, Woke Culture, and Staying Woke by University PressCab Calloway’s “Hepster Dictionary,” a 1939 Glossary of the Lingo (the “Jive”) of the Harlem RenaissanceProf. Cab Calloway’s Swingformation Bureau on Cult Jones, Books for VisionariesEbony + Phonics on PBSEBONICS: Its Origins and Significance on Our Time PressOakland School District Recognizes Black English in the Los Angeles TimesLessons from the media’s coverage of the 1996 Ebonics controversyStay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement videoThe Origin Of Woke: William Melvin Kelley Is The 'Woke' Godfather We Never AcknowledgedBlack Lives Matter websiteCampaign Zero websiteM4BL websiteFake 'BLM Manifesto' Is Taken From Italian Fascism DocumentWhat Does Defund the Police Mean? at the Police Brutality CenterWhat Do “Defund the Police” and “Police Abolition” Mean? And What Do They Not Mean? on Close Up Washington DC

    7 myths about “defunding the police” debunked on the Brookings website

    Why saying "all lives matter" communicates to Black people that their lives don't on CBS NewsWhite Lives Matter on SPLCBlue Lives Matter on ParticipediaVirtual Hatred: How Russia Tried to Start a Race War in the United States - paper by William AcevesMe Too websiteAmericans and ‘Cancel Culture’: Where Some See Calls for Accountability, Others See Censorship, Punishment at Pew Research CenterIs Cancel Culture Effective? at University of Southern FloridaWhat Is Cancel Culture and What Does It Mean in 2024? on ViceCancel Culture: Myth or Reality? paper abstractWhy we can’t stop fighting about cancel culture on Vox‘Marxists are brainwashing us’: The conspiracy theory taking hold among some on the right in El PaisCultural Marxism: An Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory? - briefing form Antisemitism Policy TrustHow sport became a vehicle for far-right conspiracy theoriesDoppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein When brands go woke, do they go broke? on The Chartered Institute of MarketingA First-Amendment Case for Freedom from the Woke Religion on New DiscoursesOn National Beer Day 2024, the US is drinking more Modelo than Bud Light as NA brews riseThis Gay Conservative Twitter Account Is the Latest Trying to Use Drag to Stir OutrageIs ‘Gays against Groomers’ the new Libs of TikTok? on the Daily DotAstroturfing on The Midea Manipulation casebookTarget’s Pride collection features ‘tuck-friendly’ swimsuits for adults, not kids on AP NewsThe feud between Ron DeSantis and Disney, explained on VoxFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill banning DEI initiatives in public colleges on NPRGov. Ron DeSantis' war on 'woke' appears to be losing steam in Florida on NPR

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  • EPISODE 116 | High(er) Strangeness w/Eric Bickernicks

    Guest: Eric Bickernicks, writer, author of High Strangeness and Higher Strangeness

    What does a guy who's made novelty songs, short comedy videos, an indie film for $32k, kettle corn aplenty, and a novel about art theft do next? If he's Eric Bickernicks, he writes two books about UFOs, hoaxes, alien thoughts, UFO cults, gullibility and Cape Cod.

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    02:49 - High/Higher Strangeness and other books, pranksters, unintended consequences, UFO cults, Cape Cod minus buzzards13:16 - Aliens and fiction become folklore, truly alien aliens19:42 - Crop circles, re-hoaxing, not bright guys, Hanlon's Razor, emotional processing is conservative, lazy writing, fridge logic, butts in seats, good writing can happen, fold-your-laundry content, ignorance is a right32:56 - Believe in God never really goes away, we've evolved to be paranoid, nihilism is stressful40:45 - Rampant existentialism, keeping busy, novelty songs, kicking Weird Al's ass, A Dead GuyMusic by Fanette Ronjat

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    A Dead Guy - the website of Eric BickernicksHigh Strangeness has its own websiteEric Bickernicks on AmazonRampant Existentialismalt.sex - Eric's indie filmThe Defectives - Eric and another guy's novelty songsDr. Demento websiteMore of Eric's CrapThe Buzzards Bay CoalitionBuzzards Bay Brewing - because why not?The New England Science Fiction Association, Inc. - the genre bullies who reject Eric9 Outrageous Pranks in History7 of History's Greatest PranksThe Merry Pranksters And the Art of the Hoax - NYTThe Logistical Challenges of a Supersize Acid Test: On the Merry Pranksters’ Trips FestivalTHIS IS AMERICA: Twilight of a Merry PranksterResearch Books - Pranks!UFOs Keep Appearing in the News. Here’s Why We Can’t Quit Them - Scientific AmericanUFO Mania Is Out of Control. Please Stop. - Washington PostList of UFO-related hoaxes on Wikipedia4 INFAMOUS UFO HOAXES REVEALED | The Proof is Out There - videoAlien 'Hoaxes' That Went Viral From Roswell's Flying Saucers to Mexican & Australian X-Files - SpyscapeCrop circles: Cynical hoax, natural phenomenon or proof of alien life? - The IndependentCrop Circles: The Art of the Hoax - SmithsonianCirclemakers - website for people who make crop circlesHanlon’s Razor: Not Everyone is Out to Get YouFridge Logic on TV TropesThe 5 Basic Laws of Human StupidityThe Stupidity Quotient by Dennis L. Holeman, The Systems PerspectiveThe Darwin Awards websiteAre Americans Just Stupid? - Psychology TodayThe reason why America has become 'uniquely stupid'Stupid People: Our Society is SuccumbingWhy Do Stupid People Rule the World? Stupid People Are Surprisingly Confident - How Stuff WorksBonhoeffer’s “theory of stupidity”: We have more to fear from stupid people than evil ones - Big Think

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  • EPISODE 115 | Cuckoo Coups in the U.S.

    Alarmist rhetoric has been used multiple times in America’s past with the express intent of fomenting a rebellion or even a coup. The game is to create a sense of urgency in the hopes that enough people will commit to extreme actions, so you can get what you want (which is power).

    According to Wikipedia, there have been 13 coup attempts in the United States since it won its independence from the British crown, plus an additional 29 rebellions and well, lots of moments of civil unrest. Things are not always happy and peaceful in the Land of the Free. Often because some people don’t think everyone should, in fact, be free.

    Here's a look at those that occurred before the 20th century.

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    02:54 - Early Daze - Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia (1676); the Newburgh Conspiracy (1783) and George Washington's spectacles, the Pennsylvania Mutiny (1783)09:16 - Dorr's Rebellion - Rhode Island (1841)11:47 - The Status of Slavery - Slave revolt in Orleans (1811), Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia (1831); largest slave escape (1842), the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Bleeding Kansas (1854-1859), John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in Virginia (1859), states secede (1861), Sam Houston deposed in Texas, militia groups form throughout the South after the Civil War18:31 - Brindletails and Minstrels - The Brooks–Baxter War in Arkansas (1874)25:23 - The Battle of Liberty Place, New Orleans (1874) - Rise of the White League and another city under siege, the Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction33:53 - The Jaybird-Woodpecker War, Texas (1888)37:47 - The Secret Nine and the Wilmington Insurrection in North Carolina (1898) - The Populists and Fusionists, the Secret Nine and the Committee of Twenty-Five, the Red ShirtsMusic by Fanette Ronjat

    Lapsus Linguae: At 33:44, I say the Wilmington Insurrection was also in the 1880s, but it was not.

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    EPISODE 69 | Electoral Collage – Voter Fraud, Election Interference & Other ShenanigansEPISODE 76 | Klown Kar - The KKK Can KMABacon's Rebellion on Historic Jamestowne page on the National Park Service websiteGeorge Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy, 1783 at The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American HistoryThe Pennsylvania Mutiny - This Day in History - June 20, 1783 on The Constitutional Walking TourThe Dorr Rebellion on Rhode TourOur Hidden History: Racism and Black suffrage in the Dorr Rebellion in The Providence JournalThe Enslaved Peoples’ Uprising of 1811 on New Orleans HistoricalNat Turner’s Revolt (1831) on Encyclopedia VirginiaKansas-Nebraska Act (1854) at the National ArchivesBleeding Kansas on the American Battlefield TrustBleeding Kansas: From the Kansas-Nebraska Act to Harpers Ferry on Civil War on the Western BorderRemembering John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry on ReImagine AppalachiaSam Houston and Texas Secession on the Abbeville InstituteThe 1858 New Orleans Mayoral Election on Emerging Civil WarBrooks-Baxter War on Encyclopedia of ArkansasBattle of Liberty Place on 64 ParishesThe Battle of Liberty Place: A Matter of Historical Perception on 64 ParishesMarch 1, 1874: White League Formed on the Zinn Education ProjectLouisiana White League Platform (1874) on Facing History & Ourselves34 Documented Mass Lynchings During the Reconstruction EraThe Compromise of 1877 on the Khan AcademyJaybird-Woodpecker War on Texas State Historical AssociationTHE JAYBIRD-WOODPECKER WAR (1888-1889) on BlackPastWilmington Massacre and Coup d’état of 1898 – Timeline of Events on New Hanover County Cape Fear MuseumWilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a US government on the BBCThe Wilmington Massacre of 1898 at the Equal Justice InitiativeThe Lost History of an American Coup D’État in The AtlanticAmerica’s Only Successful Coup d’Etat Overthrew a Biracial Government in 1898 on History.comA North Carolina city begins to reckon with the massacre in its white supremacist past on NPRThe 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans in Time'Better organized, more disciplined': Capitol rioters mirror Red Shirts in 1898 Wilmington Coup in Wilmington Star NewsA Tale of Two Insurrections

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  • EPISODE 114 | All Your Base Are Belong to Us – U.S. Military Installations

    The United States spends more on their military than the next nine countries combined. With around 450 bases (or maybe 500 or maybe 750 or maybe 800 or even more) operating more than 111,000 installations in 80 or more countries, there’s a lot to keep track of. In fact, no one is really sure how accurate those numbers are, since a lot of places are deemed classified or even top secret, and yes, cover stories have sometimes been deployed.

    Some of the things we do know about are pretty interesting and often sad or infuriating, depending on your outlook. And yet that’s not enough for some folks, who feel the need to fill in the gaps with long, complicated conspiracy narratives that are better suited to novels than anywhere else.

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    02:43 - Living in Danger - "Wargames", NORAD, Cheyenne Mountain, Mount Yamantau and the Perimeter System08:14 - Happy Nation - Granite Mountain, Utah Data Center and PRISM; Dugway Proving Ground, CHASE and the Sheep Kill Incident; the Deseret Test Center at Fort Douglas, Project 112 and SHAD; Nellis AFB, Pahute Mesa and the Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range17:14 - Waiting for Magic - Area 51, OXCART/D-21/Tagboard, Operation Diamond, AQUATONE and the U2, Majestic 12 stuff, the alien autopsy, Sean David Morton, Bob Lazar, Dan Burisch, Bill Moore, Storm Area 51, the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository and the Tonopah Test Range, Area 6 23:08 - The Sign - Edwards AFB, Plant 42 and Site 10; 1957 UFO sighting at Kirtland AFB, Paul Bennewitz, Richard Doty and Yucca Mountain32:03 - Always Have, Always Will - Wright-Patterson AFB, Hangar 18 and T-2; Camp Hero, the Montauk Project, Lab 257 on Plum Island; COG sites - Mount Weather and TWA flight 514; Raven Rock and Site R37:23 - Never Gonna Say I'm Sorry - Fort Detrick, USAMRIID, Building 470, Operation Whitecoat, Operation INFEKTION/Denver42:34 - Don't Turn Around - Fort Hunt and P.O. Box 1142, Camp Peary and The Farm (Veritania)46:03 - All That She Wants - The Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, Naval Air Station Jacksonville and Hangar 51147:49 - Wheel of Fortune - James Casbolt's DUMBsMusic by Fanette Ronjat

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    EPISODE 31 | Scammers, Inc. - MJ-12, Bennewitz & SerpoEPISODE 44 | The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel VisionEPSIODE 85 | Project Pegasus - Mars and Beyond!EPISODE 94 | Peek-A-Boo: Project Star GateTHE UNITED STATES SPENDS MORE ON DEFENSE THAN THE NEXT 9 COUNTRIES COMBINEDThe World's 30 Strangest Military Bases in Popular MechanicsListverse's 10 Not-So-Secret Classified Military InstallationsNo Trespassing: America’s Ultra-Secret Sites on Spyscape10 Military Bases More Secret Than Area 51 on ServeMost Interesting TOP SECRET US Military Facilities on Covert Cabal channel (video)15 Most Secret Military Bases on Top Fives channel (video)15 Most ADVANCED Military Bases on Top Fives channel (video)Worlds Most Famous Secret Bases on Sideprojects channel (video)13 secrets of NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain on Denver ABC 7The Granite Mountain Records Vault - take the virtual tourMilitary Mystery Solved: Two Guys Out-Googled Google for an Image of Secretive US Base on LiveScienceTolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range at Otherhand.orgUFOs seen near Nellis Air Force Base which is home to aliens, conspiracy theorist claimsRevealed: How Area 51 Hid Secret Craft Alien Autopsy video Area 51 warning: Man shot dead for trying to enter military baseThe Secret Facility "Hangar 18" Crashed UFOs in Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (video)Air Force Names Wright-Patterson’s Hangar 18 as Newest Software FactoryHow the Death of 6,000 Sheep Spurred the American Debate on Chemical WeaponsNational Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC)ALIEN WAR and The Horrors of Dulce Underground Base on The Why Files channel (video)Long hidden, a Nazi-interrogation unit gets its dueSpy School Confidential: CIA Officers Spill Secrets About ‘the Farm’ on SpyscapeEX-CIA AGENT TELLS OF SIX-WEEK PEARY COURSE extract from the Richmond Times Dispatch, 1972Operation Whitecoat on PBS Religion & Ethics WeeklyArticle on Hangar 511 titled Hangar LifeJames Casbolt MI6 -Buried Alive pdfUnderground Bases, Missing Children and Extra-Terrestrials 2006 testimony by James CasboltAgent Buried Alive - a whole bunch of Casbolt/Project Mannequin stuff

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  • EPISODE 113 | Power Is Power: The Vulnerable Electrical Grid

    Guest: Chris Underwood, author of the The Cold Winter series

    Our digital age needs electricity more than anything else. But what would happen is part of the power grid went down during one of the worst winter storms in history? That's the premise of Chris Underwood's thriller series The Cold Winter. The fact is that power grid is vulnerable, and a series of low-tech in recent years have highlighted some serious problems that have still not been addressed.

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    02:35 - A look at the first two novels, the inspiration and overall plot09:10 - The third book, the history of the Ohio River, companies still use COBOL, Huey helicopters and LST-23513:56 - Blackouts inspire the Pentagon to commission the report Brittle Power, it all costs money, attacks against the grid in the 70s and later - the Metcalf Sniper Attacks, Russian hacks by Grizzly Steppe, transformers made in China, Jason Woodring's Arkansas attacks, a neo-Nazi couple in Baltimore, human attacks increasing, power stations themselves need power24:20 - Weaponizing extreme climate, HAARP, the Walking Dead with weather, people become extreme in extreme situations27:47 - Four types of threats, false flags 32:57 - We ship coal to China, cold fusion holdouts, education is the cure, the cavalry is not coming 37:38 - Point Pleasant's Mothman Festival, The Creatures of Holden Beach, this is a different Chris Underwood, prepper conventions, the Dayton Air ShowMusic by Fanette Ronjat

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    Chris Underwood websiteThe Cold Winter series by Chris UnderwoodThe Mist by Stephen KingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyHow a butterfly's wing can bring down Goliath / Chaos theories calculate the vulnerability of megasystemsBlackouts cause N America chaosHacking The Electric Grid Is Damned HardKeeping the electric grid safe from attackSophisticated but low-tech power grid attack baffles authoritiesU.S. Power Grid Vulnerable to Attack: Congressional Research ServiceAttacks on power substations are growing. Why is the electric grid so hard to protect?How the US power grid is a target for far-right groupsThe story of Jason Woodring, the Arkansas power grid vandalSouthern Idaho Man Sentenced for Destruction of Energy Facility After Shooting at Idaho Power Hydroelectric PlantsSniper attack on California power grid may have been 'an insider,' DHS saysPhysical attacks on power grid surge to new peakExtremists keep trying to trigger mass blackouts — and that’s not even the scariest partWhat is going on with attacks on American power stations?Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security by Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter LovinsElectric Power Grid 'Inherently Vulnerable' to Terrorist AttacksGirding the Grid in Security Management Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three timesA Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant episodeMothman Festival websiteThe Creatures of Holden Beach.....And the Murder they did NOT Commit! by Chris UnderwoodPrepper CampThe Dayton Air Show

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  • EPISODE 112 | GESARA & the Red Caesar

    What do proposed economic reforms, the idea of a post-constitutional American dictator and Christian Nationalism have in common? Donald Trump, for starters - at least for some people. Scammers and grifters of all stripes find common ground with would-be authoritarians in a weird confluence of conspiracy narratives that hope to create and capitalize on chaos to further their own agendas.

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    02:00 - NESARA Nest Eggs - Harvey Francis Barnard drains the swamp, the Dove of Oneness swaps Judy "Zebra" Knight and Ramtha for the Omega Trust and becomes the first 9/11 "truther", various weirdos like Sheldan Nidle, Jennifer Lee, Sherry Shriner and channelers jump aboard and lay the groundwork for QAnon10:26 - The GESARA that Lays the Golden Eggs - White Dragons, Alcuin Bramerton and other scammers promise an end to debt13:39 - Solace in Quantum - The Quantum Financial System, Quantum AI, Comte St. Germain, lots of metals, the Alliance await Q Day20:20 - Red Caesar - Kevin Slack hates modernism, loves the Roman Empire23:54 - Caesarism - Tracing the term, the Claremont Institute is more dangerous than you suspect27:56 - The Flight 93 Election - Alexander Michael Black likes Red Caesar, Michael Anton tortures a metaphor but finds a new career33:36 - Haywood for Warlord - Shampoo king and "Maximum Leader" Charles Haywood founds the Society for American Civic Renewal, builds a compound and organizes private militias38:14 - King of the Seven Mountains - Stephen Wolfe makes the case for Christian Nationalism, Lance Wallnau sells coins; Rafael Cruz, Paula White-Cain, Michele Bachman, Lauren Boebert and Mike Johnson scale the Seven Mountains40:42 - A Clear and Present Danger - Trump's words vs his track record, a possible "revenge term", watch out for the sucker fish, Wisconsin tries to hobble Justice Janet Protasiewicz, North Carolina gives Gov-Ops sweeping powers, Ron DeSantis creates not one but two private militias 47:45 - True Grift - The monetization of narrative and attention, Trump is all things to all grifters, the future might be just more chaos or it might be something worseMusic by Fanette Ronjat

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    Draining the Swamp: The NESARA Story by Harvey F. BarnardConspiracy Watch: The Best Law Ever in Mother JonesDove of Oneness/NESARA founder Shaini Goodwin page on Cult Education Institute websiteThe Nesara Cult and Qanon's Origins video on Behind the BastardsRamtha's School of Enlightenment websiteQAnon Teams Up With Alleged Cult Leader on Daily BeastStill waiting for NESARA?Draining the Swamp: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Reform by Harvey F. BarnardGalactic Human Activation Materials for sale Deepfake Quantum AI Investment Scam Pops Up on FacebookNesara: The financial fantasy ruining lives on BBC SoundsInside the QAnon Crypto Scam That Cost People Millions and One Man His LifeProject Leap: Quantum-proofing the financial system by the Bank for International SettlementsProject Leap pdfNESARA and The Mark of The Beast by Dr. Scott YoungScott Young's YouTube channelThe Quantum Financial System Manual of GESARA-NESARA & XRP GESARA/QFS map Quantum Financial System (QFS): Revolutionizing Finance or Conspiracy Theory? on CoinCodex YouTubeProsperity at Risk: The Quantum Computer Threat to the US Financial System video from the Hudson Institute ( four white guys complaining)Exposing the Quantum AI Investment Scam on Blossom Social YouTubeWar on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism by Kevin SlackThe Claremont InstituteThe Red Caesar Code: A guidebook for the installation of the American dictator by Alexander Michael BlackCalls for an American Julius Caesar are ignorant, dangerous on R Street‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening in The GuardianRed Caesarism threatens democracy and the rule of law in the Concord MonitorThe right's "Red Caesar" plan: GOP's new order marches onward — only voters can stop it on SalonRed Caesar and the Next Regime on Rick Wilson's substackThe Flight 93 Election by Michael Anton ("Publius Decius Mus")After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose by Michael AntonFlight 93 and Our National Disease on Law & LibertyHow Michael Anton’s ‘Flight 93 Election’ Essay Defined the Trump Era in New York MagazineDeparting the Shining City from the Cato InstituteThe Crash of the Flight 93 Presidency on PoliticoThe Stakes: America at the Point of No Return by Michael AntonCharles Haywood's review of Anton's The StakesUp from Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay by Arthur Milikh Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) archived websiteThe Worthy House - Towards a Politics of Future Past website by Charles HaywoodUS businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network in The GuardianThe Case for Christian Nationalism by Stephen WolfeThe Rise of Right-Wing Wokeism (review of Wolfe's book)Beware the 'Christian Prince' (another review of Wolfe's book)Of Gods and Men: A Long Review of Wolfe’s Case for Christian Nationalism (a long review of Wolfe's book)Televangelist’s show sells $45 Trump coin as ‘point of contact’ to GodPastor Paula White calls on angels from Africa and South America to bring Trump victory'The Lord says it is done': White House spiritual adviser Paula White prays for 'angels from Africa' to cement Trump's re-electionTracing the rise of Christian nationalism, from Trump to the Ala. Supreme Court on NPR (audio)How Evangelicals Lose Will Make All the DifferenceAli Velshi warns of the fringe Seven Mountains doctrine going MainstreamThe Radical GOP’s “Seven Mountains Mandate” on The Big PictureTrump-O-Meter on PolitiFact‘A revenge term’: what would another four years of Trump look like? from The GuardianTrump Warns He Could ‘Certainly’ Indict Political Opponents if He’s ReelectedEx-RNC Chair's Stark Warning on 'Threat' Posed by Donald TrumpImpeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz? Here’s what’s missing from debateWisconsin Republicans Walk Back Efforts to Impeach Newly Elected State Supreme Court Justice ProtasiewiczNorth Carolina Republicans create "secret police force"NC lawmakers exempt themselves from public records laws while Democrats blast 'secret police' powersRon DeSantis plans Florida paramilitary force outside federal controlGovernor Ron DeSantis Unveils the Florida State Guard The Dangers of DeSantis's Militia on the Southern Poverty Law Center America's most effective fascism enforcers are bored boomers, not youthful brawlersMy QAnon Date

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  • EPISODE 111 | Us vs. Them: Antisemitism Goes to School

    Guest: Scott Shay, president of Chai Mitzvah and author of Conspiracy U

    Hamas forces swept into Israel on October 7, 2023, committing atrocities and taking hostages. Literally the next day, American student groups were blaming Israel. Protests on campuses began to multiply and today the situation seems out of control and pro-Israel and pro-Palestine groups go at one another while school administrations react heavy-handedly. What's behind all the shrill rhetoric?

    Scott Shay's 2021 book Conspiracy U looked at antisemitic trends on American campuses, and saw an uptick in sales at the end of last year as some of the things he'd talked about seemed to be coming to the fore. He shares some of his thoughts as to what is going on today on American universities.

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    02:57 - The Double Standard - There's no equality in otherization15:29 - Totem and Taboo - Logos, ethos, and pathos, political intent in conspiracy theories24:53 - Facts and Integrity - Digital and information literacy is lacking, the line between hate speech and threat29:35 - Trends or Tactics - Weaponizing plagiarism, economic antisemitism, BDS started on the far right 42:52 - Jewish Otherness - Anti-idolatry threatens god-king-pharaohsMusic by Fanette Ronjat

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    Chai Mitzvah Conspiracy U: A Case Study by Scott ShayIn Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism by Scott ShayGetting Our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry by Scott ShayThe True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric HofferA new wave of antisemitism threatens to rock an already unstable world on CNNDefining Antisemitism of the US State Department websiteWhat elite universities — and their critics — get wrong about campus antisemitism on VoxMajor events in Pro-Palestinian protests at US universities on ReutersHow pro-Palestinian protests unfolded on college campuses across the US: A timeline on ABC NewsEchoes of Vietnam war protest — A timeline of America's Student SpringWhere are the US college campus protests and what is happening? in The GuardianAs Columbia University protests on Israel-Hamas war come to a head, what to knowStudents protested for Palestine before Israel was even foundedIs Hate Speech Legal? on TheFire.orgHate speech versus freedom of speech on the United NationsWhy We Must Reject Efforts to Restrict Constitutionally Protected Speech on College Campuses on ACLU.orgPro-Palestinian campus protests are evolving. Here’s what to watch on PBSStudent Protests in America Now: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?Why Palestinians can count on American students but not Arab allies to protest

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  • EPISODE 110 | How to Be a Fascist

    People use the term "Fascist" a lot these days, but do they really know what that means? Fascism is a very specific combination of ideas and goals that occurred within very clear historical and philosophical contexts.

    This is a look at where Fascism came from, Mussolini's rise to power, and variations and offshoots of the first Fascist ideologies. And while not everyone you don't like is a "Fascist", there are some actual fascists out there, and they are not being all that quiet.

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    02:33 - The Future Refusing to Be Born - General characteristics of Fascism10:52 - The Measles of Mankind - Mussolini encounters the Völkisch Movement, Carlism, Integralism, Adapted Syndicalism, Sorelianism and Maurassism; rises high in the Revolutionary Socialist movement, is kicked out of the movement, starts the Fascists 19:07 - How to Get There from Here - Fascism kicks off in 1919, the Fiume Republic of Gabriele D’Annunzio, the 1921 Fascist platform, disorder and fighting in Italy, Mussolini as PM in October 192225:33 - Mussolini makes changes 1923-1925, the Fascist takeover is completed Nov. 1925-Nov. 192630:21 - We Ain't There. Yet. - Hitler was inspired, as were Franco and Salazar; the US has never seen similar conditions33:41 - A SmörgĂ„sbord of BS - Corporatism, neo-Corporatism and Tripartism; Ultranationalism, Strasserism, Falangism39:13 - Neo-Fascism, Neo-Nazism, Esoteric Nazism - Savitri Devi, Robert Charroux, Miguel Serrano and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke43:03 - Clerical Fascism, British Israelism, Christian Identity46:01 - White Nationalism, White Separatism, Apartheid47:21 - The British National Front, Third Position, diagonalism and the "cross-front", Black Nationalism, Hutu Power50:47 - National-Anarchism52:44 - To Infinity and Beyond! - Islamofascism, Saddam Hussein's spin on Ba'athism, Muammar al-Gaddafi used leftwing rhetoric for rightwing aims53:58 - The current threat of Accelerationism56:43 - Active Fascist political parties today, what we can doMusic by Fanette Ronjat

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    RationalWiki page on FascismFascism definition on BritannicaIs This Fascism? on SlateWhat is fascism? on LiveScienceMussolini's 10 Pillars of FascismHow Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason StanleyThe Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. PaxtonIntroducing Fascism: A Graphic Guide by Litza Jansz and Stuart HoodGLEICHSCHALTUNG: COORDINATING THE NAZI STATEMussolini: A study in power by Ivone KirkpatrickMussolini and Italian Fascism by Hamish MacDonald World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia edited by Cyprian BlamiresA History of Fascism, 1914–1945 by Stanley G. PayneStrongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-GhiatThe Problem of Fascism in Everyday Life paper by G. V. LoewenUr-Fascism essay by Umberto EcoFascism: Past, Present, Future by Walter LaqueurFascism: A Warning by Madeleine AlbrightThe Problem With Using Fascist as a Political InsultThe overuse and abuse of ‘fascism’Column: The use and misuse of the word ‘fascism’On The Use And Abuse Of The Term “Fascism” To Describe Current EventsFascism: Who is and isn't a fascist, and how you can tell the differenceIt’s Time to Use the F-word: An Anti-fascist Approach to Trump and FrancoIs Donald Trump a Fascist?On American Fascism: The Fascist Rhetoric of Donald Trump and The Right Wing-Media paper by Aaron HuffHow fascist is Donald Trump? -- a 2016 assessment revisitedEco-fascism: justifications of terrorist violence in the Christchurch mosque shooting and the El Paso shootingA CHORUS OF VIOLENCE: JACK DONOVAN AND THE ORGANIZING POWER OF MALE SUPREMACYThe Strange, Strange Story of the Gay FascistsFighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by Clara Zetkin On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy SnyderHow Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse by Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright and Erica Frantz A Brief History of Fascist Lies by Federico Finchelstein Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne ApplebaumHow Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

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  • EPISODE 109| What's in a Name? The Shakespeare Authorship Debate

    Guest: Scott Jackson, Mary Irene Ryan Executive Artistic Director of Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame, current vice president of the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA) and incoming president, actor, director and Shakespeare scholar

    William Shakespeare wrote at least 36 plays, 154 sonnets, two narrative poems and a few shorter poems - more than 884,000 words total, more than 1700 of which he invented. But just who was this guy? Was he really "the Man from Stratford", or merely a pen name for... well someone else?

    We look at some of the more popular Anti-Stratfordian theories and also look at why some people seem hell bent on proving that someone else, anyone else, actually wrote all that stuff.

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    03:02 - Upstart Crow - No evidence of his education, the First Folio, not much biographical evidence, a common hand, Bardathon12:28 - The Ireland Shakespeare Forgeries - Compiling the First Folio, Vortigern and Rowena gets most of a performance19:13 - The Baconian Theory - Bardolotry, Hart's The Romance of Yachting, Robert W. Jameson's "Who Wrote Shakespeare?", James Wilmot makes a bonfire24:19 - Delia Bacon goes for the Rutland Theory, then the Groupists Theory, then all in on Bacon, travels to England, gets into codes and ciphers, loses her mind, inspires the New Historicists and cultural poetics; William Henry Smith and Nathaniel Homes kick off the Baconist Theory30:11 - Baconist Orville Ward Owen builds a machine to find "proof", the first Mock Trial (1892-93)33:17 - The Derbyite Theory & the Marlovian Theory - Classism, partnership with Marlowe, death and pseudonyms 39:57 - The Rutlandite Theory & More - More classism, Baconists still persist, more expeditions from Owen, schoolteacher Elizabeth Wells Gallup gets into codes, Stylometrics, the Claremont Shakespeare Authorship Clinic44:31 - The Oxfordian Theory - John Thomas Looney fingers Edward de Vere based on spurious logic, lots jump on this bandwagon, geography in Shakespeare, "the coast of Bohemia", the media focuses on "reasonable doubt" over evidence, how plays were written back then, evidence gets lost in time50:18 - A Single Hand - Though there is some reasonable doubt, Shakespeare probably wrote Shakespeare; Applied Shakespeare, humanity owns him, Shakespeare as a force for good (PTSD therapy, in prisons, etc.)Music by Fanette Ronjat

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    Shakespeare Was Shakespeare by Isaac Butler on SlateRevisited Myth # 68: Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare on History Myths DebunkedThe Shakespeare Index on TheatreHistory.org20 words and phrases you didn’t know Shakespeare inventedShakespeare's WordsShakespeare's PhrasesBard-a-thon at Fairbanks Shakespeare TheatreIan McKellen performs Sir Thomas More, Act II, Scene 4 video"The Strangers' Case" Speech from Sir Thomas More with various speakers and annotationsProfessor Sir Stanley WellsPeter Holland, McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies at University of Notre DameJames Shapiro, playwright and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia UniversityStephen Greenblatt, general editor of The Norton Shakespeare, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard UniversityThe Shakespeare First FolioVortigern and Rowena textThe Confessions of William-Henry Ireland on WikiSourceWilliam Henry Ireland's Shakespeare Forgeries on Hoaxes.orgBardolotry on WikipediaJames Wilmot and Shakespeare's AuthorshipBacon Bacon Shakespeare Spy The Doctor Who Designed a Cipher Wheel to Decode ShakespeareTheories of identity – the alleged Shakespeare mystery Marlowe as ShakespeareThe Controversy of Shakespeare and MarloweChristopher Marlowe Has Officially Been Credited as Co-Author of 3 Shakespeare PlaysBorn with Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams webpageRoger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland on ShakespeareAuthorship.comShakespeare by the Numbers: What Stylometrics Can and Cannot Tell UsThe Claremont Shakespeare ClinicComputer Reads Shakespeare, Dismisses Authorship CandidateThe Claremont Shakespeare Authorship Clinic: How Severe Are the Problems?The Globe theatre fire of 1613: when Shakespeare’s playhouse burned downThe Great Fire of LondonFinding Shakespeare - Skeptoid podcastWhat Shakespeare can teach us about conspiracy theories todayHow Shakespeare describes post-traumatic stress disorderIn Shakespeare, veterans find a “tower of strength”Shakespeare and Possibility, Part 1: Shakespeare in Prisons videoShakespeare in PrisonsShakespeare Theater AssociationPrague Shakespeare Company (Shakespeare Summer Intensive (SSI)

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  • EPISODE 108 | Swiftboating Redux: Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome

    She's the most successful pop star today, yet some people seem to suffer brain meltdowns when thinking about Taylor Swift. Call it TDSD, Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome, and it takes hold especially in MAGAmaniacs, Trumpeteers, Trad Chads and broflakes.

    Tracing the conspirasphere's treatment of Swift along with her career and life, including Kanyegate and the Masters Dispute, shows some interesting connections as TDSD spreads far and wide, outpaced only by her own wildly popular musical output.

    THIS EPISODE MARKS THE BEGINNING OUR 5TH YEAR. THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT!

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    02:53 - Fearless - Beginning successes with Big Machine, first conspiracy theories07:48 - Kanyegate - The 2009 MTV VMA Awards echoes through the years11:47 - Speak Now - Swift as Satanic priestess, the reincarnation of Zeena Schreck (Lavay), or a clone; No, it's Becky15:28 - Red - Kanye West pipes up again, moves to NYC, starts advocating for artists' rights17:02 - 1989 - The Gaylor Theory and Taylor Swift Is Gay, the Squad, no belly button, goes after Spotify and Apple Music21:25 - Bad Blood - Kanye West sends flowers, then makes a phone call about "Famous", Swifties and Squaddies respond, Swift supports young women, West freaks out backstage at SNL, Kim Kardashian tells fibs, the video for "Famous" keeps the flames fanned, Kim releases a short video of the phone call and promotes #KimExposedTaylorParty, "I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative", battle lines were drawn, snake memes proliferate, friendships are broken, they're all part of the Illuminati29:47 - Out of the Woods - Harry Styles and Taylor Swift killed someone in 2012, David Mueller lawsuit, the $1, #MeToo kicks off, Time's "Silence Breakers"33:08 - Reputation - Swift died, gave birth to a snake baby, is a clone (again), Scooter Braun and Swift's masters dispute, Swift threatens to re-record her first six albums, Big Machine tries to shackle Swift, "Karyn" the inflatable snake, MAGA takes notice of Swift, Qtips think Monte Lipman is Jeffrey Epstein38:52 - You Need to Calm Down - Lover comes out, Covid-19 lockdown starts, the entire West-Swift call video is leaked, Swift takes the high road, the West flap has flashbacks and echoes, Swift hates the Statue of Liberty, some Squaddies defect, Swift gets down hard and retreats to London, watches movies with Joe Alwyn42:30 - Folklore Evermore - folklore is the ultimate lockdown album, "cardigan" sells sweaters, Swifties tank Live from Clear Channel Stripped 2008, Scooter Braun stops his feet but then sells to Disney's Shamrock Holdings, evermore comes out in just five months45:19 - Taylor's Version - Swift re-records and expands earlier work, reminds one of the Prince-Warner dispute, Braun makes a lot more money, the Carlyle Group tells Braun to make nice but he goes the other way, piss off the Swifties and find out, reminds one of Madonna and Brittany Spears, the attention economy is a new thing, Swift is too left wing for the alt-righties50:48 - In the Midnight Era - Midnights and the Eras Tour, Swift gives back to her truck drivers, more Taylor's Versions, starts seeing Travis Kelce, Swifties register to vote, MAGA is worried Swift will endorse Biden, a slew of conspiracy theories (ice cream, human skin hat, CIA psy-ops agent, mind control master, AI-porn on Twitter, Trump says he's more popular than Swift, Trumpeteers declare a holy war on Swift, Kelce is gay), much nonsense about the Super Bowl, Trump wades in again, she's a golddigger and also super gross58:14 - Scientific American looks into TSDS, The Tortured Poets Department is nighMusic by Fanette RonjatLapsus Linguae - At 10:15, I accidentally call the album Fearless "Fear", forgetting the "less". I also mistakenly call the song "You Belong With Me" You Belong to Me.

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    Donate to the World Health OrganizationFeeding America websiteTaylor Swift websiteTaylor Swift on FacebookTaylor Swift on InstagramTaylor Swift on YouTubeReasons why I love Taylor Swift by springappler/TaylorSwiftSwifties on WikipediaSwifties on Taylor Swift fandom wikiTaylor Swift and the Swifties: A Love Story Forged in SongWhy Taylor Swift's Fans Love Her So Much in Psychology TodayUnderstanding Swifties’ mindsets using the Taylor/Travis love story14 Outrageous-But-Accurate Taylor Swift Theories That Prove Swifties Are The Best DetectivesTaylor Swift’s boyfriends: A timeline of all the megastar’s famous exesTaylor Swift Is Incredibly Good At Being A CelebrityA Timeline of Taylor Swift’s GenerosityLet’s go down the rabbit hole of Taylor Swift conspiracy theoriesStyle Theory: The Cult of Taylor Swift videoThe 15 Wildest Conspiracy Theories About Taylor SwiftThe Taylor Swift iceberg videoThe wildest Taylor Swift conspiracy theories, from Biden 2024 to a cat spy comedySnopes articles about Taylor SwiftThe Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theory Iceberg videoTaylor Swift Conspiracy Theories Hold Sway With 1 in 5 AmericansI'm losing my friends to Taylor Swift conspiracies :(Decoding Taylor Swift Conspiracies and Outrage on The Center for InquiryTaylor Swift, Harry Styles and a wild internet theory about a snow mobileTaylor Swift Has A Japanese Doppelganger Who Starred In A McDonald’s AdDoes an Image Show Taylor Swift Hawking an Electric Burner?Numbers You Didn't Know You Needed: All the Times Taylor Swift Has Carried an Empty PurseTaylor Swift Had An Incredible Response To A Tumblr Meme About Herself18 Taylor Swift Memes You'll Only Find In Your 'Wildest DreamsTaylor Swift deepfakes could be the tip of an AI-generated icebergTweet uses a ham sandwich as 'evidence' that Taylor Swift is a slut in USA TodayLet’s call the abuse of Taylor Swift what it really is – a hate crime against women in The IndependentThe Squad on SwiftpediaA Complete History of Taylor Swift's SquadIs Taylor Swift gay? The Dianna Agron and Karlie Kloss relationship rumors, explainedr/Gaylor_SwiftI Cracked the Code on Galyor_SwiftTaylor Swift is Gay on TumblrIs Taylor Swift gay? | Deep Dive videoTaylor Swift DOESN'T want you to THINK she's GAY videoTaylor Swift puts decades-long romance rumour to rest with single missive“Haters Gonna Hate, Hate . . . .” Can Taylor Swift “Shake it Off”?HOW THE EXTREMIST RIGHT HIJACKED ‘STAR WARS,’ TAYLOR SWIFT AND THE MIZZOU STUDENT PROTESTS TO PROMOTE RACISMTaylor Swift has angered many people with her 'You Need To Calm Down' release. Here's whyThe 10 Most Convincing Theories About Taylor Swift’s Album ReputationTaylor Swift Has Written an Op-Ed in the Wall Street JournalTaylor Swift Pens Open Letter Explaining Why ‘1989’ Won’t Be on Apple MusicApple Changes Course After Taylor Swift Open Letter: Will Pay Labels During Free TrialTaylor Swift won her day in court. Here's what you need to know.Top 10 References You Missed in Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" videoA Complete Timeline of Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun’s FeudTaylor Swift Explains Why She's Re-Recording Her Albums on Seth Meyers videoHow Taylor Swift Outsmarted Her Record Label videoTaylor Swift and Kanye West's 'Famous' Phone Call Video Leaks Online — Read the TranscriptA Complete Timeline of Taylor Swift and Kanye West's FeudSwift an ‘Aryan goddess' to alt-rightThis is why you hate Taylor Swift - thoughts on women who have an egoTaylor Swift Admits She Was ‘Lonely’ While Writing Her ‘Folklore’ Album During the PandemicAll the records Taylor Swift has broken in 2023MAGA movement targets Taylor Swift with pitiful conspiracy theoriesFrom nightmare ticketing to online abuse, being a pop fan is becoming miserableHaters gonna hate: Pentagon pushes back against Fox News conspiracy theory involving Taylor SwiftA Timeline of Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s RelationshipThe right is coming for Taylor Swift. They don't stand a chanceConservatives have picked the wrong enemy with attacks on Taylor SwiftTaylor Swift fans sent me death threats, doxxed my family, and accused me of being a pedophile after I criticized her Eras TourTaylor Swift’s ‘Time’ Cover Is Breaking Far-Right BrainsSean Hannity Has Surprising Take On Taylor Swift CriticismRepublicans Are Once Again Being Very Weird About Taylor SwiftTaylor Swift Has Broken Conservatives’ BrainsWhy Taylor Swift Is Making Conservatives CrazyThe meaning of the hysteria over Taylor SwiftSecrecy and Taylor Swift: What Conspiracy Theories Reveal About Our Growing Distrust of InstitutionsGOP invents Taylor Swift conspiracy theory instead of facing reality about unpopular policies on MSNBC videoTrump reportedly said he's "more popular" than Taylor Swift, worrying about her endorsing BidenTrump Allies Pledge ‘Holy War’ Against Taylor SwiftStudy: Taylor Swift, social media conspiracy theories suggest record Super Bowl ratingsTrump makes a plea for Taylor Swift's loyalty in pre-Super Bowl post to Truth SocialGOP extremists whine about Taylor Swift after Chiefs' AFC championship winUntangling 13 Taylor Swift Midnights Theories: Real or Our Wildest Dreams?All the times number 13 was relevant in Super Bowl 58: A Taylor Swift conspiracy theoryTaylor Swift has encouraged her fans' numerology habit yet againA Comprehensive Breakdown of Taylor Swift's Easter Eggs videoTaylor Swift's music video symbolism videoHow the internet built a conspiracy theory around a new spy flick, a debut novel, and Taylor SwiftWhen Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies (ep. 40)44 for 44 - The Obama Conspiracies (Thanks, Obama!) 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  • EPISODE 107 | Traces of Reality: Abstract Art and the CIA (World Is Weird 13)

    Guest: Mandy Theis, founder and director of the School of Atelier Arts, academic director and professor at the Florence Academy of Art

    Maybe you've walked into a museum or gallery and seen a big white, blank canvas, or a huge circle, and thought, "So, this is art, eh?". But why is there so much of this abstract stuff around? The answer might be surprising - because the CIA promoted it as part of the Cold War.

    And then it rather got away from them. Today, the art market is the most unregulated in the world, and aesthetics and skill take a back seat to branding.

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    02:31 - Atelier training, the CIA begins, the cultural Cold War was run by elitists, Julia Child, Realism gets rebranded as Communist, the Springville Museum of Art in Utah, cadmium red as protest, dry brushing technique, techniques follow money, skill list art, technical skills are being lost12:30 - Social Realism, Czech Functionalism and German Bauhaus, Cubist architecture, art is always in motion, Russians tweaked French Realism, Abstract art eclipses realism, a war of aesthetics and marketing, the French discount the Americans, America pushes Abstract Expressionism, Marshall Plan money becomes a black bag, the Congress of Cultural Freedom, Clement Greenberg, Art criticism as marketing23:18 - the NCL (Non-Communist Left), Jackson Pollack was a CIA tool, American racial attitudes work against them28:24 - Abstract Expressionism promoted as ultimate American style because it has no inherent meaning, it's safe; Picasso had atelier training, Truman hated abstract art ("ham and egg men"), George Dondero goes nuts about abstract art on the House floor, Realism is not retrograde, we are losing the artistic skills to make beautiful things36:06 - the CIA's efforts were very successful, the modern art market is the most unregulated in the world, technique gets separated from art so it all becomes about money, everything is branded, Warhol critiques all this, fine art feels remote from most of us, the art world is a closed circuit, Thomas Kinkade was successful because at least his work meant something to some people, scribbles are scribbles but branding makes them art47:51 - Don't know if it's art, but I like it; Realism is still villainized Music by Fanette Ronjat

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    The School of Atelier Arts websiteBodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception (World Is Weird 11)The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor SaundersSpringville Museum of Art - largest public collection of 20th century Russian and Soviet art in the western United States15 things to know about Norman RockwellWhy Norman Rockwell MattersRalph McQuarrie: Star Wars' Concept ArtistA Visit to the CIA’s “Secret” Abstract Art CollectionWas Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op?Class 8. The CIA and the Cultural Cold WarOrigins of the Congress of Cultural Freedom, 1949-50 Cultural Cold War on CIA.govWHEN FREEDOM TOOK THE OFFENSIVE: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Power of IdeasCongress for Cultural Freedom on Spartacus Educational Cold Warrior: The Clement Greenberg PhenomenonCIA Weaponizing Abstract Art and Its FalloutThe use of American art in the Cold WarHow MoMA and the CIA Conspired to Use Unwitting Artists to Promote American Propaganda During the Cold WarFord Foundation - Funding transatlantic exchange between the arts and politicsThe Ford Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic collaborationwith the Secret PoliceModern art was CIA 'weapon'How the CIA Secretly Used Jackson Pollock & Other Abstract Expressionists to Fight the Cold WarWas modern art a weapon of the CIA?Jackson Pollock & the CIA on The Conspiracy of Art websiteWhy did the CIA sponsor Jackson Pollock?Pollock is BollocksPollock: genius or charlatan?Jackson Pollock: Separating Man from MythViewpoint: Why racism in US is worse than in Europe - BBC Viewpoint“They treated us royally”? Black Americans in Britain during WW2Why abstract art is not validAbstract Art Is Not Art and Definitely Not AbstractThe Tyranny of Abstract Art in The AtlanticCommunist conspiracy in art threatens American museums, Congressional Record, March, 17, 1952Anticommunism and Modern Art - selection from the George Dondero PapersTHE SUPPRESSION OF ART IN THE MCCARTHY DECADEThe Shame of the Mural Censors — Why Art and History MatterBetween Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Deconstructing Art And/As Ideology on Project MUSEModern American Art and the Politics of Cultural DiplomacyAbstract Expressionism and the Cold War'The art trade is the last major unregulated market'A Fascinating, Sexy, Intellectually Compelling, Unregulated Global Market. - Freakonomics ep. 484The Art Market: Unregulated Unscrupulous And Worth BillionsHigh-end art is one of the most manipulated markets in the worldTHE ART MARKET: AFFLUENCE AND DEGRADATION on Art ForumBillion Dollar Painter: The Triumph and Tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light bookThomas Kinkade: A Success - 60 MinutesThomas Kinkade: The Painter Art Critics Hated but America LovedMuch to the Chagrin of the Art Establishment, the Numbers Indicate that Thomas Kinkade Is the Most Successful and Relevant Artist in Human HistoryThomas Kinkade Was the World's Biggest Selling Painter. Art for Everybody Asks Why

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  • EPISODE 106 | Suffer the Children – Pizzagate, Wayfair & the Seeds of QAnon

    "Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism."

    In the world of the internet, this is known as Poe’s Law, and it’s especially applicable to the weird narrative Gordian Knot known as Pizzagate. The adage applies not just to how absurd some beliefs are, but also to the arguments made by people who hold these beliefs. First formulated in 2005 by Nathan Poe, it builds on a 2001 quote by Alan Morgan called Alan’s 2nd Law of Newsgroups, which states, “Any sufficiently advanced troll is indistinguishable from a genuine kook.”

    And that is certainly the case for the wild story that “a hipster-heavy pizza parlor” (as they put it on their website) in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Washington D.C. is not just a fun family place with pizza, ping pong and live music, but the nerve center for an diabolical child trafficking ring that operates out in the open because they are protected by highly-placed pedophiles in the Democratic party. As an article on Cracked.com puts it, “This is supported by lots of very stupid evidence”.

    The stakes of the fake narrative are so high that it’s become more than just true believers review bombing the place. Workers have been harassed and, on December 4, 2016, a heavily armed man entered the restaurant and started firing guns.

    The story of Pizzagate is the story of how the conspirasphere went from harmless kookery to being actually, physically dangerous.

    TRIGGER WARNING: Some pretty disturbing things will be talked about in this episode, so if the subject of child sexual abuse and trafficking is deeply uncomfortable for you, perhaps you should not listen. I mean, it should be uncomfortable to anyone, but you know what I mean.

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    03:11 - A note, pedophilia is a mental disorder, victims suffer for many years, how do we handle this problem?06:31 - How it all began: Hillary Clinton's emails, John Podesta, Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin; "Carmen Katz" makes allegations, "David Goldberg" shares and extends these08:46 - Side note: "Carmen Katz" is Cynthia Campbell, "David Goldberg" is an anti-Semitic fake profile; Amanda Rob finds Borce Pejcev in Macedonia, a fake news click bait ecosystem, it really all began with Doug Hagmann of Eerie, PA12:35 - Russian hackers Fancy Bear, APT28 and Sofacy use "spear phishing " attacks13:30 - Pedo codes on 4chan: pizza, cheese, hot dogs, dominos and handkerchief codes; Comet Ping Pong gets targeted16:30 - DumbScribblyUnctious see all sorts of things - murals, art, logos, musical acts and more; Pizzagaters talks of aliens, the Illuminati, Satanic rituals and Arun Rao; Susan Alefantis knew a pedophile, Tony "pasta obsession" Podesta knew Dennis Hastert, another pedophile, and also collects art (including some by Rachel Rose); Amanda Kleinman (Majestic Ape) of Heavy Breathing performs at Sasha Lord's birthday party and "secret pizza" is maybe mentioned, the film "Automatic At Sea", the Clinton Foundation in Haiti, Alex Jones issues a "bulletin"25:49 - #pizzagate soars, Comet Ping Pong gets hassled, Turkey's Erdoğan jumps on the story, InfoWars spearheads the narrative, fake images proliferate, artists and musicians also harassed, it might all have been coordinated; other businesses (especially pizza places) get targeted, like Roberta's in Brooklyn and East Side Pies in Austin, TX30:33 - Edgar Maddison Welch storms Comet Ping Pong with guns, InfoWars apologizes, then retracts the apology; white supremacist Jack Posobiec says Welch is a crisis actor; neo-Nazi pubs the Daily Stormer, the Right Stuff and Smoloko News continue the Pizzagate narrative35:07 - Canadian Andrew Richmond's ice cream shop Sweet Jesus gets the #PedoGate treatment36:15 - Portland, Oregon's Voodoo Donuts gets the same treatment thanks to talentless poet VeganMikey (Michael Whelan); #donutgate starts trending, building on a previous #donutgate when Ariana Grande and Ricky Alvarez licked food at Wolfee Donuts; Big League Politics's "research organization" Pedo Takedown Crew funds a coordinated harassment campaign and expand the narrative, adding tunnels, schools, and child-smiggling submarines41:35 - In England, recreational troll Oliver Redmond targets Paul Cheape's vape shop business43:32 - Mattress Firm gets targeted45:32 - Frazzledrip: a very nasty fake video (trigger warning - seriously, it's really nasty), QAnon terms "adrenochrome" and "spirit cooking" get added to the Pizzagate lexicon47:56 - PrincessPeach1987 kicks of the Wayfair affair, the now combined Pizzagate and QAnon make a LOT of noise, it's all nonsense and yet there were real consequences for real people, iMGSRC.ru and US Army Staff Sgt. Richard Ciccarella 57:25 - Cybersteria and the very first QAnon 4chan postMusic by Fanette Ronjat

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    Pedophilia defined on Psychology TodayCrimes against Children Research CenterFacts and Stats About Child Sexual AbuseThe possible long-term effects of experiencing child sexual abuseLong-term Effects of Child Sexual Abuse and Molestation on Helping SurvivorsA review of the long-term effects of child sexual abuse on the National Library of Medicine websiteChild Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis paperSexuality of Offenders on the Zero Abuse ProjectFacts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation by Gregory HerekEverything You Need To Know About Pizzagate (Is Insane) on Cracked.comPizzagate on RationalWikiPizzagate: A slice of fake news on RevealAnatomy of a Fake News Scandal in Rolling StoneAnthony Weiner breaks down after he's sentenced to 21 months for sexting on ABC NewsHow The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Behind "Pizzagate" Was Spread on BuzzFeedHow Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gmail Accounts on ViceComet Ping Pong - Pizzagate Summary by DumbScribblyUnctiousHow Pizzagate went from fake news to a real problem for a D.C. business on PolitiFact'It's a form of addiction' - Tony Podesta's art addiction article in The GuardianRachel Rose - Aubade: Grendel's Mother (live reading) videoPizzagate, the fake news conspiracy theory that led a gunman to DC’s Comet Ping Pong, explained on VoxPizzagate gunman recorded video for daughters, said he's standing up for children on CBS NewsDeath threats, abuse, then a gunman: 'Pizzagate' businesses relive ordeal in The Guardian Pizzagate: Gunman fires in restaurant at centre of conspiracy on BBC NewsWhat to Know About Pizzagate, the Fake News Story With Real Consequences in Time'Pizzagate' gunman pleads guilty as conspiracy theorist apologizes over caseIs Comet Ping Pong Pizzeria Home to a Child Abuse Ring Led by Hillary Clinton? on SnopesDissecting the #PizzaGate Conspiracy Theories in the New York TimesA Moral Panic for the Age of Trump: “Pizzagate” is the latest in a long line of child-sex-ring myths on SlateThe PizzaGate Gunman's Paranoid Rescue Fantasy Comes from a Long American Tradition on Reason'There's Nothing You Can Do': The Legacy of #Pizzagate on SPLCSecret message board drives 'pizzagate'-style harassment campaign of small businesses on NBC NewsWhen Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies episodeVoodoo Donuts websiteVoodoo Doughnut Gets Sucked Into Outrageous Far-Right Conspiracy Theory on EaterWolfee Donuts Pressing Charges Against Ariana GrandeDonut-Gate on Ariana Grande fandom wikiVegan Mikey - bad poet and troll #Donutgate: How one Oregon donut shop became the target of online conspiracy theorists on SalonConnecting the Dots Between Donutgate and PizzagateMan jailed for falsely branding a businessman a ‘dirty paedophile’The Great Mattress Conspiracy: Why Are There So Many Mattress Firm StoresWhy Are There So Many Mattress Stores?A wildly popular conspiracy theory about why there are so many Mattress Firm stores is starting to sound less crazyMattress Firm responds to the wild conspiracy theory about its business that people are going crazy overThe Mattress Firm Conspiracy: An AnalysisThe Mattress Firm Money Laundering Conspiracy Theory on SnopesWhat Is Frazzledrip? Fake Hillary Clinton Video Builds on Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory in NewsweekFrazzledrip: Is a Hillary Clinton 'Snuff Film' Circulating on the Dark Web? on SnopesHush Supper ClubFull Frazzledrip video (WARNING)Claims that pizza listings on Etsy are selling child pornography are baselessReddit post that kicked off Wayfair conspiracy theoriesOutrageously Priced Wayfair Cabinets Lead to Human Trafficking ConspiracyKids Shipped in Armoires? The Person Who Started the Wayfair Conspiracy Speaks in NewsweekWayfair: The false conspiracy about a furniture firm and child trafficking on BBC NewsBaseless Wayfair child-trafficking theory spreads online on APThe bizarre story of how internet conspiracy theorists convinced themselves Wayfair is trafficking children on CBC NewsA US soldier working at Mar-a-Lago uploaded photos of an underage girl to a Russian website — a closer look at the site reveals a horrific underworldA US Army soldier who worked at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort uploaded photos of an underage girl to a Russian website, prosecutors sayHow a reporter found the true story behind a false story of sex traffickingIs Wayfair Trafficking Children Via Overpriced Items? on SnopesMISSING IN KANSAS: Anabel Wilson no longer missingHow A QAnon Conspiracy Theory Involving A Wayfair Pillow Left A Metro Detroit Teen StrugglingA girl falsely believed to be a victim of the fake Wayfair sex-trafficking ring says she had hives, lost sleep over the conspiracy theoryA QAnon con: How the viral Wayfair sex trafficking lie hurt real kidsHuman Trafficking Rumors: Viral Stories That Do More Harm Than Good at the Polaris ProjectThe Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse

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  • EPISODE 105 | Capitol Assets: Weird DC (Travelogue 4)

    Guest: Fayge Horesh, co-creator, writer and host of the D Listers of History podcast, and licensed tour guide

    Washington D.C. is an interesting place and, like many cities, has some oddities. We take a look at some of the things around town that might not be obvious at first glance, like (not-so secret) tunnels, ghost cats, strange clocks, hollow domes, street plans, statues, snipers, protected trees, food trucks and more.

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    03:42 - Making the past accessible, Daniel of Beccles, Father Divine, traces of history, Deep Throat in Rosslyn06:35 - Pierre L'Enfant's plans, Masonic symbols, quadrants, a hidden pentagram, Benjamin Banneker's thighs, DC once had canals (gross ones)14:03 - Street plan as weather control machine yet the weather is terrible, underground tunnels (one open to the public), the Ghost Cat, no sitting on the floor, the Capitol Dome is hollow21:37 - The Women's Portrait Monument, so many statues23:43 - Snipers and other security, food truck a-go-go28:33 - The NIST Newton Apple Tree in International Park, don't linger in front of the former Iran Embassy, clocks and time in Friendship Heights, conspiracy theories are distractions, Chinatown has very few Chinese people36:55 - Explore your city and embrace the weirdnessMusic by Fanette Ronjat

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    D Listers of History podcast’Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2) episodeThe world of Daniel of Beccles D Listers episodeBook of the Civilized Man by Daniel of Beccles articleA Brief History of Pierre L’Enfant and Washington, D.C. in SmithsonianGrand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant on the Virginia Museum of History & CultureBenjamin Banneker: The Black Tobacco Farmer Who the Presidents Couldn't Ignore on the White House Historical AssociationCapitol Building Tunnel SystemWhat lies beneath DC? Many more tunnels than you might think!The D.C. Underground AtlasDemon Cat: the tale of a wanderlust feline ghostMake America Ghostly Again: The Demon Cat of Washington D.C. Does The Demon Cat Still Haunt Washington's Capitol Hill?Bells, Buzzers, Clicks and ClocksCongressional Clocks Have a Secret Code on Atlas ObscuraCapitol IlluminationInside the Capitol DomeHidden Congress: An Alternative Tour of the U.S. CapitolApotheosis of WashingtonLeaders in Equality: The Portrait MonumentPortrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. AnthonyThe Suffragist Statue Trapped in a Broom Closet for 75 YearsHow Security Measures In Washington, D.C., Have Changed Since 9/11 12 Best Washington DC Food Trucks on Female FoodieFind food trucks in DC on Roaming HungerWhat happened to D.C.’s food trucks? The answer says much about the ‘new normal.’NIST Newton Apple TreeWhere To Find The Most Unusual Trees In D.C.After the arena came, the Asian population of Washington's Chinatown shrank269 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Washington, D.C.

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