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June 22, 2022The Great Replacement: The White Wing Goes Mainstream
EPISODE 61 | The Great Replacement: The White Wing Goes Mainstream
The world keeps changing and some people have had just about enough. So they revert to tried and true paradigms that worked for them in the past, but with a new twist. Like the Great Replacement - the idea that white people are being systematically replaced by non-white people with an eye to eliminating whites altogether. They say the puppet masters are probably Jews, though maybe Muslims, liberals or women. It may seem like a new idea, but it's really just pseudoscientific lipstick on a racist pig.
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02:03 - Gay Icon Turns White Wing - Renaud Camus coins Great Replacement, runs for office, gets supporters (like LePen, Finkielkraut & Zemmour)
08:28 - Them Heavy People - Islamophobia & anti-Semitism are alive and well, Great Replacement gains traction with PEGIDA & Identitarians, Lauren Southern, Heinz-Christian Strache, and Steve King
15:09 - Attacks in Pittsburgh, Christchurch, Poway, El Paso & Buffalo
16:54 - January 6, 2021, psychological projection, US ethnic demographics, Tucker "Ballcock" Carlson
21:40 - But They're Scary! - The Yellow Peril, anti-Semitism, Édouard Drumont's La France juive (Jewish France), Maurice Barrès, Eugenics, The Passing of the Great Race by Madison Grant (Hitler's favourite book), "white genocide", Aryans, Edward Alsworth Ross's race suicide, miscegenation, Lothrop Stoddard's two books plus the Under-Man
29:17 - The Secret Life of Arabia - The Counter-Jihad Movement (CJM), Bat Ye’or & Eurabia, Steve Bannon, fake sharia law
36:16 - Your Body, My Choice - Misogyny in Great Replacement, "pure womanhood", the Mann Act, Brevik also hates feminists, coverture
41:48 - Ethnicities around the world, Africa is the most ethnically diverse continent
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
The Other Camus
The French Origins of “You Will Not Replace Us”
The ‘Great Replacement’ Theory, Explained
Simon Kidd on Great Replacement
replacement theory at Encyclopedia Britannica
“The Great Replacement:” An Explainer
Great Replacement Theory at the Counter Extremism Project
What is the Great Replacement Theory? on VOA News
'The Great Replacement': The Violent Consequences of Mainstream Extremism
How Tucker Carlson Tonight Fuels Extremism and Fear on the NYT
Factsheet: Counter-Jihad Movement
The Counter-Jihad Movement & the Making of a President on the United States of Anxiety podcast
The myth of Eurabia from The Guardian
Misogyny is a Powerful Undercurrent of the “Great Replacement” Conspiracy Theory
A revealing map of the world’s most and least ethnically diverse countries
Most Racially Diverse Countries 2022
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46 min
June 10, 2022Under My Skin: Morgellons Disease
EPISODE 60 | Under My Skin: Morgellons Disease
A boy with a rash, a concerned mother, the internet and a lack of medical knowledge combine to create the phenomenon known as Morgellons Disease. It's a nefarious condition where coloured fibers appear under your skin, causing fatigue and pain, possibly placed there by evil forces. Or it might be a mental delusion transmitted from person to person by reading about it on the internet.
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02:01 - Mary Leitao coins a phrase, gains a following
07:12 - Doctors take a look, Morgellons spreads
13:28 - Factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA) or Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP), conspiracy folks especially vunerable
19:51 - Munchausen by internet & cybermuchers
22:03 - Steve Leary lies Down Under, Steve Kirsch lies for profit
24:32 - Delusional parasitosis (DP), dopamine, matchbox signs, folie à deux, folie à internet, quack cures, memes are viruses
31:03 - More doctors take a closer look, mental or not - sufferers really do suffer
33:45 - Polly Murray & Lyme Disease
38:20 - Quck alt-medicine, chronic Lyme disease, illness for political gain, a Plum Island plot, Jeff Rense & the NWO
43:35 - GMOs, chemtrails, nanobots, aliens, mind control, depopulation, paranoia, "mutated arthropods" & e-fibers, parasite Hulda Clark hates parasites
47:15 - Probably a suite of issues, somatic symptom disorder, Better Call Saul, mind and body are one, morgies deserve empathy
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions episode
Morgellons on Healthline
Morgellons on MedicineNet
Morgellons on WebMD
Morgellon disease: A case report in European Psychiatry
History of Morgellons disease: from delusion to definition
Is Morgellons Disease Real or a Delusional Disorder?
Article on Mary Leitao in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
Essay on Browne's text in the Annals of Medical History
Mary Leitao's Morgellons Research Foundation
'Morgellons' Mystery from ABC News
Morgellons disease: Managing an unexplained skin condition from the Mayo Clinic
The curious case of Morgellons disease on Mind Hacks
Morgellons article in Scientific American
The Devil’s Bait in Harper's
Munchausen: Unusual Suspects in Psychology Today
LA Times article on Polly Murray
A Connecticut housewife in Francis Bacon's court: Polly Murray and Lyme disease
Common Threads: An Inspection of the Morgellons Community on the MENSA website
What Happens When Lyme Disease Becomes an Identity? on The Cut
MY RESPONSE TO, “WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LYME DISEASE BECOMES AN IDENTITY” by the Blanced Blonde
Lyme-Related Government Actions on Quackwatch
Morgellon’s Syndrome - Scientific? Surreal? …or extra-terrestrial?
Moregllons episode of Skeptoid podcast
Steve Kirsch on Politifact
The Bizarre Claims of Hulda Clark on Quackwatch
The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision episode
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52 min
May 25, 2022Atlas Sank: Titanic Conspiracies
EPISODE 59 | Atlas Sank: Titanic Conspiracies
The lure of the sea is an ancient one, and perhaps no sailing vessel has garnered more attention than the RMS Titanic. It's a story we all know, or think we know - a classic tale of ship meets iceberg. But what if that's not the story? What if the iceberg is an innocent patsy and something else was the cause, like a fire, or a U-boat, or a cursed mummy? Maybe the Titanic never really sank at all.
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02:13 - What We Know - the official story, mistakes were made
11:26 - What We Think We Know - Unsinkable, SOS, David Sarnoff, Nearer My God to Thee, watertight doors, official findings, J. Bruce Ismay (Freemason, crossdessing coward)
20:01 - Shape of Things to Come - The Samson, premonitions of doom, William T. Stead and woo woo
24:30 - I Want My Mummy - the cursed mummy of the priestess of Amen-Ra
32:24 - Does the Pope Swim in the Woods? - The No Pope Theory
34:54 - There's a Hole in the Boat in the Bottom of the Sea - Frank Ruehl and German U-boats
38:13 - I'm the King of the World! - The Switch Theory, JP Morgan, the Federal Reserve, QAnon finally embraces anti-Semitism
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
Encyclopedia Titanica
How did the Titanic sink? Timeline of events
10 mistakes that caused the sinking of the Titanic
Five Titanic myths spread by films
Titanic: Sinking the myths
Seven shameful lies about the Titanic catastrophe
David Sarnoff And The Titanic Myth
Titanic: Dark Secret
Fire and Ice: The Titanic's Top 10 Weirdest Conspiracy Theories
5 wild conspiracy theories surrounding the sinking of the Titanic
One Month After the Titanic Sank, the Washington Post Suggested a Mummy’s Curse Was to Blame
The Unlucky Mummy
The British Museum’s Cursed Mummy
The No Pope Myth
Did a German U-Boat Sink the Titanic?
The Wild Conspiracy Theory That the Titanic Never Sank
The Titanic Never Sank And Other Conspiracy Theories
The Titanic: the Fraud that Keeps on Giving
The Titanic Switch Theory: Exposed
Fact Check-J.P. Morgan did not sink the Titanic to push forward plans for the U.S. Federal Reserve
Fact-checking QAnon conspiracy theories: Did J.P. Morgan sink the Titanic?
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47 min
May 11, 2022Spanish Caravan (Travelogue 3)
EPISODE 58 | Spanish Caravan (Travelogue 3)
Spain is a fascinating country - rich in variety and history, and its fair share of high weirdness. We travel to Madrid, Catalonia and Valencia for statues to Lucifer, UFOs, haunted metro stations, abandoned villages, tomato fights and much more.
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01:38 - A Spain Primer
03:25 - Comunidad de Madrid
04:29 - Fallen Angel (Ángel Caído), Air Crash, Sobrino de Botín (oldest restaurant)
06:54 - Iron security bollards secret code
10:10 - Chamberi Ghost Station, around town, La Plaza de la Luna (Kcymaerxthaere)
12:20 - Cueva de la Luna (Titulcia)
14:46 - Monumento a Los Ojos (Ambite)
16:11 - Parque De Los Castillos (Alcorcón), Ummo UFOs & the Cafe of the Happy Whale
21:03 - Catalunya (Catalonia) - Around Barcelona
22:57 - Rocafort Metro Station (haunted), Barcelona Supercomputing Center & MareNostrum
25:52 - Arús Public Library (secrets of the Freemasons), the Spanish Inquisition (Plaça del Rei)
29:29 - The Calder Mercury Fountain (Joan Miró Foundation, Montjuïc Mountain)
31:16 - Parador de Cardona (haunted room 712)
34:13 - Tió de Nadal & the Caganer (Catalonian Christmas butt stuff)
36:52 - Comunidad Valenciana - Valencia, Paella, horchata, Santiago Calatrava & the Holy Grail
38:44 - La Tomatina Festival (Buñol)
40:30 - The abandoned village of La Cornudilla (Requena)
42:53 - The Colony of Santa Eulalia, Sax, & Villena - Bronze Age treasure & the Moors and Christians Festival
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
The Bear and the Strawberry Tree – Historical Madrid
Unusual things to do in Madrid on City Unscripted
5 hidden gems in Madrid
15 unique things in Madrid
The Fallen Angel
Air Crash sculpture
Sobrino de Botín restaurant
Madrid Security Bollards
Chamberi metro museum
La Plaza de la Luna (Kcymaerxthaere)
A Weirdness Travelogue: Henges, Tiles & Plaques
Cueva de la Luna restaurant
Cueva de la Luna webpage (in Spanish)
Monumento a los Ojos (in Spanish)
Monument of Eyes pdf of tiles
MAVA museum website
Ummo Hoax on Encyclopedia.com
UMMO: the great UFO fraud forged in Spain
Ummo Wiki (in French)
The Enchanted Forest of Òrrius
Mysterious places in Spain
33 unusual things in Barcelona
Cool activities and places in Barcelona
10 Must See Gaudi Buildings in Barcelona
Gaudi Barcelona
El Bosc de les Fades
Barcelona’s remarkable history of rebirth and transformation
The Peculiar Architecture And Design of Eixample
Leche de Pantera: Revenge of the Pink Panther
Haunted places in Barcelona
Barcelona urban legends
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Barcelona Supercomputing Center virtual tour
Arús Public Library
Inquisition's Blazon
Executioner's house (in Spanish)
Calder Mercury Fountain: The World’s Most Beautiful Yet Deadly Monument
Joan Miró Foundation
Cardona Salt Mountain
Parador de Cardona
Tio de Nadal & the Caganer
Valencia Cathedral
Turia Park in Valencia
City of Arts & Sciences
Secret Valencia
16 Unusual Things to Do in Valencia
25 Best Things to Do in Valencia. The Ultimate Travel Guide
La Tomatina
La Cornudilla article (in Spanish)
The strange events in Cornudilla (in Spanish)
España vaciada on Wikipedia
15 must-see places in Alicante
46 Fun Things to Do in Alicante
Colony of Santa Eulalia
Sax Tourism Guide on Spain Made Simple
Villena Treasure
Moors and Christians Festval in Villena
Moors and Christians website
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47 min
April 27, 2022Pseudolaw: Cabbages & Kings
EPISODE 57 | Pseudolaw: Cabbages & Kings
The law is complicated, or maybe it isn't. Maybe there are secrets that the clever can tease out to their advantage. Did you know the government opens a secret bank account for you when you're born? Or using ALL CAPS when writing documents absolves you from legal responsibilities? That juries are illegal? And the highest law in the land is the local sheriff, or the Navy or maybe the post office. Welcome to the convoluted world of pseudolaw, where nonsense is packaged as the real deal, which some people fall for and others make a tidy profit from.
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02:32 - A House Made of Straw...Men - Gurus, Canadian Detaxers. the Redemption Movement, the Strawman Argument
09:43 - Dead Dead Redemption Movement - Posse Comitatus, Chrisitan Identity, white supremicists, anti-Semites, armed conflict, more Redemption fun, Family Farm Preservation, Montana Freeman & "Justus Township"
18:12 - Stillness Becomes a Radiance - Freemen on the Land (FOTL) in Canada and the Commonwealth
22:22 - Nine classes of FOTLers, legal loopholes, the Guardians of the Free Republics in Texas
26:32 - Confidence Born of Ignorance, the Cycle Cannot Be Broken - the Sovereign Citizen Movement, Admiralty law, traveling insead of driving, negative averment, red ink, sui juris
32:52 - David Wynn Miller's truth/syntax/quantum language, the Universal Postal Authority
38:38 - 1099-OID, UCC-1
40:41 - A Race to the Bottom - racism, Moorish Sovereigns, QAnon & anti-vaxxers, violent incidents, Sovereign Kingdom of Gaia, Embassy of Heaven, One Nation, German Trumpers, Austrian problems, the Union of Slavic Forces of Russia
45:48 - Not always so harmless
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
Here comes pseudolaw, a weird little cousin of pseudoscience
Spread of 'Psedulow" scammers and victimes thwarts court system
The Tax Protestor FAQ
Soverign Citizen Movement at the FBI
Paranoia as Patriotism Posse Comitatus page
American Fringes article on Sovereign use of English
SPLC on Sovereign terminology
SPLC interview with Daniel Levitas on the Posse and more
David Wynn Miller in the Encyclopedia of American Loons
:JUDGE: DAVID-WYNN: MILLER webpage
Pseudolaw entries in the Encyclopedia of American Loons
Idiot Legal Arguments at the Anti-Defamation League
ADL entry on Montana Freemen
Moorish Soverign Citizens at the SPLC
Anti-Authority and Militia Movements in Canada
The History of the Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument Phenomenon in Canada
A Pathogen Astride the Minds of Men
A Rebellion of Furious Paper
Enjoy the Silence: Pseudolaw at the Supreme Court of Canada
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50 min
April 13, 2022Red Pill This!: The Simulation Proposal
EPSIODE 56 | Red Pill This!: The Simulation Proposal
Mainly inspired by a 1999 movie, many people suspect we may be living in a computer simulation of some sort. If we are, how can we tell? Maybe by looking at some ideas from physics, which has some truly unusual ideas as to the nature of things. The universe might be made of tiny vibrating strings, or physicalized information. It might be a hologram, or a big brain, or an artifact of statistics. All these ideas seem to point to an underlying code of some kind. Or maybe everything we think we know was just created last Thursday.
This is the two-year anniversary episode of Conspiracy Clearinghouse. Thank you everyone for listening and for your support!
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02:10 - I Can Only Show You the Door - The Matrix, PKD, red pills, metaphor, human batteries
10:15 - The Simulation Scenario (Not Hypothesis, Not Theory) - Nick Bostrom, Kurtzweil, deGrasse Tyson, Musk, virtual contingency plans, OpenAI, NVIDIA's E2 & the Omniverse
19:09 - Blinded with Science - The Holographic Principle, the UFT (and GUT & TOE), string theory
22:37 - Vepson, Landauer's Principle, dark matter & energy, MACHOs & WIMPs, it from bit
25:47 - Biocentrism, quantum weirdness
27:11 - Braaaiins! - Hong Qin's algorithm & discrete field theory, universe as brain or neural network; Quantum Gravity Research, self-simulation, the pan-consciousness
33:44 - The Department of Redundancy Department - Reality as statistical average, glitches in the matrix, coincidence & deja vu
39:48 - Dear God, Sorry to Disturb You But... - Lack of proof, Last Thursdayism, the Omphalos Hypothesis, Christian reactions, the Matrix Defense, simulation as religion, the Global Architect Institute
48:09 - The Clock is TikToking - Gen Z rediscovers the idea, Rivka Weinberg & ultimate meaning, the road ahead
Music by Fanette Ronjat
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More Info:
Why the Matrix Matters to Trans Fans on NPR
The Matrix Spawned the Simulation Theory
'Matrix'-style bracelets turn humans into batteries
Summary of Bostrom's 2003 paper
The Simulation Argument
Is Our Universe a Fake?
Whoa, Dude, Are We Inside a Computer Right Now?
Are we living in a computer simulation? I don’t know. Probably.
Do we live in a simulation? on Space.com
Living in the Matrix
Simulation interview series on Closer to Truth
What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? in the New Yorker
Neil deGrasse Tyson says it’s ‘very likely’ the universe is a simulation
50% Chance We're Living in a Simulation in Popular Mechanics
Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50 in Scientific American
Elon Musk Thinks There's A "One In Billions" Chance We Don't Live In A Computer Simulation
Elon Musk And Friends Are Spending Millions To Break Out Of The Matrix
On Testing the Simulation Theory paper
THE MEN WHO ARE CONVINCED WE’RE ALL LIVING IN A SIMULATION
Our universe is one massive HOLOGRAM and our entire existence is an ILLUSION, scientists claim
Quantum Paradox Suggests the Fabric of Our Reality Is Inconstant
If the universe is a giant computer simulation, here's how many bits would be required to run it
Dark Matter on CERN
The Basis of the Universe May not Be Energy or Matter but Information
There is no dark matter. Instead, information has mass, physicist says
Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute
The universe works like a huge human brain, discover scientists
The entire universe is a neural network
It from Bit - What did John Archibald Wheeler get right and wrong?
Physicist creates AI algorithm that may prove reality is a simulation
New hypothesis argues the universe simulates itself into existence
Is human consciousness creating reality?
The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself
The Universe as a Statistical Approximation
John Bartlett on Why We Do Not Live in a Simulated Universe
The simulation argument: Does it reflect a frustration in physics?
The Church of Last Thursday
Friend, Have You Heard the Good News About the Simulation Hypothesis?
He Thought He Was Living in ‘The Matrix’—and Killed His Parents
Bad religion, bad media combine in new doc "A Glitch in the Matrix"
Simulation Theory: How is ‘Religion’ Part of It?
Religion and the Simulation Hypothesis: Is God an AI (Part I)?
The simulation hypothesis and the ultimate religion
The Global Architect Institute
Simulation Creationism
Heidi Wong TikTok video
Ultimate Meaning: We Don’t Have It, We Can’t Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad
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53 min
March 30, 2022The Dead Internet Theory
EPISODE 55 | The Dead Internet Theory
Weirdly similar but also somewhat nonsensical tweets, emails that seem written by bots, the same posts showing up again and again - something seems to be amiss with the internet. And some people think they have found the answer: the internet died a few years ago and is now almost entirely run by sophisticated AI bots. This is the Dead Internet Theory.
We'll look at the reasoning behind this notion, a timeline of events that includes some creepy real-world DARPA projects, the state of AI and computer-brain interfaces, and a peek at the (possibly) approaching Singularity - when humans and machines will essentially blend into one thing.
Special shoutout to Gerd Altmann, who made most of the images use din the video version of this episode and made them available on Pixabay.
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02:14 - Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Monetization - clone emails, I hate texting, @Capr1corn, @itspureluv, spoof websites, web bots, the Inversion, deepfakes
09:13 - The Dead Internet Theory - IlluminatiPirate sniffs out a truth, stupid stuff online, doors vs wheels, the early net was better/sucked, Solipsism
13:36 - The Metaverse gets handsy, the web is soulless, it's all a mindset, Pantone 448C
18:11 - Something Rotten in the State of Denmark - Tracing the DIT, standardization runs amuck, algorithm fiction, CGI and deepfakes, many internets, wag the dog
22:18 - A timeline of terror: DARPA's LifeLog, Facebook, Total Information Awareness, using Basketball for precrime, No Such Agency, Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, Project Mockingbird, Operation Mockingbird, Google's Selfish Ledger, NMT, Face2Face, Narrative Science, In-Q-Tel
29:37 - A problem of scale: Google search results are ridiculous, there are a lot of stupid people, our brains suck, are you trapped?, link rot, awesome stuff on the web, Yvette's Bridal Formal, Flat Earth News
37:02 - No 9000 Computer Has Ever Made a Mistake or Distorted Information. We Are All, by Any Practical Definition of the Words, Foolproof and Incapable of Error - Strong AI, the Turing Test, Eugene Goostman, autonomous vehicles
41:17 - Human-computer interfaces, Neuralink, Brown University's wireless interfaces
42:33 - One, Singular Sensation, Every Little Step She Takes - The Singularity approaches, transhumanism, immortality (of a sort), Ray Kurzweil and technofaith
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Dead Internet Theory in The Atlantic
Dead Internet Theory in The Daily Free Press
We're Living in the 90s on Agora Road
The Internet Is A Potemkin Village: Proof Of Dead Internet Theory?
More thoughts (and science) on the Dead Internet
A video on The Dead Internet Theory
Total Number of Websites
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.
Bad Bot Report 2021: The Pandemic of the Internet
The Metaverse Is on the Way: Here's What You Need to Know
The metaverse has a groping problem already
The Wheels Vs. Doors Debate Tearing the Internet Apart
Yvette's Bridal Formal
The World's Worst Website Ever!
Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project
Q&A on the Pentagon's "Total Information Awareness" Program on ACLU
Scientists dispute whether computer 'Eugene Goostman' passed Turing test
The Internet Is Rotting
Jonathan Zittrain Explains Why the Internet Is Rotting
Facebook just released a database of 100,000 deepfakes to teach AI how to spot them
The Strange Story of Google's "Selfish Ledger"
Google’s Selfish Ledger ideas can also be found in its patent applications
The Only Way Google X's Selfish Ledger Is "Good"
The State of AI in 2022: Current State & Predictions
What is limiting the autonomous driving rollout?
The Current State of Play in Autonomous Vehicles on Hackaday
The first successful wireless human brain-computer interface is here.
Eat your heart out, Neuralink.
Singularity: Explain It to Me Like I’m 5-Years-Old on Futurism
Singularity Group website
Digital Freedom Fund
Digital Freedom Foundation
Flat Earth News by Nick Davies
The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
47 min
March 16, 2022Pootie-Poot on the Prowl: V. Putin Takes Center Stage
EPISODE 54 | Pootie-Poot on the Prowl: V. Putin Takes Center Stage
Many see parallels between Putin's invasion of Ukraine and Hitler's of Poland in 1939. Other see echoes of Stalin in today's Russian leader. But maybe we need to go back further, to Napoleon, to see what's up with this guy. Here's a look at "Little Boney", as British satire of Napoleon had it, and "Pootie-Poot", which was George W. Bush's nickname for Putin, as well as what's going on, how it's really all the same playbook, conspiracy theories about the Russo-Ukraine War and more.
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02:27 - Little Boney - A quick look at Napoleon Bonaparte
07:13 - Pootie-Poot - Putin as PM, President, President, PM
14:59 - A President's Castle Is HIs Armour - President, President (plus President x2 a-comin')
25:10 - So, What's Up with this Guy? - Contradictory assessments; Communist, Fascist, Ataman
32:48 - Weaponizing Information - The Firehose of Falsehood
36:44 -Wag the dog, anti-Semitism, the Khazars return?, QAnon, the Zorro Squad, Armageddon and more
47:48 - 5 scenarios on how the war in Ukraine might end
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
22 Nicknames for Napoleon
Vladimir Putin page on RationalWiki
Putinism and Bonapartism: The Ten Resemblances by Marcel H. van Herpen
Why has Putin's Napoleonic 'cold charisma' made him so popular in Russia?
Was Napoleon Short?
Blog by professor Mark van Vugt on Putin and Napoleon Complex
Psychology Today article on Putin and Napoleon Complex
Putin on the Couch on Politico
Is Russia repeating mistakes of past wars in Ukraine? on Al Jazeera
The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model - the Rand Corporation
China's promotion of Russian disinformation indicates where its loyalties lie on CNN
Fabricated videos about Ukraine Invasion CNN video
Conspiracy Theorists Move To Ukraine Crisis After Covid Disinformation
How to spot false posts from Ukraine
Analysis: Russia and QAnon have the same false conspiracy theory about Ukraine
Article on the letter Z becoming a pro-war symbol
Gymnast Ivan Kuliak in trouble for wearing "Z"
Ukrainians Tell Stories of Divine Intervention from the Battlefield
Ukraine: How might the war end? Five scenarios on BBC
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DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award & 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.
PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
53 min
March 09, 2022Time to Get Ill: DST, Y2K & 2012
EPSIODE 53 | Time to Get Ill: DST, Y2K & 2012
We can find doom and gloom anywhere we focus our attention. Even time itself is not free from the shadowy glances of the suspicious. This is a look at some time-related freakouts - Daylight Saving Time, time zones, Y2K and the 2012 phenomenon.
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02:02 - DST is BS - Franklin, farmers and furor
09:30 - Madness in Minnesota and more
15:27 - Market multiplications
16:37 - DST disorders and developments
19:53 - Zoning Laws - Time zone zaniness
28:38 - The Millennium Bug - Y2K consternation, Scary Gary, Dominionism, militias and the Walking Bible
35:12 - Mayan I Have Some More, Please? - The 2012 Phenomenon, calendars, Long Counts, Great Cycles and End Times
39:56 - Magnetic fields, black holes, supernovae and aliens; worldwide panic, disaster tourism, K-Pop meets Nostradamus
46:06 - The Beginning of the End
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
9 Things You Probably Don't Know About Daylight Saving Time
A Short History of Daylight Saving Time
Time is Money article about DST
Daylight Savings Time Conspiracy Theory
Crazy Original Conspiracy Theory about DST
Daylight-saving time is a curse against humanity, and we should end it forever on Insider
Daylight Savings Time Should Disappear on The Bottom Line
US time map article
The case for an entirely new calendar
It's Time to Change the Calendar, Once and For All on Forbes
Y2K bug on NatGeo
How A Computer Bug Dubbed ‘Y2K’ Was Feared to Bring About the End of the World on Inside Edition
20 Years Ago, Y2K Hysteria Led to Emergency Bunkers and Cost the U.S. $100 Billion in People Magazine
A billion years from now, a lack of oxygen will wipe out life on Earth
Anunnaki and Stargates episode
Project Blue Beam episode
Gary North's Specific Answers website
The Gary North is a Big Fat Idiot Page
Five Facts about Dominionism on The Christian Century website
Dominionism Rising: A Theocratic Movement Hiding in Plain Sight
Dominionism article in the Texas Observer
FAQ: Apocalypse 2012 Explained on CNBC
December 21, 2012 on History.com
Beyond 2012: Why the World Didn't End on NASA
Does Anyone Really Believe in the Mayan Apocalypse? on LiveScience
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
48 min
February 16, 2022The Mandela Effect & Memory (Because Reasons 6)
EPISODE 52 | The Mandela Effect & Memory (Because Reasons 6)
Nelson Mandela died in the early 80s, or he didn't. The comedian Sinbad was in a genie movie in the 90s, or he wasn't. Brand names keep getting changed, or not. Either our memories are not as reliable as we think they are, or someone is going around changing the very fabric of reality.
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01:35 - The Mandela Effect: everything changes
05:57 - A Mandela Effect quiz (including one red herring)
12:07 - Mix & Match - Maybe CERN is to blame
13:52 - Shazam & Kazaam
17:47 - Mandela & Biko, colour confusion, fossilized errors, sheeple
21:06 - Absolutely Confabulous - The Dunning-Kruger Effect, hypnosis, alien butt stuff
26:24 - The Art of Attention - how memory works
30:07 - Memory markers - places, focus and narrative; the Memory Palace, fun socks
32:50 - Collective memory, Bieber the Lizard, 9/11
35:42 - Justice Is Blinded - eyewitness testimony is unreliable, Onion origins
40:12 - If we can't trust memory, what can we do?
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
The Mandela Effect website
Fiona Broome's website
The Mandela Effect on Snopes
What is the Mandela effect? on Medical News Today
Mandela Effect article on Very Well Mind
45 Mandela Effect Examples That Will Blow Your Mind
Time Manipulation - Mandela Effect Examples on Reddit (r/reality_shifting)
How Memory Works - Harvard article
Psychology Today article on memory
How Our Brains Make Memories in Smithsonian
Human memory: How we make, remember, and forget memories on National Geographic
How Human Memory Works on How Stuff Works
How Memory Functions - Intro to Psychology
Confabulation paper on ClinMed
Nearly 2,000 witnesses can be wrong
The Utter Unreliability Of Eyewitness Testimony
Why Eyewitness Testimony Is Unreliable
The Innocence Project
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER.
45 min

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A rather skeptical look at conspiracies and mysteries. Each episode will examine conspiracy theories, most of which are not true, a few of which might be a little bit true and even a couple that…