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I remember everything about the day the OKC bombing happened. I also remember thinking I "had it right" when I figured it was "domestic terror," but I know now that the story is far more complex. The reason we know this is because of the work of folks we talk about today with my guest Richard Booth (@booth_okc).
CITATIONS
Kartik Krishnaiyer joins for an expansive chat about the ghost of Ronald Reagan in current political trends (erm, quagmires). Break out your trusty smudge stick and let's exorcise some demons.
CITATIONS
One Christmas I found out Santa wasn't real...but it didn't sink in until the next year.
Are your BELIEFS your own? 'Cognitive Warfare' is happening right now on all forms of media and social media. What are you gonna do to avoid the draft? Or have you already been conscripted? Listen to find out.
More NATO documents on cognitive warfare found here.
THIS WEEK
Covid discourse from the "left" is constructed with rightwing logic, and it's not playing out well. Examining Dr. Vinay Prasad's "How Democracy Ends" essay which you can find on Substack and YouTube.
Nathan J. Robinson's essay: "Don't Use The Right's Assumptions To Make The Left's Arguments."
THIS WEEK'S STORIES
Time for The Left to play catch-up on Covid. Some are leading the way while others continue to disappoint. Appealing to authority is not a good look for the The Left. Also, a philosophy major tells me I had a wrongthink.
The alignment of tech, media, and pharma has doomed our pandemic response, as shown by an extraordinary Rolling Stone FAKE NEWS controversy. RELATED: new trust-in-media crisis. Don't let "Sensemaking" technocrats colonize your brain, please.
Plus! Facebook continues to be an evil and stupid thing.
STILL MORE! Zeroing in on early covid treatment.
CITATIONS
Trust in Media Hits NEW CRISIS LOW, Axios
Quick follow-up from last week on "My Vaccine Hesitancy Journey": puzzling doctor visit might be explained later in episode.
Then, how FEDERAL AGENCIES under Health And Human Services are dictating how the media covers healthcare.
A medical doctor in British Columbia shares what he learned about "micro" blood clots, and then loses everything.
CITATIONS
How the FDA manipulates the media, by Charles Seife, Scientific American
The podcast currently has 38 episodes available.