Bob Morris Posted on Tue Mar 26, 2013 8:58 am. Tags: conspiracy theories, DHS
Steve Hynd shreds the ‘Omigod the Keynan socialist is arming DHS to take our guns away and put us in concentration camps’ meme that way too many are wetting their undies over. The 1.6 rounds of ammo purchase by DHS is the maximum amount they can order over five years and their budget for 2013 [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:10 am. Tags: conspiracy theories, Detroit
Shloky thought America still had time to turn things around until he read Detroit, An American Autopsy by Charlie Leduff. Now he’s not sure. What if the land of the free, of prosperity, of two cars and a picket fence succumbed to the corrupt, the incompetent, the immoral? It presents the viewpoint that we’re not [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed May 4, 2011 9:45 am. Tags: conspiracy theories
Click through to view in all its ginormous glory at Zero Hedge In a related story, The New York Times sniffs disdainfully at conspiracy theories (like, what else would you expect them to do?) even as they link to Alex Jones’ list of 33 conspiracy theories that turned out to be true, an article which [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Nov 1, 2010 13:45 pm. Tags: conspiracy theories, KPFA, progressive politics, radio, WBAI
From Doug Henwood. His excellent show, Behind The News, on Pacifica affiliate WBAI is probably in peril too. No doubt many of you are sick of the whole Pacifica mess, but this is really important: if these layoffs go down, it’s gonna be 9/11 and chemtrails. From the excellent historian of Pacifica, Matthew Lasar: How [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon May 24, 2010 5:34 am. Tags: conspiracy theories
Our government tells us so at America.gov. Conspiracy theories exist in the realm of myth, where imaginations run wild, fears trump facts, and evidence is ignored. As a superpower, the United States is often cast as a villain in these dramas. Among the foolish misconceptions they wish to dispel is that depleted uranium is harmful [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Feb 8, 2010 5:15 am. Tags: conspiracy theories
Undersecretary for management at the State Department, Patrick F. Kennedy, told Congress that the State Department wanted to keep crotch bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab out of the U.S., but that intelligence agencies insisted that Abdulmutallab be let into the country. Supposedly it was because blocking him would have blown a larger investigation. But wait, it [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu Dec 11, 2008 16:16 pm. Tags: conspiracy theories
Our friend Wood Ingham just released MSG™, a RPG that is getting fine reviews. Like this one, excerpted on his blog. It defies many of the characteristics we normally ascribe to a tabletop RPG — in the context of a very cynical, and very cool, cyberpunky future where even the minimal constraints on corporate action [...]
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