Underwear gnome politics and conspiracy theories

South Park took “failing to connect the dots” and made it economic theory:

Urban Dictionary definition of underwear gnome economics

A business model in which a company may have great offerings, but does not necessarily great profits due to a lack of strategy or how the business is run.

Outlined in an episode [...]

Pacifica may launch Inquisition against Truther non-believers

Doug Henwood (who has an excellent radio show about economics from a left perspective on Pacifica affliates WBAI and KPFA) reports that Pacifica may seriously go off the deep end. A witch hunt proposal against Pacifica programmers who don’t believe the extremist 9/11 truther saga of epic conspiracy passed at KPFK in 2008 and [...]

The truth shall set you free

Flickr photo. Slieschke

The Truth shall set you free, or so we are told. Today I ran across the following quote from a friend on Facebook:

“9/11 Truth can end wars, stop the Empire, expose the US National Security State and also expose the pressing geopolitical context of Peak Oil. That’s powerful stuff, and [...]