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Tag Archives: Conspiracy Theories
What’s Wrong With Conspiracy Theories?
Are conspiracy theories sometimes not just credible but rational? Read Professor Emeritus Fetzer’s reasoned defense and then decide. Do lot allow mainstream media shouters to decide this issue for you. Continue reading
(S)Election 2020: Was It Stolen? (“Fact-Check” Follies, Dominion, and More)
Was Election 2020 stolen for Biden-Harris? Before you say No, here is some evidence for you to consider even if mainstream media and the courts (so far) deny that it exists. Continue reading
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Tagged antifa, Antifa anti-American, Big Tech censorship, Black Lives Matter, Conspiracy Theories, Dominion Voting Systems, Election 2020, Eric Mataxas, Facebook fact-checkers, globalism and Antifa, Joe Oltmann, Sidney Powell lawsuits, Stolen Election, Stop the Steal
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“The World Through the Eyes of a Globalist”
Have you recently felt like you’d entered a real world Twilight Zone? A world where truth and lies have been literally inverted, and you don’t know what to believe? Take the real voyage into Twilight Zone 2020 in “The World Through the Eyes of a Globalist” new from The Unz Review. Continue reading
What the Coronavirus Scare Says About Us
What should this coronovirus scare teach us? Should it teach us how easy it is to lead the masses by their noses through media-induced fear and hysteria? Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Media, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged bubble economy, Conspiracy Theories, Coronavirus, coronavirus hysteria, Covid-19, Deep Establishment, economic fragility, financial elites, globalism, globalist psychology, globalists, globalization, globalization criticism, Neoliberalism, populism, The Stand
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Of Moon Landings, False Rabbit Trails, and Approaching Epistemic Oblivion
It’s the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. “We came in peace for all mankind” reads the plaque left behind by Neil Armstrong & “Buzz” Aldrin. Except that on Earth there is no peace, & some believe the whole thing was faked. Did we really go to the moon? The Lost Generation Philosopher ponders the mystery…. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Media, Science and Technology, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged 50th Anniversary, American decline, Apollo 11, changing technology, Conspiracy Theories, July 20 1969, moon landings, moon landings hoax, moonlandings, Neil Armstrong, one giant leap for mankind, The Thing quotations, The Thing quotes, We came in peace for all mankind
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The Deep Establishment
In the title of his recent Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) former Greek foreign minister Yanis Varoufakis introduces this phrase: The Deep Establishment. I like it! The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Higher Education Generally, Media, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Adults in the Room, Big Pharma, big tech, Carroll Quigley, central banks, Conspiracy Theories, David Rockefeller Sr, Deep Establishment, Deep State, fake news, military-security complex, new world order, privished, The Deep Establishment, The Deep State, the one percent, Tragedy and Hope, udo ulfkotte, world government movement, Yanis Varoufakis, Zbigniew Brzezinsky
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George Herbert Walker Bush (1924 – 2018)
Today is George Herbert Walker Bush’s funeral. I don’t normally write notices for just-deceased politicians, so this is a departure for me. But something has aroused my curiosity. I posted a very brief notice about his death, along with a … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Allen Dulles, Allen Dulles CIA Director, Bay of Pigs, Bush CIA, Conspiracy Theories, Facebook hate speech, G H W Bush, George Bush CIA, George H W Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, JFK assassination, LBJ and JFK assassination, money laundering Nazis, Prescott Bush
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Truth Teller’s Dilemma, Part 1
[Author’s note: this was previously posted elsewhere, but it strikes me that all three parts of this extended essay should be available on the same site. This will render them out of order, but I think my readers are smart … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Election 2016 and Aftermath, Media, Political Economy
Tagged Alex Jones, Alex Jones lawsuit, Brennan Gilmore, censorship of conservatives, censorship on social media, Charlottesville, Conspiracy Theories, culture wars, free market evangelism, free press myth, free speech on social media, inverted totalitarianism, James Damore, Jeff Bezos billionaire, PropOrNot, Sheldon Wolin, The Matrix, The Real Matrix, Washington Post, YouTube censorship
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Truth-Teller’s Dilemma, Part 2
Truth-Teller’s Dilemma, Part 2, continued from Part 1: what reason is there for believing mainstream (corporate) institutions care about the truth? Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Election 2016 and Aftermath, Political Economy
Tagged censorship of conservatives, Charlottesville, Conspiracy Theories, David Hogg, economic left cultural left, Emma González, Facebook controversy, Facebook jail, fake news, flat earth, flat earth idiocy, gun violence, Identity Politics, official narratives, repeal the Second Amendment, Russian interference, Russian spy
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Globalism: Optimism, Pessimism, and Dystopian Visions. (Part One.)
[Author´s note: this is the first of a three-part set. Originally intended as a single post, what I originally had in mind got far too long for a single post. Thus it will appear in three parts starting with Part … Continue reading
Posted in Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged absolute advantage, cheap labor, comparative advantage, Conspiracy Theories, corporatism, corporatocracy, dystopian visions, economics, free trade, gig economy, Gilens, globalism, globalization, Greece, outsourcing, Page, progressive, racial resentment
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Lost Generation Philosopher 