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July, 2009

Truthers on parade: When the “disinfo shill” gambit backfires

Any conspiracy worth its salt contains a certain amount of paranoia. There’s always the worry that They are watching from the shadows, trying to deflect public awareness away from the conspiracy at hand – whether we’re talking about UFOs, 9/11, chemtrails, lizard people, or the vaccine-autism link. So it’s inevitable that debunkers are sometimes characterized as paid shills, COINTELPRO psyop plants, or disinformation agents (and as a disinformation agent myself this is a topic that’s near and dear to my heart).

Cover is blown! CODE BLUE CODE BLUE

But sometimes the shill gambit, as it’s called, backfires – and then we start to see ugly spats like those between the regular 9/11 truthers, who think that the World Trade Center was destroyed by controlled demolition, and the “no-plane” truthers, who think that the planes were holograms or cloaked missiles or computer-generated fakes designed to cover up the fact that the attacks were perpetrated using laser microwave rays from space. Each side accuses the other of being disinformation operatives – many vanilla truthers claim that the no-plane people were planted by the conspirators to discredit the movement by making them look crazy (a similar criticism has been leveled at lizardman-theory proponent David Icke by more mainstream New World Order conspiracists):

This is what the no-plane disinfo artists do. This is why they’re called disinfo artists. To take several news programs, chop them up into pieces and paste them together to make them say something they never did, and then post it as PROOF like the OP did with this thread is blatant deception and disinfo.

They have no proof and that’s why they resort to such unbelievable tactics.

Meanwhile, the no-plane truthers insist that their version is correct, and that the mainstream 9/11 conspiracy movement is actually a government operation to cover up the US government’s use of holographic cloaking microwave laser-missile technology. Judy Wood, one of the most widely known no-plane truthers, hosts an article on “ways to spot a spook” at truther meetings:

7) Method of destruction. Controlled Demolition by thermite/thermate. No other theories are allowed to be discussed. You will hear a great deal about thermate’s glow and how the military uses it in their controlled demolitions. Open and shut case. The jury is out. Further discussion is neither entertained nor welcomed. It matters not that this individual has not even studied other theories. This individual has made up his mind without the necessity of examining other information.

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Jul 09

The birthers and Sun Yat-sen

The Manchurian Candidate?

With the birther arguments picking up steam again, it’s not a bad idea to try and anticipate some of the new arguments that might be coming out in the next little while. Though the birth certificate controversy has been brewing since shortly after Obama announced his candidacy, the arguments have changed – a year ago you couldn’t swing a dead cyberspace-cat without hitting a blog post claiming that Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate is a forgery, but that argument has largely fallen by the wayside. Now the focus seems to have shifted to ways in which he could have obtained it from the government (other than, of course, being born in Hawaii).

One talking point that’s been popping up sporadically for a few months, but seems to be gaining traction recently, is the birth certificate of Sun Yat-sen, the father of Republican China. Sun spent a great deal of time in Hawaii in his youth, and his early exposure to Western culture (via missionaries and British and American visitors) played a part in shaping his later political views. After the islands’ annexation by the US he was able to obtain American citizenship through a fraudulent birth certificate. Though Sun was born in the Guangzhou prefecture of China, and did not visit Hawaii until the age of thirteen, he was apparently able to find enough people to submit false affidavits to the contrary, allowing him to obtain a Certificate of Hawaiian Birth.

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20
Jul 09

The de facto leader of the Republican Party hops on the birther bandwagon

(”Birther”, for those who are unfamiliar with the term, refers to someone who thinks Obama’s birth certificate is fake and he was actually born elsewhere, usually in Kenya, making him ineligible to be President.)

I wish I could say I was surprised by this, but it was only a matter of time. Rumours about a conspiracy to cover up the fact that Obama was born in Kenya (and is therefore not eligible to be President) have been bouncing around the Internet since well before the election, and now, finally, Rush Limbaugh has started repeating the birth certificate conspiracy as fact.

LIMBAUGH: Barack Obama has yet to have to prove he’s a citizen. All he’d have to do is show a birth certificate. He has yet to have to prove he’s — I have to show them 14 different ways where the hell I am every day of the year for three years.

WHERE'S THE BIRTH C- oh, here it is.

There are a couple of ways to take this – you could say that Rush has finally gone off the deep end and will probably take his listenership with him, that he’s caved in to pressure from a listenership that already believes in the conspiracy, or that he’s finally uncovered the truth about B. Hussein Obama, the Kenyan usurper. Personally I don’t think this is much of a shift; Rush has been pushing the conspiracy about the Clintons having Vince Foster killed for years now, so it’s not like promoting unfounded conspiracy theories is new for him (or for the right in general).

Probably the driving force behind all this kerfuffle is a series of lawsuits filed by Birther Extraordinaire Orly Taitz. Ms. Taitz, who’s been beating the birther drum for quite some time now, is recommending that any active-duty American soldier who doesn’t want to follow an order can sue the government and get out of it (since Obama, being a Kenyan Muslim Marxist sleeper agent, is not legally commander-in-chief of the military), which will surely turn out well. The current plaintiff, Major Stefan Cook, actually volunteered for duty in May of this year and protested his orders immediately before being deployed, so clearly there’s absolutely no ulterior motive here.

At any rate, the birthers seem to have been emboldened by the lawsuits and will probably keep going until they are handed a major court defeat. But there’s no way even that would stop the conspiracy theories; frivolous birth certificate lawsuits have been percolating through the US court system since the Obama presidency was just a glimmer in Rahm Emmanuel’s eye.

Here’s where I take off the tinfoil hat, start channeling the Zetas, and make a prediction about the future. The birth certificate lawsuit(s) will be defeated in court. The birthers will justify the defeat by claiming that activist Democrat judges are part of the conspiracy and are blocking inquiry, which will be taken as evidence that the cabal, despite controlling the courts, is starting to panic and clamp down on dissent. The only solution is to:

a) Send more money to keep fighting the good fight! We’re almost there!

b) Buy guns!

c) Continue to disregard any and all evidence that the birth certificate Obama has provided is in fact legitimate, and constitutes sufficient proof that no, the President of the United States was not secretly born in Kenya, you idiots.

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19
Jul 09

Incoming pareidolia! Hit the deck!

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back some amazing photos of the moon’s surface – among them, a shot of the various moon landing sites. Here’s a pretty impressive one of the Apollo 14 lander:

As you can probably see, the resolution is not fantastic, so people around the Internet are having a fun time picking the images apart, claiming that there’s a coverup, that the images are photoshopped, and so on. I doubt that much will come of these pictures; people who think the landing was faked are going to find some way to discount the images, and those who don’t will point to them as evidence for their own position.

What should be very interesting is the shots of the rest of the moon – UFO-based conspiracy theories have often incorporated moonbases (occupied either by native aliens, aliens from elsewhere, or Nazis), and NASA’s upcoming moon-bombing mission has some UFO buffs crying foul:

The planned October 9, 2009 bombing of the moon by a NASA orbiter that will bomb the moon with a 2-ton kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile wide deep crater as an alleged water-seeking and lunar colonization experiment, is contrary to space law prohibiting environmental modification of celestial bodies. The NASA moon bombing, a component of the LCROSS mission, may also trigger conflict with known extraterrestrial civilizations on the moon as reported on the moon in witnessed statements by U.S. astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and in witnessed statements to NSA (National Security Agency) photos and documents regarding an extraterrestrial base on the dark side of the moon.

I musta taken that wrong left turn at Albuquerque.

So what should we expect to see in the wake of the LRO images’ release? If the shot of Bigfoot on Mars is any indication, the lunar surface should be a fruitful source of pareidolia – the apparent recognition of images in noise, like the Face on Mars or the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich. People who are expecting to see aliens will spend hours poring over these maps, and so are going to see all kinds of weird and wonderful things.

I suspect it’ll be an echo of all the stuff that’s supposedly lurking about on Mars – we can expect to hear about canals, pyramids, roads, towers, and who knows what else. I will update with whatever falls out of this situation!

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16
Jul 09

Diebold and ACORN: Dueling Scapegoats

One of the more popular conspiracy theories to come out of the 2008 US election (and good lord have there been a lot) has been the idea that a community organizing group by the name of ACORN (Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now) rigged the election for the Democrats via massive voter fraud and/or using malt liquor and cigarettes to bribe black people BUMS AND THUGS OF INDETERMINATE ETHNIC ORIGIN into voting for Obama on election day.

Hmmm – the stock market isn’t doing so well, but I might consider purchasing stock in the companies that sell Old English 40 ounce malt liquor, Newport cigarettes, and Kool cigarettes. They are probably making a killing during the election season, with ACORN getting bulk shipments to bribe bums and thugs to vote.

Now they’re being implicated as some kind of urban Gestapo, answerable only to the President, bent on destroying America by rigging the census so that Americans can be put into internment camps.

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Jul 09

There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold, and she’s buying a bunch of quack medicine

Devout Christians praying to a golden bull for material wealth. Seriously.

What is it that makes something valuable? You’ll probably get a different answer depending on whom you ask – a capitalist would say something about supply and demand, an academic might talk about the degree to which something increases our knowledge of the world, and so on.

But radical libertarians, alternative medicine proponents, ancient-astronaut pseudoarchaeologists, and five-year-olds on Ritalin will give you more or less the same answer: “That depends – how shiny is it?”

The obsession with gold, silver, and precious stones in the pseudoscientific subculture is massive. You might be excused for thinking that this is based on some kind of materialistic greed – but mere wealth is no object for those who have transcended the material and focus entirely on the spiritual. Gold has a special vibration, a special frequency. Gold is one of the greatest sources of natural healing (next to silver, of course). Gold is the reason why ancient astronauts came to Earth; if you eat it, it reprograms your DNA to make you more intelligent, so aliens fed it to us so that we could mine even more gold for them. Gold is the only valid form of currency; if a country is not on the gold standard, it is doomed to failure.

Take for instance the GoldIsMoney forums, which is basically a gathering place for people who are so obsessed with precious metals that they get sexually aroused at the thought of diving Scrooge McDuck-style into a vault of gold coins. They actually have a gold porn thread.

^^^ Oh My God! Is that real??

I really miss my gold………………………….:(

WOW!!!! All of this gold is making me drool all over myself.

An old timer once told me it doesn’t matter how big it is. It’s how big everyone thinks it is that count’s. While I don’t entirely agree with that logic, there is an element of truth to it.

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8
Jul 09

Jackson traction: maximum distraction?

MJ? Who is this MJ? My name is... Guy Incognito.

Michael Jackson died a little while ago. Not being a fan myself, I took the news with equanimity, but this is apparently not a sentiment shared by many. The cable news networks assure me that despite overwhelming public outcry, Jackson is still dead. There’s probably no good reason for this state of affairs, and it seems a cruel trick on the part of Nature.

Naturally, some people are taking the news pretty hard – there are the usual suggestions that his death was faked, as with any celebrity who dies relatively young, though the Gloved One was no Elvis or 2Pac or Marilyn Monroe (although it could be argued that if you take those three, mash them together in a trash compactor, and force the resulting flesh-cube to take the lead role in Satan’s production of Peter Pan, you’d pretty much have Michael Jackson in a nutshell). A wonderful article in the Daily Telegraph sums up some of the early theories, and a series of hysterical Yahoo Answers threads provides a good gauge of paranoid opinion:

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5
Jul 09

Collective blindness: the unintentional conspiracy

Kuhn does not work that way!

Any worldview outside the mainstream has a pressing need to justify its alternativeness. Creationists, alternative medicine proponents, adherents of plasma cosmology, radical catastrophists – they all have to come up with an answer to the question, “why isn’t our belief system accepted in the mainstream?” Generally, there are three paths you can take in this situation: you can say that your view is quite new and hasn’t had a chance to gain any adherents yet, you can posit a conspiracy by the Powers That Be to keep everyone in the dark, or you can explain it by invoking collective blindness.

It’s a familiar story – there’s a cure out there for cancer, but the medical establishment is blind to it because it goes against the Western scientific worldview. The evidence for creationism is overwhelming, but the biologists just can’t see it – they’ve been blinkered by an atheistic, materialistic upbringing and are simply incapable of being convinced otherwise. Einstein was wrong and relativity theory is bunk, but the physics community is locked into a pattern of thinking that keeps them from realizing the truth. It should be utterly obvious that whites are the master race, but everyone’s too brainwashed by multiculturalism to notice.

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Jul 09

Today’s menu

Our first course is a tossed word salad, courtesy of soon-to-be-former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin:

The main course:

To drink, a tall frosty glass of Republican tears:

Sarah AMERICA needs you more than ever…. someone is behind this pulling the string you have to cut the strings Sarah

I am crying for my nation WE NEED YOU

Roast crow in a self-pity reduction

She’s not quitting because she’s running for president. She’s quitting because she’s quitting. They won.

Armed insurrection souffle

I honestly don’t think Republicans will win when they steal elections like they did when I was in Seattle from Rossi in the Gubernatorial election and the SAME PEOPLE in Minnesota stealing the election for Franken.

It’s not ballot boxes anymore-—it’s cartridge boxes. I’ve debated with anarcho-capitalists, social conservatives, monarchists, libertarians, fiscal conservatives, Scoop Jackson Democrats, Burkeans, etc-—there’s just not this diversity on the other side and if we have to debate each other later, so be it. But there is no chance for an honest resolution of this conflict in the booths.

Everything about politics is about media manipulation, public relations, manufactured ‘events,’ manufactured stories, press assassination of high profile enemies and K-12 and colleges and entertainment stuffed to the gills with enemies of liberty who believe in rule by an elite who believes they are entitled not only to rule but desire a malleable and submissive citizenry on which to experiment with their philosophical delusions that Bastiat already demolished a century plus ago.

The GOP isn’t that much better anymore but it’s the only home in the two parties for anyone who’s decent who is anti-statist. But the game is over. Democrats may lose in 2010, 2012 but does anyone think the GOP will win filibuster-proof majority in the Senate ANd the Presidency AND get a President who won’t mouth that nonsense about “compassion” instead of FREEDOM?!

No, the game is over. We have 2-3 urban areas dominating entire huge states that are red and a few dozen urban areas dominating the entire countries fate. It’s European Union Redux. And though they’re starting to lean back towards the right there, we know their ‘right’ is totally different from our Madisonian-Burkean-Smith right and they’re eschewing classical liberals for quasi-fascists-—because legitimate debate was destroyed there as they intend to destroy it here.

We’re done for…at least electorally. A military countercoup with a Restoration Stewardship period is the best we can hope for..but good luck with that.

For dessert, Liberal-Marxist media conspiracy creme brulee with defeatist ganache

Just like Sanford, Obama and his goons got to Sarah Palin. She has some scandal she is hiding and I bet Obama and his SS told her if she resigned, they wouldn’t leak it. Why else would she not serve out her term.

We have no conservatives left. The permanent Democratic and hard left majority has been built. It’s Obama forever and a liberal House and Senate. Republicans are too scandal infested to have any chance.

Obama might as well anounce his new, permanent take over tomorrow on our nations birthday, that way the old republic can officially die on it’s 233rd birthday.

So long America.

Be sure to join us for brunch tomorrow, when we’ll be serving poached paranoia on a bed of leafy schadenfreude.

psychology — 3 Comments
1
Jul 09

How the Internet has made grand conspiracies obsolete

Wrap it up, boys.

There’s no conspiracy more impressive than a grand conspiracy – the kind involving hundreds or thousands of willing participants, all working in concert toward some nefarious goal. Such a conspiracy requires perfect coordination and perfect loyalty among its members, usually enforced on pain of death or dismemberment. They project a blanket of fear over those areas which they dominate, and astound onlookers with their swift, decisive action. At the top of it all is the puppetmasters – a shadowy boardroom of white men in black suits, steepling their fingers as they ponder whom to exterminate next.

If that boardroom ever existed in any context besides moral panics and paranoid schizophrenia, it’s now dead. Obsolete. It’s a rotary telephone, a horse-drawn carriage, a copy of Windows 3.1. It’s a car whose horn is an actual horn that you have to squeeze in order to make a sort of comical AROOOGA sound. And the final blow to its plausibility was, disgustingly enough, Twitter.

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Skeptical adventures in the land of conspiracy

July, 2009

Truthers on parade: When the “disinfo shill” gambit backfires

The birthers and Sun Yat-sen

The de facto leader of the Republican Party hops on the birther bandwagon

Incoming pareidolia! Hit the deck!

Diebold and ACORN: Dueling Scapegoats

There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold, and she’s buying a bunch of quack medicine

Jackson traction: maximum distraction?

Collective blindness: the unintentional conspiracy

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