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On the psychology of the conspiracy denier

Tim Foyle
Reporting For Beauty
Sat, 06 Mar 2021 08:17 UTC
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Why is it that otherwise perfectly intelligent, thoughtful and rationally minded people baulk at the suggestion that sociopaths are conspiring to manipulate and deceive them? And why will they defend this ill-founded position with such vehemence?

History catalogues the machinations of liars, thieves, bullies and narcissists and their devastating effects. In modern times too, evidence of corruption and extraordinary deceptions abound.

We know, without question, that politicians lie and hide their connections and that corporations routinely display utter contempt for moral norms - that corruption surrounds us.

We know that revolving doors between the corporate and political spheres, the lobbying system, corrupt regulators, the media and judiciary mean that wrongdoing is practically never brought to any semblance of genuine justice.

We know that the press makes noise about these matters occasionally but never pursues them with true vigour.
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'Something Must Be Done' after shocking Sarah Everard killing will again lead to disproportionate reactions & make things WORSE

Neil Clark
RT
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:26 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: People gather at a memorial site in Clapham Common Bandstand, following the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard, in London, Britain March 13, 2021
Whenever something bad happens, we get calls for drastic action. But very often the 'Something Must Be Done' syndrome leads to knee-jerk policies being rushed through which make things even worse. The question is: who benefits?

A serving officer of the Metropolitan Police, Wayne Couzens, is charged with the kidnapping and murder of a 33-year-old woman. What's the state's response?

Well, according to today's newspaper reports, it's to have plain-clothes police patrolling bars and nightclubs to 'protect' women? What could possibly go wrong?

Comment: And, even amidst the scandal over the aggressive police tactics at the late-night vigil for Sarah Everard, the UK government has still managed to push through legislation that further curtails the right to gather and protest, and that extends and increases police powers: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France

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Cuomo created disabled group home deathtraps, says whistleblower

Tori Richards, Carly Roman
Washington Examiner
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 07:00 UTC
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's nursing home deathtraps have silent partners — a network of some 7,000 group homes where thousands of disabled COVID-19-positive residents languished with little foresight or intervention by the state, a whistleblower has told the Washington Examiner.

Some 552 developmentally disabled individuals died from COVID-19 in the past year living in small residential group homes, while an additional 6,382 residents and workers were infected, according to the New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities. No comprehensive protocol existed to combat the disease as infected individuals were purposely mixed with clean households, said care worker Jeff Monsour.
"In one case, an individual shared a room in a medically frail facility with another individual — one had COVID, and the other did not. The only thing separating them was a cloth privacy screen. I have been complaining about this COVID situation for a year, along with some other things. I believe the dysfunction goes all the way to the top, to Cuomo."
Cuomo, who is currently facing a raft of sexual harassment allegations, is also under increasing pressure to resign over a nursing home scandal that claimed the lives of 15,000 patients due to a policy of forcing sick individuals back into clean homes. An initial report said only 6,432 people had died.

Comment: While Cuomo's future may not be to his liking, thousands of innocent folks under his governance have no life at all.

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Covid cases plummet WITHOUT lockdown or mass vaccination program in South Africa

Ben Grahamben
News.com.au
Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:38 UTC
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Cases suddenly dropped after a peak in early January. Graph showing daily new cases from Our World in Data.
It has been a matter of weeks since South Africa was on the verge of a disaster.

Experts had predicted chaos as a new variant of the coronavirus tore through the country of 60 million people at the start of the year, and doctors were bracing for the worst.

The strain — which appeared to be reinfecting people who had recovered from a previous bout of COVID-19 and raised serious questions about an impending vaccination rollout — was infecting nearly 22,000 people a day by the middle of January.

Comment: Why are European governments reimposing lockdowns - yet again - when previous lockdowns clearly did not work?

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The Biden-Noem smackdown: "Imposter" Joe meets Kristi "The Lionhearted"

Mike Whitney
Unz Review
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
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"She hath borne herself beyond the promise of her age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion." William Shakespeare

Did you catch Biden's speech on Thursday?

I did. I foolishly thought Biden would use the opportunity to address the 90 million-or-so Americans who think the election was stolen and that Biden is not really the president. But, no, the niggling issue of "legitimacy" never even came up, nor did any of the ten other top issues that Americans care about most. Instead, Imposter Joe devoted the entire 22 minutes to fearmongering about a virus that has almost entirely vanished and which is rapidly losing its power to keep people voluntarily locked up in their own homes. That development - which should have been cause for celebration - has Biden worried, which is why his handlers settled on a nationwide speech to rekindle waning public anxiety.

The Biden crew are determined to keep the pandemic restrictions in place in order to curtail the freedom of movement, limit the size of public gatherings, and preserve the autocratic powers of the state governors. The obvious objective is to perpetuate the appearance of a public health crisis that serves as cover for the permanent suspension of personal liberties and the subsequent evisceration of the middle class. At its heart, the Covid scam- much like the BLM protests and spurious claims of "white supremacy"- has always been part of a broader class war aimed at conservative, blue-collar patriots. Here's Biden:
"Look, we know what we need to do to beat this virus. Tell the truth. Follow the science. Work together. Put trust and faith in our government to fulfill its most important function, which is protecting the American people. No function is more important. We need to remember the government isn't some foreign force in a distant capital. No, it's us. All of us. We, the people." (President Biden's prime-time speech, ABC News)

Comment: For more on how perfectly awful Biden's recent speech was:

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The Chilling Return of Normalcy


Techno Fog
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
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US VP Kamala Harris • US President Joe Biden
The normal can be a relative term. My normal isn't your normal, though we probably share general similarities of work and family. It's the specifics that differ.

For others, the normal is unbelievable. Mike Tyson in Undisputed Truth, described his normal day as an 8 year-old:
"We'd go to school, eat breakfast, and then we'd get on the bus and train and start robbing during school hours."
Tyson's autobiography - a fascinating read of his life as a fighter, a heartbreaking read of his youth - touches on the concept of "baseline normal" when he discusses the counseling he received later in life. This concept of baseline normal matters to all of us, and to Tyson specifically, because what we experience when young (whether "love, attention, neglect, deprivation or violence") becomes what we consider to be "normal and often accept[ed] without question" as an adult.

Tyson had baseline normal of neglect, violence, sex, criminal activity, and abandonment at a young age. Suddenly, when he gets married and has a relatively stable life, that was abnormal and he had to find his "normal" through drugs and sex and violence. A return to normalcy.

Comment: A return to normalcy? Even the 'old normal' feels somehow unfamiliar. We are 'not in Kansas' anymore.

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Late winter storm buries parts of Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado under several feet of snow, including record-breaking snowfall in Cheyenne

Aaron Brown
Wyoming News Now
Sun, 14 Mar 2021 19:17 UTC
Wyoming Highway Patrol continues to respond to calls for stranded motorists during the March 13-14 storm.
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Wyoming Highway Patrol continues to respond to calls for stranded motorists during the March 13-14 storm.
Nearly twenty-six inches fell in Cheyenne by noon, Sunday March 14th. The massive snow storm, a low pressure system fed by gulf moisture dumped, and dumped and dumped some more. By the time this article is being written Sunday afternoon, the snow continues to fall in Cheyenne.


And you read that right - the last time we had this much snow was the same year Cheyenne was hit by the famous tornado of '79. This storm broke records by noon, and it's still not done.


Comment: The storm has since heavily impacted neighboring states. According to USA Today:
More than 2,000 flights were canceled in and out of Denver alone over the weekend. Runways were closed for Sunday night, the Denver International Airport tweeted, as it marked nearly two inches of snow.

Many highways and local roads were closed, including a few with "no alternate route advised."

In Colorado, some areas already had almost 30 inches of snow by noon Sunday. A foot of snow had fallen in Denver, and more was on the way.

"Total snow accumulations of 12-24 inches for the Interstate 25 corridor and up to 3-4 feet in the northern foothills," the National Weather Service warned. "Wind gusts of 30-40 mph will cause some blowing and drifting snow."

The Colorado Department of Transportation reported a slew of highway closures, including swaths of Interstate 70 that runs east to west across the state. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center set the avalanche risk as high, warning of "very dangerous avalanche conditions."

"Slow to ramp up Saturday, storm makes itself known on Sunday," the state Transportation Department tweeted Sunday afternoon. "Return travel from the mountains into #Denver will be extremely challenging Sunday. Motorists please make plans to postpone travel until Monday." [...]

Nebraska's State Patrol tweeted asking people across the western part of the state to stay home to avoid strong winds and blizzard conditions. The Department of Transportation urged people across the state to avoid travel if at all possible, reported the Omaha World-Herald.


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Return of the Leviathan: The Fascist Roots of the CIA and the True Origin of the Cold War

Cynthia Chung
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 07 Mar 2021 01:41 UTC
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© Jacob Harris/AP
John Foster Dulles (right) is greeted by his brother Allen Welsh Dulles on his arrival at LaGuardia Field in New York City in 1948.
In whose interest did the creation of the Cold War serve and continues to serve? Cynthia Chung addresses this question in her three-part series.

In 1998, the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), at the behest of Congress, launched what became the largest congressionally mandated, single-subject declassification effort in history. As a result, more than 8.5 million pages of records have been opened to the public under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (P.L. 105-246) and the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act (P.L. 106-567). These records include operational files of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA, the FBI and Army intelligence. IWG issued three reports to Congress between 1999 and 2007.

This information sheds important light and confirms one of the biggest-kept secrets of the Cold War - the CIA's use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a secret campaign against the Soviet Union.

This campaign against the Soviet Union, which began while WWII was still raging, has been at the crux of Washington's tolerance towards civil rights abuses and other criminal acts in the name of anti-communism, as seen with McCarthyism and COINTELPRO activities. With that fateful decision, the CIA was not only given free reign for the execution of anti-democratic interventions around the world, but anti-democratic interventions at home, which continues to this day.
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FBI's ridiculous "Capitol Siege Pipe Bomb" video is an all-out assault on common sense


Revolver News
Fri, 12 Mar 2021 18:51 UTC
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This week, the FBI released video footage of their key suspect in the vaunted "pipe bombs planted at DNC and GOP offices" plot from the MAGA Capitol protests of 1/6. Much is riding on this "pipe bomb" plot being legit, because the "armed insurrection" narrative is falling apart without it.

Just last week, the FBI confessed to Congress - and not without prodding from Senator Ron Johnson - that no guns had actually been recovered or confiscated on Capitol grounds. That admission corroborates the thorough review by AmGreatness's Julie Kelly of more than 200 DOJ charging documents, and whose conclusion went completely unmentioned by either FBI Director Chris Wray or incoming Attorney General Merrick Garland in their fire-and-brimstone assessments of the deadly threat MAGA protesters posed that day.

With the "Guns at Capitol" meme down, only two serious, terroristic plots implicating MAGA on 1/6 remain. One is the "guns & bombs stashed in cars and outside the city" plots, principally related to the Oath Keepers, which has been the subject of an exhaustive forthcoming Revolver News investigation; the other is this eagerly-hyped "pipe bomb" plot.
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'Kids passed from one abuser to another' - shocking allegations of child sex abuse at Irish Army base exposed

Sylvia Pownall
Irish Mirror
Sun, 07 Mar 2021 08:00 UTC
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Defense Forces
A whistleblower has called for a Government inquiry to investigate allegations of systemic child sex abuse at the country's biggest Army base.

Anthony O'Brien, 64, who retired from the Defence Forces in 2003, says children living on the Curragh Camp in Co Kildare were subjected to "horrific" abuse.

He has contacted the Department of Defence and the Taoiseach's office having uncovered a litany of attacks by pedophiles on the military base dating back to the 1970s.

Dubliner Anthony, who was stationed at the Curragh for 22 years, has taken statements from more than 40 alleged victims which he sent to the Department of Defence.

These have now been passed to senior garda officers in Harcourt Street and are the subject of an investigation.

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