Last week on Facebook, Charles Shaw wrote this:
[I'm] very disturbed to see that so many people have been taken in by Alex Jones and cannot see that he’s, at best, an unstable megalomaniac who’s low on facts and high on fear-mongering, and worse, he fits to a tee the description of a [...]

Recently watched three documentaries that paint a pretty alarming picture of the state of things. But also bring to mind the activism on the right against financial regulation, environmental regulation, or changing tactics in the War on Terror. Maybe if tea baggers watched these documentaries, they’d realize the hole that bad government has [...]

Sort of sad to see some former idealism crushed.  I had a lot of hope for Obama.  Tragically, Alex Jones has been proven right:

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He’s also wrong most of the time.

It’s tempting to believe that the Gulf spill, like so many disasters inherited by Obama, was the fault of the Texas oilman who preceded him in office. But, though George W. Bush paved the way for the catastrophe, it was Obama who gave BP the green light to drill. “Bush owns eight years of the [...]

Today’s peaceful news of the day: Experiments in Torture: Evidence of Human Subject Research and Experimentation in the ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Program:
In one gruesome set of experiments, at least 25 detainees were submitted to both individual and combined use of the different “enhanced interrogation” techniques developed by the CIA through reverse-engineering of [...]

Fuck her:

You can argue (if you like) that Global Warming is not man made, or it can’t be stopped, but you cannot argue that inclement weather is not a national security issue. Suppose another 9-11 happened during another Katrina. Emergency resources would be cut in half. It’s very much a national security [...]

Yesterday had a couple of conversations with my brother and dad about Obama and the state of things.  I’m the dementor of the family with my enduring belief – or at least interest – in UFOs, conspiracy theory, and the like.  They’re left-leaning Democrats, but not the kind of radical I can be in certain [...]

I’ve written before about how certain types of conspiracy theory have been taken over solely by the right.  I’ve been on the lookout for a forum to discuss some of these issues but find they’re now taken over by the hard right.  Case in point, a place like Godlike Productions, which last I checked (during [...]

Two interesting interviews found recently.  One via Futurismic with the founder of Paypal and principle investor in Facebook who has a sci-fi vision of the future.
Wired: What happens if we don’t get the growth everyone expects?
Thiel: If it doesn’t happen, people will go bankrupt in retirement. There are systemic consequences, too. If we don’t have [...]

Say what you will about the conspiracy theory inherit in the Zeitgeist movement, but you cannot deny the intelligence and sincerity of Jacque Frescoe and his vision of a possible utopia.  Here’s a fascinating interview (first part) with Larry King from 1974.

The Venus Project clearly separates the Zeitgeist movement from other conspiracy theorizing from the [...]