Politickles

The study’s authors said they found “immense” differences in both the expertise and scientific prominence of those who supported the “primary tenets” of latest assessments made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and those who were sceptical of the IPCC’s findings. – BBC News

A rigged study to lend support to the climate scientists who rig studies!

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A “takeoff” on Mao’s Little Red Book is utterly inappropriate — unless, of course, this booklet is also intended to justify the murder of millions.

“In America, We Have a Constitution. It Begins: We the People…” – Newt Gingrich

A careful review of history should convince any objective student that there has never been an age that was not dominated by conspiracies. But we need not be scholars to reach this same conclusion. We need only open our eyes to see conspiracies all about us. – “Right in Your Own Backyard,” F.R. Duplantier, 1989

If you look closely when Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) first enters his heavily fortified apartment in the movie Conspiracy Theory, you’ll see the cover of a magazine called The New American with the words “Conspiracy Theory” on it. That’s the magazine I edited back in the late 1980s. The particular issue featured in the 1997 film offered an overview of conspiracy theory through the ages, but the focus of every issue was on conspiracy (esp., world socialism). The editorial approach of the magazine before and after my tenure was to preach to the choir, the few thousand longterm subscribers who were already steeped in the subject; but, for the five years that I was there, I tried to address the subject in such a way as to persuade people who were not already convinced — people ordinarily inclined to dismiss conspiracy theorists as kooks (which many, in fact, are). The commentary excerpted above was one such effort, dispensing with the historical approach (which has little persuasive power for historical illiterates) and encouraging people instead to simply look around them, recognize the everyday conspiracies that exist in their own lives, and extrapolate from there.

Conspiracy Theory the movie affirms the method in the madness of those who pick out patterns where others see none. At the outset, Jerry appears to be the archetypal conspiratorial nutcase, obsessed with chemtrails, fluoridation, weather machines, etc. In the end, it turns out that he was on to something: something evil, organized, and secret. A conspiracy.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.