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Send us a textApril confesses to being a "big ol' nerd" while discussing three sneaky fallacies that sidestep evidence and shut down discourse.Episode 41 Show Notes:It's a study guide about the No True Scotsman fallacy! Hey, they're good for adults too: https://studylatam.com/no-true-scotsman-fallacy-in-philosophy/Another good article about No True Scotsman: https://practicalpie.com/no-true-scotsman/Rational Wiki is always a good go-to for fallacies: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/No_True_ScotsmanWhat's cognitive ease? Here you go: learning-mind.com/cognitive-ease/Great article on the illusory truth effect: https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/illusory-truth-effectPatrick Stokes' article in The Conversation on why he's so tough on his philosophy students: https://theconversation.com/no-youre-not-entitled-to-your-opinion-9978Stephen Rainey's blog that discusses the concept of our "entitlement" to opinions: https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2019/03/entitlement/*I have begun using ChatGPT to organize and outline my episodes--it does a great job clarifying my ideas. I still do the writing, though, so I can't say it saves a lot of time!

A cold, barren rock in the North Atlantic—isolated, windswept, and lifeless. Perhaps it wasnever meant for human presence. Perhaps the superstitions whispered through generations, warnings of curses and otherworldly forces, weren't just ghost stories to ignore. Three men vanished without a trace from the Eilean Mor Lighthouse in 1900, leaving behind only eerie questions and a lighthouse that stood empty, as if even it knew something was wrong. Was it foul weather? Madness? Or something far stranger hiding in the thick fog that surrounds theFlannan Isles?Despite decades of investigation, every theory—no matter how grounded or bizarre—seems to end where it begins: with a mystery as haunting as the waves that crash against its lonely shores. Today on Hysteria 51, we dig into the story of Eilean Mor, the theories, the legends, and the strange clues left behind. Will we find answers, or just more shadows in the mist and bad jokes by a sadistic robot? Let's find out...Special thanks to this week's research sources: BooksMcCloskey, K. (2014), The Lighthouse: The Mystery of the Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Keepers,The History PressWebsitesEilean Mor Summary: http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/curious-disappearanceeilean-mor-lighthouse-keepers-scottish-mystery-004820?nopaging=1 Poem: http://www.potw.org/archive/potw230.html RationalWiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Flannan_Isle Original wreck report for the SS Archtor, http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/17924.asp?view=text Rogue Wave - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave The report submitted by Robert Muirhead, Superintendent, on the 8thJanuary 1901: https://www.nlb.org.uk/HistoricalInformation/FlannanIsles/Report-by-Superintendent Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories:weird@hysteria51.com Support the ShowGet exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experienceat https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 ShopBe the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting!https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A cold, barren rock in the North Atlantic—isolated, windswept, and lifeless. Perhaps it was never meant for human presence. Perhaps the superstitions whispered through generations, warnings of curses and otherworldly forces, weren't just ghost stories to ignore. Three men vanished without a trace from the Eilean Mor Lighthouse in 1900, leaving behind only eerie questions and a lighthouse that stood empty, as if even it knew something was wrong. Was it foul weather? Madness? Or something far stranger hiding in the thick fog that surrounds the Flannan Isles? Despite decades of investigation, every theory—no matter how grounded or bizarre—seems to end where it begins: with a mystery as haunting as the waves that crash against its lonely shores. Today on Hysteria 51, we dig into the story of Eilean Mor, the theories, the legends, and the strange clues left behind. Will we find answers, or just more shadows in the mist and bad jokes by a sadistic robot? Let's find out... Special thanks to this week's research sources: Books McCloskey, K. (2014), The Lighthouse: The Mystery of the Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Keepers, The History Press Websites Eilean Mor Summary: http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/curious-disappearanceeilean-mor-lighthouse-keepers-scottish-mystery-004820?nopaging=1 Poem: http://www.potw.org/archive/potw230.html RationalWiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Flannan_Isle Original wreck report for the SS Archtor, http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/17924.asp?view=text Rogue Wave - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave The report submitted by Robert Muirhead, Superintendent, on the 8th January 1901: https://www.nlb.org.uk/HistoricalInformation/FlannanIsles/Report-by-Superintendent Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: weird@hysteria51.com   Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1   Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is it conspiracy theory, something out of a fiction novel, or as real as apple pie? The Blue Beam project was once called the craziest conspiracy theory ever created and the man behind it just as nuts…but with recent events, could it be true? Did the man behind the theory actually get it right? Join Alesha and Kevin as they take us on another Bizarre AF adventure into the world of the unknown, the strange and unknown (tin foil hat encouraged). #projectbluebeam #aliens #UFO #alien #vietnamwar #war #drones #topsecret #rabbithole   #globalelites NASA's Project Blue Beam written by Serge Monast (translated): https://educate-yourself.org/cn/projectbluebeam25jul05.shtml Newsweek's ‘What is the Project Blue Beam drone conspiracy theory?' : https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/what-is-project-blue-beam-drone-conspiracy/ Serge Monast's Rational Wiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Serge_Monast Audio Sources:  Congress is briefed on the Drone situation, a response from a lawmaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5vqljjW_Uc Steven Greer on Project Blue Beam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlboJl9-ZD8 Valuetainment:”Project Blue Beam" - Dr. Steven Greer Reveals The Dark Secrets Behind Alien Abductions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5cOdVZnIUQ The Call between Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara on 3 August 1964: https://prde.upress.virginia.edu/conversations/4002540

Mao Zedong var obestridlig ledare i Kina under nästan tre decennier. Han kom att ställa den marxismen, som utgick från industriarbetarna, på huvudet genom att grunda sin revolution på bönderna.Mao Zedongs olika kampanjer som Det stora språnget och Kulturrevolutionen kom att kosta mellan 40 och 70 miljoner människor livet. Bara under det stora språnget ska 45 miljoner människor har dött, enligt historikern Frank Dikötter.I denna nymixade repris av podden Historia Nu samtalar programledare Urban Lindstedt med Hans Hägerdal, professor i historia med inriktning på Öst och Sydostasien vid Linnéuniversitetet. Han har bland annat skrivit boken Kinas ledare – 1912-2012.Mao Zedong föddes i ett välbärgat bondehem och var en av grundarna av det kinesiska kommunistpartiet 1921. Han kom att inleda sin väpnade kamp 1927 i sin egen hemprovins Henan. Hans gerillakamp kom att inspirera revolutionärer i hela världen ända fram till våra dagar.Efter att kommunisterna besegrat Nationalisterna grundandes Folkrepubliken Kinas 1949 och Mao Zedong blev Kinas ledare ända fram till sin död 1976.Musik: Celebrating Chinese New Year av Volodymyr Piddubnyk, Soundblock Audio Bild: Mao håller tal 1939, RationalWiki, Public domain Vill du stödja podden och samtidigt höra ännu mer av Historia Nu? Gå med i vårt gille genom att klicka här: https://plus.acast.com/s/historianu-med-urban-lindstedt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Facebook tried to disrupt the world — and the world says “no.” Facebook launched Libra in June 2019. Libra would be an international currency and payment system. It would flow instantly around the world by phone. It could even “bank the unbanked.” But Libra would also make Facebook too big to control— and lead the way for Facebook's Silicon Valley fellows to swing the power of their money as they pleased. Facebook and their friends could work around any single country's rules. Libra could shake whole economies and Facebook would become the “digital identity” provider to the world. Governments looked at Libra — and saw another 2008 financial crisis in the making. Facebook's plan would have made the company even more entrenched — at the cost of broken economies worldwide; starting with toppling the US dollar. “Libra Shrugged” is the story of a bad idea. Bio: David Gerard writes the cryptocurrency and blockchain news site Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain. He is the author of the 2017 book Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts and the 2020 book Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money. Until he reinstalled the laptop they were on, he was the proud owner of six Dogecoins. He remains a frequent, if occasionally annoyed, user of Facebook. As well as being a crypto journalist, David also works as a Unix system administrator, where his job includes keeping track of exciting new technologies, and advising against the bad ones. He has also been an award-winning music journalist, and has blogged about music at Rocknerd.co.uk since 2001. He is a volunteer spokesman for Wikipedia, and for skeptical wiki RationalWiki.org. Originally from Australia, he lives in east London with his spouse Arkady Rose and their daughter. Website - https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/ Artwork by Phillip Thor - https://linktr.ee/Philipthor_art The Way Podcast - www.PodcastTheWay.com - Follow at Twitter / Instagram - @podcasttheway (Subscribe/Follow on streaming platforms and social media!) To watch the visuals with the trailer go to https://www.podcasttheway.com/trailers/ Thank you Don Grant for the Intro/Outro. Check out his podcast - https://threeinterestingthings.captivate.fm Intro guitar copied from Aiden Ayers at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UiB9FMOP5s *The views demonstrated in this show are strictly those of The Way Podcast/Radio Show*

"I want to disbelieve..." could be an alternate title to this episode, as we explore the other side of the other. The Desert Rat was impressed about the sheer volume of time and effort that has been put in to refute something that supposedly doesn't even exist, and wants to share his findings. Support the platform that houses this podcast: whenitwascool.com on Patreon Support Wrestling With The Dawg: dirtydawgmes on Patreon Stop killing each other.

Part 2 of Jack's look at Jimmy Dore. Content Warnings. Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618 IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1 Episode Notes: Jimmy Dore: Jimmy Dore at RationalWiki https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dore Jimmy Dore at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dore The Jimmy Dore Show https://www.youtube.com/c/thejimmydoreshow More notes to follow.

So there's this jagoff comedian making videos in his garage… I mean, this millionaire Hollywood guy running his own media venture, employing writers and producers… who is persecuted… I mean, criticised… for bravely standing up to the establishment and the corporations and American imperialism… I mean, for being a reactionary, and platforming fascists, and doing interviews on fascist TV with America's most prominent fascist, and spinning conspiracy theories, and engaging in stealth antivaxx during a deadly pandemic that he downplays and about which he spreads misinformation, and smearing people who point out that he's full of shit, and making covert apologias for Trumpism, and sneakily implying that brutal, murderous, authoritarian, imperialist dictators like Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad are actually not that bad… Content Warnings apply, not least for clips of very shit comedy. Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618 IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1 Episode Notes: Jimmy Dore: Jimmy Dore at RationalWiki https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dore Jimmy Dore at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dore The Jimmy Dore Show https://www.youtube.com/c/thejimmydoreshow The Dirt: Political Commentator Jimmy Dore Buys Rambling L.A. Compound Jimmy Dore Bought a Charming Los Angeles House – DIRT (1)Jimmy Dore on Twitter: "I interviewed a member of the Boggaloo Boys, I was completely floored when he said he is: -Pro LGBTQ -Pro Black Lives Matter -Anti Police Brutality -Anti Racism -Anti ICE -Anti War WTF?!?! Radicalized Michigan Anarchist Seeks Unity With The Left. https://t.co/nTXQ3gCEg4" / Twitter WSWS: YouTube personality Jimmy Dore Promotes fascist Boogaloo Boy YouTube personality Jimmy Dore promotes fascist Boogaloo Boy - World Socialist Web Site (wsws.org) (1)Matthew Dimitri

Den er så ildelugtende, at den kan aflede hundes lugtesans. Der er tale om 'røde sild' eller 'red herring', som det hedder på engelsk, hvor udtrykket kommer fra. Og så kan de stinkende fisk, der også er bedre kendt som kippers, bruges til at aflede en debat. ”Som debatfælde er det, at man fokuserer på, en eller anden detalje i stedet for det vigtige i helheden for at aflede opmærksomheden,” forklarer Torben Sangild, der bliver suppleret af Morten Elsøe:”Et eksempel, jeg er stødt på mange gange, når man deler en artikel fra fx Tjekdet.dk, er dem, der siger: 'Det site består bare af nogle unge journalistpraktikanter og teenagere, der sidder i en kælder'. På den måde flytter man opmærksomheden væk fra indholdet i artiklen hen mod en påstand om, hvem der har skrevet artiklen. I en debat skal man passe på ikke at følge den stinkende sild. Man skal hele tiden bringe fokus tilbage på indholdet.”Det er ikke kun lugtende fisk, der bliver taget under behandling i dette afsnit af podcasten 'Et Åbent Sind?'. Her taler de også om to andre ofte brugte debatfælder, nemlig 'kuglefisken' og 'glidebanen'. Kuglefisken er, når man tager en detalje og blæser den stort op.”Man skal altid være opmærksom på, om folk er ensidigt meget kritiske om én specifik detalje. Det er ikke altid, de tilføjer samme kritiske blik på de påstande, de selv kommer med,” siger Morten Elsøe.Derudover taler de i podcasten også om glidebanen, som ofte bliver brugt i politik. Man italesætter det ofte: 'Hvis vi gør dette, hvad bliver så det næste?'. Og så har de selvfølgelig også altid det faste element 'Fup eller fakta', der handler om, hvorvidt FBI har bedre held med at få tilståelser ud af mistænkte, der ikke har sovet. Husk, at du kan skrive til Torben og Morten med ris, ros og ideer på: sind@heartbeats.dkShow notes: - Anton Pottegårds gennemgang af argumenterne for og imod vaccination af børn mod corona:https://videnskab.dk/forskerzonen/krop-sundhed/covid-19-vaccination-af-5-11-aarige-en-laegemiddelforskers-guide-til-et-reelt-dilemma? - TjekDet-artikel om kronik, der overvurderer D-vitamin mod corona:https://www.tjekdet.dk/faktatjek/kronik-tillaegger-d-vitamin-alt-stor-effekt-mod-covid-19-siger-forskere-som-kronikoererne- Bogen Torben gengav et par pointer fra er Will Storr: The Status Game- Artikel om “Galileo-grebet” fra siden “RationalWiki”:https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_gambit - YouTube-video fra afhøringen af den tidligere canadiske oberst, Russel Williams, hvor han tilstår sine forfærdelige forbrydelser:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsLbDzkIy3A&ab_channel=TheMobReporter - FLICC-modellen: https://skepticalscience.com/history-FLICC-5-techniques-science-denial.html

cw: talk of sexual abuse / child abuse. In today's episode, Joseph (@Gross_Online) joins Josiah to discuss Jack Chick, the legacy of Chick Publications, his theological influences, and a tract that even Chick himself would later find distasteful. I Wanna Believe - Jennie LawlessA Quick Death - Paris TexasI Walk This Earth All By Myself - EkkstacyCovered in Chrome - Violent SohoLinksPalestine Emergency Appeal and Intransitive (charities from Joseph's plugs)UnderunderstoodGod's Cartoonist (2008/9)John ToddAlberto RiveraRebecca Brown (no Wikipedia page for her, only RationalWiki. Sorry)Fat CatsNo Context Chick Tracks or @No_Context_JTCLisa (content warning)Twitter NewsI'm not linking Merrick.Helldude condemns racism (here's context we found after recording)soy drehertrying to get blockedEmail us at hello@verylegalvery.coolJoin the Twitter hivemind: https://twitter.com/vlegalvcoolpodVisually stimulate yourself: www.instagram.com/verylegalverycoolpod/Audio-visually stimulate yourself: www.youtube.com/channel/UCU6LNzjByApFks97SP9s81wLive stuff https://www.twitch.tv/verylegalverycoolJoin George Soros in funding the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=37940154&fan_landing=trueMore at verylegalvery.cool★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Another special episode this time, as we welcome to the show David Gerard, author of acclaimed takedown of cryptocurrency Attack of the 50ft Blockchain, and Elizabeth Sandifer, author of acclaimed takedown of neo-reaction Neoreaction a Basilisk, to discuss Scott Alexander (or is it Siskind?) and his blog Slate Star Codex, with digressions into Less Wrong, 'rationalism', and why David is responsible for Grimes hooking up with Elon Musk. Content Warnings apply, as ever. Also, we once again we have audio that doesn't quite meet our recent standards, though its perfectly listenable. Podcast Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/danielharper Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618 IDSG Twitter: https://twitter.com/idsgpod Daniel's Twitter: @danieleharper Jack's Twitter: @_Jack_Graham_ IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1 Episode Notes: Elizabeth's... Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElSandifer Site: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/elizabethsandifer David's... Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidgerard Site: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard/overview Elizabeth's recent article on Scott Alexander/Siskind: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-kill-people-with-bad-writing-the-scott-alexander-method/ RationalWiki on Scott Alexander: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Alexander

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website.What about survivalism? Are these people on the right track biblically? Can Christians be "survivalists”?Survivalism as a popular movement is well worth understanding, especially as some Christians are attracted to it. This attraction is increasingly common in society at large; think of the many TV programs, like Survivor, or movies, like The Book of Eli, or video games, like Fallout.Survivalists believe that the responsible thing to do before the inevitable breakdown of society is to become self-sufficient. One will need adequate supplies of food and water to last for months (if not years) of anarchy and chaos. People need to provide for their families. Those who fail to take measures should not count on hand-outs. "The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty" (Prov 22:3).Further, one would be foolish to trust that normal human civility will suffice to maintain possession of one's cache. It may be necessary to defend it with force. Further, the time to load up on ammunition is now—before gun stores close.It would be foolish to stay in or near a city. Better to plan on surviving in a rural and (preferably) isolated area. A sturdy shelter will be needed (underground is best -- maybe a luxury doomsday condo, if finances allow), and a generator may also prove helpful if and when public utilities are completely disrupted.AssumptionsWhat are the fundamental components and assumptions of survivalism?Things are going to get bad. (Even if they don't, it's wise to be prepared.)God wants us to stay alive. Injury and death must be avoided (at all costs).We should stockpile water and food so that we have enough to survive until such time as things are safe again. (Think Old Testament siege conditions, as in 2 Kings 6 and 2 Kings 18.)A cache of weapons and ammunition is crucial. If someone trespasses onto my property I am justified in using lethal force, especially if he is attempting to raid my provisions.Since society will be in a state of chaos, we should plan to live in a secure shelter (amply furnished and supplied).Since money will lose its value, wealth should be converted to gold, silver, or other intrinsically valuable media of exchange.We shouldn't count on rescue. Normal disasters elicit assistance from the government; this time the cavalry won't be coming to save us. In effect, God helps those who help themselves.These, then, are the fundamentals of survivalism and the assumptions on which it is based. Now it's time to evaluate. Survivalists make some good points, a number of which resonate with thoughtful Bible readers.Society may well collapse one day. No empire lasted forever, after all.The prudent take this into account. He or she prepares. One should not bank on rescue."Paper money" is arbitrary. Banknote values depend wholly on the strength of the government backing them.Wicked men will try to rob us. This is already the reality, and crime only tends to increase in times of civil chaos.It is right take up arms to defend the innocent, like oneself and one's family..Let me respond to the previous 5 points. After that we will examine the teachings of Jesus and Paul with implications for survivalism. As we will see, there are numerous fundamental problems with survivalism.Indeed, empires come and go. Even Rome fell (as intimated in Revelation); we should pay attention and learn. A breakdown of society, perhaps a massive technological failure or terrorist attack, is not a possibility to be dismissed. I recently read Marc Elsberg's novel Blackout. Although it is a work of fiction, even since it was originally published there have been attacks on the electrical power grid (in Europe) that demonstrate the plausibility of the scenario he envisions.Preparing for contingencies is biblical. Yet we are not our own saviors; as much as we like to be in control, Jesus is the Savior. Yet that hardly means he shields us from hardship, suffering, or persecution. Romans 8 is no promise of peace and prosperity. There the only guarantee is that nothing, however horrific, can separate us from God's love.This point doesn't go far enough. If we "cash in" our paper money for gold, silver, etc., these too are arbitrary. They have no intrinsic value (apart from, say, industrial applications). Further, the Bible warns us not to love money or allow it to become an idol. See Luke 16:13-15!Since thieves break in and steal, we had best store our treasure in heaven (not in a bunker). Not fair that the evil men succeed? Relax; one day there will be a Day of Judgment. (See Psalm 73.)Defending the innocent in court is a strong prophetic theme. Yet while the OT allowed limited violence in self-defense, in the NT we are told to relate to enemies in a different way. The use of lethal force was unacceptable even in the case of Christ—and no one was more innocent than he.Jesus and Paul on SurvivalismTo embrace survivalism as normally conceived requires a rejection of the teaching of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, as well as of Paul's teaching in the epistles. Please take a moment to read over three passages, two from Matt 5-6, and one from Rom 12. They are somewhat lengthy, but if we want our convictions to come from scripture, we need to engage. Take your time; digest them.“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well; and if anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile. Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you. You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matt 5:38-48).“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own" (Matt 6:25-34).Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” No, “if your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good (Rom 12:17-21).Jesus gave us the formula for surviving in any situation: Seek first the kingdom.Rather than hoard food and refuse it to one who is hungry, we are to feed him—even if he is our enemy! Further, hospitality is one of highest biblical virtues, including taking the stranger into our home. Recall the Parable of the Great Banquet (Luke 14:15-24).As my friend David Berçot observes, "Survivalism is kindred to the spirit of the man Jesus described in the Parable of the Rich Fool (Luke 12:16-21). The rich fool was hoarding his goods so that he could later take life easy. The survivalist hoards his goods to make sure he will have something for tomorrow, in case calamity comes. Neither person really trusts in God’s provident care. Both types of persons are focused on themselves (and their families), instead of others."Jesus forbade all forms of violence. "Put your sword away. He who draws the sword will die by the sword" (Matt 26:52). Now that we live in the Messianic Age, swords have been beaten into plowshares (Isa 2:4; Mic 4:3). We don't "study" (prepare) for war any more. No more killing.Interestingly (Berçot again), "Jesus told His followers that a horrible calamity was coming on Jerusalem in the near future (Matt 24), and indeed the calamity came with the Roman army (70 AD). Yet he didn’t advise his followers to start building up a survival cache; he said just the opposite! Once the calamity was at the door, he told them to leave everything behind and flee. That’s exactly what the Christians in Jerusalem did. God provided for their needs, and they all survived by fleeing to Pella (a town across the Jordan)."Biblical Christians do not choose life over faithfulness. We do not have to survive some coming apocalypse, but we do need to remain obedient to God's commands.Thus we see that even a cursory reading of the NT scriptures reveals that survivalism as commonly presented is un-Christian on multiple fronts. If you are reading this article and have been attracted to this position, I urge you to rethink your position.*          *          *          *          *          *If you'd like to explore the topic in more depth, this will get your started:The website of Modern Christian Survivalist, which attempts to combine survivalism (as I have delineated it above) and the Bible.The article by Focus on the Family: A Biblical View of Survivalists and Preppers fear—"sanctified paranoia." This is a nice introduction to the issue.The Survivalism page at Rational Wiki. The article is very well done. "Meet Your Neighbor, The Survivalist" (CNBC, 29 May 2009), about someone who has stockpiled far more food than he could ever eat, so there's plenty to share with others.

RationalWiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page Immanuel: https://ifwo.eu/@bertrandterrier Michael: https://ifwo.eu/@sozialwelten

Mao Zedong var obestridlig ledare i Kina under nästan tre decennier. Han kom att ställa den marxismen, som utgick från industriarbetarna, på huvudet genom att grunda sin revolution på bönderna.Mao Zedongs olika kampanjer som Det stora språnget och Kulturrevolutionen kom att kosta mellan 40 och 70 miljoner människor livet. Bara under det stora språnget ska 45 miljoner människor har dött, enligt historikern Frank Dikötter.I avsnitt 139 av podden Historia Nu samtalar programledare Urban Lindstedt med Hans Hägerdal, professor i historia med inriktning på Öst och Sydostasien vid Linnéuniversitetet. Han har bland annat skrivit boken Kinas ledare – 1912-2012.Mao Zedong föddes i ett välbärgat bondehem och var en av grundarna av det kinesiska kommunistpartiet 1921. Han kom att inleda sin väpnade kamp 1927 i sin egen hemprovins Henan. Hans gerillakamp kom att inspirera revolutionärer i hela världen ända fram till våra dagar.Efter att kommunisterna besegrat Nationalisterna grundandes Folkrepubliken Kinas 1949 och Mao Zedong blev Kinas ledare ända fram till sin död 1976.Musik: Celebrating Chinese New Year av Volodymyr Piddubnyk, Soundblock Audio Bild: Mao håller tal 1939, RationalWiki, Public domain See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

No one expects their grandma to hit them with some crazy family secrets while on her deathbed. But when those secrets involve a UFO crash, dead alien bodies, and a U.S. government coverup - well, granny sure knows how to go out with style. That's also the basis for this week's story as we go back in time to investigate the Cape Girardeau UFO Crash of 1941. Plus, the fellas talk Nick Pope shenanigans, drinking in cornfields, and enjoying small town wineries (separately of course - we're not implying the fellas were drinking at a winery in a cornfield with Nick Pope - though that sounds delightful). All of that and more on the podcast that can’t wait to make up some crazy stuff to tell our loved ones on our death bed - Hysteria 51.Special thanks to this week’s research sources: Research Assistant - Raymond Walden IVBooksThe Cape Girardeau 1941 UFO Incident | George Dudding PDFsSkeptic UFO Newsletter - https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/docs/SUN/SUN69.pdfThe First Roswell - https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/rswood_mufon2001.pdfVideosUFO Case: Cape Girardeau Crash - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEfjtn-zpn8WebsitesList of reported UFO sightings - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings#20th_centuryColumbia Daily Tribune - https://www.columbiatribune.com/article/20150203/Opinion/302039927The Truth Hides - https://thetruthhides.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/nick-pope-some-facts-some-truth/Rational Wiki - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nick_PopeKFVS 12 - https://www.kfvs12.com/story/19192517/close-encounters-of-the-heartland-kind/ExoNews - https://exonews.org/before-roswell-the-1941-ufo-incident-at-cape-girardeau/UFO Casebook - https://www.ufocasebook.com/missouricrash.htmlSouth East Arrow - https://www.southeastarrow.com/story/2455754.htmlOzark Sentinel (via WayBack Machine) - https://web.archive.org/web/20120523015449/http://www.ozarkssentinel.com/missouris-ufo-crash-preceded-roswell-by-six-years.html/

: Episode 1709 - On this Monday show, Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino talk technical difficulties, Instagram, social media troubles, crazy Amazon, holiday eating, cautious life into living, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/11/social-media-troubles-episode-1709 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS SOCIAL MEDIA TROUBLES Anna has been shadow-banned from the site. She thinks she must have inadvertently triggered their algorithm. After checking their terms, she knows she did not  This is tough for her because she loves providing people with helpful info on Insta. She's trying to restore it all! Anna and Vinnie have both had weird experiences with social media. Vinnie is, however, on this crazy site called RationalWiki. Check out the ridiculous page here: Vinnie wants someone to start a page for him on the REAL Wiki –– there's definitely enough about him out there to make a page. Anna also has fairly regular issues with Amazon - this obviously isn't a social media website, but it's technology just the same! HOLIDAY EATING Vinnie and Anna believe it's not about what you eat  However, don't fall off the wagon. It's hard to get back on, even on Jan 1, if you fall off completely. Put a little LIL with that pecan pie, but do it with limits. Anna also has various NSNG®-friendly Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes (including dessert) in her cookbooks! Be prepared to feel stiff and achey the day after you put that life into living. FAT DOC IS OUT Go watch it now! We need people to buy and review for it to stay at the top of iTunes pages. Please also share it with family and friends! Available for both rental and purchase. You can also buy hardcopy or watch online at Amazon. YOU CAN NOW STREAM FOR FREE ON AMAZON PRIME IF YOU HAVE IT! Fat Doc 2 is in the works! Keep an eye out. RESOURCES Https://www.vinnietortorich.com Https://www.purevitaminclub.com Https://www.purevitaminclub.co.uk Https://www.purecoffeeclub.com https://www.villacappelli.com Https://www.nsngfoods.com Https://www.crowdcow.com/vinnie Https://www.bit.ly/fatdocumentary

This time, Jack and Daniel delve into the cesspool that is the barking, beanie-wearing, bollocks-talker Tim Pool.  Prepare for a small avalanche of weapons grade stupid from YouTube's favourite reactionary propagandist pretending to be a centrist or something. Content Warning. Links / Notes: CV Vitolo “Haddad”: Another Academic Racial Fraud? https://medium.com/@polite_keppel_dinosaur_57/cv-vitolo-haddad-another-academic-racial-fraud-c5c41fe32110 The CV Dossier: https://twitter.com/thecvdossier Inside Higher Ed, "Fresno State Pulls CV Vitolo-Haddad's Job Offer." https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/09/18/fresno-state-pulls-cv-vitolo-haddads-job-offer Timcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Timcast/videos Timcast News YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TimcastNews/videos Timcast IRL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TimcastIRL/videos SCNR YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SCNRtv/videos Tim Pool: Day at a Chicago Warehouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LgfyUeFlzw Tim Pool calls into the Majority Report, November 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYcZodBFS8k Christopher Robbins, Gothamist, "Is OWS Livestreamer Snitching Or Reporting?" https://gothamist.com/news/update-is-ows-livestreamer-snitching-or-reporting "Is that his job? To hold people accountable? "Well," Pool pauses. "That's not my decision to make. That's the majority's decision. I will say that in the case of last night, I'm not advocating anyone to go after this person." "But it does offend me when people say I'm putting them at risk. If you throw a bottle at the police, you're putting people at risk. When two innocent people who were doing nothing get arrested because you threw the bottle, that's putting people at risk. I'm going to hold those people accountable." " Tim Pool at Vice.com: https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/tim-pool Vic Berger thread on Tim Pool: https://threader.app/thread/1101208956230356994 James Allsup and Tim Pool, June 2017. https://archive.org/details/youtube-5_QaIhe7JxA Thought Slime, "Hats Off to Tim Pool." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxDVhNuFAq4 Cassandra Fairbanks Telegram: https://t.me/s/CassandraFairbanks Jose, "Diving Into the Shallow End, My Week With Tim Pool (Part 1)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Wv59W0uPo Jose, ""Diving Into the Shallow End, My Week With Tim Pool (Part 2)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AnrGWF2ri4 Earlier Jose video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtrZQ_bu8Sc&t=402s Tim Pool clips https://twitter.com/TimPoolClips Matt Binder video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfoLE-eHnwM&t=1022s Tim Pool’s Grift Exposed https://youtu.be/jpRyjI8oC_E Inside the Mind of Tim Pool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6zbw2vWOz4&t=1531s Antisocial Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsNKtRZEVjk&t=522s Tim Pool, Phony Liberal by Abe Gaustad https://medium.com/@abegaustad/tim-pool-phony-liberal-67e409cd34ca RationalWiki https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tim_Pool

If you're like us, you likely never heard of Synanon, but its tactics live on in "tough-love" drug rehabilitation programs. Synanon was founded in 1958 by Charles Dederich, and it was the first ever non-medical drug rehabilitation program. And then it became a cult. Join Beth and Kelly as they share the story of shaved heads, forced abortions and the origin story of one of Nancy Reagan's favorite programs. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources: “Doris Gambonini, a Ranch Woman Who Comforted Synanon Refugees, Dies at 80.” The Point Reyes Light, 2 Oct. 2014, www.ptreyeslight.com/article/doris-gambonini-ranch-woman-who-comforted-synanon-refugees-dies-80. Etler, Cyndy. “I Spent 16 Months Of My Childhood Locked In A Warehouse.” HuffPost, HuffPost, 1 Mar. 2019, www.huffpost.com/entry/straight-inc_n_5c76a914e4b062b30eba021e. Fang, Lee. “GOP Mogul Behind Drug Rehab 'Torture' Centers Is Bankrolling Opposition to Pot Legalization in Colorado.” The Nation, 29 June 2015, www.thenation.com/article/archive/gop-mogul-behind-drug-rehab-torture-centers-bankrolling-opposition-pot-legalization-colo/. Gelder, Lawrence Van. “Charles Dederich, 83, Synanon Founder, Dies.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 4 Mar. 1997, www.nytimes.com/1997/03/04/us/charles-dederich-83-synanon-founder-dies.html?searchResultPosition=1. Hillel Aron. “The Story of This Drug Rehab-Turned-Violent Cult Is Wild, Wild Country-Caliber Bizarre.” Los Angeles Magazine, 27 Feb. 2020, www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/synanon-cult/. Jollett, Mikel. Hollywood Park: a Memoir. Celadon Books, 2020. King, Wayne. “SYNANON MEMBERS ACCUSED IN BEATING.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 1 Mar. 1981, www.nytimes.com/1981/03/01/us/synanon-members-accused-in-beating.html?searchResultPosition=1. Mitchell, Dave. “Light to Celebrate 25th Anniversary of Its Pulitzer.” Cult Education Institute, Point Reyes Light, 15 Aug. 2014, culteducation.com/group/1179-synanon/20123-light-to-celebrate-25th-anniversary-of-its-pulitzer.html. Morantz, Paul. The History of Synanon and Charles Dederich, 2 Aug. 2008, culteducation.com/group/1179-synanon/20127-the-history-of-synanon-and-charles-dederich.html. Morgan, Fiona. “One Big Dysfunctional.” Cult Education Institute, Salon Magazine, 29 Mar. 1999, culteducation.com/group/1179-synanon/20120-one-big-dysfunctional-family.html. Novak, Matt. “The Man Who Fought the Synanon Cult and Won.” Paleofuture, 27 Sept. 2014, paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-man-who-fought-cults-and-won-1634267961. Novak, Matt. “Synanon's Sober Utopia: How a Drug Rehab Program Became a Violent Cult.” Paleofuture, 15 Apr. 2014, paleofuture.gizmodo.com/synanons-sober-utopia-how-a-drug-rehab-program-became-1562665776. Pendle, George. “Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines, and Dope Fiends: George Pendle.” CABINET , www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/48/pendle.php. Shenon, Philip. “9 LINKED TO SYNANON INDICTED BY U.S.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Oct. 1985, www.nytimes.com/1985/10/02/us/9-linked-to-synanon-indicted-by-us.html. “Synanon.” RationalWiki, rationalwiki.org/wiki/Synanon. “Synanon Calls Sex Tapes ‘Liturgy’ - Group Claims Constitute Protects Wife-Swap Records.” Cult Education Institute, San Diego Union, 2 Nov. 1979, culteducation.com/group/1179-synanon/20119-synanon-calls-sex-tapes-liturgy-group-claims-constitute-protects-wife-swap-records.html. “Synanon Foundation, Inc. v. Bernstein, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, State Courts, COURT CASE.” Court Case, www.ecases.us/case/dc/1995369/synanon-foundation-inc-v-bernstein. Szalavitz, Maia. “The Cult That Spawned the Tough-Love Teen Industry.” Mother Jones, 20 Aug. 2007, www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/08/cult-spawned-tough-love-teen-industry/. Szalavitz, Maia. "Breaking addicts in order to fix them: how Synanon revolutionized drug treatment and poisoned the politics of prohibition." Reason, vol. 49, no. 5, Oct. 2017, p. 72+. Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A506607207/PPPM?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=PPPM&xid=27bca0d6. Accessed 25 June 2020. Szalavitz, Maia. "Tainted Love." Stanford Social Innovation Review, vol. 4, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 66-67. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-cay.orc.scoolaid.net/docview/217168587?accountid=34664  

Noticias - George Floyd, un afroamericano estadounidense, muere a manos de la policía "La brutalidad policial causó las protestas. En algunas ciudades, la respuesta de la policía demostró el punto de los protestantes"; https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/us/police-protests-use-of-force/index.html Noticia de gente robando restaurantes. Ninguno es negro: https://lat.ms/36WzQGy Policias arrodillados en apoyo: https://cbsn.ws/2zYlSrv Mensaje en Facebook de Nelson: https://www.facebook.com/russell.m.nelson/posts/3015443371856412  Trump se olvida de ponerse la mano en el corazón durante el himno: https://bit.ly/2U1OB5O Loco de Utah con arco y flecha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYVZRITl3RI Entrevista con el loco del arco y flecha en gárments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n5WBf3rn2E Los policías de Miami son antinefilehitas: https://bit.ly/2zaFrN5 Mensajes - La historia detrás del templo de "Changái" Video de Melody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzad7ECIM04 Nelson introdujo la cirujía de corazón abierto en China: https://bit.ly/3cwYyhH Historia de la cirujía de corazón abierto en China no menciona a Nelson: https://bit.ly/3eNphZg El ateísmo chino es una religión: https://bit.ly/2BsTMoS, https://thediplomat.com/2017/05/china-what-if-atheism-is-a-religion Índice de persecución religiosa en China: https://www.ecoi.net/en/document/1436855.html Sitio de la Iglesia sobre China: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/China Lista de templos de la Iglesia (no aparece el de Shangái): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/temples/list?lang=spa Tema del día - El mormonismo y el satanismo Video "Mormonism, Temple of Doom": https://youtu.be/kqLkU6vrbNs  Biografía de Shnobelen en Rational Wiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/William_Schnoebelen) MRM y el pentagrama invertido: https://www.mrm.org/nauvoo-pentagrams Monografía: “Anton LaVey’s Philosofly: An Analysis”, de Gabriel Andrade para la Universidad de Zulia, Venezuela Libro: Satanism: A Cultural History, de Massimo Introvigne  

  May 29, 2020 Dear Senator Hawley, Subject:  Senate Bill S.1914 and Wikipedia My name is Dr. Gary Null. I am a nationally respected expert in the fields of health, nutrition and alternative medicine. For over four decades I have hosted syndicated radio broadcasts, including ABC radio network, WOR, WMCA and Pacifica. I hold a doctorate in human nutrition and public health science and have authored over 40 books, including several New York Times best sellers. I wish to extend my gratitude for you addressing the flaws in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and introducing Senate bill S.1914 that would remove immunity from large tech companies and pressure them with an external audit. I fully support your efforts. Back in 1996, the Communications Decency Act was hailed as a landmark piece of legislation, with bipartisan support, to uphold Constitutional free speech as well as regulate indecency and pornography. It was also meant to protect internet providers from third parties engaged in these activities while using their platforms. However, during the following decades, and with the escalation of social media firms such as Google, Twitter and Facebook and purported free information sites such as Wikipedia and RationalWiki, the Act's later amendment, Section 230 (ie, the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act) -- which also received bipartisan support -- has been shown to be deeply flawed and has increasingly come under criticism.  At the time of its passage, no one had anticipated the power social media would exert on the public to shape and promulgate biased and politically-motivated opinions. Although the internet giants rely upon Section 230 to protect themselves from libel and defamation, and avoid being held accountable for the consequences of wrongfully destroying the reputations and careers of individuals, they have also taken advantage of the same bill to engage in the very same libelous behavior under the guise of being non-partisan and neutral.  Consequently numerous individuals in government, the sciences, medicine, entertainment, and the academies have suffered professional and personal injuries without any legislative or legal recourse to correct errors and falsehoods. Past court cases by individuals against online providers, including AOL, eBay, Google, Craigslist, etc, have overwhelming ruled in favor of the defendants and granted immunity under Section 230. Although most attention has been given to the large internet providers and social media firms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc, the internet's most visited website worldwide, other entities have not been properly scrutinized in an equal manner. Although the S.1914 bill is an important step to correct the unanticipated flaws in Section 230, it unfortunately does not reach far enough and therefore it will fail to correct other forms of bias that are detrimental to public discourse and social health. Notable are: The bill is limited to biases "against a political party, candidate or viewpoint" and therefore overlooks other biases that infringe on Constitutional free speech and threaten public health The bill's definition of a "Covered Company" excludes "an organization described in section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986."  Therefore large non-profit organizations, despite some having a history of political and other biases with an influential overreach similar to the largest social media firms would not be held libel for gross biases and distortion of facts. We encourage the bill to be amended to include the larger 501(c) organizations that act as social media companies and have enormous influence over public opinion and shape biased perceptions. This would include the Wikimedia Foundation, albeit a 501(c) organization, that collaborates closely with large Silicon Valley social media firms. We would also recommend the criteria for the types of bias be expanded to include prejudices that endanger public health. Google's parent company, Alphabet, is also a pharmaceutical company with a vested interest in shaping public opinion on matters of medicine and health. And there are deep financial and strategic connections between Google and the Wikimedia Foundation. Google and Wikipedia are firmly united in their efforts to censor, flag and limit free speech. Both have a history of embracing biased liberal viewpoints. In January 2019 the firm donated $3 million to the Wikimedia Foundation, which brings the sum total of Google donations to $7.5 million during the past decade, according to the World Economic Forum. In principle, Wikipedia serves as a fact checker for Google after the latter's efforts to compete with Wikipedia failed. The collaboration between the two should not be perceived as altruistic. Google searches now readily go directly to Wikipedia where users encounter the similar biases that Google has been criticized for. Already, Google's YouTube relies on Wikipedia pages as a resource for political correctness and, in our estimation, biased opinions. A recent study published in the Medical Journal of Australia identified serious errors in Dr. Google, Google's online health advice site. The researchers found that the advice and diagnoses had only a 36 percent accuracy. This is a serious threat to both national and global health at time when people and patients increasingly rely on the internet for information about existing conditions and undiagnosed symptoms. This risk is equally true for Wikipedia, which now ranks number one on the internet for health information. Wikipedia is crowd-sourced meaning that anyone regardless of professional credentials can compose content on any subject. The Wikimedia Foundation has no vetting process by medical and health experts to validate the information millions of people access daily.  A review analysis published by the American Osteopathic Association found that "Most Wikipedia articles representing the 10 most costly medical conditions in the United States contain many errors when checked against standard peer-reviewed sources. The authors conclude that "caution should be used when using Wikipedia to answer regarding patient care."  Other studies in the medical literature have drawn similar conclusions; nevertheless, despite Wikipedia being ranked at the top most used site for the public's searches for medical information, it does not rank on any recommended online medical resource list within the profession.  And yet, Google will be relying upon Wikipedia as a reliable resource for health topics. Although the Foundation does not qualify under the bill's revenue requirements, it does so for the site's monthly usage.  The bill limits companies that would be impacted by the bill to an outreach of 30 million monthly users in the US and/or 300 million worldwide. Wikipedia currently boasts 18 billion page views per month and 27 million registered users on its English edition. There are hundreds of millions more non-registered users. It is imperative that members of the Senate undertake an investigation into the WikiMedia Foundation's actions and review the legitimacy of its protection from libel, defamation, biases, falsehoods and censorship under Section 230. Moreover, if the Foundation is acting accordingly, against its own stated policies of neutrality, it may very likely be in direct violation of IRS rules regarding its non-profit registration.  If this is the case, then  under the Communications Decency Act Wikipedia has violated Section 230 and amendments are warranted to include organizations such as Wikimedia so as to be held accountable. The Act was never expected to shield the social media industry from malicious libel, a privilege not allowed to television networks, radio stations. newspapers and magazines. In the case of the Foundation's non-profit registration, I believe an external audit is justified to determine whether the Google-Wikipedia algorithms and content removal practices are politically neutral and unbiased.  There should be no exclusion that allows for obvious malicious libel. After many hundreds of hours of research during the past two years,  we have documented evidence of the WikiMedia Foundation's efforts to act with extreme bias against notable national and international figures and entire industries that curtail freedom of speech, public discourse and debate and pose serious dangers to public health. For your review I am enclosing my person biography, a summary of our investigations and one of our more informative investigative articles about Wikipedia's violations of the Communications Decency Act, failure to adhere to its own rules for neutrality, and evidence of libelous actions. Sincerely, Gary Null, PhD

In the early 2000s, across the digital and print world of Christian apologetics, the so-called “New Atheism” was a central topic of conversation. Authors like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens generated quite an audience by attacking religion in general, and Christianity in particular, portraying both as irrational, evil forces in society. Books like “The God Delusion,” “God Is Not Great,” and “The End of Faith” argued that belief in God was unscientific, and that unbelief would make us all better people. You may be thinking to yourself, “I haven't really thought of those guys in quite a while.” Exactly. The movement has grown strangely quiet over the last decade. Message board debates have petered out, rallies and debates have been cancelled, and book sales flatlined. In fact, the New Atheism has been largely replaced. Some folks who once joined in on the outrage against religion got woke instead, and now aim their outrage at privilege, oppression, and perceived inequalities. Others migrated from Rational Wiki to alt-right online hubs like 4Chan and Reddit. Today, those sites are full of former Dawkins fans who swallowed so-called “red pill” ideas about race, sex, and politics, not to mention heaping doses of conspiracy theories. It's fair to say now, as Steven Poole did earlier this year in The Guardian, that the New Atheist moment has ended. But what killed it? Poole makes a strong case that it just became old news. Authors like Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, and Hitchens rode the wave of 9/11 and the War on Terror. In the aftermath of the deadliest attack in American history, it was easy to make the claim that religion itself, and not just certain religions, posed unique threats to world peace, despite obvious differences between Christianity and radical Islam. According to the New Atheists, to quote Christopher Hitchens, religion “poisons everything.” But with Al-Qaeda and ISIS in retreat and a generation coming of age that can't remember 9/11, the New Atheism is out of tracks to run on and have failed to convert a younger audience. And I also think that Patrick Henry College professor Gene Veith offers another helpful angle on the decline of the New Atheists in a piece he recently wrote at Patheos. Militant unbelief has faltered, he suggests, because it cannot adequately explain sin. Atheism is a reductionistic worldview and is forced to either deny the existence of real evil or to blame religion for it. After watching institutions and industries drown in sex scandals and innocents mowed down in nihilistic mass-shootings over the last ten years, it's clear that the fanatically religious certainly do not have a monopoly on violence and evil. In another “autopsy” of the New Atheism at Arc Digital, Ben Sixsmith suggests that those once preoccupied with arguing against the existence of God have moved on “to more intense areas of rhetorical dispute” like racial and gender oppression, while those who bang on about atheism now look—in his words—“increasingly monomaniacal, irrelevant, and dull.” So where does this leave us? With the New Atheism in its twilight years and more fashionable false worldviews taking its place, Christians need to keep apologetically focused. All false ideas need to be answered. Today, we might best serve our neighbors by pointing out the lies of identity politics or oppression politics, explaining the evolutionary roots of modern racism, and caring for the victims these bad ideas leave behind. And as we do, we'll need to point out how inadequate every other worldview is in accounting for sin and evil, which—as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn put it—runs “through every human heart.” In place of the numerous and varied failed accounts of what's wrong with our world, we'll need to continue to proclaim the truth the New Atheists denied and today's fashionable ideologues ignore: that the problem with the world, that the source of evil, is “in here” not “out there.” And because we are, at root, the source of the world's problems, salvation can only come from without not within.

In this episode, Daniel tells Jack about a lesser known but crucial figure in the rise of the 'White Genocide' conspiracy theory on today's far-right, Robert Whitaker. Content Warnings for episode and links below. Robert Whitaker's Mantra: http://www.robertwwhitaker.com/mantra/ "ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY! Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries. The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them. Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites. What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries? How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem? And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this? But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews. They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white. Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white." "Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white" on RationalWiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Anti-racist_is_a_code_word_for_anti-white White Genocide at Rationalwiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/White_genocide Metapedia (far-right Wikipedia) article on Bob Whitaker: https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Bob_Whitaker?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=399089c0fdf5c55502f94a7b14618f8544f283e5-1575239608-0-ASsg9jPD6QX683L5pDGMYrWmbBo63JGKjDVO7qNc8fpZDk_JxqI0zgi85ND5_gtNqFlKA0aV1kZt93fvGK0eh38oZ1tkUIhoudZyDuBAi52HO8LQX3sCim0k5Dhs9PPp1B3AlIjZT5cN1PEbJW28Exr_UUO7bPlTZDnOiQvAMKYc8Pdcsi1gyX2TDoUA9zHgtFQonJUJ_F_adpxmh5nawDzTneSVy1oaYkaSFQCuEgJ7pLpWlrq9VU_zOTeDEgnPjzkKO2w9yZh7AWa94VtK2LQa994wugvE5TPxcP81-UsF Robert W. Whitaker at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B001KJ0KV4?_encoding=UTF8&node=618073011&offset=0&pageSize=12&searchAlias=stripbooks&sort=author-pages-popularity-rank&page=1&langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader "Why Johnny Can't Think: America's Professor-Priesthood" (free PDF) https://id.b-ok2.org/book/2957237/010a34 ""Why Johnny Can't Think" shows that leftism means, "Professors should rule the world." It demonstrates why each totally inbred generation of professors chooses a new generation of professors that is even more inbred and leftist and what actually happens when college graduates and professors actually try ruling the world through socialism, through criminal "rehabilitation," and through the New Education. Whatever they call it, socialism or environmentalism or multiculturalism, each leftist program just means that professors should rule the world. And every time they try, it is a disaster. But college graduates keep pushing new leftists policies. That what they learned in school. That's what we pay professors to teach them in school. Joe Sobran says in the foreword: "A former professor himself, Bob Whitaker believes that formal education has become dangerous, and often fatal, to common sense. This is nothing new, but Americans believe so deeply in formal education that they routinely sacrifice their children's youth to it, often paying staggering amounts of money to shield them from the real world... "...the "social" sciences are another matter. These "social" sciences are often directly contradicted by the hard sciences. They are built on ideas and theories that are not only unproven, but demonstrably and obviously false. Yet they are aggressively promoted by the academy, followed by the media and the government, and anyone who openly denies them can forget about a career in these institutions. Even real scientists are forced to bow to the idols of "social" science... "As Whitaker reminds us, formal education is far and away the biggest industry in the United States. Americans pay trillions of dollars, in both taxes and private tuition, to have their children indoctrinated in a false and destructive ideology, which serves as the basis for a series of disastrous public policies. In Whitaker's words, "Nothing liberals do ever WORKS." " Bob Whitaker, Author of the Racist 'Mantra' on White Genocide, Has Died. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/06/07/bob-whitaker-author-racist-mantra-white-genocide-has-died http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/2012/08/20/repeat-hatred-is-for-traitors/ "Following the White Rabbit" https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2013/following-white-rabbit White Rabbit Radio Website: https://whiterabbitradio.net/ White Rabbit Radio on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYznmArMELRxH_36uM1lQ White Rabbit Radio Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/ZhdTwH0ssCEa/ Johnny Monoxide at the SPLC: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/johnny-monoxide-aka-john-ramondetta * Shaun video on The Bell Curve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo Shaun video on Lauren Southern and 'the Great Replacement' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbxVfSqtt8 Three Arrows video on Kalergi Plan paranoia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o3pkoZyYRA Current Affairs video on 'White Genocide' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCsljzWa7yA Hitler and the Search for the Holy Grail (Documentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Wobk1HCf0 * Daniel's recent guest appearance on Parallax Views podcast https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/harper/    

Carlos and I talk about "Engineers and Woo", a RationalWiki article. Who judges what someone can have an opinion on? How are engineers little gods, and all abstractions leak. How does PvK's "Frame of Frames" relate to software engineering?https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo

In the wake of recent dreadful events, Daniel decided to talk to Jack about the ideology of mass shootings, especially with reference to the 'Might is Right' tract cited by one of the killers. Content warnings. *** Show Notes: "Might is Right" at RationalWiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Might_is_Right "Might Is Right" full text at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cu31924029107907/page/n3 "Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting," at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilroy_Garlic_Festival_shooting Santino William Legan: Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooter's Instagram Page: "https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/santino-william-legan-gilroy-shooters-instagram/" "“Read ‘Might Is Right’ by Ragnar Redbeard,” Legan wrote. His caption further asked rhetorically, “Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats?”" * From Might Is Right, Chapter Three: "You have only to look at some men, to know that they belong to an inferior breed. Take the Negro for example. His narrow cranial developittent, his prognathous jaw, his projecting lips, his wide nasal aperture, his simian disposition, his want of forethought, originality, and mental capacity: are all peculiarities strictly inferior. Similar language may be applied to the Chinaman, the Coolie, the Kanaka, the Jew, and to the rotten-boned city degenerates of Anglo- Saxondom: rich and poor. Vile indeed are the inhabitants of those noxious cattle kraals: London, Liverpool, New York, Chicago, New Orleans: and yet, in those places is heaped up, the golden plunder of the world. [...] "No one can study the laborers on a farm, the 'hands' in a big foundry or factory, the seamen in a large seaport, the nomadic hirelings on a railroad construction gang: or the clerks and salesmen in a city warehouse, without perceiving at a glance, that the vast majority of them are extremely poor specimens of humanity. The ideal type of manhood or womanhood, (that is to say, 'Ye Thoroughbred") is not to be found among these captive hordes — for captives they really are. Their heads are, to a large extent unsymeterical- their features distorted, ape-like, unintelligent. Their bodies are out of all proportion, dwarfed, stunted, diseased, malformed, cretinous. Their movements are contracted, artificial, ungainly, and their minds (outside of routine) are utter vacuums." * "What We Know About the Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Suspect." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-29/what-we-know-about-gilroy-garlic-festival-shooting-suspect-santino-william-legan "No clarity yet on motive behind Gilroy gunman's attack, investigators say," https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/30/gilroy-garlic-festival-shooting-california-white-supremacy-links "The FBI is continuing to investigate if the alleged shooter “was in line with any particular ideology”, Craig Fair, a deputy special agent in charge with the FBI in San Francisco, said on Tuesday, including by reviewing social media accounts, digital media, conducting interviews and investigating what thoughts and ideas the shooter may have shared with others. He also did not confirm whether the widely-publicized Instagram account was linked to the shooter." "'Erroneous reporting' on Garlic Festival shooting suspect's ideology: FBI" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/erroneous-reporting-garlic-festival-shooting-suspects-ideology-fbi/story?id=64706955 ""I can tell you there has been no determination on ideology. There's reports out there has been information found and books referenced on that, we are not in a position at this stage of the investigation to make a call on ideology," John Bennett told reporters on Wednesday. "The information that's out there, it's being reported that there's white nationalism or any type of those ideologies," Special Agent John Bennett, said. "That has not been determined and I wanted to knock that down." Bennett said that through the course of the investigation they are finding literature from "left to right" and said they can't put the suspect, 19-year-old Santio Legan, in an ideological "box." He wouldn't characterize the literature as extreme, either." * "Radical: The Story of Arthur Desmond" (article and podcast): https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/black-sheep/story/201859191/radical-the-story-of-arthur-desmond "However, he alienated the settler community with his support for the former Māori guerrilla leader and founder of the Ringatu church, Te Kooti. When public meetings were held to protest a planned trip by Te Kooti to Gisborne, Desmond was the only Pākehā who raised his voice in support. “It was a very brave thing to do,” says Mark Derby. “He was bodily thrown out of the meetings and even beaten up, but it didn’t stop him from taking this stance.” However, Derby doesn’t think Desmond’s support for Te Kooti was rooted in heartfelt sympathy for the plight of Māori. Instead, he says it was linked to Te Kooti’s violent past as a guerrilla leader. “He liked Te Kooti’s style. He admired the idea of a very strong and even ruthless leader who was prepared to go to any lengths, including extreme violence. [Desmond’s] whole career and all his political writings were based on an admiration and exultation of such figures.” [...] "On war he wrote: “The natural world is a world of war; the natural man is a warrior; the natural law is tooth and claw. All else is error.” On Jesus Christ: “... the prophet of unreason — the preacher of rabble-rabies. All that is enervating and destructive of manhood, he glorifies, — all that is self-reliant and heroic, he denounces.” On the American Declaration of Independence: “Its ethical and most of its political conclusions are shams, deceptions, and cold-blooded dishonesties — incandescent Lies.” On women: “Women and children BELONG to man; who must hunt for them as well as for himself. He is their lord and master, in theory and in fact.” On race: “The African, Mongolian, Semite, or Negro breeds are all fundamentally different in formation, constituents, and character; from men of Aryan descent. … Some men ARE born better, born nobler, born braver than others.”" * Robert Evans, "The EL Paso Shooting and the Gamification of Terror" https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2019/08/04/the-el-paso-shooting-and-the-gamification-of-terror/ "This poster and several others lambasted the shooter for his “shitty” and “0 effort manifesto”. There is nothing new in this killer’s ramblings. He expresses fears of the same “replacement” of white people that motivated the Christchurch shooter, and notes that he was deeply motivated by that shooter’s manifesto. In the article I wrote after the Poway Synagogue shooting I noted that 8channers had dedicated a great deal of time to spreading that manifesto, in an effort to inspire more shooters. The El Paso shooting is further proof that this strategy works. [...] "What we see here is evidence of the only real innovation 8chan has brought to global terrorism: the gamification of mass violence. We see this not just in the references to “high scores”, but in the very way the Christchurch shooting was carried out. Brenton Tarrant livestreamed his massacre from a helmet cam in a way that made the shooting look almost exactly like a First Person Shooter video game. This was a conscious choice, as was his decision to pick a sound-track for the spree that would entertain and inspire his viewers. [...] "In the wake of the Christchurch shooting I published my first Bellingcat article about 8chan. I was interviewed by numerous media agencies about the website, and I warned all of them that additional attacks would follow – every month or two – until something was done. This prediction has proven accurate. Until law enforcement, and the media, treat these shooters as part of a terrorist movement no less organized, or deadly, than ISIS or Al Qaeda, the violence will continue. There will be more killers, more gleeful celebration of body counts on 8chan, and more bloody attempts to beat the last killer’s “high score”." ContraPoints: "Incels." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD2briZ6fB0

This week I found out about Rational Wiki, and just how "rational" they are. I combed through the site and I pulled out a couple of examples of how irrational this site really is! I finally had to end it on a UFO story direct from FOX News of all places! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, RATE, AND REVIEW! It is the best way to get this podcast up the rankings! SUPPORT: https://teespring.com/rebelwithacausepodcast https://paypal.me/RebelWithACauseShow https://bitbacker.io/user/rebelwithacausepodcast/ https://www.patreon.com/RebelWithACause https://www.subscribestar.com/rebel-with-a-cause-podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rebelwithacause/message

Space! There’s an awful lot of it, and yet we practically never talk about it on this friggin’ show. But this episode aims to remedy that!Did you know that you can get a degree in intergalactic politics? Incidentally, did you also know that you can go on long weekend retreats to one of Jupiter’s moons? And did you know that humans are descended from 12 or more different extraterrestrial races? Jake didn’t know any of that, but if you believe it, he’s got a xendra to sell you!Wyatt then cranks up the excitement by talking about a really neat rock. It’s great, this rock. ’S from a couple years ago. We barely saw it at all, but it’s fast and small and OH SNAP IT MIGHT BE A SPACESHIP WHAAAAT.Learn all about how to start your career as an exopolitician and how to tell different space debris apart while Jake takes the Lawd’s name in vain entirely too many times, all on today’s episode of Superduperstitious!EPISODE LINKSLoch Ness GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/superduperstitious-loch-ness-timesJake’s storyQuora responses: https://goo.gl/wKQNHTExonews article: https://goo.gl/msJNqvExopolitics Institute: https://exopoliticsinstitute.org/Rational Wiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Michael_SallaWyatt’s storyQuanta article: https://goo.gl/4BD4cuSpace dot com: https://goo.gl/K5dezoLoeb interview: https://youtu.be/rDZyI83Bj2wOumuamua photo: https://goo.gl/Y9ccfP See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The lore of an underground alien base. -The Voice before the Void “Dulce base” RationalWiki   “Dulce Base” Wikipedia

In this episode Cat and Rebecca discuss their first angelic and their first extraterrestrial encounter, it was quite an evening. We saw an advertisement for a Pleiadian Healing Session with Michiel Kroon in the Miracles Room and couldn't resist. This was Rebecca's first experience with channelling and she was surprised to learn how popular it is, and that Cat has a favourite channeler. We share the wisdom gleaned from the Arc Angel Michael and the Pleiadians and wonder what makes someone a channeler- divine insight, lust for money or mental illness? You probably know by now it's going to be a bit more complicated than that. Exploring esoteric, paranormal and spiritual topics from two completely different perspectives it's The Seeker and The Skeptic. Dissociation: Adjustment or Distress? Dissociative Phenomena, Absorption and Quality of Life Among Israeli Women Who Practice Channeling Compared to Women with Similar Traumatic History.  Personal identity the Narrative Self. Elisabeth Camp, Rutgers University.  Rational Wiki's page on Pleiadians  Michiel Kroon

Were The Beatles created as a psychological warfare weapon by British Intelligence? RIchard speaks with a media scientist, a pop culture critic and a music journalist who discuss the merits of this fascinating and complex conspiracy theory.GUESTS:Nelson S. Thall is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the science of communication/media and process analysis. His expertise has afforded him the opportunity to define law terms for the Federal Court of Canada and develop a television series with Dr. Timothy Leary. Bill Gates and Peter Lloyd invited Thall to contribute an essay to the book Webweaving. While a Graduate Student studying at the University of Toronto with Professor Marshall McLuhan, Thall became a McLuhan Protege and served as the President of the Marshall McLuhan Centre On Global Communications from 1990-1995. He has served on the Boards of Directors of Torstar, Stan Lee Media Inc., Peace Arch Films & Entertainment and other publicly traded media companies. He is a lecturer/author and has been a consultant to companies in the United States, Russia, Canada and Britain.Jay Dyer is the author of Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film. He is the host of the JaysAnalysis Podcast/Esoteric Hollywood. He is also a regular contributor to 21stCenturyWire, Soul of the East and the Espionage History Archive. Broaching subjects as wide as satire, metaphysics, film analysis, theology, geopolitics, literature and history, as well as interviewing numerous prominent figures, Jay has authored hundreds of articles already read by millions in just the past few years. Jay is also working with Jay Weidner on a new television series for Gaia based on this unique approach to film.Dave Gerard is a Unix system administrator by day. His job includes keeping track of exciting new technologies and advising against the bad ones. He was previously an award-winning music journalist, and has blogged about music at Rocknerd.co.uk since 2001. He is the author of Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts. He is a volunteer spokesperson for Wikipedia, and is on the board of the RationalMedia Foundation, host of skeptical wiki RationalWiki.org. Originally from Australia, he lives in east London with his spouse Arkady Rose and their daughter. Until he reinstalled the laptop they were on, he was the proud owner of six Dogecoins.

We had a bunch of stories lined up that we were going to talk about, but a glance at Facebook derailed the entire show because we decided to chuck most of our plans out the window in order to talk about Jordan B. Peterson.   If you're unfamiliar with Peterson's body of work, you've probably spared yourself a lot of time and confusion. He's a Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, a YouTube sensation, a darling of the alt-right, a purported champion of free speech, and now a best-selling author.   He's also a ginormous asshole who couches his sexism, racism, misogyny, and a host of other Victorian-era ideals in a word salad of pseudo-intellectual and pseudo-scientific verbosity that would put Deepak Chopra to shame.   You can read more about Peterson on this RationalWiki site: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson   Aside from picking apart some of Peterson's more troublesome ideas, we also talked about: Ireland repealed its abortion ban Alex Jones says "The Boy Scouts of America is a pedophile induction center"  PATRONS ONLY - Dave Daubenmire: Royal wedding was a "psy-op" to promote "the blending of the races" PATRONS ONLY - Dave Daubenmire: The deep state will carry out another 9/11 to distract from the DOJ’s IG report PATRONS ONLY - Dave Daubenmire: The deep state will carry out "false flag" attacks with "MK Ultra shooters" Closing Song: Oingo Boingo - Insanity   You can find the Godless Rebelution around the Internet at these links: Our Website: http://www.godlessrebelution.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/godlessrebelution Podbean: http://www.godlessrebelution.podbean.com Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-godless-rebelution/godless-rebelution iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/godless-rebelution/id872416298 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/GodlessRebelution FB Page: http://www.facebook.com/GodlessRebelution FB Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GodlessRebelution Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TGRPodcast Patreon subscribers get more than 30 minutes of extras this week!   You can also send us hate-mail, show ideas, questions, corrections, whines, and rants at:  GodlessRebelution@gmail.com ~ OR ~ Send us a text or leave us a voicemail message at: 330-81-REBEL   YOU'RE WELCOME!  

Host Stephanie Bee uses primary sources to tell stories that could have only happened online. ==Additional links== http://unenumerated.blogspot.ca/2012/07/pascals-scams.html An archived version of Roko’s original thread: https://basilisk.neocities.org RationalWiki’s comprehensive thread on the Basilisk, which has a great talk page: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk David Langford’s ‘BLIT’: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm ♪Robert Gross - Big Yud♪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXARrMadTKk The ending music is paniq's "Masagin".

The gang are down to two this week, as Rowan walks the streets of Brussels in search of shelter. We'll keep you updated on his deteriorating life situation as events unfold. ____ We follow up last week's "The History of Neoliberalism Part 2" with... you guessed it... Part 3! Previously, Warren discussed Hayek, Friedman and the birth of neoliberalism. In this week's part, he details how and why Thatcher and Reagan spearheaded Neoliberalism in the West over the course of the 80s. Next week, we'll wrap up the series with how neoliberalism transformed the political Left, led to the 2008 financial crisis - arguably doubling down since. Check out Part 1: goo.gl/KVF32q Check out Part 2: goo.gl/ta4Bk8 ___ We finish up with our segment Right-Wing Watch - and a chat about Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist and divisive cultural critic, who's recent book and TV appearances have caused a stir. We draw attention to Peterson's use of his intellectual capital to push conservative arguments and undermine progressive causes. He's become something of a totem for the alt-right, with lectures like "Identity Politics and the Marxist Lie of White Privelege": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfH8IG7Awk0 You can read some thorough take-downs of his positions from... Digg - http://digg.com/2018/jordan-peterson-book-review Viewpoint - https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/01/23/postmodernism-not-take-place-jordan-petersons-12-rules-life/ RationalWiki - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson ___ Like what you hear? Support us by... Following on Soundcloud! Reviewing on ITunes – itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/connected-disaffected/ Following on Twitter – twitter.com/CandDPodcast Following on FB – www.facebook.com/connectedanddisaffected/ Email your comments and ideas - connectedanddisaffected@gmail.com

An old school mystery with a new wave theory. The fire is out, the clocks have stopped, and dread surrounds the empty interior of the Eilean Mor Lighthouse and a mystery that has persisted for over a hundred years. A desolate, weather-beaten island west of Scotland is the setting for the Eilean Mor Lighthouse mystery, where 3 men met their fate in 1900. Problem is, no one knows how. As if vanishing into the fog, three lightkeepers were never seen again, with no indication of what happened to them. Join David as he relays the eerie story of the events at the lighthouse and uncovers the facts and fictions of the disappearance. Were sinister forces at work? Could there be a scientific explanation? And why did it take so long to discover them missing? The horn is sounded in the murky depths of the fog of mystery in this macabre episode of Blurry Photos!   Music Dark Standoff, Long Note Two, Danse Macabre, Lost Time, Past the Edge, The Dread - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Sources Eilean Mor Summary: http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/curious-disappearance-eilean-mor-lighthouse-keepers-scottish-mystery-004820?nopaging=1 Poem: http://www.potw.org/archive/potw230.html RationalWiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Flannan_Isle McCloskey, K. (2014), The Lighthouse: The Mystery of the Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Keepers, The History Press Original wreck report for the SS Archtor, http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/17924.asp?view=text The report submitted by Robert Muirhead, Superintendent, on the 8th January 1901: https://www.nlb.org.uk/HistoricalInformation/FlannanIsles/Report-by-Superintendent/

How do we see things in space? TRAPPIST-1: "Presenting humanity with many opportunities to study terrestrial worlds beyond our solar system" (TRAPPIST-1) (http://www.trappist.one) TRAPPIST-1 (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1) What is astronomy? (Space.com) (http://www.space.com/16014-astronomy.html) How do (visual) telescopes work? (How Stuff Works, Science) (http://science.howstuffworks.com/telescope.htm/printable) Galileo Galilei (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei) Four of Jupiter's 67 moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede & Callisto, are known as the 'Galilean' moons (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#Jupiter.27s_moons) Galilieo got in big trouble from the church for saying that the Earth was not the centre of everything (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#Controversy_over_heliocentrism) Galileo gives an eternal bird to the church: His middle finger is displayed in a jar in Florence (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#/media/File:Dito_della_mano_destra_di_galileo,_in_teca_del_1737.JPG) The Galilean moons have regular orbits, but most of Jupiter's moons have orbits that are a bit random (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter#Regular_satellites) The electromagnetic spectrum (Cosmos) (http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/E/Electromagnetic+Spectrum) The electromagnetic spectrum & telescopes (NASA) (https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/emspectrum1.html) It takes more than one kind of telescope to see the light (NASA) (https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/1999/features/ast20apr99_1) Observatories across the electromagnetic spectrum (NASA) (https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/emspectrum_observatories1.html) A list of all the space telescopes (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_telescopes) A list of the oldest observatories on Earth (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observatory#Oldest_astronomical_observatories) How do telescopes let us see so far into space? (BBC, Science) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/20937803) How scientists get data from the universe, process it, archive it & analyse it (NASA) (https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/data/data.html) Hubble Space Telescope: Detects near infrared, visible & ultraviolet light (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope) Hubble Site (NASA) (http://hubblesite.org) A fresh take on the Horsehead Nebula (Hubble Space Telescope, ESA) (https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1307/) Making images out of different kinds of raw data from space (NASA) (https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/images1.html) The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (CSIRO, Australia Telescope National Facility) (http://www.atnf.csiro.au/outreach/education/senior/astrophysics/stellarevolution_hrintro.html) The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (Cosmos) (http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/H/Hertzsprung-Russell+Diagram) Main sequence stars (CSIRO, Australia Telescope National Facility) (http://www.atnf.csiro.au/outreach/education/senior/astrophysics/stellarevolution_mainsequence.html) Main sequence lifetime (Cosmos) (http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/M/Main+Sequence+Lifetime) Detecting other worlds: The wobble method (SETI) (http://archive.seti.org/seti/seti-science/detecting_new/wobble_method.php) How can you tell between different types of stellar wobble? (The Naked Scientists) (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/how-can-you-tell-between-different-types-stellar-wobble) "The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star (G2V) based on its spectral class, & is informally referred to as a yellow dwarf" (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun) Spectra & what they can tell us (NASA) (https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/spectra1.html) Astronomical spectroscopy (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_spectroscopy) What is a stellar nursery? (wiseGEEK) (http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-stellar-nursery.htm) An image of a stellar nursery (NASA) (https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_643.html) ‘Space beacons' reveal the Milky Way's very old core (Space Answers) (https://www.spaceanswers.com/news/space-beacons-reveal-the-milky-ways-ancient-core1/) A timeline of the TRAPPIST-1 discoveries & the telescopes involved (TRAPPIST-1) (http://www.trappist.one/#timeline) The James Webb telescope (NASA) (https://jwst.nasa.gov) Kepler Space Telescope: Exoplanet hunter (Space.com) (http://www.space.com/24903-kepler-space-telescope.html) Belgian astronomers celebrated the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system with Trappist beer (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1#Discovery_and_nomenclature) 5 ways to find a planet (NASA) (https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/interactable/11/) The planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 were discovered using the 'transit method' of detection (TRAPPIST-1) (http://www.trappist.one/#timeline) The planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 are quite close to the star & three are in the habitable zone (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1#Planetary_system) What is the Goldilocks Zone & why does it matter in the search for ET? (ABC, Australia) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-02-22/goldilocks-zones-habitable-zone-astrobiology-exoplanets/6907836) Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI Institute) (http://www.seti.org) SETI has tried to see if any radio signals are coming from TRAPPIST-1 (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1#Radio_signal_search) Where is the search for extraterrestrial life up to? (ABC, Australia) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-10-10/extraterrestrial-life-where-is-the-search-up-to/7885364) The billion-year technology gap: Could one exist? (The Daily Galaxy) (http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/11/the-billionyear-technology-gap-could-one-exist-the-weekend-feature.html) Advanced alien civilizations rare or absent in the local universe (Phys.org) (https://phys.org/news/2015-09-advanced-alien-civilizations-rare-absent.html) The hydrogen 21 cm line (HyperPhysics) (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/h21.html) A proper paper about 21cm intensity mapping: "Using the 21 cm line, observed all‐sky & across the redshift range from 0 to 5, the large scale structure of the universe can be mapped in three dimensions" (Cornell University Library, Peterson JB et al.) (https://arxiv.org/pdf/0902.3091.pdf) The Very Large Telescope (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope) The Extremely Large Telescope (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_large_telescope) The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope) The Deep Space Network (NASA, JPL) (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/deepspace/) Canberra has several telescopes that are part of the Deep Space Network (NASA) (http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov) The Square Kilometre Array Telescope (SKA, Australia) (http://www.ska.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx) SKA telescope to generate more data than entire internet in 2020 (Computer World) (http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/392735/ska_telescope_generate_more_data_than_entire_internet_2020/) SKA amazing facts (SKA) (https://skatelescope.org/amazingfacts/) "Astrology is the mass cultural delusion that the apparent position of the sun & planets relative to arbitrarily defined "star signs" at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality & future" (Rational Wiki) (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Astrology) Astrology is still bullshit & the universe doesn't care about you (Gizmodo) (http://gizmodo.com/5733709/astrology-is-still-bullshit-and-the-universe-doesnt-care-about-you) Flecks of extraterrestrial dust, all over the roof: An amazing article about a Norwegian Jazz musician who collects space dust (The New York Times) (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/science/space-dust-on-earth.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_sc_20170314&nl=science-times&nlid=74390037&ref=headline&te=1&mtrref=undefined) Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia Corrections TRAPPIST-1 is thought to be an ultra-cool dwarf, not a brown dwarf (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1#Stellar_characteristics) The James Webb telescope will detect infrared energy, not radio (NASA) (https://jwst.nasa.gov/about.html) Johnny meant 'wavelength' when talking about the hydrogen 21 cm line, not 'frequency' (HyperPhysics) (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/h21.html) Check out our new Fireside home Find aaaaall the great episodes & show notes & handy instructions should you feel like leaving us a cheeky iTunes review...go on...we know you want to! (http://strangeattractor.random.productions) Image credit: Iván Éder

What is relativity? Einstein's theory of special relativity came first, in 1905 (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity) How special relativity works (How Stuff Works, Science) (http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/relativity.htm) Einstein's theory of general relativity came second, in 1915 (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity) Einstein's theory of general relativity (Space.com) (http://www.space.com/17661-theory-general-relativity.html) Einstein's theory of general relativity (TedEd) (http://ed.ted.com/featured/nQSf1gdH) 8 ways you can see Einstein's theory of relativity in real life (LiveScience) (http://www.livescience.com/48922-theory-of-relativity-in-real-life.html) "Do yourself a favour & read Einstein's paper on special relativity" (io9) (http://io9.gizmodo.com/do-yourself-a-favor-and-read-einsteins-paper-on-special-1545377104) Einstein's theory of relativity made easy (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30KfPtHec4s) Theory of relativity explained in 7 minutes (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttZCKAMpcAo) Albert Einstein's theory of relativity (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev9zrt__lec) The 'Annus Mirabilis' or 'Extraordinary Year' papers: Einstein's first 4 papers published in the Annalen der Physik (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_papers) Einstein's original special relativity paper as it was published (Universität Wien) (http://www.zbp.univie.ac.at/dokumente/einstein3.pdf) English translation of Einstein's original special relativity paper (Fourmilab) (http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/) Albert Einstein (Time) (http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,993017-1,00.html) Speed of light & the principle of relativity (The Physics of the Universe) (http://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/topics_relativity_light.html) The real meaning of E=mc^2 (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0) The luminiferous aether: What they thought light travelled on before relativity (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether) The Michelson-Morely experiment (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson–Morley_experiment) Time dilation (How Stuff Works, Science) (http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/relativity10.htm) Length contraction (How Stuff Works, Science) (http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/relativity9.htm) Time dilation & length contraction (Hyperphysics) (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Relativ/tdil.html) Discover the Ladder Paradox, relativity's greatest thought experiment (io9) (http://io9.gizmodo.com/discover-the-ladder-paradox-relativitys-greatest-thou-1219502372) Here's why astronauts age slower than the rest of us here on Earth (Business Insider) (http://www.businessinsider.com.au/do-astronauts-age-slower-than-people-on-earth-2015-8?r=US&IR=T) Relativity of simultaneity: Mentions the thought experiment where you can't say for sure that a crash in London & New York happens at the same time (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity#Explanation) The 'light cone' diagram (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone) GPS & relativity (Ohio State University, Prof. Richard Pogge) (http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html) GPS was launched by the US Government in 1973 & they still own it! (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System) The official US GPS website (gps.gov) (http://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/) Why do objects increase in mass as they get faster? (Futurism) (https://futurism.com/why-do-objects-increase-in-mass-as-they-get-faster-2/) Photons are massless & must move at the speed of light according to relativity (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massless_particle) What if you travelled faster than the speed of light? (How Stuff Works, Science) (http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/what-if/what-if-faster-than-speed-of-light.htm) Neutrino 'faster than light' scientist resigns (BBC) (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-17560379) What is gravity? (Qualitative Reasoning Group) (http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/space-environment/1-what-is-gravity.html) What is gravity really? (NASA) (https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/what-is-gravity/en/) Brian Cox visits the world's biggest vaccuum chamber to drop a bowling ball & a feather in anti-gravity conditions (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs) Gravitational time dilation (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation) David 'Avocado' Wolfe: The guy who thinks gravity is a toxin (Rational Wiki) (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/David_Wolfe) The 200-year-old mystery of Mercury's orbit — solved! (io9) (http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-200-year-old-mystery-of-mercurys-orbit-solved-1458642219) Vulcan, the hypothetical planet (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)) If you feel like a belly laugh, check out this discussion about why Vulcan exists, some people even claim to have seen it! (The Flat Earth Society) (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=60949.0) Planet 9 (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine) Help astronomers look for planet 9 (EarthSky) (http://earthsky.org/space/help-astronomers-look-for-planet-9) What is gravitational lensing? (Phys.org) (https://phys.org/news/2015-02-gravitational-lensing-video.html) Unification of gravity (Hyperphysics) (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Forces/unigrav.html) Einstein's folly: How the search for a unified theory stumped him to his dying day (The Conversation) (http://theconversation.com/einsteins-folly-how-the-search-for-a-unified-theory-stumped-him-to-his-dying-day-49646) Here's what would happen if the sun disappeared right now (Business Insider) (http://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-would-happen-if-the-sun-disappeared-2015-8) "Men of science more or less agog at results of eclipse observations": How the solar eclipse of 1919 changed our understanding of the universe forever (Starts With a Bang) (https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/throwback-thursday-the-95th-anniversary-of-relativitys-confirmation-f88f731482d3#.e6laazvu0) Astronomers watch a supernova & see re-runs (The New York Times) (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/science/astronomers-observe-supernova-and-find-theyre-watching-reruns.html) Gravitational lensing, including some cool pics (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens) Dark energy, dark matter (NASA) (https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy) Cosmological redshift (Cosmos) (http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/C/cosmological+redshift) Gravitational redshift (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_redshift) What are gravitational waves? (LIGO) (https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-are-gw) Gravity Probe B (NASA) (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/gpb/) What does mercury being liquid at room temperature have to do with Einstein's theory of relativity? (Scientific American) (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/what-does-mercury-being-liquid-at-room-temperature-have-to-do-with-einsteins-theory-of-relativity/) Relativity & why gold is golden (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry#Color_of_gold_and_caesium) What gives gold that mellow golden glow? (Fourmilab) (https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/golden_glow/) Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia Check out our new Fireside home Find aaaaall the great episodes & show notes & handy instructions should you feel like leaving us a cheeky iTunes review...go on...we know you want to! (http://strangeattractor.random.productions)

In this episode, Shana and Daniel are (shockingly, I know) joined by their podcast boyfriend Jack Graham to discuss the third episode of Series One: Balance of Power. Capitalism, class, gender, The Fappening, and Craig Charles's acting chops are all at least mentioned.  Main Topic: Balance of Power. With special guest Jack Graham. A capitalist joke. Avoiding culture. Shana rises above. Shana's boobs. Teenagerhood. Jack's early Dwarf. Power. "I've been fished to death!" Craig Charles, Actor. Okaaaayyy... Challenging each other. Rimmer the goof-off. Re-ordering episodes. Lister the socialite. Loser's club. Post-apocalyptic. Ghosts. Exactly what a cat would do. Thematically dense. Recurring themes. Roko's Basilisk. Quasars. Horrible Rimmer. Kinship to Rimmer. Metaphorical hologram. Slut-shaming. Potential Rimmer friendship. Turning Rimmer on. Thinking it through. Being brought back. Stuff. Economics and artificial scarcity. Marxism not capitalism. Slave skutters. Fantasies of power and achievement. Class structure. Officer Kochanski. Misogyny or general disrespect? Private military. East India Company. The Inevitable Bit About Thatcher. Truckers in space. Class issues and the Cat. Teasing. Story versus ideas. "Middlebrow." A shallow reading of Jane Austen. Sartre. Government health warnings. Passing the chef's exam. "Sometimes you make those bullshit dreams work!" Ziggurat. Death video. Unemployed Lister. "Oh JPS!" Geeky Lister? No Exit. The end of heirarchy. Kochanski the muse. Purses. Waking Kochanski. Alternate directions for the show. Holograms in society. Creepy. "The Fappening." Easy to be a girl. What girls want. Clare Grogan's role in the show. Problems and opportunities. Dudebros getting drunk. Clever Lister. Density. Dumbest joke ever. Getting in touch with his feminine side. Wrapping up. The Double Rimmer.  Roko's Baslisk on Rationalwiki.  Shabcast 20.  Find Jack's blog Shabogan Graffiti at Eruditorum Press.  All our future content you can find at oispaceman.com. We also have a Facebook group for those so inclined. 

I have my opinions about the topic. Do your research and make your own decisions. Resource Mentioned: American Chiropractic Neurology Board https://www.acnb.org/AboutUs.aspx International Chiropractic Neurology Board http://chironeurointl.org/about-the-iccn/what-is-chiropractic-neurology Keystone Chiropractic http://keystonechiropracticneurology.com/about-us/what-is-a-chiropractic-neurologist Brain Core Therapy and Anxiety http://braincoretherapy.com/panic-attacks-and-brain-core-therapy-2/ Neurobollocks post on Brain Balance Center https://neurobollocks.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/brain-balance-centers-total-and-utter-neurobollocks/ Rational Wiki http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Functional_neurology Ten Ways to Avoid being Quacked – Understand that this site has a very low tolerance for alternative or holistic medicine. There is a strong bias toward traditional medicine. That said it doesn’t hurt to be aware of some of the points made in the article. http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/avoid.html UMCE What is a (Medical) Neurologist https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/highland/departments-centers/neurology/what-is-a-neurologist.aspx   Disclaimer: Links to other sites are provided for information purposes only and do not constitute endorsements.Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health disorder.This blog and podcast is intended for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing in this program is intended to be a substitute for professional psychological, psychiatric or medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Wonderful article on Cathy being removed from Bar Wotever in London http://www.lesbilicious.co.uk/if-youre-going-to-trash-trans-people-online-dont-be-surprised-when-they-kick-you-out-of-their-club/ Watch Cathy argue with Bar Wotever after she was kicked out.  Originally posted on her Facebook account http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1bFIxPLdPo Check out the Rational Wiki page http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cathy_Brennan for more links to Cathy Brennan's various websites.  Make up your own mind.  Although to be fair, if the picture of her above doesn't at least annoy you, then you will probably not like the Rational Wiki page or this episode. You can listen to Michelle Meow from Swirlcast interview Cathy and a couple of follow up interviews over on the Swirlcast Soundcloud page.  https://soundcloud.com/meow-swirls/sets/full-interviews Cathy has interviews on 3/15/14 and on 10/26/13.  There is an interview in response / rebuttal to Cathy featuring Dana Lane Taylor on 3/22/14. Removed as LGBT liason for Gonzaga plus a lot of helpful links http://www.change.org/petitions/chair-aba-business-law-section-gonzaga-univ-school-of-law-remove-cathy-brennan-as-liaison-to-aba-s-commission-on-lgbt Monitor Gender Identity Watch as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (8596 signatures as of 5/2/14) https://www.change.org/petitions/southern-poverty-law-center-monitor-gender-identity-watch-as-a-hate-group-2 Transadvocate list of articles related to Cathy Brennan http://www.transadvocate.com/?s=Cathy+brennan One of the most articulate writings I've ever read on people like Cathy Brennan http://seattlefreepress.org/2013/10/23/3052/ Music for this episode as always by Obsidian Shell check them out in iTunes or head over to http://www.obsidianshell.com/ for links to all their music