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War Crimes and Treason



Garrison Keillor: Impeach Bush


12:59 pm CST
Turkish Batman!




Mexican Batwoman!



12:12 pm CST
Fourth Reich News



Doug Thompson: Bush Declares War on Freedom of the Press


Kurt Nimmo: Thomas Jefferson is Rolling Over in His Grave


As you know, Halliburton is presently building concentration camps in America. However, these are not the first to be built. Here are the concentration camps that are already standing, listed by state:
FEMA Concentration Camps: Locations and Executive Orders


Last week's story about a retired Texas school teacher who came under Homeland Security's microscope for paying off a $6,522 credit card debt has been trumped by a similar case involving an amount of just $650 ...
Paul Joseph Watson: Borrowed Some Money? You May Be with Al-Qaeda


Steve Watson: Meet the World's Most Dangerous Terrorists: Delivery Drivers, Chicken Farmers, Sack Makers, Taxi Drivers and Students


10:58 am CST
A Reader Writes: Psychology and Conspiracy Theories

A READER WRITES: About your post today... It is my understanding that there is a good deal of science and psychology devoted to why people would NOT be able to believe "conspiracy theories" because of psychological issues. Try looking up Cognitive Dissonance Theory, I think that's probably just one avenue. It is not my specialty but I am certainly aware that it is there. I have actually considered learning more about it because I suspect that understanding human cognition or why people believe things could have application in the effort to educate people of many of these glaringly obvious "high Rome" like government transgressions. My personal belief from my short experience as a teacher and as a student is that a much larger problem is not a lack of skepticism in the American public (as is often suggested by these professional "debunkers") but the presence of incredulity; in other words the inability to believe something for which there is abundant evidence because of some kind of psychological aversion.

By the way, those "debunkers" really can get under my skin too. I am sometimes accused of being arrogant for believing some of the conspiracies I do, even when you consider that the presentation of some "debunkers" is actually the height of arrogance. Ironic really. I think the problem is that they can't even IMAGINE being wrong.

Just a thought …

Thanks for writing, and sharing your thoughts on this issue.

I agree. The truth is, it's the people whose minds are closed to conspiracy theory who have the mental problem. It's called Denial, and it is compounded by a cognitive inability to deal with the facts before their very eyes.


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10:26 am CST
They Built Him Too Well



In retrospect, this was bound to happen: Philip K. Dick Robot is Missing

6:15 pm CST
New Show

The second edition of my weekly webcast is now on line. CLICK HERE to download the 24-minute mp3. The show has also been added to my Live 365 stream. (CLICK HERE) ...


3:45 pm CST
Political Psychiatry in the USA

Here's another mainstream news article that attempts to explain our strange fascination with conspiracy theories. This one goes farther than the one I cited a few days ago; that one offered a psychological explanation, by suggesting that we find it "comforting" (?) to believe conspiracy theories. This one, however, takes the psychiatric approach; it quotes scientists who have discovered that those of us who believe conspiracy theories are suffering from a brain abnormality.

Yes, that's right. You thought that your belief that a conspiracy killed JFK was because the Warren Commission Report doesn't stand up to critical scrutiny, didn't you? Well, you were wrong. The Warren Commission Report makes perfect sense. To normal people. But you're not normal. You have an excess of dopamine in your brain. So do I. That's why we think the way we do.

Don't you feel better already just knowing that? I know I do. It gives me hope. Why, with the right medication to lower my dopamine levels, I'll be able to live a normal life! I'll never question the official version of anything again. Isn't that wonderful? Aren't you excited? ...
The Science Behind Why We Love Conspiracy Theories

12:39 pm CST
Extremely Eclectic

Radio MACK has been updated with an all-new, extremely eclectic mix of music and sonic oddities, plus this week's edition of my new weekly program, The Mack White Show. CLICK HERE to enjoy the full 2-hour stream. Or, if you would prefer just to hear the 20-minute show and/or would like to download it as an mp3 file for your podcasting pleasure CLICK HERE ...

11:47 am CST
Homeland Security is Monitoring Your Credit Card Payments

Pay Too Much and You Could Raise the Alarm


11:21 am CST
The Dumbing Down of America

Why Americans Know More About The Simpsons Than The Constitution


11:19 am CST
Update: A Partial Victory

House Delays Vote on Anti-Consumer Bill; 'National Unity for Food Act' Would Kill Strict State Food Safety Labeling Laws

12:39 pm CST
Fourth Reich News



Patriot Act Renewal Clears Final Hurdle

Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson: Gulags For American Citizens in Final Planning Stages

1:52 pm CST
From the Newsstands of Yesteryear




1:49 pm CST
The Great Blackout

DREAM: I'm in a rock band. We live in a big house, like the Monkees. I'm the lead singer--well, I don't sing exactly, it's more of a William Shatner-style rap. During practice, one of the band members asks me to sing/say something from the previous day's practice. He tries to describe it, but it doesn't sound familiar. So I improvise something else--something about the ultimate unknowability of the Self. "We can never know ourselves completely," I say, "because the Self is too large."

We get a big record contract. I start designing the album cover. While working on it, I realize the band needs a name. I suggest "The Firing Squad." Everyone laughs and says it's a great name.

At some point, I go upstairs to my room, but when I get there I don't recognize anything as belonging to me. Do I really live here? I'm not sure. In fact, I don't remember how I got here, don't remember joining the band, don't remember anything from the last two weeks. The last thing I remember was visiting a place called the Tangerine Coast.

I go downstairs, and ask the band members, "Do I live here?" They shake their heads. I decide to level with them: "I've been in a blackout. I don't remember anything that's happened for the last two weeks. What's been happening?"

They look at me with consternation. Then one of them admits he doesn't remember anything from the last two weeks either. In fact, no one does.

I go outside, and while crossing the street notice people standing around with puzzled looks on their faces. No one can remember what they've been doing for the past two weeks; in many cases, like myself, they have awakened from the period of missing time only to find themselves living different places than they lived before, hanging out with different people, pursuing different careers, and so forth.

The entire population has been affected with this strange amnesia, and all attempts to discover what happened during those two weeks are unsuccessful. For instance, it turns out that all security cameras all over the globe--in convenience stories, public buildings, etc.--were mysteriously turned off. Who turned them off? Why? We never find out.

In years to come, the Great Blackout is the theme of books and films, both fiction and non-fiction, but no one ever comes up with a satisfactory answer ...